The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-27
KANSAS NEWS ITEMS.

Int GtAaDte property Vi hahsas - opttiHstskSA
at s75 ,OOO, 600
Oil has been struck again at Fit. Scott. We
hope nobody is hurt.
We guess the Lawrence Tribune had better
let Sol. Miller alone.
| There are twelve organizations of Turner's
| in Kansas, with a membership of about five
hundred.
Over one hundred and twenty families have
gone west from New York city within few
days, and settled near Waterviile, Kansas.
Fifty other families will soon follow.
rousing camp meeting has been going on
nine miles south Of Kansas City, on the Fl
Scott and Cult railroad. There were 5000 per-
sons present one day.
The late VIM. B. Sewall, of Kennebeck. Me-,
by will, gave his library, Except his law
books) to Washburne College, at Topeka. The
| President of that college was ut Kennebeek
last week and made arrangements for the re-
moyal ofthe same.
Financial circles have been somewhat sur
prised at the failure of Hale & Co.'s bank at
Junction City Liabilities about $4,000. The
Junction Union says the assets will nearly pay
the Indebtedness. The heaviest sufferers are
Sharp & Co., contractors on the Southern
Branch railroad, who lost about $1,000. An
Englishman who hac lately deposited 1880,
induced the bankers to open the safe at the
point of his revolver, but it was found empty.
1t is believed by many that the assets are very
trihing. I
The Leavenworth Commercial says: " We
are credibly informed that the authorities at
Washington, influenced by Gen. Sherman's
representations, are seriously contemplating
the establishment of an arsenal at Fit. Leayen-
worth, which shall be the point Of supply Of
the military force operating on the PLAINS and
| the country west of the Missouri"
A panther was killed near LeavenwOrth the
other day. He measured five feet in length,
| and was three feet high. So says the CORSer-
cdtiUe.
/ The Burlington Patriot says: s' The Messrs.
| Cross will be on hand in day or two, when a
| large force of hands will Immediately be put to
work on the Burlington water power. They
will erect two large buildings Immediately for
mill operations, and other business.
The Board of Directors of the Gas Company,
consisting Of W. Hadley, j. p. DeveFeux, S. o.
Thatcher, j. w. Mcmillan, Geo. A. Reynolds,
Wellington Lee, OF \. y, and Z: L: Akin,
| met yesterday and elected the following Off
GERS: w. Hadley, President; Geo. A. Rey-
noIds, Secretary; and j. p. DeVereuX Treas
urer. The whole amount of capital stock,
10000, has been subscribed, $4,000 of which
was taken in New York, and work on the nee
essary buildings will be commenced ut once,
the whole to be completed and the gas works
IN operation by January neXt.-Lalerence
. VOaaReI.
~ About forty thousand Texas cattle are be-
ling herded at Abeline and Salina. awaiting
fshipment on the Kansas Pacific Railway, and
lit is stated that about thirty-fiYe Thousand
more are on the way to the two points. The
tcOmpany have shipped about two hundred car
loads up to the present time, and will trans
port the rest as rapidly as possible. Had it not
been for the Illinois laws in regard to such cat
title, not less than one thousand carloads would
Nhave been shipped ere this.
A BIG FARM.-We see, by Il Vermont paper,
that a Mr.. Eaton has near HYDE Park in that
State, ' piece of corn of three acres, very tall
and even, with the ears quite prOtuberant,'
and the editor says it Is the best large piece OF
corn he has seen. What would our Vermont
friends do were they to come to Kansas and see
fields of corn an of hundred acres EACH very tall
and even, with the ears Uery % protuberant?' '
They would get lost in such fields-get bewil-
dered and never lind the way Out.-LdLrreact
Journal.
/ GOOD YIELD.-Mr. Joseph Dunlap, who
lives eight miles east, informs us that his oats
l of some fifteen acres have been threshed and
have yielded him more than seventy-tive bush.
els to the acre. Mr.. A. Il. Lane, mile from
town, has secured over seventy bushels to the
acre, or four hundred and ninety-nine bushels
on the whole land sown. These instances arc
no wild assertions but the statements of relia
BILE men. We are convinced the yield all ovel
the county has been nearly similar Council
GTOre Advertiser.
Allen Croker has new variety of oats nro
he anticipates will yield at the rate of ont
hundred bushels tothe acre. Mr.. Croker ha!
some of the finest samples of grapes to be fount
IN the valley.-BurlingtOn Patriot.
Mrs. 5. S. CASTOR, whose farm is up the Re
publican eight miles from town harvested tiy,
acres of oats, which yielded 40 bushels By
measurement. Thirty-three bushels weighed
,230 pounds. AS the legal weight of bushe
is thirty-three pounds, the five acres yielded
by weight ninety bushels to the acre. A
w Callen's field adjoining town, which EN-
braeed twenty-three acres, yielded ,073 bush
els of fall wheat, or fOrty-seven bushels pc
acre.-Janctton City Union.
RAILROAD BUSINESS. - An idea may b.
formed of the immense business being done by
the Kansas Pacific railway company ut pres
ent, when we state the fact that eighty loaded
freight ears stood on the side tracks at Stat
Line yesterday, destined for different points OF
the line. Two trains were brought up las
evening, by conductors ScoVille and Shafer
each consisting of thirty loaded cars. In adj
dition there were thirty ears loaded with cat
tie, in the train that met them ut this point ii
the evening going east.-LGeorence Tribune.
According to the Assessors roll, the tota
amount of taxable property in LeavenwOrth
county is SIC, $50, 363.. The total valuation las
year was so, A, 9O7, an increase of $437, 456
The real estate foots up SOB ,22S; persona
| property, $244,019. The Missouri Rive
the Kansas Pacific ON sa76'o55 The t ot,t
number of acres in the county is 2S4 ,SO7
Number of lots in the city, S,7T2, which ar,
Ealueu ut S4,OoO, IU.-LeuC. CUN.
UNDER CoNTRACT.-We last week stated
that the Holden, Harrisonville, Paola, Ottawa
Emporia 4 Santa Fe Railroad had been placed
under contract to the State Line, which il
fourteen miles esst of this city. We received
. the information just as we were going to press
and made it public; since then we have receiv.
ed Missouri papers which confirm the report
The contTct is Il Tarded to a New York Com.
pany, of which II 5. Stevens, we'll known in
the State is member. The provisions of the
, contract are the same as we mentioned last
week, viz: The road to be completed and ears
running to HarrisOnviile by the first day OF
April next, and to the State Line by the
first day of July. The ears will run into Paola
or the first day of July, if action is taken al
once. Be up and dOing.-PGola RepubIi
can. .i
RAILROAD CoNTEsT.-The Union Pacific
Southern Branch, Railroad Company have
commenced a contest in the Land ONCE al
Junction City, with the Kansas Pacific Com
. pany, for the twenty strip on the south
side of the Kansas Pacific, and extending TWEEN
ty miles west from Junction City. The South
ern Branch company claim that pending thu
change of the route Of the Kansas Pacific
F from the Republican to the Smoky Hill river
in 1864, they (the Southern Branch) filed thu
plat of their route two days ahead of the
Kansas Pacific. The land in contest amount
| n one hundred thouSan1 acres md with thi