The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

DURING the late reunion at Topeka mauy
of the militia of 1864 were present. The
Price Raid Veterans effected temporary
/ organization and adopted resolutions
strongly urging the payment of Price raid
claims remaining unsettled. The question
of reunion in the near future of all the
! old survivors of the Price raid was deter
/ mined upon. Colonel G. W. Veale was
/ elected President, and W. W. Clinensou
/ Secretary of q permanent organization.
/ Five Vice Presidents were chosen to CO.
/ operate, consisting of the following gen
/ tiemen: W. P. Douthett, Colouel J. w.
! Brown, E. F. Simmons, of Douglas County :;
/ c. G. Howard, of Riley County, and John
Armstrong, of Shawnee County.
/ The Presbyterian Synod lately in ses-
/ sion at Topeka passed resolutions protest.
/ ing against the Illegal selling of liquor in
the drug stores, and 1--WE consider the
druggist who takes advantage of the law
in this respect as even more abandoned
than the lowest saloon keeper. We also
affirm that the business Interests of the
State are bettered by the decrease Of
liquor saloons. We are receiving better
class of immigrants than formerly, many
of whom say they have come to US because
of our prohibition law" A resolution was
also adopted that ''to abate the evil grow
ing out OF the abuse of privileges for the
sale of alcohol for medical and merhaui-
cal purposes, we suggest the practicablitv
of placing the sale of liquors excluSiv "
in the hands of salaried employees of the
State"
De. HoLCOMBE, State Veterinarian, re-
ports that between thirty and forty coun-
ties in Kansas are now infected with hog
cholera. The disease, he states, is rapidly
spreading, causing the daily loss of thou
sands of swine. Some counties have re-
ported loss of $4,000 from this disease
alone. DR.. Holcombe combats the idea en-
tertained by many that the malady is not
cholera, but is some new and fatal disease.
Vomiting or coughing are the first symp-
toms marking the first stages of this dis
ease.
THE other morning Mrs. Cliff Thompson,
who resides on the Crozier farm, four miles
from Eudora, was found in an unconscious
condition by her husband on his return
from work. An empty bottle, which had
contained choral, was found lying near
her. Doctors were sent for, but said there
was no chance for her recovery. Whether
she took the choral with suicidal intent is
not known.
GOULD, who was shot by Naron at Pratt
Center some time ago, and who was sup
posed at the time to have been mortally
wounded, has recovered sufficiently to be
pronounced out of danger by the attending
physician.
The receipts at the land-office at Wa
Keeney for the month of September
amounted to 31,997.4l. During the month
over 1000 entries and filings were made.
This is the largest amount of business done
during any one month since the establish
ment of that land district.
THE Union Pacific Railroad land sold in
Kansas during the month of September
amounted to II, 900 acres. The largest sale
in any one county was in Graham, where
1856 acres were sold. In Russell County
1886 acres were sold; in Barton, 194; in
Cove, 7S5; in Ellsworth, 80, and Rush, $40.
NEARLY all the lands in Sheridan, Ora
ham, Cove and Trego Counties have been
bought. Large tracts of land in these
counties have been secured recently by
VI Capitalists. Oue ldOo puI-
chase amounted to S250,000.
PosT-oFFICEs lately established in Kan
sas: Bureau, st. John County, John S.
Adams, postmaster; Calvert, Norton
County. James w. Stottis; Coalburg,
Linn County, William H. Weatherman;
Spring Lake, Meade County, Oliver Nor
man.
SOME weeks since John Fowler, an old
and respected citizen of Emporia, suffered
by bold robbery at his house. The other
day he swore out a warrant against Joseph
Barley, a policeman, whom he claims to
have recognized as one of the parties who
assaulted him on the night in question.
THE other night a negro boy sixteen
years old, and Olney King, twenty-six
years old, escaped from Jail at Junction
City. The Sheriff offered a reward of SO
for each of the refugees.
THE Friends Yearly Meeting was held
at Lawrence from October . to 10. Repre-
sentatives were present from all parts Of
the country.
THE wife of a Junction City man re-
Gently eloped with another fellow, and the
husband put out for Kansas City to hunt
them up, under the impression that that
place is a city of refuge for runaway wives
and husbands.
AT the late meeting of the Grand Lodge
of Good TemplarS at Topeka the following
officers were elected: Grand Worthy Chief
Templar, Miss Amanda Way; Grand
Worthy Councillor, James Grimes; Grand
Worthy Vice Temrlar. Mrs. S. NJ. Loot
bourrow; Grand Secretary, Miss Ada
Peck; Grand Treasurer, L. Brown; Grand
Chaplain, Rev. G. s. Dearborn; Grand
Marshal, James A. Troutman; j.. Grand
Marshal, Mrs. n. E. Williford; G. W. A.
Secretary, Mrs. James .Troutman: G. Sem
tinel, George E. Doughertg; Grand Guard,
A. D. Billings; Superintendent Juvenile
Templars, Mrs. A. A. Peck.
Two letters were recently received from
Fred P. Brown, who disappeared from To- |
peka several weeks ago with $500 in his /
possession, part of which belonged to /
Rogers, a cattleman of Kansas City. One /
was addressed to Browns father and the
other to P. l. Bonebrake, President of the .
Central National Bank, from whom he had /
obtained 500. Brown said he was in dam
ger of losing heavily in a cattle company .
which he had entered without his fathers !
knowledge and that he went away to try 1
and save himself, and that it.was the mis-
take of his life. He promises to pay every
body in time and says that the story which .
was started that he wanted to be released .
from an engagement to marry young
lady of Shawnee County is entirely false.
FINE fall weather.
THE other night Mrs. Davis, coIored
woman of Leavenworth. while walking