The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-12-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS

Rood and Mrs. Coleman were reported
70 be fatally injured
THE other day Dewitt and william
Mcdowell, prominent butchers and
stock dealers of Arkansas City. were ar
rested charged with getting away with
81, 600 worth of cattle Some time ago
Beach & EaRin, cett1emen. located in
the Territory. mortgaged their cattle 10
the Arkansas City Bank The McDoD-
ellis are charged with buying the cattle.
smuggling them past the Inspector and
selling them TO Kansas City dealers.
Warranfa were issued for the arrest of
Beach & Fagtn.
The elevator and mills of Thayer &
Gilmore, At lola, burned the other night.
About 3. coo pounds of hour and several
hundred bushels OF wheat and corn were
destroyed The loss was probably
$40, COO; insurance, g, 900.
The Supreme Court has refused to
grant the writ of mandamus applied for
by C e Lobde1l, who demanded certif-
ieate of election for representative
from Lans County. Lobdel based his
claim on q provision of the Constitution
which gives each organized county in
the State casting ESQ votes = represen-
tatiye in the Legislature II Lobden
had been ad mitted seventeen others
elected as delegates would have been
EMIT ed TO the same privilege
WILLIAM MORSE, aged about 20 years,
was found dead in an ice house ut Law
renee the other morning. His skull
was crushed and he had evidently been
murdered for his money. He was from
Iowa and had been visiting son at
Linwood, eight miles east of Lawrence,
who stated that his father was known
to have about S35 in his pocket The
general belief in Lawrence seemed to
be that the old man was murdered by g
crowd of negroes similar to the old
Vinegar gang" three of whom were
hanged by a mob on the Kansas river
bridge eight years ago. Tho murder
was committed in the same locality.
TIE annual convention of the Episco-
pal Church for the diocese of Kansas
was recently held at Topeka. The an
nual address of Bishop Thomas showed
a healthy growth of the church for the
past five years In 1886 there were in
the diocese i36 combinations, 80 clergy
men. 2.219 communicates. with offer
ings amounting 20 IS, 1856 For this year
he showed that there were 43S confirms
lions. 8. 500 communicates and offerings
to the amount of Sc, 400.
JOHN n. IVES, Attorney-General
Is reported as saying that the action of
the State Board of CanVasSeFs in declar-
ing Rood elected to the Legislature
from Marion County over Maxwell by
lot, to settle q tie vote, does not finally
vassers,' said he, sis not authorized to
gamble any man into Office The Com
st tuition plainly says that the candi-
date receiving tho most votes shall be
declared elected 1t makes no provision
for the emergency of a tie vote except
in the case of Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, when il delegates authority
to the Legislature to elect these officers
AS the Legislature has no auth or ty to
elect Representative in case of tie
of two or more candidates. it has no
right to delegate that authority to the
Board of Canvassers." Mr.. Ives holds
that while the Legislature may recog-
n ze Rood's certificate, still it has the
right to declare a vacancy and notify
the Governor to cali a special election
to fill it
JOHN BALDWIN. a Wichita negro. re-
Gently had fight with smaller man
than himself and got whipped. He then
went to his room and shot himself dead
He left note stating that he did not
wish to live whom "a smaller niger
could whip him"
Mrs o. s. DAoEY recently went into
a gambling den at Wichita and do
manded the return of $500 that her hus-
band had just lost at game, and when
it was refused drew q revolver and COM
menced firing at the keeper of the
house, who soon came to terms and
handed her the money.
The American National Bank OF Ar
kansas City has failed
NJ. DEEGAN, an iron worker employed
upon the dome of the State House at
Topeka, stepped upon a loose plank at
| the summit of the dome the other
morning and fell distance OF 100 feet
He was killed instantly. Doegan is the
| eighth man TO lose his life by falling
from the dome.
A BILL. has been introduced into the
Senate of the United States making an
appropriation for the purchase and dis
| trtbutton OF seed to farmers in Kansas
who suffered loss by drought the pas;
year.
MRS. II. !. SHERWOOD, wife of a travel
ing man of Rochester. N. Y. fell down the
elevator shaft OF a hotel at Ark ansas City
the other night and was probably fatal
| " injured.
JACOB McKNIeHr, of Hutchinson, has
been appointed examiner of National
banks by the Comptroller OF the Cur
rency.
COLONEL. NEFTLEFoN and Prot Hay,
of the Agricultural Department at
Washington, wePo recently at Hutchin-
son making Investigations of the sheet
water supply underlying the surface of
Western Kansas with g view to ut liza
ton for irr CATION purposes.
nv EotGE2u from tho soldiers
Home was recently found dead at the
House of q notorious woman of the
town in Leavonworth- An empty whisky
bottle was found by his side. and the in
dieation were that liquor caused hi,
death.
Two boys. W. W. Davis and Franz
Boo. recently attended a turkey shoot
ing near Chanate and had a dispute about
q turkey. The next morning they mel
in the road and renewed the trouble
when Davis threw stone and STRUCK
boo on the head. killing him instant Y
THE other day Fred and Leslie Cas-,
and Floyd Archer, the Oldest OF then
not being over 10 and the youngest
years. attempted to cross the ice on thu
Delaware river at Valley Falls. whel
they broke through and were drowned
The boys were going across the FLYER t,
gather bones. which they intended Il
sell and with the money buy Christmas
presents for their sisters
THE house of Edward Ferris. q eoloreG
Aieh son County farmer. burned tn,
other night and one Of his children per
, iBhed in the flames