The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-12-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

mltted TO vote Of the people, resulted in
favor of the bonds.
THE charter of the Chicago, Kansas &
Western Railway Company was fled re-
Gently with the Secretary of State. The
proposed line is to begin at Leavenworth
and run in westerly direction through
the counties of Leavenworth, Jefferson,
Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Morris, Dickinson,
Marion, Mcpherson, Ellsworth, Rice, Bar
ton, Rush, Ness, Lane, Scott, Wichita and
Greeley to the west line of the State. 1t IS
to have eighteen branch lines, which will
take in most of the remaining counties not
touched by the main line. The total length
of all these lines is about 9, 400 miles, and
the amount of the capital stock is placed
at SIS, 100000.
d. c. MCKINNoN, of Topeka, is the pos
SCISSOR of an almost complete volume of tie
Grand Magazipe, published in London,
Eng, one hundred and twenty years
ago.
In a late divorce suit appeal the Supreme
Court thus defined an habtual drunkard:
{ First, a man who drinks to excess NAV be
an habitual drunkard within the meaning
of the divorce law, although there are in
tervals when he refrains entirely from the
use Of Intoxicating liquors. But before he
can be regarded as an habitual drunkard,
| it must be proven that the practice of
drinking is INDUCED in so frequently as to
become fixed habit with him. Second,
person who frequently drinks to excess,
and who becomes intoxicated whenever
the temptation is presented, and the oppor-
tunity is afforded him, is an habituaI
/ II i,,+ &Io
preston is used in the statute relating to
divorce.
IT is stated that Eugene Hagan, of To-
peka, has received notification from Attor-
ney.General Garland of his appointment as
| United States Attorney for the District of
| Kansas.
! AN organization known as the "Band of
! Mercy" has been effected by the children
of Russell. The object of the society is for
the prevention of cruelty to animals.
| SOME boys went hunting near Fredonia
| the other day and accidentally set the
prairie on fire. The fire destroyed fences,
hay and corn to the amount of nearly 500.
The parents of the boys mad~the amount
good to the losers.
IF every railroad chartered is built there
will be many roads in Kansas.
THE other evening Charles and William
Van Horn, who had been employed as
brakemen by the Union Pacific Railroad,
were arrested by the Deputy Sheriff of
Ellis County on suspicion of having stolen
some $500 from the safe in the drng
store of a firm at Wilson. A vigilance
committee of some twenty-five citizens
was organized, who took the prisoners
from the hands of the county officers to a
bridge, where rope was placed around
their necks. They confessed and agreed
to show where the money was, conditioned
that their lives be spared, which was
agreed to. Most of the money was re-
covered. Each was then given five dollars
and five minutes to leave town.
MANY of the boys of Topeka have en-
tered into a permanent organization for
the purpose of improving the condition,
morally and socially, of the boys of the
city. A very worthy object, which the
boys of other places might well emulate.
W. G. BEARD, of Hutchinson, recently
brought from Kentucky his "grandfather's
clock" 1t is one hundred and sixty-seven
years old, eight feet high, and all the
movements are of hard wood.
A LATE fire at Wichita destroyed Exton's
lunch stand, William Heller's meat shop,
Camren's tailor shop, William Huett's
restaurant, Hoffman's tailor shop, a shoot
ing gallery and John Hodson's barber
shop.
MAD dogs were lately reported numerous
in and about Emporia, and had caused
much damage by biting stock.
L; ;cb,, OF
Leavenworth the other night. A lady was
stopped on a crowded street by two men,
one of whom stifed her cries while the
other succeeded in taking her gold watch,
ring and neck chain.
AT a recent dance ten miles southwest Of
Parsons three young men engaged in
quarrel which ended in one of them being
hit over the head with a club and fatally
injured.
NELLIE BAILEY, who a year or two ago
was tried for the murder of an Englishman
by the name of Bothamly, with whom she
was travelling to the Indian Territory, and
was acquitted, recently brought suit at
Newton against the administrator of the
Bothamly estate, and was awarded judg-
ment for 81, 1925, the full amount asked
for.
THE different townships in Wilson Coun-
tv recently voted the bonds asked for by
the Kansas Railway Company from
Thayer to Fredonia, distance of twenty
four miles. The total amount voted was
So, 200, and it is said that the line is al
ready located and the right of way OBJ
tanned upon the line of the old grade
which was built in 1873, and that work
will be commenced soon.
LATE Kansas postmasters appointed:
West Greek, Robert H. Hall; Tecumseh,
John NJ. Reed; Stella, John P. Vincent;
Rancho, Mrs. Ella Harrison; Blanchard,
Mrs. Sarah ]. Dart; Parnell, D. W. Wertz.
A COUNTY line delegate convention of the
unorganiZed counties in Western Kansas
will meet in Lakin on December %. The
object of the meeting is TO devise the best
way for the people of said counties to work
in unison. and manifest their wishes for
the establishment of all the old unor-
ganiZed counties.
sr-oFFICEs established in Kansas for
the week ended November 81: Bradley,
Seward County, Frank F. Stevens, post
master; Mule Creek, Ellsworth County,
Mrs. Mary A. Trulinger, postmaster; Mas
bv. Saline County, Martin E. Quincy, post
fmaster. -Ars-
Now for Christmas. -
AT meeting of the survivors of the
Wyandotte Constitutional Convention,
july 90. 1884, it was resolved that a gen.
eral meeting of the people of Kansas should
be called to be held at the capital of the
State on the 29h day of January, 1886, to