The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
"A Knoesy Question.

NANSAS STATE NEWS
"A Knosty Question.
A late Wichita dispatch SAYS that q
remarkable dispute is going on between
Comanche and Barber cou.Aties, Kan,
and Woods and Woodward counties,
Ok. The official surveyors of the four
counties are quarreling over the
boundaries Recently three BROTH
ers. named Eickler. killed a man
named Wash Phillips, and they were
arrested by the authorities of Barber
county. At the preliminary examine
ton the question of jurisdiction was
raised, and it was then found out that
Phillips was killed on the state line
and on the exact spot where the four
eounties Joined. As the prosecution
would cost $40. 600, Barber county in.
sisted that the murder was not com.
mitted on its soil. and the other coun-
ties made the same claim, all feeling
too poor to undertake the prosecution.
The surveyor of each county was ap-
pointed to constitute a commission to
agree IS to where the murder was
committed
Many Discharged.
Over 800 men were recently dis
charged from the Santa Fe shops at
Topeka, in accordance with the policy
of the new management for economy
and retrenchment At nearly every
point along the system, where the
company has shops of any size a reduc.
ton in the working force has been
made It is said that the next move
ment made in the interest of economy
will be a reduction on all salariea from
general manager down.
Disguised Judge.
Judge Dale. of the Wichita district
court is reported as having lately
made the announcement that under no
circumstances would he try any more
liquor cases under the prohibitory law.
His action was prompted by the fact
that juries invariably return verdicts
OF acQuittal, in some instances without
leaving the box Only one jury this
term has been more than six minutes
returning a verdict of acquittal in .
whisky case.
Noted Character Dead.
Jacob Martin, Kansas pioneer and
noted character, died at a private hos
pital in Leavenworth the other morn
ing. Martin was SO years old and
we'll remembered by old settlers He
! became partially demented 25 years
ago and has been a charge on the coun-
ty since. He was under the delusion
that he was a candidate for mayor on
a cheap grocery platform and was con-
stantly making speeches
| Ruled Out.
In the district court at Wichita q
few days ago Judge Dale decided that
he would not admit any private pa
pers, membership certificates or drink
tickets to be used as evidence against
the owner of clubs charged with a vio-
lation of the prohibitory laws He
said it was against the federal consti-
tuition and in line with a decision in
the 126th United States reports.
Knights and Catholics
Judge Alden, of Kansas City, Kan,
grand chancellor of the Knights OF
Pythias for Kansas, said recently that
the letter of the pope placing ban on
secret orders had not affected the
pythion lodge in the state in the
least So far no Catholics had with.
drawn from the order. There are six
or more deputy chancellors in the state
who belong to the Catholic church.
Life Insurance Exempt.
Some time since Mrs Fred J. Harris,
of Junction City, received So, 900 insur-
ance on her husbands life and placed
it in bank. The money was then gar
nisheed on an old Judgment, Judge
Moore, of the district court held that
since it was the same money received
on the insurance it was exempt from
attachment under the new insurance
law, which makes policies exempt
Kanr Corn.
The one crop about which the most
inquiries are now coming to the Kansas
state agricultural department, not only
from Kansas, but from all the M;ssis-
sippi valley, is Kaffir corn. The liters-
ture as to this valuable grain and for
age plant is as yet quite limited, but
| Secretary Coburn says he will be glad
to furnish applicants with such infor-
nation as is availa BILE.
A.P. A. Officers.
The state council of the American
Protective association, at its late ses-
| sion in Topeka, elected officers as fol-
lows: President, A. D. Hubbard, To
peka; vice president, S S. King, Kan.
sas City; secretary of state, G.. W. 81.
Ross, Leavenworth; F. II. Barker,
Kansas City, state secretary, and
George Packard, Kansas City, treas
| urer.
Minor State News.
| The Delaware bank at Valley Falls
has been placed in the hands of the
bank commissioner.
The house committee on public
buildings and grounds have ordered a
favorable report on the bill appropri
ating $3.50, 900 for public building at
Topeka.
The council of administration Of
the G. A. R has fixed the date of hold
| ing the fifteenth annual encamprnent
at Beloit, April 81, go and % The
headquarters of the department will
be at the Avenue hotel and will be es
tablished Monday, April 20.
]. r Colean. defaulting cashier of the
State bank of Fort Scott. pleaded guilty
to one count of embezzlement in the
district court in that city the other day
and the other counts against him were
dismissed. The greatest punishment,
for the crime is Eve years in the peni
| tentiarv.