Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-06-14
Miscellaneous.


clde IN the Commonwealth Office at Topeka,
by srabbIng himself. he had been On q
Irutracted spree.
LATE reports to the Ean,Is farmer from
eighty-fve counties OF tue State showed
that on June l wheat was in good cOndI-
tion, never better r0baoiy, at this stage
OF its growth. II the aci sgc was AS large
IS it WAS four years ago. the yield wou q
be fully as large. Oats are dong wei,
heading short in some localities and in d
few places hurt by chinch bug, bu;
there Is very little complaint on that
account The season Is back ward aad
May was unusually cold, hence corn
Il not as far along ~ usual at this time
of the year. Sill IT has received
the last working in many parts of the
southern counties. Tue stand j. good, and
q greatly Increased acreage is reported IN
the western counties. A great deal O..
rice corn. sOrguIu aud alfalfa is b.ing
grown. Millions of trees have been set out
ami they are growing well Apples are
favOrably reported ia mos counties and so
are small fruits. Grasses are doing VOL
in most places. Ia the eastern counties
there i some complaints Of dry weather
ana bugs, but taking the State as whole
the crops were never in better condition on
June |.
GOVERNOR MARTIN recently pardoned
john W. Reed who V a. sentenced in 4 pril
last TO serve one year IL the Shawnee
County jail for killing Rev. Mcintyre, of
Clay Cenicr last September. Judge Gath
RE, before whom he was tried, and County
Attorney Curtis certified hat the evidence
on the rial showed that the IA a. blow was
struck by the son OF the prisoner and that
there WAS no malice on the part of The CON
Victed man. The son i {. fugitive from
justice.
ABOUT noon the other day fire broke
cut IN the Kansas City (Kan.) Ice Com
pany's houses at Lawrence, and the buhd-
lngI were soon in ruins. The loss was
$4,000, on which the insurance was IS. UuO.
The body of May Motley, one of the
sisters drowned near Wyan lotte while
boating, was found about a week after the
accident just below Kansas City.
TnE Union Labor party of the Third Con-
gressi NAL district recently rcnOminated
Rev. w. Ii. Utley, of Labette County, fer
Congress.
A CHARTER was recently filed with the
Secretary Of State of the Kansas River In
proyenent Company of Quivera, the object
being ITO make the Kansas river navigable
for boats for the carriage of freight and
river near Quivera to Lawrence, and for
the maintenance Of facilities for skating.
rowing, yachting and other innocent sport"
The report of the railroad assessors show
an increase of over $l0,0OJ,OU0 in railway
valuations since last year, and 1000 miles
additional road. la 1887 the report showed
6,2ll-I9 miles of main track. This year the
amount of mileage fools up S, lS4. 60 miles of
main track, with g64 miles of side track
Such q record has never Leen made by any
State in the Union.
j. RAILsBACK, prominent attorney of
Columbus, was placed under arrest tie
other day charged with the ENLIGHTENMENT
of about $4,000 from Jefferson Rainey, of
Belevile, H.. for whom he had been agent
and attorney for the past five or six years
for the purpose OF loanng money.
The State Sunday School Association
convention opened at Abilene on the e h
with about two hundred delegates and
many visi, ors in attendance. A childreu's
mass meeting was held in the afternoon.
In The evening the convention listened 10
an able address of welcome by Rev w a.
Welshe, d, D., of the Baptist Church. Hon
a b. JetmD re, of Topeka, delivered an elo-
Guent address, the title of which WIS
christianity More than Edncation the
Z.
The Russell d Southeastern Railway
Company, capital stock S5000OO. recently
filed its charter with the Secretary Of =. ate.
The proposed line is from Russell 10 Hutch
inson through Russell, Barton, Ellsworth,
Rice and Reno Counties, distance of
dghty-one miles.
ABOUT four o'clock the o. her afternoon
three armed men entered the to;yn ~ Hugo
AT fsr RI
sioner ]. B. Chamberlain, the city marshal
ami Deputy United States Mar hal Samuel
Robinson. Some thirty shots were Ireu.
but fortunately no one was wounded. The
Hugoton PEOPLE immeilHt " TURN, Z u
anu we're in hot PURSUIT when the wr.ll-
b. ssa>sins left IN .ir bug sirs, NJ, uuied
their horses and made good their escaut.
A TEAR ago the county attorney o. )
yens County began Proceedings against
Governor Martin 10 enjpin him from ors:.r-
lZing Gran County, which had ID. en- a.
tsched to Stevens County for jGdiriag pur-
poses. Tue case was brought in tue Sh t.v
nee dis riot court and Judge GIthrie ron
dered judgment making the iuiuuc'lon
perpetual. From this an appeal was take,
TO the Supreme Court which tribunal
recently dissolved the lnjunc ion. huldin
TINT a county attorney had no authority I,
sue in the district court beyond The limits
Of his own county in any matter in which |
his own county was not especially inter |
ested
KANRks continues to boom.
JouN STCDEBAKER, farmer living near |
Jetmore, recently went from his field TO |
the home of Thomas Andrews and shot him
dead in his own house. Studebaker was |
arrested and there WAS strong talk of |
iynching, although he had for some time |
been regarded as crazy. An old time feud |
caused The crime.
THE ten-year-old son of c. ". Knarp re-
Gently attempted to jump on a moving |
tram at Iuka, when he fell under the wheels |
and was killed.
SENATOR PLUMB has secured favorable
action on the applications for pension of |
Joseph Ailstrom- OF Clay Center, and /
George Farmer, OF Fredonla-
A LATE fire damaged the large plan;ng
mills of +. E. Sprague, at Emporia, TO III.
amount OF 5000. Fully insured.
VIXEN Mrs Crocker, widow residing in
Sedw1ck County, returned home from a
visit the other day she found the doors
open with every indication that robbers had
been about. George Dennis, thirteen
year-old boy who had been LETT in charge
could not be found and valuables were
missing, but her money, about 500, was
found where left Two days later she
heard noise in the cellar. and the boy was
found bound and gagged, where he had
been thrown by tramp who had applied
for and received a meal and maltreated the
boy oecsl Sc he refused to tell where ne
money was. The little fellow died soon
after discovery.
G. W. SMITH, Kichsts's oniy coloeej