Weekly Kansas State Journal from Topeka, Kansas • 4

i 4 TOPEKA LOCAL NEWS. this afternoon fro in the resideiiGe of Herman Fensky, North Topeka. The Germans in North Topeka will attend in a body. Wilsons friend had spirits enough in him to cause fermentation, ant vented it upon everybody and every thing that came in his way. Twice the police came in the restaurant to arrest him, but Stewart prevailed upon them not to do so as he woulc get him out and let him go.

When through eating he staggered out of the place to his friend on the walk, but in passing a bystander run against him and said some insulting language, which was resented, and his face in two minutes afterwards looked as though he was having the mumps. The row brought the police, who arrestee him and lodged him in the cooler, he resisting all in his power. Mayhers friend, who gives his name as Robert Stonefeifer, hailing from Cummings-ville, was permitted to go free. Afterwards some of the boys concluded to hunt up Rrobert and find out what he knew in regard to his two cronies in jail. He was found at the Santa Fe depot about two o'clock and was asked to disgorge, which he reluctantly did.

He told of a valise that Maher had stolen and hid, and this morning went with an officer and got it. The valise, which was a fine one and contained some clothing, proved, upon inquiry, to be one that had mysteriously disappeared from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and the property of Mr Myer, our townsman. Stonefeifer was held as a witness. A warrant was sworn out in Justice Searles court charging Mayer with valise and contents being valued at $33. The case was set for 2 oclock this afternoon, but was postponed until 2 oclock to-morrow afternoon.

We learn that Mayher and his friend who is in the cooler attempted to steal a watch in Baker Cos store in North Topeka the other day, but were unsuccessful. Such chaps should be run out of town. We have no use for them. Thursday. Comfortably hot weather.

A large number of people were in attendance at the fair to-day. It is thought from the host of sunflowers growing about the city that the authorities will cut them and use them for fuel this coming winter. It will be a saving of coal, you know. Rev. Monjeau, this morning, rode to the fair grounds on the top of a bus, carrying thence the banner that should tell the hungry wayfaring man where to get a good square meal.

In the trotting race yesterday afternoon at the fair grounds for horses that had never beaten three and a half minutes was won by Major Anthony, owned by Geo. Brown. Scrubb, owned by Jaoob Willitts, got second money. Kuydell, who is managing Mr. Boas farm near Kinsley, sent us a California melon, grown upon Kansas soil.

The melon is of the richest variety and has not grown successfully before. Mr. Boas placed the melon on our table. Judge Holmes was all smiles this morning. There has been three cases before his honor within the past two weeks.

Edward Mayor aliasMajor Haas, of the Seventeenth Kansas, and Samuel Gibson, were each fined $5.45 for being drunk on the first day of the fair. We acknowledge several calls from our country friends to-day. We are glad to see you. Come often, the latch string is always out. At a meeting of the greenbackers at the fair grounds this afternoon, the following were elected delegates to the Wyandotte convention, Col.

Ritchie, S. H. Downs, Dr. Campdoras, W. P.

Douthitt, J. G. Otis and Dallas Thompson. We would hate to be a rogue, and do some devilment at night when Pat Sheman is on the. force.

He seems to be ever present. Last night he discovered that Peck Aldrich had neglected to close the rear door of the store when they left the 6tore last night, and Pat went al through the store seeking for some one to devour, but being unsuccessful he sent word to the proprietors who came and closed it up. Frank May, who escaped from the jail on the 25th of last month, was recaptured at Sedalia, Missouri, and brought back by the sheriff of Jefferson county yesterday. He was put in the calaboose at Sedalia as a tramp, and would have been released the following morning, but as he did not know on what charge he vras arrested, he made a clean breast of it and told the Sedalia officers who lie was and where from, and as a matter of course he was brought back, and now he wears iron jewelry. One by one another rose draps.

Auburn, Sept. 10, 1877. J. B. Fithian Sir I received by the last mail a notice of my nomination to the office of sheriff by the workingmens convention, held in Topeka, September 3d.

In reply, I am not unmindful of the honor you have conferred upon mo. As my name has been used in that convention without my knowledge or consent, I deem it my duty to explain the situation. I have an abiding faith in the ability and disposition of the republican party to correct all abuse of power and purify itself. I also believe the nomination of Mr. Disbrow was honestly and fairly made, and reflects the will and wishes of the republicans of Shawnee county and that he will be elected in November by a handsome majority, I have no reason to doubt.

