The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-07-19
AZ uNMIFleATED sLANpER..


We find the following paragraph in the
Lesvenworlh correspondence of the Chi
cago Republican:
There will be no crops of any kind in
| Kansas this year. In this district which
has been infected with this plague, fslds,
pastures, and gardens could not be burnt
off cleaner than these pests have occurred
them.''
We say to our Eastern readers that the
ab-Ve is an unmiligsted. grOundless lie.
The grasshoppers, few weeks sgO, die
some damage in some of the river coun-
ties, but intelligence from these counties
states that the damage is nothing like so
severe as reported at FIRST. There are q
few fools in LeaVenworth City who think
that place comprises the entire state.
Because few gardens in the city were
destroyed. they spread tie news over the
country that the state is desOlatsd. Kan
sas has always been cursed with such
libelers. What the object can be in send
ing such statements to Eastern papers we
cannot for The life of US see. The truth
is that in eight tenths of the State there
never was better prospect fer all crops
than this year. Wheat and oats are
harvested. and are large yield, consider
ing all things. Potatoes never were bet
ter at this season of the year; neither was
sorghum, hungarian and corn. We are
glad to see that the Conservative, which
contained statements almost as bad as the
above few days ago, reprimands this
Leavenworth scribbler, for this base, and
utterly uutruthful statement.
We give below an official telegram from
our Board of Immigration, to the Missou-
ri Democrat, dated the 9th of July. The
Board lie composed of Governor Crawford,
Judge Bailey, of the Supreme Court, and
Hon. Geo. A Crawford The only OBJ
jectious we have to it is that it does no
State the case strong enough in regard tc
our excellent crops. Instead of saying
the graz shoppers had left the State, they
should have said they had left the .teu
infected counties, because in three quar-
tiers of the counties no damage has beer
done, except to the gardens, and field
here and there. We hope the Chicago
Republican and all other papers which
have given circulation to this LeaVen'
worth correspondents slanderous squib
will have the fairness to correct his state
ments:
Our efforts as a board Of immigration
have been very much impeded By reports
prevalent eastward, to the effect that III,
crops of Kansas have been destroyed BY
grasshoPPers.
3 We wish to state in as authoritative waI
as possible, that our State is now in th,
, midst of a late but abundant wheat har
vest; that in a Week we will be harvesting
an oats crop, twice as large as any ",
have heretofore raised. and that there i
every prospect of the largest yield of corI
ever grown 10 Kansas. The grasShoPper
may be fairly said to haze lett The State
They may perhaps linger in a few local.
ties, but in harmless quantities. Their
raVsges this season were confied to q few
sandy portions of the Stale, and wer
5 limited to garden vegetables. The gar
dens injured have been replanted and arr
doing well.
Newspapers of the East will do US
favor by giving as much publicity to tn
above Information IS has been giVeu Il
the erroneous reports of the desolalion o
= the State by gTasshoppers.
Respectfully, S. j. CRAWFORD,
L. D. BAILEY.
GEl. A CRAWFORD,