The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-03-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

4nOHlaS WhGbSons q brakeman 16lA
| from box car at Kansas City, Kan,
the other day and had his head cut OF
by the train
During a storm at Topeka the other
morning an electric light wire fell and
caught a carriage driven by J. II. Wood
ford One Of the horses was instantly
killed and WOOdford was knocked
senseless-
Thomas Perry, eighteen years old,
attempted TO cross the Necsho river in
a boat. near Emporia the other day
and was carried over the waterworlzs
! dam and drowned The body was
/ found several days after.
Tho supposed gold find north Of
/ AtchisOn has turned out to be vein of
! galeua- A great deal of land in the
I vicinity has been leased, aud an iuves-
I tigatiou to learn the extent Of the vein
/ is now being made. Samples of the
! ore show a very large per cent. of
/ lead.
| A new born babe was left on the
/ steps of the convent at Atchisou the
| other morning. 1t was In a basket, to
| which was attached a note in which
! the writer, representing herself as a
/ silly, sinful girl of sixtee n years, asked
/ that the mother superior should take
4 care of the babe
/ The heating apparatus of a smoking
] car on Il Santa Fe train exploded east
] OF 1OpGhl the OL4lGL Hl84AL Win a Ter
/ rifle crash, piIing all the passengers
. and seats in a heap and completely de-
| mOlishing the car, Every one in the
/ car was more or less injured, Altman
/ Richards ami Alexander Erickson, OF
! Topeka, perhaps fatally.
! TIE ministerial delegates to the
! general conference elected by the Kan
| sas annual conference, lately in ses-
/ sion at Kansas City, Kan, are: Rev.
| G. S Dearborn, of Topeka; Rev. J. W
/ Alderman, of Atchis7u, and Rev. S. e
J PendletOn, of HoltOn- The altsrn ates
are Rev. j, A. LipPiucott, of Topeka,
/ and Rev. W. a. Quayle, of Baldwin
. City. Lay delegates, d. C. NewcOmb,
| Atchison; T. B. Sweet, Topeka
At Leon the other day Otis Tabing
/ and Mason Morris got into a quarrel,
and as TRbing is only seventeen years
( old his father took it up. After con-
| siderable quarreiug between Morris
and Tabiug, the former drew a revOl-
| yer and the latter secured a shotgun.
Tabing grabbed the gun and a scufhe
| ensued, during which the Tabing boy
| grabbed his fathers pistol and shot
/ Morris four times. from the effects OF
which he soon died
The mayor of Kansas City, No, re-
/ ceived a letter from q man in Jewell
! county, Kan, the other day telling the
( story that the writer is WidOwer
/ forty-seveu years old, with two girls,
| twins, of seventeen years; that he is
| drawing pension of $40 per month
! and able to support wife, and he
| writes the humane society or the mayor
| to let him know Of good woman for a
wife, as where he lives there are two
| men to one woman"
Senator PETER has presented to the
| senate a petition from Kiova and other
western counties asking the govern
| ment to make an appropriation for
-
l forth that it has been fully demonstrate
ed that the soil of western Kansas.
with the aid of water, is not inferior to
/ the best lands IN the United States in
fertility, and therefore it is the duty of
the government to make a liberal aP-
preparation for the purpose of estab-
fishing a system Of irrigation in vest
ern Kansas and other states
The report of the state superintend-
ent of insurance gives in detail the
business of the twenty-nine life insur-
auce companies operating in Kansas in
the year 1891. The total number of
/ policies in force at the commencement
of the year was 1918; number added
during the year, s, $40; in force at end
| of the year, 2l, 900 The total amount t
/ of policies in force at the commence
ment Of the year was $50, $50, $780, writ
ten during the year, S11 OOS O39i in
force at end of year, $40, OI5, 947. Pre-
o I
paid, S317 924-54
The wholesale grocers OF the Mis-
| souri, valley have changed their plans
in their fight against the rates recently
ordered On sugar, beans, coffee and
canned goods, by the Kansas railroad
J commissioners, and recently fled a
J suit in the district court at Atchison 20
annuI the order Of the commissioners,
made March 8, 1892, on the grounds
that it is a discrimination in favor OF
interior Kansas jObbing points and IN
violation of the state and Interstate
commerce laws The court granted a
temporary injunction restraining the
commissioners from putting the rates
l in effect, and also restraining the rail-
roads from obeying the order
A statement prepared by the secre-
tary of the board Of railroad cOmmis-
sjoners shows the earnings Of the varf-
GUS railroads operating in Kansas for
the year 1891. The Santa F'e passenger
traffic earnings per mile of road were
3 81, ST3. o.; on freight traffic. So, 74O. OSi
Rock Islands passenger earnings per
mile of road. 81, ESQ. 50; freight earnings,
So. .29T. 81 The Union Pacific earned
s. T9I.SI from passenger traff1ce per
mile Of line and from freight, 81, sos IS.
The Missouri Pacfc's passenger earn
/ ings for each mile of road amounted to
81, O94- Os; freight earnings. s., 800 50.
The summary OF all the roads reporting
to the Kansas commissioners shows
that 20, ,6IS 93S passengers were carried
: an average distance of 4. Ts9 miles.
The grand eBssmpment, L O. o. F.,
recently in session at LeavenvVorth,
elected H. E Pyle, OF Mcpherson,
grand patriarch; Ed T. Rees, Of Lesv-
envorth, grand scribe, and Col Thomas
Moonlight, OF Leavenvorth, grand rep
ressntGtiye. The next grand encamp-
ment viii be at Concortia-
Michael O'Brien, q Santa Fe section
boss. was found dying On the track
near Cheney the other night He was
out with a hand car and the lever hit
I him in the side, causing death
A heavy snow storm visited portions
Z OF northwestern Kansas on the Tth-
The snow was reported to be ten inches
deep at several points
, John Foss. aged o., and Msa. EIizs
Wood. aged a. were recently married
1 at Clifton by the probate judge OF
: Washington county Ar. EOss served
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