The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-05

II bonds ont for macadamizing, Il
grading, etc, which is not part of
the public debt, bat must come from /
certain lots.
The Kansas City Bulletin men
tons the arrival at State Line, on
Friday, OF $50 southerners, who in
tend settling at Abeline and along
the line of the Kansas Pacific rail-
way. They were from Virginia
and East Tennessee. 9sf
In California editors are exempt
from jury duty. A similar provis
ion should be adopted here. for if
the man who only reads q newspa-
per be deemed unfit 10 serve on 3
jury, the man who edits it must be
doubIy so.-Ft. Scott Monitor.
The Times says that Leayeaworth
has grown from a "way station"
and an Out-of-the-way point, mac
eessible from almost everywhere.
until now she is the focal point of
one of the most magnificent railway
systems in the West. L-.-.
It 10 reported that the Kansas
Pacific is talking of making arrange
ments with the Chicago Southwest
ern, by which the sleeping coaches
Of the latter company win be run
through from Chicago to Denver
| without change. a.t
Montgomery county is said to
have . county Indebtedness of $780,:
| 600. and not wishing to be odd they
propose to make it an even million
by voting $4,000 to a branch of
the II. *. s. T. railroad. How IL
that for a four year old county?
/ The Fort Scott Monitor contains
the following notice of female
J friend: eve have an egg which
measures eight inches by six, and
we think it is the best egg of thu
season. A royal bird, owned BY
Royal Briggs, of Drywood, laid thi
egg. The hen is part Brahma, AM
entirely sound. Her head is round.
Excitement at Lacygne over tn
{ mineral discoveries there is on tn
s increase. One day it is gold, tn
> next silver. But all seem agreed o
> one point, viz: that it is valuabl
D stun, whatever it may be.
= The largest grave in the State
probably at Delphos, which, accord
ling to the Solomon Valley Pioneer
I is forty feet long, eight deep ant
eight wide, and contains the lifeles
remains of several hundred poo
- Texas cattle. s4l.,sa -
Il The Salina Journal says that cole
It nies from Indiana, Ohio and Ill
nois are expected to arrive in Salin
% in day or SO. Many of them wi
]. settle in Rice and Barton counties
Is some of them will settle in an
II above Lincoln Center, Lincol
= county, and some of them wi
y make their homes in Salina count
8, The NJ. X. s. T. railway compar
N has filed Patent No. 2, to be recort
{; at OswegO, conveying to it los, OK
y arcres of the Usage Coded Lands
Labette md Neosho counties. TIL
ID makes near 100000 acres of the
le lands patented to the compan
he about two-thirds the number
Il, acres claimed.
~ The board of Commissioners [
J" audit Indian claims organized
" Oswego on the 18th, by the appoin
, ment of f. p. Baker chairman, al
oi Capt. Henry Brandley Secretar
= The commission met in Topeka, (
10 the I'd of April and VIII contin
BE until the 18th. But few of L
% claims presented at Oswego W
- be recommended, as they are pr
~ cipally from parties who settled
IL the Indian lands before the war, g
% ter the breaking out of which, Il
~ Indians who owned the lands, u
20 der the command of a rebel colon
ns made raid on them and destroy,
NJ everything they had and dro
them off. zasassE OF - .s'7