The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17
SOUTHWEST.
Toledo has n grange.

Building is brisk at Great Bend.
Eidorado has musical union, of
which Judge Campbell is president.
Deputy Hanna is working in Chase
county.
The Chase county bank has received
large safe.
j. F. Cummings, formerly of Topeka,
will have charge of the Great Bend
Progress.
The last Chase County Leader was q
good one, and furnishes US with plenty
of Southwest items.
A drove of twenty-eight antelope
near town furnished sport for the Flor
encites few days ago.
n. J. Swaze, of the Chase county
bank, at Cottonwood Falls, promptly
paid all checks presented to him dur
ing the late panic.
The Chase County Leader says sew
eral head of cattle have died On .Dia-
mond crrek with Spanish fever.
The last rain sent the grasshoppars
that had set up business in Chase coun-
ty of to more congenial climes.
The Augusta Republican says it has
lived. for two years; but If it is to live
a year longer, the merchants must
bring in advertisements.
The Leader says ten times as much
wheat has been sown in Chase county
this season as in any former one.
G. A. Britton, of Cottonwood Falls,
raised from an acre and quarter of
ground, GS bushels of Michigan white
amber wheat.
C.. w. Miller, formerly of this city,
is spreading himself in the dry goods
line at Florence. a
Captain G.. NJ. Jackson, of Marion
county, raises sunfiowers big enough
for fire wood.
Quite a number of farms have been
opened up on the West Branch of the
Walnut during the past year. adding
population and wealth to Colorado and
Chelsea townships.-Times.
j. w. Stewart, an old citizen of Au-
gusta, died at his house in that place,
q week ago last Sabbath, after o pro-
tracted illness. A large number OF
Odd Fellows Augusta assisted in the
funeral obsequies.
We were in attendance at the Sedg-
wick county fair, held at Wichita, last
week. The Wichita folks had q big
crowd aud plenty of fun. Mr.. Lambs
horse. Champion, of Douglass, took the
first premium for trotting; MeKitrick's
mare, of Augusta, took the purse for
fast running, and Whitewater ball
took the premium for the best animal
on the ground. A large number of
at the fair. The exhibition was very
creditable 20 the people OF Sedgwick
county. We are under lasting obliga-
tionsato the officers of the association
as well as to many citizens of Wichita
for courteous attentions. - Walnut Val
ley Times.
The Times gets after the mail agents
as follows: Aa E4
Our MAILs.-Some lazy, trifing,
peg-legged, poke-easy, scalawag of
route agent on the Atkinson, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad keeps sending our
mail to Granada, Texas, Wichita, or
some other sea port, when no hadn't
ought to. Pay attention to this You
galoot and learn something: EIdorado
mail wants to be sent to Eldorado; do
you hear? Towanda mali wants to be
sent to Eldorado. RosalIa, Quito, Lit
tie Walnut, Brownlow and Bryant
mail should be sent to Eldorado. The
mail for all of the above points should
be put out of your postal car at Flor
ence, be you drunk or sober. Now
sir, cut this out, paste it up within an
inch of your nose and learn some sense.
1t you don't hear and heed we will
send man up to preach your funeral.
demonstrating through Benton
township last Saturday we saw large
fields of cotton-the stand good, plants
large, and the bottom ones already
burst, and being gathered. Messrs.
Dodge, Drake, Matthews, Rice and
others or that township are going to
make cotton raising q success. BEN
ton township has SIX miles square of
as good land as there IL on the face of
the earth. a hedge row has been bro
ken and hedge set out around nearly
every quarter-section In the township.
Orchards have been put out, houses
built, fences made and fields cultivated,
reminding one of an old settled coun-
try. Water is easily obtained by dig-
ging. The citizens are industrious and
enterprising, and win make Benton
township bloom and blossom as the
rose Eldorodo Times.
The following gentlemen were nom
mated at the Republican convention
in Cowley county last week for the
offices named: Representative, James
AcDermott; County Clerk, II. G.
Troupe; Treasurer, e. b. Kager; Reg
lister of Deeds, N. c. McCulIoeh; Sher-
If, 3. L. Walker; Coroner, Sim Moore |
Surveyor, W. w. Walton; Commits
sioners, Messrs. L. e. Manley, j. G.
Titus and r. F. Barclen.
The grasshoppefs are evIncIEg a |
fnndness for the green wheat In the
the vicinity of Florence.
A party of emEgrants camped near
MIR, Pat Coyne's, west OF town, and set |
the FIRE out which spread and ccnsum-
ed large quantity OF that gentleman's /
hay. Deputy Sheriff J. ]. Covert iol- |
lowed and overlook the party on Sand /
creek, near Newton, and collected |
$40.6s damages.-FIoreuce Pioneer.
The Pioneer says the Marion county |