The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-06-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

WaterTille, with population Of 600,
furnished 10 volunteers for the army.
Dr.. J. Coleman, who died at Cherry
vale. aged 81, was the father Of q
children.
The Kansas building at Omaha VIII
/ be dedicated June - with appropriate
exercises
Pittsburg voters defeated the propO-
sitiOn 10 issue bonds to build a ST5, 600
city hall
The Second congressional district
/ democratic convention viii be held at
lola, June p
J. L BristOw, fourth assistant post
master general, is in Kansas on a visit
to old friends
A company Of s. volunteers was or
gained at Lawrence with David Nc
Clure as captain
Rain fell on Is days in May in Kan
sas, and the rainfall was G. inches, an
unprecedented record
Ralph Ingalls,, a son OF the ex-sen-
atOr, is a major IN the Fifth regiment
Missouri volunteers
All officers and directors Of the Bank
Of Moran, which recently failed, have
been placed under arrest
Junction City and vicinity has two
companies Of volunteers ready to be
mustered IN under the second call
II. A. Heath, Of the Kansas Farmer,
will superintend the Kansas live stock
interests at the Omaha exposition.
The Kaw Valley Fair association
viii reopen Bismarck grove at Law
renee and give this falPs fair there
One Of the exhibits Of the state Of
Kansas at the Omaha exposition is to
be three car loads Of Cancelled farm
mortgages.
Shawnee county democrats viii urge
the nomination Of Eugene Wolfe, OF
Topeka, for lieutenant governor on
the fusion ticket
About half of the statehouse en-
plOyes will work for nothing during
June, the legislatures appropriation
to pay salaries having run short
The gas and electric light plants at
Pittsburg were sold under mortgage to
the National Bank OF Pittsburg for
S92, 500. The bank will operate the
plants
- Rhe -Wenan's Relief Corps and other
loyal ladies of EmpOria have organized
a society collect and ship clothes
and other necessary articles to the sol |
der boys.
Congressman Jerry Simpsons appIi- !
cation to Gov. Leedy for authority to !
raise a regiment was refused, the gov
ernor urging that Simpsons place was
in congress.
Under the second call for troops
Kansas is given only one new battal- /
ion. As it takes three battaliOns to 1
make a regiment, Kansas will not |
furnish any regimental officers
John P. Johnson, a Highland bank /
er, is dead, aged so. He was made a /
government surveyor in 1854 and in /
1857 came to Kansas and established /
the fOrtieth parallel Of latitude.
Samuel R Peters, recently appOin ted /
postmaster at Newton, began public l
life as q judge, then went to congress, |
then a candidate for governor and /
more recently was a candidate for 1
federal Judge.
The Twenty-secOnd Kansas regiment |
arrived at Camp Alger, Va, without /
uniforms or arms There were several \
cases Of measles in the regiment and /
the men so afflicted were sent to a hos
pital in Washington.
Chairman Riddle, Of the pOpulist i
state committee, says Gov Leedy will 4
be renOmiuated with practical unani-
nifty. He says the opposition to the !
governor has been gradually dwin- \
ding for several weeks
Hutchinson is IN the thrOes of a SEN
satiOu over the arrest Of E Q. Clark, a \
lawyer, and Mrs POstlethwaite and \
her two sons for the alleged murder
Of w. c. Boyd, who belonged to a /
highly-respected family.
President Mckinley named the fol-
lowing Kansas pOstmasters: James NJ. |
Chisham, AtchisOn; Edwin Foster, In
dependence; Clarence R AtchisOn, Co
lumbus; Henry L Henderson, lola;
Samuel R Peters, Newton.
J. K. WOodside, aged CO, who died
at Olathe, left his entire estate, s4O,-
600, to the Covenanter church at
Sparta, Ill WOOdside was unmarried /
and lived a miser's life. To his
brothers and sisters, IS. in ali, he be
queathed 81 each.
George II. Evans, a Topeka contract
or, who accused ex-AttOrney General
Dawes and ex-Secretary Of State Ed.
wards Of attempted corruption in con-
nectiOn with statehOuse contracts IN
der the Morrill, administration. has
been arrested for criminal libel
The quota Of Kansas troops under
the second call viii be 600. After the
Twentieth, Twenty-frst and Twenty.
second regiments are filed to the max
imum there viii be only about 600 left,
not enough for regiment This viii
disappOint n number Of gentlemen who
aspired to the cOlonelcy Of the regi-
ment
During a thunderstorm near St
Clere, Jackson county, several bows
took refuge in a barn Lightning
struck the building and Clyde Sum
uer, aged II, was killed. Oscar Gideon,
who was standing next to Sumner, was
knocked down unconscious, his shoes
torn from his feet and his clothing
rent The other boys were stunned,
but escaped unhurt
Kansas has two representatives with
Buffalo Bil's wild west show: Misses
Blanche Mckinney aud Mabel Hack
ney, both OF Haddam- They figure on
the bills IS ''cOwgirIs-o
1t was reported at Topeka that Mrs
Alice Ordway, for II years assistant