The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-05-22
KANSAS ITEMS.

Olathe has Just put into successful OPP
Grafton tke finest cheese factory yet es-,
tabIished in orr State This factory
commenced operations on Monday last,
and the result was 66 pounds of good
cheese from about 600 pounds of milk,
or about one pound Of cheese to nine
and a quarter of milk. Mr.. Charles
Jordan. the manufacturer, is an old and
experienced hand, and pronounces the
milk from cows fed upon the wild grass
of our prairie equal. if not superior. to
that produced by the best tame grasses
of the East Otatke Central -
W. d. Rippey, of Doniphan county,
has farm of $50 acres. He is putting
out this spring twenty-five miles of
hedge, thirty acres of forest trees, and
an extensive orchard.
The Topeka Leader SAYS that ON last
Sunday night the population of Tecum-
sch, a town six miles east of that place,
was increased by the arrival of four
pairs of tvins-eight babies for four
families residing not farther than eighty
feet apart. Four of the babies were
born in the same house. The story
sounds a little shaky, though still it
may be true, as the citizens of Kansas
are generally ahead of the rest of the
world in everything they undertake.
Those Tecumseilites are enterprising,
to say the least.
The following three paragraphs are
from the Leroy Pioneer Of the 9th inst.
Hon. McVicker addressed our citizens
one night this week upon the import
auce of having an efficient Free Shoot.
His advice to our people has strength
ened the work of building a school
house which had already begun. Az
the meeting on last Saturday the citi-
Zens agreed to erect q school house at a
cost of eight thousand dollars, and be-
fore many months pass away we ex-
pect to see an edifice of education in
Leroy that will be the cause of adyanc-
ing her interests.
May 23d. 1868, for the purpose of vot-
ing bonds to the amount of $4,000 to
build a school house. Let every voter
| turn out and vote in favor of the bonds
Col. Phillips was i'll town yesterday
| He was returning from the Neutral
Lands, where he has been appraisina
| land for the Government. 1t will be
| two months yet before he will have his
| official report ready to forward to Wash.
| ingtOn.
The following three paragraphs were
| taken from the Paola Republican of the
| 10th:
A curious phenomena in nature took
place in this county on Sunday last
Some four miles north of this city. nj
what is called the crock Ford crossing
of Bull Creek" terrific explosion o.
rock took place. The bed of the creek
at the crossing is some two hundred
feet wide, and solid mass of rock
The creek has been dry at this point al
winter. On Sunday morning it wa!
observed that wide crack or seam hai
rent asunder this large bed of rock
nearly in the center, and during the day
terrific explosion was heard there, and
which had actually taken place in the
rock, bursting it wide open and piline
tons of the under portion of the rocE
upon the upper portion. In fact it look
| ed like huge gorge of rock which haC
been piled there by some ones hands
knows, but all are certain that it was
nothing else than freak of nature.
1t is estimated there have been more
families settled in Miami county with
in the past four months, than in five
years heretofore. New farms are being
| opened in every section of the county
andsiniles of fence is being put up week.
! ~. a large amount of prairie has beer
broke, and the number of acres of corr
! ground planted has far exceeded al
! other years.
The prospect for the early resump.
ton of work on the Kansas City &
Gulf Railroad is good. 1t is expected
that work on the entire line will be
commenced inside of sixty days.
The Hays City Adcance of the 18th
says:
Mr.. Rose, one of our county com
missiOners, arrived from the front this
morning. He reports the rails laid to
the 3S5th mile. Mr.. Shoemaker has
been awarded the contract to the 400tll
mile. Of his energy and ability to
! push along the work every person
along the line of the U. p. is cog
INFANT. The waning of the summer
solstice will carry it to Pond Greek.
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