The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-07
KANSAS STATE NEMS.

! way Company, with a capital stock of SlO,-
| 100000, was fled with the Secretary of
| state recently. The object of the company
is to build a line of railway from Hiawatha,
running IL westerly direction through
the counties of Brown, Nemaha, Marshall,
Washington, Republic, Jewell, Smith,
| Phillips, Norton, Decatur, Rawlins and
| Cheyenne, 20 the western line of the State,
taking in tie county seats of the organized
counties; also line from Junction City
running in a northwesterly direction
| through the counties of Davis, OFT IVA,
! Lincoln and Osborne by way of Alton,
| (Bull's City, through Rocks, Graham and
Sheridan Counties, connecting with the
| line from Hiawatha. The incorporates
arc: Jay Gould, R. S. Hayes, H. u.
Hoxie, D. S. H. Smith and w. F. Pagan.
THE young men of Dover, in Shawnee
County, have lately adopted the habit of
backing their boots on Sunday and having
their hair cut occasionally, and thereby
subjecting themselves TO envious remarks
by their less dudish neighbors.
JOHN W. YOUNG, John r. HALLS, John
Mcfarland, James Mcfarland, Willis Snait
and James Young. of Kingman County,
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njurs and intimidate. in the United States
Court at Topeka, and sentenced by Judge
Foster to Imprisonment for one day and
fine of ten dollars each. The conspiracy
and intimidation consisted in forcibly re-
moving and destroying the improvements
made by Mr.. Warner upon quarter Sec
tion of land he had located upon in King
man County and notifying him to leave.
The Judge made the sentence light because
it is the first case of the kind ever brought
in his Court and the second one on record
TOPEKA celebrated the sixty-third birth
day of General Grant in a highly credita-
BILE manner. Guns were fired, speeches
made and the day observed as a general
holiday.
THE Sheriff of Lucas County, Iowa, re-
Gently appeared in Leavenworth with
requisition for Simon Sharp, colored, who
had escaped from the Jail at Charlton
where he was confined upon the charge Of
assault with intent to kill.
PATENTS lately issued to Kansas invent.
ors: William Frye, Kansas City, cloth
measurer; Edward Hillary, Waseka, gear
cutter shaping tool; C. H. Steerburg, Law
renee, composition for fuel.
r. NJ. SHOEMAKER, we'll known in thf
early history of the Kansas Pacific Rail
road, died recently in Cincinnati OF
paralysis.
F. E. FULLER, of Ottawa, has been ap.
pointed as delegate to the National Com
mercial Convention to be held at Atlanta,
Ga, May 10, 30 and 81.
THE State Historical Society has beenpre-
infa roIi Of T,,
dians wars of the South in early times.
This is buckskin coat, highly embroidered
in silk, scarlet lined, elaborately fringed,
and showing the marks of several bullets.
The coat belonged to chief of the Creek
or Seminole Nation. and was captured i'll
battle. The relic fell to the lot of Daniel
G. Skinner, of the General Commissary
Department, at the distribution of trophies
after the battle. He finally presented
it to his nephew and namesake, who for
many years has been its possessor, and
now deposits it among the objects of inter-
est in the rooms of the State Historical So
ciety.
EMPORIA comes to the front with another
miracle in the form of prayer cure" 1t
is stated that Mr.. Harrison Hinkle had for
SlSuU years DcSu l1c HSlu
tried the efficiency of a number of WELL
known oculists, all of whom pronounced
his case hopeless and told him he might as
well resign himself to total blindness for
the rest of his life. He was then fifty
seven years of age, and the affliction- was
q very sore one. He has always been
deeply religious, and he constantly prayed
for his eyesight to be restored. One night
recently, the story goes, he turned his eyes
toward the sky and thought he could see a
star. Calling a member of the household
to him, it was found that there was star
in the direction toward which he pointed
His eyesight at once began to come back to
him, and he is now able to read small print
as well as anybody. He ascribes this res
toration entirely to the power of prayer.
Miss JULIA, daughter of Colonel Thomas
Moonlight, died at Leavenworth the other
morning.
THE Awarding Committee at the Worlds |
Fair at New Orleans has given Kansas the |
first premium for white corn and the first |
on yellow, and the jury afterward recon- |
mended that in addition to the above pre-
miums a gold medal should be given Kan
sas for the best corn in the world. Kansas |
has also been awarded the first premium
on red winter wheat; the first premium on
-four by graduated process; the first on
-four by the old process; the first and sec
ond on sorghum sugar; after hot contest /
by the Middle and Northwestern States, I
the State was awarded the first premium /
for the best hundred varieties of apples; |
ten first and two second on short horn cat |
tie and the first on Polled Angus. Kansas !
has taken sixty-fve miscellaneous first |
and second premiums, and all this in the I
face of great odds.
WYANDoTTE:County has commenced |
crusade against the gamblers who were |
driven out of Kansas City by the anti /
gambling law of Missouri and opened |
houses on the Kan5cs side of the line, or /
rather on the Kansas side of the street, the ,
east side of which is in Missouri and the |
west side in Kansas.
THE Governor has appointed the follow |
ing members of the Board of Pharmacy,
created by the last Legislature: DIR. Peter |
Eager, of Wyandotte, for one year; c. J. /
Butin, Of Fredonia, for one year; w. a. |
Stanford, of:Florence, for two years;
James A. Taylor, of Atchison, for two /
years; a. B. Bryant, of Lincoln, for three 4
years.
SOME fellow threw a handful of loaded .
cartridges in the stove at the Union Pacific .
waiting room at North Topeka the other
dev and then disappeared.
LEAvEYwORTH has Board of Health.
: TOPEKA special states that the United .
States Grand Jury recently in session in .
that city found separate indictments /