The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-06-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The State bank at kinsley has Jailed
Ren. Curtis, county attorney of Shaw
nee county, died recently in Illinois
Reuben Bates, an old citizen, was
killed by the cars ait Caldwell the other
day
A late fire at Leonardville destroyed
business property to the value Of
$50. 900.
Fire at Hutchinson the other night
destroyed Marshali's jewelry store.
Loss covered by insurance.
Charles Cutler, business man of
Balwin, was probably fatally injured
by a runaway team the other day.
The president has appointed r. u.
Morris, of Atchison, collector OF inter
nal revenue for the district of Kansas.
Rev. Henry Howe, father of Z. w.
Howe, of the Atchison Globe, died in
that city the other day at the age of II
years.
E. w. Combs, of Kansas, has been ap-
pointed chief of division in the first
comptroller's Office in the treasury de-
partment-
Secretary Morton, of the department
of agriculture, has made an order
abandoning the experimental farm at
Garden City.
The fve-year-old daughter of B. f.
Markley, of Minneapolis, was shot and
fatally wounded the other day by a
boy who was ''fooling" with Winches.
ter rife.
Ambrose Arnold, in at of jealousy,
shot his wife at Leavenworth the other
evening and then killed himself with
the same pistol. 1t was thought the
woman could not recover. :
A cyclone paid Winfield visit the
other day and was satisfied with the
destruction of the Episcopal church,
tearing away the west wing of the
court house and badly damaging the
Ba bbet hotel.
Maj. Andrew Downing, special eX-
aminer of the United States pension
bureau, with headquarters at Topeka,
has received official notice from the
secretary of the interior that after June
so his services would be dispensed with.
Gov. Lewelling has sent letters to
the governors of North Dakota, South
Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas,
Arkansas, Missouri and Iowa. inviting
them to unite with him in Il movement
to persuade the railroads to reduce
worlds fair rates.
The state board of health met re-
Gently at Topeka and elected DR.. Frank
Swallow, of Valley Falls, president,
and DIR. II. A. Dyke, of Leavenworth,
secretary. The latter Office pays $1,000
per year and is the only salaried office
connected with the board.
Matthew Ryan, pioneer of Leaven-
worth and very prominent and enter
prising citizen, died in that city the
other day from blood poisoning as the
result of a scratch on the leg by a sharp
stick. He was born in Ireland in 1919
and reported to be worth $500, 900, all of
which he made while residing in Kan
saS.
The executive committee of the Kan
sas republican league met at Topeka
recently and resolved to establish a
literary bureau for the purpose of car
rying on a campaign of education"
similar to the scheme recently agreed
upon by the peoples party. Charles 5.
GIeed was elected managing editor of
the bureau.
While bombarding the heavens for
rain at Minneapolis the other after
noon a premature discharge of the cam
non caused the instant death of 5. L.
Redman and it is thought fatally
wounded Rufus Preston. Redman was
captain of Company G., Fourth regi-
ment, II. n. g., and leaves wife, a
small child and an invalid father.
Rev. Werter r. Davis, ID. D., the first
president OF Baker university, died at
his home at Baldwin City the other
night. He was one ~ the pioneers of
Methodism in Kansas. locating at Bald
win in 1858, bringing with him the fac
ulty with which to organize Baker uni
versity. The deceased was rs years old
and had been preaching for 50 years. =
The great case of the United States
VS.. the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail-
way, commenced by Attorney-General
Olney to declare the road land grant
void, affects hundreds of farmers in
Dickinson. Gearv, Morris and Usage
counties, who bought land of the rail
road. Seventy land owners of Dickin-
son county met recently and resolved
to fight the case. and hired attorneys
to save their homes if possible.
Attorney General Little has de,
cided that the state board of public
works could not lawfully issue a vouch-
er on state contract work unless it was
satisfied that such work has been done
oy, h.. ;crI,t ~ nd haf ba
board may properly insert in all con-
tracts clause requiring contractors tc
present to the board certificates from
laborers that they worked but eight
hours a day on the contract and had re-
ceived the current wages paid in the
neighborhood for ten hours work.
While the sheriff of Butler county
was recently taking lot of prisoners
to the penitentiary one of them by the
name of Williams jumped from the
window of the train while it was run
ming at speed of forty-fve miles an
hour. The train was backed, the
guards expecting to find his mangled
remains. Nothing but his hat was
found at the point where the jump was
made, but, after securing the adjoining
country. Williams was found in the
timber, where he had armed himself
with shovel, and made a vigorous re.
sistance to the officers. He was soon
recaptured.
]. B. Watkins, of Lawrence, has com.
menced proceedings in the supreme
court to test the disputed points in the
mortgage redemption law passed by
the recent legislature The main ques-
ton to be passed upon is whether the
law applies to existing contracts.
Harrison Byers, go years old, com.
mitted suicide at Leavenworth recently
by taking poison. He left note say.
ing he was tired of life, as all the. fami,
ly enjoyed themselves while he had to
work all the time. He twice before at
tempted suicide.
John Winkleman, % years old, waa
recently drowned while bathing il
Mill creek near Olathe