Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-10-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on
the sth: Original invalid. Andrew P.
Heminger, Santa Fe; Daniel B. Dutton,
Miltonvale; Thomas Moore, Dwight; Hi
ram Mcpherson, Harveyville; Joseph B.
Clifford, Wellington. Increase, Freeman
F. Beymer Oswego; John W. Long. Rus
sell. Reissue, James E. Marshall. Ell Do
rado; Hugh Brady, Yates Center; Thomas
McHargue, Independence. Reissue and
increase, Henry H. Kiehl, Jetmore.
Original widows, ETC., minor of Andrew
Sparks, Humboldt; William H., father of
Al. Fry, Yates Center.
PROCEEDINGS have been instituted in the
Kearney County district court by F. NJ.
Kelly, who claims to have been elected
county clerk. against H. A. W. Corfield
and W. j. Price, county commissioners.
The plaintiff asks the court Cor restrain
ing order against the defen dants to pre-
vent them from disposing of any of the
county funds until his case is finally heard
and disposed of. A temporary restraining
order was granted.
THE explosion of q gasoline stove or
naptha engine in the steam launch Sun
flower, on The kaw river at Wyandottee
the other afternoon resulted in the death
Grew, the owner of the boat. and C. N.
Speckbam, his son-in-law, were badly
burned about the head, arms and hands.
THE other night a colored tramp entered
a new tenement just completed by j. d.
Kansas City (Kan.), kindled q fire in the
CRATE and went to sleep. He was awakened
to find his clothes on fire and the house so
nEo hot fha
out. He was rescued in an insensible con-
dition and fatally burned. The building
burned to the ground. The building cost
$500 and was insured for $1, 400.
IN the case of the city of Topeka VS..
Fred Zufall the Supreme Court recently
reversed the findings of the lower courts.
The defendant was prosecuted for viola
tion of the city ordinance in selling GER
tain fluid called peach cider, which it was
claimed contained about six per cent. of
alcohol, and was therefore an Intoxicating
beverage. a conviction was secured in
the police court, and an appeal to the dis
trict court resulted the same way, upon
which an appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court, which held that it is error for the
trial court to instruct the jury as a matter
of law that if the fluid contained six per
cent. of alcohol it is intoxicating within
the meaning of the ordinance, as this is
matter of fact to be determined by the
jury under proper instructions. 1t is not
a fact of common knowledge that the
presence of a certain per cent of alcohol
makes compound intoxicating.
H. c. CROSS, of Emporia, and George A.
Eddy, of Leavenworth, have been ap-
pointed receivers of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas railway by Judge Brewer, of the
United States District Court. Mr.. Eddy
has been a resident of Leavenworth over
thirty years and besides being owner of
the leading wholesale drug house in Kan
sas. has occupied many positions of trust
and honor. Mr.. Cross has been a resiGen
of Kansas over twenty years. and for
seventeen years has been president of the
First National Bank o; lrmporia.
FRANK ARNOLD, a prominent citizen and
retired druggist of Leavenworth, rose
from the breakfast table the other morning
and told his wife he had pain in his side,
and before she could reply fell back in his
chair and died. He was sixty-one years
of age and mad lived in Leavenworth
twenty-eight years. Apoplexy was the
cause of his death.
AT Ulysses, Grant County, the other
the town, shot Joseph Ferguson, of
Woodsdale, Stevens County, in the leg.
The cause of the shooting was quarrel
of long standing in Stevens County. Fer
guson's leg was amputated shortly after
the shooting, and he died day or two
later.
THE Democratic Congressional Com
mittee OF the First district met at Leaven-
nla in ati
Townsend, of Valley Falls, for Congress.
ARTICLES of incorporation of the Dodge
City 6 Denver Railway Company were re-
Gently filed in the office of the Secretary of
State. The capital stock of the company
is $2000,000 and its term Of existence is
fixed at ninety-nine years. The counties
through which the line is intended 10 run
are Ford. Gray and Finney, in Kansas;
Bent, Pueblo and Arapahoe, in Colorado.
The estimated length of the line is 37o
miles.
ACCORDING to the report of the Super
intendent of Public Instruction Topeka
has school population of 1884; Kansas
City, Kan. 1858; Wichita, 1881; Leaven-
worth, I,1G6; Atchison, $3.50. Number of
teachers employed-Topeka, 80; Kansas
City, 60; Leavenworth, SO; Wichita, 40;
Atchison, ~.
1T is stated that the purest brine yet
discovered in the United States and a
stratum of pure rock salt 400 feet in thick
ness has been developed at Anthony and
three salt plants aggregating an invest
ment of over quarter million of dollars
have been established.
PENSIONS allowed Kansas veterans on
the 11th: David P. Houaghland, of OLA
Al I'm
Edward johnson and Ellis Thompson, of
the National Military Home; Daniel H.
Young, of Leloup; William Hosley, of
Goodland; William H. Bean, of Burling-
ton; London A. George, of Canton; AL
fred DOtson. of Concordia; Robert Smith,
of Jewell: Joseph W. Garrison, of Kin
caid; William Wagstaff, of Garnett;
Mathew Galbreath, of Larned: Ancil B.
Mathew, of Cimarron; John w. Turner,
of Wilmington; Thomas B. Anthem, of
Dunlap; Hiram Coon, of Fredonia; John
Anderson, of Santa Fe; Mary l.. Lovett,
of Neodesha; Julia N. Hart, of Beloit;
Elijah A. Willis, of Leoti.
MRS. LAWRENCE, of Massachusetts,, wild
ow of Amos A. Lawrance, has given the
State Historical Society ten manuscript
account books of the New England Emil
grant Ala company, Oh WHICH MI. Law
renee was treasurer, covering the period
from 1854 to 1852 consisting of accounts of
original shares of stocks, with the names
of shareholders, three volumes; one cash
book; one journal; three ledgers; two
volumes of quit claims, and one book con-
tanning type writer copies of 256 letters
written by Mr.. Lawrence from 1854 to 1861.
all relating to Kansas.
SHELTER the farm implements.
IT is stated that Joseph Fields, outgoing |