The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-24
Miscellaneous.


Z. WooD DAVIS has brought suit in the
United States Circuit Court at Topeks
against the st. Louis & San Francisco
Railway Company for overcharges and
damages. There are four cases, two being
for overcharges, amounting to between
$1,000 ard $1,000, and the two others being
damage suits growing out of discrimina.
tion i'll cars and other facilities in transpOr
tation. The original claims in the two dis
elimination suits were for $4,000; they
now, by adding interest, amount to over
$4,000. In addition to these cases, two
suits to recover overcharges are pending in
the District Court at Wichita, in which the
amount involved overruns $1,000 The
plaintiff alleges that the road Disseminated
against him in charges for coal, which he
mined and shipped from Pittsburgh, and in
favor of a rival company owned by the Of
ficerS of the road, and by which his busi-
ness was ruined.
IN a case recently decided by the Su-
preme Court that tribunal held that where
an agent such as is usually denominsted q
drummer or commercial traveller" SIM
ply exhibits samples of goods kept for sale
by his principal, and takes orders from
purchasers for such goods, which goods are
afterward to be delivered by the principal
to the purchasers, and payment for the
| goods is to be made by the purchasers to
the principal on such delivery, such agent
is neither a peddler nor merchant Nor
does there seem to be any authority under
the statute for cities Of the second class to
levy license taxes upon drummers or COM
mercial travellers.
rier, an old lady seventy-two years of age,
living just east of Meade Center, while
! standing in front of her house, observed a
wild goose flying over. Nobody but her
self being at home, she obtained a gun and
at the first shot brought down the game
j. E. MORSE, Fall River teacher was re-
! Gently taken before Justice of the Peace,
charged with excessively whipping a six
year-old pupil. He pleaded guilty and was
fined five dollars and costs.
Mr.. MORGAN, residing near Walton, while
recently crossing the railroad track with
his team, was struck by switch engine
both horses being killed and himself seri-
Ously injured.
l.. ID. CowEN, who was recently taken to
Topeka and lodged in the County Jail was
released on giving a bond in the sum of
$1,000. Cowen is charged with being impli-
Gated in the land steals which have lately
been going on in Finney County.
AT a recent spelling match between To-
peka lawyers and printers, for the benefit
of Christs Hospital in that city, the law
yers were beaten, the score being seventeen
raisspelled words for the printers and
twenty-five for the lawyers. The printers
stuck on the word prohibition
SUPERINTENDENT LAwHE.D has issued a
neat card for mailing to the Kansas teach
ers who may dssire to attend the State
Teachers Convention, giving list of the
hotels and the rates of charge per day, by
floors, for room and board; also the prices
of meals, etc, at the principal restaurants
in Topeka.
THE new town of Springfield has com
pleted its public well, having obtained an
inexhaustible supply Of excellent weter.
LATEST patents granted Kansas invent
ors: Railway tie, l.. NJ. Clark, OF Harper;
sugar cane harvester, Charles II. Lee. of
Centralia; ice machine, Thomas L. Rankin,
of Qxenemo; machine for cleansing clothes
j. NJ. Chamberlain, of Winfield; rotary en-
gine. John Harrington, of CALDWELL; ag-
gregate cube, Henry Kceler. of Oskaloosa
q. l.. MCDoSAUGH, General travelling
Agent of the Southern Kansas Railway,
recently stated to reporter that the out
look for business to Southern Kansas next
year was very promising. 4 large num-
ber of farmers and others from Dakota
and other Northern places who have found
the winters there too severe are writing for
information about Kansas. and will prob |
ably flock to the State next spring in large |
numbers.
LATE post-office changes i'll Kansas: Es- |
tablished. Lskeland, Meade County. Ed |
ward McQuin, postmaster Names changed, |
Dallas, Norton County, to Oronoque: |
Naomi, Mitchell County, to Excelsior;
Ozark, Anderson County, to Kincaid;
Waseca, Johnson County, to Holiday Dis
continued, Lebretnn, Leavenworth County
JUDGE GRAVES, of the District Court Of
Lyon County, has rendered a decision il
the case of the State of Kansas VS.. the Em-
poria Mutual Endowment and Benevolent
Association, doing business on what is gem
orally known as the Texas Endowment
Insurance plan" that the association is a
mutual insurance company, and not a
merely benevolent organization, and must
give $4,000 bond and comply with the
JULIET PROVISIONS Oh Cne law TO regulate lnu-
tual insurance companies.
THE mad dog scare has been revived
DURING the past year the State Board of
Charities has disbursed about s3G3. 900 for
purposes at the various State
institutions.
THE Tax Commissioner of the Kansas
City & Fort Scott and the Kansas South
ern Roads recently paid into the State
Treasury ST7, ,S43.37, the amount of taxes
due the several counties along the lines of
the above roads, for which State Treasurer
Howe issued certificates. which are turned
over to the County Treasurers.
JOHN ". SMITH and Ethan l. Thomas OF
Harvey County, butchered a hog recently
which weighed "a pounds.
THE Masons of SaIina are talking Of
building temple to cost $1,000.
The State Grange at its late meeting de-
clared unanimously in favor of the enfran-
chisement of women. 1t also asked that
he Office of Commissioner of Agriculture {
be made a Cabinet position. t
THE charter of the Parsons & Pacific {
Railway was filed recently. The length of '
he road is estimated at 900 miles, and tae Z
,apital stock ct Sc, ,0OO, 600 The road is de- y
lgned to run from Parsons to Trinidad r
Jol-, with two branches, one to strike v
outh, intersecting the A. & P. Railroad in !
he Indian Territory, and the other cross
ng tie Southern Pacihc at Ell Paso
iHz amount of school bonds purchased :
y the Permanent Fund Commissioners L
inee January Is. 1855, is s5ls.99Sa s