The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-03
STATE ITEMS.

Ae1Ne0WOEtn mas trCuOlc Win ti1'
Missouri Pacific.
Lawrence has developed two fe
male horse thieves.
II A national bank will open foI
business at Garnett on the 1st OF
June.
The bonds for the Parsons Sc San
t. Fe railroad was beaten, in Mont
gomery county, by 1900 majority.
| o, where now is old Milt. Reynolds
L The Shawnee Medical Society, at
Topeka, have soured on "Free Redi-
cal and surgical treatment of the
poor"
/ A curious calf, having half inch
strip down it's side without hair, ex-
lists in Douglas county.
The track of the st. Joe s. Denver
railroad is now some sixty-four
miles west of Marysville.
Jack Vierex, of Pottawotomie
county, died last week of a rattle
snake bite.
a Topeka lad, six years old, was
picked up by the police in Kansas
City few days ago.
Dan Rice will make a tour of
Kansas, this season, with his extra
ordinary "Paris Pavilion Circus"
LeayenWorth has for wears paid
nearly one-third of the national
taxes raised in Kansas.
The chickens out of one egg is the
sensation at Msrysville.
The Kansas Pacific has managed
to secure its full share of Yosemite
tourists this season, besides get
ting all the Colorado scenery seek
ers.
One thousand dollars have been
raised in Topeka as premiums for
horses which compete at the next
State fair.
No Texas cattle will be shipped
from Hutchison. This was deter
mined upon at the earnest solicita-
ton of the settlers.
The Kansas Pacific gained a vic
tory over the Union Pacific in con-
test for bonds in Clear Creek coun-
ty, Colorado, last Monday.
Lead ore, found at Coffeyville,
has been assayed at Philadelphia
and found to hold ninety-five per
cent. of lead.
Richard Campbell, of Gardner,
recently tried to sfshuffie off this
mortal coil" by dose of poison, be-
cause he could not marry the girl he
wanted.
Boys from eight to fifteen years
old appear before the police judge
of Leavenworth, charged with al
most every offense.
Ottawa has sensation. A re-
spectacle boarding house has been
imposed upon by nice young lady,
wife of several men.
The Kansas editors are determin-
ed to have an excursion to Phils-
delphia, Washington and Niagara
Falls, in Jnne, and an adjourned
meeting will be held on the 10th of
May, to complete arrangements.
1t turns out that the twelve or
fifteen hundred dollars which has
been expended near La Cygne in
sinking a shaft for a silver mine, has
been so expended under the direc-
ton of ''the Spirits" Pshaw.
Congressman Lowe voted in IA
vor of civil service reform. Both
Kansas Senators voted against it.
Congressman Lowe voted against
the St. Croix and bayfield, Land
Grant bill. Both Kansas Senators
voted for it.
At religious street meeting IN
Fort Scott, last Monday, the Rev.
Mr.. Paulson, NJ. f. Presiding FL
der, made some allusion to Tom
Paine, whereupon one Slime called
Paulson a liar. Slime Is following
Hammond delivering lectures to
prove that religion is humbug.
Agents of the Chicago s. Alton
Railway Company, it is said, are
proposing to extend the Jackson
Vile branch of that road from JEFF
ferson City, Missouri, to Baxter and
Chetopa, Kansas.
The case of Holden VS.. Joy, in
yolving the question of title to the
Cherokee Neutral lands in Kansas,
is now on trial in the United States
Supreme Court, ut Washington.
Judge Lawrence and Gen. B. f.
Butler appear for the settlers, and
Mr.. Joy is represented by Gov.
Hall, OF Missouri, and Hon. B. X.
| Curtis.
The Missouri, Kansas s. Texas
Railway Company propose to put
four hundred men to work upon the
machine shops and other improve
ments of the road, at Parsons.
Monday afternoon, Randolph
Wagner, a wei1-known citizen of
Leavenwortb, committed suicide,
by cutting his throat with q razor.
| One day last week, Mr.. White
head, living about six miles from
Concordia, on Oak creek, attempt
ed suicide by shooting himself in
the chest, near the region of the
heart, with a revolver. Cause, his
wife left him.
It is stated in the Chetopa paper
that the Atlantic s. Pacific. the Mis-
souri,, Kansas s. Texas, the Fort
scott s. Gulf, and the Leayenwortb,
Lawrence & Galveston railroads
have all combined to work harmon
iously In the carrying business for
the present season. The Chetopa
paper further believes that all the
projected new railroads in that
country are to be stopped for five
years on account Of this combine
ton.
i THE SOUTHWEST.