The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-12-18
SOUTHWEST.

Auu near DUWH. 1u9Tc = never vas /
UGH time for investment, and never
Till be again This fact settlers in the !
astern portion OF the State realize, ,
nd hence heavy Immigration from
he Missouri river ceuntIes--HutchIn-
on News. .....t,f.ses .,ss ....v.
Shoals of drummers from eastern
titles throng our hotels. They all
mite in praise of our city and its gen.
lemanly business men.-Hutchinson
News.
There is considerable excitement in
he city of wichita now, caused by the
of the post Office from the
south part of the city TO the Occidental
hotel.
Belle Plaine and Oxford, are talking
Of organizing Railroad Company to
be called the Pacific, Kansas & Calves
ton r. T.. ~ asg
The people of st. Charles, Missouri,
propose to extend aid to Reno county.
Ten additional hunks have been put
in the Reno county poor house.
Plastering was begun on the Pea
body NJ. E. church last Wednesday.
1t will be open for services about
Christmas. ss.f =.
Peabody received a new invoice of
Mennonites last week Every unoc-
cupied room in town was levied upon
and filed by them.
The Peabody Gazette reports BUSH
ness good.
The Council Grove Democrat comes
to US this week with a patent outside,
or in other words what the Emporia
Ledger calls an HExterior." The
Ledger is an ''exteriOr," so she claims.
Beavers are at work near the mouth
of the Walnut, trying to make dam.
The Arkansas river is up three feet
above ordinary water mark.
The Osages, Kaws, and other Indians
were paid off last week.
A movement is being made to build
a 5000 tannery at Arkansas city, by
a stock company. 1t will undoubted-
ly pay.
Hay 50 per ton, with some selling for
81. Corn, scarce at so cents. No oats
in market. Wheat so cents, market
dull, and few buyers.-Arkansas City
Traveller.
MUSTERED OUT.-Capt. NOrton's
company of 60 men were mustered out
at this place last Saturday, after drill
| ing an hour or so on the streets. The
men were well drilled, mounted and
armed d, and could have made destruc.
ton il the opportunity had offered.
One Thing was apparent, that while
the MALTA were out, the Indians were
| in, but it will not be long now, before
the Osages will be in Barbour county
after the ponies that were taken from
them, and many accidentally, or by
mistake, shoot and scalp some of the
residents of that vicinity.-Arkansas
City Traveller. .... ... .
The Indians are said to be trouble
some again near Dodge. "A few day:
ago they run Off a number of horses
and mules belonging to Hannahran.
/ Twenty-Five thousand cattle are being
wintered in Sedgwick and adjoining
counties.
Two of Marion Center's prominent
lawyers were up to Topeka this week
and while there, visited 'tProf." Dol.
gOrnki at the Jail. BY some mistake
the turnkey locked them in, and KEEP
them there about an hour. .f
Parties are prospecting for coal 81,
miles southeast of Marion Center.
A Masonic lodge has been instituted
at Marion Center.
Bent. Murdoch, satisfied with de.
feating Tom Osborn, contemplate
tackling the Temperance question, he.
tween this and spring.
Last Friday night two young men
aged respectively thirteen and twenty
years, were smothered to death in {
sod house three miles east of Empire
Mcpherson county. Their names wa.
kohler, and they with their father
recently moved from Missouri and set.
tied upon the place referred to ant
commenced the building of a sod
house residence, and which was nearly
completed when the sad accident tool
place. The father was at the time a
work in Empire, and when the sal
intelligence was conveyed him he be
came nearly distracted. .-.
We learn that Lewis Noble, living II
Emma township, about ten mile
northwest of this place, was burned
out on Tuesday. The family were al
in the cellar at the time, and the cause
of the fire is not known. They lost al
their furniture and clothing and one
hundred dollars in money.--NewtOT
| kansan. ...s.- ...-... f0 -.....
An addition to our Mennonite immi.
grafton to the number of two car loads
arrived here Saturday night last. This
we learn, will be the last of them thi:
winter. A majority of this last in.
/ voice are being quartered in the rail.
road section house at the stOck-yarCl.-
Newton Aahsah. 9a. .ls-. -Y
Quite number of farmers In the
| county have been blowing the past
| week, and we observed one breaking
/ team in operation south of town Mon
4 day.-Newton Kansan.
Wichita merchants complain of hard
| times. .--t f.....-.-r.. o.
Last Tuesday lodge of Royal Arch
Masons was organized in Newton, by
Companion Makeaney-to be called
Arkansas Valley U d. Royal Arch
Masons, with twenty-five members.
Last Saturday morning, while Mr..
l.. S. Seeley, of Cottonwood, WIS re-
turning from the Grange festival on
Diamond creek, the horse he was rid
ing, which belonged to DIR. Winsor and
worth $3.50, fell dead.
In the case of the Representative
from Morris county, where there was
a tie vote between Messrs.- HootOn and
Maloy, the State Board of Canvassers
drew lots, and it was decided in favor
of Mr.. HOoton. John, we congratu-
late You on your narrow escape. ~.
Drinkwater s. Schriver are erecting
another mill at Cedar Point, which.
when completed, will be one of the
best mills in the cOunty.-Chase Coun-
ty Courant. ..-.
The Mennonites are q unit on the
temperance question. They all go in
for their 'fschnaps." sGs
The Council Grove Republican advo-
Gates the holding of a mass meeting of
the settlers on the kaw trust and res
ervation lands in Morris and adjoining
counties, for the purpose of devisIng
q preamble and resolutions or a petit
ton to Congress, so that Judge w. r.
Brown, when he goes to Washington,
may obtain that relief these settlers so
much desire. '
As an inducement to the Aennon-