The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-08-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
1t is said that new state bank is Il
be established at Richmond.

Gently drowaei IN the solomon river
near Beloit.
1t is Thought that the injunction
cases again==t. Santa Fe strikers will
uor be pressed for trial,
A Young AtcLison man named San.
ders was recently bitten on the leg by
a spider and the limb sweEed to such
enormous proportions that physicians
feared serious results.
Stark Furlong, Waterman at the
Santa Fe depot at Wichita, was siugged
and robbed the other morning before
daylight. He had just drawn his pay.
His injuries were tbenght ta be fatal.
It Is reported by Wichita friends OF
Rev. J. D. Eotkin. former candidate
for governor IN the Prohibition ticket.
that he viii give up the pulpit and en-
ter the political field as an anti-old-
partyite.
Maj. I. o. Pickering, prohibition cam
didate for governor, says there are
technical errors In the pending suffragc
amendment which may invalidate it
even if it should be adopted at the No
vember election.
Clare Bulmer, elevator boy at tn.
Wyandetts Natisinai hastt brilding in
kahsas City, kan, was caught il the
elevator the other afternoon and so
badly crushed that it was thought he
could not live. He was Is years old.
Miss .Lavinia Harris, daughter of
Hor. W. A. Harris, congressman-at-
large from Kansas; who was attending
sthool at Luray, Va, recently eloped
with Wade Bohannon, livery stable
proprietor of that place, and they were
married at Hagerstown, Md.
James Mannihan, Santa Fee brake
man; attempted to eieet tramp from
his train south of Arkansas City the
other day when the tramp threw the
the train was running rapidly. Man
hihan was badly hurt and the tramp
escaped. -. 49,,
Pearl, the 5-year=sld daughter of
William Barrett, Of Argentine, was
fatally wounded the other day by a
stray bullet. While standing in the
yard with her mother an unknown
party fired gun and the ball struck
the child on the check and lodged IL;
her nerk.
While digging we'll on his farm
near Turner, Wyandotte county, the
other day j. S. Perkins discovered a
mineral, which he had assayed and
which yielded s27.5O of gold to the ton.
exists in sufficient quantities to work
profitablE.
The government crop bulletin issued
on the 9th states that the rains and
cooler weather have operated benefi-
cially, Within the rain belts in the
middle and eastern divisions corn, pas
lures, hay and fruit crops are materi-
ally improved, but outside of the rains
these crops have deteriorated.
An Atchison colored boy climbed a
tree to rob birds nest a few days ago
and fell to the ground striking in his
fall "a protruding dead branch that
ripped horrible cash in his leg from
knee4to thigh. Moral to boys: Before
climbing tree to rob birds nests be
sure to saw off all dead branches
smoothly.
Tmoo presidents engaged in personal
encounter on the streets of Atchison
the other day. One was the president
of the board of police commission
ers and the other the president
of the board of health. The trouble
grew out of the employment by the
city of DIR. Troughton during the recent
smallpox epidemic.
The other night Mr.. and Mrs. De-
Witt Mcdowell, of Arkansas City,
were caught in folding bed
and their cries for help brought
assistance from persons passing, who
found them vainly trying to extri-
cate themselves from the trap. Mrs.
Mcdowell was safely rescued but
her husband received injuries that re-
suited in his death next day.
The state fish commissioner has late
ly been busily engaged in the distribu-
ton of breeding fish in the various
streams Of the state, the fish being fur
nished from the government hatche- y
at Quincy, Ill. A carload was recently
placed in the Smoky Hill and Saline
rivers in the Sixth district, and a sup
ply also furnished Topeka, Great Bend,
Hutchinson and other points. Another
carload will be secured for the south.
eastern part of the state.
II YVES repOTtcu SOlilc UlillS ago tud u
the population of Grant, Seward and
Stevens counties was not sufficient to
cntitle them to representatives in the
legislature, but an investigation shows
that they have the requisite number of
Inhabitants. At the last general cleo
ton, by a strange coincidence, the
votes cast in each of these counties for
district judge was 1874, but on other
candidates the votes passed the mark
emitting them to representation in the
legislature.
II: obedience to petition signed by
the requisite number of citizens Judge
Hszen has called grand jury to meet
at Topeka in October to aid the author
tiles in suppressing the liquor traffic in
Shawnee county. The judge said that
the demand is according to law,
and while he issued the order it was
against his personal judgment. He
spoke very severely against the prac-
tice of calling grand juries to deal with
the liquor question when officers are
clothed with ample power. The grand
jury he declared to be a very expensive
piece of legal machinery.
J. H. Wilson, Lyon county farmer,
aged Sc years, and in good circum-
stances, procured license to marry a
widow the other day and then hanged
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