The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

OF SI2,OOO of bonds issued by that county in
1874 for the purpose of building a court
house, bridges and for general expenses
Charles Edward Lewis, a Spectator living
IN London, is the man who brings suit fol
the amount of the bonds. He claims he is
an innocent purchaser, but does not say
where he bought them. The county did
not receive cent from the issue of bonds
and until suit was commenced it is stated
the whereabouts of the bonds was not
known. The Legislature in 1879 appointed
committee TO investigate certain irregu
larities and among them the Comanche
County bond issue, it being claimed the
county had been fraudulently organ
lied and the issuing of bonds a
big steal. The Attorney General, A.
L. Williams, was one of the COM
mittee and in his report to the Legisla-
ture he used this forcible language:
| "Comanche was organized solely for plum
der. The vast amount of bonds issued by
1t had seriously impaired our credit abroad.
| To issue these bonds required wholesale
forgery and perjury. When this county
is properly attached to some other county
for judicial purposes, the thieves who
issued these bonds should be attended to.
The State, through its Attorney General
and the proper County Attorneys should
put every engine of the law in force;
should pursue, capture, try, convict and
lock up these rogues, so that our credit
may be restored, and other incipienu ras-
calls of like character, quickened with a
similar ambition, may be deferred from the
prin of I;
THE Governor has written another letter
to Washington on the Indian question.
This is to the Secretary of the Interior, in
which he protests against the locat on of
the Apache Indians, now in Arizona, upon
mo Mans Land, west of the Indian Terri
tory. Such transfer, the Governor says,
in his judgment will be grosser violation
of the spirit, if not of the letter, of the act
of Congress of February Il, 1879, than
would the transfer of these turbulent and
savage Indians to the heart of the Indian
Territory. He therefore hopes that the
suggestion said to have been made that
the Apaches be transferred to "No Mans
Land, !" will not be accepted by the author
tiles of the United States.
THE official canvass of the vote cast at
Topeka last spring elected Mr.. H. S. Clark
Justice of the Peace by two majority over
Mr.. Searle, and Clark qualified and entered
upon the duties. Searle asked for a new
count, which has just been completed and
which shows the contestant to have been
elected by thirteen votes, or an error in
the original count of fifteen votes against
SearIe.
THE Sheriff of Shawnee County lately
received letter from Henry Aplert, of
Manchester, n. H., making inquiries for
young lady by the name of Clara Good
in, whose father and mother were killed
in the Indian Territory in September, 1873,
by the Cheyenne Indians. He has some
very valuable family papers that belong to
her.
Hon. w. B. PERKINS, Congressman from
the Third District, was lately in Washing
ton in the interest of the Baxter Springs
monument At the last session of Congress
Mr.. Perkins secured an appropriation of
$1,000 for the erection of monument in
memory of the massacre of General Blunt's
body guard, in 1863, near Baxter Springs.
The massacred soldiers were buried in the
old city cemetery, couple of miles distant
from the scene of the affray. The citizens
of Baxter have proposed that they
will purchase and donate sufficient
ground for the laying out of
beautiful cemetery at the spot
where the massacre occurred, providing the
Government will incur the expense of the
removal of the dead bodies from the pres
ent burial place to the proposed location.
Tba IL, tbn,, 70 Hn tol
thereby giving more significance TO the
matter as a memorial of the event. MIR.
Perkins urged the War Department to agree
to the Baxter peoples proposition, and ex-
poets TO succeed. The securing of this mon
ument is the first case on record in which
the National Government has made an APP
preparation for memorial observance of any
local event.
THE Chatauqua County Agricultural and
Driving Park Association filed its charter
recently with the Secretary of State. OBJ
ject: The development of agriculture.
Stock-raising, mechanics, manufacturing,
and household economy by the holding Of
county fair. The headquarters are at Sc
dan, and the capital stock is $1,000. The
directors are John Lee, p. d. Wright, G.. D.
Hoy, E. N. Bird, E. w. Conner and S. c.
Hancock, all of Sedan; j. w. Morris, Peru;
William Neil, Metz; Joseph Lane, Hale;
Charles G.. Metheney, Cedar Vale, and l.
c. Wait, Elgin. The Kansas Wesleyan
University Aid Association, of Salina also
filed its charter. Its object is to support an
educational undertaking involving the es-
tablishing of the Kansas Wesleyan Uni
~,
city of Salina. The capital stock is 3j.O)0. |
THE charter was recently filed of the I
Kingman d Northeastern Railroad Com /
pany, which PROPOSES to maintain and /
operate a standard gauge railroad |
and telegraph line from Kingman,
Kingman County, in a northeasterly iii /
rection to the city of Halstead. The rail-
road will run through the counties of
Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick and Harvey,
and the estimated length of the road is
fifty miles. The headquarters are to be at .
kingman.
MRS. PRATT, of Wichita, represents in .
complaint to the board of Railroad Com
missions that she is the owner of valua-
bic stone quarry a mile and half west of |
Towanda, on the line of the st. Louis, Fort .
Scott & Wichita Railroad, which she !
wants to develop for the purpose of ship
ping stone to Wichita, where there is great
demand for it, and asks the Commits
sioners to intercede in her behalf with the
railroad company for the building of a
switch to her quarries.
TOPEKA has an occupation tax.
4 FELLOW named John Meredith, who
has served several other States in prison
uniform, was recently arrested at Topeka
for stealing roll of leather valued at So
from Santa Fe freight car. He exulted
in his skill as a thief and thought il all