The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-07-18
SOUTHWEST.

Sargent Is being moVet. to Grenada.
Wheat has yielded well all through
the Southwest, and oats and corn pro-
mise to come in abundantly.
Any amount of buffaloes in the In
dian territory, 40 to 80 miles frsm Ar
kansas City.
Eldorado, Peabody, Marion Centre,
Hutchinson, Augusta, Winfield and
various other southwestern towns,
celebrated the 18th of July in glorious
style.
Wichita keeps Sunday. No saloons
or places of business are allowed to
keep open, and good order and decor
um are observed.
The Marion Center Record is still
hunting after printer who don't
drink.
j. Wade Mcdonald relinquishes the
editorship of the Belle Plaine Demo-
crat to j. W. Forney.
Mr. j. A. Shriver, who lives on the
bank of the Whitewater, nine miles
south of Peabody, tells of a Won
derful and damaging flood of that part
of Butler county, caused by the storm
which visited it on Tuesday, the 9TH
inst. None of the residents ever saw
the Whitewater so high. Corn, wheat
and chickens were the principal suf
ferers. Hail as large as hens eggs
killed the latter by the hundred.
Several farmers lost fifty, sixty and
seventy a piece. Large fields OF wheat
were destroyed and the wheat washed
far down the stream. Corn, on land
too high to be reached by the river,
was beaten down by the wind, rain
and hail, and the fields presented an
appearance of having been rolled.
Hutchinson says it does not look
upon Newton as rival.
The Cottonwood Falls Leader says
of case in which number of Empo-
ria citizens were witnesses:
The 'srape case" closed by the jury,
after a consultation of fifteen minutes,
returning a verdict of not guilty
Wood Sc Cochran for the state, and L.
S. Jones and E. S. Waterbury for the
defense.
Before the prisoner could be dis
| charged, he was rearrested on the
charge of adultery, on information of
James FairchiId, the father of the girl
upon whom the alleged rape had been
committed, and the prisoner was adj
mitted to bail in sum of 5000, TO APP
pear at next term of the district court.
Twenty-four persons signed the bond.
Mrs. Boiling, a lady who drove a
herd of cattle from Texas to Wichita,
took brain fever in consequence, and
died in Wichita, on the 9Th. Her
body was taken back to Texas. This
may show that cattle driving is not
exactly suited to the female sex.
Florence is now a money order post
office.
The ship Betsey Jane, weighing 200
pounds, and drawing Is inches of
water when loaded, has arrived at
Wichita from Pueblo, after &c days
voyage down the Arkansas. Five
rapids and many sand bars wore en-
countered, and the captain thinks =
return trip would be hard work.
Wellington announces good vein
of coal at depth of 81 feet, few
miles from that town.
a stock company has been formed
to dig fer coal and otherwise develop
the upper Whitewater valley. 1t
meets on the 26th at O1onjer school
house, Fairmount township.
Cranes Ranch, in Marion county,
has received los head of blooded cattle
from Illinois. More are to follow
On the sth, two men named Squire
and Lewellen, tried to swim the Dry
Turkey creek, south of Hutchinson.
They tied their clothing on their
shoulders. Squire was drowned. BE
was formerly a member of the $50
PenAa. volunteers, and leaves widow
and child, in Clayton county, Iowa
without support.
During the past week our hotel
were somewhat crowded. A gentle
man from the Lone STAR state regis.
. tered himself at one of them, and die
not mink II strange when he was pu
E to sleep by the ssgentlemanly clerk
: on pallet in the attic at the top o
: the house The following night
!, however, his lodgings were changed Z
I the next floor below. The third nigh
t he was put a story lower, and tii
5 fourth night a ehambermaid sprea
: down bunk for him under q table O
: the first floor. All these changes wef
taken good naturally by the 1mal
. from the trail, !" but the next nlghi
E when the hour had arrived for retii
e ing, he walked solemnly TO the clerk
d desk, when tina following dialogue en-
&c sued: NJ. Twin you please L
Z Key to what ?" II. T.-sTh
key to the cellar think must be II
Il one want" Clerk-ssWhat IN "a
10 devil do you want the key of the ce
sc lar for 2" II, T.-"Wby, you see Il