The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-03-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Mr.. Conquest ought to stand a pretty
fair show in his fight for the post Office
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Mrs, Susan Morgan, who died at Alta
Vista the other day, was born in RAM
dolph county, Va, in 1900.
A Topeka dispatch said Chairman
Breidenthal would soon resign from
the populist state committee, being
weary of the factional fights in his
party.
A Judgment was obtained at Wichita
the other day for SIC, 296.S7 against N;
W. Levy, formerly president of the de-
funct Wichita national bank. Levy
was considered an honest man, but ha
undertook to carry all of his friends.
Rev. J. E. Brant. who has been pre-
Gliding elder Of the Fort Scott district,
Me. church, for six years, will soon move
to Indiana to accept the pastorate Of
church. Rev, Brant is one of the best
known Methodist preachers in Kan
sas.
The legislature passed very strict
measure against concealing, injuring
or disposing of mortgaged property.
It is argued that the passage Of the
measure will enable cattle feeders to
get money at a much lower rate Of in
terest than at present.
In the federal court at Wichita the
other day Guy Pearl, who confessed to
robbing the Crystal Springs post Office,
was sentenced to five years in the PEN
itentiary. His young wife, who was
sitting beside him, tainted when the
sentence was pronounced.
Representative Maxwell, of Grant
county, has been in q hospital at Buffa-
10, n. Y, ever since the Legislative ses-
sion opened and was unable to attend
any Of the sessions, but his fellow
members eourteOusly voted him his
share for per diem and mileage.
Prof. E. o. Sisson, a graduate of the
state agricultural college at Manhat-
tan and later principal of the Mound
City schools, was recently elected pres
ident Of the Bradley polytechnic in
stitute at Peoria, Ill. The school has
Just been endowed with s., 100000.
County officers and other prominent
citizens Of Harper county petitioned
Gov. Leedy to remove ex-GoV. Level
ling from the board of railroad com
missiOners, alleging that he betrayed
his party pledges when he voted
against the maximum freight bill,
The general fees and salaries bill
passed by the legislature requires that
all fees, with certain exceptions, be
turned into the county treasures, 1t
also fixes the amount of fees in all
cases and provides in nearly every
office for a salary fixed in ratio to pop
ulation.
Warden Lands report of the peni-
Tertiary shows that the institution
during the first month of his manage
ment was more than self-sustaining,
the receipts above expenses being
81, 19461. This is the first time in sew
eral months that such a showing has
been made.
A Washington dispatch said that ex-
Congressman Thomas RYAN, of Topeka,
had a good show for the appointment
as assistant secretary Of the interior
1t was also said that J. L, Bristow, ex-
private secretary to Gov. Morrill,, was
in Washington pushing his claims for
the office of fourth assistant postmas-
ter-general.
They are having serious school war
at Ellinwood. The county superinten-
dent of schools revoked the certificate
Of Prof. Johnson, principal of the high
school. The people, however, stood by
the teacher and would let no one take
Johnson's place, and pending a settle
ment of the difficulty the high school
has been closed.
The South Kansas conference of the
NJ. E. church was held at Pittsbnrg
last week. The conference embraces
90 counties in the southeastern portion
of the state, and contains 1880 com
municants, %, 148 Sunday school schol-
ars and 253 churches, valued at S77, Goo
By a vote rs to 81 the conference went
on record in favor of the admission of
women to the general conference.
Gov. Leedy has signed a number Of
bills, among them being: For bust Of
ex-Gov. Robinson in the state uni
vesity chapel; distributing the 81, 400
reciprocal tax insurance fund among
the fire departments Of the state; com
polling street car companies to provide
vestibules for cars; making divorces
harder to secure by providing for the
competency of husband and wife to
testify against each other in divorce
case.
Gov. Leedy has named e. Y. Whar-
ton, of Woodson county, for coal oil in
spector; W. W. Culver, of Barton coun'
ty, for state grain inspector; ". L.
Brown, of Kingman and F. NJ. Shane,
of Jefferson county, for trustees OF
state charitable institutions; c. NJ.
Brook, of Lecompton, and A. B.
Kuehne, of Saltna, state board of edu-
cation; John Madden, George McGrath
and w. d. Richie, regents state normal
school.
On the eth Gov. Leedy sent a scoreh-
ing message to the legislature vetOing
the Harris freight rate bill, which had
passed both houses. The message was
a lengthy one and he gave many rea-
sons for his disapproval Of the meas
ure, principal among which was that
| it does not give the relief the people
demand and expect. An effort was
made to pass the bill over the govern
ors veto, but it failed. 1t was said
that no effort would be made at this
session to pass any railroad bill, and
that Gov. Leedy would call an extra
session, in April and try again to enact