The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Win the commissioner or the Ceneral
Land Office, an extensive additional brief
| in the matter of the restoration to the pub
| lie domain of the lands charged as having
been wrongfully withdrawn in Kansas for
the benefit of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe road. This additional brief was
interposed by consent of Commissioner
Mcfarland, and became necessary in
view of the re-examination into the
grant by the authorities of the General
Land Office.
AS ONE of the results of the late railroad
conference at Topeka, the Railroad Com
missioners recently received telegram
from l.. A. Emerson, General Freight Agent
for the. Missouri Pacific Railroads at Atchi-
son, that General Manager Hoxie had ac-
cepted the schedule of freight rates for the
Central Branch line, agreed upon in their
conference. This the Board puts down as
the first victory because the rates to be
adopted now were dictated from the terms
set forth in their celebrated Beloit decision.
By it reduction of ten per cent. is made
on first class goods between local points
while as to the distance tariff the reduction
is considerably greater.
Mrs. L. H. IRWIN, guest of the Allan
tic House, at Atchison, recently packed her
valuables, including diamond earrings,
gold chains and rings in a small valise,
the value being $3.50, and went to supper.
When she returned she discovered thatit
had been rified. Officers at once began
search, and found that the window of her
room leading to Il shed had been opened by
piece of fresh cut kindling wood. This
led to the arrest of George Harris, the chore
boy, who had been seen with wood CORE.
spending to this piece. He implicated
William Linn, the hotel runner, who was
also arrested. Linn had in his possession
loaded dice and counterfeit money in de.
nominations of fifty and one hundred dollar
bills. In his room were found slung- g-shot,
glass cutter and other tools for burglary
and possibly murder. 1t was thought they
were the parties who recently fired the
hotel. They were locked up.
THE Kansas Academy of Science met in its
sixteenth annual session at Topeka the 2lst.
The President, DR.. A. H. Thompson, deliv.
cred his annual address upon 'The Origin
and History of the Academy" The ses.
sion continued three days. The dues were
changed from one dollar to two dollars per
annum, and new clause was incorporated
in the constitution providing that it shall
require two-thirds vote to admit new
members. This step was taken, it was
said, "to prevent disreputable characters,
quack doctors, and men who desire to use
the influence of the Academy for their own
personal advantage from becoming mem
bers of the Society,"" The museum, now
so small and insignificant, is to be enlarged,
extended, overhauled and re-arranged and
placed in shape. Proceedings of the
Academy's meetings are to be published
oftener than once in every two years, and
when member of the Society writes up
some discovery he has made the document
must be gotten into print without delay.
The following officers were elected: Presi.
dent, r. J. Brown, Leavenworth; Vice
Presidents, F. II. Snow and Joseph Savage,
Lawrence; Secretary, A. E. Popendo, Man
haitian; Treasurer, A. H. Thompson, To-
peka: Curators, D. H. st. Johns, Topeka;
j. T. LovewelI, Topeka: j. H. Caruth
Lawrence.
A BOX of stockings and mittens recently
reached the Wichita post-ofTice, "for
mamma and papa and the babies," without
were for, or who sent them. The post.
master, who is also an editor, wrote:
"Some kind-hearted grandmother, nc
doubt, put in the summer in this labor of
love, for they are all knit with great taste
and care, and it worries us that they should
have failed to reach the loved ones. To
consign them to the dead letter Office,
where tons of such love tokens are ever
being poured, seems too bad"
THE prisoners confined in Jail at EldOrado
attacked Deputy Sheriff Schran the other
evening when he went into the jail to give
them their supper. They secured his re.
volver and three escaped, two, however,
were captured before they got out of town
and the other, horse thief, was subsequent.
ly captured at Douglass.
WILLIAM COLGATE, a son of the great |
millionaire soap manufacturer of New
York, was sent to the penitentiary from
Cowley County last spring for a term OF
three years on the charge of arson. The |
case has been appealed to the Supreme
Court, and the papers were filed the other |
day, there being eleven hundred pages OF /
testimony.
MISS JENNIE SLAvENs, formerly teach. |
er in the Blind Institute, but latterly a /
teacher in the public schools of Wyandotte, /
while returning from church recently, was {
thrown from her buggy and received in.
juries which resulted in her death few
days afterward.
A TRAIN of freight cars on the Missouri !
Pacific road, ran into herd of cattle just
south of the State line, in the Indian Terri.
tory, few days since, ditching the engine
and ten cars. The engines were a total
wreck.
WHEN the saloon-keepers' cases were
called in the District Court of Shawnee
County, at Topeka, the other day, it was
discovered that the various defendants had
gone on an extended piscatorial excursion,
and their bonds were forfeited. Warrants
were issued for their arrest, and it wcf
said when they returned they would be
placed under heavy bonds for appearance
1T the January term.
CHARLES LEOPARD, a German, was found
1T Topeka, the other morning, lying in an
alley insensible and severely pounded
about the head and face. He had evident
y been slugged and robbed.
Hon. JAMES MARTIN, Chairman of the
State Board of Charitable Institutions, had
tumor removed from his left leg recently,