The southern argus., 1891-06-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

recently robbed of about $40 worth O
= stamps.
: William Bell, 81 years old, wa
: drowned while fishing in Pottawotami
: creek at Osawatomie the other day.
p The regents of the state university, a
a recent meeting, elected Prof. f. W
\ Blackmar to fill the chair made vacant
: by the resignation of Prof. Caufield-
A charter was recently filed with th'
S secretary of state for the Broom Corr
Association of Kansas he purpose:
are to build warehouses for the storing
= of broom corn to be sold through theil
! agents. Capital stock, $4,000.
Mrs d. NJ. Smith was found dead in
her room at Topeka the other day. She
had been dead two days when found.
She was about Is years of age and her
only son is brakeman on the Santa
! Fe. He was out on the road at the
time of his mothers death and she was
alone.
The secretary of the state board of
agriculture estimates the winter wheat
crop of Kansas this year at IS. 600, 900
bushels. The area is placed at 2, 900,-
900 acres. In addition 10 this there are
10000 acres of spring wheat which will
bring the total crop of the state up to
60, 900, 900 bushels
In the United States court at Leaven-
worth on the 18th Judge Riner over
ruled the motion for a new trial in the
case of c. A. Benson, found guilty of
the murder of Mrs. Mettman, and sem
fenced Benson TO be hanged November
s. 1t is now thought the case will go
to the supreme court of the United
| States.
The post office department has made
the following REIMBURSEMENT of salaries
of Kansas postmasters: Arkansas City,
from 81, 400 to S2,2O0 Junction City,
$1,000 to S. 600; Kansas City. g, 600 to
81, 700; Lawrence, 81, 700 to s., 600: New
ton, g, 200 to s., 100; Parsons, s.. 100 to
So, 200; Pittsburgh, $1,000 to 81, 100;
Wellington, 81, 100 to $4,000.
In the United States circuit court ut
Leavenwcrth the other morning the de-
cree of foreclosure and sale of the Kan
sas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern
railroad was entered on the record
The sale will take place next December
In Topeka, and is to satisfy claim of
IS, 750, 900, exclusive of interest on the
unpaid coupons, by the Farmers Loan
q Trust Co, of New York.
The State Millers' association, in ses-
sion at Newton, elected officers as fol- |
lows: President George H. Hunter, of |
Wellington; first vice president William |
Kelley, of Great Bend; second vice |
president, w. +. Soden, of Emporia;
treasurer, K. A. Colburn, of McPher-
son; secretary, c. V. Toppin, of Enter
prise 1t was decided that the next
meeting of the association be. held at
Great Bend October I. Resolutions were
adopted favoring reciprocity with Mex
ico
The United States Savings bank nt
which failed some time avu.
has filed motion in the district court
for the discharge of the receiver in or
der that business might be resumed.
The bank claims to have received
enough subscriptions to its stock since
the failure to pay all of its indebted
ness 1t is now asserted that it can re-
open with from S125, 900 to $40, 600 in
cash in its vaults, nearly all the stock.
holders having subscribed for 40 per
cent. additional stock.
Rev. A. ii. Tevis, pastor of the Wash
ngton Avenue Methodist church, Kan
'as City, Kan, has brought suit against I
Kew. f. w. Gill, presiding elder of the v
1eavenworth conference, for SANDER e
tanning damage in the sum of $40. 600.
tev Tevls alleges that Rev. Gill. at K
ashlngton (kan.) conference, last y
prlng, slanderously circulated among
he bishops and elders present n mali
lous report that he (Tevis) was an r
abit1al user of choral and opium. and
MS Tor the purpose of inducing the ~
to remove him from the n
astoratc of the church {
twenty years ago William B. Linrow
ntll lately one of the leading farmers r.
Sedgwick county, married Mary y,
-enry In Kansas City. Mo. The connie
'ok up claim, where they have lived
yer since, and have had eleven chill r.
rem For three years the husband
as made practice of visiting Arkan.
Is periodically, ostensiblv for his u
1al1h' ana that is where he was re- ~
'ntly when the sheriff of Sedrwick
.unty received letter from the sher- r,
OF Crawford county, Ark. making
qulry about Lingow and stating that
was living in Van Buren, with n wife -
had deserted twenty-five years apo
I'd whom he had visited periodicals.
three years Lingow is now under ca
rest
chancellor Snow, in letter tn the
tie board of agriculture regarding W.
new wheat pest, says it is what i
own as the wheat straw worm CO
lcn has done much injury to wheat 0A
Illinois and did some damage IN tbn ri ri
'p In Kansas in 1885 1t seems n
uflSh best in wet weather. II is HA
u almost as injurious as the Hessiap BU
ana nothing can be done to prevent rh rh
ueprcdations upon the present GRO, gS
u. Snow suggests as preventive
assures with reference to the next
p the burning or the destruction Ia Ia
the stubble, which will destroy
insect in the straw; also ,ba cA-
ming of surplus straw in tho