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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-17
BUSINESS BOOMING AT HOPE
An Interesting Grist Of Matter from
That Live Town.

HOPE, April 15-[Special cores
pondence. ]-Messrs. Shockey 81 Snider
who recently purchased the Peters
Hardware Co.'S store of this city, are
making their store one of the best in
the county. The buildings lave been
enlarged, and filled with enormous
stocks of hardware. For the past
week implements, wagons and bug
gies have arrived almost daily in car
load lots. They have also increased
their force of clerks. We hope to see
the new firm make a success in our
city.
Prof. Wine and his assistant teach
ers' attended Teachers institute at
Abbey school house, near Navarro.
last Saturday, good time and a spIen-
did meeting are reported.
A party of young people will attend
a school exhibition at Maple Grove
next Friday night.
Mrs. E. B. Milligan, of White City.
is IN the city visiting her sister, Miss
Bingham.
The newly elected councilmen have
not as yet made any provisions for the
repair CT our city. Our sidewalks are
in a most dangerous condition, and
the streets are not what they should
be. City ordinances are daily violated
by citizens who let their stock run loose
in the streets and there are many other
nuisances. We trust this will not be
the case longer.
DR.. A. L. Blesh and brother trans
acted business in Abilene yesterday.
-Four horse-buyers were in the city
all last week buying horses for eastern
markets. This shows what demand
there is for Dickinson's g horses in east
ern markets.
Harvey Miller, of Abilene. was in
the city last Saturday, in the interests
Of Shockey & Snider.
Rumor says Hope is booked for
three weddings in the near future. We
have it from good authority that they
Will all materialiZe too.
Wheat and oats are in as fine condi- |
tlon as have ever been in previous |
years at this time. The fruit trees
promise abundance of fruit, and the
April showers, if they continue, insure
US bountiful harvest.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-17
The Census Frauds.

EMPoRIA, Kan, April 16.-Yesterday's
investigations show that several county
officials are implicated in swindling the
county by fraudulent census returns,
and that the frauds date back as far as
1887. The evidence indicates that sew
eral city and township assessors also as
sisted, and criminal proceedings will
probably result In one ward in this
city the population as shown by the re-
turns was nearly double the actual num-
Der of residents.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-17
DlCKINSON'S DOINGS.
COUNTRY AND TOWN IN KAN
SAa' BEST COUNTY.
Breezy Notes and Personals Gathered
by the RciIect0r's Corps Of R,-
pOrters-All the Latest
Happ' nings.
CnuntY Hlgh SchnnI Notrs


CHAPMAN, April 13.-[Special cor.
espOndence. The school IS still grow
ing i'll numbers and in prosperity.
Miss Ina TiltOn and Peyton Garter
have closed their schools ard started in
high school this morning. Number ell
rolled, ia
Supt. Winans' lecture was a graad
talk for our young men and women
John Mcdonald will deliver the next
lecture.
Prof. Cook will start a beginning
class in Latin tomorrow morning.
Miss Anna SandbOru attended tie S.
5. convention at Solomon, bat is at
work in school again.
We felt honOred 10 have the deIega-
ton of nOtabies from the county seat
visit us. Come again.
A number of the new students will
join the Garfield literary society.
a defamation is given At the open
ing exercises each morning by the stu
dents.
The library has been moved to an
other room and blackboard pat upon
the walls.
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Detroit Drifts.

DETROIT, April 15.-TSpecial cor
rPSpondencel-GeO. Kelley has gone to
Oklahoma.
A number of Detroit folks attended
the alliance meeting in Abilene last
Saturday.
VIM. Lambs horse ran away last
Friday evening throwing him out the
buggy and bruising him considerably
and causing congestion of the lungs
which CAME near proving fatal. He
is some better. Mrs. Lamb is also
suffering from light stroke Of paral-
ysls.
The farmers are busy with spring
work.
School is progressing finely. Prin-
cipal II. NJ. Light has made a first
class manager.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-17

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Guiding lots and4 90 10 liz l43 IS
GRANT.
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20 ID % 3S-IOO IS9 OF
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-17

c; ". Parker sal as janitor.
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BILLS ALLOWED.

