The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-28

Nothing stronger than coffee was
allowed at the Ingalls, banquet. I'm
proyement on past Senatorial
DRINKS.
Dodge City, but month or two
old, already has sixteen bodies in
her graveyard. Not one natural
death.
Colored people are interviewing |
the legislature in behalf of equal |
rights at hotels and in public con-
veyances.
The issue Of the Bourbon county
bonds to the NJ, K. & L. Is to be in
yestigated by a committee of the
Legislature.
A seventeen year old boy, named
Robert Wiley, last week, in Wood
son county, killed himself with q
dirk knife.
OIathe wants to vote $4,000
bonds for the purpose of enticins
Baker University from Baldwin to
the former place. Second the mo-
ton.
The Kansas City council has a
a resolution before it favoring the
annexation OF that burg to the State
of Kansas.
This has been the coolest winter
since 1S45. So says Catholic priest
at Usage Mission, who came to the
country that year.
A horse thief six feet seven inch
es IN height has been captured at
Usage Mission. All Of him will be
sent to the penitentiary.
Mr.. Parsons, President of the NJ,
K. & T., with some friends, passed
up the Kansas Pacific, few days
ago, on his way to California.
Martin f. Conway, first member
of Congress from Kansas, is sup
ported by his wife, who clerks in
one of the departments at Wash
ington. Alas politics.
The Kansaa Pacific will distribute
fax seed to farmers living along its
road, giving one bushel for seed fol
one and quarter after harvest.
The Kansas capital question has
been agitated again, and the Bur.
lington Patriot says that Emporia
aud Junction City are candidate:
for the honor.
Spring valley township, Chero.
kee county, bonds 10 the amount Of
$4,000, registered with the Au
: ditor of State, are claimed to be DO
gus by parties from that section.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilder, living neal
Irving, few nights ago went to 1
debating club, at school house {
few rods of, and while absent theil
house burned down. A daughter
burned to death, and son seriously
burned.
! 1t is stated that Wild Bill wal
murdered in Galveston, Texas
about two weeks ago, by some o
Phil. Coles friends, who, it viii
be remembered by our citizens, Bill
shot in fracas while he was Mar.
shall of Abilene. Coles friendl
vowed vengeance, and finally &C
complished it. So they go.--Abi
lene Chronicle.
, 1t is estimated that Kansas will
add $4,000 to its population thi
3 year.
James McDermott has introduced
bill for an appropriation of $I,OOt
I for the development of certain sal
springs in Sumner and Cowley
counties.
5 Kansas has $4,000 invested il
woollen manufactures, from which
; 100000 worth of wooIlen goods
were sold in 1870. The value of the
| wool amounted $50, los.
Last November, the Atchison, TO
peka s. Santa Fe Railroad Company
commissioned George Pardonet, Of
Cottonwood Falls, their agent
in Alsace and Lorraine. to encour-
age emigration to this portion OF
Kansas. He has been very success.
full, and had engaged transportation
tor nearly Que thousand emigrants
when suddenly he was prohibited
by the French government from
lecturing on the subject of emigra.
ton and Kansas.
Tho children by the name of Ran.
dolpb, died in Easton of spinal
meningitis, on Friday. This dis
ease is said to be prevailing there
to considerable extent, aud is prov
ing very fatal.
johnson county has $500 children
of school age, and 1o2 teachers.
The stock men near Neodesha,
have used 25,0O0 bushels of corn in
feeding their cattle this winter.
Twenty-Five WeAAmen, the first
of the Welsh colony which is to set
tie in CofTey county, arrived iu Bur-
lington last Thursday.
North Topeka cannot set up for
itself. The bill has been defeated.
Thirty thousand acres of corn still
remain unhusked in Brown county.