The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-06-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Kansas has not had single cyclone.
Ewing Herbert, the Hiawatha editor
and lecturer, viii be married soon to
Miss Grace Nye, Of Hiawatha.
The Neodesha oil refinery is furnish
ing oil to surrounding towns as well
as to o territory twice the area OF Kan
sas.
There is a female footpad in LeaveR.
worth who is described as powerful
negress, who assaults and robs unwaTy
pedestrians
Otis Dean, q youth who two years
ago escaped from the Kansas reforma-
tory, is in Jail at sedalia, No, for
stealing horse.
There are 1s1 Congregational
churches in Kansas, with 1900 mem
bers, 100 buildings and 81 self-support-
ing congregations. !
The ez=SlaYe Pension association will /
hold state meetina at Ottawa June 1e
and II. Rev. Lena Mason, the colored |
woman evangelist, will speak
The county attorney of Bourbon |
county decided that the new law to |
assess notes and judgments does not
take effect until March 1, 1898,
C.R. Person, formerly a banker OF
Belle PLANE, committed suicide in a
Chicago hotel because he could not pay
a debt he owed friend in st. Louis.
Sunflower camp team, of Topeka,
won first prize in the competitive drill
at Dubuque, Ia, at the meeting Of the
head camp, Modern Woodmen of Amer
lea.
There is an epidemic of hog cholera
in Seegwick county and hundreds OF
hogs are dying, the farmers being I'M
able to check the raYages OF the
disease.
The attorney-general has decided
that the textbook law applies to- the
state university, state normal and state
agricultural college, the same as to the
common and high schools.
John L, Morgan a former citizen of
Kansas, and until recently manager Of
the Normandy hotel at Kansas City,
No, committed suicide the other night
because of financial reverses.
The high school alumni society of
Fort Scott, comprising 146 members,
was greatly agitated over whether
dancing and card playing should be
permitted at the annual banquet,
The Rock Island and Missouri Pacific
railroads have protested against the
increased assessment by the state
board. The Missouri Pacific assess
ment was increased $685., 600 over last
| year.
George I. Fairchild, who was re-
Gently deposed from the presidency Of
the state agricultural college at Man
haitian, has been rendered the presi-
dency of the West Virginia state uni-
7ersity.
The populist committee of Leaven-
worth county has demanded that Gov.
Leedy remove the two democratic
members of the Leavenworth police
commission and appoint populists in
their place,
The blackberry fields of southeast
ern Kansas from which large ship
ments are made each year, are badly
affected this season with a rust that is
killing the bushes, and the crop viii
be cut short.
Since 1876 EmpOria has had a curfew
law, but it was never enforced. One
night recently the city fathers insisted
upon its enforcement and now boys
and girls under 16 have to get of the
street at nine O'clock
II A. a. Varble, of Hepler, aged 80,
who was arrested on complaint of his
granddaughter, aged II, charged with
being the father of her child, settled
the case by deciding the girl 100 acres
of Crawford county land.
Gov. Leedy refused to pardon j. R.
/ CoIean, who in 1895 was sent to state
prison five years for embezzling SIS, 900
from the State bank at Fort Scott
The governor said Colean could we'll
afford TO stay Ave years il prison at
the rate Of $4,000 year.
Gen. J. C. Caldwell, of Topeka, is the
only surviving majoF-general Of the
union army living in Kansas. At Get
| tysburg he was next in rank to Gen.
| w. S. Hancock, and after the latter
was wounded Gen. Caldwell was tenn
porarily in command of the second
corps.
Rev. John D. Knox, the well-known
, Topeka banker and preacher, who was
suspended a year ago from the Meth
, odist church for alleged lying and
, fraud, was tried by an ecclesiastic
court at St. Joseph, No, last week and
exonerated. He was reinstated as a
t minister in good standing.
J Federal Judge Foster has issued an
order restraining State Insurance Su-
perintendent MeNa1 from interfering
! with the business of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co. in Kansas, pending
a decision Of the case now in court
McNall says he will pay no attention
to Fosters order. claiming that a fed
eral Judge has nn right to interfere
with state officer in the discharge of
his functions.
The state convention of Christian
Endeavor societies was held at Topeka
last week. Frank Vincent, OF Seneca,
was elected president; Percy Davis, Of
Topeka, secretary, and f. NJ Shaeffer,
Of Minneapolis, treasurer. The Eff.
teenth district, composed Of counties
: in the far southwestern part of the
state, carried of the banner for best
attendance. The missionary banner
was won by the Z. P. EndeaYor society
of Emporia-
A IRE iE the state prison at Lansing
the other night destroyed z,0OG worth
| of new uniforms fer eonvicts-
i a Washington telegram said Senator
Baker had Endorsed Cyrus Leland foi
) / pension agent at Topeka. The sp
+ pointmen4 viii create considerable dis
/ eussiou throughoa8 the state,
The city council at HEtchshsoE i'm