The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-01-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS

session three days. Dr. Paul Paquin,
State Veterinarian OF Missouri, will be
present and address the meeting on
''biack leg" ''Hog cholera viii aIss
be discussed Chancellor z. H. Snow,
of the State University, Will give a full
report Of the results of his experiments
for the determination Of ehiEch bugs
Other prominent persons Will also take
part in the proceedings In connection
with the annual meeting Of the board
the improved stock breeders of Kansas
are called to meet on the same day.
The object of this meeting is to organ
ize Kansas Improved Stoclz-Breeders'
Association Reduced rates will be
given by the railroads
The report of the warden of the peni-
itentiary shows that the output of the
coal mine for the fiscal year ended Juno
so, 1889, was I,733, 9I1 bushels, and for
the year ended June 80, 1890, it was
1,6T2, $40 bushels The mine Is in excel
lent condition, is supplied with an
abundance of pure air and no care or
expense is spared to provide against ae-
cident- There has been no accident in
the mime mourning loss of life or limb
IN the past two years, and but one life
has been lost by accident in the opening
and operating of the mine during its en-
tire history, and that one was the result
of careiessness and disobedience OF or
A decision by the Railroad Commits
sioners, covering many interests, was
recently rendered Although this de-
cision pertains to a certain complaint
against the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis railway for refusing coal ship
ments, the ruling covers shipments of
wheat, corn, cattle, lumber and all car
load freights on any and every road in
the State The principle is a broad one,
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supply cars when they have them with
ont the slightest discrimination. The
acts of a railroad company which might
possibly ruin a person or firms business
will not be tolerated.
Mrs Bertha Mayse, wife of John F.
Mayse, committed suicide at Topeka the
other day by taking ''Rough on Rats"
She was 10 years old and had been mar
ried only nine weeks. She had told MIR.
Mayse several times in a joking way
before she married him that she should
some time take poison. She never en-
tirely recovered from a fall received in
her ninth year, which injured her head.
When her husband left for his work the
young wife patted him on the cheek and
told him he would not find his pet
when he returned" During his absence
she took the poison.
The first biennial report of the State
been submitted TO Governor Humphrey.
The home now contains 900 inmates,
and there are a large number of ap-
proved applications for admission, but
the applicants can not be taken in for
lack OF funds An appropriation of
S49, 300 Is asked for the year ending June
80, 1891, for buildings, salaries of en-
ployes, subsistence of inmates, etc, and
for the year ending June so, 1892, an ap-
preparation of Sal, 200 is asked, and for
the deficiency of the present year SO, S75
is necessary.
The Douglas County Farmers Insti-
tute adOped a resolution some time ago
asking the Legislature to appropriate
81, 500 to enable Prof. F. II. Snow, of
the University of Kansas, to experiment
further on his process for DISCRIMINATING
the chinch bug. This resolution has
been taken up and passed by the farm
ers' institutes of other counties of the
State, and before the Legislature meets
it is thought the appropriation will have
the Endorsement of q large part of the
farmers.
C. B. Emery recently found in the
Southern part of the State gun-barrel
with this inscription upon it: presented
to Mike Jones by Kit Carson, 1919" Il
was found on low spot of ground al
most surrounded by plain twenty feet
higher. The bones of two men were in
the vicinity and also the bones of three
horses. The barrel is four feet six
inches long. The woodwork had rot
ted away, but all the iron parts We're
there.
officers of the new grand lodge of
Kansas of the new political order,
Knights of Reciprocity, We're elected at
Garden City as follows: ID. n. Frost.
grand judge, and b. F. Stock, grand
clerk, both of Garden City; T. j. Nor
ton, of Newton, grand marshal; r. c.
Bailey, of Great Bend, grand treasurer;
AdOlph GIuck, of Dodge City, and John
C. Fry, of Larned, grand bailiffs.
C. a Robinson, one of the leading
merchants of Hazleton, went hunting
the other day, taking his wagon and
team At night his team returned with
his dead body in the wagon. A bullet
hole in his heart showed the cause of
his death. His gun was still loaded and
it was evident that he had been muir
dered.
Thomas Plummer, farmer twenty
miles north of Wichita, committed sui
eide the other day by throwing himself
in front of a passenger train on the Mid
land road He was 20 years old and re-
Gently married Domestic trouble said
to be the cause.
A quarrel between the Captain and
the members of Atchison's military
com l0ttllN mas resulted LEG GOLnIld
being disbanded-
a late fire the livery stable of J.
w. Morrow at Topeka destroyed the
building together with nine buggies and
ten horses, one of the latter being val
ued at 81 600
The executive committee of the State
Farmers Alliance met at Topeka re-
Gently to make changes in the organize
ton necessary to conform to the action
taken by the National convention at
Ocaia, Fla, and completing the organ
ization OF the insurance feature of the
Alliance.
C. C. Jones, while resisting arrest.
was shot and instantly killed by Con-
stable Wolf at Elgin the other evening
The mayors of cities of the first class
recently held conference at Topeka,
and among other things recommended
that police commissioners in all cities
Of less than $4,000 inhabitants be abol-
ished.
While on her way to school at Kansas
City, Kan, the other morning, the
daughter of Frank Eaton
was run over by huge wagon and one