The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-26

$751; have been subscribed for
, wooden mill at Mound City.
The Council Grove Democrat
pied a page last week. i
Council Grove has bored 500 feet
for coal, and stopped for want Of
funds.
Miami county not to be outdone,
claims to have the email pox. !
It Is reported that on Sunday I
night three Texans were hung at
Baxter Springs, for horse stealing.
A Spring Hill infant arrived last |
week weighing 141z pounds, and
Wathena twins weighing II pounds |
each.
The Paola Spirit insists that S.
100000 were deposited AT the First |
National Bank there during the |
past three months. go ialr
Paola lost the wooden mill which
Neosho Falls is to get, because it
-Wastoo slow about giving . site
and 81 5000 IN cash.
The Mills Bros, the largest gro
Gerry dealers 1T Thayer, have been
arrested on charge of passing 500
counterfeit bill upon customer
Cloud county lie to have chance
to get the Junction City 6 TT. Kear-
ney railroad, for $4,000 in bonds.
The Supreme Court has affirmed
the decision of Judge Garfield, In
the case of Saline county We. the
Kansas Pacific Railway company,
involving the right to tax railroad
lands, regardless Of whether they
have received patent from the
Government or not. This plays out
another nice little dodge to avoid
taxation. Railroad lands are now
taxable. f
Abiline thinks she wants col
lege, and is going to see about it.
"Wild Bill" il suggested as presi-
dent.
In Leavenworth, on the 18th,
Deputy, Sheriff Robert Palmer, in
attempting to aid policeman to
make an arrest, shot and fatally
wounded John Elder, . foreman on
the Kansas Central railway, narrow
guage, the ball passing through his
lungs. -......s' -.
On the 11th, near Usage Station,
Jack Gass, q farmer, sold some cat
tie. One W. NJ. Moore, from Iowa,
murdered Gass, by cutting his head
off with an axe, to rob him of the
money. 4 neighbor discovered the
murder, Moore was overtaken, and
though he fought desperately, was
riddled with bullets, and buried.
at the Manhattan agricultural
talk, Friday last. Mr., d. B. Long
said that with the same price OF
cheese as in Ohio he could make
$720 more per year in Kansas on 40
COWS than in the former State.
Ohio cheese makers can take the
hint. .-a.s--ss =
| At Independence, on the 18th,
Mrs. Anders, wife of q grocer, died
suddenly. Her husband has been
arrested on charge of having muir
dered her, by choking.
j Lawrence subscribed S., 599. 80 for
Chicago $1,000 has been sent there,
$3.50 paid out to assist sufferers
Il who have arrived at Lawrence, and
$50 is still uncollected. ---,
I Down near Paola man was found
dead in his bed, and the corener's
jury rendered a verdict of ''frozen
to DEATH" The man was bachelor
and the moral is too obvious to need
pointing out. 1883
The Kansas Pacific railroad offers
to furnish Usage plants to set hedges
along every farm through which il
runs, and if the farmers will plant
and tend the hedge, the road will
pay them 35 cents per rod when the
plants will turn stock. Places
where the hedge cannot grow viii
be fenced. Good idea.
Oswego, Labette county, proposes
to build u bridge over the Neosho
$50 feet long, three spans, on stone
abutnIents. The lola bridge com
pany will put it up for S11 $50 cash
Oswego has three brass bandI
and can 'Fblow Its horn" immensely
The Abiline Chronicle says, "Oul
oldest settlers say that this is TIT
second time in fourteen years tina
stock in Dickinson county has hsl
to be fed before Christmas. Gen
orally stock goes through the win
ter with very little feed. But thi
winter is an exception to the rule
Yet thermometer has not fallel
lower than three degrees below
zer0 at any time since the com
/ mencement of winter" .Eias-
The trial of Lusadder, charged
with the murder of Northrup, nea
: Clyde, some time ago, is now pro
gressing at Washington, Washing
. ton county. u.s..
White Cloud is to build . hand
some school lhouse. id g
!. Hiram H. Hard succeeds A. j
Allen as editor of the Ottawi
Leader (democratic.)
q $3.50 q lot has been offered and
refused in Neodesha.
Wood SELLS for 81 per cord il
Needesha. We would that WOO,
r would do SO in Emporia.
| On Monday, last week, George w
, Hall, q grocer on Main street, Otta
!, | wa, fell dead just as he entered hi
residence, at about II o'clock q. m.
8 of heart disease. fa
I On the 18th the Garnett grist mill
started for the first time. TIT
structure cost $50 They stor,
5000 bushels, and grind 200 in 2.
= hours.
i Fredonin, Wilson county, has or
ganized $780, 900 coal company
, The coal is there. .a-n, re
Recently, a young man named
SwofHe got drunk, froze bis legs
and now they are of, and he is {
J Iicripple, with . mother and severe
little brothers and sisters dependenl
upon him for support. Free whis:
key.
"A, valuable COW, belonging to
Chester Crowel, of this place, wa.
choked to death on Tuesday last, BY
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