The Following is q list of Bills Allowed by
the Board of County Commissioners at
their Regular Meeting in April, A. D.,
1890
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-17

A contiGusl ooughiog is very annoy
ing to persons sitting near you in any
kind of gsthering; besides, 1t is of
great damage to the throat and lungs,
and is exceedingly dangerous at this
season of the year. One-hslf bottle of
Beggs' Cherry Cough Syrup will relieve
any ordinary cough, aud this remedy
costs no more than the inferior grades
that are thrown on the market to cell at
enormous profits. G. G.. Shaler drug
gist. nO21-d&c1y
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-17
WEEKLY REFLECTOR ABILENE, KANSAS APRIL H. $780,

State of Kansas Dickinson County.-ss.
i, NJ. II. Bert County Clerk do hereby certify
that the foregoing is true copy Of bills allowed
by the Board of County Commissioners Of said
county for the quarter ending April 9th, A d.
1890. NJ H. BERT, County Clerk.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
A Spurious Dime.

j. B. Holmes is the conductor of car 1877,
that makes hourly trips between the Navy Yard
gate and Georgetown. Yesterday he allowed
his wrath to get the better of him in such a
among his passengers. The car was well filed
and in collecting the fares the conductor re-
ceived from some one a bad ten-cent piece.
When he discovered the spurious money he
went from passenger to passenger inquiring if
they gave it to him. Everybody denied the
ownership of the money, and with apparently
no reason, the angry conductor settled on a
youth named Patrick Loughran as the guilty
party, and calling an officer had him arrested
and carried to the First Precinct Station. The
boy denied his guilt, as did the youths with
him, but the conductor insisted On the charge,
and collateral had to be furnished for the boys
release
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
Notes From Anacostia.

Mr.. and Mrs. H. n. HALEY are soiourning in
Virginia.
james Grimes, of Chicago, is visiting his old
home here
Misses Rosa Grimes and Martha Rose are at
Atlantic City.
George H. Armstrong has received appoint
ment as Justice of the peace.
A temperance tent has been put up and W i'll
be ready for business this afternoon.
DR.. A. NJ. Green has been nominated for
school trustee by the Anacostia Citizens Asso-
citation.
Peck and wife, j. H. Dony, Frederick Doug
lass, Mr.. and Mrs. Tew, and Mrs. Petty have
been attending the G. A. r. encampment at
Boston,
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
About the Pension Office.

All of the Census Office clerks have been re-
moved from the Pension Office building. The
clerks can now use the elevator and visit the
lunch-room without danger of being tramped
upon.
There are several clerks in the Pension Office
who hold commissions as notaries public who
Will find themselves many dollars poorer each
month when the law is approved which pro-
hioits them from charging their fellowclerks a
lee Ior taking the oath when they are appointed
or promoted.
Congress has at last concluded to give Gen
Raum an increase of clerks as follows: Twenty
medical examiners, Is principal examiners, 5
clerks OF class 4, clerks of class 3, clerks of
class 2 120 clerks Of class l. 130 clerks at 81 900
each, ll5 copylsts, messengers, and 10 assist
ant messengers.
Gen. Raum has decided that all declarations
in original and new disability claims that were
executed prior to July l, 1890, before any
officer other than court of record, are in
formal, and must be cured by new declaration
executed before some officer competent to ad-
minister oaths for general purposes, who should
use his official seal, as required under the act of
July l, 1890.
Mrs. S. l. Lauck, of the board of review, has
been rusticating at Atlantic City for several
weeks past Mrs. Lauck has the honor of be-
ing the Oldest lady clerk in point of service in
the office, and she feels quite proud OF the
honor. She was appointed April l. 1869, soon
after the death of her husband Henry c.
Lauck, who was chief clerk of the bureau at
the time of his death
There has never been time in the history of
the office when there have been as many clerks
absent as during the past two weeks The
number of claims adjudcated will be much less
than usual. The adjudicating divisions have
been very much depleted by details TO the record
division to aid in asserting, jacketng, and
recording the new claims, which is being done
as rapidly as possibly with the force at the
Commissioners disposal.
The applications for pension under the act of
June %, 1890, continue to pour into the Office.
Up to the present it is estimated that there
have been about three hundred and twenty
three thousand filed. Many of these, however,
are for claims that have been filed under pre-
vious acts where the claimants are unable to
procure the necessary evidence. 1t is believed
that the number of applications under the act
of June %, 1890, will far exceed the most lib
eral estimate. The rules to be applied in the
adjudication of this class of claims have not
been promulgated. One of the old officials
stated that from one-quarter to one-third of
the claims filed would be rejected; others
thought this estimate too high. There can be
no doubt but that many applications have been
hled by parties as an experiment, hoping they
would receive favorable consideration.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
St. Roses Choirat St. stephen,s

