The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-06-04
PAW PAW BEND.
Interesting Gossip and Items
Of News.
The Rural Populacs Combining
Against Horse Thieves.


A Judicial Scene in DeSOtO.
The lesson Of let year: Plant early and
cultivate viih care. Neglectisg that Lesson
many Of The farmers Of thu
section have bee. brooghs to grief A sum-
mer's drouth c,me. corn was failure, other
crops fell short, clile and hog. died this
sps,ng By scores On account Of husGry winter
keeping, AID Patrons Of Hushsndry bad 70
60 far and near AMI pay - high - IS cent?
. buthsl for coro with which to feed their
teams for the syringe blowing. They ap-
pear 70 have - out this spring with a de.
termination that this thing shall mot occur
again. Much corn than usual-hAa
been planted, and plsntsd earlier Than usual /;
il will Be better worked. and il the drouth
does not occur again, next winter will find
u with an unoommonly bounteous showing
Of well-6lled cribs and faited porkers. Our
winter wheat prospect i good. though the
chinch bog is doing disastrous work in d.
yer, parts Of the prairie. OF fruit, there is
promise Of plenty wherever The trees are old
enough to b.ar. This spring has been most
for seeding; should the summer
be favorable for growth. all will be we'll;
but another failure like that of last year
would leave this country in most lamenta-
bic conditioo. OF course everybody hopes
and prays that that may not be.
There = = great deal Of travel On this end
Of the z. P. Railway, but it l. not Of that
kind that puts money into the purses of the
Z. p. sockholden. Almost every day they
may be ssen. sometimes sinsly, and some
imes in oompanis Of two OF more, some
going east and Others west, on foot, and
without any provision Of "puse or scrip
With which to make the milss seem shorter,
Dc the lardsss ct rssidsas along the line
good for the dem ADDS they ire constantly
making upon them. The c.sss 10 which,
lllude are known in the parlance of the
load - Tie Inspectors" They have har-
loving talks to tell Of hard lock, disappoint-
nens in localities, Improbable experiences
With thievts and confidence men, which for
;harity's sake sre generally credited. This
rear Ws have seen many more Of this class
han ever before. Why 10 ii? Such multi
udts Of able-bodied-and many Of them in
eligsns mea-trAvslling about unable to
get work o. even ''meai's vicsuals," with
,0t begging for it! Surely the Democratic
party y not in power, and il the material re-
sources Of the country have failed, the news
papen have failed to say anything about it.
The rural mind hereabouis mas been
more or HISS perturbed recently BY the op-
sraiions of hoEse thieves. Not many hores
have actually been stolen-o0ly two, We BE-
lieve, belonging 70 man named Criitenden;
but great many may be; and 90 meetings
have been called for the organization Of Wig
lance committees. Volunteer hansmen are
1emonstrativs ct every road Crossing; sus-
picions are freely expressed Of this one or
hat one, and cheap" of cheap philosophy
elaborated - TO what is, what ought be, and
shat might be done in the premises. As for
Is, We have no horstHesh to tempt the Gu
pdity of our feIlowmen. Yet We cannot
'os tuesy wy Aseu VII petssSs Au tut5 vui.
yar and odius form of stealing, when elec-
ion to the Office Of county or state treasurer
an be % easily accomplished; but human
nature, even under q democratic form Of
government, is shamefuiIy depraved; and
THAT would become Of all our venerable
high temperature theology, If men did not
frequently do thing. to convince us that total
lepravity is not IN impossibility, and that
lell, with all its uncomfortable associations,
'ught to be fact, il il is not such.
J. L. Griffith, Of Sherman township, has
old his farm, and purchased another in La-
'ette county, whence it Is his intention to
move next spring. He sold at the rate OF
Wenty dollars per acre.
l.. J. Baldwin, the spicy correspondent OF
he Kansas CITY paPers. has abandoned mer.
antile punuleo In this section, and removed
o DsSoto. The 4cDsnield brothers have
lao closed out their aore at Iiblow.
There Is some talk OF ercting school
.ouse with ell the modern Improvements at
'aw Paw Bend. Something Of the soft 10
eeded, q the old building u doubtless the
habbiest apology for school house in the
ounty. No cfUP OF Presidents or judges Of
be Supreme Court can b expected from
UGH a toroidding nur:efy; fact which the
kAA mt hoepp IN