The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-07-31

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Minor State News.
Seventy thousand bushels of Old corn
we're sold at Lincoln the other day at
Is cents per bushel.
Arecent telegram from Wichita said
there were 100000 bushels of old
corn within a radius of so miles of that
place.
The report of the directors of the
state retormatory at Hutchinson shows
the past year.
The Burlington Independent, pub
lished by John E. Watrous, is the first
democratic paper in the state to bolt
Bryan's nomination.
The cooperative store at Burlington
failed recently, and stockholders will
be taxed about so per cent of their
investment to pay creditors
Cashier Fleming has confessed that
ne EN- bezzled over SIS, 900 from the Ex-
change national bank at Eldorado, and
says his populations began in 1888, dur
ing the boom.
Announcement is made from Topeka
that the republican state committee
will take hand in the Wyandotte
county controversy with a view of re-
storing harmony.
j. H. Engle, a member of the senior
class of the state university at Law
renee, has been chosen secretary of the
State Sunday School association.
Headquarters will be at Abilene.
prisoner in the Jail at Topeka ex-
bankruptcy to the county to feed him,
and an examination showed that he
had been feeding a tape worm IS feet
long.
The oil and gas operations in Wilson
and other southeast Kansas counties
have taken on new impetus. Two
new $1,000 barrel storage tanks are
being built at Neodesha and one at
Thayer.
Free silver democrats of the Fourth
district were talking of nominating R
II. HazIett, banker of E1dorado, to
oppose Congressman Curtis Populsts
were talking in favor of ex-Congress-
man Harrison Kelly, of Burlington.
The free silver state convention APP
pointed a committee to draft an adj
dress urging the people to support
only nominees for congress, members
of the legislature and presidential
electors who are known to be for sill
YER.
The republican factional fight in
Wyaudotte county between Trickett
and anti-Trickett will not down. Each
side has nominated a county ticket and
the fight will be waged until election.
It will. also effect Hon. j. P. Harris
and Gov. Morrill,, should the latter be
-enominated.
Kansas also attracted attention at
the national silver convention. Ed c.
Little, until recently a republican,
was the man who made the speech in
dorsing Bryan for president
The populist county convention at
Wichita recently was far from har-
monious- The fight was between ex-
Gov. Lewelling and Jerry Simpson,
and the ex-governor got the best of the
fght-and the delegates
Charles Ford. prominent farmer
near Derby, Sedgwick county, was
shot and killed the other day by a
tramp whom he discovered in his
house. The tramp was pursued by a
posse and captured.
1t is said that George Marshall, son
of an Atchison business man who came
home from Chicago several months
ago with Bright's disease, expecting
to die at any time, has cured himself
by drinking buttermilk.
Editors of northern Kansas, to the
number of 81, recently went on a
pleasure trip to Colorado points. Sew
ard Jones. of the Concordia Daylight,
is president of the association and had
charge of the excursion.
Mrs r E. Chesney, of Topeka. was
elected matron of the new masonic
orphans home at Wichita, and DR..
Purdue, of Wichita, house physician.