The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-10-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Prairie fires have done considerable
lamuge In western Kansas They yvers
gsusTally started by sparks from loco
motives.
Edward Brent a steam filter, was
caught ia the machinery OF the Phu8uiE
packing house at Armourdale aud in-
stantly killed
The seventh annual convention of the
Young Womeu's Christian association
of Kansas convened at Topeka on the
18th and was in session several days
The liverymuu who shot three OF the
Dalton gang at Coffeyville was not
Jim Spears" as there is no such per
son there, but the real name of the
bandit eNtermiuutor Is John j. EIoehr,
a German and member of the local gun
club.
Judge Theodosius Botziu has pre-
sented his resignation TO Gov, Hum
phrey as judge of the Thirty-sscond
[ judicial district, and william Eas5ou
Hutchinson an attorney, of Ulysses,
| Grant county, has been appointed 90
succeed him
Guiiiord Dudley, "a banker and one OF
/ the weaIrhiest citizens of Topeka, was
recently arrested for violating the state
| banking law. Mr. Dudley denies the
/ right of anybody to inquire into his pri-
/ vate affairs and proposes to test the va
+ idity of the law.
j. S. Bryant, travelling man, is iu
+ Jail at Wichita charged with bigamv.
/ He had one wife at Winfield and au-
F other at Wichita He quarrcIod with
/ one wife and she sued for divorce The
/ other wife read the proceedings and
p had him arrested
/ Tt is now thought that Emmett Dali
ton, the wounded CoHeyviIIe bandit
. viii recover. The express companies
have agreed to pay handsomely TO the
mi Hr#a- IL nr UHHN
6ght though there was no outstanding
/ reward for the Daltous.
Fred Baszett, son of Judge %. A. Bas-
scttr of Lawrence, shot W. %. Higgins
and John Craycroft, students at the
university the other day because they
crossed his fathers yard contrary TO his
. orders. They will recover Young
Bassett. who is only Is years old was
arrested
Jack Dougherty drank eighteen
glasses of whisky within five minutes
at Leavcuworth the other afternoon on
"a wager and then asked for more, which
was refused him He got up ON chair
and danced "a jig to show that he was
all right Halt AN hour later Duugherty
was carried home and died next morn
ing.
Mrs. Sarah Milne, an elderly lady,
has burned to death at Newton the
/ Dther night She was going into her
Bellar with lamp in her hand and at
I the foot of the stairs tripped and fell,
the lamp breaking into fragments and
setting her clothes atre- No one was
/ in the house with her, save a four-year-
old granddaughter.
The tvveuty-hfth annual meeting of
] the Kansas academy of science con-
I veued in Atchisou on the 18th The as
/ Hociation was organized at Topeka
/ twenty-five years ago upon the call of
q r-HH
members then, but it has been holding
! annual sessions ever since In the larger
[ cities OF the state and ituow has mem-
bership of over 100
When judge Anderson sentenced
! Thomas Monroe to the pcniteutiary at
! Kansas City, Kan, the other day his
| wife, who was sitting by his side, at
tempted to give him the contents of 2
small vial of poison which she took
from the pocket of her dress. Monroe
was an Armourdale barber who owned
"a vicious dog that bit policeman. The
officer shot the dog and Monroe shot
the officer, inhicting an ugly wound
! Operator Mosier was taking "a short
nap in the Santa Fe depot at Winfield
the other night, when he was suddenly
punched in the ribs and told TO straight
en- up. He did so and looked squarely
into two revoIvers, held by masked meu.
The cash drawer was then broken open
/ and robbed of its contents amounting
[ TO only s2J. An attempt was made to
/ open the safe but did not succeed Some
persons waiting Tor "a late train were
/ searched but nothing was secured from
Them.
The four huudredth auuiversary of
the discovery of America 10y Columbus
was observed in all the cities of the
I state by the Catholic churches on the
/ 18th at LeavenWorth the Catholic 500
cieties, the different congregations
children of the parochiaI schools, % de-
tachmeat of soldiers from Fort Leaveu-
! worth and 200 veterans from tine sol
/ diers home Joined i'm the observance OF
I the day. Fully 2rU1O people partici-
pated i'm the street parade, At the ca
thedrul poutidcal high mass was cele
brated by Bishop Fink,
The grand lodge j. O. o. F., recently
i'm session at Fort Scott, elected the fol-
l lowing officers for the ensuing year
Isl. w. Pond, of Fort Scott, grand mas
teri j. A. Campbell, of Severance, depu-
. ! ty grand MASTER William Glenn cd
Tribune, grand vvardcni john Bright
of Topeka grand sccreUary5 L. @. stiue
of Ottawa, grand treasurer william
Matthewsou, of Wichita, was elected
] grand representative 60 the supreme
lodge The Bossicre endowment for
an Odd Fellows orphans home, which
consists of a tract of land 3, 1856 acres iu
extent situaued near Ottawa improved
by buildings to the value of e11,O 600,
about 525 head of cattle, $50 head OF
horses and $50 head of hogs, was ac.
cepted-
Secretary AIohler says that according
to the reports from milIers. the wheat
of this years crop viii average about
ziStg-tVEC pounds TO the busheL Last
years crop only averaged 6fty-eighi
pounds making difference of fom
pounds between the crops
The case against j. W. BriedeuthaI
chairman of the peoples party state
central committee who was ARRESTED
for Illegal banking, was dismissed V7her
called for trial
The dykes and riprapping along the
east bank of the Missouri river al
AtcEiaou- which cost the government
$3.50, 600, have been badly damaged b.
the frequent changes i'm the current
7 The corner stone Of the church of the
I Sacred Heart En- ateHf=--r was laid rHr