The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-08-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| following Kansans: James II. Howard, OF
| Cher,'yyale: Mrs. Susanna Storker, of Null
berry Grove, and Charles j. Brown, of Cof
| feyville.
The following Kansas postmasters wers
/ commissioned on the 23d: Samuel Clark,
at Baxter Springs: Francis A. Mcpherson,
at Horronburg; David Sibbet. at Bar
! court, and Nathaniel B. Dilhorn, ut Bon
ner Springs
! CAPTAIX a. R. BANKS. formerly of Law
renee, but now employed by the Pension
Bureau, has been assigned to duty at st.
! Louis until November l, when his resigna-
I tiou will be accepted.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by Frank
| Herald, Secretary" and dated Topeka,
which states that at has been decided to
! call a conference meeting of Independent
Republicans to be held in the city of Atchi-
! son August 81 The circular invites ''all
| Republicans who are dissatisfied with the
| policy adopted by the party as to proh;-
bition, and who are in favor of a constitu-
tiOnal convention, to attend this confer
ence." 1t further declares: The object
of the conference is to arrive at some con-
clusion and adopt some method in regard
to organizing the true and independent
Republicans of Kansas, and to consider
the most effectual way to remove the bar
riers which now stand in the way of any
practical temperance legislation"
THE engine of steam thrashing machine
blew up about three O'Clock the other day
about five miles south of Fredonia. killing
ly wounding Maggie Marshall, thirteen
r.-clA Arritl l.
entY feet and the wheat stacks caught fire
but were extinsuished. The engine was
not in charge of the regular engineer when
the explosion occurred.
THE Kansas City & Pacific railroad COM
Dany filed its charter recently with the
! Secretary of State. This road will run
from Kansas City, Mo, to a connection
with the Atlantic & Pacific railroad at AL
buquerque, N. NJ, running through the fol-
lowing counties in Kansas: Wyandotte,
johnson, Miami, Franklin, Linn, Ander-
son, Bourbon, Allen, NeoSho, Labette and
Montgomery. The Missouri, Kansas a.
Colorado Railway company also filed its
charter. This road will run from Rich
land, Mo-, south and west to Bourbon
County, Kansas, and continuing in the
same general direction through the Indian
Territory, and into the State of Texas, and
terminating at Seymour, Texas.
LATE post-office changes in Kansas:
Names changed, Barnard, Linn County. to
Boi Court; Howe, Rush County, to Lip
pard; Tblow, Wyandotte County, to BOn-
ner Springs. Postmasters appointed, Bar
leyville, Nemaha County. c. ". Anderson;
Buda, Ness County, Clifton r. Garnett;
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Morris Doster, Sumner County, William
b. Hodges; Ford, Ford County, William
H. H. RAIDER; Harmony, Pawnee County,
Louis Kline; Hickman, Greenwood Coun-
ty, Thomas E. Wash; Lippard, Rush Coun
ty, Abraham Teoman; Marena, Hodge
man County, August Himer; Martin, Ellis
County, Elias F. Young; Neal, Greenwood
County, James Z. Ely; Kanopolis, Els
worth County, W. R. Kaffer; Mitchell,
Rice County. L. d. Cassler; Oronoque,
Norton County, Isaac Keener.
PENSIONS were recently secured for the
following Kansans: Louis A. Boone, of
Lynden; Jacob Canady, of Peterson; $. c.
Roach, Milan, and William Hobaugh, of
Girard.
The body of well-dressed man was re-
Gently found floating in the river at Leav-
enworth. Letters and papers found on his
person indicated that his name was Peter
Poulson. tailor who lately disappeared
from st. Joseph, No.
THE Governor has issued a proclamation
Offering reward of $3.50 for the arrest and
conviction of the unknown person or per-
sons who, on the night of May ~ last. on
Sappa creek, in Rawlins County, murdered
James Cozard and Jerry Plumber.
Z. +. KELLER, manager of the Farmers
Shipping Association at Gaylord has writ
ten the Board of Railway Commissioners
that the grain dealers of Northwest Kan
sas, along the line of the Missouri Pacific.
have formed combination to induce a re-
duction in the tariff rate, to the detriment
of the Farmers Society. He says that
should the Missouri Pacific company accede
to the demands of the grain dealers it will
enable them to pay a better price for grain
than his association. and as a consequence
will do away with the Farmers Society.
He requests the board to look after the in
tereSt of all classes, and if reduction is
obtained by the grain dealers, to see that
the same privileges are given the Farmers
Association.
Office who went on a trip of inspection
through the different coal fields of Kansas,
for the purpose of ascertaining the exact
condition of those employed in the mines.
and whether or not their condition could
be bettered, reports that at some of the coal
mines the past month the earnings of the
miners have not exceeded IS to $40, or an
average of about sll per month each, while
! their expenses overrun their wages from
! 81 25 to Sl3.
AT an election held in Sheridan County
the other day for relocating the county
seat from Kenneth to Hoxie the PROPOSE
tion was carried by almost an unanimous
vote. Hoxie, the, new metropolis of the
county, is Just ninety days old and con-
tains over 400 people. 1t was organized as
a city of the third-class, and held its first
city election on July -.
CoPIoUs rains have visited Northwest
Kansas during the past ten days.
VANDEvERE, the murderer of ". r Da-
Wis was seen the other day In the south
west part of Finney County. He said he
was going to Lakin to get his wife If he
waded through blood 1t is said that Van
devere answers almost exactly the deScrip-
tion of the murderer of the victims in the
Coolidge train robbery, and it is thought
he is the man.
TOPEKA, it is said, is to have cable rail
way.
Corn crop in Sheridan County good.
WHILE the st. Joseph and Topeka ball
clubs were playing at the latter city the
other day a foul ball sent among crowd
struck colored man named Mukes and de-