White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-04-25
State News.

| . AAaACn. On M0ntl1y last AcClrty
Went into store at Caldwell, where . stranger by
the name OF Anderson was sitting on the cOunter
Anderson had ON a silk hat, and NcC,rtv w;th"nt
a wora % pulled ont his revolver and fired at il
Inc Daii stfuck Anderson in the head kill;nu him
almost instantly. McCarty imm.di.teix sbsra' sra'
after left the place, got on his horse and rode of
On Tuesday, party Of the citizens went to Cot
tons house, surprising McCarty to he there. and
demanded entrance. This being refused. they set
fire to the building, and as the inmates endeayor.
ed to escape, fired upon them. Harry Heald well
known at Wichi a as ..little Harry. was shot
several times, but not dangerously, the other men
| in the house, Cotton, and Curley Marshall, were
| not hurt.
In Howard county, during the last two months
there has been a cry that the wheat would be q
failure but il is now coming ont finely Many
farmers who were preparing to plOw up their
wheat and plant corn, now say they will let their
wheat stand.
The Fort Scott Monitor says two weeks ago to-
day, two men stopped with John Colell, near Ar
eadia, in this county. They gave their names as
William Custard and Edward Cork, and said they
were after pair of stray mules. They claimed
to be from Silver Lake near Topeka. They drove
pair of bay geldings. Custad was out of his
head and sick. Cork left the next day with the
horses and promised to write soon he got
home. Yesterday Custard died. Cork has not
been heard from. Cnstard about thirty
years old, five feet ten inches high. dark hair and
mustache. His disease was pneumonia. He had
Remington pistol, but no money.
M. ie.'', VI Ne"sho ans, Is aiIaiu U, ooes'
nu " nis @ .s ,,o'u 'he', .ee.u h ~
heard dog coming. drew his pistol, cooked it,
fell over a stump, shot himself, ard now goes
around with one leg in a sling
MI ' hoo,is"h anu ms n'e SOUS rne"seu NJ, w,
fagSs ana ms NV" sons IN mortal eoni"a', III MONT
goiiei! county, ias. week. lhe hgss party were
~ y, .'"' 's
a prairie hre IN saline county struck !hs barn
ei D''hlei ISL, anu ns mus,
La iii,' """ ien'eS anu Pie''! "i"'" ''e'! '"''s
"e i'''
In questioning the Jury IN the shore ease one
OF the lawyers asked II any oi thr'n haa oeeh
guilty. Of reading the White Cloud Chicf.-Hd-
rdfhd Dispatch
A letter to the Lcayenworth Commercial says
that the grand jury presented three indicf-
ments on Thursday morning last One against
John a. Segcr and ID. X. Campbell for robbng
the Postofhce at Cawker city; and against Join
N. Dodge, postmaster Oh Jeweil City, Tor tne
same offence. Their cases were continued TIL
the next term OF eourt Their bail was placed
at sSUoO each, SO that they VIII be sure Of ut
ie"e' s'A ihohih hh'PiiS""n'en''
The Ncodesha Citizen says that small child OF
Mr. kininei, who lives abonf two miles north Of
Neodesha, was scal,ed TO death, a few days ago
by boiling hot soap falling on 1t.
A coat cut in several places, was found on
il belonged to u man who was lately hunting
land in the vicinity, and who has been murdered
by some unknown parties.
HouEsrEADs BY ColNTIEs-Tbe Conror,lia
Emyire gives the following as the number of home
stead entries made in the different counties i'm
that Land District during the last wear:
Jewell c,unty g7s: Republjc s;,3: CIoud 14s:
Mitchell. 7s5: Osborn. 563: CLAY. 4tS,: smith, 3g7
Washington. 39j: Marshall. 225: Riley 3OI; Otta-
wa l6al: Phillips ia: Pottawatomie 90: Rocks
~ A. nn-
N,,r srYr,rps-It - , s,G. c,lcu,,,;,n IN s,v
that over two hundred new settlers have landed
in Dickinson county, within the past week We
are told that by actual count over sixty got off
the ears at Abilene i'm one ,lay. MANY of them
belonging to the Pennsylvania colony. The c"nn-
try is filling up rapidly. Let them come. There
Is still room for thousands niore.-ErchdRge.
The Grusshopper Falls Nrr Era saws:
Mr.. Hosl,r met with ouite n loss. by fire. last
Thursday. While he was in town. his barn. o,,ite
an amount of grain and two valuable horses were
burned This is the second time MIR. HosIer has
been burned out on this place and both fires or
i.inated the same way-bv children playinr with
matches
,r w.,, g. n;, p;,ra h h
sold by Messrs. Craig, Mottrr & Go. to Tanner a
Co.. of New York. the owners of the Denver road.
1t will he complete,l to Atcbiso,. and regular
trains nut on between that place and ST. Josepl.
We have not heard the amount received for it,
A horrible murder occurred n.ar I.a,lore. Ne
oslo county, on the 18TH Warren Cooley and A. |
Eascy who owns farms adjoining got into |
uuarrci about the boundary lines of their farms
In the at,ray Cooley drew a butcher knife. which
he had srcrcted in his boot and struck Easley a |
fatal blow near the heart, winch cause, his death
almost instantly: oooi,! gave himself up 10 the
proper au,horitles, anu Is now III jan IN Usage
iIss'cn. no.n parties ~ rms ineIa"ch"'! "nAI
"et 'nuust'ious an" "eh-'o-u" ia'"ieis Soe!
NH DC 'r,ed at .me present term vi Tue Neosn1