The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-01-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The Glib Book = Stationery Co, Of
Lawrence, has failed

The Merchants bank at Ellis has
gone into voluntary liquidation.
Gov. Lewelling has gone to Cali
fornia on health recruiting trip.
Zachariah Spencer, an old colored
man, was recently run over and in
stantly killed by q Santa Fe train at
Longton.
The residence Of Editor T. B. Muir
dock, of Eldorado, was badly damaged
by a recent fire. There was a partial
insurance.
The Merchants bank, Of Ellis, and
the Farmers bank, Of Horton, which
went into voluntary liquidation, have
paid depositors in full
Hon. T. Dwight Thacher, who was
stricken with paralysis in his Office in
Topeka some days since, died three
days after being attacked.
Joseph Young, farmer living two
niles southwest of Rossville, lost his
barn, about $50 bushels of corn, seven
horses, two buggies, one spring wagon
and lot of farm implements by late
fire. Partially insured.
The open winter is said to be causing
ers in some parts of the state owing to
the decreased consumption Of coal On
the other hand, it has prevented suffer-
ing among those who would have been
unable to buy coal had the winter been
severe.
The night after the jury at Wichita
found Clyde Mattox guilty of murder
in the first degree the prisoner escaped
from Jail but was captured on train
going to Fort Scott c. E. Burrows,
ex-chief of police, who was turnkey Of
the jail was arrested for permitting
Ma ttox to escape.
The other day John Geiger. a middle
aged German who worked on the farm
of J. w. Whitaker, near Buffalo, was
fatally injured by an enraged steer and
died in couple Of hours. He was in
the barn when the animal made for
him and knocked him down before he
could get out of its reach.
In accordance with orders recently
issued by Gov. Lewelling, the board OF
police commissioners of Leavenworth
have taken steps for the removal OF the
single men from the force. One old
bachelor who has been on the force for
twenty five years will either havo to
get married or give up his club.
The attorney-general has fled the
petition in the quo warranto proceed
ings against the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railroad, on the relation of the
county attorney of Neosho county,
citing the company to show why its
charter should not be forfeited for re.
moving the general offices from tho
state.
Judge Williams, in the United States
court at Wichita, recently made de-
cision in regard to the new Kansas
mortgage law, holding that as to all
mortgages mado before the passage OF
the law OF 1898 there is no redemption;
that such mortgages are governed by
the old law. This is the first federal
court decision on this law.
The board of railroad commissioners
recently decided another branch of the
Wichita case, reducing the rate OF
freight on coal from Cherokee and
Crawford counties to Wichita from
SLIGO to 81. 35 per ton, and fixing the
rate from Usage county points to
Wichita at 90 cents per ton. These
rates are to be put in force February 1.
In the federal court at Wichita the
other day Robert F. Dori was found
guilty of impersonating his dead
brother, Frederick Dori, who was a
soldier in the late war, and thus
swindling the United States treasury
out of large sums of money in pensions
and arrearages. Frederick Dori died
in 1867 and a few years later the
swindle commenced.
During the trial of Clyde Mattox in
the United States court at Wichita
Deputy United States Marshal George
Walker testified against the prisoner
and upon leaving the witness stand was
attacked by Anna Edwards, who
threatened to shoot him. The woman
was taken to Jail and subsequently
fined SO, besides being forbidden to
enter the court room during the trial
She had become infatuated with Mat
tox during visits to him in Jail
The secretary of state, upon the ad-
vice of the attorney-general, has re-
fused to grant a charter to the "Wage
Workers International Military asso-
citation" of Hutchinson, the objects of
which, as expressed in the application,
are 'to organize and unity associations
of the laboring men and issue charters
thereto, under the seal of this order; to
bear arms, equip and drill and dis
cipline the same for mutual protection,
pursuant to the declaration of indc-
pendence and of the constitution of the
United States. He says that the Kan
sas law does not provide for or author.
ize the organization of military asso-
Citations of this character
Arthur Lockwood, a fourteen-year-
old boy from Leavenworth county, who
is incarcerated at the state reform
school in Topeka. made an attempt to
burn the institution the other night
He went into a scheme with nun Der
of other boys to burn the main build
ing. and effect their escap, in the con-
fusion that would follow. According
ly. at midnight Lockwood touched a
match to some old papers which he had
piled on his bed and shouted fire" A
guard, who responded to the alarm.
threw water on the flames, instead OF
releasing the boys, and in few min
utes the fire was out, and Lockwood
was placed in another apartment
]. G. Burton, William Gay and his
son, John Gay, were recently lynched
by a mob at Russell for the murder Of
Fred Dinniny some time ago. The
lynchiog was the result Of q confession
but lately made by Burton The day
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