The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Salina had a $1,000 fire few days
ago.
D. NJ. Erb, of Leavenworth, proposes
to build an electric ear line at Salina.
| Mrs. Carney, widow of ex-Gov. Car
hey, died at Leavenworth few days
ago.
\. brsihg the campaign Senator John
Martin will make eight speeches under
the direction of the democratic state
central committee.
The executive council at late meet
ing passed resolutions Of respect to the
late Gov. Robinson. The resolutions
will be placed upon the official records
Of the council
Prize fights have of late become so
frequent in Topeka and adjacent terri
tory that a large class of the people
are protesting and urging that the Of
tenders be prosecuted.
jeff Jones, a negro who committed a
crime at Winfield and fed to Okla
homa, was shot and Killed by a police
man at Perry, who attempted to arrest
him, but was resisted.
Isaac Landrum, Of Kansas City. Kan,,
recently brqrgh. slit Tor $4,000 dam
ages against liquor vendor for selling
intoxicating liquors to his wife and
thereby wrecking his home.
The jury in the case Of Clay Sparks,
tried at Medicine Dodge For the MUIR
der OF his brother Emmett Sparks last
August, returned verdict of man
slaughter in the second degree.
The citizens of Leavenworth failed
to raise $4,000 in rations to secure the
state encampment of the National
Guard and the Ida Of holding the en-.
tampment there has been given up.
Judge West, of the Sixth judicial
district in a late decision at Fort Scott
Held that the new law governing the
mining and weighing of coal in Kansas
is unconstitutional. 1t is the screening
law.
At the Lyons salt works the other
day, by the giving way of some sup
ports, George Hamlin, an employee, was
buried beneath great quantity of salt
and .smothefed before he could be res
cued.
, The charter of the Kansas City, Pitts
burg & Gulf railway has been filed in
the Office of the secretary of state. This
new company is to succeed the Kansas
City, Nevada & Fort Smith Railway
Co. The new company will begin the
construction of the line of road at
point near Kansas City and extend
south over the most practicable route
In the direction Of Fort Smith
Tic story recently telegraphed from
Wichita that great bodies of land had
sunk in Harvey and other neighboring
counties is said by later report to be
greatly overdrawn. A correspondent
Visited the spot and found one sink
hole in the prairie about 40 feet in
diameter and about 20 feet deep. It
was caused by the wet weather soak
ing up the ground and causing it to
fall into an underground cavity. No
damage was done.
The governor recently received a
communication from citizen of Wich.
tia complaining of excessive freight
charges by railroad companies. He
referred it to Acknowledgement Little,
who, in an opinion, says that the state
board Of railroad commissioners
reached the limit Of it's authority when
it promulgated a lower schedule of
rates for the entire state a few months
ago, and the county attorneys must
enforce the penalties provided by stat
ute for violations of the new schedule.
In compliance with the order of the
state board of railroad commissioners,
but under protest, the United States
Express Co. has filed in the office of the
board statement Of it's business in
Kansas for the year ended June 80.
The company operates on 2S,OS2 miles
of railway, of which 1,1s7 are in Kan
sas. There are IA offices and the
same number of agents in Kansas. The
Pacific Express Co. has also filed a re-
port, but makes no protest. This COM
pany operates on 1923 miles of rail-
road, 1884 miles being in Kansas.
The Southwestern Mineral Railway
Co. is the title of an organization which
filed articles of Incorporation in the
Office of the secretary of state the other
day. Its capital stock is S6OO,OO It
will be branch of the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas. The object of the COM
pany is to construct road from a
point on the main line * miles south
east of Parsons. through Cherokee
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ing road to be built from Joplin.
This will give the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas road access to the Cherokee
county coal lands.
The ninth biennial report of the
Kansas penitentiary at Lansing has
been issued by Warden Chase. The
warden has paid into the state treas
ury from all sources $ss, 496.Os. Spe-
cial appropriations to the amount OF
Sc, 45S. 80 have been issued. Labor ex-
pended upon permanent improvements
amounted to SIS, 433. Coal supplied to
state institutions, not including the
penitentiary, amounted to $26, 700. &C.
Deducting the amount of appropria-
tions for all purposes, including per
manent improvements, there remains
to the credit of the institution sur.
plus of S1O,61O.51 for the fiscal veal
ended June 80, 1894. There was a def.
cheney of 50, 30s- II for the year ended
June 80, 1898. The mines have beer
recently explored by experts and are
reported to be in excellent condition
The average prison population for the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1898, wa.
Ss5 81. and for the last year s44s4, {
decrease of about 5 per cent.
The secretary of state has decided tt
call the chairmen of the four politica
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