The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-01-23
STATE NEWS.

The committee appointed by the State
Board of Agriculture, to award premiums
for the best essay on different subjects, have
awarded to Judge J. A. Beal q beautifully
engraved silver plate, worth $25, for the
best essay on the breeding, raising. feeding.
and management of horses in Kansas.
The Postmaster G, neral has established
= new postofice at Enterprise. Dickinson
COUNTY, Kansas, with Michael Sem as post
master. This Office will be q great con
venience to the people Of Enterprise and
surrounding country.
John wirdz, living on Chapman Creek,
hung himself one Gay last week in his stable.
The Clay Center Independent ssys: "Hav-
ing hung for four days expo-ed to a tenn
persture just about ten degrees above zero,
Mr.. W. was cold when found, and his
neishbors, thinking that he would keep, left
him between heaven ard earth, until they
obtained the services Of the Coroner" No
cause is known. He was forty years old
and unmarried, and the Independent thinks
he did just right-that man who will live
until he is forty and not marry ought to do
likewise.
The dentists of Kansas are requested 10
meet the dentists of Western Missouri at
Kansas City, on Wednesday, January q,
ut 10 O'Clock a. No., to consider what action
is to be taken in regard to the Cummings
patent injunction suits, to be heard at Jefer-
500 City in February next.
-Atchison u complaining of burglers, and
calls on the police TO suppress them. The
best policeman citizen can have about his
premises to prevent burglary is . good re-
volver, and enough nerve to shoot straisht.
The newest town in Kansas Is Sargent,
At the present terminus of the A., T. & s. F.
road. 1t is on the western boundary line
Of the State, it Is about two weeks old. and
named after the general freight agent Of the
road.
The Holton Erpress esys one Of the
best hits at the Christmas tree exercises At
the NJ. E. Church, was q tableaux entitled
'Greenbacks." When the curtin raised,
Gov. Green and his wife stood with their
backs to the audience, and a. natural Con-
sequence, the scene brought down the
house.
Mr. J. B. Davis has sold the Augusta
Republican to V. A. Lblin and John c. Cox.
We have received the first copy Of the
Winfield Courier edited BY T. 8. Waddel 4
Co. II is neat in appearance, and gives
signs Of being ably edited.
C. w. Hoover, editor of the now ex-
tinct Lyndon O5serrer, has moved his press
and types to Grasshopper Falls, and will
soon issue from that place Newspaper called
the GrasshoPper. When this new journalistic
venture hors into our Office we shall have
more to say of it.
The Oskloosa Ldependent says it is
stated that Mr.. Stsggs, five miles north Of
Oskloosa, lost a number Of hogs from by
drophobia. one of the numper developing
the disease just as he was about to slaughter
it for use, not knowing that anything was
the matter with il. Two horses died Of the
same disease in the southern part Of Setter
son county, not far from Medina, one of
which bit the skin and fesh Of both his fore
Ieg', from the knees 10 the hoof., clean to
the bone. A number of rabid dogs have !
been killed in the county. some of them with |
in few miles of Oskloosa.
One Of the members Of the lower house |
Of the Legislature Is already engaged in the
of bill to prevent parents from
wiiiing away all their property to benev.
olent or other institutions, leaving their
families to starve after they have gone bencr.
The mayor Of Burlingame has Issued
proclamation, compelling the owners Of all
dogs to keep them confined or veil muzzled,
10 protect the lives of the citizens.
We have never seen Wild game 90 plen-
lilui As At present, and our groceries are
over run with quail, prairie chickens, rsb-
bits and other game. The price Of tame
dressed fowl has H. Tn reduced to seven cents
yer pound, and ii.o-~ who indulge in "quzil
On toast" fried chicken aud other deli
,Acies, can now live on the fat of the land.
Patriot.
The editor of the lola Register gels po-
etical. The other morning be dircovered
Offering array Of diamonds laying around
loose, and each precious gem vs - large -
N apple dumping. and it vss no Arizona
fr.od, either. These diamoods
Vanished into thin air With the rising Of the
'un, but not befors making glad the Registr
nan's heart.
For nice, beautiful weather. We lit
Southern Kansas sgsinst The world. Here
~ The 18th day Of January, 1873, Ne are
working in cur Office With the doom open
nd no fire in the stove. o. The sarsess are
Den in their shir-sleeves, ssose doon open.
Tres out, and farmen buying plows and
eeds. II this can Be beaten, ne would like
o know the countFy.-Lndepeadenoe Tribune.
Some thirty o. forty Of the scholars in
be Wichita schools have been taken with
ONE kind Of an epidemic or complaint, and !.
venty-6ve we're dismissed from ihe echool
. ooe day. They commenced coughing and
unning u the noee, followed BY Q very sore
Aroaf. The probable cause i thse the
ooas are not properly ventilated. -EaJe. !
The msn Who applied the term ''Inly |.
{ Ameriea" to Kansas vas caneht the other !
~ With his feet tied up in hoese blanket :
nd his ears frozen, endeavoring to bosvov
q extra ovef-coaf from . friend.-Leuder !
FROM the evidence Of L +. Smith before Z
he Investigation Co1mittee in WashisGtop. ::
sppeass that CAldsell paid - TSomas !
'arnsy in all twenty -svo thouaand dollsss 10
4 him - vithdsa1 his nans. I'D An ar