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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-04-09

ern part of the peninsula was especially
flooded, and many of the low-lying man
grove swamps had the appearance Of
forest trees growing in the middle Of
the sea-
We were spending the winter along
the coast, making occasional brief ex-
cursions into the interior to obtain
whatever of scientific interest that we
could find, or to enjoy few days sport
In hunting the wild game.
James Walton was fellow student
with myself, and through the advice OF
a physician we had both exchanged
books of natural history for study in
the field South Florida opened up q
field that was rich in every department
of science, and when we were engaged
in studying the fora or fauna of that
region we never failed to make obser-
vations and discoveries that interested
and instructed.
In the course of time, however, the
continually rising waters forced US
from dry land, and we had to construct
a rude platform for our home. This
was built by driving heavy stakes in
the ground, and then putting a log
platform on the top of the stakes. The
water never rose quite up to the top Of
this platform, but once or twice it
reached within several inches of it
The platform, with our rude shanty
on it, was situated close to huge man
grove swamp, and near enough to
Jupiter inlet to give us a distinct view
of the ocean. We could thus reach salt
and fresh water birds and fish with but
little difficulty.
Shortly after the holidays the water
reached its highest mark, and we found
ourselves living, as it were, right in the
midst of large sea, and with here and
there forests of trees growing out of it.
With our little canoe we could paddle
far up into the interior, and we fire.
quently spent days in exploring the sub
merged country.
One day James and 1 entered little
cove in one of the large mangrove
swamps, or lakes, as they really
were, some two or three miles from
the camp. We shot a few wild
ducks to replenish our stock of pro-
visions After padding around for
some time we startled up flock of wild
birds, which scurried out of the brakes
so rapidly and suddenly that we could
not get good glimpse of them To
prevent any great prize from escaping,
we shot indiscriminately into the flock,
and brought three down.
The three birds were wounded and
their cries soon attracted the other
birds of the swamp. They proved to be
pelicans and they made desperate eff
forts to get beyond our reach We
picked up two Of the screaming cres-
lures, and then started for the third
Before we reached the last one our
attention was attracted by ripple in
the water, and then by the black head
of an alligator moving rapidly toward
the screaming bird The winter had
been hard one, and the voracious sau-
rians had become bold and desperate in
their hunger. Otherwise the big fellow
would never have ventured out in broad
daylight and attempted to steal the
game right from under our nose.
Paddle for the bird" James shouted,
as he saw the alligator. 1--WE can beat
that fellow"
Out of fun and wild desire for ven
ture we entered the race and padded
our best The alligator, nothing daunt-
ed by our approach, increased his speed
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-04-09
ENTERPRISE REDEEMED.

ENTERPRISE, April THE election
which took place in this city Yesterday
was one of the most holly contested
that ever occurred here and entirely
redeems the city from being the home
of socialists and anarchists. The peO-
pies party ticket was beaten and the
followers of that delusive snare are
lighting mad.
One. of the most crushing defeats
ever experienced by any one was adj
ministered to Mr.. Sem, one of the
representatives of Dickinson county,
he being defeated for the Office of mayor
by nearly seventy votes, almost two 20
one. He has been sat down upon mos
effectively by the people Of his own
town. The issue was forced upon the
opposition and at the time of the NOM
ination of the citizens ticket it was
distinctly stated that the only issue of
the campaign was whether secret
society should rule the town. The
secret society dictated the nomination
of this union labor prophet and the
people of the city have rebuked them
IN a manner that should completely
crush anyone. The following is the
vote cast: For Mayor, C. Hoffman
ISL, Sem "a; Councilnen, Hassler 2O4,
Staatz 1859, Poister 239, Schoepfeld 227,
Merrill 1853, Froelich 9S, Hare "A,
Muensenmier 81; Police Judge, Frey
15s, Beaver 81, The first four council
men named were elected.
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IndIEestiOn In the Falklaaa I.l..s,.

