The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-09-22
KANSAS ITEMS.

Corn is selling at Neodesha, Wilson
county, at Is cents bushel.
Two inmates of dance house al
Newton took poison on Tuesday. They
will probably recover.
r. S. Miller, banker at Junction City,
has failed. His assets are said to be
greater than his liabilities. So says the
Union.
A party at Girard, Cherokee county,
is putting up, pressing, baling and ship
ping to st. Louis, two thousand tons OF
hay.
Bill Dow was shot at Newton, on
Monday last, by Lottie Fostor, denai-
rep whom he had beaten badly. It is
thought he will recover.
Mr.. Charles Porter, of Ottawa coun-
ty, has field of forty-five acres of corn
that yielded 1l01s bushels to the acre
to which fact he makes affidavit.
Andy Wilson, the gentleman who
carried off so many premiums on cattle
at the State Fair, last week, has shipped
thirty-six head of the same cattle to the
Colorado State fair.
Captain Henry King, late editor, now
amateur horticulturalist, writes us that
his cabbages cost him $1.S715 apiece
50 less than Greeley's cost him, where
upon II. X. congratulates himself and
unctuously pronounces Kansas to be
the paradise of the poor man."-Leav-
e7atcorth Commercial.
Saturday a young man named Arm
stead residing near Salt Greek Valley,
near Leavenworth, was accidentally
killed. The remains were buried on
Sunday, and while returning from the
grove, the horse attached to the family
carriage took fright, ran away and kill
ed Mrs. Armstead, mother of the de-
ceased.
Capt. Ellinwood and his party have
gone on long tramp. The party will
go to Fort Larned and thence run Q
line to Mulberry Creek not far from
Fort Dodge, there the party will re-
ceive Government escort and proceed
to run line up Mulberry Greek thence
across to the Cimmarron river and I'D
the Cimmarron to the west line of the
State. The party will then return,
making q survey along the north side of
the Arkansas to the west line of the
State.-TOpekG Record.
E. J. Jenkins, receiver of the Con.
cordia Land Once, has furnished the
Empire with the following figures Of
the amount of land disposed of through
the Office for the month of August /:
Entered under the homestead law, 49,
OFT acres. Sold for cash, under the
homestead and presumption laws, 1881
acres. Final home entries, 749 acres.
Pre-emptions, 10000 acres. Total, 49,
4S7 acres. Number presumption filings,
252. Number homestead entries, 4S5.
Located with college scrip and war
rants, 2,711 acres.
BUSINESS ON THE BRANCH.-Accord-
ing to the Bulletin, business is greatly
on the increase over the Leavenworth
branch of the Kansas Pacific. 1t says
that on Friday the regular freight train
hauled thirteen cars loaded with mer-
chandise from the city, and on the same
day an extra freight train, consisting of
fifteen loaded cars, was sent ont, and 80
rapidly did the freight accumulate that
the depot was again filed last evening,
and the agent asking for more cars.
At this rate of doing business, the
Kansas Pacific viii soon have to con-
vert the branch into q main line.
Major John II. Crowell, special agent
of the Postoffice Department, arrested
j. c. Crosby, Postmaster at Abilene,
yesterday, on charge of abstracfing
money from the U. S. mail, and brought
him to Topeka to be examined, by Lewis
Hanback,, Esq, u. .. Commissioner.
Crosby waived an examination and was
held in $4,000 bonds for his appearance
at the q. s. District Court. He &C.
knowiedges having taken 500 from .
reristered letter. Major Crowell de-
serves credit for the prompt manner in
which he has worked up this case, and
it is to be hoped he will continue the
good work.
KANSAS LAEDs-In view of the fact
that q number of eastern papers have
been publishing statements about Kan
sas, the following letter has been called
forth from Governor Harvey:
TOPEKA, KAs., Sept. 6, 1871.
To Alfred Gray, Esq, Secretary State
Agricultural Society: Notices having
been extensively published in the East
ern papers that no good land can be
purchased in Kansas, at $50 per acre,
l take this occasion to state the facts
within my knowledge, believing that
Justice TO the State, and to those seek