The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-05-08
SOUTHWEST.
). HURD,
City Clerk
Adjourned

1t is said that cattle in Cowley couu-
IS have done exceedingly well this
season.
The Arkansas City Traveller says:
''Ccrn is worth one dollar per bushei
at Winfield, and will be worth as much
here in few weeks. So many cattle
being wintered in the county is the
cause of the great demand
Mr.. Jewett, just in from the Mc5i-
cine Lodge country, informs us that q
stray band of four or five Indians made
raid last week on Sun City, stealing
some ponies. The red thieves were
oYeFtakGn the next day and were COM
PEELED to give up what they had felo-
niously taken and everything else In
their possession. Grass is splendid on
the Medicine Lodge and stock doing
flne.-Wichita Eagle.
Harper's Weekly has been illustrate
ing wichita The Eagle.
A young man named Eddy, in Sedg-
wick county, was hitching his team to
pillow. One of the Horses kicked him
over, when the team started, the
pillow caught HIN on the point of it,
and dragged him some distance. He
was badly, though not fatally hurt.
The unsolved problem of the South
west" Where will the Paols, Garnett
6 Fall River railroad strike the Ar
kansas riverf"
The Oxford Enterprise says: "Tex-
as Is Overrun with young men from
Kansas seeking employment from the
cattle drovers, and that the Mexicans
(who are excellent stock men) are en-
gaging themselves for the summer at
from $l2.50 to s15 per month. Such
would barely suffice to repay the money
invested in a necessary outfit for trip
to Texas, and if any of the men who
left here succeed in getting employ
ment at these figures, they will be out
of pocket at least the summers work.
Better stay on yonr claims, boys. and
make improvements
The rogues of Harvey county get
away with spring seats, ox-yohes, log
chains, breaking plOws, &c.
The Newton Kansan editor has had
present in the shape of "a half peck
new potatoes"
Thomas Paine runs barber shop in
Hutchinson.
From all we can gather the condi-
ton of growing crops in Reno county
| Is remarkably fine. Wheat, oats, veg
etables and grass, are fourishing with
| all the eXuberance common 70 the
southwest. The hearts of our sturdy
farmers are gladdensd and the eyes OF
newcomers delighted. - Hutchinson
| News.
The Hutchinson News has been en-
larged. We are glad to note this sign
OF prosperity. 1t deserves good sup
port.
The Wellington Press says: "IBl-
migration still continues TO pour into
Sumner county in a steady stream
Illinois, Iowa and Ohio are each fur.
nIshing their quota of settlers for hel
splendid bottoms and fertile prairics.
COOP SPECIMEN or LEAD.-Mr. 5
wilkins, of Cowley county, dropped
into our Office Tuesday, and left on oul
table as fine q specimen OF lead ore o.
, we have ever seen brought from Jop
. lin, No. Ii was taken from LaZette
forty-five miles south OF Eureka, Ii
Cowley county, and was found in ;
well, twelve feet below the surface, II
the tract of country known as the fiin
: hill ridge, that extends from Cow!e!
: into the western portion OF Greenwood
/. This specimen contains from seventy
five to ninety per cent. pure lead, ant
: if an extensive vein of that kind Cal
3 be found in that locality, CoHle coun
II ty may consider herself fortunate
!, Such lead mine would pan oat
mint of wealth.-Burllngton PstfioI
Il We learn from several sources tbs
all the cultivated land in the count.
will be put under the pIow this season
}. People begin to see that it oven pay
!, 70 raise cora and begin TO see that
don't pay tO swear at the country an
never have corn TO sell when IL
worth IS cents per btIshel. Dry good
!, boxes on street corners will not be
!, great demand this season. Pants wi
"a need patches elsewhere than hereto
fore.-Eldorado Times.
The Times wants Butler count
n farmers to 'handle more native cattle
,tI The people of Eldorado are to hav
q 8 Temperance billiard hall" Can bi
d lizards run without whisky? We hol
so.
r Several hundred miles OF hedl
e fence have been planted In Butl
= county this spring.
q The following Is from WIN. Harr
o. son, q correspondent of the Eidorat
II Times:
DEAD CATTLE.-I have travelled Ov'
r the county considerably of late, and
&c ind wherever / 20 good many csrca
ges-many of them IN q decaying stat
well remember-as many of our o
DC settlers Will-that about seven or Gig
CT years ago great many cattle died
ed this county and were left TO rot on q
IN of the groundy which made the 3
very impure and offensive. In A
y gust q disease broke out among o
nd people something like cholera, viii,
baff1ed all medical skill. Most of 9
~ people were sick. There were TWEEN
deaths in and around Eidorado. d
spair was upon every countenance, q
ZEE our whole county was shrouded
n mourning. I much fear that ii {
ng carcasses which are scattered all oS
1rt our county are not buried or burn
h up soon, similar calamity viii col
Oh upon rs this present summer, for
ey some localities the stencil is even M
lea almost intolerabie. II individuals "
Tea not or calH0t remove the carcasses,
IN. the township authorities see that
pestIlentlsl nuisance IL immediate
By abat0d.