Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-05-31
Miscellaneous.

| Miscellaneous.
Prof. HAY, of junction City, in an article
in the quarterly report of the State Boarc
Of Agriculture, says: Rock salt was frs
| struck at Ellsworth at a depth Of go fee
in August last; at Hutchinson at a deptl
OF 46J feet little later; at Kingman at 6
depth OF 665 feet; on December 2, at Ly ons
at d, pth Of 1S5 feet; a little latter at An
thony at a depth of S25 feet These 1--WE
important fields were opened up to busi
| ness enterprise in 1881 These salt dis
coverles are as remarkable as any in the
world. If each area discovered should
| prove to be limited to few thousand or 6
few hundred acres, the supply is practi
cally inexhaustible.
The large mattress factory at Salina
owned by Neil Haggard and A. J. Wood
ward, was destroyed by fire the other day.
Loss, $4,000, with only light insurance.
IN the report of the Democratic Slate con
vention the district delegates elected to st.
Louis for the Sixth district were mad
vertently omitted. They are: George A.
| Collett, OF Ellsworth, and Howard Carpen-
ter, of Thomas County
LATE post-ofice changes in Kansas: Es-
tablished, Atwater, Meade County, Albert
| A. Counterman, postmaster; Berry on,
Shawnee County, George w. Berry, Jr.,
| postmaster; Neely, Leavenworth County,
| Lyman J. Morgan, postmaster; Pyramid,
Cove County, James G. Bowman, post
master. Discontinued, CIawson, Garfield
| County; Hail Ridge, Linn County; Lud-
wick. Pratt County: Sonora, Harper County.
GOVERNOR MARTIN recently pardoned
| Charles B. Rotrock. who was serving a
| years sentence in the Ottawa County Jail
| for assault with intent to kill while drunk,
on cond tion that Rotrock forever abstain
| from using Intoxicating liquors.
LEAvENwoRTH denies the circulated re.
| port of the prevalence Of smallpox in that
city.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on
the 24th: James A. Swepston, National
Military Home; Thomas L. Story, Wichita
Frank Stoeher, Maryville; Edward c. Alt
man, Melrose; John Morris, Morantown;
William Medhurst Pittsburg; Thnmas NJ.
Hamilton, Garnett. Increase, John L.
| Nichols, Waterville; Howard Ross, Beloit
Abiiah S. Chears, Burrtou; William p
| Darby, Shockey; Stephen A. Holcomb,
| Powhattan.
PENSION AGENT CLICK has given notice
that the fund on hand is $3.50, OOO short of
the amount which will be required to make
the time payments. He will be unable to
pay pension vouchers hereafter presented
| until an appropriation is made by Congress
for the deficiency.
AT a recent meeting of the Kansas & Ne.
braska Railroad Association at Topeka one
and one-thIrd rates were made to the fol-
lowing meetings: Kansas State Temper
ance Union, Topeka, June II to 13; Interna-
tional Typographical Union, Kansas CITY,
June II to 10; Gilmore's Musical Festival,
Kansas City, June 10 to 21; Kansas Horti-
cultural Society, Holton, June 10 to 80;
Kansas State Millers' Association, Enter
prise, Kan, July II and IA; North Nebras-
Ka Fair and Driving Association, Norfolk,
Neb., August ~ to 81; Turnverein, Leaven-
worth, Kan, June to IL.
AT Leavenworth the other day Police
man GoOdell attempted to arrest Ben Black,
negro, upon the appeal of Blacks wife
for protection from her husband, when
Black fired at the officer, who returned the
fire, killing Black instantly. The coroner's s
jury held the shooting to be justifable.
AN unknown, well-dressed man bound for
Western Kansas, recently got on the wrong
train at Kansas City and was let off at
Argentine. in attempting TO board train
to return he fell between the cars and was
killed. There were no papers on him to
lead to his identity.
IT IS stated that all surveyors and en-
ployes on the proposed extension of the
Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern
| railway have been discharged and word
given out that there will be no further
effort to co2lplete the road to Beatrice,
Neb, or elsewhere this year.
THE members of the Northwestern Edi-
| tOrial Association visited Topeka on the
25th as guests of the Topeka Press Club
which gave them a reception at Represen-
| tarve5 Hal. and banquet, at which Gov
ernor Martin delivered the address of wei
come.
The other afternoon about mile east of
Seeley,a small village on the Santa Fe road,
Robert Watson and his sixteen-year-old
brother Harry, were playing cards on the
bank of the Walnut river, when Harry,
who did not think a revolver which he
was carryin G was loaded, pulled the trigger
and sent a ball crashing through his
brothers brain. The victim lived four
hours.
THE report Of the warden of the State
penitentiary, filed May "a. shows that there
are confined in the penite iary at Leaven-
worth 922 convIcts, 139 Of whom are colored
and 10 are females. There are 10 life male
prisoners and two life female prisoners.
There are 81 males sentenced to be hanged
and three females under the same sentence.
About G6 per cent. of the inmates are under
the age of thirty years and three-fourths Of
those confined were convicted Of grand
larceny.
hoRsE thieves infest Garfield County.
PATENTS recently granted Kansas inven-
tors: F. s. Thomas, Topeka, desk cabinet
design; 6. S. Currier, Garnett, car
mover; F. S. Dimon. Fort Scott, tire tight
ener; S. F. Kellogg. Clay Center, device
for converting motion; o. l. Langworthy.
Nortonville, trace carrier; E. P. Newbanks
and J. Mahafa, Beloit, feed trough.
THE other night the body of Thomas
Wilson was found IN his cellar at Kingman.
Early in the evening Mrs. Wilson heard a
pistol shot and went to the cellar but di /
rot make very close search. Later she
weat to the cellar again and made a closer
examination and found the body. II was
doubtless case OF suicide.
WORK is being actively pushed on the
extension of the Rock Island road from
Caldwell into Texas.
THE body Of boy about eight years old
was found the other afternoon in the Kan
sas river two miles above Lawrence. The
remains were discovered by two boys while
gathering driftwood. The officers having
previously been notified that boy was
missing from Wamego telegraphed to that
place and next day James Beck, of Wa
mego, went to Lawrence and identified the
body as that of his little son. 1t was
thought he had fallen into the river while
playing on the bank.
The other day Miss Hulda Gustafson,
aged twenty-five years, was fatally burned
at Mcpherson by her clothes taking fire