White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-01-18
state News.

| DUNN THE NAIL RoBBEn-Naxshal Houston
furnishes the Topeka CenaoarealA with the fol
lowing particulars Of w. 8. Dunn's transfer from
tne Aissoun State Prison to Topeka:
Dunn was sent for two years, but received ,
When informed that Marshal Houston was pre
pared to take him to Kansas 70 be tried for rob
bing the mail at Fort Scott, he told . fellow con
vict that be would make every effort to escape
motion. Upon hearing this the arden cautioned
the MarshaL When released he was taken IN
charge and shackled. He was brought safely Il
Leavenworth and lodged in jail. During the
night, the jail0r; who was sleeping in . room ad
joining the cells was awakened by an unusual
noise which proceeded frOm one Of the cells Hs
got up and found that Dunn had been picking the
lock, and but for the timely waking Of the jailor
he would have made his escape. Dunn was exam.
ined and several bits of iron and steele were found
on his person. From that time. until morning
the jailOr said that Dunn never ceased working
and trying the gratings of his cell. When Dunn
was taken out for transfer he said be would rather
die than go, whereupOn he was shackled again
and brought safely through. On the route the
Marshal had occasion to leave him for few min
utes, IN charge of another. and during this time
Dunn was continually trying the shackles, but in
vain. Dunn Is not . bad looking man nor appa-
rently evily disposed, but q chain of unfortunate
circumstances has brought him to i'll.
The Eldorado Tnes says: The United States
Land Office Of the Arkansas Land District, now
located in Augusta, will be removed to Wichita,
and re-opened for business at the latter place on
the 10Th of February, in accordance with the
unanimous request Of our entire delegation in
Congress. We have this information from the
most reliable authority. We are also informed
that the Secretary of the Interior will under NO
circumstances reverse the order for removal.
DANAGEs:-We copy the following from the
Hawai- Dspetcl:
We understand that Mrs. Wey of Leavenworth,
the mother Of our townsman, H. C. Wey, has 10
Gently obtained Judgment against the X. c., st.
Joe q c. b. X. f., for damages received in the
railroad smash up at East Ieavenworth year
ago last fall. Suit was instituted for several
Thousand dollars, We believe 900 is poor pay
for the damages received in the case, as Mrs. Wey
is cripple for life, and her life time shortened in
all probability, ten or fifteen years.
The Odd Fellevxof Ceusos,ifs propose to organ
ize. The Masonic fraternity organized there some
months ago.
On Monday last the post-ofice at Girard, Craw-
ford county, was robbed of $50 in money and
stamps
The Burlingame CRrosiele says "A man by the
name of james 7. Reynolds, farmer, living on
the head of Elm creek, Lyon county, started some
seven weeks since for Burlingame, with team
for goods. His family, Of course. are well-nigh
crazy. 1t appears that he has never been seen BY
any one in the county after he left home"
Mr.. Lewis Wood, an enterprisng and indus
triOus colored man Of Wyandotte, fell into hole
in the sidewalk in front Of Dunning's Hall, ON
Tuesday night, and broke one of his ribs.
In Illinois, the rate of tax for State purposes is
ninety cents on the one hundred dollars. In Kan
sas 1t is sixty cents on the one hundred dollars.
The Leavenworth reform committee have ascer-
fained from the tax rolls, that the laborers and
milliners give in more property than the bankers.
Poor, but honest,
The bodies of the Quantrell raid victims at Law
renee are being removed, under supervision of the
,ity, from their present resting place to Oak Hill
BY the explosion of mills at Coffeyville,
county, Mr.. Hooper, Mr.. Pratt and
mother man were severely injured,
Eight thousand acres of railroad land have been |
old in Anderson county to forty families from |
)hiO, part Of colony of 400 families.
Frank Black, of LOuisburg, Miami Co., has been |
ined S75 and sentenced to thirty days imprisoil-
nent for brutally iogging little boy.
There is an unusual quantity of counterfeit |
money in circulation throughout Eastern Kansas,
PARTICULARLY in the neighborhood ofLawrence.
John Chess, prominent citizen of Coffey coun-
y, died suddenly at his residence near Leroy
ew days ago. He was one Ofthe early settlers of
hat section, and had taken q prominent part i'm
he history Of COffey county. He had been elected
hero OF the county for the third time and was just
bout to enter upOn the discharge of his DUTIES
L. L. Kirkham, of Pa0la, had his pocket picked
f$75O at the opera house in Kansas City, one day
ast week.
Mr.. Leland has slang htered 1875 head of hogs
I Troy. He intends to run the number to 500
efore he stops.
The snow blockade on the Union Pacific rail-
bad. that has continued since the I'D day Of
'ecember, is ut an end.
Thomas Laws was killed by the accidental dis
barge Of . gun, on Hickory creek, Crawfori
'unty, on Christmas day.
The wathena Reporter furnishes the following
ems:
An effort is being made to establish Farmers
avings Bank at Troy.
The only hotel in Highland ID closed, and tran
ent residents need . stopping place. Some good
'tel keeper would do we'll there.
1t may not be generally known that Cook &
ProPrietors Of the Wathena WOolen
ills, have q contract to supply the convicts of
dorado with clothing. The goods are manufac-
red ct their mills here, aud made into clothing I
the Kansas penitentary, by the con, lets there.
We learn that six armed men constantly guard &
70 telegraph line in the neighborhood Of Mr.
mes Dryden's farm, near town. There is some
ficulty between him aud the Railroad Company
the right of way, and the latter keep
en- there to prevent the wire from being cut.
The Atchison Patriot says Dan Conner, residing
South AtchisOn, was thrown from load Of | I
,od which he was hauling, one day Last week,
d had his thigh bone broken just below the hip.
!. Conner has been very unfortunate, having
It the use of one Of his hands . years ago, from
injury received - the result of his team runn-
3 away with him. (
Baxter Springs has dramatic society.
The Marion Center Record says that . little son
Mr.. Frank Webb, who lives some seven or 8
INT miles southwest Of that place, was kicked s
the head and killed, by horse, one day last T
ek.
The Quakers have started q town thirty miles G
st Of Hutchinson, and call it Peace City. 1t y
ght to he ut least that far ftnm Newton. c
Marion county possesses the champion coon 4
n. 1t is three and half feet long and twenty
ht inches wide.
The Alma ONION records the death if . young
n named Samuel Walker, who lived on Marion .
ek. He was standing, leaning with his face ,
ting on his hands on the muxsle of his gun, y
en- the gun Of . companion, which was leaning y
.inst tree, fell, striking Mr. Walkers gun n
dscharging it. Mr.. Walker lived for i've
e, although the charge entered his throat
lodged in his cheek. ec
While the wife Of A. H. Hickman, of Ccntralia,
8 frying lard in tin boiler the other day, she
WED II to get 90 hot a. to uusolder the b0iler: