The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-01-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

There are s, O7s people enrolled at the
Leavenworth soldiers home
Horton has a curfew law. which
affects all children under IS years
It cost ss7,216 sc TO run the nine
charitable. institutions Of the state in
Decent Der
Last year eggs and dressed poultry
to the value Of s., 962s Goo we're shipped
out Of Kansas
Nimrods Of Pawnse county are max
ing IS day shipping jack rabbits to
New York city.
F. q. Sheldon, of Franklin county,
will be the richest man in the senate
this winter He is worth $50, 600
Peanuts are getting to be a staple
crop in the vicinity OF Arkansas City.
One man last season raised 200 bushels
on IL acres
Secretary of Agriculture Coburn's
book on Sow Culture" is being used
as textbook in eight different agri.
cultural colleges
Prof. Sam w. Black, superintendent
of the Pittsburg schools, will be super
intendent Of the state reform school at
Topeka under Gov. Leedy.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Boyle has
named George R. Smelling, of Anthony,
as his assistant. Smelling was a re-
publican until the St. Louis cOnven-
ton,
Portraits of the territorial governors
Kansas are being hung in the govern
or's Office, beside those Of the eXecu-
tives who have held office since Kansas
became a state.
There is trouble In the Uratorieal So
eietY Of the state normal at Emporia,
and unless it is settled the college will
not be represented in Ike next state
oratorical contest.
DR.. c. NJ. Meats was appointed by
the interior department. as pension ex-
aiming surgeon at Leavenworth, but
the appointment was rescinded when
it was learned in Washington that
Meats was negro.
There is trouble in Ebenezer colored
Baptist church at Atchison. Twenty
members have been expelled, and a
conference OF IS pastors from other
towns have been called for January 19
to consider the trouble,
The old movement to divorce Ar
mourdale from Kansas City, Kan, will
be brought before the legislature. The
two sections of the city do not get
along well together, and Armourdale
wants a government OF her own.
The Kansas Poultry association held
a profitable meeting at Topeka last
week. Dr. Lewis, of Lecompton, was
elected president and T. G. Tompkins,
of Topeka, secretary. A number Of
premiums on poultry were offered.
Representative Ury, of Fort Scott,
gives figures to show that Bourbon
county has 6,O55 votes, while the Is
counties in western Kansas which his
bill aims to make into FIVE counties
polled only 5,479 votes at the last cleo
ton,
In the library of the state historical
society at Topeka there are Is, 3Ss
bound volumes of books; 54,9S1 I'M
bound volumes and pamphlets, and
| 1923 bound newspaper files and vol
umes Of periodicals-in all 81, 492 vol
umes.
The balance in the state treasury
December 81 was 1858, 332 SO in funds
and S7,Ol6,9 1898. 10 in bonds. OF the'latteI
sc, 258, 4l672 were permanent school
fund bonds The cash receipts for De.
cember were S1lO SO and the dis
bursements Sl18,O9354
The Farmers Alliance will establish
store-hOuses in every county seat in
, the state, where members of the order
can receive in exchange for eommodi
ties there deposited bills of credit
which will be again exchangeable fol
products or direct purchase at face
value,
Wyandotte county stands first in
population among Kansas counties, the
latest report crediting her with IS ,61:
, people, and the assessed valuation Of
taxable property is S11, 100000 Wyan
, dotte is also the greatest potato pro
: ducing county, having raised $50, n:
bushels last year.
Carl Meier, a workman of Atchison
stopped a runaway horse the other day
and saved the life of the driver, Mrs
! Stella Milfred. The grateful woman
sent for her rescuer, expecting to sub
| stantially reward him, and a converse
ton between the two quickly revealed
| the fact that they were brother anC
sister, who had been separated many
years ago in Switzerland by the death
Of their parents
Investigation shows that in Kansa!
; last year old line life insurance com
pauies took from the state 81, zoo, 600 il
clear profit. It is now proposed tina
the legislature enact a law requiring
all life insurance companies to inves
Is per cent Of premiums collected il
this state in Kansas securities, to b
! deposited with the state treasurer, e,
= that upon death, if the loss is no
speedily adjusted, the beneficiary ma
go TO the state treasurer and have hi
claim satisfied.
The tenth biennial report of thl
state school superintendent soon to b
issued shows there are 9,2S4 organize,
! school districts in the state. The schoO
J population IS 495,77l; enrolment il
9 public schools, S7S, 500; teachers EN-
ployed II, 200; average salary paid mai
teachers, S43 80; average salary paid fe
? male teachers, Ss5 IS; average lsngtl
5 Of school year, "a weeks; average lev
for school purposes, 11.19 mills; Valu
Of school propsrty, slO,145, 69li total ez
I peiditures for school purposes duFini
! the year, 81, 1873, 1925
c Petitions are being circulated i
r Ellsworth, Russell, Osborn and Lin
coin counties asking the legislature {
create q new county by taking por