Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-04-12
STATE NEWS.

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opened in June.
The prairie fires are getting their
work in all over the state.
Florence is to have new Catholic
church, and residence for the parish
priest.
Rev. A. II. Lackey, of Peabody, has
sold his fine herd of cattle, 1913 head,
for $500.
A building to cost $4,000 is to be
built four miles south Of Arkansas City,
to be used as an Industrial school for
Indian youths.
The Kansas City and Emporia road
is being graded at the rate of mile
per day. Track-Iaying will commence
about the / st of April.
Two colorcd street-walkers of To-
peka were arrested the other night
and placed in the lookup, charged
with shooting James Nash while
drunk.
Rocks County News: The govern
county men within the past year. This
makes II, I,09l acres more decided land
in the county.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
! Railroad company is negotiating for the
purchase of the Kendall property, cor
ner of Ninth street and Kansas avenue,
Topeka, for site for general Offices.
The boys at Sterling have become
so bad that the principal of the
school has been appointed assistant
marshal, with power to put them un-
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the way to and from school.
At Topeka William Hardin, colored
was fatally injured while assisting to
raise safe into the United States mar
shal's Office. The brace broke, lettipg
the safe, weighing two tons, down on
him, masking the lower parts of both
legs and otherwise iniuring him.
AT Lawrence Gus Strodrich, Ger
man horse trainer well known in the
western circuit, was instantly killed
while training fractions fuly. He
was thrown from the sulky against
tree with such force rs to break his
skull and force his eyes from their
sockets.
A Sedgwick county farmer by the
name of Aaron Sieyers sold two fat
steers in Wichita for S236.50 cash One
weighed 2200 pounds and the other
2,100 pounds, and he received 81
cents per pound for them. The
Beacon says he has forty head left,
but none SO heavy.
Owen Seip, of Atchison. says the
Champion. is engaged in building a
largo brick and stone opera house and
store Mt Wetmore for \. Morris, the
well-known merchant of that town. II
will cost 100000. and is TO be lighted
by gas manufactured on the premises,
and have all other modern improve
ments. When completed it will b the
finest building in ',etmore.
NJ. NJ. Hayslip, a Dickinson county
farmer, suicIded by hanging himself in
his barn. He bad been in low spirits
for some time, and imagined that he
and his wife were coming 20 wa (.
though he owned a good far ana " as
substantially out Of debt. His age was
II years and six months. He was
class leader in the Methodist church
for about forty years, and Il member Of
the church for nearly sixty years; was
married 80 wears; and leaves q wife.
two sons. and two daughters.
While Joseph Roth, of Levenworth,
was riding along near the northwest
ern boundary ofthe city, in Il cart used
for breaking horses, his horse became
unmanagable and overturned the cart.
throwing him out. In falling his head
struck the tire of n passing wagon. ano
he fell TO the ground insensible. When
picked up it was found that his right
ear was almost severed from his head