The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-12-04
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: ner county amount to $2.lO on the $IO(
valuation.
The public schools at Wellington
have an average daily attendance OF q;
pupils.
S. d. Duncan, charged with the muir.
der OF Charles Hale, at Hutchinson
has been discharged on n writ of babe
as corpus.
Scott, of the Arkansas City Travel
er, goes TO Sunday school, and the
Wichita Beacon says that lie is proba-
bly, the only editor in the state who
does.
A peddler has been taking in the
farmers along the Cottonwood with
shoddy dry goods.
The "deYil" OF the Wichita Beacon
went hunting last Saturday, and came
home with two tame ducks and a
skunk. The latter he said was jack
rabbit.
| Wellington is trying to induce the
A., I. Sc S. f. railroad company to ex-
tend their road down into Sumner
county.
The Cowley county State Militia
were mustered out at Arkansas City
last Saturday, having been in service
just three months.
/ Arkansas City has citizen whose
wife compels him to daily give his
boots an internal sprinkling or chlo-
ride of lime.
Wichita business men complain
greatly at the dull times. Very little
business is done as compared with
former seasons.
Last Thursday night a crazy soldier
| who had been discharged Mt Fort Sill,
and was coming mp on the stage, wherT
| within about 20 miles of Caldwell,
| jumped out, and was left to wander
around on the prairie until morning.
When found the next morning he was
nearly frozen to death. lie was taken
to Caldwell, and had three of his fing-
ers amputated.-Arkans City TraV-
eler.
The grasshOppers, Indians, and poll
| IiSi'1iIS iiSbC INV 10 lCttiiH ttO thOIc
until grass.
We hear it stated that west of here
| in this and Reno counties, persons
have recently boarded the coal cars on
night trains and thrown off quantities
of coal as the train was running. They
then jump off, and going over the
! ground with wagons, pick up the same.
Such persons will never suffer from a
want of relief.-Newt0n KaRsaRs---, -
About one hundred. and fifty Menon-
ties, direct from the old country, arriv-
ed here Yesterday morning, who were
uulOaded here and will settle among
their friends north 4 few miles.-New-
ton Kansan.
Parties who went east by wagon
this fall, tell us that they met and
heard of two persons and families
moving to Kansas to every one that
was leaving.-NewtOn Kansan.
Great Bend thinks she ought to Ia We
a fire engine.
Flour, provisions, etc, to the value
of $3.50 have been received at Great
Bend for the destitute of Ba rton
county.
The Wellington Press says that Mr..
John Garrett, who lives on farm
three miles northeast of that place, has
manufactured G52 pounds of butter
from the milk of seven cows, since the
18th day of February last. During all
that time the cows had only five bnsli-
els of grain.
The last herd OF cattle for the season
arrived in Wichita last week.
| The Wichita market is overrun with
wild game.
A skunk went in at the front door of
a liquor store here, last week, while
the prOprietOrs were going out ut the
back door, but son of toll present,
who had more than the average temer-
ity, attempted to stamp the pretty lit
tie animal, whose fur is in such vogue
with the In lies, and in turn became
stamped-indelibly so-with ut least
an abundance of the odor that so dis
tinguishes the skunk family. In fact,
as was remarked by gentleman with
whom he stopped to speak afterwards
on the street, and who offered him two
bits to leave the crowd, ale smelt
: like all the skunks that ever was,
should, could or would be- Result
. a little private funeral of old Clothes
Wichita Beacon.
Buffalo hunters are not meeting
with great success on the range.
Augusta is talking up railroads again
The Wichita coal yards are empty.
The ladies relief society of Hutch
inson is doing good work in helping
the destitute of Reno county.
: The mail route between Hutchinson
and Ellsworth was changed the first o
this month SO as to run from Newton
to Ellsworth. +
The erection OF four thousand dol
lar school building at Oxford is fnrn
ishIng employment to large numbe
of stone masons and common laborers
many of whom would otherwise b
without work.
Council Grove young ladies have
''self-escOrting, cooperative, churc
and party-going organization" w
admire the Sco-Operative'' idea.
The editor CT the Winfield CO0Fte
, received 600, 600 invitations from h
friends to take Thanksgiving Dime
- with them, and was also presente
with 600 nice, fat turkeys.
We stood and witnessed the burnin
of some seven thousand dollars wort
of the debt of Cowley county, yeste
day. Some of the scrip was of the oil
est issue of the county. The plague
stuff had to be coaxed to burn. Won
I that the entire debt could be disposl
of in the same way.-Winfleld Courie
"Mascon'' is the name of the ne
no Mennonite town west of Marion &c
ter.
A protracted meeting is now
progress in Marion Center, conduct
by the Methodists.
One of the evidences OF hard wi
-. ter is the fact that the skunks are u
ing to drive the citizens of wichita {
OF their houses. See Wichita Beac
Cor the past two or threee weeks.
The trains on the A., T. & s.
railroad were showed up for seve
days last week, west of Dodge CT
e -Four feet of snow is reported At Ne
cine Lodge.
Silk undershirts very fine and che
Silk suspenders, worsted suspenders,
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