The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-19

promise with Mr.. Parker, but Mr.
Smith via not give way, and Pau
win appeal to the courts, on the GROUND
that the Earmer election was irregular
and therefore did not warrant a full
term.
A sad accident occurred some five
miles west Of this place one day last
week. A woman, who was holding
one end of a pole while her husband
was mailing the other to keep the
h. arses ia the stable, had her skull
kieA I'd in by one of the horses. She
expired instantly. Her husband
brought h Ner here from Illinois only q
week or two, before this sad occurrence.
winfield Nc Ssenger, 18th.
On the I'd, B, srich II. Truesdell, OF
Dexter, Cowley crunty, left home to
look after stray CATTLE On the 9Th his
dead body was found in a raVine about
two miles from Dexter. He was aged
GO, and had evidently died from expos
ure to the cold.
SOME HoGs.-The Emporia papers
are in ecstaey over Lyon county hog
weighing SIS pounds net. II. L. Hunt
& Co. bought dressed hog from Col.
Wood which weighed $50 pounds and
it wasn't extra fat either. Col. Wood
says this hog could have been made to
weigh 500 pounds net, had the same
trouble been taken in feeding that there
vas in Increasing the breed.-Cotton-
wood Falls Leader.
The family of John Stout, near Cot
tonWood Falls, were poisoned, recent
~, because the cook made the slight
mistake of useing tartar emetic instead
of baking powder for the biscuit. No
one killed.
sTruthful James" wants the Normal
School moved from Emporia to Cotton
wood Falls? Now why not adopt the
easiest plan Of moving Cottonwood
Falls to Emporia?
West wichita has eighteen buildings
of which two are stores, tive black
smith shops, one wagon shop, one
paint shop, one saloon, two boarding
houses, three feed stables. The re-
mainder of the buildings are occupied
by private families. When the bridge
is completed, West Wichita will grow
astonishingly.
The Wichita debating society is to
this week finally settle the question
''shall female suffrage be adopted in
the United States Pr Anything to
make Woodruff & Co. subside.
Augusta was thrown into a high
state of excitement on Wednesday, by
the arrest Of four parties for making
fraudulent entry of lands. The names
of the parties are Cross, Jacobs, and
Willard, OF Wichita, Miller and Dick
Richardson. They will have an ex-
animation on Friday morning. Those
parties, it is asserted, have been fur
nished the money by several promi-
nent persons in Wichita. The whole
thing will come Out.-Wichita vi
dette.
w. E. Armstrong, of Augusta, has
been appointed deputy sheriff of But
Ter county.
Plum Grove, Butler county, wants a
law to make a one year old hedge le-
gal fence.
Chelsea has three dry good and gro
eery stores, drug store, cabinet shop,
saw and grist mill, and is soon to have
another drug store.
Various citizens of Butler, Marion,
Sedgwick and Mcpherson counties,
want to form a new county out of ter
ritory from the above named counties,
with Newton as the county seat. But
Ter county is asked to give two town
ships.
The Eldorado Times has very sensi-
bly, changed its local type from nom
pariel to BREWER.
The Butler county horticultural and
agricultural society has received its
charter, and proposes to have county
fair next fall.
Some fellows recently broke into an
Eureka saloon, and carried of seven
gallons of whisky and 1000 cigars.
The school house in district No. z,
Greenwood county, was destroyed on
the sth b. an incendiary fire. Some
body wants to pay more school taxes.
G. II. Martz has been appointed
school superintendent in Greenwood
county.
John S. Gilmore, the new Register
of Deeds for Wilson county, has ap-
pointed J. w. Slower to act as his dep
uty.
Mr.. McKercher has purchased the
hotel at Peabody, and rented it to a
Mr.. Hanover, who is to furnish and
run it in good style.
E1dorado township, Butler county,
pays 81 mills tax this year, whereupon
the Times demands a constitutional
convention, biennial legislative ses-
sions, &c.
February 9th, Park and Sedgwick
townships, Sedgwick county, vote
whether or not to subscribe $4,000,
respectively, to the "Wichita & CHM
maron railroad"-to run from Sedg-
wick to Park City and thence across
the Arkansas.
In consequence of q decision by
Probate Judge Baldwin, of Sedgwick
county, by which Sol. H. Kohn is
placed in the board of County Com
missioners, the Wichita Vidette says
the contract between Sedgwick county
and the A. T. 6 s. F. road, for the
branch to Wichita, is virtually annul-
led and that IL believes Mr. Pnfera