The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ny in the District Court of Atchison Coun-
ty for damages for the loss of leg. The
jury awarded him $1,000. A new trial
was granted and at the second trial he got
judgment for $4,000. The case was ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court of the State
and the judgment affirmed. Now the
company has taken the case to the Su-
preme Court of the United States to test
the constitutionality of the law passed by
the Legislature, which allows an employe
to recover against railroad company for
the negligence of a co-employe-
THE other evening the southeast end of
the Armourdale elevator fell down with a
crash, sending over 1000 bushels OF wheat
in all directions.
CHARLES FLEMINGS, a prisoner at the
Penitentiary, escaped the other evening.
He was hauling stone on the Macadam
road, and being behind the other teams and
having a favorable opportunity escaped,
leavinf his team in the road. He was sent
from Doniphan County, and only had
twenty-one days to serve. He is five feet
ten inches high, dark brown hair and gray
eyes: supposed to have on overalls, and is
twenty-six years old.
THIRTY men were laid off at the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe shops in Argen-
tine recently. They were not discharged,
but there was really no work for them to
do. The strikers said that this was due to
the business stagnation produced by the
strike, and while sorry for the men laid
off, they regarded it an indication of the
success OF the strike.
| COLONEL MCCLURE, of Junction City,
recently became insane while on visit to
Washington City, and was taken to an
asylum.
JAMES HICKEY, an employe Of Fowler's
packing house, at Wyandotte, was fatally
scalded the other day by the bursting of a
valve of the steam heating apparatus.
! THE United States Supreme Court re-
Gently decided the case of the Kansas
Pacific Railway Company, plaintiff in er-
ror, against Lewis Dunnmeyer, in which
one Miller made an entry on piece of land
as homestead July %, 1866. The grant
to the railway company conveyed to it all
certain alternate sections of land, includ-
ing the piece in controversy. The ques-
tion raised by the language OF the grant
between Miller and the company was
mer was attached at the time the line was
definitely fixed. The court held that un-
der this grant, as under many other grants
containing some words, or words to some
purport, the act which fixes the time, def
mite location, is an act filing q map or plot
of this line in the office of the Commits
sioner of the General Land office; that the
designation of the general route of the road
and the filing Of map thereof in the Cen
eral Land Office July II, 1866, did not with
draw the land from homestead entry under
tho statutes by virtue of which the COM
pany claims; that the line of definite To-
cation Of the company's road was first
filed with the Commissioner of the General
Land-office September 81, 1866; that Mil
ler's homestead claim attached prior to
that time, and that when Miller subse-
quently abandoned his entry the land did
not revert to the railroad company as if
originally granted to it, but remained
part of the public domain. The Judgment
of the Supreme Court of Kansas was af-
frmed.
A CIRCULAR recently issued by an Atchi-
son firm of grain dealers, making inquiries
of their CORRESPONDENTS in Kansas as to the
condition Of the wheat crop and the pros
pective yield, was generally responded to,
and the answers agreed in two points, viz:
First, that the acreage this season is about
one-third less than last; and second, that
the wheat looks in bad condition, and tho
bad symptoms are attributed to late fall
and the Hessian fly which weakened the
stalk. The estimated yield last year was
100000 bushels. The decrease in acreage
this season and the present damaged con-
dition will, it is estimated, cause n falling
off this year of forty-five per cent, or 12,-
10000 bushels, and good judges do Lot
look for more than 100000 bushels OF
winter wheat in the State this year.
THE G.. A. R.. Department of Kansas, re-
Gently held an interesting annual meeting
at Fort Scott and elected the following Of
fcers for the ensuing year: Department
Commander, Milton Stewart, of Wichita;
Senior Vice Commander, Tim McCarty, of
Larned; Junior Vice, S. H. Maunder,
Washington: Chaplain, Allen Buckner, of
Baldwin; Medical Director, J. W. Crow
lay, of Salina; l.. NJ. Woodcock, of Gar
field post No. %, for Assistant Adjutant |
General; Murphy Myers, of Garfield post |
No. -, as Assistant Quartermaster General. |
The Woman's Relief Corps elected as off,
GERS: President, Mrs. Wickens, Sabetha;
S. V. P, Mrs. Tart, Lawrence: j. V. P, |
Mrs. McCune, Wyandotte; Secretary, Mrs. |
r. C. Chase, Hiawatha; Treasurer, Mrs |
Slocum, Topeka; Inspector. Miss Allie
Myers, Olathe; Chaplain, Mrs. Haughey,
Paola; Conductress, Miss Mary Hastings,
t.,
Neodesha; Delegate at large, Mrs. W. H.
Pond, Fort Scott; Alternate delegate, Mrs
Addie Allen. Junction City. The Sons
# Veterans also chose officers rs fcn~-,:
Commander, ArE5ld C. Dolds, of Els
worth; Lieutenant Commander, J. Fl. Cor
bin, OF Great Bend; Vice Lieutenant Com
mander, D. A. King, OF Larned; Chaplain,
C. c. Brengle, of Neosho Falls: Division
Council, j. L. Bell, of Ellsworth, T. B.
Whittier, OF Topeka, and S. Burleson, OF
Larned.
THE employees Of the Missouri Pacific or
Gould system of railroads, recently. went
on strike at Atchison, Parsons, Wyan-
dotte and other points. The men claimed
that wages had been systematically re-
duced until many had been cut down to
one dollar per day, and it was against the
last reduction they struck. No freight
trains were permitted to move, but mail
trains were not inferred with, and traffic
came to standstill.
LrAvENwoRTH recently had small fire.
THE Grand Encampment l. o. o. F., re-
Gently in session at Atchison, elected the
following officers: Grand Patriarch, James
Geary, of Newton; Grand High Priest,
III. ..,,or sInn-Iioh+ of Ienuar, rsrn1th. Grand