The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21
STATE ITEMS.
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Independence is having a revival.
Highland rejoices in fifty CONVEX
sions.
Kansas has 100 lodges and 5000
Odd Fellows.
Doniphan county has q school
debt of S5O,163.
Atchison is now claiming Leav-
enworth as suburb.
The Usage settlers are after In
gals, to define his position.
Farmers Unions are being organ
lied in all parts of the State.
Texas herders are gathering herds
for an early drive to Kansas.
The State University wants an
appropriation of $4,000 to finish
buildings.
Franklin county has sold 100000
worth of cattle in the past month.
Aud now Lawrence has an heir
to q for une of $4,000. lie was a
deadbeat.
Senator Caldwell, during his can
vass, according to the evidence,
spent sSS,OoO.
The valuation of Kansas, report
ed for the purpose of taxation, is
s127, 69O,937.
can Ingallourious Defeat" is
what the New York World calls
Pomeroy's downfall.
Thad. II. Walker recently sold
1900 acres of land in Marshall
county for $4,000.
The committee on the Delahay
case will not report until the next
session of Congress.
President Grant has ordered the
removal of the troops from the
Cherokee Neutral Lands.
The King Bridge Company has
commenced work on the super
structure for the Atchison bridge.
Kansas railroads alone will con-
sumo one million ties per year.
Where is the timber to come from
Senator Ingalls, having been sum-
moned to Washington, is unable to
address the Legislature as re-
quested.
A man in Nemaha county recent
ly left his team standing out all
night, with the thermometer 90 de-
grees below zero.
Seventeen men in one county up
the Solomon want to be appointed
judge of the proposed new judicial
district. :.
It is estimated that, in addition
to the amount of bonds registered
with the State Auditor, there are
100000 not registered.
The proportion of timber lands
in Nebraska and Kansas, is one per
cent. in the former State, and less
than five per cent. in the latter.
Twenty-six counties represented
by students at the State University.
Whole number of students, 272.
Number living in Lawrence, %,
Kansas gained ten per cent. last
year in the number of horses; in
mules, seven per cent. oxen and
other cattle, fifteen per cent, and
hogs twenty per cent.
Jewell county is gaining gradu-
ally. During the past two years
there were within her bounds 200
births and 15 deaths. Seven of the
after were consumptives.
Kansas women are grumbling
terribly because the managers of
ny icuttural fairs don't give at least
a years notice when they offer |
prizss for the finest babies.
The King Bridge Company, that |
pulled up from lola and removed |
to Topeka, not long ago, seems to |
be in hot water at several points,
to-wit: Topeka, Hutchinson, Chan
ute and Wyandotte.
The Rev James Lewis, of Hum
boldt, is delegate from the General !
of the Presbyterian |
church of the United States to the
of the church of Scotland.
The latter body meets in May next,
in Edinburg.
A Kansas man got up q private
the other day, by plac-
ing several pounds of powder in
the stove to blow the SCOT out of
The pipe. To make it go out of the
stovepipe, he shut the door, and,
placing his feet against the door,
awaited the result As
that was the only house within five
miles, the funeral oyer the frag-