The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-09-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Senators Martin and PETER have re-
turned from Washington.
Light frosts were reported in tho
northern part of the state on the Morn
ing of the 18th.
John Kelly; of Garnett, recently at
tempted suicide near Lawrence By cut
ting his throat.
S. S. Cartwright, wealthy bachelor
of Topeka, is missing, and his friends
fear that he has been foully dealt
with.
The discovery ef smallpox in tho
city caused the postponeuieHt of the
opening of the schools in Leavenworth
for two weeks.
The stocknien in the Saline valley
have organized against gang of cattle
thieves that have been operating in
that section lately.
Samuel Butts, SedgwiclS county
farmer, was shot and killed by an as.
sassin at his home near Mulvane the
other night. He was shot through a
screen door No c1ew to the assassin.
Mrs. J. II. Rigby, of Topeka, became
violently insane the other morning and
grabbing her husband, who is a small
man, by the throat, tanie very near
choking him to death. She afterward
tried to kill herself by jumping into
cellar.
The Santa Fe road announces that it
will haul seed wheat into the counties
of Kansas and Oklahoma, where there
have beeii cf6,; failures, free of charge.
This distribution of the seed wheat will
be entirely in the hands of the county
commissioners.
The two passenger trains which the
Santa Fe recently discontinued on its
line between Topeka and st. Joseph
have been restored. 4 protest against
the discontinuance of the trains was
filed by patrons of the road in Atchison
and ST. Joseph.
At Atchison the other night Frank
Slaughter, tough negro, entered Will
liam Houston's saloon and shot Willie
Deutch, white, and Joe Bell, colorcd.
The murderer, pursued by the officers,
jumped into the river and was thought
to have been drowned.
Sam Brown, a mulatto student, who
Ildo JuSG .duUstSStl 1IOHl lHS
Scott high school. was arrested the
other day by the United States authori-
ties charged with having sent vile let
tiers through the mails, addressed to 4
youfig white lady who was in his class
in school.
A dozen tramps boarded an NJ, X. &
T. passenger train as it pulled out of
Fort Scott the other day and when the
train men attempted to put them off,
they showed fight and got the better
of the crew. The police We're notified;
but before they reached the scene of
disturbance the tramps fled.
The supreme court has ordered the
release of Miss Estella Osbon, of Hol-
ton, who had been in Jail in Topeka
for several weeks awaiting trial on the
charge of completely in the murder of
Lawyer Charles Handle, of Holton, on
June IA. A habeas corpus proceeding
was instituted by the young woman's
attorneys.
The registrat ton OF students at the
state university on the opening OF the
fall term was iJ3, lit more than at the
opening last year. Chancellor Snow
claims that this is an Indication CT 4
return of prosperity to the people of
Kansas and this registration is the
greatest for the first week in the year
in his record of twenty years.
Dr. S. i. Bell, of Kansas City, Kan,
has decided to the state university forty
acres of land near Kansas City, the
provision being that part of the lani
Ia 6-acre tract shall be dedicated to
and used for hospital and clinical
school of medicine, and shall be de-
partment of the state university Of
Kansas. The land is estimated to bG
worth 100000.
Tie treasurer of the state board of
charities drew from the treasury the
other day the following amounts for
the support of the state charitable in
situations for the month of August:
Reform school, Topeka, $3,714.GS: i'm
be, lie asylum, Winfield, Sl,OO7.5O; blind
asylum, Kansas City, 81, 0i6.93; deaf and
dumb asylum, Olathe, 81, 705.I0: or
phans' home, Atchison, $l.756.57; in-
dustrial school, Beloit, 81 072.9S.
Alta late meeting of the state mill
| tary board ut Fort Leavenworth it was
decided to hold the annual state en-
campment at Fort Leavenworth, pro-
vided the citizens of Leavenworth fur
nish the subsistence for three reSi-
ments to be in camp for the entire
| week. October is the date set for the
beginning of the encampment. 1t viii
require between 800 and 5000 to
furnish rations for the command.
At Leavenworth few days ago the
physical examination of seventeen non
commissioned officers for promotion to
| lieutenants was held, and only four OF
them were passed by the surgeons.
Thirteen of them were found deficient
in the chest measurement prescribed
by the regulations. Over half of the
class were sons Of officers. who had en-
listed with the view of promotion and
had studied hard to attain the desired
end.
| William Fox and his wife residing
near Lawrence, were recently shooting
at mark, when Fox gave his wife the
gun and went to arrange the target.
The gun was accidentally discharged
and the ball passed entirely through his
body, piercing the right lung. Mrs. Fox
helped her husband to the house and
summoned 4 doctor, but the chances
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