The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-10-04
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miscellaneous.

A MOTION for continuance in the quo
warranto case of the State VS.. the Kansas
Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad Com
panies was argued before Judges Horton
and Valentine, of the Supreme Court, at
Topeka, on the 18th. Attorney General
Johnson and Hon. Geo. S. Green appeared
for the State, while the companies were
represented by Hon. A. L. Williams. The
application was granted on these terms
That the defendants will not file demur-
rer, but answer to the merits of the informa-
ton. This was agreedto, but Mr.. Williams
gave notice that he would file bond and
petition for removal of the case to the Uni
ted States Supreme Court, and that ques-
ton will be argued at the November term
of the Supreme Court at Topeka.
THE other morning the colored man who
sweeps out the First National Bank and
other offices in Topeka, while going to his
work, found a mans hat and coat lying at
the junction of Jackson and Second streets,
and indications thereabouts showed that
during the night some foul crime had been
committed. The man gathered up the
articles and took them to police headquar-
ters. Both hat and coat were wet and
covered with mud. In the pockets of the
coat were found three letters addressed to
Col. j. r. Hallowell, in relation to man
named John Shannon, of Clay Center, who
had rece ntly sold his property and was
about to return to Ireland. Shannon was
seen in Topeka, the evening before the find
ing of the articles, and as he had money
with him it was feared he had been muir
dered.
ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHNSON recently
gave an opinion that SheriffS who hold pro-
cess in their hands for the arrest of Grim.
inals, and who make such arrest in the line
of their sworn duty without extra effort
and inside of their jurisdiction, are under
the law, prohibited from accepting any
rewards that may be offered by the Gov
ernor. In making arrests of that kind
Sheriff is only performing his duty, and
the county pays him for it. This law also
includes all other officers. Any officer,
with process in his hands for the arrest of
a man, for whom q reward had been
offered, would have to go outside of the
State to get his man before he would be
entitled to the reward. The question came
up on the application of the Sheriff of Ellis
ernor for the arrest of fugitive from that
county.
MRS. W. COLGATE, of New York, wife of
the New York banker, was in Leavenworth
several days recently, accompanied by Mrs.
j. T. Mcmillan, of New York. Mrs. Colgate's
errand was to visit her son, who is serving
a term in the Kansas State Penitentiary,
from Sumner County. Young Colgate
was very wild youth, and after some diff
ficulty in regard to his frolics, with his
father, who wanted him to sober down, he
left home and came West. He was en-
ployed as book-keeper in mill near Well.
ington. He became involved there, and
was charged with embezzling funds belong
ing to the mill owners. The mill building
was burned down, however, and with it ths
books which it was thought would SHOW
discrepancies. An effort is being made to
have him pardoned, and Mrs. Colgate's
visit was in this connection, to see if he
would do better if released.
= THE other afternoon, while working the
old stone quarry at the foot of Delaware
street, in Leavenworth, Peter Lavelle was
killed outright and a colored man named
Jim Fletcher was badly hurt by the bank
above them caving in. Lavelle left a wife
and seven children.
OLATHE is to have water-works.
Hon. JOHN A. HALDERMAN, United States
Minister at Bangkok, Siam, has subscribed
for and ordered the Siam Times sent to the
State Historical Society for a year, ''in the
hope," he says to Major Adams, ''you anG
other members of our guild, may profit by
the perusal thereof"
CONGRESSMAN ANDERSON has secured al
lowance of pensions for C. W. Tozier, o.
Junction City, and Joseph Smith, of James
town.
New YORK parties who hold $4,000 of
Kansas seven-per-cent. bonds recently re-
fused them to the Sinking Fund Commits !
sioners at S1.25.
W. B. STRONG, President of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company, i.
Is reported, has resigned.