The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-11-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Mrs Pierce, of Junction City, entitled
solution of Domestic Problems" She
represented the greatest happiness to be
attained In the home as the unknown guam
tlty Is represented in algebra by Z, and
1 carried out the simile through the paper in
very happy manner. The husband is
provider and the wife keeper of the home.
Ii he provides for the wants of the family
he is entitled to rest and sympathy. If she
is keeper she is entitled to such sum as his
means Will allow to carry out her plans.
She Is entitled to his company. She should
sympathiZe with his business cares and ad-
| just her expenditures to his income. If
each seeks the happiness of the other the
value of K will be found.
A WOMAN named Robe died in North
Lawrence the other night who had been
lying there for some weeks suffering from
the effects of shot in the leg, inflicted in
a manner that indicated some mystery
Recent disclosures show that the woman,
who was about seventeen years of age, was
married to man many years her senior.
He became Jealous of her, and she, becom-
ing afraid of him, got a shotgun. One
lay, when the boarding car was on the
/ Union Pacific Road, shot was heard, and
the woman was found on investigation to
have received a charge of shot in the leg
just above the ankle. How the shot was
fired is mystery. The car proceeded to
North Lawrence and she was removed
from the car to house, where few days
since lockjaw set in and she died.
The law against setting out fires pro-
vides that if any person shall wantonly
and willfully set on fire any woods,
marshes or prairies, so as thereby to occa-
sion any damage to any other person, he
shall, upon conviction, be punished by
fine not exceeding 500 and not less than
$50, or by Imprisonment in the county Jail
not more than six months and not not less
than ten days, or both by such fine and i'm
prisonment. The party so offending is al
so liable to persons damaged for the full
amount of such damage, but the law cam
not be construed to prevent any parson fir
ing against fire SO as to protect his or her
property from being destroyed.
A LATE decision of the Supreme Court is
TO the effect that no cases can be COM
menred against parties charged with vio-
Iating the Prohibitory law of 1881 that have
not already begun in the Courts. Only
violations of the amended law of 1885 are
liable to action.
THE Supreme Court recently decided
that the Superintendent of County Asy-
lum, in the management thereof, and in
the care and custody of paupers placed
therein, is under the control and subject to
the order and direction of the County Com
missiOners: and where the Commissioners
find that persons who have been placed in
such Asylum, are no longer entitled to
support at the public expense, and make
an order directing the Superintendent to
discharge them from the Asylum, it is his
duty to comply with such order.
It is stated that a fellow is visiting
many school districts in the State swind-
ling the school Directors and hotel men.
He introduces himself as being sent out by
the State School Superintendent to inves-
tigate frauds, and after eXacting a promise
OF secrecy, he proceeds to fill out a blank
of the scholars in the district and gets the
Directors signature. The part signed by
the Director when cut off from the list
proves to be an order for cash, which the
where he is stopping. The State Superin-
tendent authorizes the statement that the
fellow is a fraud, and that he has sent out
no one to investigate frauds in schools.
FOUR young ladies recently passed
through Syracuse, Meade County, for the
purpose of locating claims on Government
land. They propose to take home each,
also a timber claim near Greedy. The
ladies were, Misses Mary Campbell and
Laura Rodman, late of Pennsylvania, and
Misses Jude and Bell Graham, of Michi-
gan. Two young men were their escorts.
JACOB POLAND, a boy fifteen years old,
left his home in Kingman in July, 1884.
Since that time nothing has been heard of
him. His mother is in constant anguish,
and whether dead or alive a knowledge Of
the boy would relieve distress.
AN extensive prairie fire recently swept
over portions of Finney County. Barton
Bros range was completely burned, neces-
stating the removal of the cattle. Several
head of cattle were burned. The fire spread
over ten or fifteen townships.
PosT-OFFICE changes in Kansas for the
week ended November 8: Established,
Campbell, postmaster. Discontinued, El
PasO, Edwards County: Grover, Ottawa
County. Names changed, Dallas, Norton
County, to Oronoque; Waseca, johnson !
County, to Holiday. Postmasters ap-
pointed, Elmdale, Chase County, James |
R. Jeffery; Greystone, Wilson County, |
Omer Neff; Hickman, Greenwood County, |
Ebenezer Keller; Howe, Rush County, |
John Diehl; Labette, Labette County, J. S. |
McLain; Lacrosse, Rush County, Christ. |
Huffmaster; Leonardville, Riley County, !
A. H. Meier; Marmaton, Bourbon County, |
D. C. Ball: Neosho: Rapids, Lyon County,
Alfred Roberts; Oronoque, Norton County,
William S. Campbell; Ottumwa, Coffey /
County, Henry R Richards; Reading, Lyon
County, j. A. Gougerich; Rossville, Shaw.
nee County, NJ. Freshman; Sbley, Doug
las County, C. Baker; Solomon Rapids,
Mitchell County, Emory P. Bixby.
CHARTERS lately filed with the Secre-
tary of State: The Sherman Town Com
pany, of Sedgwick County, with a capital
stock of $1,000; the Chicago, Emporia &
Southwestern Railroad Company, with
spithl stock of 81, ZOO, 900. The estimated
length of this road is 900 miles. The di-
rectors are: H. c. Cross, c. Hood, D. VI.
Davis, H. p. Clark. o. W. Waymire and j.
NJ. Steele, of Emporia: W. NJ. Joue, OF Des
J. S. Doolittle, of Cottonwood
Falls: II. H Gardner, of Eldorado.
PAwNEE County has l ,9j3 school children.
The other evening, when the main street
Of Parsons was thronged with people, Ed.
Scott, a switchman in the Missouri Pacific
yards, commenced shooting at a man
named Saunic, with whom he had pre-
viously had some trouble. Saunie was