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Show a vEtrr mad srestr. , A Settler U aiardered mad His aaaelljr Ble Beside Ulan. Wichita, Kan., Dec 7. In a ravine In the Flint Hills of Greenwood Green-wood County this morning a party of hunters discovered the bodies of an unknown man, woman and child. The bodies were huddled together, and on the forehead of the man was an uiy nrulse, beneath which tbe skull was found to be crashed. The bodies were poorly clad. In tbe pockets of the dead man were founl two letters, one f.em Palmer, III., addressed to Thomas Potter, Englewood, Kan., and the second one from aomeene In Englewood, 'signing hlasself Abe," to Thomas Potter, Iieece, Greenwood County. An investigation at Reece showed that about a week ago a prairie schooner, rontaing a man, woman anal child, passed through the town, where a text necessities were purchased. pur-chased. While there tbe movers InUtnated that they were leavine Western Kansas to return east. It Is sappoeed that In the Flint Hills, which present a dreary waste lor miles in all directions, Ibe movers encountered some or the horse-thieve horse-thieve who make their haunts In these regions, and that In mlstlnsr an attempt to steal his wagon and team the husband receiver! his death-blow, and that, fearSlof rallng herself In that wild region from her wounded hoahand CltasUWaoo, Ind., Dec. Tsfer eTiMi rtaraxlBsr fro, &h32jJ5 o saaffaeaesasnnaanm.... - a"wecee;rw-'s..'-'!vett7 -a-rj. ' "'a to ttnidr,ssJfcc whose arrr;' $'.309 reward Is offered, wasabotsusd prob ably fatally wounded by Deputy Bheritt Wilkinson of Fort Wayne, near bsfe, this evening. A desperate desper-ate can right betweea Kohae, two of his faatr sad three deputy berlfls followed tbe attempt to arrest the deeperado. Is the tight James Mease of Kuhna' gang shot Officer Kenaelly In the bead, lDfllctiBf what Is thought to be a mortal wound, and waa himself shot in the l.g. Kubcs received two bullets in the back but succeeded in escaping on horseback. Reinforcements were bad and s hot pursuit was given. Kilns) was found two hours later at s eanaJsMse near by, where he feU oflrhaawcrse. His wounds are fataL |