The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-04

An unusually large number OF per-
sons visited this county Hast week,
| looking for homesteadS or fmpr0zsd
farms for sale. We hear Of several
pieces OF real estate changing hsads-
Probably no couutE in the State ofsers
superior Inducements to settlers Than
this; there are th0psaDds OF acres of
fair, tillable land yet vacant, open for
homesteads, and good valley farms
with improvements, can be bought for
from ten to twelve dollars per acre. IL
is surprising that persons from the East
aOokIng for homes, do not take a. more
!. general view OF the State before pur-
chasing; that they should pay high
prices for rolling prairie east of here,
when they can gel rs good or better
here as hoinesteslds--- EasQse County
Banner. afls su So ~
The fall wheat, as far as we are able
to learn, promises good yield, and al
though much of It was injured By the
grasshoppers last fall, yet owing to the
very large breadth sown there viii we
believe be good average yield.
The Louisville Gazette says: We
learn by private letter from Clifton,
Illinois, that q gentleman in that place
has purchased six townships of land in
Mitchell county, Kansas, and will set
tie 500 families upon it before March
next. w t H. s
The Junction Union SAYS:
Mr.. Samuel Nikirk has been appointed
superintendent of the construction of
depots, tanks, bridges, &C., on the line
of the Union Pacific Southern Branch
Railway.
The Manhattan Standard says: Mr..
Horace Sells, who has high prairie
farm mile west of the college, le1 ia
our Office yesterday several stalks of
rye, measuring an average of six feet
three inches in hight, aud several stalks
of wheat, each measuring four feet
eight inches in hight. They were pulled
in his fields, where there are plenty
more Of the same sort. AS the heads
are put partially grown, it is reasonable
to suppose that they will yet increase
in hight several inches.
MURDER At ELLswoRTH.-On Wednes-
day last a stranger of respectable APP
pearancc was found dead between Els
worth and the halfway house, two
miles from there, who had been MUIR
dered, evidently for his money. He
was a young man of respectable APP
! pearance, full faced, with light mus
| tache and beard, and we'll dressed. A
/ bullet hole through his head told the
manner of his death.-LatcreRce T1'ib.
/ The '.seed wheat investment bids
| fair to he the best one the State ever
made. We think there is no doubt
that every bushel of it was sOwn, and
! parties who have travelled through the
country over which it was distributed,
say chat the crops are looking magnifi-
Gently. Enough wheat will be raised
in Solomon Valley to supply all of the
immigration of next year, and bread
stuffs will be unprecedently cheap.
i This will provea grand thing for the
| West sad will help to. turn the tide
of population and capital into that hith-
erto neglected Iegion.-1opeta Commons
lcedLth.
Crops are looking well. Farmers are
rejoicing over the prospects OF an
rains keep everything looking cheerful.
Our farmers tecl SO well pleas ell with
every thing that it would be hard mat
ter to get jury of twelve men that
would hang II man tor stealing.-OStce-
go LEICESTER.
We have cheering accounts of the
! railroad bond prospects in Usage and
Lyon counties. We are in hopes that
| the propositions will prevail in both
counties. ii they do, it would not sur
prise US to SEE s,he road completed t.
Emporia this year. The railroad COM
pany are as anxious to push forward
the work as ale the peOpie to have il
pushed. Only give the company fair
play aud an open field, and we Will see
the cars rol.ing into the NcoshO Valley
at an early day.-Iope6G COMDtOA-
| UeaLth.
The depot for the Atcllison, Topeka
IL Santa Fe railroad at this place is rap
idly approaching completion. 1t will
be one of the finest and best buildings
of the kind we know of in the State.
Everything this company does betokens
business and permanency.-I opektt
Common bce0tth. go