Holding these views, I must respectfully decline the honor you have conferred upon me in my nomination. Respectfully, H. E. Bush. The Hanging of Seth Wood.

There was considerable excitement on the streets this morning over a rumor which lias a great deal of substance, to the effect that Seth Wood, of this city, had been hung to death by miners near Capitol City, San Juan country. The facts as we learn them are as follows: Seth Wood held a claim and old man Welch claimed the same. After disputing sometime, Wood and Welch agreed to leave the matter to arbitration. Accordingly the miners were called into council and after hearing evidence on both sides, by vote decided that Welch was entitled to the claim. This did not satisfy Wood, and he still held the claim.

Wood and Welch still quarreled about the matter, and Wood said that either he or Welch would have to die. This trial took place about the 27th of August. On Saturday, September 1st, the miners were again called together for the purpose of settling the difficulty. This was the last trial. It was again decided that the claim belonged to Welch.

We understand three trials were had, in which Welch was given the claim. Wood still maintained that the claim was his and refused to give it up. He armed himself with a shot gun and revolver and went on his claim and threatened to shoot any one who interfered with him. A letter from S. F.

Garling-house, written on the 1st, says that the miners were holding a council and things indicated that if Wood persisted in holding the claim that he would probably be hung. From miners from that country, we learn that it was no mor' than could be expected from a miner, that if a man was ordered off a claim, and refused to go, he would be shot or hung, or both. Seth Wood was a man of great firmness, and if he thought that he was right he would hold out to the last. Although everything tends to the belief that Wood has been hung, there is no direct confirmation of the report, but the only conclusion to be derived from knowledge of the disposition of the miners, the laws of mining countries, and the determination of both parties, is that he has suffered death. is a terrible thing if so.

Both parties were well known here, and were old men, and had gone to the mines to take claims. True information will be received in a day or two. formerly of the Topeka Times and now of Enterprise. It dont say so in direct terms, but tries to leave that impression. Commonwealth.

The above contains just three bare faced lies. Neither of the men are named Wilson, which is lie No. 1, and neither did the Blade ever give that as the name of one of the parties. The Blade never insinuated that one of the men was J. W.

Wilson, is lie No. 2, and it never tried to leave that impression, is lie No. 3. The Blade did say, in very plain terms, that one of the men was Wilson's friend and the said friend was heard by a number of men who will testify that he said so. Other facts are in our possession which can be shown up to the public if need be.

Pursuant to the call of the president, the workingmens delegate convention met at Polleys building, last evening, for the purpose of transacting such business as was passing. Upon the calling of the roll, a quorum was found present. The secretary read the letters from the several nominees relative to their nominations. It was decided that a county central committee be appointed, composed of one delegate from each Ward and precinct in the county. The following gentlemen were then appointed as such committee: Auburn, W.

A. Carri-ger Dover, H. A. Clements Kaw, Dallas Thompson Silver Lake, Oscar McConnell Tecumseh, D. S.

Mc-Clintock; Mission, L. A. Mulholland; Williamsport, L. A. Blood; Monmouth, Joseph Greer Topeka township, G.

W. Burge Soldier, H. Freeman. First Ward, 11. Fensky Second Ward, J.

D. Otis; Third Ward, J. C. Chesney Fourth Ward, J. B.

Fithian at Large. E. Horn. Rossville township is to be supplied by the committee. The committee was instructed to meet with the Democratic county central committee andjthe Independent central committee, in Topeka, on Saturday, September 29th.

The committee will meet in the Blade office at ten oclock on that day for organization. The question ofj filling vacanies of the ticket was left to the county central committee. On motion the following were elected delegates to the Independent State convention, to be held at Wyandotte, September 19th: J. B. Fithian, J.

C. Chesney, John Surfis, J. D. Otis, L. A.

Mulholland. The convention then adjourned sine die. J. B. Fithian, Sec.

Co. Convention. Monday. They get up an oyster stew at Stewarts in four minutes. The Kendall Komedy Kompany will be here one week next month.

A very good attendance was had at the opening of the schools to-day. A cabbage festible is to take place as soon as the melons are gone. Ralph Brigham, son of C. S. Brigham, accidently broke his leg yesterday.

P. T. Barnum will have his big show at Kansas city duringtlie week. He is there with it. It is said that Col.

S. S. Prouty will have editorial charge of the Junction City Union hereafter. Several of our lmckmen went to Kansas City yesterday with their hacks, to help run the fair. Reed McCarter, the fireman who wras injured by his heree running awray, was taken to his home yesterday.

