Western cyclone., 1886-12-09
STATE NEWS

Cottonwood Falls and Strong City, Kan
sas. has been secured and work will begin
shortly.
The Wamego AgricuIturiSt says man
living north Of Westmoreland was re-
Gently victimized to the tune of $500 by
a bogus patent-rights agent.
Wichita has donated $4,000 piece
of ground to L. M. Crawford toward an
opera house enterprise. The house, ex-
elusive OF ground, will cost $4,000.
The Globe says: The favorite gamb-
ling among the negroes Of Atchison is
shooting craps" and hundred or more
can be seen playing the game at their
dives every evening.
Hanover Democrat: For a violation of
the prohibitory law, G. Messal, of Marys-
vile, and Charley Weller, of Hanover,
plead guilty, and were fined 800 and
costs each, and given thirty days In jail
Hanover Democrats L. Schenck was
arrested last week on an old charge
for violating the prohibitory law. taken
before Esq. Buenting, plead guilty, fined
500 and costs amounting to $135,OO
and was given 80 days in jail.
Anthony Republican: A lady drum
mer was buzzing the grocers the other
day, for an extract house, and she has a
pleasant but business like way about it,
too. This is respectfully referred to the
woman suffragists as step 10 advance.
Downs Times: j. r. Slayman, the
contractor, left Downs very suddenly
the other day, with the evident intention
of never returning, and it has since
transpired that he has left number of
parties here in the lurch to the amount
of about $4,000.
Wallace County Register: The name
of the men frozen to death Ii the biz
zard, between Gopher and Sheridan was
End1cott. They were father and son
and had claims northwest of Gopher.
They hailed from Ellsworth. They
were very thinly clad or they need not
have perished.
Fort Scott Monitor: A farmer by
the name of Morrison, living three
miles north and one-half east of Hepler,
while digging a we'll yesterday, struck a
heavy vein of natural gas at the depth
of sixteen feet. The wonderful sub
stance seems to exist in untold quanti-
ties all around us.
Fort Scott Monitor: A fine vein Of
coal, forty-fve inches thick has just been
on the Brown farm, near
Cato, at the depth of $50 feet. The
shaft is situated on the line between
Bourbon and Crawford counties, and
both counties have occasion to rejoice
over the vein.
The trial of Carl McClintock, who, on
the 10th of July, killed his wife and at
tempted afterwards to take his own life,
terminated in Wichita. The case was
given to the jury and they returned a
verdict of murder in the second degree.
The defense introduced by his attorney
was insanity.
Lincoln Republican: Lincoln will be
as a city of the second
class in the spring. The population
lacks but one hundred of the necessary
two thousand. How is that for growth? ?
An increase from 800 to 1000 in one.
year. Let other towns in Kansas blow
about their little bOomlets.
Caldwell Journal: Eleven wood
haulers were arrested at Arkansas City
last week and placed under bonds to
appear before the United States district
court, at Wichita, and answer to the
charge of grand larceny. 1t is pretty
rough on the boys to thus loose their
occupation of cutting and hauling wood
from the Indian Territory, just as the
harvest is ready for them.
Lawrence University Courier: A GER
tain young man of K. S. q. who lives
to trip the light fantastic toe (the last
five words are not original) recently
wrote home for his dancing pumps to be
sent to him, but was astOnished and per-
picked at receiving instead a bible from
his father. He doesn't understand how
the mistake could have been made.
Abe France, line repaireF Of the
Kansas and Missouri Telephone COM
pany, climbed to the top of one of the
poles in South Leavenworth for the pur-
pose of adjusting the wires, when the
pole broke short off at the ground, pre-
cipitating France distance of thirty
feet, fracturing the left hand and elbow
joint. The wounded man is unmarried
and resident of Kansas City.
Independence Reporter: The Z. S.
land office here has received notice of
the sus pension of the entry of the town
sight Of Parsons, seven hundred and
twenty acres, entered by Angel Mat
thewson and also the suspension of the
entry of eighty acres Of the town site Of
Oswego entered by Mayor G. NJ. Condor.
The entries will probably be straighten-
ed out after time but the suspensions
will cause some trouble.