The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

year in the penitentiary. He pleaded
guilty to stealing registered letter con-
tanning five dollars.
THE Missouri Pacific Railroad has
bought seventy acres of additional land
joining their right of way near the fair
grounds at Atchison, which, in addition
to thirty acres already owned in that
! vicinity, will be used as a site for new
shops, foundry and car works, which it is
proposed to build at once. The present
| shops, which are nearer town, will be torn
down to give room for additional yards,
and the plant moved to the new site The
present shops now employ 800 men the
year round, but it is proposed that the new
ones shall give employment to ? ,00) men and
| will be not only the largest railroad shops in
Kansas, but the largest along the line of
the Missouri Pacific Road. They will cost
S25O,OO0,0O0. 1t is stated that when jay
Gould inspected the site offered at Atch-
iSon he at once gave orders to buy it, and
its purchase permanently fixes Atchison as
| the base of the Missouri Pacific operations
in the Northwest. Beside the shops, orders
have been given for a $4,000 hospital, to
he erected in the vicinity of the shops site.
| ONE afternoon recently the barn on P.
/ H. Buffers farm, near Silver Lake. was
destroyed by fire together with its con-
tents, including three horses. Two of the
animals were ordinary work horses, and
the third a racer, named Wyandotte, val
ued at $500. There was considerable hay
in the barn, and the loss is estimated at
$1,000. Insurance, $1,000.
! Mrs. GARRETT, who recently disappeared
/ from her home at Emporia, was found
some time later at Wycof, a small station
about fifteen miles southeast of that city.
She had become temporarily deranged
while hunting a house to rent and wan
dered off.
j. ". MILLARD, ex-postmaster Of Wa
Keeney, Trego County, died at the City
Hospital in Kansas City the other day.
He had gone to that place several days
previous, and was stricken with an epilep-
tic fit on the street.
PosT-oFFICE changes in Kansas during
the week ended October 18th: Established,
Byers, Meade County, John NJ. Byers,
Postmaster; Dalton, Sumner County,
George w. Doughty, Sr., Postmaster;
State Line, Cheyenne County, John W.
Cole, Postmaster. Postmasters appointed,
Caldwell. Sumner County, Othniel Beeson;
Great Bend, Barton County, Mrs. Hattie
p. Balm; Marion, Marion County, Charles
Hardcastle; Jewell, Jewell County, Robert
W. Hill.
THE charter of the Enquirer Printing
and Publishing Company of Topeka was
recently filed. The purpose is to publish
daily and weekly Democratic newspaper,
and to carry on a general printing and pub
fishing business. Capital stock, $4,000.
Directors for the first year: John Martin,
w. n. Allen, NJ. E. Matthews, B. r. Wilson
and W. c. Allen.
The Grand Lodge 1. o. o. F. refused to
remove the Grand Secretary's Office to To-
peka.
AT the late annual session of the Grand
Lodge 1. o. o. F., held at Topeka, the fol-
lowing officers were chosen; J. S. Codding
of Pottawatomie County, Grand Master;
J. C. Welsh, of Wyandotte, Deputy Grand
Master; J. T. McMillen, of Wichita, Grand
Warden; S. F. Burdette, of Leavenworth,
Grand Secretary (his twenty-fift term);
l.. Mayo, of Leavenworth, Grand Treas
urer; G.. W. Jones, Grand Representative to
the Sovereign Grand Lodge, and Dr.. Stew
art of Clay Center, Medical Director. The
Grand Master appointed the following:
Grand Chaplain, Rev. j. H. Bright, Els
worth; Grand Marshal, W. A. Germany,
Fort Scott; Grand Guardian, A. L. Vorhis,
Russell; Grand Conductor, A. w. Hayes,
Topeka; Grand Herald, w. P. Webb, Lar
ned; Grand Messenger, d. E. Shurtell;
Grand Instructor, c. W. krebbs.
On the 23d the Postmaster General ap-
pointed the following fourth class post |
masters in Kansas: At Webster, James /
McComb; Larkin, Robert c. Sweeney;
Lancaster, John B. Henderson; Beament, I
A. Edgar: Andover, Archibald o. Burton;
White Hall, Mrs. Minnie +. Hall; Hall /
lowell, C. a. Gibbs; Chard, Charles f. /
Breckenridge; Stilson, A. S. Foster; Gull
yer, l.. W. Dawson; Cedar Point, ". !
Doughty.
AT a recent public meeting in L eaven-
worth L. T. Smith made proposition that .
for $4,000 and the right of way through the .
city, he would build standard gauge road
from Leavenworth to the kaw River The
was unanimously adopted and
a committee of five appointed to lay the
before the County Board.
THE Kingman fair was reported an i'm
mense success. The exhibit was good in
all departments, and in many instances
was worthy of a much older county. The
stock display exceeded expectations, and
the agricultural display was good.
THE population of Cherokee County at
present is represented to be over $4,000.
The acreage of corn last year was 17,G09,
averaging thirty bushels per acre. Wheat
averaged twenty bushels per acre, some
pieces yielding as high as fifty-six BUSH
els.
THE other day Cavanough Moran, a
plasterer, applied at Topeka drug store
for liquor. Being refused he abused the
druggist, who elected him from the store.
Picking up a large stone Moran hurled it
through the large plate glass, worth SlGO,
iemolishing the same. One of the firm
shot twice at Moran as he fed, but failed
to hit him.
RECENTLY two children of George Carr,
Of Chautauqua, were taken ill with
Mr.. Carr started for his father, DIR. L. P.
Carr, but before returning one of the
children was dead and the other died soon
after.
ABOUT 5000 has been raised already to-
ward the erection of monument to Cen
eral Grant at Leavenworth.
WICHITA boasts boom.
Ar Emporia the other day work train
IN the Santa Fe ran over and killed Thomas
Whimp, aged about eighty years. He had
been walking on the track ahead of the
rain and had stepped off, dropping bum
lie; in returning for it he Slipped and the
locomotive struck him. From papers