Last Friday, the feast of the Assumption, SER
vices were held in all the Catholic churches of
the city. The especial feature of the day at st.
Stephens was the singing by the pupils of St.
Roses Industrial School. The mass was sung,
as was the benedcton service, in a manner
highly crediUable to the instructors of this popu-
lar institution. The choruses were excellent.
the voices blending harmoniously. The solos
were very sweetly and correctly sung by Miss
Collier, soprano, and Miss Bergdorf alto. The
organist was Miss McGhan, whose playing was
quite skillful. Altogether, st. Rose has reason
to be proud of her choir.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
A Deserved Promotion.

Col, Jedediah H. Baxter, who has been Chief
Medical Puryeyor of the Army since April 10,
1874, was yesterday nominated by President
Harrison to be Surgeon General of the Army
the bureau and will raise him from the rank and
pay OF colonel to the rank and pay of brga-
diergeneral. Promotion has seldom been bet
ter earned or better deserved. A more excellent
man could not be nominated TO the place. Emf
nent surgical skill is seldom combined with so
much kindness of heart
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
Return of the Columbia Eight

The Columbia eight-oared crew arrived last
night at the Baltimore and Potomac depot and
were met by quite large number of their club
mates. Courtney returned with the crew, and
says he is not at all disheartened at the defeat,
and believes in the few weeks left for training
he will make splendid progress with the boys
Courtney did not expect any better showing
and says the crew will surprise the fast ones at
Staten Island
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
Corooran Oadet Corps Excursion.

The twenty-second select moonlight excur-
sion Of the Corcoran Cadet Corps to Marshall
Hall, on the Manchester, will be given Tuesday
evening next the 10Th instant Music will be
furnished by Professor Eibners orchestra on
the boat going and returning, and there will be
dancing at the pavilion. Everybody who de-
sires to take part in this delightful excursion
should apply early for tickets to any member of
the Corps or at the boat, which will leave at
gao =
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
Rescued From a Baqnio.

Officer Barney took out of Madame Hunts
house, 3O7 Thirteenth street, pretty young
girl who was about to enter upon a life of
shame She was from Baltimore, and the arrest
was made at the instance of her father, Frank
Auguestin. She is only sixteen, and the father
was under the impression that she had been
living with friends in Alexandria She is held
at the First Precinct Station.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
Arrested as Lottery Agent.

yesterday arrested w. w. Gould, the alleged
ticket agent for this city of the Louisiana Lot
terry Company, on charge of violation of the
local law prohibiting the selling of lottery
tickets. In the Police Court Gould waived ex-
animation and gave bonds to await the action
of the grand jury.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
On Tuesday Afternoon, August 10,
at 6 O'clock,

We will offer for sale in front of the premises
SUB LOTS 13l, 1872, 1873. AND184,
SQUARE 1908,
With the improvements consisting of four three
STORY prick houses, now under good rental
ms property is near the line of II. street cars
and herdcs. WIS
Terms One-fourth cash; balance in one. two
ana three years, 6 per cent, secured by deed Of
trust on the property sold, all cash. at option of
at tlme OF sale If the terms of sale are not com
piled with IN hfteen days from day of sale. right
cost of the defaultng purchaser, after five davs'
advertisement of such resale in some newspaper
published in Washington, ID. G.. All convey
ancing, etc., at purchasers cost
RADCLIFFE, DARR & CO.,
aul'f Auctioneers.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
THE ICE WATER is NOW COOL
The Coggswel1 Fountain Running gain in
Improved STYLE.

