The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| III ESSdIu W buo
growing crops is CLEANED from the July
report of the Secretary of the State Board
OF Agriculture: The estimate as to winter
wheat harvested is now placed at a very
small fraction less than ten bushels, a de-
crease, as compared with the report of the
board for the month ending June 30, of
about one bushel per acre. From the in
formation received it is estimated that the
area of winter wheat harvested in the State
this year is So, S64 acres and the average
yield per acre in round numbers at ten
bushels. Probably the total product will
be 9,64S, $40 bushels. Spring wheat reports
indicate no material change either in area
or condition since the date of the last re-
port. The probable product is 100000
bushels. Corn is reported to be in fine con-
dition. The backward and unfavorable
conditions of April and May have been
fully compensated for by the very pro-
pitious weather of the last thirty days.
The Secretary can call to mind no period
in the history of the State when a more
marked Improvement has been made in
the progress of any crop than has been
witnessed in the growth and development
of corn within the month covered by his
report. The area planted to corn is put at
4,O50,0OO acres with a probable product of
19S, 000, 900 bushels. The condition of oats
is not so good as indicated by the last re-
port The probable product will be 90
100000, a shortage as compared with last
year of $1,000 bushels. OF rye reports gen.
orally predict short crop.
LATE post-office changes in Kansas:
Established, Ford, Ford County, William
H. H. RAIDER, postmaster. Discontinued,
Mccoy, Seward County, Salt City, Sum-
ner County. Name and site changed,
Skidmore, Meade County, to Meade Center.
THE general committee of arrangements
for the coming conclave of the Supreme
Legion of the World, Select Knights A. o.
| U. W., met at Topeka the other day and
/ decided that the grand review and parade
should take place on the first day of the
meeting, being Tuesday, October 10, at one
| O'Clock p. m. Tuesday evening there will
| be held reception and promenade concert.
! Wednesday the competitive drill will be
held at the Fair Ground. Three prizes will
be given for the best drilled legion or corps
by the Grand Legion of Kansas. 1t is ex-
pected that upward of 5000 knights will be-
in attendance, representing every State
and Territory in the Union and the Domin-
ion of Canada.
The Governor has appointed the follow.
ing gentlemen as delegates at large to the
Northwestern Waterways Convention ts
be held at st. Paul, Mimi, on the Sd d,
next month: Vinton Stillings, Leaven-
worth; C. E. Clifford, Clay Center, and T
A. Scott, Wyandotte.
New post-offices have been established
at Letitia, Clark County, and Ursula,
Comanche County, Kan.
FOLLOWING are the fourth -class post.
masters lately appointed for Kansas:
Henry D. Dickson, Neosho Falls, Woodson
County; Peter Graham, Scammonville,
Cherokee County; Robert 1. Glass, Waverly
Coffey County; John H. Mahr, McCune,
Crawford County; H. N. Christian Garden
City, Finney County; J. N. McAllister,
Piedmont, Greenwood County; S. l.. Car
penter, Huron, Atchison County.
THE following County Institutes recent
ly reported their attendance to the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction:
Washington County, 113; Cloud County,
95; Osborn County, 80; Ellsworth County,
20; Wyandotte County, 135: Sedgwick
County, 10; Elk County, 1C1; Kingman
County, IS; Hodgeman County, 80; Barton
County, 50; Doniphan County, 1O4; Wood
son County, 100.
ARTICLES of incorporation of the Kaw
River Valley Railroad Company were filed
with the Secretary of State the other day.
The object of this corporation is the con-
struction of line of railroad from Kansas
City, Wyandotte County, to Solomon City,
Dickinson County. The capital stock is
100000.
In view of the fact that the bill making
appropriations for the current expenses of
the State Reform School for the fiscal year
ending June so, 1856, and June 80, 1887, |
did not reach the Governor before the adj !
journment of the Legislature, and thus
failed to become law, the Executive Coun- !
Gil recently held a meeting and resolved to
snake arrangements to secure loans to meet |
the current expenses of the State Reform
School for the period from July 1, 1885, to |!
January /, 1886, said loans never to exceed |
the amount appropriated by the Legisla- |
ture in substitute for House bill No. 81, if |
said appropriation had been divided into |
monthly installments to-wit: Six hundred |
and fifty dollars per month for salaries of |
officers, teachers and employees, and $1,015 |
per month for care and maintenance"
The notorious bgamst, Chastine |
Hughes, now in Jail awaiting trial for be-
slowing his affections upon a plurality of
wives, seems to be implicated in other |
crimes. From admissions made to Miss |
Lavender, the third victim of his matri- |
monial venture, it would appear that he is
one of the murderers of l. NJ. Smith, the .
Kansas City banker who was found dead
at the foot of the Bluff street wall in that
city some years ago. The mystery sur
rounding the death of Mr.. Smith baffied
the best detectives, and the first light
thrown upon it comes from the Topeka
Jail. From Hughes admissions it seems
four men were implicated in the murder
and they only secured so.
LITTLE Fannie Mcclure, of Fort Leaven-
worth. aged eleven years, while playing
in the street in front of her aunt's resi-
dence in North Leaveuworth, was recently
shot and perhaps fatally wounded by
boy who was playing with a pistol and
discharged the weapon just for the fun of
the thing. 1t is very funny to permit boys
to carry pistols and shoot without regard
to when, where, who or what they::shoot.
THE officers and employees of the Mill
tary Prison at Fort Leavenworth con-
tributed S91 to the Grant monument fund.
CORN is again king.
IL a case lately decided by the Railroad
Commissioners. wherein a complaint had
been made that the Southern Kansas Rail-