The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-08-02

years, the immediate cause of iris tram
sit to the happy hunting grounds of
his father being an attack OF cholera
morbus, superindueed by an overdose
of bears grease. True to his Indian
instincts and appetites. he was taken
with a 'big hungry for bears oil,
which was appeaeed after two weeks
hunt by his killing an old bruin and
drinking over a quart of its oil, which
gave him such cramping belly-aehe
as to quench his vital spark and knock
him out of time.-Wiehita Eagle.
The editor of the Oxford Press has
seen a cucumber, of new variety,
which was over three feet in length.
T. S. Huffaker, of Council Grove,
Kansas, and who has fer many years
been identified with the Indian trade,
is at present maintaining trading posts
at Pond creek and Red Fork in the
Indian territory. s.f
| Tomorrow harvest home festival
will be held ut Bazaar. Extensive ar
rangements have been made, and q
good time is expected. Music, swing
ing, dancing, etc., viii be in order.
T. r. Wilson, of Arkansas City, has
Just completed the preliminary survey
of the railroad from that place to
Wichita. He finds the route a good
one, and eight or ten miles shorter
than was supposed. The people are
enthusiastically in favor of its imme-
date construction. ..,f,4-e .t.rt
Rouse and Lamb are opening up q
large farm eighteen miles north OF
town, which they propose to. stock up
with select breeds of horses, cattle and
hogs. They have now some as fine
stock as could he obtained in Illinois.
Wichita Eagle. Jr
4 The Press says that five Liberals and
thirteen Democrats have united in
call for a political love feast, to be
holden at Wellington, Sumner county,
on the 9th inst.
!, On Saturday morning last, forty-two
cars OF cattle, twelve hundred mead,
belonging to a Mr.. Allison, were I'M
loaded at this place. They had been
shipped from Raymond and will be
pastured in the neighborhood of Pey-
ton creek.-CottonwoOd Falls Leader.
Chase county democrats are going to
hold convention and go through the
motions of surrendering to Greeley,
and to transact other business.
The Oxford Press says that it has
been ascertained that of the two hun
: dred and thirty five voters in Oxford
fownship. Summer county. one is q
Liberal.
There is one business house in this
town which has not advertised to the
amount of five cents since We have
been in this office, (nearly six months
His business tells tlfe Consequences
Belle Plain Herald:
The people. ought to shun that mar
4. as they would house with small peS
] in it, and the fellow ought to starve tc
death. -
s The corn crop of this valley will
simply be enormous. There are fields
of sod corn within ten miles of -Wich-
i tia that will notyield far from forty
bushels to the acre. No doubt large
! numbers of cattle will be held oyel
and ted here the coming winter
| WICHITA Eagle
An attempt was made, at yelling
ton, a few days ago, to take from the
4 hands of the sheriff of Sumner county
and lynch, Joe Hager, the horse THE
5 of whom we spoke last week. The
sheriff got wind of the matter, organ
, lied and armed posse, and prevented
: the mob from carrying out their plans
Hager is now in our Jail. We are glad
to mention one instance where sher.
> iff had the nerve to resist mob and
. thwart their plans.
The first National bank of Wict tia is
about to erect a new building which
. the Eagle says will be the finest bank
building south of the Kaw river, if not
: in the State. 1t will be 25x6O, two
: stories high, and will cost $4,000 OIL
$1,000. -s.
Last Sunday week, near Oxford
. some boys who were gathering plums
found the corpse of q man lying in the
bushes near the Arkansas river. The
body was partially decayed, and had
evidently been lying there for several
months. No pocket book or paper was
found about the corpse. Foul play is
apprehended.