The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-05-01

Kansas FIRST Attorney General
The late w. w. Guthrie, of Atchi-
son, was the first attorney general OF
Kansas after it's admission as state.
Previously he served in the terri
torial legislature from Brown
county. Subsequently he served in
the state legislature from Atchison
and was largely instrumental in sink
ing of the coal shaft at the prison
He came to Brown county in 1857 and
for several years he and Z. N. Nor
riI, afterwards congressman and
governor, kept bachelors hail." Mr..
Guthrie's marriage to Miss Julia
Fowler, OF ST. Joseph, in 1863, was an
incident of some note to oldtimers>
Albert H. Horton, late chief justice
of Kansas, was his best man, and the
two crossed the river on the ice at
Elwood on their hands and knees.
Only for State Institutions.
Two round brick kilns are now
building at the-Kansas penitentiary.
When these are built and the new
dry pressed brick machine installed
Warden Jewett states that the Kan
sas penitentiary will be able to make
the finest paving brick in the west.
There is good brick clay near the
penitentiary plant, and this, mixed
with q little coal shaft shale, will
make a hard paving brick. None OF
the brick will be sold on the open
market, but will be used near Lam
sing and shipped to state institutions
to make driveways. The construction
of a brick paved road between Lam
sing and Leavenworth is one of the
schemes contemplated by Gov.
Bailey. 1t is probable that work will
begin in August or September.
waggener Would BE senator.
B. P. Waggener, of Atchison, en-
joyed his brief career in the house
so much last winter that he now
wants to be state senator. The dis
trict, which is composed of Atchison
and jackson counties, is strongly re-
publican and never has sent a demo-
crat to the senate, but Mr.. Waggener
hopes to overcome the republican,
majority.
Farmer Robbed of $3.50.
Two tramps held up a bachelor
farmer, Peter Thauer, near Offerlee,
Edwards county, and secured about
$3.50. The seriff caught them at Mns-
ley and they are now in Jail. A search
of their clothes failed to reveal the
money, but $40 and a revolver was
found buried beneath the railroad
track
Only Two of Nine Survive.
Two children of the O'AIara family,
south of Hartford, which were taken
with the black diphtheria, are about
to recover. They are the only two
of family of nine children who have
survived the epidemic. At one time
there were six corpses in the homo
all brothers and sisters. y
No Limit TO the Display.
The women of Kansas will be per-
mitted to make such exhibits as they
please in the Kansas building at the
ST. Louis worlds fair. The Kansas
commission will not attempt to limit
the display. Mrs. c. F. N. Dassler,
of Leayenworth, will have charge OF
the exhibit.
Pork Was Not Well Cooked.
daughters of a well-known farmer
west of Brookyille, are very low with
trichina poisoning. caused by having
eaten pork insuficiently cooked.
Mrs. Black, mother of the girls, died
two weeks ago from the same cause.
Verbal VIII Admitted to Probate.
The late, John Harden Baird did
not leave any written will, but YER
bal will was signed by his physicians
and nurse. Judge Evans decided that
the verbal will was good, but that the
real estate could not be divided un-
der it.. The will disposed of SAG, 900.
Buy R9ht-of-way.
A right-of-way for an electric rail-
way is being quietly purchased from
the farmers in the eastern part oss
Shawnee county and it is believed IL
is the intention of the purchasers to
build such a line from Kansas City
to Topeka.
New Road for wichita.
Eastern capitalists are backing the
Wichita &c Southern railway, which
proposes to build a railroad from
Wichita southeast into the Indian ter
ritory.
Leasing Land Near wathena.
Agents of the Standard Oil com.
pany have been in the vicinity Of
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