The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-04-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Feed Throughout the state was
never known to be as scarce as il is
now. Nearly every farmer Is short OF
feed and many have been compelled to
sell their cattle.
Len T. Smith, OF Leavenworth. one of
the best known men in Kansas and a
prominent railroad builder, died sud
denly in the City of Mexico the other
day of heart disease.
L. NJ. Grover, who has been blind
since he was twenty years OF age, was
elected a justice of the peace at the late
election in Topeka He is said to be a
very able man, and has heretofore filed
the Office with great satisfaction.
JACOB KELLER, manager of a hack
line, committed suicide at Wichita the
other day in the room of a woman
named Alice Connolly, with whom he
had been living for two years, but who
had cast him of for an old flame"
Tom Mckinney, farmer who resided
some miles from Ottawa, went TO town
the other day and drank too much. At
a late hour in the evening he started
homeward. Before he had proceeded
far he fell from his wagon and broke
his neck.
The board of managers in the Botllin
impeachment case held a meeting at
Topeka the other day. Chairman
Wilmington was confident that enough
testimony will be produced to convince
the senate of the necessity for remOv-
ing Botkin.
The taxes paid by railroads in Kan
sas for 1890 amounted to 81, 9S4, I41, and
it is asserted that if the annual tax paid
by railroads remains the same, it will
pay off principal and interest on all
bonds now outstanding in aid of rail-
roads in about twelve years.
Maj. William Sims and other mem
bers of the committee who went to
Chicago to secure space for the Kansas
exhibit at the worlds fair have re-
turned, having secured a desirable site,
and informed the worlds fair managers
that Kansas would be on hand with 2
drst-class exhibit
George w. Howell, a prominent lum-
Der merchant of AtchisOn, was recently
arrested by a deputy United States mar
shat on charge of violating the inter
state commerce law. Howell has made
a great deal of money in the lumber
business and is estimated to be worth
from $500, GOO to ST, 600, 600.
On thanksgiving day last George
Weston, an Atchison express agent,
beat his Nvifc's brains out with a ham
mer. Although the woman survived
she is mental wreck He was recently
tried for the Offense and the jury re-
turned verdict of assault with intent
to kill The penalty is term not eS-
ceeding ten years in the peuitentiary.
After Col Anthony and Capt Fortes-
cue had their street encounter at Leav-
Fortcscue was. fined SO for
whipping Anthony and Anthony was
fined $40 for reporting at the police
station that he had secured a pistol for
the purpose of Sdcfending himself"
Anthony then swOre out warrant
against FOrtcScue charging him with
assault with intent to kill.
Charley White, the night operator at
Huron, "a small station on the Missouri /
Pacific, was asleep in the Office late the |
other night when Charles Roberts, a /
section hand, pounded on the window |
and asked him some question White |
awOlSe suddenly and Selling his re- |
7olver began firing at Roberts. whom |
ne mistOOk for ii tramp burglar. One /
bullet hit Roberts in the head.
LEAVENwORTH was much excited the |
other day over personal encounter
lpOn the streets between Col d. r.
anthony, of the Times, and Capt. w. |
n. FOrtescuc, late republican candi-
late for mayor of the city, in which
col. Anthony was horse whipped by
Capt FOrtcscuc. The trouble grew
Dut of assaults through the columns of
he Times upon the late candidate for
mayor
In the district court of WyandOtte
county, Kan, the other day the Amer
can live stock commission company
began suit against the Kansas
City live stock exchange for $780,
700 damages for the injury to
is business through the expuI-
ion of the American from the exchange
md an alleged boycott Of the American
md its agents by the exchange and its
mem bcrs.
w E l. Patterson, "A Kansas City,
No, contractor, was recently arrested
It Kansas City, Kan, on the charge of
perjury PatteFson's first wife, from
whom he Obtained a divorce in NOvern-
Der, 1887, caused the prosecution. She
claimed that on November 8, 1857, Pat
ersOn flied u suit for divorce in the
Kansas City (Kan-) district court, and
n his petition swOre that he had been q
esident of the state for over one year.
After securing divorce nc married an
'ther woman
Justice Ployvman, Of Leavcnvorth,
,az haavn rulFad 70 Fo=FTF.~ a.-F7-. az Z