Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-10-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


side, who is an ex-convict having served
a term in the penitentiary for burglary,
confessed to having killed his father, be-
ing melted by the woman. He said that
during his absence in prison his father
had married young colored woman and
when he returned he became infatuated
with his STEP mother and the two entered
into a plot to get rid of the elder Burnside
which was done by means of poison. The
woman was arrested and held to await
investigation.
THE grand jury in the district court at
Topeka recently returned an ind 'ctment
against Moses z Matthews, a prominent
young lawyer. for forgery. The charge
is that one of his clients entrusted piece
of real estatate to him to SELL and that
Matthews forged a deed conveying the
property to himself and then borrowed
money upon it.
IT is said that the feasibility of estab-
fishing reservoirs for irrigating purposes
in the West will be tested soon by the
State Agricultural Bureau. Apparatus
designed to show how much of the water
held in reservoirs will evaporate in 6
given time has been received at the bu-
reau. 1t comprises three large square
galvanized iron pans, which are 10 be
filled with water and foated by means OF
pontoons. These three pans will be placed
in three different sections of the State
one out on the high plain traversed by
the Union Pacific another in the South
west and a third in the Eastern part Of
the State. They will be placed in large
reservoirs and the evaporation thoroughly
tested The result will be made known to
the officials at Washington as most inter-
ested in the question.
GENERAL c. W. BABCoCK, formerly of
Lawrence and prominently known in
Kansas, died at St Louis on the 22d from
the effect of a surgical operation, in the
sixtieth year of his age.
j. B. HOPE, city marshal of Lecompton,
aged seventy years, was recently killed
by a Santa Fe train in the outskirts of
that town.
The Governor has pardoned John Sat-
terwhite, of Douglas County, who was on
February 25, 1875. convicted of robbery in
the first degree and sentenced to ten
years imprisonment.
NINETY-sEvE men and seven women
underwent a civil-service examination at
Topeka thu other day. They were from
al parts of the West
PATRICK FREDERICK, twenty five years
of age. met with a horrible death at Kim
gan's packing house in ArmouTdale thu
other afternoon. While leaning over an
elevator shaft the elevator descended,
catching his head and MASKING it into a
shapeless mass, killing him instantly.
]. W. ADY. of Newton, has been ap-
pointed United States Attorney for the
District of Kansas in place of w. c. Per-
~, resigned.
THE Governor has appointed j. S West
of Fort Scott, judge of the Sixth Judicial
district to succeed Judge French, re-
signed. Judge West is about thirty years
of age.
A COLLISION recently occurred on the
crossing of the Santa Fe and electric
street railway at Wichita, seriously cut
ting and bruising the Misses Ollie and
Lode Mum and internally injuring Nellie
Henderson, of Oswego, the latter probably
fatally.
The Board of Railway Commissioners
met in conference at Topeka the other day
with the representatives of the various
railroads operated in the State, in the
matter of livestock rates. Recently the
Interstate Commerce Commission ruled
that the proper way to regulate the tariff
on livestock shipments was to btse the
rate upon the weight instead of upon the
car load. For several months past the
railroads in the State have been working
upon the car load plan. The decision of
the Inter-Stat Commerce Commission
meets with the hearty approval of the
railroads, and they desire to adopt, with
the consent of the Board of Railroad Com
missioners, the weight system.
THE following is the present enrolment
of the students in the University of Kan
sas: Post graduates, IL; academic de-
partment. 34S; pharmacy, 30; law, so;
music aud art, Al; total, All.
A BRAKEMAN by the name of Hig gins
was recently killed on the Missouri Pacific
real near Leavenworth.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to form a central
organization of the Prohibition States for
a united crusade against the liquor traffic
James A. Troutman, president of the Kan
sas s ate Temperance Union, has submit
ted plan to the president of the temper
ance associations of Iowa, Nebraska and
the two Dakotas, and it has been Endorsed
by the heads of the Nebraska and South
Dakota associations. The plan favors the
holding of a convention about January /
at Omaha for the purpose of forming an
organization of the Prohibition forces OF
the five States.
A PETITION was recently filed W it'll the
clerk OF the United States Circuit Court at
Topeka by the receivers of. the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railway to restrain the
Missouri Pacific Railway Company, the
Fort Scott Wichita & Western Railway
Company, the Fort Scott Belt Terminal
Railway Company and the city of Fort
Scott from interference with the railway,
right of way and depot facilities at Fort
Scott restraining order was issued by
Judge Brewer and placed in the hands Of
the marshal, whose deputy suddenly ap-
peared at Fort Scott, during a very en-
thusiastic Ia lroa meeting, and served
the papers.
JOSEPH S. BoNNEY, aged sixty-two, for
thirty years a resident OF Lawrence and
we'll known inventor, shot himself
through the heart the other morning.
He took a pistol astensibly to clean it but
the wound was such as to preclude the
theory of accident. He was a prominent
Mason and Odd Fellow.
THE various farmers alliances Of Har-
vey County had grand demonstration at
Newton on the oath. Twelve divisions
were represented and in the street parade
there were over 800 wagons and carriages.
In the afternoon and evening large meet
ings were addressed by Ben TirrelI of
Texas, National lecturer, and B. Il. Glover,
of Cowley County, State president.
j. j. SPESDLovE. who was recently con-
victed at Topeka of the killing of Gustave
Werner, was sentenced to twenty
years in the penitentiary.
JOHN COULTER, a dairyman living at