The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-04-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

was destroyed Oy uFa the Obner ulRQG
Loss, $50, 600; Insurance., SIS, 600.
The bonded debt of the state is $S0f,. !.
900, and there is now more than money
enough in the treasury to pay il
The seventh annual convention of
the Kansas Christian Endeavor union
Will be held In Topeka the third week
in May.
Secretary Coburn's quarterly report
| shows that in the fall of 1898 the acre.
age of wheat sown was about ninety;frI
per cent of that seeded the previous
year, instead of t,oenty:ire per cent. ~
misprinted.
Gov. Lewelling is reported to be in
favor of a revision of the Kansas mill,
tary law, and is quoted as saying that
the militia is wholly unreliable, and at
no time can n company or regiment be
organized in. such q way as to make it
safe for the governor to call upon it to
enforce the laws
In the United States circuit court at
Topeka the suit commenced by the at
torneys for the Burlington & Missouri
River Railroad Co. against Norton
county to restrain the collection of
taxes under the levy made by the Kan
sas state board of railroad assessors
has been dismissed by Judge Riner.
j.. d. Mckinney, Of Atchison, the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific en=
gineer whose bravery prevented the
robbery of a passenger train on the
| night af March 2, has been presented
with costly gold watch and chain by
the Rock Island railroad and the Uni
ted States Express companies as a re-
ward of merit
Hon: Jacob Stotler, one Of the early
pioneers of Kansas who has had over
thirty years experience as a 1iewspa-
per publisher in the state, and who at
one time was speaker of the Kansas
house, has finally left the Sunfower
state, after residence of forty years,
and assumed charge of the Commercial
hotel at West Plains, Mo.
The senate has confirmed the follow
ing Kansas postmasters: Thomas A.
McLeary, at Medicine Lodge; w. w.
Smith, at Colby; George A. Collett, at
Ellsworth: A. j. Davis, at Wa-Keeney;
George w. Farrelly, at Chanute; George
Hill, at Independence; George Innis;
at Lawrence; Ebenezer NJ. Lockwood,
at Burlington; Frank E. Ober. at Wash
ington; Will E. Stoke, at Great Bend.
In the third annual report of the
management of the state university's
experiment station at Lawrence, de-
failing the results of experiments with
chinch bugs during the year 1898. Prof.
Snow announces that the white fungus
has been brought under control. 1t
can be propagated in the labora tory
between the middle of May and the 1st
of September and may be commune
Gated to chinch bugs in the field with
absolute certainty.
The governor has pardoned L. T.
Stephenson who was sent to the peni.
tentiary from Independence for steal-
ing two cows. Stephenson was con-
Hvicted upon the false testimony of a
man who is now in the penitentiary for
the offense. Stephenson knew nothing
of the theft for which he was sent up
and his conviction caused him to be-
come insane and he was taken to an
asylum and his reason restored. He
goes home eXonerated.
Suit was filed at Atchison the other
John j. Ingalls, and Z. c. Armsby for
the recovery of 5000, which invites a
long line of sensational litigation. Tho
suit comes out of the failure of the
Kansas Trust & Banking Co. a year
ago in which gross frauds are charged.
Mr.. ingalls, is made a party to the suit
on account of his once being a stock
holder in the defunct institution, in
the management of which he took no
part, however.
Mrs Laura NJ. Johns, of the Equal
Suffrage Campaign committee; Mrs.
Bina Otis, as president of the Women's
Populist league, and Mrs. S. A. Thurs
ton, AS superintendent of the suffrage
department of the Womans' Christian
Temperance union, have issued an ad-
dress to the people on the Importance
OF the approaching campaign and urg-
ing those who are in favor of equal
suffrage to see that the different polit-
ical parties put planks in their plat
forms favoring the same.
The state mine inspector recently
had conference with the governor
and attorney-general relative to the re-
fusal of the mine owners of the Chero-
kee coal district to comply with the
weekly payment law enacted by the
legislature of 1898 The inspector says
the companies continue to pay monthly
and the miners are practically power
less to help themselves The law does
not provide for criminal prosecution for
violation of its provisions, but Only
makes the companies responsible in
damages to the miners who choose to
sue weekly.
At the recent meeting of teach ers in
Lawrence the two associations elected
officers as follows: Northeastern as
sociation-President, S. j. Hunter, Ef-
ingham; vice president, E E. Heath,
Holton; secretary, Mrs. Fannie Slus-
ser, Kansas City; treasurer. Miss Anna
Bowman, Topeka. Executive commit
tee, w. H. Wright. Topeka; Miss Nam
ME L. Anderson, Olathe, and O. P.
Barnes, Leavenworth. Southeastern
association-President E. A. Earring
ton, Paola; vice president, Alex. Nash,
Independence; secretary. Anna Wal
lace, Columbus; treasurer, b C. Hast
ings Emporia- Executive committee,
p. +. Yearout. Eureka; Guy p. Benton,
Fort Scott; W. S. Picken, Paola-
Something of sensation was created
at Wichita the other day by the issuing
of warrants for the arrest of A. a. |
Ward, president, and L. r Cole. MEM |
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