The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-06-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

At the recent commencement of tho
state university los diplomas were
granted.
The Kanapolis Land Co. has been
declared insolvent and the court has
ordered that a receiver be appointed.
The shopmen of the Santa Fe road at
Topeka, will hereafter have an eight
hour day. This change is made to re-
duce expenses.
Warden Chase, soon after taking
charge of the penitentiary, removed
sixteen guards and appointed new men
in their places.
A burglar entered the house of James
Shaffer at Leavenworth the other
night, and was captured by Mr.. Shat
feiaand his wife.
SJune was Kansas day at the post
Office department in Washington.
Thirty-four new fourth-class postmas-
ters were appointed.
A special agent of the New Zealand
government was lately in Wichita talk
ing the testimony of witnesses and Sc
curing statistics from the court and po-
lice record relative to the enforcement
of the prohibitory law.
The Santa Fe depot at Kingman was
burned the other day. Part of the Office
fixtures were saved. A freight car load
of sugar, five ears of separator and trac-
tiOn engines were also burned. The
loss amounted to $4,000.
Prof S. T. Walker, superintendent of
the deaf and dumb institute at Olathe,
has resigned to accept the superintend
- 1,a 4 - -
Illinois, at Jacksonville, which is said
to be the largest school of the kind in
the world.
Martin Mcdonald was terribly in
jured in the Home mine near Leaven-
worth the other day. He was bracing
timber at the bottom of the mine when
slate fell and completely buried him.
When taken out his head was found to
be crushed and a leg broken. He can
not recover.
The state mine inspector has recently
been inspecting the Leavenworth coal
mines. lie reported that many of the
| mines there are unsafe, and that unless
the law in regard to safety appliances
is complied with prosecutions will be
instituted. The state mine, he says, is
| no exception to this rule, and it will be
| repaired.
The officers of the fairs comprising
| the interstate fair circuit, held busi-
| ness meeting at Olathe recently, and
| adopted a constitution and bylaws, be-
| sides transacting great deal of busi-
| ness essential to the success of the fall
meetings. They reported excellent
| prospects for successful fairs, and are
giving n great deal of attention to the
perfecting of the speed programme.
Among a long list of fourth-class
postmasters recently appointed in Kan
| sas, We're the following: Bunker Hill,
Russell county, w. c. Hoopman; Caney,
| Montgomery county, Levi 4latfelder;
Cottonwood Falls, Chase county, w. E.
Timmons; Coyville, Wilson county, r. B.
Wetmore: Dorrance, Russell county, III.
S. Henderson; Lebo, Coffey county, Ma
ry V. Johnson; Pomona. Franklin coun-
| ty, c. H. Chrisman; Sedan, Chautauqua
| county, J. l.. Mattinglcy.
! Stephen Hawkins, colored police
| man, was shot at Leavenworth the
| other night by John Rausman, an &C.
centric old Hungarian. and probab bly,
fatally wounded. A party of drunken
foreigners had been bombarding Raus-
mans house with guns and stones and
had wrecked one end of it. Officer
| Hawkins went to the house without
making himself known as an officer and
broke in the door to arrest Rausman.
| No sooner had he entered than Raus-
man seized him in the dark and began
firing.
| The Kansas sheriffs met at Topeka
the other day to discuss the question of
fees under the new mortgage law, which
provides that in any case where the
| property is bid in by or for the prior
creditor the sheriff shall receive his fee
for the sale, but shall not be entitled to
| charge any commission on said sale"
AS most property sold by shcriffs is bid
in by or for the creditor, the principal
source of revenue in sheriff's sales is
taken away. The sheriffs propose to
test the validity of the law in the su-
| preme court.
| A motion was recently made in the
supreme court to advance on the docket
a case involving the validity of one
section of the new mortgage redemp-
tion law. Chief Justice Horton said
that the points involved in the entire
law ought to be decided at the same
time, and that when cases covering
every section of it were brought up to
the court that all would be advanced
simultaneously. Cases covering all
points raised will undoubtedly be filed
this month. SO that the decision of the
court may be had at the September
| term.
| The state treasurer has paid the sugar
bounty for the years 1891 and 1892. The
total amount paid was s15. .303.63 Tho
number of pounds of sugar produced
was ?, 2,040,511. Of this $50, 100 was pro-
duced by the Parkinson sugar works Of
Fort Scott and they were paid 81, O43 %
The Medicine Lodge company turned
out 500,00O pounds in 1891 and 80. 500
pounds in 1892, receiving s3,9S1. James
Burgess, receiver for Pope & Hansford,
drew the s631. s5 which was due the To-
peka sugar works on s4,211 pounds
manufactured in 1891 The Medicine
Lodge Sugar Co. Qimited) received
S,64s for 4S6, 400 pounds manufactured
last year.
| The current of the Missouri has been
changed by the high water at Atchi-
son, one farmer on the east side losing
forty acres of land in twelve hours.
The same man lost eighty acres by the
floods three years ago.
1t is stated by an official of the Santa
Fe road that there will be no further
cuts in worlds fair rates. An under
standing has been reached that conf
peting lines will meet the Santa Fe
rate and that there the prices will re-
main.
The encouragement has given an
| opinion that the Australian ballot law
does not apply in special elections for
voting school bonds in the townships.
Attachments aggregating s125, 900
were recently served on the packing
house plant of Francis Whitaker &