The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-02-17
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

Mitchell and Jewell counties want
new cOurthOuses.
Garrett is now on the long distance
| telephone circuit
I NJ YOst's home, the finest IN Hays
City, was destroyed by fire
! s O. Spencer, newly-appOinted coal
oil inspector, is a native Kansan.
The Hiawatha Democrat urges Sen
ator W. A. Harris for PRESIDENT in 1900.
Fifteen carloads OF Montgomery
county cotton were shipped recently to
japan.
The legislature will pass a law Civ
I ing Bourbon county the right to build
Ia high school
Aunt Dizzy Dibbs aged 50. who
lived alone at Shawnee, was found
frozen to death.
C. H Ridgway, of Ottawa, viii be
| assistant under State Insurance SUI
/ Perintendent Church.
Ex-AttOrney General Dawes is the
recognized repu blican leader in the
lower house of the legislature.
/ On the coolest day last week the
! Dunkards cut the ice in Crooked creek,
- miles northeast Of Burlings On, and
/ immersed six converts
| Mrs. Sydney Burroughs. OF Kansas
City, Kan, was nabbed by Uncle Sans
5leuths on the charge of sending Oh
scene literature through the mails
/ While working on the new court
I house at Paola, c. z Beaman was per-
haps fatally injured by a huge iron
vault door falling on him and pinning
I him to the floor.
/ Eugene T. Ware, the Topeka lawyer
! poet, suggests a bronze tablet to the
/ memory Of Lieut.. Afford, killed In bat
/ tie at Manila, 20 be placed in Univer-
I sity hall at Lawrence
/ The house passed a bill appropri-
7 ating $50, 600 for a government build
/ ing at Kansas City, Kan. The sum Of
E $50, 600 was voted to enlarging the gov
eminent building at Topeka.
3 A Washington dispatch said il was
/ exceedingly doubtful whether the ap-
| preparations for public buildings at
/ Kansas City and Topeka would get
I through this session OF congress
/ A clerk of the district court in a
/ western Kansas county makes 500 a
year out of his Office, and business is
4 50 light that he personally tills large
farm near the county seat, devoting
but two hours day TO his Office.
/ President Taylor, of the Kansas state
normal, received word that his new
: book, The Study Of the Child, E" had
been adopted as the professional book
of the Illinois State Teachers Reading
Circle, composed of 80. 900 teachers
3 Col. Fred Funston cabled from Ma
Mia 10 Gov. Stanley recommending
+ that Second Lieutenant ShOwalter,
/ Of company 3, Twentieth Kansas. be
/ promoted TO fill the vacancy caused by
| the death of First Lieutenant Afford.
Peter Hammerly, the Miltonvale
! iOintisJ who last fall shot into a com
pany of temperance crusaders, who
were entering his place, and severely
wOunding the editor of the MiltOnvale
Press, has been found guilty OF as
sauIt.
Mrs. Harriet Mealer, a prominent
society woman Of Lacrosse, was ar
rested by a government official for draw
ing a widows pension while the wife
Of another man. She kept the facts
concealed even from the immediate
mem bers of her family.
John Krebs, OF Junction CITY, whose
divorced wife was recently sent to the
. penitentiary for numbering Mrs. Liz
zie Craig, his housekeeper, has been
arrested on the charge of adultery.
/ Kre bs and the Craig woman lived alone
in his home for months.
! The state camp Modern WOodmeu
/ Of America, met at Topeka and elected
( D. c. TillOtsOn, of Topeka, state con-
sui; p g. Cnubbic, Of BelOit. state
{ clerk and J. n. DOYLE, of Belleville,
state advisor. Wichita was selected
for next meeting Of the state camp
I 1t is said the oil inspectors Office in
: Kansas pays SI5, 900 a year. a bill
prepared bv State Auditor Cole has
F. been introduced which places the oil
/ inspector and his deputies on salaries
and requires that every cent collected
by them be turned into the state treas
ury.
While the thermometer registered 20
I degrees below zero the other night a
big fire broke out in Lexington and
but for the heroic work Of firemen the
/ town would have been almost wiped
out As il was, the Hotel Lexington
. and five business houses We're dc
stroyed, causing a loss Of neary $780,
600.
dustrv. created BY the extra session
Of the legislature. met in Topeka and
/ organized by electing Joseph 8IcGrath,
I Kansas CITY, president and w H L
johnson. the present labor commits
sioner, as secretary This practically
makes Johnson labor commissioner
for two more years
The spirit Of patriotism which has
| nervaded the Kansas legislature re
suited In the unanimous passage OF
/ Fairchild's general bill removing the
{ disabilities of all ez-confederates in
the state There is q provision of the
constitution which prevents the
removal Of these disabilities except
uuon the request OF the person
I affected As this bill IS general IN
( character, and was not asked Tor By
the confederate veterans Of the state,
lit is claimed It VIII not stand In the
( courts
! Charles Roberts, a farmer living Eve
miles west Of CofEevvilIe. undertook to
F thayv out some dynamite bv placing il
on a stove Result: Roberts, his vile
and child and a negro hired man were
killed
4 Several hundred Germans OF Harvey