The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-07
Northeast Kansas Notes.

David and Gamaliei Bowen left their
home in Wales fourteen years ago to
come to America, and finally settled in
Brown county, Kas. The other day they
received $1,000 each, enough money to
pay travelling expenses both ways, and
a request to come home for a visit.
Kansas newspapers have started an
oldest clock contest and the Hia-
watha World thinks the following leads
them all: This beats the Iowa clock
and the A. N. Ruley clock. Eli Zim-
norman of Fairview bought clock in
1850, in Ohio, of Dominick Barger.
agent. He paid $3.50 for it. In 1865 he
moved to Iowa; in the year of 1876
hauled it in a wagon to HiaWatha, kas.,
and in 1897 moved it to F7airvieW where
it sets on a self and ticks away and
keeps as good time as ever. Just As
years old.
There seems to be no limit to the
price of Brown county land. George
Kinzie has sold his 100 acre farm two
miles north of Hiawatha for $4,000.
The Hiawatha Democrat has just
brought to close one of the most sue
cessful piano contests ever started by a
country weekly. over one million votes
were cast. On the last day J. NJ. Creary
of Powhattan came into the Office and
counted out $500 in bills to buy 5000
votes for his sweetheart, who was in the
contest, but lost out. The $500 was to
pay for future advertising and job work,
presumably wedding invitations and
Write up OF the WEQUllS. MCGI0dIN
said he would have put it up a thOus-
and dollars if he had thought it neces-
sary. The piano went to the S-year-old
daughter of DR.. A. Mccartney Of Rob-
inson, who received 331, 215 votes.
G. S. McHenry claiming TO represent
a foreign insurance company. swindled
farmers in Irving township, Brown
county out of $50
Chris Leibengo0d Frank Higgins,
John Wander, Louis Palmer, Frank
Kiner, John Leibengood, Dick and Dali
las Reed and Willis Burns have con-
cluded that Brown county land is too
high and have bought land in Cass
county, No, at $40 per acre, where they
will form a Kansas colony As they
are all Republicans and young men it
is thought they win in time help make
Missouri safely Republican
The Hiawatha Democrat has pur-
chased a typesetting machine and pro-
poses to give its readers a semi-weekly.
The Brown county Fair association,
which quit business and offered its
ground and buildings for s., 000 has beeE
sold to a new company for $500 on its
agreement to guarantee a fair for the
next ten years Thirty-five Hiawatha
business men put in 500 each.
The Brown county district court shows
fifteen divorce cases to dispose Of this
session
A. NJ Bay, of Everest who runs a
threshing outfit, has several jobs Of lasI
years threshing to do yet. If well
than hin
J. H. Meyer. a well-to-do Brown coun-
ty farmer, viii leave next week for
Pennsylvania to marry the sweetheart
of his b0yhOod, after an absence of Al
years. Both have been married but lost
the life partner.
About three weeks ago Fred Huff,
who was working for q man named
Morton south Of White Cloud, started
out on a hunting trip Night came but
Huff did not return to the Morton home
and when couple Of days had passed
without any news of him a search was
instituted. The search was continued
for several days. but nothing could be
learned Of the missing man. Tuesday
morning about o'clock Lester Collins
who lives on a farm near White Cloud
went out to look after the cattle on the
farm and to get them in out of the
/ storm He had several hounds with
him. and was attracted by their bark
1 ing as if they had a coon in a tree. He
went to where the hounds were barking
and found CHASTITY sight. He found a
mans body lying in the water Of a
small stream. The head was gone and
/ the flesh eaten off of the bones from the
/ hips to the shoulders. Collins carried
! the news to White Cloud and a party
went out to where the body was There
was a gun lying between the legs. ons
barrel of which had been discharged
4 The other was still loaded. The gun
and clothes which were lying on the.
ground around the body were identified
as belonging to young Huff-Hiawatha
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