The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-03

| The price OF town lots in Arkansas Cit.
ranger from 50 to $500. Land in the yicinIt.
range from s. TO $50 per acre, depending o.
| the location and improyements.--ArRdn
| City 1TerefeT.
Prof. hellogg with his wife and fsmil!
| have At last permanently located IN ArSansA
City. Mr.. X. will hereafter take entire eharg'
| of the editorial columns, as well as attend TO
part Of the business OF the ofhce.-1rdrser.
III. L. Hunt & Co. OF Cottonwood Falls
one Of the oldest and best firms in the South
west, advertise $4,000 stock OF goods.
"A farmers club is TO be organized in Chase
county.
The new IRON bridge at Cedar Point. across
the Cottonwood, is finished IL IL ITO ieei
long, and was made by the King Fridge Com
pany. at lola, Kansas 1t is located at the
foot Of main street, east OF Drfnkwater's mill
This bridget great extent, lnsures the
trade is InereasIng.-. Chase County Leader.
-BniiF3ng isgoihg on IN Florence.
Business is Lively and money plsnty at
Wichita
BUSHES Is reported lively at Marion Gen.
ter.
. We met several gentlemen from Peabody
last Saturday, and they report their town
quite lively and thriving. Glad to hear 1t.
4 teHeef-
The bridges across the cottDnwood river
at Marion Center are completed.
"A national bank company is organized
at wiehita, and all the stock subscribed.
-THAr's -so.-sIr. s. b. AIler, Of the En-
poria Bank, was in town this week assisting
ness with either the EmporIa or Marion eoun-
ty banks, will find these persons to be per-
feet gentiemen.-FZ0reRce Pioneer.
Wichita IS rushing ahead; new buildings
are going up in every direction.
The largest hotel west of Topeka is nearly
completed at WIchita. 1t has eighty-dve
rooms.
Large numbers Of emigrant wagons daily
immediate vicinity, and others go south. But
it makes no difference where they locate in
supplies of lumber from Florence, and either
on the road, or after they arrive n town, they
learn that &. +. Pierce & Co. do business on
strict business principles and sell their iunl-
Der at prices that cannot be beaten, and they
hasten there to obtain their leads. We were
in the yards the other day and noticed no less
than twelve wagons loading and waiting to be
loaded. All the hands about the yards were
busy as bees. and Capt. Morrison was here,
here and every here. with genial smile and
4 kind word for all. The Captain informed
is IlaL I0tlE safes kasL week averaged over
0ne thousand dollars day, which is a good
evidence that the people prefer dealing with
hose who practice no underhand tricks. but
lsal fairly and honestly with all.-FTorence
Pioneer.
Corn is plenty at forty cents per bushel at
Wichita, whereas, at this time last year it was
wo dollars.
"A wooden truss bridge, one thousand feet
ong, is being erected across the Arkansas
liver at Wichita, and will be completed by
he first of February.
-DTvIsIoN.-0ur Butler county friends
re having brisk contest over the question of
he division Of that county. W. p. Campbell, |
# Eldorado, is the candidate for Representa-
i've Of these favoring the move, AMI Mr.. |
Rooney, OF Towanda, is the candidate of the
1t is tolerably warm in But |
er county now. We believe that Douglas |
md EIdorado favor the change, while Angus |
a is fighting it with her usual degree of grit |
nd energy.
The inquiry for lands in the vicinity of |
augusta is increasing. So says the RepHbli- |
an.
The contract for building the school house |
Tas awarded II. II. Linsey, whose bid was $4,-
90. The building Is to be built of the best |
inc lumber, on good stone foundation, and
wo rooms in the lower and one in the upper /
tory. The lower rooms to be connected by |
1lding doors. Foundation to be az feet
bove, and 15S under ground, sills bolted to 1t |
nth iron bolts passing through both. Hon.
r. Mead offers to present fine bell to the I
GARD for it as soon as 1t is completed. Wich-
Ia Vidette.
"A widow lady living about three miles
Test of Augusta, had fine horse stolen one
light last week. The horse, not liking his
ew master, broke his lariat, as is supposed,
/ the night. and yesterday morning return
] to his old home TO the surprise Of the wild
n. The horse IS not materially hurt by his
change of pasture. "-Augustd Republican.
Work on the bridge over the Arkansas at
Tichita, is begun.
The following Madison items we clip from
lie Eureka Herald:
The range is nearly all burnt off in this vici-
are gathering up their
ock now.-Our 0lacksmit is in Southern
ansas seeing the sights.-some Of our far
ers are cribbing their corn. Threshing all
Burns fine Berkshire pigs gain
We pounds each every week.-SeveraI loads
apples passed through here last week.
lenty of fruit in market now.-R. Foster
as gone to boot making again. He makes a
bod boot, and the price Is as good as the boot.
John W. Bush's station is thirty II lies
On anu I"Cut9 iIOLu ItHPOilas /
prepared to furnish travellers with meals,
nd hay, oats and corn for their horses.
Mr.. Andrew jackson, on Fall river, has
altered 1851 bushels of corn of six acres.
lie has II acres more that promise q much
eavier yield. He thinks it will average over
20 bushels to the acre. Mr.. jackson surely
nows how to farm. How will this yield of
orn do for ''Drouthy Kansas Eureka Her
ID. -
Six miles of the road-bed of the Wichita
nd Southwestern railroad are completed and
large force is now, employed along the
htfre line from Wichita to Newton. Cars
ill be running to Wichita by the first of
.pril.
The Southwestern stage company have
pened a new route, and commenced to run
,ur-horse coaches from Wichita via tho CHS
ohm trail to Sumner City and Belle Plain.
t will be continued in the spring to Sherman.
'exas. via the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Wichita
nd Comanche Indian agencies and Fort Sill.
The Good Templars lodge in Eldorado is
q q flourishing condition.
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