The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-12-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Kanaas ut Chicago.

Morrill,, Secretary of State Edwards,
State Superintendent of Schools STAN
ley and several other officials were
present, besides large delegation of
Kansans. Miss Nelles, of Topeka, rem
Morrill, delivered an address on the
past, present and future of Kansas.
Hon j. R Burton spoke in his hap
piest style of the advantages Kansas
offered to the enterprising home
seeker or investor. Ex-senator In
gals was on the programme for a
speech and at the last moment tele-
graphed that it was impossible for him
to reach the city. This was great
| disappointment to many who had ex-
pected to hear him.
Kansas 0nvicts.
There are now in the Kansas peni-
| Tertiary, according to the report of
the warden. s74 convicts. OF these $50
are white, PIT negroes, Indians and 2
| Mexicans- There are IA female pris-
oners. Oklahoma furnishes 1O3 of the
convicts. Twenty counties of the state
have no prisoners in the penitentiary,
while Wyandotte county heads the
list with rs, more than double the
number of the next highest county.
Montgomery, which has sc.
The State Treasury.
The state treasurer's report for No
| vember differs but little from the Oc-
tober report except that the totals are
generally smaller. During the month
$50, 1872. 80 was received by the treas.
urer while the expenditures amounted
to $780, 424. 10, leaving a balance at the
close of November of $500, $50. "a, while
| the total at the end of October was
SILL 1856. 49, The bonded Indebtedness
of the state is S752,OO0
The Reciprocal Tax.
There are sixty cities in Kansas
which have fire departments, each to
the value of 81, 200 or more. Under the
Kansas reciprocal tax law these depart
ments are each entitled to per cent.
of the business done in the cities by
fire insurance companies. which come
within the provisions of the act. The
Superintendent of insurance has or
dered that the tax be paid by the COM
panies-
Sau SutCtu0s
Dick Little committed suicide at
Winchester few days ago by shoot
ing himself. He put shotgun in his
mouth and literally blew his head off.
The unfortunate man had been nurs.
ing his wife through long attack of
illness, as we'll as attending to a large
amount of farm work, and it is sup
posed he went insane from the loss of
rest and sleep.
Skeletons Found.
In tearing down a cellar wall of an
old farmhouse near Larned, that was
destroyed by fire some months ago,
tons. They were supposed to have
been Indians killed in battle when the
Pawnees overran that section years
ago and nearly eXterminated the Chey.
ennes and Arapahoes in battle in the
locality.
To Talk Horse.
Capt. W. 5. Tough, who for many
years has managed the horse market
At the Kansas City stock yards, will
deliver an address before the annual
meeting of the Kansas board of agri-
culture in January on 1.-The horse stu
alton and its future outlook" Capt.
Tough is noted horseman and was
once United States marshal
Bold Hold-Up.
About o'clock the other night
Rolby Harvey and Joe and Fred
Rickerts, three young toughs, rode
up to John Vogle's place in the
suburbs of Leavenworth, and, in COW.
boy style, fred seven pistol shots into
the place, and then dismounting they
rifled the money drawer of $40 in cash
and 81 check.
Osbon Guilty.
In the Clint Osbon case, in which the
defendant shot and killed Charles
Handle, a Holton attorney, about a
year ago, and which was taken to
Douglas county on a change of venue,
the jury returned a verdict against
Osbon of guilty of murder in the sss.
ond degree.
Found Dead.
Albert Bittman, son of c. W. Bit
man, of Louisville, was found dead by
the side of the road about 1 mile
north of Wamego the other morning.
He was cadet at West Point and had
returned home on account of illness.
No marks of violence were on his
body.
Minor State News
A diphtheria scare exists at Fort
Scott.
B. F. Graves and George L. Sherman,
of Kansas, have been appointed com.
positors in the government printing
Office at Washington, under civil serv.
ice rules.
Frank M. Elliott, a young man from
Denton, Kan, was sandbagged and
robbed of $50 in the post Office building
at Kansas City, Mo-, the other night.
He was badly hurt.
Four prisoners from Oklahoma were
recently taken to the United States
| penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth.
One was full-blood Usage Indian, and
his crime manslaughter.
Louis Knipscheer. a boiler maker
employed in the smelling works at Ar
gentine, was struck by Santa Fe
passenger train while going to his
work the other morning and killed.
Five Wichita young bloods dressed
in female clothing were recently es.
corted to the theater in that city by
two female bloods dressed in male at
tire. The police recognized and ran
them in and the police judge fined
them SIS each.