The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-05-26
Doniphan Itenas.

Mr.. Ashcroft, of Independents, has the hnest TALL
wheat and growing corn we have seen
Jehiel Frazee, sylvester. and others. arc gong
across the river to fish. next Friday. nany Of the
crowd should get snakcbittrn, the usual and proper
remedy can be got
Boney Wood was down, last week. entertaining
the boys with some of Lis funny stories Boney is
pretty good fellow.
| One Of those terrible accidents which happen 90
often through the careless handling Of firearms oe
CURED in Doniphan. last Sunday evening. Charles
p Hahn son of T. C. Hahn, with two or three other
boys were down at the river having in their Posses
sion pistol, Of 22-calibrc. The pistol. under
stand, belonged To Willie Nesbit They had been
shooting with it, when it failed to off, Charley be-
ing in possession Of it. looking down the muzzle try
ing to what the trouble was, when it went on,
the ball entering just under the orbit Of right eye,
crushing through the brain lie fell his face, in
fietng other slight wounds from sticks entering his
mouth, also biting his tongue almost of. He Was
taken home, and remained insensible until his death,
which about eight hours after the accident
Charley was thirteen years old, the 18th Of last
April This terrible calamity falls heavily on Mr..
Hahn and wife. He n noble boy; gentlemanly
in his mannrr polite to his elders, nothing sauey or
impudent and to his parents obetient, and always
ready to assist his sekly mother in everything he
his brother Lew, who is agent at that place. Com
ing down the construction train, he fell in with
those boys, and not over two hour had elapsed be
fore Lew. WINS telegraphed to come home, that Char
ley shot, and arrived in thirty minutes after
ceivng the message. The funeral took place st his
parents house, conducted by Father Leak, after
which he buried in the family graveyard at
Doniphan. How often have persons been warned,
by 30 many accidents happening through tho care
less handling Of firearms. with grown p~rsons
great many are, for reason in the habit of
continually carrying pistols 1t has perhaps ten
dency to make some men very bold and sauey, and
make some persons think that they might shoot.
We are getting old, and have never carried any
thing Of the kind perhaps have passed through n
great deal Of danger. but still live and do fear
much about those who continually loaded down
with pistols. As there is q law against any
ryns deadly weapons, il officers Of the law would
look to it, they would find great many boys, rs
well men, who in daily possession of firearms.
Every boy who is suspected should undergo ex-
animation, and If in of one, any other
deadly weapon, they should be taken from them.
This last accident shoud cnuse parents to look
well to their boys
c. Clckeman, from Rockford, ILL.,, has located at
Doniphan, and is assisting Mt the depot in tele-
graphing. lie seems to be young man Of very
steady habits and attends strictly his own basi
ness.
Matthew Craig, eolored. while brskins 4 freight
train, n who afterwards proved to
be the Road Master. This travelling with
out ticket, pass, ready cash. The eolored man
told him he must pay, dis road does not tote dead
beats The boy WINS promoted. of course.
1t is supposed that the St. John amendment will
be incorporated into the translation Of the BIZ
BILE.