The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-04-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

State Mine Inspector AcGrsth has
appointed his wife as assistant IN
speetOE
The venerable Matthew Weightman,
q resident Of Kansas since 1885, died in
Topeka recently.
c R. Weyler, Of Lawrence, is q frst
cousin TO Gen. Weylsr, the Spanish
commander in Cuba,
Ex-Congressmap Towns, Of Mime
sofa, viii address the state free silver
convention at Topeka, May 60
There is a row in the State High
School Oratorical society and the To
peba high school has pulled out
At lola the other dag another big
flow of gas was struck which promises
q yield of 10, 600, GOO cubic fest daily.
Fort Scott papers accused Attorney
General Boyle of working to secure
the re-opening Of Fort Scott saloons
Rev S, E. Pendleton, formerly
Methodist presiding elder in southern
Kansas, is now q boomer st Port
Arthur.
The long-standing teud between ex.
Senator Rush and Judge Vandivert, OF
Larned, has again broken cut and
friends Of each party are carrying ire
arms,
Col. Alexander Warner, of Baxter
Springs, a wcll-knowu politician, has
been arrested on charges growing out
of the failure Of the Baxter Springs
bank.
Incendiaries set fire to the big barn
of Farmer Wright. near Newton and
the structure with eight fine horses
and many farm implements were de-
stroyed.
Ex-United States Marshal "Dick"
Walker has been appointed land Office
inspector under Assistant Interior Sec
rotary Ryan. 1t pays $1,000 year and
expenses
A recent violent windstorm in We
baunsee county demolished the home
of Henry Miller, killing his ten-year-
old boy and injuring other members Of
the family.
The Christian Endeavor societies Of
Kansas viii hold their annual conven-
ton in Topeka the first four days Of
June. There will be 1000 delegates in
attendance.
Henry Hartford, q youth Of IS, re-
Gently confessed to officers at Ottawa
that he had tried to poison his father,
mother and sister by putting rough on
rats IN their victuals
G. w. Thomas, living seven miles
from Atchison has lived on the same
farm sinch 1855, locating there when a
boy, his father having moved there
iron Clay county, Mo.
Since the death of Sol Miller, Of the
Troy Chief, Al. D. Sampson, Of Salina,
claims to be the pioneer Kansas editor,
having been continuously connected
with the Salina journal since 1871.
A Wichita woman, Mrs. George Rose
berry, whose domestic life was far
from happy, was seeking to gain admis-
sion to an insane asylum to get away
from her troubles and for rest and
care.
The state board Of paFdons was con.
sidering the case of Willie Sells, who
was sents up for life from Neosho
county in 1886, charged with murder
ing his father, mother, brother and
sister.
The state superintendent of inslr~
ance has collected SIS, 500. 43 as reeipro-
cal tax from the various fire insurance
| companies for the fremen's relief fund
and it viii Immediately be paid out TO
the various fire departments,
The state board of agriculture, from
reports received from every locality in
Kansas, says the average condition
of wheat now standing is so per cent
The total area planted is placed at s.
100, 600 acres, Of which q per cent was
winter killed, leaving about 2,5OO.OOo
acres now standing,
The game law was changed by the
last legislature so that It is now law
ful to shoot prairie chickens and quail
during the months of October and No
vember. 1t is provided that no such
shooting shall be done on any occupied
farm without obtaining the permission
of the owners. It remains unlawful
to sell or ship any birds.
A Topeka dispatch said the board Of
| railroad commissioners and the repre-
sentatives OF the leading traffic assO-
Citations would meet IN Topeka in a
few days and try to agree on q satis-
factory scale Of freight rates. The
consent TO this meeting is equivalent
to an assurance that there viii be no
| extra session Of the legislature.
! The annual state encampment Of the
g. A. z. and kindred organizations was
held at Chanute last week. 1t was
voted to hold the next encampmeRt at
| Wichita and the annual reunion at
| Leavenworth. Judge Thee Botkin, Of
| Hutchinson, was chosen department
commander, and he named Lewis Ham
back as acknowledgement W. D.
/ FEEDER, Of Great Bend. was elected com
| mander Of the Sons OF Veterans and
the stastics showed this order to be
disintegrating. Mrs. Margaret Griffin,
/ Of Emporia, was chosen president Of
the w. R. c.; the Ladies' Of the g. A. 3.
elected Mrs Emma Mol, Of 0lathe,
| president, and Mrs. Amy Pope, Of
/ Wichita. was chosen president Of the
! Ladies Aid society.
J. N. McCoHn, who was suspended
as postmaster at EmpoFia for alleged
embezzlement. was not Indicted by the
federal grand jury
The annual convention OF the State
/ Sunday School association viii be held
ct Newton May 25-7. E. o. Excel, Of
/ Chicago, viii lead the music.
It is said that a certain member OF
the recent Kansas legislature saved
enough out Of a salary Of sl5S to pay
off TIVE $500 morigages Oh his farm.
It is positively asserted that Gov.
E.eedy win on May appoint ez-sherlE