The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-04-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

NFGa4LnAGAE GQAOEeQ man IN the west,
died at Kansas City, kan, the other
day. Besides property in many other
localities, it is said he owned a block in
the heart of Chicago.
Gov Humphrey recently received
from Washington two drafts, one for
500, 9S1. IS, representing the Kansas war
tax levy. or direct tax, and another Tor
Sl2, O61. %, allowed the state for old sus-
pended military vouchers The money
win go into the general fund of the state
/. J. WOrden, formerly postmaster
at Lawrence, and a well known citizen
and politician, was taken violently in
sane the other day. he had 60 be
taken to the county Jail to save him
from committing some violent act. The
cause of his insanity was supposed to
be financial troubles. He believes him
self to be Jesus Christ.
The forthcoming report of the state
mine inspector will show that the
mining interests of Kansas are growing
in Importance every year. 1t will show
that coal is produced in twenty counties
in Kansas, and the total output for the
year was over so, OOOs 600 bushels, valued
at about s., 2OO. coo. Ninety-t,yO per cent.
of this is produced in four counties
Crawford. Cherokee, Usage and Leaven-
worth.
The Coffeyville investigation commit
tee has finished taking testimony and
adjourned. The stenOgraPhers Will
transcribe their notes as speedily as
possible, and when the evidence is
printed the committee will meet again
and draft report to accompany the
evidence. Then all will be printed in
pamphlet form for general circulation
/ The evidence is reported to be very
contradictory.
In the United States court at Wichita
! the jury in the case of j. A Uawley
and wife and Z. d. Belden, charged
with the murder of Charles Grant,
young Canadian, near Edmond, Ok,
/ last summer, brought in "a verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree
| against the boy, Belden, and discharged
| the Hawleys by instruction of the
! court. Grant was murdered, presum-
/ ably, to secure his claim.
President Fairchiid of the state agri-
/ cultural college has issued the follow
! ing notice regarding the representative
/ of the German beet sugar syndicate:
! 1.-The experimental station council has
/ found it impossible to work with DR..
/ Scheitweiler in beet sugar culture, and
! withdraw all Endorsement of his efforts
Although apparently well informed, he
cannot, on account OF personal habits,
| render the desired services"
The wife of Wellington minister re-
Gently left home during the absence of
her husband. and when he returned he
was handed q note from her in which
she said she had vvearied of the duIlness
D "a A4GA liz anu EAOENJn-NA t2eAAA5 -AlLAAC-
thing for herself, ending up with the
statement that she was going TO a GER
tain point The preacher was too well
! posted, however, and started in the op-
pOsite direction to look for her and il
/ was reported was on the right track.
A mass meeting of farmers was re-
Gently held at Wichita to consider the
sugar beet industry. They We're adj
dressed by DR.. Scheitwiler, from Ger
many, and others About one hundred
| farmers agreed to plant beets this sea-
! son. The seed will be furnished them
| from Germany Twenty tons an acre
Is said to be an average crop, for which
! they will receive 81 per ton. II the in
/ dustry succeeds q German syndicate
viii put in a $500, 600 sugar factory at
| Wichita.
| The superintendent of insurance has
completed his preliminary report of the
! insurance business done in Kansas in
/ 1890. The report shows that the risks
written during the year aggregated
Sl39, 425, O37. 40, on which 81, $50, $50. 50
was received in premiums and $780,
O39. 90 paid in losses. The average rate
of premium on business is 81 35. There
is carried in life insurance $50, 42S, 425,
of which SO, 697, O90 was written during
the year. The total amount in force at
the end of the year was $40, O24, SOL.
The losses paid amounted to 1888, TO4. "a
The other day Charles Garhart,
! II years of age, who lived about fifteen
| miles southwest of Lawrence, met with
/ a terrible and fatal accident. He and
/ his younger brother had started out
/ after dinner TO hunt ducks. The latter
mad gone to the barn after his gloves
and left Charles at the back OF the
/ house with the gun, where he was play
( ing with the dog, awaiting his brothers
/ return The report of a gun near the
! house caused the mother to look out
/ the back door, when she beheld her son
/ lying on the ground with fr3ghtful
| wound in his neck and head, caused by
the accidental discharge of the gun
! He died almost instantly
Frank McGrath, president OF the
/ Farmers Alliance. has issued a call Cor
/ the election of delegates to the national
| conference to he held in, Cincinnati NJ