The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-02-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

United States marshal and it has been
approved.
The Farmers & Merchants bank at
Bird City has gone into voluntary
liquidation.
ia Judge Williams sentenced Clyde
Mattox to be hanged March %.
The blizzard struck southeastern
Kansas hard on the Esd. The mercury
dropped rapidly until it fell below zero.
The government will soon esta blish
an experimental station at Garden City
under the supervision Of the state agri-
cultural college.
The Santa Fe road has made a rate
of ten cents per hundred for wheat and
eight cents for corn from Missouri
river points to Chicago.
Secretary Coburn, of the state board
of agriculture, is said to be receiving
many requests for pamphlets concern
ing the resources of Kansas, informa-
tion as to railroads, etc, from farmers
in the east.
The state school fund commissioners
have made another investment of $780,
600 for the benefit of the school fund
by the purchase of first-class bonds.
Of this amount S1O 900 was invested in
court house bonds of Mcpherson county,
and the balance in school district Sc
curitieS.
The assignee of the Lebold, Fisher &
Co.. bank at Abilene, which suspended
in 1888, recently sold at auction all the
remaining assets, consisting of notes,
judgments, etc, to the amount of s270,.
300. 63, which brought 81, 800 95. Credit
ors received three per cent. and may
get two per cent. more.
Phillip Shoemaker, prominent citi.
zen of Independence, hanged himself
in barn on his farm near that city
the other day. He was an active men,
Der OF the Presbyterian church, besides
a prosperous business man, and the
only reason that could be assigned for
the deed was temporary insanity
Mrs. Mary Kegley. of Leavenworth.
was recently sitting by the stove with
her babe on her lap when her clothes
took fire. She laid the baby on the bed
and ran out the house calling for help,
but before it arrived she was terribly
burned and died soon after. She was
"a years of age and leaves three little
children
The State Bar association held its
eleventh annual meeting at Topeka on
the 25th. The association was organ
lied in 1883 by the judges of the dis
trict courts of Kansas. Judge Horton
was the first president and was twice
reelected. Nearly all the prominent
lawyers at the Kansas bar are mem
bers of the association.
j. C. Hubbard, a well known Kansan,
formerly private secretary at Washing.
ton for Congressman Jerry Simpson,
died suddenly at Topeka the other
day of Bright's disease. He was one
of the best statisticians in the country,
and was principal compiler of ''The
History of Kansas" said to be the larg-
est single book ever printed
During the recent meeting of the
State Bar association in Topeka
crank named ]. Burton Jones, from
near Junction City, created sensation
by threatening the lives of all the law
yers and trying to get into the assem-
bly,. He said they had taken all his
property and he had no use for them"
He was unceremoniously fred.
In the district court at Salina
Judge Thompson recently made a
new decision concerning the punish
ment for which joint-keepers are
liable. Heretofore jointist who was
convicted of selling liquor was re-
leased upon payment of 500 fine, but
under the new ruling made by Judge
Thompson the keeper of place where
liquor is sold is liable to the penalty
of 500 fine and thirty days in Jail.
Feeding wheat to hogs with profit is
new thing in Kansas, but that is
what is being done in Harper county,
and the chances are that farmers gen.
orally will dispose of their surplus
wheat in that way in the future. AL
ready the experiments made are at
tracing great deal of attention. The
experiments of w. Fl. H. Freeman,
farmer, has demonstrated the fact that
ground wheat fed to hogs is more prof.
liable than selling it at present prices.
ORGY Tabing was shot and killed at
Leon the other night by Bruce Sewers.
Tabing's mother and father separated
some time ago and Sewers had become
attentive to the woman. Young Tab
ing notified Sewers that he would shoot
him if he did not cease such attentions,
and finding his mother and Sewers to-
gether attempted to carry out his de-
termination, but his bullet failed to
hit Sewers, and the latter, drawing
his pistol, both commenced shooting
and young Tabing was killed Sewers
surrendered and was taken to Jail at
Eldorado
The first three of the noted cases
known as the Norwood fire insurance
cases were concluded in the United
States circuit court at Wichita the
other evening with a verdict for the
plaintiffs for the full amount claimed.
Most of the more prominent insurance
companies of the country are among
the defendants. o. F. and E. r Nor
wood, with stock of general merchan-
disc at Larned. valued at $50, 900, took
out about $4,000 worth of insurance
IN various companies in 1891 A year
later their building and stock we're de-
stroyed by fire All the companies
simultaneously refused to settle, basing
their refusal on the ground that the
goods were old and not worth the
amount represented.
The county commissioners of Reno
county have ordered that a standing
reward of $50 be offered for the arrest
and conviction of horse thieves.
A Sterling man who was afraid Of
banks hid e525 in an old chest. When