New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-27
WESTERN NEWS.

Tho new building Of the Chicago Academy Of Design
situated the west side OF Wabasave, souh OF jack
son-st is nearly finished The lot So by l75 feet cost
with the house that was upon IT, 2O0) and the building
reprOof brick edihce four stories high viii cost Wue
completed $4,000 more Landlords in Columbus, Ohio
contemplate an increase in rents from the LIST OF Apr
Worl; upon the new Kansas state Capitol building
rapidly progressing, and, with appropriation TINS
Winter the wing which alone il is proposed TO con
sruct mt present he completed during the coming
Fall. The edifce is Of Junction City white magnesa
limestone. the portion which vas commenced Of red
clay stone having been torn down, and the
cost Of this wing Is 10 be about hau
million dollars. The hall for the House Of Representa-
tves Axis #; the Senate chamber, 27xG5 it, and the
Offices OF which there six for State Offices, eight for
committee rooms besides for posofce, Sergeant
alarms cloal,room &c. 2jx25 feet each The heating
apparatus cost about slOo0O...A correspondent,
writing from Humboldt, Kansas, says "Slnce the war
the town has been rebuilt, and IN 1866 was Incorporated
as city 1t is laid out and built in regular order on
each side of large public square and now bids fair to be-
come one OF the largest it already Of the yoest
cities IN southern Kansas The citizens OF the night
kind to push business ana build mp place without any
old fogy ideas to interfere ana divide them In their efforts
The line OF the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston
Railroad passes through the town north and southandthe
sedala For. Scott and Santa Fe Railroad cast and west
forms Junction az this place The population Is now
7oo and steadily Increasing The business buildings arc
mostly brick and stonc dwellings generally wood, nicely
painted and neatly arranged and present very tasty
appearance stone schOOhOusc 3'Xii feet in SIZE two
stories high with cupol, sncarly completed, which will
cost 5000 1t finished good style and will be fur
nishcd with improved ircn-lramc furniture made to
order in Leaycnworth The cupoa L. the FIST object
visible in approaching the town, and can be seen FOR
several miles across the prairie" Mr.. W. thinner
mann has in course OF erection and nearly completed at
the intersection of Main secondt Ottawa, Kansas,
fine brick and stone hotel 125x30 feet, three stories
mch with twostory L. 20zio feet II is 10 be occupied
about the first Of February by hr II. u. Ludngton.
There are S2iu worth Of real estate l Carver County
Mimi. Mr. William c. + lar has purchased an interest
IN the fine watcrpowcr az the Falls % Beaver Creek. 81
Peter NicOlct County Mimi, and viii erect there large
saw-Inill "A stock company recently organized. IS 90
erect q large inacLncshop at St. Charles MINI, during
the coming SprinC. "A CORE pondcnt writing 10
savannah, No paper, from Of tie SINAI. towns on
the Platte. says: The order 81 things H. bringing
into our free State population Tint j. dong away Win
the old landmarks turning vast pracs into lac
farms. nllng cities ana villages with sober and
industrious citizens who Will set the water Of the
Platte and One Hundred and Two 90 propelling
chinery instead OF finding its way "unveXed TO the sea-
as 1t did In times gone by the "siayc sl0bDor" las
almost entirely given way 90 The puritan snl1e,"
and tic consequence is, farms that worth from s. 10
SIS per arcc prior 90 1863 worth from SO to So
which is s less than half what the quality of land
is worth in Illinois aud other states east OF this New
prairie worth from s. TO SO per acre. and good timber
from SIS to $50 owing To locality. man ncose 20
acres Of prairie during the Winter break tie soil IN the
Spring. and plant IT in corn from which be harvest
crop the first year, thus making farm ut very
trnng expense which IN a few years Will command from
$50 to so per acre"