The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-02-01
STATE ITEMS.

-K,nsss ships corn to Colorado.
The elevator at Sa,ina was burned last
Monday, resulting in a loss of 81 500.
Fred May, the prominent man In the
Bennett May business, is a relative OF Mrs.
Newton, of Oswego.
Eighteen car loads Of broom-corn were
shipped from Barrett Marshall county,
since September 1s:.
There is much talk Of the establish
ment of house of correction, by the COM
ing Legislature. A needed institution.
@Sedgxick county ans claim that there
is not a specimen Of the scrub hog within
The limits Of their county.
1t is estim ated that IL 900 acres were
burned over BY the prairie fire north OF the
Republican Some hard fighting was Gone
to. save property.-Junetion City Union.
The herd law will 60 into force in
Doniphsn county after April l, 1877, uD-
less there is Z decided majority against II,
to be expressed by petition and remcn-
STRANGE.
Experienced miners are now at work
in the Vesper coal mines in Lincin County.
taking out good quality, which is being
sold at fifteen cents per bushel at the mines.
A young man was accidentally shot
through the shoulder while handling Z
rife in rather a careless manner, rear Lo-
gan, Phillips county a few days ago.
-VictcIia is to have an Epicopai church,
So, 100 having been subscribed for its cree
t,on. George Grant gives 81, 600, and the
balance is given by gentlemen in New York
and ST. Louis.
Montgomery county has lost two of her
lawyers Col. York has gone to Louisiana,
and Nathan Cree has gone to Kansas City
both to stay.
Somebody estimates, in the Blue
Rapids Times, tina, it costs $4,000 per
annum to run the Eve newspapers Of Mar
shall county.
The Waterville postmaster does Lis
official correspondence with a gold pen
piucked from the armory Of the rebel gen.
elal, Wade Hampton.
-Pottawatomie county is clamoring for
q vigilance committee, as horse thieves are
getting to be altogether too numerous and
familiar.
The Bellevilie Republic is assured by the
officers OF the Central Branch railroad that
that road will be extended to Belleyilie
next season, if sufficient aid Is extended.
The Minneapolis Sentinel Gays that Jo-
seph Peters, who left CGlner for Montana,
last spring, is supposed to have been muir
dersd
"A corpse was refused burial in the city
cemetery a, Ccfeyville, because the friends
were too poor to buy lot. Provision Is 10
be made for the future to prevent the re-
occurrence Of like reiusals.
Three children locked in a cabin on
Roll Bg Prairie, near South Bend, were
burned TO death recently, toge her with the
house and all its contents. The children
belonged to the family of MIR. Poland.
William Plumb, the boy who stabbed
and killed young Williamson, at Holton,
week or so ago, has been bound over in the
sun of 50 600 TO appear for preliminary ex-
animation.
The Burlingame cheese factory made
100000 pounds of cheese during the past
season, valued at about $1,000. Most of
The money was paid to the farmers around
Burlingsme.
The HAYS City Sentinel gives the par
ticUlsrs of dastardly attempt to demolish
the house OF Mr.. Riddle, of that place,
aud adds, with curdling calmness, shat had
it succeeded. the inmates would have been
sent whining into an obscured hereafter"
A number of the single young men OF
La Cygne have recently had their lives IL
sured for various sums ranging from one
thousand dollars upwards. Suspicion
points TO matrimonial intentions, but there
is no absolute proof of impending wedlock.
The settlers in the vicinity CT Turk
vile, on the Saline, are engaged in cutting
logs with which 10 build school house |
The enterprising people OF that section are
determined that their children shall not
grow up in ignorance.
Three or four OF the editors out in the |
western part of Tie State, are On the war
path, and amGse themselves By applying |
such soul-soothing epithe,s at "viIiIan,"
liar" chief" and "scouDdrel," TO their
rivals.
In the hsbeas corpus case of the young
men charged with numbering young |
Frazier at Kirwin, Simons was put under |
$500 bonds for appearance at next term of |
court and Riddle $500 co. Simo1s gave
the required bond and is now loose; whether
Riddle can give the bond required is very
doubtful.
line husslan village on big LIN Der.
in Rush county, contains about 90 houses
and 400 inhabitants. Around the village
there is about three hundred acres of grow
ing wheat. The Russians have great diff
Guilty in getting food for their stock, as they
put up no hay, and are cutting the weeds
along TIE creek to take the place OF it.
jim the western part of Labette county,
east of Big Hill creek, on the 18th inst the
fiery fiepd Of the prairie made sad havoc
among such coribustibles as coTn-pens, hay
stacks, fences, out-houses, etc. A heavy
wind drove the fire northeas', destroying
everything in its way. In the evening the
wind changed to the north, carrying the fire
down Big Hill, destroying everything that
Its fiery tongue could reach.
The Sumner county Pes SAYS the
financial blurdering of the present Board
of County Commissioners, has cost the tax
payers OF the county, the use OF from five
to eight Thousand dollars, which will lie
idle in the treasury, or else be worse than
squandered in the dispensation OF political
favoritism.