The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-11-18
KANSAS ITEMS.
Murder, Suicide. Etc.

klnS, ABOVE 1eaVenWOrtIls Oh SdtufOdy
last. It was a cold-blooded murder for
money. Lykins lived near Weston, Mo.
he was indebted to Henry I. Roach,
across the river in Kansas. He obtain
ed money at the bank in Weston and
started across the Missouri river on
horseback to pay Mr. Roach. Reddick,
who lived in Weston, it seems, was a
hard case. He was an old acquaintance
and school mate of Lykins. He was at
the bank and saw him draw the money
procured horse and proposed to ac-
company Mr.. L. to Kansas. Lykins
paid his companions fare on the ferry,
and asked him how he was going to pay
when he came back. Reddick said he
''was going to collect some money in
Kansas" The father of Mr.. Lykins
was present when they started, and was
so borne down by presentiment that
Reddick intended mischief, that he re-
marked, as the two rode away, that he
would ''never see his boy alive again"
In only few hours he was summoned
to see the awful prediction fulfilled.
Within few hundred yards of the house
where young Lvkins was to pay over
the money, Reddick murdered him,
shooting him four times. r. fed to
Leavenworth ; watches were put at all
the ferries and he was caught on Sun
day. Young Lykins was beloved by
all who knew him, and it was with diff
ficulty that the mob was restrained from
meeting out summary punishment to
the murderer. We gather the above ac-
count of the affair from letter in the
Leavenworth Times from Pleasant
Ridge, Leavenworth county, near where
the murder took place.
Edwin Bishop, who, it seems, was
from Ackron, Ohio, committed suicide
at Oswego, says the Register, on the
10th, by shooting himself three times,
twice i'll the breast and once in the head.
From the evidence before the coroner's
jury he had been as crazy as loon for
some days.
A Mrs. Wall, wife of Richard Wall,
living in Middle Creek township, Mi
ami county, in this State, committed
suicide few days ago, by shooting her.
self with a pistol. She had been in bad
health for years, and had frequently
threatened self-destruction as an end of
her suferings. At times she was unsound
in mind, and close watch had been
kept on her for some time. A day or
two previous to the deed she seemed
better, and perfectly rational. On this
account she had not been so closely
watched. In going about the house she
found pistol which had been concealed
in a trunk. This she took to her room
and hid, and when the first opportunity
offered, she sent, with her own hands,
the fatal bullet to her heart. She was
between fifty-five and sixty years old,
and was much respected in the neigh
borhood. Sc we learn from the Paola
Republican.
The M., K. s. T. Co. have parties out
surveying their road in Texas.
The Parker Record says the L. L. s.
G. Road viii be running to Parker by
next June.
Gen. Custer, of cavalry fame, has been
FORMULATING our State during the past
week. He owns property in this county.
The Republican says there is talk of
National Bank at Paola with a capital
of 100000.
The Burlington Patriot says the
trains on the Valley road are filed with
new corners. A good many drop Off at
Burlington.
A man named Daniels. near La Cygne,
has gone crazy on religious subjects.
The Leavenworth Commercial says
the aggregate value of new buildings
erected in Leaycnworth during the pres
ent year, is estimated at S95o,O00.
The Leavenworth bridge is again in
trouble, which grows out of an assess
ment of ten per cent. made upon all
stockholders, by the managers.
The Oswego Register says that Joys
engineers are surveying the Cherokee e
Oswego s Parker Railroad, and that
the road will be completed ninety days
after work is commenced.
Last week, during the high water, the
crazy old ferry boat on the Neosho, at
Chetopa, was wrecked, with several per-
sons, team of horses and wagon upon
it. The men escaped. but the horses
were drowned.
Our Humboldt friends are to celebrate |
the completion of the L. L. s. 6. rail-
road to that town on Tuesday next. We
shall endcavor to stake hand
A new town called Parsons, in honor
of the President of the II. K. s. T. rail-
road Co., has been laid out at the point
of junction of the Sedalia branch with
the Neosho branch of said road. It will |
have 1'rush." -
ENLARGEMENT OF THE HUMBoLpT
LAND DIsTRIcT.-The Union says: The
following is the copy of an official letter /
from Joseph S. Wilson, q. S. Land /
Commissioner, declaring the Humboldt |
Land District to extend west to the east /
line of Rance aSerAe This ada m the