Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
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AN attempt was recently made to wreck
a west bound passenger train on the Santa
Fe road at point some fifteen miles east
of Lawrence, near Cedar Junction, and
might have been successful but for the
timely tagging of the train by farmer
| who lived near by. An investigation
showed that ali the spikes had been drawn
for two rail lengths. Track repairers'
tools were lying about and the work had
evidently been hastily abandoned. The
train left Kansas City at nine p. NJ heaV-
lily loaded and carrying valuable express
age for the Wells-Fargo Company. The
point where the track was tempered
| with is a secluded and dangerous
one where the roadbed runs between the
foot of cliff and the river bank, only
few feet from each. The farmer said he
| discovered the evidences of the attempt to
wreck the train only. a few minutes before
it was due.
CORPORAL Rock. of the Ninth Cavalry.
at Fort Leavenworth, was recently ordered
to confine Private Tyler, of the same
troop, in the guard house. The latter,
when ordered to go, rushed to the carbine
rack, loaded a piece in an instant and
fired, the ball entering the corporals left
arm and shattering it badly. Both men
are old soldiers, Tyler having served
fifteen years and Rock twenty-five.
Two notorious Kansas desperadoes, C.
T. Garfield, alias ''The Kid" and A.
Burnett were arrested the other day by
the sheriff of Grant County. "The Kid"
is wanted in Idaho and elsewhere for MUIR
der and stage robbery. They were sur
rounded by the sheriff's posse on the plains
and were taken only after their ammu-
milton was exhausted and both men
wounded.
The Governor has appointed Emile
| Firmin as commissioner from Kansas to
the Paris Exposition, to act in conjunction
with the United States Commissioner Gem
eral. The Legislature made an approprIa-
ton of 81, 900 for Kansas exhibition at
the Exposition.
The Hutchinson, Oklahoma & Gulf Rail-
road Company recently filed articles of IN
/ corporation with the Secretary of State.
| The road is to begin at Beloit, and run
directly South through Central Kansas
and Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico. The
authorized capital stock of the company
is SO, 100000.
THE monthly report of the warden of
penitentiary showed that the cash rece pts
of the institution for February were as
52S8S; expenses, 0,650.5 90. The warden
estimates that the report for the fiscal year
ending June 81 next will show the receipts
of the penitentiary to have exceeded the
expenses by about $40 900. There are now
in the pententiary but SI5 convic cts, being
decrease of eleven during the month.
A FIGHT between colored men recently
took place at Hutchinson in the rooms of
a married woman, during the absence of
her husband, in which Curly" Washing
ton, a well-k lown horse jockey, was ter
riby beaten with a Ratchet. His injuries
were fatal.
CHANCELLOR LIPINCoTT, of the State
University, has resigned. He has ac-
cepted the pastorate of the First Method
ist Church at Topeka.
THE sixteen montbs-old child of D. G.
Bliss, of Argentine, was recently burned
to death by a gasoline explosion. A
little girl in the family poured gas
ollne on the carpet TO clean it and the
gas generated was gnited II ON the stove,
causing the chslI's cIJ,hes TO take fire.
The mother was also vrrely burned.
PATENTS recently granted Kansas in
ventors: Christian b u Moline, stock
binder; Joseph NJ Edgar, Argentine,
lock; David K. Wad Mcpherson, draw
ing apparatus; Joseph A Walker, Mel
verB, washing machine; Charles E. War
ner, Melvern, washing machine; George
NJ. Wildina, Melvern, trussed suspension
bridge; Emery N. Williams, Bonita, corn
planter; Harvey Worrall, Topeka, har-
monte damper for pianos.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MULDRow, on APP
peal OF Mortimer w. Warden, has reversed
the decision of the Commissioner of the
General Land office denying Warden's
application to contest the homestead en-
try of William r. Shumats for land at the
| Oberlin land district A new hearing is
ordered.
MRS EVA THOMAS was shot by her hus-
band at the house of a friend in Kansas
City, Kan, the other day, and died sew
eral DAYS later. The murderer was
lodged in the Wyandotte County Jail.
Jealousy was the cause of the shooting.
SAMUEL PARK and Lucy c. Park, of
Shawnee County, were recently married
by the probate judge of Wyandotte Coun-
ty. They had before been man and wife
but had been divorced, and at middle age
concluded to again try the matrimonial
venture.
THE spectacle of a fourteen-year-oldb boy
going to school in beastly state of intoxi-
cation was recently presented to the peO-
pie of A CHI son, and diligent efforts were
being made to find out who let him have
the liquor.
THE following appointments to be post
masters in Kansas were left unconfirmed
when the Senate closed its session on
March 4: Harriet L. Vedder, Washington;
John NJ Barnes, Lyndon; Henry c. Car
ter, Baldwin; Dennis Foley, Coolidge;
John A. Simons, Greenleaf; Aphonso
Richet, Florence; Charles l. Burke, Ar
gentine; Samuel Clark, Baxter Springs;
Mrs. Clara L. Nichols, Fort Leavenworth;
Henry c. Miller, Horton.
DURING the session of the Methodist con-
ference at Lawrence the Woman's Home
Missionary Society elected officers as fol-
lows: President Mrs. Z. K. Brown, OF
Centralia; vice -president, Mrs Huron, of
Topeka; treasurer, Mrs. Fiske, of Atchi-
son; recording Secretary, Mrs. Scott, OF
Nortonville; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Mcbride, of Manhattan; president of the
Atchison district, Mrs. Burgess; junction
City district, Mrs. McWrIght; Topeka dis
trict, Mrs. Henry Bennett; Manhattan
district, Mrs. Biddison; Marysville dis
trict Mrs. Hopkins.
THE rty-fourth annual conference Of
the Methodist Church of the Northeast
district of Kansas opened at Lawrence on
the 9Th. The district includes 1876 mem uers
and six Presiding Elders. Bishop Ninde
presided
IT is stated that the people of Davis
County are much incensed at the action of
the Legislature in changing the name of
the county to Geary.