The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-02-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The state board of railway commis-
sioners recently decided the Wichita
lumber case by reducing the rate from
Kansas City to 15111 cents per 100 pounds
in car lots The rate was II cents.
Judge w. R. Wagstaff, we'll known
in early Kansas history and for four
years judge of the district composed Of
Wyandotte, johnson and Miami coun-
ties, died at Paola on the 11th, aged II
years.
The general merchandise store and
residence of L.. E. Buckles, of Havana,
burned the other day. None of the
furniture nor any of the stock of the
store was saved. The house and store
were insured for s4,025 and the stock
for So, 500.
The late heavy snow storm was not
without its good. The city council Of
Argentine ordered the street commits
sioner to give all able bodied men who
applied for aid shovel and put them
to work removing the snow from side
walks and street crossings.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners has decided that the Kansas,
Nebraska & Dakota Railway Co. must
place a passenger train on the line,
making daily trip each way between
the cities of Topeka and Fort Scott
This was after a second hearing.
Among the recent decisions of the
supreme court is one involving the
right of cities to compel offenders
against ordinances to work out their
hn ha1 ,.l.
of this kind were not unconstitutional
and could be enforced. Justice Allen
dissented.
Receiver Wilson, of the Santa Fe
system. said recently that the company
would pay all taxes assessed against il
in Kansas regardless of the claim here.
tofore made that the board of railway
assessors had Disseminated unjustly
against it Payments will be made,
however, under protest.
A young man who gave his name az
Frank Fortt met Michael Wade, an old
farmer, in a saloon at Atchison tho
other day, and prevailed upon him to
take walk. Getting the farmer to a
side street Fortt knocked him down
and robbed him of his watch and
money. Fortt was arrested
Quong 10y, a Chinaman, took out
naturalization papers in the court Of
common pleas at Kansas City, Kan,
but when Capt. Hogarty, an inspector
of the treasury department, called
Judge Anderson's attention to the fact
that it was in violation of the federal
law the papers were revoked.
The police at Atchison recently tools
a Mrs. Franklin out of a car of house.
she had been beating her way from
Decatur, Ill She had S25 and had
been put in the car by her husband
who did not want to pay her car fare.
She had been in the car three days and
was nearly frozen.
John johnson, 35 years old, recently
started to walk from the residence OF
his brother to his home at Alma. He
attempted to cross a railroad bridge
over a creek, and some time after was
found dead on the ice under the bridge.
1t was supposed he slipped and fell
through the bridge. He leaves wife
and several small children.
The treasurer of the state board OF
charities drew from the state treasurer
a few days ago the sum of SIG, 442. 36 for
the support of the Topeka insane
asylum and 1866. 81 for the state re-
form school for the month of January.
Mrs. Lease also drew s134 so for her
services and expenses as a member OF
the board, including back pay.
Henry Wall, a Leavenworth county
farmer, had his residence destroyed on
the Sunday night that the late terrible
storm prevailed. Nothing was saved
and the family barely had time to es-
cape. Mrs. Wall. carried two of the
children barefooted, and with nothing
but her night dress to cover her and
their bodies to a farmhouse, distance
Of a quarter of mile.
An Armourdale young fellow thought
It was a fine joke to get a friend to per-
sonate justice of the peace and have
. mock marriage celebrated by which
young girl of 16 was made to believe
that she had become his wife and lived
as such with him for several days, but
when the fraud was discovered and he
was locked up it was not SO funny. lie
got out of Jail by having regular
ceremony legally performed.
The other afternoon one Of the new
Guffey & Galley oil wells near Neodesha
was shot with thirty-two quarts OF
nitro-glycerine and within ten minutes
an immense volume of petroleum was
thrown with great force to a height OF
eighty feet The well flowed great
volumes of oil at intervals of twenty
minutes and although the pumps were
soon put to work many barrels escaped
and for some distance around the der.
rick the oil covered the ground to the
depth of from four to ten inches. The
well is 900 feet deep.
The supreme court has decided that
section of the Douglass mortgage re-
demption law relating to the fees and
commissions of sheriffs unconstitution.
al and of no effect 1t provided that
when land was bid in by or for the
''prior creditor" the sheriff should re.
ceive no commission for the sale. In
deciding the case the court held that
the section is void for two reasons, be.
cause the subject of the section is not
mentioned in the title OF the act and
because the question Of costs Is foreign
to the general object OF the act, and
renders the words prior creditor" un-
der the section uncertain, andtherefors
void.
When it did arrive the belated bliz.
zard made up for lost time. The snow
at Kansas City (Kan-), Topeka and
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