The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| laws Of the Unit ed States over the morgan
| lied territory lying south of Kansas and
| Colorado, known as ''The Public Land
Strip" OR NO Mans Land" The bill an
nexes this strip to the State of Kansas for
| judicial purposes, and to the southwestern
land district of Kansas for land entry.
| ToPEKA's street commissioner, armed
with the decision of the Supreme Court,
notifies delinquent poll-tax payers that he
! will stand no more foolishness. They must
either pay up or take the consequences.
! A sERIoUs accident occurred on the San
ia Fe railroad about two miles east of En-
poria the other day. An extra freight train
| carrying coal collided with the rear end of
! freight train No. II, seriously injuring the
| engineer, fireman and head brakeman OF
! the extra. The engine of No. IL broke down
at the foot of a heavy grads and the col
Iision occurred before the extra could bs
signaled to stop.
! A FORCE of workmen from Kansas City
have commenced work on the Soldiers
Home grounds at Leavenworth for the
Kansas, Northern & Southern railroad
The road will pass through the reservation
On the vest side and in front of the main
I
Gated within 300 yards of the site of the
headquarters building, atfording a conven-
| ience to the residents of the home and to
| visitors.
| THE st. Louis Globe Democrat of late
| date contained the following: Thomas
| Freeman, a typical Hibernian, passed
through the Union Depot last evening on
his way home from Washington, D. c.. to
Davis County, Kan, where he owns go
acres of land and has wife and thirteen
children. The old gentleman is seventy
six years of age, and his iron constitution
is still unimpaired. His journey to Wash
ington was for the purpose of seeing PEN
\ sion Commissioner Black and President
Cleveland, in order that his pension might
| be increased. He returned elated and
proudly exhibited the papers which en-
titled him to draw 800 per quarter from
the 4th inst He has heretofore been re-
ceiving $50 per quarter" Mr.. Freeman
also fought in the Mexican war.
RECENTLY Willie Boyd, the fifteen year
old son of James Boyd, of Topeka, was
accidentally shot by one Of his compan-
ions. The boys were playing with target
rifles, striking the butts OF the guns to-
gether, when one of them went off, and the
bullet entered young Boyd's abdomen,
near the navel. The wound was consid cred
quite dangerous.
THE Topeka, Salina & Western and Kan
sas & Colorado railroads have been con-
solidated, and will hereafter be known un-
der the name of the Missouri Pacific rail-
| way.
AMONG the charters recently filed with
the Secretary of State were the following:
The Junction City & Fort Riley Street
Railway Company; the Electric Light and
Power Company of Lyons; the Great Bend
Steam Bakery and Cooperative AssocIa-
ton; the Abilene Cooperative Mercantile
Association; the First Building and Loan
Association of Stockton; the Williams &
White Land AMI L oan Company of New
ton; the Fowler Town Company Of Russell
County; the Walnut Valley Building and
Loan Association of Winfield.
OK the 18th patents were granted the
following Kansas inventors: Joseph d.
GALLOWAY, Belmont, combination tool; !;
Charles F. Hubbard, Topeka, calf weaver,
| William II. Hunt, Emporia, railway signal
| lamp; Daniel E. and H. d. Pratt Gaylord,
automatic grain scale; William R. Patt'n,
Elmdale, sliding gate: William Reeves,
MiltOnvale, combined subsoiler and plant.
ing attachment.
THE President recently appointed the
following Kansas pestmasters: j. N.
Landis, at Oswego: ]. Q. A. Sheldon, at
Manhattan; j. R, Hall, at Howard; F.
Vaker, at Ellsworth; W. P. Eddy, at Co.
lumbns; j. E. Ireland, at lola, and E. A.
Lyon, at Cherryvale.
ADOLPH KOCH, a young man about
twenty years of age, who was employed
for while as travelling salesman for Op-
| penheimer d Co., of Kansas City, was ar
rested at Leavenworth the other night
| charged with collecting and embezzling
funds belonging to the house. He had been
arrested once before for similar offense,
but the firm withdrew the charge out OF
! consi ideration for his family.
The State of Kansas cares for 96S insan e
PERSONS 200 deaf aud dumb, S. blind. %
feeble-minded children aud 1O4 tough boys
i'll the reform school.
TIE Mexican who stabbed P. McGraw
at Leavenworth has been arrested and
lodged in Jail.
THE wife of Judge F. G. Adams, secretary
of the State Historical Society, died the
other morning at Topeka. Mr.. and Mrs.
Adams located in Kansas in 1856, the year
after their marriage, and have resided in
the State ever since.
! PosT-oFFICE changes in Kansas during
the week ended December IL: Established.
Bethel, Republic County, Adrien NJ Can
field, postmaster; Laport, Hamilton Coun-
ty, Jonathan G. Bennett, postmaster;
Northfield, Sherman County, Henry Ber-
Samuel F. Hiatt, postmaster. Discon-
tinued, Monroe, Lincoln County.
HoN. E. S. SLOWER, once Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Kansas, was recently out cunning
in Arizona and while returning home his
gun was accidentally discharged, shatter-
ing his hand in such a frightful manner
that amputation was necessary.
THE shorthorn cattle breeders, lately in
conference at Topeka, passed resolutions
indorsing the Oleomargarine law; favor
ing the passage by Congress OF an efficient
law for the suppression of cattle disease,
with a sufficient appropriation to enforce
the same; favoring the Interstate Com
merce bill; favoring the continuance of
the Live Stock Commission, and fav oring
an appropriation by the Legislature of at
least $1,000 as a contingent fund for
stamping out pleuro-pneumonia in case Of
an outbreak
HUTCHINSON is to have barb wire factory.
THE other evening Or Mandet, a Mexican
cook in the employ of Patrick McGraw, an
old resident and keeper of a restaurant in
! Leavenworth, went out to milk the COW,
! and because the animal did not stand
| quietly, in a fit of rage he picked up q