Western cyclone., 1886-12-16


ley, who kept railroad boarding house
on Wafer street Wichita, K4ns., about
noon Wednesday as result of quarrel,
shot his wife and then killed himself
It is said they quarreled often and bit
teTly.
A decision was rendered by the Uni
ted States supreme court at Washing
ton Monday, in the bond cese of Moses r.
Crow against the township of
Oxford Sumner county, Kansas. This
was suit to recover the
amount due on coupons issued
by the township Of Oxford in the con-
struction of bridge across the Arkan-
sas river. The same bonds have alreedy
been before this court in the case of Nc
Clure against the township of Oxford
GA, U. S.42e). The court then held
that the bonds, if issued under special
act of the legislature of Kansas, approv-
ed March l, 1872, were invalid. On the
present suit an attempt is made to Bus-
tain the validity of the bonds by alleging
that they were issued under the author
ity Of a general set of the legislature of
Kansas. passed March 2, 1872. The
court holds that the bonds on their face
excluded the possibility of their having
been issued under the latter act, the pub
lie records show that the proceedings
were not taken under that act, and the
auditor had no right to decide, as a mat
Ter of law, they were not. The decision
of the court below III favor Of the town
ship is affirmed. Opinion by Justice
Blatchford.
The Rev. Alexander Mackay Smith of
New York City Friday was elected as
sistant Bishop of the diocese of Kansas,
Episcopal Church by the Diocesan Con
vention Of the Eplscobal Church Of
Kansas.
/ T. G. Kelly's agricultural implement
house at ST. Mary's Kan, caught
Gre at 10: 80 Tuesday Dight
and the building and 81, 800 worth of I'M
plements are total loss Insurance $3,-
600. No clue as to the origin of the
fire.
The bridge spanning the river at At
Gibson, Kane., IS again in court. The
city brings the suit, as usual, and the
object Of the proceeding is to have
receiver appointed, to compel an &C
counting, and to order the forfeiture of
all stock except the 100000 he'd by
the city. The petition is voluminous,
covering 200 closely written pages, and
sets forth the history of the bridge from
the beginning, alleging conspiracy and
fraud on the part of the stockholders to
defIaud the city out of 100000 bonds
and that the majority of the stockhoId-
ers chained 100000 without pay ing
anything thel cfor, thus making the city's
stock ($100,O0O) for which 1t had gwen
100000 bonds, The only bona tide stock
in the company. Judge Martin, before
whom the suit was brought, has already
lnclden' ally held IN former proceeding
that the clty's stock is the only bona
tide stock in the company, aud good
lawyers say if the case is fought to the
END, the city will capture the bridge.
There was consummated at the Plant
er's house Friday, the sale of tract of
land in Mexico, one hundred md sixty
miles long and six miles wide. John
d. Miles, Of Lawrence, Kans., was
the purchaser for a syndicate, the
composition Of which he would not di-
vulge. The tract extends from point
sixty miles from Paso del Norte on the
Mexican side of the Rio Grande and ex-
tending down the river parallel with
its course for one hundred and sixty
miles. The price paid was something
over 100000. 1t is proposed to cstab-
lish q monster cattle ranch on the tract.
The proposition to vote $4,000 in
bonds of Great Bend, Kan, to the Kan
sas & Colorado railroad extension, from
Hoisington to tie Great Bend, was car
ried Monday by a vote of 427 to I
against.
The fifth annual meeting of the Short
horn Breeders association will be held
IN Topeka, beginning on the evening of
Tuesday, Dec. IA.
Rhode Clements, the madmaR who
murdered Samuel Gordon in the western
part of Jackson county, Kansas, Tues
day night, was Friday adjudged insan
1t is reported that two more men h &c
gone crazy in that neighborhOod, tho
result of the religious excitement pre-
vaillng there.
Two men named Hungerierd and
Charles Bickle, were arrested at HOlton,
Kans., by government detectives Friday
on the charge of making counterfeit
money. Ia their house dies and other
implements and 1853 counterfeit half
dollars was found. The metal was found
ia bed where the wife of one of the men
was lying i'll.
The Jefferson county treasurer's Office
at O2ksloosa, Kans., was broken into
Thursday night about 10 o'clock. with
tools taken from a blacksmith shop, The
vault was entered, the time-lock safe
4 hut ~ nj IN abe