The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-10-27
KANSAS NEWS
Topeka is annoyed by thieves.

GeOTRe FEdnClS 1fdlu eAptOQtu III
on "wednesday evening.
The Great Western telegraph COM
oany's line is now being built from
Kansas City to Lawrence.
Five hundred Immigrant wagons
passed through Washington, Kansas,
going westward, within two weeks.
The first span of the Leavenworth
bridge will soon be completed. The
trestle work is up and the iron is on the
ground.
Atchison proposes to vote $4,000 in
subsidies to be divided between foun-
dries, manufactures, hotels, streets,
bridges, SC.
The Coffey county fair held about ten |
DAYS, and although the first one in the
county, was, according to the Patriot,
a gratifying success.
Chetopa is going to vote on the
18th inst, on the question of issuing
$4,000 in the bonds of the city for the
purpose of bridging the Neosho at that
place.
On Saturday night of last week
John Reider's mill, on the Grasshopper,
ten miles from the town, caught fire
from some unknown cause and burned
to the ground. The mill had just been
built at cost of $4,000.
The Leavenworth Times says that
some excitement was caused at Olathe
the other day by some one finding some
bloody clothes under bridge in town
bullet holes, cuts, &C., were visible, but
the affair is yet mystery,
Lewis Twining, popularity known in
Topeka as the "Bee Man." was found
dead in his bed at the Gordon house in
that city on Tuesday morning last.
The physicians, who made post NOR
tenn examination, said that he died of
asphyxia, induced by the obstruction of
the air passages of the lungs by mu-
cous, from cancer in his nose.
Geo. W. Griggs was taken of the
eastern bound train on the Kansas Pa
cific road on Friday last, at Topeka, in
dying condition. He was taken to
the National Hotel, where he expired
at o'clock on Saturday morning. A
post morton examination revealed con-
gestion of the brain. He was a mer-
chant and station agent at Medina,
Kansas.
The lola Statesman relates tho ex-
perience of Mr.. D. c. Squires, of Allen
county, who, in the second week of
June, about the 18th. harvested fifteen
acres of wheat, and Immediately plow-
ed under eight acres of the stubble and
planted it to corn. 1t had no culture
neither hoe nor plow-and yielded
about 80 bushels 20 the acre of good,
solid corn.
We learn that tragic event &C.
Cured in chase county Saturday morn.
ing, which is likely to terminate fatally
A farmer, living west of Cottonwood
Falls, was found in his bed shockingly
mangled, having been beaten with {
club almost to death. He revived suf
ficiently to state that a man who haC
been working for him committed thu
assault, and then robbed him of severa
nunureu dollars.
The NJ. K. & T. railway is nov
completed to the Verdigris river, dis
lance of 270 miles from Sedalia. TIL,
road does not pass directly through For
: Gibson, but about four miles to tn
west. Passenger trains run the full ex
tent of the 270 miles to the present ter
minus known as Gibson Station, that be
ing six or seven miles from Fort Gibson
The road is being rapidly pushed for
ward.
The General manager of the 81. X
& 7. has received orders to push tn
road on to Red River, the notherl
g boundary of Texas, as fast as men ant
e money can do the work. Advertise
e ments are published fer sealed proposal
), to grade their road from the Canadia
U River, which is some 40 miles south G
e Fort Gibson, 10 Red river, distance O
J, about 113 miles. 1t is the intention of tn
e company to have the road completed t
t the Texas line and in running order b
r next June.
On Thursday, October 18th, tw
I
> brothers-Wm. and Daniel Anderson
;. who lived on Deep Creek, on returnin
s home in a wagon from Manhattan, Will
# crossing the bluffs were met by prai
= rie fire. Their horses took fright an
" rushed down into a bushy ravint
: where the wagon got stuck and the fir
# overlook them. Before they could &c
= ont they were so horribly burned ths
they died the next day. The horse
were also killed by the fire and the wae
y on consumed. The young men cam
d from Iowa last spring and were genel
2, ally liked. One of them left widoN
4 to whom he had been married but littl
over a month. As will be seen in an
= other column, our citizens generousl
n raised a contribution for her benefi
b DIR. Patee was called to attend the SUI
. ierers but could only give them tempo
. rary relief-Manhdttaa Nationalist.