The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-09-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

RADIO, will make five speeches in the
Seventh district in the interest OF
Jerry Simpson:
The republican state central commit
tee has arranged for three meetings in
October for Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of
Maine-at Argentine, Wichita and Sa.
lima.
The first annual report ever made in
Kansas by an express company was
submitted to the state board of railroad
commissioners recently by John j. Val
entine, president of the Wells, Fargo &
Co. S express.
While John Hugo was recently feed
ing threshiHg machine at the Chal-
FAINT ranch, Is miles southeast eft Lar
ned, his left hand was caught in the
drive belt and wrenched almost off be-
tween the elbow and wrist. He re-
ceived other injuries that may prove
fatal,
John N. Reynolds, the well known
ex-politician, preacher. convict and
lecturer, who was incarcerated in the
asylum at Osawatomie last December,
is said to be raving maniac. He is so
yielent that 1t is necessary for two at
PENDANTS to remain with him con-
stantly.
The annual report of State Mine In
spector A. c. Gallagher has been SUBJ
mitted to the governor. 1t shows that
there are s4s coal mines in the state,
employing 9.e91 ii.en, and producing
72,04s,26s bushels, or 2,ssl, 800 tons, the
estimated value of which, for the year
1898, was S., 800, 331.64.
The Wyandotte County Fruit Grow
tss' association at q late. meeting in
Kansas City, Kan, decided that 81 per
barrel for winter apples is not suf-
ficient and members will hold their
apples for better price. The associa-
ton controls over 10000 bushels of ap-
Piles, which it proposes to store.
IN addition TO The towns selected fos
Gov. Mckinley to speak in on his way
from Kansas City to Hutchinson, Oc-
tober 8, on the Santa Fe road the
will have him make short addresses
from the Rock Island special to be run
from Hutchinson to Lincoln, Neb.
The agitation of the pass question
will, it is thought, cause the next
legislature to enact a law prohibiting
railroad companies from freq transport
alton to any state officer or other
public official, and officials from accepts
ing such favors, and fixing a heavy
penalty for the violation of the act.
w. T. Mcdonald, who was peddling
an oil manufactured by himself, was
found unconscious in his room at the
Windsor hotel in Lawrence the other
day from the effects of morphine and
died soon after. His residence was
Kansas City, Mo-, where his wife re-
sides, but who had separated from him:
w. S. Hebron, ex-posmaster of Kins-
ley, was recently sentenced in the
United States court at Wichita to
eighteen months in the penitentiary
and fined $500 for embezzling govern
ment funds. His sentence had been
suspended to give him a chance to re-
imburse the government, but he failed
to do so.
The remains of Eli McDaniels, who
mysteriously disappeared from Atchi-
son over 20 years ago, were found the
other day near Kickapoo, Leavenworth
county. There was nothing but skel=
eton in a badly decayed suit of clothes:
The body had probably been buried all
these years in the sand, which pre-
served the clothes.
Henry Oelschlager, of Leavenworth,
treasurer Of the Kansas district Ger:
man Lutheran synod, has received
from the treasurer of the general
synod of st. Louis $1,000 to be distrib-
t1ted among the drought-stricl1en peo-
pie in the western part of the state.
The money will be expended through
the German Lutheran churches.
Investigation by the state veterina-
rian has led to the discovery that the
second growth of sorghum is poison
and ought not, therefore, to be fed to
stock. He recently made an investiga-
ton in Sedgwick county, where Il well
known farmer lost several head of cat
tie in day. The cattle were turned
into the field after the crop had been
removed to eat the scatterings and a
number died within a few hours.
The latest crop bulletin shows de-
cided improvement in the southern
half of the state, gardens, meadows,
pastures and late crops looking green
and thrifty; late peaches, apples and
stockwater much improved; volunteer
wheat, oats, rye and flax are coming
abundant on fields harvested this sum
mer. The general improvement has
extended into the northern half of the
state. Fall blowing and seeding have
become more general, and correspond
ents report that large acreage will
be put in wheat.
In the United States court at Wich.
tia the other day a case was decided by
Judge Williams that is of much inter
est to sheriffs. While j. II. Holloway,
was sheriff of Harper county, he was
given an execution to serve and he re-
turned it with the Endorsement: INC
property found" The plaintiff in the
case sued the sheriff on his bond fol
$1,000 damages and judgment was
given for that amount. The plaintiff
alleged that the sheriff did not use due
diligence in an effort to find the prop
erty and sued him and his bondsmer
for the amount of the execution. The
Judge held that officers should use the
utmost diligence in such matters and
when they failed to do so they became
responsible.
Isaac Reed, who shot and killed Isaac
Hopper in Wellington in May, 1892
was recently found guilty of murder il
the first degree in the district court al
Winfield This was the second tria