The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-12-22

that monopoly hi tax for telegraph would b
$3.50 per week, but just = he was ready "a
commence oPer.tions - . morning paper,
the Telegraph Company informed him that
be could have the despatches for SIS per
week. Jake is going to see what virtue
there il in . contract, and intimates that Il
he finds none, the daily will collapse. II
would be happy misfortune which could
take that daily notion out of Jake. We dis
like to see q fellow, who has worked I'D n
Jake has, fool al be has got away for the
bene6s Of other people.
YEsIERDAY, Hugo Kullak entered into a
contract with 2. King, Esq,, the bridge
builder, Of Cleveland, Ohio, to furnish
$50, 900 feet OF lumber to build bridges at
PerTyville, Manhattan, AbiliDe and Irving.
This speaks we'll for the lumber trade of To
peka.
G. w. SToBRIDGE, formerly resident Of
this county, but now living At Douglas, But
Ter County, sends % three tnrnips weighing
in the aggregate, thiry-four Pounds-the
largest weighing twelve pounds. Oage
County did not raise there turniW, but one
Of her men did-OsaSs Cromioie
The Topeka CommoascalA says: "Mr.
Fluno, Of the Mansion Horse, Leaven-
worth, has leased the Morris House, Of this
city, for q term of year,, and will have the
same open to the public BY the 10Th Of next
January"
CART. &. d. BURDICK one day this week
Lost \ span of horses supposed TO have been
stolen; one was a sorrel horse with white
foot, the other q sorrel mare with white
foot, and lump on right hind foot. The sup
posed thieves are described a. follows: One
is young man 10 years old, light complex
ion, fine looking, we'll dressed-da-k suit;
the other dark complexion, slim, % wears
old. rather rough looking. A reward of
$500 is offered Tor the apprehension of the
thieves and return of the horses.-Ouos
Chronicle, Dec. Is.
ENroRIA bows are not yery gallant. They
had better throw ''sheeps eyes" at the girls.
They have been throwing stones. The En-
poria N,7cs reads them Lesson in the follow
ing paragraph: ''On last Sunday,
Cyrus and Virgil Bond, aged about
IL and Is years respectively, amused
themselves by throwing stones at
the youthful daughters Of J. V. Sanders,
Ell, for which ofiense they were brought
before Esquire Hunt day before Yesterday,
VINO nned them u ana costs and no one
coming forward WIN the money they were
cohnned ,oHy-eieht nouns IN the jail. Inns
oosh' 20 oe le1soh 70 Ii'tIe ooys. Ihey
never ~ s sho.'o .nIo. s'one, OF, II .ney 10,
hey :n1hiu never .nIo. s.onts a. iH'ie gI, =
nor "iius' vi "n!'nihs 'h'' in'en' ne hurt-
The Lewis Iron Company, Of st. Louis,
has entered into contract with the Missouri,
Kansas 4 Texas Railway Company, to sup
ply the iron work Tor hve hundred new
freight cars, the latter to be manufactured by
the Missouri Car Works Of that city. Three
tno1S'nd !ch- Of IRON VIII pe required Tor the
"oiA' anu 'ne caIs are 70 "e oeI'ered az .ne
rae o' one hun"rss' II, hioh'h un'ii 'ne
.no'e are luinisnd. Inc compne PFC co. WORK
70 o'r. ''e railway company SfVV'"V'
We oiien meet man who comes here
with his pockets full Of greenbacks for the
purpose Of selecting and entering few
thousand acres OF choice Kansas lands at
Sl.25 per acre. Eastern sPeculators get the
idea in their heads that any amount Of choice
lands can be had here al the minimum Gov
eminent price. To such We will say that
there Is no lands In the southwest that can be
had oy private entry.-E'do'ddo Times
The Sedalia division Of the Missouri,
Kansas 4 Texas Railway is rapidly being
pushed forward toward completion. Track
is now being laid westward from Fort Scott
and eastward from Parsons. The grading is
completed, and it il expected that through
trains will be run some time in February.
The Cherokee division Of the road is located
twenty-five miles south Of the south line of
the State, and is nearly all graded and re1dy
for the iron. ack-iaying on this division
will commence M suon as the Sedalia branch
il completed. TIE company expect to reach
Fort Gibson by The lst Of May next.
LAST Saturday morning, Mr.. Elijah New
tons little boy, who works in Cook 4
Chambers wooden factory, came very near