The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-17
KANSAS NEWS ITEMS.

Large droves Of cattle have COM
menced arriving at Baxter Springs
More than ten thousand acres of prai-
RE will be broken in this county, this
spring.
There are one hundred and eighty
five coayicts in the Penitentiary, all of
whom are males. Thirty-fve are COL
ored.
DIR. Annoy Hunting, of Manhattan,
an old and highly respected citizen of
day last. He had resided there for fif-
teen years. He was well known adj
vocate of temperance.
The Texas cattle drovers having con-
cluded they had been skinned long
enough by the Kansas Pacific railroad,
for freights, are now driving their cat
tie north to the Pacific railroad. Five
thousand head were recently driven to
Fort Kearney. So we learn from the
Clyde Empire.
A married lady in Topeka has been
in trance for six weeks, and her hus-
band refuses TO send for doctor. He
says he intends to enjoy quiet time as
long as possible. There's another brute
for you.
A terrific fire broke out in the car
shops of the Kansas Pacific Railroad at
| Wyandotte on the 10th inst. The shops,
three fine coaches, fiat cars, lumber, val
uable papers, ETC., were destroyed. The
fire is supposed to have either original
ed from a spark of locomotive or
from spontaneous combustion from cot
ten waste. Partially covered by In
surance.
We understand that Senator SMALL
wood, of Doniphan County, will be
presented by the citizens of the North
ern part of the State as candidate for
Secretary of State. We have known
him many years, as printer, an editor,
a soldier, and an officer in the first col
ored regiment raised in the State He
is an an able, true and honest man-of
the kind of which our next State ticket
ought to be cOmposed.-COn Conservative
and Times.
The nomination of SmaIlwood would
suit us down this way. He is true
heated and honest man.
The citizens of LAHORE, since the late
fearful tragedy at that place, have deter
mined that the law restraining the sale
of intoxicating liquors shall be executed.
The land sales of the Central Branch
Railroad on three days of last week
amounted to S24, GOO.
The Wathena Reporter says that the
wheat in that region is heading out
the straw is much shorter than usual ;
there will be, however, an average crop
of wheat.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny have applied to Judge Garfield for
an injunction to restrain the Sheriff OF
Davis county from collecting $4,000
taxes on them.
The editor of the Fredonia Courier,
in stroll about town, found fifty lots
marked with various objects, from a
pile of posts down to a piece of sand
stone-all waiting for lumber.
Down IN THE NATIoN.-The NJ, X. &
T. Railroad have completed the grading
of their road rs far as Cabin creek, IL
miles below this place. The piers fol
the bridge across Russell creek foul
miles below here are finished, and the
bridge, a fine structure, will be on in q
few days.-Chetopa AdUance.
During the spring months Kansas re,
ceived immigrants at the rate of tive
thousand a day, and the cry is still they
come, though not so numerously. The
eastern States are making up for theil
losses by receiving foreign Immigrant
, at the rate of one, two, and nearly three
} thousand u day. Kansas takes more
, than her share, but we leave few fol
the old Stafaa N0rv fhn conc11s take
are at work, and we expect to see then
return a population of 100000 for Kan
as.-CORserc0ttUe.
) Everything looks lovely in the coun
, try. Prospects are excellent for tire
of plenty of corn over knee high, threi
or four miles from town.-Atchtso'
Patriot.
About fifty immigrant teams passed
through this city on Thursday last, OIL
their way up the Republican and Solo
mon valleys. Some of the horses in tn
train were the finest we have seen in
} long time. To see immigrants in sucl
large numbers going on to the frontie
looks as though the Indians might hav
, SETTLERS" enough ON the border in few
f months.--Masahattan STANDARD.
The Union says that the Baptis
church at Junction City was dedicate,
on last Sabbath. The authorities of tn
church reported its cost as in the neigh
borhood of six thousand dollars, an,
e that they owed about two THOUSAND
o dollars. AT the morning service the
raised thirteen hundred dollars, and il
the evening an additional amount. TIL
9 building will seat three hundred an,
fifty people, and is handsome adorn
ment to the town.
: "Reading" is the name of the ne1
q town laid out on the line of the Atchi
- son, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad wher
Il it crosses the county line. It is abou
e twenty miles southwest of BurlingamG
: and is located in good country. FroT
the fact that our friend James Faga
: did the naming, we expect that an oil
: Pennsylvania town has been honore
: with namesake.-Osdge Chronicle.
The Observation-Disclosures the DIR
weather of the early part of the season
n | this portion of Southern Kansas wi
raise trifle above an average crop, an
had the season been prepitious Their
:, would certainly have been an enornou
: yield. Wheat, though short in til
a straw, is well filed, and will general
. some from the dryness, but we have see
several fields which will yield abun
r dainty if no further dryness occurs be
It fore its ripening. Late oats are gener
a ally the best this season, and the yiel
will probably be above the averagt
Rye is generally good.-Hnabold
Il UntOn.
. RAILROAD JUNcTIoN.-At last tn
point where the Missouri, Kansas l
d Texas and the Leavenworth, Lawrenc
4 & Galveston railroads are to form
= junction has been determined on, th
y grade stakes set, and the work begun
o Section 10, township 81, range Is, is tn
" favored spot, and real estate in that lo
II cality is changing hands quite rapidly
;. and at round figures. Atown has bee
laid out on section 81. right south of th
IS junction, and already over one hundre
d buildings are contracted to. be erecte
h Immediately. Persons from ali parts {
! the country are at hand, ready to en-
:, bark in the enterprise of building u
Il the town of Southern Kansas. w
;" would prefer to have seen Erie get th
Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galvesto
railroad, but as that seems impossibl,
= we are right glad that the junction is i