The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-07-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Banks In Good Condition.
/ Bank Commissioner Breidenthal saws
the banks of Kansas are in better con-
dition to-day than they have been for
years There are 275 state banks in
Kansas and 141 have reported. These
show in the aggregate loans amount
ing to $685.. SOS, cash on hand 81, 1885,
661. sight exchange 81. All, 500. The de-
posts amount to S7,S74, 125. while they
hold borrowed money in bills payable
and rediscounts aggregation only SOL,
6s2. The reserve to-day is As $500 per
cent of the deposits. The law requires
only 90 per cent.
Assistant Grain inspectors.
Gov. Leedy has issued commissions
to assistant inspectors and weighmas-
tiers in the grain inspection depart
ment as follows: 5. :. Harvey of OF
tawa county. W. F. Thompson of Sedg-
wick county and j. b. Daniels of Wy
andotte county, assistant inspectors;
F. B. Schiffbaur. A. II. Schissler of
Reno county. b. W. Reynolds of Mont
gomery county. William Sullivan of
Atchison county. j. Lee Simpson of
Leavenworth county and Frank H.
Beveridge of Marshall county. weigh
masters.
COlOred Free Silverites.
The Colored Free Silver league. OF
Kansas. at it annual meeting at To-
peka, adopted resolutions indorsing the
state administration and elected the
following officers for the year: Presi-
dent. j. r. Lyle. Topeka; vice presi-
dent. R. W. Lescher. Galena; secretary,
j. b. Gibbs. Kansas City, Kan; CORE
spending secretary. u. c. Thomas.
Kansas City. Kan; treasurer, Z. b.
Cabbel, Coffeyville: chairman eXecu-
tive committee, J. w. Anderson, To-
pel>a.
Kansas BOYS at Harvard.
The Kansas boys who were granted
degrees at Harvard college were:
Masters of art. Ralph Waldo Cone, of
Seneca: Thornton Cooke, of Herring
ton: John q. Hall, of Lawrence: the
degree of bachelor of arts was con-
ferred upon James Horace Patton, of
Paola: Carl Francis Prest. of Salina;
Frank Nash Morrill,. of Hiawatha;
Burtiss Burr Breeze. of Reece. Schuyler
Colfax Bloss. of Clay Center was
awarded honora BILE mention.
Gov. Leedy MercifuI to .Joinists.
Gov. Leedv RENTED the fines of four
Dodge City jointkeepers who had
served out Jail sentence but were I'M
able to pay the fine imposed upon
them. The governor said he RENTED
the fines because none of them had any
money and there was no way possible
to get them to work it out. He thought
perhaps they might profit by their
long confinement and go to work in
the harvest fields where labor is in
such great demand.
Report to the State Auditor.
The superintendent of the state SOL
diers' homeat Dodge City and the war
den of the penitentiary have filed their
reports with the state auditor for the
month of June. The Dodge City home
cost for its maintenance during the
month S3,6O9.91. The expense bill of
the penitentiary was, for salaries,
S., 399.59: for maintenance. 50, 422. IL.
The receipts of the penitentiary from
la Dor of convicts was S3,6T4.25.
Want Aprons to Protect Their Uniforms.
Since the warden of the penitentiary
took the stripes off the convicts and
gave them suits of cadet gray, new
ideas of the fitness of things have been
developing at Lansing. Warden Ian
dis received a petition signed by all
The convicts in the leather working
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their uniforms. Aprons have not yet
been provided.
Soldiers Home Death Statistics.
The deaths among the soldiers at the
home at Leavenworth, including those
absent on leave during the past year,
ended at midnight June 30, numbered
1854. Singular to relate. the same num-
Der of deaths among the members oc-
Cured during the preceding fiscal
year, making the total for the two
years 1913.
Col. James HalIowell Ill.
Col James Hallowell ('.Prince Har')
is seriously i'll with diabetes at his
fathers home on farm near Linden,
Ind The attending physicians say
that it is not probable that he will re-
danger of death.
Receivers Must Pay the Fees.
Attorney-General Boyle has rem
dered an opinion that all fees of the
bank commissioner, charged for ex-
aiming state banks i'm the hands of
receivers. must be paid by the receiv'
ers of said banks.
Gov. Smith "Caned.'
Gov Smith. of the Soldiers home at
Leavenworth, has been presented with
a handsome gold-headed cane by sew
eral of his comrades, as a token
of their esteem and friendship for him.
Minor State News.
Women are getting So a day for driv-
ing teams in the harvest fields of Cow
ley county.
Del Valentine has returned to work
at Clay Center. He is on crutches, but
is recovering steadily.
The state board of pardons has rec
commended Gov. Leedy to give Willie