The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-10-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Quite heavy frost appearedi in many
portions of the state on the morning Of
the Sd.
Elmer Coiner was killed at dance
at. Toad-a-Loup, near Argentine, the
other night
The state fair at Topeka was a great
success. A large crowd attended on
big Thursday.
A Junction City man took his wife to
the worlds fair and lost her. She ran
off with ''handsomer man"
Ex. Gov. Click, recently named by the
president as pension agent at Topeka;
charges mIde sgsirst him by Thurston.
j. R Gilfer we@z9 z9sswhipped on the
streets Of Salina the other DAY by Mrs.
Susan Robinson, because, she declared,
he circula ted slanderous stories about
her.
The weather report of Chancellor
Snow, of the state university, for the
month just closed, says that it was one
of the five warmest Septembers on the
twenty-six years record. The highest
temperature was 90 degrees on the
18th; the lowest, Al degrees, on tbs
25th.
The executive committee of the Kan
sas bar association has arranged the
programme for the annual meeting Of
| the association, which will be held at
Topeka, January %. Judge Henry
| Wade Rogers, president of the North
| western university, of Chicago, will
deliver the principal address
| Herman Banner, of Denver, Col, was
found hanging to tree on the border
of the Cherokee strip. directly south of
| Caldwell, at noon the other day. He
had been dead about ten hours. Some
| promissory notes and other pa pers were
found in his pockets, which, with his
general appearance, indicated that he
was well-to-do German. Foul play
was strongly suspected.
A negro brute called at the residence
of E. c. Barr, in Fort Scott just before
noon the other day and asked his
daughter, q young lady of IS years, for
something to eat She was alone at
the time and refused him, wherenpon
he assaulted her in brutal manner
and fed. The whole town was aroused
and hundreds of men were looking for
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lynching him
August Noltemeyer, German immi-
grant, arrived at Wichita the other
day, and when he was preparing to
leave the train his valise was missing,
which contained 5000, 5000 of which
was in German money. There was no
clew to the robber. Noltemeyer was
on his way to the Cherokee strip and
stopped off at Wi -ilita to meet some
acquaintances wht could give him In
formation relative to the new country.
He could not speak word of English.
1t is stated that there was a serious
mutiny at the penitentiary some time
since. One of the guards reproved q
convict for some misdemeanor, wher
the convict knocked him down, and
sprang upon him and attempted to get
possession of his arms. At the same
time convict struck another guar6
down, and the revolt became genera
in that part of the prison. Another
guard sounded general alarm. bring.
ing on all the force, and by a great eft
fort the mutiny was quelled.
It is said that Labor Commissions
Todd will invoke the law if necessary
to aid him in collecting statistics con
cerning farm la aborers in Kansas, which
he desires to incorporate in his repor
to the governor. The county officer.
are said not to be supplying the labor
Office with this information, as is re
quired by law, and at Commissioner
TOdd's request the attorney-genera
has rendered an official opinion to tn.
effect that they can be compelled t.
comply with the state law under penal
ty of removal from office.
Requests are still being received b.
the state board of railroad commission
ers for seed wheat for destitute settlers
and for free transportation of the SAM
to the needy localities. The severa
counties where no crop was raised thi
year are making independent efforts t,
secure seed by sending soliciting com
mittees into the more favored section
of the state. The response to these ap
peals is very encouraging and it i
thought an ample quantity of grail
will be donated. All the railroad com
panies are cooperating generously il
the matter of transportation.
The secretary of the state board o
agriculture is trying to devise som,
plan whereby western Kansas farmer
will be enabled to get seed wheat thi
fall. He suggests that in each county
needing seed wheat the county clerl
in the name OF the board of count,
commissioners, call meeting of tn,
citizens, and that the people in mas
convention authorize and direct th
county commissioners to ascertain il
whatever way may seem best to then
the actual number of persons who ar
unable to furnish their own seed il
their respective counties and the mum
Der of bushels each should have Il
this way the amount of money whicl
is necessary to buy the wheat needei
may be determined. Then let the pee
pie authorize and direct the count
commissioners to draw the amount O
money needed from the county treas
ury and appoint one or more suitabl
persons to buy the wheat wherever
can be secured on the best terms: an,
when the wheat is delivered let eacl
man receiving wheat give his note OF
one years time to the county for tn
amount of money paid for it
DIR. c. W. Stowe. a practicing ply
sician of Salina, was arrested
few days ago ON an indictmen
found by the grand jury chargin
a girl by an act of criminal ma
practice.
The Douglass Avenue hotel at Wick
tia, one of the noted hostelries of pic
neer days. was set on fire by incendiarie