The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-02-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Thirty ereameries IN central Kansas
psF to farmers $4,000 q month for
cream.
In her collection Of plants HRS. Dun.
gan, of Sedan, has an orange tree bear
ing fruit.
Ben and Bert Munson, brothers, were
drowned while skating on a pond at
jennings
The January earnings Of the penis
Tertiary were SS,O9S.S2 and the ex-
penses S11, O62.SO.
Judge W. c. Webb. Of Topeka, viii
be paid $4,000 to revise and compile
the statutes Of Kansas.
In the Oswego district court Rudolph
Beckman was found guilty Of murder
ing his 16-year-old daughter.
Examinations for positions under the
civil service viii be held at Topeka
March % and at Wichita March 20,
Charles S. Martin, of salina, was
elected assistant reading clerk of the
Kansas house. He is republican, and
once served as reading clerk of the ma
tional house.
State Superintendent Strylzer was re-
ported as having discovered gross ir-
Irregularities in the affairs Of the state
school fund commission. Among other
alleged losses is 5000 acres of land
which Stryker says was stolen from
the state
The new state live stock sanitary
commission organized with John
Brown, of Delphos, as chairman and
Weineshank, of Kingman, as secretary.
Gardner and Lowell townships, Chero-
kee county, will be left outside the
safe district, as at present.
The state council Of the A. P. A. in
session at Wichita, elected c. H. Lul-
ing, Wichita, president; ]. F. Culver,
Emporia, secretary of state; R. I. KEEP
ling, chaplain; f. II. Barker, Kansas
City, secretary. The order claims a
membership in the state Of $1,000.
John Todd, a wealthy merchant of
Marmaton, signed an innocentlooking
receipt for some spectacles from a
stranger, and by a scientific process
the swiHdler transferred the signature
to a note for S325, which turned up in
the hands Of an innocent purchaser.
There were S5Gs, IN expended at the
Leavenworth soldiers home last year.
There are 2,346 pensioners in the home
and they received 1921, $50 during the
year in pensions. The home library
contains S,OG2 volumes. There were
1874 deaths, 81 cases of insanity and 10
of blindness.
J. S. Miller, a Doniphan farmer, will
SOW wheat and oats together this
spring. lie says this is regularly done
in Minnesota, and the threshing ma
chimes separate the cereals without
trouble. lie also SAYS that when oats
grow with wheat ch5nchsbugs viii not
molest the wheat.
Rev. W. a. QuayIe, well-lnown in
Kansas as president of Baker univer-
sity at Baldwin, but since 1894 pastor
Of Independence Avenue NJ. E. church
at Kansas City, Mo-, will prob
ably go to New York next month
and become pastor of the Calvary
church, one of the leading Methodist
churches Of Gotham.
Clifford township, Butler county, ac-
cording to all reports, is a modern
Utopia. 1t has 100 families, and in %
years they have had only one law suit.
During that time only three mortgages
have been foreclosed. There are five
schoolhouses and two churches in the
township, no bonds were ever voted in
the township and the township has no
debt.
Joseph Hildebrandt, formerly a pros
porous farmer at Maryville, died in a
Chicago hospital recently of cancer.
When he was taken with the fatal
malady about two years ago his wife
took charge of the farm. Driven to
despair by the certain knowledge Of
her husbands fate, the poor woman
poisoned her eight children, seven of
whom died, and strangled herself to
death.
At Wanego they are demonstrating
the practicability Of good roads by &C
tual work on the boulevard connecting
that town with Louisville three miles
north. Nearly one mile of grayeled
road 10 feet wide has been constructed.
Nearly $500 in cash, work and material
have already been subscribed. Gravel
beds have been opened just west OF
town and much interest is taken by
Wamego and Louisville people in the
road.
In 1884 Edward Phillips left Girard
very mysteriously, and for a long time
people thought he had been murdered.
A man named William Cav was &C
cused Of the crime, and an angry mob
came near lynching him, but he was
saved by Phillips two brothers, who
believed their missing brother was
alive. Now, letter has just been re-
ceived from Edward from the west, say
ing he has been thriving since his long
absence and would soon visit Girard.
Capt J. Il. Churchill, of Dodge City,
is positive that as a wheat and corn
raising country western Kansas is a
failure and that the irrigation prob
lem has not been solved. But he says
cattle can be raised there cheaper than
anywhere else in the country, as they
can be kept on the range II months in
the year, and enough stuff can be
raised in the valleys to feed them the
other month. Abandoning farming
altogether last year, Capt. Churchill
bought cows at 81 per head. o. the
number bought so per cent. raised
calves and he sold the calves at an a7-
erage Of 81 a head. He thus realized
e 80 per cent dividend the first year,
and within another year win have paid
for his COWS through the increase.
Mrs. Emma Hall. who went from
Rocks county as q missionary TO jana
lea six months ago, died there a few
weeks ago. Miss Grace White, who
went rom Kingman in 1891 TO preach