The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-02-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| The creamery AZ Newton IS shipping
thousands Of pounds Of butter to Man
chester, Eng.
/ Fred Funston, 3 son Of exCongress-
man Funston, of lola, is now major
in the Cuban army.
Hutchinson wants to vote S85, 900 to
induce the Hutchinson & Southern to
erect a fine depot and terminal facili.
ties there.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES j. D.
BOtkin has selected J. c, Bradshaw, q
newspaper man Of Winfield, to be his
private secretary.
Gov. Leedy has appointed ex-senator
Wheeler, of Coneordia, and P. d. Do
Ian, of Salina, as members of the state
board of charities.
Mike Sutton, of Dodge City, is being
urged by his friends to enter the race
for United States Marshal against L.
S. Crum, of Oswego.
BURGLARS worked two hours to get
into the safe in a store at Florence.
After drilling the hole they found the
safe was not locked-and it was empty.
Parsons was suffering with an cpl
demic Of burglaries. a tailoring estab-
lishment and hardware store were each
entered one night and over $500 in
goods carried away.
The Ottawa university has received
a valuable collection of idols and Curl
osities as a present from Miss Brown, a
former graduate, who recently re-
Gently returned from missionary work
in Japan.
Mrs. Samuel W. Greer, mother of Ed
P. and Frank E. Greer, well-llnown
newspaper men, died at Winfield re-
Gently. Her husband was the first
territorial superintendent of schools
in Kansas.
The Central Christian church society
at Kansas City, Kan, is in the throes
of an internal war because the pastor
refused to let several young people Of
the church give burlesque circus
show under the church's name.
A bill has been presented in the leg
islature to reduce the age of consent
from IS to "A years, and providing that
previous bad character should also be
taken as a basis for acquittaL A great
many legislators think the present law
is unnecessarily strict.
The total public indebtedness Of
Kansas is s84, 522, O39. The assessed
valuation Of all property in the state
is 1921, PIG, 9Ss, and as Kansas property
is assessed at only about one-third of
its value, the per cent. of public in
debtedness is only about 3 81 per cent.
At present Senator Plumb is the only
Kansan represented IN bronze at the
state house. Senator Harris has intro
duced a resolution in the senate to ap-
propriate 81, 900 for a bronze bust of ex-
Gov, Charles Robinson, to be placed in
the state university building at Law
renes.
Jack Freeman, a prominent saloon
keeper and politician of Fort Scott,
under arrest for receiving stolen goods,
confessed that since last August his
saloon had been headquarters for two
professional burglars who had been
operating in Kansas and Missouri on
large scale.
The ballot law which is likely to pass
the legislature, provides that petition
for ticket on the official ballot must
have at least $500 legal signatures. At
present oaly 500 signatures are re-
quired. This change will have the eff
feet of keeping small bodies Of reform
ers out of Kansas politics.
At Kansas City, Kan, Charles O.
Gerard sued his wife for divorce, the
principal allegation being that Mrs.
Gerard was a believer in Christian
science; that she would never permit g
physician to visit his three children,
and he accuses her of thus causing the
death of two of the children.
The proposition by the Kansas leg
islature to build a memorial chemistry
building at the state university in
honor of ex-Gov. Charles Robinson has
set John Speer and other Kansas writ
ers to disputing over the quarrel which
existed so long and bitterly between
Robinson and John Brown and jim
Lane.
At the meeting of the live stock
breeders of the state at Topeka recently
movement was seto foot to organize
state fair association. Committees
were appointed to thoroughly canvass
the matter. 1t is proposed to have a
new name and a new charter, and ask
the legislature for an appropriation Of
$4,000 to start with.
The confession of Ethel Frezelle,
who was arrested at Fort Scott charged
with perjury in the trial of Mamie
Price, reveals the fact that the Price
Woman's house was the rendezvous
from which half dozen daring rob
berries were planned and executed.
She says the gang also murdered a
stranger there last September and
robbed him of $40. Two men, with the
Price women, were recently sent to
states prison for robbery. Another
man implicated in these crimes is in
Jail at Joplin, No.
A great many people in western Kan
sas are urging congress to recompense
those who have tried to reclaim the
semi-arid regions out there. They also
ask Uncle Sam in his bounty to con-
struet reservoirs in every township to
catch and store up the annual rainfall,
to build dams across various streams
and to devise means touttlize that vast
subsurface current known as the IN
deraow. They also want the govern
ment to introduce and distribute new
plants. grains, tubers, fruits and trees
from the arid lands of ether nations
that would be suitable and valuable
for cultivation in western Kansas.
A bill is before the legislature re-
curing that all working BARRIERS must
have certificates from a state board Of
examiners. Every barber VIII have to
pass a thorough examination.