The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-29
STATE ITEMS.
junction cify scrip is At rar.

.Iancsioa City scrip is At rar.
Adczen horses epizOoGed in Cnerokee
Corn sold At Paa;A at tso cents 4
bushel.
Petroleum mas been discovered: in |
Western Kansas.
Fit. Kearney was wiped ont by fire
November Is.
An acEeiH Montgomery county yield
ed 800 pounds of cotton.
Abilene gobbled 500 pounds OF fish
at one haul Of the seine.
The State Teachers Association will
meet In Humboldt next month.
Nobody knows how many newspa-
pers there are ct Council Grove.
1888 cars OF cattle were shipped from
Ellsworth in october.
Ellsworth has organized coal COM
pany with $4,000 capital.
100000 worth of buildings were
erected in Ellsworth this season.
Kansas has as fine building stone as
any part OF the world
Winter wheat is in splendid condi-
ton all over Kansas.
Junction City has the fastest bank
building in Kansas, Topeka not eN-
cepted. -.
1898, 495 pounds of freight were
forwarded from Ellsworth during
October.
Wood and coal stealing has COM
menced for the season TT Spring Hill.
Here, TOO.
One hundred thousand bushels OF
coal were exported FROM Usage City in
October. SIS
There are four grist mills on the
main Solomon within twenty miles OF
Cawker City. :. :+l-
The A. T. d S, f. will DO completed
to the wesz line of the State December
18th. -
Postofflce is worrying the politicians
| of Lawrence. That is what Kalloch's
election means.
1t VIII require 100000 bushels of
! now in Kansas.
The New York World gives an en-
thusiastic puff TO the Kansas produc-
tions exhibited at the New York fair.
Johnson county, Kansas, rcceiY-
! cd one hundred pounds OF boys last
week. They were done up in packages
of ten pounds each.
doe" Garrison, q section boss on
! the j.. T., was murG cred at Muacie
station for his money.
4. 5. Elliott, the Kansas Pacific
| agent, recommends the Austrian pine,
| Scotch pine and red cedar as ever
greens most likely to do we'll in Kansas.
Dan Russell has Victimized Fort
Scott audience by getting of, In front
| OF them, that lecture, "Ifumors of
P2thes."
The number Of female candidates
! that will beseige our Legislature this
winner for clerkships is getting large.
| Nearly all tho ~Kansas Country
Press" copy that puff which the Kan
sas City journal published about them.
| Each thinks it was meant especially
for him. ... ....
Tho Usage Mission Transcript learns
that s. colony OF 800 Irish will soon
leave the Green Isle for this country,
and they intend to settle in the vicin-
ity OF Usage Mission.
The Kansas Chief says: There has
been considerable destruction Of corn
| fields in this vicinity of late, caused
| by sparks from, locomotives. Several
fields have bcnd burnt within the past
few days.
\ man, who was an entire stranger,
and who was craZed with whisky, sue
ceeded, after several attempts. in
| throwing himself in front of 4 train of
cars the other day, near Ft. Scott. He
was mutillated IN a horrible manner.
The citizens interfered and prevented
him from carrying out his design sew
eral times during the day, but in the
evening ke gave them the slip, and
committed suicide in this way.
Sheep farmingf is destined to become.
a large and profitable industry in
| Kansas. The Longton Ledger says:
| E. j. Sweet has just received from
Waukesha, Wis, Two of the finest
MerinO bucks ever brought to Kansas.
Mr.. 5. is taking great pains to improve
his stock of all Kinds, and his flock of
sheep, some 900 in number, is already
! the pride of Howard county.
Concerning the wheat prospects of
Cherokee county the WOrkingman's
journal says: In putting in their fall
wheat the farmers have been unusually
industrious, and on every farm may be
found a large tract of nice, well drilled,
green wheat, which has grown to such
an extent os to mat the ground. Sow
a.
arts" in Cherokee county.
Raising good stock in Kansas is q
paying business. We find the folio W.
ing account Of stock sales In the Gar
nett Plsindealer. Mr.. s. s. Upton, of
Recder township, sold TO Mr.. A. A.
Adams, last week, five short horns
three cows, one heiter and one bull
calf-for $3.50. Mr.. Jackson Means
purchased of him one heller for which
he paid $l7J, and James Shaw bought
one cow for $50. They were all Dur
ham stock. 4 few days ago Mr.. Tip
ton also sold 80 head of graded cattle,
three and four years old, which aver
aged l440 pounds gross, and they
brought $72,37 per head. Mr.. Upton
is one OF our most successful stock
growers, and he takes q laudable pride
in raising bloodcd animals.
An IMMENSE SUCCEss.-Mr. Fa-
gan, Of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe road informs the Atchison
Champion that from August 18th
to November 2lst. inclusive, the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe |
railroad handled 4,61S cars OF cattle
of which :, lS7 came from Wichita.
Each car contained from twenty to
thirty head of stock, say an average
of twenty-five head, and hence the
road has transported In little over
three months l0l, 596 head of ca tile. |
The company could have shipped
fully a thousand cars more, if they |
had the rolling stock. There are 1
about 200 car loads of cattle yet to
ship. This is an immense business,
and Will grow as the line extends. |