The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-08-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

srasshoppers caused C. ". Kellogg,
3 Russell county ranehman, q loss oil
$1,000
The Swift Packing Co, of Kansas
City, Will feed 500, 600 head Of sheep in
Kansas.
MAJ George Ridge, who served under
Quantrell in MS raids, died at Arcadia
recently.
At hutchinson but 25 Of the 1asI
teachers were able to pass the county
examination.
Thrashing machine owners in Brown
county have formed a combination To-
keep prices up.
Gov. Leedy has issued a proelams-
ton designating Monday, September
6, as Labor day.
Lenora Pearce, aged eight, of Otta-
wa, accidentally swallowed a cork and
choked to death
The grade Of wheat in northwestern
Kansas has been materially injured by
recent heavy rains
DR.. Robert Brown, who conducted
the first drug store in Kansas, died at
LeavenWorth recently.
Reese and DOwney, who own a 1885,
acre apple orchard near Atchison, sold
their entire crop for $4,000.
Hungarians ofNew York are talking
Of establishing a colony Of several
thousand persons in Kansas.
There is war among thrashers at
Great Bend. The price has been cut to
two cents, and is sure to go lower.
The eiectment suits involving the
title to a vast amount of property in
Argentine have been fled in federal
court.
Dwight Fowler, a Newton boy en-
route to Klondike, was drowned while
trying to cross a river on log near
Dyea, Alaska.
Farmers near Solomon have lost hun
dreds of hogs from swine fever, which
was brought into the community by
hogs from Texas.
Ex-Judge McCue, Of independence,
and James McKinstry, of Hutchinson,
will form a law partnership and live
in Kansas City, Mo.
An incendiary fire destroyed every
business house in Milford, Geary eoun-
ty, save one. It was thought some re-
ligious fanatics set the fire.
Rev. W. A. Quayle, of Kansas City,
formerly of Baker university, will next
March become pastor of the First
Methodist church at Evanston, Ill
Henry Martin died at Lawrence re.
Gently. He came to Kansas with his
bride in 1857, endured frontier hard
ships and survived the QuantFell raid,
The populist manifesto declaring an
tagonism to federal courts and calling
for national conference of pOpuIsts
and socialists viii be issued in few
days.
Farmers were unusually early this
year in blowing wheat ground. They
have learned the Importance Of get
ting ground ready early, though the
work is harder.
A milling firm at Lawrence is ship
ping -four to Klondike, 1t goes by
southern water route and will reach
Alaska in time to be taken up the Yu-
kon river next spring.
State Grain Inspector Culver has es-
tablished a new grade of Kansas
wheat, to be known as No. Kansas
hard, weight 50 pounds. Hereafter
No. hard viii weigh IS and No. 8 hard
Sc pounds,
Among the big speakers who will at
tend the state @. A. R. reunion az
Leavenworth are Gen. R. A. Alger,
Senator j. B. Foraker, Pension Com'
missioner Henry Clay Evans and Gen.
John B, Gordon.
J. NJ. Limbocker, until recently d
prominent lawyer and county official
at Fort Scott, was brought back from
Texas to answer to embezzlng money
from the estate of Mrs. Paulson, an in
sane woman of Fort Scott.
Wyandotte lodge No. 8, A. f. & A,
NJ, celebrated the 43d anniversary Of
its founding on the 18th. The lodge
first worked under dispensation from
the grand lodge of Missouri and its
first officers were Wyandotte Indians.
". B. Felts. the man who was to
jump from Pixies peak, but didn't, was
discovered recently in Logan county,
this state, where he formerly lived.
lie is said to be a great fakir, and
takes periodical turns at working
suckers"
Three suits in ejectment have been
filed in the federal court against
parties ia Wyandotte and johnson
counties, involving property valued at
s31, OOO The suits are to test the
validity Of the government treaty with
the Shawnee Indians.
The post Office department will con
tiuue the rural free delivery Of mail to
farmers in Delaware and Wyandotte
townships in Wyandotte county. At
one time the farmers did not take
| kindly to the scheme, bat now they
are enthusiastic in its praise.
In 1891 there were bat S4,Ss4 acres
of alfalfa in Kansas This years re-
turns to Secretary Coburn, Of the state
board Of agriculture, show III, 1874
acres, an increase Of SIS per cent. in
six years, Finney county, as in 1891,
ranking first N acreage. Alfalfa is
reported this year in ali but three
counties.
A prominent Topeka lawyer says the
Hillmon insurance case has been so
thoroughly discussed that it will be
impossible to again get jury in Kan
sas to try 1t, He says Mrs Hillmon
should accept the proposition Of the
insurance companies to submit the
case to g jury Of federal judges for
final settlement
The broOmcorn harvest in Kansas
this year viii be unusually light Be
cause Of dryweather at a elitical time,
which DESTROYED thousands OF acres