The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-10
TOPEKA DISTICT.
miscellaneous.

THE Kansas City & Southwestern Rail.
road Company, of Kansas City, Kansas,
has filed a charter with the Secretary of
State. In this charter it is proposed to
construct a line of railroad and telegraph
from Kansas City in a southwesterly di-
rection through the counties of WyandOtte,
Johnson, Miami, Franklin, Linn, Coffey,
Anderson, Woodson, Greenwood, Butler,
Cowley and Sumner, to point on the State
line in Sumner County. Its place of bust
ness is to be Kansas City, Kansas, and
Winfield, Cowley County. The amount of
capital stock is placed at five million
dollars.
A NEW post-office has been established at
Brett, Norton County, Kas., with 5. 5.
Howell as postmaster.
THREE young white men of Leavenworth
have been arrested for ravishing colOred
girl.
The Supreme Court overruled the motion
for a new trial in the case of John Foster,
County Attorney of Saline County, recently
found guilty of charges preferred against
him in the matter of neglecting his official
duties in prosecutions under the prohibitory
law, and the verdict of the jury declaring
his office forfeited was sustained and judg-
ment rendered accordingly. Mr.. Foster
has given notice of an appeal from the
Supreme Court of this State to the Supreme
Court of the United States.
GOVERNOR CLICK appointed Samuel T.
Gilbert of Winfield, Cowley County, a
trustee on the Board of State Charities, to
supersede A. t. Sharpe, whose term ex.
pired on the first of this month.
MRS. SUMNER, a lady recently from
Minneapolis, committed suicide at Topeka
last week by taking twenty grains of NOR
phine. Domestic trouble was given as be-
ing the cause. She was divorced from her
husband last fall and since that time her
mind seems to have been affected. That
time she went to her mother at Mime
apolis, but returned on the 18th of March
and was dependent upon her husband for
support. When she arrived there she
tried to kill herself.
The Leavenworth Board of Trade in De-
cember last represented TO the Board OF
Railroad Commissioners that no passenger
train was operated upon the Leavenwortb,
Topeka & Southwestern Railroad, which
road was operated by the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe Company. That the only
facilities and conveniences afforded to the
travelling public over said line was coach
attached to freight train, the movement
of which was exceedingly slow, and that il
consequence great delay and Inconvenience
was occasioned to those who were required
to travel over it. On remonstrances from
the Board, the Santa Fe Company claimed
that the expense of running daily passsn.
ger train over the road mentioned would Ii
=, 800 a month, an expense which the traf'
fic did not justify. The Board at first
thought this plausible reason, but on con.
sulting an efficient railroad engineer founo
that the expense had been greatly exagger
ated, and that it would amount to only
S517.50. The Board, therefore, advised the
company to put daily passenger train Oh
the road.
FRUIT crop reported all right.
THE report of the Agricultural Depart.
ment at Washington, received at the Office
of the Secretary of the State Agricultural
Society gives Kansas the first place as
producing State. In a table giving
the amount of merchantable corn, Kansas
is credited with 1886. 1928 bushels, al
thirty-five cents per bushel, amounting te
So, 641 800. Understandable corn, 1924,
or bushels at twenty-five cents, 81, At, els
This is twice the amount in bushels, of any
State in the Union. Missouri is next with
So 993, 900 bushels of merchantable corn, and
Illinois third with s., 36S, l40 bushels OF
merchantable corn.
THE Senate unanimously confirmed David
T. Brewer as Judge of the Eighth Judicial
Circuit Court
AT meeting in st. Louis on the LIST.
managers of railroads running from South
ern Kansas to points in Missouri, Arkan
sas, Indiana, Kentucky and Texas, made
arrangements to form a pool and mater.
tally advance rates.
CHARLES SPRIcK, a well-known German.
of Leavenworth, has been very un-
fortunate with his family in the past few
years, having lost his wife and entire
family of several children in that time:
the last one a daughter, grown, dying
last week. He has the sympathy Of e large
number of people.
A VERY heavy rain was reported Las
week in Western Kansas