The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-05-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The late rains reached far into west

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summer.
NJ. d. Henderson has been elected
secretary of the new board of railroad
commissioners.
Gen. James b Weaver, late peoples
party candidate for president, was re-
Gently in Topeka.
Cashier Yeiter, Of the bank of Ingalls,,
is reported to be short in his accounts
to the amount of $4,000 or $4,000.
| A destructive hailstorm recently did
great damage IN the vicinity of Hays
City. Calves, chickens, rabbits, birds,
ETC., were killed.
The reports of the city assessors Of
Leavenworth show that the popula tion
on March l. this year, was 2O,027, a fall
ing off in the past year of IT'S.
The appropriation of 81, 900 TO pay the
expenses of the senate Doodle investi-
| cation committee has been exhausted
ami a number of witnesses are left
without pay.
| T. G. Rucker, who killed W. S. Os-
born in Cowley county on Christmas
day, 1873 and who broke Jail soon after,
was recently arrested in Monroe county,
! Ark, and taken back to jail at Win
field.
| The governor has offered a reward Of
$500 for the apprehension of the parties
concerned in the lynching of Dan
Adams, a negro, who stabbed the sta
tion agent of the Union Pacific at Sa-
lima a short time ago.
Luke G. Herring, editor and propri-
etor of the Sumner County Standard,
| l.
troubles for the past two years, died at
his home in Wellington the other day,
leaving a widow and two small chill
dren.
| 1t is stated that the state normal
school has arranged for an excursion to
the worlds fair. A special train will
leave Emporia just after commence
ment, designed to accommodate the
faculty, alumni and students and their
friends.
The governor was recently notified
! by telegraph that 500 head of cattle
shipped into Chautauqua county were
! stopped at Juniata and quarantined by
a posse of thirty farmers, who were in
formed that the cattle were from the
! fever district. The live stock commits
sion went down to investigate.
Mrs. C. T. Jehu was killed by IN
electric car on the Chelsea Park line at
Kansas City, Kan, the other night.
/ She was going to drug store, walking
! on the track, and seeing car APP
| preaching stepped on the other track,
when she was struck by car going in
the opposite direction. She was 81
years of age and lately from Stafford.
| 60,
| peared from his home near Wichita the
other day and the next morning his
body was found on an island south of
the city. bottle of morphine that
| he had purchased was found empty in
his pocket and also a note of farewell
| to his wife and three children. Finan-
cial worry as we'll as the modification
of having been arrested were the causes
| of the suicide.
Judge Hazen, of the district court, at
| Topeka, has decided that the mortgage
| redemption law enacted by the last
| legislature does not apply to existing
| contracts. The decision was in a case
| to foreclose second mortgage on q
| farm in Shawnee county. The decision
| is the second in its line in the state
since the enactment of the law. The
first was by Judge Reed, of Sedgwick
county, soon after the law was passed.
Several more postmasters were APP
| pointed in Kansas on the 10th. They
were CaSSius NJ. McGowan, at Thayer,
| Neosho county; Andrew J. Howell, at
| Virgil, Greenwood county; Charles S.
LOcknane, at Welmore, Nemaha coun-
| ty; Flavia Longton, at Aurora, Cloud
county; L. o. Clary, at Miltonvale,
Cloud county; Isaac Brown, at Caven,
Pratt county: T. C. Craig, at Easton,
| Leavenworth county; Adam Loeb, at
| Lane, Franklin county; Z. f. Santer,
Shawnee, johnson county, and c. A.
! Shepherd, at Wilmington, Wabaunsee
| county.
Gov. Lewelling has telegraphed to
| the president of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas road, calling his attention to
| the law of Kansas requiring all Kansas
corporate to maintain their general
| offices in the state. and warning him
that steps would be taken by the state
to revoke the charter unless the gener-
al offices should be moved back to Kan
| sas from st. Louis. The governor also
| notified Attorney-General Little of his
| action and unless the company moves
its offices back at once a suit in quo
| warranto will be instituted in the su-
preme court
Kansas secured batch of fourth
class postmasters on the Sth, all to fill
vacancies caused by designations. They
| were: G. NJ. A. SamuelS, at Boicourt,
Linn county; w. j. Stone, at Fulton,
Bourbon county; G. w. Daniels, at Gar
| field. Pawnee county; Miss C. L. Porter,
at Glenloch, Anderson county; E. v.
Blake, at Guelph, Sumner county; L. A.
| Ramsey. at Lansing, LeavenYorth
| county; A. Hauma, at New Murdock,
| Kingman county; w. B. Morgan, at
| Parkerville, Morris county; J. E. Cof-
| fey. at Cock Creek, jefferson county;
| Mary F. See, at Rosedale, Wyandotte
county: ]. w. Tibbetts, at Shibboleth,
Decatur county; ]. d. Cannon, at To
ronto, Woodson county; John Gallagher,
| at Wheaton, Pottawatomie county; G.
| w. Penner, at Whitewater, Butler
| county.
Emporia put on her best clothes the
| other day to welcome Commander-in-
| Chief Weissert and Adjt--Gen. Gray, of
the national g. A. R., and Department
Commander Bernard Kelly and Assist
ant Adjt.-Gen. Campbell. large body
| of veterans met the party at the depot
and escorted them to the Hotel White
| ley, where the mayor and delegation
accorded them reception.
| The late rains, it is stated, have in
sured good wheat crop to Reno
| county.
The governor has appointed C. E
Foote, of Marion, to be a member of the
state board of pardons in place Of S. A
| Willoughby, deceased.
1t is stated that an apparently mex
haustible deposit of frst-class cement
rock has been discovered nine miles
| south of Eldorado, On the line of the
Seda.sa, Warsaw & Southern railway.
| The parade of labor unions held at