The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-10

sFed hot
Four and half pounds of coffee for
Il in Augusta.
Eldorado merchants are getting on
their winter goods.
Sumner county is going to have an
other newspaper.
Mr.. T. Dwight Thatcher made 4
speech in Wichita Oct. Sd.
The p. of Fl. of Sedgwick county
a council last week.
There will be soldiers reunion at
Eldorado October 18th.
Several new buildings have been put
up in Winfield this fall.
The Augusta Republican wants corn
and oats on subscription.
y number of Winfield sporting men
have gone west on buffalo hunt.
Some seven or eight new families
have settled in Eldorado the past week.
Hundreds of emigrants are passing
through this county on their way
south and west.-Eldorado Times.
The great financial crisis is at an end,
but candidates for Office are SIS thick as
ever.--Eldorado Times.
The Two Rivers Daily Eagle is the
first morning daily printed in the Ar
kansas valley.
All business honses were closed Oct.
Sd in Wichita in order to give every
body a chance to go to the fair.
The First National Bank of Eldora-
do is in better condition to-day than
any bank in the State, and has been
during the recent panic.-Walnut VAL
ley Times.
The Wichita Eagle man wants to
know who it Is that leaves his horse
hitched in front OF his Office every
night until twelve or one O'Clock.
Five hundred thousand head OF cattle
have been driven from Texas into
Kansas this season, which is at least
one hundred thousand more thsn last
year.
Martin Ostrander, who was arrested
and brought before the district court
for stealing Hoover & Lounsberry's
and Mr.. Gray's horses, entered plea
of guilty, and was sentenced to five
years hard labor in the penitentiary,
by Judge Campbell last Saturday
Wichita Eagle.
On Sunday evening Mr.. r. j. Cristy s
attention was attracted to his barn by
the barking OF his coach dog, and upon
investigating he found that an attempt
had been made to cut or break into the
barn. The grey running pony was
the undOuLted object of the would-be
thieFs efforts. He was removed to an
other and safer barn.-Peabody Ga
Zette.
Six men last Thursday, three on FRI
day and two on Monday, eleven men
in all during the week, called, intro
dueed themselves and informed us that
they were out viewing this great coun-
try, and that they were brought here
| solely by reading the Eagle. We guess
| they have concluded that our pictures
have not been too highly drawn, for
Steele & Levy inform US that nearly
every one of them have purchased
land.-Wichita Eagle.
Mr.. C.P. Spaulding's store at Tisdale
was burned TO the ground LAST Monday
| night. The loss was estimated at ST.
500. Isnurance $500. 1t is supposed
to be the work of an incendiary. The
| back window was found open which
was evidently entered by somebody,
A shot was fired at Mr.. Spaulding
which grazed his temple. An attempt
was also made to fire his hay stacks, it
is supposed, by the same party.-Win-
field Courier.
Every day the white covered wagons
of emigrants pass through our Main
street, and then over the prairie and
| far away. At the same time every
| train from the east leaves from one &c
a dozen men who are looking for land
and the real estate business is active
The fact that many having looked al
this section of the State go further
west and then return, expressing the
same kind of belief that the Emporis
| NEWS says the Illinois eXcursionists
did-[see ID page of Gazettel-is not
one that makes Marion county mar
feel ssatisfied.-Peabody Gazette.
| Several land buyers were sitting in
| front of Steele & Levy's office the 9TH.
er evening, discussing the climate, sol
and crops of this valley, when one Of
their number, practical farmer from
| Illinois, was attracted by the calling o.
the numbers in the Keno room, Just
across the street. Remarking thai
he "guessed he would see what wa!
selling" he crossed over. While the
boys were laughingly conjecturinp
what the report would be, the old gen.
tleman returned, remarking, "Well
| that is the most remarkable auction i
ever saw !'-Wichita Eagle.
/ The y. 7. Sc S. F. railroad has re-
ceived the medal at the great Boston
| fruit show, for the best display OF
| agricultural products. Thus the "Great
American Desert" in its ineipienI
stage of civilized settlement, sends
back east some samples of what its soil
produces, and bears away the palm Of
victory from the oldest and most care
fully cultivated sections of the coun-
try. What greater proof need any
man ask as to whether Southwestern
Kansas is fertile in soil or genial in
climate.
We are panied to learn of the Sc
rious ana perhaps fatal accident
which befell Mr.. L. p. Alspaugh,
Trustee of Clear creek township.
on Thursday of last week. MIR. A.
had been to Florence for g load of
lumber; while ascending q steep
hill about a mile north of the Cot
tOnWOod river, on his way home,
his lumber commenced Gliding of
the wagon; he stopped his team
and went behind the wagon to push
the lumber back to its place when q
loaded shot gun, which was lying
on the lumber, was in some way
discharged, the entire load entering
the bowels of the unfortunate man.
Mr.. Alspsugh is q man highly es-
teemed by his neighbors and ac-
quaintances, who will all be sorry
to learn the above facts.-Marion
Center Record.
Mr.. E. Wilder, living near Pea
body, lost a horse lately under rath-
er peculiar circumstances. The
horse, with another one, was hitch
ed to the pillow, with which Mr.. E.
had been doing some blowing.
Stopping the team in the field, Mr..
w. went to the house, remained
there few minutes, and on his re.
turn found the two horses down
and one of them dead. Mr.. WILDER
detected nothing wrong with the
animal prior to its death. The loss
is heavy one to Mr.. w.
We think twenty-five q safe es-
innate of the number of emigrant
wagons which have passed through
town this week. Besides these,
trains have been loaded almost
daily with home-huRters. We
learn that about one hundred Indi.
anians passed through on the train