The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-30
KANSAS ITEMS.

KANSAS ITEMS.
The track of the Atchison, Topeka s.
Santa Fe railroad is laid about nine
miles south of Topeka and is marching
southward rapidly.
Lawrence wants the next State Fair
and is willing to pay largely for it. We
presume they can offer better accom-
modations at Lawrence thar. any other
city in the State.
The earnings of the Kansas Pacific
Railway for the first fifteen days of
April were 100000, not including any
contractors freight, being an increase
of $4,000 over the same time last
year.
The Capitol Commissioners, on
Wednesday of last week, let the con-
tract for heating the new State capitol
to John Goodin, of st. Louis. 1t costs
to heat the building, in round figures,
about $4,000. There were thirteen
bids in all, and most of them were near
~ alike.
SCHOOL MARMs WANTED The Bur-
lington Patriot says the demand for
teachers in Coffey county is largely in
excess of the supply. The young lady
teachers are so engaging that they get
married off much faster than others can
be qualified to supply their places. Any
county having a surplus of smart, ugly
girls can find market by addressing
our County superintendent.
The Fort Scott Monitor comes full OF
railroad and Immigration notes. II
learns that Maj. B. s. Henning, Super
intendent of the Missouri River, Fort
Scott & Gulf railroad, has issued cir
cular announcing to the cattle dealers
and herdsmen in the Indian country
and State of Texas, that this railroad is
under contract TO be completed to the
southern line of Kansas, east of the
Neosho river, by the 18th of October
next. Further, that ''every needful ia
cility will be afforded for the shipment
oe cattle northward by rail, and ample
yards will be built, free to all shippers,
and purchasers will be at hand for all
stock that may arrive" So the Kansas
Pacific railroad and the little western
towns which had such hard fight to
get the cattle business to do last winter,
but failed, can soon bid farewell to that
trade. When the Missouri River road
gets down to the southern line of the
State they will never see Texas COW
again. -...
The rrY.a sch o,sa hot ont -,
| this vicinity in large numbers, and have
already done considerable damage iii
| some fields of winter wheat, and are
| Staying early garden struck" at fear
full rate Jfhtte Cloud Chief.
We are informed that a recruiting
office is open AT Fort Hays, and enlist
ments are being made for fillibustering
! in Cuba. The eenlistments are made
under the direction of Gen. &. w
Blair.-LeaVenu-Og'th Commercial.
| A Southern paper advises its North.
ern contemporary to stake the bean" Out
of ITS own.eye. That's what the Kan
sas people are going to do in Senate
rial election one of these dayS.-LaU
renee Republican Journal.
An infant was seen perambulatins
the streets last Tuesday, and attracting
a great deal of attention. He was jus
six feet nine inches high.--,Juactio'
7 city UnioR. s
I A Dcsmoines, Iowa, paper states tina
4 the State House Commissioners of tina
State have concluded to use junction
! City, Kansas, stone in the erection o
their capitol build1ng.-,y0nctton CIT.
Union.
We have 100000 acres of land un
der cultivation in Kansas. This season
ought, and we think will, add nearly
mi lion more. We shall then have blu
about one-tw entieth of the State undo
observation-disclosures Repw6. Jour.
GRAssHoPPERs. These insects ar
! making their appearance in large mum
} bers i'm the more sandy portions of tn
, bottoms. Elsewhere they do not ap
pear to threaten much injury soon.-
laurence IsS6WTae.
!. A correspondent of the Manhatta
STANDARD thinks: 'The theory @
f the high prairie land being the best 70
e fruit of all kinds is demonstrating itsel
5 this spring. The cry last winter of tn
tcold weather killing the peaches doe
not apply to the high lands while til
: fruit on the bottom land has, suffered
;. We We're not a little surprised. in tri
: over the prairies this week, TO finC
/, without exception, the peach and othe
fruits in blossom, and promising fai
crop, while the fruit on bottom LAND
Will be nearly failure"
u A telegram from Atchison gives Ii
following items:
{ A fire totally destroyed the railroa
), depot at Irving, Kansas. 1t is suppo
n ed that itcaught from the engine Mo
g of the contents were burned.
Another Norwegian colony purcha
/ cd, yesterday, over 10000 acres of Il
}, Central Branch Union Pacific Railroa
i lands, near Irving. They come prepare
r to carry on agricultural operations VI
on large scale, having their own trae
stores, shops, and even their own No
n wegian new spaper. copies of which wi
+ be semitic Norway, giving a full descril
4 ton of Northern Kansas, soil, clima
. and productions.
Trains on the Central Branch roa
go out every morning, loaded wit
Z passengers and freight. Immigratie
IS continues immense. There are q GOO
many strangers now in town.
!. "A fine drove OF cattle passed thronc
:. yesterday, en- route to Chicago. Ave
It age weight 1861 pounds They los
E, well, and will bring good price.
n The Topeka Record makes the 70
II lowing points on appointments
/ "The telegrams Yesterday stated tn
Senator Pomeroy declared in the SCI