The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-10-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Inc department. Com lander OF Kan
sas received a message to the effect that
President Harrison will be at the old
soldiers re union at Topeka
GEORGE ALLEN, aged eighteen wears.
was recently killed at Garden CITY by
his horse falling on him.
The result of the census of the first
supervisors district of Kansas has been
announced The total population of the
district is 81. ass as against e77. 59o ten
years ago; an increase of 90 S92 The
population of eight of the principal
cities and towns of the district is as fol-
lows: Fort Scott IL, s37. increase in ten
years. 6, 465; Burlington, 2. 239, increase,
225; Arkansas City, 1854. increase,
z, 342; Winfield, 5,I47. increase, 9, sos;
Oswego, 9. 523, increase, III; Parsons,
8. 73e. increase, 2. h37; Emporia, 4. $780, i'm
crease, 1910; Independence, 8. l21, in
crease. FOG.
ATcHIsoN is at last to have a public
building. The Secret ary of the Treasury
has advertised for site
THE Railroad Commissioners recently
visited Manhattan to investigate an APP
plication of the citizens for the removal
of the side tracks, switches and depots
of the Union Pacific road from their
present location to another. AS now
placed they are thought to be dangerous
to the public.
STATIsTIcIAN HILTON has obtained Of
fetal statistics. from twenty-one coup-
ties in Eastern Kansas, showing that
since January 4,O6I mortgages have
been recorded, and s. 500 released. II
shows a decrease of the mortgage in
debtedness of these counties OF seven
teen per cent in period of less than
six months. The percentage of de-
crease is greater since May 1. He esti-
mates that the decrease for these coun-
ties will be double for the entire year,
81. 53z, $50. The amount of chattel
mortgages released will probably ex-
coed that of real estate, and January 1,
1891, will see the farmers of Kansas at
least SO, 900, 600 less in debt than last
January.
A MAN who was known as Arthur Fell
ton was recently arrested at Camden,
n. J., who is supposed to be C. A. Ben
son, the murderer of Mrs. Mettman at
Leavenworth.
WHILE several enlisted men belong
ing to the Tenth infantry were recently
out hunting near White Cloud, Private
Reed was accidentally shot by Private
Harrington. Reed received a charge of
shot fired at a quail and lost one eye.
but was not fatally injured
THE President has nominated the fol-
lowing Kansas postmasters: Henry E.
Cowgirl, at Baldwin, Wilson Tiff, at
Weir and Sydney A. Breese, at Cotton
wOO1 rails.
THE arguments in the Rohrer habeas
corpus case, to test the constitutional
ity of the Wilson Original Package law,
was concluded in the United States
court at Topeka the other day Hon.
L. Il Kellogg, Attorney-General and
R. ID. WEIGH, county attorney of Shaw
nee County, appeared in behalf OF the
State. and Hon. David Overmeyer and
Judge u. It. Hazen for the petitioner. The
70 of m Gi
werc very able Two questions were
prominent in the case: First, whe
Congress exceeded its powers in passing
the bill. and second, whether the Pro-
hibitory law of the State was effective
without re-enactment The court took
the case under advisement
In accordance with the act of Congress
creating a board of lady managers of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition, C. K.
Holiday, JE, one of the comm issioners,
has nominated as lady commissioners
from the State of Kansas, Mrs. Jennie
Mitchell, of Kearney County, widow OF
General Robert Mitchell, and as alter
nate, Mrs. b. Blair Lynch, of Leayen-
worth, wife of Frank T. Lynch, editor
of the Leavenworth Standard, and a
daughter of General Charles w. Blair.
THE capture of Benson, who is
charged with the murder of Mrs, Nett
man, of Leavcnworth, has raised Il de-
batable question as to judicial jur;sdic-
ton If the murder vas comm ttcd on
the Fort Leavenworth military reserva-
ton he VIII be tried in the United
| States court and conv C ton will carry
the penalty of death, but IL the case is
tried by the State court the penalty,
while nominally death, is really only
| life imprisonment
THE old people of Kansas had their
inning at the late Kansas City, Mo.
fasr prix off hxr aI
| business houses, and a silk umbrella,
offered to the oldest person from Wyan-
| dotte County (kan- }, was awarded to
Mrs. Harriet B. Havens, aged "a years
and months. A gold-headed cane to
the oldest man from Kansas was award
cd to Mr.. Thompson MCDANIEL, of Sa-
| lima, aged 81 years and months. A
special premium of a gold-headed cane
was awarded to Mr.. Isaiah Moore, of
Kansas City, Kan, age, IA years and
months. A hat to the handsomest man
| who could wear it was given to Mr.
Toms. of Pratt The hat was unusually
large, being ~ in size.
WILLIAM DwYER. a coach washer. was
killed in attempting to board Santa
| Fee train at Argentine the other even
ing. He had started to Kansas City to
attend a lodge meeting of the Select
knights A. o. U; W.. and had on his
uniform at the time of the accident
| He was twenty-five years old.
JOHN YoHER, sixty-two years old, was
recently robbed and murdered in dis
reputable house at Wichita He was a
| stranger in the town and had been
| taken to the place by a man who Of
fered to show him TO a boarding house.
Several inmates of the dive were ar
4 rested
w. w. CLARK, secretary and treasurer
| of the Harper City Milling Company,
committed suicide in his barn the other
morning by shooting himself through
the heart with a revolver. The cause
for the act is thought to be financial
trouble His brother Robert Clark. oil
Augusta, mysteriously disappeared last
December. He leaves widow, his sec
ond wife. whom he married last May,
and daughter aged eight years.
NEWTON has had a number of incen-
diary fires lately.
The census gives Crawford County a
population of "a, $50. an increase of 49,
S92 in ten years Cowley County has
so, 100 inhabitants, an increase of Is, SOC.
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