The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-05-15
KANSAS IN GENERAL.

olher evening paper in Leayen-
worth What foolishness. ]
The Hoiton express proposes to
lake county orders at par for sub
scription.
Sol. Miller faVors the reelection
of Col. Phillips to Congress. He
says: .sThe people of the District
could not do better thing than by |
giving him triumphant re-eiec-
tion.r
There are Thirty thousand acres
OF wheat in Montgomery county, |
which is said to look very promis-
ing.
The Girard Press speaks of the
Independent movement" as the
''new born. reform, non-office SEEK
ing, independent prodigy"
The saloons of Girard have
woodbined.
Wakarusa township has been ia
king slip from the city of Law
renee, thereby lessening its former
goodly proportions.
Labette county is becoming dis
gusted with the Bender business.
They want a Bender which they
can hang They have no use for
Utah paupers in their poor house.
What are we coming to? The
Atchison Champion tells the follow.
ing startling story:
"Rev. W. NJ. Irvine, q colored
minister of this city, yesterday
brought suit against Calienda's
Georgia Minstrels, under the civil
rights bill passed by the Legislature,
| for damages to the amount of $1,000,
the plaintiff alleging that the pro-
prietor of the Minstrel troupe had
refused to sell HIM tickets to the
entertainment on account of his
color"
There are ninety Touring mills in
Kansas erected at cost of about
81 100000, with a grinding capacity
of 100000 bushels of wheat, and
100000 bushels of corn. Last
year they turned out but 100000
barrals, One-third their capacity
Elk.
This is is a Kansas Pacific story
AT St. Marys an engineer saw q
young squaw with papoose strap
ped to her back, standing on thu
platform, "Have you got a little
Indian there?" said the driver o.
the iron horse. "No," said she
"hatf Injun, half iniuneer."
Fifteen per cent. of the cattle
wintered in Ellsworth have died.
The coal bore of Junction CITY
turns out to be a salt well.
The Musical Union of Junction
City withers in the spring. Prem
prays that it may revive "whel
; frost comes again"
We clip the following from tn
lola Register: "The Leavenwortl
Times says hundreds of idle per
. sons depend on the liquor and gam
bling saloons of that city for thei
daily proveuder. They need frs
, class shooting match in that city
: there is no other way of getting ri
a of such dead BEATS"
The Wooden Mills at this plac
7 have undergone thorough chang
: and will, in short time, be ready fo
!. active operation under the manage
: ment of Sharp & Kingsly-me
who are financially and mechanical
9 ly able to run them all right.-Neo
. sho Falls Post.
: One Damatar FokLle has gon
into the peanut business in Wyau
: dotte.
= A CURsE.-One OF the creates
|. curses of this city for years ha
o been that we have had a set of loaI
:. ing, shysterin, professional politi
clans, lying around town doin
nothing, paying no taxes, addin
4 nothing to the wealth or industrie
: of the city, but simply keeping tn
community by the ears.-Lawrenc
I journal.
: The Junction City Tribune want
stem or a dozen thrifty shoats." A
: word has Joined the Independent
and intends to eat his own hos
9 hOminy or no hominy.
: More lead ore has been discover
: ell on the Dragon below Burlir
n game. Many persons are of tn
% opinion that valuable deposits {
| this fol e. g., L
# these specimens of ore were pickle
It up. This belief is strengthened b
O an Indian tradition that lead mine
= exist along the Dragoon.-Burli1
Il game Chronicle,
J The Commercial is constrained I
Il ask, "shall hogs rule I4eavenworth i:
e A WHOLE FAMILY PoIsoNED.-W
l. learn last week, q family living i
j. California township named NJ
l. Souders, met with a fearful aud dis
l. tresslng accident that terminate
fatally with one of the family,
small boy. 1t appears they gathei
e ed a mess of greens, and cooke
o and ate literally of them. 500
after eating them the whole famiI
IL were Frustrated with illness, an
n before any medical assistance coul
be procured, small boy died. TIL
balance of the family were yer
sick, but are recovering slowl,
On examining the greens some doc
v was discovered. which is regarde
. as the source of the calamity.-BuI
liDgton Patriot.
It A LARGE -BIRD.-Last Saturda
It Z. E. Bacon, VIM. Ii. Bear an
r others, went oyer the river gun
e ming. Between these two gentle
e men they killed huge male rhi
IS nocerOs pelican, standing four an
i half feet high, that measured eigt
n and half feet from tip to tip c
= wings, His bill was over two fee
: in length, provided with horn tw
g inches in length on the upper sid
of it, while the lower side was fuI
nished with q sack large enough t
G hold several politicians of the lib
e eral gender. The expire sion of hi
C countenance was not mild, and i
e his native element he must hay
n been terror to fish, terrapins an
j small trash.-Burlington Patriot.
The Usage settlers are going T.
, have another big meeting, and muc
: speaking on the land question, q
Parsons, the 9th inst.
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