The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

bic product Of winter wheat for 1885 i
9,SS2,1I1; of spring wheat, go; tota
winter and spring for 1885, 10,S59, All bush
els. This is short of the average for fiv,
years of about g, OO0, 900 bushels, and very
little, il any, in excess of the demands c
the State for seed and bread during thu
year. OF corn the probable product fol
1855 is l94, 10, S14 bushels, a little in excess
of the crop of 1884, and an increase over
five years average in round numbers o.
100000 bushels. The rye product fol
1885 is 2,7I4, 705 bushels; short of last year..
product about $500, 600 bushels. OF barley
for 1885 the probable product is s4S, 51t
bushels, which is an increase over the pro.
duct of 1884 of 292, 344 bushels. The YIELD
of oats for 1885 is 30,14SO6O bushels. Fol
1884 this crop fell short of the above pro.
duct about 1,006,000 bushels. Buckwheat
for 1885, will aggregate 21,412 bushels, al
increase over the product for 1884 of $40:
bushels. OF sweet potatoes the product fol
this year is 266. $50 bushels. This falls
short about $500 bushels of last years
yield. The movable product of Irish pota-
toes this year is 7,13l,5O5 bushels, being
short of the product of 1884 about Az, SO(
bushels.
THE Governor has appointed William
Martindale, of Greenwood County, and
John Teter, of Butler County, delegates
for the State at large to the National Con-
vention of Stockmen, to be held at Chicago,
ILL.,, November 18th and 18th, with John X.
Wright, of Davis County, aud D. E. Bal
lard, of Washington County, as aiternates.
The President on the 18th appointed the
following Kansas Postmasters: Othniel
Belson at Caldwell, vice S. Donaldson,
commission expired: Charles Hardcastle
at Marion, vice Francis Bower, commits
sion expired; Hattie P. Blair at Great
Bend, vice E. L. Chapman, commission
! expired.
THE whisky injunction cases filed in
Atchison by Attorney General Bradford
recently came on for hearing before Judge
David Martin in chambers, when Mr.. Wag-
| goner, one of the attorneys for the saloon
keepers. made motion for removal to the
United States Courts. This point was
briefly argued, and the court took the mat
ter under advisement until November
| AT the late election in Stafford County
upon the proposition to subscribe for 1,22O
shares of stock in the Anthony, Ration &
Western Railroad, a proposed branch of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road, the vote was in favor of it by $40
majority.
GEORGE ToBIN, an employee of the Santa
Fe Road, was seriously hurt the other
morning while working on bridge No. 81,
near Lawrence. The gang were handling
large rock when the rope broke and he
was struck in the face by it. Two teeth
were knocked out, his upper lip and nose
bruised and his forehead lacerated. There
was also a slight conclusion of the brain.
A TOPEKA paper recently stated that the
laying off of eighty odd men in the Santa Fe
shops caused considerable anxiety among
the employees remaining, particularly those
who are members of the Knights of Labor,
who seem to think this stroke of economy
is no more or less than the preparatory
step to provide against any interference
from this society in case a reduction in
wages may become necessary at an early
day. None of the men laid off were mar
ried.
A. WHITCOMB, of Lawrence, has pre-
sented the State Historical Society with a
copy of the issue of the Herald Of Freed9m,
for May Eth, 1856, a seven column folio
weekly paper. Only the outside pages of
the paper are printed, the attack on the
town four days later preventing the COM
pletion of the issue of the paper.
TOPEKA drug stores filed over fl We chou
sand applications for liquor from August
u to September 90. according to the pub
lished lists filed with the Probate Judge,
and this did not include the reunion.
In the case of Sullivan VS.. the Phoenix
Insurance Company, error from AtchSon
County. the Supreme Court in a late opin-
ion held: Where an agent of an insurance
company, acting within the general scope
of the business intrusted to him. whose
duty it is to fill up blank application. de-
csives and miSleads the assured, who is
unable to read, by deliberately writing .
false answers in the application. and pro- .
caring the signature of the assured thereto, I
after he had given full and correct an
swers to the questions asked, the company .
receiving the premium. and for whom the .
agent was acting, will in the case of loss,
be held responsible for the misrepresenta-
tons, and will be est0pped from insisting
on the breach of warranty and the untruth
of the presentations. II any person is to
suffer by reason of the wrong doing of
such general agent, it should be the COM
pany who clothed him with authority. and
for whom he was acting, rather than the
assured. who acted in good faith and inno-
Gently became party to the contract.
a CURIOUS incident happened al the Santa
Fe depot at Topeka the other day. When
the train from the West arrived, a lady,
formerly of Nashville, Tenn, stood on the
platform and became very much interested
in the polteness shown by brakeman to
the passengs. Suddenly she advanced to
the brakeman and said: "You are a
brave, noble young man, and l will re-
ward YOU; take this" And she took from
her finger a sparkling diamond ring and
handed it to him. He took it carelsssly,
thinking it a trifing, inexpensive orna-
nent, and after the train pulled out for
Kansas City, he gave the ring to little
: irl who was on the train and admired it.
w hen the train returned to Topeka the .
lady was again at the depot. and very
anxious to regain her ring, which is not
only a valuable one, but priced as a keep
sake. The lady, it is stated, was subject
10 temporary attacks of dementia under ,
which she was laboriug when she gave ,
away tie ring.
JAY GOULD was lately at Wichita. {
DURING a storm at Lawrence the other
n ght boom was heard that sounded more
ike the explosion of a powder magazine
han a thunder-clap, though the thunder
vas almost continuous and the lightning
requent. Several citizens asserted that I