The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-02-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The contract for Ellis cOunty's new
SIS. 600 courthouse has been awarded
The county attorney has, by injunc-
ton, closed all the drinking places in
hutchinson
The national dairymen's convention
at Topeka February 91-96 promises 20
be big affair.
The city hall and opera houte at
Junction City, recently destroyed BY
FIRE, viii be rebuilt by the city.
Mrs L P. Moss, a schOol-teacher at
Lincoln Center, was fatally burned by
the explosion Of q lamp in her home
Gov. Leedy's private secretary, z. Q.
Little, wants the state to 60 into the
insurance business on a gigantic scale.
Fort Scott viii soon have long-dis-
lance telephone connection with all
the important towns Of southeast Kan
sas.
There are s. high schools in the state
that prepare their graduates for direct
admission to the freshman class Of the
state university.
Carelessness IL running a freight
train caused a wreck on the Rock
Island at Clay Center which cost the
lives Of three persons
L D. Mckinley, Of Topeka, a popu-
list cousin Of the president, has been
appointed chief physician at the Osa-
watOmie insane asylum.
Within the last six weeks the state
treasurer has received 81, 500, 600 in
taxes, which IS the best record for tax
paying in the states history.
A Topeka telegram said pOpulist
-a- 81 4 ruN
politicians have raised a fund TO start
a pOpulist weekly paper at Topeka
The report sent ont from Topeka
that Miss Wheeler, matrOn Of the state
insane asylum there had resigned
rather than face charges, is denied.
Several young women students at
the state university have raised an en-
barge against liquor by refusing TO as
soeiate with young men who drink
Bonnie SurkarO. a seven-year-Old
Hutchinson boy, has mania for steal
ing horses that are hitehed along the
streets, He viii be sent to the reform
school
MabIe DOugherty, a schoOl-teacher
at Silverlake, was burned to death
while cleaning a dress with gasoline
A lamp was upset and the gasoline ex-
ploded.
A call has been issued for a state
meeting Of Kansas BARRIERS at Topeka,
February q. A state association viii
be formed to secure legislation against
incompetent wOrkmen.
The Kansas County Treasurers' assO-
citation met in annual session at Topeka
last week. H. 81. Phillips. Shawnee
county, was elected president, and ].
c. Moore, Douglas county, secretary.
The first edition Of the physiology
adopted by the state textbook COM
Superin tendent Stryker had the pub
fishers get out a revised edition
-Four Kansas men from near Leba-
non, have left for Jerusalem, giving
for their reason that they want to
sweep the streets and get old Jerusa-
lem ready for the second coming Of
Christ.
Agents of the Canadian government
have been in Sedgwick county solicit
ing settlers to locate in the Canadian
northwest territory. Free transports
ton and a fine homestead Of leo acres
are offered.
William RepettO appeared before the
probate court at Newton and asked
that he be sent to the asylum He
said he was at times insane and de-
sired to better his own and his fam
ily's condition
Letters are being received by the
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton making inquiry about the work
ings of the new school book law. They
are nearly all from legislators Of ad-
joining states
The bust of the late ex-GOv. Charles
Robinson, ordered at the states ex-
PeDse at a cost of 81, 600, has arrived in
Lawrence from Chicago and as soon as
accepted by the state viii be placed in
Fraser hall at the state university.
The estimate by State Bank Commits
sioner Breideuthal that $50. 600, 600 of
farm mortgage Indebtedness would be
paid in Kansas during 1896 and 1897
NAV prove too small In Sumner
county alone the net reduction was
s541, 95s.
The time has expired in which Sum
ner county agreed to pay bounty on
rabbit scalps- In all, s., 1888 were
paid for is, 5I4 scalps, during a period
Of only two months This amounts to
81 scalPs for each quarter section OF
land in the county
In Maxwell township, Stafford cOun-
ty, six district schools viii be abol-
ished and one central township school
established The pupils viii be con-
veyed to school in wagons each day.
The districts abolished are sparsely
settled and the action is taken to save
expense and secure a better school
Ex-Gov. John P. St John has started
q movement for the erection Of a mon
ument over the grave Of ex-GoE. John
A Martin In his appeal to the people
Of Kansas for funds, he calls attention
10 the fact that no suitable stone
marks the resting place Of the dead
man P I BOnebraie, Of Topeka, Is
named as treasurer to receive cOntribu-
tiO1s. The monument Is to cost 81, 900
and ex-GoTASt John wants it ready
for dedication on Nay 80 next
Mrs F. Smith Of Pawnee Rock, has
twice publicly ehastised Prof Crump-
ton, principal Of the schools, for al
legged mistreasment Of her children
She was arrested and paid the fine
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