The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-12-01

ness houses that will be built early in the
spring, and quite number Of residences.
--Americus is now "full to the brim"-of
people. -Four or five families Of immigrants
have arrived within the last fortnight, and &C.
cupied ali the spare room that remained.
| Those who come hereafter will have tc board
out or build.
-"Peg," 'Kizer' and "the Old Man" have
moved their harness and shoe shops into win
ter quarters in Mrs. Hills building, next to J.
d. Gibson's.
Benjamin Lesh is building a story and-a-
half dwelling, with an ell, on the corner east
Of his present residence. It will be among the
best houses in town.
For all the hard times, and the depression
| in the price OF stock, there appears TO be an
unusual number OF stock buyers in the eoun-
try. The demand il principally for cows and
stock cattle. There are but few beeEes in the
country. From present appearances good
dairy cows will command about as high prices
next sping in this vicinity As last spring.
The bids that were sent to Washington in
July for the Kaw lands have about all come
back to the parties who sent them, marked
rejected" We suppose we ought all to sit
eomplacently down and nibble at the sweet
morsels Of consolation that are being shook
out to US by Senator Pomeroy and others, in
assurances that sit is all for the best'-that :'a
bill will be passed this winter securing the
lands to the settler" sc. But we do not be-
lieve the said settlers are going to be hun-
plugged any longer. Poor men, who have
been depriving themselves and their families
Of every comfort, and who have toiled and
planned and struggled to build themselves
faP mi nd nda
their eyes open to be filed with sand for two
or three, or halr dozen times; but when the
department perpetrates SO cruel "geak' as
TO notify them, in its Official capacity, thst the
lands are open for bidding, and requires them
to show their good faith by accompanying
their bids with . portion OF the cash, well
knowing that they must mortgage their i'm
proVements and pay two or three per cent q
month to raise the money, and then keeps that
money in Washington IouF or five months,
and themselves all this while in suspense, to
finally send them back with the announcement
that ring Of spectators had overbid them
and their bids must therefore be rejected, the
screen becomes q little too thin to longer cover
up the villainy. Men who were in Washing
ton at the time state that ring composed OF
Senator Caldwell, Len. T. Smith, Craig and
others, bid higher than the settlers, and that
the Secretary OF the Interior applied to the
Attorney General for a legal sanction to his
selling the whole reservation to those gentle
men, but the latter Ofhcial ruled that the
lands could not be disposed Of to company
Of brokers, so 1t was concluded to wait and see
II Congress would not make provision for SO
doing. Good bye, settler. or course the
Secretary could have accepted their bids with
tho full sanction Of the laws, but that is not
In a 1aPka
to be bid for separately, and we know many
settlers who bid from 50 to SO per acre. The
ring bid % an acre for the Trust land, and q
for the Reserve, and would have got the whole
thing II It had not been for "expediency."
We calculate now that the ksW lands viii re-
main unsold a. capital for Senatorial votes
until after the next Senatorial election, when
Il will be sold to the men whom the people
send to Washington to labor for them. Chalk
1t down, and see how far we miss the mark.
Z.
-DRDIcATIoN.-TheM NJ. E. church at Ameri-
Gus will be dedicated to the service Of Al
mighty God on Sunday, December 10th, 1871.
at IL 9. m, by Rev. D. P. Mitchell, Rev. Mr.,
Gray, and Rev. B. Kelley. Ministers Of sur
rounding charges are hereby invited to at
tend. After the dedication there will be q |
protracted meeting. Brethren. pray that the |
converting power Of God rest upon US.
8. A. GREENE, Pastor.
Americas, Nov. %, 1871.
-AARRIED.-November 18th, by Rev. J. A. |
Collins, MI. NJ. K. MILLER, OF Americas, to |
Miss MARY E. GLOVER, Of Fremont.
"A great dearth Of coal here. The steam |
mill has stopped for want Of coal, and great |
anxiety about fuel is manifested by many citi- |
gems. What is the matter with the coal trade? |
Hurry up over there in the coal regions. |
Send on your coal. Don't leave US to freeze. |
The unusual cold weather has frozen our |
town up. Its. usually quiet streets are quieter |
than ever.
-Rumor says we have two treats in store for /
US here 'ere long. The festival in the new
Methodist church, which promises to be q rich |
Also . concert, we hear, is to /
be given by the United PreSbyterians, for. the
benefit OF their new church building. The
latter will doubtless be well worth hearing.
The two new church buildings add not a little
to the good looks Of our town, and we hope all
will feel like giving . helping hand towards
their entire completion by attending both the
festival and the concert.