The historic times. [volume] (Lawrence, Kansas) 1891-1891, 1891-08-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


| ness and considerable real estate. His
| friends fear he has met with foul play,
as he always carried money with him.
All the buildings, grand stand, etc =,
in English's park at Wichita, were de-
stroyed by fire the other night. The
park was nothing but a beer garden,
and was the resort of toughs, who have
greatly annoyed the neighborhood, and
it is thought probable the fire was
started purposely. The buildings were
well filled with people. but no casual
ties occurred.
The preliminary examinati on of
James Brennan for the killing of Col s.
n. Wood took place at Hugoton on the
22d before three justices of the peace.
| Acknowledgement Ives appeared as as
sistant to the prosecuting attorney Of
Stevens county. The defendant was
held to answer to the charge at the fall
term of the district court and re manded
to Jail at Hutchinson without bail.
John w. Nyce, of Caldwell, recently
finished threshing his wheat He had
seventy acres from which he secured
2, 1913 bushels, machine measure. A
neighbor of his had 24O acres from
which he threshed 1900 bushels, ma
chine measure. He sold 2, 800 bushels
in the field and paid off his mortgage
and all his debts and stored 5000 bush.
els to await higher prices
]. M. Miller, president of the State
Republican league, hass issued call
for meeting of the league in Topeka
August &c. Hon. ]. S. Clarkson, national
president, and Hon. T. E. Byrnes,
national organizer. will be present and
are expected to deliver public addresses
in the evening. The call instructs each
local league to send three delegates be-
sides the president, who is a delegate
ex-oficio
The alliance managers are reported
to be engaged in preparations for big
state campaign during August, Septem-
Der and October. The big strike will
be made in September, when camp
meetings will be held in each of the
seven congressional districts The first
of these camp meetings will be held at
Ottawa, in the First district, first week
in September and will last three DAYS.
President Polk, Ignatius Donnelly and
other prominent speakers are expected
to be present.
The other night two young men were
robbing a store at Slower and were dis
covered by the proprietor and his son
who fired upon and wounded both of
them. One escaped and the other was
captured. He proved to be a young
mn 1oI t. AL a.
Jail, but his mother arrived from Wich-
tia and was permitted to take him back
home as he was thought to be in dy-
ing condition. His troubles were all
the result of getting into bad company.
The pontoon bridge at Leavenworth
is to be replaced by substantial struc-
ture across the river. 1t is said the
bridge will be built for and with the
backing of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad, and this road has
agreed to pay an annual rental of S2O,-
900 for the use of the bridge for it's
trains. Other roads desire to use the
bridge and some of them are ready to
help build it. A committee to organ
ize the bridge company and push mat
tiers for building it has been selected.
1t is claimed that never before have
so many counties been redeeming
school bonds before they were due as
now. Within the last thirty days more
than $40, 900 in school bonds, many of
them not becoming due till 1895, have
been redeemed in order to stop the in
terest. In but few cases have the
bonds been permitted to run beyond
the time when they mature, there being
no other penalty than the added inter-
est at the regular rate. School dis
tricts have, as rule, been prompt, and
country districts, as we'll as city dis
tricts, have generally anticipated ma
turity by year and in some instances
five years.
A tragedy is reported as having re-
Gently been enacted at the penitentiary
which resulted in the death of a con-
Wet While returning from divine
service in the chapel and upon enter
ing the cell house two colored convicts
happened to be together in the ranks
One of these, either through accident
or design, kept stepping on the heels of
bis fellow convict This was kept up
until the top corridor was reached,
when a fight ensued, during which the
offending convict was thrown or pushed
to the stone floor beneath, distance Of
thirty feet He fell, striking upon his
did not apparently suffer much and
the indications were that he would
ultimately recover. About three weeks
ago he suddenly died. Conclusion of
the brain was the cause.
In escaping from his captors the other
night horse-thief is believed to have
been drowned in the Nescatunga river,
in the southwest part of Barber county.
He would have been lynched anyway,
it is thought The man was caught
with horses stolen from a farmer, who,
as soon as he missed his animals, got
few friends together and started in pur-
suit The thief was being taken TO the
nearest tree when he made his escape
and jumped into the stream, and though
a careful search was made no trace Of
him could be found From descrip-
ton of the thief it is thought it was
Dave Sprague, the horse-thief who a
few days before escaped from Jail at
Mcpherson, and who took half-dozen
horses in Harvey county on his way
south Sprague is an old jail bird
The other evening Ralph Wilkerson
and Clarence Jones, aged years were
wading in the Kansas river at Topeka
and getting beyond their depth were
swept down by the current and
drowned Eddie Jones, a twelve-year-