The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-01-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS

the same paid was ST2 86L
Henry b Mitchell, late an emrloya
[ OF the state auditors o1ice, has got
/ himself into a peck of trouble He
got good salary, but fast women
gambling aud eztravagauce led him in-
l TO duplicating his salary vouchers and
| other dishonest tricks
James McNeal, q Medicine Lodge
printer was to nave been married at
/ tive o'clock January ., but just before
I that hour lac was found In his room uu-
/ conscious from the effects Of morphine
aud died about the hour at which the
ceremony was to take place No cause
( given
Charles Huttinger, aged 25. fireman
/ on the Kansas City, Wyandotte e
/ Northwestern railroad, had is left leg
/ horribly crushed the other day at the
/ Home coal mine at Leaveuw0rth by a
o al car Running down a siding and col-
! liding with his engine. He died after
the leg had been amputGted-
commission has been agreed upon
| by eattlemen interested in suits grow
! ing out of losses caused by Spanish
fever brought TO Kansas by Texas cattle
last summer. The commission consists
I OF T. @. WibIey, of Emporia; John Min
/ mich, Of Cottonwood Falls, aud William
! Rogers Kansas City. These gentlemen
/ will appraise all Losses and make return
/ to court.
A shortage of eG,6a2. 81 has been dis
/ covered in the insurance department
/ It occurred during the administration
OF D. ". Wilder and James w Billings
. lea, his chief clerk, is the guilty party.
] Bulingslea has turned over q valuable
! farm in Atchisou county to AR Wildera q
( boudsmeu, who will have to make the
/ amount good No blame is attached TO
! AIr Wilder.
When the whistle blew for the men
! to go to work at the Home coal niue
! at LeavenwOrth the other morning
none OF the men put in an appearance.
/ 1t was soon learned that they had de-
1 clared a formal strike and would NOT
return to the mine under the manage
msnt of the new suPerin teudsnt George
! w. Kirkstead. One hundred and sew
1 enty-ive men went out.
In the United States circuit court at
] Topeka Judge Riuer rendered a decision
in the case of the Pullman company
/ again the Missouri, Kansas d. Texas
/ railway in which the injunction asked
F! by the Pullman company is denied and
the restraining order dissolved This
/ permits the Missouri, Kansas s. Texas
TO use Wagner or any other sleeping
cars for which they may contract
At the late meeting of the teachsrs
association at Topeka, new officers were
/ elected as follows President, George
! ". Winsns, of Junction City vice
/ president, J. w Cooper, of EevFtoni
secretary, Lizzie Barnhart, OF Pitts
| burg; treasurer, Isaac Morgan, OF
/ Sabetha- Cloud county, having thirty
eight teachers in attendance, was
awarded the banner, held last year by
| Gree wood county,
woman threw herself under q
Santa Fe freight train at flilmer, Q sta
| tiou seven miles from Topeka, the other
day and was cut to pieces a scrap Of
| paper gave her name as lola Dilkes,
! and an empty morphine bottle showed
that she had evidently taken the drug
and then cast herseif upon the track
/ She was well dressed and about 25
years Of age While clearly a case OF
suicide the cause could not be learned
ES-Gov. Samuel J. Crawford has sub
mitted 20 the governor his final report
as state agent at Washington for the
prosecution OF Kansas claims against
the general government The report
shows that school lands were secured
to the number of 2z6, $40 acres; railroad
lands restored, SS8. 900 acres. The cash
items secured were as follows: Five
per cent fund paid to state, s755. 8I9 sIi
military fund paid to the state, s3T2,-
2S6. SIS direct tax fund paid to the state,
81, ,743. IS; total, 81, 199, S99.52
sam Mulveys OF Arkansas City. went
to Wichita some days ago, bought lot
IN Maple Grove cemetery, paid the sex
ton TO dig grave went to an under
/ takers, where he bought a coffin and
paid IS for a man to drive a heerss
when called for. These preliminaries
concluded, he bought a quantity OF
morphine, spent a day in writing let
ters and retired early in the evening
During the night the hotel clerk heard
a noise in his room and broke it open,
when he discovered AIuIvey apparently
dying. physician was summoned
and his life saved A letter stated that
he had become discouraged and wished
i to die
The teachers of the state while re-
Gently in session at Topelca adopted
resolutions that the law, Ievying ons
mill tax on all property in the state
and disbursinR this fund with the semi
annual dividend for school purposes
| should be restored to d place on the
statute books; that the endorsements OF
/ the compulsory attendance law be
I placed in the hands of a trusted officer
I specially appointed for the purpose
/ otherwise. that said law be repeaIeds
that the legislature authorize the state
: board OF education TO Issue a uniform
course of study for the district schools
of the state, and that district boards 5e
I required to adopt the same as the man
nal Of instruction in their respective
schools; also favoring the establish
ment Of the county high school
i. s. Rawlins, wanted in Chicago Cor
eubezziemeut, and for whose arrest re-
wards aggregating e, 600 have been
oAered, was captured at Lawrence the
other night he had in his possession
three drafts. calling In al for 81, F65.
1 signed by the cashier of a hank ~
0lathe- He registered as T. r Indy
The residence Of H g. Larimer at
Iopesza was almost totally Destroyed
I by ere the other morning The prinei-
pal damage was 20 the magnificent IL
brary of $500 volume, which vFEz com
pietely ruinedi- The library represented
years OF Labor Ia researcE for choice
bsoiss OF reference, and iEis addition 70
this cost its ovFner g. O5o
Dr. Chaliiza. OF Atehisou, fathar-iu
law u tEs iats Gov John a 8Lartis7s
has made An asa5guuaent Tor tiie benefit
/ Of crailt1rG KS 1tahilttfg1 nre PLACED
at -I26 coo Dr. Clluliisa was she owner
cl fle street. cer flree O. the city. was
Infested asfz E7u le1sT-zi-5 end rsaz