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

Fort Scott has ], pa children of school
age according to census just taken
Blue Rapids has three thousand feet
of iron pipe on the ground, to be used
in supplying the town with water.
Mr.. Chapman, who lives three miles
east of Fort Scott, has hog which is
three feet ten inches high and eight feet
long.
The number of deaths in Lawrence
during August was tWenty-three. The
number in August last year was TWEEN
! ty-nine.
The castor bean is getting to be quite
an important crop in Kansas. One
field of thirteen acres is reported by the
Pasrons San.
| 1t is reported that the firm of Sprague
Bros, of Providence, Rhode Island,
propose moving their Moving Machine
mandatory to some point in Kansas.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
road will be finished to Paola by the
middle of September, and the contract
for its extension to Ottawa will be let
forthwith.
The Herald says the poorer class of
farmers in Saline county have been in.
jured considerably by the decision of
the Supreme Court, that the herd law
is unconstitutional.
The estimate for tax levy in Douglas
county is, for county tax, six mills ;
state, three mills, and sinking. fund to
pay interest, three mills; total county
and State, twelve mills.
Work is going forward rapidly on the
bridge over the Kansas river, at Law
renee, to permit the extension of the
LeaVenworth, Lawrence 81 Galveston
Railroad to Leavenworth.
G. W. Hatch, of Usage county, re
Gently weighed his herd of three year.
Odds, forty in all, that showed an average
of tloeEUe hundred and fifty pounds. One
weighed fourteen hundred and thirty
pounds. All native cattle.
The Garrett PlafndeGler speaks Of
threesapples, raised in that county, and
known as Holland Pippins, weighing
respectively, sixteen, seventeen and
twenty-five ounces. The owner of the
orchard has twenty trees of the same
variety.
A railroad will be built from Thayer
to Usage Mission distance of sixteen
miles, in very short time, Usage Mis-
sion being on the line of the Sedalia
branch of the NJ. X. & T. railway. This
will give Thayer direct communication
with st. Louis.
A man by the name of John Turley,
who is .ffty-tlco years of age and living
five miles east of st. Louis. Miami
county, Kansas, had the funeral sermon
of his deceased wife preached on the
last Sunday in July, and married the
same evening to blooming lass of 1if-
teen.
The contract for the transportation
of government stores to posts In the In
dian Territory was let at Fort LeAVen-
worth on the 18th, to Graham & CO., of
the NJ. X. & T. road, at the following
figures: Leavenworth to Fort Sill, 81.
10 per hundred; ST. Louis to Fort Sill,
S4.15 per hundred.
At late meeting of the Leavenworth
Board of Education, held on Saturday
evening, the I'd inst, the following res
olutions were passed:
ReSoiged, That all the schools of the
city commence at nine a. m.
ReS0tUed, That the time for closing
be, for grades 10, 8, 8, 7 and 6, l p. m.
grades 5, 4, and 2, at so p. m. grade
and the high school, p. m.
The following is a statement of the
amount of tax to be levied and collect
ed in Atchison for the current year:
General revenue for city purposes, 49,
1912; interest on general funding
bonds, S30,53491; general improve.
ments, S8,4S1 90; school teachers, and
incidental expenses, $1O,17S.3O: school
bond interest and sinking fund, S.
4S1 80; making total of See, 1887.
The following is statement of the
business of the Augusta land Office for
August:
Number of filings on the Usage land. $50
entries 1I9