The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-11-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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John Quinn, an old citizen of Leaven.
worth, was accidentally killed while
recently out hunting.
The students of Baker university at
Baldwin have petitioned the state mill
itary board for permission to organize
q troop of cavalry for the Kansas ma
tional guard
Mrs Laura NJ. Johns, president of
the Kansas Equal Suffrage association,
has issued call for the eleventh an
nual meeting of the association, to be
held at Winfield, December and 2.
The latest gossip from Topeka is to
the effect that plan is on foot to or
ganize the anti-prohibition sentiment
of the state into movement for the re-
submission of the prohibitory amend
ment to vote of the people.
j. E. Brown, of Kansas City, Kan, n
Pullman conductor, was shot and killed
in his car in the Indian country one
night lately. The person who did the
shooting was unknown, nor was it
known whether intentional or a stray
shot.
A farmer living on the river in
Cowley county was killed while clear
ing land the other morning. He was
cutting the roots of trees and pulling
them out with a team when one tug
broke and the single-tree struck him in
the stomach.
The governor has appointed the fol-
lowing delegates to the convention to
provide for the care of homeless and
INDECENT children to be held at st.
Louis, December II. o. s. Marrow, DIR.
]. E. Minnie and w. F. File, of Topeka,
and ]. d. Botkin, of Neodesha.
Several students from a Kansas City,
Mo-, medical college made raid upon
the graves of one of the cemeteries at
Kansas City, Kan, about midnight the
other night, ''in the interest of
SCIENCE" and were gobbled by the
police, who had been given a tip as to
the contemplated raid.
The State Dairy association met in
eighth annual session at Topeka on the
21st. President Nissley's annual adj
dress referred briefly to the progress
that has been made by the dairy in
dustry during the past year and con-
tanned some recommendations as to
future work of the association.
Richard Webster. a member of the
Salvation army and said to be half
witted, was married at Wellington the
other day and in the evening party
of young men and boys went to the
charivari when Webster fired into the
crowd with q revolver killing John
McCook and ser iously wounding Claude
Walton.
State Labor Commissioner Todd has
submitted to the governor a volumin-
Gus report ON contract convict labor
and prison reform. 1t is an attack up
on the prese ut system and recon-
mer.dation for milder form of servi-
tude. The report quotes at length
from an article formerly published by
Gov. Click in opposition to the contract
labor system.
1t is said that Gov. Lewelling will
recommend in his message to the legis-
lature that steps be taken for the relief
of the needy in the drought-stricken
regions of western Kansas. Frequent
calls from the cropless districts have
been made upon the governor of late,
but he is powerless to act, and he feels
the relief of those who are in need.
An order was issued the other day by
Department Commander Campbell,
calling the fourteenth annual encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie of Kansas, to be held at Lawrence,
beginning February 26, 1895, and to
continue three days. The council of
administration will meet at the same
place on February 90, and the mem bers
of the Woman's Relief Corps and Sons
of Veterans will also meet with the
Grand Army.
The counties of Grant, Stevens and
Seward, situated in the western part
of the state, have lost their representa-
tive in the legislature this year. Each
cast less than 200 votes at the late
election. The law requires that a
county shall cast at least 200 votes.
The representatives elected are enti-
tied to pay and mileage, but they will
have no vote in the proceedings of the
house. Haskell county just saved itself,
casting POI votes.
Judge Johnston, of the supreme
court, who has been on the bench
twelve years and at the last election
was reelected for a term which will
not expire till 1900, stated in a recent
interview that he had surrendered his
railroad passes and gave as his reasons
for SO doing that in this he
was only acting in harmony with a
strong public sentiment in Kansas
against the acceptance of railroad
passes by public officials.
The official returns from all the Kan
sas representative districts show that
the republicans have 90 members of the
house, the populists 80 and the demo-
Gratis 1. This gives the republicans a
clear majority of SO. The senate stands
% populists, Is republicans and DEM
ocrats. On joint ballot for the election
of United States senator and state
printer the republicans will have a ma
jority of 40. There are few changes
in the list of members of the house
from that already published The pop
ulists gained one member by changes
in each the Fifth, Fiftiet21, Seventy
eighth. and Eighty-sixth districts, and
the republicans one each by changes in
the Fifty-fifth and Ninety-eighth dis
tricts, while the populists elected MEM
beers for the One Hundred and Fourth
and One Hundred and Fifth districts.
The late game of football at Law
renee between the teams of the Kansas
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