To-day is the day of atonement among the Israelites of this city. All Jewish places of business are closed until evening. Webb Wilder, editor of the St. Joe Herald has taken his name down from lie paper. Modesty or what Junction City Union.

Snakes, we guess. The total gate receipts for the three days of the fair, as shown by Treasurer Ayers, amounted to $445 were taken at the gates Thursday. The school laws contain a provision that if the school tax of any school district is insufficient to pay the teacher a tuition fee it is to be levied on the pupils. A. Madden was drunk Saturday night, and Policeman Beckstrom collared him and took him off to the lockup.

He was fined $3.43 in the police court this morning. J. F. Buell and H. G.

Evans, he of the. St. Marys Times are in town. They are engaged in an auction and commission house in that city and are opening up a good trade. It seems that some of the old settlers who went into the old settlers blowout the other night, did it for the purpose of making money, but they failed in the little game.

Selah Bled. At North Topeka, last evening at 11:50 o'clock, Jacob Fensky, aged 81 years and 2 months. The funeral will take place Tuesday at four oclock p. M. from 'the residence of Ferdinand Fensky.

Friends of the family are invited to attend. A Dr. Anderson, of Valley Falls, startled the sleepers at the Capitol House Saturday night by yelling fire, murder, and such like. The landlord went to his room and soon quieted him. He hau the snakes.

Come and get a meal like your mother used to cookis what a tramp read in front of a boarding house in North Topeka. That wont do, sighed the tramp. The meals my mother used to cook is what drove me from home and made me a wanderer. A traveler who lately passed a night in Parsons, Kansas.says that is the worst city in the west for bedbugs. The bugs go armed with saws and files and will go through any thickness to get at- a lodger.

The Friday. The Baptist church will run an excursion train to the Kansas City exposition next week. It is again reported that Senator D. W. Finney has been apointed register of the land office at Topeka.

About five hundred dollars laid out judiciouslyfon the fairgrounds woulc have done much towards beautifying them. The rank growth of weeds is an abomination. Keep your hands in your pockets while viewing my tempting display, is a sign in front of a New York fruit stand. Some of our merchants should post up similar ones. The city is infected with a class of roughs and tramps now, and some of them have blood in their eyes.

We heard talk yesterday among some citizens of giving these new fellows a few hours, without grace, to leave town in, and if they refusec to go, they would be taken out to the potters field. A lot of old settlers were taken in at the fair yesterday. A gentleman stuck two ears of corn together and tied a blue ribbon around the joint. The ear was then nineteen inches long. Gov.

Anthony, among the rest, acknowledged that it was the longest ear he had ever seen, and felt proud of his State until the joke was explained and then he left like calling out the militia. J. C. Wilson, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, has issued a private circular letter to the members of the committee, notifying them that a meeting of the Committee will be held at Topeka, on Tuesday, the 2d of October next, at 4 oclock p. to nominate a candidate for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon.

S- A. Kingman, and to transact such other business as may seem proper. We see by the Delavan, Illinois Times that Jacob McCollister, father of our dry goods merchant, is raising a company of one hundred men in Tazewell county, Illinois, to bring to Kansas, and they will probably settle in and around Efferle, on the Santa Fe road. The Delavan 'Times raises great objections to Mr. McCollister, and tries to dissuade farmers from coming to Kansas.

But Capt. McCollister will bring his company all the same. We have received the following from S. J. Reeder, in which it wit be seen that he both accepts and declines the nomination for the office of county clerk: North Topeka, Sept.

12,1877. J. B. Fithian: Dear Sir: Received your certificate notifying me that I had been nominated as a candidate for the office of County Clerk by the Workingmens Convention, on the 3d inst. I sympathize with the movement so far as I understand it, and accept the nomination, with the understanding, however, that I am not to be required to canvass the County, or to make any other personal exertion toward securing an election.

If the party demand a vigorous exertion on the part of its candidates, I do not wish to be a drag upon it, and will hereby respectfully decline the nomination I have been honored with. With many thanks I remain, Respectfully yours, Saml. J. Reeder. Geo.

Simmons and John Williams are two hungry tramps, or they were yesterday. Just after dinner the city marshal was lying down in the front room resting.and his wife hearing a noise in the kitchen, went in to see what it was. The two chaps above named were making themselves at home and helping themselves to what was on the table. Mr. Dustan then went in and told the chaps they would have to go with him.

