The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-04-07

KANSAS. STATE NEWS.

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There are ten boys and fifteen girls
at the orphans home in Topeka. %
The Topeka Advocate has been
! chosen as the official state paper.
Fire at Salina the other day destroyed
four barns Three horses perished 90
A new gas well of very heavy pres
sure was recently struck at Cherryvale
The state board of railroad assessors
are making their annual tour in spe-
| cial train.
| Five inches of snow fell at Leaven-
worth on the 27th. The same storm ex-
tended to other parts of the state.
A large part of the business portion
of Toronto, Butler county, was de-
| stroyed bp fire the other night Seven
business houses and one dwelling were
totally consumed with their contents
Mr.. Burgard. of Wyandotte county,
announces that he will appear before
the senate investigating committee at
Its meeting in Kansas City, Kan. and
give his evidence on the Doodle ques-
tiol. a7a
Attorney-General Little holds that it
is unlawful for any candidate or other
person to hire carriages or hacks to
haul voters TO the polls on election day
and that Il candidate cannot even give
| away a cigar to a friend on that day.
While Rev A. Bear was holding ser.
vices ia Christian church in Dickin-
son county the other day, he knelt and
prayed for few minutes and suddenly
ceased As he continued silent per-
sons went to him and found him dead.
Four inches of snow fell along the
Central Branch railroad between Downs
| and Lcnora the other morning. The
ground in that section has had but lit
tie moisture of late. and the snow will
put it in good condition for spring plow-
| ing.
The old unicn depot Mt Leavenworth,
built in 1852, and mt one time the best
west of the Mississippi river, has been
demolished and freight house erected
which excites the ire Of many of the
people because Missouri scenery is OBJ
| scured.
The total registration of Kansas City,
Kan, for the spring election was Ii, 76S,
| of which 3.S43 were women. Topeka
4.
| women; Wichita, 1921, with 2,464
women, and Leavenworth, 6,955, with
| 2,354 women.
Martin p. Smith was struck and in
stantly killed by the Osceola .S South
| ern transfer train on the Northwestern
| road at Kansas City, Kan, the other
night. Smith was Swedc, SO years
| old and had been employed in the
| Wyandotte gas works
The governor has issued a proclama.
| ton designating April Is as arbor day.
He calls upon the county and city super
intendents of schools and mayors and
councils of cities to assume charge of
| the work, prepare programmes and
give general directions.
Recently a man named Mcintyre,
| wanted for burglary at Clay Center,
who was being taken back from Smith
| Center, where he was arrested, evaded
the sheriff and jumped from the train,
| which was running at full speed He
| succeeded in making good his escape.
In the matter of payments March was
| the biggest month in the history of the
state capital The total disbursements
aggregated within $1,000 of s600,O
This amount is swelled by the payment
| of the semi-annual school fund, which
| took one-quarter million dollars out of
the state treasury.
In the United States court at Wichita
| Judge Williams sentenced Ed. Pickens
| to be hanged June 2, for the murder Of
Levi Green near Hunnewen in 1856.
At the same term of court Daniel d.
| Buckland, L. II. Perry and Antonio
Cahl were given two years for perjury,
and Ed Halstead, Charles Reece and
| eleven Bohemiaus. for perjury, one
year each. The perjury cases are all
those of Oklahoma boomers
Fourth-class postmasters recently ap-
| pointed in Kansas: j. +. Leonard,
Dresden, Decatur county; T. Langraf,
Barnes, Washington county; S. Cave,
Brookville, Saline county; E. McDon-
| aid, Cuba, Republic county; c. Peter
son, Cornwall, Cove county; Frank I'm.
| ming, Hanover, Washington county;
W. W. Jennings, Herndon, Rawlings
| county; C. Purifier, Linn, Washington
county; w. NJ. Pomeroy. Parallel,
| Washington county; /. b. Hedge, Oketo,
Marshall county; w. Walker, Scandal
! Republic county.
Last spring a temporary editorial as
| sociation for the state of Kansas was
| organized by the Kansas newspaper
men attending the national meeting.
In order to effect a permanent state So.
ciety, working in accord with the Ma
tional Editorial society. d. A. Vaien-
tine, president, has issued call for all
the newspaper Publishers of Kansas,
regardless of politics. to meet in con-
vention at Topeka Friday, April 81.
Besides the new officers to be elected it
will be necessary to select delegates to
the national meeting to be held in Chi
cagO in May.
A business meeting of the North Gen.
trail Kansas Editorial association was
recently held at Salina and officers for
the ensuing year were elected as fol-
lows: President, S. H. Dodge, of tho
Beloit Gazette; vice president, W. II.
Nelson, of the Smith Center Bulletin;
secretary, John Mcbride, of the Cawker
City Record, and treasurer. c. B. Kirt-
4 land, formerly of the Salina journal.
An executive committee, consisting Of
J. s. Parks, of the Beloit Call; w. l.
Chambers, of Rocks county, and c. III.
Sawyer. of Cloud county, was chosen.
The next meeting of the association
| will be held in Beloit. co
On the last day of March A. Z. Green
retired as a member of the railroad
! commissioner and was succeeded by P.
B. Maxson, of Emporia. Mr.. Green has
served six years. Mr.. Maxson is the
only member of the new commission
who gets his seat.without decision of
the supreme court
The committee to arrange the dis
play of the State Historical society met
at Topeka the other day, and decided
to send to Chicago a collection which
will show the valne of the society to-
gether with the pictures of all the ex-
governors, ex-senators, Gen. Lane and