The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-12-25
KANSAS NEWS.

1 COAl.
-Trego county claims TO have discovered
| silver.
The Central Branch f. crowded with
grain.
| Coal has been discovered in Lincoln
county.
| -wipneld is wagipg war against the
gamblers.
There are $50 lodges of the.I. o. o. Fin
the State.
The OIsthe deaf and dumb asylum has
100 inmates.
Negro miners have been warned to leave
Carbondale.
-Neosho county Is shipping her surplus
corn crop to Texas.
Harper county will vo'e bonds for the
extension OF the Santa Fe rosd.
Allen county thinks sNe will have y 600
population at the next census.
The dste for the Neosbo Valley Fair nex,
iaii has been fixed for Sept % to IS.
Davis county has a l. so round pig, which
will be slaughtered during the holidays.
The measles, which have been verv
| prevalent at Dodge City. have subsidized.
The contract for q new Congressional
church At Emporis, 10 cost So 30, has been
-Scarlet fever prevails TO such an extent ia
Oh" tons that the public schools have ben
closed.
Blue Rapids, with q population OF about
900, has a public library containing over
! 800 volumes.
r. ". p Muse has assumed the m. ,t,on
OF editor and business manager OF the New
ton Republican.
1T is reported that Neodesha will be the
end OF r'vision OF the 81. Louis q San
Francisco Railroad.
The VI. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
will cross the Santa Fe, in Greenwood
county, tomorrow.
Ellsworth is rejoicing because go, 900
worth OF Few Lildings have been erected
there during the past year.
The Independent peop,e hsd a another
Goose party and fair" u st night, for the ben.
ent OF the Presbyterian church.
-Neither the Kauses Pacific ror the Santa
Fe are able to Furnish cars sufficient TO ne.
conm"dats the local freight business.
The Parsons Sus opposes the constitu.
ti"nal amendment proh biting the man ufsc.
ture OF Intoxicating liquor - . beverage.
The NeSs prnnounces Wabaunsee county
emrhsticaiIy . stock region and congratn
s1s the people upon tie quality now com.
ing IN. Good stock has never proved un-
profitable.
The new town organized In the northern
part Of Rice county has sppro yrtsteIv bssn
named Kansas Center, for that is It's true geo
graphical Position.
The Democrat and Vide1fe, of WelI1neton-
der the pane OF the former remsinin.
staunchly Democratic.
1t is reported that the st. louis A San
Francisco Railroad Com any int. nd building
q round house At CherryvaIe, sufficiently
'arge for twelve engines.
The surveyors of the NJ. A. "a. rai,road
have finished their work between Alma and
Buriingame, and are now on the line be.
tween Manhattan and Alma.
-Osksloosa Ii up In arms on the temn.,-
ance question The people sre deterIn med
10 close the saloons, and the saloon men say
the drus stores sell illegally, and they pro- |
pose W prosecute the drug stores. |
Fort Scott has been enjoying loan exhi- |
bttion, and visitors are surprised at the var 1
iety and extent Of the collection, which EN-.
braces ART, science andsntiQusrian relics
The Wsmego Agricultural will Issue ne It |
week large and interesting holiday iitiop.
calculated to show The wonderful growth
The scuth Kansas (Monigomery county,
Tribune saws: "Quite large number of In.
fians farmers are in our city looking up
Is"
-Jur ction City has nearly completed n
'2O,OtV hotel, and the trouble now is yery
,ouple when the frst-born comes-to get
lame Tor II.
"A man who was working on Q bridge on
'ermilliop creek, on the X. r. road east Of
Nameeo, fell from the high trestle work on
thursday, and wss taken to his home in
lawrence badly injured.
AFTER living together twelve years. Al
'ouroon county couple conc nd. IL would
ook better TO give the sanction OF the law %
heir union. There were nve children born /.
'efore they should have been.
An average OF eight car loads of ooal pev !
..y are shipped over the CArbondaIs road ,,
rom Croondsie. all Of which In N. d by tha
tsns:s =. nc. -LA.Es qu.ntjtlssa Of produce !
re shipped over the road daily from Belvoir :
nd other stations along the line.
The current issue OF the wsmego Tribune /,
ontains well-written history Of the city, in 4
which II is published, in which Q kind pleas. q
Mt ~ord is said for everybody. The popu- c
alton OF the city Is put down At ,2i3.
The Kansas Pacific /. making great efforts ,
D push Its branch through saline and Nc. =
'herson cnunty to McPhersOu, the county ),
eat, by Dec. LIST Only about eight miles b
EN- aims 20 be made, nd 1t IL believed the
'o's will be consumnsred by that time. d
j. Heating csme to Independence last {
uDe, got drunk and forged an order for I'll %
u Bsd"n Brother and skipped. He WIS
roueht back and convicted of Obs
lnint goods under false pretences the first
The week.
Says the Parsons Felipe: The ingress OF ~
uthern emieI ants still continues Every
gro church il Parsons Is full, and we up. q
rstsnd that great numbers OF Them are =
mped IN the timber along the Labette, and n
III they come. They are nom Texas. al
five miles south of America, | el
live town, hot two years old and supports q,
me three dry goods stores, one hard ware, .
o black three drug stores, two
lizard halls. two hote-s. supports two doc
s, one butcher, aud several large business
rly In the spring.
-Ooerlin, the county seat of fhe;nev eoup,l r
of Decatur, has eight general stores, two
DWARF stores two drug stores, two livery
pies, Two hoi"is, Two restaurants, lumber | j
ros, one furii iture store, one harness shop,
ee blacksmith snops, one wagon shop, and | -,
2 grist mill. In the new town there are
eady seventy buildings, and q population
Two hundred people. They represent q 4
,ital OF s75, 600. Not alone Is the county | !
prosperous. but 30 Also is the entire Z
MY.
Atehsssn's OH-Year.