White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-10-05
State News.

BLOODY ARRAY IN COlUMBus-The Fort Scott
Moaitcr learns from Mr.. A. T. Lea, Of the -Coinm-
bus IRdepeRdenf, the following particulan OF
bloody and fatal encounter which took place in
Columbus, Cherokee county, on Tuesday, the 10Th
inst:
The parties engaged were Cspt. James G. Dun
lazy, the County Clerk. John Dunlavy, younger
brother and Jud. Douglas, son Of County Com
missioner. The trouble between them originated
in domestic difficulty sosne time ago. On Sat
County Clerk in &e Peoples Convention, and
made speech acc kiua the nomination. Soon
after, Douglas appl hchsd him and began talking.
They went out Of the Convention, much excited,
but friends interfered and they scpcrsted. In the
evening Douglas and John Dunlavy met, and Jud.
struck John. A warrant was Issued for Douglas.
On Tuesday he came in town, gave himself up
and was fined.
About O'Clock, Tuesday afternoon, Capt. James
Dunlavy and Douglas.again met, and had talk,
hut without adjusting their difficulties. John
Dunlavy accidentally camepp; andhigh words soon
passed. Jud. drew TO atrike James. John stepped
In to seperate them. James drew his revolver
and fired twice, one shot hitting Jud. who then
drew his revolver. There was then scufie, and
all went down, John was shot in the hip.
They all got mp, and Jud. began firing on James,
hitting him once in the breast. James fired back
without effect, and Jud. ran. Both brothers pur-
sued him, James throwing his revolver at Jud.
All rushedinto Houston's store. and again engaged
in scuf1e in which all three fell. James tainted,
and John then first learned that he was wounded.
That ended the bloody encounter.
Douglas is not much injured. James Dunlavy
is fatally wounded, and John Dunlavy's wound
may prove to be mortal. The frightful afray has
created the most intense excitement.
SERIOUS SrABBING AFFRAY.-A travelling cor
respondent of the Commercial writes that on Tues
day evening, while approaching Abeline in a
wagon, in company with Others, the party discov-
cred couple Of men on the prairie, stripped to
the waists, aud engaged in desperate fight. On
coming up with the combatants, one vas found
extended on the grass bleeding profusely from a
number of gashes inflicted with knife. The
! other man, who was uninjured, ran off. The
party gave chase being armed with shot guns and
revolvers, and after lively chase brought the
fugitive to bay. He was arrested and tied with a
rope, and the wounded man was placed in wagon.
Turning back, the party drove to Detroit, the
nearest point, and on reaching that place they
turned over their prisoner to justice, and the
wounded man was committed to a doctor. He is
man is John Nash, an Irish farmer, living in the
neighborhood, and his assailant is named Harvey,
from Junction City. The cause of tho collision is
not tknown.-Learesrorfh Commercial
SCHOOL DISTRICT CENsUs.-B. Harding, clerk
of this School District, has just concluded taking
the census of the children Of school age, for the
current year, and reports as follows:
No. Of white males, 2Os; females, 195. Total
number of white, 4O3. No. black males, 26: fe-
males, "a. Total number Of Blacks So. Whole
number of children .456.
The whole number of children attending School
last year was364. No. of white, 321 No. of black,
43; average daily attendance, white 169; black,
Il? Length of time school was taught, white 10
months; black months. Amount paid for teach
ers' wages, g. 300. Amount raised by district tax,
$S4l96O; State School Fund, SIPS 565.-Wathcna
Reporter.
S.l: ofa fI.xM NJ CL,rl Mo-
del, gunsmith of that place, last Saturday start
ed to 90 to his claim five six miles south of Sa-
lima. Soon afterwards Mr. s. c. Long acciden-
tally found him lying by the roadside near Dry
creek with bullet hole through his breast. He
was taken to town, and recovered consciousness
enough to tell how the accident occurred. He
had with him a revolver he had been repairing,
and, to test it, fired one charge at mark. As he
was going to the mark to examine the result of
the shot, he stumbled and fell npOn the revolver,
which exploded and wounded him. 1t is believed
he will recover.
IT is doubtful ifthe Pleasant Hill road will be
finished any farther than Lawrence this season.
The vote in Lecompton township defeating the
proposed bonds in aid of the extension to Topeka
has thrown wet blanket on that enterprise. The
mania for railroad bond voting seems to he abating;
the people are beginning to realize that there is a
difference between putting small slips of white
paper with "yea" on them into box and pulling
larger slips of green paper with "u. s." on them
A fatal accident occurred in Fredonia Wilson
county, a few days ago. A man named Charles
Marion, stranger, from Henry County, Illinois,
while travelling in q wagon attempted to draw
gun over high backed seat. The gun went off
and the contents lodged in the mans head. killing
him instantly. Some money was found on his per-
son, and the team he was driving was valuable
one.
One hundred feet of the river bank at Elwood
opposite St. Joseph, has fallen in within the last
seven days.
Among the articles exhibited to the Presidential
party at Leavenworth the other day, and intended
to impress them with the ,,randeur of this State,
raised by Mr. Russell, of Salt Creek Valley.
The order for the removal of the land office from
Humboldt to Independence has been temporarily
suspended, by order of the secretary of the inte
rior, to the great delight of the citizens of Hum
bOldt.
A suit against the the register and receiver of
the United States land office at Humboldt, for
charging illegal fees to settlers who have entered
land at that office, has been instituted in the
district court Of Allen county.
A man named August Webber, living on Mill
Creek, wabaunsee county, while threshing one
day last week, caught some part of his clothing in
the machine, and was carried around the shaft
several times at fearful rate, until his clothes
were entirely torn of, and his right arm pulled
ont of his body. We presume the man died but
there is nothing in the Alma Union, from which
we take this item, to indicate the fact
On Friday last a young man named Hays Bing,
abeut 10 years old, residing in Douglas county,
was thrown from a buggy and so severely injured
that he died in q few hours afterwards. He had
started tn drive from his home in Palmyra town.
ship to Lawrence, and when about three miles
from home in defending q steep hill at a tolera-
throwing Mr.. Bing out with the result above stated
his spinal column having been broken by the fall