The Coggswel1 Fountain Running gain in
Improved Style.
On Monday last the Coggswell fountain. at
Seventh street and the Avenue was opened to
the public after four years of descated desue-
tude. This fountain was presented to the city
about eight years since by DR.. Henry D. Coggs-
well, wealthy dentist of San Francisco, who
stroVe to serve the temperance cause oy it's erec-
non. Under the old method of water service a
ton OF ice day was used without any perceptible
cooling effect on the water. The drainage was
also poor, and the discharge pipes insufficient
for the purpose. Consequently after short
time it was abandoned During the past four
years half dozen or more petitions have been
presented to the Commissioners by temperance
societies to have it restored to its intended
use.
Col. Robert took an interest in the matter
and 1t was due to him that the satisfactory re-
suits now to be noticed have been achieved
Under his supervision and according to his de-
signs, wooden inner department was con-
structed, enclosed by second wooden Frame
the space between the two being perfectly air.
tight. On the bottom a coil consisting of 1875
1eet OF the best block tin tubing was placed,
through which the water flows to the noZZles
A few inches above this there is a CRATE on
which the ice rests Above the door on the top
of this ice-chest is a second door, still further
enhancing the alright character of the recepta
Gle The mouth-pieces, instead of being CON
tnually turned on, are now open only when the
water is wanted.
In consequence the water has time, before be-
ing used, to become well cooled, and the ice
lasts much longer, 1t takes $50 pounds of ice
to fill the fountain and 800 pounds per day to
keep the water cool. The supply of water was
formerly furnished by the main on the Avenue,
but when the cable line was built it was aban-
doned. Now the water is taken from the pipes
on street The total cost of the change was
probably not over @ne hundred dollars. Henry
McShane " Co., the well-known Twelfth-street
plumbers, were the contractors.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
ChoIera-Pilgrims Under Guard.

CAIRO, Aug. l6,-The reports that cholera
has appeared here are not true. The health of
the city is excellent Pilgrims arriving from
Jeddah are detained in the desert near Alb
basiyes under guard, At Mecca yesterday
deaths from cholera numbered forty-seVen and
at Jeddah twenty-four.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
A New BanIsing and Rrokerage Firm.

The well-known firm of B. X. Plain & Co.. of
street. has been dissolved, Mr.. Plain retiring
and selling his interest to Mr., Lewis G. Tewks-
bury, banker of New York. The business
hereafter will be conducted under the name of
Lewis e., Tewksbury d Co., with branches in
Sew TI, York. Washington, and Chicago. Mr., w.
b. Hibbs, popular and capable young gentle
man, who was member of the firm of b. X.
Plain & Co. since its establishment eight years
ago, one who has numberless friends in business
circles, will have charge of the Washington
Office of the new firm He is known as one of
the most careful and intelligent young business
men of the city, and the new firm is fortunate
In retaining him with it. The offices will re-
main in the Adams Building, 1885 F street,
where direct private wires run to the New York
and Chicago houses of the firm.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17

Good summer reading-a Washington story
10y Emily j.. Sherwood, a well-known society
writer. willis PeytOn's Inheritance" For sale
at all book stores and news stands.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17
:" If a stag doth lack hind.
Let him seek out ROsalind. -

And now that the board of District Commits
sioners doth lack a Hine, President Harrison
cannot do better than find the address of Mai.
William Dickson. Democrat is wanted for
the vacant place. and President Harrison could
not better emphasize the personal and political
ingratitude of his predecessor by appointing to
this Office one who was so deserving of recog-
milton at the hands Of the Cleveland admins
tration and who was so completely ignored. If
the vacancy were to be filled by the vote of the
District people there is no question about who
would be elected.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17

