The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-09-15

Injunction granted stopping the sale of
the NJ, X. 3 I. railway lands in Neosho
and Labette counties. The company's
lands in those counties are in the mar
ket.
A coiored man named jackson, Of
Leavenworth, was accidentally killed
near the Platte county fair ground on
last Saturday. Some men were firing
at target and Jackson, who was pass
ing through the brush near by, received
one of the rifle shots in the abdomen
and died shortly afterward.
The following is among the Wash
ington specials to the PhiIadeIphia
Press of Saturday: 'The Treasury
Department to-day drew 9 warrant for
the payment OF SIS, 500, the amount due
the State of Kansas for expenses incur
red during the war. The troops were |
called ON by Gen. Schofield, and the |
claim was made at the last session of
Congress"
Coy. Harvey has written q letter to
publicly contradict the silly statement
published in the east, that good land
cannot be had in Kansas at less than
$50 per acre. He says, after referring
to the homestead and presumption
claims yet untaken, that good land can
be had in the best counties yet at from
So to $40 per acre. Some people east
seem badly scared at the way Kansas
is growing.
The Burlingame Chronicle says some
of the leading citizens of the place have
received notification of the directory
of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, to the
effect that the President, together with
g committee of that corporation, will
be in Burlingame one day next week
for the purpose of consulting with ref
ereuce to the immediate construction Of
an independent line Of railway from
Topeka to Burlingame, and on south or
southwest.
|. The executive committee of the board
OF regents of the State University at
its meeting yesterday decided to rent
the Unitarian Church on Ohio street,
adjacent to the University, to provide
the required accommodations for the
increased number of students in attend
ance. Two buildings were examined
: I-Bartholow'S Hall and the Unitarian
Church. The latter was selected on &C
connt of its nearness to the University
: and the retired character or its location.
The building selected win be used un-
til the north wing of the new building
q is cOmplsted.-LG,oTence Tribune.
Referring to the matter OF county ex.
t penses, the Fort Scott Monitor says
e The expenses of Bourbon county are
published in the Monitor, and can be
. examined by all readers. One of the
: unnecessary burdens on all our coun-
les arises from the depreciation of coun.
ty scrip. There is no reason why II
i, should not be at par in our county, and
in all counties, and it should be rcceiv.
ed in full payment of all taxes. 1t il
idle to say that this cannot be done, fol
it can and ought to be. The holder
now loses fifteen or twenty cents OF
the dollar on most of his scrip, and the
result is that the county has to pay
more than it is worth for every piece o.
= work it orders done. II any ont
doubts this statement, we can easily
: prove its truth. It is with our mex
l lO8A6A0S W OOAECNb b444b ON1l1 anu S4A
> didates should be pledged in writing T.
d do SO.
u. s. PENSION OFFICE ITEAs.-FroH
the Topeka Commonwealth we clip thu
: following: when the present agen
took charge of the Office in October
1866, there were on the roll $50 pen
: sioners; there are now on the roll l. 99
There were added the past twelv,
months, new pensioners, 2lz; by trans
fer, 159. The amount paid during thu
/: first year in Topeka, from September
!; 1866, to September l, 1856, was S69, 603
: from September /, 1870, to Septembel
; l, 1871, s274,267. During the last tire,
r months there has been paid to twenty
3 four new pensioners, on first payments
e in the aggregate SIG, 1892; an average
!, to each of $117.46. The highest pait
l to any one person, aud the larges
amount ever paid at this agency in on,
Y payment, was 81 23.
The number Of pensioners now Oh
I. the roll who have lost limb is seven
4 tV-one