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


fact is, mister, you have shifted my
corral every night since I've been or
your rancho, so I've been herded OF
every patch, from the summit of The
range to the bottom lands inside the
| '.dead iine,. and ] naturally s'posed
that tonight you'd cut me out of the
herd again and round me up for lay
out in the gully Exit clerk.-Wieh-
ita Eagle.
Arkansas City thermometers record
leo degrees in the shade.
A gale June 2St,l, demolished the
log house of James Cordy, of Chelsea.
Tie family was in, but not injured.
The Sedgwick county agricultural
society has purchased 10 acres near
Wichita, for ground, at cost of ST.
500. a fair this season is talked of.
New government land offices are to
be established at Hutchinson and at
Fort Larned.
G. B. Duy, Secretary of the st.
Joseph, Kansas & Texas railroad,
writes to Marion Center man as fol-
lows:
The feeling of impotence among
your people is very natural one, for
they need the road but we cannot by
any premature action in a particular
locality, hazard the success of the en-
tire enterprise. Our arrangements
are being perfected as rapidly as posi-
bic, and when they are perfected, the
read will be built as fast as men and
money can build it.
The Remanto salt works, in Summer
county, can furnish good salt to Wieh-
tia at 81 as per barrel, which is cheap.
Henry Fisher, in Palestine town
ship, Sumner county, was bitten lately
on the thumb by rattlesnake, and the
doctor has cut Off the thumb.
a. d. Keith, of Arkansas City, has
sold his drug store to DR.. kellogg, and
will take his family to the Arkansas
hot springs to recuperate.
The Usage Indians have prevented
war with the Wichitas, by paying
the latter 81, 800 on account of killing
the Isadowa, the Wichita chief. 81 500
for an Indian scalpis rather high.
Sumner county cotton and castor
beans promise Il large crop. There
are 325 acres of cotton.
Great Bend, Barton county, lies
1876 feet above the sea, and has a
population of 500. The sound of the
saw and trowel is heard, and buildings
are springing up like magic. A
school building costing $4,000 is fin
ished. A court house to cost $34 800 is
in course of construction, to be COM
pleted by December next. Masons
and Odd Fellows have organizations
there. Business of nearly every kind
is represented, farming implements
and wagons are already manufacture
ed. The great cattle shipping point
will likely be there by next year. A
bridge costing $4,000 crosses the
Arkansas opposite the place.
S. p. CHANNEL and r. c. Haywood
have bought out c. r. Sipes' hardware
store at Arkansas City. Sipes will at
leuu Oltg 10 tiHWdFes
The Eldorado Times is so delighted
with l. S. Kulloch's 18th of July ora
ton there, that it wants him elected
Z. S. Senator right away. We sug-
gest that Gov. Osborn at once call a
special session of the legislature to
co nsider the matter
The bridge across the Arkansas river
at Ell Paso has been completed, open
ing up a direct route from all points
in Sumner county to Wichita. This
bridge is due north on the same sec
ton line as the free bridge across the
at Belle Plaine.
A ferry boat is to run across the Ar
kansas where the Coffeyvilie trail
crosses, near the mouth of Deer creek. |
3 300 cattle have crossed this season.
The government is to repeat the
farce of erecting buildings for the Kaw
Indians, on their new reserve in the
Indian territory. a church is one of
them.
Luther Newton, while on his way |
from his claim in Sedgwick county to
visit his brother Martin, on Fox creek,
Chase county, was drowned in Crock
er's creek, Bazaar township. He tried |
to cross below the regular ford, the
water was high, and he was thrown |
from his horse against stump, badly |
nfilafo1 an6
A party of wealthy and intelligent |
and Canadians, including |
Hon. Mr.. Christy, a member of the |
Dominion Parliament, have just made |
a location in Marion county, and ar
ranged for the purchase of 900 acres |
of the Atchison, Topeka 6 Santa Fe
railroad lands, together with inter-
mediate sections owned by private in
diyiduals.
A couple of horse thieves who had |
stolen two mules in Abilene, were ar |
rested while crossing Croeker's creek,
in Chase county, by deputy sheriff |
Yeomans, Croker and two men from |
Abilene. The pursuers rode 10 miles |
in an hour to catch the thieves.
By state law, the township assessors |
this year have taken census of popu-
lation. Chase county reports $3.50 |
of whom 745 are voters. |
According to the assessors report |
there are in Toledo township only SIX
females over u years old, and 121
males over that age, and 4l2 males and
under 81. For 6 females only
over 81, the proportion of Alp children
is something which the assessor ought |
to explain.