The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-06-03
0Neeklp Gimes
THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1875.
STATE ITEMS.

-Grasshoppers bad in Usage county.
Very few grasshoppers in Lyon county.
Senator Harvey leaves Topeka at noon
to-day
The Directors Of the Kansas Pacific
Railway meet in Lawrence to-day.
The Topeka post-offioe is regulated by
railroad time.
Fort Scott would like to number pillow
factory among its other enterprises.
The Burlington Pdtria says that the
crop prospect never was better in southern
Kansas.
One hundred and twenty-five tickets
for the Denison lottery have been sold at
Usage Mission.
The Wabaunsee county Meas is i'm
proving. Alma business men should patron
ize it.
w. r. McLane, of Topeka, has been
presented by his colored friends with
handsome cane.
Reuben +. Lofnck and Miss Alice
Stewart graduate from the Agricultural Col
lege this year.
The Champion chronicles the marriage
of q couple on the c. Il. & i. p. X. r..
while the cars were in motion.
Mrs. Henry Prosser, of Emporia, has
just completed quilt containing five thous-
and ffty-three pieces.
The idiot who runs the Sabetha I'D
rdnce says there are mol too many papers in
this State. That settles the matter.
There are no grasshoppers in Ottawa
county, but the Minneapolis Mirror i'm
plores farmers not to burn the prairie in the
fall.
Beds of ore have been discovered near
Fort Scott, which yield a very malleable
metal about the color of nickel. The black
smiths in the neighborhcod heat it in their
furnaces and use it for horse shoe nails.
Decoration day will be observed in
Fort Scott. Gen. c. w. Blair is to he the
presiding officer of the day, and addresses
will be delivered by Il. J. Waters, S. S.
Brinkerhoff and John NJ Galloway.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railroad Company, held at Topeka
Thursday, the following gentlemen were
elected directors for the ensuing year:
Thomas Nickerson, Joseph Nickerson,
F. ii. Peabody, Il. 7. Cheny, Alden Speare,
]. 7. Bur-, Geo. b. Wilbur, Thomas Up
ham, Geo. Opydike, ID. L. Lakin, c. X.
Holiday, T. j. Peter and Ginery Twitch-
ell.
The Hutchinson Neus saws that on
Thursday evening of last week the resi-
dence of Mr.. Garner, of Grant township,
was burned to the ground. 1t was sup
posed to be set on fire by little boy six
years old, who, it is supposed, was trying
to build a fire in the stove When the
fire was discovered the boys clothing was
also on fire. His sister about sixteen wears
old ran in and saved the boy by wrapping
him in a quilt and smothering the fire.
Both the boy and his sister are burned,
the boy quite seriously, but We hope not
fatally.
d.. w. Powers, ESD, of Leavenworth,
but whose interests are SO largely identi-
fed with Ellsworth, met with quite a seri-
Gus accident last Saturday, on his way to
the city from Plum creek. Mr.. Powers has
been to examine some cattle in that vicin-
ity, and rode out in an open top spring
wagon, using a chair for seat When
near town the wagon gave sudden jolt,
throwing Mr.. Powers out and his leg strik-
ing the wheel, the bone was injured, but
not broken. He was taken to the Grand
Central, where he remains confined TO his
bed under care of DIR. Fox. Painful, but
not dangerous, his injuries will confine him
to his bed for some time. The old gentle
man, whose life has always been active,
finds the restraint rather annoying, but he
retains his usual genial nature and is Wis
itec by hosts Of friends-EHsn0th Reporter.
We see it stated that the gentlemen Sc
lected to locate the Government building,
cannot agree-that each has pet spot for
the structure. Mayor Anderson prefers the
corner of 9Th and Kansas Avenue, Mr..
Guthrie 9th and Quincy, and Mr. King 9TH
and Kansas Avenue. We don't know that
either of the gentlemen are influenced by
interest. II there was a suspicion of that
kind it would naturally fall upon Judge
Guthrie, for he not only has house near
the spot he prefers, but he has been Chair
man of Republican State Central Commit
tee. Notwithstanding these drawbacks to
Mr.. Guthrie's preference, We do not hest
tate TO endorse his selection. Ii is best by
great odds. 1t is the exact locality for a
Post-ofiioe or a public building of that kind
Just far enough removed from the hustle
and throb Of the main artery OF the city TO
be convenient and desirable. Let it he To-
Gated there by all means.-Topeka Blade.