The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-06-28
THE SOUTHWEST.

farm.
"A new paper is to be started a
Tisdale.
The country about Newton il
filling up rapidly.
-Wichita is running a variet,
theater successfully.
The corn in Chase county is bet
ter than ever before.
Fifteen new dwellings, erected
at Wichita inside of q week.
The income of the Wichits
bridge is $500 per week.
Eureka has ratified the Repub-
lican nominations in good style.
The Presbyterians are going tc
build parsonage at Wichita.
| Goodrich, of theElk Falls Elk.
aminer, has been elected road over.
seer.
| Fourth of July celebrations
everywhere in Southwestern Kan
sas.
| $1,000 head of Texas cattle
have been rold this season at IVicha
i!a.
The old soldiers of Arkansas
City and vicinity are talking of or
ganiZing q G. A. Z. society.
"A. D. Rhenimus is going 10
start paper at Yosemite, q new
town in Howard county.
| "A lot of Jefferson county peo-
pie had an excursion to Wichita last
week, which they enjoyed.
Judge Brown will hold an extra
term of court in Harvey county,
commencing on the oath of July.
The editor of the Newton Ga
zette wants tho boys to find anoth-
err "hole" or go swimming after
dark.
The Cottonwood Falls Leader
says the hogs and liquor sellers pay
little attention to the city ordinan-
ces.
Stock cattle are held at So to 81
for yearlings, SO to Sill for two, and
So to SIT for three years old and
cows.-Wichita Eagle.
Fall wheat on Cedar creek,
Chase county, will yield from ten
to sixteen bushels to the acre. So
the Leader says.
The winter wheat in the neigh
borhood of Toledo did not span
out" well, but the spring crops are
excellent.-Chase County Leader.
Sixteen thousand head of the
cattle sold here are for shipment,
one thousand head go to Colorado,
and the remainder will be ranched
in the state.-Eagle.
AN old Illinois farmer who has
travelled extensively in Kansas says
there is more good land in Green
wood county than he has seen any
where else in the State.-IEureka
Herald.
The people along the line are
agitating the immediate construc-
ton of railroad from wichita to
Arkansas City. A company has
been organized.
The sequel to the item in our
last weeks issue about the stealing
of team from a boy loading hay
in Sumner county and the VigiIan-
tors in pursuit, must be written
Tie vigilanters came upon one of
the men driving the team and re-
covered it. The driver, however,
will never recover from the sur
prise he had and the good nature of
the men, who, instead of shooting
him, treated him to q "necktie festi-
val" and an "airy dance meath
bending bow."-Wichita Eagle.
-SPEcULAToR's LAND-There is
large area of lands in Greenwood
county, which were entered at an
early day, which arc for sale at low
rates and on much better terms than
much of the railroad lands, and are
Just as near to towns and railroad
facilities.-[E Eureka Herald.
THE A. T& SIR. Rive have
known this road from its birth. and
not only has it done the biggest
thing for Central and Southwestern
Kansas, but it has done it well and
with vim, never exceeded in the
driving west. A better built, stock
ed or managed road, of its age, is
not found in all of Uncle Sans
domain. With more time and space,
we will, in future issue, say more
of this great work and its able off,
cers.-[ Wichita Vidette.
Wichita will have her regular
4th of July. The Eagle says the
'sfire" works for the occasion will
have to be bought by the quart, as
the Chinese Find couldn't be proour-
ed in time.
BUILDING STONE AND OCHRE.-
The finest building stone in the
state is said to be on the farm be-
longing to Mr.. John Stout, q few
miles east of town. 1t comes out
in square blocks, of various sizes,
sufficiently smooth and symmetrical
for laying in the wall, requiring but
very little dressing, if any. A large
bed of ochre, some fifteen feet thick,
we believe, is on the same farm also.
This can be manufactured into var
ious colored paints, besides being
pronounced excellent for the manu-
facture of brick for ornamental
fronts, sc. A car load of the stone
was sent to Topeka the other day
and we soon expect to hear of some
enterpr1sing man making it busi-
ness to quarry and ship it.-Chase
County Leader.
We have been shown by far
mers from over the river wheat that
beats any we ever saw, and sod
corn, heavy stalked and shoulder
high, that looked as if it had been
cultivated IN some of the oldest and
best-producing fields of Illinois -
Eagle.
"A couple of Germans from Kan
sas City are going to run beer
garden at Wichita. This reminds
us of little anecdote we heard not
long since. A gentleman and lady
were riding past one of these insti-
tutions, when the gentleman said !:
'sThis is the beer garden" "Ah."
responded the fair one, who seemed
to be as well posted about the beer
business as Horace Greeley is about
agriculture, ''What do they raise in
beer grrden 2" ''They raise hell
occasionally" was the dry response
of the driver.
Business in the wholesale way
is growing better each day. Retail
trade has been fair, but not so rush
ing, owing to farmers being busy
with crops. As it is, we are doing
more business than any other town
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