The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-11-14
nArEs OF ADYERT1s1NG.
EMPORIA NEW S.
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER IA. 1873.
SOUTHWEST.
The Arkansas is very low.

The Arkansas IL very low.
Wichita cast nearly 600 votes at
the last election, indicating popu-
lation of nearly three thousand.
The Augusta Republican fears
prairie fires. They do have some
awful old burns in Butler county.
The Arkansas valley had fine
rain week ago last Saturday night,
which did much good.
The number of car loads of cattle
shipped from Wichita for the month
of October figures up l,27S, or 10
the aggregate 5000 head of cattle.
The emigration to the Arkansas
Valley continues very heavy, and
the development of Reno county
still rushes onward and upwards.
The Republican ticket was elected
by n large majority in Sedgewick
county, and the "bird o. freedom"
comes out in the Eagle, and the big
newspaper eagle and all the little
eagles pronounce the country safe
till next fall.
Eidorado keeps improving. The
new bank building and NJ. E. church
will soon be ready for occupancy.
Several residences are going up.
business is lively, both with trades
men aud land agents. Emigrants
still keep coming. Produce of all
kinds is cheap-corn 20 cts. cash ;
potatoes, 40 cts, &c. The county is
full OF Texas cattle, which will be
wintered here by the the thousands.
Hay is plenty, aud of course very
cheap.
The ladies of Lincoln township
turned out on election day and gave
their fathers, brothers, sons and
husbands a big dinner. Lincoln
won't almost solid republican. OF
course she did.-Wichita Eagle.
IL is estimated that seven thous-
and head OF cattle left this market
last Sunday, by far the largest half
being driven away on foot, il being
lawful after the LIST day of Novem-
Der to drive anywhere.-Wichita
Eagle.
Vernon township was subjected
To a severe confiagration last week
which swept over nearly the entire
township, burning Stacks and hedge
rows, causing considerable damage.
Winfield Courier.
Judge Wilkins, of Garnett, agent
of The line of the Missouri Pacific
road now building between Paola
and Carpet, Is in this county for
the purpose of securing aid In the
extension of that road TO Arkansas
City by way of Eldorado and this
city. If he succeeds in affecting his
purpose it will give us a direct route
to Kansas City and st. Louis by q
trunk line.-Winfield Courier.
Hon. c. @. HuTcHNsoN.-We
congratulate Mr.. Hutchinson upon
his election for representative. He
was nominated during his absence
and without his knowledge. He
arrived home last Thursday and
made eleven speeches up to Monday
night refuting the SANDERS which
some of his enemies had been in
dustriously circulating for several
months aud Obliging their chief
speakers to openly retract. lie car
ried his own township four to one
and that of Mr.. Kanaga's, his oppo-
nent, almost two to one. lie was
supported by the grangers and
largely by the farmers generally.
Had he arrived home sooner his
ha 4,
signal.--IIutchinson News.
A TERRIBLE CATAsTRoPuE.-O
Monday a child l6 months old was
roasted TO death in Haven township
The facts, as related by VIM. Astle,
are these:
On Monday morning, John ".
Page, the father of the child, left
Tor Wichita to be gone q couple of
days. His mission was to induce
an estranged wife TO return. lie
left the house and babe in charge of
his two little boys, aged respective
ly seven and five years. This was
criminal and fatal carlessness, as the
sequel proved. In the afternoon on
Monday, Mr.. Astle saw smoke and
flame issuing from the house. He
ran to it and found the two boys
outside, with their faces, necks and
hands all blistered. He attempted
to dash into the house to rescue the
baby, but was quickly driven back
by the fire, with a blistered face
aud minus his eyebrows and q con-
siderable portion of his mustache-
Other parties arrived to his assist.
ance, but they could do nothing.
When the fire subsidized, the roasted
body of the babe was found in the
cellar. The arms and legs were
burnt of, and the head so charred
that il dropped into pieces as the
men raised the body. The other
two children are at Astle's, or at
least were on Tuesday, awaiting the
return OF their father. The fire
originated from stove. Page has
for some time past been thought
partially demented. The suspicion
must be correct or he would not
have exposed his children to such
fatal risks, as he did.-Hutchinson
News.
SNAKEs.-Ou the 2d inst, John
Is. Putnam aud several others visit
eel prairie dog city three miles
from town for the purpose of catch
ing some dogs to send TO 1T. Wayne
Indiana. The day was warm aud
sunny, and about the holes
were basking hundreds of snakes
Put" aud his comrades armed
themselves with sticks and made
terrible slaughter. They killed
about two hundred, of which ont
hundred and seventy-fiVe were rat
tlesnakes. "Put" came back to town
exultant, and with his pockets full
of rattles plucked from tails of his
victims.
In the spriug and fall the "boys'
all over the country have grea
sport visiting these towns and car
rying out the scripturAl Injunction
OF bruising serpents heads. The,
carry on the business in q wholesai
manner 50 effectively, that il
thought, after next spriug, q snak
will be u curiosity in the settle,
portions of Reno county.-Hutch
inson News.
The HAY CRoP.-The hay GRO
of Kansas is and will continue Z
be one of the most valuable tha
the State produces. 1t has bee
selling this fall at from three I
i've dollars per ton in this marke
With hay presses in use and re.
sonable and just transportatio
rates, the surplus hay in Kanss
TODAY for sale yvOnld almnst