Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-02-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

resolutions were passed demanding laws
20 prevent the grain aud cattle combine.
and the control Of the food products Of tho
country by brokers. They also demanded
the repeal of the State laws which permit
municipal corporations to vote aid 10 rail-
roads.
On the 18th Governor Humphrey sent q
message to ths Legislature announcing
that he had been advised by the Govern
ors Of the States of Nebraska, Texas, Col.
orado, Missouri, Iowa and Illinois that the
Legislatures of those States would Coop
crate with Kansas and appoint delegates
to the proposed Interstate convention to
investigate the alleged beef and pork COM
bine.
The sixth biennial report of the board Of
directors of the State Historical Society
shows that during the thirteen years OF
the existence of the society the number Of
volumes in the library has grow from POS
to asa. and the total number of books,
manuscripts and other collections of his
torical value numbers AS ,3O5 There are
printed in Kansas a total of S27 publica-
tions, of which 45 are daily, Is semi
weekly, 1888 weekly, 4C monthly, one semi
monthly, two bi-monthly, four quarterly
and one occasionally.
~ SAL dCCl0cAb " u SAa(luR party OC-
Cured at Leavenworth on the 11th. The
party consisted Of Grace Philips, STEP
daughter of Judge Ide; Susie B. Anthony,
daughter of Colonel d. r. Anthony; Harry
Jewett, son of NJ. NJ. Jewett. and Edwin
Pierce, son of C. B. Pierce, who left the
high school building for the purpose OF
having an hours recreation in skating on
a pond on the farm of J. c. Stone, Jr., four
miles South Of ho cif Tbox- hoA No
more than entered upon the enjoyment of
the occasion and had hardly reached the
middle of the pond when the ice gave way
and the four were thrown into the water.
Susie Anthony and young Pierce inn
mediately sank and were dead before aid
reached them. Young Jewett and Miss
Philips were rescued, but not until they
were thoroughly chilled and their lives for
some hours were despaired of.
SENATOR WILLIAM II. EvARTs, of New
York, has consented 10 deliver the grafton
of the State University at this years COM
mencement, June 3, aud Rev. A. H Tuttle,
of Baltimore, Md, will preach the bacca-
laureate sermon June2.
THE post-office at Nixon, Pawnee Coun-
ty, has been discontinued.
In recently discussing the resolutions in
troduced into the Legislature calling upon
Congress to make a special appropriation
for deep water harbor off the coast Of
Texas, Senator Osborne said that it would
save Kansas farmers ten cents a bushel
in exporting their grain, which would
amount to a saving of twenty millions dol
lars annually to the State.
The January report of Pension Agent
Click showed the disbursements of the
office at Topeka to have been as follows:
Invalids, Sl45, ,12L19; survivors war 1872,
S4.S6; survivors Mexican war, 1885;
widows, $50, ,60o.33; minors, $l1 ,55IS3; de-
pendent relatives, $15, ,36S.92; widows war
1872, $2,S99.61; widows Mexican war,
1,OO9.30; surgeons, $l,215.5O. Total, S26S.-
S71.S7.
GOVERNOR HUMPHREY has granted full
and unconditional pardon to Edward
Brewer, of Pratt County, who was on Oc-
tober &c, 1883, convicted of an attempt to
commit rape and sentenced to two and
one-half years imprisonment in the pen-
itentiary. The Board of Pardons in it's
declared that "the pros
ecution was malicious and that Brewer
was wrongly convicted"
c. H. COvEY. of Arkansas City, ives re-
Gently arrested, charged with being a
boodler while mayor of Coolidge. Sheriff
Huffman, of Hamilton County, made the
arrest. While Covey was mayor of Cool
idge the people voted bonds to pay off cer-
tain city Indebtedness, the amount OF
bonds to be issued not being fixed, and it
is charged that the mayor and Council is
sued some $4,000 more bonds than neces-
sary and pocketed the proceeds Covey is
the first to be arrested, but warrants are
out for the members of the Council who
have all gone to parts unknown.
A MESSAGE from Governor Humphrey
was read in the Legislature the other
announcing that he had been ad-
vised by the Governors of Nebraska,
Texas, Colorado Missouri, Iowa, and Illi-
nois that the Legislatures of those States
would cooperate with Kansas and ap-
point delegates to the proposed Interstate
to investigate the alleged beef
and pork combine.
AT the recent meeting of the Kansas
Dairy Association, held at Topeka, res
Olution was adopted that Sin order to bet
ter disseminate dairy knowledge, and ad-
vance its interests in this, the coming dairy
State of the Union, we would respectfully
ask that the Legislature make an appro-
priation of So, 900 per year, to be disbursed
Under the direction of the executive COM
nittee of this association, and the printing
of 200 copies of the report OF the proceed
ngs of the meetings of this association for
annually" The committee
On membership reported a large increase
m attendance and decided gain in mem
Ders, fifty-three names having been added
1T this session.
ATCHIsoN is to have a new Union Depot
10 cost $50 600
ndulged in a gray wolf hunt and suc-
seeded in capturing one animal.
THE decision of the Commissioner of the
General Land-office requiring George W.
Iessinger to make new proof of his cash
ntry of land at the Garden City land dis
rict has been modified by Secretary Villas
o as to allow the entry to pass to patent.
secretary Villas has affirmed the decision
f the Commissioner OF the General Land
flee refusing permission to M. R. RAN
all to make homestead entry at the Ober-
in land district
The Railroad Commissioners recently
allied meeting of the general managers
all Kansas railroads to confer with the
oard on the matter of coal rates. The
Coal Company has filed with
be board a complaint alleging that the
ate fer 400-mile haul in Kansas is So 10
ton and in Illinois only S1.60.
SIxrY-FIvE tons Of hay and large stack
straw, the property of Mr. Manwarring,
farmer who resides three miles south Of
awrence, were destroyed by fire the other
fternoon.
A LARGE barn belonging to L. Fl. Moody
ear Gardner, johnson County, burned the
ther night. There was a great deal OF
nd 80 nd
ents, which, together with fourteen head
hOrses were hnrued The Ioss a0ora.