The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-09
SOUTHWEST.

.Weliingten Press. -,
From correspondent at Remanto,
we learn that preparations are making |
for the erection of a'bFiek- store house,
which Is to be 30xS0 feet, and two sto-
ries in Observation-Disclosures Press.
They had twelve days rain in SUR
.Rer county
. Sumner county il again beginning
TO receive . full share OF the Autumn
Immigration The arrivals will soon
again ff1l up the vacancies made 10y
parties who have Temporarily lett the
country.-XellingtOnf Press r-s,s. 8
Trade is getting better at yelling
ton. .7 SHi
Col. ST. Clair, of Summer county,
Republican nominee for State Sena-
tor, is putting in big wheat crop.
When he gets through he will stir
up the political field little.
Nelson Abbott has been on a tramp
through the Southwest. That is right.
He is doing the Republican ticket
more good than he could staying at
home.
The Southwest papers have been
pleading to candidates to announce
but could not "strike ile." They even
offered the inducement TO announce
them by wholesale at reduced rates.
MORE SCALPING SooN.-We learn
from several reliable sources that
from sixty to Que hundred Osages
| ls,ff FfNaiF tho nlafRz l0af
! Friday week-they said to hunt buff
falo-but it is pretty well understood
| by all that it is Tor the purpose of
having revenge for the killing of
their two last comrades, in Barbour
county. Mr.. Gibson did all he could
to pursuade them not to 60, but he
could not. Killing and scalping will
undoubtedly take place, but, OF course,
it will not be by Osages, as they are
always on their reserve. Word should
be sent to the Medicine Lodge coun-
try, and more militia called out at
once, to seRd aid to the western coun-
ties if they prove too many tor the
white settlers. Capt. Norton is al
ready in that vicinity, but with only
twenty men.-Arkansas City Traveller
Col. Reynolds, n saloon keeper at
Newton, slit out the other day in
such hurry that he forgot to settle
his little bills "around town
The Newton Kansan wants the Re-
form party to send another such crowd
to that town as that which held meet
ing there few evenings since, to-wit
Sam Wood, Nelson Abbott and first
class bowler from Salina named Snead
1t says if they will come again Harvey
county may be set down rs solid toI
the Republican ticket.
On q recent visit to the country we
were agreeably surprised to see the
vast amount of fall wheat that has
been sOwn by our F'gritty farmers, :
who are bound to "stick to Kansas -
Notwithstanding grasshoppers and
drouth. Butler county will roll up a
glorious crop record next fall.-Au-
gusta Republican.
Geo. w. Thomas, Esq, of Garrison,
and Mr. /. B. Becky, of Waterloo, Ia,
spent few days with us last week
After looking Kansas over pretty we'll
they selected Pes body for their future
home, and through the agency of A.
3. Salisbury bought GAO acres of land
near our town. These gentleman are
men of means and influence and are
such citizens as we always need.-Pea-
body Gazette. ------
Emigration to this valley is fully as
strong as at any time last fall. The
larger portion of it comes in wagons
Wichita Eagle.
The Wellington Press is the only pa.
per left in Sumner county out of large
crop.
Witlessly or through malice, we are
unable to determine which, there are 9
class of persons doing our country 8
great wrong and themselves injury by
writing doleful letters to their Ole
home papers back east. There is one
of this character now before US, pub
lished in the Jacksonville, Ull.) JOurn-
al. If these scribblers told tile whole
truth it would be all right, but a dole
ful picture is set up-the Black side
only dwelt upon, and the blacker they
can make it the better. We had the
grasshoppers, and they were bad
enough, but when these prevaricatorS
assert that the country is sickly.
dreadful sickly," the Indians murder
ing people daily, the people running
naked and dropping dead from starva-
ton, and other like imaginary calami-
ties and deplOrable falsehoods, it be-
comes an outrage upon our people and
the writers q curse to our country
The report of the trustees of this coun-
ty does not show a single case of suf-
fering at present, while it is the judy
ment of the said trustees who have
carefully looked the ground over that
with the county aid proposed every
township in the county will go through
in good shapc.-Wichita Eagle.
Mr.. j. E. Palmerston, a wealthy cit
iZen of Sandnsky, Ohio, has been do
ing the Arkansas valley, and like all
our visitors, was so we'll pleased with
our soil, climate and society as to i'm
duce him to purchase one of the finest
pieces of property in our county,
known as the "BIock farm" ft is OF
course unnecessary TO state that the
salo was made through the firm OF
Steele & Levy, our live real estate
dealers.-Wiehita Eagle.
Winfield has a postoffice now.
Politics red hot in Butler county.
All the candidates are "farmers, me-
chanics and workingmen."
Corn 80 cents at Eldorado.
Peaches 81 per bushel at Eldorado
last week.
EldOrado will have $1,000 lottery.
People should be careful not to be-
lleve all the yarns told by interested
parties on the eve of election. Many
men tell many things just to catch
vOtes.-EldOradoT Times.
One business firm in this town sold
little over three thousand dollars
worth of goods during the month of
September. Pretty good for hard
times.-Eldorado Times.
WHEAT.--Mr. Taylor, of Chelsea
township, brought some May wheat to
town last week that weighed, stroke
measure, G514 pounds to the bushel.
Mr.. McWhorIer informs us that he
bought 30 measured bushels of this
wheat and weighed it at Eureka mills
and was allowed 80 bushels. This is
certainly an excellent quality of wheat.
-EldOrado Times. "a. 1oi a.
Marion county has 2,OO6 children OF
school age. and the MennonItes yet to
be counted.
"Uncle" George Griffith had sixty
two acres of wheat already sown last
Tuesday, and was still busy scattering
the golden grain. The same gentle
man has gathered five hundred bushels
of corn despite the grasshopper devas-
naturalization Center Record.
We learn that the measles has been
quite prevalent and fatal among tho
Mennonite families who have lately
arrived in Peabody. They brought
the disease with them, and sixteen of
their children are said to have die:
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