The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-07-04
STATE ITEMS.
1881 cattle at Ellsworth.

STATE ITEMS.
14s,S9l cattle at Ellsworth.
Mad dogs at Lawrence and Fort
Scott.
Population of Olaihe 2,2O2, and
Paola 1917.
Springfield, Mo-, uses Kansas
coal.
North Lawrence is to have a new
hotel.
Kansas has 300, 900 acres of pIow-
ed land.
Heavy lightning storms reported
everywhere.
Kansas has fifteen railroads in OPP
Grafton and $4,000 projected.
An Olathe horse has travelled a
mile , :23, and his owner refused
5000.
Cedarville is building the finest
stone school house west of Cav ker
City.
Leavenworth claims TO be erect
ing more costly buildings than any
city west OF Chicago.
The Lawrence Standard drops
the name democrat" because il
"means nothing" Correct.
The Lawrence Journal says the
bonded Indebtedness of the city OF
Lawrence is $526,O79.2s.
OswegO goes to Parsons TO cele-
brate the 4th in the machine shops,
which will seat 1900 people.
LeaYenwOrth has stock compa
NY with 100000 capital, to build a
hotel conner of Shawnee and Fifth
streets.
Topeka clothing merchants re-
fuse to sell correspondents of the
Aichison Globe u ew shirts on cred
it. Perhaps they have had some ex-
perince in the credit line with To-
peka newspaper men.
The Atchison Champion pleasant
ly describes editor Smith, of the
Neodesha Free Press, as ''an able
bodied blow hard, full of wind and
gas, but as barren of ideas as b-ass
monkey" Now let us hear from
Smith in regard TO the Champion
man.
A dispatch from Parsons says the
wheat crop is nearly ali harvested
in Southern Kansas, and saved in
good order. Labette county alone
will raise half a million bushels of
wheat this year against two hum
dred thousand last year.
Some miscreants entered the NJ.
f. church at Grasshopper Falls, last
week, and cut the cords by which
the chandeliers were suspended,
letting them fall to the floor, smash
ing them in pieces. The future
state of these chaps will be in a
tropical CLINE.
The Topeka Common eaith local
hasher says Atchison sis jus; the
place for Sunday school excur-
siOn," because IL is 'interspersed
with repnisiva stnmps, foul
with decay" What particular at
traction there is in "repulsiVe
stumps, foul with decay" for Sun
day school excursiOnists, the e.ni-
nent writer does not 60 On To state,
but we ought not to say he don't
know. Perhaps ne knows more
about foul stumps than he does
about Sunday school excursions,
The Kansas Pacific railway has a
large force at work pillow ing fire
guards Oh either side of the road
from Fort Ilarker, 2lS miles west
of Kansas City, 10 Fort Wallace, a
distance of 204 miles. The fnrrOw
is being plOwed a undred feet
from the center of the track on eli
Their side, aud the Intervening space
is being burned over, thus prevent
ing the range from being burned by
sparks from locomotives, and in
surfing to cattle men good grazing
the year round. This work is al
ready completed ON the north side
of ihe TOad fran Fort iIarEer to
Russell, nearly so miles. aud pro-
crossing with sufficient dispatch to
insure the completion OF the work
before winter sets in.
TEs salary of the District Judge
of Kansas gao increased, q year ago
from 5000 to So, 500 per annum.
We understand Judge Stevens of
this District declines to draw the
exIra allowance over and above
S2,0pQ. lte says ne was elected on
the salary of $1,000 per aBnum, and
does not think il right 10 draw any
more than thai during l.is present
tPrR Of office. In other words, he
considers ihsi .,e entered int0 a
contract when he vas elected to
serge the people Of this District al
n eertaiH siipnlated sum. To take
more tliap ihat stipulated spm now,
according 10 bis view, you'd be
breaking The e0ptrset,-Paols Spirit.