The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-08-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Milton Wallace reccntIy fell from
train at Turner rupturiug the iutcs-
tines and causing death
The Topeka democratic dambeau club
has invited Senator Hin. of New York
TO visit Topeka this fall as a guest OF
the club.
The siz-year-old son of Conductor
Hugh s. Courtway fell from the bridge
spanning Mission creek at Horton the
other day and was drowned
The democratic congressional couven-
tiou of the Seventh district made Jerry
Simpson, peoples party candidate, also
the dcmucratic nominee for congress
Two tvvelve-year-old boys recently
got into a quarrel at Argentine when
one ~ them stabbed the other with a
pocket knife, iuhictiuT an ugly wound
A young man by the name of Ora
Fear, while driving home from Waverly
with load of lumber the other even
ing, was struck by lightning and he
and his team instantly killed
The ninth annual reunion of the de
partment of Kansas q. A. II. opened at
Wichita on the 10Th, and department
commander, A. r. Greene, pronounced
the attcupauge the largest he had ever
seen on an opening day.
James Kelly, aged IL years, son of j.
j. Kelly, of Atchison, who was acci-
dcntauy shot in the face by playmate
last March and frightfully disigured,
was sent to Roosevelt hospital, New
York. to have his face straightened- He
died under the operation
The republican state central COM
mittee has announced the places at
which the opening rallies win be held
as follows: First district, Uolton; Sec
oud, Otta wa; Third, Chanute; Fourth,
Emporia; Fifth, SalIua; Sixth, BeiOit,
and Seventh, Hutchinson.
a thief recently stole a bicycle from
"A LeavenworLh party and rode it into
! st. Joseph Mo, riding all night TO ac-
cQ1unlish the feat but the telegraph
F got ahead of him and he was arrested
as he proudly rode into the Missouri
city. His next ride will probably be to
. the peuitentiary-
! The laborcrs of the Kansas Salt Co.,
. who recently struck at Hutchinson Tor
an advance in pay, have issued cir
culur warming laborers not 10 go 20
Hutchinson, stating that the town is
full OF idle MEN, and that the work IS
too hard for ordinary laborers to en-
durc. Neither side seemed inclined to
yield
The Geld agent of the chjuch bug sta
tiou ut Lawrence has returned from a
. four weeks trip in Marion, Lyon, Nc
. Phersou and other counties in that vi
cinitv. The work of killing of the
lection is successful in about the same
per cent. as last year Farmers are
highly pleased with the workings.
The parade of the veterans at the
late eucanpueut at Wichita was "a very
credita utl affair, although, 1t is suidi at
least half of the old soldiers preferred
/ TO lie around under the shade OF the
| trees IN camp. Joe Hooker post, OF
/ hutchinson, carried Off the SiO0 silk
flag offered to the post having the
greatest number Of uniformed men In
line
Miners were lately much excited oven
n remarkable discovery OF lead ore OF
the st. Clair farm, three miles north OF
Empire City. The ore was discovered
10y some children while they were play
ing in ravine. Nuggets of high grade
Ealoua were picked mp from the surface
of the ground and they lay along the
bottom Of the ravine for quite dis
tauce,
John p. st. John opened the prohi
bitiou campaign at Topeka on the 16h
before about L, 800 people. He said the
people were now thinking for them
selves and the reception rendered him
or this visit to Top 'lsa was some differ
Cnt from the one he received when he
returned from his eastern trip after the
election la 1851 and found himself hang
ing in cfIigy on Kansas avenue.
Scveutv-five men employed as sCrapers
at the Hutchinson salt works struck re
. Gently. The men claimed that they
have for years been working twelve
I hours a day for SI.5O per day. when 10y
the laws Of the state ten hours is
/ days work. They demanded 10 cents
an hour for the extra two hours The
president of the company said that j.
. compelled to pay the advance demuude,
/ IL would close the works as salt woulJ
t nrrr7-a O.. II z.-.TI nj
The oat product of the state for thl
year ESg2 Is estimated bv SecretarI
Mohicr to be 80 92T.5f5 bushels. Chiucl
bugs are reported in all parts of th
state Ia some places they are uumeT
CUS, but up 20 the present time no grea
damage has been done. Corn adjacen
20 wheat fields has suffered most Man,
farmers of the state are testing Prof
Shows process of eSterminatinV bug
! by artihcialiy Spreading a fatal discas
3 among them, and generally the expert
ment is pronounced q success
The yards of che Santa Fe BaiIwa
, Co at Argentine were completed
blocked on the 18th Trains of freigh
cars extending from Argentine to Tu
} I ner. q distance of four miles, We're OK
( cupviug the main line and there was 10
q track room 20 get them out of the way
5 The great number OF cars was due Z
I tine heavy grain crop of Kansas, Whic
ln now moving gLAl-r EtHlltAH are
G { involved i'm the great blockade tn
D Union Pacific, it was said, had not don
q So large n business for twelve years
a number Of editors of eastern KuE
/ sas held an interesting and prohtabl
I meeting at Fort Scott the other da
i which resulted In the organization Z
] the Eastern Kansas Editorial assCcil
. ticn- The following officers OF the al
I sociati1u We're elected: President, ,
I I Prank smith. Pleasautou Observe
vile-presideuts. Charles +. Scott, Iol
Register. and j. b. Chapman. Fol
Scott Tribune; secretary, D. r Al
I thauyr Jr-, Leavenworth Times trea
urcr- Charles T. HarbauRh, Erie r
Z puhlicau-RecorL
4 The Fort Scott planning mill was q
Gently destroyed by fire The loss w
about so, 900; insured.
s. s. King, peoples party eandidat
!, for congress from the Second distric
has Withdrawn and the congressioni
a committee has iudorsed Col Moore, th
y democratic candidate
! Nellie Waiuright- a dissolute vvoma