The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-03-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

4 oll4oE4 GLalll1 % De the smallest
town IN the country having = tsle-
/ phone exchange
George E Cole, Of Girard. IS seeking
denomination for state auditor on the
Republican ticket
PopouIists OF tn Sixth district viii
hold their congressional convention st
Smith Center June 2.
George Abrams. q Brown county
/ farmer, while visiting Atchison was
robbed Of 500 by anegress-
The examining board OF Smith cOun-
ty revoked the certificate OF a teacher
who was found Intoxicated
The republican stete committee wiz
meet IN Topeka March s, to Issue
cali for the statee5nventiOn.
Miss Hauds wise, aged 81, was
burned to death at Fort Scott by her
dress catching fire from the stove.
The annual convention OF the Kan
sas College Press association was held
At Lawrence, closing with banquet
h C. Lindsay, ToPeka's chief Of po-
lice under Gov Lewelling, has re-
nounced pOpuIism and embraced de-
mOcracy.
Maj. E. J. Peck, deputy revenue col
l q
politician, died at Fort Scott Of paraly-
sis, aged IS.
The democratic reunion and banquet
at Topeka on the 24th was a success,
over 600 representative men Of the
party being present
The prohibition state convention
will be held at EmpOris June 2. All
religious and temperance societies are
requested to send delegates
A Wellington paper charges that
officers Of the hutchinson refOrmatOry
put hot irons to the young ineOrrigi-
bles to bring them under subsection
Two large skeletons. supposed to be
the remains Of Indians, were found IN
rock crevise near Larned- The bones
were In an almost perfect state Of
preservation
The democratic state convention
this year viii be held IN Atchison,
time to be fixed by the state commit
tee. The move is made with the idea
Of complete fusion with the pOpulists-
Ella Bradfeld, a young cOlOred
woman, was convicted In the Wyan-
dotte county district court Of highway
robbery. She is said to be the first
woman convicted in that county Of
robbery in the first degree
hutchinson MERCHANTS refuse to aid
Wichita in her efforts 70 prevent irri-
cation bitches "a ia upper Arkansas
river from taking all the water from
the stream, to the damage Of farmers
along the river in southern Kansas.
Eleven car loads OF mich cows and
mules were shipped from Fort Scott
on the 18th to Havana The cows
will supply milk for Spanish hos
pitfalls and Spanish officials and the
mules viii be used IN the Spanish army.
The Farmers Mutual Insurance com
pany, Of Wamego, has been chartered,
with a capital Of $50, 900. It is formed
along the line Of State Insurance Su-
perrin tendent McNalls plan, who ad-
vocated that farmers insure one an
other.
The populist state committee viii is
sue q manifesto to the various county
committees recommending that the
county conventions to select delegates
to the coming state convention be held
on the same day in each county in the
state
1t is said that in the interest OF Maj.
Hood for governor, Judge c. b. Graves,
race for associate justice This leaves
two republican candidates for this place
IN the feld-Elrick Cole, Of Great Bend
and Nelson Case, Of OswegO.
The Kansas grand lodge A o. o w,
in session at Wichita, reelected J. b
Crider grand master workman and E.
N FOrde recorder. Other officers
chosen are: Grand foreman, ". W.
Kineaid, BelOit; grand Overseer, L B.
Slime, ROsedale; grand receiver, II. ID.
Light, Winfield
The state board of railroad assessors
assessed the Anthony branch Of the
Frisco at s., 600 per mile The branch
is operated By a receiver, and he says
that If he is compelled to pay the
amount It win close down the opera
ton Of the road He viii seek relief
from the federal court
The university chapel at Lawrence I
was filed to OTerhOwing on the ed at
the dedication Of the Gov. Robinson |
bust The programme was patriotic |
one Gov J. ". Leedy, B. " Wood /
ward and Regent c T. Scott gave short |
addresses eulOgistic Of the personal /
character OF the late governor.
State Superintendent Strylzer has BE- /
gun the tribution OF school fund in 1
tsrest money among the various schools /
Of the state he has S22S, 127-O5 70 give /
to the schools The school population /
Of the state is 4Q5, go, so that the per
capita this time win be 45 cents Six
months ago It was 4s cents and one
year ago 81 cents.
Township and city assessors viii list /
Judgments this spring under a new
law All Judgments are to be taxed IS /
personal property and assessors must |
FIX their real value Tor taxation pur-
poses regardless Of their face value I
Assessors are also required TO 90 to 1
tie records and dig mp All Judgments 1
At Fort Scott suif has been commenced I
70 test the validity Of the law
The c0m-issioners OF Douglas and I
jefferson c0unties viii jointly build = I
bridge seross The KsW river At Lee
compton They have sdvertised Ter I
bids
An unknown young man furned SO