Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-11-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| WILLIAM HAWK was arrested at hutcn-
inson the other day for illicit distilling
within a stones throw Of the city mar
shal's residence. Hawk had an old thresh-
ing machine engine which he kept fred up
all the time, and he was supposed to be
making chop mixture for feeding hogs.
This he had kept up for nearly a year.
when it was discovered thai he was max
ing and selling a poor grade of whisky.
The still was taken possession OF and
Hawk sent to Jail.
THE Union Pacific railway recently filed
fits annual report with the Railroad Com
missioner at Topeka. 1t shows the earn
ings of the company for the last year to
have been S2s oO9, ,O7s. .4S, and the total ex-
penses SIS. So, ,449. 20. The company also
derived an income of Ss25, $40 from stock
owned, and SIG, $40 from bonds owned,
and 1894 1S9 from miscellaneous invest
ments during the year. The company re-
ceived S121, 9S0.65 from sales of lands and
$549, 1 7.S9 from outstanding contracts,
making total of So ia, ,SS9. 40, which has
been received from the sales of its land up
to the present time. The total bonded
debt Of the company is S113, ,16l. 1t he's
issued stock to the amount of so, S6S, go to
build and equip the road.
SOME time ago HRS. Laura NJ. Johns.
| president of the Kansas Equal Suffrage
Association, and Mrs. Fanny H. Rastall,
| president of the Kansas W. c. I. u, is
sued a call to all State organizations of
women to send representatives to Emporia
during the annual session of the State
Equal Suffrage Association, for the pur-
pose of forming a Kansas Council OF
Women. Accordingly at the close of the
late session of the Equal Suffrage Asso-
citation representatives of the various
organizations met and formed the Kansas
Council of Women. A constitution was
adopted and the following officers chosen:
President, Mrs. C.. II. Cushing, Leaven-
worth; vice-president, Mrs. l. w. Hanna,
Emporia; auditor, Mrs. j. l.. Hunting,
I Leavenworth; treasurer, Mrs. Graves,
Emporia; secretary, Miss Mary Abarr,
| Topeka. The Council adjourned to meet
in Leavenworth next May, when fuller
plans Will be arranged and perfected for
work.
THE Equal Suffrage Association closed
its session at Emporia by adopting reso-
lutions urging the women of Kansas to eX-
ercise their rights to the fullest extent in
regard to municipal suffrage, and also in
| favor of making a test case to decide
| whether women have the right to vote for
| county school superintendent. The reso-
| luton previously passed asking the Legis-
lature to strike out the word ''male" in
| article l, section of the constitution was
reconsidered. The officers elected Were
Mrs. Laura NJ. Johns, president; Mrs.
Anna c. Wall, Lincoln, vice-president;
DR.. Mamie Stevens, recording secretary,
| Wichita; Mrs. Lizzie Hopkins, corre-
| spending secretary, Salina; Mrs. Berry,
treasurer, Cawker City.
THE other evening Levi Meeker, wife
and eight-year-old daughter, who lived
two miles east of Oxford, were found dead
on the Southern Kansas railroad track by
son. 1t was supposed that they were
struck by train while crossing the track
| In wagon.
THE other morning a carpenter named
Jackson fell from the roof of Garfield
| University at Wichita, a distance of
ninety feet and was instantly killed.
ACCORDING to table compiled by the
Board of Railroad Commissioners there
are operated in Kansas by the various
railroads, S,79916 miles of road. The
Santa Fe leads with 2,5S6 ST miles; the
Missouri Pacific with 2,179; Union Pacific,
], 1,151.23; Chicago, Kansas & Neb ~aska Crock
Island), 1,055. 20; st. Louis g. San Francisco,
1874; Burlington & Missouri River, 259.15;
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis, 256,-
81; Missouri, Kanses G. Texas, 254; Wyan-
dotte G. Northwestern, 157; s.. Joseph &
Grand Island, 13S; Kansas City & Pacific,
! 125; Wichita &, Western, 124 40; Dodge
City & Trinidad, 81, and the Kansas City,
Clinton G. Springfield, 2310. The total
number of miles built in 1888 was 45.15
On the 24th the Secretary of State re-
fat hac
ties and the appended figures are pro-
nounced final: For Presidential Electors,
Harrison. 1872 9l4; Cleveland, 102, 73S; Har-
rison's plurality, S0176. For Governor
Humphrey, 179 969; Martin, LOG, 957; Elder,
&c, ,236; Botkin 6,439; Humphreys plural
ity, 13,012. The proposition to amend Sec
tion 1, article s, of the Constitution by
striking out the word "white" was carried
by 20O,941 majority. The proposition to
amend section IL of the bill of rights of
the Constitution was carried by q majority
OF 203,51S.
Hon. JOHN J. INGALLS, was a visitor at
the post at Fort Leavenworth on the oath.
and received with all the honors due his
station as President of the Senate, a salute
of nineteen guns being fired. All the
troops of the garrison were paraded for
review by the Senator, who was accom-
panied by Senator Sewell, of New jersey,
General Martin McMahan, of New York,
and Colonel Mitchell, these gentlemen hav-
ing just completed an inspection of the
Soldiers Home.
THERE was a recent rumor that Presi-
dent Strong, of the Santa Fe, had rendered
his resignation, but officials of the road at
Topeka discredited It,
AT the recent annual convention of coun-
ty clerks, held at Topeka, report was
adopted which recommends the Legisla-
ture to create the office of county assessor,
and suggests as remesy for the present
unjust system of assessment and taxation
that severe penalty be imposed upon
officers who assess property at less than
its actual value.
SEDGwICK gave larger Prohibition vote
than any other county in the State, the
vote in that county being 26S. Shawnee
came next with 235, and Butler had 226
Prohibition votes.
THE heaviest Union Labor vote was in
Labette County, the total being 1926; Cow
ley was next with ], AS and Crawford fol-
lowed with 1,253
JAKE and joe Tobler, colored, were
hanged at Wichita on the 21st for the
murder of John Cass and Robert Goody-
kuntz, cattlemen, in the Indian Territory
in August, 1885. They were tried in the
Federal court last September.
The plurality for Humphrey over Martin
for Governor is 1900. His majority over
all is 3O,321.
GooD weather for fall plowing.
&, PENSIONS recently granted Kansans:
Original invalid, Burton T. Trout, of Win
field; Theodore b. Gerow, of Atchison;