The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The post Office at Wilder was robbed
the other night of $50 in money and
stamps. Wilder is on the Santa Fs
| road about twenty miles west OF Kan
sas City.
The grand lodge L O. o. F. met at
| Hutchinson on the 18th with a large
/ attendance. When the procession moved
more than /, coo Odd Fellows were in
/ line. while the Daughters Of Rebelah
/ followed in carriages
| The Keystone iron works at Kansas
/ City, Kan. were recently closed down
/ by attachments. the largest being a
claim by Carnegie, PhipPs & Co. OF
! Pittsburgh. Pa, for over sos. 600. A
/ large number of men were thrown out
/ OF work
/ Leavenvorth society circles were
| considerably worked up the other day
! by the fling of a petition Tor divorce
/ by Mira Halderman against her hua-
band, Judge J. A Halderman, formerly
| minister'to Siam Mrs. Halderman and
her daughter have just started on trip
to Paris and Judge Halderman is re-
/ ported to be travelling on the Continent
At Fort Scott the other afternoon
| Smith Barker and his brother Sam got
into an alteration with their brother
1 in-law, Mark Scott Of Carthage, Mo,
when one Of the Barker boys threw a
stone, striking Scott on the head,
/ smashing IN his skull and killing him
| almost instantly. All the parties are
| colored- The Barker boys ned and have
not been captured
The supreme court has decided that
the eight-hour law enacted by the last
legislature does not apply to the officers
and employees of state institutions. Had
the law been decided to apply to state
institutions it would have been usces-
sary to call an extra session OF the
legislature, as enough additional en-
pioyes would be required to have made
increased appropriations imperative.
At the recent meeting of the grand
lodge L o. o. Z. at Hutchinson officers
were elected as follows; Grand master,
DIR. NJ 3. Ward, of Topeka; deputy
grand master, H. W. Pond, of Fort
Scott; grand warden, W. z. Patterson,
of EuscOtahs grand secretary, John A.
Bright, of Abilene; grand treasurer, L
c. Slime, of Ottawa; grand representa-
tive to the sovereign grand lodge. A. L.
VOorhis.
}. D. Brown, pension attorney. was
recently tried in the United States
court at Leaveuworth upon the charge
of demanding excessive fees and found
/ guilty by the Jury. Sentence was de-
; ferred. The evidence showed that in
/ one case he received from widow tho
? regular SO allowed by law and after
wards a present" of Sl1O when she re-
ceived her money, which Judge Philips
instructed the jury was violation OF
the pension laws.
, The Baptist state convention, lately
in session st Atchison, elected the fol-
= lowing officers: President Rev. r W.
: Atkinson, of Ottawa; vice-president,
I DR.. Z. J. Warren, of Clay Center sec
5 rotary, L. II. Holt OF Emporiai treas
: urer, J. R. Mulvane, of Topeka The
following new mem bers were elected
on the board of trustees of Ottawa uni
{ versity: NJ. S. Smalley, of Hiawathai
Rev. L. r. Crawford, OF Ottawa; Rev.
5 T. 3. Thomas, of Topeka, and B. p.
Waggener, of AtchisOn.
2 The supreme court has affirmed the
p decision of the district court in tine
Spendlove murder case and the defend,
, ant will be compelled to serve his sem
8 tence of sixteen years in the peuiten-
I tiRry. In 1889 Joseph @. Bpendiove
4 shot and killed Gustave Warner at To-
4 peka- He was tried, found guilty and
1 / sentenced to twenty-Oue years 1ms
e prisOnment An appeal was taken to
/ the supreme court and a new trial
I granted. He was again found guilty
: and given sixteen years and again APP
4 Pealsd.
8 About eleven o'clock the other morn
| ing the dead body of Herbert o. Wild
= enor, collector for the WyandOtte Coal
> Co., was found in the road north Of
b | Kansas City, Kan He was on his way
T to collect few bills from people who
i lived in the country, was riding in a
e | buggy and carried his breech loading
y shotgun with him. In some unknown
j. manner the gun was discharged, the
U load entering the victims body just
4 below the heart, producing instant
r death He was twenty-three years old
k and married.
e Judge L. D Bailey died at Lawrence
i on the 18th at the age of seventy -three
IS years. He came to Kansas in 1857 from
D New Hampshire and located at Law
renee. He was elected one of the
r judges of the supreme court at the first
d election under the state constitution in
o 1860, together with Judge s. A King
4 man and Thomas Ewing, and his death
Is makes the first break in that historic
g judicial trio. For a number Of year!
d past he resided at Garden City. He
n leaves a wife, but no children Judge
h Bailey has been a noted character il
y Kansas history, and his death removes
4 another of the landmarks of pioneer
L days
d The democratic state central com
3 mittee met at Topeka on the 18th A
-e resolution was passed indOrsing the
y action of Chairman Jones and express
ID ng confidence in his Judgment in re
gard to the conduct of the fall cam
y paign, and resolution was also adopt
ed that the committee deem it uuwist
.e and iuexpedient to interfere with lOca
"a politics of the different counties IN the
p state. trusting that their own goo'
s. judgment, together with their knowl
r edge of the political situation in thei
ID own counties, will lead them to do
l. nothing which will eventually prov
d detrimental to the interests OF tbs
s democratic party OF Kansas"
y c. o. McCasIzill, a mail agent on tn
Ar central branch of the Missouri Pacific
ID was lately arrested at Atchison charges
% with tampering with the mails Il
N denies any guilt and says nothing cal
st be proved to his discEedit He is
Id brother of ex-Congressman McCGskiL
er OF Mississippi.
" The railroad commissioners have OF
dered the Missouri Pacific TO replace il
at mixed trains on the Denver, Memphi
y & Atlantic branch, running betwee
10 | Winfield and Larneds with regula
"a passenger and freight trains each va
e daily. The passenger trains must max
1e connection with the through l1issoul