The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-11-27
The Best Kansas News.
Relate. n story.

Reynolds Relates q Story.
John NJ. Reynolds, of Parsons, told
lhe grand jury that indicted D. F.
Campbell for paying 800 to certain
members of the legislature in order
10 have special bin passed allowing
him to practice. pharmacy without TAX
ing an examination. The money was
paid by two sight drafts for $50 each
through the Commercial bank at Par
sons. The bill passed both houses,
but the governor refused to sign II.
Afterwards Reynolds took an examina-
lion before the state board of phar-
macy and failed.
Said 1t a Plenty.
Mrs. G. NJ. Davis, of Marysville,
heard a disturbance in her chicken
house the other night and went out
TO investigate. AS she entered the
:hicken-house door man showed a
six-shooter in her face and said: go
into the house or I'll shoot hell out of
you" "All right, sir, all right" re-
sponded the startled woman. And she
continued to say "All right, sir, all
right" long after she had reached the
house and safety.
Dog Weighs Half a Pound.
One Of the smallest dogs in the
world was brought to Wellington re-
Gently from Mexico by Ernest Gill
more, a miner. He had carried the
dog from Mexico in his inside coat
pocket. 1t is a white dog about four
months old and weighs half a pound.
1t is about as large as a medium sized
rat It has already been taught to
sit up, speak, sneeze and jump through
a hoop.
He Bought Stolen Cattle.
NJ B. Jacobs, who was recently
buried at Emporia, came to that local
ity in 1857 and helped erect the Hay
worth sawmill, said to be the first saw
mill erected west of Leavenworth. In
1865 he bought cattle stolen from In
dams. The cattle were seized by the
United States marshal and returned to
the Indians, but recent legislature
allowed Jacobs $1,000.
The Mayor Shot First.
/ J. L. Moon, a negro ex-convict, was
arrested at Valley Falls and when TAX
en- into the Justices Office pulled a
revolver. Mayor Evans, who was in
the room, was too quick for the ne
gro and shot the dusky prisoner be-
fore the latter could get action" The
negro will not die.
Did Water Carry Diseases
Farmers along the Walnut river In
southern Cowley county are fighting
an epidemic of hog cholera. 1t is be-
lieved that the disease was carried
down the river by the recent high
water from a community 80 miles
north, where cholera ragged for sew
eral weeks.
Wouldn't Issue n Warrant.
County Attorney McCarty, of EN-
poria, refused to issue a state war
rant for a popular Lyon county school
teacher because she whipped severely
a 12-year-old boy who has reputation
for making trouble in the school. The
boy and his father were the complain
ants.
Dayhofr Is Not Satisfied.
State Superintendent Dayhoff isn't
satisfied over the action of the state
printing board in turning down his
requisition for the publication of the
proceedings of the state textbook
commission and threatens to bring
mandamus proceedings in the supreme
court.
Electric Line Chartered.
A charter was issued for the Topeka
Eskridge & Council Grove InterurbaI
Railroad company; capital stock $50,
| 900. The company proposes to built
an electric line from Topeka to Council
Grove, via Eskridge. Ex-Lieut Gov
H. E. Richter is one of the fncorpo
| rators.
Fined Under the Truancy Act.
Francis Hubbard, of Rantoul, wa
convicted and fined in Justices cour
for keeping his 13-year-old boy out o
school after warning from the tru
! ancy officer. He contended that h.
had a right to use the boys services.
Great-Great-Grand
Grandpa" Geiger is dead in Brow
| county at the age of SO. He was tn
father of IA children. Of his other de
| scendants he could count 40 grandchil
dren, So great-grandchildren and
great great-grandchild
| Lost In Speculation.
John Weese, of Oakley, druggist
returned home from California recent,
where he had lost all his money ii
| speculation. Going to field north O
| town he ended his life with a revolver
/ JOintists Play Even.
| Police Judge Coles, of Galena, tn
first of the three city officials to b
| tried on the charges of malfeasanc
in Office, preferred by two disgruntle