The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-01-29

The extra session of congress will be
called March 10 by President McKin-
ley.
Thirty below zero was the sort of
weather Dakota people were enjoying
this week.
Large sums Of money from Goodland
continue to make mining at Cripple
Greek profitable.
The Chicago board of charities report
that in that city 10000 people are in
imminent danger of starvation.
The Unstableness of the things of
the earth earthly is we'll illustrated in
the manner in which our delightful
dagO climate vanished when the biz
struck it.
A Goodland man who has made min
ing pay by putting other people at it,
will drive around the Springs next
summer in trap, drawn by a agwhose
tail has been eurtailed.
Western Kansas isn't the only place
in the United States where property
depreciates. The Chicago Cold Storage
Produce Exchange, representing an
investment Of S2,5OOOOO, sold at forced
sale recently for for sl25,OO0.
There are now 10000 postmaters in
the United States, and it took S9OOOO,-
600 last year to pay for the postal serv-
ice. The first year of Washington's
administration we had 70 postofEices
and the mail service cost $4,000 hard
cash.
The measles continue to break out,
in double sense, and several new pa
TENTS are now affected. There is no
question but that great many people
have been exposed, and that the disease
will gradually spread until those have
not heretofore been affected pass
through the experience.
As Obbeah, the king of Benin, is a
very wicked negro With a very large
stock of ivory, he is not likely to escape
the civi!izing influences of the Maxim
guns which the British have sent to re-
form him, Whenever the African saw
ages murder an unwelcome missionary
England's territory increases.
Isaac Newton Try of Fort Scott, who
gained whole lot of cheap notoriety by
formulating bill for consolidating 80
western Kansas counties into four. will
now subside. Speaker Street, in ar
ranging the committee on county lines.
has put the short grass crowd in the
majority, and if there is to be any con-
solidating done it will be along the Mis-
souri, border.
As straw showing our people are
determined to get into stock, the sale
of two calves for s32 recently is cited.
It will be long, hard pull, but being
on the right track at last success must
crown the effort to make" the country.
OF course, cattle here bring more than
they are really worth, but the man who
invests even at boom prices has a oinch
on making it win.
Up in Cheyenne county a neighbor-
hood feud growing out of jealousy and
suspicioned infdelity, has resulted in
one man turning both barrels of a
double barreled shot gun onto another
at short range, and missing the mark.
The man with the gun is charged with
an attempt to kill. He might be con-
victed of an attempt to scare; but to
kiil-with such Observation-Disclosures
The bubonic plague which is like the
pest of bOils in Pharaohs time has
turned Bombay, India, into a charnel
house. Over one-fOurth of its popula-
ton has fed, and it is now admitted
officially to have appeared at Karacbe,
away up in the northern Soinde eoun-
try. This brings the epidemic within
measurable distance of thePersien gulf.
and, once there, Europe will be in direct
danger, if not now affected, of the con-
tagion-tbat is to say, the part of Eu-
rope which doesn't wash itself.
Hereafter women viii vote in Idaho.
By decision of the supreme court of
that state last week woman's suffrrge
has become an accomplished fact. The
decision in effect is that when any pro-
posed amendment to the constitution
receives a majority of the votes cast on
the proposition whether or not it is a
majority of all the votes cast at that
election, the amendment is carried.
The woman suffrage amendment re-
ceiVed 6,OoO more votes than those cast
against it, though not majority of all
the votes cast at the election.
Some time ago George Gilmore of
kswlins county was shot while sitting in
bis house at the supper table. The shot
wounded him seriously, but not fatally.
Gilmore had Wronged several women
and at the tins of the attempted assss-
sinason, was separated from bis own
EIfe and living with that Of another
mans. Recently Mrs Hannah Gilmore