The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The State Veterinarian has decided tC
visit every county in the State and thor.
ouShiy inspect the livestock. This is done
IN order to stamp out, if possible, the CLAN.
derS. The Livestock Sanitary Commission
Will accompany hun.
A NUMBER of New York capitalists Will
establish an overall factory in Topeka. II
will have a capacity of manufacturing Co
pairs per day. From $50 to 2CO hands will
be employed.
The other morning the pawnshop of ].
l.. Paine, at Topeka, was robbed OF Sl,GtO
worth of jewelry. including nineteen
watches, l20 finger rings and five diamond
lace pins.
The report of the Secretary of trH State
! Board of agriculture estimates that at
least 20 per cent. ofthe wheat sOwn in Kan
sas last fall has been killed. The loss III the
central part OF the State, where the greater
part of the wheat is grown, is very heavy,
ranging i'll the different counties from 80 to
~ PEI cent; in the eastern counties from
20 TO 30 per cent and in the west from five
to 10 per cent.
II consequence of the riotous proceed
ings at Parsons the Governor called out
Guards, consisting of eight companies.
The troops were taken by special train to
the scene of disturbance. When the order
to march was received one company was
in the midst of the gaities of the ballroom,
and to the musical strains of "The Girl
Left Behind Me" turned from the giddy
| maZes of the dance to the stern realities of
| the tented field.
The State Sanitary Commission, at the
/ request of the State officers of Tennessee
and Kentucky. passed a resolution recon-
mending to the Governor that the existing
quarantine regulations against cattle from
the above named States be removed.
JAMES Roach, who was arrested at Atch-
ison and taken to Topeka to answer the
charge Of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses, was taken before Judge Guthrie
and pleaded guilty Roach is a boy only
nineteen years of age, whose parents died
| about twelve years ago and left him with
two sisters to provide for. Until very re-
Gently he had been industrious and b 7nest
but bad associates led him into dishonesty
He was given two years III the peniten-
t;arv.
THE Board of Regents of the State Nor
NAL School met ut Emporia the other day,
when the old officers were all reelected for
the present year, and the board is now
made up as follows: William Rice, presi-
dent; j. II. Franklin, vice-preSident; NJ:
Stewart, treasurer; II. ID. Dickson. secre-
tary, and ". H. Caldwell and Z. W. War
ncr. members.
AT the municipal election in Emporia
a nj nf Ioh oil of hn
four Councilmen.
Two men, father and son, were recently
fearfully burned at Bird City, Cheyenne
County, by the explosion of gasoline which
they We're using in gasoline stove. 1t was
doubtful whether either would recover.
MEMORIAL services for the late John B.
Cough were held at the Christian Church
in LeavenwOrth the other evening.
THE warden of the penitentiary in his
March report gives the number of prison.
ers on April l to be S13. There were re-
ccived during March, Is; discharged, u,
two of the latter being pardOned. The
earnings for the month amounted to SILL
500.23 Total expenses, Sl0740S9.
THE three-year-Old son of j. p. Harlan,
who resides near Leavenworth. recently
figure him for life. Mr. Harlan had Just
sharpened a hatchet and was passing
through his yard carrying the hatchet in
his hand. Unknown to him, the child was
following close behind, and stumbling
struck one of his eyes on the sharp edge of
the hatchet, splitting the ball of the eye
and infcting an ugly wound, besides per-
anently destroying the sight.
THE following fourth-claSs Kansas post
masters were appointed on the 1th Mrs.
Retta Rodicler, Bigelow, Marshall County;
Robert Guth, Newbury, Wabaunsee Coun-
ty: James Bolten, Pine Grove, Butler
County; Joseph L. Higbee, Torrance, Cow
ley County.
Two companies of militia we're ordered
to remain at Parsons to preserve order un-
til ali danger of trouble was over. The
mayor of the city authorized a telegram to
be sent to Vice-President Hoxie that the
city will make good any damage done
there to railroad property by mob violence.
j. J. FREY has been appointed superin-
tendent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railway. north of Texas, with headquarters
at Parsons.
to aid in the construction of railroads, S4O,-
0O0 to the Parsons Pacific, a road projected
southwest to Albuquerque, n. NJ, with
branch to El Paso, Tex, and $4,000 to the
Columbus, Salina & Southwestern, line
projected from Columbus to Parsons,
thence on to Salina and on to Colorado.
THE steamer Wyoming the other day un-
loaded one hundred tons of freight at
Leavenworth. 1t was from st. Louis.
PosT-OFFICE changes in Kansas during the
week ended April3: Established, McCand-
lish Ness County, Charles McCandlish, post
master; Fox, Harper County, Sue Fox,
postmaster; Granger, Comanche County,
Elbert Y Gods, postmaster: TonOvay,
Greenwood County, James E. Moe, post
master. Discontinued, Eldridge, Sedg-
wick County. Name changed, Memphis,
Bourbon County, to Garland.
Ok the morning of the 7th the mammoth
whistle of the Missouri Pacific machine
shops ct Parsons was heard for the first
time FOR a whole month. 1t was just one
month that day at ten O'Clock since the
shops were shut down by the strikers.
There were seventy-four men at work in
the several departments, mostly old em-
ployes who went out on the call, but wEO
returned to work.
TOPEKA recently had a small fire.
THE mayor OF AtchiSon recently tele-
graphed Vice President Hoxie, of the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad. that 1.-The city OF
Atcl:ison viii pay all damages to the corn-
pany's property in the corporate limits rs
the result Of tire lewlessness growing out
of the late strike, as may be agreed upon By +
e competent board of appraisers
IL drug store at Norton is said TO be a
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