The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-12-25
THE mule market is very br SIX.

THE mule market is very BIZ SIX.
THE ice harvest has commenced.
THE public schools nre closed for the holi
day vacation.
THE price of wood is coming down to 9
reasonable rate.
TIE reign of Winter has fairy set in II
has "come to stay"
THE bells throughout the city had a sharp,
cold, clear ring last night
SKATING parties are the order OF the day
and OF the night - well.
TWELVE military prisoners arrived at Fort
Leavenwerth from Texas yesterday.
w1H $50 oonvicts at the State Peniten-
ttary, there are but two in the hospital.
The Knights OF Pyth,as have decided tina,
they will not have a public installation.
SNow-HEEIs" were plenty on the street,
las; night, and there were many who fell.
By the end of the week IL Is expected that
$50 miners will be al work In the coal shaft
THE miners say it is only the best workmen
who can take out fifty bushels OF coal per
day.
THE new two-cent universal postal cards
will come into general use about the irst of
the year
THE next meeting of the Board OF Cvupfy
Commissioners Will be Monday evening,
January 5th.
JOHN MCCORMICK lost another valuable
horse yesterday being the third he has lost
with the year.
THE Platte county gun club bad their an
nusihunt sturdy. The losing side paid Tor
sgrand supper.
IT is thought by the attorneys that the
trial of thu orthe state vs. SpaIding Will
come up on the 5th of January
FARMERS froD Platte county are compelled
70 cross on the bridge, and long for y harder
freeze 80 a. 70 make an ice bridge.
THE rattle for a house and lot which Was to
hOse taken place at The Fort this evening has
been postponed until February It'll.
THE sharp, cutting Wind rom the Dorth
made many An ear tincie rs the belste1 way
fsrer marched bomeward AT IL O'Clock
NEARhY every store in the city was
thronged yesterday from morning TIL nigh
with customers Notwithstanding the extreme
cold weather
WHILE buying expensive luxuries to-day,
lay aside trihs for the poGr. You will not
miss IL, and 1t will Cause some one a little
ray OF sunshine.
THE best indication OF the return Of good
times is the holiday trade cur merchants ar.
having, which they report better than IL
bias been for many years.
THEjury nifhe Latin trial yesterday visited
and examined the room IN the Planters house
where Smith WAS killed, also the stable where |
the first mele occurred.
Mr.. GEO. w. NELLIs' transfer teams, nj e
in number crossed the river on the ice yester-
Day morning. each 10 'ded with 1000 pounds
OF freight from the Kansas -i,y, 81. j oseph q
Council Bluffs road
THE boys ere having . merry time npor
the frozen b1sOm OF the river. There s.e np-
merous air holes. ovever, which should b. |
eye Opop their 'hiidr n. |
AMAN named Robert Crawfora, who lives
near Paramount was thrown from q wagon
in the south part OF the city Monday even
ing sbout nine Jrcoct, ard very seriously
ipjurei. Dr. NanDcyn -as called and at |
tended him. l
EaGqT Government employees left Fort |
Leavenworth -sturday They Were mechan- i
ics and musicisns.- Two We're bound for Fort /
winghe, New Mexico three fnr Fort Gar /
and Colorado, and the remainder for Foff
Dodge. Iowa.
THE Art Loan Loan exhibition promises /
TO b the affair of the season. There are al /
ready articles enough promised To make IL /
highly interesting, and Others are being re-
portsd every day. You will be astonished to i
see the number OF rare and valuable articles !
10 be seen.
Mr. G.. townsend, Of the Kansas Wagon /
Company, sends us bis annual greeting. Tn. /
people Of Leaven worth ar. proud of this In |
etitution, and admire the men who have
placed thiQ wagon on every road End street
In the States and territories west of the Mis-
souri, river.
Drunk and Nearly Frozen.
Last night snout half pas. eight O'Clock, /
while Mr. T. ]. O'Neilwho lives at the SOUTH |
west corner of OK sHd Sixth streets. GO |
ing home. accompanied by friend, Mr.. ]. |
+ JamisOn, Of Osborn county, he found y |
man hanging to his gate drunk and frog. n |
nearly stiff. They after much trouble sue
ceeded I'm getting him to the pol Ice station |
where he was thaw.d out suffi Glen ~ to say
that his name wa Geds,il and that his home
Is in AschiNOn He says he H. n peddl.T am
that his pack OF goods had been stolen from