1t is popularity considered that that
frightful enemy, indigestion, is = mala-
dy, to a great extent, consequent upon
our high state of civilization In The
medical report on the health Of the
Inhabitants of the Falkland islands,
the assistant colonial surgeon OBJ
serves that the bane Of this
remote territory is chronic indiges-
ton. He attributes this fact to two
reasons In the first place 70 the
enormous amount Of tea and coffee con-
sumed by the inhabitants; and, second
", to the ignorance Of the majority Of
the women of the most rudimentary
laws of cooking.-N. Y. Journal
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'antis' out of a poIed vote of nearly
$50. A few lady voters turned out in
the afternoon but were too late to
adequately aid the losing side.
The following are the names of those
elected: For mayor, IL. Whitley; for
councilmen, II. j. G. Newmiller, J. NJ,
Ewing, o. F. Scarf, F. 1. Carter and
j. A. Hopkins; for police Judge, ].
Shaver.
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BE is ON HAND.
DR.. Scheidtweiler, the Sugar Beet
Experimenter, Here.

DR.. Scheidtweiler, the Sugar Beet
Experimenter, Here.
In spite of the rumors sent out by
the agricultural college at Manhattan
DR.. Scheidtweiler, the German sugar
beet experimenter, came in today from
Salina, accompanied by W. r. Guist
and was ready to talk business to the
formers near the city.
The doctor says he Is backed by
abundant capital and will go ahead
with his beet tests in spite of the col
lege's withdrawal, which he thinks is
caused by jealousy in The experimental
station. He says Salina is going into
the scheme heartily and he expects to
have thorough tests of the possibility
of successful beet culture in Kansas
made.
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TRACKS MUST CONE UP.
The Council Takes. the Reflector
Good Advice.

The city council met last evening
and allowed the usual long list of bills.
Among them was Street Commissioner
st. Peters bill for services and the
council took especial care that he
should not get pay for his hack driving
services in the rings interest.
An order was issued that the city
attorney should take steps to annul the
street car franchise and as soon as
possible the street car tracks win. be
taken up. In the meanwhile the
tracks win be covered.
A petition for a sidewalk on the
east side Of Cedar between A street
And North Second was referred to the
proper committee.
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PURSUED BY sAURIANS
The Timely Arrival Of Another
Deadly Enemy Saves Us.

N THE winter
Of 1sS99o the
rainfsl1 Of
south Florida
was somewhat
re m arkable,
and all Of the
rivers, lagoons
andlow swamps
became greatly
changed in ap
pear8nco owing
to the quaint
ties Of water
rushing toward
the sea- The
extreme south-
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Obituary.

The death of Cyrus Feigley living 4
miles east of Abilene of heart disease
is reported. The funeral services we're
held at the Evangelical church on
Wednesday, Rev. Tobias officiating.
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SOLOMON CITY.

SOLOMON CRY, April THE cleo
ton for city officials took place yester-
day in this burg and resulted in a ma
iOrity OF Is being relied up for the
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-04-09

Wanted-Every lady to know that
hBlush of Roses cures pimples.
freckles, blackheads and moth.
Price 70 cents. Agents wanted.
Main branch Office, ''B. of R." Hills
boro, Kas, 285-4t
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Il you haven't got religion enough to
keep you sweet when things 60 wrong,
how do you know you have got any7
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-04-09

Persons calling for the above viii
please sly advertised giving date.
n. B.-Under the late order Of the
postmaster general, one cent (lcl viii
be charged for all advertised letters.
D. r. GoRDEH. Postmaster.
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MISSOURI PAC1FIC-AT HERINGToN.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-04-09

::ssALINA BRANCH.
Going West.
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RAILWAY TINE TABLES.

A com daily except Sunday. $50 ]
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TIE rArEsr

