The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-01-25
STATE news PARAeRAPHED.

At a recent 1LarysviIIe wedding the
age Of Mr.. January was 50, as against
but IS for Mss Nay.
At the spring election Wichita win
vote on q proposition for municipal
ownership Of water works
Assistant Attorney General West
has drawn for the governor bill to
fix q tuition fee for the several higher
state educational institutions, Z SO
from resident pupils and s25 for non
residents Tt Is estimated that the
charge viii raise 100000 a year.
George Karlskint. a weI-to-do farm
er near Fort Scott, has been sued
for S., 900 damages for breach Of
promise by Alma Moore, his house
keeper, who alleges that in April,
1899, he contracted to marry her and
then refused to enter into marriage
relations.
Andrew Clark, stockman Of
Wheaton, POttawatomie county, took
a load Of cattle to Kansas City last
November, receiving s., $50 for them.
All but $50 Of this he sent back to
the Wheaton bank, but Clark dis
appeared and has not been seen or
heard from since.
A recent story from Wichita read:
1t is understood that the two votes
east for David Leahy for United States
senator in Topeka is a nucleus of an
organization that has for its scheme
the nomination Of John r. Mclean, of
Ohio, as a dark horse for the nominal
ton for president in 1904.
S. Hunter, mayor of Hiawatha, ten
dered his resignation on account Of
his inability to get quorum Of the
council present at its meetings A
big revival meeting was in progress at
Hiawatha and the councilmen, as well
as everybody else, attended the meet
ings instead Of going to council meet
ings.
Petitions have been received by the
members of the Kansas delegation in
congress from negroes in this state
who want to be considered in the or
ganizatiOn of the army. They ask
that in the new army four regiments
Of negroes be organized, and that in
these regiments the officers from col
Onel down shall be cOlored men.
". =. Townsend, the Leavenworth
negro attorney, who went to Atchi-
son Immediately after the burning of
Alexander, viii probably return to
LeavenwOrth, as the feeling against
him is said to have subsidized. Town
send is said to have made statements
concerning the burning of Alexander
which caused some to threaten him
also.
Haskell Indian institute at Law,
renee is arranging to send a very in
teresting exhibit to the Pan-American
exposition at Buffalo. The exhibits
will consist Of samples of the work
the red boys and girls are taught to
do at the school. The carpenter shop
viii send a small model of the well
known Haskell wagon, complete IN
every detail
One of the interesting bills passed
by the house was by Bowman, of An
dersOn county, providing that the
change of a newspapers name, or the
unavoidable suspension Of the Publi-
cation for not to exceed two weeks
or the change Of place of publication
within the county shall not affect the
validity of advertisements required by
law to be published.
While Cashier Shoemaker, of the
Greenwood county bank at Severy,
was working at his books the other
night, a masked robber entered and
demanded that the safe be opened.
However, Shoemaker could not release
the time lock The robber then ws.nt
about to blow the vault open, but
in this he failed, and relieving the
cashier OF SIS took his departure.
In a Kansas county a candidate at
the recent election took his wife with
him in his country campaign. To an
acquaintance he said that he took
his wife along 50 that he would not
have to sleep with some old hayseed
who hadn't taken bath for a month.
The acquaintance thought it good
joke and repeated the statement, with
the result that the farmers went to
the polls in a solid Phalanx and de-
feated that man.
The senate committee on assess
ment and taxation viii Introduce a bill
to prevent mortgage companies from
taxes in western Kansas. The
method adopted by the companies IS
to let the taxes run for several years,
end then propose a compromise on
a 5O-cent basis. As the counties GEN
orally are in need Of funds, the OFFER
is accepted. 1t is proposed to enact I
d law allowing counties to lease for
grazing purposes lands upon which
taxes are in arrears
Senator Carpenter believes that his |
bin to depOrt nonresident insane PeO-
pie viii become a law. ''The measure /
says Mr.. Carpenter, 'wiII, If adopted,
save the state of Kansas hundreds Of |
thousands of dollars, as fully so per |