The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-04-21
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

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Of Hiawatha, Is dead.
Editor J. NJ Mickey, Of the Usage
City Free Press, was elected clerk Of
the court Of vista ton.
State Labor Commissioner johnson
says the factories in Kansas are in q
bad sanitary condition
The earnings of the Kansas peniten-
tiary for March were SIG, 41O.s7 and
the expenditures So, 66LT5.
John 7. Blake, who was captain Of
the Sixth Kansas cavalry in the union
army, died at Kansas City, No
George Wiley, member Of the legis-
lature from Meade county, IS the new
fish warden The place pays 81,
per year.
The annual meeting Of the State
County School Superin tendent IS assO-
citation Will be held at Hutchinson
May &c and Il.
TIE banks Of jefferson county have
on deposit, subject to check, 81, 49,
COS p, or sos. 50 for each man, woman
and child IN the county.
The supreme court decided that a
district judge cannot sit in the trial Of
a case where he was formerly the at
tCrney for one side or the other.
Albert Maduska, a LeavenwOrth high
school boy, was appointed to cadet
ship at West Point upon recommends
ton Of Congressman w. J. Bailey.
The remains of Private Charles
Pratt, of company II, who was the
first Kansan to fall at Manila, viii be
shipped to his sister in Clay Center.
The ffty-fOurth annual meeting Of
the general association Of COngrega-
tiOnal churches and ministers of Kan
sas viii be held in Topeka on May 11-l5.
The First Congregational church at
Leavenworth, one of the finest in Kan
sas, was damaged s., 600 by fire. The
fine library was completely destroyed
Henry Gray, a Methodist ''evangel-
ist," was arrested while conducting a
revival meeting at Wamego. He had
forged a check on a Manhattan bank.
Joseph Simeon, a war veteran, was
found dead in his bed at Yates Center
the other morning. His bedfellOw
awo1e to find himself sleeping with a
corpse
Lieut. Harry Seeker, Of company c,
Twentieth Kansas, arrived at his home
in LeaEenwOrth from Manila, having
been hOnOrably discharged on account
of physical disability.
On a recent meeting night an A. o.
Z. w. lodge at Winfield initiated 239
mem bers, which is said to be the
largest number ever initiated by any
one lodge in the state Of Kansas
A Leavenworth dispatch said that
Gov. Stanley had persuaded Warden
Lands, of the state penitentiary, to
resign. ]. B TOmlinsOn, of Minneap-
oils, is slated for the wardenship.
A diminutive cyclone struck the
suburbs Of Ottawa on the afternoon Of
the 18th, picking up small buildings
and unrOOfing dwellings. lifted and
disappeared before doing serious in
jury.
The Christian church Of Abilene
called h. Y. Scholes to be permanent
pastor. Mr.. SchOles is a former cow
boy and led the cowboy band Of Wood
bine for GiIIett He has been preach
ing since Gillett's failure
The fOrty-6rst annual commence
ment exercises for Baker university
viii perhaps be the most notable in
its long history. It begins with an
Epworth league training school which
con tinues from May 10 to %
Charles Griffin, of Lawrence, a grad
nate Of the state university, who has
been studying at Harvard recently, has
been offered the position Of lecturer
on economics in the university Of ia
pan, at Toxic, at $4,000 por year.
Three well-dressed strangers, one
wearing a soldiers uniform, robbed q
store and the post Office at Devon,
Bourbon county. They were tracked
to Fort Scott and. after an exciting
chase, captured. They refused to re-
veal their identity.
NOrtouviIle has 4 prodigy in Charley
Hummel, aged IA, who weighs 30
pounds and who weighed 196 pounds
before he was 13 Although so heavy,
the boy has never known days sick
ness and can keep up with his mates
in all athletic sports.
When company 3, Twenty-third
Kansas, reached Lawrence after being
mustered out, the boys were met at
the depot BY a band, the G. A. R posts
and several hundred people. The
black soldiers were then escorted to
hall and given a reception and ban
ouet
The Lanyon Zine company, capital
lied at SIS, 600, 900, is doing business in
Kansas without a charter and there
fore has no standing in the courts and
could not collect q debt Under the
Bush law the company must pay In
cash 20 per cent Of its capital stock,
or S597, 600, before 1t can he chartered
This it has not done
The Kansas Women's Press assOeia-
tons annual meeting was held in To-
peka last week Mrs ollie Royce, Of
Phillipsburg. was elected president;
Mrs Minnie Morgan, Of Cottonwood
Falls, vice president and Mrs FrOvv,
Of Ottawa, secretary Several very in
teresting papers were read and dis
cussed. The ladies. were given a fine
banquet.
A letter from Lieut. Col Ed c. Lit
tie, Of the Twentieth Kansas, said he
had recovered from his accident tai
wound and reported for duty February
81
In the state university oratorical
contest O. J. Lane, T. II Brady znd
franklin Baker were chosen 70 repre-
sent Kansas in the ANIMAL debate with
the university Of Nebraska
Dr. J. IL Mills. a Willams0urg
druggist, was in jail at Ottawa for