The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1880-08-12
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4 The river in on slight rise
The meeting Of the Temperance Union, last Thurs
day. was the largest held fer several months.
Palmer & Orion, last week. sold seven Thousand
bushels OF corn, comprising the whole Of last years
crop.
! The knights of Honor hold their meetings ut Odd
Fellows Hail. on the second and fourth Mondays Of
each month.
JOHN Lynd- and Milf. Emerson returned home
ron their hunting trip to the Little Blne River, last
Saturday. They report game becoming scarce.
The crop they speak of as looking mneh better
as the Missouri River is approached.
Work tho new Reserve road still continues
David Stanley. Of this place, arrested, hast
week, by Dcpsty L. S. Marshal Bailey, Of Troy, on
the charge of selling distilled liquor without United
States license Mr.. Stanley gave bonds in the sum
Of i've hundred dollars. to appear before Commits
sioner shrve, the 18th inst, undergo preiim-
mary examination. How serious the ease is have
not bcep able TO learn.
The grst mill has been running steadily, the past
week, Smelling corn.
The Iowa Indians arr on a visit to the KicknpoO
Indians. the laters Reservation in Brown County
where the two tribes celebrating the greencorn
dance.
George Burkhalter, last Monday. returned from
his second trip 70 Colorado-ths time, to stay. The
climate of that country rapidly telling on his
health. and he deemed it advisable to return at
Georges return is much welcomed by our band, who
expect come of victorious in the contests of
the coming fall fairs.
Just word to those Of our friends who are dis
posed to blame for refusing TO engage in u wnr Of
mud-throwing in our recent unpleasantness- We
acted advisedly, and governed mainly by the
consideration that the line urged upon by some of
friends would hurt the feelings of persons who
had never injured This, aside from the fact that
have mo inclination, we hope, toward backguard-
ism, and also the other fact that You would probably
have refused Ia publish communications of the sort
referred to- Your remarks to correspondents in last
weeks Chief, were sound. Thanking friends all
the same, for the goo,lly quantity of mud which we
used. expect, in the future, while permitted
act as an itemizer of the hf, in the past, TO
conduct orr correspondence in n decent and gentle
manly manner.
Quite a little excitement created. last week,
by the announcement that the famous Bender fami-
" were to be brought down the A. & n. and would
take supper at this place. A considerable crowd
gathered nj the depot each evening, but their curl
osity not sratifed. the supposed murderers
were taken down on the other side of the river. But
the couple taken have been proven imposterr, it
makes little difference, the qualification of the
crowds curiosity would have been merely imagi
nary.
We werr. last Monday. shown natural curiosity.
in the shape of a double-headed snake. which equals
in o,ldity the doubleheaded calf. of which gave
account last fall While blowing in the field, last
week, Jake Bowron unearthed Il nest of young
snakes and among the number discovered this curl
GUS animal. Reptile !-Frl He tried to capture it
alive. but 1t getting away, he struck it with
his whip LASH and killed it. The snake has two per-
fcctly formed heads, and two necks each inch in
length 1t is now preserved in alcohol.
CApNrs.