The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

4 Ato dIllcItS OIL "isA AhO
Secretary of State the other day. The capi.
tai stock is placed at $500, 600, and the incor-
poratOrs are John W. 10y, Samuel LOy, f.
ID. 10y and J. s. Gibson, of Americus, and
c. V. Eskridse. J. S. Watson and ID. a.
Stahl, of Emporia.
AN interview having recently been given
in ST. Louis paper in which man named
Rieves stated that he knew personally that
the notorious Bender family had been killed
in attempting to escape from Kansas, Gov
ernOr Click addressed letter to Colonel
York, whose brother was one OF the vie
tins, asking for the facts in the case. In
reply Colonel Yerk wrote from DeS MoiHes,
Iowa, that the whole story was
a pure fabrication. The Colonel added:
'tMy brother. j. ii. York, of Fort Scott,
was visiting me when the article appeared,
and we determined to take prompt measures
to trace the authorship and responsibility OF
the article and we will make inquiries Tor
the purpose of ascertainlng whether sucn q
person as Captain RieveS lives at Appleton,
Mo-, and if 50 will call upon him and re-
quest proof of his statements. We will
give s., 600 fo- proof that the Benders were
killed, and with such proofwe can trace their
connection with Others. In my opinion state
mentS sEch as the one in hand have been
put in circulation from time to time to pre-
vent continuance of the search,
and it is quite remarkable that these state
mentS that the BenderS were killed are re-
vived simultaneously with some positive
movement tending to their discovery"
HON. GEORGE TAYLOR the first man
elected to the Kansas Legislature upon the
PrOhibitOry Amendment issue, died recently
at Clay Center, aged seventy-six years.
CHARLES RICHARDSON an emplOye of
the Auditors Office, of the Santa Fe Rail
road was attacked by fOot-pads in Topeka
the other night knocked SenSeleSS by a
blow over the head with some heavy instru-
ment, and while in that condition was
robbed of a gold watch and chain and small
sum of money. He Was found the next
day. ard it was thought could not recover.
SAYS the Wichita Eagle: Young Walter
w. VrOoman, the fifteen year-old phrenoio-
gist who lectured in Wichita a short time
since, has been taken up by DIR. Turner.
who says he is the best examiner i'll the
world and offers five hundred dollars to any
one who will point out mistake made by
the boy" Walter is son of Judge Froo-
man, of Topeka.
BURGLARS recently entered the store of
T. H. Randall, at Mount Hope, SedgwicI
! County, and carried off about five thousand
dollars worth of property.
TIE fruit growers of Atchison County
have organized a horticultural society, with
John NJ Price as President and L. +. Cook
! Secretary.
DAVE LANE. hostler in the Atcnison, To
peka & Santa Fe rOund-hOuse, was run over
| by freight cars and killed in the yards OF the
company, at Atchison, the other day.
TIE charter for a new railroad was re-
Gently fled with the Secretary OF State. The
name of the proposed line will be the Wyan-
dotte, Nebraska & Northwestern railroad,
and the incOrporatorS are: ID. Il. Cornell,
| f. S. W. Drought, b. o. Davidson, Nick
| McAlpine, John ID. Cruise, of Wyannotte;
| L. T. Smith. George L. Anthony and a.
| Caldwell of LeavenwOrth, and Z. E. Rich
ardson. of Kansas City. The road is to run
! from WyandOtte in a northwest direction to
Beatrice. Neb. 1t is stated that the pre-
! liminary survey will soon be made and steps
! taken 10 commence work at once.
THE Governor has issued proclamation
| setting forth that Finney County has 1869
| BORA fide inhabitants, 313 of whom are ac-
tual householders, and has appointed IL.
| NJ. Wheeler A. B. Kramer and John Speer
| County Commissioners, and III. f. Went
worth County Clerk of said county. He
! also designated Garden City to be the tem-
porary county seat.
AT Morey's Brewery in Topeka, the
other day, an emplOye named Scheegrel
was caught in the betting and badly injured
before being released.
TIE Topeka &. A. r. Flambeau Club
recently attended the Soldiers Reunion at
| ChillicOthe, Mo-, and gave pyrotechnic
display for the edtication of the boys"
GEORGE FOWLER, jr., OF the Fowler
Packing House, went before Judge Belts,
of WyandOtte few days since, and swore
out a warrant for the arrest of young Archi-
bald Curriean, paymaSter of the firm, charg-
ing him with embezzlng about $4,000 The
Young man is only eighteen years old and
had been married only three days previous
To his arrest. after cOurtShip of only two
weeks, having met his bride at the Kansas
CITY Fair. The young wife is less than
eighteen years old. 1t was about the hour
of closing when the arrest was made, and
the bride was awaiting her husband i'll an adj
joining room. Becoming impatient at his not
appearing, she sought him out and seeing
him surrounded by crowd and noticing the
look Of despair on his cOuntenance, asked
him what was the matter. Minnie, /
have stolen, and am i'll the charge of a
Sheriff." he replied. ''Oh! My God, Archie" :"
she exclaimed, and then tainted in the arms
of by-stander. and was conveyed home. The
Young man cried bitterly when arrested,
and turned over to Mr.. Fowler $1,000, of
which 81 900 was deposited in NOrthrup &
Sons Bank, III Wyandotte, 5000 in a
Kansas City bank, and the remainder in
Kansas City. Kan, real estate. His mode
of stealing was to have a number of names
of persons placed on the pay roll who never
worked for the firm. and his position as
Ii
to draw their checks without his employers
knowing of the fraud. The prisoner was
taken to Jail His father resides in Canada
and is said TO be wealthy. Extravagant
ideas of living caused his downfall. He
commenced his embeZZling about the first
of Janiiary.
A. NJ LEWIS was recently arrested in
WyandOtte County upon the charge of hav-
ing obtained cattle to the amount of over
s.. 600 under false pretenSeS, and taken to
EnpOra for trial. The defendant claims
tina; the transaction was entirely legitimate,
and that other parties are trying to avoid
their share of the loss OH the sales by sad
ding the responsibility on him.
4 MILITARY prso ler at Fort Leaven-
worth, who had been employed about the
poSt-OfIice. and who only had forty days
more to Sc w, was recently given package
containing eighty dollars to deliver to the
postmistreSs. Instead of doing so lie skipped
out 10 the city and commenced squander-
ing the money His forty days will proba-
bly, be entended TO five years.
POLITICS warming up.
DURING late circus performance at At
Gibson when fully five thousand people
were in the tent, a wind storm struck it so
suddenly and with such force that there
was almost stampede in an instant. Sew
eral of the guy ropes pulled apart and one