The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-09-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ing-hOuse plant At Salina
Gov. Leedy and ". E Stanley both /
spoke at Topeka Labor day.
Atchison's corn carnival has been /
declared OF on account Of lack Of funds /
Oklahoma has Just paid Kansas So
600 for keeping territory prlsonera-
The bill is Of several years standing
John b johnson, the Highland
banker who died recently, owned over
81, 600 acres Of land in i've counties IN
Missouri.
At the National Irrigation congress
at Cheyenne, -Wyo-, last week J. h
Churchill, Of Kansas, was made one OF
the vice presidents
At the state band contest in En-
poria first prize was awarded the low
boy band, Of WOOdbine, and the second
to the Lyndon band
At the Modern WOOdmen log rolling
at lola a special feature was nat
ural gas display, to make which IA
600, 600 cubic feet Of gas was used
A Washington dispatch said J. L
Bristow, fourth assistant postmaster
general would come to Kansas and
take part in the political campaign
The internal revenue collections for
August in the Kansas-OklahOma dis
trict were SCI, s97. %. about three times
the amount collected in August, 1897.
COnviets in the Kansas penitentiary
were caught making counterfeit
money, but not before they had turned
| out a great many nickels and quarters
There will be a confederate day" at
/ the @. A. R reunion at Topeka this
| fall and Col. John B. Stone, Of Kansas
| Citv, No, viii be one Of the speakers
Ed Henderson, the Fort Scott negro
barber who was held for running p
| vearold white girl, was spirited out
/ of town by officers to save him from
/ mob.
S. NJ. Jarvis, the New York capital
ist who was the first American to es-
tablish a bank at Santiago, years ago
/ published the Times at Sedan, this
state.
John Harding, aged II and Edith
/ Edison, aged Il, elOped from Hiawatha
! in a lumber wagon, intending to find
/ some officer who would issue them a
marriage license.
! William Madden, a weu-knOwn
| Young barber at Fort Scott was ar
| rested for bigamy, the charge being
| made BY alleged wife No 1, who re-
sides at Kansas City
Topeka will vote on a proposition to
| issue SAC, 600 bonds to purchase the
present waterworlzs system or build a
new one. The capacity must be g.
| 900, 600 gallons daily
At San Francisco the other day
| when Gen. Miller reviewed the 1000
troops camped there, Col Fred Fun
/ ston, of the Twentieth Kansas was
| made a division commander
Because the Maple Leaf railroad
erected a water tank and switches
adjacent to the First Methodist church
property in LeavenwOrth, the church
has sued the railroad company for ST.
600 damages
State superintendent Stryker says
more new schOOlhOuses are being built
in Kansas this year than in any year
in the states history, not excluding
boom times. The vast majority OF
them are country schOOlhOuses-
Prof. Arnold Finch, Of Switzerland,
. will occupy a newly-created chair Of
mathematics in the Kansas agricul
turaI college at Manhattan. Emch's
, father-in-law, Prof Walters, is also
! l
Amos Walton, a resident Of Kansas
since 1857, died at Arkansas City. IL
1858 he was a member Of the legisla
ture from Douglas county. He served
with distinction throughout the civi
war in the Ninth Kansas cavalry
Attorney General Boyle holds that {
parsonage owned by the church and
occupied by the pastor as a residence
Is exempt from taxation, together
with the ground upon which IL is 10
! Gated not to exceed One-half acre.
Gov. Leedy commissioned Charlie
; ! Lindsay quartermaster of the Twenty
: second Kansas to succeed Lieut. Henri
) Lamb. deceased. Lindsay is a brOthe
! / Of Col H C. Lindsay, Of the sam
: regiment Both reside at Topeka
3 Sergt. Craig Harris, son Of Uniter
! States Senator Harris, was seriOusl.
: i'll of fever at MOntauk point YOUNG
8 Harris, though but Il, enlisted las
spring in Washington city and wa
3 one Of the first to see service in Cuba
According to Chancellor Snow
weather report August was nOta
: Iblv lacking in weather extremes Tn
9 highest temperature during the mont
Z was "a. on the 18th and the loves
= was 56.5 on the Ist The rainfall wa
: 8 40 inches
= Arthur W. Brewster, Of St JOSEPH
= nominee of the Fourth Missouri rC
z publicans for congress, was born an
5 grew to manhood at White Cloud, Don
). phan county, this state As a studeI
= Z of Washburn college he gained Quit
z q reputation as a college orator an
won several prizes in OratOrical col
tests
All the daily papers have been FL
Of reports from San Francisco abOJ
the quarrel between Col Fred Fun
ton and Lieut.. Col. Little, Of Il
= Twentieth Kansas, over appointment
:. The latest dispatch said Funston ha
= ignored Gov. Leedy IN making one a
= pointment, alleging that the governs
= had no authority to make the appOin
ment-
II Mrs. John T. West, Of Axtell, took
. dose Of corrosive sublimate, mistakiI
It for cough medicine A husbaI
y and three small children mourn b
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