The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-12-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

at 500; four head of farm horses, valued
st 500; 1000 bushels of corn, worth S40O, at
the lowest price; Durham bull, valued at
; 500; $50 bushels of oats; one Surrey road
wagon, $500; one single seat buggy, $50;
mower and reaper, SO; thirty-five tons OF
! hay, 500; together with all the tools, har-
ness, lumber, etc., valued at $500; eight fat
hogs, worth S15O, besides some minor losses.
He only had an insurance of $500.
! SEVERAL Kansans, it is said, have an eye
upon the Office of Surveyor General OF
! Arizona, recently made vacant by the
death of the late incumbent.
/ A CoLoRED man named Smith, who was
+ working on the Santa Fe's construction
/ train at Tecumseh, was recently fatally in
/ jured by a train passing over him. He had
wife and six children.
! ALL along the line of the Santa Fe Rail-
way, from Emporia to the west line of the
! State, active steps have been taken by the
! settlers to secure their rights under the
! recent decisions of Land Commissioner
/ Mcfarland, restoring over one million acres
/ of land to the public domain. 1t was re-
! ported that at the Larned Land Office, in
/ one week, nearly sixteen thousand acres of
/ OhCSO "CiO hAOo UPOAh III
/ one locality, the greater portion of which
! has been by parties for actual settlement.
! THE Supreme Court decided recently that
city in Kansas can levy an occupation
| tax for the purpose of raising necessary
revenue funds with which to pay running
! expenses. The decision was rendered by
! Judge Brewer on a case entitled City of
Newton ct al. VS.. T. B. Atchison ct al,
/ error from Harvey County, in which the
! judgment of the lower court was reversed.
JUDGE MARTIN, of the District Court at
Atchison, rendered decision recently on
what is known as the viaduct Casa suit
brought by the City of Atchison against
the Missouri Pacific and Santa Fe Railroad
Companies, to compel them to erect and
maintain viaduct across their tracks on
Sixth street, that city. The case had been
watched with great interest throughout as
determining the rights of cities to order
the construction of such viaducts. The
Judge decided that while the Legislature
has power to confer upon cities this right
to pass ordinances respecting such bridges,
it had not done so, and hence the motion
for mandamus to compel the companies
to construct the viaduct was denied.
ONE night recently after Santa Fe train
had gotten ten miles out of Newton, it was
discovered that Jerry Cone, brakeman.
was missing. The conductor telegraphed
to Newton, where search was at once insti-
tuted for the missing man. He was found
beside the track terribly mangled. He said
that as the train pulled out he attempted to
board the sleeper, but missed his footing
and fell, one car passing over him. One
leg was so badly injured that amputation
below the knee was necessary. His right
arm was broken in several places and his
skull fractured. 1t was thought he would
die.
MRS. ISAAC HAWKINS, living in the north
part of Wichita, was recently fatally
burned by her clothes taking fire. She was
burning trash in her garden at the time,
and her clothes took fire from the burning
pile. After great suffering she died. Mrs.
Hawkins was one of the early settlers of
Sedgwick County.
w. c. JONES, Warden of the Penitentiary,
made his settlement with the State recent
lY for the month of November, turning into
the Treasury as the amount of earnings for
The month, $11 ,S33.02, and drawing out for
expenses the sum of $4,000, leaving bal
ance to the credit of theState of s., ,S33.02.
IN reply to letter from the Adjutant
General of Indiana, General Moonlight re-
piled, favoring the plan for meeting of
the Adjutants General of all the States
and Territories not later than the 10th of
January, for the purpose of a more thor
ough organization of the militia of the
country.
NEARLY one hundred claims, embracing
1920 acres of land, were taken at the
Larned land Office on the Both, in what is
known as the Indemnity Strip"
ToFEKA celebrated its twenty-ninth ami
versary recently with social and banquet,
at which the pioneer settlers told their ex-
perience and talked over old times.
THE livery stable of William A. Travis,
in Topeka, known as the "Hotel de Hoss,"
was burned the other evening, together
with twelve horses, six buggies, a family
carriage, two phaetons and a valuable cow,
besides hay, grain, harness and other
property.
A CoLoRED laborer named Smith, was
recently badly mangled by being run over
by train of cars on the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe road, west of Lawrence.
FRANK PALMER, an engineer on the Pa.
cific, between Parsons and Sedalia, was
seriously cut at the Belmont House in Par
sons by drunken negro named Navasola,
the other night. The would-be murderer
fed.
J. S. JEwETT, of Sedgwick County, re.
Gently took to Wichita twelve sweet pota.
toes that weighed just one bushel, or fifty.
six pounds.
MAYOR WILSON and City Marshal Coch.
ran, of Topeka, have resigned.
THE trial of S. D. Witt, at Sedan, ended
in verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree. He was charged with the murder
of C. Barnhart last September. He was
sentenced to death but took an appeal to /
the Supreme Court.
THE barn of Mr.. Groutman, of Shawnee !
County, was burned recently, with five /
horses and seven hundred bushels of oats !
BURGLARS recently attempted to enter
the store of Goldsmith Bros, in Topeka /
when a young man who sleeps in the store 7
and believes in the "shot gun policy" in :
such cases, fired at the intruders, one OF
whom carried away a ball in his leg-at
least that was the young mans story.
THE wheat is said to look well.
A KANSAS CITY Times correspondent,
who has passed through large portions of |
Harvey, Sedgwick, Marion and Mcpherson ,
Counties, says: This year Mcpherson leads !
in wheat with 100000 bushels. while Sedg- ,
wick County leads in corn with a crop of
100000 bushels. There were innumerable
acres of fall wheat sown in the four coun-
ties, exceeding any previous year. Wheat
generally is looking well.
THE City Council of Topeka recently in.