Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-07-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

has been discontinued
THE railroad commissioners have issued
circular urging upon coal dealers In the
State the necessity of beginning early to
lay in q supply OF fuel fo- the people whom
they supply. They also advise consumers,
who are able to do SO, TO lay IN their winter
supply of coal at an early date, and not
wait, as has frequently been done, until
the commencement OF cold weather to get
in their supply. The circular says: "Dur-
ing the past year more than goo miles Of
railroad have been put into operation with
in this State and q large addition to Its
population has been made. This requires
a very large addition to the amount of coal
heretofore mined to supply the increased
demand. Our information is, that the in
crease in facilities for mining coal has not
kept pace with this increase in demand
Unless, therefore, portion of this demand
is supplied early, neither the capacity OF
the mines nor the rolling stock OF the rail-
road company will be able to furnish the
supply required, and coal famine with all
its attendant horrors will surely be the re-
suit"
HESET W. MOORE, managing editor of
the St. Louis Post Dispatch, who recently
eloped with the wife of John w. Norton, Of
that city, and took along large sum Of
money belonging to Norton, was subse-
quently traced TO Topeka and arrested.
THE friends and neighbOrs Of Judge
Martin called upon him in force upon his
return home at Topeka and congratulated
him upon his unanimous nomination for
Governor by the State Democratic Conven-
tion.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has been chosen to
ill one of the vacancies on the board of
managers of the National Soldiers Homes.
EMIL CRUsELL, young Swede, was re-
Gently drowned in the Republican river at
Junction City.
MRS. JACOB RAPP, aged about fifty years,
died at her home at Wildwood, Leaven-
worth County, the other night. Owing to
the loss of great deal of property some
time ago, her mind had become unsettled
by vexation, and about three weeks previ-
GUS to her death she stopped eating and
refused to take food up to the time of her
demise. She claimed that obnoxious
things were put in her victuals. She lit
orally starved herself to death.
SUITS were recently commenced in the
Supreme Court at Topeka to eject 300 set
tiers in Allen County from their farms.
acres of land in that county. 1t affects the
rights of about 800 settlers who have been
living on these lands for a great many
years, and who, if they lose these suits,
will lose their all. The trouble grows out
of land grant made by Congress in 1862
to the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has issued a procla-
nation organizing the county of Greeley.
,Io&o t,0v, Of oil hn
counties of the State, making a total of 1O6.
During the past three years and half
Governor Martin has organized twenty
three counties, having an aggregate area
of 1868 square miles, territory larger
than that included within the boundaries
of the three States of Massachusetts,, New
Hampshire and Rhode Island.
THE Register and Receiver of the United
States land-office at Garden City have de-
cided to recognize Syracuse as the county
seat of Hamilton County.
AT meeting of the council of admini-
stration, G.. A. R., department of Kansas,
held at Emporia on the 9th, the department
committee to arrange for transportation to
the National Encampment at Columbus,
were instructed to take charge of the trans
poTtation matters of the State reunion, to
be held in Topeka the first week in Octob-
er. The committee consists of the follow
ing comrades: L. J. Webb, Topeka; E.
c. Culp, Salina; w. w. Martin, Fort Scott;
j. D. Barker, Girard; Murray Myers,
Wichita, John A. Fulton, Sabetha; w. Il.
Caldwell, Beloit.
THE United States Marshal for Kansas
has arrested one Louis Stroll, a young
man about twenty three years old, on the
charge of selling and offering for sale a
contrivance alleged to be for counterfeit
ing gold coin, but which in reality only
brightens a genuine coin, although giving
the impression that it is spurious. In
shape the machine resembles a small clock
and is a very ingenious contrivance for
playing confidence game upon a person
who might be enough of a rogue to attempt
counterfeiting and possessed of sufficient
greenness and capital to invest in it.
PENSIONS were granted the following
Kansans on the 9th: William L. Seeter, of
Hutchinson; John E. Hi}lstrom, of Ran
dolph; Seth Bennett, OF Otega; Irwin
Grover, of Peabody; Henry Jacoby, of
Reading; John W. Eaton, of Lancaster: ::
John II. McFadden, of Centerville; Elisha
D. Rose, of Holton; Festus Joyce, of Leav-
enworth; Richard Hoffman, of Cain City,
and Albert Magofin, of Lyons.
FIFTY members of the Topeka bar re-
Gently met and nominated z. T. Hazen for
Judge of the district court to succeed Judge
Guthrie, and sixty lawyers have signed a
request for Judge Guthrie to stand for a
reelection.
ALVIN HENT, little girl, committed sui
eide at Eudora the other day by taking
"Rough on Rats" Her father is in Idaho
and her mother in an insane asylum. The
girl had violent temper and at times il
is thought gave evidence of being tainted
with her mothers Affections. She had q
good home, but had often threatened self
destruction because las she alleged) none
of her family seemed to care for her.
MOORE, the eloping St. Louis editor who
was overhauled in Topeka, was taken be-
fore Judge Guthrie and released upon a
writ of habeas corpus, but Immediately re-
arrested upon the Governors warrant and
taken to Jail. Mrs. Norton, the woman in
the case, was also arrested for a violation
of the marriage laws of Kansas and re-
leased on bail. The two seemed determined
to make desperate fight for liberty. The
property Mrs. Norton took away with her
aggregated nearly S50,000
HOMER JoBEs, a sixteen-year-ol boy of
Graham County, who suffered from heart
trouble, was carrying water on horseback
for his employer the other day, when the
horse returned riderless to the stable and
the boy was found soon after lying dead
on the prairie.
The pOst-ofice at Eustice, Sherman
County has been discontinued.
Too HOT to get excited.
A. LOWELL, the station agent of the
Union Pacific railway at Armstrong, was
recently arrested on charge of embezzle-
ment. Lowell had not been agent at Arm