The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-06-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

conc.
The twenty-third annual convention of the
Kansas State Sabbath School association VIII
Be held in Abilene, June to S.
Herbert A. Oldham, of Atchison, who was
shot in the knee By drunken colored man,
while accompanying young lady home from
church, died of blood poisoning.
Col W. II. Burke, one of the early settlers
and heaviest capitalists Of Osborne, died
Thursday last at Hot Springs, whittier he had
gone for the benefit Of his health.
Natural gas was struck in the second well
Of the Ellsworth Mining company recently,
At depth Of LOGS feet, over 100 feet nearer
The surface than 1t was struck in the first
sell
Mrs Jane Stormont, widow OF the late DR.,
J. W. Stormont, of Topeka, has rendered to
The State Medical Society of Kansas a dona-
ton of $4,000 to found q permanent library
st Topeka.
Atchison Champion: The Board of Rail-
road Assessors completed the compilation of
mileage Of the roads in the State and find the
total to be 1913 rs, an increase Of laos Il
over last year.
Atchison Champions On the 30th Of June,
1881, there were 1851 postoffices in Kansas.
Six years later the number had increased to
1851. There were, at that time, nineteen
postotices in Atchison county.
Lenora Record: We have been informed
from good reliab lie source that the contract
for extending the Central Branch from
Lenora west is TO be let this week, and work
viii be commenced immediately
Washington Register: The $4,000 town
ball bonds were sold Wednesday afternoon to
Mr.. n. ID. Mckinley Of Topeka. He gives SO
for per cent bonds; it is much better than
yo19 on b per cent bonds first offered.
On the call Of Councilman Fred Read
enough men, women and boys assembled In
the Lawrence public park to chop down and
drag out fortE-two wagon loads Of dead brush
and complete various other Improvements.
To enlist the interest of the boys and girls
OF Kansas In the state fair to be held in To
peka Sept. II to p, the association offers q
List OF premiums for grain and vegetables
raFed by boys under fourteen years Of age.
Hutchinson is undoubtedly the best adyer-
tised city in the state. The Board Of Trade
pays $1,000 per year to the Daily NelcS for
1000 copies which are regularly sent to the
East and judiciouily scattered over the coun-
Try.
Atchison Champion: Arrangements are be-
Ing made to celebrate Fourth of July at the
Soldiers Home, at LeaYenworth, upon
very extensive scale. 1t is the intention of
Gov Smith to make it the most elaborate eel
eDraton ever known in Kansas.
The male pigeon at Browns's drug store,
which has been setting on a nest Of eggs for
the past few week, says the Atchison Globe,
mas struck, and now the hen is at work on q
new lot Of eggs. A male may be decent once
ID awhile, but be soon gets over it
Beloit Courier: Charles F. Bozell left
Thursday evening for Indiana, in the interest
Of Mitchell county, to work up an immigra-
uon move for this section of Kansas. He ex-
poets to return about June or 6, provided he
Gao get a crowd 10 come by that time.
Charles Peterson, aged %, while lowering a
heavy stone on the big derrick at the state
house building, Topeka, lost his hold and at.
tempted to catch the rope used for a brake,
When he was struck by the crank, which was
turning with lightning speed, and knocked
Senseless and his skull fractured
Atchison Champion: The following Kansas
towns will shortly be declared cities of the
second class: Council Grove, Caldwell, Con-
cordia, Coffeyvile, Osborne, Horton, Belle
vile, Nickerson, HOlton, Marysvlle and Ga
lena A city of second class is required to
nave population of 1000 or over, and under
1900
Topeka Commonwealth: New England
Sfamped Kansas from It's birth with the ele-
ments of progress. Virginia marked Mssou-
II with the badge Of retrogressicn. The gen
eratlons have nearly gone who met in conflict
mere; but New England won, and in the vic
Tory, not only redeemed the State of Kansas
Dnt the Nation also. All hail to the mother
ana her vigorous offspring.
AS the Kansas City and Wamego accommo-
QatiOn
Pacific railway, the other evening, in chargo
OF Conductor Humphrey, several Muncle
.ougns attacked him, one Of them using a
nthing Ratchet with pretty bad effect upon
MS head Five scalp wounds were made,
and Just as one Of the toughs was about to
ssrlke with the sharp edge of the Ratchet,
Taylor the porter, rushed in and layed their
out right and left
John Y. Benfer, an old resident OF Seneca,
and member of the city council from the
Third ward, accompanied the CONNER
ah club excursion to Kansas City last
tuesday but has not been seen or
heard of by his family or friends since the
alnner at the stock yard hotel that dav. He
vas considerably in debt TO relatives who
nave attached his business house and other
property TO secure themselves in case he does
got return.
lie Pratt county national bank at Pratt
Wy was recently robbed of $4 0l6. The
OOokkeeper and the teller had gone to dinner,
and The cashier partly turned the combination
On the safe, locked the door of the bank and
vent across the street to the pOstoflice. He
vas gone about ten minutes, and during his
suSence the robbery was effected by breaking
pane OF glass in q window which enabled
=. sIe parties to undo the fastening and raise
Newton Republican: They are coming back
nom California to Kansas We did not in
aulge in any vociferous prophecies when they
sentaWay, but We knew they would come back.
Inc central State of the Union will always
ave the advantage over the extremes be they
ssaSh west north or south. The natural ten
assneY is to rally on the centern Kansas Is
L.klng less boom than for years, but
saeaally and quietly those who have forsaken
VI lor "bo0ms' elsewhere are returning.
hoxie Sentinel: Do not get discouraged
shn this wet weather. May time is now here
auu the trees and wild flowers will blossom
Ssaaufuly. Fall and spring planting small
slaln promises an abundant yield; indeed we
= aot tank the prospects at this time could