The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-12-21
KANSAS ITEMS CONDENSED.
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Father Prosscutinx His sen.
Assistant Attorney General B. n.
Tracy went to Ness county to assist
the county attorney in prosecuting
Hilger Schrabin, charged with crimi
nal assault. He went. there upon the
petition Of the defendants own
father. Old man Schrabin wrote to
the attorney general, stating that his
was guilty Of the crime charged, anf
asked him to help prosecute him and
send him to the penitentiary.
Keeping Company with Collins.
A telegram from Lansing said that
James Render and Robert Williams,
two negroes implicated in the
murder of John w. Collins at Topeka
who turned states evidence against
John Henry Collins and succeeded in
convicting him, are now in the state
prison for life for murder. Young
Collins has mastered the printers
trade and is now foreman of the prison
/! print shop" He is said to be .
model prisoner.
Col Anthony Gobbies Up . Contemporary.
The long controversy over the
ownership and control of the Leaven-
worth Standard ended recently when
d. r. Anthony took forcible possess
sion and removed most of the machin-
cry into a room in the Times building.
The Standard bad long been thorn
in the side of Col. Anthony politically
and. he has been quietly buying up
the stock of the paper until he owned
two-thirds of the plant.
Meeting Of the state Grange.
The Kansas State Grange held its
annual meeting at Manhattan last
week, a large number of delegates
being present. The following. officers
were elected: Worthy Master, E. W..
Westgate; overseer, j.. C. Lovett, of
Miami county; state lecturer, A. p.
Reardon, of Jefferson county; secre-
tary, George Black, of Olathe; treas
urer, William Henry, of Olathe.
This One strucx It Rich.
Rev. Peter Anderson, of Dickinson
county, who began his fortune in 1899
in the Klondike and last spring went
to Cape Nome, recently returned to
Kansas 5000, 900 richer. Several young
men who went with him returned
empty-handed. Anderson has pur-
chased several farms in Dickinson
county.
To Reimburae til. Railroads.
Gov. Stanley will ask the legislature
to appropriate $4,000 to reimburse
the railroads for bringing the Twen-
tieth Kansas regiment home last
year. A contract was made by the
railroads to bring the regiment home
and wait for their pay until the meet
ing of the legislature.
Minor State News.
John D. Milliken, of Mcpherson,
lately built a $4,000 home.
The probate judges of Kansas will
meet at Topeka December 2S and or
ganiZe a state association.
The marriage of Miss Lucy Van
Hoeson, of Atchison, formerly of Law
renee, to Sheffield ingalls,, son of the
late John J. ingalls,, will take place
at Atchison January Q.
The Missouri Pacific may extend the
Kansas, Nebraska & Dakota line, run
ming between Fort Scott and Topeka,
to Omaha, Neb. The Topeka CONNER
cial club has taken up the matter.
The Kansas India Relief committee
met in Topeka the other day and
cleared up all accounts. Altogether
$23,592 was collected for the India
famine sufferers and $23,523 sent, leav-
ing balance of 500 on hand.
M. A. Low, of Topeka, and party
of friends shot 90 dozen quails during
a recent hunting expedition in Okla
homa, but the game warden heard Of
it and confiscated them before the
party could cross the state line.
1t is stated that Gov. Stanley has
decided upon his appointments for the
four new places on the supreme bench
as follows: A. III. Ellis, Beloit; j. c.
Pollock, Winfield; F. W. Cunningham.
Emporia; Houston Whiteside, Hutch
inson.
The Topeka authorities not only
have trouble suppressing the sale Of
liquor, but are kept busy keeping in
mates in the city prison sober. Some
one has been sneaking liquor in to the
prisoners and all of them got hila-
riously drunk.
Wheat is growing SO rank in the
Arkansas valley wheat belt that farm