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KANSAS STATE NEWS. John W. Breidenthal is a senatorial candidate. J. C. Morrill, hardware dealer, Pittsburg, failed. Nortl west Kansas horses are dying off fast from a mysterious disease. Ed C. Little of Abilene is Governor Leedy's private secretary. Hutchinson is getting up a charity ball. About 10,000 head of Indian Territory cattle will be fed at Herington this winter. The Rev. Mr. Tarbill of Abilene has been appointed superintendent of Methodist missions in Wyoming. The wife of President-elect McKinley and Mrs. E. A. Mize of Atchison were schoolmates at Delhi, N. Y. A large number of elevators along the Central branch have been shut down because of the scarcity of cars. The demand for Secretary Coburn's report on COW culture is greater than the supply. Cattlemen say the report is a good thing. Superintendent Faulkner of the Orphans' home at Atchison will accept to similar position at the Washburn Orphans' home at Minneapolis, Minn. Ship your Butter, Eggs, Poultry and Game direct to Frank Hyde & Co., 114 East Fourth street Kansas City, Mo. Prompt returns guaranteed. Write for regular weekly quotations and tags. People who are disposed to take a discouraging view of next season's fruit crop have possibly overlooked the marriage of Sadie Appleton and Alfred Plumtree at Cottonwood Falls last week. John Rogers, who has just been elected governor of Washington on the Populist ticket, was formerly a county commissioner in Harvey county, and later lived in Ness county. W. H. Morris, state auditor-elect, has selected W. E. Topping, of Cherokee county, for one of his clerks. Topping was a clerk in the auditor's office during the administration of Van B. Prather. Secretary of State-elect W. E. Bush has selected C. M. Ross of Jewell county for his first assistant. J. C. Sturtevant, who defeated Joe Sibley for congress in one of the Pennsylvania districts, is president of the Merchants' bank at Hill City, and owns a large body of real estate in Graham county. The Topeka Commercial club has are ranged for a public reception to the new Populist state officers to take place the week of their inauguration. The time for annual meetings is coming rapidly. One of the earliest is the Kansas Poultry association which will be held for five days, January 4 to 9. Cy Leland, who runs a general merchandise store at Troy, is said to have had an advertisement in every issue of the Troy Chief for over twenty years. Logan county bank of Russell Springs has gone out of business, leaving only 388 state banks in Kansas, against 460 in 1891 and 115 national banks instead of 136 as five years ago. Mande McDonald, Fort Scott, still lives after taking embalming fluid, hair dye and two doses of strychnine. The doctors pumped her out each time but she vows she will make it yet. George Callahan and Chester Miller found a horse on a Santa Fe trestle, near Abilene, and notified the company in time to avoid a wreck. The company has rewarded them by giving Callahan a pass good for life and Miller one for SIX months. Mrs. Minnie Hatch of near Oberlin committed suicide by shooting; cause, family quarrels. Oakley township, Logan county, made a bid for distinction by electing a lady for constable. Her name is Carrie Fields. An effort will be made this winter to have the Legislature pass a game law which will stick. The Murdock law is BO flagrantly bad that county attorneys refuse to prosecute under it. William J. Stewart of Glasgow, Scotland, wants to start a sugar factory in Kansas, and has written to Secretary Edwards about a location. The taxpayers of Cowley county are greatly excited over a demand made on the board of county commissioners by E. P. Greer for a commission of $15,000 for negotiating the sale of $100,000 refunding bonds to the state school fund commissioners. Sam Riggs of Lawrence has determined to contest the election of C. A. Smart, who has been issued the certificate as judge of the district composed of Anderson, Franklin and Douglas counties. On the face of the returns Smart had thirty-nine majority, but Riggs claims that he can show his own election through votes which were illegally thrown out in Douglas county. The contest will be determined by the state senate, which is the only tribunal qualified to hear judicial contests. State Senator A. G. Forney of Sumner county proposes railroad legislation in the form of a maximum freight rate bill similar to the Iowa law. He has examined freight rate laws of all the states which have them and believes that the Iowa statute is the best. He probably will introduce the measure in the senate. Thomas R. Bayne, a successful farmer and stock raiser, who lived near Williamstown, in Jefferson