The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-02-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

big time with the gamblers
Fire lately DESTROYED the boiler house
of the Topeka electric light plant
The president has nominated Hon
Thomas Moonlight to be minister TO
Bolivia
A man who stole n team and buggy
in Wichita six years ago has just been
caught in Arkansas City.
Gov. Mckinley, OF Ohio, has accepted
an invitation to speak at the ottawa
Chantauqua assembly June 2.
While boring for gas at 1nce-
pendence recently. n strong vein OF salt
water was struck at depth of twelve
hundred feet.
Mr. AMI Mrs c. S. Duncan. of Law
renee. celebrated their golden wedding
a few days since. They located in Law
renee forty years ago
The number of banks that failed in
Kansas during the past year was
thirtv-two, according to the report OF
the bank commissioner. This does not
include national banks.
John Holthauscr, farmer, commit
ted suicide the other morning by
drowning himself in Il well on his farm
near Wichita He had been ill. which
it WAS supppscd affected his mind.
thrifty bergar woman in Kansas
City (Kan.) took advantage of the
business depression and went around
among the charitably inclined people
begging clothing for her suffering
children. which she would then sell to
secondhand dealers.
r. f. Fiield. of Vermont, has filed
application in the United States court
at Topeka for receiver for the Del.
monica hotel at Lcavenworth. The
petition saws that the plaintiff loaned
5000 on the property in 1889 to Thomas
Giacomini. the proprietor The inter
est is in default
The Kansas society OF the sons of the
revolution voted at their meeting in
Topeka the other day to celebrate
Washington's birthday, February 22,
with n general convention of the de-
scendents OF the American revolution.
Addresses will be delivered by disuin.
guished speakers
The thirteenth annual encampment
of the department of Kansas G. n. X.
will convene at the city Of Newton on
February 20, 1894, and will continue
from day to day until the business OF
the encampnent is completed. The
railroads of Kansas have granted 4 rate
of one fare for the round trip.
Fire at Leavenworth the other day
destroyed the business mouse of Fred
erick Knopp, and two adjoining build
ings owned by him. His loss above in
surauce was about $1,000. In addition
to losing the buildings Knopp is out
81. 800 in cash which he had secreted
under the carpet of his room and which
went up in the blaze
Frank Kramer. said to have been
formerly cashier of bank in Nebras-
lSa, but later connected with a bank at
Wakenda, No, was recently found in
the river at Lawrence. He had evil
IDENTIFY committed suicide The cashier
of the Wakenda bank visited Lawrence
and said Kramer had been acting in n
strange manner and had started to Wis
it his family at Carhondale.
Eugene Hagan, appointed n special
master to investigate the case of the
government against the Leavenworth
coal mine, has finished his examination
and will make his report soon. The
~ SUING luc ioi
coal taken under the reservation and it
is said that should the suit be decided
in accordance with the findings OF
Special Master Hagan the company
will have to pay S96.OoO royalty and be
heavy loser in other ways.
Kansas has had eighteen governors,
six territorial and twelve state. The
territorial governors were Andrew H.
Reeder. Wilson shannon, John W.
Geary, Robert j. Walker, James w.
Denver and Samuel Medary. They are
all dead. In the early days Colorado
was part OF Kansas. and the city OF
Denver was incorporated by the Kan.
sas territorial legislature of 1859 and
named in honor of Gov. Denver. Nine
OF the state governors are living.
The state Superintendent of insur-
arcc has received the annual re-
ports of twenty-three Insurance COM
panies. which IS about half the total
NUN Ecr Of fire companies doing busi-
ness in the state. The reports in near
" every instance show n general loss in
the whole country. although the COM
panies, as rule. report a profitab BILE
business in Kansas. Many of the COM
panies show decreases in the surplus
4 amounting, in some cases, to s50o, 200.
4 sharp trick was lately attempted to
be PLAYED upon the officers of the peni-
tentiary and came near being sue
cessful. On December % the sheriff
OF Cowley county took TO the prison
Morgan Wright and WILDER Norton,
under sentence of death, and Charles
Roberts for three years for burglary.
The prison officials claim that in re.
cording the new arrivals, in the
presence of the sheriff, Roberts and
Norton changed names and assumed
each others sentence. Accordingly Rob
erts was put in the coal shafts and
treated as a life prisoner while Norton
| was worked outside. Lately he at
tempted to escape AMI it came to the
knowledge of the officials that there
was conspiracy among the Cow
| ley county trio for Norton to get out on
the three-vear sentence when he, Rob
| erts, would soon after give his right
identity. and if necessary be taken out
| on writ of habeas corpus Roberts
| made full confession OF the plot when
brought before the warden.
Judge Anderson. Of Kansas City
| (Kan.), has handed down a decision to
! the effect that the sheriff has no right
| to destroy gambling paraphernaiIa "a.
| The decision was trought out by suit
| following the seizure of Clay Maltby's
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