The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-11-27
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Wheat thieves are aboard in Cloud
Cofrey county boasts Of an elegant
poor house.
Humboldt is shipping hickory
nuts to Missouri.
Phillips county has voted down
the "relief bonds"
Lincoln county is TO have a -four
sack mandatory.
Coal eight cents bushel at Gil
rard, Crawford county.
There are more cattle in Auder-
son county than ever before.
The LeaVenworth mills get most
of their wheat from Missouri.
There is some emigration from
Anderson county 10 California.
The Lawrence Tribune has sus-
pended the publication of its week
ly.
Sedgwick county has thrown open
the hOspitab.e doors of $4,000
Jail.
There were seventeen voting dis
tricts at the frat Territorial election
in Kansas.
The city prisoners in Leavenworth
are engaged In matchmaking
Fourth street.
There are now confined in the
penitentiary four hundred and 'thir-
ty-two prisoners.
The post commander at Fort
Leavenworlh has a young and
healthy cinnamon bear for sale.
a general buffalo hunt Is being
organized for the purpose of secur-
ing beef for the poor of Reno coun-
ty.
An old woman ofGi lately sued
her son for swindling her, in Leav-
enworth, and got a judgement for
$I,440.
Mr.. Kinnear thinks lie has dis
covered a three foot vein of camel
coal within a short distance of OF
tawa.
Asa Hairgrove and family have
gone to Del Norte, Colorado, where
they will in future make their
home.
The Eureka Herald computes
that there are about seven hundred
ofiice-holders of various kinds in
Greenwood county.
Ridenour & Baker, of Lawrence
are packing seven or eight hundred
hogs day. They buy hogs from
Missouri and Iowa.
That Fort Scott man succeeded In
eating thirty quails in thirty days.
Some of the contractors on the
Paola, Garnet s. Fall Rive railroad
are feeding their teams on wheat, 1t
being cheaper than corn.
The Anderson brothers who were
killed by Barney BOhan, formerly
kept a boarding train on the Atchi-
son, Topeka s. Santa Fe railroad.
The Lawrence Tribune says that
w. II. SpoOner, late of the Garnett
PlaIndealer, is going to New York
to devote his attention to the law.
The Atchison city council refused
to pay bill of $l3 for powder ex-
pended on firing n salute when
President Grant passed through
that city.
Fort Madison, Iowa, people haye
sent a car load of provisions 10
Pawnee county. The railroads
furnished free transportation.
Twenty-Five Germans lately ar
rived at Waconda, Mitchell county,
direct from the cold country"
They propose to settle in TIN vicin-
ity.
1t leaks out that a. NJ. +. Ran
dolph, the newly elected Attorney
General, is n bachelor.
The Commonwealth says that
most of the Shawnee county tax
payers who visit the treasurer, pay
their taxes in full now and claim the
rebate allowed by the new tax law.
Bent. Murdoch has been present
ed with eight potatoes weighing
collectively ten pounds. They were
planted i'll August, and did the best
they could under the circumstances.
+. L. Akin has been declared ell
ected County Attorney of Butler
county, by n majority of two votes.
The result was obtained by count
ing as for Z. l.. Akin three votes
for L. L. Akin.
L. Il. Trask, once editor of the
Oswego Register, now keeps the
"UniOn House" in Oswego. lie
thinks man who can run q country
newspaper ought to know how to
keep Il hotel.
a voter selected his candidate for
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton in Montgomery county, be-
cause, as he said, if his man were
elected, eve should stand some show
of having the Office of County Sup
| orintendeut abolished -
There are twelve men now in the
Atchison county Jail.
Large numbers of Lawrencnce
mechanics are away from that city,
there being no work there to sup
port their families.
Thousands of prairie chickens
are being shipped from Chetopa
every week to the eastern markets.
The NJ, X. d I. railway have
notified the New York stock ex-
change of their intention to issue
$S,OO0,O00 of preferred stock
shares Of 800 each.
The Indians and citizens of Elk
City, Kansas, spend Sundays
shooting ut nickels in the street.
a good missionary would find thot
an excellent field.
About $4,000 has been expend-
ell in improvements at the peniten-