The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-08-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

with wheat.
The total valuation Of the packing
house property in Kansas City, Kan,
is SIS, 100000.
Farmer German, Of Dickinson coun-
ty, harvested 4,82O bushels Of wheat
from so acres.
The republicans Of Bourbon county
nominated Miss Stella Strait for reg
lister Of deeds.
Postmaster Miller, Of Otoe, is in
limbo for signing other peoples names
to pension vouchers.
A Topeka dispatch said Webb Nc.
Nall had struck it rich in Colorado
gold mine investment
Speaker Street, Of Decatur, claims
20 have discovered a contagious dis
ease that viii kill grasshoppers.
Newton has a liveryman who refuses
to do business on Sunday and he has
the largest patronage Of any liveryman
in town.
Senator Baker says United States
Marshal Nicely viii be permitted to
serve out his term which expires next
January.
William A. Thompson committed
suicide at Topeka because his parents
were airing their troubles in court in
a divorce suit
/ John Brooks. of Columbus, is in jail
at Fort Scott charged with sending an
offensive postal card to his daughter
at Winchester, Ok,
Theodore Deifenderfer, a Doniphan
county farmer, made enough from his
wheat, oats and barley crop this year
to buy another farm.
Cattlemen ali over the state are up
in arms against the new order of the
railroads to ship live stock by weight
instead of by ear load.
The broomcorn harvest IN Kansas
this year will be unusually light be-
cause of dry weather at a critical time,
which destroyed thousands of acres.
Edward Ingram, a graduate of the
state blind asylum, is running big
broom factory in Atchison. Though
totally blind he sorts his own straw.
The past week the state treasurer
paid off and refunded S2eO,0 900 of the
states bonds. using the states own
money from the permanent school
fund.
1t is said Mayor Fellows, Of Topeka,
will contest with j, A. Troutman for
the vote Of Shawnee county in the re-
publican state convention for gov
ernor.
Hazelton wants to- compromise its
bonded debt. The town cannot pay
the interest and reputation is threat
ened unless the eastern creditors are
ienient
Anthony, Harper county. is trying
to compromise her indebtedness of
! Sl6s,OOO on basis Of so per cent The
town has an assessed valuation Of only
! slOS, OOO
The fax tow factory at Fort Scott
! has resumed operations after an idle
ness Of several months. The fax IN
dustry in Kansas this year promises
rich returns.
In the post office at Ellis Mrs. Walk
enstein shot and killed a jeweleF
named Mulheim, then killed herself.
There had been talk connecting the
two in a scandal
Fred Kipp, living six miles west Of
Ellsworth, was overcome with heat
while working in his blacksmith shop
and, falling face downward into the
fire. was burned to death.
Gov Leedy has named George NJ
Munger, Judge J. S. Emery, E. R,
Moses, John Edwards and E. D. Webt
as delegates to the National Irrigation
congress at Lincoln, Neb,, September
$3.50.
Cyrus Leland is credited with de,
sire to have w. J. Bailey in congress
from the First district To this end
he is DESTROYS that Congressman Curtis
seek the nomination for congressman
: at-iarge.
A telegram from Mankota said q
j leading young pOpulists Of Kansas
would emigrate to Utah this fall anG
J settle in different portions Of thai
/ state, with a view to controlling the
politics Of the state.
! Michael Moore, who died at MePher
son recently at the age of %, served in
the Thirteenth infantry in the war Of
1912, and was commissioned a lieuten
ant of the Ninth infantry in 1869. lie
had the longest record for continuoH;
service Of any man in the army
An open saloon in Harper, the first
, for many years. so stirred up thewom
en- Of the town that they marched in q
body to the mayors Office and request
ed him to shut up the saloon OF resign
1 He refused to do either, insisting tha
public sentiment favored saloons
State Superintendent Stryker hai
notified all school boards in the state
I that the textbooks adopted by this
state textbook commission must b.
used after September /, except whert
: written contracts have been entered
= into under the provisions OF the county
q uniformity law. He says that writer
contracts with book companies other
wise viii not stand. Attorney-Genera
Boyle hold views directly opposite L
. Mr.. Stryker regarding existing writer
CONTRACTS
Jesse BabeOek, q wealthy young ma
OF Eagle Bend, committed suicide
few miRutes before the time set Tor b
: marriage to Miss Gardner.
The demosrats Of Wyandotte count
J had a serious riot over the fusion mai
ter, two leading politicians coming 3
blows IN the convention floor.
There have been 81 nati0uai bank
organizsd il Kansas Eighty went %
z t. voluntary liquidation. % became 10
solvent aaz los are stili IN eSistsncs.
William Heiser, q young man q
f.-ayar- WIS arrested for selling liqaa
s end eougsitlei suicide rather shan g
: to rs Lad previously lQEns