The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-12-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Leavenworth is in high feather over
the completion of the new bridge over
the Missouri river.
The residence of ]. G. Kaufman, at
Newton, burned recently. Loss, $1,000.
with small insurance.
Measles, la grippe and scarlet fever
have lately been keeping Kansas City
(Kan.) physicians and undertakers
busy.
The discharge of Steward Dixon and
his wife at the Olathe deaf and dumb
asslum has brought on a small war al
that institution.
The bondsmen Of George Klockson.
of Fort Scott, grand treasurer of the
Knights of Honor, who disappeared
with funds of the order and was later
found in a hospital in California, have
procured warrant for his arrest, on
the charge of embezzlement.
Judge Riner. of the United States
circuit court, sitting in Topeka, has an
nounced that Judge Thomas, Of North
Dakota, has been appointed by Judge
Caldwell to try the famous Hillman in.
surance case, the trial to be held in To-
peka during the January term.
Herman Heintze, a Leavenworth
groceryman, committed suicide the
other day by taking morphine. Several
weeks ago Heintze lost considerable OF
his stock of groceries by fire, since
which time he had been very despond-
ent and made two attempts at suicide.
He belonged to several secret societies
and carried heavy life insurance.
Charles W. Jacobs, postmaster of Sum
City, is reported by Inspector Cochran
to be short in his money order account
to the amount of S700. Jacobs keeps .
store in connection with the post office,
and does not deny that he is in arrears,
but says he has used the government
money as a matter of convenience in
the transaction of his private business
The November report of the state
board Of charities showed the expenses
of the several institutions of the state
to be: Industrial school, 81, 1880;
idiotic and imbecile youth, s2,O26. 30;
soldiers orphans home, 81, 761.03; Osa-
watomie insane asylum, $40, 537. IS;
blind asylum, 81, AL SO; reform school,
| 81, 1856. IA; deaf and dumb asylum, &4,-
| O31.O9.
The other night as Bruno Geiler was
| returning home in Leavenworth he
was halted by three footpada Two OF
| them held him while a third secured
pickets from a fence near by with
which they knocked him insensible,
and beat him in a terrible manner.
| They took all the valuables from his
pockets and left him lying unconscious
| He was not found until next morning.
George Melvin, a Leavenworth coun-
| g., Nd faI
| old, were found under a bridge in a cul-
| vert in Wyandotte county, the other
day, and Melvin died soon after. evil
| IDENTIFY from exposure. Melvin, it ap-
pears, had traded his property in Leav-
enworth county for Kansas City proper
| ty and was on his way to that city, but
why he took refuge in the culvert is not
known.
County attorneys of the state are
| deeply interested in the Sims habeas
corpus case which will probably be de-
cided by the supreme court at the next
session of that tribunal The case in
wolves the right of county attorney
to place persons in Jail for contempt
for refusing to give evidence leading to
a prosecution under the prohibitory
law. The Kansas prohibitory enact
ment confers that right upon county
| attorneys.
The people of the state are said to
be taking an unusual interest this win
ter in the matter of stocking streams
| with fish, and the prosecuting attor-
| neys of several counties have warned
sportsmen, through the public prints,
| not to violate the fishing laws. j. w.
| Wampler, the state fish commissioner,
| will receive next month from the
United States fish commissioner a car
load of different varieties of native
food fish for distribution in Kansas
1t has been discovered that in the
late vote for judge of the Thirty-second
judicial district the counties OF Seward,
Grant and Stevens. each polled 1914
votes Under the constitution of the
state, whenever a county falls below
200 votes at any general election, it is
no longer entitled to representative
in the legislature. This makes four
counties in the Thirty-second judicial
district that are not entitled to rep
resentative, as Morton county was
dropped some time ago.
The supreme court has reversed the
decision of Judge Bailey. of the dis
trict court of Rice county, in the some
what celebrated mortgage case OF n. L.
| Greenwood ct al against Thomas A.
Butler ct al The court held that 1.-The
laws of 1898 concerning the sale and
redemption of real estate does not have
the effect to change or hullify any OF
the terms of a judgment duly rendered
before the passage Of that act, direct
ing the sale of lands, or any interest
therein, for the purpose stated in said
judgment"
Under the new law the republican
and populist state central committees
have filed reports of receipts and ex-
penditures during the late campaign.
The republican report showed that
there had beed collected and spent for
campaign purposes 81, 332. 10. The pop
ulists, according to Chairman Breiden-
thars report, only spent s116.35. OF
this sum only s35 was contributed. Tho
difference was paid by Chairman
Breidenthal These reports cover only
the receipts and expenditures for the
state work. local committees being re-
quired to file their reports with county
clerks
A delegation of discharged employees
from the state deaf and dumb institu-
ton at Olathe, appeared before the
state board Of charities the other day
and asked to be reinstated. The board
referred the matter to Superintendent
Carter who had DISCHARGED them, and