The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-11-13

The volume Of laws just printed took
effect and went into force on the 3Ist
day Of Qct0bef 1868 So says. the ON
cial pr0nuncianaento issned by his Hon
or, R-.A. Barker. Secretary of State. s
We learn from the CArOascle that the
new d. r church of BurlingaIne win
be dedicated. on Sunday, the 18th day of
November, 1865. All are invited to at.
tend. Rev. .. p Mitchell, of Leaven-
worth, is expected to preach the dedi-
catory SERMONS also, other ministers
from abroad arc expected to be present.
HEAVY SUIr.-The LeayenwOrth Com
mercsGI says that D. n. Anthony has
commenced suit against Gen. Tom Ew-
ing for false imprisonment while in
command of the border in 1868. The
damages are laid at twenty thousand
dollars.
Quite number of women voted in
Topeka and Lawrence for State and
County Superintendent of Public In
struction.
A TEST SUIT.-A suit was commsnc-
ed yesterday. in the Shawnee county
District Court, by Mrs. A. /. Winans
against the judges of the election of the
| first ward, for refusing to receive heI
vote last Tuesday for State and county
| superintendent. The board consisted
| OF Messrs. E. B. Williams, S. Hall, and
D. L. WeightmaA. Hon. John Guthrie
lis Mrs. Winans' Attorney. Damages
are laid at ten thousand dollars.-1ope.
"a hec6t1s -
In the Topeka State Record of Thurs;
day last We notice an advertisement Of
500 laborers wanted, to work on the
AtchisOn, Topeka and Santa Fe rail.
road.
We see by the Journal that Nate Ra-
sor keeps restaurant in Ottawa We
suppose he keeps razor soup, and thai
the editor of the Journal eats with him
which accounts for his being so sharp
The Secretary of the Kansas State
Agricultural Society recently forward.
ed to the Commissioner of Agriculture
Hon. Horace Capron, number of spec.
linens OF grain and fruit grown in this
State. In acknowledging the receipt OF
these specimens, Mr.. Capron says:
| 81 am much pleased to have such ex.
celient testimony of the progress max
ing in Kansas in the production of Fruit
and Grain, and have displayed them in
the Department, for the inspection Of
producers and cOnnoisseurs. The only
regret is, that the fruit cannot be pre-.
served in the excellent condition in
which it was received. There appears
to be no good reason why Kansas should
| not take the foremost rank in the pro.
duction of fruit as well as grain, and il
| shall ever be my pleasure TO contribute
all in my power to secure that end"
Paul Velter, well known German in
Leavenworth, shot himself in his owr
/ residence, after kissing his wife and
children, on the 10th. Mental anxiety
is said TO be the cause. He didn't adopt
the usual fashion of leaving letter.
The iron cornice for the State House
is now being put up by Searle Bros. II
is splendid piece of workmanship and
speaks well for the manufacturers.
Mother" Bickerdycke, the famous
hospital nurse of the Western armies
during the war, is keeping hotel al
| Salina.
Moyne & Parks planning mill al
White Cloud, Kansas, was burned, to.
gether with lot of lumber, few days
ago. Loss $4,000.
The stone saving mills at Junction
City, belonging to the Union Pacific
Railway Company, are closed for the
winter, TO reopen in the spring with
increased facilities.
The Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege now has la students.
The Usage Indians are reported to be
in very destitute condition. and the
Secretary of the Interior has written to
the Secretary of War, asking for assist
ance out of the army supplies, as the
appropriations of the Department of
the Interior have been exhausted. 1t is
reported that General Sheridan has
promised sustenance to the Osages, un-
der condition that they will join in the
war against the hostile Indians.
Mr.. Samuel Westfield, of Greencastle
gave us call on Monday. He is the
owner of a tract of seventeen hundred
acres of land in Usage county, a part
or 1t In the midst of the extensive coal
fields five miles west oil hidgeway. He
returns to Indiana for the purpose OF
disposing of his property there prepar-
atOry to moving TO this State. Ii is his
intention to invest largely in Topeka
and make this place his permanent home.
|-1opekG Leader.
Two men came into Usage township,
l-abette county, on the oath inst. with
drove of Texas cattle. They were
promptly arrested and taken before
Esquire Carpenter, who fined the own
er Of the herd Two hundred dollars and
seventy five i'll costs. Alter paving the
fine they were escorted into the Indian
1erritOrysahd set at liberty. A dear
trip, not likely to be repeated by them
very soon Osacego Register.
We fully endorse the following from
the Garnett PJ0iasdealer:
81 S. Kalloch is now superintendent
of the L. L. s. g. Railroad. A better
appointment could not have been made.
He is one or our live southern Kansas
men, and individually has done more to
promote her internal improvements, to
attract Immigration to this part of the
State, and TO develop her resources,
Than any one man in southern Kansas.
he has always been a warm friend,
CONSISTENT advocate and hard worker
Tor the Galveston railroad, and the in
terests OF that road will not suffer while
uhder his superintendent"