The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


about year ago concluded to have some
fun with their teacher j. c. Williams, and
attempted to extort a treat from him. Up
on his refusal they took him to a creek near
by, cut hole in the ice and gave him
complete ducking. The boys were lined 1or
breach OF the peace and the teacher COM
menced suit for damages against the boys
and their advisers, and at the late term OF
court obtained verdict for $1,000. Not so
funny.
THE charter for the Hoxie town company
was recently filed. The new town is near
Kenneth, Sheridan County, which latter
| the former proposes to absorb. lt is SAID
that the new company purchased at market
price all the vacant lots in Kenneth, and
then at meeting of the citizens made the
offer to move all the houses there over to
Ho1ie and place them in good order on
good foundations. with cellars, ETC., free OF
all expense. The proposition was accepted,
and committee appointed to select the
lots and award them to those now living in
Kenneth. The houses are to be moved
within sixty sixty days, wells bored and
the old town abandoned.
AMONG the charters recently filed with
the Secretary of State were: Kansas
Electric Company, of Topeka, capital
stock, $4,000; the WaKeeney Bureau of
Correspondence for the benefit of those
who contemplate settling in Western Kan
sas; the Leesburg Town Company. Stafford
County, capital stock, 5000; the Arkansas
City Cracker Company, capital, S2O,OOO;
the Emporia Church of Professionalism,
Baptist; Bridgeport Saline County, Pres
byterian Church, and st. Paufs Uniyer-
salist Church. of Hutchinson.
II reply to inquiries concerning the right
of way of the Union Pacific railroad, the
Board of Railroad Commissioners recently
stated that the act of Congress of 1862
granted the right of way to the Pacific
roads through the public domain to the
width of 400 feet, 200 feet on each side OF
the road. At the time this road was built
through Russell County, The land belonged
to the public domain, hence the width of the
right of way of the road in that county is
POO feet on each side of the track.
THE Attorney General has given his opin-
ion that under the new law relating TO the
sale OF school lands, which prohibits the
sale of school lands until three years after
the organization of the county in which the
land lies, it not only applies to counties
unorganized after the passage of the act,
but that it applies to newly organized coun-
ties as we'll; in fact to all counties in the
State, and prohibits the sale of all school
land until three years after the organiZa
ton of the county, without regard to its
condition, organized or unorganized, ut
the time of the passage of the act. six
months residence is required, and such
residence must have been exclusive of a
residence or home in any other place. I'M
provements to the amount of 800, includ
ing a permanent dwelling, are required to
have been made prior to the appraisement.
The petition must aver and the petitioner
must prove that he has not before taken
school land to the amount of one quarter
section.
LATEST patents granted Kansas invent
ors: Shaft and elevator for mines, Braid
wood & Oswald, of Pittsburgh; stone sew
ing machine, William H. Campbell, of
Wichita; turn table, Jarvis NJ. Flint, of
Thayer; grain drill, Miledon Wonser, of
Kingston.
DEEDS covering sixty-four sections of
railroad land about fl 900 acres, were filed
for record one week recently in Sheridan
County Estimating this land at four dol
lars per acre, it will add s164,0O0 to the list
of taxable property in the county.
Hon. A. W. SMITH, recently appointed
one of the State House Commissioners, has
declined to accept.
As a j. Hill and family, of Washington
Territory, were the other day seated in a
car on the Union Pacific road, approaching
Topeka, three men approached him and
one desired Mr.. Hill to give him five dol
lars in paper for that amount in silver.
Hill. in offering to accommodate him, ex-
posed a one hundred-dollar bill which the
fellow grabbed, and ran for the rear of the
car Hill started in pursuit, but was i'm
peded by two men, the fellows pals, who
jostled him and got in his way. The thief
got away with the money, but Hill col
Jared one of the others and held him until
the train reached Topeka, where he was
locked up He gave the name of George
Reames.
IT is stated that Attorney General Brad
ford has lately been engaged in furnishing
a legal opinion on the various points in
volved in the law passed at the late session
of the Legislature in relation to State Off
GERS and agents, and defining certain
crimes. This decision is called for by vari-
Gus State officials, who desire to keep
within their duties under the new law, in
Guiding Governor Martin, who desired an
opinion as to the construction of the law in
the matter of offering rewards for the APP
prehension of offenders.
a CHARTER has been filed with the Secre-
tary of State for the Parsons, Girard &
Arcadia railroad.
THE other night Mr.. and Mrs Sprantling,
of Graham County, slept with their only
child. boy few years old On awakiDg
the next morning they found the child
dead 1t is said that the child was well
when the family retired IN the evening.
r. H. BALLINGER, formerly of Larned,
has been appointed postmaster at Kanka-
kee, Ill.
ALEXANDER LOVE, of Lawrence, has been
appointed one of the State House Commits
sioners.
Thu State Central Committee of the Pre-
hibition party recently decided to hold
their camp meeting at Bismarck Grove the
last week in July.
ABOUT seven O'Clock the other evening,
while people were passing and clerks at
worl, in the Garden City post-office, thief
quietly raised window of the Office and alb
stracted the cash box, containing 800 Pur-
suit was Immediately made, but the thief
got away.
MEADE CENTER has five stage lines.
AN Atchison mathematician estimates
that the expenditures for cigars in that city
is at least $500 per day. or s1O9,5O0 year,
and that fully one-half of this amount
might be added on account of expenditures