The Goodland republic., 1897-07-09


type-setting machines in the Office.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthsl
closed the Salina state bank because
its officers refused TO report its condi-
tion.
The new history for the public schools
of the state will contain 20-page his
tory of Kansas, written by Noble L.
Prentis, the well-knoWn writer.
Eugene F. Ware, OF Topeka, was
elected president of the Western AssO-
citation of Writers, at the society's re-
cent annual meeting at Eagle Lake,
Ind
Quite a sensation was caused at In
dependence by the arrest of Mrs. Joel
O. Mack for the murder of her husband
near Muskogee, I. T, six months ago.
She was taken to Muskogee and placed
in Jail.
The university of Denver, Col, has
conferred the degree of S, T. D. upon
President Murlin, of Baker university,
Baldwin. Cornell college has SINH
larly honOred him, having conferred
upon him the degree of D. D.
A bridge across a small stream in
Fort Scott collapsed the other day
with hack and the driver and team
fell 20 feet into the water, but were
not drowned. The collapse broke an
eight-inch water main and shut off the
electric lights for awhile.
A. I. Chaplin, ex-cashier of the say
ings bank Of Pittsburg, and also Of the
Manufacturers national bank, who
was recently acquitted Of forgery, has
been re-arrested upon the charge Of
misappropriating funds and falsifying
the books of the latter bank.
A. K. Rodgers, Of Topeka, has a
scheme in aid of domestic happiness
and he thinks it would in great
measure rid the courts Of divorce cases
He proposes that the government shall
reward ali couples who live as husband
and wife for a period of 30 years with
Rp. rs on.
If the new law in regard to the taxa
ton of private banks is rigidly en-
forced it will compel those institutions
70 seek shelter by Incorporating under
state or national charters. Under the
new law private banks must pay much
heavier taxes than either state or ma
tional banks.
Judge Foster has appointed the fol-
lowing United States commissioners
for Kansas, to serve four years: T. j.
White, Kansas City; B. Z. Stocks, Gar
den City; ", H. Bond, LeaYenwOrth;
S. P. Mosher, Fort Scott; C. ". Reed
er, Hays City; B. D. Beall, Wichita
G.. W. Clark Topeka
The state textbook commission re
Gently completed the purchase Of
schoolbooks by adopting readers, ply
siology and philosophy. They cost as
follows; First reader, 10 cents; second,
II cents; third, % cents; fourth, 40
cents; fifth, so cents philosophy and
physiology, SO cents each.
Sheriff Skinner, of Cowley county, is
under arrest for refusing to recognize
an order from the probate judge. The
sheriff demands a trial by jury. The
new law allows him trial by jury
but makes no provision for procuring
q jury. The supreme court may have
to settle the complication.
There are 1000 schooIhouses in Kan
sas, valued at over s., coo, 900. They art
all supposed to be insured. but it is as
serted that the insurance is practically
valueless, as there is in every policy {
provision that whenever a building re
mains unoccupied more than so consec
utive days the policy is void.
War on the liquor traffic has com
menced at Emporia. The 0. M. B
club has been enjoined. Judge Ran
dolph, on behalf of the Good Templars
| issued an injunction against the mem
bers Of the club forbidding them t,
sell any intoxicants or to allew per
sons to Ioiter around the premises.
A case from Cherokee county ha
been fled in the supreme court to tes
the validity of the act of the last legis
lature abolishing certain judicial dis
triets. Judges and lawyers are anxious
that the court act speedily in the mat
ter, as the judges in the district
affected by the act have adjourned
their courts pending the decision.
In response to a request from KaT
valley potato growers for a remedy I
| stamp out the pest that is destroyiR.
so many potato vines, Chancellor Sno'
saws the best artificial remedy or pre-
ventive is that Of burning the POtat
stalks when they begin to wilt an
the worms are yet in them. Z ha
been observed in Illinois that the pre-.
/ enee Of the helpful hen has been az
yantageous in keeping this pest frOi
becoming dangerous.
John Seaton, of Atehison, and Mix
Heery, Of Topeka, have resigned q
/ members OF the state board OF puDl
works ana Gov. Leedy VIII not appoiu
a new board
F. l. VandegFift, who has been th
/ Topeka correspondent Of the Kauss
/ City Star for * years, has been pr
/ NOTED to a position in the editoTis
/ rooms IN Kansas City.
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disrs' home at Dodge City want
! spend an accumulation CT $4,000
! erecting new buildings Atterne!
! General BeyHs Esgs they can't DO i
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