Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-02-28
miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
| WILLIAM SLYTER, disciple of the faith
cure doctrine, died at Wichita the other
morning. Early in January, after being
under the care of Christian science
healer, Slyter was taken to a hospital and
| a malignant tumor removed from the
abdominal cavity. He was improving
when the Christian scientists again ap-
peared and persuaded him 10 get up and
walk about as he would be healed by
faith. The second time he made the at
tempt it killed him.
BAD blood having existed for some time
between Robert Jobe and j. T. Brown,
employees of the Santa Fe road at Argen-
tine, on account OF Jobe while intoxicated
having entered Browns house and in
suited his wife, the two met on the
streets of that town the other day when
Jobe said: 'I've got you now, and Pm
| going to do you up" at the same time at
tempting to draw his pistol. Brown drew
| first, however, and shot Jobe dead. Brown
surrendered and the verdict of the
coroner's jury was that he acted in self
| defense.
THE report of the Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture for the biennial
period ended December 81, 1883, showed
the total combined value of all farm prod
ucts for the period covered by the report
to be 1910 6I. 40. while the total combined
value for 1885 and 1856 was 1924, 045, 1874 a
gain in two years of ST., SIG, 0O6, or 4. 10
per cent. In population the State has
grown from 1, 496, 7SS in 1856 to 1,51S, $50 in
1888, All increase in two years of Ill, 334, or
nearly eight per cent The sorghum prod
inn hat IN fa on in RI
sugar, amounts in value to 81 900, 743. For
the biennial period of 1885 and 1856 it
amounted to s.. 246 0SS. a gain in two years
of 81 654, 655 or nearly so per cent
H. L. GoRToN, whose father is a farmer
residing near Lenexa, Kan, was recently
arrested on the train going into Kansas
City, upon suspicion of being "Black
Bart" the notorious California lone high
wayman. His father went on his bond for
his appearance.
THE Governor recently received letter
from the Comptroller of the Treasury dated
at Washington, February -, as follows:
IAN account has Leen adjusted between
the United States and the State of Kansas,
under the third section of the act of jan
| uary 80, 1861, for the five per cent accru-
ing to the State upon the net proceeds of
the sales of public lands within the limits
of the State from July l, 1886, to June 30,
1887, inclusive, and there has been found
due to the State the sum of S103, 653 49, OF
the foregoing amount $4,000 has been re-
tanned and will be covered into the treas
ury as reimbursement by said State of
the amount expended under the direction
Of the Secretary of War for replacement
of bridge across the Republican river
near Fort Riley, Kan. A draft for the
sum of $93 65S. SO will be forwarded to your
order in due course of business. The sum
Ct 500, 1885, % found due the State for the
fiscal year 1886. having lapsed into the
treasury, has been estimated for appro-
priation."
TIE 18th was celebrated by the Knights
OF Pythias throughout the State as the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the order.
The printing establishment of George
W. Crane & Co., at Topeka, the largest
printing and publishing house in the State.
was destroyed by fire on the morning of
the ODD. The loss in stock, material,
presses, ETC., was put at $685. 900. Insur-
ance, 200. The loss on the building,
the property of Wilson Keith, was $40, 000;
insurance, $24. 900. In. the vault on the
first floor were stored the electro plates of
the Supreme Court reports and other legal
publications, which were valued at So. 600.
1t could not be learned the extent of the
damage to these until the rubbish could
be cleared away.
THE county commissioners of Wyan-
dotte County recently appropriated S25,-
900 for a new superstructure of what is
known as the southern bridge over the
Kansas river. While the contractor was
inspecting the bridge the other day he re-
moved the cap to one of the piers and dis
covered that instead of being filed with
the proper materials it bad been filled
with sand, and it is said by experts that
the cost of the construction could not have
exceeded $50. 900. The bridge was built in
1866 and the county paid $50, 900 for the
work. The county had been swindled to
the extent of S120,0 900.
W. c. CAvANAUGH, ex-Assistant Secre-
tary of State, has been held IN s., 900 bond
to appear at the April term of the Shaw
nee County district court for the alleged
attempt to blackmail State Printer Baker.
BURT CARVER, the eighteen-year- old
SON of Hon. I. F. Carver, of Salina, was
shot and instantly killed the other morn
ing by Tom White, Jr., young compan-
ion. The shooting was occidental, being
another case of didn't-know-it-was-
loaded" The fatal weapon was a 3S-
caliber British bulldog.
A YOUNG man recently stopped at a
Leavenworth hotel and registered as c.
Nelson. He succeeded in passing forged
checks upon business men to the amount
of $50
AT the recent meeting of the Grand
Lodge A F. and A. III. at Wichita the fol-
lowing officers were chosen: d. d. Hoag,
NJ L. G. NJ, Minneapolis; Theodore P.
Rogers, l. d. G. H.. Topeka; j. e. Mccall.
]. 6. c. P. of W., Wichita; Christian Beck,
/. G. treasurer, Leavenworth; j. II. Brown,
L G. recorder, Kansas City; John h Spen-
Ger, /. G. c. G., Independence; B. F.
Evans, L G. &. c., Newton; John L. Jones,
L G. Std. Neosbo Falls; Fritz Mayors, L
G Sentinel, Leavenworth.
BERT BoSLEY, aged fifteen, a student al
Garfield University at Wichita, was RS
Gently drowned at Winfield
CHRISTIAN LONG, German farmer. was
recently found dead in a well seven miles
vest of Baldwin City, Douglas County.