The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-02-06
The Best Kansas News.
for Road-Building.

Agitation for Road-Building.
Representatives Ballard, of Leaven-
worth, and Perkins, of Wyandotte,
are working hard for laws to compel
the working of convicts ON public
roads. They particularly urge the
macadamizing of a public highway
from Kansas City to Leavenworth
and from Leavenworth to Topeka.
Warden Jewett, of the state prison,
is unaiterably opposed to the scheme.
He says the most desperate convicts
could not be taken outside the prison
walls, and that men serving their
first sentences should not be degrad-
ed by public work of this kind.
Among the plans by which it is ex-
2ected to create sentiment in favor
of a state road between Leavenworth
end Topeka is an overland trip be-
tween the cities for all of the mem
bers of the legislature who care to
60. and especially for the members
Of the good roads committees. This
will be one of the most novel junket-
ing trips ever taken by the Kansas
legislators.
Feeding $500 Cattle, $3.50 Hogs.
Richard Holton, of Haven, has sold
to L. w. Robson, of Towanda, 500
feeders, coming four years old. The
feeders were sold for 81 per hundred,
and the parties to the trade think
that when the cattle are delivered
Mr. Robson will have to write his
check for something over $4,000.
Mr.. Robson had 1,S0O feeders before
this last purchase, 600 of which are
now on full feed. About lbs, 900 BUSH
els of corn will be required to feed
them oil out ready for the market.
All of the cattle feeders count ON
two hogs for three steers. Counting
on this basis, Mr.. Robson will feed
$3.50 hogs by the time his cattle are
ready for market.
Want Another Trial.
The De Boissiere Odd Fellow Or
phans' Home and Industrial School
association, through the trustees of
the corporation, have filed a petition
in the supreme court for a rehearing
of the case which was decided against |
them at the last session of the court. |
The supreme court admitted the case
for a rehearing last fall and reversed |
itself, giving property valued at $751;
600 to James A. Troutman and Rob |
ert Stone, of Topeka.
Pleads for the Birds.
Ex-Gov. Samuel j. Crawford has |
printed an urgent plea for the enact |
mont of bird-protecting law. He |
says: Birds of every kind and va
riety, except the hawk and English |
sparrow, are useful, and many of |
them are invaluable. They should |
be protected by rigid, stringent law |
with severe penalty attached there
to. One quail will destroy 1000 in
sects in single day, and many other |
birds will do as much:''
Monument to Kansas Soldiers.
An effort is being made to induce |
Kansas to erect a great monument to |
the veterans of the civil war. Rep
resentative Speer introduced a bill |
appropriating 100000 for the con-
struction of such a monument, and
providing for a commission of five
members to have charge of the work.
Wife wouldn't Take Washing.
Because his wife would not take in
washing, George Woodley, of Topeka,
went home the other night and beat
her with his fist. Had it not been for
the timely arrival of the police. who
had been notified by Woodley's little
girl, the woman would undoubtedly
have been seriously injured.
1900 Bushels of Onion Sets.
Richard Wilson, a farmer near
has shipped the first car of
500 bushels of onion sets from
Wilson last spring planted
3h acres of onion seed from which
the sets were grown, and that little
bushels.
Knocked out Labor Bill.
The house knocked out a bill
by Adams, of Sedgwick,
to make employers liable for dam
ages when an employe should be in
jured by the act of another employee.
The bill applied to all employers as
we'll as railroads.
Wall for the Reformat0ry.
The legislature will appropriate
sufficient money to erect a wall
around the state reformatory at
State Dairy Association.
The annual meeting of the state
larry association will again be held
at the agricultural college. It will
convene on March 8, and last four
lays. l.
Cane Seed Killed 80 Calves.
Osborne county reports number
IF cases of injury to stock from feed
ng cane seed. One man who had a