The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-11-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Within few weeks there were about
thirty deaths At Atchison from diphthe-
ria and scarlet fever.
The Kansas auxiliary of the Children's
Home society was recently organized
at Topeka with Gov. Lewelling as
president.
John Buckley, Of Kansas City, Kan,
has been awarded the contract for
building the east wing of the state nor
NAL school at Emporia for s29, $50.
The final cleanup" of the recent
election gives the republicans 453 out
of the $50 county officers elected. The
populists got 157 and the democrats "a.
Mary Jordo, young woman. att
| tempted suicide at Concordia the other
| night by poison, but her life was saved.
Love, jealousy and dependency the
cause.
Gustave Penker, aged years, step
son of Frank Young, a farmer north Of
Atchison. died the other day of hydro
phobia. He was bitten by dog three
weeks previous.
Returns from 101 counties of the
state received at Topeka showed that
| of the county officers elected the re-
publicans secured 437; populists, LAT,
| and democrats, 90. Four counties,
| Gray, Hamilton and Hodgman, were
| yet to hear from.
The Kansas Equal Suffrage associa
tion has elected Mrs. Laura M. Johns
president; Mrs. Annie E. Diggs, vice
| r.. n Of Coll
corresponding secretary, Anna C. Wait,
| OF Lincoln, recording secretary, and
DR.. G. E. Tiffany, of Wichita, treas
| urer.
| Gov. Lewelling has decided not to call
an extra session of the legislature. He
had been requested to do SO to provide
fuel for the people of the western coun-
ties. The governor believes that the
| fuel question can be settled just as the
grain question was-by private SUBJ
scription.
Returns received at republican head
| quarters in Topeka from all the coun-
ties in the state, except eight, gave the
| following figures: Total vote cast. $780,
! 964; republican vote, 115, ,766; populist
vote, s4,67O; democrat and scattering
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populists, 31,O96; republican majority,
| 1865.
The Kansas State Dental associa ton
has begun war against the non-regis-
| tered dentists of the state. The law
| makes it misdemeanor to practice
| dentistry unless the dentist is regis
tered with the state board of dentistry.
| About thirty non-registered dentists
are doing business throughout the
| state, and it is against these that legal
| action has been begun.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of Judge jackson, of the Thir.
| teenth judicial district, in the Patter-
son murder case. A. w. Patterson, q
hotel keeper at Winfield, was charged
with completely in the murder of a
| stranger in a gambling house, found
guilty and sentenced to term in the
penitentiary. An appeal was taken,
| with the result as stated.
When NJ. E. Campbell, harness
| dealer of Larned, went to his store the
| other morning and opened the door to
| sweep out he was confronted by two
men who, covering him with shotgun,
| demanded his money. Campbell seized
| the gun and scuffie ensued during
which he was shot through the left
hand. He was then overpowered by
the men and robbed of s175. The rob
| bers escaped.
The Shamrock house, at one time
quite a popular hotel in Kansas City,
Kan, but for some time past only par
TALLY occupied, was burned about II
o'clock the other night The family of
Charles Bark1ey occupied the house at
the time of the fire and Mrs. Barkley
narrowly escaped being burned to
| death. She was taken out of the build
ng by her husband in an insensible
condition, and although badly burned
will recover.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. re-
Gently took off the passenger train rum
ming between Topeka and Fort Scott
and substituted slow mixed train.
The railroad commissioners have or
dered the train restored. The company
refuses to comply and will fight it out
in the courts. Other roads are reported
to be watching the proceedings with
much interest, and if the Missouri Pa
cific is successful in the fight will, it Is
said, pursue the same policy in respect
to trains that are run at a loss.
The state board of railroad commits.
sioners recently granted the petition
of taxpayers of seven townships in
Usage and Anderson counties, through
which runs the Kansas, Nebraska &
Dakota railroad, for an order requiring
the Missouri Pacific Railroad Co.,
which operntes the road, to put a
separate and exclusive passenger, ex-
press and mail train on the line men
toned, and make one trip day each
way between Fort Scott and Topeka
The order goes into effect December L.
The young ladies of Washburn col.
lege. Topeka, have class in gymnas-
tics and are required to dress in Turk
ish costume, using long skirt to con-
ceal their costume while going to and
from the gymnasium. Recently yyhils
they were going through their exer-
cises one of the boys from the college
removed their skirts from the dressing
room, and it was some time before they
could get back to their rooms without
running the gauntlet of the male stu
dents The facts were reported to the
faculty and It was decided to expel the
student but his associates rebelled and
declared they would leave the school if
such penalty was imposed.
Charles Dimmick, treasurer of Bren.
nan post, G. A. R., soldiers home, who
absconded several weeks ago with s400
and was found at Kansas City and