The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-05-21
KANSAS


-Miit Reynolds has retired from tie
Parrons Sun.
Ten thousand cattle have arrived at
Ellsworth, on the Kansas Pacific.
TWENTY-FIVE thousand head OF cattle
are on the Wichita grazing grounds.
The chronicle thinks Dickinson county
will break forty thousand acres Of new land
this summer.
The people OF Oiathe are very kind and
tender hearted. They hav. horse thief IN
all.
-Cofiey county hes twenty Oranges
Reno county is sat ling up rapidly.
The machinery Of the Girne't cheese fac
tory has arrived
-Frsdonia pos:otfice, Wilson county, Is
now a mouey order ofice.
Eo.sethieves are operating around Win.
field, CJwley county. The Courier says lie
trace OF any of the thieves has been found.
Col. Martin, OF the AtchisoD Champion
ha. gone to Philsde,phis to attend ne.t
ng Of the Centenl al Comm i-sion.
A Military company has te.n orga,ized
in Olathe.-Mirror.
For John Davis OK Me.ius, which.
The Time. talks of a $4,000 hotel in
Eldorsdo Butler county.
The Independence Democrat mentions
the arrival OF several gentlemen from kokO'
mo, Indians, to rurchas. land.
The editor OF the Sereca Courier, who
liver on tie ST. JOSEPH, & Denver railroad
a link O. tie traBscoEtineLtal r,ute--if
cheered by the sight OF the old hIne line
cars
The Junction City Cu,on learns hist s.
NJ, Stricken intends to settle in D,nver ard
20 into the commission business, making
Kansas products speciality.
The Topeka Times says the Salt Lax
Bender has been taken to the Lsbeite county
poor house.
Overwhelmingly lovely" il the style OF
spring suits worn by the ladies of Manhattan.
The connoisseur OF the Nationalist is pleased
| with them.
T. ID. Thacher has been invited to de-
liver the commencement Grafton before the
Agricultural College next month.
1t is reported that the county treasurer
of Howard county, E ID. Custer, has alb.
sounded with SIS 900 of the peoples mo
ney.
The Meihod;s's of WaterSille are jubi-
liant over their success in securing 1Gov.
ernor Green as their pastor for the coming
two years.
fine WIGHT, Eagle il strong in the be-
lief that Holmes, who was recently sentenced
to the peniteLtiary is an innocen. man.
Fail wheat in Sedswick county i, hAi.
knee high, spring wine; Elk inches high, and
both promising.
Refrain from the Hiawatha Dispatch
''Oa! what has be- oms of cur band? Here
ia the Ali coming on and not blast Of a
horn can we hear.'
The Hiawatha Disp,ich has entered
upon lis fifth volume, wi.h every assurance
Of :urure success and vigor.
The Manhattan Nationalist announce
es tia; it shall have ga department Of births
Immediately following that Of marriages ("
Most married couples prefer a whole sec.
ton.
The following significant item thai fore
shadows oher and more startling items ap-
pesrs in the Wichita Beacon of this week:
Texas men can procure pistols It Scho-
fields
The NJ X. & T. railroad company paid
up their Wabaansee county taxes last week.
The Mus says the sum paid in was six
thousand rix hundred al d twer tv-six dollars
and hGty- -four cent?.
Ottawa has just bad smashing calico
ball. The Journal says: ''Oir little city
never before had an assemblage of 30 much
elegantly and cheaply adorned beauty as
congregstcd in Shelton Hall last Friday
night, at the last hall Of the season"
-Oae day las, week the widow Arant,
living near Central City, lost her dwelling
house by fire. The building, We are inform
ed, was tolerabiy well insured. The many
friends of Mrs. A. raised subscription TO
partially make up the loss Of her household
urniture.-Garne:t Haindedter.
w. F. Schley, of the grocery firm Of
Cochran, Bi,man & Taylor, of Leaven.
xor,h, va. again in the city last week, and
as usual sold many goods. Schley is bound
10 seIi-Uutchisoa Neus.
The Humboldt Union SAYS the Mound
City cheese factory will this year. Use
the milk from nine hundred COVE, being
three hundred more than :hey had control
of last GUNNER. Tire prc6,s on last years
business was $1,000
The COTE, V lie Courier announces with
DIT ary 81 os of soriow that nine men have
be,n kiil-d in the Indian Nation, about
forty miles south OF that ll,ee for stealing
horses. the vi 81 ,n,e. are hunting for two
more Il lever.
-Nemeh. county again bid ia the Cen
trail Branch lands ut the recent sale for de-
lirauent taxes. The Courier says no one de-
sired TO purchase them with the many quef-
ii ms Of law involved, rs to whether the
county had right to tax them.
The cfficels Of the Allen County Agri-
cultural Society cay they expect to have the
b. s, far ever yet held in Allen county. Our
fsrme r. therefor want to Irepsre for II a. II
blue ribbOr.- lola Register.
A bov by the name Of Dart, living north
Of this Place. was accidentally drowned In
the Verdisris, while fishing last Thursday.
He had 10: several years been subject to
frequent aitacts OF fits, sni it was supposed
that he was taken with one OF these spsll',
and fell in, and was strangled amediately.
-NeoIesha Press.
-Thos. A Fancbi!d leaves here early
next week 10 complete his legal studies In
the Law office OF J. &. Douglass, at Leaven-
worth. We are sorry T. lose so worthy and
popular a young man from Hoiton.-Holton
Express.
A gentleman just from Grenada, c Jlora-
do, 8 aies that in dispute at a horse race 1t
that place, Wednesday last, man named
Jim Finch deliberately stepped up behind
cattle dealer named Couch, from Great
Bend, Kansas, and sho, him through the
head, killing him instantly.
iatriot.
-Abou, s O'Clock. last Sunday night
terrific hail storm swept over Highland,
fruit trees of buds and blossoms
and doing considerable damage otherwise
1t came from the black cloud that hung over |
the western horizon, emitting vivid ligbtn
ing about the time our citizens were gong to
church.
The Postmasiers ct Topeka and Leaven- |
worth have arranged for an extra mail each |
day between these cities. This mail leaves |
here on the early morning train. and arrives |
On the 9 o'clock, p. N train. The arrange.
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