One took to his heels, and the other Dustan brought up and locked up, after having to knock him down two or three times, persuading him a little. After getting him in the lockup, Mr. Dustan started in pursuit of his pard, and caught him down near the King bridge shops and he found lodging in the city prison This morning the' were fined, as vagrants, $7.45 each. Tramps should steer clear of the city marshal's residence. A good joke on the old settlers is just told.

They had a meeting the other night, and a subscription paper was passed around. The committee entrusted with the paper was instructed not to call on the printer who was to do some printing, for any money, as the printing would be considered his share of the expense. The paper was headed by some of the primeval squatters, with two dollars each. Pretty soon the financier got his eye on the paper and put down one dollar, and made the first signers alter their subscriptions to one dollar so it would not fall so hard on them. So after the show was over, it was found that the old settlers had not whacked up sufficiently to liquidate the expenses, and the said printer man hunted up the said committee man and informed the latter that there was a bill for printing, but'the committee man could not see it and told the printer man that was his share of the proceeds.

So it goes. Even the old settlers do not rise above small matters. The fellow, Ed. Mayher, alias Major Haas, alias Wilson's friend who was fined in the police court yesterday morning, obtained bis reease by signing over a portion of money that is coming to him through Bishop Crumrine. After he was free le searched for a friend of his in the city, and finding him they got on a glorious spree, went down to the Castle and tried to raise a row.

Officers were summoned who arrested them, but were subsequently released, they promising to go away and create no disturbance. About ten oclock they came into Stewarts restaurant and ordered 8upper, for which they had to pay in advance. only way to conquerthem is to catch them by the hind legs (the bugs) and beat their brains out with a slipper. E. A.

Davis, of the Sabetha Advance, has sold his paper and is now ready and willing to take a position on any other as editor, city editor or publisher. The Advance, under Davis management, was a creditable paper, and demonstrated the fact that he understood his business. Thompson, the man that was charged with murdering Whitney, sheriff of Ellsworth county, was acquitted last Saturday. It was made to appear that the shooting was accidental. Poor Whitney happened to be in the range of Thompsons gun when he was aiming at some one else.

A young gentleman went to see his girl last night and the old man thought he would give the fellow a hin to go about half past ten. So without any one detecting him he set the alarm in the clock for that time and went to bed. At the precise time the old thing went off, and made more noise than Poppendicks gong for five minutes, and strange as it may seem the two did not hear it at all. That is the way to set up with a girl. Dont let anything annoy you.

Mayher and Clay, two tramps, who have infested the city for some days, had a hearing this morning before Squire Searle upon a charge, jointly, of stealing a valise from the Fifth Avenue, the property of M. Myers, of this city. The testimony was very clear and they were both held in the sum of eight hundred dollars. Stone-seifer, a witness who seems to have been with them, told a straight story concerning the theft, clearly criminating them. He was put under bonds also to appear as a witness for the State against the parties in the district court.

Col. Moss was in contempt of Judge Searles court this morning. The judge was trying a case and was also trying to look serious, so as to give an air of dignity about the proceedings. Moss not thinking what he was about, went up the stairs of the court room, singing in a loud tone, On the other side of Jordan. Instantly two policemen and four constables appeared at the top of the stairs and warned Moss off.

The dignity of the court was dissolved and the spell broken. Now Searle has a contempt for Moss, and Moss for Searle. Tuesday. Frosts are iminent. The equinoxes are upon us.

Look out for storms. There was a frost last night that nipped the sweet potato vines. Frank Root is putting in sixty-four new lock boxes in his North Topeka postoffice. Eckles lumber office, North Topeka, has been removed to the site of the old Howard House. Corn is being rapidly shocked.

The grasshoppers will be shocked when they come and find the corn shocked. Floyd Shinn, of the Dodge City Times has been elected treasurer of Dodge City. He gave a bond of five dollars. G. W.

McLain, whom the Commonwealth took great pride in noticing as an old newspaper man, was taken to the calaboose this morning, in a state of limp intoxication. The injunction case against the city was submitted to the supreme court this morning, upon written briefs. The court will render judgment in a week or so. The two tramps who paid Marshal Dustan an unceremonious visit the other day, for which they were fined and lodged in the calaboose, have been charged with violating the revenue laws, and will be taken to Leavenworth to-morrow for trial. The acquittal of Thompson for killing Sheriff Whitney of Ellsworth, caused great surprise to the people there.

