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

renee Tribune.
THE SOUTHWEST.
| No liquor saloons in Hutchinson.
Arkansas City has licensed saloons.
Cottonwood Falls has base ball
club. .-.
And now Wichita is to have brass
band.
The Butler county fair is to be held
at Towanda.
Wichita has organized Grant and
Wilson club. 1t
A fifty-four pound catfish has been
caught near Augusta.
Atchison has been to Wichita on an
excursion this week.
Wichita has purchased the apparatus
for hook and ladder company.
The Arkansas river was higher a
few days ago than ever before, since
the settlement of that valley.
| Charley Britton, of Cottonwood Falls,
has fast horse in training for $500
race.
A company of soldiers passed
through Wichita on the 25th for Fl.
Sill.
What has become of our sunny-hair-
ed friend Nixon, formerly of the Belle
Plain Herald.
The people of the Southwest don't
care Econtinental' for the game law.
They eat young prairie chickens.
There arc 2,169 names on the tax
rolls of Cowley county. That's pretty
good for a two year old.
Winfield is after the prostitutes,
having taken them into the district
court.
A specimen of Augusta lead ore was
faund to contain ninety per cent. OF
pure lead.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
track was completed to Fl. Larnard on
Saturday last.
The Methodists of Wichita will build
a church Immediately 32x50 feet.
H. II. Gardner, of Eldorado, is go
ing to put up stone building 22x60
feet with iron columns and cut stone
front.
Our old friend G. w. Yeager, of
Bazaar, was kicked in the face, few
days ago, so badly that Or. Williams
was called.
Jonathan Parker traded his farm, a
few miles below town, for a farm be-
longing to John Stout, about six miles
this side of Emporia. Mr.. Parker Will
shortly move to his new home.-Cot-
tonwood Falls Leader.
We shall have a word of advice for
the Belle Plain Town Co. one OF these
days if they don't "come and see u.s."
We have written them time and again
about certain little transaction, and
they do not even condescendt to answer.
They can't afford to treat people that
way.
A mass convention of the Republic
cans of Butler county is to be held at
Towanda on the Goth inst, to re-or- |
ganize the party and elect delegates to
the State conventions.
The Republican says the future Of
Augusta was never brighter than |
now. 4.
A new town, called Baltimore, has
been laid out on Timber creek, in Cow
ley county. It is surrounded by a
good country.
Picnics in some parts of eur State
wind up with what is called the Dolly
Warden March-the young ladies
in q row and the young men
passing along the line and kissing each
good night. The custom has not yet
to our county.-Florence
Pioneer.
Wen bet the editor of the Pioneer
don't miss any pic mics nor any Dolly
Warden marches when they do get
around where he lives
Cowley county has E'eourt house
bonds" on the brain again. The Win
field Messenger advocates and the Ar
kansas City Traveller opposes. The
vote will be taken on the 10th.
The ruling prices for Texas cattle
this week are, per head: Fat COWS, S13
10 SIS; beef cattle, SIS to S24; year
Iings, So; two year olds. $40; stock
COWS, Sl2.-Wichita Eagle.
MADIsoN.-The Madison eorrespon-
lent of the Eureka Herald informs that
paper that the cat, corn and potato I
.rops are good in that vicinity; that {
he flies are very severe on stock on
he prairies that the Verdigris is full
If fine fish this season; that Mrs.
ZONES of Madison died on the 18th !
hat a protracted meeting will COM
nence in j. w. Bush's grove on the
tth of August.
The Southwestern Baptist Associa-
ion, embracing the counties of Chase,
Howard, and all west of
hose counties, viii hold its second an
lual meeting at Eldorade, commencing
Friday, August 9th, at pm.
The temperance men of this town I
propose to stop, as far as they can, the :
ale of liquor on the Sabbath, to min :.
rs, TO intoxicated persons, and to
Iabitual drunkards. They don't pro-
'ose to be terrified by any organiza-
ion that may resist them. Most OF
hem have had experience, and know 8
nst what is to be done.-Eureka Her
Id.
We have often been Intercepted as
D the name 'sChisholmv which the .
retty little stream that flows along
he eastern confines of our city bears. :.
t was named after or in honor of an
ID half breed Cherokee trader, whose
lnche or post was located at the cross
~ of this creek where the old cattle y
rail of the same name intersects iE. o
has been dead about four Il