The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-25
STATE ITEMS.

STATE ITEMS.
Usage CouNTY.-On Friday the Com
missioners of Usage county canvassed
! the vote on the bond proposition. The
I official majority in favor of the bonds
was I'D. By the unanimous vote of
the Commissioners. stock to the amount
/ of $4,000 was subscribed in the a. Z.
Il ). +. Company, and contract was
entered into between the Commission
ers and the Company to issue the bonds
upon the completion of the road to
/ Burlingame. Things are lively at Bur-
/ lingame, the people are happy, proper
ty is advancing, and everything betO-
/ kens a large and prosperous town.
! Commonwealth.
From Hon. Isaac Sharp, who has just
i returned from trip along the line of
/ the road to Junction City, we are as
sured that the work OH the railroad is
being speedily pushed on. There are
now employed four hundred and fifty
men at the grading and about three
! fourths of the grading is completed
from Junction City to this point, with
/ the exception of two heavy grades.
The heaviest of them is quarrying
| through space of rock about forty
I feet i'll length and eight feet deep. This
Will be completed about week from
Monday. The grading parties are ahead
of the surveyors, and the pioneer sur.
veyors who were oil the route below
Burlington last week have been called
back to this field. A construction train
is laying track at about inilc a day and
| will continue TO do so until they come
up with the grading party.-CoaacH
| GrOce -4drerttSer.
| Hon. A. Low, of Wayne township,
says that part of Doniphan county has
tIaa ff,,k
he has ever seen in the State. His son
has over one hundred acres, and he has
seventy acres, now in blossom; but he
has fears that the grasshoppers may i'll
jure the head before it ripens.- White
Cloud CHIEF.
The Sac s. Fox Trust lands were
opened to settlement on the l4th of last
October. Since that time four humid
red filings have been made upon them
in the Registers office ut Topeka. There
is still some land left in the Reserve.
Settlers can obtain certificates for pat
ents to these lands after residence of
six months on them subsequent to the
dates of their filings, and paying at the
rate of Sl.50 per acre. The Diminished
Reserve, which is yet occupied by the
Indians, will probably be vacated by
them next fall. Upon the relinquish-
ment of the title to it by the Indians it
will be subject to settlement.-COH-
ntOnlcedtth.
Clarence Smits, just out of the peni-
Tertiary for stealing cattle, took Mr..
Enright's horse Thursday morning
from vacant lot in the city, and after
trading him to Mr.. Epstein for pony
and So TO boot, hired a saddle and bril-
die at O'COnner's stable and started
south. About dark the same day, Dep
uty Marshal Cook, in company with
Epstein, started for Ottawa, where they
arrived at four O'Clock Yesterday morn
ing, found the pony at livery stable,
and there lay i'll wait till Smith made
his appearance, when he he was arrest
ed and brought to this city and COM
United. Smith is only IL years old,
and has served one year III the peniten-
tiary.-L0uFeRce Journal.
The loss by the citizens of this coun-
ty alone, by being detained by high
water at this place last week, at fair
wages, would pay the interest for one
year OH sufficient amount of bonds to
bridge the Cottonwood; say nothing
of the stagnatiOn of business resulting
therefrom.-ChaseC County Banner.
Then why don't you go to work and
build a bridge? You will have to do
this soon, or be left behind in the race
for progress. 1t being only question
of time is not this as good time as
you can have to make the improve
ment? Pitch in.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.-The Irving
| Recorder says that OH last Saturday
forenoon, at Stewards saw mill, eight
miles down the Blue, VIM. KnowltOn,
] while STOPPING to pull away the saw
= Al.
| was in motion, approached SO near as
to bring his head into contact with its
swiftly revolving teeth, which instant
ly cut a fearful cash, long and deep,
cleaving through the skull, penetrating
| the brain, and throwing the unfortun-
ate man several feet away from the
saw. lie was at once taken up and car
ried home, and DIR. Freeland sent for.
Our latest information as to the suffer-
er's condition is that his life is despaired
of.
PRICE RAID CONGRESSIONAL letter
from Hon. Levi Woodland informs us
that the Price raid commission adjourn
ed yesterday, until the 10th of August,
at which time they will finish the bust
ness and make a report to the Govern
or. The law governing the commits
sion prescribes that the report must be
made by the LIST of September. All
having business with the board will
! govern themselves according to this no
! tice.-LasrreIace Tribune.
One OF LINcoLN's PREDlCTIONs.-The
editor of the New Yoai1 San gives cur
rency to the following:
The late Mr.. Lincoln was a very
! shrewd and far-seeing man. He was
not much given to prophecy, but we
remember with special interest piece
of vaticination which once fell from
his lips. Schuyler COlfax," he said,
Twill one day be chosen President of
| the United States"
! Mr. c. l.. Rolf, of Cook county, Tex
/ as, is the pioneer of drovers for this
season. He arrived last Wednesday
1 with drove of $40 head, and has them
now pastured south of town, beyond
| the settlements. Three or four other
| droves following close after, will be In
soon. 1t is estimated that between ten
and fifteen thousand head of Texas cat
tie are already on this side of the Wich-
ita, on their way to this or some other
contiguous point on the Kansas Pacific
railway :or shipping market.-,Satina!
Herald.
The Horse Fair.
LEAyENw0RTH. June 2I-The Ma