The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-02-24
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.
a ChAnute man viii start q newsps-


ming factory there.
wellington viii vote on a 500, 900
waterwOrks proposition
L r Jewell, pioneer citizen and
editor Of Arcadia, is dead
The State bank has been started at
CarbOndale- Capital, SO. 600.
EmpOria is agitating the building Of
a new courthouse for Lyon county.
Barton county is out of debt and
$500, 600 are on deposit in her banks.
A Wabaunsee county farmers Ka6r
corn crop averaged 50 bushels to the
acre.
Fort Scott will start a sugar mill
that viii use /, 259, 600 gallons Of water
daily.
Ira Keithly, company D, Twentieth
Kansas, was slightly wounded at
CalOOcan-
a Topeka dispatch said James L.
King would succeed Mrs Annie Diggs
as state Librarian.
An "Old-fashiOned" woman Of jew
ell county has made $50 worth of rag
carpet this winter.
The IS, 900 residence of Thomas Ma
han, of Wichita, burned to the ground
at midnight the other night
Rev. r. A Hoffman, of Lincoln, who
has been Ia the ministry % years,
wants to be chaplain of the state peni-
Tertiary.
The J. K KnOwlin company is feed
ing %, 600 sheep on a ranch near Nick-
ersOn- Thirty-ive men are regularly
employed.
It was announced that Gov Stanley
would appoint John H. Simmons, of
DightOn, 81 Derintendent Of the Hutch
insOn refOrmatOry.
W. Mckee, of Everest, took carbOlie
acid with suicidal intent because, as
he thought his wife was inclined to
hirt with other men.
Douglass county also has a female
deputy sheriff, Miss Lizzie Moore
She was appointed to the office by her
father, the present sheriff
Ex-COngressman John G. Otis was
Pored by a bull on his farm near To-
peka- receiving a dozen wounds that
made his condition critical
The Santa Fe throughout Kansas
viii equip its grade crossings with
electric bells which viii ring a warn
ing upon the approach of d train
At Medicine Lodge, Robert Noel was
convicted Of first degree murder. Last
fall he shot and killed his father-in-
law az Eiowa in a trivial dispute
DR.. Charles Love, who secured money
from Newton citizens by representing
that he was a Red Cross nurse In the
government service, is under arrest.
Mrs Fred Holton, Of Salina, left her
three-year-Old child In the house alone
while she went to visit a neigh Dor.
The child played with fire and when
the mother returned the child was
dead.
Gov. Stanley offered a reward Of
$500 for the conviction Of the murder
er Of Charles A. Sewers, q Wichita
young man, who was found dead on
the railroad tracks near Merriam last
October.
Miss Jennie Jones, a Girard young
lady, committed suicide at her home
at three o'clock in the morning No
cause was known for the awful TRACE
dy- She was to have been married
four days later.
Near Ellis the other day Engineer
Jud Rip0ey opened the window in bis
cab, when in flew a snOwbird with
such terrific speed that Rippev Is now
in the hOspi tai nursing an eve which
may be entirely blinded
State Auditor Cole refused-to pay
the January salaries Of State Grain
Inspector Culver and his 81 deputies,
alleging that the legislature of 1897
never regularly appropriated money
to pay the salaries Of this department
D. a. Afford, of Lawrence. father of
I Z
Mia, autographed Senators Baker and
Harris at Washington, urging their
aid IN having the remains of young
Afford brought back home
This story comes from Burlington:
William Davis, a farmer living south
of here, tasted six days under vow to
not eat until his daughter Belle was
converted. She was converted at
United Brethren revival meeting and
the fast was broken
The municipal government Of the
CITY of Garland was dissolved by Judge
SimOns, of the district court who
Ousted from Office every officer Of the
city from mayor to marshal, on the
ground that the town was illegally
incorporated as a city of the third
class a number Of years ago
Vaudals entered the EmpOria Ave
nue. Baptist church at Wichita and
frightfully mutilated all the furni-
ture, including a fine organ. with an
AK The seats and carpets were hacked
to pieces and every book in the extern
sive library was burned Not satisfied
with their work OF demolition, the
vandals entered the baptistry and
turned on the water, flooding the en-
tire basement
At Hutchinson two young men, John
Gallup and Charles Cook, were rivals
for the hand OF Miss Susie Moore and
she decided that she would bestOw her
affections on the best man. COnse-
ouentIv they met and fought and
GaIluo's skull was fractured Three
DAYS later Miss Susie was arrested, it
being alleged that she was present
during the fight, and she viii be tried
as an accessory to the assault on Gallup
At G5rard a civil war veteran was
examined for a pension and the doc
tors found that his body contained
eight musLzet balls, received In differ
ent battles
By a recent decision Of the state su-
prsme court J. If. Jones. Of Lawrence,
IS awarded seat in the city council
that has been held for - months By