The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

IN answer to an inquiry asking II women
are qualified electors of school districts
the Attorney General lately gave an opiD-
ION IN which he holds that while they have
the right to vote at any district meet
Ing, they are not qualified electors of the
district within the meaning of any statute
using that term except the law authorizing
the issue of school district bonds, which
expressly gives them the right to vote on
hat question.
AS the wheat harvest progressed it be-
came evident that the yield would be
! greater than estimated June by the Sec
rotary of the State board of Agriculture.
Reports received by him from ninety
! correspondents in Southern Kansas showed
an average yield fifteen per cent. al owe the
estimate. The wheat is well filed. and
| while much of it was thin on the ground,
the grain is plump and will yield much bet
| ter than was even hoped for. The weather
FOR the last few weeks had been all that
/ could be desired for the maturing of the
winter wheat crop, and the indications
now are that Kansas will have a much bet
Ter crop than was expected.
ED Dixon, a saloon keeper of Huron,
Atchison County, pleaded guilty to viola
lions of the Prohibitory law before Judge
Martin, of the District Court, the other
morning, and was sentenced to pay fine
If 500 and serve a term eff 210 days in the
/ County Jail.
( The Mexican editors recently visited To-
( peka and were received by the Press Club,
and shown the sights centering at the
| Capital City,
The dwelling house of Hamilton Stone,
! fourteen miles west of Topeka, was burned
to the ground the other morning. Mr..
Stone was severely burnt, and his infant
child received injuries that it was thought
would prove fatal. The cause of the fire
was the accidental upsetting of lamp.
| ABOUT a year ago a Mrs. c. Burnett, of
| Topeka, left home and regularly COR
responded with her children, keeping them
posted in regard to her movements. For
some time past, however, they failed to
hear from her and letters addressed to her
were returned through the dead letter
office. Fearing foul play detectives were
given the matter in hand, when the fact
was developed that she is still alive and
had eloped with an old lover and left the
children to shift for themselves.
WASH. TYLER and Ed. Doak engaged in
a controversy the other evening at Green's
burg, a town TWENTY five miles south of
Kinsley. Tyler stabbed Doak, from the
effect of which he died in about one hour.
In the celebrated Hillman easel re-
Gently tried the second time at Leaven-
worth, the jury disagreed, being equally di-
vided.
THE Commissioner of Agriculture has
addressed a circular to the Secretary of
the State Board of Agriculture announc-
ing arrangements by which his office will
purchase cocoons to supply stations estab-
lished throughout the United States, for
experimental purposes. He advises all
having cocoons to sell to send them, under
given instructions, to the Woman'S Silk
Culture Association, Philadelphia, Mr..
Jules Herbetin, New Orleans, and c. w.
Brooks, San Francisco, of whora he will
obtain his supplies. C. V. Riley, United
States Entomologist, desires the silkwOrm
eggs, and will send frank to all who have
them to sell. Payment will be made at the
rate of $3.50 per ounce for all tested and
accepted.
Hon. B. w. PERKINS fractured bis ankls
recently by stepping and slipping on a
stone while going from his house to his
office at Oswego.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has addressed letter
to the Secretary of War in which he states
that in view of the alarming reports of the
threatened outbreak of the Cheyenne In
dams, he desires to call the attention of the
Wa Department to the exposed and de- |
Of ha il,
southern counties of the State. The Gov |
ernor says: Trusting confidently in the |
power and watchfulness ST the General !
Government to keep the indians within the /
borders of the Indian Territory, very |
large population has, within the fast two |
or three years, settled in the new counties |
of Comanche, Clark, Meade and Finney, on
or near the southern boundary line of /
Kansas. These citizens have neither arms /
nor military organizations, and tho small
military force of the State can not be
utilized as a standing army to guard
against an anticipated outbreak of the In
dams of the Territory. Should the Chey-
ennes escape from their reservations AMI
move northward, as they did in 1873, the
destruction of life and property might ex-
coed a thousand fold the murder and rapine
attending that disastrous raid" He there
lore was impelled to call attention to this
of affairs, and to request that
ample precautions be taken by the military
authorities of the United States to pro-
5ect the citizens of Kansas against any
possibility of any Indian outbreak. Later
'eports were that the President had the
natter under serious consideration.
THE other day as Mr.. Garrett, an old
gentleman accompanied by a boy, was
Jumping some refuse vegetables into the
liver at Leavenworth the wagon and team
vas backed into the river. Garrett and
he boy being drawn in also their lives
we're saved with difficulty, but the horses
we're drowned. Later in the day ropes
we're attached to the wagon and it was
pulled out, but while rufning it along the
treet a little boy named Foley was run
yer and killed.
LIGHTNING struck the stone doorstep of
Daniel Cassill's residence at the Topeka
cemetery the other day and knocked down
Irs. Cassill and her eight yearo old daugh-
er, who were standing in the door. The -,
hid was terribly burned about the shout ,
ers and arms, and probably fatally in !
ured. The mother was also considerably i
urned. and Mr.. Cassill, who stood a short y
istance away, was shocked. I
TIE battle with the weeds is lively.
4 FREIGHT train broke in two on the .
rade near Hiattville recently. Some cars
'ere ditched and burned, their loads of
latches and oil having been fired.
The Governor recently received a letter
ON W F. Fulton. Sheriff of Finnee