The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-09-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

sta FAR October 1.
Cholera has eztsrminatsd several
aroyes Of hogs in Rice county.
All the joints in Newton were raided
The other day, and the city viii be
dry
". J. Bryan will speak at Buriin-
game September g. Gov. Leedy viii
introduce him.
Kansas will this season contribute 70
ear loads Of fruit to sooth the internal
man Of the east
a Nemsha county farmer has apples
IN his cave as sound as ever and they
are two years old.
The Santa Fe railroad viii double
track its line from Emporia to Newton,
q distance OF "a miles.
Congressman Case Frederick, OF the
First district, is mentioned for governor
on the republican ticket
The railroads, smelters and coal
companies at Pittsburg pay nearly
e150.o0O in WageseYery month.
Hon ''Diek" Picker, of Smith
Center, is the republican nominee for
Judge in the Fifteenth district.
Marye Tomblin. of Goodland, has
successfully experimental with a vine
less potato and has enough seed to
plant a patch next season.
The managers OF the Huntington
hotel in Fort Scott were arrested for
selling liquor, on complaint Of Miss
Dora Judd. an employe of the hotel.
Miss Kate Adams, of Toptks, who
was steBographer IN Gov. Morrill's
office, is now doing missionary work
among the poor people at Pittsburg.
Chairman Love, Of the democratic
state committee, in a recent interview
said his party would not fuse with
populists next year unless given places
On the state ticket.
Business men and others will have
70 have their envelope advertising
printed by home printers hereafter
The government will only furnish
stamped envelopes.
The state eanvsssing board decided
that W. 7. Mcbride was legally nomi-
mated BY the fusionists for judge in
the Nineteenth district and refused to
put ex-Judge James A. Rays name on
the ticket.
There are $50 cases docketed for trial
at the next term Of the Shawnee couu,
ty district court, and only one murder
case among them. This is a good
showing for county having $4,000
population.
E. P, Cheney, Of Boston, a leading
stakeholder in the Santa Fe railroad,
invested So, coo last fall in seed wheat,
which was sown along the Santa Fe in
Kansas, and Mr.. Cheney will realize a
profit of $4,000 from the crop.
Cora Hubbard, the 1S-year-old girl
arrested at Weir City for helping rob
the bank at Pineville, No, is said to
have been a member Of the Dalton
gang Of outlaws and dressed herself as
a cowboy. She takes delight in re-
counting her notorious escapsdes.
J, R. Weakley, whose shortage as
treasurer of Cherry township, Mont
gomery county, is s8,O45, has left the
county. His three bondsmen refused
to pay the shortage and they were
placed in Jail until they gave bond in
double the amount Of the shortage.
There is complaint because school
teachers firt with positions-secure
one and get better if possible. One
board has required the teacher hired
to give bond for her appearance, and
another made the teacher hired give g
$500 bond that she would not desert the
school to get married.
Al 81 per bushel for her mammoth
wheat crop Kansas will this year have
''money to burn" instead of $1,000, OOC
bushels of last years corn crop left
over. Potatoes are yielding about q
bushels to the acre, which viii make &
crop of %, 100000, and potatoes are MOI
a drug on the market right now,
David Herst, a Sumner county farm
er, had five quarter sections of land
all heavily mortgaged. Suit was
brought to foreelose and the case:
were set for the September term o.
court but Herst sold his big wheat
crop for $4,000 more than enough K
pay all The mortgages, and he viii
keep his farms.
In 1870 Baxter Springs voted $3.50, DOT
In bonds to build the Missouri River
Fort Scott & Gulf railroad. The road
was never built, the bonds were re
pudiated and suit was begun for Oh,
amount A compromise was recently
effected by which the town gets back
the si50, 900 in bonds, and in lieu there
Of gives $4,000 in 2O-year refundine
bonds
Kingman is now in the throes of {
saloon war over the burning of join
run by Mike Brennan, who has spent
half his time in jail since the prohib
itory law was enacted, IS years ago
and has cost the county at least 81, 00t
q year. The temperance people ar
blamed for the destruction of Nike,
saloon, and liquor men have threaten
ed the Methodist church and United
Brethren churches.
Ex-CoBgressman JEFF Hudson. O
Fredonia, has been employed to fgh
the erection OF a new high schoo
at Independence, under the special act
Of the last legislature. The law vii
be attacked on the grounds that {
special law to accomplish what is pro
vided for by a general law is unconsti
tutionsl. Mr.. Hudson viii also attack
the validity Of the general law, which
authorizes county high schools after
the people have SO voted.
Congressman Curtis, after his defeat
In the Emporia post Office contest, an
nounced that he would make nc fur
theE recommendations for postmasters
Jewell county will again, as in 1895
be the banner corn county of the state
and the yield viii be even larger thai
last year, when it reached 1910, "A
bushels