The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-09-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

j. w. German was recently killed BY
the cars at Neosho Rapids while at
tempting to cross the tracks
G. w. Kindel. blacksmith, was f.
tally kicked h1 horse at Concordlo .
few days since. His skull was crushed
The presidents has nominated c. FL. j.
Taylor, the wel-known colored lawyer
of Kansas City, Kan, to be minister to
Bolivia. The salary is 81, 800 year.
The county commissioner of Reno
county have ordered all judgments to
be taxed, and as consequence q great
many worthless judgments are being
released.
Ex-senator Ingalls, denies the report
| that he will be a candidate for gov
| ernor. It is said, however, that he will
contest with Senator PETER in 1896 for
the senatorship.
George Gross, eolered mail carrier
who has been in the Lawrence post
Office since May 1, 1889, has been ar
rested by post Office inspectors ON the
charge of robbing the mails.
By an official order recently issued
from Washington the Larned and Gar
den City land offices are continued and
transferred to Dodge City; the Wa
Keeney and Oberlin offices are COM
binned and transferred to Colby, and
the Salina Office combined with the To
peka Office at Topeka.
Joe Reynolds, formerly secret serv-
| ice agent of the Frisco, was arrested at
Arkansas City the other day on a war;
rant charging him with completely in
the murder and train robbery at Mound
Valley. There are five of the alleged
robbers now under arrest, all of whom
| had been railroad men.
w. II. Fletcher. proprietor of the
| Hook hotel at Sabetha, hanged himself
the other night to a railroad bridge
with bed cord. He was in financial
trouble and believed his family would
be better taken care of if he was out Of
the way. Fletcher was 40 years old
and leaves wife and three children.
| In the quo warranto case in the SUI
Hrerne court, ID which Parry and Cline
were candidates for justice of the peace
in Kansas City, Kan, the former re-
ceiving 70s votes and Cline 672 male
votes and 81 female votes, Parry being
declared elected, Judge Horton recently
decided that the laws of Kansas do not
| confer upon women the right to vote
for justice of the peace in the cities
| of the state, such offices being town
ship rather than city Offices
d. tathrop, an old veteran at the
soldiers home, near Leavenworth, was
fatally scalded the other day while
taking bath. On entering the bath
tub he turned on the cold water and
soon after the hot water, when he took
cramps and, it is said, was Unable to
get out of the tub or shut the water off.
| AS the water began to scald him he set
| up loud yells, which caused some COM
rades to break into the room and res
cue him from being boiled alive.
| Dudley B. Huloe was found dead on
| his farm, about ten miles southwest Of
| Lawrence, the other afternoon. The
| entire top Of his head was blown off,
and the barrel of shotgun protruded
about fifteen inches past the top of the
head. It was supposed he committed
suicide. Hulce was young man. about
25 years of age. He was recently maf-
ried and apparently lived happily. He
owned considerable property, and no
cause could be assigned for his act.
Members of the pension boards in
Kansas have been appointed as follows:
| D. ID. Brown, at Garnett; for Dickinson
| county, Thomas Gum, Edward H. La.
fever and Oscar F. Scarf; Republic
county, William Ramp, W. g. Haning
and j. II. Houck, Geary county, NJ NJ
Cloud, p, Daug herty and n. T. Harts-
horn; Clay county, d. c. Tyler, Andrew
Pearson and Josephus Stewart; Saline
county, E. r. Switzer, D. E. Miller and
r. Sawtell; Washington county, n. M.
Smith and i. II. Hoover.
| Warrants have been issued for the al
rest of w. J. Bond and Alexande,
Luke for stealing various goods belong
| ing to the. state insane asylum al
Topeka. Tie complaint was fled at
the request of the state board OF
charities Luke had charge of what il
known as the outside gang at the
| asylum and on his farm near the
| grounds twenty-five bundles Of shin
| giles, studding to the value of $40, three
| tons of coal, a number of spades, shov.
els and other implements were found,
| the total value of which is s14s,e5.
Prof. T.. /. Blake, of the state univer-
sity. has received notice that the gov:
ernment had accepted his fog signal
| ling invention and requests that he
take charge next May of the work of
| putting the invention into practical
use The invention consists of a
method of communicating between
| lightships and station on the shore
where in turn the message is trans
| mitted to New York and the news per.
tanning to all incoming vessels is tele-
| graphed to the world twenty-four
hours earlier than by any previous
| method.
The Kansas State Editorial associa-
tion met in Representative half,
| at Topeka, on the 11th, large
number of editors being present.
The editors were welcomed by W.
NJ. Gleed, who was responed to
by Charles F. Scott, of the lola Reg.
ister number of interesting papers
were read, among them one by f. p.
Baker. of Topeka. on personal Rem.
| iniscences of Early Kansas Writer'S 81
| and another by w. ]. Costigan, of the
Ottawa journal, on SHOULD a Country
Weekly Have Editorial Opinions?"
The editors, three hundred strong,
then took special train for the worlds
| fair.
The state board of railway commits
sioners is in receipt of a communication
from Stevens county. signed by every
county official, detailing the needy con-
dition of their farmers and urging the
board to take speedy action for their
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