The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-06-10


locomotive; p. O)0 on each Pullman sleeping
car There are 50 cars operated in the state;
1900 per mile on the Union Pacific track from
Topeka TO Kansas City. q distance OF 6j miles;
$1,000 per mile on the track Of the Memphis
road from Kansas City to Paola. q distance OF
50 miles; so per mile on all telegraph wire has
also been decided upon by the board The
Western Union has 5000 miles Of wire in the
state and the Postal company 10 miles
Kansas st ate Treasury.
During the month of May the state
treasurer disbursed SI2s, $50. 26, OF
which 500, T26.60 was from the general
revenue. The total amount Of cash on
hand May 81 was S42S, 23O. d, credited
principally to the following funds:
General revenue, S2fT, 3I5; statehOuse, so. 534;
interest, s5l. S5T; current university. SO. Ol6;
permanent school 1880 annual school 80, =
Col; insurance, so. 5f7; seed grain account, s.
T95; municipal interest q. 81. grain inspector,
3. 757i normal school, s43s3; agricultural col
lsge s212
Gov. Leedy and the Second Call.
As the United States government has
rot instructed him about the raising
Of the Kansas quota on the second call,
Gov. Leedy has concluded that the gov.
eminent does not want the regiment
to which Kansas is entitled He says
he has no instructions to Justify him
in calling for troops and viii issue nc
call unless instructions are sent BY the
war department.
Forced the Trustees TO Relnstate Him.
The principal Of the Atchison cOun-
ty high school at Bingham was dis
charged BY the trustees. But the prin-
cipal refused to be discharged, and en-
half the trustees were compelled to re-
instate him under the threat that
there would be no commencement ex-
ercises unless it should be done.
About Senator PIumb's Grave
Charles Harris, a member of the
legislature from EmpOria, has created
q sensation by declaring that the
grave Of ex-senator Preston 3. Plumb,
at Emporia, has not even a fOOtbOard
70 mark the last resting place Of the
man who died a United States senator
and who left a fortune of over ST, 600,
600 10 his heirs.
A Topeka Attorney Demented.
Frank Brown, the Topeka man ar.
rested in the Indian territory for pass
ing an alleged forged check at Ar.
kansas City, was taken to Topeka and
sent to the asylum for the insane.
While assistant city attorney of To
Pel<a he passed forged checks on q
number Of stores. Congressman Curtis
is his cousin.
kansas Boys are Temperate
The members Of the Twenty-first
Kansas, in camp at Chickamauga, are
loyal to the laws Of their state Nearly
all the regiments in camp establish
''cauteens," where liquor is sold, but
the Kansas boys unanimously decided
that no liquor should be sold in their
camp.
negro Regiment from Kansas.
Capt 3. L Snow, of company K
Twenty-6rst Kansas volunteers has ar
rived in Topeka from Chickamauga
He resigned last week with the under
standing that q regiment of negro in
fantry would be raised in Kansas an6
that he would have a command in It.
wiz Come Pack to Reoruir Regiments.
Gov. Leedy has designated the fol
lowing officers to come back to Kansas
to recruit troops necessary to i'll the
regiments 10 the maximum: Twenti-
eth regiment, Maj Whitmans Twenty
first Maj. Brown; Twenty-seeond, Col
Lindsay. They VIII have assistants,
70 be named later.
A Chud-s Horrible Death
While returning home with her par
ents, who were trading IN lola, the
Rve-year-Old daughter OF w D. Van
coyOc fell from the wagon and was
run over. breaking her neck and kill.
ing her instantly
They Want HalE
W. F. Sapp, Of Galena, chairman OF
the democratic conferences COMMITTEES
on fusion, called on Taylor Riddle,
chairman Of the Populist state CON
mittee, at Topeka and told him that
the democratic idea Of a basis for ~
sion was streak OF fatsnd szStresk
OF leans in other words. dfEisiul of
the ticket half and half
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