The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1864-06-18
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The gallant First Kansas or % much Of il -
is left, arrived at Leayenworth on Thnrsday Of
last week. -
A destructive hail-storm passed through
Atchison county last week. Gardens were
generally destroyed. - lf
A farmer in Lyon county has raised thirty
mules, which he sold q short time since, real
izing the sum of $4,000. -
Kansas City seems to be in danger Of q raid.
Companies Of militia have been organised,
armed, and ordered on duty, and arrangements
made to give the invaders warm reception.
At meeting of the Directors Of the Leaven-
worth, Lawrence, and Fort Gibson Railroad
company, s. o. Thacher was elected President,
E. D. Ladd, Secretary, and ]. L. Mcdowell,
Treasurer. The Lawrence Tribune says the
people in that section of the State are deeply
interested, and will favor its construction by
every possible means.
A young man by the name Of John P. Bailey
who was lying in Jail in Lawrence awaiting
his trial for robbing the Franklin county safe,
committed suicide on the 7th inst, by hanging
himself with q strap which he made by cutting
up his bootleg. Before committing the act he
wrote letter to his friends in which he as-
signs as q reason for what he was about to de-,
that he was too proud to live without good
name as he must DO.
The Leavenworth papers have united in an
increase of prices upon all of their issues.
They say, and say truly, that it is impossible
to sustain themselves at the old prices, with
the enormous advance in every thing else.
The first new potatoes Of the season were
exhibited in market yesterday morning.
Price forty cents per quart. Only $3.50 per
bushel. They were about the average Of the
boys alley-tors, china-alleys, knuckle-down-
tights, no dubs, nor -Consrratire.
Judge Tullis, an old plains trader, informs
the St. Joseph News that on q recent trip from
Fort Kearny to St Joseph, he was never out Of
wagons, all rolling westward. On one day at
point of the road he travelled over, four hum
dred wagons were observed to pass by,
The Lawrence Tribune says: Some few days
since, two bushwhackers were caught near
the line, below Aubrey, and confessed their
crimes; after which, they were shot by some
of the Eleventh. One Of them confessed that
he was at Lawrence at the time of the raid,
was in Prices army, and that about the time
Quantrill was coming to Lawrence, he was
pressed by Quantrill into his gang Justice is
slow sometimes, but always sure.
We learn from the Emporia News that Mi
chael and Dennis Gleason, brothers, living
near Bazrar, in Chase county, got into diff
Guilty on the I'd inst, about their claims. In
the morning they had fist fight, in which
Dennis came off first best. Michael went
home, armed himself with knife and revolver,
and returned, when they came together again.
Dennis was unarmed and attempted to get the
pistol away from his brother, but Michael
struck him on the back Of the head, and then
stabbed him in the back with the knife. Den
mis- died shortly after. Michael was arrested
and held for trial.
We learn from the Atchison Frce Press that
q mutiny took place on the Montana, on satur-
day morning, shortly after she left St Joseph.
The deck hands got into difficulty with the
negro cooks, and commenced an attack upon
them The cooks in turn threw hot water upon
the deck hands, who finally overpowered the
negroes, and they fed to the cabin above. The
deck hands armed themselves with knives and
followed the negroes They stabbed the steward
and another negro, the former in four different
places. He crswled under the table, where
the roustabouts continued to beat him, when
the mate arrived with . stick Of wood and
knocked down three or four of the mutineers.
They then retreated to the lower deck. devour-
ed the breakfast intended for the passengers,
and held high carnival until the boat landed
at woodward, when the whole party, eighteen
in number, jumped ashore. The passengers
were obliged to wood up, and the boat was
to leave without . crew.