The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-09-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS

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Texas fever broke Out in city herd
Of cattle at Wellington
The Twenty-secOnd Kansas boys are
camped at MiddletOwn, Pa
AtchisOn republicans renominsJed
John SeatOn for the legislature
Arkansas City will vote S95, 900 bonds
to purchase the waterwOrlzs plant
d. BOwersOek viii put the Law
renee iron works into operation again.
The citizens bank, of Mcpherson,
/ has been burned out twice since July 1.
] A Washington dispatch said the
! Twenty-SecOnd Kansas would be mus
/ tered out
] An electric street railway viii be
/ built IN Lawrence to supplant the
! present mule car system.
! There are los, 5S3 pensioners on the
Topeka agency roll and they were
! paid SIS, 594, 926 last year
State Coal Oil Inspector Wharton
/ turned SI541O into the treasury, the
| surplus revenues from his Office during
July
The democratic state committee viii
/ open headquarters at Topeka and
render all possible aid to the fusion
! ticket
Charles Lobdell, ex-speaker OF the
/ house, has charge of the bureau of
/ speakers for the republican state cam
/ paign-
The state board of health will try to
| suppress AsbeIFs mill pond at ChetOpa,
on the ground that it is dangerous to
health.
DIX. Pearson, Of Chicago, offers to
| give $50, 600 to the Congregational col
/ lege at Wichita If others will give
$50, 900.
Newt Bridgeman, of Wichita, has
/ been appointed to a s., 500 position in
/ the commissary department Of the
army in Porto Rico.
Jacob Fry and his sister, Mrs.
I Oswald, living near Yates Center, are
heirs to $50, 600 through the death of
Philadelphia uncle.
Two farmers at IesstOn killed 10
/ head Of horses that had been quaran-
l tined for CHAMBERS, to remove all pos
/ sibility Of further contagiOn.
| The EmpOria school board and city
I council are in a clash over a sehOOl-tax
/ levy, and the courts have been ap-
/ Pealed to to settle the matter
For some unaccountabie reason Con
| cOrdia, this state, is said by the wealth
er bureau to be the hottest place in
/ the United States, outside the desert
region
y. Henderson, a black nego barber
at Fort Scott, aged so, is in Jail
I charged with unHamable crime
| against Josie Collins, a I3-year-Old
white girl
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I Col a 5. johnson, of Topeka, who
first saw the light Of day at Shawnee
/ Mission Johnson county was named
for his father.
Lieut. Henry Lamb, Of the Twenty
second Kansas, died Of typhoid fever
| in a hospital near Washington. His
home was in Parsons and he was iden-
tilted with the Eclipse newspaper.
a sensation was created in AtchisOn
religious circles when Rev. S. v
Leech, pastor of 2 leading Methodist
church, was forced to resign for indis-
creetly kissing a young lady Of his
flock.
The Twenty-third Kansas (colored)
battalion was given \ great ovation
when IL Left Topeka for Santiago.
Gov Leedy said the behavior Of the
cOlOred troops during their stay at To-
peba was very creditable-
Ben C. Rich, who figured prOmi-
nently as chief clerk of the DunsmOre
house In 1898, died recently at Wa
Keeney, and was buried by the masOns-
For several years he had been a pOpu-
list leader in western Kansas politics.
James a. Young, a quartermaster of
the Twentieth Kansas, who was con-
vieted Of embezzling government prop
erty, was sentenced to one years i'm
prisOnment in addition to being dis
hOnOrably discharged from the service,
with forfeiture of ali pay.
At Hutchinson, a divorce suit was
prevented suddenly In 4 peculiar man
ner Under Sheriff Metz went to the
room Of II. 3 LOOMS TO serve papers
on him in an action for divorce
brought by Mrs LOOMS As the sher-
If entered the door LOOMS gasped and
died.
The Union Pacific railroad must put
on war stamps in every county where
its big mortgage executed July is re-
corded. It takes over s., COO in stamps
IN each county the Kansas branch of
the road runs through and will require
the payment Of So, 600 in this state
alone
When Farmer Seekamp, Of Sedgwick
county, went TO Wichita recently to
get an abstract of his property he
found that a mortgage Of 81, 200 had
been placed upon it BY c. R Cross, a
stranger Seekamp easily proved IL
forgery and Judge Dale set the mort
gage aside
Alois Schmidt, aged y, living near
EIbi1g, Butler county, was leaning
over the muzzle Of his shotgun, which
was cooked, when a child pulled the
trigger Schmidt's hand was torn OF.
his chin mangled. his upper lip and
nose torn OF, one eye destroyed and
the other nearly ruined. Fragments
OF his false teeth were forced through
the roof Of The mouth AID imbedded in
the skull
New teachers at the Kansas normal
school at EmPOria were selected as
follows W \ Picken, lola, assistant
in history; F-B Abbott, Boston, man