There is going to be great display of fat on
the Potomac next Tuesday evening at 7
O'Clock. On that evening the Jolly Fat Mans
Club of Washington, accompanied by their fat
friends from half dozen Northern cities, will
take the Jane Moseley for trip down the river
The features of the programme will be foot
races and high jumping by men weighing five
hundred pounds and upward-more or less.
Representatives Baker, of Rochester Mason, of
Chicago, and Barnes, of Georgia, are expected
promised to go if he can manage it. Senators
Evarts and ingalls,, representing the deliberative
end of Congress, have been invited to be present
in the capacity of umpres and to keep the fat
men in order. The picnic is intended to dem
onstrate the falsity of Charles A. Dana's
theory of the incompatibility of intellect and
fat.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17

Col. Robert doesn't look to be much of a
martinez The casual observer would never
take him for an Army officer nor for a military
man of any kind. He looks more like col
porteur-a man who might try to take your
lie is little man, with longish matted hair and
beard. lie always wears spectacles and gem
orally a thin, watery smile, which shows his
teeth. There is suggestion of Uriah Heap
an individual tyrannizing over the two civilian
members of the District board It's all very
well TO be bullied by military man, but then
you expect it to be done by big burly broad
tache-the soldier, full of strange oaths and
bearded like the pard, seeking the bubble repu-
tation even in the cannon's mouth
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-17

Well, pretty nearly everybody is reading
TolstoI's "Kreutzer Sonata' now since Post
master General Wanamaker decided IT was too
nasty to go through the mails Some people
have great deal more faith in Wanamaker,s
judgment than in their own. know of half a
dozen gentlemen who were requested TO read
the book by friend who had read 1t and an
preciated it, He lent the book to each in turn.
but every one of them found it too duh and in
sipid. They simply could not persuade them
selves TO wade through it. That was before the
postal authorities condemned it. AS soon as
the Post Office Department decided that 1t
was nasty, and ordered it to be excluded from
The mails, these same gentlemen were chasing
all over town for a copy Of the book.
DAVID LEWsLEY.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-02

.hs-.-
snits ana He was q big. stalwart
,ei,ow, Win q waving mustache, and he
Iookea really Handsome. But there was
somethinG the matter with him, and I'm a
m,nutei knew what had spoiled Jim's
hie. .
rsim'' ! said, you've been drinking
Wei, general he said, you know I'm
tnsoueh my work now, an ! hadn't tasted
q 9rop ever since 9 here. SO 1 thought
~ yusyR gel O quart OF whiskey while i was
uown there, and-and ! guess I've drank
u PM or SO OF II, but l amt drunk
Now see here, Jim,' said l. this isn't
riRn'; youll never get back To your wife
a.u cniidren II you start In this way.
Quit " right where You are and don't spoil
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-02
How shot Elies.

From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.
When standing within a few yards of
the guns muzzle at the time Of discharge.
"a person would be amazingly astonished
were he only able TO see the shot as they
go whizzing by. Experiments in intan-
taneous photography have proved 10 us
that the shot not only spread out, comet
like. as they fly. but they string out one
behind The other TO a much greater dis
lance than they spread. Thus. with a
cylinder gun, when the first shot Of "A
charge reaches a target that Is forty yards
away, the last shot IL tagging along ten
yards behind. Even with the choke-bore
gun some of the shot will lag behind eight
yards in forty. This accounts for the wide
swath that is mown in a flock of ducks on
which a charge Of shot falls just right.
About five per cent. only Of the charge of
shot arrive simultaneously nj the target.
but the balance of the first half OF the
charge is SO close behind that a birds
muscles are not quick enough To get out
of the way, although those who have
watched sitting birds when shot at have
often seen them start as II TO fly when the
leading shot whistled by them. only to
drop dead as they were overtaken by the
leaden hail.