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

JuSt IL DC tldu6 tue NUCLEUS Iof tn
formation of q library association
We make this offer believing tina
such q reading room would be o
great advantage to the people o.
our town,
E The bridge across the Big Ar
kansas is rapidly approaching com
pletion. The iron piers are here
and being put in place as fast as 8
. full corps of experienced operatives
can do the work. The superstruc-
ture was by mistake shipped to st.
Joe, for the bridge to cross the Mis-
!. souri, at that point. The mistake
has been corrected, however, and
the material is arriving here daily
by wagon. The bridge win be one
thousand feet long, and will reflect
credit alike upon the enterprising
citizens who put their money in it,
as well the skill and ability of Mr..
w. j. Hobson, the contrac tor, who
is without superior in this line
| Wichata Eagle.
Ed. Neary, reported stabbed
near unto death and afterwards
drowned, is still alive and kicking.
On last Thursday he was seen to
jump into the Cottonwood, but in
stead of drowning, as reported, he
came out safe on the other side,
where he sat watching his friends
drag the river for his body. In the
afternoon his friends succeeded in
capturing him, but he got away
again and is now roaming the conn
try, perfectly crazy. Among the
many wild stories told by him one
is that Doolittle, Shipman and HIM
self have opened saloon on the
bluff, where he and Doolittle have
had some good drinks together, but
that he has lost the and is hunting
| it,; also, that some of his friends
want to kill, skin and roast him, but
he strongly objects to the skinning
process the rest he don't care about.
| Cottonwood Falls Leader.
The Wichita Vidette says: We
have a cemetery connected with
Wichita, and it only costs SIS to
be buried in it, exclusive of coffin
and coroner's fees. The price is
considered so high that most all the
boys have laid away their revol-
vers, and the saloons are selling
better whisky than formerly. In
another column it records the open
ing of a bath house.
Corn planting is lively at Au-
gusta.
Nor So.-Iu the local columns
of Sunday mornings issue of the
Topeka Commonwealth is a long
story headed with big capitals and
dashes running this way: "Crime
in the Southwest-A Record of
Murder and Observation-Disclosures
Murder in Wichita, ETC." Now, in
behalf of the good people of Wich-
ita and in the name of her order
loving citizens, we right here pro-
test against any more such misrep-
reservations and falsehoods. 1t
would seem that pure malice alone
dictated such articles-whisky raw
iDgs or imbecility it may be. Wichi-
ia is just as orderly q city as To-
peka, and her citizens are just as
civilized. There never has been, in
all her history, a murder committed
within her borders. We would
suggest to friend Prouty that he get
somebody to write for the local
columns of the Commonwealth that
knows something of the geography
of the state. Caldwell is on the
border of the Indian territory, fifty
FIVE or sixty miles from Wichita.
The highly-Wrought story about
the trouble in Caldwell may be
true, but it runs nothing like the
accounts received at this place.
There is less poor whisky drank,
fewer brawls, less gambling and
fewer lewd women in Wichita to-
daY than there has been in Topeka
every day for the past five years.
Wichita is doing as much legitimate
business to-day as Topeka, if we
except the north side of the river,
and her people are just as jealous of
the good name of the town, though
they may never have had a Ham
mond among them to shake them
with threatenings of tle burnings
of the bottomless pit.-Wichita City
Eagle.
"A large amount of prairie land
is being broken in the vicinity of
Augusta.
The Wichita Vidette, with its
"usuel accuracy" is signing for "the
summer s1otice." We never heard it
by that name before.
Coal has been discovered near
Augusta.
The big stone block of Hobson
and Greiffenstein, on the corner of
Main street and Douglas avenue, is
progressing as fast as circumstances
will permit. The joists of the Sec
ond floor have been placed in posi-
ton and the walls of the second
story are up several feet. The
| building when completed will be
the largest, safest and most COM
plete business house in the state
south of Emporia. Everybody is
anxious to see it up, the roof on and
the rooms occupied.-Wichita Eagle.
Hutchinson, the county seat of
Reno, wants newspaper.
Clear Water is the name of new
town southwest of Wichita.
There is a fellow living on Lit
tie Arkansas river who is 80 lazy
that when he goes o fishing he ties
the line to his dogs hind leg, and
when q fish bites he kicks the dog.
Wichita Eagle.
Hutchinson is the county seat
of Reno county, not Kingman, as
some of our exchanges will have 1t.
Kingman county is unorganized, as
yet, has few settlers and, from all
] we can learn, it will be long time
before it has sufficient population to
form even a small viHage.-WichitR
Vidette.
Butler county is to have anoth-
er pull at the county seat on the LIST
day of June. The Eldorado Times
thinks the action of the commits
sioners in submitting the question
is not legal.
Choice buffalo quarters and
shoulders, antelope and deer are
hauled into town and sold at from
five to six cents per pound. Six
cents is for choice humps, tongues
and tender loin.-Wichita Eagle.
Large patches of genuine blue
grass have been found in the yicin-
ity of Wichita.
w. S. Davidson, of New York,
bought eighty lots in Wichita, one
day last week
Some of our farmers are pre-