The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-10-29

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
To Stop Alien Ownership.
The first action to compel forfeiture
of property held by aliens in Kansas,
under the new anti-alien land owner
ship law, has been brought in the
Cherokee county district court. The
defendants are Eliza Bennett. Bessie
Berriman and Anna Bryant, and the
property involved is in Weir City. The
defendants are alleged to be residents
of English territory and subjects of
Queen Victoria.
kansas Legion A. O. q. w.
The grand lodge of Kansas Knights
of the A. o. L. W., in annual session
at Parsons, elected Ben Lillard,
Ottawa. grand commander: f. NJ.
Forde. Emporia. secretary, and 7. H.
T. II. Nettleton, Ottawa. treasurer; D.
". McKeen, Russell, medical exam
liner; G. W. Reed, E. NJ. Forde and G.
NJ. Leake, supreme representatives.
Leavenworth will get the next meet
ing.
No More Bank Eailurea.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal says
less than a dozen of the 500 Kansas
state banks have loans in excess of the
amount allowed by law. Banks are
also com plying with the law prohibit
ing the loauing of stockholders over
so per cent of the banks capital.
Breidenthal says bank failures will
soon be a thing of the post in Kansas.
To Annihilate Grasshoppers.
Chancellor Snow has prepared bull
ietin on how to eradicate grasshoppers,
which will soon be issued. He sug-
gests the construction of a machine
built of tin. 10 feet long, feet wide
and inches deep. When filed with
coal oil and drawn over the ground it
attracts the grasshoppers and they fall
into the oil and die.
VIII Have Telenhonic Communication.
A gigantic scheme to connect all i'm
pOrtant southern Kansas towns as far
west as Wichita is now under way by
the Missouri & Kansas Telephone com
pany. which was given a franchise to
use the public highways for the cree
ton of poles and wires by the last
legislature.
They Ignore Nc Nails Order.
Not a single one of the IL under
ground" fire insurance companies has
needed the warning OF Superintendent
McNall to keep out of the state or
move into it. The companies allege
they have n legal right to write Kan
sas risks from Kansas City, Mo.
Probably the Work OF IncendiarieS.
The large barn of John II. Alloway,
near Lebanon. was burned the other
night and six horses persisted. The
night previous John Kennedy's barn
in the same neighbOrhood, was de-
stroyed, nine horses perishing. 1ncen'
diarism was suspected.
Pretty Good for One County.
Bank commissioner Breidenthal says
Ellsworth county banks have deposits
subject to check eamounting to SIS:
for every voter in the county. The
aggregate deposit is S5s7.4 and the
cash and sight exchange $3.50. 4O2.
Dead Child in n Satchei.
A satchel containing the body of q
little child was found by boy while
walking along the railroad track near
Parsons. An inquest was held. but nc
trace of the history of the satchel OF
it's contents was discovered.
state University Has Claim.
An effort will be made at the coming
session of congress to secure a claim OF
10000. now pending, for the destruc-
ton of the old Free State hotel al
Lawrence in 1856. The claim is held
by the state university.
Will He Crippled for Life.
Mrs. j. G. Smith, of Moline, will be
crippled for life as the result of her
sister-in-law swapping a ''didn't-know.
it-was-loaded- revolver at her, the
charge striking Mrs. Smith in the
shoulder.
Disghsted with n Military Company.
A report from Hutchinson said the
citizens there were disguised at the
conduct of their militia company and
would petition Gov. Leedy and the
state military board to disband the
company.
Minor State News.
Malignant diphtheria was reported
at Abilene.
A calf II months old sold at En-
poria for 5000.