The Goodland republic., 1898-11-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

/ during October 81, $50 OF which Waa
turned into the city treasury.
John Ainsley, q Ridgely farmer, wss
IN Topeka looking for his wife and
Zach Martin, q neighbOF, who had
elOPed
Farmers at Great Bend viii organize
a cooperative company 70 build an ele-
/ vatOr, hoping TO handle their grain
and save the profit now paid middle
men
Floyd Stafford, an Emporia negro
\ boy, has come into possession Of
! S75. 900, left him by his grandmother,
I a Chippewa Indian. who died recently
in Michigan
The upsetting Of lamp in the mil
I linery store Of the Misses Brown in
l Manhattan caused the destruction Of
/ the entire~stOck- The building was
! saved after hard work
A twO-year-old child Of Olaf John
son, Of Emporia, was burned to death
/ by a piece Of waste paper blowing into
the house onto a lighted gas stove,
then, IN flames, aIighting on the child's
clothing.
John W. Breidenthal, state bank
| commissioner, viii recommend in his
annual report the passage Of a law
| for the inspection of building and loan
associations, patterned after the Mis-
souri, law.
Chancellor Snow, in his weather re-
| port for October, says the month was
noted chiefly for the snowfall on the
18th, which came 26 days earlier than
the average date, and exceeded in
depth the entire snowfall Of all the 80
previous October records
At the Omaha exposition the first
gold medal for the best salt was
awarded to the Kansas Salt company,
of Hutchinson. The award to the
Kansas company was over the best
salt works of Michigan, New y Ork and
other big salt-prOdueing states
Mr.. and Mrs. c. a Carlson, Of Colby,
this state, were found dead in the
Hotel VendOme in Omaha, Neb., hav-
ing been suffOcated by gas Mr.. Carl
son, 1t was reported, had been drinking
heavily and it was thought he had
blown out the gas instead Of turning
it of.
a remarkable triple wedding is an
nounced for HarsOOIz, Ellis county.
A widOwer married widow, and the
son and daughter of the widOwer
married the son and daughter Of the
widow. 1t IS related that the young
people first fixed up their love affairs
and then the old folks talked it over
and decided to sweep the board
At Lawrence, District Judge Riggs
released J. J. Kunkel, under indict-
ment for wife murder, on a bond Of
SO, ,O01- Judge Riggs stated that i'm
prisOnmeut before conviction was not
a punishment, but a surety, and that
IL. in the judgment Of the court, a
given bond would secure the attend
ance Of the accused, a bond ought to
be accepted
FOrty-three Kansas counties, which
made returns to the state board Of
health for the quarter ended Septem-
Der 80, reported $40 deaths from ''pre-
veutable-' diseases, the appOrtion-
ment to the various diseases being as
follows: Diphtberia, 2s; typhoid
fever, 65; ehOlerO infantum, %; cancer,
S5; consumption, SO; malarial fever, Is;
whOOping cough, 19.
The state fish commissioner distrib-
uted several thousand young black
bass and catfish 70 farmers Of Pawnee
county for stocking the streams and
artificial bonds. This is the third time
have been stocked with black bass,
but as far as known none have ever
been taken from its waters, and sports
men are not a little puzzled to know
what has become Of them
Capt. John I. Waller, of the Twenty
third (cOIored) Kansas volunteers,
writes back from Santiago that not
more than one-half the negro troops
Of the regiment Will get back home.
The young negroes have played havoc
with the hearts Of the Spanish and
half-breed women and have also lost
their hearts in return, and according
to Waller many Of the soldiers are al
ready engaged to marry Cuban women,
and he expects many more to follow
suit
The dairy class in the state agricuI-
tural college at Manhattan has been
testing adulterated milk. Each mem
Der was supplied with five samples of
milk without any knowledge Of how
they had been treated and asked to
give diagnosis Of each sample. By
the use Of the Thermometer, laetom-
eter and Babcock test they found that
one sample was normal milk, one
sample had been watered, one sample
skinned, one both Watered and
skinned, and one had cream added
TO 1t.
a. ". Smith, Of Mcpherson, one OF
the Kansas Omaha exposition commits
siOners, says Kansas received more
prizes for the mum Der Of exhibits than
any state in the union Outside OF
the live stock exhibit" he added,
kansas received 20 medals in the
horticultural department.; one silver,
1S bronze medals and Eve diplomas il
the agricultural department. and one
silver and three bronze medals in the
aDiary. We had the finest mining ex-
hibit and in this department received
one gold, six silver and nine bronze
medals, besides an honorable men
ton
Harry Parker, who resigned as adju-
I tant Of the Twenty-hrst Kansas, upon
being promised the Ieuteusncy in the
Twelfth New York, was disappointed,
/ Gov Black, Of the Empire state, refus-
/ ing to commission Parker.
John johnson and Charles Wheasner
engaged in a quarrel on the steps Of