The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-01-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Six inches Of snow fell in the vicinity
Of Larned on Christmas day.
An unknown man was recently found
dead by the Santa Fee track near Le-
compton. He had doubtless been killed
bv the cars.
A post Office inspector recently
went to Geuda Springs to investigate
the affairs of the post Office in that
town, Muddux, the postmaster, having
decamped and reported to be shcrt IN
his accounts.
Hugh Williams, II years old, was
burned 20 dec.:.LL miles south OF EN-.
pcEia the other day. He was playing
with fire and his clothes ignited. The
father was badly burned in trying to
save his child.
E. r. STAGE aud J. H. Tryas, who
broke into the post office and store at
Viola recently, were arrested later at
Wichita. Part of the watches and jew
elry stolen and over 800 of the missing
cash were found.
The westbound passenger train on
the Missouri Pacific road was wrecked
in a snow drift miles west of Eldora-
do on the morning of the eth. None
of the passengers were injured, al
though the whole train left the track.
Al Nickerson the other night Charles
Carson found his wife in company with
j. II. Tincher, and without word
opened fire on the couple. Tincher re-
turned the fire and fifteen shots were
exchanged. Mrs. Carson was hit in the
side, Carson in the shoulder and Tincher
in the left breast and right leg. The
woman'S wound was the most danger
Gus.
1t is not generally known that the
regulations of the soldiers home pro-
hibit the admission without special au-
thority of the board of managers of
anyone in receipt of more than SIG pen.
sion per month. In all instances where
such admissions are approved there is
q stipulation that some portion of the
pension money shall be devoted to the
support of dependent relatives.
In the trial of Tom Mcdonald at
Wellington for the murder of Thomas
Patton, the jury returned verdict of
acquittal. The jury found that Nc
Donald had been hypnotized by his en-
ployer, Anderson Gray, an enemy of
the murdered man, and that while I'M
der this influence he had committed the
deed. Gray was previously found guilty
of the murder and sentenced to death.
The output of the penitentiary coal
mines, as shown by the report of the
warden, has aggregated the past TWEEN
ty-five years, or since operations COM
menced, 17,773,Oo2 bushels, and the
mines, it is thought, will be productive
for the next fifty years. The coal fur
nished to state institutions amounts to
$50, 900 year and the surplus is sold to
contractors which amounts to $50, 600
a total of $4,000 per annum.
A jury at Kansas City, Kan, the
other day returned a verdict that the
Rock Island and Union Pacific rail-
ways were jointly liable for the wreck
at Linwood on the morning of January
9, 1894. The administrator of Morris
johnson, an Osborn county stockman,
who was killed in the wreck and his
body cremated in the fire that fol-
lowed, was awarded S5,O damages,
the amount to be shared equally by the
two roads.
William Peyton, the 1s-year-old son
VI d Nv IoIO oSotes i q
turned to his fathers residence few
days ago, during the absence of tho
family, and upon opening the door was
confronted by robber, who had en-
tered the house. The robber struck
the boy on the head with revolver,
and the latter fell to the floor uucon-
scious, where he was found by his pa
rents upon their return several hours
later. The thief escaped.
Miss Fannie Nesbitt, night agent and
opera tor for the Union Pacific railway
at Bonner Springs, was alone at the
depot at o'clock the other morning
when she heard noise in the waiting
room. Opening the door she found her
self face to face with a masked man,
who ordered her to keep quiet. She
sprang for her revolver, when the man
grappled with her and struck her q
heavy blow on the head, but she Sc
cured her pistol and commenced firing
at the thief, when he fed in dismay.
While painting the town" on Christ
mas evening Wesley George and James
Rial entered joint at Argentine and
attempted to rob the proprietor. They
were elected and arrested by the po-
lice, who took them to the city jail.
In attempting to disarm them the of.
ficers overlooked n pistol which George
carried. After being locked up the
toughs commenced an attack on other
prisoners and George drew the pistol
that had escaped the vigilance of the
police and shot three of the prisoners,
none, however, fatally.
The ninth biennial report of Chancel
lor Snow, of the state university, shows
that there has been a wonderful in
crease in attendance of students since
1891, at which time 474 were enrolled
in the succeeding years the attendance
was respectively $50, 729, COL and s33.
The attendance of students has in.
creased IS per cent. in four years The
enrolment for the present year is S33.
| OF these 504 are men and 329 women
| 391 are in the school of arts, SO in the
school of law, 65 in the school of phar-
macy, "a in the school of engineering
and FOG in the school of fine arts, in.
| Guiding music and painting. The re-
port shows that the growing university
| is hard pressed for lack of funds fol
current expenses in every department,
and from lack of at least six new build.
| ings.
Thomas Kinkaid and Jim Kyle were
recently arrested at Lawrence charged
with the murder of William Ward, who