The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-05-14

--FoIt Scott e making extensive pfepaf.
atoms /, entertain the editors.
Mislaken chrouicler. Pseotia went on, to
watch she. :ransit Of Venus.
Til. shows only that peop'e must ,dver.
tise them-eIves or Be advertised
Wheat and oats in the neighborho,d of
O.kslco-a are looking 6rA rate.
Judge Perkins j. holding court in Craw.
lord county.
The Huuboid, Union predicts an abun-
dant yield Of fruit and small grain in Allen
county this reason.
The Arksn-as City 1rarcIer speaks
highly Of the wheat prospect in Covley and
Sumner Counties
The Columbus Journal say the farmer.
in that region Who swallowed the reform
patti Is.t fall will not swallow the mon ser
sgsin.
TIE Lawrence Journal hears that J..
c. Horton is endeavoring to make arrange.
men;s to procure money 70 he loaned at le.
gal rates Of interest On improved fam prop.
erly in Douglas county.
The Ottawa Republicans thinks the frs,
of September is early enough to hold the
Republican State Convention.!
Mis-. Josie Warner, who has resided in
GirArd curing the pas, winter, ha. return ed
to her home in LeavenW0rth.-Gna liess.
The mysterious old German who re.
eembled Bender has been released. Bender.
ism is becoming serious thing to the tax
payers Of Lsbe.,e county.
The L.dependent remarks that O,kaloo-s
il al i'll aourisbins. More improvements arr
beirg made at this period than ss any one
lme during her existence.
The Border !Sentinel Of Mound City bs
donued new ard handsome dres, and
comes 10 US soaring the ont ward signs of in
ward and vigorous life.
Five OF six hundred tons Of bal.d hay
is now being shipped frosu Drske's station Z,
Leavenworih. 1t was cut last summer OF
Len. T. Smith's farm.-Hdton Express.
The city ia rather dull 1t the presen
writing, and cur merchants will End this al
excellent time TO liven up their businesa Ivy
ajudicious system Of advertising .-Atchisor
Patriot:
The Monitor publishes full description
| of 4 Eight between the sheriff of Wilsoa county
ard brace of thieves. With the asssis,aHc'
of -p~ctstors the thieves were captured snt
lodged in Jail.
The wife of ex-Sherif M,Quilken. o
D .uiphan county. attempted to put an enc
to Ter lie last tn sdsy morning BY taking
al ounce of laudanum, She is ill alive.
The Buriingsme Chronicle predicts al
abundance o; fruit 10 Gage county this fal
Reports regarding fruit prospect, from al
sections of the Stale are most encouraging
The Wood-on County Post is surprised
=, the appointment OF Southern Kansas
man to succeed HAYES. The Post man wants
{" know il Leavehworth is depopuia.ed and
Atcbison desolaie.
The Nationalist s.ys Governor Osborn
facinated the walters at the Adams House,
Manhattan, lasl hund,y." We thought
Tom had quit his "winnin' ways" since he
WAS elected Governor.
The delinquent tax list Of LeavenwOrtl'
c,ainty occupies two pages and quarter OF
twenty and one half columns Of the TINES
l. this the best the metropolis can dO?--ib,
i!eae Chronicle.
The prospects for honntiful fruit crop
were never more promising. Peach trees
all over the country are a perfect pea OF
blossoms. Apple. pear, cherry, plumb and
o.her FRUIT trees are alao covered with bios
soms
Last Mond.y the h, u'e Of Mr.. Thomas
Reed, on Elk river, near Independence, was
crema,ed. All the family clothing. bedding
and furniture were Destroyed. We are in.
debted to the Independence Tibaae Tor par.
ticu,ar.
The P!easonton UJsefrer Gays a act OF rss
Gals who ough, to he in the peniten:iary are
travelling through the country selling Re.
cipe for making butter. The ingredis nts
,,-ed are eggs alum. etc.
about thirty five hundred d ,llars worth
Of hones and mules have been stolen from
residents Of johnson county since the first Of
January. Only two mules have been re-
covered. The Olathe Mirror asks the peo.
pie TO organize for protection.
The editor Of the Arkansas City Tupels.
acknowledges the receipt Of an invitation to
accompany the Cages on q buffalo hunt.
He regrets that he cannot accompany his red
brethren.
Hon. John Francis. the new treasurer OF
the STATE OF Kansas, went ny TO Topeka yea
,erdsy. He stopped Of b~t.een trims in
this city and made u 4 call. We asked him
il he had got his bond made out. Yes.
was his reply. "Who have you got on i'y'
"All of Allen county," We concluded such
bond w.s good one.-Larrcnce journal
-Furgu.on. who IL charged vita stealing
Camps mares. WAS brought before Eequire
wilson, Tuesday last. He waived an e1sm-
inafi u, and the court fixed his bail at ST.
900 which he was unable T. give. and il now
confined IN the county Jail.-Oidthe Mirror
A tine haired young man. says the
O!sthe Mirror, attempted las, Monday to
oommi, q rape upon . verv es,imabIe lady.
residing in Oxford township, John-on Co.
BE did no, accomplish his 'hellish desis n-'
and onlv escaped to Missouri in time to save
mis- cArca.s from being seized by Constable
Hancock.
Col Ogden arrived FROM Leavenworih
this week, and is busily engaged in cleaning
mp and fixing things in general. FArtie-
from Denver are expected Who. il is thought.
msy lease the hotel and At once occupy it,
when the doors will again be thrown open TO
The public. The Col. is gentleman Of taste
and prides himaelf on having things orderly.
- Nefarakd Chiet.
On Tuesday evening. M Rev. N. B.
Whites e.dest son FAreil) vas driving .
team .cr.~s rsvine, Desr Mcdowell Greek,
be vas thrown irom the wagon, which vas
loaded wish corn, and the wheel passed over
his head, crushing the skull. His body vas
not found until the next morning - MnRhot
ian Nationalist.
Col. Phillips bill, creating two new
House on Monday. The bill II nov in the
r. a. = L.