The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-01
KANSAS ITEMS.

= One nunureQ ana Jnlrty-LWO pOsIOt~
fees are supplied by the Missouri, Kan
sas IL Texas railroad. .
Shawnee county will have an excel
lent and liberal crop of peaches this
year.
The wheat crop is being harvested in
Miami county. The average yield will
be twenty-five bushels to the acre.
Report from all parts of the State
show that the wheat crop that is now
being gathered is excellent.
Messrs. Tisdale & Parker commence
running stages from Ottawa, via Pomo-
na and LyAdon, to Usage City, on the
LIST of July, carrying the U. S. mail.
There are said to be $4,000 head of
cattle in the vicinity of Abilene, and
more daily arriving. There are shipped
from that place from 1900 to 5 1000 daily.
Mr.. A. SPoHN harvested his MAY
wheat more than a week ago. His
neighbors think he will have about
thirty-five bushels to the acre. The
grain, too, Is large, plump, and of very
superior quaiity.-SaLiRa Herald.
The earnings of the Kansas Pacific
railway for the month of April, were
S3l4, 283.29. The estimated earnings for
May were S341, 737.4S; and the earnings
for the first week in June were
SSS, 2O1.s6.
The grand Army of the Republic is
now being recognized in this State
under very flattering auspices. Here in
Topeka post has been established, and
the membership is increasing rapidly.
We understand that it is the intention
to establish a reading-room in connec-
ton with the post for the benefit of the
Commonwealth.
Some fifty French Canadians, with ten
fine teams, passed through this city yes
| terday, on their way TO st. Mays Mis-
sion. Tney are from Kankakee, ILL.,,
being part of a colony who settled there
some years since under the leadership of
Father Chiniquy. They crossed the
Mississippi at Burlington, Iowa, and
the Missouri river at Glasgow, Missouri.
Topeka Record. I.......
Railroads, like some individuals,
change their names to suit circum-
stances. The name of the St. Louis &
Santa Fe road, Familiarity known as the
Holden & Paola railroad, is changed to
| Missouri, Kansas IL Texas railroad
From Holden TO the State line it is call
ed the Missouri division, and from the
State line west the Kansas DIVISION
PaOlG Republican.
Hon. A. S. Wilson informs us that in
! his travels around Washington county
he finds the Germans better supplied
| with farm products than any other class
of citizens. They also take the lead, he
says, in horses, cattle, sheep. hogs, etc.,
showing them TO be the most industrious
and enterprising class of citizens we
have in the State.-WGtercilie Iele-
graph.
The census man thinks there is prob
ability of our city counting :, 800 popu-
lation. If we should do as the Romans
do-the census takers i'll Kansas City.
Leavenworth, Lawrence, and other
places, we might claim 1000. We can
comfort ourselves, however, with the re-
Election that in this $500, we have but a
| very, very few who can lay claim to the
| title of vagrant. We thank thee, o,
| City Council. that we are not as other
cities re.-WydndOtte Gazette.
Monday morning an accident occur
red to the tain bound north on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas s. Texas railroad. While
at point between Chefopa and Hum
bOldt, aud not far from the latter place,
a passenger car was thrown from the
track, and badly smashed up. Three
passengers were injured, among the
number Mr.. p. ID. Ridenour, of this CITY,
who was considerably bruised on one
| leg, but nothing serious. Another had
his head cut and badly bruised, and the
third received some comparatively
slight injuries. The names of the other
two we did not learn.-LaIrreace ITi6-
Nae.
! Tuesday night of last week terrific
storm swept over the western part of
| Kansas and eastern part of Colorado.
Twenty miles south of Kit Carson. the
| terminus of the Kansas Pacific railroad,
hail stones fell as large as heu's eggs,
| and in some places hail lay on the
ground three feet deep. -
The crops in this neighborhood are
exceedingly promising, nOtwithstand-
! ing the scare in early spring. The wheat
| crop will not result as well as last sea-
son, but we are assured by those who
are already harvesting that it is better
than was anticipated. They are hsr-
vesting on Lyons creek, and we are in
| formed that the fall wheat viii yield
twenty to twenty-five bushels per acre.
There never was q better prospect for
corn and potatoes.-Jafac. CITY Union,
LET 'EM SoUIRM.-We publish else
| where a communication written to the
Kansas City journal on the Main Trunk
! question. The tone of the article indi-
Gates a lively squirm. The contempt
once shown for the Southern Branch
has been supplanted by an inexpressi-
BILE horror for the impudence and auGla-
ciousness which has prompted its build
ers TO surpass all previous railroad
building in the West, and which now
| induces them TO set up claim against
/ the greai Railroad King for the Main
Trunk. To soothe their nerves. we win
say that some seven or eight years ago
a few clod-hoppers conceived the idea
of Southern branch to the Pacific rail-
road scheme, via the Republican and