The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1866-02-10
state and western Ttems.

State and w estern Items.
The Kansas City Journal says that the
ice in the Kansas river gave way on the Ist
inst, and mass from that stream filled the
Missouri to such an extent as to stop the
running of the ferry. The Missouri is clear
above the mouth of the Kansas, and short
time will suffice to carry out the ice coming
from the latter river Unless the warm
weather breaks the Big Muddy above St.
Joseph we shall have navigation to Saint
Louis.
All persons who furnished transportation
to drafted men on the order Of the late Pro
vost Marshal of the Southern District of
Kansas, are requested 10 send their post
Office address at once to Gen. w. w lowe,
Acting Assistant Provost Marshal General,
Leavenwortb, as the checks in payment of
such transportation have been received by
him. su
The Leaven worth Times says: From
Mr.. Jewett, freighter of this city, who re-
turned from Fort Union, we have further
particulars of the trains caught in the recent
terrible snow storm. He visited every train
and learned the full particulars concerning
each. He says that from one-f fourth to one
third of all the cattle persisted. In some in ;
sances trains escaped entirely, while others
lost heavily. There were many cases where
men we're severely frost bitten, aud were
obliged TO have their limbs amputated. A
few persons were frozen to death.
Mr.. Jewett passed through "a trains, all
outward bound. bet ween Fort Union and
this city. The following are the names Of
those who lost cattle, and the number
Burris & Trowbridge. 35 head. John Ham
i'll, so; Stewart, Slemmons d Co., $40;
Wright d Gilmore, Lawrence. 10; Shrews-
berry, 90; Ed. Shoemaker, 10; Cooley &
Brown, 80; Geo. Mangou, SO; Chqndler &
Fisher, 30; Paul & Viewer. As; Ferris &
Short, so; Mr.. Jennet 1.-TWO trainsl, rs.
Butter6eld's Overland Dispatch lost heaVi
ly. The snow laid on the ground about 40
days. So intense was the cold hat the Buff
faIo went above Fort Lyon, some SO mile s
further up than they have been known to
go for many years.
The Tribune of the Sd, says a brutal af-
fair occurred in North Lawrence last even
ing, between two Mexicans, Nicholas Silas
and Marajo. Silas, who bad been in the
services as asoldier 10 Company @. Iltb
Kansas Cavalry, was stabbed by Marsio till
his eutrails protruded. SiIas'd before
morning. Marajo was arrested by special
policeman T. Prentice. and is now in Gus
tody, awaiting examination. There was
apparently no proVocation for the attack of
Marajo, but it is thought it originated from
jealousy
The Junction City Union of the Sd says:
On Wednesday mo ming about two O'Clock
FIRE broke out in the Commissary at the
Fort, destroying the building and it's con-
tents. 1t was occupied by both Quarter
master and Commissary as storerooms. and
both had their Offices there. The FIRE was
first discovered by clerks who slept in the
Commissary' Office, who were awakened by
a dense and sitting smoke. The building
was covered with patent coal tar roofng,
which, the fire having reached produced q
smoke it was impossible to live in. The
clsrs., barely escaped with their lives. losing
even ; mart -. g their clothing. Clerks were
also sleep ping in the u q IartermasteF's Office.
at the opposite end of the 6,1llding, who
saved the books and papsfs but on aco2 uni
of the smoke could get out nothing else.
The contents Of the building. Quartsrmaster
aud Commizssry stores. were very valuabe
estimated 5; about a million dollars. and
we're totally destroged. The fire is supposed
to have caught in the second story or in the
ceiling between the first and second stories,
from aatoVePipe or chimney.
The ST Louis Dispatch says that the com
psuy Of st. Louis capitalists who are. boring
the ''KniPper" well in Miami county, Kan
sas. have also struck bottom and oil at the
same time. They have tubed their we'll
which is 528 feet deep. and will commence
pumping Immediately. The ST. LOUIS Pc
Iroleum Company are also putting down
wtllsin the same county with iae prospects
of suecsss. They have now reached a
depth of $50 feet. and are prosecuting their
work with great energy.
La France states that an explorer in