The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21
SOUTHWEST.
Eldorado wants a bell.

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Its az i'll wind that blows nobod,
good. One ''dead beat from Eldora
do got situation by the POmeroy in
vestigation.
Eldorado parties have gone cas-
with a large drove of cattle.
The Eldorado Times says party o
New Workers, humble ring about three
hundred, are seeking out 4 location il
Southern Kansas.
The editor of the Eldorado Time
calls on the local poets to give him 3;
rest.
Henry Martin and others have beer
ont to Medicine Lodge and located q
town on this stream in Barbour county
three miles from the geographical GEN.
tire, to be called Martin City. There
were twenty-feur in the party-seven
| were badly. frozen. They pronounce
| the country fine, with plenty of tim
| Der, stone, and rich soil, and well
watered. Here is the place for people
to emigrate who want cheap homes
EldOrado Times.
/ Two fine frame barns have been
built on Middle Creek during the fall
| and winter: one on Tommy ODonnel's
! farm, 30X40 feet, and the other on
! George McNee's, 20X30 feet.-Chasc
County Leader.
Cowley county claims more tillable
land and better water than any county
in the State.
Winfield claims more substantial
growth than any town in the South
west.
Oxford is already talking about
base ball.
Lodge No. I01 /. Q. o. L. has Just
been chartered AZ Winfield, and tie
Courier says it starts out under favor
able auspices.
Winfield is troubled with drunken
boys, who reel about the streets at
night.
Claim jumping is fashionable at Ar
kansas City.
NEwMAN'S MILL.-The crowd at
Newman's mill, ON the Walnut, is tru-
ly surprising. Parties have had TO
" az AOA III OEhCl ~ CiOSS III lllC
ford, and one would suppose that
enough meal was carried away to sup
ply one halt OF the State. Teams
come from all directions. Some from
The plains over 100 miles distant, from
the Territory, and from the adjoining
counties.-Arkansas City Traveller
The Arkansas City boys beat the
Government surveyors at base ball.
Arkansas City has an obituary poet.
Many settlers are under the impress
sion that man can make settle
ment and file oil claim on the Chero-
kee strip and afterwards abandon or
sell that claim and take another on the
same strip This is n mistake. The
Register and Receiver OF the Land
Office have decided that this cannot
lawfully be done.-ArkAnsas City |
Traveller.
The Hutchinson News thinks Reno
county will settle very rapidly this
season.
Mrs. Helen f. Holman, postmistress
1t Eureka, was married few days
ago to James W. Nicholas.
Last Saturday, at Marion Center, a
wood chopping match took place be-
.ween a drug clerk and a school master
or ten dollars side. We have. not
heard the result. An enormous
mount of wood must have been dis
posed of. II
The engineer corps of the Is. d y.
viii begin TO drive the grade stakes on
he line OF road through this county
Is soon as the ground thaws sufficient ]
Republican
The board of commissioners of Cow
ey county have been abused so much
4 late by the press Of the county and Z
y private citizens that they have be- I
ONE indignant, and invite the people
o meet ca Bldsse and appoint a COM
nittee to Investigate" their late trans
Republican
CowIey county is to vote on prop {
sition on the first of March to issue
150, 600 to aid the Kansas and Nebras-
a railroad. ,
Todd & Royal, of Wichita, sold
100, 900 worth of goods in eleven
lonths- =,
q twelve inch vein of coal has been =
six miles cast of Wichita. Il
Several wagon loads of immigrants
ave already arrived ut Wichita.