The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-12-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

additional side track At Em pOrla-
At Burr Oak 20 ears Of corn are On
exhibition that weigh s75[ pounds
A Jewell county man marketed 90
hogs that averaged 1904 pounds, re-
eeiving $40 for them
A fire at CherryFale destroyed
Caudy's hardware store AID other
buildings valued at S., 900.
Dr. Glynn. a young physician at
lola, almost. killed himself while ex-
perimenting with cocaine
The contest over the Office Of sheriff
Of Shawnee county was decided in favor
Of Porter Cook, the republican,
A young tough at Lawrence was
fined sos in police court for escaping
from the city rock pile
A jury IN Wyandotte county JUS
tees court refused to return a verdict
until their fees were paid
Henry Webster is wanted at Yates
Center for forging his brothers name
TO $3.50 note at the bank
p A Chicago firm is building $50 new
refrigerator cars for the Santa Fe rail-
road, to cost $500 each, a total Of S225,-
900.
The pOpulist clans Of the state viii
meet at Topeka January and 6 for
conference a big attendance IS ex-
pected-
A state convention Of negroes was
held at Topeka December % 70 de-
demand a place on the republican
state ticket.
Gov. Leedy pardoned C. E. Wight
man, who was sent up for wrecking
the Tribune state bank, in time to eat
Christmas dinner at home
W. A Reeder, Of Logan, will again
contest the Sixth congressional district
republican nomination with A. ii.
Ellis It is said there are others
In the district court Of Sedgwick
county Judge Dale declared valid the
Kansas law requiring railroads to give
return passes to shippers for one car
Of cattle
An electric railway Will be built
from Kansas City to Bonner Springs,
WyaRdotte county, a distance Of 20
miles, and Bonner viii be doomed as a
health resort
The county treasurer of Sumner
county has discovered that Oklahoma
farmers have killed and brought 70
Wellington thousands Of rabbit scalps
for which they received a bounty Of
three cents each.
E ". Howe, Of the AtchisOn Globe,
is an applicant for the AtchisOn post
Office, and his enemies are digging up
the mean things he has said in recent
years about Mckinley and Senator
Baker.
Prof. C. c. GeorgesOn, who was last
spring let out Of the state agricultural
college by the new board Of regents,
has been appointed to a lucrative posi-
ton in the department Of agriculture
at Washington
The Kansas court Of appeals, sitting
at Topeka, held that a client is bound
by the act Of his attorney, and that an
attorney once appearing in a case viii
be recognized until notice to the con-
trary IS fled IN court
Under the new salary law Attorney
General Boyle says county commits
siOners will be allowed pay only for
those days actually spent working for
the county, and in no instance can
they draw to exceed $500 a year.
Judge Holt, Of Wyandotte county,
holds that a creditors right to sue
stockholders Of a bank are still good,
Notwithstanding the new banking law
relieves the individual creditor Of this
right and gives 1t to the receiver.
Labor commissioner johnson has
sent a blank statement to every man
in the state who works for wages,
which is to be returned with proper
answers. The object is to find whether
the laborer's condition is improving.
Lawrence Lapsley, a wealthy negro
who died near Salina, left his fortune
to Prof. Charles Harne, a young man
who had nursed Lapsley through q
dangerous sickness when the other
white neighbOr deserted him on &C
count Of his color.
A permanent exhibit Of Kansas prod
ucts has been opened in the Nelson
building, Kansas City, No, in charge
Of II. c. Owen, Of Beloit. Crawford
was one Of the first counties to report,
sending in a fine exhibit, principally
Of lead and zinc ores and coal
Federal Judge Foster has ordered
the Wichita & Western railroad to pay
81, 75S back taxes to Pratt county and
dissolved the injunction restraining
the sheriff from collecting the taxes.
ne money ~ d De14AAN AEGAG-Ar - -AAl
school districts were without funds
The suicide of Gen A B. Campbell,
at Chicago. viii be heard with regret
BY a large number Of Kansas &C
luaintances- He was chaplain Of the
state penitenJiary under Gov. St John
and adjutant general under Gov Mar
tin An appetite for whisky caused 7
his ruin.
State Treasurer HefhebOwer says he F
viii pay Tor no more bonds for the per
manent school fund If the aggregate
Of the county, including
school district, township and other in /
iebtedness exceeds ten per cent OF the /
valuation Of the county This viii bar /
% counties, while only six counties I
would be eligible
a nursery man who is working Nor 1
RS county sells trees. contracting TO |
PIT them out and care for them for Eve /
years and take as his pay half Of the I
fifth crop.
George Hamilton, county clerk Of /!
Harper county, was arrested for libel, /