The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-12-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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A piano tuner was arrested at Fort
Scott the other day for forging check
Tor s23.
George W. Kanfield, proprietor Of the
George w. Kanfield physicians supply
ting in a chair at his hotel in Fort
Scott the other day. He was travelling
for his health.
Sumner, in Atchison county, which
was prosperous and ambitious city Of
$500 inhabitants in the early days of
Kansas, has been abandoned as town
the last house having been removed
and the land fenced for farm purposes.
The superintendent of the soldiers
Orphans home at Atchison reports
that there are at present 1913 children
in the home and there are 50applicants
that cannot be admitted on account Of
the crowded condition of the institu-
ton.
Capt. Henry Booth, republican, has
begun a contest for the seat in the
house from the Ninety-second district,
for which the certificate of election
was issued to A. II. Lupfer, populist.
The grounds of contest are alleged
fraud, illegal voting and illegal returns.
E. H. Snow, state printer, resigned
several days ago, because he discovered
that there was a cloud on his title''
because of irregularity of his election,
and the governor Immediately reap
pointed him to fill the unexpired term
ending June 80, 1895. Mr.. Snow also
fled new bond.
have the legislature reduce the mum Der
of judicial districts in the state in the
interest of economy. There are now
thirty-five judicial districts and it is
thought the number can be severely
pruned and thousands of dollars saved
to the taxpayers of the state.
Mrs. A. D. Matson, who lived alone,
was recently found murdered in her
home at Topeka. She was prominent
as a suffragist and had taken active
part in local matters connected with
the schools of the city. She was sup
posed to have been murdered for a
small amount of money she had col
lected for rents.
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Tucker, who were charged with wreck.
ing an eastbound passenger train on
the Santa Fe railroad at Barclay on
the morning of September 81, 1892, and
acquitted, have each fled a suit in the
district court of Usage county against
the company for $4,000 damages for
false Imprisonment and malicious
prosecution.
The secretary of the state board of
agriculture announces that the supply
Of the reports on feeding wheat to
stock and alfalfa growing has been ex-
hausted. The demand for the reports
is great and all applications will be
| fled, but the documents cannot be for
warded until another addition is print
ed, and this cannot be done until the
legislature makes an appropriation.
The supreme court has granted a
preliminary habeas corpus in the case
IF Joseph Perry Smith, held in Wyan-
lotte county on the charge of running
lottery in violation of law. The de-
PENDANT was released on bail, and the
hearing set for January 4. 1t is ex-
pected that the courts decision will
settle the disputed question whether
lottery gambling may be reached by
law in Kansas.
The report of an expert in regard to
the accounts of the treasurer of Wyan-
dotte county, showed that M. j. Nc.
Lean, late county treasurer, was short
s5s, 63l.Oo. The greater part of this
sum was in the Citizens bank of Ar.
mourdale, when it failed and about
10000 remained otherwise unac-
counted for. The books of the probate
Judge and other county officials are
also to be examined by experts.
Physicians of the different schools of
medicine formed an association at To-
peka some days ago, for the purpose Of
mutual protection against quacks and
pretenders of all classes" DIR. g. Ivan
Pohek, Of Wamego, was elected presi-
dent; DIR. c. F. Menninger, of Topeka,
secretary; DIR. J. L. Furber, of Topeka,
treasurer; Drs. S. Stewart, of Clay Cen.
peka, were appointed as a committee
to rep;.re suitable laws.
The sugar factory at Fort Scott has
filed claim with the secretary of the
state board of agriculture for the
state bounty under the new law or
2zs, 200 pounds of sugar produced dur
ing 1894. In filing this claim the com
pany says it does SO under protest, as il
claims to be entitled to bounty of
cents per pound under the law of 1887
which provided that the cent bounty
was to run seven years. In 1891 this
section was repealed by the q cent
law, and the sugar companies claim
the law of 1887 was in the nature of {
contract, which cannot be abrogated
Mrs. Alice Stevenson was recently
arrested at Kansas City, Kan, fol
fraudulently obtaining pension. Sew
eral years ago at Atchison, her hus
band, John Stevenson, died. After
ward she was married to George f
Rocco, but, she says, he had another
wife living. from whom he had no
been divorced, and she refused to live
with him. In making application abou
two years ago for a pension as thu
widow of John Stevenson she was ad
vised by her lawyer that no attention
would be given the second marriage, "a
it was illegal and void and would b'
! no barrier to her securing pension
She acted upon this advice she allegc
in good faith, never doubling that sh'