The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-12-19
KANSAS NOTES

49, E4tAGls
When the Eureka baseball team dis
banded last week each player was given
g as his share Of the profits for the
season
A man who was bell boy for Gen
eraI Lafayette lives in Wichita. He
came to Kansas with the other hoppers
ia 1873.
William BOOzewelI is the name Of an
old time resident Of the. Paradise valley
who contributes his reconectiOns to
the NatOma Courier.
A Chetopa father and mother issued
a card Of thanks TO the men who res
cued their son, who fell into d WELL
from watery grave.
Sheriff Costigan Of Ottawa has been
sued for $4,000 damages by Bert Car
roll for false Imprisonment Life has
not been one sweet song to Carroll
A man wants bonus to establish an
underwear factory at Hiawatha- It
would do a great deal TO encourage the
cameRs hair industry in Brown county.
Hutchinson is becoming positively
metropolitan. A woman was robbed Of
500 on a train, and a farmer was bun
coed out Of $50 at the depot, both on
the same day.
A woman IN Troy wants a divorce
because her husband, in his violent
moods. kicks the stove about the
house The Lawrence scientists should
make an examination Of those feet
Fifty business men in Winfield have
organized to corner the natural gas
in that immediate section by leasing
all the available land. The next thing
to do is to find some gas.
George E. Nicholson gave s25.OSO
last week to Baker university to endOw
the Florence B. Nicholson chair Of
Philosophy and the English Bible
memorial for his wife.
Did you absorb it?" is a catch line
on Mr. COburn's latest crop report
souvenir Kansas should be given
time to allow the crop to be reduced
to the liquid form.
The case Of Clarence Wise. on trial
in EldoradO for killing BiTney Dunn,
would have great newspaper pOssibili-
ties were it not for Jessie MOrrisOn's
wear and tear on the ElOdTadO date
line.
1t is customary to denOunce street
fakirs, but the Abilene Reflector found
one in that town who deserves credit.
He sold a Bible to an old repTebate who
had struggled along for sixty years
without one.
A Topeka firm which had contract
to furnish the Santa Fe railroad with
watches and clocks has sued for S48,-
$50 for alleged breach of contract The
plaintiff asks to have the Santa Fe
brought to time.
HeckIer has a debating society that
gives promise Of becoming as renowned
as the Lancaster literary society. At
The next meeting the question will be
Resolved. that a good, dirty woman
is better than clean, mean one
Auditor Cole has refused to honor a
S44 bill for embossed stationery or
dered by two judges Of the supreme
court It is a small item, but it will
help to keep the members Of the leg
tslature in pOcket-knives.
Secretary Coburn has found an error
in his crop report He finds the 2O1,-
So. 102 bushels Of corn quoted as worth
50 cents a bushel. when it is really
selling for only 80 cents. But why
bother about an item involving only
20 cents?
a COUNTY, went INTO E1ldM dlLlel
last week with siXty-nine ducks, which
he had killed during the forenoon. And
he wasn't particularly proud Of the
mornings work, either A town sports
man would have been talking about ii
yet
William Allen White has decided
that the Kansas Day clubs supper shall
have rpOrterhOuse steak instead Of the
rresrroT n1-r-rrrA 90 lads and other Hn1Tra-
cies- 1t might be a good idea. too. tC
furnish something more substantial
than is customary in the OratOrical
menu.
They say" muses. the Lane New
Leaf. that when a hungry Indian goes
hunting he kills the first thing he sees
If II is only crow. If he kills a dUcB
he drops the crow. and if he gets q
deer he throws away the duck. Some
girls are regular Indians aren't
they?"
State Treasurer Grimes. who owns
shirt factory. offered to make a few fOl
Congressman BIZ ReedeF Of the
Sixth district Il am q plain, common
farmer" replied Reeder. and the &c
cent kind that I buy in Phillipsburg arr
good enough for me to wear in Wash.
ingtoa. No wonder the Sixth district
IS proud Of Reeder.
Under the headline. Better Class Of
C0nYicts Coming" the Leavenwortl
Times proceeds to rejoice at the better
ment Of the tone Of society at the fed.
eraI prison BootIeggeTs and horse
thieves from Oklahoma viii not be Sc
common. while grafters and smooth
sharks from Wisconsin aud Indiana
zVill be more numerous Congressman
Scott adds that Hell probably has Z
smart set.
"Bm Cash's laugh is one Of tn,
active industries OF Ottawa" the Her.
aid says. Nothing like it is in the
heavens above, the earth below OF tn,
waters under the earth Neither i.
there its equal IN Lawrence or Osawa.
tonic TIE other day Mr. Cash thought
o. coke and laughed Into a phonO
graph The record can only be useJ
- the open country. TO turn a phone
Ea1h loose u town. with BIZ Cashl
1aHsh vorId be e. tear shingles on N.
rrcfs jar -lccse window pares ant
azse nerTous people to jump into IA