The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-07-14
Fairs Throughout the State.

OF agriculture, announces the follow
ing list of Kansas fairs:
lola, September 5-s Garrett, September 25-
%; Hiawatha August 2s-3l; Clay Center, Sep
TENDER 12-15; Burlington, September ILLS; VIM
field, September 1922; Lawrence, September l2-
Is; Garden City, September 12-l5; Ottawa, Sep
TENDER 1922; Tribune October AS; Holton. Sep
TENDER ILLS; OSkaloosa, September 5-8; Edger-
ton. September 1923; Frankfort September 90
y; Paola, September 12-15; Cofeyville, August
1910; Council Grove, September 26-29; Erie,
August 2S-September 1 +; Chanute. September g.
8; Ness City. September 1916; Burlingame
September So; Osborne, September 12-15;
Riley, September So; Stockton, September 49,
p; Salina, September 25-29; Wichita, state fair,
September $3.50: Fredonia August 22-25
Swung Up by q Mob.
Dick Williams, alias Trilby, negro
in Jail at Alma charged with the MUIR
der of Harry Tandy at Mcfarland, was
taken from the sheriff the other day
by mob of 200, who put rope about
the culprit's neck and dragged him to
telegraph pole, where he was strung
up. The mob left and Officer Pippert
cut the negro down. He had been
hanging six minutes and was almost
dead, but physicians restored him to
consciousness.
The Injunction VIII Settle 1t.
Chairman Hornaday, of the state
board of charities, was served with an
injunction restraining the board from
paying for the proposed asylum site at
Parsons. Mr.. Hornaday says the in
junction is the best process to deter
mine the legality of the legislative asy-
lum locating committee and it's acts,
and the board will take no action
toward acquiring the asylum site un til
the courts decide the points raised.
Kansans In . Socialist College.
The socialist meeting at Buffalo re-
Gently among other things resulted in a
movement to establish propaganda of
the new faith. The new institution will
be located at Boston. Prof. Thomas E.
Will, the deposed president of the
state agricultural college, is one of the
promoters of the institution. Profess
sors Ward and Parsons, also of the
same college, will be instructors in the
new institution.
Valuable Collection of Newspapers.
Judge John Martin has sent to the
state historical society valuable col
lection of newspapers, pamphlets and
other miscellaneous documents, prin-
cipally newspapers published in the
territory of Kansas in the years 1855,
1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, and quite a
collection published in the state of
Kansas after it's admission into the
union and dated in 1861, 1862, 1868, 1864,
1865.
Trying to Save Dickson from Prison.
Every effort will be made to induce
The government authorities to drop
the criminal case against Paul Dicki-
son, arrested recently at Pittsburg for
raising 50 bill to $40. Dickson is
the son of wealthy ranchman in
southeastern Kansas, and the father
will bring all the influence at his COM
mand to have the proceeding dropped.
Small Town for a Newspaper.
L. E. VanMeter has commenced pub
ication of the Stanton County Journal
at johnson City. There were 90 peo-
pie living in johnson City in 1898,
while the entire population of Stanton
county amounted to but S26. There is
but one county in the state credited
with fewer people-Morton, 255.
Shocking Tragedy at Coates.
At Coates Willie Porter, aged nine,
playfully pointed a revolver, which he
found in the hired mans room, at his
baby sister, who was sitting on her
mothers lap, and pulled the trigger.
The ball passed through the baby's
head and the mothers heart, killing
both instantly.
Burglars Secured Nothing.
The Office of Comstock & Stout, lum-
bermen at McLouth, was entered and
the safe blown to atoms. Nothing was
secured by the burglars. The money
had all been deposited in the bank,
thus spelling what might have been a
good haul.
Railroad Brakeman's Good Fortune.
BY the death of w T. Exert, Phila-
delphia broker, few days ago, Alfred
Bysel, a Missouri Pacific freight brake
man at Atchison, will come into an in
heritance of $50, 900. Bysel is nephew
of Exert and lived with him during his
boyhood.
Hudson Again an Editor.
A recent Topeka telegram said that
the Topeka Capital had been sold
by the Mulvanes to a stock COM
pany headed by F. o. Poponoe and
that Gen. Joe Hudson would again as
sumo the editorial management of the
paper.
Gas Strike ut Chanute.
Gas WAS Sfrucl< in the uel1 oaSf If