The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-03-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

While stealing . ride near Coffey-
Vile Henry Perseley. colored, was re.
Gently killed by freight train.
All the Santa Fe taxes for 1898 due in
Douglas county have been paid, with
the added penalty, under protest
THE annual meeting of the Kansas
Democratic Editorial association at
Pittsburg has been postponed to April
13
The republican convention Of the
Second congressional district will meet
at Olathe, May II, to nominate candi-
date for congress.
William Travett, a temporary but
enterprising citizen of Independence,
has been jailed, plastered over with
forty charges of petit larceny.
stalwart democratic convention
has been called to meet at Hutchinson
May IS to nominate a candidate for
congress from the Seventh district
The total loss of property in Kansas
in 1898 on which there was fire insur-
ance was s1,O44,1 173. The premiums re-
ceived by the insurance companies ag-
gregated 81, 924, 463.
The governor has appointed c. B.
Hoffman, of Dickinson county, and c.
E. Goodyear, of Sedgwick county, to
be regents of the state agricultural col
lege, to succeed A. P. Forsythe and
Joshua Wheeler.
The equal suffragists are making ex-
tensive preparations for their cam
paign in the interest OF the amendment
which will be voted upon next Novem-
Der. 1t is said that 1000 has been
raised for the campaign.
Joseph We'll. beef contractor, and
son-in-law of the commandant of the
Kansas soldiers home at Dodge City,
was recently arrested on the charge of
selling diseased beef to be sold to the
veterans. He gave bond to appear.
Reports received from all parts of the
state lead Secretary Coburn, of the
state board of agriculture, to believe
that the general outlook for wheat at
this time is equal, if not superior, to
the very best wheat years of the past
in Kansas.
The New York Life Insurance Co.
recently filed petition in the United
States circuit court at Topeka for a
foreclosure against the Wyandotte
Loan & Trust Co. of Kansas City, Kan,
claiming s4O 900 and interest amount
ing to $1,000.
A. J. Lusl1. Charles Menlxe and John
Chapman, officers of the defunct Hutch
inson national bank, were recently ar
rested on warrants issued in accord
ance with an Indictment found against
them by the federal grand jury at
Wichita, charging them with making
false entries and altering the books of
the bank
The following sums were drawn
from the state treasury to pay the ex-
penses of the charita BILE institutions of
the state: Deaf and dumb asylum at
Olathe, So. .455. 80; asylum for imbecile
youth at Windfield, 81, 2S1. 93; industrial
school for girls at Beloit, 81, ,O56. II;
asylum for the blind at Kansas City,
81, 3O7. IS; insane asylum at Osawatomie,
IS, 237.1s; soldiers orphans home at
Atchison, s1,661.74
Pensions were recently reissued to
the following Kansas veterans: Alvin
j. Stanley, Wichita; John P. Sierer,
Emporia; Joseph Day, Louisburg;
Jacob L. Yager, Columbus; Henry C.
Sickman, Cherry Vale. Original
widows pensions were also granted as
follows: Adaline Pearson, Chanute;
Mary NJ. Milks, Parsons; Louisa Dun
canson, Rubens; Martha A. Lee, Roper;
Abner Lemert (father), Hewins.
Original pensions were recently
granted to William II. Boyd, Thomas
| Cook and Edward Hillyer, of Topeka;
John I. Sham, National Military Home;
Jacob Carney, Trenton; Joseph Zile,
Chase, and Joseph L. Reynolds, Che
topa. Additional, Ezra A. Caswell,
Phillipsburg. Supplemental, Edward
Hart, Topeka. Increase, Samuel Park
hurst, North Topeka; George Walker,
Kock; Christian Hildenbrand, Russell.
The report of the secretary of the
state board of health shows that there
are 1900 registered physicians in the
state. OF this number l, 1923 are '.regu-
lars" 2O6 are eclectic and 1913 are
homeopathic. There are 1877 registered
physicians in Topeka, more than any
other city in the state. The board has
endeavored to register all the physi-
clans in Kansas, but the process is
slow. many paying no attention to the
request
In the district court at Newton Judge
Martin overruled the motion for a new
trial in the case of G. w. Rogers, con-
victed of burning the Harvey county
records, and sentenced the defendant
to five years in the penitentiary. Rog-
ers is 81 years old. The case was quite
q sensational one as Rogers was large
property holder, besides owning the
only complete set of abstract books in
the county at the time of the burning
of the records The case will be ap-
pealed.
According to a late census bulletin
the manufacturing establishments in
Kansas City, Kan, number 234, with a
capital of $14. 1O4 $50. employing 1888
persons and paying 81, 107, ,37S in wages
yearly, with value of products $44. 079,-
3s9. Topeka has 81 Adjustments
with sS, 2S2. S9s capital, and employing
8. 800 persons with wages of 81, S54, 933;
value of products, Sc. 752, 449, Wichita
has IA establishments with total
capital of g, 06a, O96, employing 1855
persons and paying wages amounting
to s907. .931, with value of products s5,-
OT4,913 The cost of materials at Kan
sas City is put at s34, 236, 637; at Topeka.
S.67O, log, and at Wichita, $3.50. 47S
An unknown peddler of cheap jew
elry was seen lying on the track near
Fort Scott by the engineer of a train
the other morning, and before the
train could be stopped it ran over and
mangled the body. There was cash