The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-06-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

the people of LeavenwOrth.
The post office at EdvyardsvilIe was
recently robbed OF about $40 worth of
stamps
William Bell. 81 years old, was
drowned while fishing in PottavvOtamie
creek at OsewatOmie the other day.
The regents of the state university, at
a recent meeting, elected Prof. F. w.
BlaclSmar to I'LL the chair made vacant
by the resignation OF Prot Garfield
A charter was recently fled with the
secretary of state for the Broom Corn
Association of Kansas. The purposes
are to build warehouses for the storing
of broom corn to be sold through their
agents Capital stock, SO, 600.
Mrs D. N. 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 SIS 600. 900
bushels The area is placed at ?, 9OO,-
600 acres. In addition to this there are
ITO, GOO acres of spring wheat which Will
bring the total crop of the state up to
60, 600, 600 bushels
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. Nfettman, and SEN
fenced Benson 20 be hanged NOvember
5. 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 Avl-o
from s., 400 to 81, 200; Junction City,
81, 900 TO s., 600; Kansas City, -, 600 to
81, 700; Lawrence, 81, 700 to s.. 600; New
ton, s., 200 to s., 100; Parsons, s.. 100 to
s., 200; Pittsburgh, 81, 900 to s., 100;
Wellington, s., 100 to s., 600.
In the United States circuit court at
LeavenwOrth 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 a claim of
So, $50, 600, exclusive of interest on the
unpaid coupons, by the Farmers Loan
& 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. z. Soden, Of Emporia:
treasurer, z. 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 :. Resolutions were
adopted favOring reciprocity with Mex
leo
The United States Savings bank at
Topeka, which failed some time ago,
has filed motion IN the district court
for the discharge of the receiver in or
The bank claims to have received
enough subscriptions TO its stock since
the failure to pay all of its indebted
ness It is now asserted that it can re-
open with from Sl25. 600 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
ington Avenue Methodist church, Kan
sas City, Kan. has brought suit against
Rev. Z. w. Gill, presiding elder of the
LeavenwOrth conference, for Islander,
claiming damage in the sum of S2O OOO
Rev Tevis alleges that Rev. Gill, at
Washington (Kan.) conference, last
spring, sIanderOusIy circulated among
the bishops and elders present mali
cious report that he (Tevis) was an
habitual user of choral and opium. and
this for the purpose of inducing the
conference to remove him from the
passionate of the church
Twenty years ago William b. LingOvv,
until lately one of the leading farmers
of Sedgwicl1 county, married Mary
Henry in Kansas City, No. The couple
took up a claim, where they have lived
ever since, and have had eleven chill
dren- For three years the husband
has made a practice of visiting ArlEan-
sas periodically, Ostensibly for his
health, and that is where he was re-
Gently when the sheriff OF SedgwiclS
county received a letter from the sher-
if of Crawford county. Ark, making
inquiry about Lingow and stating that
ne was living in Van Buren, with a wife
he had deserted twenty-five years ago
and whom he had visited periodically
for three years LingOw is now under
arrest.
Chancellor Snow, in a letter to the
state board of agriculture regarding
the new wheat pest, says it is what Is
known as the wheat straw worm,