Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
ventors: c. 81. Bennett, Beloit, fly trap;
c. h. Coleman, Gideon, button machine;
c. D. Estes, Hiawatha, hand loom; l. j.
Lyman, Manhattan. road cart; R A. Nc
Henry, Winfield, stone or marble drill;
W. n Parker, Garland, truss-bridge.
REPRESENTATIVE PERKINS has intro
duced bill in Congress for the construc-
ton of public building at Arkansas City.
A similar bill was introduced last winter,
but failed to become law. It is proposed
to expend $50, 900 for the site and building,
but as the city has signified its intention
of donating the site this amount will be
used for the building alone.
W. F. BUTCHER an attorney of Pendle-
ton, Ore, who sued W. p. F. Hedrick, ex-
sheriff of johnson County, for damages
for false arrest has been awarded 5000
by the jury in the United States Circuit
Court at Topeka. The arrest was made
two years ago by the sheriff, who mistook
Butcher for Missouri horse thief named
Gordon, who had been traced TO Oregon.
"PAwNEE BILL" arrived at Wichita re-
Gently from Philadelphia to assume COM
mand Of the immense Oklahoma move
ment, which it is stated has forces in all
the leading towns of Southwestern Kan
sas, Western Arkansas, and said to be
from 10, 600 to 1900 strong and daily in
creasing in numbers. 1t is proposed to
move on Oklahoma in case the bill to open
the Territory fails to pass Congress.
PENSIONS recently granted to Kansas
veterans: Orig nal, invalid, B. L. Lyman,
st. Francis; William P. Flood, Burr Oak;
Solomon Kindt, Belleville. Increase, Joab
W. Morder, Council Grove; Ben A. Will
liams, Everest; John Patterson, Burling-
ton; Asa F. New, Russell; D. G. Runyon,
Leon; Patrick Dowd, Wichita; William A.
Hays, Paola; Henry Duhuy, Marysville;
Anderson Underwood, Mound City; Oba-
diah B. Webb. Beloit; Ed. L. Allen, Neods-
sha. Reissue, Hiram A. Martin, Long
Island; Erastus Wyckoff, Menoken;
Thomas Hoch, Barry; Slas R. Harrison,
Beverly; Daniel d. V. Ross, Dodge City.
Reissue and increase, Edwin NJ. Dack,
Thayer. Original, widows, etc, Dizzy,
mother of John Hendrix, Fort Scott.
Mexican widows, Caroline, c. c., widow Of
Noses F. Moore, Argentine.
w. 4. ALDRICH, young lawyer, who
settled at Cherokee some months ago. re-
Gently embezzled several hundred dollars
that he had collected for the Mccormick
Machine Company and absconded. He
back for trial.
w. E. PECK, a brakeman on a local
local freight train, of the Kansas City.
Fort Scott & Gulf railroad, was killed
the other afternoon at South Park, by fall
ing beneath the train, three cars and the
engine passing over his body before he was
discovered. Both legs were cut off and
nearly every bone in his body was broken
ar.I LaI L.
mangled.
AT the session of the State Teachers AS
sociation recently held at Topeka, at
which one thousand teachers were present,
addresses were made by many prominent
educators.
THE first annual State convention of the
Kansas Chautauqua Association was re-
Gently held at Topeka in connection with
the teachers meeting and nearly 2OC
Chautauquans were in attendance.
THE late storm played havoc with the
telegraph poles.
loaf of bread baked from dough taken
from the ruins of a hotel seventeen years
after the Quantrel raid, at which time the |
hotel was burned.
PETITIONS are being circulated and will |
be presented to the Legislature praying
that body to establish new county COM
posed of twelve by twenty -four miles off |
south Gray and six by twenty -four off the |
north of Meade County, making a county |
eighteen by twenty-four miles, south of |
the sand hills.
WHILE impersonating Santa Claus at his |
residence in Leavenworth Christmas night, |
Frank Marshall was seriously burned. He |
was handing Christmas presents from a |
ladder, and while leaning over the |
tree his false beard took fire from a
candle and in an instant he was enveloped |
in flames. A blanket was quickly wrapped |
around him and the fire was extinguished, |
but not before the skin and flesh on his |
hands, neck and ears were badly burned. |
A NEW post office has feen established |
Kackley, Republic County
The other evening John Herzig accident |
ally shot and killed himself while out |
hunting, seven miles south of Emporia, |
with party of friends. They were seal |
ing hedge fence and he carelessly pulled |
his gun through after him. 1t was dis |
charged, the load entering his right breast, |
causing almost instant death. He was |
about nineteen years of age
In his annual report to the Governor, as |
fiscal agent of the State, Hon. S. j. Craw-
ford says: 81 have succeeded in securing |
an adjustment of all claims for money ex- |
pended and Indebtedness assumed by the |
State, on account of the volunteer and |
militia forces called into service since the |
admission of the State. except the class |
known as Price raid claims. Isee |
no reason why the Legislature should not |
make provision for the payment of every |
piece of legitimate scrip now outstanding. |
But in providing such payment great care |
should be exercised in order to secure pay
ment to the proper persons, and only Of |
such scrip as is known to be legitimate"
IT is stated that farmer in the western |
part of the State raised a crop of sorghum |
cane in ninety days without rain or irriga-
tion. The cane was tested by Mr.. Parkin- |
son and pronounced the best he had ever |
found in the State.
SUIT has been begun in the Supreme |
c Iurt in the name of the State against j. |
B. Field, treasurer of Wabaunsee County, |
to GUST him from Office because of his !
alleged failure to secure a sufficient bond. |
AT Topeka the other day Frank O'Hara,
a young man employed by the Rapid |
Transit Company, was standing on a NOV |
able scaffold used for stringing electric |
wires, and failed to observe a cross wire, |
which struck him under the chin and |
caused him to lose his balance. He fell to !
the ground and his lower limbs were par
alyzed through the injuries he received. |
His injuries were thought to be fatal
QUENEMo is troubled with burglars.
Two explosions in the large millinery |
warerooms of j. P. Wilcox, at Wichita, |
the ether morning blew out the walls, de- |
molished the roof of the building and set |
the establishment on fire. The contents |
of the building were entirely destroyed. |
The floor was all torn up, showing that /
the explosiYe had been put beneath the |