The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-02-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

teacher in Seward county, was recently
killed by legal liquor Peddlers in
Alaska.
The report OF the warden of the pen
itentiary for January Shows that the
total expenditure for the month. ez-
elusive of permanent improvements,
was 50, $50 81; cash receipts, IS. 052. n;
leaving but s19s o. to be drawn from
the state to Pay current expenses
A fire at Larned the other night
wiped ont property valued at SIPS, coo.
o. The heaviest losers were n. 5. Sunder-
land, who lost three business houses
and a stock of clothing all valued at
$50, 600; insurance, $4,000, and Louis
Wolf dry goods, whose loss was $50, 600
with insurance of So, O00-
The Kansas intercollegiate oratorical
contest took place at Topeka the other
night and resulted in q victory for J.
L Pastor, of Wash burn college. To
Peka; subject, After the ShacIsIes
Have Been Removed j. NJ ChaIIis,
Of the state. university, took second
Pla e. Eight colleges were represented
Joseph J. SPeBdlove, who had so long
been fighting in the courts of Shawnee
county against the verdict of two juries
at different times sending him to
the penite ntiary and was out on bail,
surrendered to the officers after the
decision OF the supreme court and was
taken to Lansing to serve his term of
fifteen years
Charles +. johnson, state bank com
missioner, has compile ted his report Of
the condition of Kansas banks for
the year ended June ., 1871. The total
resources of III private and POS state
banks is So, 449, 5G3 81. Commissioner
johnson stated that comparison of
reports shows that the banks are rap
idly decreasing their real estate hold
rFfrr OF gf1r -
Perity.
John L. Sullivan, the champion slug
ger, was welcomed by his admirers at
many points during his recent flying trip
through Kansas. At Dodge City many
enthusiastic a imircrs were at the de-
pot with band of music and banners
bearing legends of ''WeIcoms." John
went to the door attired in pantaloons
and undershirt ma lie his b. " and went
back to his seat At several other
places on the route his Vvelc5m was
equally as cordial
George w. Strannt.han, formerly q
merchant tailor of Atchison, was re-
Gently sentenced to the Penitentiary
for seven years He was convicted Of
forging his wifc's name to a certifica' e
of deposit for one thousand dollars
Stranahan secured the money AM dis
appeared, and was afterward arrest ed
at Salt Lake City, where he was living
under an assumed name. He had been
married but lite over a year, aud his
wife refused to pardon his offense- He
Is sixty years old.
Prof Blake, of the state university,
has succeeded in series of remarkable
experiments by which he now has a
loud speaking telephone. The pr
lessor has been working at the matter
for long time and has the satisfaction
OF hearing the voices in the telephone
at a distance of ten or fifteen feet from
the receiver. At an experimental ex-
hibition given By the professor he was
enabled to give large number of
friends a concert by attaching a music
box to one end of the wirs and his
loud speaking apparatus to the other.
The state board of railroad commits
siOners lately made its formal decision
in the case Of wholesale grocers of
. Kansas against the various raiiroa
systems of the state. The decision re-
cites the agreement between the rail
roads and grOcers which established
rates above the Missouri river rate or
canned goods coffee and beans in car
lots and on sugar, which agreement
runs to March l, 1899, aud suspends the
order OF January until the expiration
of the agreement. If at that tim,
proper rates are not given the origiua
order is to be put in force, except as K
. sugar, and on that rae will be made
The presidential postmasters of tho
state met in convention at Wichita tbs
other day and organized permanent or
gHnization to be known as the Kansas
association of preside initial postmasters
which will meet annually on the sec
ond Tuesday in February, Topeka be
ing the place selected for next year
convention. Officers were elected "a
follows: Morgan Carraway, of Grea
bend, president; J. VI. Simson, of Nc
Pherson, vice-presideut; J. e. Junltin
OF Sterling, secretaryi o. K. SeFviss
of Kansas City, treasurer. This is tn
first organization of presidential post
masters in the United States and is il
tended to advance the interest of tia
service.
On the sth Mr. Otis, Of Kausa.
introduced in congress a bill I
create a national union loan fun
TO consist of 81, OOO coo, 600 or as niue
thereof as may be necessary of legi
tender paper money, to be issued b
the secretary Of the treasury, and to b
in erchangeable at par with any Othe
kind OF lawful money of the Unite
States, 1t is to be deposited in II
United States treasury subject to the o.
der of the governors of the sever
states. Any state desiring to avail itse
of the benefits of the fund may do
by the adoption of "a joint resOlutio
setting forth that the state agrees
pay the United States one per cent p
lnnum on small sums drawn and r
mined by it and providing for the lo5
If money to its citizens upon reaso
able security at interest not exceediu
three per cent The secretary is to hon
the request for a loan to the amount
80 per cent. of the assessed value Of q
real estate situated within the state.
Suit has been brought in the distri
court at Lawrence by the watervor
company against the city for Sl2, o
and interest claimed for water Il
nishe l. The city refuses TO pay t
claim on the ground that the wat,
works company has repeatedly Vi
lated its contract and has not furnish
water suitable for use.
At the regular monthly banquet
the Daughters of Rebekah at FL Dora
the other night about forty people we
poisoned by drinking coffee T
doctors administered antidoses a
none of the cases will prove fss
What the poison was or how it got IL
che coffee no one knows
John Ershe, a vveIl-knoun farm
residing in the southern part Of At,
ison county, became insane the ott
sight and, fastening himself in bai
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