The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| were running things TO suit themselves.
They had refused to pay their fare, and had
/ put the trainmen at defiance. The mob
was composed of a crowd of eighty men
who had gone West to work on the exten-
/ sion of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe
railroad from Hutchinson to Kinsley. A
! large force was called out and when the
! train reached Topeka strategical move
nent resulted in the capture of the men,
! who showed no disposition to be ugly.
/ They had been engaged by a Kansas City
employment agency to go to that point to
work on the road. When arriving there
the men found they had been deceived by
the agency, and having no money they
! boarded the train to return. Nothing
more. This being the case the Santa Fe
! furnished the men transportation from To-
peka.
! DR.. DENIsoN writes an explanation of
DR.. krohn's withdrawal from the Methodist
/ Church, denying that there was any delay
/ in ordering the investigation. The delay
arose, says DR.. Denison, from the compli-
cations of the case DR.. Krohn's civil and
! political home the past year has been in
/ Phillips County, and his ecclesiastical
I home at Atchison. When he was made a
! supernumerary by the Kansas conference,
! lately in session at HoltOn, his home was
| where he resided, which at that time was
/ Abilene. DR.. Denison thereupon thought
| the case should have been attended to at
I Abilene, or near there. DR.. krohn desired
/ to have the investigation made at Atchi-
/ son. The point was referred tolthe bishop,
who decided that DR.. Denison had juris-
| diction. This decision of the bishop was
received about the time DR.. Krohn wrote
his letter of withdrawal and the matter is
now out of the hands of the committee and
will rest until the meeting of the confer
ence next spring.
Four prisoners sentenced in tho United
! States Court at Topeka, were recently
taken to the Chester Qll.) penitentiary.
They were: John Morrison, for imperson-
ating post-office inspector in Texas, by
which he obtained $3.50, three years ;
| Charles Bruner, for attempting to fraudu-
lently obtain a pension, three years;
! Beecher, for cOunterfeiting, three years,
and one Lee for stealing an overcOat and
! pair of pants from the Soldiers Home at
Leavenworth, one year.
| YANCY GAINES, a colored desperate, was
/
J tempted to kill his employer in Missouri,
and when arrested for the offense, he
stabbed the. officer and fed. He was to be
| taken to Missouri for trial.
| PATENTS lately granted Kansas invent
! ore: Walter j. Cox, Wichita, window
shade; Aired Lake, LeavenwOrth. file for
| bills, music sheets, etc. William E. McIn-
| tyre, Oakwood, hay or grain-shed cover;
| John NJ Spencer, Lawrence, apparatus for
watering stock.
| THE Secretary of the State Board of Ag-
riculture furnishes tho following synopsis
OF the Kansas crop bulletin for the month
+ ended April 80: Winter wheat-Winter
killed. 45 per cent. Condition of area from
which harvest may be expected, SO per
cent. Probable product, 13,OOO,OOO bushels,
about AZ per cent. of the average annual
product for the last Eve years. Spring
wheat area sown, about the same as last
year. Condition, 95 per cent Rye-Area
and condition about tho same as for 1885.
Oats-Area sown at least 10 per cent. in eX-
cess of any former season; condition good.
COrn-Planting about completed in the
southern part of the State and progressing
finely in the central and northern. Ground
in good condition. Estimated area 10 per
cent. in excess of last year. Tame grasses
in good condition generally; orchard grass,
winter killed, where pastured short last
fall. Live stock III fair condition. Gland
ers among horses reported from five coun-
ties. Hog cholera abating, but reports
show it to exist in forty counties. Fruit
buds-Peaches killed; all others in fair con
dition.
The Senate Committee on Military At
fairs has favorably reported Senator
Plumb's bill to authorize the Secretary of
War to credit the State of Kansas with
certain sums of money on its ordnance ac-
count with the General Government.
OK the 9th a waterspOut passed down
Jacobs creek, fourteen miles southwest of
Emporia. B. B. Jacobs saw the storm
coming and gathered his children and
brother Charles in wagon and started to
fee, but they were overtaken by the tor
rent which swept away the vehicle and its
occupants. Mrs. Jacobs and the younger
child were drowned, while Mr.. Jacobs per-
ished in endeavoring to save them. His
brother saved himself and the other chill
dren.
to destroy the maple worms that defoliage
these beautiful trees almost every summer.
The male moth is now flying about, to be
followed in about ten days by the female
moth, when the egg will be deposited in
the tree. Colonel GOss recommends the
burning of torches under the trees, which
will attract and destroy the male worm
before the appearance of the female While
the destruction may not be total the evil
will be so greatly reduced as to save these
reeS.
AT meeting of the executive committee
of the Kansas Association of TrOtting
Horse Breeders, lately held at Topeka, ap-
plications for membership were received
from fourteen breeders to join the aSsocia-
tion and they were admitted to member
ship. 1t was voted to hold an annual trot-
ting meeting for 1856 at Bismarck Grove,
August 81, September l and >, the week
previous to tae Western National Fair.
e BERNARD KELLEY, of Emporia, has been
appointed a M ember of the State Board of
Charitable Institutions, to fill the vacancy
caused by the expiration of the term of
Phillip Krohn.
P. KENNEDY, a Santa Fe switchman, was
killed the other night at Topeka by a
freight engine.
THE corn planting boom is here.
JENNIE BEELER. eighteen years old, was
recently inticed into house at Topeka by
a woman that she had several times met IN
the street, drugged and taken off to Kansas
City, where she came out of stupor in
house of ill-repnte with man who claimed
to be her husband. Nell Smith. the keeper
OF the house, was arrested and taken tc
Topeka for trial IL is said the trial will