The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-10-13
KANSAS NEWS OF RECENT DATE.
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The state charter board on the 9Th
again turned down the application Of
the New York zinc company of Della
ware for authority TO do business in
Kansas The authorized capital of the
company is s7OO, 900. but when it first
applied for authority to do business it
had only $1,000 paid up. Now it
schedules property as follows: Real
estate. SSH, 900; personal property, $751;
600; stocks, bonds, ETC.. $50, 900; mer-
| chandise, $4,000; cash, S., 161.4S. The
board holds that until the company
gives more satisfactory evidence Of the
value OF the real estate than q bare
statement, authority to do business in
| Kansas win be withheld. The board
also turned down the application of
two concerns whose object is only to
| own real estate.
Democratic Ticket disqualified.
Albert Perry, the Doniphan county
democratic committee chairman who
fled libel suits against the Troy Times
and Wathena Star, was denounced by
the recent democratic county conven-
ton. Perry then fled protest against
the validity of the convention and its
| nominees. alleging that the convention
was called to meet at one place and met
at another. The case was tried before
court of three county officers, all re-
publicans, who upheld Perry's protest
and all the nominees of the democratic
convention were excluded from the
ticket. The decision also leaves the
local democrats without a county COM
mittee.
In Their Fighting Clothea.
The people who go to Topeka for the
reception to the Twentieth Kansas will
see the fighters march in the uniforms
and with the guns which they used in
the Philippine campaign. Permission
for the regiment to retain the arms and
equipment has been received by Gov.
Stanley from the chief or ordnance at
Washington. This is in response to q
request made by the go vernon, who be-
comes responsible for the return of the
guns to the federal government, and
upon this condition the memb ers of the
regiment are permitted to come home
in all the regalia of war.
OGt0w1 70 InODOr inc SOtOtOE0s
A big reception to company K,
Twentieth Kansas, will be given by
citizens of Ottawa Immediately after
the reception at Topeka. Ex-Judge
Benson went to San Francisco to Sc
cure the regimental band for the occa-
sion. Citizens of Ottawa have erected
a memorial gateway in honor of COM
pany X, which has been placed at the
entrance to Forest park. 1t will be
formally dedicated to the company on
its return.
What One Dog Has Cost.
A dog owned by j. w. Sugg, team
ster of lola, has cost the owners
friends $1,000 in litigation in an at
tempt to evade the payment of the city
dog tax. Sugg kept his dog chained,
and claimed that the city ordinance
referred to unclaimed dogs. He also
listed the dog as personal properly.
and believed that he was exempt from
taxation by the city. The supreme
court now has the case under consider
alton.
Because They Were Kansans.
Gov. Stanley and the other members
of the Twentieth reception committee
were royalty treated at San Francisco.
Gen. Shafter and Gov. Gage drove them
about the city in carriages. A salute
of II guns was fired in their honor from
the battleship Iowa, now at Mare
island. The big dynamite guns which
point out beyond the Golden Gate were
fired dozen times for the pleasure and
instr uction of the Kansas delegation.
Murdock's Convention Plan.
Thomas Benton Murdoch, editor of
the Eldorado Republican, who for
some months has been advocating the
nomination of Gen.. Frederick Funston
for governor, is out with scheme to
make the next republican state con-
ventiOn body of 1000 delegates in
stead of 1000 as is now the rule, and
to give it authority to nominate the
republican candidate for United States.
senator.
Chambers at Fort Riley.
Chambers broke out among the gov
eminent stock at Fort Riley. Over 25
horses have been killed. TWENTY-FIVE
cords of wood had been hauled out to
burn carcasses. Five veterinaries were
busy examining the stock, vaccinating
all not condemned. The disease is sup
posed to have been brought by mules
shipped in from the south last summer
to pasture on the reservation.
To Save Themselvos Tronhl.