The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-11-13
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1lc lcHilsh IAASi1 HAS tuTnIi
weighing twelve pounds.
If the frost had held OH two weeks
longer, the gardens would have gotten
away with those of the spring and
early summer; as it MAS nlauy of the
delicacies priced in the spring maIure1l
finely. Mrs. j. W. Mccartney has our
thanks for some extra nice crisp
lunches of lettuce that grew Ir,Ei tie.
seed of this years maturesl plaHt.-
Wichita Eagle.
Jonn Relden, so we'll known in
Wichita as an actor in the old Varie-
ties, and was very popular among the
sports, was killed last Thursday in
Shreveport, Louisiana.
Two Mexicans were killed last Sat-
urdLy in kingHan county, twenty
live miles west of this city, by !. man
named McMahun. The Mexican.
were heriers in the employ al Sam
Holland, aud iL appears Aic Mah"u had
been directed tn ga OiIt AMI move The
herd, when lie gOL into an alIrrcitiun
with the Mexicans which resulted ia
his shooting them both. mir. McMa-
hon returned to this city, settled up
his bills, bid his friends good isre, and
was on his way to Texas bet re- any
discovery was made of his act. 81, Ma
hon is represented As II desperate. CHAR
acter and one who had kilied IIIrer
Mexicans previous to the terrible AZ
lair last Saturday.-Wichlta Eagle.
Winfield Mas enlivened by an Ital-
Ian musician last week, it being the
first of the "profesh" ever visiting that
city. ~
The Marion Centre Union School is
progressing finely. 1t now has one
hundred and thirty odd names enroll
ed.
The Temperance party carried Edo
RADIO township by sixty majority.
Cowley county is to have fourth
newspaper.
y S3ll nugget of gold was among
the bridal presents recently given to a
couple at Wichita.
Fifty thousand acres OF land were
recently selected in Sedgwick county
by an agent for colony of the ''Disci-
Piles of Christ" to come from Illinois.
Gray wolves pulled the blankets off
and licked the faces of some of the Mi
litia boys while camping on the plains.
So says the Arkansas City Traveller.
Main street in West Wichita has
been graded.
a horse was stolen from pasture
adjoining West Wichita last Saturday
night.
Large quantities of bonegare being
brought in and shipped over the A., 7.
& S. F. road. They are worth IS per
ton delivered here.-Wichita Beacon.
Green beans, grown this tall, are
sold in the Winfield market.
The Eureka Herald is Dragging
about new potatoes OF this falls
growth.
They have some notion in and about
Winfield of organizing neck-tie par
ty for the cure of horse stealing.
Skunks are unwelcome visitors; at
least some of the Douglas Avenue
guests thought so one night last week,
when one entered the house through a
back door and passed into the hall,
thence to the Office behind the counter,
through to the baggage room, and out
again to the main office, where his
presence had the effect OF bOmbshell
explosion. A few of the guests sat
chained to their chairs, while Judge
Quinian and one or two others made
their exit as rapidly as if shot from a
howitzer; and even the two hundred
pound clerk, armed with six shooter,
was paIalyZed with fear. The little
Tvarmint" did not carry an OdOr which
was altogether like rose, yet all
seemed kindly disposed toward him,
and permitted him to escape uninjur-
ed.-Wichita Beacon.
Several hunting parties from Arkan-
s:sCity have gone to the western part
of the state for the purpose of killing
buffalo.
The Wellington Press says early
sOwn wheat has grown so rapidly in
Sumner county under the influence of
the most favorable weather, that it is
thought it will have to be pastured in
some localities.
Peabody cast l7G votes election day
Our streets are busy, and no one
would dream that we are in q three
year old country, and had just been
robbed, by grasshoppers, I'll every
thing our farmers had tried to raise
Peabody Gazette.
Last Sunday night week, while d.
w. Mercer was ut church his house at
Matiield Green was robbed of one
hundred pounds of flour and quanti-
ty of salt.
David Mercer, postmaster at hatfield
Green, has boy, 10 months old, with
five well formed fingers and one thumb
on each hand. This is the second
child of Mr.. MERGERS provided in like
manner.
The highest number of votes cast in
Chase county was 734.
From Mr.. Morgan Cox, one of the
victims of the Higgenbottom conspira-
CIV, and who went to Kansas City as a
representative of some of the creditors
here, we learn that HiggenbOttOm, at
the time of his capture, had npon his
person about $4,000, principally in
drafts and certificates of deposit. This
was divided among the creditors pro
rata, meeting something like fifty per
cent. of the liabilities. Nothing has
been heard of Haley, the other part
ner. Higgenbottom deplOres his I'M
wise and dishonest action, admitting
that he made fearful blunder, and
signified his intention of returning to
his farm above this city. 1t is repre-
scented that he could have met ali his
debts promptly and honorably, saved
his crrsiit and good name, and still had
from ten to twelve thousand dollars
left.-Wichita Eagle.
COMRADES ATTENTION!