Western cyclone., 1886-12-09

improving. Application has been made
to have Tudhope returned to the asy-
lum.
Holton Signal: A Pottawatomie In
dian came to Spencer & Berridge's shop
last Monday and for good and valua-
BILE consideration agreed to find the
horses stolen from their stables a week
previous. The price of the Indians ser
vices was agreed upon and Mr.. Spencer
went to the reserve, southwest of the
city, in company with his copper colored
guide. He was taken to point where
grew some thick brush and timber and
there found his missing horses. No sat
isfactory clue as to how the horses came
there could be obtained.
Sumner County Standard: At
meeting of the stockholders ef the Wei
ington stone-coal company, held re-
Gently, they decided to pay Mr.. Cross
man $500 for the casing, cancel his con-
tract and seal up the hole, for the pres
ent, at any rate. Some of the stock
holders we're in favor of continuing the
work, but after considerable discussion,
no way was devised by which the money
could be raised for that purpose. II was
stated at the meeting that the sum sof
1925 would be necessary 10 pay the
expense of going 500 feet deeper. We
hope that this decision will soon be re-
versed by the coal company, and an et'
fort made to raise the necessary funds
to continue the good work.
Larned Eagle Optic: Mr. w. 81.
Camp, who returned from his ranch in
the north part of the country, reports
an extensive prairie fire recently, which
originated in this and swept over into
Rush county, and then the wind chang
ing it came back into Pawnee and as far
south as the Walnut creek valley. Mr..
Camp says the fire burnt over large ex-
tent of country and that considerable
hay and some grain was destroyed. No
lives were lost or stock killed that he
heard of, although it was one of the
largest and fastest travelling prairie fires
that have occurred in this county for a
long time.
st. Marys Express: Some excitement
and talk has been created by the rumor
that the U. P. railway has commenced
suit against the st. Marys college for the
recovery of strip of ground running
parallel with the railroad which the col
lege authorities have been using and
claiming for many years past for their
own. The grounds for the suit brought
by the railroad company seems to be
clause in their right of way through the
Pottawatomie reserve, whereby the COM
pany was granted the land for two hun
dred feet on each side of tie road. Two
hundred feet will take in all the ground
on which Bertrand avenue is situated and
good portion of the business of st.
Marys.
Wallace County Register: Two ladies,
Misses Andrews and Rankin, reside on
adjoining claims two miles north of Tri-
hume in Greeley county, when the re-
cent storm threatened one of the girls
tripped across and spent the night with
the other. During the night the storm
increased and snow so filled the claim
shanty where they we're, and there being
no coal at hand, that they decided to re-
turn to the other shanty for better shell
ter. In doing SO they lost their way
and wandered about screaming and hal
looing until, when nearly exhausted,
they attracted the attention of settler
near whose house they had come. He
answered their cries and took them in
from destruction. They will not "mon-
key" with the next blizzard.