The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

J. E ELLIS, distributing officer Of the
United States Fish Commission, arrived IN
| Topeka the other day with 1900 German
carp for distribution in Kansas, Nebraska
Colorado. Wyoming and New Mexico. The
officer travels in a car especially constructed
for the purpose. The fish are propagated
in ponds at Washington and are taken from
the pond at the age of about one month,
placed IN lots of twenty in pot holding
about gallon and ventilated for that pur.
pose. These pots, about 1000 in number,
are placed in sort of refrigerator extend
ing almost the whole length of the lower
part of the car. This refrigerator is Sc
ventilated and fixed that with a change OF
water every twenty-four hours the fish are
easily transported thousands of miles, no
feeding being necessary. Kansas seems To
take much interest in the matter. Eight
thousand carp were left at Topeka to be
distributed by express to the various appli'
cantS over the State.
IT was reported some time since that an
alarming disease. which mystified all the
physicians who had seen it, had broken out
among the cOnvicts confined in one of the
prison wards at the State Penitentiary.
| The malady was said to resemble ship
fever, and had the appearance of being a
very low and malignant form of typhoid in
its last stages. About sixty of the cOnvictS
| had had the fever and ten died of it in two
| weeks. The prison physician, DIR. Nicely,
| did all in his power to prevent the spread
| ing of the disease and the number of deaths
| was steadily decreasing. The fever only
affected the cOnvictS confined in the ward
mentioned which was rigidly quarantined
| from the rest of the prison. The disease is
all the more inexplicable from the fact that
| the cOnvicts have the best of fare, and
everything inside the walls is kept Iolt, the
penitentiary being well known to be the
cleanest in all the surrounding States. La
| ter reports, however, said the fatality was
greatly exaggerated and that there was nc
cause for great ala:ih.
| THE other morning a fire broke out at
| Columbus and destroyed the buildings oc-
cupied by 4. S. Oliphant. T. Wideman and
j. A. Walbert. Total Ioss about $1,000;
insurance, $4,000.
BURGLARS recently entered the music
store of William Mccoy, of Topeka, opened
the safe and stole 1927. The same night
the store of Cope & Sons was entered and
all attempt made to open the safe, but the
thieves were frightened away.
THE Reform School at North Topeka has
101 inmates, and has applications from
one hundred more, but owing to lack of
room cannot accommodate them. The
trustees will apply for an appropriation to
build an addition.
LATER reports place the amount embez-
zled by J. G. Pusey, clerk in the peniten-
tiary. at nearly $4,000. Pusey was seen al
Kansas City on Thanksgiving Day and
recognized, but soon disappeared. His
bondsmen are reported good for any amount
he may have taken.
NEAR Cimarron, the ether day, young
man pulled his gun mGzZie foremost out of a
wagon to shoot rabbit, when the gun was
discharged and lie was instantly killed.
The family had recently moved to home
stead.
AT conference held in Topeka Novem-
Der 10, of prominent members of the PrOhi-
bition party in Topeka and other parts OF
Kansas, including Ex-Governor st. John, a
resolution was adopted requesting the Pro
hibition State Central Committee of Kansas
to call State Convention as early as prac-
ticable, for the purpose of having more eX-
tended consultation in regard to plans "fOr
future labor in the interest of temperance
and prohibition, and to perfect the Or
ganiZation of the party throughout the
length and breadth of the State"
In accordance with this resolution the
State Central Committee issued cau for
State convention to be held in the Senate
chamber at Topeka. on Tuesday, the 10th
dly of December, 1884, at four O'clock p. m.
\ delegate from each unorgani1ed county,
three from each Prohibition club organized
on the Pittsburg and Lawrence platforms,
and appointed delegates from other counties
numbering 376. are expected to attend. The
call for the convention was issued in circu-
lar form by II. j. Canniff. Chairman, and
G. F. Kimball, Secretary of the Prohibition
State Central Committee.
Two of the Commissioners Of Cherokee
County, W. E. Swanson and John Russell
were recently taken to Topeka by Deputy
United States Marshal and arraigned before
Judge Brewer for contempt of court for re-
fusin@ to levy a tax to pay interest on
bonds, voted jby Salamanca Township, |
Cherokee County, in 1872, for $4,000 to |
aid in the construction of what was then |
known as the Southern State Line & OS |
wegO Railroad. Subsequently that company |
Northwestern Road. Under the Jaw as |
it then stood it was the duty of the |
township officers to have issued said bonds |
and placed them with the State Treasurer |
there to remain until the conditions upon !
which the bonds were voted should be full |
filled by the company. The bonds were so |
issued, but il is alleged the trustee of the |
township, cOnSpiring with the President of |
the NJ c. & n. w. Road gave an order on |
the Treasurer to turn them over to the rail- |
road company, and they were negotiated. |
The holder of the bonds claims to be all in |
nOcent purchaser. while the county officers |
claim that they were fraudulently issued, |
and the conditions of the contract had not |
been complied with.
On the night before Thanksgiving burg.
lars entered Blanchard'S grocery store, at
Wyandotte, and carried off all his dressed
turkeys and chickens, and then took all the |
money left in the till.
AN important case was argued i'm the
United States Circuit Court at Topeka the
Dther day on proceedings by mandamus to
compel the Southern Kansas Railway Com
pany to build railroad from Leavenworth
10 Lawrence. Messrs. Ed. Stillings and
Thomas P. Fenlon appeared for the plain
.iff, and Mr.. Hagaman, of the Atchison,
Topeka e Santa Fe, for the railroad COM
Dany. The point was, that the old Leaven-
worth, Lawrence d Galveston Railroad, by
heir charter and by the acceptance of land
grants from the United States and Kansas
we're obligated to build its road from Leav.
,nworth, which it has not done, and the
Southern Kansas Railway Company, being
IS successor, should now build it. The
ourt took the matter under advisement.
THANKSGIVING generally observed.
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