The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-06-02
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insurance. The FIRE was supposed to b
the work of an incendiary.
We regret to learn that the stage from
this city to Atchison upset, one day las
week. with a large load of passengers
Among them were Mrs. John Gilmore, O.
this city, who was considerably bruised
about the head, and Miss Almira Wormley
whose face was severely cut. An old gen
tleman and his wife were so severely hur
as to lay by for day or two; the others
continued their journey. When the roads
are as good as they are now. such an accident
must lave been the result of gross careless.
ness Laurence Republican, -24th.
Gen. Seth Clover, Paola Indian Agent,
and Mr.. Honeywell passed through this
city yesterday, en- route for Paola, having
in company man supposed to belongto a
company of horse thieves, four of whom
have been arrested and who are now in
prison. The prisoner in company with
them was arrested IN the north part of Iowa
two ponies were found in the same neigh
borhood with him known to have been sto-
len Fear Paola. The operations of this
gang were located south of the Miami
The people of Southern Kansas are deter
mined to rid the country of these raseals,
and they are having good success. Pick
els has gone to washington to save himself
from being hung and one or two of his
confederates are in hand. Now if the COM
mittee can get hold of the chief captain of
all these thieves, who is yet at large, the
thieving operations of Southern Kansas will
| be nearly at an end.-Rdnsas City Journal,
| 1871 ult.
The grist and saw mill of Hurst &
New, at Indianapolis, in this county, was
on Wednesday of last week, consumed by
fire. The loss to the owners is heavy, and
the neighboring country much inconveni-
enced. We understand that the people in
the vicinity will afford liberal and substan-
tial aid in rebuilding and reftting the mill
I-PaOla Chief:
The negro who was confined in Jail at
Lawrence for shooting McAllister, a few
weeks since, escaped from the Jail in that
town, night or two since, and was recap
tured in the vicinity of Mound City, on the
evening after his escape, and again lodged
in Jail, but whether he will be safely kept
there, time will determine.
Dispatch.
Our friends Fisher & Crouch weighed
a steer upon their scales last Monday, which
weighed 1880 pounds. He was one of
large drove from the Cottonwood on their
way to the New York market.
Kansas is certainly the paradise of cattle
growers, and we wish to see Der advantages
improved. She can now offer inducements
which no other State or Territory affords,
and to the. possessors of good stock we say
bring it to Southern Kansas if you desire
to make your fortunes, without any chance
of failure. Osawatonaie Herald
The Paola (Lykins county, Chief
mentions the existence, in that county, of
"Oil springs similar in character to those
recently discovered in Pennsylvania, and
says that company, of which G. W.
Brown, of Lawrence, is one, has leased
these springs for term of thirty years,
with the intention of commencing opera
tons Immediately. The company is pos
sessed of capital sufficient to carry on ex-
tensive operations.
We learn from Col. Dickey U. S. Indian
Agent, that arrangements have been agreed
upon between the Federal Government and
strip on the other side of the river, where
by they are invested with absolute title to
their lands, and with power to dispose of it
as they choose. They now own valuable
tract of land, which, being uncultivated, is
of no use to themselves or the whites. By
this arrangement they will be enabled to
sell it at good prices, and leave for more
congenial society, and the land will pass in
to the hands of the whites, will be improv-
ed, and become quite an acquisition to the
country tributary to Topeka. = Topeka
Record.
On Friday last the wife of James Con-
nelly, who formerly resided in Usage, being
on her way to Iowa with her brother, had
reached the Potawatomie crossing, near
town, and being seated in tue wagon with
child in her arms, the team had nearly
reached TIE top of the steep bank, when
the double-tree broke, permitting the wag
OF to run back and overset, thus throwing
the woman and her child out, and badly in
iuring them. They were brought to Fisher
& Crouch's hotel and medical aid procured.
. Osoaeatomie Herald.
Not less.than twenty thousand Pixies
Peakers have passed through Elwood this
season. The cry is still ''they come. -
Press.
The Kansas Press says that Mr.. E.
Morse of that place while out hunting with
some companions few days since met with
an accident which came near proving fatal.
being shot in the neck by one of his COM
rades who, seeing him through the brush
1t distance, took him for a turkey and
fred. The ball entered the side of the
neck about one inch back of the jugu.ar
vein, and came out little past the spine on +;
he opposite side.
The number of persons killed from a
careless use of FIRE arms along the routes to
Pixies Peak the present season is frightful.
On Walnut Greek, at the Sante Fe road, al
ew days since, two men were killed by the
accidental discharge of a musket in the
hands of another man. The musket was
oaded with buck shot Near the sanne ,