The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-09
Formulation Increase



i B. Ball, of Wichita, ext Judge of
SedgFictr county, has been selected to
preside at the trial OF James Brennan,
the slayer of Col Sam Wood
Paul Pauls, a butcher from Denver,
who was stealing a ride to Kansas City,
fell under the cars at Hays City the
other day and had one of his legs cut
of.
The other day Richard Mcdaniel, a
convict at the penitentiarJl escaped
from the guard who was ia charge Of
gang Of prisoners at work on the road
near Lansing. Mcdaniel was serving
a seven years sentence for horse steal
ing, he having been sent from I,eaven-
worth county and had only three
months TO serve.
Frank Robinson. of Springfield. No,
got into a quarrel at the depot at Fort
Scott a few days ago and broke pane
of glass in a smoking car. He was ar
rested by a policeman, but attempted
to escape when the policeman fired two
shots at him, both taking effect, bu t
not indicting fatal wounds Robinson
was then ''cOrralled-"
'Gipsy Jack" a somewhat noted
character at EmPOria, was found the
other morning dead in an alley with
his neck broken. 1t is thought he was
killed by falling out of the hay loft Of
a barn where he was in the habit of
name was said to be John Overturf.
but he was never known to refer to
any relatives
The other morning a colored woman
found baby in a basket along the
Santa Ee track in the eastern part OF
Lawrence The infant was neatly
dressed, and change of clothing was
in the basket On its dress was pinned
a note, neatly written with a lead PEN
ell, and reading as follows; Dear
Friend: BE good to her ana give her
/ good home, and you will be we'll paid.
Call her Daisy, for me. She was born
/ the 5th of September"
The second annual convention Of the
/ Kansas Retail HarnessmaIzers Protect
| i've association was held recently at
| Wichita The object of the association
| is to prevent wholesale houses from
| selling at retail and to stop sales at
hardware stores and to persons not in
| the harness business Following are
| the officers; President J. j. Crowley,
/ Council Grovei vice-presidenL J. w.
/ Slaughter Minneapolis; treasurer, i.
/ c. BaurOhasi secretary H S. Mueller,
/ Sedgwiclr.
/ During the month Of September the
/ output of sorghum sugar reported by
/ the local inspectors to the governments
/ laboratory in Fort Scott, which includes
/ the works at Medicine Lodge, Topeka
]
/ pounds. All Of the sugar so far re-
| ported contains sucrose averaging %
/ per cent, and is therefore entitled TO the
] bounty of two cents per pound award
ed by the general government 1t is
damned that the sorghum sugar output
of the season will reach 5000, 600
l pounds
Two robbers entered Piuegar's drug
store on a side street in Kansas City.
Kan, about eight o'clock the other
/ evening and at the muzzle of pistols
! demanded the contents of the cash
/ drawer, which was handed out, amount
ing to $40 They also robbed Piaegar,
. and a customer. who was in the store at
/ the time, each of a watch. The next
evening two men (probablY the same
| parties) in attempting to hold mp an
! electric car at the terminus of the
Ouindaro boulevard track, shot Con-
, ductor Sawyer in the face, infiicting a
serious wound The robbers escaped
John D. Knox, whose bank at Topeka
| failed some time since, was recently
I arrested on the charge of emDezzte-
/ meut- The complaint was brought by
Everett o. Fisk, Of Boston, and charges
/ that Knox, as agent for Fisk, collected
eleven dollars in Octob Der, 1890, ind has
refused to pay the money over TO the
proper party. Fisk and his mother
purchased a number Of mortgages ne
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estate The coupons were left for
Knox to collect as agent for them
When Knox made an assignment last
winter the Fislrs were scheduled among
his creditors and the amount collected
and retained by him was placed among
the liabilities The FislEs, however,
ay that they are not creditor and that
Knox was acting only as their agent
1t is reported that other similar suits
will follow.
Carter Williams. a coiored man, at
tempted to drive across the L road ID
front Of a train at Kansas City, Kan
the other night when his wagon was
struck and demolished and his les
snake den was recently discovered
on the farm of w H. Polly, in jackson
county. In two days seventy seven
snakes, rattlsrs and coppsrheads, vvers
killed. and since then" the story Is
1.-THE slaughter has been immense"
William Shook, OF Abilene has Sc
cured judgment for S2s5 against the
Union Pacific road for damages in ue-
ing put of a train when he rendered
money 20 the conductor.
Frank Lutzhain, an old soldier, was
killed the other night by q rapid transit
train which he attempted to board al
Leavenwortn while intoxicated
President Sanders, OF the Aansa'
! ulG'A4AlaA GQ4AGsg a. Il NL- 1919
20 enroll ], 400 student Is during the pres
eat school year. The second term vii
begin Nov embsr 10
The governor has offered q reward c
$3.50 Tor the arrest and conviction OF
the parties who caused the death o
adra. J. n Juvensl, OF Armouraale, Z
I few weeks sgo. JuvenalY It ll said hal
also offered his house and lot valued
at 81. 500, as an additional reward
c. A. johnson went to AIcPherzou th'
/ other dag with a load OF wheat AM
/ late as night left for his hone IN en-
county,. after partalinR toe freely o
the prohibited beverage re drew
into a neiqhbor's yard, upset the sgsgol
and next morning was totina olll-E 2
dead
The president has appointed j. Z
, Burton commissioner for the world
fair for Kansas, vice R. r Briee re
signed
GEORGE d. White, of Visiting. va
~.-i0,-ei,, injured the other day by be
. ing thrown from a wagon +@s u Ss'