The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-06-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| liabilities OF SOD, ,0OO and practically no
assets C. D.. Hurlburt, the manager,
has fed.
| The sixteen-year-old son of Charles
Downing. of Clay Center, was drowned
recently while bathing in the Republi-
can river.
The Encouragement has received in
formation that all the NJ, X. & T. rail-
way offices have been removed from
Kansas to st. Louis 4s-s-z--+
Willard and Marion Higley,. aged
respectively 10 and II, were drowned in
Stranger creek, near AtclIison, the other
day, while swimming.
The body of DIR. +. B. Robinson was
found in the river at Arkansas City re-
Gently and a coroner's jury decided it
| to be a case of suicide.
The Kansas City. Kan, grain in
| spectors continue to inspect grain at
Argentine, notwithstanding the orders
4 of the state grain inspector to the con-
1 trary.
The supreme court has decided valid
the act of the last Legislature making
of the disorganized county of Garfield
the township of Garfield and annexing
it to Finney county.
In response to a request of President
] Walters, of the miners union, the coal
miners of Scranton, Peterton and Usage
City suspended work until the Pitts
burg strike is settled.
w. IL. R.. Lykins, once a prominent
banker of Lawrence, one of the first
settlers of the town and mayor of the
| city at one time, died recently in Kan
'as City, Mo-, at the age of 64 years.
Superintendent of Insurance Snider
has received notice that crooked Ohio,
| Virginia and West Virginia companies
are running a system of underground
insurance by wildcat agents in the
southern and southwestern part of the
| state.
| Rev. C. f. Mortimer, a member of the
| Christian church who lived recently at
| Atchison and Salina, was found dead in
his room in Lincoln, (Neb.) hotel the
| other morning. He used morphine to
| relieve neuralgia and probably took an
overdose.
A man supposed to be Thomas Kelly,
of Marshalltown, Ia, was killed by
Rock Island freight train near Atchison
the other morning. He was evidently
1aborer about so years of age, and
was walking upon the track when
struck by the train.
The supreme court in late decision
| holds that the reserve fund of the Kan.
sas Mutual Life association of Topeka
| which is deposited with the state treas.
| urer, is taxable, and that the company
| has no right to deduct the sum of its
| liabilities from its credits subject to
| taxation.
Five men held up the California linn
tied express train on the Santa Fe rail-
road, half mile west of Cimarro, nearly
| the other morning, wounded Express
| Messenger Whittlesey, of Kansas City,
and escaped with a bag of silver dol.
lars and the contents of the way-safe
They secured about 81 ZOO.
The controversy over the grain in
| spection at Kansas City, Kan, has been
settled by ruling of the attorney-gen-
eral, in which he reverses the opinion
| of his assistant, made some time ago,
| to the effect that the state grain in.
| spector at Kansas City had authority
to cause the arrest of the deputy grain
| inspectors.
RAILROAD attorneys lately held a
meeting at Topeka to discuss the pro-
visions of the bill passed by the last
legislature compelling railroad COM
| panies to put in track scales at all
stations where during the year 1892 100
cars of grain were shipped. 1t is
| thought the law will be contested in
| the courts.
Samuel Childers, colored, was shot
and instantly killed at Kansas City,
| Kan, about o'clock the other even
| ing by Constable d. w. White. The
| shooting took place in front of Childers'
| residenc on Thompson avenue. and was
caused by Childers refusing to go to the
court room with the constable after be-
| placed under arrest.
IRENE, the three-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto P. Morash was
killed bya Northwestern train at
Kansas City, Kan. the other day. The
child had wandered onto the track in
the suburbs, when a train came dash
ing along and when the engineer saw
it he reversed the engine but could not
check up in time to save the little one
Mrs. Chris Berger, the wife of a
farmer living few-miles from New
ton, came to her death in a shocking
| manner the other day. can of kero-
sene leaked and she removed the can
and then tried to burn the oil off the
floor when her clothing took fire and
she was SO badly burned that she died
| in short time. She had been married
but little over year and left
young babe.
In two days the past week Kansas
picked up the following new postmast-
ers: At ROsel, Pawnee county, Philo
Wilcox; at Chautauqua, Chautauqua
county, James Sipple; at Elgin, Chau-
tauqua county, Horace Wait; at Els
more, Allen county, J. Donohoe; at
Lebanon. Smith county, o. Glenn; at
Leon, Butler county, John Kline; at
Belle Plane. sumner county, Valentine
Heffner; at Bonner Springs, Wyandotte
county, John McDaniel; at Vineland,
Douglas county, James Tiff: at Cen
tropolis, Franklin county, c. Wilson;
at Wellsville, Franklin county, Charles
Cayot: at williamsburg, Franklin
county, Thomas Hagan.
The Woman's Progressive Political
club was recently organized at Topeka
with the following officers: President,
Mrs. John G. Otis, of Topeka; vice
president, Mrs j. C. Bare, of Baldwin
City; secretary, Mrs. John Davis, of
junction City; treasurer, Mrs. ]. C.
Ruggles,. of Emporia; chaplain, Mrs.
Anna Sells Marshall, of Garden City;
state organizer, Mrs. Anna L. D:gcs,
of Lawrence The club adopted reso-
lutions indorsing the peoples party,
the Omaha platform, prohibition and
female suffrage
The First National bank of Arkansas
City has failed The deposits were re-
ported to be $500. QUO.
Ed Sparks, % years of age, was terri |
bly, and perhaps fatally injured recent
iy near Winfield by getting his foot