The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-06-16
At the Kansas State University.

LnlrO annual commencement OF the
Kansas state university at Lawrence.
Henry Bartlett, president of the In
diana State Historical society, deliv-
cred the address. Seward Irving Field,
of Medicine Lodge, won the Bryan
prize; Tenny Frank, of Kansas City,
Mo-, the Latin scholarship prize; Daisy
Dixon, of Lawrence, the D. II. Robin
son Latin scholarship prize. 1t was
announced further that Phi Beta
Kappa scholarship in honor of Mrs.
Lucinda Smith Buchan had been estab-
lished and that funds for memorial
tablet to Lieut.. Fred Afford had been
raised sufficient to assure the establish
ment of the same.
State Treasury Figures.
June Z the state treasurer had
stamped $125, 900 in warrants mot paid
for want of funds" The following
amounts of cash were in the various
funds, except the general fund, which
is exhausted:
Statehouse, S1260.27; sinking, 81 30; in
terest, S57, 0.49; current university 4,14951;
militia 81 ,3O9.53; veterinary, 1896; permanent
school, 1857 7l061; annual school, $26 1881; uni
versity permanent, IS, 314.76; university inter-
10
normal school interest, $555.17; agricultural
college permanent, 81, 729.71; agricultural college
interest, 50 64227 Insurance. zoe, 043.6 6; library.
S1,114.40; Stormont library, S20O6.69; seed-grain
account, "a, 297.O4; seed-grain interest, $525.61
United States aid state soldiers home $13 1916 45;
municipal interest $,989.04; grain inspector
81, 722. &c. total, S526.041.11.
No Place to Invest the Money.
The state of Kansas has large sur
plus of money in the state school fund
and is at loss to know how to invest
it. The school fund commissioners
have heretofore been able to invest
this money in five and six per cent.
bonds issued by the various counties
The counties are now able to dispose of
their bonds to eastern bond companies,
which take them at four per cent.
Cowley county recently withdrew $780,
600 worth of ~ per cent. bonds, which
the commission had an option on.
Had MI. Page Arrested.
Insurance Superintendent Church
caused the arrest of Thomas Page,
Topeka miller, on the charge of refus-
ing to produce the fire insurance poll
cies written on his mill. Page has his
property insured in a concern that is
not authorized to do business in Kan
sas. Under new law these policies
are subject to a tax of ten per cent.
Page would not turn them in for taxa
ton and the superintendent of insur-
ance ordered him to produce them SO
that they could be taxed. He refused
to do so and was arrested.
Removed Agricultural College Regents.
The board of regents of the Kansas
state agricultural college passed reso-
lutions in substance as follows:
Feeling that the best interests of the institu-
ton demand a partial change in the present
faculty, it is hereby resolved that the services
of the following members be dispensed with:
President Thomas E. Will; Frank Parsons,
ward BemiS, professor of economic science; DR..
j. H. Ward professor of English language and
literature. and Secretary M. H. Phipps
Death of Judge j. s. Emery.
Judge j. S. Emery, one of the pio-
Lawrence. He was at one time United
States attorney for that district and
later a member of the state board of
public works. He was prominently
identified with the eanly history of
Kansas, coming to the state in 1854 with
the second party of the New England
Emigrant Aid society.
Expenses More Than Receipts.
State Grain Inspector Mckenzie has
made his monthly report to the state
auditor. The receipts for the month of
May amounted to 81, 1880, while the
expenses aggregated 2,520.O9. This
left deficit of $I,O91. 10. The law re-
quires the grain inspection department
to be self-sustaining and for that rea-
son the treasurer cannot pay up the de-
felt.
VIII Try to Get Them Later.
The citizens of Topeka have aban-
doned the idea of rendering the Twen-
tieth Kansas regiment public recep-
ton upon its return from the Philip
pines on account of the decision of the
regiment to be mustered out at San
Francisco. 1t was planned, however,
to have Twentieth Kansas day during
the state reunion in September
Drowned In the Flood.
Ten thousand or more acres between
and Valley Center were COW
cred with water three feet deep as re-
suit of the flood. Hundreds of head OF
hogs and cattle were drowned. Harry
Hill, near Goddard. was drowned while |
to cross swollen strea m. |
w. r. Morton, of Baynesville, was also |
drowned.
A Blow to Private Banks.