The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-04-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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The miners Of the state are urging
the removal of State Mine Inspector
hcGrath-
A movement was started to erect at
Junction City G. A r monument to
cost 8, 500.
Gov. Leedy announced he would re-
commission all metropolitan police
commissioners
-Pittsburg retail clerks organized an
association to bring about early clos
ing Of the stores
Prof w. d. Kuhn, Of HoIton, has
resigned as member Of the state
board Of education
Eighteen German Luthern Families
Of Geryville, Pa, VIII locate in Kansas,
where they can get larger farms
Frank p Randolph, a released con-
Wet from the Kansas peniteRtiary,
says the cOuvicts are cruelty treated
and poorly fed
There is a sad coincidence In the
fact that within two weeks both Con-
gresham Curtis and Congressman
Botkin came home to bury their faith
ers
was appointed on the Omaha EXPOSE
ton commission, will devote much Of
his time 70 a mining exhibit of the
state.
The state executive council re-elect-
ed William Campbell railroad commits
siOner and designated the Topeka Ad-
vocate and News as the official state
paper.
In the Shawnee county district court
Judge Hazen decided that an officers
salary could not be tied up by garnish-
ment, because 1t was against public
policy.
Capt Jack" Curtis, father of Con-
gresham Curtis, died recently in the
Indian territory, where he had been
living Is years He settled in Topeka
in 1855.
Frank H. Price, whose. ten-year-Old
son was accidentally drowned in a
water reservoir in AtchisOn, secured q
judgment Of 81, 600 against the water
company.
The new McKenna rolling mill to be
erected in Kansas City, Kan. will cost
S1I5, 600 and VIII consist of four con-
nected buildings, having total area
OF o., % IeeL
George L. Moore, who committed
suicide in Wichita the other day be
cause ne had neither friends or money,
was two years ago a well-knOwn and
wealthy cattleman.
A big colony of windOw-glass max
ers from Belgium are figuring on
coming TO Kansas and establishing 3
windOw-glass factory somewhere in
the natural gas belt
c. II. J. Taylor, the well.knovn Kan
sas negro democrat who held prOmi-
nent positions under President Cleve-
land. is dean Of the law department Of
Morris Brown college, Atlanta, Ga
at Larned the $50, 900 damage suit
brought by ex-senator J. w. Rush
against ex-Judge Vandivert, EXON
gresham Peters, A E. Austin, w. II.
Vernon and Fred sDumOnt Smith was
decided against Rush.
State Insurance superintendent Nc
Nall has warned "a companies doing
business in Kansas that unless they
Immediately report as to the amount
Of salaries paid their officers they viii
be excluded from the state
Republican county conventions in
the Third congressional district were
instrueting for Kirkpatrick and it
was thought he would be renOminated
at the Independence convention by
practically unahimous vote
/ Suit has been brought to fOreclose
mortgage of ZOO against Mount
Hope cemetery near Topeka, an So
acre tract laid out during the boom
days. 1t was a losing investment from
the start, not over 20 lots being sold.
B. P. Boyd, of Reading, has sued a
half dozen residents of that city for
SO, 600 damages, alleging that the de-
PENDANTS circulated q petition against
his being postmaster and his character
was damaged to the extent Of $4,000.
Gov. Leedy has named the following
commission to raise funds and arrange
a Kansas exhibit at Omaha: Ex-GOv.
Click, AtchisOn; A. ". Smith, McPheF-
son; John E Frost. Topeka; A. Il.
Grief, Pittsburg; A c. Lamb, yelling.
ton. From six 70 ten other commits
sioners viii probably be named
The attorney general decides that
where a school-teachsr Is thrown out
of employment BY circumstance. for
which he or she is not responsible, the
district Will be compelled to pay wages
for the fun term. The attorney gen
eraI saws district school boards should
make provision against such emergen-
cies In the contract
A sensation was created in Kansas
recently when the widow Of ex-GOV.
Charles Robinson wrote a letter pro
testing against placing the likeness Of
ex-senator Pres ION = Plumb in the
statehouse dome as one Of 10 represent
ative Ksnsans- She said It was In
PIumb's power to stop the Quantrell
raid on LsHrence, but he refused 10 DO
it. In other free state troubles she
SAYS Plumb was not q true Kansan-
It-uas reported that q heavy frost
after the recent rains had badly dam
aged fruit in The vicinity OF EmpOria-
particularly peaches, pears and
plumbs-
The GleneldeF post Office was en-
tered By burglars who wrecked the
Building With dynamite and got cons
siderable money and stanPs- The
building burned and the postmaster
narrowly escaped death
Gov. Leedy named John Dryden, Of
i-rzr-r-s,--r-I .-lrTTr.tu 70 Huccged u. ~.