White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-06-20
state news.

THE FRUIT CROP.-The following items, COM
piled By the Holton Efprss, will give the reader
fair tiea of the character Of the fruit cr0p IN
Kausas this year:
Pesch trees planted two yesrs ago will Yield
fair crop this year.-PaolaSpirif. =.
The peach crop Of this part Of the State VIII
will be immenre this seasDn. Nothing like 1t
evef beforc.-Afckfsss fafrioG
is. Pierce, Of wat-rville, expects to-gather
two hundred buahels of peaches this year from
Repi6s 1iaes.
fhe MarysviIle Lece.ssirs states that Perry
Hntchinson has some apple trees only three years
old that win bear fruit this year.
peaches would be plenty this year that fifteen
ceuts bushel w0uld be considered . big price.
Chase Coxaty Leader.
The Ganett Plaisdcalsr says the peach crop
will he immense in Anderson County. We hear
the same ssfs0et from other counties. The peach
trees in Miami County will be overloaded with
fruit. Peaches will not be worth, in our opinion,
half dollar bushel this season in Miami County.
Spirit
frost having snbsided, some alarm is now felt that
well have more peaches than We can dispose Of.
Our "teeth water to think Ofit.-Emporia Nears.
A. Hammond, well-,liggcr at Arapahoe sta
ton, an the Kansas Pacific, reports his well down
three hundred and eighty-nine feet Saturday
night. 1t is penetrating beds fossil sllale. filled
reptiles At three hundred and eighty eight feet
he took ont the upper jaw Of u reptile in which
the teeth are perfect: Tasks near the tip of the
nose are over an inch in length, and the other
teeth are between half and three-qnarters of an
inch long. The length of the jaw is between four
and five inches. The fish scales and shells display
the bright colors Of mother-os-pearl. Two hun
dred feet above they were digging through beds
ofoysters. A ge3iogist ought to live happily in
that we'll i0r year or two, whilst figuring out
RI AZ "a u..,- -.
setliment-now shale-these succeeding geners-
tions that peopletl his briny depths.
The bones Of q man were found in township 2,
range g. Of Jewell county. Several steel arrow
points were found upon the ground by the body.
The point of an arrow was found sticking in the
vcrtebra and q bullet through the knee. Part Of
a coat was found upon the body, and with it the
badge Of the 23d army cOrps-a silver half moon.
1t is supposed to have been soldier, who met his
death at the hands Of the Indians year or two
ago. A sabre was also found. We are informed
that Squire Moor, of that county, now has the
body in possession. So says the Beloit Gazette.
Crawford County is paying special attention to
tame grasses. Red clover is being widely culti-
waited there.
A. rattlesnake, eight feet long and as thick as
mans wrist, containing thirteen rattles and one
button, was killed last Sabbath, in Mr.. fuckers
woodland south Of Altoona. by party Of gentle
men from that place who were out walking
"Last Thursday night tornado passed through
Hoton, in this county, taking off portion of the
roof Of Mr.. Hollis fuckers twO-story building in
which the Express" Office is situated, breaking
windows, lamps, and scattering the type and
Office fixtures in prOmiscuOus manner. 1t alsO
moved the dwelling house of Mr.. Frank Lyman for
several feet, and did considerable damage to the
new Christian Church. This is the most severe
storm that has been known in HOltOn for several
years"
A little child two years and a half old, Of Mr..
AdOlph Glass; of this county, died ON Tuesday last,
from the effects of bite of rattlesnake The
head of the snake, with three four inches of the
body, had been severed with an AK, and was sup
posed to he lifeless. and the child happened to
step the severed head and was bitten, and died
in about four hOurs-OttaFa IHdepeRdeRt.
Last Wednesday there was vote taken by the
passengers upon train coming in on the Atchison
and Nebraska Road, for President. There were
sixty five passengers aboard. The result was SIS
votes for Grant and 10 for Greeley.
+. l.. Bostwick, Supt of fBridges on the Atchison
and Nebraska, and Henry Clark, Road Master,
say there was not a single timber broken in the
bridge at the late A. & n. Railroad disaster The
earth had become thoroughly saturated with
water, that when the engine touched the bridge
the bank easily gave way, the benfs of timber
being pressed apart and the tenents drawn ont of
their mortices. 1t was, therefore, impossible to
determine, by any human foresight, that such an
accident was likely to occur.
A little girl, aged five years, daughter of J. s.
Adamson, living four miles from Parsons, was SO
badly burned a few days ago that she died from
the effects.
VIM Mahanal, lately from Illinois, was drowned
week before last at the crossing Of the little Ar
kansas, near Sedgwick City.
The prices fixed by the board of education for
the teachers in Junction City, is for the principal
$500 year; assistants SIS each per month.
There is now throughout Northwestern Kansas
the hest prospect for an immense grain crop,
with the exception of fall wheat, which is light.
The emigrants moving west find every incentive
to settle and build homes.