The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-08-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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criminals
A local Tammany organization has
been organized among democrats at
Fort Scott
A big hay press barn at Olathe was
/ destroyed by FIRE and with it 100 tons
Of baled hay.
Phillip Hayden, son Of Attorney
/ Hayden, Of HOltOn, was IN the last
/ battle Of Manila
Perry MOrrell, retired merchant Of
/ Prescott, shocked the community by
committing suicide
Texas fever broke out in herd Of
| cattle at Cherryvale and a rigid quar-
antine was established
Cyrus Leland, Of Troy, predicts that
Admiral Dewey VIII be the republican
presidential nominee IN 1904
Edward Russell, one Of the Oldest
settlers Of Kansas, died at Lawrence
He had held many positions Of trust
Senator Harris is urging exon
gresham John Davis, Of Junction City,
for place in the national labor com.
mission
The Fort Scott & Memphis railway
is erecting at Pittsburg a handsome
freight and passenger depot, Of brick
and stone
The post Office at Eleanor, Harvey
county, has been discontinued because
no one could be found TO take charge
Of the Office.
In WOOdsOn county the proposition
to vote $50, 600 bonds for a courthouse
at Yates Center was defeated, III for
to TT against
The Kansas republican campaign
viii be opened at Lawrence SePtem-
Der 1. w. E Stanley, J. r Burton
and J. D. BOwersOck will speak
Chief Justice DOster announces that
he viii make 4 number of political
speeches, breaking over the custom
heretofore adopted by the state judi
ciary.
It took S17, 8s4 - to run the Topeka
insane asylum during July. Of this
$40, 402. 90 was for maintenance, So
800. a for salaries and S3,672 for i'm
prOvements
Judge J. T. Mcdonald, the we'll
known Fort Scott politician, who To-
Gated settlers on railroad land in
WOOdsOn county, has been located at
Lakeland, Fla.
Rev. John c. Miller, who has been
pastor of Presbyterian churches at
Garrett, Topeka, Winfield and New
ton, is the new president Of the col
lege of EmpOria-
DR.. Gill, secretary Of the state board
Of health, viii try to suppress Union
State medical college at Winchester,
alleging that they graduate students
in violation Of law.
J. II. Brown, of Hiawatha, took
part in a quarrel his boy was having
with another lad named Jones, when
the elder Brown struck Jones with a
ball bat, killing him.
Attorney General Boyle says that a
person may be a candidate for and
legally hold the office Of county attOr-
ney without being Of age, If in every
other respect he is legally qualified.
Capt Fred Buchan has been appoint
cd assistant adjutant general to Col.
Funston, Of the Twentieth Kansas. /
Col Funston also appointed Lieut. c.
B Walker adjutant to succeed, Lieut.
DefOrd, resigned
A young woman schOOl-teacher in
western Kansas offered SIS to State
Superintendent Stryker for a list Of
questions, together with the answers,
for the coming state examination.
This is a penitentiary Offense.
The funeral Of Capt. W. D. Sherman,
Of the Twenty-second Kansas, who
died in camp, was held at Seneca, his
former home. Services were held in
the courthouse yard, no building in
the city being large enough to hold
the crowd.
At San Francisco, the military board
Investigating the accounts Of Quarter
master Young, Of the Twentieth Kan
sas, held Young criminaIIy responsible /
for the shortage, but decided that
Lieut. Green, regimental cOmmissary,
must pay the shortage.
Probate Judge DOlmau, Of Shawnee, !
refused to marry a white man to q
negro woman The Judge said al
though there was no law in Kansas
against miscegenatiOn he would not
be a party to such a MARI age. As
there was no legal ground on which
he could refuse a license he granted
one.
The Kansas court of appeals, sitting
at Wichita, rendered a decision sus-
tanning in every point the opinion OF
q AA1c DALlOuSr u y OEE CcOkL- nOAQluE
that the anti-scrip law is valid. The
decision viii affect about s, 900 miners,
and Attorney General Boyle says he
will begin prosecutions against all
mine operators who violate the law.
While out riding with his young
wife near Topeka, William o. Hum
mer shot her in the head, producing a /
probably fatal wound Hummer had
been married to the girl three weeks,
and it transpired that he had another
wife from whom he had not been d.
vOrced- he was arrested and is locked
MP, awaiting the result Of the injured
young wife's wound
At Yates Center n street fight Oc-
CURED between State Oil Inspector
Wharton and Oscar Rogers, a prOmi-
nent citizen, over the courthouse bond
election
A new depot viii be built in Marys
vile, and occupied jointly By the ST
Joseph & Grand Island and Union Pa
eific roads The new depot VIII be
about 10 feet long, with a platform ex-
tending $50 feet
E l. Stephenson, ex-pOstmaster Of