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put in the fourth. Kansas Sugar. According to the report of George F. Kellogg, state sugar inspector, the amount of the different grades of sugar manufactured in Kansas the past year was, sorghum, 571,740 pounds; beet, 48,260 pounds, or a total of 620,000 pounds. Deducting from this 20,107 pounds, not inspected, leaves 509,893 pounds for which bounty is payable. Fire at Wichita. Fire at Wichita the other morning destroyed two business buildings belonging to W. B. Smith and all their contents. John Twiney's grocery oceupied one store and the Fulton meat market the other. The loss was about with $2,000 insurance. The explosion of a gasoline stove started the fire. The Large Counties. The counties in Kansas that have over 30,000 population are: Wyandotte, 54,407; Shawnee, 49,172: Sedgwick, 43,626; Leavenworth, 38,485; Cowley, 34,478; Crawford, 30,286; Sumner, 30,217. Wyandotte county, although containing the smallest territory of any county in the state, has the largest population. Seed Grain. The house reconsidered its action rejecting the report of the conference committee upon the seed grain appropriation bill and passed the bill as amended by the senate. It appropriates $60,000 to be loaned to counties containing needy settlers to be used in purchasing seed grain. Children Burned. Robert and Lena Going, children of Henry Going, were burned to death the other day in a fire which destroyed the family residence at Silver Lake. The mother had gone to a neighbor's, and while absent the house caught fire. The children were aged one and three years. Soldlers' Home. There are at present 2,633 members on the role of the soldiers' home at Leavenworth. This is the highest number ever reached. There are at present 2,174 members; absent with leave, 450, and 9 absent without leave; 347 men are employed on extra duty and 192 are on the sick list. Found Dead. THE other morning the body of a sheep herder named Clenmire was found on the prairie west of Ellis. Coyotes had attacked the body and nearly devoured it. Clenmire had probably been lost in one of the recent blizzards and frozen to death. Fire at Leavenworth. There were five fires at Leavenworth the other evening, the most destructive being the brewery of Brandon & Kriemeyer and the stables of the Leavenworth Coal Co. The brewery was totally destroyed, together with a number of connecting sheds. Fire at Garnett. A recent fire at Garnett destroyed the Watson stables, including twenty-five horses and ten buggies and carriages. The loss was estimated at $20,000, with but little insurance. Minor State Notes. The house board of managers appointed to prosecute Judge Theodosius Botkin on the 2d presented articles of impeachment, found by the house, to the senate. The senate by resolution set Monday, March 9, as a day for trial, when it will organize as a high court of impeachment. It will meet April 20 and the trial will begin and continue until a decision is reached. The basement of the St. Joseph Catholic church at Leavenworth was o entered by thieves the other night and a gold chalice and other altar ornaments stolen. M. T. Frame, a prominent attorney, was seriously injured in a runaway accident at Atchison the other day. The governor has approved the resolution submitting to the people the proposition to call a constitutional convention. The bill appropriating $3,500 to enable Prof. Snow to continue his chinch bug experiments was signed by the governor on the 5th. The social science club of Kansas and western Missouri will hold its semiannual convention in Kansas City about the first week in May. The woman suffragists of Fort Scott have nominated a full ticket for city officers. The nominees for the school board are all women. The house, on the 2d, passed the bill abolishing the state board of pardons. The contract has at last been closed for a $20,000 pontoon bridge at Atchison. Susan Gibson, of Arkansas City, has received a patent for a dumpling steamer. The governor has signed the stock yards bill, which provides for state inspectors at Kansas City and Wichita. The residence of Mrs. Faris, four miles west of Ottawa, was destroyed by fire the other day. Mrs. Faris' daughter, an invalid, was barely rescued and carried from the burning building. The Second national bank of McPherson has suspended and the president, Augustus Hegglund, is at his home suffering from a pistol shot ,wound, which was mysteriously inflicted, but supposed to have been the result of an attempt at suicide. Issac Dowell and James Wharton, Morris county farmers, quarreled recently over renting farm when Dowell shot and killed Wharton. Wharton leaves a wife and large family of children. The small-pox is reported to be prevailing to an alarming extent in Chautanges county.
