The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-08-11
Cost of Our State Institutions.


vested in state institutions. The state
house has cost the most money of any
single institution, the state peniten-
tiary second and the state agricultural
college third. The following shows
the cost of each institution, including
site and building:
school, Emporia, S470.20 agricultural college,
Manhattan, 81 .00. 789: deaf and dumb school,
Olathe. ESD, 1876; blind school, Kansas City
@16e, $50; insane asylum, Osawatomie, S6a9, 884;
insane asylum. Topeka, S707 ,677; forestry sta
ton, Dodge City, q, 304; penitentiary Lansing,
y, .047; industrial reformatory. Hutchinson,
SasS575; reform school Topeka, s1s7 $50; idiotic
asylum, Winfield, sis, 40; Industrial school for
girls, Beloit. S6O.O66; soldiers home, Dodge
City, siOe. s55; orphans home. Atchison. $751;
Ills; statehouse, Topeka, q, 605. 400; new asylum
at Parsons, 100000; colored industrial school,
QufndarO, $4,000. Total, 10, 500 .O57.
The annual appropriations for these
10 state institutions amount to SO per
cent of the total state tax raised.
Eight of the institutions are under the
control of the state board of charities
and the total annual appropriations at
their disposal amount to $5O3, 574, or
90 per cent. of the total state tax.
They May BE Consolidated.
A movement is on foot to consolidate
Galena and Empire City into one city.
The two towns are built close together.
but ill-feeling has heretofore existed
between them, which prevented con-
solidation. So much did they dislike
each other ten years ago that Empire
City built a huge stockade between the
two towns, but the Galena police, in a
riot, destroyed it. Portions of the wall
still stand, but peace reigns. BY unit
ing them Galena would make a COM
pact city of over Is, 600 people, and
would rank the eighth city in size in
Kansas.
Prosperity at Galena.
Galena, the great zinc-mining town
in southeastern Kansas, is having a
great building boom. The Interurban
electric railway will extend it's line
from Galena to Riceville and Empire
City. With work on big foundry,
boiler works, a new wholesale grocery,
large hotel. IL big business houses,
so residences and many large mining
plants that are being urged rapidly
forward, Galena bids fair to be one
of the most important commercial CEN
tiers of the southwest.
Clicked His Wife to Death.
James Best, of Columbus choked his
wife to death early the other morning.
Best is a mill laborer, 26 years old. He
had been married five years. The
couple had not lived happily for some
time and had separated, but recently
became reconciled. The old quarrel
was renewed that morning, and, in a
fit of jealousy, Best seized his wife by
the throat and choked her to death.
He surrendered to the sheriff and was
hurr led out of the county, because of q
fear of mob violence.
They Met Violent Deaths.
Two fatal accidents occurred near
Olpe, Lyon county, the other day.
Henry Naussen, aged 16. was drowned
while in swimming with young COM
panions. William Grieder, a wealthy
young farmer, was hitching up a
vicious horse when he got too close to
the animals hoofs and the horse kicked
him, the hoof striking him in the breast
near the heart. He died almost in
stantly.
Members Of the Twenty-second.
Over 100 me mbers of the Twenty
Second Kansas volunteer regiment met
in Topeka and formed an organization
with Col. II. C. Lin dsey as president
and Lieut.. Fl. M. Thomas secretary.
Mrs. A. NJ. Harvey was elected homo
rary member and historian of the regi-
ment. An effort will be made to get
the regiment together in Topeka during
the state g. A. R. meeting.
Arkansas City Woman In Trouble.
Mrs. L. L. Chinn, of Arkansas City,
was arrested by Deputy United States
Marshal Trigg on the charge of send
ing obscene matter through the mails.
She was in correspondence with Jesse
NJ. Lee, free lover, who was arrested
at Ottawa The arrest came about by
her misdirecting a package containing
obscene pictures and literature to Lee.
Grasshopper Story from Pratt County.
A farmer near Pratt mixed paris
green and bran together and let a
grasshopper eat it. It died. Twenty
ate it up. They died. Four hundred
ate those 90 and they died. Eight
thousand ate those 400 and they died.
A hundred and sixty thousand ate
those 5000 and died, and the farmer
was troubled no more.
Stock for Feed In Big Demand.
Cattle-feeders of northeast Kansas
were taking options on all the suitable
feeding cattle and found the supply too
scarce. Arrangements are being made
to ship thousands of them from the
territory and panhandle country. Sew