The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-04-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


their next annual meeting at Leaven-
worth.
The national grain congress, recent
ly held at Wichita, was such a success
that it ended in a regular love feast.
The taxes of the Santa Fe road in
the state for 1898 aggregated $500, 900,
OF which Cowley county collects s42 500
Gen. James 3. Weaver made four
speeches in Kansas during his recent
visit to the state. He believes the pop
ulists are stronger in the state than in
1892
Ex-Gov. Harvey died at his home
near Fort Riley on the 18th, aged near
ly 81. He had devoted his attention
to farming since the expiration of his
term as United States Senator in 1877.
The funeral of ex-Gov. Harvey was
largely attended at Junction City. The
city was draped in mourning, business
houses were closed and the teachers
and pupils of the high school attended
in a body.
The Kansas irrigation commission
met at Topeka few days since, and
after a general discussion of matters
pertaining to irrigation and the best
methods for its advancement, adjourned
to meet May Is.
j. w. Watkins, a well-to-do farmer,
living five miles from H awatha, fatally
shot his wife the other morning and
committed suicide by taking poison.
The woman was his second wife and
had been married to him only few
months.
Charg IS have been filed with the gov
ernor against Superintendent Hitch
cock, of the reform school for bows,
reciting a long list of specifca tions of
alleged delinquencies and the govern
or will fix time for hearing the evil
dence in the case.
The state superintendent of public
instruction is informed by the treasurer
of Kearney county that $40. 900 in bonds
of that county purchased for the state
school fund some years ago have been
declared illegal, but s13, 500 purchased
lately are all right.
1t is stated that the recent sugar
beet experiments made at the state
agricultural college, at Manhattan,
under direction of Profs. Failyer and
Wilson, have not been of character
to encourage the belief that the in
dustry can ever be made profita BILE
one in Kansas.
The railroad commissioners recently
gave a decision in the Hutchinson case.
The claimants asked for a reduced rate
lots. The decision is in line with the
60
rate is reduced from 331z cents to %
cents per hundred
The national grain congress was re-
Gently in session at Wichita, with rep
resentatives present from many west
ern and southern states. A permanent
organization was effected with G. w.
Clements, of Wichita, president. and
Col West, of Alabama and A. c. Jobes
OF Kansas, secretaries
The Indian appropriat ton bill which is
pending in congress contains an item,
put in at the suggestion of Representa-
tive Curtis, which officially designates
the Indian school at Lawrence as Has
kell institute, in honor of the late
Dudley c. Haskell, member of congress
from the Second district
In the United States court at Topeka
the jury in the case against August
Jaedicl>e, charged with increasing the
of stamps while postma ster
at Hanover, could not agree and was
by Judge Riner. They
found the defendant not guilty on ten
counts but disagreed on the other two.
The jury was out five days
Tho ,f A..
railroad commissioners and the traffic
managers of the railroads doing busi-
ness in Kansas to consider the demands
of numerous petitions for general re-
of freight rates in the
state, met at Topeka. but at the re-
quest of the railroads was adjourned
without definite action until May 16.
The attorney-general has instituted
proceedings in the district court of
Shawnee county against the New York
fire insurance companies, thirteen in
which do business in the
state, for the collection of what is
known as the reciprocal tax" which
the companies refuse to pay on the
that the law is no longer in
force.
The grand master workman of the
A. o. U. w. of Kansas has rendered a
decision that a member of the order
violates his obligations in renting
building to party for the purpose of
keeping saloon or place for the sale
OF Intoxicating liquors, and that it is
in violation of the laws of the order to
keep joint or saloon, and adds: ',To
rent building for a joint or saloon is
conduct unbecoming an officer, for
which he may be removed from office.
He can be disciplined to the extent Of
expulsion from the order"
A Chicago firm recently sent repre-
to Kansas to investigate the
lax industry, with view to engaging
in the raising of fax, if it
should be found that the soil and
climate promised sufficient returns for
,he effort The representatives of the
irm recently wrote to the secretary of
he state board of agriculture that
'oil and climate of larger portion
If Kansas land should not produce a
iber adapted to compete with the Rus
ian product in the European market
Experiments are to be made which, if
will prove of great benefit
% the state.
Sarah E Wilkins was awarded g.
'24 damages from the Santa Fe by q
ury in the district court at Atchison
he other day. She brought suit
against the company for running q