The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-01-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| nual repoSt. recommend that the Legisla-
ture so amend the present railroad law as
to give the board power to compel switch
connections at railroad crossings wherever,
) in their Judgment, it is deemed advisable
for the transfer of freight from one line to
another There are many important COM
I mon points in the State where there are no
means of transferring cars from one line to
another. If only one line desires a switch
or Y. it can not go on the right of way of
the otner line to make snch connection
The board desires the power to order this
done, where deemed advisable, at the ex-
pense of both lines.
THE teache er in one of the Shawnee Coun-
ty public schools has a refractory set Of
BOYS to deal with, who strew anything but
roses in his pathway to fame. Recently
two of the boys quarreled and the teacher
led them out-presumably by the ear. Upon
attempting to re-enter the school he found
I that some of the scholars inside had locked
him out. and despite his demands, would
not open the door. His only way to gain
admission was to break in the door, and
this he did. with the assistance of colored
recruit. Then the fathers of some of
the boys brought suit against him for
breaking into the house, and the teacher re-
turned the fire by having some of his un-
ruly scholars arrested.
THE Kansas Trust and Banking Com
pany fled its charter recently. The object
Of the company is to negotiate loans on
real estate and other securities; to deal in
commercial paper, stocks, bonds and other
property on commission OF otherwise. The
/ IF %ha is 70 ha in
and the directors are John J. Ingalls,, R. NJ
Manley, z. G. Armsby, Charles Manley,
A. ". Simpson. The capital stock of the
company is $4,000, divided into shares OF
! 800 each.
1t is stated that the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railroad has submitted town
/ ship and city bond proposition in Cowley
/ County to aid in the building of twenty-five
miles of road between Douglass and Win
! field, and when completed they viii have a
/ continuous line from Florence, via. Eldor-
/ ado, to Arkansas City. Under authority
granted the above company to build from
Arkansas City into the Indian Territory,
they are required to construct one hundred
miles the coming year. The surveyors are
in the field and work on this Indian Terri
/ tory line will begin in the early spring.
! PosT-oFFIcE changes in Kansas during
the week ended December %, 1885: Estab-
Iished, Bays, Russell County, George S.
Peck, postmaster; Eartland, Hamilton
County, Henry II. Cochran, postmaster;
Woodruff, Phillips County, James H. Hill,
postmaster. Discontinued, Wilsonville,
cherokee County. Postmasters appointed,
Air, Lyon County, John Wilbur; Canton
Mcpherson County, George E. Johnson
Gilfillan, Bourbon County, John Wagner;
Haddam, Washington County, Francis n.
Vedder; Hamilton, Greenwood County, c.
II. Voris; Ottumwa, Coffey County, Daniel
D. Sturges; Sexton, Barber County, Aaron
Hagaman; Welda, Anderson County, Jo-
seph N. Kauble; Westphalia, Anderson
County, Jere Orton; Zenith, Reno County,
Thomas ]. Talbot.
THE Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Rail-
road recently filed its charter with the Sec
retary of State. The railroad is to COM
mence at the town of Larkin, in Atchison
County, and run in a southwesterly direc-
tion through Atchison, Jackson, Shawnee,
Wabaunsee, Davis, Morris, Harvey, Butler
and Sedgwick Counties, to the city of
Wichita. Six branch lines are to leave the
road at various places along the line. The
estimated length is 700 miles. The general
offices are to be located at Atchison. 1t is
understood that this is the contemplated
Kansas extension of the Rock Island Road,
several of the incorporators being officers
in that company.
THE report of Insurance Commissioner
Morris shows that his department is not
only self-suStaining, but source of profit
to the State. During 1884 the business of
this Office amounted to $40, 402.27, while the
total expenses were a trif1e less than $500.
The year 1885 shows total receipts of s45,-
3G7.l4, while the expenses were the same as
IN 1884 Unlike the Office of the Secretary
of State, all fees go into the State Treasury,
while il the Office of Secretary Of State all
charter, notary and other fees so to the
Secretary.
THE Commissioner of Labor Statistics has
completed his report and it is about ready
for delivery by the State Printer. The
book has been prepared especially with
view of giving information to the various
labor organizations within the State.
Rev. CHARLES REYNOLDS, DID,. died
suddenly at Junction City on Decem-
ber 2S, of paralysis, having just en-
tered his sixty-ninth year. Dr.. Reynolds
was well known to the earlier settlers of
Kansas. He located in Lawrence in 1858
as Rector of Trinity Church (EpiscopaD il
that city. When the war broke out he en-
tered the service US Chaplain of the Second
Kansas Volunteers and served with his
regiment in the field. He was subsequently,
appointed Post Chaplain in the army and
stationed at Fort Riley. He was placed on
the retired list about fouryears ago. Dur
ing Territorial times, DR.. Reynolds was
twice made Chaplain of the Upper House,
and since his residence at Fort Riley has
served the State as Regent of the Agricul-
tural College during several terms. He
also served his church in various capaci-
ties, besides officiating at her altars For
many years be had been the chairman of
the Standing Committee of the diocese and
several times has represented the diocese
of Kansas in the General Convention of
the church. DR.. Reynolds was a writer of
more than ordinary ability, and frequently
contributed to the literature of his day. In
1860 he sounded the alarm of approaching
famine months before the people at large
realized what was coming, and as Vice
President of the Aid Society did much by
MS pen and voice to interest several States
in behalf of the Kansas sufferers.
COLONEL PRoUTY, one of the old Kansas
veterans, has had two printing offices
burned within few months, and a move
ment is on foot among the newspaper men
to buy an outfit worth 81, coo and present it
to him.
IT was green Christmas.
Mrs. L. c. BURNETT, who was some months
since tried at Topeka and acquitted of shop
lifting, died the other day st Leavenworth.
At the time OF ner deeth sne had suit