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There Was $900 in the Bank. State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal returned this moaning from Beile Plaine where there was a bank failure Thursday. An application will be made before District Judge J. A. Burnette for a receiver. C.Z. Persons was the cashier and the debts of the bank were. $19,500. It was capitalized at $15,000. Mr. Breidenthal found $900 in cash in the bank when he arrived. This was unusual.
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Hoxie is to have 8 State irrigation plant. The Bank of Belle Plaine has closed its doors. Bill Hackney is for Foraker for President. Rev. Beer preaches to a congregation at Nickerson. The Syracuse broom factory is doing a good business. Editor Kurtz, of Newton, has been convicted of libel. The Atchison Daily Patriot has suspended publication. The Marion Times (Pop.) is for Judge Caldwell for President. There are twenty-six old soldiers in the Kansas Penitentiary. The St. John Capital is printing the early history of Stafford county. The Iola Register (Rep) calls Challinor a "packing house roustabout." Republican county conventions are not adopting any resolutions this year. Atchison is to have a six-round contest between two local pugilists soon. Pittsburg cigarette dealers pay $300 into the city treasury annually as a license. Jim Simpson, Morrill's Railroad Commissioner, was not in it in Mc, Pherson county. McKinley was the favorite in most all of the Republican county conventions held Saturday. The Lincoln Beacon (Pop.) thinks there is little doubt of Congressman Baker's renomination. Burton don't want the delegates to the national conventions instructed for McKinley or anyone else. The Republican Congressional convention in the Sixth district will be held at Hill City May 12. B. F. Hildebrandt, formerly of the Hiawatha Journal, now has a position on the St. Joseph Herald. The question of whether the herd law shall be enforced is being agitated in many western counties. Abilene people are busily organizing for the purpose of properly caring for the State convention in August. The Lesvenworth Times says Cy Leland is the most "infamous trader and trickster in politics in the State." In the First district Bailey carried Nemaha and Broderick Atchison at the Republican primaries held Friday. Blue promised the people when he was running that he would introduce a free coinage bill. He has not done it. Lieutenant Governor James A. Troutman has announced that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. The Republican Congressional convention in the Third district will be held St. Patrick's day, and Kirkpatrick will be renominated. A colored criminal named Burton who was recently pardoned out of the U.