The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-04-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Ed Coulter were rival claimants TO quar-
ter section OF land. Recently they met
quarreied and fired several shots at eaci
other. A day or two after Booth say
Coulter about two hundred yards distan
and fired at him with a Winchester rih--
| killing him instantly.
A TICKET composed Of a woman foi
| mayor and women for the council wa
elected at the late city election at OSka-
loosa by sixiy-six majority.
IN the Prospect gas well at Leaven
| worth, some days ago, the drill struck !
cavity at the depth of 1.S0O feet and raise'
\ no more dirt. 1t has since been dlscovereE
that the drill had penetrated wide under
| ground river. which carried away the
| loose earth. The water proved to be shall
| low, and the drill was later working III th'
sandstone bed of the stream.
AT Leaveuworth on Easter Sunday
! James King, a white miner. shot and killed
Harrison Young. and wounded Ben Easton
\ and Sam Hedspath, two other negroes. The
negroes became furious and pursued King
| determined 10 lynch HIM, but he was res
cued by company OF cavalry from the
| Fort. Young had the reputation of being i"
| desperate and the evidence at the coroner's
| inquest showed that he was the aggressor
and that King acted in self defense III
shooting Young and Hedspath, but he was
| held for shooting Easton.
TERRY KAUFMAN, a farmer residing
| near Granville, recently visited Topeka
| having with him large sum of money. He
made the acquaintance of a colored damsel
who robbed him of his money and when b.
accused her of it she slashed him fearfully
with razor. The woman was taken to jail
and the farmer TO a DOCTORS shop. A large
| portion of the money was found scattered
| on the street where the vicious assault was
made.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has pardoned Theo
| dore st. Peter, who was convicted at Alb
lene March IA of robbery and sentenced to
] the penitentlary for one year. The robbery
| consisted in st. Peter, a hard-worklug,
honest man, compelling one Shife, for
whom he had done some work and who
refused to pay for it, TO pay the money at
| the muZzle of Il revolver.
THE Democratic State Central Committee
| met at Leavenworth on the 9Th for the pur-
pose of fixing the time for holding the con-
| ventonS for selecting delegates to the Nj
tional convention and nominating cand =
dates for State officers, and selecting the
| places for holding the conventions. Wichi ii
was UNANIMOUSLY chosenaS the place for
| holding the convention to elect de egates to
the Democratic National convention and
the time for the same May IL. and it was
suggested that county conventions be held
not later than May ). L ,avcnworth was
chosen as the place and July as the date
| for holding the convention to nominate
candidates for State officers The basis OF
representation was fixed at one delegate
for every 200 votes cast for Lieutenant
Governor in 1886 and one for every fraction
of 100 and over. a resolution was unani-
mously passed indorsing without rcserva-
ton the Administration OF President Cleve-
| land.
The other morning at two o'clock two
Missouri Pacific freight trains coliided on
the short curve under the Kansas nd Mis-
souri, bridge, two miles and half north of
Leavenworth. Both locomotives We're
wrecked and one or two cars of e;ch tram
| were totally demolished.
FIRE at Annelly, town twelve miles
southeast of Newton, about eleven O'clock
the other night destroyed John BIcrJ's
store and machine house with all it's con-
tents Rogers warehouse with 400 bushels
of oats and the Worthington residence.
The occupants of the Worthington house
had a narrow escape from death in the
flames. Tue total loss was IN the neigh bor
hood of So, 00J The cause of the fire was
not learned.
BILL MILLER, noted desderado, charged
Gently lodged in Jail at Topeka, by a
deputy United States marshal, having
been arrested in Doniphan County,
his home. He is the Ri gleader of a gang
of desperadoes numbering thirty men or
more who have ben the terror for years of
! the northern and western part of the State.
The crime for which Miller was arrested
was the murder of john Hance, boy, in
the Indian Territory last fall.
Two boys, aged twelve ard eight years
were recently found dead on the LeIs
farm, SIX miles north OF Brookvil!e. Death
was cause from eating wild parsnipS.
LATE post-office changes in Kansas. Es-
tablished, Klink, Sherman County, Thee
dOre Schermerhorn, postmaster; Linndale,
Rush County, James B. Linn, postmast err;
Whitelaw. Greeley County, Fred A. Finder
postmaster. Names changed, Burdgerville,
Wilson County, to Villas, Samuel STILES,
postmaster. Discontinued Clifford, Smith
County; Hendricks. Finney County,;
Logansport, Logan County; Tidy, Stafford
County.
IN the Supreme Court at Topeka mo-
ton was made on the 5th to advance the
case of BufOrd Crawford by Robert Craw-
ford, his next friend, against the Board of
Education of the city of Fort Scott. This
is the case involving the question of the
right Of the colored children of Fort Scott
TO enter the pubic schools in common with
the white children. The Court took the
case under Amusement.
The other morning S2, 010 in currency was
stolen from the Pacific Express Office at
Horace, Grcely County, by j. II. Draper, II
newly-appointed night operator, The
money had been sent by express from a
bank in Kansas City to the Kansas StHte
Bank, of Scott City, but by mistake of the
express messenger was carried on west to
Horace. The agent there had ordered the
night operator to put it on the next train
going East, but the sum was too tempting.
He skipped with it.
The attorney fnr Annapolis appeared IN
the Supreme Court the other day and asked
for an order to compel The commissioners of
Ellsworth County to call an election for the
location of the couny seat, claiming that
the requisite three-fifths of the resident
taxpayers of the county signed petition
asking for such an election; that the county
seat is not properly located, and that an
C'COslOu lOI a SOuuiS o0oO was
never had in Ellsworth County, as the law
provides shall be done.
JACK BRAGG and Hank Hampton, MUIR
dcrers of Pete Nelson, were sentenced to
the penitentiary for life by Judge Nichol-
son at junction City the other day. Rosa
Blackford, the woman in the case, goes up
for fifteen years.
MANY trees were planted on Arbor Day.
THE committee of the Grant Monument
Assoc alton met at Fort Leavenworth the
other day to inspect the designs offered for
a monument, aud to award the bid for the
n b d. tfarnd