The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-12-01

1868, and to amend section "a, of chapter q
of the General Statutes Of 1863" apprOvet
March Sd 1870, and to enact Law Is sub
stitute therefor leaving it Discretionary viii
the court, whether or not the jury shall b
directed to return special verdict.
Death Of Mr. n. Z. Clark.
The friends and acquaintance of Mr.. N
r. Clark, of High Prairie Township, wer
startled on Thursday by the news of hi
death. The facts of the affair were a. fol
lows:
He and his son, Thomas Clark, who liv
about seven miles from Leavenworth, nea
the Lawrence road, while returning hom
from this city about 10 O'Clock on the nigh
of the 23d inst, owing to the extreme dark
ness of the night, lost their road near tn
Christian Church, about six miles from town
They were driving two-hOrse spring buggy
or wagon. Finding they were OF the road
the father got out Of the buggy to hunt theil
way, and, going in advance, directed the sor
how to follow. They proceeded some distanc,
in this manner cropping their way in the darl
as best they could. The son lost sight of his
father, and leaving his team, went in search
Of him in the direction where he last saw
and heard him, but could not find him. At
ter an hours further search up and down the
deep ravine, which they were trying to cross.
he got into his buggy and drove, as he
thought, toward home, until he came to a
fence about Il mile from their house. He
then hastened ON, surprising his father had
crossed the ravine and gone in that direction.
When he reached home, about half past
eleven, rot finding him there. he sent his
youngest brother and an another young man
out with lanterns in search of him.
They examined the ravine throughout its
entire length, and continued their search
until four in the morning, without finding
him.
The younger son again went out at day.
light and found the body Of his father lying
in the bottom of this deep ravine or ditch,
a short distance from where he was last seen
by Thomas Clark, the previous night. The
ditch in which the body was found was be
tween eight and ten feet deep, five or six
feet wide at the top, and one foot at the
bottom. The body lay lengthwise of the
ditch-head upstream. There were no
marks Of injury on the body except some
slight bruises on the right side of the face
and forehead, which appears to have been
made by the fall. The body SO completely
filled the bottom of the ditch that the running
water damned up till it came over his head.
The fall probably 80 stunned him that he
was unable to extricate himself, and was
drowned.
The verdict of the coroner jury was in ac-
ccrdance with the above facts.
The deceased was a brother of A. NJ. and
NJ. +. Clark, bankers OF this city. He leaves
a widow and FIVE children. His age was
about 40.
TIE country is flooded with all kinds of
patent medicines, and probably many ofthem
are nearly worthless. There are some, how
ever, meritorious, and among these are the
prepared and sold by Edward
Wilder, of Louisville, Kentucky. Unlike
too many of the patent medicine manufac-
turers of the day, DIR. Wilder does not claim
that one kind OF medicine will cure all kinds
Of diseases, but he has carefully prepared six
rohIpusfuS, SsiSii auaI'tSu ~ 81 PSSuAa SisISS
Of ailments, and their great success is suf- |
icient proof of their efficacy. 1t is simply
absurd for any physician to assert that one
prescription will do for all kinds of diseases;
md therefore DIR. Wilder, desiring to be Sue
,essful, has made up his medicines with re.
gard to the diseases they are intended to cure. |
HIS remedies are already in great demand |
throughout the West, having been thoroughly |
ested, and proved TO be all that il claimed |
or them. See advertisement ON the fourth |
page of this paper.
4 CHANGE Of time will go into effect on |
he Leavenworti, Lawrence Il Galveston |
next Sunday, by which close con-
nection will he made with the Leavenworth |
Branch. This will take mails through to |
ottawa and other points in one day, and |
,eopie up this way will rejoice greatly
herea, The road will he completed to IL
'ga, ten miles below Humboldt, in few
lays