The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-10-21
STATE ITEMS


A new grist mill at Newton.
Wood 81 per cord in Parsons.
Parsons wants q fire department
Fine rains all over the State last weel. |
The hickory nut crop is failure this
fall.
Prairie fires illuminate the horizon
nightly.
The farmers are still m aking hay in
Kansas.
-Abner Allen, Of Riley county, has sweet
potatoes, sound as ever, raised in 1874.
Sweet potatoes are selling at 40 and 30
cents per bushel at Oswego.
The Millerites are about 10 start pa
per in Lyndon.
The Walnut Valley Times does not
care to see Butler county divided.
At Gardner, Johnson county, wells are
going dry that have not failed since 1860.
Miss leila Neill is the future prima
donna OF Lawrence.
There are two funny locals in this
State. One on the Fort Scott Monitor and
another on the -Atchison Patrio.
The city of Lawrence owes 81 ,062, SlS,
and Douglas county, S625, 600; total, ST.
6S7 1873.
The editor of the Washington Repub-
Hoan intends to erect . residence. Reck-
less extravaganza for newspaper man.
Hon. C. NJ. Kellogg is the Republican
nominee for the Legislature from Clay
county.
We hope to see the editor of the Hutch
son Neus elected to the legislature. He will
make good representative.
One hundred and fifty-seven students
are now enrolled at the Agricultural Col
lege.
A horse died in Phillips county last
week from the effects of eatirg too much
wheat.
The Wa,hena Reporter says that every
BODY and his relations are shaking with the
ague, and the thing has become 80 familiar
that each storekeeper has clerk hired,
and they shake turn about.
| The Parsons Sun says: The cities up
north are evidently determined to send
their ablest and best men to the Legislature
this winter, generally irrespective Of poll
tics.
| The Parsons Sun says: The Hon. 1.
| p. Fenlon ia a brilliant lawyer and . white
souled Democrat Of Leavenworth. He is
an able legislator and when a candidate
for the Legislature is usually supported by
Republicans a. we'll as Democrats.
The Burlingame Chronicle says the
Oldest white person born in Kansas is sup
posed to be Mrs John Carter, living on the
Wakarusa, in the north part of Usage
county. She is about 26 years old.
The Parsons Sun says: We under
stand Judge Webb refuses to accept the
Democratic nomination for Representative
from the 44th district. He does not con-
slider himself full fedged Democrat. 1t
is possible the Judge will run as an indie
pendent, but not as Democrat.
Allen Mccartney, of Neodesha, is the
onlp Democrat that has been elected in Viii
son county since 1869. Mccartney was ell
ected Representative in 1870 by 81 major
ity, beating John Russell, OF Coyville. The
county gave the Republican State ticket
over 500 majority that year.
An Arkansas apple man, while cross
ing the railroad track few miles this side
of Chetopa, near Labette River, Sunday
afternoon, was run into by the passenger
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smashed and he was seriously injured.
The Eureka Herald says: "Mr. A.
Kerr has imported a Clydesdale stallion
from Canada. a splendid animal weighing
l,l3l pounds, though only fifteen months
old. Mr.. Kerr thinks it doesn't cost any
more to raise good stock than bad, and the
profit is great deal larger"
The Sumner County Press saws: "The
report comes to us from the northern par,
of the county that the growing wheat is
being injured by the depredaiions of grass
hopper. The assertion, however, that they
. are tne reo-iegseo sfeeier' iA'~' 'o"n'l'''
ton.
The LaCygne Journal says A new iron
bridge was unloaded here Tor Miami creek
in Bates county, Mo, on tuesday 1t Is to
take the place OF one already there, which
was not acceptable to the people oil that
vicinity. The new one was bulit oy + arms
, worth x Eaves, OF Leavenworth, the gentle
, men who put In our ne" bridge across MID