White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-02-29
state news.

The large grain elevator owned oy Aosm
=, SreSner at wDSnPha. VA sGssny y..s;nsS oSs Zoo
bushels Of barley, !, 500 6ushe!s Of corn, lUO
bushels Of corn meal, $500 grain sasks besides
other property. Four cars Standing BY the ele,
vator ON the track Of the A. q \. railroad, anu
citizens Loss about $4,000, insured for 5000
-ChanPioa, I'D ~
The following ase the insnrsnees ON Brenners
Elevator, at Doniphan, Kansas, destroyed BY IRE
on Wednesday last: Gtns on gram, SiVVV;
North British On 69ilai.s & ,s.r sos,n os aSer Ssr
York, 4,500. Wei understand that MI. brenner
intends to rebuild without delay.
The Solomon valley is already receiving large
emigration.
Osborn county viii have her county seat fun
on tho 18th Of March.
committee of i've lsiies visited the saloons
of Lawrence, and held religious services.
The Methodists of Peoria, Franklin county,
are to build church 3Ox5O, that will cost about
5000.
The Emporia Nors will issue daily during
the session of the Methodist conference.
The Congregational church at Ottawa has
purchased an organ costing $50.
Kansas has 1,s2O school houses, 3l9 of which
were built last year. The total value of these
buildings is T., or, ,53a.S.
B. +. Simpson has been chosen Chairman, and
to the Philadelphia Convention.
During the war Of the rebellion, Kansas had
in the field 20,01 men, surplus OF 3,44S over
the number asked. The total number Of cas-
ualties in her ranks was 2,762.
The Marysville Locomotive, Of last Saturday
gives an account of quite q sensation at that
place. An old man, sixty years Of age, prom
inent merchant of the place, and who has been
married about forty years, eloped with q girl OF
seventeen, who had worked in his family, and
with whom an improper intimacy had for some
time existed, He left his aged wife on bed OF
| sickness Hanging is too good for this Old rascal.
A man named Burnes, formerly resident of
of st. Joseph, was shot and killed at Meridian,
Nebraska ON Friday night, 10th inst. Burnes
was employed as cook ut hOtel-in that place,
and got into quarrel in o saloon, which resulted
in his death,
A private soldier at Fort Riley, named Ault,
was found dead in the sentry box one night last
week. Il is Thought he committed suicide.
Baker University, at Lawrence, has an interes-
ting revival in progress, over forty conversions
having already been made.
George Washington is commander of the recent
| ly organized colored post of the Grand Army Of
| the Republic at Topeka. There are now three
colored, posts in the State-One at Leavenworth
and the other at WyandOtre.
| Kansas is decidedly active in educational mat
ters Fort Scott has just erected $50, 900 school
| house. Paola is at work on one costing S45 900;
La Cygne has one worth S12.OOO. Parsons, (only
ten months old,) $4,000, New Chicago, $1,000,
North Topeka $4,000; and White Cloud will
build SIS 600, house this season.
| Judge J.w. Wright, according to the Wyandotte
| Herald has been arrested on a criminal process,
and taken to New York for trial OH a charge Of
conspiracy to defraud the government and forgery.
He was formerly member of the legislature, and
is generally known as Gosport Wright.
Fine steam Touring mill at Hartford, the
county seat Of Lyon county, was destroyed by fire
| last week. The town is building up rapidly, and
we learn from a correspondent that large cheese
factory will soon be erected there. Good land is
! selling at from S to SIS per acre.
At Newton, Kansas, on Thursday last, Mr.. Ward
| took his shot gun and went to interview MI.
Taylor. He found him at Mr.. Merrilrs saloon and
| fired at him. He killed Mr.. Merrill by mistake,
and Mr.. Taylor killed him. So that the who
should have been killed is the only survivor.
Usage City is making it lively for liquor dealers
in the way of prosecutions at law.
movement is on foot to lay ont town three
miles east of FredOnia, about midway between
the Verdigris and Fall rivers, the high prairie.
1t is another future" county seat and it is pro-
posed to call the place Cleveland.
| The Neosho Falls advertiser learns from gen.
'tleman residing on Turkey Creek, that winter
wheat appears to be about frozen ont, and that
many of the farmers think of plowing up their
wheat and putting in other grain.
Florence has petitioned to become city of the
| third class.
Wilson county has 2, 500 voters and Ncodcsla
5OO
John O'Shea, of Doniphan county, will pay $50
for the return to him Of his stray son, aged IA.
| car load of blOoded cattle from Kentucky
arrived at Paola last week. and found ready sale,
| at $50 to 500 each.
A. NJ. Ward, living four miles northeast of Al
toona, let "back log" fall the head Of his boy,
six years old. 1t was an accident; but the boy
died the next day.