The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-12-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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I which is now ready for the Governor,
abol shes dozen useless boards: con-
/ solldates half dozen other boarls;
I Fevises the laws regard ling the con-
| troll of the State Normal and Stats
/ Agricultural College, and Hutch n
/ Crawford. the State agent at Wash
| ington; cuts down the numbers of
| local district judges about One-fourth;
/ cuts legal adYertis ng, sheriHs' sales.
/ county ami State printing of all kinds
! so per cent; prov des for tho Australian
/ system of voting, and the election of
/ the State BOlrd of Railway Commits
s'onersi provides that the State furnish
| school boots of Uniform text free:
| oveEhauls the system of taxation and
| assessment and puts it on bona fids
/ basis; cuts down the fees and salaries
OF all county officers, except cOroners
| and commissioners, and cuts into con-
| stables and justices of the peace fees
! 1t is thought this report. il adopted by
the Legislature, will save $500, 600 an
-nually n taxes
c. w. SIMMONS a we'll known livery
man and undertaken. was shot and per-
/ haps fatally wounded by James Neal,
a railway engineer. at Meals home in
| Argentine, shortly after o'clock the
1 other night Neal returned home at
/ that hour, and finding Simmons at his
! house opened FIRE on h m. simmons
ran out the back door of the house and
| was shot after getting in the yard. Neal
| suspected improper relations between
his wife and Simmons. Tho latter de-
/ clared he called to collect bill and was
met by Mrs Neal in her n ghtdress,
! and that the irate husband appeared
upon the scene and commenced shoot
ing without giving him an opportunity
| to make an explanation Neal was ar
rested Simmons has wife and chill
| dren.
NEAR Arkansas City the other day
steer showed symptoms of hydrophob ia
and attacked AMI fatally injured boy.
| George Rock. Another steer also showed
| symptoms and it was necessary to kill
both. These two animals and num-
Der of other cattle were bitten by wolf
which il is supposed was mad
JOSEPH RICKAIAN, of Kansas City,
Kan, recently left for Texas in a wagon
It'll fr end, and when near Fort Scott
the two men were shooting quail and
Hickman was killed by the acciden tai
discharge of his gun He was 90 years
old and leaves wife and two children
at Kansas City, Kan
Hoo cholera prevails to an alarming
eXtcnt in portions OF Atchison County.
1t is estimated that 4. 900 hogs have
died OF the disease.
MARTIN MoHI.ER, Score tary Of the
State Board of Agriculture, recently
said that enough has been done in the
manufacture Of sugar from bets in
Kansas to prove that with proper MAJ
chinery in charge of competent and exc
perienced men, the industry Will be
successful. The soil and climate are
we'll adapted to beet cul and the
exper ence of tho sugar M Il at Medi-
cine Lodge, which is n charge Of a man
who was for years employed in the
manufacture of beet sugar in Germany,
demonstrates its complete practicable
ity A sma l run on boots was made by
the Topeka mill this year and SO salts
factory were tho results that contracts
will be entered into largely with the
farmers for furnishing it with beets in
1921.
THE dead body of william Higg;n.
botham, prominent attorney of Clay
Center, was found under the ice in a
deep creek just west of that town the
Dthcr day. He had been missing foI
several days. and when last seen was on
tho street intoX Gated As he had been
in tho habit of going out of town on Wis
its of several days, his absence created
no suspicion 1t was supposed that he
had attempted to cross the creek on the
ice and broke through.
/ JAMES w. HAMILTON livestock agent
for the Atch son, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Company, has resigned his po-
sit on to take effect January I. The
resignat on is by request Mr.. Ham /
ton res EnCO as state treasurer DOuE 2
year ago to accept the appointment OF
live-stocx agent for the Santa Fe.
THE fol owing Kansas Indian depre-
dations claims have been disallOwed by
the Secretary of the Inter or: J. Farris.
Ellsworth County, So, 395; John n. Bond,
Cloud County, 800; Peter Grosch, Sa'
line County, S7T5; Frederick BUssiani,
, Mcpherson County, $500. In the claim
of A. c, Larkin, OF Labette County, for
81, $50 depredations committed by Chero-
KEGS in 1874, the Score tary allowed s672
IT S said that Considerable destttu.
sion has been found to exist in North
western Kansas, and measures for their
relief are being devised in the Older
parts of the State under the direction oil
the State Board of Railroad Com m is
sioners- The distress is confined &c
farmers who have had succession oil
crop failures and arc without means to
tide over the winter. Kansas railroads
have agreed to transport donations free.
4 JURY in a murder case at Wichita
recently stood eleven for acquittaI to
one for guilty and had been out sixty
four hours, when the judge PERM tied a
clergyman to visit thor room and hold
religious services Shortly after the
close of the religious exercises the jury
returned a verd ct of guilty, the eleven
"Obstinste" jurymen having gone over
to the other man The attorney for the
, defendant Immediately moved for a
new trial claiming u sconduct on the
part of the court and officers.
THE United States pension agency al
? Topeka has completed tho Decem Der
payment which is the largest ever
made in that distr ct the amount dis
bursed on regular vouchers being ST.
4T5, 9SS %. covering II. $50 vouchers. The
Topeka agency stands second in the
l list in amounts paid AMI first in per
eentags OF cost as to amounts disbursed
r THERE are at present ?. O04 inmates al
! | the Leaysnworth soldiers home. The
oldest man in the home is Alexander
: Gourley, a Scotchman. o. years of age,
} from Great Bend He is 4 farmer and
once had q fine family. but they are all
) ! Head except daughter. and ne has
> gone to tie home to spend his last days
4 WHILE recently digging 4 we'll al
a | Lancaster wOrkmen struck vein OF
= coal twenty-fOur inches tn ok A single
2 blast threw out twenty bushels OF coal
WILLIAM DUSDON. a young farm hand
; was instantly killed by threshing ma,
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