The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-03-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Railroad Statistics.

Railroad Statistics.
The eleventh annual report of the
state board of railroad commissioners
shows that the total number of casual.
ties on all the railroads running into
the state for the year ended June so,
1892, was 2.;213 while the number for
the year ended June so, 1898, was S,O2a,
an increase of 80 per cent Inside the
boundaries of the state alone 1S0 per
sons have been killed and 736 injured
during the twelve months-a total OF
S39. The board thinks that safety ap-
pliances and other means and precau-
tions could be used in making human
life and limbs more sacred The total
number of miles of railroad within the
state, as reported for the year ended
June 30, 1898, was s. 9O6, ,O6. The total
passenger earnings of the several roads
for the year ended June 80. 1898, were
$40. 577, 944; for the preceding year,
s37. 426. 767; increase, s3,153,177. The
total freight earnings for the year were
s105. 544,7s9; for the preceding year,
500, 7O4, 1877; increase, s4.S4O,66a. The
total income from bonds, stocks, rent
ais, etc. was STATS 267; net income,
e11, 1893, 500; dividends paid, So. 1873, 023;
net surplus for the year, S., ,21O, III.
Dividends were paid by four roads, the
| Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the
! Chicago s. Great Western, and the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
| Miscellaneous.
During February Kansas received
| S1R Of 81
for sugar bounties.
The warden of the penitentiary has
made his February settlement with the
state auditor. The total receipts for
the month were IS, 557.O7 and the total
expenditures sS,927.4 46.
| Mrs. Laura NJ. Johns and her associ-
ate managers of the equal suffrage
campaign have planned to hold two-day
meetings in each of the 105 counties in
the state, commencing May and at
Kansas City in Wyandotte county.
Pension examining surgeons were re-
| Gently appointed for Kansas as follows:
| apolis, DR.. J. L. Brewer; Valley Falls,
DR.. A. G. Smith; Olathe, Drs. G. A.
Boyd, II. E. Hastings, and NJ. f. Sloan.
The entire family of E. L. Snyder, =
| merchant of Sedgwick, was accidental
ly poisoned by some unknown SUBJ
| stance in the coffee the other day.
Mrs. Snyder died within a few hours,
and Snyder the next night 1t was
thought the children would survive.
The governor has appointed DIR. II.
w. Roby, of Topeka, and DIR. j. w.
Jenny, of Salina, to be members of the
stat. board OF health. DR.. Jenny sue.
ceeds himself and DIR. Roby Dr. Frank
Swallow, of Valley Falls. DIR. Jones
succeeds DR.. II. D. Hill, of Butler
county.
Two men entered Pearce's jewelry
store at Wichita in broad daylight the
other day, and while one of them
covered the proprietor with a revolver
the other robbed the showcases of
many watches and diamonds One Of
The robbers was later arrested and part
Of the property recovered.
The Santa Fe, Rock Island, Missouri
Pacific and Union Pacific railroads have
notified the secretary of the state board
of railroad commissioners that they
will haul seed wheat and other grain to
farmers in western Kansas who are un-
able to pay for the transportation, FREQ
of charge, the grain to be loaded at
points no farther east than Emporia,
Manhattan and Council Grove.
The other night robbers entered the
bank at Pleasanton, blew open the safe
with dynamite and stole 81, ,4TO. The
main cash box did not succumb to the
explosive. The robbers also took sew
eral hundred dollars from private boxes
in the vault, and escaped. Two days
later two boys fouud satchel under
the platform of the railroad depot
which contained all tia, stolen money.
The reports that come to the agri-
cultural department and to the various
railroad headquarters in Topeka rela-
tive to the growing crop of wheat
throughout the state are all of the
most encouraging character. The
plant has been greatly refreshed by
the recent SHOWS and rains Most of
the wheat crop was put in early last
fall, and the growth is we'll advanced
now.
The trial of Ellworth Hacker and
Green Roberts at Pratt for the murder
OF Grant Baker, resulted in the convic-
tion of Hacker of murder in the first
degree. Roberts, his accomplice in the
crime. was the principal witness
against him, and through his evidence
the conviction was obtained Roberts
was permitted to plead guilty to mur-
der in the second degree. Hacker was
sentenced to be hanged and Roberts to
the penitentiary for life. After sem
tence Roberts created quite sensation
by stating that Hacker was innocent
of any shooting and that he fred both
shots.
The senate on the 9th confirmed the
following Kansas postmasters: j. F.
Waskey, at Oswego; Fred Lutz, at Be-
lott; James j. j. McFarlan, at Clyde;
James T. Highley, at Garnett; William
j. Herman, at Chetopa; George w.
Storrs, at Burlington; Theodore Frager,
at Erie; Charles Palmer, at Pittsburg;
Albert Morrall. at Wamego; Thomas
w. Morgan, at Eureka; Alfred NJ Nc
Pherson, at Galena: Cornelius s Mace,
at st. John; C. r. Clifford, at Clay Cen
ter; j. J. Gavis, at Manhattan; Matthew
Thomas, at Alma: j. w. Stewart, at
Smith Center; Bernard j. Sheridan, at
Paola; Martin n. Sinnott, ct Arkansas
City, and Thomas McNulty, at Stock
ton.
w. II. Campbell, the new department
commander of the G. A. R. in Kansas,
has issued an order to the comrades of
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