The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Secretary OF State was that OF the Memphis
& Western Railroad Company, with eleven
directors as follows: George Miller, Az
drew GrOgan, James A. Leaveditt, Of
Wellington; Samuel Fleming, James Hen
y and Frank Hess. of Arkansas City; L.
2. Miller and Charles Beary, of Cherryvale;
John Montgomery, of Oswego, and Allen
e. Kirby, OF ST. Louis. The charter pro-
vides fOr standard road from Memphis,
on the Mississippi, through Arkansas and
Missouri to tie east line of the State of
Kansas, thence through the Counties of
Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery. Cowley,
Sumner, kingman, Pratt, Reno. Stafford,
Edwards. Pawnee, Barton, Rush, Ness,
Hodgeman, Trego, Cove. Lane, st. John,
Wichita, Greeley ard Wallace, with q
branch through Harper. Meade, Barber,
Comanche, Clark, Seward. Stevens and
MoTtc:. Counties. The offices OF the COM
pany are to be located at Winfield. TIE
charter provides for capital OF $1,000 00G
THE Governor recently made the follow
ing appointments: Regents of the Agri-
cultural College, John II. Fullnwider. OF
Eldorado, vice c. a. Leland; John E. Hes
( sin, of Manhattan. vice J. T. Elliott Re
gents OF the State University, N. r. Simp-
son, o: Mcpherson. and \. G. Otis. of Atch-
iso2, 10 succeed themselves. Director OF
the Penitentiary, Arch Shaw, of Olathe
vice H. p. Lowrey. Member of the Live
stock Sanitary Commission, James W
Hamilton, of Wellington, to succeed him
! self Members of the State Board of
Health, ". l. Schench, of Usage City, and
, II. S. Roberts. of Manhattan, to succeed
themselves. Appraisers of Salt Spring
Lands, d. VI. F'inney, of Neosho Falls, a
I L. Norhes. of Russell, and J. F. Billings. of
! Clay Center. Trustee of State Charitable
Institutions, A. 7. Sharpe, of Ottawa, to
succeed himself.
LATE post-ofi;ce changes in Kansas: Es-
) tabliShei. Calhoun, Cheyenne County,
james Sha wpill: Gopher, st, John County.
William Ii. Edmonson; Laurel, Hodgeman
County, Alfred T. Reilley. Discontinued.
Henry, Dickinson County; Tokomo, Pratt
/ County.
! TIE National Educational Association of
| the United States meets in Topeka July l3,
| 1856, and the people of that city are MAX
ing lively efforts to prepare for the accom-
modation of all who may attend.
TIE Fredonia Citizen declares that the
/ emigration from Wilson County to West
eIn Kansas this spring is something UMPIRE
cedented. Many well-to-do farmers are in
/ duced to make the change in hopes of Sc
curing more land than they can now OBJ
tain III the eastern part of the State, and
to take advantage of the experience and
knowledge they ave acquired.
THE State superintendent of Public In
structiOn estimates the amount of school
land in Kansas remaining unsold at $50, coo
acres The permanent school fu,:d now on
interest amounts to S3,j99.OGO
An official from TarytOwn, N Y, re-
Gently went to Leavenworth witl requi-
sition for one of the Tarrytown robbers,
VINO was SO closely pressed that he gave
himself up The man is a deserter from
the United States army and was to be
taken back to New York The Tarrytown
robberies occurred over a month ago.
Nearly the whole town was burglarized.
but ali the robbers but one were bagged
( The man who escaped went to Leaven-
worth.
n SMART kid, aged only eighteen, recent
ly victimiZed several Topeka mOney-lend-
ers obtaining in the aggregate nearly $500
on mortgages given on a team to the differ
ent parties. His name is Roach, and as
soon as he got the money he left. Shortly
after his departure it was discovered That
the team did not belong to Roach, as he had
represented, but was owned by a livery
, man. He was overhauled at AtChison and
taken back.
Dr.. KITE c. Bushnell, of Topeka, has
accepted work at Chicago among fallen
women, under direct supervision of Miss
Francis Z. Willard
KANSAS farmers who raised broom corn
last season and held it until about January
l received from Sl25 to $175 per ton. nearly
twice as much per ton as they ever be.
fore received.
Il anticipation of the enactment of a law
opening TO Homestead settlement the pub.
lie land strip lying between Texas on the
south and Kansas and Colorado on the
north, immigrants are already pouring
into that region; and it is estimated that
should it be opened as expected, there will
be 10000 people there before the season is
over.
THE President on the 1st nominated John
L. Price to be register of the land office at
Topeka, and William c. Baird at Wa
Keeny.
IHE NeOsha Valley Presbytery, compris-
ing thirteen counties in the southern por-
ton of the State, met in Coffeyville on the
3lst with large attendance. Rev. W. B.
Chamberlain, of Humboldt presided.
ManS of the churches reported large ad-
ditions.
The Rock Island railroad survey for the
new road has progressed about one hundred
miles northwest from Atchison. The peo-
pie along the route were reported very en-
thusiaStic about the enterprise.
LIEUTENANT GROVE YoUNG, who formerly
resided in Shawnee County, five miles
southwest OF Topeka, but now of the Grove
Young Mercantile Company, Higginsville.
Mo, has given the State Historical Society
a singular relic of the war. being no less
than the skin of his much venerated war
horse, which died at Higginsville on the
23d OF March. The horse was thirtv-two
years old at the time of its death. Secre-
tary Adams is in a quandary as to the
method of preserving the hide.
THE vandalism at Atchison the other
night by which fifteen locomotives of the
Missouri Pacific were disabled, caused
feeling of indignation, A meeting was
held 10 denounce the perpetrators of the
outrage.
THE President has nominated A. ".
Trip for postmaster of Barnes, vice Ober.
removed: also &. Z. Stowell, of Syracuse.
vice Barber removed.
CAPITAL is seeking investment in Kansas.
\ LATE fire at Columbus DESTROYED R.
Hertz restaurant, loss. 5000. insurance,
5000; Allison Bros. groceries, loss. $500,
insurance = sNl: Rranin Bros hnol,s and