The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

! Gently said that CHAMBERS is becoming very
| prevalent, and that he is receiving calls
! from almost every section of the State
| from parties who have horses that have
been attacked with the disease. About all
/ that can be done is to have the horses
, killed, so that the disease will not spread
Z it is almost useless to try to cure it. 1t is
( thought that there are more cases in the
/ southern part of the State than any other
section.
| THE colored people of Leavenworth have
bad a very exciting revival in the African
! Methodist Church. Among the attendants
was fifteen-year-old girl. who although a
member took but little interest in religion.
I Recently, it is stated, she went into a sue
cession of frances, and predicted all man
ner of evil TO the people. After arousing
( from one of herrecent sleeps she exclaimed ::
Il have been called away to receive a SOL
emn warning and bring it back to Leaven-
worth. The city is doomed unless its dan
ger can be averted by prayer. There will
be great destruction by cyclones and food
The vials of great wrath are to be poured
upon the city and few will escape" The
attendance at the revival has increased un-
the people, and the warning that Leaven-
worth will follow in the footsteps of Sodom
of old is firmly believed by large numbers
The charter of the Chicago. Kansas &
Nebraska railway, the Rock Island exten-
sion in Kansas. was filed with the Secre-
tary of State the other day. The main road
will commence at point on the west bank
of the Missouri river, opposite the city of
st. Joseph, and will run thence in south
westerly direction to point on the south
line of the STATE of Kansas crossed by the
first meridian. There are to be several
branches. The general offices of the COM
pany are TO be at Atchison. The directors
are F. NJ. Darrat, c. W. Jones and E. S.
Comvell, of Atchison; s. S. Brown and G.
W. Samuel, of st. Joseph; H. A. Parker, Of
Chicago and NJ. A. Low, of Trenton, No.
The capital stock is placed at Sl5,0O0,0O0.
QUITE a sensation was recently created
at Topeka by the arrest of S. W. Pearse on
the charge OF embezzling $500. He had
for year or more been in the employ of
the National Loan and Investment Com
pany, acting as boOk-keeper. He had more
CT less charge Of the money of the concern
and was in the habit of transacting the
banking business. He wOnid secure checks
after they had been returned from the bank
and, by means of chemical process, would
efface the bank stamp and present the
check 4 second time forpayment, indOrsirg
it as c. A. Wilson. He had been in the en-
ploy OF the company since October l, and
his peculatiOns commenced from the day
following. He had formerly been in the
Of 70 Int
discharged for dishonesty.
\ BOARD of officers has been detailed to
convene at Fort Leavenworth for the ex-
animation of nOn-cOmmissioned officers
recommended for promotion.
TIE dead body of Olif John Obom. q
Swede, was recently found near his resi-
dence in Labette County. Obom was nearly
seventy years old and among the very first
settlers in the western part of the county.
He was a bachelor and always lived alone.
He owned Il farm of 100 acres, and was al
ways supposed to be wealthy. He kept
considerable money at his place, and to
avoid suspicion placed a small mortgage
on his farm, upon which he has paid inter
est for ten years. Quite a sum of money
was found, and the Swedish Minister at
Washington was communicated with, as he
had no known relatives in this country.
ACCORDING to the law Of Kansas now in
force ell tax deeds hereafter issued shall be
recorded by the person or persons to whom
issued in the Office of the register of deeds
of the proper county within six months
from the date of the issue thereof
WHILE recently fighting prairie fire near
Morehcad the clothes of Mrs. Bowker, wife
of Rev. Bowker, caught fire, and she was so
badly burned that her life was despaired OF.
THE slaughtcr-hOuses, pens and bone-dust
factory owned by NJ. E. Humphrey, at
Parsons, was totally destroyed tine other
night by fire. Loss S2,00J. He could not
place insurance omit, consequently it was a
total loss.
On account of the great railroad strike
many towns in Northwestern Kansas were
short of provisions.
THE City Council of Emporia recently in
creased the wages of the men working on
the streets from one dollar to s1.59per day.
and resolved to employ none but married
men or those supporting families.
WHILE the sheriff was lately attending
funeral two prisoners escaped from Jail at
Ellsworth. They were captured.
JOHN SMITH, colored, was recently tried
at Topeka and convicted OF breaking into
a freight car on the Union Pacific railroad
and stealing 50 worth of hides belonging
to Kansas City firm, and sentenced by
Judge Guthrie TO seven years in the peni-
tentiary.
THE new board of State House Commits
sioners net at Topeka the other day and
appointed c. II. Parsons as temporary
architect.
THE Attorney General has been called
upon to give an opinion with regard to the
law passed at the last session appropriate
ing SO .0U0 to complete the work of remodel !
ing the Senate Chamber Originally $50
900 was appropriated for this work, but up
to January the old Board of State House !
Commissioners had expended Sl04. 900 and /
contracted for $4,000 more work The |
last appropriation reads $4,000 to pay /
outstanding liabilities and complete the I,
work. The question occurs as to whether /
the S2S coo already expended and vouchers .
cancelled is included in the outstanding
liabilities for which the S45.000 appropria- |
tion was made. Bradford has decided to |
test the matter in the courts.
WARDEN SMITH reports that matters are
at a standStill at the penitentiary. There /
being no demand for coal the men form |
erly employed in the mine are now kept /
busy constructing a stone wall, for which /
an appropriation was made at the last ses- !
sion of the Legislature.
TOPEKA plasterers have organized.
THE other night crazy man named |
Charlie HaIti. boarded the switch engine /
in the Santa Fe yards at Topeka and pro-
ceeded to take charge of it and run the /
thing to suit himself. lie politely informed :