The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-11-21
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Prairie fires are illumiIating the
Southwest. They are dangerous as
well as beautiful. ana
The Walnut Valley Times favors
a twenty days session of the the
Legislature. s -. :
Some Peabody sportsmen went
out the other day and, through
mistake, killed some tame turkeys.
A porcupinea was captured near
Wellington, Sumner county, last
week.-W Winfield Courier. :
The Arkansas City Traveller says |:
Several cases of small pox. is re-
ported at Wichita.
This fall has added several sub
lstAntial, men to, our city, and many
fPfacticaT and experienced farmers
to our countrY.-Wichita Eagle.
The Marion county Record has
entered upont the third year of its
publication. The publisher talks
eneouragingly of its future. t :.
The Eureka Herald speaking of
the Republican party says j1-t-.
1t is fact to the credit ofthe
party here that it has never elected
a bad man to Office in this, Green
wood, county,
On Monday of this week Judge
Harrison bntchered fat pig ninc
months old which weighed 32S
pounds dressed. Who can beat it !?
Walnut Valley Times.
According to the Eagle the Wlch-
ita people go out and capture theil
own meat, such as buffalo, antelope,
and turkey. They will. certainly
feast this winter.
Mr.. Harrick, near Winfield, rails
ed about 90 bushels Of peanuts this
year, which he sold for 81 per BUSH
ell. lie says he can raise seventy
five bushels to the acre. That is
better business thar: raising corn at
30 cents per bnshef.
The Eureka Herald informs. us
that one DIR. Ballinger and his clerk,
Williams, have stepped out from
ttheir drug store in Eureka, to leave
many creditors to mourn their, the
creditors loss. -s,- 500
The Augusta Republican says:
The demand for dwelling houses in
Augusta is on the Increase. Quite
number of families have come In
lately and more are coming. I'll
some person with capital would
build about twenty-five houses here
he would find their rent q profits:
BILE Investment.
WHAT a WHoPPER.-W. j. Cam
eron brought to our Office last Nom
day a cucumber oyer three feet long.
This is the shortest one from a vine
that produced over five hundred.
The trouble is that the cucumber
is all right and no lie about it.
Ugh.-Walnut Valley Times.
DEAD-Thc notorious Red of
Wichita, who was shot during row
in his dance house q short time ago,
died of his wounds Tuesday, 11th
inst. He lived fools life, and
died apparently regretting IT. Will
men never learn the old, old lesson
'sThe way of the transgressor is
hard ?" Again. "the.wages of sin is |
DEATH" Letliving sinners layethese |
things to heart.
The following is little spicy:
We welcome to onr midst DIR. |
Andrews, who came among US to |
stay. The DIR. is polished gentle
man of culture. lie speaks several /
different languages, knows his pro-
fession, has travelled four years in /
Europe, and is altogether a very in
'teresting man. We hope to see him
reconciled to his new home, and
that pleasure and prosperity may
be his,
LATER.-Since writing the above
we learn that the above gentleman
has dit out" leaving q discOnsolate
landlord.-Winfield Courier.
Don't welcome until you know
your man. @
We see by the Wichita Eagle that
"Rev. II. J. Walker, of Wisconsin,
has been employed by the trustees
of the NJ. E. church to fill the va
cancy by the death of Mr.. StogdiIl."
Wesdid not know before that the
trustees of the n. E.. Church did
such things. Where is the r. E. Of
Wichita district2
For the past week fall trade has
been at its height, and much activi-
ty prevailed in all branches of trade.
The weather has been magnificent,
and much of the time our business II
streets were blocked with teams 4
from this and surrounding countess
Wichita Eagle.
A WORD From AGENT STUBBs.-If
Since the complaint of last week in !
to, some Kaws entering
w. NJ. Wilson's house, Mr.. .Stnbbs
has handed Us the following
Editor Traveller: 4
BY an order received from the In
EarioF Department, ali Indians are
forbid leaving their Reservations-IE
without q written permit from theI
Egent, and should any Raw Indiansi
be found in Kansas committing
hope they will be 1
and treated as white per- 8
loas are for the same offences. III
MAHLcE STUBBs. ~
2. s. Indian Agent. :,
The Chase county. Loader says:i I
There are somewhere hetVeen ten
md twenty criminal suits nov pend. 1
ng against tho county conmiRsiml- =
re. which tho eouRty stt0rney, {
Cochran,l informs rs cannot be-
made to stick, and he VIII therefore
MOLE" all of them.
The Wichita Eagle bess, as the
shows, to purpose; eve b
ayen't se8nanytiing Of eur thaaks-
wing turkey, and we don't expect :,
0. II was not aEways thus" a
Itsss further Il is tkusfy aOAf
andry. and divers occasIons we s,