The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-07-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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The Commercial house, ths only nu-
bel at Sedgwick, was recently burned.
| Loss, SIS, 900: insurance, $1,000.
| John Kay has been appointed post
master at Randolph, Riley county, and
| Erastus Clements at Parker, Linn
tounty.
Acknowledgement Little has removed
| Assistant Attorney-Generai Noah Allen
| and appointed George W. Clark as his
successor.
Acknowledgement Little has decided
I that county boards cannot loan money
to farmers to buy seed, Is proposed by
Gov. Lewelling.
Richard Browning. colored, was shot
and fatally wounded at Kansas. City
Kan, the other evening by ''Bill" nul-
len, policy man
| Superintendent of Insurance Snyder
has rendered his opinion in the Nor
wood & Co. insurance case in favor of
the insurance companies
The supreme court has decided in IA
vor of Mayor Barnes of Kansas City,
Kan, holding that Thomas F. Hannah
had no right to dispute his claim.
The Leavenworth Home mine, which
had resumed operations, shut down
| again day or two after commencing
work, The influence of the strik-
ing miners and their wives resulted in
all the men who had gone to work
again quitting.
W. +. Walsh attempted suicide al
Larned by taking poison, but timely
medical aid saved his life. Walsh is a
man about 50 years of age, with a wife
| and several children. He was at one
time Methodist preacher, but had oi
late been canvassing for the sale OF
fruit trees.
The state military board has formal.
ly ordered disbandment of six compa.
nies of the state militia. The compa.
nies are A, of Olathe; c, of Topeka; G, OF
Marion: II, of Sterling; G, of Seneca, and
a, of Clyde. One more company, yet
to be selected. will be mustered out in
the near future.
The Kansas department of the Grand
Army of the Republic is making ar.
rangements to go before the national
court of claims with test case, involv-
ing the recent dropping of names from
the pension rolls from the Topeka
agency. 1t is thought decision car
be reached through the court of claims
earlier than through any other trib
unal. The authority of the secretary
of the interior to pass upon the merits
of existing pension allowances is to be
| tested.
Mrs Maher, of Kansas City, Kan, il.
the first woman lawyer 10 make an
argument before the state board of par.
dons. She appeared before the board
the other day and spoke for an hour
and a-half in behalf of pardon for
Thomas Mahon, who was convicted
some time ago in the district court-of
Wyandotte county of assault with in
tent to kill and was sentenced to the
penitentiary for three years. Mrs.
Maher made an eloquent appeal for the
prisoner, and the members of the board
of pardons say it was a splendid argu.
ment.
| J. T. White, of tho state board OF
live stock commissioners, said recently
that the scare of stockmen of Chautau.
qua county over Texas fever appears to
be without cause. The commission ha.
made thorough investigation there
and found that eleven cattle in herd
of $50 had died from some unknown
cause. They had mingled with a bunch
of cattle brought from Texas and nat.
urally the disease was supposed to be
Texas fever. That it was not the
dreaded epidemic is evidenced by the
fact that no more of the cattle have
been affected.
The clerks in the state auditors of.
flee have carried out the figures of the
state board of railroad assessors on the
lines of the Santa Fe and the grand to-
tai valuation is $50, 727, ,71S. The com.
pany's own valuation as reported to the
board was So. 750,O2O. Last year the
boards valuation was s16, 727, ,3O9. Be.
fore the preceding board made its
famous reduction, the valuation was
e17, 799, ,195. The figures given are on
1851 miles of road and do not include
the st. Louis & San Francisco or the
Manhattan, Alma & Burlinsame, both
of which belong to the Santa Fe.
Bank Commissioner Breidcnthal, hai
lately been investigating the eondi
tion and prospects of the banks under
his jurisdiction. For while he was
apprehensive that the failures which
came in such quick succession would
cause a suspension of confidence
among the people and start general
run on all banks, but such has not been
1 the case The, banks are now in a bet
ter condition to meet the demands OF
depositors than they were three months
ago. He estimates the aggregate
deposits now in the state and private
banks of the state at SIS, 900. 900 and in
the national banks at about 81, 900, 600
r. B. Morris, the new collector fol
Kansas, has entered upon the discharge
of his duties He has appointed Charles
Howard, Ell Reno, Ok, collector fol
Indian territory; E. E. Murphy, Leav-
enworth; John E. Watrous, Burline.
ton; w. S. Swartzel, Parsons; Thoma,
NJ. Dolan, Clifton, and w. E. Ruttman,
Wichita, deputy collectors for Kansas.
Edward Fenlon, Jr., was appointed
oleomargarine collector, while II. Fe.
gans, who has been in the office fol-
over twenty years, remains as chief
clerk and Miss Anna Leland assistant
Capt. Taylor, custodian OF the public
building, also remains in that position.
The Bankers Life association, of Des
Moines, has applied to the superintend-
ent of insurance for license to do bust.
ness in Kansas 1t is an assessment
company, and both Superintendent
Mcbride and Wilder have denied it ad-
mission on that ground.
The bank at Mound Valley, owned
by c. NJ Condor, was robbed of $500 al
noon the other day by three robbers
who entered the bank, bound and
gagged the cashier, grabbed the money
and escaped before the alarm could be
given
Col. A. A. Harris, chairman of the
stalwart democratic state committee,
has decided to locate at Dulutn, Minn
The barn of I. X. Kennedy at Olathe
was burned the other day and a four
year-old daughter of Cal Adams per
ished- The children fred the barn
| while nlaYiuR with matches