The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-10
ABOUT KANS AS.

The Salina paper mill has resumed op
GRAFTON after being idle two months.
So FAR this season W. r. Hardy of EN-
poria has sold s2S, 900 worth Of steers, and
Is still steering along in the same trail.
The supreme court continued the fou
mortgage cases until the November SEES
sion of the court. This action was taker
at the request of all the attorneys en-
ployed in the cases.
Judge Anderson of the Wyandotte cir.
cult court granted a change Of venue to A.
| w. Little. the SLAYER of Lawyer: johnson
in Kansas City three months ago. The
case goes to Johnson county. and Little
will lodge in the Jail at Olathe unless he
is allowed to give bail.
A coterie OF reliable and trust-worthy
commercial tourists tumbled over each
other into the News Office in Hutchinson,
| Saturday, to report that the Santa Fe road
west Of there had been blockaded with
| tumble-weeds that had been swept into q
deep cut by the wind.
The first case tried in the new court
house at Ottawa was called last Wednes-
day, being the state Of Kansas VS.. Joseph
Westun. charged with rape. The defend
ant is an old man 70 years old and the
complaining witness, Grace Gregg of
Welisville, = girl under Is years of age.
The jury returned verdict of not guilty.
Galeua has population of about 1000
people, and is a driving, business-like, Re
publican city. 1t produces one-third of
all the zinc produced In the United States
and all the lead produced in the state.
Mines are now running at their utmost
capacity and the weekly pay roll runs
from $40 900 to SIS, 900 per week.
DR.. Pitcher denies, intoto, the charge
preferred against him by Mrs. Murray, a
discharged employe from the Imbeclle in
stitution at Winfield, aud his denial is
supported by affidavits of dozen or more
persons. in and out of the institution, aud
the voluntary admission of the girls
Pitcher is alleged to have had criminal in
timacy with that they had lied about the
matter.
The Kansas grand lodge of the Inde-
pendent Order OF Odd Fellows meets in
Topeka today, Tuesday, and will continue
its sessions until Thursday, when an ex-
curson will be run to Ottawa. to give the
members chance to visit the orphans
home at Silkville. All delegates will re-
turn to Topeka, and the final adjourn
ment will noI be taken until Saturday.
An attendance of about 400 is expected
by the grand secretary.
The State university is not church in
stitution in the common acceptation Of
that term, yet its pupil roll represents
most of the denominations of the day. A
census of the students shows that 55 per
cent of them are members of some church.
Eleven creeds are represented by IA stu
dents. the Congregationalists leading,
closely followed by the Methodists and |
Presbyterians. The Catholics, Lutherans |
and Quakers are each represented by one |
person.
A week ago Saturday laboring man of |
Wellington drew his wages-SS-and went |
home. After supper he went up town to |
one OF the gambling rooms, there got |
drunk and gambled away his whole |
weeks wages 1t was not large sum,
but the Mail says it left his family abso-
lutely penniless and without a mouthfull |
of food. Such occurrences as that come |
pretty near justifying the vigorous |
methods of the White Cans