The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1904-02-19

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Stevens, Hugoton ........ 72S $40
Sumner, Wellington .....1,178 1851
Thomas, Colby ...........1, 076 Alp
1rego, Wakeeney ........ 800 2,722
Wabaunsee, Alma ........ 1893 12,S1S
Wallace, Sharon Springs. 900 1,17s
Washington, Washington. 900 u 1863
Wichita, Leoti ........... 720 1877
Wilson, Fredonia ....... SIG 1851
Woodson, Yates Center. 1876 1O,O22
Wyandotte, Kansas City,. 153 1927
COURTS.-The judicial power of the
state is vested in supreme court, court
of appeals, district courts, probate
courts and justices of the peace. Su-
preme court is composed of chief JUS
tice and two associate justices. Appel
late court is divided into two depart
ments, northern and southern; each
department being composed of a pre-
siding judge and two associate judges.
The state is divided into 35 judicial dis
tricts, each district comprising one or
more counties, and a separate Judge
presiding over the district court of
each district. In each county there
exists probate court, which is In ses-
sion for the transaction of business at
all times. Justice courts in the various
counties are in session at all times for
the transaction of business. Justices
of the peace have Jurisdiction in civil
actions for the recovery of money
where the amount does not exceed
$500; in replevin action where the
value does not exceed 500. EXECU-
TON AND STAYS.-Execution issues
at once. Justices judgment may be
stayed for 120 days, on security being
given. JUDGMENTS WITHOUT DE-
FENSE.-By default at any time after
answer is due; other cases tenable first
term of court, commencing ten days
after issue is made up.
CORN CROP in 1900 was 1863, SIC, $50
bushels.
ENSIONS.-Extreme width, east
and west, 400 miles; extreme length,
north and south, 200 miles.
EXEMPTIONS of 1e0
acres of farming land, or one acre in
an incorporated city, occupied as res
;dence by the family of the owner, to-
gether with all the improvements
thereon. Every resident, the head of
the family, shall have exempt house
hold goods and wearing apparel to the
value of $500; live stock and imple-
| ments to the value of $500; provisions
and fuel necessary for family for one
year; tools, implements of mechanics
and others and stock in trade, NOT to
exceed $500; library and furniture Of
any professional man. Persons not
| head of family shall have exempt their
wearing apparel, ETC., and implements
of trade, and stock to the value of $400
The earnings of a debtor, for personal
service within three months next pre-
| ce6ing the issue of an execution, if it
appear they are necessary, in whole
or in part, for the support of his fam
| lily. No personal property Is exempt
| from attachment or execution for the
| wages of any clerk, mechanic or la
borer or servant.
EXPERIMENT STATION-Located
at Manhattan. Lines of work-Chem-
istry, horticulture, field and feeding ex-
periments, diseases of plants and ami
| mails, entomology, irrigation.
GAME LAWS.-Song and insectivor-
Gus birds protected, and game birds
| can be killed during the months of Oc-
tober and November. Game birds can
not be taken between March Is and
May 1.
GEOLOGY of Kansas indicates a
slow uplifting from under the sea, leav-
ing the strata nearly horizontal. The
rocks abound in fossils-the mastodon,
the elephant, giant horses, the rhino-
ceroses. camels, sharks, pterodactyls,
crocodiles, redwood trees, palms and
velopment, was, no doubt, tropical ages
ago.
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES been: Terri
torial-Andrew H. Reeder, 1886;
Wilson Shannon, 1856; John w.
Geary, 1861; Robert J. Walker, 1857
So; James w. Denver, 1858; Samuel
Medary, 1850; George M. Beebe,
1S60-61. State-Charles Robinson, 1861 !;
Thomas Carney, 1S61-64; s. ]. Craw-
ford, 1S64-69; James M. Harvey, 1869
10; Thomas A. Osborne, 1851;
George T. Anthony. 1S77-79; John P.
St John, 1888; George w. Click,
1885; John A. Martin. 1SS5-S9; Ly-
man A. Humphrey, 1SS9-93; L. D. Lew
cling, 1S93-95; Edmund N Morrill,
1861; John w. Leedy, 1S97-99; w
E. Stanley, 1S99-1903.
HISTORICAL.-As early as 1541
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, COM
handing Spanish expedition, marched
across what is now Kansas. He came
from Mexico and was looking for gold
He says he traversed mighty plains
and sandy heaths, smooth and weari-
some, bare of wood. All the way the
plains are as full OF crooked-back oxeI
as the Mountain Serena in Spain Is OF
sheep" This was the first mention
made by a European of the American
buffalo French fur traders from Louis
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