The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-03-25
NO. 81.
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Pittsburg wants the pOpulist state
convention.
at SaIina the bicycle riders have
named q city ticket Of their own
Ex-Congressman Ben Clover rurs
hotel at Douglass, Butler county
Franklin county republicans in
structed for Funston for governor.
It cost SIS, 61s.s 81 to run the state
charitable institutions during Febru-
airy.
There are now 30 negro students at
tending the state university at Law
renee.
An early morning fire at Garden City
destroyed several valuable business
houses
Ex-secretary of State William Hig-
gins is prospecting for gold in New
Mexico
Work has begun on the Santa Fe
double track between EmpOria and
Florence.
J. H. Glabart, a wealthy merchant
Of Lawrence, was thrown from a horse
and killed
James Dawson died at Newton, aged
as. He was a veteran Of the Mexican
and civil wars
w. J. Buchan won out over J. K.
Cubbison in the Wyandotte county
congressional race
Several horses were burned to death
/ in a fire that destroyed the Hopper
livery barn at Pratt
Members Of the Topeka POpulist
Flambeau club are booming l. 2.
| King, Of COvley, for governor.
A posse of citizens at Cuba arrested
three men whom they suspected OF
/ burglarizing the post Office there
B. T. Burwell, recently appointed as
| sOeiate justice Of oklahoma, lived II
! Saline county, this state, until 1891
The city council of Junction City
| awarded the contract for the erection
/ of a new city hall and opera house, to
| cost $50, 600.
Linn county has two candidates for
the populist nomination for congress
County Attorney Clay and ex-COunty
| Attorney Poor.
Gov. Leedy says he will not appoint
| the committee to prepare the Kansas
! exhibit at Omaha until the money nee
essarv is in sight
Rev. J. D. Matthews, a Baptist
| preacher at Belleville, wants a posi-
ton in the state militia, with the
privilege of fighting Spain.
State Labor Commissioner Lee John
son has made a compilation Of all Ia
Dor laws now in force in Kansas and
5, 600 copies will be circulated
Ex-Postmaster Sturm, of Caldwell,
/ who was accused of embezzling $500
while in Office, was fined $40 and costs
in the federal court at Wichita
Bourbon county republicans in con-
vention elected delegates favOrably TO
Gates for congress, Funston for gov
ernor and Germany for lieutenant gov
ernOr.
The Fourth congressional district
populist convention viii be held at
Emporia, May IL. A committee has
been named to confer with the demo
l Gratis.
Attorney General Boyle has begun
, proceedings to prevent the receiver OF
the Wichita & Western railroad from
tearing up the track between Pratt
and CullisOn.
Three Young men at Mcpherson
thought 1t would be a good joke on
, somebody to pull mp telephone pole
Now they have q fine Of $500 each ahead
OF them and Imprisonment they don't
pay it.
The chart agents who had been
.svvorlring' rural districts were having
trouble is diseOun ting their school war
: rants as a result of the warning let
/ Ter sent out by State uperintendent
! Stryker.
In Hamilton county the y town
ships have been redistricted into only
t three. This was done to reduce the
y number Of officers and curtail expenses
= Other western Kansas counties may dc
: likewise
Solomon Smith, of Burroak, WHO
served Uucle sam faithfully in the
D Mexican and civil wars, says he il
= ready now to fight Spain All he asks
Is that his hard tack be soaked 50 be
q can chew It
The John A Martin monument fund
started three weeks ago by Editor
=, Howe. of the AtcbisOn Globe, hai
? reached over 500. There is no dOub
: the 81. 600 required viii be raised in {
!. very few days.
Gov. Leedy PardOned c. c. Ross
serving q ten-yesr sentence for high
. way robbery in COwley county. IN
!; county attorney who prosecuted hin
> I wrote Lnab ne 4lA ADb LIZ" S--@
+ Ross was guilty.
The disappearing carriages for tn
rapid-6ring guns now used for defens
. on both the Atlantic and Pacific coast
are the invention of Capt william
CrOzier, son Of the late Judge Rober
I Crozfer, OF LeaEenwOrtb-
Chairman Love, of the Democrat
state COMMITTEES, appointed ". F. SEPE
J.. G. johnson, Thomas 9. Fitch, job
= /. Lee and DR.. c. W. Brandenburg q
e the committee to confer with pOpr
= lists regarding democratic represents
ton on the state ticket
+ It's autbOritatfvely stated that i
n every single case brought by the stat
l. I school fund commissioners agains
D. difenent counties to enforce the PAL
ment Of bonds, the district Judge ia
- decided in favor Of the county In
per cent Of the cases the supren
az court reversed the lower court an
p ordered the counties to pay their debt
Uau-u Z Ruf1er Of Fort Scott