The county attorney is sat; isfied that money was used. It. is impossible to punish a man for the willful killing of another in this State. A limited corporation is being formed by horsemen in this city and county for the purpose of holding a four days horse fair at this city in October, immediately after the Leavenworth horse fair. The premiums offered aggregate between three and four thousand dollars.

Those who are in favor of it will be waited upon with a subscription paper. Buell and Evans of St. Marys, commission merchants, secured a large amount of consignments yesterday while in town. They are gentlemen with whom it is safe to deal. They will make weekly returns and guarantee satisfaction.

Any one who has business of the kind to transact in that part of the country will do well to remember this firm. It is terrible hard for United States officials to keep out of politics. They forget themselves and pitch in sometimes. Yesterday one of them wanted to bet us five hundred dollars that the Republican party will carry jthe State by seventeen thousand majority (that was Anthonys majority last fall,) but he quietly thought what he was doing, and took it back. We were glad he did.

for we did not have but four hundred dollars. Jacob Fensky, father of the FenJ skys of this city, died yesterday in his eighty second year. Mr. Fensky was a soldier in Bluchers army, and was present at the overthrow of Napoleon at Waterloo. He was also at the battle of Leipsic and all through the war of 1815.

He was a natiye of Prussia, and came to this country 1860. His funeral will take place Wednesday. The Murphy movement is liable to break out in this city at any time. A rain broke up a cold water temperance meeting in Lawrence yesterday. Two hundred thousand excursionists have passed over the Santa Fe road since the warm weather set in.

The maple trees about the city look very much like a corn field after a swarm of grasshoppers has been through it. G. W. Clark was picked up drunk in North Topeka yesterday by Policeman Gilman, and this morning he was fined $3.45 in the police court. The new addition to the Insane Asylum begins to loom up quite lively.

One has a fair view of it from corner of Fourth streo and Topeka Avenue. Sam Lakin is having a cellar dug on the northwest corner of Topeka Avenue and Eleventh slreet, and will erect over it a right smart house, ns the grandson of Hain told us. W. II. Ely, of Illinois, has purchased the Rigdon House in North Topeka, and will continue the hotel business at the old stand.

Mr. Rigdon will retire to private life. There is to be a big excursion from Peabody to Topeka on the 5th of October. The excursion is under the management of the editors of the Peabody Gazette. This is the first excursion to Topeka this year.

Mrs. James L. Whiteman, wife of the man who discovered the Little Annie mine, thirty miles from Del Norte, is in the city, guest of Mr. and Mrs. W.

C. Fisher. She came over in three days, when it took three weeks to go and come three years ago. Miss Jennie Field denies that she was in anyway connected with the the man Thompson who killed Sheriff Whitney, of Ellsworth, and that her testimony was damaging to the prisoner. She did not testify at all ns she knew nothing of the murder.

On Western Avenue near Eleventh street, in our rumblings, we found a cellar and the foundation for a good sized house. We left them right where wre found them, as also the well and numerous piles of lumber scattered around. The fair opened this morning to rather slim business, although the prospects are good. The treasurer says that the opening is better than any county fair heretofore held. The receipts so far are over one thousand dollars.

The programme for to-day will be carried out on Saturday. The Jackson street school house has recently been neatly painted and kalsomined, and the upper room is being seated. A well has been dug in front of the house, and other improvements internally and externally made. Miss Bartholomew and Miss Ada Peck will preside over the youthful aspirants for high honors. The janitor, Mr.

Atkinson, didn't want we should say anything about the coal house in the northwest corner of the yard, as it was to dilapidated. With the exception of the coal house, everything looks as bright as a new school marin. A confidence game was practiced yesterday by a sharper upon some of the citizens of Topeka. The manner in which he did it was about as follows: He would go into some place, represent that he was broke, ask the loan of five dollars and give an apparently good finger ring as security. He had duped three or four, and one of the victims thinking the ring worthless took it to a jeweler and found out that they were worth about twenty-five cents a piece.

The confidence man was followed to North Topeka, and he was made to refund the money to those whom he had victimized. When he got on the train he remarked to a bystander, See how nicely I will take in the conductor. When tlie.conductor came along the sharper approached him with, See here I am a traveling man. dead broke. Take me to Kansas City.

