The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-07-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
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The war tax viii cost the Santa Re
railroad $50, 900 a year
The first new wheat marketed az
Newton brought % cents
Rev. Father Then, a Catholic priest
Of Wichita, has been appointed an
army chaplain
WyandOtte county furnished two
companies Of negro volunteers for the
two Kansas battaliOns
A pest that attacks the roots and
bodies Of trees is badly damaging fruit
trees in Atchison county
Two white men-One from Kansas
City and one from Wichita-enlisted In
the Kansas cOlored battalion
Over adOzen horses have died at Con-
way, Mcpherson county, Of a disease
thought to be loco poisoning.
Farmer William Fair, near Hutchin-
son, had $50 acres Of wheat burned by
fire from a locomotive engine
The salary OF W;chita's mayor was
increased to 81. 600 per year, because Of
the extra work imposed by the new
police law.
The principal business thOrOughfare
/ Of Lawrence, Massachusetts, street
Will be paved with brick a distance Of
two miles
Charles Root, a Russell volunteer
( who died IN camp at Chickamauga,
was buried with military hOnOrs at
Russell. He was only II.
Rev. Bernard Kelly, the well-l1nOwn
Methodist preacher, is chaplain Of a
/ regiment that has been before San
| tiago the past few weeks
A grand potato feast viii be given
at Edwardsville, WyandOtte county,
July %, as a sort Of thanksgiving for
the abundant potato crop.
John Henry Collins, the young col
lege student in Jail at Topeka charged
! with the murder Of his father, is clam
Oring for a change of venue.
Highland, DOniphan county, one OF
the oldest towns in Kansas, will have
I a railroad soon, having voted $50, 600
| bonds for branch of the Grand Island.
Since the uniform textbook law
/ went into effect IS counties have
adopted books aud secured the ex-
change rate Of half price on new ones
Frank Miller, an organ salesman at
Halstead, was whipped, tarred and
feathered by a mob because he had at
4 tempted to outrage a fOur-year-Old
/ girl
Senator Baker has returned TO his
! LeavenwOrth home from Washington.
He will sojourn in Colorado before
taking part in the republican cam
Paign-
Farmer Stowe, seven miles west Of
| Lawrence, lost several cattle from an
/ unknown disease. They were taken
| sick and died in two hours in great
agony.
A prominent hOrticulturist says the
apple crop in the Kaw valley will not
/ be sufficient to supply local demands,
an April hailstOrm having badly dam
| aged the buds.
D. B. Stephens, of lola, is looking
up Price RAID claims in Kansas,
! which, ne says, will aggregate S25, 6SS
Stephens Will try to get the national
/ government to pay these claims
Gov. Leedy was considering the ad
/ visibility Of parOling a number of col
| Ored inmates from the state refOrma-
tory at Hutchinson upon condition
that they enlist in the volunteer army.
Because the city requires ten hours
/ for a days work, a revolt against
working out the poll tax was started
/ BY male citizens OF Fort Scott, who
| will test in court the validity of the
| law.
a well-knOvn farmer near Cherokee
| created much Indignation BY publicly
hOrsewhipping his grown daughter
/ upon the streets Of Cherokee because
I she was in the company Of a young
man whose society he had forbidden
her.
i The state labor commissioner will
| ask the next legislature to pass a law
prohibiting adulteration Of -four. His
/ reports from Kansas mills show that a
! large percentage of mills in Kansas
1 adulterate -four either with corn or
glucose
Paola will have a big crowd at the
! LAYING Of the cornerstone Of the new
/ Miami county courthouse July q. The
] masonic lodge will conduct the cere-
! monies and Justice David ]. Brewer,
OF the United States supreme court,
will deliver the grafton
Walter Woods, Of COncordia and Roy
Neely, Of Topeka, privates in company
/ b Tvventy-sccOnd Kansas, who were
| recently appointed to minor positions
/ on Gen. Miles staff, accompanied the
latter to Santiago and were the first
i Kansas volunteers to set foot on Cuban
soil
Brig. Gen. J. *. Hudson, Of Topeka,
has Oeen assigned to the Second brib-
/ ade Of the Second division Fourth
army corps, one of the finest of the
4 volunteer troops II embraces the
First regiment District Of Columbia,
Second New York and Fifth Mary
land.
A number Of bank depOsitOrs in diff
fe-ent parts Of Kansas are making an
/ effort TO evade the internal revenue
law by issuing receipts for money
/ drawn from the banks, instead Of draw
I ing checks and using revenue stamp
/ on each one. One bank went SO far as
10 print receipts TO assist its depOsitOrs
/ to draw money in that way
/ The Fifth district G. A- r reunion
/ viii be held at Junction City SePtem-
Der SO feature will be the dedi-
cation Of q 81 coo &. a r monument
I Ct Junction City.
/ Judge Alden, Of the WyandOtte cOun-
II district court. decides that the new
| Kansas law providing for recording
/ assignments Of real estate mortgages
! is unconstitutional
/ Wilson McAIister, of company II,