White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-02-01
State News.

The Leavenworth Times says: yesterday af
| ternoon horrible accident occurred at the Ole
| Turner hall, corner of Seventh and Deleware
streets, by which a colored man named Zacharial
Peters, in the employ of Mr.. Chaplin, had his left
arm so badly mutilated that amputation above
the elbow was necessary. Ho was feeding ma
chine used for stripping or preparing husks fol
mattresses, and his hands becoming cold he put
| on pair of gloves. The work was rendered
awkward by this, and the left hand of the unfor-
| tunate man was soon caught by the long iron
teeth of the rapidly revolving cylinder and in an
| instant his forearm was torn to shreds nearly to
the elbow. The limb, or the remains of it, pre-
senfed horrible appearance, and of course am
putation was necessary. Drs. Stiles and Neeley
performed the operation.
The sufferer is poor, industrious, and deser-
wing laboring man, with family, who can ill
afford to lose his support, and we commend the
case to our generous citizens We suggest that a
collection be taken up for his family, at one of
the meetings to-day.
The Independence RepmbLcaa saws:
An unfortunate quarrel took place on the af-
ternOon of Jan. q. 1t seems that there had been
an old difficulty existing between Bodkin and
miles north of town on the Verdigris Bodkin
and his son, a boy about sxtien years of aQe and
Vickers CHANGED to meet in the timber on the day
above mentioned, when some angry words ensued.
Vlckers, being alone, called on Perry Morton, who
was close BY making a raft Of logs. Morton came
up, and BOdkin told his son to shoot Norton and
he, BOdkin would shoot Vickers The bow. acting
under the direction of his father, immediately
shot and sent the ball entirely thorugh the body
OF Morton, causing his death in about two hours
Bodkin shot twice at vickers, but without effect,
The offending parties are in custody of the law.n
The Paola Democrat says that on Sunday morn
ing OF last week, at about 3 o'clock, bold and
doubtless preconcerted plan was attempted to be
put into execution to rob the county treasurer's
Office, located in the court house building and i'm
medately under the Democrat Office MI. Settles
the treasurer s private watchman, who was sleep
ing in the Office, perceived the reflection of light
and heard attempts made to open the door, and
he then got mp and walked Mr. Dorsey. The
thieves heard the noise and dretreated Mr. Settles
pursued one Of them and fired two shots at him,
unfortunately missing him. While this was going
on another one of the thieves was making his es-
cape by the front awning, to which he descended
by an open door in the hail. and running along to
the north end jumped into the street and disap-
peared.
FRANK GRIcE CHARLES WHITE, E,IEAD, city editors
Of the Kansas City Ners and Tm.s, respectively,
had collision on Monday night last, resulting in
Grice shooting Whitehead in the thigh.
Lincoln county undergoes the aeonies of
county seat election, on the 18th ofFebruary.
There is project on foot to cut off slices from
Mcpherson, Marion, Butler and Sedgwick con uties,
enough to make n county for Newton to be the
county seat.
There are five different contestants for the lan.i
IN which the town of Independence is located. |
Fort Scott is in debt $l9e,593.s6. This does not
include the new school house bonds, which amount
e ss5,ooo, making grand total of $2l3,593.s6.
ANY information of the whereabouts of Martin
.onn simpson, aged thirteen years, will be thank
nlly received by his father, John simpson Was
ast seen IN Leavenworth. Address Tribune Office,
Lawrence, Kansas. - =