The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-04-07
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

Office Of $500 in money and stamps.
f. E Thomas, of Sedalia, No, viii
erect an iron foundry at Cherryvale-
The First Presbyterian church at
Topeka is rounding out 40 years of ez-
istenee-
I'D. Bowersoclz, Of the Second dis
triet, is the richest of the Kansas con-
gressmen-
Gov, Eskridge, Of the EmPOria Re
publican, will erect q newspaper build
ing 5Ox1SO feet
The new mail cars between Newton
and Oklahoma are 60 feet long, lighted
with electricity.
Dr. A. J. Arnold, who was TOpeka's
postmaster during Cleveland's last ad-
ministratiOn, is dead
r. G. Ross, of Olathe, has been ap-
pointed a cattle inspector by the Kan
sas live stock sanitary board
A gang Of horse thieves made several
successful raids about Horton and
managed to elude the officers
Frank SchermerhOrD, of Wilson, at
the age of 81 is said TO be the youngest
Scottish Rite mason in the world.
Railroads have granted a One-fare
rate to the G. A. R and w. R c. state
encampment at Hutchinson April 20
Col. Fred Funston's friends az
Wichita Will urge at once that the
hero Of MalOlOs be made a brigadier
general
Hereafter all insurance companies
in Kansas doing both a life and acci-
dent business must pay two licenses,
State Superintendent Church having
so ruled
It's recorded that a Parsons preacher
refused to accept for his church the
proceeds Of an amateur theatrical per
fOrmance, alleging That the exhibition
was immoral
George P. Wilre, u AtchisOn, picked
out his own cOffiu six months ago and
said he would some time take his own
life. The other day he dropped dead
of heart disease.
W. Y. Church, state insurance super
intendent, refused to license the In
diana State Life Insurance company
on the ground that it issued policies
at reduced rates
1t is claimed that Mrs John h.
Jones and three children, residing
near Reading, Lyon county, are direct
heirs to an estate valued at millions
of dollars in New York city.
4 charter has been granted to the
Kansas City & LeavenwOrth Railway
company, capital 81, OOO, 600, which pro
poses to build an electric line between
LeavenwOrth and Kansas City.
John SeatOu, the Atchison repub-
lican politician, denied that he gave
S1OO toward the support Of Falcon,
the pOpulist judicial candidate in the
a-BrOwn-DOniPhan district.
Lon Richards, viii and Joe Long, Of
Williamsburg, Franklin county, who
went to Oklahoma several months ago,
are under sentence to hang at Still
water, Ok, for murder. All three are
young men.
The Kansas, Oklahoma Central &
Texas is a new railroad company that
proposes to build line from Salina
through the counties of Ellsworth,
Barton, Stafford, Pratt aud Barber,
thence through Oklahoma to DenisOn,
Tex
Col. Fred Funston, in a letter dated
at Manila February IS, and addressed
TO Gov. Stanley, recommended that
Clad Hamilton, Of Topeka, second
lieutenant Of company c, be appointed
to succeed First Lieut. Seeker, re-
signed
The Lanyon Zinc company, capital
S.. 600, 600, applied for a charter to do
business in Kansas It owns two
shelters at lola, one at Pittsburg and
one at La Harpe. 1t also has leases
on many thousands Of acres Of zinc,
lead and natural gas lands in Kansas.
H C. Perry, local agent Of the Fort
Scott & Memphis railroad at Paola,
who died very suddenly of Brights
disease. was one Of the most popular
station agents in Kansas. For ten
years he had not missed day from
his duties and a holiday was unknown
TO him.
The Kansas Democratic Editorial
association, in session at Topeka,
elected these officers: President, ".
B Buck, Winfield; secretary, W p.
Morgan, Lyons; treasurer, John Wat
rOus. Darlington; delegate to National
Editorial convention, l. W. Morgan,
Eureka
John Morton, a tramp, who was
stopping for the night in the Lake
View schOOlhOuse, west Of Lawrence,
built a FIRE which got the better
of him Instead Of giving the alarm
he walked away aud let the building
burn down. Farmers followed and
captured him
At six o'clock the other morning pas
senpers on a north bound Fort Scott
& Memphis train found a tiny girl
baby In a basket on the platform at
Pleasant View, three miles north Of
OIathe- The baby was given 10 Sheriff
Jones, Of Olathe, who Is Gazing for il
and looking for its owner
The Southwest Kansas NJ E confer
ence at EldoradO last week tried Rev.
EASTWOOD, Of Augusta, for alleged
adultery. The principal witness was
Miss Meredith, who had made ''eOn-
fessiOnn duplicating Rev EASTWOOD
After a prOtracted trial Of the case a
committee Of ministers declared Rev.
EASTWOOD not guilty
J. c WOlcOtt, bOOkkeeper for the
defUnet First national bank at Rus
sell, Is under arrest charged with
making false entries in the banks
books
John D. Wells, four times a member
Of the Kansas legislature and q lien
f.---e IN the Ninth Enur1r f7urfrrr ffu.