The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-08
station, lie improving. New build
ings are being erected.

ings are being erected.
The people in the .neighborhood |
of Cedar Greek, Chase county, pro-
pose having farmers club, and
with this end in view, will hold q
meeting At the school house in Dis
trict No. Is. on the evening OF Nov. |
18th. Good more, and We wish it |
SUCCESS.
At Cottonwood Falls the follow
ing are the prices OF wheat: Spring,
S1.15; fail, $3.50
Mrs. A. B. Watson, of this place,
raised this year, in her garden, q
beet sixteen inches long, and weigi-
ing eight pounds.
Mrs. John Prather died near Cot
tonwood Falls, of puerperal fever,
on the 24ih of October.
P. T. Bowen, of this city, left one
day last week for Denver, with q
car load Of onions. The rest will
he forwarded in . few weeks. Mr..
Bowen raised 1900 bushels on four
acres.
Cowlsy County.
Prairie chickens are plenty at Ar
kansas City.
DIR. Leonard, of Arkansas City,
has a pair of State Fair premium
hogs, of the Berkshire breed. Hog
culture is going to be an item in
the Southwest.
According to Prof. Norton. In the
Arkansas City Traveller, buffaloes
do below, Cspt. Steele in the Kan
sas Magazine to the contrary not
withdrawing.
Much interest Is being taken in
the Walnut valley, in the Nebraska
railroad, which now proposes to
traverse that valley.
Arkansas City is In hopes of Sc
curing the location there of a colo
ny OF Italians.
sedewiek County.
Long trains Of emigrant wagons
pass through Wichita.
California pears are Sc dozen In
Wichita. Sales small.
The Presbyterians of Wichita
haye Q fine choir.
Wichita pays little less than
$25, 600 to the tax gatherer.
The experiment tiled OF the rails
ing OF cotton and tobscco in this
county has proven entirely satisfac-
tory.
The Eagle has a turnip which
weighs seven pounds.
Wichita has just completed an
extensive system of sidewalks.
The stately residence OF william
Greifensrein, on Water street, is
enclosed. In artistic design it will
pre- sent q fine appearance, while it
lie commodious and substantially
built.-Wichita Eagle.
Read this, from the Wichita Eagle,
and then tell rs what is the matter
with the tother Murdock:
"Our lovely autumn, with its soft
shadowy days of mournful music,
made by the signing winds on the
faded prairIes and that's of woods,
was suddenly broken into by sweep
ing blasts."
The sale Of cattle this week has
been quite brisk, owing partly to
the fact that a great deal of the pas
turage has been burned of, and
owners are getting anxious to sell.
!. The prices of large beef are IN
changed, ranging from two and a
half to three. Small beeves are a
shade lower, some few sales being
made at two. The amount shipped
this week has been fifty car load -,
J daily.
Harvey County.
Business at Newton is improving,
and the town is gradually outgrow-
ing the evil reputation of its early
days. The morals of the place are
! improving most decidedly, and in
consequence good families are locat-
ing in and around the city.-Wich-
ita Eagle. =
And nearly all of the hard cases
haYe migrated to " ichita.-Newton
Kansan.
Sumner Comfy.
We CLEAN the following Sumner
county items from the Wellington
Banner:
i A lady at Caldwell advsrtises for
the Democratic candidate who stole
her chickens on the occasion of a
recent Greeley rally there, to call
and pay for them.
Fall immigration has set in in
earnest, and large numbers Of i'm
migrants are passing through town
every day, seeking homes in this
country.
Wellington wants to incorporate
as q city of third class, and petit
tons Judge Campbell accordingly.
The Banner has seen q turnip
which weighs ~ pounds, and meas