The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-05-07


Then Why do you leave
Choice offerings, to grieve
Your humble and earne,t sutscrites'
Perhaps a notice you sought
From the gems Of rare thought
In the bra'n'of the Pleasantcn Editor
But some Of these days
You will find that bouquets
Return to harass the giver.
Do you.observe his. regret,
That he cannot just yet
Attend your excursion to Denver;
Which would teem to imply
That you had in your eye
Thejoy Of his company thither
Then Why do you insist
On marring your list
With suitors who heed no, your power,
While this poet awaits
The decree Of the fAtts
To check his baggage to Denver.
Douglass county farmers are talking up
starch factory.
TIE Wyandotte Gazeae mentions the cap
ture of q horse thief named Jim Williams.
Wheat in Coffee county gives promise Of
The ..belle of Arkansas City" is going
east pretty soon.
= good yield.
The Fort Scott Monitor il growing
brighter and fresher with age.
The Walnut. Valley Times comes to u
With paragraph saying that J. e. Horton
is on the list of candidates for Gubernstorial
honors.
Cattle and horses iu Allen county are
now able to get pretty good feed from the
new crop Of grasa to be found in the bottoms
and ravines.
The Humboldt Union learns that the
monte men, that follow Grady's circus took
away some surplus cash at Chanu,e Last
Thursday. One man lost I'd
lars in a single bet en- the keerds.
Financial embarraasments have forced
the Leavenworth Call 10 suspend, The fact
il the TINES and Commercial are both good
daily papers, and are all city the size Of
Leavenworth can support AS they deserve
lola Register.
The Burlington Iatrot always comes to
us crowded with good newsy items. Brown
will never be killed for his personal beauty,
but his taste for the beautiful in the get up
of his paper attracts general notice.
The contract for furnishing the Mo. r.
F, S. G. railroad with coal, from the lst
of Nav next, has been awarded to Messp.
Sweeney, Beeson & Co., of Fort Scott. This
firm has also Just concluded contracts with
several gas companies.-Paola Spirit.
The Humboldt Union announces that
Mr.. ID. b. Emmert is not q can
didste for Governor. The Lawrence
Jou, nal comes forward and declares that J.
C. Horton ia not candidate for State Treaf.
urer.
Jacob Schleioher cloeed his saloon on
Thursday evening. In honor Of the event
he gave q dance TO his friends on the even
ing that be cloeed, the dance being held II
Germaina Hall. Schleicher expresses him.
as being glad that he is out Of the bust
ness.-Humboih Union.
II. A. Blanchard, Esq, has left in our
on his farm north of town. 1t is as large as
hens egg, and contains about 20 per cent
pure lead. Mr.. Blanchard has found sever
al "chunks" OF this quartz in the last few
weeks, and is quite sanguine that there is
plenty of the mineral Winfield
Courier.
The Burlington Patriot say:
Grading commenced near LIE Roy last
Friday on the Paola & Fall River railroad.
Some two hundred graders are at work, but
We do not learn that Mr.. Halls old contracts
only in part.
Up to the present writing the wheat
fields Of Howard county give every indica-
ton of yield wholly unprecedented, as to
the quality, in the history Of Howard coun-
The breadth of ground sown to wheat last
fall was without doubt, much more than
double that of any previous year siI &c the
country has been occupied BY the whites.-
Longton Ledger.
The case of the county of Douglass vs..
the Leavenwoith, Lawrence & Galveston
railroad was up in regular course yesterday.
Counsel stated that they were endeavoring
to agree upon state Of facts, and thought
they should be ready to submit the case to
the court to-day. Judge Baseett said it might
20 to trial then or be heeled. 1t was accord
inply heeled, which puts it at tall of the
docket, and erd Of the term.-Lawrence Tri.
buee.
The Walnut Valley Times: We learn
from several sources that all the cultivated
land in the county will be put under the
pillow this season. People begin to see that
il even pays to raiee corn. and begin to ZEE
that it don't pay to swear at the country and
never have corn to FELL when ii is worth IS
cents per bushel.
An intoxicated Granger revealed the |
sign of recognition, grip. and workings Of
the order to an outsider at Remanto, last
week.-Arkansds Traveller.
Oh that Patron should put an enemy in
his mouth to steal away his grip.
The house of John C. Smith, one-half |
mile below silverdale, and all its contents |
were destroyed BY fire on the 18th u!t. The
Arkansas Trareler Gays he was returning |
home when be saw it in flames.
"A train Of emierants passed through |
town last Tuesday, en- route 10 Washington |
Territory. They were from Arkansas. There /
was with the party man who had braved |
the blasts of so winters and the scorching |
sun Of n many eummers. He ePoke enthu- |
sissticslly Of ''eoing west to grow up with
The country.-Co6eyriile Courier.
Mr.. w. Scott TiltoD, formerly editor of
The Border Sentinel, and an old resident in
I inn countv- in now General Soliciting