The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-05-01

Farmers in Douglas county COM
planned that the late heavy rains so
thoroughly soaked the ground that
spring planting would be materially re-
tarded.
In the United States district court at
Topeka the other day I. c. Howe
pleaded guilty to rObbing the post
office at Manhattan and was sentenced
by Judge Foster to Is months in the
penitentiary.
Burt Beck was arrested at Topeka
the other day on a Rock Island train,
together with n young girl with whom
he was clipping. He was a school
teacher at SPrague, Neb., and the girl
was one of his pupils. He has a wife
and three children at Lincoln, Neb.
c. @. Leeper, formerly stenographer
in the supreme court, died recently in
Lawrence of consumption. Mr.. Leeper
was a musical genius, He owned and
could play thirteen different musical
instruments and had, with one or two
exceptions, the most complete musical
library in the state.
BY the report of the auditor of state
for the year 1890 the municipal debt,
which includes county, city, township
and school districts, aggregates the
sum of S37, 119, 977. This equals an in
debtedness on the valuation of the
property of the state of only 6-1O per
cent.
All Hee, four years Iauudryman of
Topeka, has started for his old home
near Canton, China, to preach the gos-
pei to his heather friends. For more
than a year u Chinese class had been
carried on at the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms in
Topeka, and one of the most earnest
members was All Hee.
The assessed value of the property Of
the State in 1861 was S24, 744, 1873; in
1865, $50, 227, $50; in 1870, S02, 32S, O99; in
in
in 1855, S24S, SAG, 81, and in 1890, $685.
459, 943. The property is assessed at
not more than One-fOurth of its real
value, which is estimated to be 81, $685.
S39, 772-
Henry Sherwood, of Girard, nged 6s,
is serving a term in the penitentiary as
the convicted murderer of a man named
Letcher, who was shot near Independ-
ence in 1879. His brothers have Sc
cured the affidavit of a man named
DOnnelly that Letcher made an ante
norton statement generating Sher-
wood, and are making efforts to secure
his pardon.
Miss Agnes Sommers, of Wichita,
discovered two masked men in the room
of her young brother the other night,
threatening to kill him unless he told
where the family kept their vaIuables.
She quietly procured a revolver and
enter-<g the room ordered them to
she sent bullet at them, which caused
the robbers to beat a hasty retreat,
closely pursued by another bullet
Charles, the fve-year-old son of
George Numa, living six miles west of
Wichita, climbed into the nay loft OF
the barn the other morning and set the
building on fire while playing with
matches His mother saw the barn in
flames and as she approached she heard
the screams of the child No one else
was about and the frantic mother made
three efforts to get to her child, but
was driven back by the flames after
being terribly burned The child was
burned to death.
The national conference TO be held in
Cincinnati May 10 for the purpose of
organizing a third party viii, it is pre-
dicted, contain an unlimited number OF
Representatives from Kansas The
Farmers Alliance, the Citizens Ali
ance aud Industrial Union, Farmers'
Mutual Benefit Association and Knights
Of Labor have already made provisions
for delegates to the mum Der OF ,. 500.
In addition Chairman Dunn bauld- OF the
peoples party. requests the appoint
ment of delegates, and the call con-
templates the appointment Of sS9 dele
gates bringing the grand total up to
more than 8, 900