The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-11-26
NOI4.
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Ellis county viii build new $4,000
courthouse at Hays City, using native
stone
Ten inmates Of the Hutchinson ~
f0rmatory have escaped within few
days
Neodesha voted $4,000 in bonds 70
build city waterworks sndnatursl gas
plants
The socialists Of Kansas recently met
at Pittsburg and formed state organ
ization-
In the oldest Odd Fellow contest in
Kansas z. R Martin, OF Beloit, easily
stands at the head. He joined over 50
years ago.
A company has been chartered to
operate an electric street railway az
Fort Scott
A man at Hunneven weighs 7s4
pounds and his wife tips the beam at
69S pounds
Three townships in Hamilton county
cast total of only IS votes at the re-
cent election.
The annual meeting OF the state tenn
perance union wiz be held at Topeka,
February 1 and ?
N h. Harmon. editor of the Valley
Falls indicator, is dead BE came to
Kansas 20 years ago. e-
Wherever the proposition to ''cut
away the hedge rows" was up at the
recent election it carried.
Charley Ritter, county attorney, is
the only populist ever elected Itp
county Office in Allen county
Gov. Leedy viii reappoint J. 6. Nc
Coy as live stock inspector for Kansas
at the Kansas City stock yards
George Fox, aged %, Of Ellis, took
two big drinks Of bed-bug poison,
] thinking it was wine. Funeral large
" attended.
Al Randolph, son of a policeman and
i nephew Of a district Judge, was placed
in Jail at Emporia because he could not
pay a fine for gambling.
Frank Finch, the editor and pro-
/ prietor, says the Ottawa Republican
has not been sold to L. C. Slime, the
fusion leader, or 70 any other person.
Near Andale recently Joseph Burc-
/ hOltz, while feeding a thrashing ma
/ chine, had his arm dragged into the
| cylinder and torn from his body at the
/ shoulder.
The bodies of so union veterans are
buried in the potters' fields in Kansas,
and Department Commander Botkin
will try to have them removed to reg
I ular cemeteries
Miss Maud Herrell, Of Topeka, known
as the daughter Of the Kansas g. 4.
B." has been given a position Ia the
| Office Of Thomas Ryan, assistant secre-
tary of the interior.
Charles Eckert, editor of a populist
| paper at Larned, was assaulted on the
streets by Edward Buckles, for an al
/ legged slanderous publication about
woman relative of Buckles
Two joint keepers were sent to jail
| at Larued last week and they had 50
many callers the sheriff investigated
and found that the men were conduct
ing a regular joint il the Jail
William 7. Berkey, Of Geuda Springs,
was sent TO the insane asylum the
| other day at his own request to pre-.
vent him from killing his own chill
dren He was aware of his mental in.
| trinity.
The bad feeling engendered in the
/ football contest between Kansas and
Nebraska recently seems likely TO re-
suit In the cancellation Of the annual
I oratOrical contests between the two
universities.
AT Larned, John Potter sued the
/ Santa Fe railroad for SIS, goo damages
/ for the loss Of his Is-year-old sons leg.
/ The boy fell under the cars and his leg
was so badly crushed that amputation
was necessary.
The state irrigation convention. at
! Lawrence last week was big success
! Speeches were made By some of the
4 ablest advocates of the system in state
! and nation and many helpful sugges-
tions were advanced
In the district court Of Wichita cOun-
/ " Judge Andrews decided that the
| So, 600 Wichita county bonds. now held
Il by the state, were void because they
were issued over the authority Of an
injunction. The attorney general viii
appeal
Judge Mcdonald. who has been
under arrest at Fort Scott several
months charged with defrauding bis
/ associate counsel in the $40, OO1 Cravv
ford county mine explosion cases, has
compromised the cases against him and
has been released.
state superintendent Stryker holds
that the only way to remove a district
school officer is BY legal process in the
| district court. under charges He also
rules that a school board has no right
to employ a teacher who does not hold
a eertifcste at the time.
Mrs. Anna Cairns, Of Atchison. got
Judgment against her sons for $50
They had agreed to pay her SO
I month s5or life. provided she did not
bother them They discontinued pay
ments recently and she brought suit
the jury allowing her claim in full
Many women have been elected 70
/ the cfice OF county superintendent in
Kansas. that being shout the only Office
they have ever tried for. This year,
however, i've women have carried CT
other Important places, as follows.
Netsie Bonham, register 81 Meade
county; Kate Johnson, treasurer Of
Norton: Margaret Kane, treasurer Of
Kiowas Stella Strait, register Of Bour-
bon and Della Leslie, clerk Of Brown
A mammoth barn owned BY " A.
DOugherty. sast Of Pittsburg, vas
struck By lightning and Destroyed,
ana With IS I'D tons OF hay, $500
bushess u corn and oats and big