The motion for a new trial in the Ed
holland case at Jefferson City, No, has
been overruled by Judge Burgess.
FREDERICK c. HAvESIEYER founder
of the Havemeyer sugar refinery firm,
died at ThrOgg's Neck, L. L, on the
2Sth at an advanced age.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the Gillian in
surgents IN Washington assert that
Vallenar and all the Huasco valley are
in the possession of the insurgents or
constitutional government
A PRIVATE cable dispatch received
from Colon, on the Isthmus of Panama
announces the death of William Simms,
of Virginia, United States consul at
that port. He was a leading repub-
lican politician OF his state and figured
as the central target in the DanviIle
riot in 1888.
MINISTER OF MARINE UPPER, of
Canada, contends that according to the
line laid down by the last geOdetic
survey the part OF the Bay Of EnndV in
which the United States fshing boats
were seized recently is clearly in
British waters.
THE strike at the DObson mills,
Philadelphia, broke out Efresh on the
afternoon Of the 28th, consequent upon
the prOprietOrs enforcing a black list.
SAMUEL D. SANDS, supposed to be the
oldest printer in the country, died re-
Gently at Baltimore, Nd
GRAssHoPPERs are reported running
crops along the borders of Ohio and
Indiana
DIR HENRY T. HELEBOLD, the
''buchu' man, has been placed In a
madhOuse at Trenton. n. J., chained at
the ankles and wrists His mania was
considered incurabIe-
w J. ELLIOTT was found guilty at
Columbus, O., OF murder In the second
| degree With his brother, P. J. Elliott,
he killed Albert j. Osborne, OF the
Sunday World, and q bystander. The
cause was infiamed personal journal
ism.
COLLECTOR ERuARDT, OF New York,
has made public the names of eighty
four attaches OF the custom house
whose salaries are reduced or whose
I positions are abolished altogether. &C
cOrding to the department plan OF re-
/ trenchmenS
SECRETARY FOSTER does not fully
agree with superintendent owen IN the
/ opinion that the alien contract labor
/ law does not prohibit the importation
/ Of skilled labOrers for employment in
/ tin plate factories.
/ AT Warren, o.. Ed Caldwell. colOred,
/ and John Eumason. took refuge under
a tree during a rain storm Lightning
! struck the tree and killed both men.
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FRAZIER & Co. s grocery warehouse
and Quinet's carriage factory, Montreal
Canada, have been burned Loss. $780,
coo
FRANCE has acquired complete con-
troll OF the island OF Tahiti
ATTEMPTS by unknown parties have
been made on the lives Of Nine. Con
STAINS and n Etienue and NJ. Treble,
French government officials. E'ulmiu-
ate powder was cOncealed in packages
resem bling Roman Catholic prayer
books
By the collapse Of the condeusers at
the chemical works at Gateshead. Eng,
six men have been crushed to death
Two excursion trains met in collision
at St Mande, France, on the goth
FOrty-nine persons were killed and 100
injured
cause OF dull times caused by the Nc
KinIey law set fire to a cork factory at
Ev-ora. Portugal Great damage was
done
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the explorer,
has meet with a serious accident Ac-
cOrding to information from Muerren.
In the Alps, where Mr.. Stanley is stay
ing with his wife. the explorer has
fractured his left ankle bone by acci-
dentally slipping while mountain elm b
ing.
CLEARING house re turns Tor the week
ended July 25 showed an average de-
crease of 2.5 compared with the cor
responding week Of last year. In New
York the decrease was 1876.
TEE pope has approved OF the exhi-
bition of the holy coat at Treves and
has sanctioned the forgiveness Of the
sins of pilgrims jOurneying there.
Three steamers, each with 900 pilgrims,
have arrived from America
Gross customs frauds, involving
many noted persons, have been un-
earthed in the duchy of BuIowina,
Austria Many arrests have been made.
THE Nickel Plate road has yielded to
the pressure brought to bear upon it by
the other Vanderbilt lines, and now in
forms the AtchisOD, Topeka & Santa
Fe that it can not join that road in
making an excursion rate of 81 so from
Peoria to Niagara Falls and return by
way of Chicago.
THE river police of Lisbon having in
terfered with attempts made to obtain
rasuiez, the officers of the cruiser
warned the police to keep at a respect
full distance and prepared her guns for
action
IT is said that the car and czarina
were very cOldly received by the people
of Finland.
THE emperor of Germany personally
conducted religious services on his
yacht recently.
A NAN named Gurtler. hai1ing from
New York, was in Berlin recently with
the avOwed intention of challenging
Emperor William to fight duel he
was popped in a lunatic asylum.
THE weather bureau reports July the
coolest month on record.
THE Chicago worlds fair commission
ers were banqueted in London by Lord
Mayor SavOry.
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THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


