The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-26

I. 81 s. f. railroad in one day last
week.
The new bridge at EIdorado was
used the first time on Tuesday of
last week. The Times says it is a
inc structure.
The Cottonwood Fails Leader
says it knows of many good horses
which was worth only ten dollars
apiece when the Assessor was
around.
The A. T. 6 S. F. railroad ia six
miles beyond Great Bend and is CO.
ing ahead at the rate of from ono
to three miles per day.
The Hutchinson News ought 10
have date lines in its sub heads on
The second and third pages, so that
its readers viii not be compelled to
turn the paper over TO find the date
of its Issue
The total valuation of property
in Chase county is S1,937, $500.
Last year it was S9O9, BOB. Increase
in the year STOPS, $1,000. That's
pretty good.
Arkansas City has city organic
alton, and now the dogs are unhap-
Ply. 1t would be a great conven-
iencc to the public aud blessing to
posterity if the city authorities
would change the name of their
town.
Sheriff McKitrick, of Butler
county, arrested a man named Joe
Hager, for DEMONSTRATING, just north
of Augusta, few days ago. He
had stolen horses in Sumner county,
where a reward was offered for him
and where and whence the sheriff
took him for trial. All of which
we learn from the Augusta Repub-
licaD.
The new Presbyterian church
building at Eldorado is almost ready
for the roof. The Times says it will
be one of the finest buildings of the
kind in Southwestern Kansas.
A surveying party, under the
leadership of Prof 7. II. Wilson, is
out now making q survey of the
route of the Arkansas Valley rail-
road from Wichita to Arkansas
y.-[Arkansas Traveller.
Observation-Disclosures for the
town, settlers looking for home
steads, and settlers buying railroad
lands are so numerous in our streets
that it is impossible even from what
State any considerable portion OF
them hail. Nearly all are delighted
with the country, and say they will
write to their friends to come at
once.-[ Hutchinson News.
The Southwestern Stage COM
pany are now running a tri-weekly
line of coaches between Caldwell
and Wellington and daily line be-
tween Wellington and Wichita.
Depart from Caldwell Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays; arrive
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Il Wichita Eagle.
A mammoth railroad meeting
was held in front of the Eldorado
House last Saturday evening. The
heavens were illuminated with bon
fires and the air reverberated with
speeches. Let us have railroad
t-[Eldorado Times.
MAIL CENTRE.-Until within a
In
been supplied by q tri-weekly mail,
and six months ago we only receiv-
ed occasional volunteer mails. Now
service has been extended to this
place as the end of the second divi-
sion on the A. It. s. S. F. railroad,
and our town is to be the center of
a half dozen routes, radiating in
every direction, upon which the
P. o. Department will order SER
vice this fall. We shall thus be con-
nected by frequent communication
with all the surrounding country,
which necessarily makes this its
business CENTER Hutchinson News.
Mr.. John Holford, an enterpris-
ing farmer of Bloomington town
ship has sent to our Office specimens
of Japan millet and spring wheat
that will be hard to beat. One head
of the millet measures 1724 inches
in length and the crop stands about
five feet high in the field. The
spring wheat stands about the same,
and will average thirty bushels to
the acre. The southern half Butler
county will beat the world on crops.
| -[Augusta Republican.
Two hundred carloads of Indian
supplies and government goods will
be shipped from Wichita to the
Cheyenne and other southern agen-
cies during the season. One train
of over one hundred wagons is be-
ing loaded here this week. The
draught cattle are in splendid con-
dition.-[ Wichita Eagle.
Messrs. Jones and VanMeter of
Sangamon county, Illinois, lately
visited us and bought of G. G.
Hutchinson, agent for railroad lands
800 acres, paying on the purchase,
$4,000 cash down. They report a
heavy immigration into this vicin-
ity this season from Illinois,
Hutchinson News.
Real estate is changing hands
lively. Mr. Rowland sold ten acres
of his farm east of town for $50
per acre. Mr.. Wolf has sold his
improved farm one mile east of
town for 81 600, J. p. Short being
the purchaser Winfield Messen-
ger.
To a stranger, visiting untchin-
son for the first time, the array of
wagons that line the streets, and the
number of emigrant tents that dot
the prairie in the immediate vicinity
of the town, must be satisfactory
evidence of the rapid increase of
our population, and the energetic
character of the men who have fix
ed upon this locality for their flu
ture home. We predict that in less
than two years Reno county will
have q population of at least ten
thousand, and Hutchinson, its coun-
ty seat, at least fifteen hundred in
habitants. To those looking up a
good location for permanent settle
ment, we say come to Reno county
if you wish to secure a healthy To-
cation in one of the best agrieul-
tural counties in the State of Kan
sas.-[ Hutchinson News.
NEW FLOUR MILL.-We under
stand that the firm of Wheeler s.
Burdett, of this place have pur-
chased the water power adjoining
town and will soon commence The
erection of large three-story wa
ter mill. These are just the men to
take hold of this enterprise and
make it q success. There is q for
tune in it.-[Eldorado Times.
On the evening after our last issue
we had the pleasure of call from /
Mr.. Peter and Mr.. Geo. II. Nettle- |
ton, of the A. 7. 81 S. T. railroad. |