The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-11-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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The republican gain Of congressman
in Kansas was greater than in any
other state
Thomas T. Kelley, Of Paola, viii
under George E Cole.
Gov. elect Stanley carried Wichita,
his home town, but was fourth man on
the repu blican ticket Gov. Leedy had
a majority in the county (SedgwiclLl
The remaining members CT the
Twentieth Kansas regiment, Lieut.
Col Little commanding, sailed from
San Francisco for Manila November 8,
on the transport Newport
Judge Theodore C. Sears, who was q
former prominent resident Of Ottawa,
Kan, being a candidate for United
States senator at one time, died re-
Gently at Lakeview, near Tacoma,
Wash.
One Of the first bills to be introduced
IN the legislature viii be to reaPpOr-
tricts by putting Shawnee county back
into the Fourth district. where it was
before 1897.
1t is given out that John SeatOn, Of
AtchisOn, will introduce a resubmis-
sion resolution in the house the day
the new legislature organizes It is
said he viii make his fight Of the ses.
sion for its adoption.
In an election row at Big Springs,
Douglas county, JEFF Farris shot Ed
Duncan in the bowels, fatally wound.
ing him. 1t was the elimination Of an
old neighborhOOd feud. Farris ran
away and has not been captured.
Rev. 2. E. Howell, a travelling evan
gelist Of the Christian church, killed
himself in a hotel at Olathe because
Mrs. Cora Henderson, who had elOped
with him from Warrensburg, Mo, re-
fused TO stay with him longer. Howell
had a wife at Eureka, III.
The prison officials at the state peRi-
Tertiary at Lansing have fitted up a
room in the prison building and start
ed a private school The teacher,
Patrick Curry, is a former school
teacher who is serving a three-yesrs'
sen tence for stealing horse
COffeyville claims to be the home Of
the oldest practicing physician IN the
state Of Kansas, If not in the United
States He is DR.. John P. Wood, who
viii be g years old on the 4th day of
next January, and who has been prac-
ticing medicine continuously for "A
years.
The soldiers Of the Twenty-frst
Kansas volunteers camped on the Fort
Leaven worth reservation, voted in
camp. Two republicans aud one popu-
list acted as judges The enlisted men
had charge Of the election, and all an
officer was allowed to do was to swear
the board in
Some Of Gov. Leedy's political ad-
visers were bringing pressure to bear
upon him to call a special session Of
the legislature at once TO enact a rail-
road law and pass resolutions submit
ting constitutional amendments for
state insurance and state stock yards
10 vote Of the people
It is probable that Morton Albaugh,
editor Of the Kiugman Leader-COurier,
will be Gov. Stanley's private secre-
tary. A1baugh is chairman of the re-
publican state committee. The an
nouncement is also made that Secre-
tary Frank L Brown, Of the commit
tee, viii be handsomely rewarded
James Barlow, living near Marys-
vile, went out into the kitchen Of his
home where his sons wife was work
ing and remarked that he felt as
though he was going to fall over dead.
Scarcely had the words left his lips
when he plunged forward to the floor
and expired before his daughter-in-
law could reach him, a victim of heart
disease.
Kansas will furnish the first colony
of immigrants to settle IN Cuba from
the United States. John T. Keney, a
cOlOred Baptist preacher well known
in Topeka, has made arrangements to
make a settlement of cOlOred people
near Santiago and expects to start
from Topeka with about 30 families in
20 or SO days The new town viii be
called Topeka
Samuel Il Baughman, the school
teacher, who lived at ROssville till the
9th day Of last June and then mysteri-
ously disappeared, has been located in
Richardson county, Neb-, where he is
teaching school Baughman refuses
to return to his wife, who is living
with her father, two miles from Ross
vile. He also refused to give any ex-
PLANTATION Of his strange conduct.
A Wellington man who knows q cy-
clone when he sees one, has invented
a patent stOrmhOuse- When you see a
cyclone coming you get in the house
and touch a trigger, when down goes
the house in the ground In a previously
prepared hole that just fits it. The
house Is fitted with a windlass and a
steel cable with which the occupant
can hoist himself up, house and All,
after the storm has passed
The question as 70 whether or not
the slot machine commonly found in
cigar and other stores is a gambling
device under the Cubbisou law was
decided IN the district court at Lyn-
den The court ruled that, nOtwith-
standing every person got his moneys
worth, there was an incentive that
made IL a game Of chance, and every
person keeping and using such ma
chine maintained a gambling device
and was amenable TO the law
James McCOrd, the wealthy Fort
Scott nan who was thrown from a
buggy and killed, left his entire es-
tate, about s5O0.OOO. 20 his nephew,
Charles HARRISON, his only relative
While Randolph Washington and
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