The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-05-26
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.

Narka, Republic county planted SoU
shade trees along the streets
State Treasurer Grimes has an inter
est In a zinc mine at YelIviIle, Ark
Lieut.. Col Little is being mentioned
for governor on the pOPulist ticket.
Nineteen walnut logs that weighed
80, 600 pounds were shipped from Eure-
ka TO England
Geary cOunty's $50, 600 four per cent
2O-year courthouse bonds sold at a
premium Of SLIGO
A military academy for the training
Of young Kansas soldiers may be erect
ed at LeayenwOrth-
The state textbook commission viii
recommend that agriculture be taught
IN the public schools.
Mcpherson county commissioners let
contracts for four new iron bridges
across streams In that county.
Great crowds Of sympathizing friends
attended the funeral Of the wife Of
Capt Fred Buchan at Lawrence
Nellie Moore, a Wichita school girl,
was attacked by two vicious bulldogs
and seriously bitten about the face
Lawrence viii begin a system Of
brick paving, which viii necessitate
the building Of a vitrihed brick plant
there.
Attorney General GODDARD received
'-tiP'' that the lumber dealers Of Kan
sas had entered into a combine to TX
prices
The total mineral output Of Kansas
for 1898 was valued at S27, 169s 900, an
increase over the previous year Of over
a million dollars.
Rev. and Mrs Samuel Price cele-
brated their golden wedding annivsr-
sary at Wellington. Rev. Price Is a
pioneer Methodist preacher.
Senator Baker says he wants the vol
unteers Of the Twentieth Kansas to de-
eide by ballot what city in the state
they prefer to be mustered out at.
W. II. Sweet, Of EudOra, who sued
his business partner, III. V. Carr, for
SO, 600 for alternating his wffe's affec-
tons, was awarded 81 by the jury.
The big wooden trestIe on the Mis-
souri, Pacific in eastern Butler county
caught fire and 100 feet Of it burned.
The trestle Is 400 feet long and 20 feet
high.
The state board Of charities reduced
the salary Of H J. Hill, steward of the
Olathe deaf and dumb school, SIS per
month. Mr.. Hill is Gov. SANKEY'S
father-in-Iaw.
Farmer BaracAman, Of Elk county,
owns a four-year-Old COW that has had
five calves, four Of them being dropped
the past II months and all Of them are
living and thriving.
The laying of the cornerstone Of
Kansas City's 500, 900 high school
building was attended by great crowds.
Gov. Stanley was one OF the speakers
1t viii be the finest school building in
Kansas.
FOrty-fOur years ago J. B. McAfee,
now Of Topeka, founded the Leaven-
worth collegiate institute, which was
the first school in the Kansas territory.
a year later the border ruffians de-
strOyed it.
g. G. Gage, a Topeka banker, who
had lived in Kansas since 1889, died on
the 10Th Three years ago he built in
Topeka a SO, 900 monument in memory
OF the union soldiers who fell at Viii
son Creek, Mo.
The golden wedding anniversary OF
Mr.. and Mrs Isaac Rudy, Of Olathe,
was celebrated in the Congregation
church there Ex-Goy. St. John, on
behalf Of citizens, presented the aged
couple a substantial token.
The Metropolitan Lite Insurance
company, Of New York, brought suit
against superintendent Of Insur-
ance Webb McNaII 10 recover S1,3O6
which 1t claims he wrOngfully collected
from IT while he was in Office.
Mrs. J. ReasOner, Of Reserve, has
suggested that a popular subscription
be raised to buy each member Of the
Twentieth Kansas regiment a sun
flower medal to be given him upon the
return Of the regiment from the Phil
ippines-
Gov. Stanley finally decided to give
the $500 reward offered for the muir
derer Of John s. Collins, Of Topeka, &c
Sheriff Cook, who viii divide it with
Detectives Harbaugh and Wood Chief
Of Police Steele, Of Topeka, also claimed
the reward.
Mrs. Fannie Hubbard, widow Of a
former Santa Fe conductor at Nicker-
son. committed suicide IN a Kansas
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form Her husband left her cOnsidera-
bic money, but in recent years she had
taken TO drinking and ran through
with all Of it.
The Is-mOnths-old girl Of E B.
Steele was run over and killed by
Frisco passenger train near SedgTicls /
while the mother and father looked on. I
The baby erawled through a wire fence
onto the track and when the train came
up unnOticed the parents could not get
through the fence IN time to save the I
child's life
7. J. CASTOR, a schOOl-teacher at Lib /
erty, was awarded judgment for SIS
600 against the Frisco railroad for be !
ing put OF a train near Wichita two
years ago When put OF CASTOR had . /
ticket over the Santa Fe, but he claimed /
be had asked for a Frisco ticket sn6 /
that the cOmpany's agent had made 6 |
mistake and gave him the wrong ticket !
WetmOre struck gas at q depth Of Ia
feet.
A Sabetha man sold his trottinq /
horse, Capt Cafrey, % for s., 600.
Capt E II. Nisner, OF Dodge City. /
vas appointed assistant superintendent /
81 the Topeka reform school
The hfo-h school rrunozif7or7 v-as d.