The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-10-02
Minor State News.


A big eleva tor will be built at Mary
Vile
The broom corn crop this year is said
to be the best ever raised.
H. L. Stevens, wholesale dealer in
farm implements at Lawrence, has
failed.
A man named Hanna is the fusion
candidate for senator in the Clay Dick
inson district.
lection, the city council having pur-
chased an engine and hose.
The repu blican state committee rec
ogniZed the Buchan faction in Wyan-
dotte county as the REGULARS.
Lottie Bowes, a bright young To-
peka actress, is winning laurels in "A
Texas Steer" now playing in the east.
C. A. Davis, a farmer near Hiattville,
was arrested charged with trying to
burn the house of j. G. Bowers, a
neighbor. =.
A great mum Der of miners from Bour-
bon, Crawford and Cherokee counties
have gone to Leadville to take the
place of striking miners.
Noah Allen, who was assistant at.
torney-general under John T. Little,
has been nominated for congress by
the populists of the Tenth district of
Texas.
The official Kansas ballot this fall
will resemble newspaper in size. 1t
will be 22x3O inches in size and will
contain seven or eight, perhaps nine.
tickets.
Editor Kurtz, of the Augusta Press,
was given vigorous horse whipping
by two young ladies, who were offended
at news item concerning their
brother.
Two young men of Topeka were ar
rested for saturating dog with kero.
sene and then touching a match to it.
The poor brute ran several blocks and
dropped dead.
Z. K. Furry, of Kansas City, Mo-,
has, laid claim to a tract of land upon
which {. large portion of the business
houses in Fort Scott are located. ,Flur-
cy claims he can establish a clear title.
Mrs. Maggie Miner, aged 50, of Argen-
tine, was convicted of selling liquor
and sentenced to 80 days in Jail. Upon
her promising to quit selling liquor
the judge ordered the Jail sentence
stayed.
The federal grand jury at Wichita
indicted Mrs. Nellie Thomas, of Leav-
enworth, for pension fraud. She swore
that she was a veterans widow, al
though it is alleged she was never
married.
A railway man who had travelled
over the state said the attendance
from Kansas to the G. A. R. encamp.
ment at st. Paul would be very light,
the veterans preferring to wait and at
tend the state reunion at Topeka.
The Kansas Christian Advocate,
which has been published at Topeka
several years, was recently absorbed
by the Central Christian Advocate of
st. Louis.
John C. Horton, republican nominee
for the Missouri legislature from one
of the Kansas City districts, formerly
resided at Lawrence and was once
candidate for governor of Kansas.
lola is particularly honored by hav.
ing a representative on three electoral
tickets. Charles F. Scott was first
named on the repub lican ticket, then
]. B. Goshorn on the democrat and
populist, and lastly NJ. L. King on the
national prohibition.
Leonard Bowers, a deaf mute, who
recently graduated from the state in
stitution at Olathe. was run over and
killed by a train near Merriam park.
The body of an unknown young man
was found four miles north of Fort
Scott, his throat cut with a razor, while
a razor was fastened to his wrist.
There are SIS students in attendance
at the agricultural college at Manhat-
tan, the largest attendance in its his
tory.
State Coal Oil Inspector Nj. c. Kelley
has turned $1,000 cash into the state
treasury during the IS months of his
term.