The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-07-08

Stanton county is wiEh0ut a news

the Omaha exposition
/ The police force at Atchison has
been reduced one-haIf, which VIII save
the city 5000 a month
At Reading 2 big elevator and mill
wiz be erected by Price & Son. The
elevator viii be 6Ox1OO feet
/ Ex-Chief Justice Albert a Horton,
who is mentioned as Federal Judge
Fosters possible successor, has held
Office IN Kansas "a years
a burglar broke into HoOper's jew
! elry store at AtehisOn and carried
away IS gold watches and number Of
/ silver watches and chains.
A mob at Larned threatened to
! lynch VIII Page, a young farmer, who
/ was accused Of assaultiug the daughter
I Of one Of the best familias in the
county.
The state dairymen's association
I presented a resolution to Gov. Leedy
/ protesting against the use Of OleOmar-
garine at the various state charitable
institutions
The bankers Of Brown county organ
lied to enforce the collection Of the
war tax on drafts and checks. deciding
that in all cases the tax must be paid
By customers
S S. Kirkpatrick, republican nOmi-
nee for congress in the Third district,
has challenged his fusion opponent,
Congressman E. R Ridgley, to a series
Of joint debates
The state live stock sanitary COM
mission was exercised over a peculiar
disease that had killed aver 80 cattle
near Fall River. The infected district
was quarantined.
A Topeka dispatch said there was
great difficulty in securing cOlored re-
cruits from Kansas and it was doubt
full If two battalions from the state
could be secured
Scarcely a section in eastern or
southeastern Kansas escaped damage
from the serious floods the past week.
In some localities the damage to grain
and growing crops is incompatible
Fifteen guards and about so inmates
of the state refOrmatOry at Hutchin-
son were poisoned by eating a certain
food at the table There were no
fatalities. An investigation was or
dered.
In the distribution of hOuors at
Yale university law school, at New
Haven, Conn, Arthur Linton COrbin,
of Lawrence, received the prize to the
junior receiving highest mark at grad
uatiOn.
Ada Ross, a t3-yearOld schoolgirl Of
Empire City, was arrested and taken
to Fort Scott charged with violating
the postal laws in having sent an i'm
proper letter to another girl with
whom she had quarreled.
1t was reported in Topeka that Clyde
MattOx, an Oklahoma desperate with
whose sensational trials and final par
don from prison most Kansans are IA
miliar, was now fighting with ROOse-
velts Rough Riders in Cuba
The attorney general decides that a
Kansas schOOl-teacher is entitled to
but two third-grade certificates, and
that if he fails to secure a second
grade certificate on the third examiua-
ton he is barred from teaching
On September Il the Spiritualists Of
the state of Kansas will hold their an
nuaI convention at the state capital
The meeting will continue till Sep
TENDER &c, and viii be attended by
prominent SpirituaIists from all parts
Of the country.
The WOman's Home Missionary so
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal
church Of the Southwest Kansas con-
ference has decided to establish a
DeacOness home in Wichita The con-
ference at Lyons last spring author
lied this action
At Girard the other day a St Louis
attorney suspected of trying to fix
a Jury in the district court in the case
Of the Manufacturers national bank,
of Pittsburg, vs. ex-Sherif Adsit, was
ordered by the sheriff to leave town
and he complied at once
Prof. Bailey, OF the Kansas state
university, was made an honorary
member Of the American Institute Of
Homeopathy because Of his recent dem
Onstrations Of the proof Of the law
of similars in electrO-chemical action
by the principle Of iOnizatiOn-
Before he left for San Francisco
Col. Fred Funston, of the Twentieth
Kansas, was presented with a fine
gold-mounted sword by his home
friends. It was made Of the finest
steel and the blade was engraved with
the flag and other national emblems-
It has been decided that Thursday,
September /, will be set apart as Kan
SaS day at the Omaha exposition. IN
this day speeches viii be made by
Gov. Leedy and ex-Gov. Click as presi-
dent of the commission. Speeches will
be made by other prominent Kausans-
These addresses will be in the main a
recital of the states resources. There
will also be an exhibit Of Kansas prod
ucts-
Secretary T. D. COburn, Of the board
Of agriculture, IS desirous Of cOmmuni-
eating with any who have had expert
enee in rearing hogs mainly on either
alfalfa, kafir corn and the sorghums
Doth as Pasturage or grain, also bar
lev Mr.. Coburn believes these crops
afford in large measure the basis for
greatly increased and very profitable
pork production IN much of Kansas,
and is DESTROYS of ascertaining for pub
lie benefit what IS being done along
such lines
John Auid, a member Of a prominent
AtchisOn family, while walking in bis
sleep fell from 4 window to a brick
walk IA feet below, sustaining fatal
injuries