The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-11-12
Miscellaneous.

miscellaneous.
THE fifth semi-annual meeting of the
Kansas and Western Missouri Social
Science Club was held at Lawrence No
vember 9th and 9th, in the First Baptist
Church.
THE United States Fish Commission car
arrived at Kansas City the other day with
fifteen thousand carp for distribution. The
car was met there by S. Fee, Kansas State
Fish Commissioner, who superintends the
distribution of carp to all applicants from
( the State of Kansas, of whom there were
about three hundred. Each applicant re-
/ ceived twenty young carp shipped by ex-
/ press in tin pail with perforated cover.
CARRIE HINCKLEY was recently adjudged
/ insane by Topeka jury and sent to the
asylum. Among her vagaries were that
! she had found the mutilated body of Fred
Brown, who disappeared some months
since, in an old we'll. and that she received
the reward of $1,000 for finding the body,
which was now to her credit in bank, and
! in addition that she had discovered $20S, 600
/ in gold, which had also been deposited in
| her name.
THE other day Frank Moore, eleven years
! old, residing with his parents about four
miles from Topeka, fell from wagon and
broke his wrist: the bones protruding
through the flesh stuck in the ground
where he fell. A physician was called
who dressed the wound. The day after
| the accident the hand commenced to turn
black and modification set in. The third
| day modification had spread to the elbow,
and on the fourth day several doctors
called for the purpose of amputating the
arm, but found that modification had
reached the lungs, and the flesh had al
ready commenced to drop off the boys
hand, blood poisoning being very bad.
The patient had lost his reason and death
was only a matter of few hours.
| AS the Missouri Pacific passenger train
! from the east was going into the yards at
Parsons, the other morning, it collided
with a train of freight cars which had run
on the main track The engine and tank,
mail car and several freight cars were to-
tally demolished. The mail car literally
split the engine tank in two, forcing the
pieces into the cab of the engine.
PATENTS lately issued TO Kansas invent
ors: John NJ. Gore, Raymond, cutting ap-
paratus for mowers and reapers; James A.
Loomis, Arkansas City, washing machine;
James H. Mitchell, Wellington, adjustable
shade for windows.
DURING the month of October the sale of
Union Pacific lands in Kansas amounted to
104G63 acres, as compared with about H.
600 acres for September. A sale of $4,000
acres in Graham County was made to a syn
dicate of men from Kansas and Illinois, in
Guiding a prominent banker of Randolph
County, Mo. Another sale of 5000 acres
in Trego County was made to a number of
men from Iowa.
A PELICAN was shot recently on the sand
bar in the Arkansas River, near Wichita,
which measured nine feet from tip to tip
of its wings, and which in life stood six
feet high. It's bill had a capacity to hold
two gallons of food. Its feathers were two
, inches thick.
A CASE of very considerable interest, in
yolving as it does the titles to great guam
titles of school lands in the northwestern
section of Kansas, is soon to be finally
acted upon by the Supreme Court. The
County Treasurer of Norton County, fol-
lowing the rule laid down by his predeces-
sors in Office and the practice carried out
by all the County Treasurers in that
section of the State some time in October,
1884, advertised large body school land,
to be sold by public auction, in tracts of
forty acres each, the sale to commence at
ten O'Clock on the morning of November 4,
1884. On the day named in the advertise
ment, the County Treasurer proceeded to
sell the land advertised. The sale COM
o,o oIo
three O'Clock. Shortly before three O'Clock
on the day of sale, large land owner of
that section, entered the Office of the
County Treasurer and made bid on near
ly every tract of land previously offered
and sold, his bid being a slight advance on
all previously made. His bid was refused
and the papers made out to the original
purchasers. Application was made to
District Judge Pratt for a mandamus COM
yelling the Treasurer to sell the land to the
second bidder. The Judge decided that the
bid was good if rendered before three
O'Clock and ordered peremptory man
damus to issue. The County Treasurer at
once entered an appeal to the Supreme
Court where the case will soon be tried.
RENO County has $50 school children.
THE question of issuing bonds for the
purpose OF building a court house at Kins-
ley, in Edwards County, which was sub
mitted to a vote OF the people, resulted in
favor of the bonds.
SUNDAY morning, November 1, the Con-
gregationalsts OF Topeka celebrated the
thrtieth anniversary of the founding OF
the Congregational Church in that city,
and the fifteenth year Of the beginning of
the pastorate of Rev. L. Blakesley, the
present pastor.
ACCORDING to Prof. Snow the past was
the coldest October for the past eighteen
years, with one exception, VIZ, 1863.
The Kansas State Grange meets in an
nual session in Music Hall, Topeka, Dec. s.
SOME of the State papers are publishing
the story of the large Mississippi catfish
that was captured and in whose stomach
were found portions of a boys pants, shoes,
hat, ETC., and locate it at the mouth of
Chapman Creek, in Kansas.
ALL the preliminaries are said to bs ar
ranged for the immediate building of the
Wichita & Colorado Railroad from Wichita
northwest to Larned. Subsidies to the
amount of $1,000 per mile have been voted
covering the first twenty-five miles This
line will be branch of the st. Louis. Fort
Scott & Wichita Railway.
GEORGE WELLS has received his appoint
ment as Supervising Architect of the pub
lie building ss Leavenworth.