The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-03-25

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miscellaneous.
The Fifth avenue hotel ut Topeka
was recently leased for u term of nine
ty-nine years
The secretary of war has issue "a gem
eral order for the establishment at
Fort Riley of a school Of instruction
and drill practice of light artillery.
The directors of the Peoples Savings
bank of Atchisou, which failed over
year ago, recently declared dividend
of twenty per cent which pays up the
dePOsitors in full, eighty per cent hav-
ing heretofore been paid at different
times
Fred Lance was caught between two
freight cars near the Santa Fs depot
at Emporia the other morning and
nearly cut in two, after which he was
dragged nearly a block. lie was in
the employ of the Santa Fe and was
prominent in the A. o. U. w. select
knights
The Kansas Salt Co, OF Hutchinson,
of which Jay Gould is understood to
be one of the largest Stockholders,
fled with the Kansas railroad commis-
siOners a complaint against all the
Kansas railroads, charging them with
discrimination in rates CE salt in favor
of the Michigan salt fields
Bert Burns, aged ten; Roxie Willie,
ten years, sons Of respectable people,
were arrested at Wichita the other day
for robbing three stores and starting
two fires. The money drawer in each
store was robbed and considerable
money secured by the youthful thieves
Frank Alexander, q young convict at
the penite ntiary, escaped the other day
and was captured about twenty miles
from the prison by a farmer in a half
famished condition. The young fellow
was a trusty and had only twenty days
to serve He was sent on an errand
and the temptation for him to leave
was too great for him to resist.
The Kansas freight rate fight has at
last been taken to the federal courts
An injunction was recently issued by
Judge Riner, in the United States dis
trict court at Wichita restraining the
railroads from putting into effect the
recent order of the railroad commits
sioners in regard to the rates on sugar,
| coffee, beans and canned goods
The cost of main: aiaiug thc various
churi able institutions Of the state fOr
February wa: Institute for edUCntion
OF the blind, 81, 334 81; deaf and dumb
( asylum, s8, 750 IS; Osawatomie insane
asylum, So. 19G. Os; idiotic and imbecie
4 asylum, 81, ,G3I. 40; industrial school for
/ girls, Sg49 -; soldiers orphans homs,
! 81, 5T2 80; reform school, 81, 915. 80; To-
/ Pella insane asylum, s.. G5S.t7.
| The Womau's Suffrage association,
recently in session at Fredonia, elected
| officers as follows; President, Mrs Nell
| lie Case; Weep president, Mrs. William
/ OulSfOrd: secretary, Mrs James NJ.
| Kennedy; cores spondiug secre tary,
I Mrs S. s. Kirkpatrick; treasurer, Mrs.
/ II. C. Singleton Addresses were made
/ by Mrs Laura NJ Johns, Mrs. Jennie
! Shelby Boyd, Miss Florence Belagardy
| and others
| The experiments of Melbourne in
| Kansas have left an unexpected crop
OF rainmalSers who claim 10 have dis
/ covered his secret, aud who are now
| ready to suPplaut irrigation Two
I companies have been incorporated and
/ have proposed to make contracts with
counties at 5000 a county, engaging to
secure from one to two inches of rain
under each contract, These companies
will sell the secret at s., 500 per
county.
The general freight department of
/ the Union Pacific railway has compiled
a statement OF the acreage and condi-
tiou of winter wheat in the counties in
/ Kansas through which the road runs.
The statement shows that the acreage
IN the thirty-two counties traversed by
| the road is 1, Az, 600, an increase of
100, 600 over last years acreage In
I ten counties the condition is given Is
/ excellent; very coed in three; fine in
/ five; fair in i've, and good in nine
The charter of the Leavenworth
! Electric Railway Co. has been filed
/ with the secretary Of state The OBJ
/ ject of the corporation Is ''the build
| ing buying, owning and operating a
| street railway or railways within the
| Incorporated limits of the city Of
| L.eavenworth and from said city to
| Fort Leaveuworth, aud the soldiers
home and town of Lansing, and from
| said city of LeavenEorth to the su b.
| urbs thereof" The estimated length
/ of the lines OF the railway is fifteen
miles and the capital stock $500, OOO-
The agitation of the question of rail-
/ road tariffs in Kansas IS causing an un-
/ usual number of complaints to be for
/ varded to the state board of railroad
| commissioners for investigation and
| adjustment.
Ike Wiley, a burglar well known
1 from St Louis to the Pacific, was
/ caught at Wichita the other morning
/ while entering a building with all his
tools ready for work. He is wanted in
sevesaI places
The police OF Kansas City, Kan
( rsided the gambling houses at the state
line the other night and raked in four
/ proprietors and 125 others who were in
| attendance
/ The island In the Missouri river a
/ short distance north OF Atehison is be
/ ing rapidly cut away by the current OF
! the stream The land is in cultivation
and has farm houses and other i'm
! provements upon It.
Charles Norris. a barber. was found
| dead in his bed at Pittsburgh the other
I morning. His death was caused by
| morphine taken with suicidal intent
/ He leaves q wife and child
An the cases sFainst the parties
charged with killing Sheriff Dunn vvero
nOllsd At Springfield, it having been
found impossible e sseurs q jury in
] the county