The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-01-13
KANSAS ITEMS.

Fort Scott is shipping barrels o
prairie chickens TO Montreal.
There is a society of Spiritualists a
Topeka, numbering seventy members
'Let's take up rail- is the popular
solicitation to imbibe, in Leavenworth
/, Doniphan county has fifteen thousand hog
over six months old.-EG.
We know one or two up there that are
over thirty years old.
y pair of pigs twelve weeks old, and
weighing each lbs pounds, are the won.
ders of Allen county.
Three towns on the Central Branch
railroad have shipped, in the last two
months, over 10000 pounds of butter.
Passengers report drifts as high as
the top of the locomotive, at many
points between Wallace and Kit Car
son.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad sold last
year 40, 367 acres, while the National
Land company sold 20,327 acres, OF
land.
The contractors are now engaged in
surveying the public lands in Sumner
and the Southwestern counties of the
State.
There was not a man, woman or child
killed or hurt on the Atchison, Topeka
Il Santa Fe Railroad during the year
1870.
The citizens of Anderson county in
tend contesting the legality of the issu-
ance of 100000 bonds on the l.. G.
Railroad.
Maj. Putnam, of the Augusta Crescent,
wants to sell out, and offers fifty lots
and quarter section in connection with
his paper.
Reddick, who has been on trial in
Leavenworth for the murder of Lykins,
a few weeks ago, was sentenced to be
hung on the 18th of February.
Atchison county, exclusive of the
city, has fifty-six schoolhouses, aggre-
eating in value S52,350; and including
the city, fifty-nine, worth SOB, $50.
At Humboldt, last week, Charles Fuss
man, an old citizen of that place, lost
his life by falling from the top of San
dreth's new hotel, distance of some
forty feet
The total valuation of farm improve
mcnts in this State is now computed at
SS3,OO0000. The total production of
grain on the same, is estimated at "a
600, 900 bushels.
The land granted for railroad purpo-
ses, &c, in Kansas, amounts in the ag-
gregate to 7,753,OO0 acres. Only one
State exceeds it, and that is Minnesota,
by 10000 acres.
The corporators of Independence,
Montgomery county, purpose erecting
public buildings and donating them to
to the county. The town is prosperous
and the population is 1000.
Kansas is the champion corn State.
The annual report of the Commissioner
of Agriculture gives our average yield
of corn per acre at As u bushels. The
average yield in all the States is 81 =
bushels.
In the last two years more than
twelve hundred miles of railroad have
been completed in Kansas and are now
working, and nearly two thousand adj
ditional miles are already projected and
being rapidly constructed.
The Continental Salt Company, at
Solomon CITY, have turned out during
the past year seven thousand bushels of
salt. The greater part of it was shipped
to Colorado. We don't know why this
whole country should not be supplied
from that point.
James Kennedy shot and killed John
Gaffney, ut Leavenworth, on Sunday
last, New Years day. Jealousy was the
cause of the terrible deed. Gaffney was
boarding with Kennedy and the latter
wife. He gave himself up and is now
in custody.
On Christmas day Mr.. Nipper, living
three or four miles above Council
Grove, killed a savage looking beast of
the cat tribe. 1t was in color like
tiger, known by biologists as the tiger
cat. 1t was about eighteen inches in
height; near four feet in length, and
would weigh fifty or sixty pounds. Its
arms were as large as common dog,
feet in proportion. 1t was armed with
terrible teeth and claws.
August Seeger and another soldier
named Plumb, had an alteration on
Christmas day ut FIT. Leavenworth. AT
ball given by the soldiers at the Fort,
on Monday night last, the difficulty
was renewed, when Suger drew his re-
volver and fired ut Plumb, who was i'll
the act of passing into the ball room.
He missed Plumb and hit another SOL
der named Casper FRANKIE, a member of
the same troop with Seeger. He lived
but n few minutes, rs the ball passed
through his heart. 1t was with diff
Guilty that the soldiers were prevented
from lynching Secgar. lie is now in
Jail in Leavenwofth city.
A cruel sell was perpetrated on some
of our city officials Monday evening by
some evil disposed parsonage, who in
formed certain parties that there was a
train going over the levee during the
night at all hazards. A company of
sixty picked men, it was stated, was to
board train, and were coming up here,
repair the track, and cross the levee.
The consequence was, an additional
force was put on to watch and prevent
such a calamity. One of our enterpris-
ing councilmen, with a friend of his,
lost considerable sleep by standing as
sentinels down there. Both went home
before morning, with bad colds by I'M
due exposure.-LeGrenIcOrth CONNER
cidl.
Who killed Cock Robin? Or, in other
words, who procured the suspension OF
the order to remove the settlers from
the Miami Indian Reservation? The