THE citizens of Washington are in the
field for the grand army encampnent
In 1892
THE agents of the Gillian congress
sionsl party in Washington discredit
the report of recent engagements on
Huasco and also the report that the
Esmeralda fred on the French vessel
Volta
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE RUsK
denies that he has issued any qUarau-
tine laws discriminating against Ten
nessee, as was alleged.
THE comptroller OF the currency has
approved the selection of the Missouri
national bank of Kansas City as a re-
serve agent for the CoVvley county na-
tiOusl bank of Winfield, Kan
Col FRED BRACKETT, chief clerk of
the treasury department, has rendered
his resignation, to take effect SePtem-
Der L He has been made special agent
of the treasury department under sec
ton IL of the act creating the worlds
fair relating TO the admission of foreign
goods for exhibition at the fair. He
will establish in London a bureau of
information.
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News OF the assassination of Rev. P.
T. Williams, a Methodist clergyman,
near Heber, Ark, has been received
He was shot from ambush while riding
along the country road. A man named
johnson, known to have been Williams
bitter enemy, was arrested and held for
the crime.
THE Atlanta (Ga) federation of
trades passed resolutions of sympathy
with the striking miners of Tennessee,
also condemning the Georgia convict
system.
THE strike of skilled laborers at
Vicksburg. Miss, is evidently over,
though not yet formally declared of.
The strike was maintained for eight
weeks on slender resources, and the
men now find themselves compelled to
resume work on such terms as the
bosses may dictate
EDITOR II. c. BROWN. of the Southern
Alliance Farmer of Atlanta, Ga, has
been arrested for reprinting an edi-
| SOria1 from a San Francisco paper
which is alleged to be a lottery adver-
tisement
TENNESSEE cattle growers are wildly
| indignant over the quarantine order of
| Secretary Rusl1- They positively deny
! that disease of any kind exists in the
A TERRIBLE thresher explosion &C
! CURED recently ca James Durbin's farm
near Litchfeld, Ky. Three men were
killed and Eve Dangerously injured.
Ex-GOv. DAVID 5. WALKER, of Flor
ida, is dead
AT MOrehead, KY, Deputy United
States Marshal George Armstrong was
| shot and killed by Constable Simnns of
that place Armstrong was passing
through Morehead with q party of
mOonshine prisoners, and while stop
ping over night became involved in a
/ quarrel with Simms
The troubles at BricevilIe and Coal
Greek, Tenn, ended Rmicably on the
s4th, the miners agreeing not to modest
! the cOuVicts and to await relief through
a special session of the Legislature.
CHARLES OZBURN, q Wholesale com
mission merchant, was hanged at At
lanta Ga, for the murder Of a man
named Bradley. Great efforts were
made TO save OzbUrn from the gallOvvs
without effect
Mrs SUSAN NJ KY, wife Of Bishor
J. s Key Of the Methodist Episcopal
church south, died at Eureka Springs
Ark, recently of heart trouble. She
had been sIlinvalid FOR several wears.
A BATTLE between negroes and Itai
inns working on the \. & W. railroad
IN Logan county, West Virginia, was
fought the other day. IL which two
Italians and one negro were killed. The
trouble arose over an Italians wife
who left her husband and went to live
with the negroes
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Col WILLIAM H MERRITT died at
Cedar Rapids, Ia. aged Il He was
democratic candidate for governor IN
1854, postmaster at Des MOines under
Cleveland, and was colonel on Gen
McCIeIan's stair during the war.
JUDGE MCKAT, the alliance judge Of
Harper county. Kan. wss brought be
fore Judge Horton, who reprim anded
hiEa Tor his action in the Honey veil
case, but delayed action until SePtem-
Der.
TIE preliminary examination OF
James Brennan resulted in his being
conuisEeE1 for trial for e3S murder of
sam Wood at HugotOn, Kan
JAMES c. EERG UsoN, formerly Prest-
dent of the board of trade Of Indian
apolis. Ind. died at San Jose, Cal, re-
Gently.
ALBERT HAMIsTOsy, son OF Rev. ]. A
Hamiston, and William Ewing, both
young married men, OF Greenville, Ill.,
sought shelter under a tree from a
storm, where they were struck by
lightning and killed
S. A. KEAN, the bankrupt banker of
Chicago. will pay So cents on the dollar.
TwENTY-Two buildings in South
Haven, Mick-s were destroyed by fire
Loss, go, 600.
TIE lake schooner Helena was sunk
and one seaman lost in a collision with
a steamer near Sault Ste Marie, Mich
A DISTINCT shock OF earthquake was
felt at Evansville, Ind, on the night Of
the goth, extending into Kentucky.
Much alarm was caused.
RAINS have fallen in northwest India,
averting the famine that was feared.
