The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-01-10
THE SOUTHWEST.

| NEW tARE8.--HS have received tht'
| drst number OF the Mcpherson .Mes-
senger, published at the town OF Nc
Pherson, Mcpherson county, by Yale
Brothers, who have figured In the
Newspaper business 1t several points
In Southwestern Kansas. Il = 80 poor
y printed that we canGos tell uauch
abO0tits contents.
The EARoRIA NEWS Ia is report Of
the recent railroad accident near this
place SAYS one man Was thrown over
the u leRraph Wire.-Eewtoii kSnsan.
That's what a Newton man told us.
Thr vile of Rev. N. II. Haun of the
Newton circuit, has lett him and taken
up with another man. It seems To
have been no fault of Mr.. Haun's that
she Left
Wichita Is killing of her dogs. That
poem IN the Eagle muet have been
fatal.
The Augusta Republican goes for
Senator Caldwell.
The stage business has about played
out. II Southern Kansas On account Of
the horse disease.
Ground WAS broken On the ssBobtail',
railroad at Eldoradc on Christmas day..
It took nity men and gallon of whis-
Ky TO do It. It didn't take long after
the whisky gave out.
Butler county has 8 population of
l5,iI0o, and not Il church The Times
asks the prayers of Christian people
everywhere for q different state of
things. Why don't they ask for con-.
tributions? Filthy lucre" Is a good
thing on such acca.ions. Five or six
thousand dollars will do more than
prayer. Pass the hat.
The Southern Kansas Stage Com.
pany has been running buggies instead
of stages. Epizootic.
Settlers In entering their land in
meat cases have tO borrow money tO
make payment, and the money sharks
charge firm fifty to sixty per cent
Wichita Eagle. i
Wichita Is about as large as Emporla.
Fifty wagoa lo3ds Of buffalo meat |
came into Wiehits last week.
Game is said TO De plenty at Wichita. |
Quails are fifteen cents each.
Eureka has hook and ladder COM l
Pany. So has Wichita. Emporia
hasn't anything at all to even check
fres.
EIPasO is to have = bridge across the
Arkansas. =.
Arkansas City win have q Uuiver<
ssiist church building.
The spizcOtie is not doing much
damage in South western Kansas.
Il seems 70 be light.
Mrs. C. J. Shannon. county super.
elect OF u arion county,
has moved to Marion Center.
WIN. Lshr has taken the contract
for building bridges across South
Cottonwood, Muddy sad Clear
Greeks, in XarIOa county. |,
Lot Leonard, of Chase county,
raised thirty-nire bushels Of wheat
10 the acre. Il
A farmer who arrived In WichIta a
nay or tWo ago. reports having over
taken te2D loaded with buffalo skins,
aud ON the wagon, etIff with cold. sat
the driver, permitting the team TO
wander ar will over the prairies, aud
unable to help hinsrli. He =
,old the farmer he Was frozen and {
tO reu1ain In the position he {
\ as, and at the same time beckoned
With his head 20 the wagon boz. thus I
>slling aieeation 10 the confensr e,f fhe i
oed. UPs1 ioOking over the side OF | +
he box . terrible sight was before him.
There, lying aide by side, we're two /,
lunters. sti6 Ia death, and AZ the /
wagon iOlted over the ruu1h main.
hey knocked together like two treat
cicles.
The editer Of the Walnut Valley
Tunes writes ''loug-hOrn" poetry.
sleishs are In demand at Marion
,enteE,
The Herald thinks there Win be spf.
!eient hogs rAssed In Greanwoos nsxs .
'nsg - esSSH taS hesS demsnd.