Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-04-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

lIx in Philadelphia a. the age OF seventy
| tbraa years. Judge Usher was Secretary
| of the Interior under President Lincoln
and his death leaves no member of that
celebrated Cabinet allve.
WoRKuES at the Kingman salt shaft
struck rock salt the other afternoon at
denth of 675 feet The salt is as clear as
gIass and seems to be absolutely pure.
| Drrrcr1yE CRABTEEE, chief of the Kan
sas Detactiva Bureau, was arrested at
Wicbita the other day charged with being
the nrincjnal in a recent jewelry store
bur,Iarv there. The men who committed
the crime were captured by the city police
and confessed duplicating Crabtree. Part
of the stolen property was found in the
detectives Office.
Or1rE a large number of Clay County
farmers in convention recently resolved
not to use twine in binding this years
harvest
| In the district court of Wyandotte
County the other day Mrs. Deborah Nc
Clerken was given a verdict for 5000
AGAINST Ed. and Tobias Hogan and
Thomas Rooney. three Armourdale
saIoon-keepers. who, she testified, con-
yerted her husband from sober, thrifty
man to an habitual drunkard. Two of the
defendants are serving sentences In the
county Jail for violating the Prohibitory
law.
The other day Albert Garrison and An
| derson Barr, aged thirteen and nine years
respectively, sons of farmers residing near
Medicine Lodge, were alone at the resi-
dence of young Barr's parents when the
boy Garrison got hold of revolver and
was examining it. The pistol was dis
charged the ball entering Barr's forehead
Just o, er the left eye, causing death in
| two hours.
TWENTY-FIVE men recently left Garden
| City for Minneapolis, Minn., to take the
| place of strikers on the street car lines
| there.
TOPEKA gave nearly !, ,20) majority to the
proposition to issue 5000, 900 in bonds for
a new bridge across the Kansas river. but
the county overcame this and defeated
| the bonds.
The funeral of the late Judge j. P.
Usher was attended at Lawrence by
prominent men from all parts of the State.
The bar associations OF the surrounding
| cities attended in body. The following
persons acted as pail bearers: Chief JUS
tice Horton, United States District Judge
| G. G. Foster, Associate Justice w. A.
| Johnston, Judge John Martin, Colonel
Rossington, all of Topeka; Judge T. A.
Hurd, Leavenworth; Judge j. w. Green
and NJ. Summerfeld, of Lawrence.
| DURING a recent storm the barn of a Mr..
Hacker, residing south of Wellington. was
demolished and one of the heavy timbers
was blown through his dwelling, which
struck Mr.. Hacker and caused his death in
a few hours. He left wife and four
children in destitute circumstances.
| MADAME JEFFRIES keeper of disreput-
| able house at Wichita. was recently ar
rested for obtaining money under false
! pretenses. She sent 20 a farmer named
Smith, living near Joplin. No, a letter
| stating that his wife who had left him
| had died in her house and that she had
been to the expense of $55 in burying her.
She said that she still had the woman's
! trunk and some fine dresses which she
| would forward c. o. D. if he desired. He
| replied that if she would send the trunk
he would pay her bill She sent him a
trunk filled with old clothes and broken
| brick. and Smith went 10 Wichita and re-
| ported the matter TO the police when it
| was found that his wife was there alive
| and well. The Jeffres woman and Mrs.
Smith went to the express office and in
| quired for the money when both were ar
| rested.
THE body of man was found the other
night on the west bank of the Arkansas
near Wichita. Papers showed the man to
| be Grant Tikes. 4 note in his memoran-
| dunn book said: Notify nv father, Frank
| Tikes, Arkansas City" No money was
| found on the body but a note stated that
| hard times caused the suicide. The man
was recognized as a boomer, very sanguine
of success in Oklahoma.
| GEORGE MEYERS recently engaged him
self as farm hand to Wyandotte Couu-
| ty farmer. To bind the bargain the two
| imbibed freely of beer b. fore leaving Kan
sas City. Before reaching the town OF
| Quindaro they got into quarrel and
Meyers was shot twice in the leg. The
man who personated the farmer and did
the shooting disappeared, without even
leaving his name, and Meyers was sent to
| the hospital.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on
the 18th: Original invalid, Charles Bloom,
Burlington; LIE Roy Brooks, Richfield :;
John w. Cubbison, Mankato; William
Carter, (deceased) Plymouth; Michael
| Jordan, Fort tLeavenworth; Michael Love-
Union Valley; Christopher Slime, Edna;
William R. Cullifer, Empire City; Samuel
| Belson, Council Grove; William Shular,
| Lyons; w. F. Post, Ochiitree; Jacob II.
| Bunton, Vining. Increase, Silas R.
| Gates, Pawnee River; Sebastian Strieger,
Great Bend; David ID. S. Fike, Winfield;
John Rigley, Erie; Isaac N. Flesher, Nc
Pherson; Slas W. Bardwell, Great Bend /;
Willis NJ. Howerton, Dundee; James p.
Maxfield, Kingman; James n. Russell,
| Genesee; John Phillips, Dighton; Adam
II. Raser, Jetmore; Orren s. Womack,
Hudson; Benjamin F. Guy. Leon; James
NJ. Craig, Clay Center; Richmond Devoe,
Oakley; William B. Gibson, Topeka; Silas
Peters, Clyde; John w. Magill, Richield;
Francis NJ. Stahl, Auburn; William II.
Hubbel La Fountain; Charles P. Wal
bridge, Beattie; Alfred c. Crosswhite,
Stillwell; Amos Cunning, Marion; John
Kingsman. Marysville; Josiah Oliver,
Parsons; Amos Van NausdIe, Dorrance.
Reissue, William II. Van Vlee5 Newton.
Reissue and increase, John R Baringer,
Larned. Original widows, etc, Virginia,
widow of Alexander Arney, Colokan.
Mexican survivor, VIM. I. Boles, Bond.
Mexican widow, Sophina, widow of Ira
Poe, Wilmot.
A LATE fire at Wichita destroyed Stew
art, COney q TO- Ton "orhs. hoss on
stock and machinery estimated at 80 900;
Insurance light
THE Governor has pardoned F. W. Oh
man, a German farmer. convicted last
December for larceny and sentenced to the
penitentiary for one year from klngman
County.
OFFICER BEDwELL. charged with tbs
murder of John Foran, and the negro
man who fatally stabbed Charles Gordon
were recently taken from Leavenworth tc