Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-08-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

one mile east of Topeka between the east
bound passenger train from Caldwell and
3 construction train bound west with the
compaDy's huge pile driver, bound for
| Valencia to repair a washout The result
was the total wreck Of two locomotives
and half dozen cars, including the pile
driver, the instant death of L VI. Courier,
express messenger, the probable fatal in
jury OF Pat Barney, fireman on the ex-
press. and the serious injury of Lon
! Bailey, belonging TO the bridge gang that
was on the construction train. Both
; trains were running at a high rate of
! speed and the escape of the passengers,
none of whom were injured. was marvel
Gus. The coroner's jury declared the ac-
cident to be the result Of carelessness on
the part of the engineer and conductor of
the construction train.
MARION SYLVESTER, a Rock Island
| fire. ght conductor, was arrested at Topeka
the other day on the charge of taking a
mirror from a Rock Island parlor car
| Systematic piifering from the Rock Island
has been in progress for some months until
over Il, 900 worth of property is missing.
| Sylvester's residence was searched and
the French plate mirror was found. He
declared that the arrest was spite work
and that he was only keeping the mirror
for brakeman, who had no convenient
place TO put it.
HE Indian Commission, consisting Of A.
u. Walker, of Holton, a. J. Aten, of Hia-
watha, and B. j. Horton, of Lawrence
appointed by the Government to treat
with the Kickapoo and Pottawatomie In
dams concerning tEeir lands in Brown and
jackson Counties, recently met the Kicka-
poos IN council. 1t is the aim of the COM
mlssioners to induce the Indians TO take
lands in severalty and by this means
break up the tribal relations. The Indians
strongly oppose the pan. Soma years
ago small number of them took allot-
ments of land, but they were easily in
duced by specula ors to part with their
interests and soon had nothing left. They
went back to live with the tribe on the
reservations and now exert powerful in
huence in opposing The commissioners.
AN account has been examined and adj
juSted between the United States and the
State of Kansas under the provisions Of
the Deficiency bill of March .. for the five
per cent upon the net proceeds OF the
sales of lands from July l. 1884. to June
80 1885 inclusive, within the limits of the
State, heretofore embraced in certain In
dian reservations, and S43, 100. 80 has been
RENTED to Governor Humphrey.
AT the annual meeting Of the stockhold-
ers of the Farmers Confederation of the
Mississippi Valley recently held at To-
peka, the following officers were elected:
President, Walter n. Allen; trustees,
Smith STUNNED Dakota; P. N. Gish and
c. E. Diehl, Kansas j. p. Limeburner
was appointed secretary; o. Chacey. ex-
ecutive clerk, and j. r. Mulvane treas
urer. A resolution was adopted calling a
convention of the wheat growers of the
Mississippi valley to meet at St Louis
October 90 1883. for the purpose of form
ing a Wheat Growers Association. A
resolution was also adopted advising the
farmers Of the Northwestern States and |
Territories to hold their wheat off the |
market until after the meeting of the ST. |
Louis convention unless such prices shall |
be offered as will justify a reasonable |
profit over and above the cost of produc- !
ton, or one dollar per bushel for wheat.
THE September term of the United States |
District Court for Kansas, TO be held at |
beginning September 3 will be |
the most important in the history of the |
court, as well as the most extensive. The |
docket contains over 400 criminals cases, |
the largest number ever entered for trial
in the district There are thirteen muir
der cases, scores of larceny charges,
DOZENS for introducing liquor into the In
dian reservations, and many prisoners
will he tried on different charges.
AFTER eleven years of incarceration in
the county Jail, William Holmes has heen
given trial at Wichita and adjudged in
insane. Eleven years ago he was incar-
,erated on the charge of insanity by the
hen sheriff of Sedgwick County and has ,
been handed down from one official to an
)ther, like other Jail chattels. His form of
insanity, which leads him to believe that |
ne is the owner OF vast estates in Penn
'ylvania and, also, that he is constantly
being pursued by all the youth and beauty
n Wichita, has recently been growing |
more pronounced, and he will now be sent
% the asylum. When first arrested Holmes
lad a wife and child, but they have drifted
away no one knows where.
PATENTS recently granted Kansas in
7entors: Stove truck, George W. Amos,
3urllngame; cultivation, Frank P. Craig.
1olton; car coupling. Andrew j. Gum,
Valley Falls; steam boiler, Herbert Hack
ley, Topeka; gate. Edward Kelsey, CAL
'ert; device for holding cattle while being
ehorned. Albert c. Pattee, Brookvlle;
Dook or music holder, Susan NJ. Perkins, !
lansing.
The police raided the City Ho.el at
recently and seized a guam
ity of liquors which they found concealed
n the cellar of a deep hole which was !
lied with water. The liquor rested upon
platform at the bottom of the hole and
ras brought to the surface by an invisible
hahn hidden in the wall.
A CoLoRED woman giving her name as
lrs. Logan, accompanied by three small I
arrived in Atchison the other I
ay from Colorado. She claimed to have
elatives living five miles north of the city ]
nd started to walk to their home in the
fternoon. Next morning the two oldest
hildren were found wandering in the
FOODS. They were too young to give any .
count of their mothers whereabouts.
earch was made for the woman, but no :
race of her could be found.
A DISTRESSING accident occurred at l
IAN, as City, Kan. about noon on the J
9Th, In which Mrs. Frank Plass the wife !
f printer and engraver, fired a bullet :
nto the brain of her fourteen-y ear-old
aughter, Tillie. The girl sat at an open
-indow sewing, while the mother stood
ear the center of the room cleaning re- U
Oliver. In some manner the weapon was I
and the young girl sprang to e
er feet and staggered to the center of the 7
bonn. the ball having taken effect in e
er forehead. A physician was hastily .
lmmoned and found that the bullet had a
'dgAd in the brain. The wound was r
1ought to be undou btedly fatal
THE Governor of Nebraska has refused
, withdraw his order of quarantine
gainst cattle at the Kansas City, Kan,