Two excursion cars on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton were wrecked by
& freight train crashing into them at
MiddIetown, near Dayton, o., on the
night of the 25th. Three persons were
instantly killed and a large number
wounded.
TIE Columbia Oil Co., with an i'm
mense plant at a to 81 Erie street. Chi
cage, and with branches at Memphis
and OwatOnna, Mimi, after a brief et-
istence of six weeks has collapsed. The
three plants were worth 81, coo, 900.
BY an explosion in powder mill at
Platteville, Wis, a workman was
blown to atoms
FIRE destroyed almost the whole
business section OF Los Gatos, Cal
Loss. $50, 600.
WHILE the schooner Michigan was
coal at Chicago she broke in
two with report that sounded like
that of a cannon. The unloaders
against the captains protests had
taken out the coal from the midships
section leaving it in both bow and stern.
THERE has been a run on the Peoples
savings bank of San Francisco.
AT a meeting of Kansas democratic
editors at Topeka a long address was
drawn up defining the position OF the
party. Alliance methods of reform
were repudiated and the republican
party held responsible for the political
evils existing. It was resolved that the
party should take an independent posi-
ton.
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JUDGE PORTER is charged at Pitts
burgh, Pa, by Anthony O'BTien with
taking Doodle while district attorney.
REV. PHILLIPS BE0OKs will be cOnse-
Grated bishop of Massachusetts, in Trim
ity church, Boston, October II.
KNIGHTS of Pythias on an excursion
boat from Greenbush, N. Y. had a mar
row escape, being run down by the
Peoples line steamer Drew. Fortunate
the boat sank in shallow water and the
excursionists we're ali safely taken off.
THE prisoners in the jail at Mauch
Chunk. Pa, struck against cleaning
their cells They were put on bread
and water for two days and succum bed
ALEXANDER CHAMBERS and wife, of
LaFimer, Pa, were struck by a train
while walking on the Pennsylvania
tracks and were thrown down an en-
but her husband was only slightly
hurt.
THE strike at the Allegheny Besse-
mer steel works, Duquesne, Pa, has
been declared off, the men giving up
the fight.
THE master p1umb ers of Boston have
decided not to increase the wages of
iourneymen, and a strike is expected.
The first heavy ordnance tWelvS-inch
rife gun designed for coast defense and
made in New York state. was fired at
Sandy Hook for the first time with sat
isfactory results. With $50 pounds of
powder it hurled ?. 600 pound shot five
miles. The gun will use 44O pounds of
powder and throw a 1000 pound shot
twelve miles
THE immense wooden mill of Campbell
& Elliott, Philadelphia, was recently
destroyed by fire. The loss was about
$TOO 600.
The boiler at Lees sawmill at MIN
eveh Junction, near Binghamton, n. Y,
exploded recently. Three men. James
Shaw, Fred Wheeling and NJ. Markham
were instantly killed
THE dairy cows in Sussex county, n.
J., are dying from a disease which has
puzzled every one.
FRED c. HAvEAIEYER, who established
the great Havemeyer sugar refineries,
As dying at Throggs Neck, L. /. He is
the father of Henry o. and Theodore
Havemeyer, the leading spirits in the
sugar trust He is IS years old
RICHARD NEwCobIBE, the Vvell-l1nown
New York lawyer, is dead
REV. w. WHITE, d missionary from
China, his two daughters and a nurse
girl were instantly killed at q railway
crossing at Nyack, n. Y. Not suspect.
ing danger the rev. gentleman drove
between two halves of an Erie freight
train and was struck by a passenger
train as he reached the next track
JUSTICE BREWER decided adversely
90 Jay Gould in the Rock Island UniOr
Pacific Omaha bridge case, holding tina
the agreement was valid and that tn,
Union Pacific had no right to violate i
when the Gould interests succeeded
those OF Charles Francis Adams
A GANG of Italians and PoIaclSs nun
lSering over a dozen, belonging at tn,
Griegville salt shaft, engaged in FIRE,
fight with knives and stones Will,
waiting for a train at Mount Morris, n
7. Three OF the Italians and tvg,
Polaclzs were stabbed Two Italian
were badly injured and one may die.
THE Massachusetts democratic coz
vention has been called for Worceste
September 20. Gen Patrick Collins, o
Boston, will preside.
Hon. PAUL DILLINGHAM; died a
Waterbury, VI He was % years old
He was = member of congress in 1s4
aud was governor OF Vermont from
1865 to 1857.
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THE WEST.

Ex-CHIEF OF POLICE BECK. for twenty
years previous to 1882 the head OF the
Milwaukee police. was arrested in a
raid made by the police on a gambling
house in that city. Beside the keeper
ten inmates were taken, most of them
being horse owners from abroad in at
tendance on the races
REENEEsoTIANs propose to try to raise
StOG, 600 additional for the worlds fair
exhibit