The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-07-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

4 an epkoeulc resembling blind stag
gers is killing horses west Of MePher-
son.
The Topeka city council placed a
tax Of So, coo year On premium stamp
companies.
Citizens along the Salina branch Of
the Union Pacific want a daily passen-
ger service
Ex-senator PETER has written a let
ter accepting the prOhi bitiOn nOmina-
ton for governor.
Kansas banks have all paid their war
revenue tax ranging from $50 to $500.
Several banks paid as high as $500
George Plumb, Of EmpOria, brother
Of the late Senator Plumb, will be the
fusion nominee for member Of the leg
islaturo-
Theodore Raucher, a baker at Atchi-
son, recently fell heir TO 81, 600, 600
through the death Of his father in
Germany
Mrs Barbara Hoist, convicted at
HOltOn Of selling liquor, is keeping out
Of Jail by appealing her case from one
court to another
Over $50 teachers from Kansas were
in attendance at the National Educa-
tiOnal association meeting IN Wash
ingtOn last week
A telegram from San Francisco said
Lieut.. Col. Z. c. Little, of the Twen-
tieth Kansas, had resigned a later
report came from Little denying that
he had resigned
The first battalion Of cOlOred troops
was made up Of volunteers from To
peka, Lawrence, Ottawa, PaOla, Kan
sas City, EmpOria and Fort Scott
four companies in all
The attorney general decides that
city or district school boards cannot
exclude children between. five and
seven years on account of the crowded
condition Of the schools
The company OF negroes from Wyan-
dOtte county broke all records for
physical perfection, only one man be
ing rejected. White companies lost
from three to 80 men each.
State Labor Commissioner Johnson
saws the average annual pay of Kan
sas coal miners Is S4O2. 80, and the av-
erage cost OF living, S4O1. IS. leaving
the miner 90 cents clear at the end OF
the year
The assistant United States attorney
says that state, county and municipal
officers do not have to use war reve-
nue. stamps on checks. Official tele-
grams and telephone messages are
also exempt
L E. Lambert, United States attor-
ney, announced that he would bring
criminal proceedings against all in
surance companies to compel them TO
pay for all war revenue stamps used
on their receipts
A Topeka dispatch said Gov. Leedy
had offered the lieutenant cOlOnelcy
of the two Kansas negro battaliOns TO
George w. Ford, Of Fort Scott, who
is treasurer of the negro masonic
lodges Of the state
While sitting alone before an open
window in her home just south Of Fort
Scott, Mrs. James AIayberry, wife of a
young farmer, was fatally shot by some
unknown person, the shot coming
through the window.
Larned has a Dewey square in
which is a 1OO-fOOt f1agpOle from which
floats a 26x15 feet flag It Is surmOunt-
ed by an arc light, and Is feet above
the ground is encircled by a band
stand capable Of holding . musicians
Fire at Mcpherson destroyed the
First National Bank block, in which
were located the Citizens bank, sew
eral mercantile establishments and
/ Offices The town was temporarily
without fire protection Loss, So, 900.
The six Packing-hOuses in Kansas
four at Kansas City and one each at
| Topeka and Wichita-turned out I'm
/ ished products last year valued at
s62, 426, III They paid S., 914, 9O6 to
/ 1910 employees, 6, $50 Of whom were
men and Gs2 women.
James Eagan, son Of a rich farmer
near Topeka, was persuaded by his
/ fathsr to desert his young wife and
/ attend school at Baker university.
/ Young Mrs Eagan Immediately sued
/ her father-in-law for damages, and a
/ Jury awarded her $1,000
State Treasurer HehebOwer states
| that S45, 900 Of Quantrell raid claims
/ have been received in his Office. There
is but s., 600 available for the payment
/ Of these claims, and Mr. Hefebower
/ says he will pay them in the order in
/ which they were received
On June Is a twO-days-old infant
/ was drowned in the Arkansas river at
/ Wichita Officers began an investiga-
/ ton and three weeks later arrested
| Joe hleinniger and Henry Church for
/ the crime. The dead child, it is al
| legged, belonged TO Kleinuiger-s daugh-
l ter and young Church, IL is charged,
/ was the father.
Returns Of assessors furnished to the
/ Kansas state board o { agriculture from
/ - counties show Is, 500, 006 bushels, or
/ nearly % per cent less corn as having
| been in the hands OF their farmers
/ March 1 this year than at the same
/ time in 1897. Jewell county farmers
/ were holding on to 4,IT9, 900 bushels;
/ Republic, 1854, 900; Brown. 5,I55, 600,
and Nemaha, 9, S9I, go bushels In the
same . counties there was 81 per cent,
/ or az, 600 bushels more wheat held on
/ the farms this year than the year be
/ fore
/ The executive council Will put an
/ electric lighting plant in the state
( house, to cost .OJ1- The building is
/ now lighted by private contract. at a
/ cost of s. SO g year
/ At Hutchinson the other dav Rev.
w A. Van Guady led his 12-year-oid
son into the courthouse with halter
\ around his neck, and said he wanted