Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-02-06
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
THE pupils of the public schools of
the State generally celebrated the
twenty-ninth birthday of Kansas on
January %.
GEORGE UMMETHUN, eX-mayor OF Leav-
enworth. died the other day from pneu-
mOnia as result of an attack of la
grippe. He was fifty-four years old.
A LATE fire at Emporia did damage to
the extent of $4,000. The entire stock
and fixtures of the drug store of j. NJ.
TObie were destroyed.
REPORTS received by the State Board
of Agriculture show that many farmers
in Western Kansas are taking advantage
of the bounty offered by the county COM
missiOners, under the act of the Legisla-
ture in relation to the planting and
growing of trees. The maximum bounty
is SO per acre for trees planted this
year and cultivated for five years, the
trees to be ten feet apart each way, and
to be kept in thrifty, growing condition
for five years. The provisions under
which the bounty is offered do not apply
to lands held as timber culture entries
under the laws of the United States.
THE preliminary hearing of Riley
County's ex-treasurer, James NJ. Fort
ner, was held recently at Manhattan,
and Fortner held for the embezzlement
of S32, 900, and also the improper use of
public money as county treasurer, TO the
May term of the district court. His
bond was fixed at sc, 900 on the charge of
embezzlement and 81, 900 on the charge
of improper use of public money while
treasurer.
LATE the other night fire broke out in
the buildings of the Kansas City Pack
ing Company on the banks of the Kaw,
in Armourdale, raging furiously for two
or three hours. The damage amounted
to over 100000, fully insured. The
property was sold week before to BOs-
ton capitalists, who had made prepara-
tions to greatly extend the works.
THE Governor has appointed Major
William Sims Treasurer of the State to
succeed James w. Hamilton, who re-
signed several days ago. Major Sims
was for manyr years secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture and is we'll
known throughout the State. He is a
prominent farmer and is at the head of
the State Grange.
LAMPHERE & Co.'s box factory at
Atchison was totally destroyed by fire
the other night. The loss was $4,000.
Z. n. GARDLEY, well-to-do grocery
keeper of Leavenworth, recently met
with singular and probably fatal acci-
dent. He was engaged in taking some
barrels of salt into a cellar under his
store, when he lost control of one of
them and it passed over his body, ter
ribly crushing it.
GEORGE BLACK, very strong man, re-
Gently became suddenly insane at Wich-
tia, and pouncing upon his brother-in-
law, w. Crosby, beat him with club
most horribly. He then turned upon
his sister and seriously injured her.
When officers arrived he had locked
himself in a room and threatened to
shoot any one approaching him. He
was finally secured.
AN application for the appointment of
a receiver of the Topeka Rapid Transit
Railway and suit for foreclosure of
mortgage was recently filed in the United
States Circuit Court at Topeka by the
Thompson Houston Electric Company,
of Boston.
In Central Kansas winter wheat is re-
ported to be looking better than it ever
did at this season of the year. A very
large acreage was sown. Prominent
farmers predict the largest crop the COM
ing harvest ever known.
A COMPANY with capital of S15O,OOO
has been organized at Winfield for the
manufacture of cement.
ATToRNEY-GENERALK KELLOGG recent
ly addressed letter to the Governor in
reply to the question whether the sale
of lottery tickets in Kansas was legal,
saying that the organic law of ihe State
forbids the sale of lottery tickets, but
that the law was practically dead let
ter, because the statutes attached no
penalty to the offense. He said further
that the proprietors of. newspapers
which printed lottery advertisements
might be punished under the law by a
fine of not less than $50 nor more than
81. 900 or imprisonment for not less than
thirty DAYS or more than six months, or
by both such fine and imprisonment.
The sugar company at Medicine Lodge
is experimenting with thirds" with
good results. The output for the first
season will reach $4,000 pounds of
sugar. Beet seed have been ordered
from Germany, and the adaptability of
the German beet for this country will
be thoroughly tested.
w. d. MURPHY was recently shot and
killed at Coldwater by j. Z. Straum,
druggist. A woman was the cause of the
trouble between the two men. Lombart
waylaid his victim and shot him several
times.
ATCHIsoN is again agitating the sub
ject of the building of the Missouri Pa
cific shops at that place.
Ed. MCCOY and Benjamin w. Dunn,
carpenters, were working upon scaffold
at the Benson ice house in Topeka the
other day when the scaffold broke pre-
cipitating them to the ground, a distance
of thirty feet. McCoy's back was broken
and he died in about two hours. Dunn
received serious injuries. Mccoy was
forty-two years cid and single.
A sYNDICATE of New York capitalists
recently purchased the Topeka water
works, the price paid being over $500, 900.
Two women in Kansas City, Kan,
were recently found in an unconscious
condition from gas asphyxiation, which
was caused BY the escape from gaso-
line stove.