Here is a ring you may hold as security, and when I get down there I will redeem it and give you a dollar for your trouble. He was on his way to Kansas City the last wTe heard from him. A drunken fellow, calling himself Major Hass, of the Seventeenth Kansas made himself conspicious in front of the Opera House this morning, by loud, drunken talk, stopping every one he met and calling loudly for the editor of the Blade saying that he wanted to see him. Andy Gregg soon put in an appearance and with some assistance and a great deal of trouble took the fellow off to the calaboose. The fellow was somewhat mortified at the way he was treated, as he somewhat prided himself on being a Missourian, and threatened dire vengeance on his prosecutors.

Feeling somewhat interested in the boy we followed with the moving mass of curious people and after seeing him safely cala-boosed made some inquiry concerning him. We was not a little pleased to learn that he was a friend of John W. Wilson, and that he had some business to transact with the editor of the Blade." And we also were advised by a friend of Wilsons friend, to look out for him, which we will be very apt to do. There seemed to be three of those fellows, roughs and tramps. Another was shortly after arrested and placed in the calaboose; the third got away.

One of them went to Stewarts and tried to pass off a copper cent for a quarter. They all seemed like desperate men, and the police will do well to hurry them along. EDITORIAL BUSINESS NOTICES. cents a line each insertion. Just Published.

The history of the assassination of J. ClaTke Swayze and trial of John W. Wilson, containing all the proceeding, before the coroner, the trial, including the speeches by counsel on both sides and comments of the press on the killing of Swayze and on the acquittal of Wilson. The book also contains extracts from the Blade and Topeka Times, and matter not heretofore reprinted. The book is valuable because it is a of the facts in one of the most important murder trials that ever took place in the United States.

No other case has excited so much comment, and as it now forms a portion of the history of the State, and the book being compiled while the affair is still fresh can better be preserved. The book contains 112 pages body matter, with a full page portrait of Swayze and a diagram of the alley where the shooting took place. It is bound in blue granite cover and will be sold at seventy-five cents per copy at the counting room of the Blade office. Sent by mail, postage free, address the Blade, Topeka. Kansas.

The Great Magnetic Healer. Mrs. Dr. M. A.

Judd, the great Magnetic Healer, and T. Judd, assistant, have located in Topeka, east of Kansas avenue, rooms over second hand store opposite court house, for the present, therefore in great confidence, we invite a call from those suffering with long continued affliction who are seeking a permanent cure. The Doctor also gives Baths, having an improved Hyperdemic and Medicated Yapor Bath, with or without electricity. Particular attention paid to diseases of children, whether acute or chronic. 460 Nine per cent, interest.

Ross Mc-Clintoek are prepared to place loans in sums of $500 to $3,000 on five years time at nine per cent, interest. 4483 People who are on the lookout for business, for work, for homes, for anything that is going on, should take the Blade, for enterprising people have learned that it is the best avenue through which to roach wha they wank Announcement. I am an independent candidate for the office of Register of Deeds, subject to the action of the voters at the general election in November. 4287 AY. P.

Thompson. For the Old and New West I A pos itive and sure cure for headache, biliousness and liver complaint, is Browns Liver Pills. They are prepared especially for the bilious diseases of this climate. The remedy for ague which never fails when taken according to the directions, is Eureka Ague Pills, the sure cure. Sold at fifty cents per box.

Every one should have on hand a bottle of Browns Blackberry and Ginger, for diarrhoea, dysentery and bowel complaints. Ask for it. Ask for a preparation of Sarsaparilla, Dandelion and Iodide of Potassium. This combination is a valuable remedy for diseases of the blood and liver, and restoring the system to a healthy condition. The above medicines for sale by Parka Kneeland and Rowley Bros.

Topeka. 4349 Excursions to The Rocky Mountains. The Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad has arranged with the various railroad lines in the country on special round trip rates to the Rocky Mountains, and has secured the following rates to Denver, Colorado Springs, Canon City, Pueblo and return from Kansas City and Atchison, $43; St. Louis, $50 Chicago, $65 Quincy, $50 Cincinnati, $63; Buffalo, $73, and correspondingly low rates from all points east, north and south. These tickets are good for 90 days and to stop at all stations west of the Missouri river.

Tickets are on sale at all principal stations throughout the country This is the new route to Denver through the garden jo Kansas and Colorado. Fend for maps, circulars, time tables, to T. J. Anderson, General Passenger Absent, Topeka, Kansas. 2656 Notice.

