The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-10-25
STATE NEWS.

Kansas fruit is creating a sensa-
ton at the New York City Fair.
Judge A. L. Winans, an old citi-
zen of Topeka died in that city
few days ago..
Phillips county takes a pumpkin,
scoops out the stuffin' and uses it
for ballot box.
Coffeyville has had two hundred
American citizens of African de-
scent added to its population within
the last ten days.
The District court of Morris
county is in session. That county
now forms part of the eighth Judi
cial District. Hon. w. I'll. Garfield
is Judge.
A new county, to be called Paw
nee, is shortly to be organized. 1t
lies about one hundred and fifty
miles west of here, on the A. T. s.
S. f. railroad, and embraces Fort
Larned within its limits. The pop
uIation is said to be about one
thousand.
Mitchell county farm land, with
out railroad, is officially appraised
at SIS per acre. They will get over
that after trying it a year or SO.
The Baxter public school has
opened under Prof. Philo, whose
salary is 81, 400 year. Number of
scholars, 1926; average teachers
wages, S45 month.
The Wabaunsee county board, at
a recent meeting, created two new
townships. One out ofAlma town
ship, called Mill creek; the other
out of Wilmington and a portion
of Alma, called Rock creek.
Mr.. Porter, of Doniphan county,
made 10000 gallons of wine this
season.
Miss Highly, she of Chetopa, who
is up for county superintendent of
public instruction, is having fear
full run. She is one of the best
"done" women in the State.
LeaYenworth desires paper mill.
A new Getty of Kansas" city
of the third class, situate and lying
between Wyandotte and the old
Kansas City, is about to be incor-
porated. Population, 500.
Cawker City contains al houses,
and the frontier has moved west
ward from Cawker seventy five
miles in eighteen months.
Crawford county has the best
quality OF stone for grindstones.
Three human skeletons were dug
up in Leavenworth, Monday, while
workmen were excavsting on Pot
street. That city is full
of skeletons.
In six months Topeka thinks she
will haye seven hundred men in the
machine shops in the city. When
that time comes dozen extra wag-
ons on the avenue will not be such
an event as they are now.
In the payment of the Price Raid
scrip, not moro than $4,000 of it
went to bankers the balance went
to first holders.
Carr, of Paola, raised and put up
three thousand bushels of peaches.
Topeka is to haye another grain
elevator. A Vermonter puts it up. |
Webb, of Usage county, has rails
ed two crops of potatoes this year
from one piece of ground.
The grasshopper scare in Western
Kansas was grand failure.
The people of Paola gaze at
,upola on their new school house,
which is LOG feet high. Cost of
supola, including a little school
house mixed in, only $4,000.
The NJ. K. s. t. has struck a five
loot coal vein in the Choctaw coun-
ry, and are shipping the coal north.
The season of accidental shoot
ngs has arrived, and the sdispensa-
ions of Providence, as dwelt upon
It the funerals friends of the fami-
y invited) are fearfully mysterious.
The Oxford Press, in an article on
Mob Law" made a typographical
'rror and headed the article ''Mop
4aw." The mistake is immaterial,
10Th of them are distressing to con-
but of the two, the rule
# the mop and the broom stick is,
We think, fraught with as much suf-
ering and grief to male humanity
s that of an irresponsible crowd.
inc inflicts great deal of lingering
Misery, while the other only a linz
ed amount of instantaneous death.
The Capital City News don't
lean any harm by it, but it has
Onundrums, each one ending up {
nth, "What does the Common 1
Tealth say to that" The Com
lonwealth doesn't say. 1t dosen't
top work to play. II
The portico columns at the capi-
u arc about half way up. :
The State Superintendent of Pub Z
c Instruction has bought for the s
tate school fund 81, GOO of district 3
onds. He reports the building of {
cry large number of school houses, J
id most OF them of the better class.
Prof. Lee, of Manhattan, doesn't
ant any more of the Kansas Farm
in his TIC saws. etSkon my naray