The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-01-07
NO. 20.
KANSAS STATE NEWS

In one Wellington bank there are
eSlI, 600 on deposit
There are said to be 5000 school
teachers in Kansas
W D. Driver, the well-knOwn negro
editor and orator, died at Coheyville.
The Dunlzard college at Mcpherson
has paid OF debt Of $4,000 the past
year
A newspaper viii be printed at De-
trOit, Dickinson county, a village Of 80
people
EmpOria was threatened with
water famine and the situation Wa
serious
The advent Of the creamery has done
wonders in improving the breed Of cat
tie in Kansas
The canyons have started q second
smelter at lola which gives employ
ment to $50 men
The retail grocers, butchers and coal
dealers Of Topeka have federated for
mutual protection.
Charles Martin, the well-known re-
publican Of Salina, viii be made s
clerk in the pension Office at Topeka
At the urgent request Of numerous
citizens a jOintlzeeper at Mulvane took
2 trip to Colorado for his health"
The city Of Salina has compromised
its 81, 900 Rock Island railroad debt in
a manner that win save the city Siss-
600.
The S1st annual meeting Of the Kan
sas State Horticultural society was
held at Topeka three days the past
week.
The republican state committee viii
open headquarters at Topeka before
March /, with Frank L. Brown in
charge.
The barn Of W. S. Kale. at Topeka,
was destroyed by an incendiary fire,
together with nine horses and five
vehicles
There are IL insurance companies
doing business in Kansas, appOrtioned
as follows: Fire, %; life, %; miseella-
neOus, IL.
Washington, the county seat Of one
Of the best counties in the state has no
Sunday mail, but steps are being taken
to secure it.
A Fort Scott lawyer received notice
that a case in Illinois, in which he was
counsel, had been decided in his favor.
His fees are $4,000.
The temperance workers OF Ottawa
county tried hard to secure a grand
jury, but the 100 necessary signatures
could rot be secured.
The Phoenix Fire Assurance company
of London has also withdrawn from
Kansas TO avoid annoying fuses with
uperintendent McNaIL"
The young son Of Grant Stingly, of
Ottawa, died from poisoning as a re-
suit of eating tomatoes that had stood
several days in an open can
Near Beloit, Mrs. DeYOre, while
standing with her back to the open
fireplace, had her clothing catch fire
and she was burned to death.
A Seneca paper says that town gave
SO, 600 cash and 20 acres of land to a
railroad, and in return got twO-stall
rOundhOuse and blacksmith shop.
Chief of Police Williams. of Fort
Scott, was accused of selling liquor at
Fort Scott from a distillery at Clay
ton, No, of which he was the alleged
owner.
William Sprague, a member of the
Latter Day Saints church in Atchison,
quarreled with his pastor, Elder
Guinard, and the elder was slapped in
the face.
Two hundred delegates from Kansas
and adjoining states were in Topeka
last week attending the annual meet
ing Of the Interstate Literary society
(colored).
Wichita has purchased the Riverside
park for a city park. A fve-mile
boulevard will be built and in the
center a G. A. r memorial statute Will
be erected.
The Kansas County Clerks associa-
ton met at Hutchinson and elected A.
NJ Denny, of Sedg8iclz, president, and
W. 5. Yeager, of Reno, secretary.
Wichita was selected for next years
meeting place.
Lutte p. Bowen, the newspaper man
who committed suicide in Montana,
was a native Of Kansas and established
the Frankfort Bee. His father Is
Thomas P Bowen, ex-United States
senator from Colorado.
Chairman Williams, Of the Prohibi-
tiOn state committee, has issued an adj
dress in which he charges that the
leaders Of al the political parties in
the state are IN secret league with the
brewers and salOOnkeepers-
DR.. Lawrence, Of EldOrado. is trying
to arrange for the organization Of
cooperative library association In each
county seat town, to distribute free
silver and Populist literature. Gov.
Leedy and other state officers approve
Of the plan.
Seven years ago Joe Chandler. an ee-
centric Atchison citizen. left his fam
lily and was not heard Of until his re-
turn on Christmas day. 1897. He had
been IN Montana Chandler Is q
brother Of the United States senator
from New Hampshire.
A New York agent was IN Kansas re-
Gently to make arrangements for loeat-
ing another colony OF Russian farmers
IN Ellis. TregO and adjacent counties.
They may purchase part Of the 1Oos-
600 acres Of Union Pacific lands that
viii be sold February 16 by the special
master.
Il was runored at Topeka that
President Mckinley had requested
Ssnator Baker to name a new man for
United States marshal, serious charges
having been preferred against ". z
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