The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-06-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS

city, has fifty acres of tomatoes
Prof Ejellztrand, OF Liudsborg COLI
ieges has accepted a call to Yale
Five coyotes were shot recently by a
party of hunters near Fort Dodge.
The venerable father of the late Sen
ator Plumb has left for California on a
visit.
The AgOra Magazine is soon to be
printed in Topeka It's old home was
SaIina.
John Davis was renomiuated Tor con
gress by the peoples party of the Fifth
district.
Apples are a failure in many parts Of
Eastern Kansas. Small fruits are
abundant
The stoclzyards company at Kansas
City has bought seven acres additional
land adjoining.
An immense throng of visitors at
tended the Turner's encampment ut
Bismarck grove
Nearly fifty Indian mounds have been
discovered on the farm of Daniel Ham
ley, near Sumner.
a grain blockade has been caused at
Atchison by recent excessive shipments
of Kansas farmers.
Democrats of the Second district have
nominated Col H. L. Moore, of Law
renee, for congress.
At Arkansas City a soda fountain was
sold the other day for SL2O-by two
boys who had stolen it
Between 5000 and 0,UO1 insurance
agents viii be licensed this year by the
state insurance commissioner
An organization of German voters
has been effected 1t is called the Ger
nan-Americau State association
Miss Mary Abar, a newspaper woman
well kuOwa In Kansas is city editor of
the Appeal-Avalanche at Memphis.
Atohison school teachers for the fut-
ure are to be paid. according to the
amount of experience they have had
Edward W. Everett is the new post
master of Olpe, Lyon county, and Cyrus
Moore of ShibbOleth, Decatur county
A. G. Stacey has been nominated To
pelza correspondent for the Atchisou
Champion under the new management.
Commencement at the Normal col
lege, Fort Scott, was reported to be the
most successful IN the history OF the
college.
Charles Mckinney, q colorcd man, 28
years of age, was drowned nine miles
east OF Lawrence while trying to swim
across NVaizarusu creek.
A Wichita girl recently lost a dia-
mond brooch that was presented to her
great-grandfather by Napoleon Bona
parte, so the Eagle says.
a tweuty-four foot ditch wall fell in
on Leon Fleming and William Wade at
Topeka Both were rescued after an
hours strenuous eEertions.
Mayor Hacker, of Leaveuworth, him
self arrested a boy for furiously riding,
after the latter had knocked down aud
seriously injured little girl.
Rev. a. Fl. Tevis succeeded in getting
his church at Kansas City admitted into
the Methodist Protestant denomination
A new edidce is under consideration.
John D. Sparks, aged so, went in
bathing at the Dexter dam, Clay Center
His clothes remaining on the bank af-
forded knowledge OF his being drowned
j. NJ. [uigh5, a Topeka undertaken,
wants 500, 600 damages from the under
takers combine of that city, alleged to
have been prosecuting him because he
was not q member.
Rumor was rife that the Leavenworth
Terminal Railway and Bridge Co. had
declared its contract with the Missouri
Valley Bridge Co. of, and had entered
into a contract with the Union Bridge
Co., of New York, to construct the new
steel bridge across the Missouri river at
LeavenwOrth.
A colony of Russian jews viii settle
in Edwards county this summer The
| Dodge City Globe tells of a colony that
came to Ford county a few years ago,
poor as church mice, and says that the
mem bers of the community are all yvea
to do farmers to-day, and are sending
aid to others in Russia
Eighty-fOur students graduated from
the state university this year, divided
among the different departments as fol-
lows: Science and arts, 25; law, 29i
music, IS; pharmacy, s, and masters
/ degrees, Q. Attendance reached G25, not
| including $50 in the university extern
! sion department 1t was most pros
| porous yeSr for the university.
II. II. Woolsey, mayor of Eingman.
| has been arrested charged with violut-
! ing the law of Kansas requiring public
/ officials to give the preference in their
/ appointments to old soldiers There
has been considerable feeling among
J old soldiers and the mayor for some
/ time, and this is the elimination of it
/ The law is generally ignored through
/ out the state, and it is probable this ef-
| fort to make it operative Will be of no
/ avail
! Suit was brought ia the district court
/ bp the city of Topeka to revoke the
/ franchise of the Topeka Water Co. The
! petition alleges that the water company
/ has not complied with its contract with
! the city, which provides that the city
| shall pay SIS, 600 for 500 hydrauts, and
/ that the water company shall furnish
/ free all the other hydrants necessary for
. A4lG CITY $ use 1boGL %45A4L-g L--oA-t44z
{ ago the water compauy's plant and
/ franchise was sold by Joab Mulvane to
/ a syndicate of New York bankers for a
/ quarter of a million dollars
No little excitement was created at
! Wichita by the discovery that C. Reed.
/ judge of the district court, had been
challenged to fight a duel by J. n.
I Bird, a prominent attorney The trouble
originated over uncomPlimentary words
In court
Eiuety-tvyo refunding bonds Of Scott
county Of $500 each have been exam
ined in the office OF the state superin-
/ tendeut of public instruction with a