The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-01-18

"A farmer near Burlington sold s., 00O
worth Of fruit last year.

"A farmer near Burlington sold $4,000
worth Of fruit last year.
-Silyer-plated half dollars are in circu-
lstion in different parts Of the State.
! The total value of the church property
in Franklin county, is $4,000.
"A farmer living near lola Gays sure
cure for blackleg in stock is to put In the
food teaspoonful Of saitpetre once week.
There is q gang of cow-thieves near
original Texas bulldozen.
"A great many horses are dying very
mysteriously about Fort Larned. 1t is be-
lieved they are poisoned BY eating weed.
The mice made raid on church or
gan at Newton, re emily, and damaged it 30
that it will have to be repaired before it
can be used.
Three Indian graves have been opened
at Paola, and ten-cent piece bearing date
of 1871, oliver earrings. beads, pipes, ETC.,
were found.
There was about 100 ton Of broom-corn
raised in Brown county, the last season,
to $4,000 for the crop.
Between May LIST and December 18th,
1876, there were three hundred and thirty
five cars OF grainishipped from Hutchinson.
About ive-sixths of it vent east.
Two boys turned pickpocket at Topeka,
did fine business because not suspected,
got caught at it, and are nov in safe keep
ing.
| Farmers need to see well to it, that
their cattle, as they live mostly on dry feed
during the winter, have access to an album
dant supply Of good, pure water.
-ReY. Stephen Pa1on has assisted in
the organization OF over fifteen hundred
| Sunday schools He was present at the
recent convention at WyandOt,e.
Enterprise Gazete: Hay ranges from
three to four dollars Per ton, and does not
find ready sale at these figures. Every
body seems to be supplied.
The constitution Of the Shawnee County
Bar Association requires five years general
practice and one years residence to qualify
a LAWYER for admission to membership.
Cattle are dy ing in North Lawrence Of a
very singular disease. After the sickness
Srst makes its appearance, not more than
fifteen minutes expires before death takes
them of.
DIR. S. B. Lum, of HOLLYWOOD, Jewell
county, having administered chloroform to
a patient with a broken arm in such
amount as to cause death, has been arrest
ed for malpractice.
Quite a contest took place before the
Board of Commissioners of Washington
county, over two applications for whisky Il
censes, for the town Of Greenleaf. Both
were rejected.
In Kansas, reported for taxation, are
1,l29 miles of railroad, assessed At Sic, l97, !.
SIS; I84322z2 acres of land, valued at
$40, 666 $50 SO, and personal property list
ed at S23.O4s. s01.3S.
Large quantities of broom-corn are being
shipped from Fert Scott to Chicago. The
broom-corn raised there il said to be of a
very superior quality, being longer and
tougher than is usually the case.
| The Chicago Ilibune's trade review
pronounces the broom corn raised in Kan
sas, last year. the best of any in the coun-
try. 1t brought the highest prices of any in
the market.
Smith County Pioneer: The hunt in
this county on Thursday and Friday last
was a grand success. About l 400 rabbits
were killed. The "count" ran up to about
5000.
Shawnee township, johnson county, is
suffering severely at present from hog chol-
era. Thomas Douglas, on Tuesday night
last, lost twenty-one head. Other farmers
of the vicinity are experiencing the same
streak OF luck.
The good people of Thayer have been
'taken in" by one DIR. Elired, who located
there few weeks ago as druggist and
physician. He was arrested last Saturday
by Sheriff Brunt. and taken in chains TO
Texas, from which State he came. He is
charged with having murdered his wife.
The Hiawatha Dispatch says that Milo
f. Mather, banker at Sabetha, has collaps-
ed, assigning all his property to his father
in-law e1 -Senator Miller, and that the credi-
tors are pouring in en- masse looking after
what is left. Mr.. Mears, a life insurance
agent, loses 81 500, and Chas Koffer, a sa-
loon-keeper al Sabetha, loses s., 600. Other
citizens of Sabetha and vicinity in proper
ton.
The Neosho County Record says: "a
brother OF 'Smuggler,' the famous race-horse
was stabbed at W. o. Hartshorn's tie first
of the week. He is five years old and makes
better time than Smuggler did at that age
He is the property of the Presiding Elder
of the Methodist church of this district,
who refused $4,000 for his horse, and
claims that a minister has as much right to
own fine animal as any person."
The Olathe Mirror says: "More wolves
infest the county this winter than in any
year since its settlement. In some locali-
ties gangs Of from ten to fifteen hold the
fort and do not scruple to show fight if
molested by hunters. They seem to be the
large gray wolf, much more courageous
than coyotes. A farmer north of town
wounded one recently, when the others
charged on him and he was compelled to
leave. Sheep, poultry and small pigs suf-
fer from their raids"
The Florence Herald thinks that the Ar
kansas sculptures, whose sleeping Iolan-
the" in butter, was exhibited at the Gen.
tennial, has been eciipsed. 1t says: 1--WE
were shown last Monday, in C. w. Miller's
store, some OF this work, which was mould
ed in the shape of q duck, h aving feathers,
wings, ETC., in fact, it looked as natural a.
life. 1t was made exclusively of butter,
excepting the eyes which were made out of
clover. The designer of this was q Mn.
Waggy, a farmers wife, living about
eleven miles south of this place, on the edge
of Butler county. We understand that she
has in process of completion, goose weigh
ing some thirty pounds"
The following ia list of the Speakers in
the House of Representatives in the Legis-
lature since the admission of the State
1861, Hon. w. w. Updegraf, Of Miami
1862, Hon. NJ. S. Adams, of Leavenworth;
1868, Hon. Josiah Kellogg, of Leavenworth;
1864, Hon. Josiah kellogg, OF Leaveuworth
1865, Hon. Jacob Stotler. of Lyon; 1866,
Hon. John 7. Burris, of johnson 1867,
Hon. T. B. Plumb, Of Lyon 1868, Hon.
Geo. W. Smith, OF Douglas; 1863, Hon. NJ.
s. Adams, of Lesvenworth; 1870, Hon.
Jacob Stotler, of Lyon; 1871, Hon. BENZ
F. Simpson, of Miami; 1873, Hon. S. A. |
Cobb, of Wyandotte; 1873, Hon. Josiah |
Kellogg, of Leavenworth; 1874, Hon. B. |
NJ. McEckron, of Cloud; 1875, Hon. E H. |