The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-02-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

South Haven schools were closed by
scarlet fever.
Wellington is a storm center Of
measles and humps
Abilene leads AL Kansas towns as .
/ butter-making station
Work has commenced on a local tele-
phone exchange in PaOla-
Maj Calvin Hood, Of EmPOris, owns
/ 800 acres Of Kansas land
There was a slight epidemic Of scar
let fever. in Russell county.
Cyrus Leland has declared IN favor
/ Of John SeatOn for governor.
An Episcopal church, to cost s., 900,
VIII be built at Yates Center.
The Frisco viii build handsome
new IS, 600 depot at NeOdesha-
A number Of new steel wagon bridges
viii be built in Jackson county.
Tt is said Charles S. Finch viii be ap-
pointed postmaster at Lawrence
The state insurance superintendent
collected over IS. 600 during January.
Wichita subscribed $50 pounds Of
homemade -four to the Cuban relief
fund
Farmers Of Sumner county want the
three-cent bounty on rabbit scalps re-
sumed
Baldwin, the seat Of Baker univer-
sity, is clamOring for better depot IA
cilities-
The town of Frontenac has been SO
undermined Tor coal that it has sunk
about p inches.
Ex-Secretary Of State ". C. Edwards,
of Larned, has entered the republican
gubernatOriaI race.
The Delahunt elevator at Olathe,
with several thousand bushels Of
| grain, was burned
Fort Scott will vote on a proposition
to build a $50, 900 waterwOrks and
electric light plant.
The new army chapel just dedicated
/ at Fort Riley is said to be the finest Of
its kind in the country.
The Salina city council defeated an
ordinance which levied a prOhibitive
| license on glove contests
Mrs R B. Cary, the most active
woman of Hiawatha, is y years old
and the mother of IS children
Lillian Frazier, a I5-year-O1d Atchi-
son girl, died as a result Of spinal in
/ juries received while cOasting.
fooled with a gun and may lose his
eyesight in addition to carrying a
SCARED face the rest Of his life
The branches of an oak tree grow
ing IN DOniphan county will shelter
500 persons from the suns rays
Farmer Kenny, Of Reno county, har-
vested 200 bushels Of wheat from 100
acres-an even IS bushels to the acre
The State bank at Norton, the oldest
/ financial institution in Norton county,
was forced into voluntary liquidation
/ because Of a conflict between stock
/ holders
Col Montgomery Bryant, born at
/ LeavenwOrth December IS, 1881, is said
to be the first white child born in
/ Kansas. Bryant is now living at
| Wichita
jackson county has decided to refund
/ its bonded Indebtedness Of 500, 900.
! The bonds will draw five per cent in
/ terest and have been contracted for by
eastern parties
The old soldiers association of Pitts
burg adopted resolutions protesting
/ against the passage of the bill in con-
gress which has for its object the pub
LEGATION Of the pension rolls.
Ex-COngressman Peters, Of Newton,
who was supposed to be slated for
/ Judge of the proposed new judicial
district, has given up hope of the bill
passing this session Of congress
State Superintendent Stryker has
reminded county school superintend-
ents that they cannot, under the law,
teach in a school and act as county SUI
perintendent at the same time
The last piece of machinery of the
sorghum sugar industry in Kansas,
upon which the government spent
/ $3.50, 600 in experiments, was sold at
Fort Scott and taken to Nebraska
The bust Of ex-Gov. Charles Robin
son, for which the state paid 81, 600,
will be unveiled in Frazier hall Of the
state university at Lawrence on Feb
I ruarv %. A number Of well-knOwn
speakers will be present
Attorney General Boyle has fled
mandamus proceedings in the supreme
court to compel the Topeka board Of
education to put in use in the city
schools the textbooks adopted by the
/ state textbook commission
The Kansas university faculty voted
to retain three years Of Latin as a re-
quirement for entrance to the uni
versity. In this they ignored the
wishes Of State Superintendent Stry-
lzer, who desired to substitute Greek,
German or French
Representatives from several fair as
sociatiOns met at Chanute aud organ
lied the kansas Grand Circuit, which
will include Wichita, Chanute, Ere
dOnia, Erie. Parsons, COffeyville, indie
tpendence, Girard and Winfield Good
purses viii be hung up
The grand chapter Of Kansas Royal
Arch MasOns will be held at Wichita
February IA The grand lodge A F.
& A. NJ. viii convene at the same place
on the 10th, and the grand lodge A. o.
q. W. viii convene In the same city on
the 18th and continue until the 26th-
The G.. A R state encampment and
WOman's Relief Corps viii meet there
April 1922
T., Prof L Hawn, the geOlogist, died
suddenly at LeavenwOrth, aged 90.
He came to Leavenworth IN 1854 and
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