The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Rev. PHILLIP KRoHN, of Atchison, one OF
the State Temperance Organizers, the other
afternoon delivered speech at Leaven-
worth in the interest of the temperance or
ganization. 1t is stated that many saloon
men were present and the lecturer referred
to them in very severe terms. After the
meeting Krohn attempted to leave the room
\ by the main exit, but was prevented, and
then tried a side door, when he was as
saulted by Julius Haug, who struck Mr..
Krohn. Police Judge Stinson interferred
and arrested Haug and DR.. Krohn escaped
to the sidewalk. A meeting that had been
advertised to be held in the Baptist Church
the same evening was postponed, through
fear on the part of the trustees of damage
to the church, the trustees having received
an intimation that such might be the case
if the lecture should be attempted at that
time. Haug was subsequently fined twen-
tyfive dollars and costs in the Police
Court.
L. J. EATEERBY shot and killed his
father-in-law, John Messmore, at the
house of the latter at Elk Falls the other
night. The trouble grew out of an old
quarrel which was renewed on that night
md resulted as above. Eatherby fed to
Clayton, No, at which place he was ar
rested.
| COMPLAINT was recently filed with the
Railroad Commissioners against the Pleas
ant Hill Road to the effect that trains were
not run over the road from De Soto. The
Commissioners, after investigating the
matter, concluded that they did not ''under-
Icf1 1v,A hot fl,a L.,
that part of its road, but that it has sus-
pended the operation of trains over it for
the time being on account of its unfit emu
dangerous condition, and until the business
and revenues of the road shall warrant the
expenditure OF a sum sufficient to restore
| it. The present owner of the line has
been in possession of the property by pur-
| chase but short time The portion of the
| line in question was out of repair and run
down at the time of the purchase. 1t may
with reason be presumed that if the pres
| ent company intend to hold the property
under its present charter it will, when
practicable, resume the operation of the
| whole line" and as they do not find that its
operation at this time is really necessary
to subserve a public want, they refrain
|
the road and the resumption of trains
over it.
THE Governor has issued proclamation
organizing Clark County, naming G. W.
| Epperle, D. Burket and A. F. Harmer as
| County Commissioners, and J. S. Myers as
| County Clerk. The census taker reported
over three thousand people within the
county. Throwing out all who have not
been in the county six months there were
| 2,045, of whom ST. were householders and
4S1 school children. The county seat i.
Ashland, with 80 inhabitants.
THE Live Stock Sanitary Commission
| of the State having decided that all cars
for the shipment of live stock shall be
thoroughly disinfected before receiving
cattle for shipping and the order having
been made after freight rates had been
made, the agent of the Santa Fe Road
made rate of one dollar per car addition
al to cover this extra expense, which the
Railroad Commissioners approved as being
just and reasonable.
For the past three years 141 tombstones
for unmarked soldiers graves have been
lying in the Chicago, Rock Island q Pacific
depot in Atchison, subject to the orders of
the War Department, for distribution to
points where they belong. Orders for their
shipment were recently received and the
agent of the Government Immediately
commenced shipping the stones, and will
personally visit the various cemeteries
and superintend the erection of them.
A. W. SALISBURY, a travelling oil man.
left his pocket-book containing $50 under
his pillow at a Topeka Hotel the other
morning and thereby enriched the chamber
maid III that amount, but was himself left
without the necessary cash to pay his
hotel bill. His watch had been under the
same pillow at night, but that he took
away uron leaving.
FROM advance notes from his report fur
nished by the Secretary of the State Board
of Agriculture it is learned that the area
sown to winter wheat in the fall of 1884 did
not exceed - per cent. of that sown the
preceding year-a decrease of 100000 acres
as compared with the acreage of last year;
that of the acreage sown - per cent. has
been killed by frost and destroyed from
other causes, and the land to a large ex-
tent seeded to other crops, leaving but
I,I45, coo acres from which product may l.
expecUed-an area equal to but % per cent.
of the acreage of 1854. There is an i'm
provement of three per cent. iu the condi-
ton of wheat over the March report and
the estimated winter wheat product of the |
State for this year is 20,S00, 900 bushels or q |
small fraction less than 45 per cent. of the |
total product of the harvest of 1884, and |
slightly in excess OF IS per cent. of the |
average annual product for the last five |
years. Spring wheat has decreased III |
area, as compared with that of 1884, little |
more than two per cent, the State area, as |
.stimatSd for 1885, being about 5000 acres. |
The acreage of oats shows an increase OF |
zen per cent. over last year. The prospect |
ior fruit is very encouraging. All varieties, |
except peaches, promise full crop.
THE Governor has appointed Hon. L. c. |
Wasson, of Ottawa, as a member of the |
Board of Examiners Of applicants for per-
mits to practice dentistry.
"A LAMP under an incub ator in q Topeka |
broodery exploded the other day and the
house was burned. Seventy chickens,
many of them blooded and OF an expensive
character, and hundreds of eggs were con-
sumed.
THE Attorney General lately stated that
case is to be prepared for the Supreme
Court in which Will be involved the ques-
tion of the power of a party to manuGac-
ture beer for mechanical, medicinal and
scientific purposes, under the Prohibitory
law. The case will be in the nature of
civil suit in injunction.
PETERToS post-office was lately robbed.
THE inhabitants of the newly-organized