The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-30
The Best Kansas News.
Fine Bunch of Hogs.

| Fine Bunch of Hogs.
J. J. Klippe, farmer near Robin |
| son, was the conductor, superintend- |
ent. trainmaster, president and gen. |
eral manager of a train Of hog wagons
that unloaded a carload Of hogs at the |
Robinson stock yards. There were Il
| wagons and each held five hogs. The |
total weight was $4,000 pounds and the |
hogs averaged 2S1 pounds apiece and !
brought $3.50 per hundred; the total
sum lacking $10.55 Of making an even |
81 900. All were Poland China year
| lings.
Paid $122,4OO for q Farm.
Moses Harvey, prominent farmer
and stock raiser, has purchased the
Usher farm near Wallula, in Leaven- |
worth county. The farm is one Of the |
largest in the eastern half Of Kansas.
containing 2,040 acres. The considera-
ton is said to have been 1922, 400, or
| $50 an acre.
Negroes With White Wives.
At Topeka three negroes were con-
fined in the city jail on the charge of
drunkenness. They were visited by
their wives, all Of whom are white
women. It evoked discussion which
discloses that not a few negroes at
Topeka are married to white women.
Insane Woman I'm Mans Attire.
A woman named Gassock was ar
rested in Galena at the Katy depot
for promenading in male attire. She
claimed that she was fleeing from her
husband. Marshal Fitzgerald inves-
tigated the affair and found that the
woman was insane.
Oil and Gas at Stark.
Local men at Stark have organized
company with $650,000 capital to
prospect in oil and gas lands. The
company owns leases on 1000 acres of
land in and around Stark, has one good
Oil we'll and one good gas well which
supplies the town with fuel and light
He Got Too Gay.
On his wedding day George Bigge,
a Stockton man, stepped into barn
and slapped colt on the hip as an
evidence Of his joyful mood. The colt
Immediately planted hoof in Bigge's
face with force sufficient to lay him up
for repairs.
LASS mt State Normal.
The attendance at the state normal
school aggregates 1,453, an increase of
so over last year. President Wilkinson
says the increase would have been
greater had there not been such a de-
mand for teachers throughout the
state.
Youngest County Treasures.
When A. v. Johnson finished his
term as treasurer Of Pottawatomie
county he was succeeded by his son,
NJ. r. Johnson. Johnson is but &c
years of age and is thought to be the
Youngest county treasurer in Kansas.
Exhibit of Kansas Glass.
G. P. Grimsley, director of the Kan
sas mineral display at the st. Louis
worlds fair, was at Coffeyvine where
he completed arrangements for the
making of a big glass exhibit by the
glass manufacturers in this state.
Kansans Go to Siam.
Rev. Howard L. Cornell and wife,
who sail this month from San Francis
CO for the Laos mission in northern
Siam, lived at Cherokee a few years
ago, where Mr.. Cornell was pastor of
the Presbyterian church.
Pipe Organs in Ottawa Churches.
The congregation of the First Bap-
list church at Ottawa voted to install
new pipe organ to cost $4,000. The
First Methodist church recently closed
contract for $4,000 organ to be
ready for use by January /.
To Teach New Mexicans Agriculture.
John Scott, of Westmoreland, al
graduate of the state agricultural col
iege, has been elected to the position
of professor of agriculture and animal
Industry of the territorial college of
New Mexico.
Secretary Wilson to Speak.
James Wilson. SECRETARY of agricul-
ture in the presidents cabinet, will at
tend the annual meeting of the Kansas
state board of agriculture at Topeka
in January and deliver an address.
Kansas Delegation Must Agree.
The president has given notice of his
intention to make no appointment to
succeed Judge Hook until the Kansas
delegation gets togther and agrees on
candidate.
10000 from Other States.
T. B. Gerow, state free employment
agent, estimates that over 10000 har-
vest hands from outside of the state
were employed in the recent wheat
harvest.