The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-01-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Features OF the Insurance Tax Bill
The discriminating insurance tax
bill. passed at the extra legislative
session and approved by the governor.
provides for a tax of two per cent. on
all insurance, guarantee and accident
| companies organized in the United
States. On foreign companies the tax
| is four per cent on the gross premi-
ums. The new law makes il obliga-
tory on the superintendent of insur-
| ance to revoke the license OF any COM
pany failing to pay the tax promptly.
The measure will bring about $50. 00o
revenue to the state annually.
VIII Demand Liquidation.
A Topeka telegram said: The Kan
sas butter-makers will go before the
legislature and demand protection
against the manufacturers of oleomar-
garine. who are placing their product
| on the Kansas market Though the
creamery industry has grown nearly
100 per cent in Kansas since the last
legislature met it has met increased
competition from the makers of
oleomargarine, who are succeeding in
getting footing in all the smaller
towns as well as the larger ones.
The Shock Restored Her Reason.
Mrs. Fred Bingor, of Galena, while
slightly demented. strolled away from
home, and when fou nd was clinginR
to the rotten cribbing in an aban.
doned mine. She had fallen into the
shaft, distance of 100 feet, and re-
ceived no injuries whatever save
shock which restored her lost memory.
Dynamite in q Preachers stove.
Rev. j. P. Aelmore, Swedish pastor
at Hutchinson, upon his return home
from an out-of-town visit, found sew
eral sticks of dynamite in his heating
stove. which he claims were placed
there by enemies. Rev. Aelmore is q >
bachelor and recently wrestied in
court with breach of promise suit.
Will Seek TO Regain Their Salaries.
Many of the ex-county officers in the
81 counties in Kansas, whose special
fees and salaries laws are said to have
never been voted upon by the legisla.
ture. though they have been in effect
since 1895. are arranging to bring suit
to recover the amount of the reduction
effected in their respective salaries
AtVou ~ 0CchL age
Mrs. Nora Finnegan, aged 10I years.
died the other day at her home in Good
Intent, Atchison county. She was left
a widow in Ireland so years ago and
soon after sailed for America with her
children. 1t was always Mrs. Finne- &.
gan's boast that she never had to call
a physician.
VIII Cont-st Edmuuds' Seat.
David Munday. defeated republican
candidate for the legislature from the
Eighth representative district. Leav- .
enworth county. will contest the cleo q.
ton of Matt Edmunds, fusionist,
whose majority was IL.
Stanley Selects q Newspaper Man.
It was officially announced that
Henry j. Allen, of the Ottawa Herald,
had been selected as private secretary
to Gov-elect Stanley.
Minor State News.
The city hospital at Pittsburg has
been sold to the Catholics.
Abilene ministers have begun a cru.
SADIE against slot machines and raf1ea
renee girl. was mysteriously missing.
A state militia company Of 46 men,
bers was organized in Yates Center
with F. w. Butler captain.
On the last day of 1898 the Baptists
at Peabody held special services and
burned the mortgage on their church.
Raymond Carr, aged g. of Sedan,
was drowned while skating on Caney
river He went through into four
feet of water and slid under the ice.
Jay Simpson. q travelling soap fake
artist. and Mrs Spence, who eloped
from Eureka, were captured at Moline
by officers and taken back to Eureka
An unknown disease was raging
among Weir City children. A half
dozen deaths resulted, none of the
children being sick more than four
hours. .
The departure of Mrs. Grant Gillett
from Woodbine to join her hus band in
Old Mexico caused the running of sew
eral attachments on her property in
Dickinson county. &.
w. B. Yates, the young business man
who disappeared from Larned two
weeks ago under a cloud, was found in
. hospital At Oakland. Cal, suffering
from brain trouble.
Norman Palmer and wife, who were
married in McGrawville. N. Y, Janu-
ary s. 1884. celebrated their sixty.
wedding anniversary at Nortonville
on January s. 1899.