The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

/ Gently gored to death by a bull near
Wellington.
Newton has had its water supply
shut off because the city refused to pay
bill of So, 400 for rental
George w. Van Seller teamster 81
years old was recently killed by the
cars at Kansas City, Kan.
Fire at Augusta the other day de-
stroyed Hill Bros meat market and
Barnes Co.'S general store.
The Spooner library building of the
state university at Lawrence was dedi.
Gated on the 10th, with appropriate
ceremonies
Col. Moore, democratic candidate for
congress ii the Second district, filed his
Certificate of nomination at the ''elev-
enth hour"
The Republican Editorial associa.
ton OF the Seventh district held its an
nual meeting at Newton on the Sth
and 9th and closed with banqust.
The ceopers % Eaiisas City, Kan, re.
Gently demanded an advance of one
cent on apple barrels, which was re-
fused and $50 men went on a strike.
The, 3-months-old child Of Mr. and
Mrs Frank Williams, of Kansas City,
Nan, died in spasm the other day
after drinking impure condensed milk:
Hon. Daniel Woodsen, the first ter
ritoria1 SECRETARY of Kansas, and sew
eral times acting governor during the
early stormy history of the territory,
died at Coffeyville on the 5tb at the
age of 20 years,
Mrs. Allen, wife of ]. M. Allen,
clerk at the military prison at Fort
Leavenworth, died suddenly in Kan
sas City hospital the other day. She
was the daughter Of Mr.. Kyle; one of
the original incorporators of Leaven,
worth, and the first female child born
in the town.
1t is stated that great many farm:
ers in the western part of the state will
devote a portion of their land next
season to alfalfa. Alfalfa will stand
more drought than any other farm
product, and it is asserted fattens cat
tie very much the same as, corn, except
that it does not make the flesh quite sd
solid:
The president of Baker university at
Baldwin has put his foot down upon
the playing of football and as result
seven of the students who were last
year in the champion team left the In:
stitution: They were driven to the
depot in carriages dra ped in black, fol-
lowed by all the other students, and
many Indignant citizens.
The equal suffrage campaign com.
mittee recently decided to have
fnfy Of
cinct in, the state on the night OF
the election for the purpose of keep
ing record of the vote on the proposed
amendment and the vote for governor.
In this way the committee hopes to be
able to determine which political party
has rendered the most aid TO the SUI
frage cause:
At the recent meeting of the grand
lodge l. o. o. +. at Wichita; a lively
time was had over the question of ad.
hitting Representatives from the
twenty-six lodges that were under sus
pension for not paying the per capita
assessment to the De Bossiere orphans
home. When the vote was taken the
suspended lodges were admitted by
vote of 176 to 129 An appeal was i'm.
mediately taken to the sovereign grand
lodge.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of Judge Hazen, of the Shaw.
nee county district court, in the case
of Reno lodge 1. Q. o. F., of Hutchin,
son, against the grand lodge of Kan.
sas. The case involved the right OF
the grand lodge to assess per capita
tax in support of the De Boissier OF.
phans' home. The decision of the su.
preme court is that members of fra
ternal organizations are bound by the
rules of the society, and that courts will
not undertake to control the internal
policy of such societies. The decision
is adverse to the Hutchinson lodge
Twenty-Five years ago J. T. Holmes
then postmaster at Wichita, was con.
victed in the United States court al
Topeka of stealing registered letters
and sentenced to ten years in the peni.
Tertiary. Eighteen months later
Holmes was released at the interces.
sion of friends who paid the shortage
and whose pleadings almost convinced
the authorities that he had been wrong.
fully convicted. The other dav Mr..
Holmes received a letter from King
Price in the Michigan penitentiary.
which completely exonerated him
Price was clerk in the office at the
time and his letter recites how he lost
money by gambling; how he first
robbed the money drawer of the post
Office, and finally took the registered
packages.
The grand lodge I. O. o. F., lately ir
session at Wichita, settled the conten.
ton over the DeBoissere orphans home
bequest by declining to have anything
further to do with it and the property
reyerts to the trustees. The grand
lodge elected the following officers for
the year: Grand master, Levi Ferguson,
of Wellington: deputy grand master,
DIR. Taylor, of Topeka; grand secre.
tary, C. w. Main, Mankato; grand
treasurer, L. G. Bean, of Topeka:
grand warden, G. w. Walters, of Os-
wego. The Kansas state assembly OF
Rebekah elected the following officers:
President. Adelaide Smith Wayiand,
of Washington; vice president, Blanche
NJ. Dryden, of Spring Hill; secretary,
Lydia Sheppard, of Wichita; treasurer,
Ida NJ. Blum. of Kansas City.
Ellen Lunney, who shot and killed
Eugene McEnroe in schoolhouse near
Lenora July 81, because of cruel
wrongs done her, was acquitted at