The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-02-20
state News.


SHOOTING AFFRAY-A friend at Doniphan
writes us an account Of the shooting of Mr.. Jas.
A. Dunning. who lives near that town, few
days ago. He crossed the river in search of a
horse that had strsysd away. He was aec1mpa,,
Of stray horse at Mr.. Koch's near Nashville.
On reaching Mr.. KS. the horse was found there,
and at once gives up. Mr.. ID. asked what the
charge was for keeping IT, The man replied
that there was N charge, buf If he wished &"
give something IN the boy who had taken it up
he eoul,l do So Mr. d. went to see the boy, and
asked him il fifty cents would he enough to pay
| him for his trouble The boy seemed satisfied.
bnt his mother was not, and talked pretty rough
about it. Mr. Dunning turned his horse around
and started homeward. and the b"y started of
on a run across q field through which road ran,
| On passing around the field Mr.. ID. came upon
| two young men named Edwin and Joseph Koch.
| One of them was sitting ON a fence, the other
standing i'm the field . few yards of, beth armed
with shot guns The one on the fence halted Mr..
Dunning, and finally, after some controversey ~
| to the amount to be given to the boy, young
| Koch presented his 2un for the purpose of firing
into the party in the wagon, Nj. D. sprang ont,
and inst he struck the ground the man fired.
Mr.. D. strnck in the face and neck and stag
gered back. Az he attempted to 'rse the man in
the field fired: and then both the Eochs took tn
their heels. Mr.. Dunning fired two shots from
his revolver, but without effrct.-PaTiofl, 3h
Piled FOR LIFE.-Ihe Lawrence SosrSdf Is m
formed by private letter that ON the afternoon OF
the 29th ult., man named 10. feager started
near tbe DougIos Countv line He had with him
two js,v. b;s ,f.n-.ons' one ef them seventeen
years nj ave ami tbe other f,urfeeu. Yeaser had
been drinking. Either when he started or short
lv ,fferw,rdo Yea0sr laid down i'm the lsoffon Of
the wogon rolle.i mn in bl.nkets and left his
team to the care Of the boys. In time the younger
boy was overcome with cold, and laid down in
the bottom of the wagon The Older boy kept the
horses y,,ipp and finally tried to oct ont of the
wagon. hut found that he was unahle To move
ana remained IN MS place rs II ne had been turnet
10 st"ns. Inc horsts kept ON h"me' anu OH arr
wing there II was discovered that the younger
boy had frozen Ia death, the Older boy was frozen
:" the h'ps. while aeager was lying safe and sound
IN the b"tfom of the wagon profecfed by hiS
blankets from the cold AT last accounts the
ampnfation Of the surviving boys legs had been
decided on.
FrRr-Passenyrrs i'm nm tI,. ST J,s.,,,, ,nJ N
r. ra;lr,,J I,s, .y.n;n. ;nf;,S,,, ma ,b,t n, Thur
Ia. Ill, ,h S,.h H. "s, " .,:,
road eating boure) took fire and bur,,,l te the
ground The fire occurred Mt a late hour after
the guests Of the honse had retirp.i and MANY of
them only effected their escape by Jumping from
the second story windows in their night clothinp
The entire contents oft b, building were ,l-stnve,
There was no insurance; ON the prpprrty. On
Thursday Can't. Duyenport called on m, nropr;e-
tor and requested him To INSURE hut he declined
DOING SO lie - left almost entirely destitute by
the dsaster-H. Joe. Gaseffe.
r. ~ $780,, p
','' M. w H ,nn % h--i"S. ,.- Non9aS ai.er-
- .i;..,., go. mn' H a'Ie eisn' oI zen
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"'h,,i ' .n;n; ", ;.',',, %',e"'s' nc,g"pornS
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.Spfc'c' IN 10 'hee' Ihe ehi"ireh' ana not hn'hng
n,' IT, ~, vas pIs"'" 10 re'"ri !" hrr n"nl'.
, w. ,'i,o, ~ ."e Ss'PP,f. ." nave mien
"mm ~ ' SHOW ''L.. '1 a. sns was iona the next
r, III, f. ,, III ,.''. .no hiS., i"~e" sun
,, Min :" Ir'nem"~re. tha' 'he hight was Terribly
'. '' ,Is a,'i'' 'e.r. ehie was o'owIhg. She
'e''es h''S"a''d anu hve ehiidren.-iarso"s Saw.
4 SAD AcCIpENT.-Yester,lay morning very
serious accidenf occurred at Marysville. Kansas.
Mr W w"if. leading merchant ct that place, was
crossing tne STREET win his little s"n, very in
ferrsfns little boy ab"nt five years Of age, when.
!, ~, J ,, :" p.Ss oe noEse, Ils animal
The hest m.,l;raI a;i;n ,1r" 'r,. ;,,s.a,.,,.
s,,',.,n.5 ,,'.5 -, ...,.;' Nv" was las,h.E
I;,,i. "m. t,,; a. ,"a. ren.,e," tue IN
;,,'. ",,. l AZ i.',. hre""n.s ne was ~
~. " ,3,s '''"'A' 'o"'''''''''-of "oaep" ""-
a., Tn-, -
On thmrs'iny OF last week three-year-old
chld Ii, "I Mr. Thomas Hurley, living about thre.
nh'les southwest 81 oSawkrc, pushed chair ap
aown nj th. w.,.r !. n.'Ii len ~, anu ~: was tI Ih
f.,I inf" IN. vii s,.r', ". .. ns "a,anee anu
the ehia,n ar;,s in tc xar,i t.n, - ,hs n'';,'i
vas dead when f,ken ",t '"'''' ''' '"o '"''''
o
o' S"n,la! evening iast, .he residence ct Mr.
vr,epI Me,..iser; on ms 'ar'n Just north OF
wa, W !as'e, =, was "'se"Uers'i e 10 10 "e ON hre- Ed-
the bous. off N.un"rr a.s;s,.,S i; m',,;"a''. M,e
tbe fir. II or;y;natsd i, H.. ra,f e., 80 '
tive Nm. S,,n,.. tim. .f,.r Ii ,i g.; II
ont agn;n ,n,I w,. ain .S,;n,,n;"h..a M
inyer's wboi f,m;Iv W.. H., ";.'h a., "a'.,
nf IN. ,e;gbI.,r. ,,io - Ais;' :., III
sick put out the fire some time in the course of
the night. About seven o'clock on Monday it
broke out once more and all effrts to extjupni,h
it were futile. The building was insuresl in the