The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-07-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
C. B. Hoffman has given the normal
academy at Enterprise $1,000.

R B. Morris, of Atehison, internal
revenue collector for Kansas, has re-
signed.
W. j. Bryan is slated for two speeches
in Kansas this fall-at Wichita and
Peabody.
An ineendiary FIRE at Moran de-
stroyed a iewelry store, bank and
hotel. Loss, $4,000
Gov. Leedy has named delegates to
represent the state at the gold mining
convention at Denver Col, July Z,
The state militia companies at Con-
cordia, Clay Center, Clyde, Saiina and
Minneapolis have been mustered out
A Topeka telegram said leading pop
ulists who were union soldiers will Or
ganize Populist G. a. R. posts through
out the state.
1t was said Gov. Leedy would APP
point c. E. Foote, Of Wyandotte coun-
ty, as superintendent of the Hutchin-
son reformatory.
George Il. Burr, an ex-banker Of ST.
John, has gone east to try to induce
capitalists TO invest money in cattle
for western Kansas,
Ez-Congressman Otis has returned to
Topeka after having tried for some
time to establish a cooperative colony
in Montrose county, Col.
The populist judicial convention at
Ellinwbod could not agree on a eandi-
date after so ballots, and an indefinite
adjournment was taken,
William E: sterne. of Topeka, who
is to be appointed United States MARI
shall, says he will appoint a deputy in
every county in the state.
The Thermometer registered 1O4 at
LaFned and other places in western
Kansas last week. Vegetation was
literally cooked and harvest hands
were driven out of the fields.
Chairman Breidenthal, of the popu-
list state committee, says there will
be more complete fusion of the anti
republican forces in Kansas on county
tickets this fall than ever before.
The intense heat which prevailed in
Kansas last week almost pHralyzed
many industries. At lola and Pitts
burg it was almost impossible to Sc
cure men to work in the shelters.
Northeastern Kansas seems to be a
fruitful field for the Latter Day Saints
doctrines. The sect has made rapid
growth in AtchisOn, Marshall, Leaven.
worth, Doniphan and other counties,
Gov. Leedy finds there is no law that
will permit him to pardon an inmate
of the state reform school There is
no provision for the release of the in
mates except On parole of the board,
1t now transpires that the act passed
by the last legislature repeating the
statute which created about half the
judicial districts Of the state, is invalid,
having never legally passed the house.
At independence recently Judge
Skidmore dismissed the district court,
holding that, under the recent act
abolishing certain district courts of
the state, he had no authority to hold
court.
The state school fund commission
purchased $4,000 of the states refund
ing bonds recently, ard on July they
will be issued in payment of the por-
ton of the bonded debt of the state
which falls due on that date.
The temperance people Of Topeka
are hot after jointkeepers. They will
adopt the injunction policy, proceeding
first against the occupants of build
ing where liquor is sold, and extending
the restraining order to others.
Sixty boys employed on the water
works at Newton went on a strike be
cause they were not paid mems wages.
The contractor sent to Chicago for
Italian laborers to take the strikers
places and trouble was threatened.
THE state convention Of the ex-
Slaves Pension association was held al
Ottawa last week. The resolution
adopted set forth that for 245 years the
colored man was in slavery and now
he asks his reward in the shape of a
pension.
a band of women, headed by mem
bers of that sex who hold municipal
offices in Jamestown, invaded the
saloon Of T. J. Miller and with axes
and other implements of warfare de
molished bar fixtures, slot machines
and beer pumps
The republican congressional dele
cation has recommended the following
Kansans for foreign missions: J. H
/ Fitzpatrick. Leavenworth; John Brown
(colored), Topeka; W. ]. PFevett, New
ton; Prof Georgeson, Manhattan; J
T. Elwell, Lawrence. and A. I. Cole
man, Seneca
At Ottawa suit has been commenced
against B. L. Slime and other trustee:
of the De Boissierre home to recover
| s81, SGT alleged to have been contrib
uted by various members of L O. o. E
! lodges toward paying off CLAIM
against the home. 1t is charged tina
the claim was fraudulent.
| In the district court of Wyandott'
comfy Judge Allen decided that TIT
/ Kansas exemption law must be consid
cred before a Iaborers wages are tieC
/ up by garnishment- Under this law 1
married mans wages cannot be at
/ tached unless it be shown that his IN
come is in excess OF the cost Of provid
/ ing for MS family. A single man
however, is exempt Of nothing.
| Judge n B. Nicholson. Of Council
Grove, viii oppose S. H. Allen for thu
/ popGlist nomination for supreme eour
justice.
The Western Theological seminar
of the English lutheran church Ia
been permanently located at Atehison
/ IN connection with Midland college.
/ IN his latest report Warden Landi
/ says there Is not a newspaper man il
I the Kansas Penitentisgy About a.
/ the other professions are represented.
Frank Floyd, Of Highland, va
given > 45-dsgs Jail sentence for beat