The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-06-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS,
The canyons viii establish another
shelter at lola
The Parsons city council will permit
open joints, with S5O-a-month fines
At Independence the other day a
youth Of II was married to q grip IS,
John seaton will build big audi-
torium at AtehisOn to seat 200 per-
sons
Gov Leedy has appointed Dr.. j. W.,
shultz Of Wichita, state fish commits
sioneE
Gov. Leedy was notified that Texas
fever had broken out among the cattle
il Saline county.
/ There are so towns in Sumner county
and all except two have a creamery or
skimming station.
E. J. Cole, who was the greenback
candidate for congress against Thomas
Ryan in 1878, died at Hutchinson re-
Gently.
Miss Nellie, daughter Of ex-United
States Senator PETER, was married at
Topeka recently to James MeIlhenny,
of Washington.
A Topeka telegram said a society Of
women called the Mystic Sisterhood
had been organized in Kansas TO OPP
pose prohibition,
B. 81. scriTens, Of Sumner county,
though totally blind, follows the pillow
right along, does his own farm work
end is making money,
The state treasury department has
| quit issuing monthly reports, the leg
islature having failed TO appropriate
money for the purpose.
President Wellhouse; of the state
historical society, says the apple crop
of Kansas will be light, but there will
be tremendous" crop of other fruit
The new law requiring county com
missioners of counties of 5000 or over
to meet the first Monday Of each month
and pay bills has gone into effect.
Mrs. Mary Mantor, aged IS and good
looking, is under arrest at Heaven
worth charged with swindling several
women on a dress pattern scheme.
Rains have been so frequent and gem
erous in western Kansas that irriga-
ton plants are useless and several of
them have been sold at half the cost of
construction.
The state board of agriculture will
ask the next legislature to have the
rotunda of the state house furnished
for a permanent exhibit of the prod
ucts of the state.
Ex-senator Lingenfelter has declined
TO accept the superintendeney Of the
state reformatory at Hutchinson. Elk
Sheriff Arnold, of Columbus, also de-
elined the appointment.
Chairman Simpson, of the republican
state committee, does not approve Of
the action of the Shawnee central com
mittee in refusing to permit Bryan re-
pubhcans to vote at the coming repub-
hcan primaries.
Prof, E. w. Bemis, who was recently
deposed from the faculty Of the uni
versity of Chicago, has been chosen To
/ lecture on political economy to the
students of the state agricultural col
lege at Manhattan.
The eattlemen of southwestern Kan
sas have found it necessary to raise a
fund and offer heavy rewards for the
scalps of wolves and coyotes Hun
dreds of calves and sheep have been
killed by these pests.
The board of regents of the state
agricultural college has dismissed from
the faculty Profs. E. A. POpenoe,
Francis H. White, Nelson S. Mayo and
Claude NJ. Breese, four Of the most
prominent teachers Of the institution
! Prof. D. Il. Holmes, of the chair Of
Latin in the state university, has re
signed to accept q more lucrative posi-
| ton elsewhere. 1t will be remembered
that the last legislature cut the sals
ries of all the state university pro
! fessors.
Telegraph wires in the state will
this year be assessed at $50 per mile
for the first wire, including telegraph
poles, instruments and equipments
and So per mile for each additional
wire. There are about $4,000 miles Of
wire in the state.
The middle-of-the road populists
will hold a state conference at En-
poria July 1, when delegates will be
elected to the national convention al
| Nashville, Tenn. All who voted the
middle-of-the-rOad ticket last NoVem
Der will be entitled to seats.
The suit brought by Wichita county
to stop the Santa Fe railroad from
tearing up its tracks in that county
/ has been compromised and withdrawn
the Santa Fe agreeing to surreRdel
S37, 900 of the S74, 600 of bonds voted by
the county TO build the road
The canvass Of the vote Of subordi
nate lodges Of odd fellows for grand
officers Of Kansas resulted in the elec
ton Of W. L. Brown, KingmaH, granC
master; John A. Bright, Topeka, grand
warden; D. W. Kent, Burlington, CRANE
secretary; L G. Beal, Topeka, grand
treasurer.
i a Topeka dispatch said the bills in
Cured for the entertainment Of w. ]
Bryan during his visit to Topeka las
winter remained unpaid. Bryan wa
invited to visit Topeka by a concuren
! resolution Of the Legislature, but nj
money was appropriated to pay the ez
penses Of his trip.
The petition Of Maj. Tom Anderson
Of Topeka, for pension agent reaches
Washington the other day and his IN
dorsements were pronounced wonder
ful. Among the numerous signeF
/ were so of the s. union soldiers of tn
last legislature; 800 G. A. Z. posts Q
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