The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-02-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Beard at Hutchinson and Stephen
Breeze at Cottonwood Falls.
Kansas Royal Arch Masons, in ses-
sion at salina, elected C. E. Mcneil, Of
Kirwin, high priest, and J. ". Smith,
Of Minneapolis, grand scribe.
Gov. Leedy has signed the bill abol=
ishing Judge Samuel ". Yandivert's
judicial district, composed of Rush,
Edwards and Pawnee counties.
C. C. Georgeson, professor Of agricul- |
ture in the state agricultural college |
college at Manhattan, is being urged |
for assistant secretary Of agriculture.
Capt. Thomas n. Graham, of Law.
renee, has been awarded a medal of /
honor by congress for gallaHtry in
action at the battle of Missionary
Ridge.
The Kansas state university has re-
ceived a gift Of $4,000 from the New
England Emigrant Aid Co., Of Boston,
Of which Rev. Edward Everett Hale is
president.
Wilmer Carver, agent for the Hart
ford insurance company at Tonganoxie,
who was accused of forgery and en-
bezzlement, committed suicide rather
than face the shame.
A Clay county farmer has raised an
interesting question. He says that a
farmers crop is his income, and if it is
unconstitutional to tax incomes, it is
unconstitutional to tax the farmers
crop.
Miss Eva BEEN, formerly money Or
der clerk in the Hutchinson post Office,
who is charged with embezzling 81, 1865,
had her preliminary trial at Wichita
recently and was held to the grand
jury.
Half a hundred farmers in the vicin-
nifty of Ellinwood will this season ex-
pertinent with sugar beet raising, It's
claimed that the beets will Withstand
more drought than any other crop that
can De planted.
Owing to the non-payment of taxes
by the abandoned Frisco road, school
districts in the southern part of Sum
ner county find themselves short of
funds, as the railroads taxes were de-
pended upon for means to run the
schools.
While out hunting near Emporia 16-
year-old Evan Williams met peculiar
accidental death A charge of shot
entered under his chin and passed out
at the top of his head, The fash of
the gun ignited his clothing and the
body was badly burned.
Editor 8Iayse, of the Ashland Clip
per, until recently clerk Of the house
committee on live stock, was dis
charged from his position and expelled
from the floor Of the house for writing
''pieees" to his paper rejecting on the
moral integrity of certain members Of
the legislature.
Bondsmen of the late Postmaster
Mapes, of Kansas City, will have to
pay the shortage. They have been
cited to appear before United States
Judge Foster at Topeka and show why
they transferred all their property
about the time of the reported short
age. The Judgment against the bonds
men is for So, 900.
Maj. Calvin Hood, of Emporia, e
wealthy stockman and leading repub-
| lican, is opposed to the tariff to ex-
clude Mexican cattle from the United
States. He says the Mexican cattle
shipped into Kansas do not interfere
with the cattle we raise, and creates a
demand for our surplus corn. He says
! Kansas can better afford to fatten cat
tie than to raise them.
Cimarron, Gray county, and An
thony, Harper county, have asked the
legislature to aid them to compromise
their indebtedness. The bonded in
debtedness of Anthony is s17O, 900, with
several years interest, while the taxa
bic wealth of the town is far below
that amount. Cimarron owes SIS, 600,
with interest, and her taxable prop
erty is only valued at $4,000.
If sensational charges made by the
/ Wichita Beacon are true, that city
needs a Lexow committee. The bonded
: debt of the city is about 81, 900, 600, and
about s246, 900 of this amount is in re-
funding bonds. The Beacon charges
that large part OF these refunding
bonds is a reissue Of special assessment
bonds, which have been paid by the
taxpayers, and the money diverted tC
other purposes than for which it was
! intended.
The published declaration Of DR.
2 Lyman Abbott that he disbelieves the
+; Bible story of Jonah and the whale
> brings out the statement that Chan
! cellor Snow, of the state university
Q himself a member Of the Congrega
tional church, denies the whole story
of Adam and Eve and the creation o.
man. He says that the theory of the
E instantaneous creation of man come;
( largely from Milton and mistaken
q Interpretation Of the Bible.
t The grand lodge A. Z. & a. NJ. o.
S Kansas was in session at Saliua las
? week. Reports showed the order to bt
prosperous and harmonious. During
the year 296 masons died in the state
Wichita was selected for the 1898 meet
ing place. Officers elected were: VIII
! liam II. Shaver. grand master; Aauric'
, L, Stone, deputy grand master: Fl. C
LOOMS, senior warden; Charles J
Webb, junior warden; Robert Z. Tor
rington, treasurer. and A. K. Wilson
secretary.
Bert Landon. a village loafer at Wa
thena, who committed a brutal assault
: upon a 14-year-old girl, was pursued bl
I a posse and captured. Feeling RAJ
d high and had 1t not been for cool heads
: he would have been hanged.
y A Topeka dispatch said Senator-eiec
S ". s. Harris would within q week re
j, sign as state senator from Leaven
worth county and go to Washington
where an early conference Of populis
leaders viii be held.
u At Wichita Charles Do0dridre.