The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-01-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS

gregating $500, COO annually.
The black leg has appeared among
the herds of the Arkansas valley, and
q great many cattle have died
The first instance of a white couple
being married by a eOlOred minister oc-
Cured in Doniphan county last week.
Rev. C Il. Vaughn. pastor Of the NJ,
3 church at Dodge City, was deposed
for engaging ia legal controversies
with his brethren.
In Greenwood county from Deem
Der to "A, s17O,OoO of borrowed capital
was invested in cattle as shown by the
chattel mortgage record.
Scores of horses have died through
out northwestern Kansas from mys-
terious disease, and all efforts Of Veter-
inarians to check the epidemic have
been futile. Many farmers are With
out animals for their work.
The latest scheme in musical circles
in Kansas is Tor all the larger towns
to get up choruses and practice "Crea-
ton" and give rendition at home
previous to a grand meeting of all cho-
ruses at Forest park, Ottawa, next
June.
A man in Dover township, Shawnee
county, did an unusual thing the other
day. At the lastelection he was chosen
justice Of the peace, but he now writes
to the county clerk frankly admitting
that he considers himself incompetent
for the position,
The only federal prison in the United
States is at Fort Leavenworth A bill
now before congress appropriatss S95,-
600 toward building a new one, and in
few days work will begin. 1t will
mostly Ia built by federal prisoners
aud when completed will cost about
$3.50, 900.
John P. Harris has finally given
notice that he will contest the election
of NJ S, Peters to congress from the
Second district. Harris alleges fraud
in Wyandotte county, Mr.. Peters has
engaged Congressman Miller, a repub-
lican, to represent his interests at
Washington.
A Topeka dispatch said that pledges
had been obtained from a sufficient
number Of mem ers Of the legislature
to insure the repeal of the metropolis
tan police law. Cove Leedy will
be asked not to appoint any police
boards until after the legislature has
a chance to repeal the law.
Gov. Morrill, on Christmas day par
doned Willis Jackson, convicted il
Sumner county in 1873 of numbering
William Mcdowell, a cook, and SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment Recently
a man named EIkins died and on his
deathbed confessed that it was he, anC
not Jackson, who killed Mcdowell.
William Huckaby and May Archi
bald, of Stafford county, were married
at Great Bend the other day, but be
fore they got out of town the girrI
irate father appeared on the scene anC
had the groom arrested and cast intC
prison for alleged perjury in swearing
to the age Of the girl, the father claim
ing she was only ID
John Whitman Leedy, governor-eleet
of Kansas, is a descendant of German
lDunkards, and was born in Ankeny
town, 0. At the age of "A he raj
away from home 10 join the One Hun
dred and Sixty-third Ohio volunteers
He was not permitted to enlist, bu
was allowed TO follow the regimen
until the war closed.
The coming legislature is almost Ger
tain to amend the present ballot Law
in several particulars 1t is said owe
so bills will be presented to this end
The appointment of judges and clerk
will probably be taken from the town
ship trustees and election commission
ers and given to the different politica
parties. The provision regarding tn
printing of ballots will also be changed
The school board at Usage City issue
an order recently prohibiting lad
school teachers from attending dances
alleging that it was "a bad example {
set for their pupils" Thereupon a nun
Der of the friends of the teachers he'll
an Indignation meeting and requests
the members of the board to refrai
from the use of tobacco, claiming tha
good results along that line could no
be accomplished as long as members c
the board INDUCED in the practice.
In 1858 John Brown celebrate
Christmas by going over into Missoul
with his followers, where he iberate
a slaves. The governor of Missoul
offered $1,000 reward for him, an
President Buchanan increased it S95t
Brown conveyed the negroes to Jacl
son county, this state, and there an a
tempt was made TO capture him by me
from Atchison. They were whippe
away, however, and the affair passe
; into history as THE Battle Of tn
Spurs"
D. NJ. Lower, of Kansas City, No
with his mother aud sister, who live
Hutchinson, win bring suit in the feJ
eral court at Wichita to get possessio
? of 100 acres of land in the center {
Eldorado. The value of the propert
is estimated at $3.50, OO0 They alleg
that the land II question was DECIDE
by the father and husband, E. L. Low
er, after be had been declared insanr
and the suit will be based on the la
that he could not dispose of the pro-
erty until he had been declared sa1
by competent court
State Senator Armstrong. of Gre.
; Bend, wants a printing establishmel
put in the state reform school I
Hutchinson, where a great deal Of Il
states printing could he done,
L. Ledbetter. of Houlton. Ia, Fecen
IL purchased 200 acres Of improve
: land near HisttviIle, Rourbon count
for az aggregate consideration Of 81
coo
The Topeka Capitals suggestion th,
Kansas should send a traia load
provisions &c gEs pOsr Of New YUi
and Chicago Sc rehuke 70 the nsw