The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| lONH ny G6UTSt Iuckett, anu lEo p6OpI6
were searching the country for him. While
this was being done the town was again
| startled by tie announcement that John
| Puckett. younger brother of George, had
| shot and killed William Allen. The story
is that about eight o'clock on the evening OF
| the 7th John Pickett started up town to ge!
some groceries, but having forgotten a Goa
oil can returned home to get it when he
| found his wife in the arms of Allen. As
he entered the house the woman screamed
! for assistance and her husband fired al
Allen, the ball entering his head just below
the right temple. Allen was killed and
Pickett gave himself up claiming justifca-
tiOn. 1t was stated, however, that later de
velopements gave the affair an entirely diff
ferent color. 1t has transpired that Allen
would have been an important witness
against George Pickett, and it is generally
believed that the murder of Allen was
planned by the younger Pickett and his
wife, with view to make 1t appear justif.
able,
Mr. BACON, Commissioner for Kansas al
the New Orleans Exposition, has made ap-
plicatiOn to the Executive Council for the
$1,000 which was appropriated by the Leg
lSlature to defray the expenses OF the EX.
position. The matter was referred to a
special committee, composedl of the Gov
ernOr, Secretary of State and Attorney Gen
eral.
CONRAD LUDWIG, aged fOrty-seven, was
the victim of terrible accident al Leaven-
worth the other day. He and several other
men were engaged in scalding and dressing
hogs, when Ludwig took a hog which was
not quite dead. and in lifting it to dip it in
the Scalding trough the hog kicked one of
his feet from under him and he lost his
balance, falling headlOng into the scalding
water, the hog falling on top of him and
pinning him down. When extricated he
was found to be fearfulIy scalded. The
body from the feet up, excepting the head,
face and part of the chest and arms, was
totally devoid of skin, and presented with
cred appearance. Medical aid was sum-
mOned and everything done to relieve the
sufferer, but it was thought he could not re-
cover.
MAYOR BURNEs and the several members
of the City Council of Atchson were re-
Gently arrested by Deputy United States
Marshal, upon an order from Judge Brewer,
for failure to obey a mandamus issued last
July requiring them to levy taxes for the
payment of bond and defaulting interest
on judgment obtained by George S. c.
Dow, of Bangor, Me. They were taken to
Topeka, where the usual form of censure
and commitment was gone through with.
They are cOnstructively in Jail, but really i'll
the custody of their families and c0nstitu-
entS
LUDWIG, who was 50 badly scalded
while cleaning hogs at Leavenworth, died a
day or two after the accident. 1t is said
that the accident prevented the victim from
being arrested for highway robbery, as he
had been identified as the man who had at
tempted to rob citizen the night before
and a warrant was to be sworn out for his
arrest 1t was further stated that lie was
an eX-cOnvict, having served term in the
Penitentiary for swindling party some
seven years ago with bogus money.
JUDGE BREWER recently rendered very
important decision in the United States
Court at Topeka. The question involved
the cOnstitutiOnality of the law of the State
allowing suits to be commenced and judg
mentS rendered quieting the title to lands
in this State against nOn-reSidentS Oh SER
vice by publication only. The result of
this decision is that such judgments are
void and the law authorizing them was I'M
constitutional. Such has been the decision
in the case of Hart VS.. SansOm, where the
facts were very similar to those in the case
submitted to Judge Brewer, and he simply
declared the law as announced in that de-
cison. The case decided was that of
Mcclure VS.. Stang. Mcclure commenced
suit in the District Court of Shawnee
County in 1883, to quiet the title Of 16O
acres of land in that county. The de-
fendant, Stang, is a resident of Canada, and
service by publication was made against
him in pursuance of the statute, and iudg-
ment by default rendered against him, and
after the Judgment had been rendered,
quieting the title in Mcclure, Mcclure
decided the land to another party. The
case was re-Opened and the third party set
up the claim Of a bona fide purchaser for
valuable consideration and claimed prOtec-
ton under the Judgment and statutes. Upon
this question Judge Brewer decided adj
verSely, thus giving it as the settled law of
the Federal courts that the Judgment of 4
State cOnrt against a nonresident, based
upon service by publication only, Guieting
the title to lands is void.
TIE thirteenth annual meeting of the
Kansas State Grange convened at Fort
Scott on the Sth. Resolutions were adopted
State Grange that much of what is now at
tempted to be taught in our common schools
should be omitted from its course of study,
and in place of the same, instruction should
be given in subjects which have direct re-
lation to agriculture and other industries,
and that one of the chief obstacles in the
way of such changes is found to be in the
lack of proper encouragement and direction
to teachers on the part of school officers
and the parents of school children, and in
the want of teachers competent to give il
Structions in such subjects according to Il
rational system of object lessons; therefore,
our State Normal School should have for its
special object the qualification of teachers
to make the needed reform; that
the State Agricultural College and
the State University should have attached
TO them ncrmal departments for like OBJ
ject and that the instruction given in our
County Normal Institutes should have
special reference to the qualification of
teachers to impart such instruction; that it
is the duty of every member of the Patrons
of HuSbandry to embrace every opportunity
and 10 seek every opportunity TO advise and
give proper direction as TO the character of
education conducted in our public schools;
that.the Master of this State Grange, tn,
State Lecturer and the Chairman of til ,
Committee of this Grange ar.
hereby instructed to confer with the Regent}
and Faculties named, with the State Super
intendent of Public Instruction and tlr.
State Board of Agriculture and committeeS
Of the Legislature, with the view to effect
ing these educational improvements.
CHILDREN, look out for Santa Claus
In the suit at Topeka of George c. Crow.
ther against the proprietors of the Grand
Opera House, for $4,000 damages, on ac.
count OF having been summarily ejected
from the management thereof some tvn
years ago, the jury awarded him verdic:
the other day for $500.