The Goodland republic., 1898-12-02
NO. Is.
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Adit. Gen. Allen announces that he
viii reorganize the Kansas national
guard.
Cattle feeding in central and north
ern Kansas is beating all records this
winter.
New stucco works are being built az
Burns, where there are valuable de-
pOsits Of agatite-
At Pittsburg q serious coal famine
was threatened, caused by the inao1llty
Of railroads to furnish cars
Miss Lizzie Fisher, of Parsons was
indicted by the grand jury for sending
obscene letters through the mails
In North Topeka William Il. Hayes
was shot and killed by T. NJ James, a
prominent pOpulist politician, IN
quarrel over a line fence
The annual football game at Kansas
City on Thanksgiving day between
Kansas and Missouri resulted IN vic
tory for Kansas, as usual
Heavy losses of cattle from the re-
cent blizzard are reported from several
places in Kansas. Grant Gillett, OF
Dickinson county, lost IS head.
W. c. Morgan, an old and wealthy
resident, was found dead on the prairie
near his home seven miles west OF
Cheney, a victim Of the blizzard
Returns from the votes cast by the
Twenty-third (uegrO) Kansas regiment
in Cuba shows that 3sS votes were east,
Stanley receiving 191 and Leedy %.
|. Ed WhitecOmb, Of Nebraska, presi-
dent of the United States Bee-keeper's
union, will make an address before the
annual meeting Of the state board OF
agriculture in Topeka in January
George Fowler, who was sentenced
to the penitentiary for seven years for
stealing chickens IN WyandOtte cOun-
tv, has been pardoned, on the ground
that the punishment was excessive
Adelaide Towers, daughter of a
farmer near Lincoln, run of to St
Louis to marry R. ". E. Meyers,
stranger. She could not find him
when she reached the city, and she
was penniless-
C. E. Eckert, editor of a populist
paper at Larned, was knocked down
and beaten the other day by Col VIII
liam Mansfield, because OF an article
BY Editor Eclzert rejecting on Mans
fields integrity
The recent blizzard caught j. II.
Cranwell, his wife and child some
miles from VioIenta, Sheridan county,
camping in a wagon The horses
could not move in the sleet and the
child was frozen to death
Two young girls of J. D. Paddock
of Anthony, were kidnapped from q
Wichita hotel, where they were visit
ing with their father. 1t was thought
they were taken by their mother, who
was lately divorced from Mr.. Paddock
In the county court of Fairfax cOun-
", Va, the case against Capt Louis
c. Duncan, Of the Twenty-second Kan
sas, who was charged with completely
in the desecratiOn of confederate
graves at Manassas, Va. was dis
missed.
A lone highwayman entered Eckers
drug store in Kansas City, Kan, just
south Of the police station, just after
dark the other evening and covering
the clerk with a revolver robbed the
store of SlO2 in cash, then made good
his escape
The private boxes in the state treas
urv vault in the capitol building, used
bv state officers and employees as de-
positories for private funds, were
robbed recently Of over s., 900 by some
unknown person who evidently had
KEY that TT the treasure boxes.
At Troy, when DR.. Reeder's family
opened a pumpkin preparatory to max
ing pies, they were surprised to ind
pumpkin vine inside bearing leaves
and blossoms As the pumpkin was
not broken in any way, it IS hard to
account for the freak
Railroads have granted ~ fare
rate to the state board Of agriculture's
meeting at Topeka in January. The
rates are also for the benefit of the
swine breeders, stock breeders and
poultry associations meetings, which
will be held in Topeka at the same
time.
Republican politicians have scheme
10 relieve" Gov. Stanley Of much
Of the responsibility Of the state pat
ronage. It is TO prOrate 1t among the
congressional districts, the men who
get the Endorsements of the congress
sionaI committees to have the places.
Gov Stanley has not given his ap-
proval to the scheme.
Charles y. Lee. who was serving a
life sentence in the Kansas peuiten-
tiarv, was pardOned Thanksgiving
dav. In 1894 he was sent up from
Pittsburg for the murder Of William
Chapman. The evidence was eircum-
stantial, worked up by detectives to
secure the $500 reward. Recently
convict in the Oregon penitentiary
confessed to having murdered Chap
man
Election returns have been received
from the Second and Third. battaliOns
of the Twentieth Kansas, which voted
at Honolulu November s The certih-
cate of the election officers Is not
sworn to and IL is question whether
the state board Of canTassers viii
have lawful right 70 consider it Al
together. 40 soldiers voted. Stanley
received $50 and Leedy IA The vote
Oh different congressman was about
three to one republican except IN the
Sixth district, where Mccormick got
four votes and Reeder three.
Prof. George E Kyner, Of junction
CITY. president Of the North Central
Kansas Teachers association, has gone
70 Cripple Creek, Col, to embark in
the newspaper business
The discovery Of vast bed Of coke
coal on the farm Of James 0'Heil, in
Cherokee county, has resulted IL. the