The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-19
STATE NEWS.

nI Horse Thieves are troubling
Topeka is fitting up a thirty-acr
beer garden.
| A Greeley daily paper is talked
of in Topeka.
1 Topeka enjoys telegraph mon
ey order Office.
Twenty Hollanders arrived q
Lyndon last week.
At Ft. Scott they have indica.
tions of coal oil again.
An insect is preying upon the ap.
pies in Jefferson county.
Congressman Lowe spoke al
Council Grove Wednesday night.
Leavenworth has an organized
band of Juvenile house-breakers.
A buffalo was killed on the streets
of Cawker on the morning of the
5th.
Leavenworth fired 100 guns on
the announcement of Greeley's NOM
ination.
Eight jury trials in Shawnee
county, and in only one case the jury
disagreed
The 81. Joseph and Denver rail-
road will soon be completed to Fit.
Kearney.
Maj. Slower has been elected
president of a national bank at
Council Grove.
The town of Doniphan is out in
the cold, the Nebraska railroad hay-
ing removed its track.
A farmer in Jackson county sold
S25l worth of wool from fifty head
of sheep, or So per head.
A boy twelve years old, at Wa
thena, accidentally shot himself
with a pistol on the Fourth.
The Leavenworth Times frantic
ally yells: "Down with siysters
and time-servers." o, dear.
The A. T. 81 S. F. road hauls
wood to Fl. Dodge for S25 per car,
or less than one cent per mile.
gone day last week six hundred
and twelve sacks of silver pas ed
down the K. P, bound for Wales.
Ex-Mayor Halderman, of Leay-
enworth, presided at banquet Civ
en- by Americans in London on the
Fourth.
1t costs $3,2S0 per aunum to carry
the mail on the a. T. & S. f. rail-
road from Newton to Hutchinson,
SO miles.
From Topeka to Kansas City or
Leavenworth on the X. p. the fare
is $2.S5-cheapest fare for same dis
lance in.the West.
In Lawrence a party of young
men rented and furnished house,
hired a cook, and intend to "keep
house on their own hook.
Topeka is to vote on the PROPOSE
ton to induce the King Bridge
company, in the amount of 100000
to locate at that place. The COM
pany go around for bonds.
A drunken Delaware Indian shot
a saloon-keeper few days ago, in
Montgomery county, for refusing
him "more whiskey." Sad.
Out of forty subscribers to the
New York Tribune at White Cloud.
twenty haye ordered it discontin-
ued. Others should follow suit.
A gentleman engaged in bridge
building and canvassing for bridges.
who has travelled considerable over
western Kansas, reports the herd
law working very isfactorily,
in the counties of Saline
and Dickinson.
We learn. from the Lawrence
Journal that old Mr.. Grub, of
Jackson county, had thirteen grand
children helping him harvest, ten of
them being boys under ten years of
age. There is nothing like plenty
of Grubb.
During the month of April the
cash sales and homestead entries of
land in Kansas were in advance of
those in any other. The number of
acres sold for cash was 71,7I6; and
The number located as homesteads
l27,799. Michigan stands second in
cash sales, and Nebraska for home
stead entries.
The Fit. Scott Monitor of the 10th
says the Missouri. Kansas 81 Texas
railroad is nearly graded to Doggy
depot, fifty-two miles north OIL
Texas, and track is now
being laid at the rate of about one
and half miles per day. 1t is ex-
pected that the road will be COM
pleted to Doggy depot by the 18th
ing rapidly on the Red river bridge.
Less than twelve months will be re-
CURED to complete the road to Pal
estine, where connection is made
with the Great Northern railroad,
and communication opened to the
Gulf of Mexico.