"VTOTICE is hereby given to all persons AN whomsoever that James Clark, of Elka, Nevada, claims to hold a promissory note for $700 against the late firm of Minkler Derry -men, dated about the flrst of January, 1876, payable the flrst of January. 1878, drawing interest. Said note is without consideration. Its execution was unauthorized by me ml (riven without my knowledge and consent, if given at all, by any one, and warn all persons against purchasing the said note as 1 will not pay the same. W.

T. BEHlt YMAN. SllHAFFOK Sheaffor, Attorneys. 4647 Administrators Notice of Appointment. IVT-OTICE is hereby given that on the 20th day of March.

1877, 1 was duly appointed by the Probate Court of Shawnee county, Kansas, administrator of the Estate of John Thompson, late of Shawnee county, deceased. All persons interested will take Notice and govern themselves accordingly. HENRY C. THOMPSON, Admr. of the Estate of John Thompson, deceased.

4658 Notice to Condemn School Site. NOTICE is hereby given that a petition was filed iu the Probate court within ana for Shawnee county, Kansas September 18th, 1877 by school district No. sixty-four (64), in Shawnee county, Kansas, for the purpose of having a sight appraised and con-demned for the use of said school district Said site is discribed as follows, to-wit: One acre out of the southeast corner of the north-east quarter (K), section two (2), town ten (10), range Ufteen (15), in Shawnee county. State of Kansas. All parties interested will take notice and govern themselves accordingly.

W. R. MOORE, Treasurer, JOSEPH LAWTON, Director, of School District 64. 4925 i 4 A I I i i i i 2 0 4 I A A Saturday. No business in Judge Holmes court this morning.

No marriage licenses have been issued this week, and this fair week, too. The history of the shooting of Swayze and trial of Wilson is now ready for delivery at this office. Sent by mail for the same price, seventy-five cents. Sixteen papers in the State in speaking of a new paper putting on a new dress sadly said, We are glad to note their evidence of prosperity, and not one meant what it said. The office of the secretary of Historical society is literally crowded with valuableselections and contributions.

Judge Adams, the secretary, hunts after history as studiously as Pop-enoe does for bugs. The theory is prevalent that the Omaha brigde was not destroyed by wind but by a powerful magnetic current that accompanied the tornado. The current raised the brigde up from the piers and carried it until the current became dissipated and lost its power. The Missouri Valley Life Insurance company of Leavenworth is winding up its affairs. The Blade sometime ago exposed it rottenness and called the attention of the Insurance Commissioner to the fact.

If there are any frauds in the world insolvent insurance companies and swindling lotteries are the greatest. Dr. Dickinson has a copy of a book which is a fac simile of the account kept by Gen. Washington between himself and the government. Every entry explains itself and is clearly understood.

It was the system of book keeping used before they got so they cover up everything on their book. Wash, was pretty sharp. He brought the government out in his debt. Mr. Geo.

II. Hughes complains to us that Mr. Hall Secretary of the Kansas City exposition, has not acted squarely with him. Hughes says that Hall, contracted with him to furnish five hundred birds by a certain date. The birds were sent on time but were returned to Hughes, putting Hughes to the expense of shipping both ways and buying birds, and other expenses.

Unless Hall can show good reason for this breach of contract we consider that he has done Mr. Hughes great injustice. Some one, supposed to be a boy, broke into the hardware store of W. Case, of North Topeka, last night. He effected an' entrance by breaking out a pane of glass in a rear window and crawling through.

The thief stole a couple dozen pocket knives of the cheapest kind, worth about $7 or $8, and then broke open the money drawer, but as Mr Case had taken all the money before closing up, the thief did not get any. He then went out the rear door, taking the key with him. Mr. Case thinks the thief was very considerate in not taking the more valuable cutlery. Geo.

Rigdon, of North Topeka, met with a very serious accident last night. While in his sleep he got up and commenced walking around and stepped out of a second story window eighteen feet from the ground. He was picked up uncon scious and carried up stairs and medical aid summoned. He has some very bad bruises on his body, aut the physicians do not think he is hurt seriously internally. It was fortunate that no bones were broken.

Within a foot of where he fell is an opening to a cellar, and if he had alien into that his injuries, in all probability, would have been a great deal worse. He is doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances. By the way one of the three mens name is Wilson, and the Blade is insinuating that it is Wilson, 43 v. JVC A.