The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-01-30
SOUTHWEST.

SOUTHWEST.
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II The Wichita Eagle had big fish sto
{ ~ In their last issue.
! All the lots that were made vacan
by freat Wichita, on Christmas night
. are occupied with buildings again
Those that were partly burned haV'
been repaired.
The wood-thieYes have been makinI
araid on the Wichita Eagle Office wooC
pile lately.
Three men, one colored, was ARRESTED
last week tor theft. They were doins
, heavy business In the hide trade By
taking from FeChheimer's pile of hides
and selling them to Hays Bros. But
they did not confine themselves to the
fnr trade exclusively. They stole two
] grindstOnes from ZimeFly, and tubs
lying around loose In front of grocery
stores, that was of any value. But
they were detected while negotiating
with Hays Bros. for the sale of furs and
consequently come to grief.-Wichita
Eagle.
John N. Crowell, U. s. mail agent,
passed thrOgh Wichita Monday night
from Sumner county with q man by
the name OF Reed, alias Hardy, alias
w. w. Stone, who was formerly a
clerk in the Washington postoffice, and
who ischarged with extracting money
from letters, opening letters belonging
to different persons and finding where
they had money deposited IN eastern
banks, and forging drafts on those
banks and getting the money. But
Crowell got him. He hardly ever fails
to get his man when he goes for him.
A cotton ginning and pressing mill
has been established at Wichita.
Mr.. Mosler, of Buffalo Springs, Indi-
an Territory, returned on his regular
semi-mOnthly trip, last Saturday,
loaded with fnrs, robes, etc. which he
exchanged with our merchants for
merchandise. He reports business
good and the tribes peaceabie, though
the Cheyennes and Comanches object
to being confined on their reservations,
claiming they have not land enough.
4hC OookCS WIZ have UCCH hunting In
that vicinity, were ordered away by
Obeyed with alacrity.-Oxford Enter
prise.
a four foot vein OF coal was discov-
cred last week, west Of Mcpherson.
He who wants to get rich should put
mill on the Minnesota, near Belle
Plaine. So says The Belle Plaine Dem
ocrat.
Belle Plaine has literary society.
We learn from Julius Berry, that the
wildcats took seventeen pigs from his
hog pens, one night last week. Dear
feed for cats. Thomas Martin also lost
three pigs the same way. Why can
not some of our hunters find the den
of these pests and end their desires for
pork.-Belle PLANE Democrat.
Our beautiful winter battles descrip-
ton. On the 18th inst, after dinner,
we enjoyed cigar in the awning to
Capt. Hunts residence, in our shirt
sleeves.-Belle Plaine Democrat.
Butter is quoted at fifteen cents at
Winfield. Corn eighteen and eggs
Ewelve aud a half cents. Winfield is
. good place to buy produce, but a
poor place for a farmer to sell.
Ice was formed about four inches
last Friday, and some little was put
UP. We fear we shall be without ice
next summer. Whoever secures q
quantity will make it pay.-Arkansas
City Traveller.
The Windfield Courier comes out in
"yyaller sheet this week.
There ara now six oranges in Chase
county.
The fence around the railroad com
pany's stock-yards at Raymond, ha
furnished kindling wood for the citi
zens Of that place all winter.
The Kansan says everything abou
Newton is duller than the Chinawart
> end of . pile-driver.
The Smith Bell Ringers gave Cotton
wood Falls benefit last week.
A Florence man, filled pretty ful
r with eorn+juice attempted to disturb
: the singing school at that place b.
D | his bOistsrons yelling. He was plainl
told by the worthy constable, G. A
. Fry, that his presence was not needed
Noshing daunted, he replied that b
had better not touch him as he ha
: something to use in case of an emel
!. gency, at the same time drawing boi
! tie of something that smelled stron
. of " old rye" and telling him to kee
= back or he would shoot.
The temperance men are on the wal
n path in Augusta.
!. Nearly all the southern towns hay
o laid in large supply OF ice. They ii
u tend to keep cool during the summe
> Business is good in Great Bend.
Fifty thousand head OF cattle wei
; shipped from Great Bend last sun
- mer and fall.
LIZ CorRT.-A case In law betwes
IL. Stone and Cato Smith (colored
charging the latter with purloing C
gars from the saloon OF the torme
was tried last week Wednesday. II
Jury decided that there was not sun
; clE0E OVlUCuCC cOuVLCt 0l4I6Hs W ia
in the jury was being locked up for d.
ct cisiOn, the prisonere escaped the offict
and the last heard OF him was at En-
Ia poria.-Newton Kansan.
MYsTERIoUs.-We learn, says c
u Hutchison News, from Geo. p. Woo
Of Startling, Rice county, Kansas, tn
'ol while hunting buffalo on the dlvidiI
e; ridge between Mule and Indian creel
OF In Comanche county, he discovered t
& remains of two white men, that b
'oI been devoid Of life apparently, mo
n. than q year. One Of the bodies mt
"a have been that Of Q man Of about G
feet, and that of the other about fe
OF, 8 inches in height; the later N
had been Creased In brown cassimt
a, pants and vest with black striI
about three -eighths of an inch wi
and wore pair Of llne boots cut ep
'hf ct the instep. Near by lay . VI
brimned hat Of . brownish color,
NV to which of the tive It belonged CT
not be asceEtained. Near the bol
of the largest man he found an iv.
case, OF what Is known e 3 book
AZ tablets, which bears the Inscription
Presented by J. n. Cassely,