The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-01-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS

Charils, the eighteen-yenr-Oid son OF
Rev NJ. 81 Havvn, OF Sedgwica City,
was recently killed while hunting by
the accidental discharge of his gun
The convention OF the Kansas FEEDER
alton of Labor recently ia session at
Hutchinson, elected officers as follows
Presideu- IL n Ives, Of fopslzas drst
viee-president, Frank Finn, of NFichitas
/ second vice-presidsnt David Ec-les, of
Hutehius1n5 secretary, A d. Bowers
/ of Topeka treasurer. s. Z Lain
Frank Topash, a half breed Indian
was recently found dead near the rail-
/ road track a short distance west OF
| Topeka It is supposed that ha fell
from a train and was killed while on
| his way TO Topeka to attend court Ills
| body was found by the men OF a freight
I train that followed some hours behind
/ the passenger
/ Shortly after midnight recently Peter
/ Hinton, a cattle inspector. was shot and
/ killed in the streets of Arkansas City.
/ He had been in row in a gam bling
room and 1T was supposed that John
/ Boucher, a gam bier, followed him to
/ the street and killed him Boucher
was found at his home with his hand
/ badly cut and was arrested.
/ No more serious outbreak is re-
| ported from the war in Stevens aud
| Seward counties The militia were
/ preserving order, and while Judge
| Botlzin was reported to-bs Ia imminent
! danger no further attempt upon his
! life had been made. Six persons sup
! posed to have been connected with the
/ assassination of Sheriff Damn had been
/ arrested, and all manner Of sensational
/ rumors were afiOat
r. ID. jameson, who seems 20 have
! several aliases, and who had Lecn
working the merchants OF the country
/ towns in Missouri by selling them
Iy.sr- n ID. s.-
! which he has no interest. was lately
arrested at Wichita on complaint of the
| Albany, No, police and taken back to
answer a long list of charges from diff
! ferent places in Missouri. A letter sent
! by Jameson's wife from Cameron, No,
to Robert d. Hobbs, Wichita, was capt
ured by the police and led to the arr
| rest
Chancellor Snow, OF the state uui-
versity, has issued his meteorological
| summary for 1891 from observations
taken during the year. The year was
marked by an abundant aggregate
rainfall, although the distribution was
uneven, four months Of excess-April.
May, June and July-being fol-
lowed by four months of de-
ficiency- The entire fall was
43. 81 inches rs inches above the
annual average. The year was made
mcteOrolOgicaily memorable by having
the coolest summer on the record and
by being the only year in which tho
temperature failed 70 go to the zero
point
William Ehrhart, teacher OF a school
four miles north of Topeka, was at
tackled by three of his scholars the
other afternoon after school aud re-
ceived injuries which were considered
of serious nature The leader
of the boys is son of George
Eistler, a prominent Shawnee couu-
ty citizen. The boys threw Ehr-
5 hart down on the floor, struck him over
the head with an iron poker and cut
his throat with pocket-kniFe- The
trouble was said to have gown out OF
the attempt Of the teacher to keep the
boys in as a punishment for a violation
5 of the rules
Mrs. Matilda Sebboyer died at Argeu,
tine the other day from the effects OF
burns which she received while ziud-
ling a ere in her cook stove the previous
o morning. Mrs. Sebboyer attempted T.
2 start fire and procuring can of Goa
oil, poured a large quantity of it into
s the stove When she touched a matca
{ to the oil the blaze flashed out and
2 her dress caught Ere. She was soon en-
: / veloped in flames and ran wildly about
! | the house screaming AMI in great
q / sgony- Her husband ran to her assist
/ ! ance and in smotherinE the ham IS wa
I | himself burned severely about the face
l / and one arm. She was only twenty
e | four years of age
10 A Wichita special declares that q
. / prominent Santa Fe official is authority
= / for the statement that the MOntezumJ
= / branch of the Atchison system will bj
' abandoned in the spring and the mate
a rial will be used TO put in the link in
( the Wichita & Western necessary {,
connect the road with tho Santa Fen
L main line at Dodge City. The 5In
= pietion of this link viii naturally
throw the east and west traffic ovei
. the St Louis 81 San Francisco, as tn,
@ distance through Kansas viii be short
!. ened over one hundred miles, aad St
e Louis aud Wichita VII then get tn,
l. travel and freight which is now goinl
r through Kansas City. Wichita will, i
5, is stated, get the headquarters of tn
= Frisco's Kansas line, and also of tn
3 Gulf division of the Santa Fe system.
= The state board of railroad com N is
.e sioners recently decided that a lOcalit
" cannot demand additional train servic
D. from railroad company on account o
T. having voted municipal aid TO the ruu
4 at the time of its construction Thi
- ruling is made in the case brought b.
a. the citizens of Lindsborg against tin
J Union Pacific railway, but while tn
It board declines to justify the increase o
r service on the plea of municipal aid,
r, holds that the added service is due tn
= puDlle as a reSDLaulG ana Just AGl4laLl
y to meet the needs of the people uion
: the line aud to prevent disadvantag
~ and loss to the people OF Linds borg
D. The Union Pacific is therefore Ordere'
to put on u passenger train daily, cN
cept Sunday, in addition TO the preseu
service on this branch of tho road
Mary Jones, fourteen years old, wa
~ recently arrested at Kansas City Kan
y upon the request of her parents an
Ia given over tn the authorities of ia
- House of the Good Shepherd. he
$. yvayvyardness caused her parents an
7- amount of trouble ard she dnuu
" Threatened to poison the whole fanu
= which resulted in her being put undc
70 restraint
s. The nine-year-old son of n. G. Shir
o. man, OF Salina, who was visiting reij
X tives in Lawrence, went with one
Z, his cousins to school ID that city a
! other morning aud started back aloul
re The child got lost and all efforts TO in