The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-01-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

electricity
Colony viii spend $500 in boring
for gas and oil
Another whisky war was about to
break out in Wichita
The annual musical jubilee at Hutch
inson wiz be held June s.
The First national bank of Usage
City win go into voluntary liquidation.
d. n. Willis, OF Fredonia, will be
United States Marshal Sterne's Office
deputy.
Attorneys Of southern Kansas viii
organize and fight for a federal dis
trict bill
The electric street railway system at
Fort Scott has been bought by home
capitalists
The free silver prohibition party
viii meet in conference at Topeka
February l.
The populist state committee viii
open headquarters at Topeka within
the next month.
Ex-Sheriff Judlxins, of Newton, has
been made chief detective of the Next
can Central railroad.
Miss Grace Clark is in Jail charged
with aiding in robbing DR.. Campbell,
of Cherryvale, of S720.
Farmers in the vicinity of Pittsburg
were compelled to organize an anti
chicken thief association
Attorney General Boyle will now 90
after the alleged Kansas plumbers
trust, under the Farrelly law.
The broom factory Of John Magic,
north Of Pittsburg, together with a
stock Of brOOms, was destroyed by FIRE.
Rev. William A Briggs. who was
Baptist missionary in Kansas for 80
years prior to 1850, died at Providence,
RI
A Washington telegram said Attor-
ney General McKeuna had declared in
favor Of dividing Kansas into two judi
cial districts
a new Kansas law provides for the
lawed chattle mortgages fled with the
register Of deeds
Rev. Alex r Mclean, Of Pittsburg,
succeeds Rev Bernard Kelly as presid-
ing elder of the Independence district
of the Methodist church
The probate judge Of Sheridan eoun-
ty, whose salary the new law reduced to
less than S25 a year, resigned in dis
gust and moved to his farm
The new fees and salaries law bears
particularly hard upon Kansas justices
of the peace They cannot even charge
% cents for issuing a summons
The free silver republic can state com
mittee has issued an address calling
for the names and address Of every
free silver republican IN the state
DR.. 7. c. Biddle was forced to resign
the suPerintendency Of the OsawatO-
mic asylum, and Gov. Leedy named
DR.. Ingles. of Larned, to the place
An Atchison county farmer signed q
contract for 81 worth of lightning rod
work and later found his signature on
the business end Of a note for $3.50.
Attorney General Boyle has instruct
ed county attorneys to prosecute agents
of the New York Life Insurance com
pany if any are found soliciting insur-
ance.
As a result Of a protracted quarrel
over police patronage, Gov LeedZ re-
moved Joe Furnish as police commits
siOner at Wichita and appointed H G.
TOler.
The total earnings of the Kansas
penitentiary for December were s1s,-
7s2, including 81, 956 worth of coal to
state institutions. The total expenses
were SO. $50
The president has named Cyrus An
derson to be receiver and K E. Will
cocksOn to be register Of the land Office
at Colby, and T A Seates register Of
the Dodge City land Office
The Brown County Farmers Mutual
insurance company rounds out another
year without having made an assess
ment, this being the tenth year with
out any payments required except the
first one
The Fort Scott High School Athletic
association has started a movement for
a field day contest to be participated
In by all the high schools of southeast
ern Kansas on May z The prizes viii
be gold and silver medals
A Topeka dispatch, uneonfrmed,
said that if Cyrus Leland failed in de-
feating Sterne's nomination for mar
shall he LELAND would resign as pen
sion agent in favor Of L 5 Crum-
Sterne was confirmed on the 18th.
The OswegO Independent insists that
E C. Dent, a rich farmer convicted of
violating the quarantine law, be sent
TO Jail 1t says poor men are in Jail
4OE their OIGuS1S against the 6laLes
and the rich man should be punished
likewise One prisoner, a boy Of IS,
stole a gun to buy bread
At LeavenwOrth the preliminary
trial Of Samuel Sully. charged with
killing Jesse Cambridge, was inter
rupted BY mob Of negroes who wanted
to lynch Sully- Officers succeeded IN
getting him to jail, where extra guards
protected him The preliminary trial
was indefinitely postponed
At the state meeting Of the free sill
yer republicans at Topeka, resolutions
were adopted eoudemRiug Secretary
Cages financial plans and praising
Gov Leedy- Dr. F. b Lawrence vas
elected president; F. J. Close, secre-
tarys Webb McNalI, treasurer, and
vice president for each congressional
district
The Deck Ryder family, who left
Chase county last September for Jeru-
salem, believing they were called
there By the Lord. have returned much
discouraged but glad TO get back