The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

souri, River bridge at Atchison to Parnell,
a distance of five miles. This would give
the Rock Island an outlet through the city.
MRS. HARRIS, of Topeka, has a hopeful
young son, who has repeatedly threatened
to kill her, and this, too, under the shadow
Of the State Reform School
In the Leavenworth whisky injunction
cases commenced by Attorney General
Bradford, when the petition was read tax
ing the cases to the Circuit Court of the
United States, Judge Crozier, after citing
the act under which this prosecution was
brought, decided that the law arises in the
State and does not conflict with the law of
the United States and is not removable,
and that be could not grant the petition.
IT is said that an interesting estimate has
been made by Senator Plumb's clerk of the
amount of money obtained in the form of
pension arrears for Kansas during the year
1885. He shows that no. less than S150,0OO
has gone out to the State in the time men,
toned. He thinks that this distribution of
Government money through the operation
of the pension laws has averted many
financial squeeze in the West.
FROM a careful consideration of the situ-
alton Railroad Commissioner Humphrey
estimates that 1856 will witness great activ-
ity in railroad building in Kansas. He
thinks that at least seven or eight hundred
miles of railroad will be constructed within
the coming year, and this without taking
into account the possible extension of one
or more Eastern roads into the State. The
building of SO many miles of railroad in
various sections of the State will put it is
estimated, eight or ten millions of dollars
in circulation.
THE Chicago, Manhattan & Minneapolis
Railroad Company which recently filed its
charter, proposes to construct five Kansas
lines of railway. Capital stock, s17, 600.
Directors for the first year: Sir Stuart
Hogg and c. Alhuson, of London, England:
II. S. Mcdowell, James l.. Richie, II. P.
Dow, W. S. Elliott, J. E. Hessin, of Man
haitian, Kan; Thomas A. Osborne and P.
l. Bonebrake, of Topeka.
GENERAL MILES has received a letter
from District Attorney Perry stating that
he had received instructions from the De-
partment of Justice to take charge of the
Indian, Roman Nose, and have his case in
vestigated before the United States Dis
trict Court. This Indian has been at Fort
Leavenworth since last June and was
brought from the Territory for safekeep-
ing, as he gave the agent much trouble. He
is half Sioux and half Cheyenne. Former
ly ne was a medicine man among the
Cheyennes, but his bad conduct made them
discard him.
The other evening while walking across
Delaware street, in Leavenworth, Colonel
Henry Goodfellow, Judge Advocate of the
Department of the Missouri, was stricken
with paralysis and rendered speechless.
Physicians pronounced him in a critical
condition.
WHEN the case of ex-State Treasurer
Samuel Lappin was recently called at To-
peka the Attorney General entered nolle
in all the cases against him. Lappin was
indicted for forgery of school bonds in 1876,
was a fugitive from justice number of
years and arrested year ago in Oregon.
He was discharged because all of the
forged instruments have been stolen and
the witnesses are dead or gone.
A STATEMENT from the office of Auditor
of State shows the total number of hores,
cattle, sheep and hogs returned for taxa
tion for the year 1885, to be 4,916, Sl4, an in
bered 4G7, ,224, an increase of 50319; cattle,
1919, ,199, increase, 163,4l7; hogs, 1,39O,OS9,
increase, 316,941; sheep, 1,140,302, decrease,
225, 40. 1t will be seen that while there has
been a gratifying increase in other do
mestic animals, the decrease in sheep is
marked. 4
WHILE asleep the other night CHARLES K.
Logan and wife, of North Topeka, were
chloroformed by burglars and robbed of
$3.50.
LATE post-offics changes in Kansas:
Name changed, Zamora, Hamilton County,
to Kendall, George d. Rogers, post
master Discontinued, Hanson, Potta-
watome County; Johnsonville, Jewell
County. Postmasters appointed Bige!ow,
William Trasper; Cato, John Evans;
Cedarville, T. W. Rea; Corning, Samuel N.
Norton; Cuba, William ]. Kennedy; Dixon,
William H. Hoover: Dry Greek, Levi N.
Shaw; Fair Haven, Edgar p. Hughes; Jar
balo, W. NJ. Morgan; Pike, Henry J. Frame;
Eawlins, Sheldon n. Orr; Wakarusa, Alex
ander Dyche; Wilder, William H. Glynn;
Zara Wilson S. Ingraham.
THE Kansas Sheriffs' Cooperative Asso-
citation met at Topeka recently and elected
the following officers: President, j. T. God
frey, of Rice County; Vice-President, n. B.
Lohmuller, of Nemaha County; Secretary,
A. NJ. Fuller, of Shawnee County; Treas
urer, c. H. Chandler, of Linn County. The
object of the association is mutual assist
ance among the Sheriffs throughout the
State in etfecting the capture of persons
charged with crime; in obtaining the re-
turn of stolen property, and in securing a
more systematic and effective enforcement
of the laws generally in as economical
manner as possible, while at the same time
the burden of the expenses will and may be
made easier by being shared by a greater
number than if it were to fall upon one or
two individual officers.
IT is stated that State Superintendent
Lawhead, with prominent friends of ed
ucation, is engaged in making draft of
bill to introduce at the coming special ses-
sion of the Legislature, amending the
present law for the sale of school lands,
which is designed to prevent the abuses
now practiced in bringing these lands into
market. One feature of the proposed law
provides for bona fide residence of six
months by the settler on the land before
the same can be offered for sale. Such Il
law, it is suggested, would effectualiy pre-
vent the school lands of Kansas from being
brought into market in large tracts and
sold for the benefit of non-residelts and
spectators.
THE Governor has returned from the East.
JAMES DAILEss, one of the oldest settlers
of Bourbon County, died at his residence
in that county recently, aged eighty-fve
years.
THE Probate Judge of Atchison recently
revoked a druggists license because the