The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-13

should be done immedlateiy 10 puS "
beyond the possibility of falling. 1t
seems to be no ones business to attend
to it. The township trustee refuses to
toush it, and so does the road overseer,
The township has some $4,000 in the
structure, most too much to be allowed
to fall into the river.
The railroad stock yards at Hutch
inson are the most extensive aud COM
plete in the state.
The A., T. & S. F. r. r. Co. offers q
prize of 500 for the best display OF
products from the counties on the line
of their road, at the next state fair,
Marion Centre has new cemetery,
of sixty acres, one-half mile northeast
of town.
"MOore'S ranch, thirty miles north
miles northwest of Marion Centre, is
thus. described;
The owner, Albert Crane, has nine
sections of ground now under fence.
seven hundred bushels of blue grass
seed sown, fourteen plows running,
breaking and planting in grain this
season fifteen hundred acres of prairie,
and has on the farm between three
and foIIr thousand head of cattle.''
At their recent meeting in Topeka,
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
road directors determined to extend
the road at once from its present ter
minus ut the west line of Kansas to
Granada, in Colorado, fifteen miles
westward and on the south side of the
river. This extension is for the pur-
pose of doing government freight bus
mess in New Mexico, They also de-
cided not to locate machine shops this
season,
The editor of the Augusta Republic
can has been shown large speci-
men of lead ore taken from the ground
OF farm about one mile north of that
city, on Elm creek. The specimen was
shown to Major purrow, chief engi-
neer of the st. j. X. 81 T. p. road, who
pronounccs it one of the richest speci-
mems of lead ore lie ever saw.
The Winfield papers discuss each
other lively. The Courier accuses the
Telegram oftrylng to make the Kansas
Il Nebraska railroad pay it one hun
dred dollars for advertising the bonds
for that road, and the Telegram denies
it.
The Belle PLANE buffalo cow is to be
let loose July 4th, and prize to the
first man who captures her with a
lariat. Later-She has died.
Captain Rouse returned from juno
ton City last Sunday, reporting the
prospects of the completion of our
railroad as being very favorable, and
as al evidence of his faith in the same,
he has again commenced operations ON
the grade south of this place. Marion
Centre Record,
\ gentleman just from Pueblo, Col
orado, informs the Newton Kansan
that during ten days trip between
that place aad Sargent, he passed four
hundred emlgrant teams moving into
that territory. He also states that dug
ing his travels in Colorado, ke never
met a farlSer bqs what wanted to
sell out,
Marion county has organized far
mers' association. 1t advises all far
mers to join the patrons of husbandrY.
The Eldorado Times has these four
items;
A new mail route has been estab-
lished between Sutton Branch school,
house aed Towapda, and the contract
let to Mr.. G. F. Brooks.
PONTIAC. This is the name of the
new postofflce established on the Eure-
ka road, six miles east of Eldorado.
NEW BUILDINGs.-Six new build
ings are now going up in toW2 that
will cost in the aggregate oyer twenty
five thousand dolla.s. Who says FL
dorado Is not improving2
COMING BACK.-Dr. Mckinney, who
has been in Texas Coz some weeks,
writes that he will be back about the
| 18th of June, to resume the practice
OF medicine. He says he t'don't like
Texas"
The new court house to be built at
Winfield is thus described.
The building Is to be COX 30 feet: two
etories high; the lower story IL feet
high In the clearY tho upper story l3
| feet higE} hall feet wide, running
the entire length of the tuilding, with
doors opening into rooms, eight in
number, on either side; at the head OF
the stairway, which runs from the
main entrance door Ia the hall, are two
small rooms, which ihay be used 70
jury, hat And cloak room, &C.; or. if
necessary. can be added to the court
room by folding daors. The court
rooH proper Is 81 feet 4 inches by 81
feet inches in the clear, lighted Dy
? large 4 light windows. The building
is to be- built of brick, with stone
foNndation. The contractors are Baily
& Sloan. Tho building is to be con-
pleted by November 1st, 1873. In the
rear the city viii hnild q sood jan.
| Peabody has laid out driving park
of twenty acres, just north of town.
The Cottonwood Falls Leader gives
this history of the Mrs. Earnest Gas5
THE LOST FoySQ.--Mrs. Earnest,
the daughter of Rev. N. F. Upton, has
!, been found at Cameron, Mo. From
Rwhat we can learn, her husband aud
and his family treated ksE most brp-
tally, compelling her to 1--we in an out
house during q portion of the winter
and made her believe that her friends
(who had disappeared the Harriagel
would have nothing TO do with her
He finally compelled her TO leave
/. home, refusing To let her take heI
Yonns babe, but six weeks old. He
took her to the station, bought her {
ticket to Kansas City, and let her
r On the train she mel q minister ID
whom sLa said her sorrowftil story
., he advised her to so to Cameron, whert
q he introduced her to the seheci super
Is intendent, WHO rave her position a
tschool teacher, for which she was ana
/. ply qualified. She then wYota 70 he
= grandmother in Illinois, who has
|. Falzed her. As soon as the letter wa
: received dispatch was sent to hei
Z father, and he went direct to Cameron
- and fouad her. The lady, having SO
. possession OF her child, returned to tai
city with he's iasheE yesterday after
noon. Ne know Of ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN
Il law infiicts upop suoh seoundrels 2
I. the Maa Earnest, yet we think llttl
n mob law in this case would not be dim
cult to overlook.
% Newton is the sRd Of shs second 9
ASkAnsas Valley division Of the Atcti
At son, Topeka 6 Santa .Fe railroad, an
is trains stop there for meals.
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