The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-08-04
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SHAWNEE CouNTY.-The County Com
mizionesy,m met yesterday and passed an ord
nance submtfin9 the question to the peop3e
Of taking $3.50, 900 'stock in the Lesvenwcsfh
& Topeka Raillosd. The county Is to take
that amount Of stock and then sell II TO the
company for $4,000 Of the county bond.
II is expected that the Board viii to-dsv
make an order for taking 500, 900 stock in
the Waukarun Rnad. Bob questions are
to be voted upon At the general election in
Novemb9.- IIpeku Record. i'r i-Iu (
We are pleased to learn from our pleasant
friend Mr.. 3. n. Hefshfeld, that be has %
far fell in love with our town and the sur.
rounding country as TO have made up his
mind to build fine residence on the bean
tiful slope north of town, known 10 the
Samuels land. He intends to complete L
/ this fall, in the best style Of architecture:
and in future his family will spend portion
OF every summer in this land Of health and
beauty.-Mu1eriue Loeonotire.
An EXTENSIVE MORTGAGE.-Am mortgage
put on record here, from the St Joe & Den
yer Railroad Company to the Farmers Loan
and Trust Company of New York, mortgaR-
ing the franchises Of the company from
Marysville west, on which there are FIVE thou
sand Eve hundred dollars worth of revenue
| stamps. 1t covers about one hundred pages
Of foolscap, and occupies forty-four pages Of
our large records. Ma,yriAc Locomotive.
THE ATCHIsON RAnRoAD.-The dissatis-
faction in relation to the management of the
| above road is daily increasing among the
citizens and taxpayers Of this county. A
public meeting is suggested for the first Mon
day in September to give an expression Of the
people before Issuing any more Of the bonds
| Of the county. We are not authorized to
| call meeting at that time, but feel that such
action could no. fail in producing desirable
results. We want that road completed. We
believe it can be done, and at an early day.
If the present officers cannot secure it, they
should get out Of the way of those who can.
Doniphan county is not satisfied with merely
a dirt road. We. are not ready to pay .
tribute to a few shystering spectators ip
Atchison. We want the road. We propose
to pay for il as county, and when We get ii,
We want it to give Us through connections to
St. Louis. If the citizens Of the county de-
sire meeting we shall cheerfully give the
Use Of these columns for notice-TIoy Re
publican. %.
Our community was considerably excl
ted last Wednesday by the arrest and exam
nation OF young man who was brought
before the Justice of the town, charged with
committing a rape upon a young girl fifteen
years old, the daughter of citizen of this
county. The facts of the case, as appears
from the examination, show that the person
accused had been engaged to work for the
father of the girl for 4 year, and had worked
for him about eight months, and during this
time had often solicited her to run away from
her parents with him. On the night when
the crime was committed, the wretch (for
putting the most favorable construction of
crept into the bed room Of the girl and by
design. The girl informed her parents of
the outrage i'm the morning. and the arrest
was made, and on examination he was bound
over to the District Court for trial
Query-Couldn't the girl have told her
parents before mornins-if she wanted to
-.M,ysriHe LOcomOtirc.
JOHNSON COrNrY.-At the Republican
convention held on Saturday, \. Smith Dc
venney was nominated for State Senator on
the first ballot. The vote stood, Devcnney
81, Bowers 70, and Burris 8.
For Representatives, ID. johnson, Of Shaw
Tawof, Of # De spo {" we're ' nomisa,e '0'
On Tuesday last an affair occurred in the
Smoky Hill bottom, close to the county
bridge, directly east Of the city, which, for
bold recklessness and utter disregard for the
laws has not been equalled since the days of
the bloody guerrilla warfare on the border,
and s;,vOrs Of the exciting romance with
which is tinctured the tales of the Turpins
and Duvals. 1t appears tina, two men were
riding at breakneck speed in pursuit of an
other man, also well mounted. When they
crossed the railroad track, the pursners,
armed with revolvers, opened fire on their
enemy, which was kept up at lively rate
all the way across the bottom, and when they
disappeared over the bridge, were still firing.
The man flying from his pursuers, wheeled
and fired several times, and seemed deter
mined not to be taken alive. Why is this
thus? 1t is written on the wings of rumor
that. the, three. actors in this flying tragedy
had been in partnership in the cattle b,,si-
nesS, and having sold their beef deposited
their money in the hank, whereupon one Of
the party went to the bank, drew out the
money, vaulted into the saddle, and was
making away when his pursuers came upon
him.; and what we have narrated was the
consequence. 1t is supposed that the man
was wounded, cverhauled, ard the money
taken from him, but to certainty nothing
is known.-Juaetioa City Union.
ATCHIsON COuNTY.-We received a call
Yesterday from Henry Pridv, Census Mar
shall for Kapioma, Centre and Mt. Pleasant
townships. lie informs us that he has COM
p!eted the statistics of population in his dis
trict. kapiOma township has total poPu-
lation Of little over 500; Centre foOts up
few over 1000; and Mt. Pleasant 1900.
The total in the district Is about $3.50. Mr..
Pridy's district was about twenty-three miles
long by nine miles widc-Itckison Cham
piOa.
JEFFERSON CoUNrY.--The population Of
Jefferson county is as follows:
Rock Creek do iSi Osawakee do leo
Kentucky do I,9.s Kaw d" ~
Total in the county II, Jti5.
Kentucky has the most inhabitants, being
33 ahead OF q. Falls. Rock Creek has the
iewest. OskalOo<,, Jefferson and Osawkee
run close together, since Union was taken
from this township, which, united, have
2,26O. 1t will be seen that the population
increases fastest in the townships along the
railroad. How vastly would the material
prosperity and inhabitants of the county in
crease, had VIC railroads traversing our ter
ritory AZ we ought to have. Figures are
Observation-Disclosures Irdependent.
..; MlSCEl.LANEOCS.
A New York alderman hOnOrs that po-
sition by eating eighteen plates Of soup at
one sitting. ,.,.'..... ..-...sr.. o..
. "A man in Elizabeth, n. j., is feeding his
COW on Juniper berries, in a foolish attempt