The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-06-26
KANSAS.

KANSAS.
ae~ms Collected aaA ConAense1 freD
state Exchanges
The wheat harvest has commenced In
southern Kansas.
The Atchison papers are wrestling with
the school examinations.
A Texan wouAn is at Wichita with
!, 900 head of cattle.
A horse thief va. shot and killed at o.
weeo last week. He was evading arrest and
shot BY the Sheriff.
The Fourth will be appropriately OBJ
served at Clay Centre. The farmera' clubs
will take part.
Great fear IL felt among the farmers that
the wheat cror, now rapidly ripening, will
be dsmaged by rust.
An emigrant in camp near Oskaioosa
was made 10 stand and deliver by mounted
The Southern Kansas Advance denies the
| existence of small pox in Chetopa.
kansas wants 200, 900 railroad ties
this year.
The O:oes Indians have held q council
at their village IL miles north Of Msrysville,
and have resolved TO sell the hest half Of
their splendid reservation.
-Grasshopper Falls keeps a horse
power" on one of her vacant lots, to amuse
the young-ones on Sunday. to keep them
out of other mischief and give an occasional
job to the finger surgeon.
Miss Smart. of Centralia, has sued her
recent sweetness for breach of promise, and
made him smart to the amount OF s., $40.
Serious spprehensions says the Fulton
Press, are entertained that the chinch bugs
will cut the crops short, unlers the rains
should be frequent. They are preying upon
the wheat, oats and corn, and some fields Of
| the former have been materially injured.
There are twenty Oranges Of the Pa
irons of Husbandy now organized in Neosho,
and thirty three Oranges in Crawford county.
A Firm of nurserymen in Scotland have
sent over to this country for distribution
through the Western States. thirty thousand
plants Of the genuine Highland pine OF
Scotch fir.
"A large portion of the apples have fallen
of of the trees through the country, 80 there
will not be a half crop. Supposed 10 be
caused by the wet weather.
Mug" who now helps to blow the
Sedalia Bazoo, having heard of the project
of starting an evening paper in Topeka, ID
moved to recount in his Sedalia organ, the
mournful story of the Topeka Evening Her
| aid. 1t is enough TO draw tears from toll
bridge.
The Wichita Eagle says Lieutenant Win
chester, commanding the troops stationed on
the Nennescah, has been instructed by the
department commander to gather all the
evidence possible pertaining to the shooting
and burning affair which occurred on the
river few days since, and reports the same
to department headquarters.
Reno county has been 40 lately settled
thst the buffalo have not yet found it out,
and they still visit that locality for grazing
purposes. The young hunters of Hutchinson
| who 20 out to kill them are occasionally
driven into town by an enrased bison.
-Aldebert Martin, of Reno county, motto
| ing some buffalo near his claim, saddled hi
horse and gave chase, with heavy revolver
in his hand. When in the act Of shooting,
the horse stumbled and shook his aim &c
that the ball passed through the horses head
Martin was violently thrown to the ground
and his neck partially dislccaied, from which
he died on Thursday last.
-Grasshopper Falls will elevate the glo
rious old bird of free !om on the Fourth.
Cedar county has organized an imm
grafton society, for the purpose of dissemi
mating information among the people o.
older States in regard to the advantages o.
soil, climate, price of land, etc, possessed
by that county, with view of inducing i'm
migration thereto.
Bishop Vail, of Kansas. was born il
Norwich, Conn, as was Bishop Lee, OF Del
aware, and Bishop Paddock, of Massachu
setts.
Grenada is the name of new town jus
laid out on the Arkansas river, and at thu
terminus of the Atchison, Topeka & SAINTS
Fe Railroad, in Bent county, Colorado, ant
about fifty miles east Of Las Animas. Oh
twelve miles west of the State line.
-Omenzo Dodge. of the Wamego High
School, has secured the appointment as
cadet to the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
The Parsons public school has a full
blooded Indian in regular attendance. Hi
name il Thomas Long, son of the head chic
of the Seminoles.
A North Lawrence firm is building /,
small steamer TO he used as a pleasure Graf
on the Karsas river. 1t ia to be large enough
to accommodate about 100 passengers.
-"Mocr's RANCH" thirty miles north
west Of Marion Centre, is thus described
1.-THE owner, Albert Crane. has nine section
of ground now under fence, 700 bushels o
blue grass seed sown. fourteen plows run
ming, breaking and planting in grain thi
season fifteen hundred acres of prairie, and
has on the farm between three and fou
thousand head of cattle"
Miss Laura Anthony, young lady o
about twenty years of age, accidentally caugh
the heel Of one of her shoes upon one Of tn
upper steps of flight Of stairs, at the resi-
dence of her parents, at Clay Center. Sunda.
evening last, and was precipitated to tn
b,ttom of them, striking upon her head
Her skull was 90 badly fractured that sh'
only lived one hour after the terrible acci
dent.
FATAL MISTAKE.