The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-12-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| jured by beng struck by q Missouri
/ Pacific engine
I LEWIS JONES, colored, was instantly
killed and Edward McConI ley fatally in
| jured by q train on the Santa Fe road
| near Turner the other morning. The
men were employed as track men at
| Turner and while at work on the tracks
an Olathe passenger train came around
| curve at q great speed and struck
| Jones before he could get of the track
throwing his body against MeConley
with such violence as 30 produce fatal
injuries
FRANK MARRIorrFs was recently gave
| E sentence of thirty days in iail at
Topeka for stealing an OyercOat from
| the Y NJ c A rooms in that city. He
| came to Topeka from San Francisco
| about two years ago de said that when
| he left San Francisco q check was given
| him which would supply his wants
while he lived. and produced a slip OF
| paper upon which were written the
words My God Shall Supply all Your
| Needs" He was an enthusiastic mem
| Der OF the Y. NJ &c. A
A DEAL was resently made by Which
the Gould interests obtain possession
o the Pennsylvania & Sew York salt
pl ants of South Hutchinson These
ara among the largest plants in Kansas
In addition to this psIrchase it is under
stoo that Mr.. Gould has option on
100 acres of salt lanils adjacent to the
city.
SEcRsTARY MoHL Err. of the State
Board OF AgricultuI @ has received re-
ports that the Hessia d. is doing con-
siderable damage to wheat he has re-
quested Prof Snow, of the State Uni
Versity, TO inyestigst q the matter and
report as soon as Ps 'ssible- The fly is
said to have appeared in all sections OF
the State, and is esp scially bad in the
wheat soWn early.
THE School Fund CO .mmissioners have
I purchased $50, 600 boz DIS for the perma-
n emit school fund This purchase in
ii uded $50 600 isSuetl by the city OF
~. ellington for q new school building.
Tn State Treasurer has received from
the United States Treasury q draft for
$780, O67. 81, being five per cent OF the
salea of public lands within the State
The amount goes into the permanent
school fund of the State.
WILLIAM E ALBRlGuT, about 2S years
of aga. committed suicide the other
evening near Eudora by taking NOR
phine. He was in comfortable circum-
stances and was engaged to be married
to the daugh ter of Il farmer with whom
he lived.
AT a recent country da nee in COwley
C, ,unty A Isaacs fired five shots at an
Oh ler man, missing him, but shooting
iva young women in the lower limbs.
4 LATE fro at Broot1Ilie destroyed
sevaral business houses including the
A 81 ALL colony recently camped near
Arkans as City for the pur pose of NOV
ing int, the Cherokee Strip as soon as
they ma legally do so.
TnE & ,vernor has issued call for
special q ection, December 80, in the
TbiTty-seA ,ond Senatorial district, COM
prising ca 'ud and Republic CouH ties, TO
fill the vacancy caused by the suicide
of SenSoOr e. E Swearington-s
G. II. Rood, Republican, and E w.
Maxwell, Al lance. received an equal
number CT votes for mem ber of the
| Legislature fAom Marion County at the
| recent elect ION. and, accoroin to law,
! the matter 1ras de terminod by lot by
the State of.cer9 on the Sd at Topeka
Mr.. Rood drew tho prize and was COM
missioned accordingly.
LETTERS lately received at Topeka
| from West Africa announced the death
on October 20. at ROtai Gnk, of Charles
| L. Helmick. who Nsft Kansas as m g.
sionary to the Souttau early last spring.
A NEW organiza lion is reported to
be forming in the West which may
| in some localities i'ake the place OF
| the Farmers Alliance e. The members
arc known as the Knights elt Reciprocity.
and tho first lodge was OEyanized a few
| weeks ago at Garden City. 1t is un-
| derstood that about a dozen lodges
have since been instituted in Congress
man Peters district, alsd that the Or
der is rapidly extending.
JOHN Cox, a citizen of / sawlins County,
was recently in Atchison soliciting con-
trfGutioHs of food, money and clothing
for TIE distressed inhabit ants. He said
the people of that section have neither
food nor clothing. Humid reds OF people
have left the county; others are unable
to get away. In his township there
were polled last year 1874 VOTES; this
year the number was reduced to ga votes
ONE farmer near Meriden has re-
,,g,,,
disease similar to it Many Oths'r farm
ers had also lost a number of he gs with
the same disease.
THE cash receipts Of the Sta to peni
Tertiary for the month of November
| were Si1, Os5, and the expenses WerS
SIG, 500. The receipts from couvic iabOl
were So 1898. % and from the sale e'f Goa
81, 1888. GO,
BUEaLARs blew open the safe in the
post-office at Farlinville tive othar night
and secured 500 in money and $50 II
stamps
Isaac VAN BRUNT. who had been on
trial in the district court at Newton fol
the murder of George Broer, Harvey
County farmer. was found guilty o.
murder in the first degree.
TOPEKA reached it's thirty-sixth tSrth
day on the 5tb. a number of the old
settlers celebrated the event with &
banquet
, FRANK DANFoRD, a switehman, was
| a mlSSOuFl oABAAS g.
Atchison the other night and trightfullN
mangIed about the head and shoulders
, JOHN n. IVES, Attorney-General-ele
has appointed George w, Clark, of
, Lyons as his first assistant Mr.. Clark
, was probate judge of Lyons County,
, for two terms, and was postmaster
under Cleveland. He is a staunch
. Democrat, but his appointment is
. | not Objectionable to the Republicans
: Tho salary of the FIRST Assistant AttOr-
ney-General is 81. 500 year.
TIE other day Miss Mamie GaTrstt
was thrown from her carriage ct
Lawrence and received injuries which
| might prove fatal
/ NEWTON McBETH. switchman in the
Rock Islands yards, at Topeka, was
, killed while at work the other morning
ALBEIT HoRCooP, of Mcpherson
: County, was recently driving a fractions