The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-01-26

received reports from 81 OF the los
counties in Kansas regarding paupers
and the showing made in them leads
him to make the flat-footed declara-
ton that Kansas has fewer paupers in
proportion to its population than any
state in the union. Sixteen out of the
81 counties reporting have no poor
houses. Several other counties re-
port that they have poor farms but
no paupers and they rent the farms
out to tenants. This is the list of
counties which have no poor houses
or poor farms: Barber, Clark, Ford,
Cove, Graham, Grant, Kearney, Logan,
Norton, Seward, Sheridan, Stanton,
Stevens, Trego, Wallace and Gray.
state Historical Society.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
Historical society was held in the
was decided to group the society into
the following divisions: Geneology,
biography, antiquities, newspapers,
literature and annals and chronicles.
Among the papers read was history
of the Twentieth Kansas regiment by
Col. Wilder S. Metcalf, in which he
praised the valor of the famous
fighters. The following officers were
elected for the coming year: Presi-
dent, j. G. Haskell, Lawrence; first
vice president, E. B. Cowgirl, Topeka;
second vice president, John Francis,
Colony; secretary, George w. Martin,
Kansas City.
Pomeroy VIII Back 1t.
]. P. Pomeroy, the Cripple Creek
millionaire mine owner and philan-
thropist, will put up funds for the
establishment of a model farm near
Hill City, this state, to be operated
under the direction of II. w. Camp
bell, who claims to have developed
system whereby crops can be success
fully raised in spite of the droughts in
western Kansas. Campbell has a
method of preserving the moisture
in the ground in winter, which, it is
claimed, will revolutioniZe farming in
western Kansas.
More Births Than Deaths.
In Cherokee county during the past
year there were S11 deaths and S42
births. Of the deaths SO were from
pneumonia, 40 from typhoid fever. 81
from meningitis and 23 from heart fail
ure. The number of marriages was
400, and this compared with the S42
births might indicate to the super
fetal statistician an extraordinary
number of twins.-Kansas City Jour-
nal.
Decided Against Mr. Osborne.
S. o. Osborne, of Garden City, had a
religious antipathy against vaccina-
ton for smallpox and he refused to
obey an order of the board of educa-
ton compelling children to be vacci-
mated. His children were barred from
school and he appealed to the district
court, which sustained the school
board. He has now appealed to the
supreme court.
It IL Paralyzing Business.
A Wichita dispatch said that small
pox in that city and adjacent towns
was paralyzing business. The entire
southern line of this state, east of
Wichita, is under guard by shotgun
patrol. Guards are stationed at all
railway stations along the line with
instructions to turn back any persons
who are coming into Kansas from the
territory.
Another sCattle King" Missing.
Considerable excitement was mani
tested at Kinsley when it was re-
ported that cattleman who lives
few miles east of there had departed,
also that several hundred head of cat
tie, upon which mortgages were held,
were missing. Kansas City commits
sion firms had representatives there
looking for both cattle and man.
Renewed the Attack on Mstc.lf.
Lieut.. j. F. Hall, of the Twentieth
Kansas, last week renewed the attack
on Col. Metcalf which was begun soon
after the regiment was disbanded.
Halls latest attack was a protest to
Secretary Martin, of the state histor-
ical society, because Metcalf was Sc
lected to read history of the regi-
ment before the society.
No Charters for Healing Concerns
Magnetic healing concerns hereafter
will not be permitted to operate under
the sanction of the Kansas laws. A
half dozen of these enterprises have
made application for charters and
have all been held up. Unless dis
covery is made that requires the board
to issue them charters, their applica- |
tions will be denied.