The Anthony Weekly Bulletin Harper County Friday June 17, 1898 A heavy wind and rain Monday night has damaged the wheat fields to some extent. The rain at this place was a terrific one and nearly two inches fell Monday night and Tuesday during the day. The wheat was getting very rank and heavy and it did not require much wind and rain to knock it over. It is thought that the soft wheat is considerably damaged, but that the hard wheat will straighten up again. Mrs. W.W. HALL and Mrs. J.S. SMITHSON returned from Manhattan Tuesday where they had been to attend the commencement exercises of the State Agricultural College. Mr. W.L. HALL of this city was one of the graduates. J.T. RICHMOND and the children, Miss Lule and Edgar returned the first of the week from their Ohio visit. Mr. Richmond reports a pleasant visit but like all loyal Kansans was glad to get back home. Tuck FINCH, Andy POULSON, and Jack ELLISON, of Caldwell, the three men who were with J.W. THOMAS at the time of his drowning in Bluff Creek and who are supposed to have set off one or more charges of dynamite in the creek that night for the purpose of killing the fish, have been arrested for that violation of the state fishing laws. Finch and Poulson are now in the county jail and will have a hearing before Squire COX on the 17th, while ELLISON was left in the calaboose at Caldwell. The testimony of witnesses at the Thomas inquest established the fact that the water on the morning after the alleged explosion was covered with dead fish, where there had been none the night before, and that all which were examined were evidently killed in this manner, each having a black spot on the head and the air bladder ruptured. All three of the men are hard cases and Finch and Poulson have been in jail before.--Wellington Monitor.