The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-10-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

poria for $500,
Ex-Goy. Morrill, was seriously sick
at his home in Hiawaths.
Seven mules were burned to death Ia
q mine that caught FIRE at Weir City.
Local capitalists will build a $4,000
vitriGed brick plant at Independence,
A new wooden mill viii be estab-
lished at Topeka that viii employ 50
men.
Frank Elliott, Of Troy, succeeds d.
B. Fleharty as executive clerk 70 Gov.
Leedy.
Probate Judge Reabarn, d Lyon
county. dropped dead in his office, a
victim Of apOplexy Of the brain.
The state council Of Red Men, in
session at Pittsburg, elected J, c.
Penny, Of Chanute. great sachem.
Western Kansas farmers reported
that they could not secure drills from
manufacturers fast enough to suit them
in sowing wheat
Mike Riley, wealthy citizen and
democratic politician Of Fort Scott,
was found dead in a room at his home,
victim OF epilepsy.
Miss Livermore, Of Smith Center,
will soon sail for India to do mission
airy work under the auspices of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
President Hall, of the Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance company, has
made a gift of $4,000 to Bethany col
lege, the Swedish institution of learn
ing in Mcpherson county,
A report from Hutchinson said the
citizens there were disguised at the
conduct of their militia company and
would petition Gov. Leedy and the
state military board to disband the
company.
Mrs J. C. Smith, of Moline, will be
crippled for life as the result of her
sister-in-law swapping a 'didn't-knOw'
it-was-loaded" revolver at her, the
charge striking Mrs. Smith in the
shoulder.
Many farmers in Barton county are
blowing up alfalfa fields and will put
the land in corn. They claim that
grasshoppers hatch in perfect swarms
in the alfalfa and greatly damage adj
joining crops.
The 14-year-Old son of Attorney Nc
Donald, of Baxter Springs, was acci-
dentaliy killed by a rife discharge
while hunting on the Neosho river.
The ball struck him in the forehead,
penetrating the brain.
An effort will be made at the coming
session of congress to secure a claim Of
$40. 600. now pending for the destruc-
ton of the old Free State hotel at
Lawrence in 1856 The claim is held
by the state university.
A satchel containing the body of q
little child was found by boy while
walking along the railroad track near
Parsons. An inquest was held, but no
trace of the history of the satchel or
its contents was discovered.
Bank commissioner Breidenthal says
Ellsworth county banks have deposits
subject to check camounting to S2s3
for every voter in the county. The
aggregate deposit is S5S7, 4O7 and the
cash aud sight exchange $3.50, 402.
The large barn of John Il. Alloway,
near Lebanon, was burned the other
night and six horses persisted. The
night previous John Kennedy's barn,
in the same neighborhood, was de-
stroyed, nine horses perishing. Incen-
diarism was suspected.
Not a single one of the CT under.
ground" fire insurance companies has
needed the warning Of Superintendent
| McNall to keep out of the state or
move into it. The companies allege
they have a legal right to write Kan
lsas risks from Kansas City, Mo.
| A gigantic scheme to connect all i'm
portant southern Kansas towns as far
twest as Wichita is now under way by
/ the Missouri & Kansas Telephone COM
lpany, which was given franchise to
use the public highways for the cree
ton of poles and wires by the last
Legislature.
! Chancellor Snow has prepared a bull
letin on how to eradicate grasshoppers,
which will soon be issued. He sug'
gests the construction Of a machine
built of tin, 10 feet long, 4 feet wide
and inches deep. When filed with
coal oil and drawn over the ground il
attracts the grasshoppers and they fall
into the oil and die.
Bank Commissioner BreidenthaI says
less than a dozen OF the 800 Kansas
state banks have loans IN excess Of the
amount allowed by law. Banks are
also complying with the law prohibit
ing the lOauing Of stockholders Ove1
so per cent Of the banks capital
Breidenthal says bank failures vii
soon be a thing of the post in Kansas
The grand lodge Of Kansas Knights
Of the a. 0. Q. W. in annual session
at Parsons, elected Ben Lillard
Ottawa grand commander; E. NJ
Forde, Emporia, secretary, and 7. Il
7. Il. Nettleton, Ottawa, treasurer; D
". McKeen, Russell, medical exam
, liner; G. W. Reed, E. Ii. Forde and G
5 N. Leake, supreme representatives
Leavenworth viii get the next meet
ing.
II The first action to compel FORFEITURE,
Of property held by aliens in Kansas
under the new anti-alien land owner
! ship law, has been brought in the
Cherokee county district court TIL
I defendants are Eliza Bennett. Bessi
. Berrimah and Anna Bryant. and thu
property involved is in Weir City. TIL
! defendants are-allegeG to be resident
of English territory and subjects o
Queen Victoria.
The street commissioner OF AtchisOn
uRdaF direction of the city council
caused ali condemned sidewalks TO b
torn up, thereby relieving the city c
liability in cases Of accident
Il Al Hiawatha, women members o
the Congregational church appear a
services viii. hats removed, ia defer
ence to q uelueSt mEda.5V TIE CcHEr5