The Globe-republican., 1889-12-04

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Value Of Kansas Daily Papers.
The Total value of Kansas daily news
paper plants is S7SS, 800, and the total
value of telegraph franchise $45, 800.
The gross income for the year Of these
papers was s2s2, 1871. The expenses for
the year were as follows: Stock, STA
o67; labor, sass, ITO; postage, $3.50;
power, 1851.
An Insolvent Insurance Company.
D. w. Wilder, Superintendent Of In
surance, has closed up the Topeka In
surance Company which has been in
business for the past three years. He
finds that it has violated laws in many
ways. The two annual statements made
to the Insurance Department, although
sworn to by the officers, are found to be
false in several particulars. This is a
penitentiary offense. Tie company has
over $50, 600 of unpaid losses and is IN
able to pay them.
The Kansas City Union Depot.
Articles of incorporation were filed
with the Secretary of State recently by
the Union Depot Bridge Railway &
Railway Terminal Company of Kansas
City, Mo-, and Kansas City, Kas.; capi-
tai stock, So, 1000, 900. The object is to
provide depot and bridge facilities for
the railroads centering at Kansas City.
The directors are Henry McGraw, Will
lam P. Vanaken, Nicholas McAlpine,
Kansas City, Kas.; William II. Reed,
Robert NJ. Ray, Kansas City, Mo.
Buried in q Cellar.
p. S. COUNT and julius Clarry, while
digging a cellar at Paola, few days
ago, were buried by one of the sides Of
the excavation falling in. When dis
covered both were dead. Each leaves q
family.
The First Train to Cofreyville.
The first train arrived in Coffeyville,
a few days ago, over the Kansas & Ar
kansas Valley railroad, thus formally
opening direct connection over the st.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern por-
ton Of the Missouri Pacific system be-
tween the South and Eastern and West
ern points, Kansas City via Coffeyville
to the South. The new road forms the
connecting link between valua BILE fields
never before accessible to the East,
West and North.
Granted q Pardon.
On recommendation of the State
Board of Pardons, Governor Humphrey
granted pardon to William Hopper, Of
Wabaunsee County, sentenced June fS,
1888, to three years. imprisonment for
assault to kill. The assault was pro-
voked by a quarrel between neighboring
families, and as the offense was not
serious one the sentence was deemed ex-
cessive. Hopper was an Industrious
young married man Of good reputation,
this being the first crime with which his
name has been associated.
Corn for Fuel.
The farmers of the neighborhood of
Hiawatha are burning corn for fuel,
finding it cheaper than coal. Corn is
sold on the farm at 20 cents per bushel,
while the average price of coal delivered
at the farm ranges from 81 to % cents
per bushel. The Farmers Alliance
brought the attention of the farmers to
the relative prices of the two commodi-
ties, and advised that half the corn crop
be used for fuel, thus advancing the
price of the other half, and saving
money in their fuel bills. The farmers
have begun to act on this advice.
Railroads Must be Accommodating.
The State Board of Railroad Commits
sioners has issued its decision in the
matter Of the complaint of the mayor
and council of Pittsburg VS.. the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Kan
sas City, Fort Scott & Memphis rail-
roads. The petition asked for an order
requiring the railroads named to con-
meet their tracks, to enable freight in
carloads to be transferred from one
road to another. The prayer was granted.
Work for Judge Lynch.
While J. Montone, farmer five miles
from Wilset, was absent from home one
night recently, masked men broke into
the house, and selling his wife stripped
her and took her some distance along
lonely road intending to assault her.
BY quick slip she escaped them, and
running reached a neighbours house and
was taken in. The men are being
looked for, and as their victim is hys-
terical, severe measures will be taken
if they are apprehended.
Again Before the State Supreme Court.
Attorney-General Kellogg has filed in
the Supreme Court the papers in the
case of the State of Kansas
VS.. F. w. Fulmker, which prom
Uses to be one Of the most inter-
esting cases which has been brought
before this court for some time. 1t
raises q new question regarding the Pro-
hititory law: whether the shipment of
intoxicating liquors from another State
into Kansas and the sale of these liquors
in the original packages is violation
of the Kansas Prohibitory law. This is
the first time the question has been