The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-09-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS

/ The A. NJ E conference at LlaWrence
/ decided 70 send missionaries into Cuba
The enrolment at the state uni
versity last week passed the $50 mark.
The Sumner county high school at
Wellington opened with over go pu-
pills
A San Francisco telegram said Col
Funston and Lent Col Little were at
peace.
At Atehison Luther Diekerson, aged
20. was married to a widow just half
his age
Fred Wulf. a wealthy German farmer
near Shawnee, committed suieide be
cause Of poor health
The Windsor hotel at EmpOria was
destroyed by FIRE started from the ex-
| plOsiOn OF a coal oil lamp
It is very probable that a Kansas
election viii be held this year in the
middle Of The Pacific ocean
During the past a months the state
grain inspection department officially
inspected I22, CSC car loads Of grain.
Capt John Waller, Of the Twenty
third (colOred) Kansas regiment, writes
/ from Santiago that Cuba is the only
coua try for the negro.
Gov. Leedy appointed J. D. Beel, of
/ Grainfield, a member Of the live stock
sanitary board to succeed Frank Vein
shank, resigned. Beel is a democrat
Pretty 16-year-old Kate Yancy, Of
/ Grenola, was missin gfro-n home and it
was thought she had elOped with a
travelling Snowman named Armstrong
The receipts of the state coal oil in
| spectOr's Office for August were ST.
DISCO, the salaries were .SST9, leaving
1896 to be turned into the state treas
ury-
The coal business in southeastern
/ Kansas is booming and railroads
I traversing that section are hauling
more Of it than ever at this season Of
the year.
A Topeka telegram said the attor-
neys for John Henry Collins, charged
with numbering his father, would not
ask for a change Of venue from Shaw
nee county.
Private Roberts, Of the Twenty-see-
Ond Kansas, died Of fever in camp at
LeavenwOrth. Instead of reporting
at sick call he remained in his tent
until nearly dead
Sheriffs Of southwestern Kansas met
| - W ALAAAe anu u = tfAA-AsI-- ~ ~ a.
On hOrsethievek They Will 90 in with
terminate the thieves
The charter Of the Lawrence & EN-
poria railroad, a line 81 miles long
from Lawrence to Carbon Hill, has
been annulled.- It-ssEs net been OPer- Z
Rted for nearly four years
Gov. Leedy appointed Sergeant Ma
ior Dodge lieutenat OF the Twentieth !
Kansas to succeed Lieut. Flanders, |
who resigned rather than undergo an |
investigation for incOmpeteney.
Ez-GOv. Lewelling and DR.. A. n. !
Pratt, prominent pOpulists Of Wichita, /
but members Of opposite factions, en-
gagged IN a street fight over a remark |
that Pratt had made regarding the ex-
governor.
The trial Of County Attorney Norris, |
Of Saline county, for alleged illegal /
practices, resulted in his disbarment |
The charges were instigated By II. n. /
Gaines, ex-superint endent Of schools /
Both men are pOpulists-
It took so, O4O-2s to run the several /
state charitable institutions during /
August, not counting the state insane /
asylum at Topeka Of this sum, S14,
G9O2I was for maintenance and 81
550.O7 for salaries Of officers and at
tendants-
The national university Of the /
Friends church, the school recently /
endowed at Wichita BY J. NJ. Davis, Of |
St Louis, with 500, 600, has been for
mally opened. Edmund Stanley, ex-
state school superintendent is presi- I
dent Of the faculty.
The Kansas appellate court, sitting /
IN session at Leavenworth, upheld the \
Sunday-clOsing law, the suit being 1
brought by the labor unions of the /
city to close the barber shops on Sun
dav. The decision also affects Sunday /
baseball and theaters-
The district and appellate courts at /
LeavenwOrth held that a wholesale 4
house in Kansas City that was trying 4
to collect a liquor bill from-a Kansas /
jointist had no legal standing in the 1
courts, as the business Of selling /
liquor in the state was prohibited by /
statute.
There were on July 4 last S64 state |
and private banks IN Kansas, a de- /
crease since 1881 Of so, but the total /
deposits were so, S94, 956.S an in |
crease Of IS "a per cent over 1891. !
There are Sc banks. in the state whose |
surplus equals 50 per cent Of their !
capital stock
On June 30, 1898, there were 7ss pris-
oners in the Kansas penitentiary, an |
increase Of 50 over the preceding year.
OF this number WyandOtte county fur /
nished the greater number, Shawnee /
second, Sedgwick third and Mont |
gomery fourth The expenses OF the /
institution the past year were si4s.-
Oh
Crime, criminals and the cost Of /
punishment for crimes in Kansas is !
the subject Of "a investigation now /
being conducted BY State Labor Com
missioner Johnson Under the head /
Of cost he viii seek answers TO these !
questions Cost 70 convict, cost to 4
keep. cost Of trial when there is no /
conviction and the value Of labor by /
the convict
Floyd sahler. the ten-year-old son
Of an Atchison merchant. was hit on |
the head with club by vicious play 4
mate and has become hoPeleszly in
sane
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