The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-10-27
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER q, 1870.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER q, 1870.
WILD gceze and ducks are making tliei
appearance in market, in large numbers
and the restaurant windows present a tempt
ing display Of plump game. SPortsmen ar
having fine times.
We received yesterday one Of the larses
sized Taylor steam presses for.the mammoth
WEEKLY TINES, which will be put in opera
ton rs soon as our new steam engine Is ~
place.
LITTLE son Of Mrs. Wilcox, Il widow
residing in Lawrence, was kicked TO death
by vicious mustang pony, on Monday Last
The helpless little fellow was terribly man
gl"l.
SIS. CAswELL. ESQ, Of Junction City,
who was stabbed by Mexican, in Abilene
a few days ago, died on Friday night from
the fleets Of his wounds, which were not al
first considered dangerous.
TIE attention of teachers is called TO the
advertisement in another column, of an ex-
animation to be held at the Western Busi-
ness College, corner o: Cherokee and Fifth
streets, on the 18th instant.
FIVE companies Of the Seventh cavalry,
left Fort Hays yesterday for Leavenworth.
Company GIL" remains at Hays. General
Custer and Col. Weir are coming in TO win
ter at Fort Leavenworh.
A lady in Leavenworth has gone crazy by
reading the local pages of the Leavenworth
papcrs.-Kassas City Journal.
Yes. She read an announcement that her
son had broken his neck trying to climb one
of your sidewalks, without spurs on.
WE learn that the Census Bureau, a. Wash
ington, is about to order investigation Of the
Kansas City census, attention having been at
tracted to IT by the disproportionate number
of votes To the number of inhabitants. The
estimate in the West is about one voter to ev-
cry seven inhabitants; and the returns of
that town would make it only one to thirteen.
We learn from the Lawrence Tribune, of
the death of Joel Thomas race-horse, Van
guard. lie departed this life on Friday
morning, the cause being spasmodic or cramp
collie. Vanguard was thoroughbred, and
one of the fastest and best ever owned in the
West, and Just in his prime, being only nine
years old. He was valued at 81 800, and the
loss is quite severe one.
To illustrate the fact that printing paper
out West costs something, Buckingham, Of
the Cloud County Empire, announces that the
freight on three bundles of paper, weighing
135 pounds, from Leavenworth to Clyde,
was 1915. Subscribers ought to come right
down with the stamps on that statement.
Buck gets up good paper, by the way, and
We are glad to learn that it is well supported.
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A GENTLEMAN from up the road, yester-
day, brings us a rumor that Lieutenant ii.
Walworth Smith, Acting Quartermaster of
the Seventh Cavalry, was murdered at or
near Salina, day before yesterday. He was
known to have about his person Il large
amount of Government funds, and the rumOr
excites the gra,est apPrehensions in regard
TO the matter. The Lieutenant was well
-, IL x.-harn 10 has l.,
number of friends who will rejoice to learn
that the above is but rlmor.-Topcku Com
monucalth.
Lieut.. Smith is well known here, and was
formerly from Rochester, n. y.
THE Republicans Of Doniphan County
have nominated Hon. Sol. Miller, of White
Cloud, and DIR. ]. Wood, of Doniphan, for
State Senators. They were instructed al
most unanimously against Sidney Clarke.
The Second Representative District nomi-
mates that sound veteran Republican, the
Hon. Abraham Bennett. He will be elected
two to one. The Fifth District nominatcs
Kennedy, nti-Clarke, over Clarke Lowe
an unlookcd-for victory.
THE press Of the country is unanimous i'm
rrcnouncing the Kansas City census the most
brazen fraud of the kind ever Perpetratcd.
The Lawrence Tribune SAYS:
We understand that the frauds in the
Kansas City census are to he investigated,
and that the returns will probably he thrown
out. IL would be well for the investigating
committee TO call on a gentleman of st.
Louis, who stated, in our office, yesterday,
that a census taker in Kansas City insisted
on counting him, along with two other nom
residents who were in company with him,
transicntly in that city, few days since.
Our Coal.
We copy the following from the Lawrence
Journal, in regard TO our coal mine. Ii is
TO he regretted that our coal cannot he de-
livcrei in Lawrence at as low a rate as that
from Fort Scott:
This mine is now i'm successful operation,
and the company is taking out about two
thousand bushels every day, which amount
will bc increased as the cold weather creates
Il greater demand for good fuel. The shaft
is about seven hundred feet deep. Arrange
ments will soon he completed for shipping,
which will greatly facilitate delivery and
dbyiatc the present necessity for caring n