The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


created in Leavenworth by the discovery
of the body of John Heigle, grocer, in a
pool of blood in the rear part of his store,
his head terribly beaten and his throat cut
from ear to ear. Several arrests were
made at the time, but the crime could be
fastened on no one, and the unraveling of
the mystery was almost given up. Recent
ty, however, a prisoner confined in the
county Jail confessed to another prisoner,
both colored, that he committed the MUIR
der and robbed the store of eighty-five dol
lars. The murderer's name is Davis.
Davis is under sentence of one year for
robbery, and Hunt, who told on him, is
under a ten years. sentence.
WILLIAM RUFFIAN, a colored porter, was
shot, one night recently, in Kansas City,
Kansas, gambling house, by George Will
son, gambler. Wilson and companion,
when intoxicated entered the house after
1t had been closed, and the porter turned
up the gas to see who the parties were.
They turned the gas off, and the porter
again lighted it, when some words passed,
and Wilson drew his revolver and fired.
The first shot flew wide of the mark; the
second took effect in Ruffian's left breast,
who closed with his assailant. 1t was
desperate fight in close quarters, and Ruff.
fan, though badly wounded, succeeded in
wrestling the revolver from Wilson's grasp,
whose companion fed, leaving the two to
fight it out. The porter held Wilson until
an officer arrived. Ruffian died the next
day, and Wilson was locked up in the Wy
andotte Jail.
A SERIOUS shooting affair took place at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in Topeka, the
other morning. John Goodwin, porter,
went through the dining-room with a
bucket of coal and dropped some on the
floor. Milby Parnell, head cook, ordered
him to pick it up and not be very long
about performing the act or there would be
trouble in that neighborhood. Goodwin re-
torted that he would obey Parnell when he
got ready and not minute sooner. Then
they came together in fist fight. Goodwin
knocked PArnell down, when the head
waiter appeared on the scene and separated
them. Goodwin went out into the Office,
supposing that the row was ended, but
Parnell followed with his reyelver and
shot Goodwin, inficting probably a fatal
wound. Both parties were colored. Par.
nell was jailed.
THE officers of the United States Land
Office at Topeka have issued notice that,
Gin accordance with instructions from the
Commissioner of the General Land Office,
all vacant, unappropriated lands in the
limits between the ten and twenty miles Of
the withdrawal fof the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railroad Company, subject to
disposal at the land office at Topeka, will
be restored to the mass of public lands
subject to presumption, homestead and
timber culture entry, on and after the oath !
day of November, 1888" 1t is said the
Land Offices at Wichita and Larned will |
issue similar notices. The lands embraced |.
in this restoration will not be subject to |
private entry.
A SPECIAL to the st. Louis Globe Dem o. |
crdt stated that month or more ago the |
Governor of Missouri received information |
that six persons residing near and having |
their headquarters in the vicinity of WITCH !
ita, Kas., had formed themselves into ,
band for the purpose of making bank. |
robbing and train-wrecking raid into Mis-
sonri. The bank at California was reported |
to be the victim, the robbers had in view.
1t was also part of their plan, if it should
prove necessary to the success of their mis-
sion, to engage in train-wrecking. The
Governor having become informed of their
plans and purposes, sent a detective to
Kansas to watch their movements and !
learn what he could regarding the proposed |
The detective, after reaching
Kansas, managed to become a member Of
the gang, and by securing the confidence OF .
the leader, to learn the whole plot. He re. !
ported what he had learned to Governor
Crittenden and the bank was notified. Fol .
some reason the would-be robbers became |
suspicious and the plan was abandoned.
ARMoURDALE was the scene of bloody |
affair on the 21st, in which Thomas !
McMahon was shot and probably mortally .
wounsed. McMahon's son was at beer ,
garden with disreputable company and /
the father went there to get him away. ,
Three shots soon followed, and Mcmahon
fell. 1t was thought that young Mcmahon
shot at young man named johnson, OF
whom he was jealous, and one of the shots !
took effect upon his father.
SUNDAY, the 21st, some four or five miles .
from junction City, Robert Swartz, aged |
fourteen, accidentally shot and killed ELS |
worth Durbin, aged seventeen. A party OF
four or five from town camped out over !
night, and in the morning started for
days hunt, with the above result.
THE identity of the woman who was
found murdered on Sheridan's drive on the
Fort Leavenworth Reservation, about three |
weeks ago, has been established. Her .
name was Sarah Osburn, and she was last |
seen in company with a man known as
'Dutch Lewis" 1t is said she was un. /
doubtedly murdered, but by whom is still
mystery.
A COMPLAINT was filed with the Board OF !
Railroad Commissioners the other day |
against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Company by the Mayor and City Council
of Newton, in which the railroad is charged
with extorting excessive and unreasonable
rates for transporting freight to and from
Newton over its lines of road. The griev.
ances and complaint are similar to those in
the case of Beloit against the Union Pacific
and Missouri Pacific Companies.
A YOUNG man by the name of Hutching.
ton was arrested at Topeka recently on the
charge of having committed forgery at
Neosho Falls against DR.. j. G. Morgan for
sixty-two dollars, by signing Morgan's name