The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-12

thaC Comanche county Is being settles
up," and that all the timbered claim
WIN be sfakshy BsToFes sEafpg. Con
fanche is IN the second tier Of westerl
counties, and borders the Indian Ter
Z ri1oFy;oE Nseo8 e1I's
Bio GEowTH.-s'Tnis time las
year, Wichita contained ABOUT I6I
= buildings, all told. BY an actua
count, made the other dav, we flint
That it now has zee. TIis include
churches, dwellings and business
houses OF all descriptions, and make
! atotal Of, 1Sl buildings erected during
the year 1871. All this, too, withou1
railroad. Wichita Vidette.
The Scdgwick house, Foreman
Busick, proprietors, is now open. i
is one OF the finest hotels in the south
west, snG has accommodations for ont
hund ed guests. Z ~
| Tie Southwestern stage company
ere now running thei:' iour-hors;
COACHES daily 70, sedSwIekG ! J -
The Sedgwick Gazette is the name
OF d new seVen-column weekly to bs
published in Sedgwick.
The engineers of the, Sedgwick &
Cimarron Valley railroad have com
pleted their -vey Tom SaeCgwIck to
the Arkansas river.
30 -Florence has the best disposed
most peaceable and honest citizens in
the State. To support us i'll the asser-
ton, it is sufficient to say that we have
neither Justice OF the peace nor con-
stable. We did have them, but as our
people are not Quarrelsome, and al
! ways paid their debts, they had no
business to do, and therefore resigned.
FLORENCE Pioneer.
J. The following statement of the
business done Al tie y. S. land office al
this place for the month OF December,
1871, has been kindly furnished US by
Capt. w. A. shannon, the receiver
Sales of Usage Indian lands, Is, E57 10
100 acres; amounting to $3l ,S21 81 ;
public laads, 68l cleo acres, amount
ling 70 81 ,SG2e5 ; on combinations OF
homestead entries, 500; fees and COM
missions on homestead entries, 1904 .66 ;
do, on declaEatery statements, 1920 ;
on land warrants and A. c. scrip, SO ;
total amount received, $35, 77S.68.
1 4ACIC "CA0 ~ uOAACSICS1O CAIAACo anu
40 filings during the month.-Augusta
~ FS1 - ze II lesss ..ss.ses: Is
Business has been very lively OF
late. More men and teams were on
the streets last Saturday than ever
known on any ssimilar occaslon.-Ar-
kansas City Traveller.
IT. p. Alexander bought \ coon
| skin on last Tuesday, which measured
three and half feet from tip of nose
to end of bush, and twenty-eight in
ches wide. How is that for "old zip"
FLORENCE Pioneer.
We learn from the Globe that Mr..
Lowe has introduced bill to provide
for the building of q military and post
road from the mouth of Walnut river,
| IN Kansas, TO the mouth of the main
Cach6 river, in Texas which was read
, first and second time, ordered to be
printed, and referred to the committee
on the Postoffices and Postroads.-Ar-
kansas City Traveller.
Building promises to be very lively
in our city the coming spring, and
from letters recently received from
parties in the east, large accessions to
our population are NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ence Pioneer.
Great losses of cattle are reported in
northern Texas. If this is the case
the prices for Texas cattle will be
higher next season. The winter has
been unusually severe there as well as
! here. The losses suffered by our cattle
men this year may be more than made
up to them next acknowledgement Re
publican.
| On Monday last We made a visit to
our neighboring town, Marion Center
We noticed many improvements in the
place, and among them is the Presby-
terrain church building, which is now
being erected in East Marion Center
! 1t is a handsome two story stone build
ing, and the workmanship reflects
great credit upon the contractors, and
also to the people of that vicinity for
| ing Of Il. We stopped at the FulleI
house. which is under the supervision
t6f Ely & Griffith, both OF whom are
| perfect gentlemen, and will treat all
! who stop there in the most hospftable
manner.-FlOrence Pioneer.
4 -Eldorado put up $1,000 worthTsi
new strueeiTes.in 1871. some are not
quite fihished-but there is the record
The pOstoffice department has Or
dered the eontraetOrAon the Eldorado
and Elk Falls mail route to carry the
mail via Little Walnut postofice and
Quito to Brownlow.. A new Office will
be established on the head Lof' Rock
creek with George Messick as postmas.
ter.
{ The U nited States Land Office Of
the Arkansas Land District, now To-
Gated at Augusta, will be removed tC
Wichita, and 're-opened for business al
the latter. place on the Goth of Febr.
tuaEys in accordance with the unani-
nous request of our entire delegation
in Congress. '7s'''i7 .''..- 30 '.t
-Salina had a 10000 fire Christ.
mas.SA csI1 YO1C
-Reace is the name of q new tow
Just Started by Quakers, and is situated
thirty miles wsstof Hutchinson, on tn,
A. +. & s. p rSad.
New Years day Theodore f. Price
editor of the Wichita Vidette, wa
married. . Miss HAttie G9scaigne. :
The new town of Kiowa, in Bar
hour county Is soon to receives larg,
accession TO its population. Severa
families new 4nEHiehita are about Il
remove there i.-as.. r.isg
The Injunction against issuin:
tnads sostks Yklits 8 Southwestern
r R., has been sustained and mad
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Pioneer.
. Silver creek has . debating so
teiety. ''E9 ~ 'a.-''' '- '''s --..
kI-RBNAwAY-One, day last weel
Mr.. John Prather sent his team to EN-
r poria in charge of boy. The tear
) while standing in front of a storG
i WHARF the driver had gone to attend {
some business, become frightened an
{ Started for home, tHenty-three milei
III where they arrived afsEf dark, cUyeFs
: with foaE1, without breaking q strap
displacing q buckle, and not eve
; knocking a splinter from the wagon
4 hCllase GountT Esader. EE& 20
"A little son of Mr.. Frank Webb
&ho Hives some seven or eight mile
southwest of Marion Center, was kicl
. ed1A ne head Ana KILLED, by horsl
Just before Christmas.
: = 'Esdmuel Eply, Formerly of Empol
: ia, is running the Augusta hotel.
: Last fall during the shipping Sc:
Z son, saya the EllsGorth Reporter,t tire
= steers were found with shoras of sue
d enormous length that they could NJ
- get into car, with . five-f0Ot doc