The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-11-27
State News.

The Salina Herald says: 1t is told on the gran
gers that at the farmers convention held here,
one of them moved that vote be taken rice
rcrsd.
The rallying cry in Kansas, upon which news
papers of divers views are unanimous is: Let
no man be elected to Office who owes over five
years subscription to a local paper"
A. G. Chase, after four years connection with
the Kansas Farmer, retires from its editorial de-
partInent He has the good wishes of the readers
of that paper.
1t is rumored that Gen. Negley. the great
American conversatiOnalist, and commissioner
in the Eastern States for the Lawrence Journal
has fallen heir to 5000 1t is probably from
some man the General talked to death.
From the Baxter Springs Republican we learn
that the school house of district No. ST. the finest
in Cherokee county outside of Baxter and Col
umbus, was burned on the night of the 10th hy
an incendiary. The people aroused and dc.
termined to root out a nest of rOughS their COM
mnnity is harboring
TowN BURNED-Osage City, Nov. I9-An
extensive and destructive prairie fire swept over
this section of country yesterday. The town of
Olivet in this county, was almost entirely con-
sumed. Only two or three houses in the town
were saved. A buggy and two horses belonging
to John Ashbaugli, formerly of Topeka, were
overtaken by the ire ont the prairics, and the
buggy burned, and the horses barely escaping.
On One Hundrril-and-teD creek, several stacks
of hay were destroyed; and dwelling was con
:umct in the same locality, in which young
child was burned to death.
FELL AMONG THIEvEs.-The Watervilic Tel,
graph says:
A man by the name of Oscar Davis, wln after
living with his family for three years u home
stead few miles west of this city, a few days
ago sold it for five Or six hundred dollars, and
packed up. started to return, bag and baggage, "
To the east He got rs far AtchisOn, and there
ran across some three card monte men who COB
bled every cent he had. We have hut little SYM
pathy for the who i'm this age ventures
among such gamblers; but the family to lie
pitied who suffer for three long years on home
stead, and live the slavish life of toll, and
drudgery which so many have to live to secure
home, and thus have it snatched from them by
lot of hungry monte thieves who almost
overrunning some of our river towns.
MIssISG.-The Chase County Leader gives the
particulars of a most mysterious disappearance
of Mr. Lyman NJ. Brown, wife and five children,
who in April, lS7l, were moving from Lyon tu
Butler county. All traces of them are lost since
his stopping at that date with Benjamin Barrett,
three miles south of Cottonwood Falls. He was
to have been back in two weeks.
1t is believed that Mr.. Brown and family have
met with sad fate somewhere between Cotton
wood Falls and Augusta, aud it is confidently
hoped that if these facts published in all the
papers of the State, something of their fate may
he found out Any information in regard to this
family will be thankfully received by ID. III. John
ston, Topeka, Kansas.
We are glad to learn that Col p. T. Abell and
his estimabe wife have returned home from Hot
Springs, Arkansas, where they have been spend
ing several months for the benefit of Col. Abells
health, which, we are sOrry to learn. has not
been AS much improved as was expcetcd.-Cham-
piOR, 26Lh.