The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-05-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
WICHITA expects to build $40, 600 opera
house shortly

A SUIT was recently filed in the Clerks
Office of the United States Circuit Court al
Topeka, which charges John II. Brown with
being a defaulter in the sum or 50, $50.
Brown was candidate for the Republican
nomination for Auditor, and the SUIT mas
reference to some acts of his while Sheriff
and Tax Collector of Coabama County, Mis-
sissippi in 1874 and 1875.
NOSE CHAMBERS and Robert Davis were
brought out of the Penitentiary and taken
before Judge Hacker at Leavenworth, to
answer to the charge of having murdered
John Heigle year ago last February. The
principal witness in the case was man
named Brown, who was ready to swear tilat
Davis cut Heigle's throat. Both, however,
waived examination and were bound over
without bail. Chambers has seven years
| yet to serve in the Penitentiary. and Davis
nine. Chambers was sentenced for the at
tempted murder of a boy named Tohf, and
Davis for burglary.
REPRESENTATIVE PETERS obtained
pension for Henry NJ. Walton, of Medicine
Lodge, and Senator Plumb secured like
allowance for Christian Schwender of Re
public County.
| A PRIVATE dispatch was received at
Washington from Governor Click saying
| that cases of sickness among cattle which
had been most carefully examined had
turned out to be true foOt-and-mouth dis
ease. He was afraid that some cases had
got out into the herds. There was an at
tempt made at first to keep the matter quiet,
but the information was deemed such as
should go to the public
Mrs. WILLIAM HOPKINS gave birth to
twin daughters at Wyandotte recently. One
child weighed exactly one pound and one
ounce, and the other one pound and fifteen
ounces, the two just balancing the scales at
three pounds. The little waits were pro-
nounced to be unusually well formed,
strong, healthy and handsome, but so small
that mans hand would hide the pair. The
mother was but sixteen years of age, being
married when she was scarcely fifteen.
MARTIN FoY, eleven years old, while out
| after cattle near Sherlock, recently, was
lost in an uninhabited region north of
Garden City, and all the people around were
| in search of the child. He was on horse
| back. Great anxiety was felt for him, as it
was feared he would die from starvation and
cold.
| JAMES HACKETT, workman at the
| Santa Fe shops, Topeka, was killed on the
| 21st by an iron lever which flew up while
! he was working about some machinery and
struck him in the neck. His neck was
broken and he died almost instantly.
| Hackett was single man, forty-two years
of age. ....
A LETTER was received at Topeka from
Adjutant-General Moonlight, who was then
| in Washington, in which he states that
commission will soon visit Kansas to look
after the Price raid claims and examine
| them for payment.
THE Santa Fe runs a fast train from
| Thursday, April "a, leaving Kansas City at
| 1910 a. IN. A new train running through
Newton and Wichita to Cheney will leave
Kansas City fifteen minutes later.
REPORTS from German immigration
agents indicate considerable movement of
the people of Westphalia, particularly from
the town of Olpe. quantity of land has
been purchased in Lyon County, on the
Howard Branch of the Santa Fe, and here
they will locate Eagle Greek on this road
has been changed to Olpe for the benefit OF
this settlement.
In the United States Circuit Court at To
peka A. j. Outlet was convicted of purchaS-
ing liquors for Indians and was sentenced
to sixty days Imprisonment and fifty dol
lars fine.
A SPECIAL department of immigration
has this season been organized by the Atchi-
tofore their work in the line of immigration
has been chiefly confined to their landed in
terests in Kansas but now they have under
taken a special work, covering the whole
length of their line.
A STREET railway company with capt.
tai stock of $4,000 has been organized at
Parsons.
AT the meeting of the stockholders of
the AteAisOn, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
at Topeka on the oath the following Board |
of Directors was elected by vote of 44O,-
AGA shares: d. T. Burr, b. p. Cheney, |
Thomas NickerSOn, A. w. Nickerson, {. j. |
Shame, Alden Speare, George Shattuck, w. |
B. Strong ahd A. z. TOuzalin, of Boston;
c. X. Holiday, of Topeka; S. A. Kent, of |
Chicago; L. Severy, of Emporia; b. F. |
StringfellOw, of AtchiSon. subsequently |
the Board of Directors elected the follow !
ing officers: President, w. B. Strong; Vice |
President A. E. TOuZalin; Chairman of the |
Board, B. P. Cheney; Secretary and Treas |
urer Z. Wilder; Assistant Secretary and |
Treasurer, G. L. Goodwin; General COun- |
selor, George w. McCrary; General Mana
ger and Chief Engineer, A. A. Robinson;
General Auditor. j. p. Whitehead; Auditor, |
H. C.. Clements; Transfer Agent \. A.
Glazer.
JOHN BUNTIN. some days ago was in
jured by the cars at Topeka. 1t was charged |
that he met with inhumanity after the acct
dent from the railroad people, hotels and |
city authorities and from this neglect he
died. The undertaken wrote to his father,
John VI. Buntin, of Moscow, o., to learn |
what disposition to make of the body. The
parent in a couple of letters spoke of the
wonderful things he had done in collecting
$40 for grasshopper-ridden Kansas, and
thought Kansas ought to bury the body in
return, refusing to be responsible for q
cent The inlIumanity of strangers towards
young Buntin seems to be altogether over
Swallowed by the concentrated meanness of
his father.
THE Kansas delegation Will go 10 Chicago
uninstructed, though it will be understood
that Blaine is their preference so long as
there is any hope of maintaining him.
When Blaine is given up, then it is hard to
tell who they would support, probably three
or four candidates. Blaine is the only unan
imouS choice.
CONGRESSMAN MORRILL,. secured an in
crease of $500 for clerk hire in the post
office at Leavenworth. He also obtained an
increase of mail service to three times
week on the route from Daisy to Linwood.
THE Senate passed Nj. Plumb's bill grant
ing a special pension to Wesley WOoford, of
Butler County.
RECENT rains benefited the wheat.
PATENTS have been issued to Kansas in
ventOrs as follows: Jacob HickenloOper,
Eureka, motor; Stephen d. Niehaw, Pea
body, heel plate for boots and shoes; Calm
w. Pearson, Kansas City, pressure regulat-
ing valve.
THE motion made i'm the United States