The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-09-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

in Kansas City. Mo-. recently wont to
Turner, Wyandotte County, to secure
work. Being successful he started to
walk home along the Santa Fe5sailroad.
He had gone only short distance when
he stepped of one track to AVOID a west,
bound freight train, on to another track.
just in front of an east-boGnd passenger
| train, when the engine struck him and
! his body was hurled beneath the wheels
and literally torn to pieces He was a
single man thirty-eight years old
The last monthly report of Secretary
Mohler, of the State Board of Agricult-
ure, makes a discouraging showing on
corn Only Sc. 4 per cent of the corn
area of the State is worth harvesting.
and the average yield for the State is
but sixteen bushels an acre. The total
corn product is estimated at so, OOO. 600
bushels. This estimate is about 80 per
cent lower than the Secretary's estt-
mate month ago. Nearly all the corn
grown this year is in the eastern third
of the State. All othsr-crop are good.
The wheat product is estimated at %
900, 900 bushels The Secretary SAYS
that on the whole the outlook in Kan
sas is more encouraging than it has
been, and the prospect for a vigorous
and thrifty growth of wheat and rye
during the fall is better than it has
been in many portions of the State for
some years
COOPER HoUFT, a young German, sew
erai months ago forged two checks for
$50 each at Leavenworth and skipped
out He returned few days ago and
paid one of them but had no money 10
pay the other and was arrested and held
for trial.
DISPATCHES were recently received at
Topeka giving an account of the acc.-
| dental killing at Concordia, Mo-, of
Thomas McGrath by W. NJ. Lytle. Both
were residents of Topeka and were trav-
cling with circus Lyle was sitting
in the ticket wagon, and while handling
revolver it was accidentally d.s-
charged, the bullet striking McGrath in
the left side and piercing the heart. He
was a son-in-law of Judge John Guthrie,
| aud leaves a wife and three children.
Reports lately received from all parts
of Kansas show ttat an unusual acreage
of fall wheat will be sown this fall.
The ground is in fine condition. In
Western Kansas, where the corn crop
was failure. farmers are disposing of
stock to purchase seed wheat
THE business houses occupied by j. C.
Smith, +. E. Werntz, T. j. Hopkins, E.
Magrath, j. Kuster and Tapley 81 Son,
at williamsburg were destroyed by fire
the other night The loss to the bust
ness men aggregated $50, 900; partially
insured.
PENSIONS issued to Kansas veterans on
the 18th: George L. Sanders oskaloosa;
Luther f. Purvis, Louisburg; Charles
Hedinger, Strong City; Stephen Burney,
Jetmore; Anthony Curry, Soldiers
Home; Noah Rinc, Burlington; jacob
L. Denneler, Winchester; Washington
L. Jones, South Mound; Bonsley E.
Blake. Tyrone; Levi R. Danfell, Doug
las; Elias High, Iuka; Benedict
Friday. National Military Home;
William A. McKade, Eskridge;
Conrad Englehart, Highland; Frederick
Wiley, Cottonwood Falls; jeremiah z.
Parkburst, Wichita; Mary L. Millikan,
Colony; Mary \. Davis, Cottonwood
Falls; William Il. Jones, Peoria; Will
lam Ii. Cousler, New Albany; Henry A.
Kenworthy, Stock ton; Edward j. O'Don-
nell, Stockton; Aaron Jones, Toledo;
George W. Chalmers, Osawatomie;
Aaron D. Showalter, Colony, and Frank
w Stoneking, Arkansas City.
ANDREW BYsTRoAI, a native of Sweden
and living in Kansas City, Kan, accom-
panied friend to the Union depot at
Kansas City, Mo, the other night and a
short time after was run over by a
switch engine, while walking on the
Rock Island tracks, had both legs cut
off and was otherwise injured He died
in a few hours. He was by trade a
blacksmith liz and had aecumul ted con-
Siderable property.
II is stated that the Union Pacific
road will build grain elevator to cost
half a million dollars at Elmwood, just
opposite St Joseph, Mo. 1t will have
capacity of one million bushels of grain.
SIDNEY o. WAIVER, late postmaster
of Hoxie, was recently arrested in Bur
lington, VT, and taken to Topeka on
the charge of embezzling 81, 200 of Gov
eminent money. Wanzer had for some
time been postmaster at Hoxie and it
was while acting in that capacity that
business negligence brought about
shortage in his accounts.
THE Republicans of the First dist" ct
have nominated Judge Case Broderick
for Congress, and the Democrats of the
same district have no minated Colonel
Thomas Moonlight
THE eleven-year-old son of John
Pacific shops at Ell Dorado, was killed by
a switch engine the other day.
OTIs BARNARD, about eleven years old.
was instantly killed by an 81" road
train near the City Hall in Kansas City.
Kan, the other afternoon. The little
fellow, with several companions, had
just left school. and the boys were run
ming and playing when he ran upon the
track in front of a tran and was
crushed to death.
THE following members-at-large con-
stitute the Democratic State Central
Committee, in addition to those from
the judicial districts: w. C. Jones, of
lola; James w. Orr, of Atchison; ]. Ii.
Andrews, of La Crosse; W. c. Perry, of
Fort Scott; Edward Carroll, of LeaVen-
worth; T. E Leftwicke, of Larned, and
John b. Clifford. of Manhattan, with w.
c. Jones as chairman. The committee
meets at Topeka, September 90
A SPECIAL. committee is making all
arrangements for the G. A R reunion,
which is to be held in Topeka next Octo-
Der. This promises to be the most sue
| cessful reunion ever conducted by the
G. A. R. in the State. The occasion will
| draw about rs, 900 veterans to the city,
many of them being the most prominent
| G. A. r. men in the State.
THE Republican Central Committee
held its first meeting at Topeka on the
18th. The only business of Importance
was the appointment of speakers for the
campaign to be opened in each of the
seven Congressional districts Septem-
| Der 20, when each of the candidates will
speak
THE State Fair opened at Topeka on
| the 10Th and continued eight davs