The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-09-15
KANSAS NEWS OF RECENT DATE.
Will End the Practice.


Will End the Practice.
A Topeka dispatch to the Kansas
City Star on the 7th said:
The auditor of state issued warrant to-day
for s42o on Che contingent fund of the state SUI
perintendent of insurance to pay r 7. Battey
for examining the Kansas Mutual Life Insur-
ance company. This amount was collected OF
the insurance company by Battey when he
made the examination. Gov. Stanley v1gOr-
ously denounced this method in the campaign
OF 1893, and when he heard Of Battey's cOllec-
ton commanded that the money be turned into
the state treasury. Battey and Superintendent
Church protested but finally Gov. Stanley gave
consent for the money to be paid out OF the SUI
perintendentS continent fund and so it was put
into the treasury in one form and taken out in
another. This bit of fiction causes amused COM
ment In the statehouse but it satisfies the gov
ernors conscience and Auditor Cole says it will
be the last road agent act Of the present adj
ministration. The politicians say that the SUI
perintendent may still order examinations upon
condition that the examiners wait for the legis-
lature to pay them, but that would be none the
less ''road agent methods, and Stanley will
permit no more Of it, openly or disguised.
Says There VIII BE No Junket.
A great many politicians have re-
quested permission to join Gov. Stan
ley's party 20 San Francisco to welcome
the Twentieth Kansas boys home. Gov.
Stanley says anybody can go who has
the money to buy a railroad ticket, and
adds: 1.-THE state will transport her war
heroes home from the coast in first
class style. But the expenditure of
public funds for this occasion will be
confined to the entertainment of the
troops. shall pay my own expenses
tn vrh N HacI rQ
to meet the Twentieth Kansas in that
port will have to do likewise"
Wanted His Money Back.
William Buggy, of Mt. Hope, re-
turned to the probate judge at Topeka
a marriage license which was issued to
him on July Is. With the license was
a letter which unfolded tragedy. The
girl to whom Buggy was to be married
died before the ceremony was per-
formed. Mr.. Buggy asked whether or
not the probate court would return the
So. so which he paid for the license.
There is no provision in the law by
which it can be done.
They Gave Him q Big Pie.
A big demonstration occurred at Null
vane in honor of Arthur Phillips, who
has just returned from his military
service in the Philippines. A thousand
people followed the band to the depot
to meet him. Young Phillips had writ
ten home from Manila that he would
give a months pay for one of his
mothers apple pies and a baker of
Mulvane prepared pie feet 9 inches
long and 2 feet wide, which was pre-
sented to Phillips.
Speaks Well for Switzerland.
A year ago Prof. l.. T. Weeks, of
Winfield, was climbing mountain in
Switzerland when he lost his pocket
book containing SIPS in gold. He no
titled the authorities of his loss, but
had no hope whatever of recovering
the money. Last week he received a
letter from the officials in Switzerland
informing him that his pocket-book had
been found and that it's contents would
be forwarded to him at once.
New Railroad for Salina.
It is announced that Salina will get
q new railroad. which will be built
from Denison. Tex, distance of $50
miles. The capital stock is $4,000, 600.
The line as proposed is to run from
Salina to New Kiowa, by Watonga to
Oklahoma City, Ok, through Potta-
watomie county to Denison, Tex. A
branch is to run from Watonga through
the counties of Blaine, Dewey, Day and
Woodward, Ok.
The Interesting Sherraden Baby.
The Sherraden baby, at Chapman,
can boast of more living ancestors than
perhaps any other human in Kansas.
It now has in the flesh and blood one
great-great-grandmo two great
grandfathers and two great-grand-
mothers, two grandfathers and two
grandmothers and two parents, repre-
senting five generations on one side
and four on the other.-Kansas City
Journal.
A Minister'S Son In Trouble.
James Harleroad, SON of a former
minister of Barbourville, KY, is wanted
in Winfield for assaulting with intent
to kill. He was in Jail awaiting the
arrival of the sheriff from Kansas and
he had been passing under the name OF
John A. Black, banker of Barbour
Vile.
had Outlook for Depositors.
A report made to the comptroller Of
the currency on the condition of the
failed Atchison national bank shows
that the capital and surplus of the
bank have disappeared and that the