The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-11-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS

Gov. Humphrey has issued a proclaim
alton ode-iug a reward OF $500 for the
arrest and convictiOnof Isaac Kay, who
s. charged With having committed a
double murder IN COwlsy county in
June, 1sSa
The Topeka sugar works were re-
Gently sold by the sheriff OF Shawnee
county The property was bid in st
S11, subject to heavy incum brances-
The works are reported TO be consid-
cred hampered by litigation
The police of Kansas City Kan.
rEided two gambling houses At the
state line the other night and carried
of forty-seven persons who were
cited to appear in proper person (if not
uame) at the police court o. ext morning
The Farmers Alliance, of Shawnee
county. and the Citizens Alliance, of
Topeka, gave a fare we'll banquet 70
Congressman Otis upon the eve Of his
departure for Washington Senator
PETER is already at the national capital
The Baudaua club of Leaven worth
Cele brated ting seyeuty-eighth auuiver-
sary of the birth OF Hon. Allen @. Thur
man by a banquet on the evening Of
the 18th. A mum Der of prominent dem
ocrats were present from Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Nebraska
The superintendent of insurance has
notified the Kansas agents OF the
Farmers Alliance benefit association,
which has been doing an insurance
business, that 1t must conform to the
requirements of the law and receive a
license from his Office or else go out Of
business
Willie Shaw, eight years old, was
killed by a train on the l. road mt Kan
sas City, Kan, the other day. The
father works for tine road and his two
little boys were in the habit of taking
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older brother were on that mission
when the little fellow was killed
AS q result of recent rains in south
ern. central and western Kansas the
wheat crop is in good condition In a
few sections of the state the continued
dry weather caused the wheat to
sprOut, but no great damage has been
done. Fall wheat Is not all in, and re-
ports from all portions of the state
represent the acreage TO be by far the
greatest in the history of the staue-
A mammoth mass meeting was re-
Gently held at Arkansas City for the
purpose of getting expression from the
people of that and surrounding towns
on the question of opening the Chero-
zee strip and memOrializing congress
in regard to it Speeches were made by
a number Of prominent men There
was strong sentiment in favor of
having the lands opened to settlement
at as early day as possible.
The three Linn county prisoners con-
fined In the Bourbon county Jail at Fort
Scott, in order to protect them from
mob violence. are now considered limo
cent of the brutal crime charged against
them Information has been received
that one of the men named Bert Austin
was not in Pleasauton or vicinity at the
time the crime took place, and had the
mob succeeded in its effort at iyuchiEFs
one innocent man, at least, would have
suffered
A call has been issued for a meeting
OF the state central committee of the
peoples party at Topeka, Tuesday
afternoon, Novemb Der "a The pur-
such action as may be determined upon
with reference to the interest of the
peoples party In the election OF 1892
Chairmen OF county com mittees and adj
vocates and friends Of the cause are re-
quested to be present and participate
in the deliberations.
j. W. GRANGER & Co., wholesale hard
ware dealers, of Lenvenworth, re-
Gently caused the arrest of their
shipping clerk, George Faerber, who
had been a trusted emplOye OF the
firm for the past eight years, charg-
ing him with a series OF robberies-
j. A. Endress, a hardware dealer,
anu o. ~ SuAADAAB "A AAAAaAHAu Fa4a1
also arrested as accompliccs The
loss is about 81, 600 and for several
years the firm has been systematically
robbed. Endress denied any lznOwl-
edge of the thefts. -Faerber has a wife
and four children.
Suit has been commenced in tho
United States court by the United
States government against the Leav-
enwoTth Coal Mining Co. demanding
a fun accounting of the coal. mined by
that company on the military reserva-
ton lands in LeavenwOrth county be-
tween the years 1865 and 1921. The
vast amount involved cannot be de-
termiued, but it viii reach into the
millions The government sues for the
value of all coal mined since 1854, for
the value of coal consumed on the
reservation while the lease was in
force and for royalty on all coal mined
An injunction is also asked to prevent
the company from taking any more
coal from the land
John Bradford, a weil-to-do farmer
of Sedgwiclz county, has strangely dis
appeared, and his relations can find no
trace Of him 4 bout two months ago
he sent his children to stay with some
neighbors, saying he was going on a
trip TO Missouri He was next heard
from at Montgomery, o., where he was
well known The information was
that he was insane, and q friend was
sent after him, but when the latter
reached Montgomery Bradford had
disappeared, and that is the last heard
Of him. It has developed that Bradford
disposed of mis- farm before he started,
but he left behind him O. large number
Of cattle hogs and horses 1t is thought.
that he must have had So, 600 in his
pocket when he left
The warden of the penitentiary has
made his October settlement which
shows an expenditure OF SIS, 7lO.2i, the
receipts being less than half that sum.
Most of the supplies for the year are
laid in at this season. OF coal there
were mined 154, 500 bushels, oue-third
of W hich went TO the state institutions
Attoruey-GeneraA Ives, IL is said, be
Iieves James Brennan, the slayer of
Col Wood, will ultimately have to be
released because Of inability to secure
a jury IN Stevens county The case re-
Gently came on for trial and after sum
r,ovfper every man in the county avail