The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-06-02

KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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| Labor Commissioner Todd is endeav.
oring to enforce the state eight-houY
law.
Hon. Thomas Ryan, late minister to
| Mexico, has returned to his home in
Topeka
Lester Horton, 90 years old, was re-
Gently killed while hunting ten miles
west of Topeka. by the accidental dis
charge of his gun.
Three men were lately fined So each
at Topeka for playing cards on Sunday
They were tried under an old law that
had been dug up
Mrs. Harriet johnson, a widow en-
ployed in a boarding house at Hutchin-
son, committed suicide the other morn
ing, taking morphine.
The people of Larned recently ap-
piled to the acknowledgement for a
twelve-pounder cannon with which to
shoot at the clouds and produce rain.
The board of managers of tile ma
tional soldiers home lately arrived at
Leavenworth and commenced the in
vestigation of the charges preferred
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home, by Chief Surgeon Viewer.
| The board of mana gers have con-
cluded their investigation of the
charges made against Gov. Smith, of
the soldiers home at Lcavenworth by
Surgeon Weaver. and it is stated that
their finding will be in favor of Gov.
Smith.
The corpse of an unknown man, w.
| ing upon its face and so badly decom-
| posed that the cause of death could not
be told, was found recently about $50
feet north of the Santa Fe depot at
Holiday. razor and cartridge
shell lay near by.
The state board of education at its
late session in Topeka adopted rule
| that any college whose collegiate
course of study has been approved can
establish a normal course, which shall
include the work done up to and en-
bracing the sophomore year.
Application has been made to Gov.
Lewelling for the pardon of Fred Bas-
sett, son of Judge Bassett, of Lawrence,
who was sentenced to the penitcntiary
for six months for shooting and wound
| ing a university student who was cross
ing his fathers property about year
| ago.
Kansas recently secured the follow
ing fourth-class postmasters: At Paw
nee Rock. Barton county, Andrew
Daniels: at Talmo. Republic county,
A. f. Whan; at Athol. Smith county,
A. J. Hemon; at Dunlap, Morris county,
| G. c. Vickers; ut Meade, Meade county,
| D. B. Stutsman.
A bulletin of great value to stock.
raisers has been issued by the depart
ment of entomology OF the University
| of Kansas on the horn-fy of cattle. 1t
| is issued as warning to farmers and
| stock-raisers against the horn-tly and
| presents valuable suggestions and
methods for avoiding and destroying
| this injurious insect.
| Sealskin Wilkes, valuable trotting
stallion, owned by E. A. Smith, of Nor
wood stock farm, just west of Law
renee, died recently of laryngitis. The
| horse was sired by the famous George
| Wilkes, was IL years old and cost s12,-
| 600 eight years ago. Mr.. Smith was
offered S11 900 for the stallion several
times this spring, but refused to sell.
| AttorneyGeneral Little has given an
! OplHIOH tudG Illc eNpclSc VI clcCtlohS
under the new law must be paid by the
cities and townships and not by the
| counties. The booths shall be provided
by the cities and counties, one to every
sixty voters, and the cost of printing
] paid by the county boards, but after
wards assessed proportionately to the
cities and townships.
Wiley Welsh, who was sent to the
| penitentiary twelve years ago from
| Woodson county for stealing an over
coat and a team of horses, has E,ade
| application to the governor for a par
don. He says that he never committed
the crime, but that public sentiment
was SO strong against him that fearing
mob violence he confessed the crime
| and was sentenced to seventeen years
| in the penitentiary.
The president has commuted to i'm
| prisonment for life the death sentence
| of Edward Pickens, full blooded
| Chickasaw Indian, who was convicted
| of murder in the district of Kansas.
| The ground for Communication is that
Pickens is of a very low order of intel
| ligence, whose surroundings have not
| been favorable to the development of
moral sense, and there was some prov
| ocation. The court officers all recon-
mended clemency.
The governor has appointed the fol-
| lowing delegates to the national con-
ference of charities and corrections to
be held at Chicago June 12: Mary E.
| Lease, Wichita: NJ. A. Householder,
Columbus; r. T. Walker, Olathe; C. E.
Faulkner, Atchison; W. S. Waite, Lin
no1y II Ill ATaV
| c. X. WileS Winfield; W. G. Todd, To-
| peka; T. Hoyt Pitcher, Winfield; A. E.
Hitchcock, Columbus; w. T. Yoe, Inde-
pendence; W. ]. Hurd, Holton.
By preconcerted arrangement be-
| tween the mayors of the cities of Well
| ington, Winfield, Arkansas City, South
Haven, Caldwell, Hutchinson and New
| ton a simultaneous bombardment of
| the heavens was commenced about
| noon on the 25th and, whether as a re-
| suit or not, all the country between and
for some miles beyond the radius
| marked by these towns was deluged
with the heaviest rain that had fallen
for eight months. But the heaviest
rain for months also fell in other parts
| of the state and in Missouri at the same
time.
The state pharmaceutical association
opened its fifteenth annual convention
at Wichita on the 23d with the largest
attendance ever noted Mayor Cox well
coined the druggists in a cordial address
and b. W. Woodward, of Lawrence. the
oldest chemist in the state, replied for
the association.
The Grand View Baptist church, in
Kansas City, Kan, was struck by
lightning during a recert storm and
badly damaged. The spire was shat
tered and all the windows were
knocked out
William Bonner, Santa Fe con-
ductor, was recently run over and killed