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

"leeEy."
Mrs. Fitch, OF Arakansas City
has tomatoes in bloom.
The Arkansas Traveller says:
"Cowley county has more corn,
wheat, hogs, grapes and babies to
the acre than any other part of Kan
sas."
Scott, OF The Arkansas City TRAY
eler, was awfully alarmed the other
day, because Dutchman came into
his office with a brick-maple sugar.
The bulIaloes have forsaken Reno
county. They have gone west.
Hutchimsonians are improving the
looks of the city by building fences
and planting trees.
The Oxford enterprise informs it's
readers that: "Many responsible
and well-to do farmers from Wis
consiI. and Illinois, have lately set
tied in the vicinity Of Oxford"
The Wichita Eagle says: "Thous.
ands of standard fruit trees have
been put out in this county this
spring. 1t will be but a few years
before we will have need enough of
railroad running down this valley
to the Mississippi river"
Wichita hotels are full of "new
Corners"
j. l.. Pope and sons did little
! job of work last week that wO I'D
solve the problem of how this
country is TO DO fenced, had it not
been done long since. They put
out on their land, twelve miles west
of town, seven miles OF
Usage Orange hedge, complete and
I'm good shape. This was all done
inside of week. Who would
want 10 split and haul rails to make
fence when fences, substantial,
strong and lasting, can be so readily
provided, even though trees were
| plenty or lumber only five dollars
per thousand? We guess nobody.
The Usage Orange plant is indigen.
Gus to this soil and there is no Ques-
ton but that in a few years our
broad fields and prairies will be
checkered with living fences
Wichita Eagle.
By some strange freak the Eureka
Herald skipped into our Office the
other morning. Glad to see you
Did not know but what you had
Gmon1Iino5 GETI1~,, 2p
Prof. Kellogg cropped in" las
Saturday, on his way home from
the East. lie says the Eastern PEG
pie are inbilant over the veto.
/ The Cottonwood Falls Leader
tells good one concerning Ben.
der arrest in that city. The colo
citizen" didn't arrest worth n cent
The Wellington Press Gays tina
Summer county is filling up will
Texas cattle.
Two sections of land situated re-
speclively six and seven miles west
| OF Wellington were settled upon by
Iowa families q few days since
Theyhav broken hedge rows andart
otherwise improving their claims
Wellington Press.
The Sumner county court house
is going up in Wellington. They
propose to dedicate on the 18th o
July.
The Belle Plain Democrat ant
Wellington Press are having high
toned war of words.
Some low flung thief stole s
preachers horse In Winfield las
week. We know that thief would
steal the Buttons off a dead Digger'l
coat.
This is the way the papers
of the Southwest go for each
other:
;The editor OF the Walnut Val.
ley Times has received a curiosity
from California, in the shape of d
Horned Toad, and will forthwith
start his devil out with it, buffalo
calf and bull pup, to travel over
the country as circus ard menag-
erie. We hazard the prediction
that Il will prove fully as profitable
to him as the newspaper business
Wichita Beacon.
If the Beacon outfit was oTem0ted,
aud the ashes deached, the concen-
trated I'VE would be as 1ceak and as
thin as sorghum molasses in 8 July
sun.-Eldorado Times.
The Times says: Land in But
Ter county Il on the rise in pros
pect of the early completion of the
east and west road.
a party expect to start from this
place on Monday to hunt gold on
theYellowstone river, Well wager
a nickel that they will wish they had
stayed at homo about their business
before they get back.-MaIion Cen
! ter Record.