The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-12-11
THuRapAY KYENING.
SOUTHWEST.

SOUTHWEST.
POrk-packing is going on in WITCH.
ita.
There Is fair prospect of considera.
BILE building being done in Wichits
next spring.
One year from next March passeng.
ers going east can take the Eureka
Augusta and Wichita railroad. So say:
the Beacon.
A wildcat which measured four feei
in length, was killed on the Cowskir
last week.
Three or four car loads of bones are
shipped from Wichita every week.
The Wichita police court report:
$6,s69.5O receipts since the 18th OF
April last. The above is $1,000 in ex.
cess of last year.
WhOOping cough is prevailing tC
some extent among children of Chase
county.
Temperance is agitating the people
of Cottonwood Falls now that they
have recovered from the late election.
Six thousand two hundred and four
teen car loads of hogs have been ship
ped from this city since the first OF
April last.-Wichita Beacon.
That's too fishy.
A bursting lamp came very near de-
strOying the Southern hotel, at Great
Bend, last week. Prompt and ener-
getic action prevented confiagration.
The Mcpherson Advocate saws a
large colony of MInnesotians is PROM
ised for that county, next spring.
The Methodist minister of HutchIn-
son goes 40 miles to preach to the
brethren at Fl. Dodge.
Many families in Sumner county are
subsisting on boiled wheat alone.
The Government will establish a
military post at the Antelope Hills
this winter. 1t Is a continual hot-be.i
for Indians, and has always been q
safe retreat.
Six horse thieves made a dash OH
Cheyenne Agency lately, and ran of
seVenty-flve head of Government stock.
Two were captured and two shot.
The Militia are stationed in town for
q few days, awaiting rations. It is not
definitely known yet whether they
will be mustered out, as Indians are
ire quently seen on the plains now
Arkansas City Traveller.
We dou't want to go to Sunday
school any more. The Wichita Beacon
has made us out Sunday school man
entirely, and we are addressed as stleil
now by our friends. It was q mistake.
We only stEayed there Once.-Arkan-
sas City Traveller.
The Sumner County Press raises the
name of Gen. w. T. Sherman for Pres
ident In 1876.
Judge Brown finished up the unfin-
lshed court business here last Satur-
day, which consisted mainly in sign
ing up the docket OF the last term Of
court. The next term will be in April.
Newton Kansan.
VenisOn in abundance on nearly eV-
cry street corner in Wichita.
A young man out on the Medicine
Lodge two weeks ago, while out duck
hunting lay down in the grass on the
bank OF the creek along side of his gun.
While enjoying the sunshine, it is sup
posed, he struck the locks of his gun
with his foot, discharging both barrels
into his side killing him instantly. He
was aged about seventeen years. Name
not known.
w. T. Jewett came in from the Med
icine Lodge country last week. Judge
Browns court had been in session tile
week before. From the desc riptiOn
furnished Us the Irregularities incident
to the border must still exist at Medi-
cine Lodge. But justice, the clean
thing void of cumberous fOrmalities
and ponderous books, is admlnistFed
effsctually and promptly. Mr.. Jewett
estimates that IL, 400 head of cattle are
being wiRrered on the Medicine Lodge
and tributaries. The snow storm Of
last week reached that country and
was severe upon the cattle.-Wichita
Eagle.
Hon. T. s. Jones arrived home Mon-
day morning from his tour OF investi-
CATION in Barbour and other counties
He informs US that, ct one time the
committee thought they would be
snow bound for ten days or more, bHt
their anxiety was relieved by q Texas
cattle man, who, hearing of their situ-
alton, drove his whole herd across q
i canyon In which the show had drilled
% the depth Of some six or eight feet
thus leaving n well beaten track, Ovei
which the party passed with ease. He
says when the cattle first went into thu
Icanyoa they sunk beneath the snow
until there was scarcely any part o
them visible except their tails. W.
welcome him back and hope bis mex
trip from home may be more pleasant
Chase County COurant.
Marion county is about to have som
French emigrants.
Peabody is to have . town clock o.
the library building when completed.
Hutchinson proposes 70 make goo
road across sand hills, 50 as to get tn
Mennonite trade.
The young men Of Newton are dis
satisfied because the girls Of that plsc
are Woed and won by gentlemen frsG
New Jersey, Pennsylvania. West VII
ginia, and other states east. Was
your faces, young men, and go in.
Thomas Coleman, Co. d, Elevent
United States infantry, arrived
Wichita, last Friday, from Fort Sil
where he had been discharged. I
hsd travelled most Of the way on foo
and had . portion Of his fingers fr0zs
|. on. His hands and feet are in a teri
7 BILE condition from exposure.
5000 head of Texas cattle are beII
: wintered in Barbour county. II
!. owners say that Barbour Is the fine
region outside Of Texas for winteriE
cattle-far superior to any pOrtisn
Colorado or any other part OF Kans.
Besides excellent grazing the canyO