The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-04-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Gov. Leedy has designated april 20
Hs Arbor day.
! A woman 20 years old as suing for 3
/ divorce ia smith county.
The commercial club Of Hambol5t
has subscribed $4,000 for brick plant.
i Western Kansas people are TALKING
drainage this year instead Of irriga-
tiOn.
The Hutchinson & Southern railroad
viii soon be sold under a decree Of
! foreclosure.
The Lutherans Of Kansas wiz build
at LindshOrg the Bethany college for
young girls.
A Topeka eolored preacher tells his
congregation that Adam was q full
bloOded negro.
The CsFtal says that Topeka stands
/ second among the eities OF the country
in -four milling.
Nine-tenths of the whisk br0oms sold
and used in the United States are made
from broomeOrn grown IN Kansas
| Ex-Congressman kirkpatrick, Of Ere
donia, wanted to be appointed deputy
! commissioner Of pensions, but his lack
Of q war record barred him.
A state officer at Topeka was quoted
as saying that ex-Gov, Lewelling would
be removed from the board Of railFOad
commissioners, because Of the Doodle
charges against him
a freak in the shape of q double calf
was born near Parsons recently. lt
has two baekbones, eight legs, four
ewes, four ears, two tails, two upper
! jaws, one lower jaw and one tongue
/ Itwss reported from Manhattan thes
/ George Il. Fairchild, who wsS ~sently
/ deposed as president Of She state agri-
cultural college; had been offered the
presidency Of Oberlin college at ObeF-
! lin, o.
! 1t is probable that Secretary Of Agri.
culture /. D. Coburn VIII accept the
professorship of agriculture and super
/ intendency Of the experiment station
in the state agricultural college at
| Manhattan,
Fl. C. Barnes, the prosecuting att0r-
/ ney Of San Francisco who successfully
/ prosecuted Murderer Theodore Dur
rant, formerly resided at Stockton,
this state. and was member Of the
Kansas legislature in 1885,
/ It is rumored that Congressman Case
! Brodericlr, of the First district, win be
asked to accept the republican noInina-
ton for governor in 1898, and that eX-
/ Gov. Morrill, and ex-senator Ingalls,
/ viii be candidates for BFoderiek's seat
| in congress.
In the federal court at Topeka Will
liam r. Hill, founder Of Hill City, was
convicted of defrauding children. He
would take up claims in western Kan
sas fer the children OF deceased sol
diers, have himself appointed guardian,
! sell the lands as guardian and keep the
proceeds.
1t is estimated that county officers in
western Kansas, especially in the
Sixth district, have sold to innocent
purchasers at least 100000 acres of
school land, contrary to the law Of
1895. The purchasers will have to de-
| pend upon the next legislature TO
legalize their titles.
| There are five ex-Senators Of Kansas
alive, viz: Alexander Caldwell, Of
Leavenworth; John J. Ingalls,, of Atchs
ison; William A. PETER and John Mar
| tin, Of Topeka, and Edmond G.. Ross, Of
! New Mexico. Caldwell is rich, ingalls,
is well of, PETER is "fair to middlin',
while Martin and Ross are classed as
poor men.
The annual meeting of the supreme
lodge, Patriarchs Of America, was held
at Chetopa last week, IS lodges being
represented. John 7. CLANCY, Of To-
peka, was elected supreme patriarch,
and Il. +. Reid, Of Parsons, secretary.
1t is strictly a Kansas organization.
In seven years it has reached q mem
bership of $500.
Gov. Leedy has announced that he
will issue commissions TO only the six
members Of the textbook commission
whom the senate confirmed. This wiz
prevent D. c. Tillotson and D. o. Ne
Cray, republican members Of the board
whom the senate did not confirm, from
having anything to do with letting
contracts to book publishing houses in
May.
| The democratic editors Of the state
met at Lawrence on the 18th and held
10 profitable session. These officers
were elected: Z. L Purcell, president;
/ V. J. Lane, vice president; }. 3. Cos.
horn, secretary; j. E. Wstrous, treas
urer; Warren Knops, \. z. Timmons
and ]. T. Herman, executive commit
tee. The next meeting viii be held ct
IOla in April, 1895.
Daniel Reagan, a young farmer near
| Fort Scott, was forcibly elected from
his home under the foreclosure Of a
mortgage, which he says he has no
| knowledge Of ever signing. After his
fathers death few years ago he
signed what he supposed was deed
conveying his interest in certain prop
erty TO his sisters. and he says this pa
! per has turned up as the mortgage
Senators Titus and Jumper and
Warden Lands gave some very damag-
! ing testimony before the bribery in
vestigating committee at Topeka con-
meeting ex-Gov. LeWelling with at
temps to bride certain legislators. In
/ an interview the ex-governor indig-
nantly denied every charge, declaring
it to be a conspiracy IN the part Of
certain popuiist politicians 20 ruin
him.
Maj A. r. shreve, a dancing teacher
Of Topeka, has been appointed q dep
uty state grain inspector
The state secretary's report SLOWS
/ that there are $40 Methodist churches
in Kansas, with 1887 members and
s662. go worth Of church property.
( For the butter fat from the milk Of
10 900 eovvF the craaneries Of Dfqirir-