The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-02-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Independence viii be paved
In recent Topeka interview ex-GoV.
Morrill, said he was forever out OF poll
itics, IN the sense Of holding Office.
1t is said ez-Gov. John P. st. John
would not refuse a fusion nomination
for congress in the Second district
CONGRESSMAN Curtis has introduced
a bill to give Mrs. Hester A. HaDbanz,
widow Of Lewis Hanback,, a pension Of
/ $50 q month
The Chanute city council voted to
| appropriate money to prospect for gas
4 and also voted to macadamize the main
street of the town.
AtchisOn banks started a contest as
to which should become the county
/ depository, and the county viii securs
- per cent. interest as a result
During January the state grain in
/ spector collected s., SAG. 65 in inspection
| fees and paid s., 74s. 2s in salaries and
| expenses, leaving 3 balance Of S9z.s7-
A consignment Of 600 birds, repre-
senting nearly every species Of the
southern climate, has been received by
/ the Kansas state university from HU-
/ catan-
Since F. D. Coburn, of Wyandotts
county, refused to enter the republican
! gubernatOrial race the friends Of J.
K. CubbisOn, Of WyandOtte, viii urge
his candidacy for congress
J. K Eiwell, Of Lawrence, has gone
/ TO Cuba to distribute supplies under
/ direction Of Consul General Lee. he
will also serve Miss Clara Barton, OF
the Red Cross society, as private ana
confidential adviser.
Col. ]. L. Alternately, one Of Leaven-
| vvorth's wealthiest business men, has
sold his handsome residence there and
viii move to Kansas City. Col Aber-
/ nathy located in LeavenwOrth IN 1886,
/ and has served as mayor
z. D. Wheeler, state forestry CONE
! missioner, has devised a plan TO
/ have a lecture on agriculture and
\ horticul ture delivered by some eminent
I authority before every teachers in-
/ stitute in the state during the summer.
The AtchisOn Globe has undertaken
/ to raise funds to erect a monument to
! ex-Gov. John A. Martin in Atchison.
/ A subscription list has been opened.
and it is believed that 1000 families in
/ Atchison alone will subscribe 81 each.
] Twentv-six citizens Of Arkansas City
were cited to appear in federal court
! at Topeka and show cause why they
! should not be held in contempt for re-
fusing to pay waterwOrks Judgment
/ Of SIS, 600 in favor Of an Illinois trust
company.
Mrs Mary FenlOn, mother OF Thomas
! P. FenIon, the well-znown democratic
politician. died at Leavenworth, aged
! So. She was the last of a family Of IL
children and herself the mother Of u
/ children. Thomas p. FenlOn alone
surviving.
The topeka school board viii fight
the case brought by Attorney General
! Bowie to compel the use Of the new
textbooks IN the Topeka schools The
/ board declares that the books author
/ lied by the state textbook commission
] are not fit to be placed in the schools
State Superintendent Stryker de
clares that, in the event the legislature
is convened by Gov. Leedy, he will
/ urve a bill extending the state text
/ book law and make 1t cover maps,
charts. desks and school supplies Of
/ every description. At present the law
only covers textbooks
Because their parents objected to
| the company they were keeping two
| RsdfeId girls, Ethel Roach and Gertie
| Emmett. aged IS and %, elOped with
/ two neirhbor boys, Owen and TheO
/ Ramsey, aged 10 and 90 They were
/ found in a St Louis rOOming-hOuse
and brought back home
State Superintendent Stryker viii
Tissue a request that every school pupil
! in Kansas plant 4 tree on Arbor day
/ this wear. Instructions as to how
/ to plant the trees are being prepared
/ and viii be read publicly TO all the pu-
pills IT is expected that over $50. 600
/ trees will be planted that day in Kan
sas.
an open letter to the women OF
! Kansas. Mrs Helen n Cougar urges
/ them to assume charge Of the work Of
erecting monument over the grave OF
/ the late John A. Martin, who, as gov
ernor Of Kansas, advocated, secured
| the passage Of and signed the bill Civ
/ ing women municipal suffrage IN this
I state.
/ The sensational report was in circula-
1 ton at Topeka that during the heat OF
I the big insurance fight State Insurance.
I Commissioner McEsiI was offered go
i 900 at one time and go, OoO at another
| If he would LAY down AID permit the
! companies to do business in Kansas
I without molestation- Both offers, il
I is said, were Indignantly rejected
Eugene H NikeseIl, a jeweler Of Fort
/ Scott. who, with his wife, IS charged
/ with having burned their home TO de-
/ fraud insurance companies, Was SUP
rendered by his bOndsmen and IS in jail
/ Joseph McQuitlE, a brOther-in-laEy,
! was also arrested, charged with arson
] and he confessed that hEikesen tried
/ to hire him 10 burn his house. Mrs.
i MilzeseIl had disappeared
/ The legislative committee appointed
to secure a 8, 600 bust Of ex-Gov- Rob
/ fuson. met at Lawrence reentlE and
/ accepted the bust recently made IN
/ Chicago At the unveiiing Of the bust.
/ on February ., Mr.. Woodward, as
/ chairman Of the commission, viii pre-
| sent Il to the state. Gov Leedy VIII
In turn present It 70 the Kansas uni
/ Tersftv. and Chancellor f II. Snow wiz
i make the speech Of aeeeptance
Three members OF the Salvation
i army at EmDOria were convicted II