The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-08-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

niugs in gambling house at Atchis0E
the other night Both are coIored-
Kansas City Kan, is 6Euring on Sc
curing the location of the new Methodist
Protestant university which the church
1n the west proposes TO build
DR.. +. T. ingalls,, "a brother of eE-Seu-
auor Ingalls, and prealdGut OF Drury
college at Springfield Mo-, died i'm that
city on August after q brief Illness
Mrs Groves, wife OF W. H. Groves, a
well known farmer living near EmuE
ham, took q dose of strychuius the other
night and died before the arrival of q
physician When asked why she took
the poison she said she did not want 90
be talked about
Col n. A. English one of the -origi-
nal settlers of Wichlta, died suddenly
the other morning OF congestion of the
stomach He was out driving the day
before apparently all right He came
from LeavcuWorth in 1859 and Wichita
Is now built all over the land he settled
upon.
David aud Mary Martin, father and
mother of George w. Martin, of the
Kansas City, kan, Gazette died recent
ly at their farm near Lecompbou. with-
I'm few hours of each other. Mr.. Mar
tin was rs and his wife ~ years old
They died on the farm Mr.. Martin pre-
empted thirty-sevcu years ago
The body of the young man found
hanging ut the Fort Leavenworth mill
tary reservation has been identified as
that of Solomon Bernstein, of Atchisou.
He was lately coudned in the Topeka
insane asylum, from which place he es-
capped. bernstein was from one Of the
best Hebrew families of Atchisou-
The body OF young man about 25
years old was found hanging from
limb in a bunch OF trees on the Fort
LeavenwCrth military reservation the
other day. The surroundings indicated
that he committed suicide. The only
articles found on his person were
chloroform and a memorandum which
failed to disclose his iudentity-
Attorney-Geueral Ives has written
another letter, in which no says that
the iuterpre tation put on his recent
opinion relative to the state inspection
law is entirely erroneous and that i'm
Epectors from the state of Missouri or
any place VINO attempt to inspect grain
ON Kansas soil without qualifying uu,
der the Kansas law should be promptly
dealt with.
Secretary EIohler said recently that
so far as he could Judge at present time
the probability is the corn crop will
be the largest ever produced In Kansas
Additional reports from the wheat hur-
vest Indicate that the secretary's csti-
the actual product at least lo,Ooo,C00
bushels making "a total yield OF over
5O,OO0, coo bushels in the state
The other day can of gasoline upon
the platform above the well on q. $.
Phillips place near Newton, was over
turned by pigs and the gasoline ran in
TO the well. Next day the well was
pumped out and Phillips dropped a
match into the veutlator. An eEplO-
sion followed and Phillips was badly
burned and the sight of one eye serious
ly injured. Mrs Phillips, who stood
further away. VAS also severely burned
The colored emancipation day cele-
1bratc at Leavenworth wound up with
two cutting scrapeE- A colOreu soldier
from the fort named Jones Bass, put
iu an appearance Mt the hall where the
festivities were held and was so insult
ing that william Hawkins, colored, a
special policeman, attempted to eject
him While doing so Bass suddenly
drew ont a dagger and stabbed Hlw-
lrins twice. In the next attray William
Bailey, Colored. stabbed his sister-iu-
law, Mrs. Ishans, with "a long knife in
the left abdomen iudictiug a supposed
fatal wound Bailey was intoxicated
at the time
The July report of the state board
of ugFiCult ture shows an increased
acreage iu the three leading crops
of the state, wheat corn and oats.
The increase in winter wheat is G.8S
per cent, spring wheat 1o4 per cent,
making the actual wheat acreage 8, ,I1s,-
66A The increased acreage in corn
Is "a, making the acreage 5,5g4, sOT.
The oats acreage is 1,Gla, T8Er an in
crease of over "a per cent The corn has
been greatly injured 10y drought es-
pecialy in the central corn belt and
in the southern and southwestern
-a q HrHHn-
ont the eastern parts of the state is in
first-Cias8 condition. Corn Is later
than usual. and good crop conditions
from now on may make a comparative
ly good crop where almost a total fall
ure is now feared
All Harper county was recently in an
uproar over the alleged abduction of
one of the county commissioners and
the attempted carrying Off of q second
member, 1t was the day on which the
board of county commissioners was to
meet and levy "a tax to cover county
railroad bonds to the amount of Gl10,-
600 long overdue, and which it is
claimed are fraudulent The people.
through the commissioners, fought the
payment of the bonds through every
court, and finally the supreme court
ordered that they be paid The story
is that Commissioner Farmer was
carried or by q body of masked men
while another party attempted 60 carry
Off Commissioner IerrilL AS result
no levy was made. The bonds were
voted q score of years ago, when first
the county was organized. 90 some rail-
road company that built a few miles of
road, soda the bonds, then tore up the
line and left the country
Eighteen insane old veterans were re
Gently taken from the soIdiers' home 20
Washington, D. c.. for treatment It
IS stated that the number of old veter-
ans who lose their reason at the
soldiers home Is very large, and squads
of them are taken % the national iu-
sane hospital at Washington several
times year
Secretary Mohler, Of the state board
Of agriculture, has recently received re-
ports from every county iu the corn
belt, showing that the corn crop is in
first class condition Heavy rains came
just iu time TO prevent damage by hot
winds, and the crop IS now believed &c
be out OF danger
forty r=ar7sr 1rf lean r4rTfHs== of the