The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-05-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The state board of charities met q,
Topeka on the Esd to investigate tn,
charges against Superintendent Hitch
cock, of the reform school
The police board of Leavenworth hal
commenced a war of determination
against the nickle-in-the-slotg gambling
devices of the city.
The exective council recently 70
quested Labor Commissioner Todd Il
resign in the interest of harmony, but
the commissioner declined.
Ex-Mayor Gaskill. of Argentine, was
recently arrested upon state warrant
charging him with embezzling funds
the city dollar.
The senate has confirmed the +. uow.
ing Kansas postmasters: John 81. Mey.
er, Hiawatha; Henry c. Maxwell,
Harper; A. H. Jacobs, Larned; August
Bondi, Salina; Thomas A. Fairchild,
Holton.
The jury in the case in which Ward
and Cole, two members of the Wichita
school board. were charged with de.
manding pay from teachers for their
official support, returned a verdict of
not guilty.
The state board of public works re-
Gently awarded to c. H. Hollcraft, of
Topeka, the contract to construct the
physics and electrical building at tho
state university at Lawrence, his bid of
$50, ,933 being the lowest.
t. j. Stewart treasurer of Capital
lodge, A. o. U. W., and of Capital le-
gion, Select Knights, at Topeka, is re-
ported to be short in his accounts sew
eral THOUSAND dollars, but his bonds
men are said to be perfectly good.
United States Judge Foster, who has
been in Galveston, Tex, for some
months trying to regain his health,
has returned home. He expressed the
opinion that if he continued to improve
he would soon be able to resume work.
Over 125 colored miners and their
families from the southern Kansas
mining districts recently left for Bir-
mingham, Ala They will be distrib-
uted among the various coal mines in
Alabama to take the place of striking
miners in that section.
George Lyons, of Neodesha, was
kicked by horse at independence on
the Goth and almost instantly killed.
He was in a buggy with two ladies,
watching an Odd Fellows procession,
when the horse became fractions and
kicked, striking Lyons in the breast
and crushing the bones.
Oscar Myers went fishing in the Mis-
souri, river at Leavenworth the other
day, taking his 5-year-old son with
him, and after casting his line, fell
asleep and was aroused from his slum-
bers by the barking of dog he had
with him. only to find that his son had
fallen into the river and was drowned.
In the district court at Hutchinson
the jury in the case of Cox vs. the Rock
Island railroad gave the plaintiff
Judgment for $4,000. The action was
brought for damages sustained about a
year ago by an injury received in MAX
ing a coupling. Cox has been confined
to his bed ever since and is pronounced
by the physicians to be permanently
paralyzed
The annual convention of the Kansas
State Sunday School association will
lie held at Wichita, May s, and 10.
Among other noted workers to be
present are DR.. Vincent and Dr. Dun
can, of New York; Prof Greenwood
and DR.. Jesse Bowman Young, of st.
Louis; Prof. Excel, of Chicago, and
DIR. Heisler, of Denver. Railroad rates
of one fare for the round trip have
been granted.
1t is stated that Hutchinson lodge No
co. l. o. o. F., will take an appeal to
the supreme court in the DE Boissiere
orphans home case decided by Judge
Hazen in Topeka, in which the subor-
dinate Odd Fellows lodge of Hutchin-
son was plaintiff and the grand lodge
was defendant BY this appeal the
grand lodge cannot collect the ST. so per
capita until the matter is settled by the
supreme court.
Some months ago Chairman Breiden-
thai sent poll-books to a prominent
populist in every voting precinct in the
state, with instructions to make a cor
rect poll of the voters and return to
him by May 1. About one-half of the
state has been heard from, and the re-
turns show 10000 populists, 60, 600 re-
publicans and 5000 democrats. These
returns are from the central and west
ern part of the state, and from counties
which gave populist majorities in 1892.
In the United States court at Topeka
a few days ago Judge Riner dismissed
the case of the United States against
Lawson Mann, of Doniphan county,
charged with having voted at con-
gressional election without having had
his political disabilities removed Mann
admitted that he had served in the con.
federate army, but proved that he
afterwards served in the "Pawpaw
militia" of Missouri thirteen months in
defense of the union, and the court
held that that restored him to the right
of franchise.
The eattorney-general has instituted
proceedings in the supreme court to
forfeit the charter of the Running
Water Cattle & Land Co, of Dallas,
Tex. The company was organized in
Topeka several years ago with a caoi-
tai stock of $1,000, 900. Nearly all of
the incorporators were Texans, and
they left for Dallas as soon as the char
ter was issued, and have been doing
business there ever since. The COM
pany has never maintained headquar.
tiers in Kansas, as required by law,
hence the proceedings to forfeit the
charter
A well-to-do farmer named William