The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-06-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

for mining coal
The stalwart democrats of Sedgwick
county have resolved to nominate a
straight county ticket next fall.
Deputy Postmaster E. r. Potter, of
Abilene, has been arrested on a charge
brought by Postmaster Gorder, alleging
a shortage of about 1900 in his nc.
counts
Four registered letters were recently
stolen from the post Office at Meade. A
young man by the name of Ned Snider
was suspicioned and steps taken to Sc
cure his arrest but he anticipated a
| visit from the officers and escaped.
The eattorney-generalh has decided that
building associations, including nom
resident organizations, if they receive
deposits or make loans, must comply
with the state banking law and come
under the supervision of the state bank
commissioner.
| John Ingram has been appointed
| postmaster at Granville, jefferson
county; g. Blake, at Arkelon, Seward
county; J. A. johnson, at Horace,
Greeley county; Isaac Covalt, at Nor
land, Graham county, and Kate Hutch
ison, at Onaga, Pottawotomie county.
| The mineral products of Kansas last
year aggregated 80, $50, 900, divided as
follows: Lead and zinc ores, 81 200, 900;
| metallic zinc, s2,250, 900; coal, $1,000, 900;
| building stone, 100000; salt, $3.50. 900;
plaster and cement, $3.50, 900; oil and
| natural gas, 100000; clays, $50, 900;
mineral paints, 100000.
Secretary Mohler, of the state board
| of agriculture, said recently that he
had been over q good part of the state,
| nearly as far southwest as Hutchinson,
| and that he thinks the outlook, espe-
cially for corn, is fattering. There
will be a fair yield of wheat and an
abundance of spring grains and fruits.
Alonzo Wardell, of Huron. s. d.,
chairman of the executive committee of
| the National Farmers alliance, was re-
Gently in Topeka looking for offices.
/ He has direct charge of the insurance
! department of the alliance, and it is his
intention to make Topeka the head
! quarters of that bureau. The national
headquarters are now at indianapolis.
In answer to an inquiry as to whether
an offender under the prohibitory law,
| who has been tried by the county au-
thority, can be tried again by the city
courts for violating a prohibitOry ordi
nance, or vice vesa, ,Attorney-General
Little has given the opinion that, al
| though the courts of the different states
are at variance upon questions of this
sort, citizen of Kansas should not be
twice put in jeopardy for the same Of
fcnse.
Chancellor Shows weather report for
May says: "One of the coldest and wet
test Mays on our twenty-siX years
record, and, notwithstanding the ex-
cessive precipitation, one of the clear
! est. The rainfall of this single month
| was 7.62 inches and equal to the total
of the preceding four months of the
year, which is now 1889 inches This
is 2.O7 inches above the average for the
| same months the preceding twenty-five
years"
Attorney-General Little now pro.
| poses to make an advance upon the
banks of the state. He holds that the
| recent agreement of certain banks to
charge for collecting checks, etc, was
! in the nature of a combine, and he has
| issued a circular letter to all county
attorneys informing them that such
| agreements are in plain violation of the
antitrust law and calling upon them
toinstitute criminal proceedings against
all offenders.
A stranger was arrested for theft at
| Atchison the other night who gave the
name of George w. Davis. He had
four bullet wounds on his person, any
one of which would have killed an
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through the back and lungs, through
| the shoulder, through the thigh and
| through the face. Davis, who had been
| drinking, when asked how he came by
his wounds, said he was in the Dalton
| fight at Coffeyville. Officers were in
clined to believe that he is really the
| missing bandit.
A decision was rendered in the dis
trict court of Shawnee county the other
day affecting the fees of sheriffs where
property is sold under foreclosure. I'm
| der the old mortgage law the sheriff
| received a certain percentage on the
sum for which the property was sold,
but the act passed last winter says the
| sheriff is not entitled to such percent
age when the mortgages bid in the
property. The contention was that
the new act was in effect in this rela-
| tion, but the court held that no part of
| the law operates in cases arising out of
| mortgages made before the statute was
passed.
The adjutant-general has arranged
Tor the encampments of the Kansas Ma
tional guard. The first ba attalion, COM
panies A, b, C and ii of the First regi-
~ n "a -
Lawrence. Second battalion, companies
d, E, L and G of the First regiment will
meet at Fort Scott First battalion of
the Second regimeptccompanies b and
C of the First regiment and A and + of
the Third will meet at Winfield. Sec
Ond battalion, companies A, +, d. +, G
and II of the Second regiment will meet
at Hutchinson. Fourth regIi1ent, first
battalion, companies b, E and Il of the
Fourth regiment will meet at junction
City. Second battalion, companies A.
c, F and G of the Fourth regiment viii
meet at Beloit. Third battalion, COM
panies B and G of thelThird regiment,
will meet at Seneca or Hiawatha.
Fourth-claSs postmasters lately ap-
pointed in Kansas: At Edison, Sher-
man county, Madison n. Smithie; at
Lecompton. Douglas county. w. r.
Smith; at Lenape, Leavenworth coun-
ty, William Shannon: at Merriam.
johnson county, James NJ. Campbell;
at Osawkie, jefferson county, n. w.
Brammell; at Cedar Point, Chase coun-
ty, L. Lawrence: at Mayettu, jackson
county, C. Oliphant.
a charter has been granted to the
''Kansas Bureau & News Co.. of To
peka- The company is composed of
populists, and is formed with the view
of publishing books and pamphlets and
of conducting lecture bureau.
The Missouri Kansas & Texas depot
at Usage Mission burned the other
night together with its contents, the