The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-06-11
Minor State News.

Wichita will be made the western
terminus of the Frisco railroad.
So far this spring, be it recorded,
Kansas has not had single cyclone.
The Neodesha oil refinery is furnish
ing oil to surrounding towns as well
as to a territory twice the area of Kan
SaS.
There is female footpad in Leaven-
worth who is described as a powerful
negress, who assaults and robs unwary
pedestrians
Otis Dean, youth who two years
ago escaped from the Kansas reforma-
tory, is in Jail at Sedalia, Mo-, for
stealing horse.
There are ISL Congregational
churches in Kansas, with $4,000 mem
bers. 100 buildings and 81 self-support-
ing congregations.
The eX-Slave Pension association will
hold state meetina at Ottawa June 16
and II. Rev. Lena Mason, the colored
woman evangelist. will speak.
The county attorney of Bourbon
county decided that the new law to
assess notes and judgments does not
ldhC CllSSt III Cll AI al I'll L. 1000
C. R. Person, formerly a banker of
Belle PLANE, committed suicide in a
Chicago hotel because he could not pay
a debt he owed friend in st. Louis.
Sunfower camp team, of Topeka,
won first prize in the competitive drill
at Dubuque, Ia, at the meeting of the
head camp. Modern Woodmen of Amer
lea.
The attorney-general has decided
that the textbook law applies to the
state university, state normal and state
agricultural college. the same as to the
common and high schools.
John L. Morgan, a former citizen OF
Kansas, and until recently manager of
the Normandy hotel at Kansas City,
Mo-, committed suicide the other night
because of financial reverses.
The high school alumni society of
Fort Scott, comprising LAG members,
was greatly agitated over whether
dancing and card playing should be
permitted at the annual banquet.
The Rock Island and Missouri Pacific
railroads have protested against the
increased assessment by the state
board. The Missouri Pacific assess
ment was increased SG65, 600 over last
year.
The populist committee of Leaven-
worth county has demanded that Gov.
Leedy remove the two democratic
members of the Leavenworth police
commission and appoint populists in
their place.
A. H. Marble, of Hepler, aged 62,
who was arrested on complaint of his
granddaughter, aged II, charged with
being the father of her child, settled
the case by deciding the girl 100 acres
of Crawford county land.
A fire in the state prison at Lansing
the other night destroyed $4,000 worth
of new uniforms for convicts.
There is an epidemic of hog cholera
in Sedgwick county and hundreds OF
hogs are dying, the farmers being UNI
able to check the ravages of the
disease.
The city council at Hutchinson i'm
posed an Occupation tax" of $50 pet
month on Joints, and the temperance
folks are up in arms because of it.
While bathing in the Saline river
near Lincoln George Repshire, aged
Is, was taken with cramps and
drowned. His father went to his res
cue and he, too, was drowned.
C. Z. T. Prentice, who retired a.
chief of police of Lawrence recently,
had held the position continuously foi
80 years.
It is announced that Maj. Calvin
Hood, of Emporia, will be a candidate
for the republican nomination for GOT
ernor next year.
President Mckinley has assured Sen
ator Baker that Warden French, OF the
federal prison at Leavenworth, WIN
not be disturbed.
A iointist who undertook to do busr
ness at Severance was chased out OF
town by mob and his stock OF liquors
copfscated and burned.