The historic times. [volume] (Lawrence, Kansas) 1891-1891, 1891-07-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Senator Plumb delivered the address
at Meade on the Fourth.
The preliminary hearing of James
Brennan, the slayer of Col S. N. Wood,
has been postponed to July % at Hugo
ton. Brennan has been committed to
the Reno county Jail at Hutchinson.
Mrs. Stella Smith, residing three
miles south of Ottawa, recently at.
tempted to light fire with coal oil,
when the can exploded and she was
burned SO severely that she died soon
after.
The lot at the northwest corner Of
Merchants street and Fourth avenue
has been selected by Assistant Secre-
tary Crounse as the site for the public
building at Emporia. The price paid
is sc, 900.
Mrs Jane Kuykendall, colored.
dropped dead in street car at Atchison
the other night. She had just arrived
in the city from Everest to attend the
funeral of her daughter She was
nearly 100 years old.
The contract for furnishing beef to
the state penitentiary for the next year
has been awarded to Voltz Bros, of
Leavenworth. They are to furnish
900 pounds at such times and in such
quantities as may be desired.
Justin Barrett, boy about 8 years
old, was drown in the Missouri river at
Leavenworth the other day. He was
playing along the bank, when he made
an attempt to step in short distance
after stick and went down in an eddy
ten feet deep.
Lloyd Kirkham, 10 years old, was
frightfully burned while celebrating
the Fourth with several other boys at
Rosedale. The boys were firing small
cannon and had a quantity of powder
in a basket that was ignited from fire.
cracker thrown by another boy.
DR.. Charles r. Watt, leading drug
gist of Thayer, was found dead in the
back room of his store the other morn
ing. He had evidently been dead for
several hours as his face was greatly
discolored and several bruises were
seen on his face where he had probably
fallen from table near which his body
was found.
E. L. Luther manager of the Leaven-
worth telephone exchange, is reported
to be 81, 500 short in his accounts. A
warrant was issued for his arrest, but
he gave himself up, waived examina.
ton and was bound over for trial next
| Septem Der. He declared he would make
| good the shortage, and it was said he
would not be prosecuted if he did.
The alliance lecturers, recently in ses-
sion in Topeka, are said to be preparing
to go into the fall campaign with the
intention of taking possession of every
county Office for which elections are to
| be held. 1t is said to be their intention
to prepare themselves fer the discussion
of every proposition that is to come be-
fore the public, and that they will have
| speakers in every school house.
The Union Pacific railroad has made
an inspection of the crops in the coun-
ties along the lines of its system in
Kansas. The report of the inspection
is exhaustive and complete. 1t COVERS
twenty-six counties and shows the
acreage of small grain to be 1850, 900,
| divided as follows: Wheat, so per cent;
| oats, IA per cent, and rye, 6 per cent.
The total production in the twenty-six
counties is figured at 5000, 900 bushels
of wheat 6,S25, 900 bushels of oats and
900, 600 bushels of rye.
w. d. Bell, the school teacher who
forged an order on school district SO,
Franklin county, and after being ar
rested broke Jail, was arraigned before
Judge Benson at Ottawa the other af-
ternoon and pleaded guilty to the
| charge of forgery in the first degree.
He was sentenced to a term of five
years in the penitentiary. f. Jamison,
who assisted Bell in escaping from
Jail, also pleaded guilty and was sem
fenced to the penitentiary for one year
and six months.
The executive committee of the Farm
ers' Alliance, with the state officers and
the congressional lecturers, met recent
ly at Topeka to perfect an organization.
The state will be divided into congress
sional county and township legislative
councils, of which the lecturer in charge
of the district will be chairman. The
township chairman will report to the
county chairman, the latter to the con-
gressional chairman and the congress
sional chairman to the state lecturer,
Van B. Prather, who will be subject to
the national council
Two Shawnee county farmers lately
had lawsuit over the ownership of
dog. One finally proposed to the other
that they fight it out in Sullivan-Kn-
rain style, which was agreed to. At
the appointed hour and place friends of
the two were gathered to see the fight
The battle was for blood, and at the
end of thirty minutes 1t was declared
draw. One man lost finger and two
teeth, the other lost part of an ear and
received black eye. The principals
then took the tram for Topeka to be
patched up.
Prof Snow says of the weather for
June: THE month was one of ex-
tremes. June 1876 seemed to have been
a similar one, and both lead the other
years in the amount of rainfall This
was the cooler. While the humidity of
the other June has approached that of
this, the wind was considerably below
the average. The mean temperature
for the month was 70.74 degrees, which
is 2.65 below the average The highest
was 905 degrees, on the 2sth, the least
was SO degrees, on the It'll The total
rainfall was 10.1 inches, which is s. IS
above the average Rain fell on IS
days There were eight thunder
storms"
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