Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-07-26
La. STATE NEWS.

| Recently IcCtiVeQ an inquiry lTOiu I. iio>
land, of Chicago, as to the standing of the
Kansas Central & Southwestern railroad,
which he says is supposed to be line in
Clark County, Kan. He says he holds a
bond of 81 900, being one of the issues of
July, 1881, first mortgage on road bed,
rolling stock, equipments and franchises;
to which Secretary Rizer responded, that
mo such railroad exists in this State.
There may be charter for such road, as
q great many charters are issued by the
Secretary of State for the designated
sum of one dollar for enterprises that never
materialize. 1t is very apparent that some
fraud has been practiced by some one in
this paper institution. The bond for 81 900
or any other sum issued by tie road il
question is not worth a dollar, so far as
any material structure is concerned in this
State"
A. c. MEYERS and Frank West, who had
been in the Rice County Jail since April,
charged with murder committed over ten
years ago, were recently admitted to bail
by the Supreme Court. Tine accused have
become quite wealthy since the murder
that they are alleged to have committed,
one residing in Colorado and the other in
Illinois.
| - ~. CoLr, VI uiiilpS SouHtyy EOtui-
mated by the recent Democratic State con-
vention for Superintendent of Public In
structions, writes that owing to the posi-.
ton he now holds-probate judgeand to
circumstances over which he has no con-
| troll, he will have to decline to accept the
nomination.
s. P. KING, student in the University
of Kansas, has been awarded the second
1 arfz (s1fnl hxy fha
Tariff League of New York for an essay
on ''Home Protection" offered by the
league to seniors of American colleges.
There were nineteen essays submitted.
| LATE post-office canges in Kansas: Es-
tablished, Conquest, Wichita County,
Charles NJ. Bohn: Mount Pleasant, Atchi.
son County, Rebecca a. Reisinger. Dis.
continued, Eustis, Sherman County; Ly.
ona, Dickinson County; Wagnerville, Phil.
! ips County.
THE other day W. Z. Baxter and Charley
| Stephens had a dispute over a claim ir
Meads County, and in the melee which fol-
lowed Stephens was struck across the head
with pitchfork, which brought about con.
| cussion of the brain.
MRS. HANNAH II. HOWE, who lived witt
her son, eight miles northwest of Emporia
!
her clothes catching fire from a pipe that
she was smoking, which burned her sc
badly before relief could be afforded that
it resulted in her death shortly afterwards
She was eighty-five years of age last
March, and was alone in her room when
the accident occurred.
| AT the recent meeting in Topeka the
Knights of Tabor and the Daughters OF
the Tabernacle elected the following grand
officers for the ensuing year: Chief grand
scribe, John jenkins, st. Joseph, Mo-;
chief grand treasurer, Henry Parker, In
| dependence, Mo-; assistant chief grand
treasurer, B. F. Adams, Springfield, Mo-:
chief grand preceptress, Mrs. L. A. De.
| laney, st. Louis, Mo-; chief vice. grand
preceptress, Mrs. Brand, Kansas City, Mo-:
chief grand mentor, Rev. Brent Ousley
Moberly, Mo-; chief vice-grand mentor.
j. G. Hayes, Louisiana, Mo. The order
was established in 1857 and reorganized in
1872, and now contains 10000 members
The next meeting will be at st. Louis in
July, 1889.
THE other morning the livery stable OF
| Clark Byrnes, at Leavenworth, caught fire
| and in half an hour was a mass of ruins
Beside the building fourteen horses and a
cow, two hearses and a large number OF
buggies and hacks were destroyed. The
losses will reach SO, 900. The buildingw was
| insured for S, 200 and contents for g, 400.
PETER GoCKLEY, a German farmer fifty.
nine years old, living on the Muncie road
three miles west of Wyandotte, was dis
emboweled the other morning by vicious
Jersey bull. The animal was running in
a pasture and had been laSsOed by Cock
ley, who was in the act of fastening
halter rein to ring in the bulls nose, when
by sudden movement he was thrown tC
the ground and pinned there by the ami
NAL, one horn entering the left groin and
making frightful wound eight inches in
length through which the bowels protruded.
He could not recover.
THE Democrats of the Seventh district
have nominated w. II. Ebey, of Wichita,
for Congress.
THE monthly crop report recently issued
by Secretary Mohler, of the State Board of
Agriculture, says: The wheat generally
is well filled and plump in the berry, and
where threshing has been done the yield
is better than was expected. The total
acreage in corn last year was $3.50, 1872
acres. An increase acreage of ten per
cent. is reported for this year, making an
estimated acreage of something over 7,O00,-
600 acres. Since the weather has become
warm and rains abundant it has made an
unusually rapid growth, No damage from
chinch bugs is reported except in a few
cases where wheat or oats fields were near
the corn. The total area in oats last year
was 1,5I7,0I6 acres. An increased acreage
of five per cent. is reported this year, max
ing an estimated acreage of ,655, ,925 acres.
THoUH the smallest county in the State,
Wyandotte stands third on the list in the
value of taxable property. The late re-
turns of the assessors, which have Just
passed through the hands of the board of
equalization, show that the total value of
oil taxable property in the county on April
l, 1888, was 10,S40, ,752 against 50, ,926, ,317 in
1887, giving an increase Of $3,914, ,435, or
about fifty-six per cent.
MRS. KENDALL. of Kansas, has been
promoted to 81 200 clerkship in the POST
Office Department at Washington.
The conferees on the River and Har-
Dor bill have agreed to report back favor
ably the appropriations for $4,000 each
for river improvements at Atchison, Leav-
enworth and Kansas City, Kan.
HON. ALFRED TAYLOR, well known in
Kansas politics some years ago, and who
once ran as the Greenback candidate for
Congress in the Second district, died sud-
denly the other day near Williamsburg,
where he was visiting. For a number of
years past he had been residing at Bir-
mingbam, Ala, engaged in newspaper
work.
LAWRENCE has press club.
PENSIONS were granted the following
Kansas veterans on the 10th: Daniel s.
whitehall, of the National Military
Home; George H. Plank, of Wilcox;
Charles W. Stewart, of Troy; Stephen Ed