The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-05-21
KANSAS ITEMS.


Fort Scott has voted bonds to pur-
chase depot grounds by $ majority of
ITS.
1t is said that from three hundred to
five hundred people have already set
tied upon the Sac s. Fox diminished
reserve this season.
The Kansas Department of the Grand
Army of the Republic which was or
ganized December 7th, 1866, failed to
make any report to the late meeting in
Cincinnati.
o. II. Drinkwater's new saw mill at
Cedar Point, is in operation and doing
splendid work 1t is probably one OF
the best mills in Southern Kansas, has
u substantial dam, plenty of power,
with an improved turbine wheel.
A drove of some four hundred head
of cattle belonging TO parties living i'll
Marion county, passed through town
on Tuesday last, ell route for Iowa.
Chase County Banner.
The postmaster at this place has re-
ceived notice of the establishment of a
new tri-weekly mail route from Alma,
via Council Grove to Cottonwood Falls.
" udau51See Herald.
Col. Holiday returned from Buriin-
game and Emporia yesterday. He in
forms US that the arrangements are
completed TO build the A. L. 81 S. F. II.
II. to Emporia this fall. There is but
one contingency that will retard the
work, and that is unfavorable action on
the part of Lyon and Usage counties,
which is not nticipated.-d0pe6a Rec
ord.
The Fort Scott Monitor. says: The
grading of the railroad i'll the north
part of Bourbon county is being pushed
rapidly, and it is said that the grading
will be completed long before the time
specified i'll the contract with the rail-
road company. Ii the contractors on
the north end of the road do as well
we may expect the cars i'll Fort Scott
by the 18th of July.
The Garnett Ploindeoler says: A
large colony of French people have re-
Gently settled in the northwest part of
this county and in Usage county. They
are, we understand, going TO engage in
the culture and manufacture of silk.
Messrs. Taft s. Brown, of the plan
ing mills, are now receiving large guam
titles of pine lumber from the pineries
on Grand river. They have large or
ders abroad, for sash, doors, furniture,
etc, which they can furnish to all that
portion of Southern Kansas south of
Humboldt and Fort Scott, ut cheaper
rates than they can be had at Kansas
City.-Chet0pd 4dcance.
A correspondent of the Kansas City
Bulletin, writing from .Chetcpa, says
The Neosho pineries are but forty
miles distant, and furnish supply OF
good building lumber suitable for all
ordinary purposes.
The permanent survey for the final
location of the Atchison Il Nebraska
railroad was completed to this place on
| Tuesday last. The survey stops here
for the present, as this is the terminus
of the contract already let. The farm
ers along the route have exhibited COM
mendabIe liberality, and most of them
have donated the right of way through
their land Hhtte Cloud CHIEF.
The Leayenworth Bulletin gives the
following in relation TO the sinking OF
the coal shaft in that city:
We learn from parties directly inter
ested that the work of sinking the coal
shalt at the upper end of this city is
progressing as rapidly as possible, with
increasing evidence of the bituminous
! substance. For some time the miners
! have been at work OH the hardest kind
of lime stone, and the work has not
| been advanced very rapidly, though
/ very successfully. About thirteen feet
of this hard tough stone remains to be
gone through, when the progress OF
| the work will be more rapid, as they
! will then come to a sort of soft stone
peculiar to coal regions. Yesterday
| they took out some geological form
atiOnS that are found nowhere except
where coal exists, and are said by 9eol.
ogists to be petritied substances. The
managers of this coal enterprise de
serve great praise for the indomitablt
/ energy and enterprise they are display
| ing in the prosecution of the work.
AT the recent meeting of the direct
ors Of the St. Joscph & Denver railroad
the contract was let for grading, tract
laying, etc, from the fifteen mile point
two miles west of Troy, to Hiawatl.a
| by the Highland route. The distance
is over twenty-siX miles. 1t is expect
ed that the cars will be running to Hi
awatha by the Ist of Octobcr-Ledc
cRROTth CaU.
The grasshoppers continue their dep
relations on the gardens in our city
and we also hear of raids made b.
them into the fields of the country
They are thicker near the river thar
any place else, gradually disappearin:
as you go further into the interior. I h
miserable pests have made genera
devastation of all growing things ii
the gardens of our town.--4tchiSoi
Champion.
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