The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-01-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

fire IN Sparks Brcs-- mule Market i
at the Kansas City stock yards, the /
other morning erenated three hundred /
mules and fourteen valuable horses /
Loss about $4,000
Nelson Abbott, founder OF the Atch- I
isOn Patriot, died at Oswego of pneu- ]
mcnis the other night aged 81 years /
He was editor Of the Oswego States 1
man at the time of his death
7. r. Pates. a Topeka book agent, I
was recently found guilty OF forgery ia I
the district court OF Shawnee county
He raised a check from I've dollars to I
five hundred dollars and had it cashed. I
Fire at Wichita the other day con-
sumed the residsnce Of IL. d. Heiser-
man. The loss was put at s22, 600, with
$4,000 insurance The sane day the
Saratoga hotel was burned Loss,
eI4, 90.
In reply to an inquiry from the
supsrintendent of insurance Attorney
General Ives gives an opiniou that uu-
der the laws of Kansas mutual IRE iu-
surance companies cannot insure school
houses
The Union Pacific road paid taxes TO
the state for the year ended june 30,
1891, to the amount of Si65, 53I- -95 The
condemned Kansas Central branch
showed "a deficit in operating expenses
of SOS. 744.47.
The ive-year-oId son Of Mr. and AIRS.
Marshall Belden, of Kansas City, kan,
was scalded to death the other day by
falling into tub of boiling water that
the mother left for a few minutes
standing on the floor.
Miss Minnie Nixon, station agent OF
the Union Pacific road at Bonner
Springs, was recently confronted by a
rObbcr while she was alone in the
ticket office and robbed of 500. The
thief escaped without being identified
LEhars eFna lanes
men, the slayer of Coz. S. N Wood, was
recently called at Hugotou- Attorney
General Ives announced that the state
| was convinced that IL could not secure
l an unprej judiCed jury in Stevens coun-
/ ty, where the killing took place, and
moved to dismiss the case without pref
udice.
James Smith, OF SedgvyicIr county.
| went to Kansas City the other day, got
/ full, raised a rumpus at q thcater
and when an officer undertook to ar
| rest him he drew his revolver and
emptied it. but fired with bad aim. He
was fined $500 in police court and in de-
/ fault of payment given twe.ve months
/ in the local bastile-
/ A young woman, giving the name Of
/ HOwells and claiming TO be from Sa-
/ lima, who ia company with her alleged
husband had been at the Commercial
hotel at Wichita for "a week, was ar
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| systematically robbiag the guests OF
/ the house. In her trunk was found a
| number of stolen articles.
! W. w. Reynolds was instantly killed
/ by an electric wire at Wichita the other
/ evening. He was passing down a
| strange stairway and seeing loose
/ wire caught hold OF it The shock
/ threw him a considerable distance, and
| though the persons who saw the acci-
! dent picked mp the victim within a few
| seconds. he was dead, with the wire
! still grasped in his hand
| The Chicago express on the Santa Ee
/ was wrecked at Newton the other
! morning The engine broke a switch
/ rod in passing over it and the tender
and the mail, baggage and smoking
| cars were thrown OFF the track The
/ mail car fell on one side at right angles
/ with the track, the trucks We're torn of
/ and the car otherwise demolished W.
! +. Jones had several ribs broken.
W. c. Carroll, a tin-horn gambler
! was recently arrested at Leavenworth
/ and taken to Fort Scott on the charge
Of committing fOrgeries and obtaining
| money on false pretenses- He has sub
| stautiHl relatives, who tried to fix
amounting to $780, but when the officer
presented third for 5000 they refused
to put mp, and he will be allowed to
stand trial for his misdeeds.
Jim Burwell, charged with completely
in the recent express robbery at
Lcnora, broke out of the Norton
county Jail the other night, stole q
| horse and escaped, leaving the juiler,
who attempted to stop him, locked in a
/ cell minus his keys and revolver Bur
/ we'll started southwark, and as he is a
desperate man aud knows every hill
and valley in western Kansas, the
probabilities are that he will reach the
. I Indian Territory in safety.
! The board of railroad commissioners
lately turned over to the state treas
uTer the scrip taken by them for seed
, grain furnished the farmers of western
, Kansas under the act Of the last legis'
iaturs. Seed grain amounting TO S5#,'
sIO.5T was distributed among the vari-
Gus counties of the state. The com
mtssiouers took the obligations Of the
counties in the form of the scrip turned
over to the treasurer aud the coul-
ties hold the notes OF the farmers 70
whom grain was supplied
p Attoruey-General Ives has instructed
/ the various county treasursrs OF the
state to collect from the Pullman Pal
, | ace Car Co. penalties and interest a
. the rate Of so per cent per aunum OF
/ all unpaid personal taxes. -Four ycar
/ ago the Pullman company enjoiued the
treasurers of the various Kansas coun
ties in which they operate from collect
ing personal taxes from that company
The United States court has decided il
. favor of the counties aud the Kansas
, statutes authorize the so per cent pen
/ atty which the attorney-gener directs
the treasurer to collect This will af
2 | feet sixty Kansas counties and wi.
\ amount in all 70 about $780, 0CO-
A convict hanged himself with his
suspeuders in his cell at the Peniteu
, tiary the other night It Is stated tha
! an invesL Ligatiou viii be made Severn
days before the mau asked TO be e2c
= cused, as he said he was iil, but vat
{ 1 refused At night he was put in sh'
e dark hole" for insubOrdinatiou, vheE
f [ he declared he would not come ON
? alive, and during the night hanged him
self
e steps have been taken by the at
/ tornsy-generaI 70 disorganfzs GarficIt
s county. The county has a population
2 of less than 2, 600 and is $50, 600 40 debt
: while the assessed valuation OF prop
i erty is only $4,000.