The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-09-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

A council Of the the Daughters of
Liberty has been organized at Law.
renee.
Eugene v. Debs is slated Tor four
speeches for the populists in the atate
late in the campaign.
The Kansas hotel at Ellis was recent
~ destroyed by fire together with an
adjoining harness shop.
John Laughlin, the attendant at the
insane asylum ut Topeka who beat one
of the aged inmates for talking back"
later drew his pay and left.
| The Kansas board of cattle inspect
ors, at a recent meeting, recalled the
resolution passed early in August es-
tablishing quarantine in the state
against cattle shipped from Kansas
City.
The governor has pardoned Mary ].
Scales, colored woman 60 years of
age, who was serving life sentence in
the penitentiary for murder committed
in Shawnee county. She had served %
years.
James Long, night Waterman at the
Central Branch shops in Atchison was
found dead in bed the other morning.
His wife had died about a week pre-
vious, since which he had been on q
protracted spree.
The colored people have purchased
eighty acres of ground near Bonner
Springs and will erect an educational
institution to be known as John Brown
college. 1t will be for the education
of colored youth.
Scott Howe, a farmer residing near
Grantville, lost his balance while at
| tempting to fish a bucket out of a we'll
the other morning and fell to the bot
tom, a distance of 40 feet. His skull
was fractured by the fall and his re-
| covery is doubtful.
| Moses Laudenbach. who had but re-
Gently been released from serving
second term in the penitentiary, was
recently arrested at Lawrence upon the
charge of burning Mr.. Vanhusen's barn
in Douglas county week previous.
1t was thought to have been case OF
| revenge.
| A timer named Cunningham tried to
steal into the race grounds at Leaven-
worth the other day by crawling
through hedge fence, but he crawled
under the feet of horse that COM
menced kicking and Cunningham was
terribly kicked and bruised. Physi-
clans pronounced his injuries fatal.
Henry C. Turner, an old gentleman
living near Holton, was recently
swindled out of 81, 900 at Topeka by
scoundre1 who worked the gold
brick' game on him, but the sheriff
nabbed the fellow and taking the
money from him furnished him
| quarters in the Jail. He gave the
name of George Gordon.
A conference of the democratic edit
ors of Kansas was held at the rooms
of the state central committee in Toi
peka few days ago at the request OF
Chairman Richardson to discuss the
political situation. The result was
that the central committee will pre-
pare an address to the democrats of
the state urging united support OF
Overmyer for governor.
A corporation has been formed for
the purpose of erecting a monument to
the memory Of the late ex-Gov. Charles
Robinson. Fifty thousand shares at 81
share are to be sold. The incorpor-
ators include all of the state officers
and all of the living ex-governors and
other men prominent in Kansas. 1t is
proposed to build the monument abovs
tomb on the summit of Mount Dread
at Lawrence.
About II o'clock the other night the
dwelling of Samuel Sharp and the flour
and feed store of David Jones at EN-
poria were burned to the ground. In
the house of Sharp were four small
children, locked up, while the parents
were attending the Masonic grand
lodge. This was not known to the fire.
men until the house was mass Of fire,
and it was at the last moment, just as
the roof was falling in, that the chill
dren were rescued by the firemen.
In response to the request of the
| bank commissioner for ruling in re-
gard to the authority of a banking cor
poration, organized under the state
law, to issue promissory notes or bonds
of deposit, secured by the entire stock
| and income of the corporation, Attor-
| ney-General Little gives the opinion
that such practice is against the in
terests Of the general depositor, as the
holder of the notes or bonds would
have a prior lien on all the stock or in
come of the bank.
The report of Eugene Hagan. APP
pointed to take testimony in the case
of the United States against the Leav-
| enworth Coal Co., will show that the
defendant has taken from beneath the
military reservation, outside of the
| twenty acres authorized by congress-,
| 2,O35, 600 10 bushels of coal. This was
proved by two expert engineers, one
employed by the government and the
other by the company, whose estimates
were within half bushel of each other.
The royalty on the coal is said to be
about $780, 900.
The state superintendent of public
instruction has given an opinion that
where illegal teachers are employed in
cities of the third-class the district
cannot draw the state fund for the
pupils enrolled or should be enrolled
in rooms taught by such illegal teach
ers. Furthermore, the district board
has no authority in law to hire such
teachers, and cannot legally pay them.
The ruling is made because many teach
ers have been employed who did not
hold the proper certificate at the time
of employment.
| At Hartford the other day Richard
McAvoy shot two chickens belonging