The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-01-24

70 tour thousand seven hundred dollars.
Cold weather has delayed the work
On th. court house. Il was hoped that
The building would be far enough ad-
yanced 70 hold the next term of c0nYt /
Ia It, but It Is doubtful now If it will |
De ready for occupancy tefore the first
Of May. The work Of put ting up the
furnaces has commenced.
The case Of Maroon vs. Fersef Is pro-
crossing slowly before Squire New
ton. Up TO Thursday noon no one was |
injured. The ahle-bodled men of c.
dar Point and vicinity are In attend |
ance as witnesses, dressed IN rubber |
boots and life-preservers. The mayor
has the police force well In hand, arm !
cd with bottles nf Mrs. WlnsIOw's
soothing syrup, ready for any emer-
gency. "Lee US have peace"
Harvey County.
The Newton Kansan says:
Thank God-the weather will be
warmer next summer.
We understand that the A. I. q 8.
F. railroad company Is carrying nuts
and peach stones intended for planting,
over its line free of freight charges.
Our colored friend, Henry Lewis,
thinks he has got the dead wood on
AgassiS this time. It IL q two weeks
old red-headed boy which weighed IL
pounds At avOrdupOis at birth. He
says he will eat Texas ball beef and
buffalo already.
At one O'Clock last Saturday after
noon We counted upon the streets of
Newtoa, sixty-three two-horee teams,
with wagons or aleighs, besides par
haPs twenty-five saddled horses-Ali
from the tdjoininR country.
We learn that next season there Will
not be . fiFst-class grist mill on the
line west of thu place In the State.
and that those already in contempla-
ton and working order at Hutchlns0n
and other points are nothing but small
corn mills, AZ very little small grain
will be raised in these localities for 9
couple Of years TO come. 4 PROPOSE
ton has already been made by one or
more responsible firms, whereby they
agree to put up . good, guaranteed to
worth twenty thousand dollars steam
grist mill in this place If ten thousand
| dollars In bonds be donated them; or
q ten thousand dollar one IL five thous.
| and dollars In bonds be donated them !;
said mill to be ready for use by early
next tail. 8. j. Bently, Of this place,
an old and time tried miller, offers to
put up q three run Of burrs mill fog
twenty Thousand dollars, the uEaohin-
cry 70 be taken at foundry prices and
balance TO be pus IN the building under
his directions, with the privilege OF
leasing the same for i've years and
then returning Ii % those voting the
4 AHu t., -. no ~
\ as they may see dt, and which mill
might then bring ut sale more than II
| originally cost. There are one or more
other propositions of similar charac-
ter made by prominent parties in the
| county.
Reno Coonty.
| A committee from Illinois are Ia
Reno county looking up an eligible
| $1,000 acres of land for 8 colony. They
can find 1t there.
The new county attorney had 10 feast
| the county commissioners an the fol-
lowing outfit: One peck of apples
three cans Of oysters, two pounds Of
crackers, two dozen cigars, pepp>r.
sauce, etc. The commissioners Gorg.
ed themselves and then had him swcrI
! in.
Reno county has already the 'spOor'
TO paovido for. The last meeting u
county commissioners passed the fol.
lowing bills: For food for poor. Sl1.75
doctoring poor, sll8; meat for poor
$11.2S; medicine for poor. S27- so
work for poor, $1.25; rent for poor, %
provisions for poor, S4s.7S; co6ins fol
poor, $3.50; provisions for poor, 49,
40; coal for poor, 5000; digging
graves for poor, $ls.0o; pay for poor
81; teams for poor, IS. At this rats
the Reno county treasury will soon b
poor.
Hutchinson charges license of tel
dollars per year for each "gaminl
table," and requires gambling house
to close At IL p. N. and keep out min
ors. Its = strictly temperance town
The Hutshinson News atrongI;
favorstIle re-election OF Pomsroy.
Baxtsn CosAty.
The towns of this county are Grea
Bend, Fleetwood, and Pswnee Rock
The a. 7. & S. f. roilroad owns $50,
600 acres of land In this county. ep
praised at So per acre, and thirty miles
of road at $4,000 per mile.
Great Bend has Its newspaper, "The
Arkansas Valley"
Society In Barton county is refined
and intellectual.
Three elections are to be held In Bar.
ton county, this and next month tC
Issue bonds as follows: For court
house and Jail, $4,000; two bridges
over the Walnut, $4,000; bridge ovel
fhe Arkansas, 10000; to secure the
| cattle trade, $1,000. Total, s6l 900.
ssdswlek County.
Wichita has hook and ladder conn.,
pany.
The Wichita Savings Bank has made
. pront Of 10 per cent. since August
first.
Wichita received in 1879 for dram
shop licenses, $4,000; for fines, s3,a3S
and paid Its police $4,000.
DR.. C. E. Fisher has been appointed
physician for the county.
From the Wichita Beacon:
Wichita is to have 3 soap factory.
There ara nearly three hundred chill.
6ren in attendance At our public
schools, eighty in one room.
Eighteen thousand dollars In shares
has already been taken for the erection
OF handsome three story brick block,
70 be built on the corner of Main and
Second streets.
Many Of our farmers aud citizens de-
clare themselves unable TO pay the
enormous taxes levied. They must
have moro time. Our coEnty commits
si0ners made q most tormeneing mis-
take In levying tax 20 take up all the
outstanding scrip in enc year, when at
least two should have been devoted 70
it. The sggravation is made still
greater owing TO the fact that the most
of the land has been proved up and the
majority and best buildings built In
our town since the firse Of March, and
therefore the bulk Of the taxable prop.
eFty did not fAn under the sssessnssnt
law, while ali enjoyed 20 the fullest the
harvest Of oar last years trade. The
assessment to meet the tax was In.
creased upon the few until the justi6-
able complaint Il abroad and ia the
mouth Of every one. The injury
worked will be almost irreparable.
From the wichita Eagle.
Sweet potatoes are plentiful In this
market at three dollars per bushei.
Somebody has cut nearly all the
timber on OF the Island south Of the
city.