The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-18
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,ity has been rooted. {
Sedgwick county has out So, 235.-
) in scrip.
Hogs three cents a pound gross at
wellington.
Greenwood county will have no
air this fall.
Considerable wheat is being sown
n the Southwest.
Many IlIinoisaus are settling
about Belle Plain.
The Mcpherson Advocate ssys
grass is getting green again.
The Baptists are building a new
church at Mcpherson.
Mr.. Turner, of Monmouth, Ill.,,
has taken $50 sheep to Arkansas
City.
Butler county had full delega-
ton at the State Temperance meet
ing.
The heavy rains of Saturday and
Sunday extended all oyer the South
west.
Remanto, where they make salt,
is boring for coal, laying off their
town site, talking of having a news
paper, and doing things up in bu-
siness way generally.
The Wichita mills have bought
lately 5000 bushels of good wheat.
Notwithstanding the mournful lit
erature about drOuth and grasshop-
pers, the n. f. church extension So
ciety have voted assistance to the
church at Arkansas City, and they
will begin work at once on brick
house, 2Sx40, to cost $4,000.
Wheat is being fed to horses by
those who have no corn. Corn and
wheat are near the same price.-Ar-
kansas City Traveller.
The gamblers are getting out OF
Wichita. Times too hard. Poo
picking. Their aids of the other
sex ARE also leaving. The police
force has been reduced.
They have a different Kind of lake
from the "orthodox" description
under Arkansas City. The Travel.
err says that after boring through
one foot of blue limestone in tht
bottom of Walkers well, lake o
water fifteen feet in depth was en-
tered. This is where the good Mr.
Scott prints newspaper. Tit
above statement ought to induce
large immigration.
Potatoes were retailing in tow
last Monday at Sl.50 per bushel
, They were raised on Hickory creek
Butler county, and were as good a
any we ever saw.-Arkansas TRAY
, eler.
The Kickapoo Indians were sup
: piled with rations sent to the Mill
tia, before they could be removed t
f the Sax and Fox Agency, wher
l Mr.. Gibson has concluded to tax
them.
= Invariably after a drouth a goo
/. season follows. Grasshoppers al
Y | ways come with a drouth.-Arkan
!, sas City Traveller.
A fishing party from Belle Plaint
;. one day last week, caught nine fis
i'll the Nenescah river which aveI
: aged forty-fiye pounds each.
Mr.. E. Beck, of Oxford township
=, reports an average yield of thirty
! two bushels of wheat to the acrt
: Other crops in the same localit
4 have yielded quito as well.-Wel
lington Press.
We have in our garden fruit tree
that are now leafing out the thir
. time this year, having been Stripe
twice by the grasshoppers.-NeV
: ton Kansan.
Capt. II. Nj. Spivey, of Newto
n has been appointed general adve
Using and purchasing agent of IL
land department of the A, T. s.
f. railroad, and has entered upo
the duties of the position. a goo
choice.
A good deal of wheat is being fe
to the stock in this county this ia
instead of corn. Those who use
:, say that it is cheaper.-Winfiel
!. Courier.
We occasionally hear of farmer
;. in this county who have corn [
seH.-Chase County Leader.
Thus far no one has taken enoug
o interest in the needy of COwle
county to prepare any estimate {
their number for the information {
:, the Legislature. Are there an
: needy here Winfield Courier.
Wesley North, Esq, had a pal
e of his wheat tested on the scales i
Wichita, which weighed GO pound
to the bushel. A number of on
= farmers are Dragging of the weigl
) of their wheat. We have not hear
of any fall wheat which weighs les
: than sixty pounds 10 the bushe
. Belle Plain Democrat.
D One hundred aud four car load
. of cattle were shipped last wee
against fifty-two the correspoLdin
; week of last ycar.-Wichita Eagle
ReY.J Il. Hanna preached q yer
J. interesting discourse to the youn
4 folks of the city last Sunday nigh
: which was received by a large al
dience of young ladies aud gentle
men.-Wichita Eagle.
1t was predicted by many person
: who professed TO know and under
stand the subject that the grasshoI
: pers eating the leaves of the frui
: and ornamental trees would cans
the death of the trees. We are gIa
to say, however, that this is mis-
: take, as new leaves are putting on
on the fruit trees as well as some G
r the ornamental trees.-Wichita Es
f gle.
One of the Indian agents is goin
: for Arkansas City. We quote fror
; the Traveller:
Agent Gibson cancelled the cor
/; tracts for flour from this place {
the Osages, and declares that "
. shall have no more of the India
I trade as long as the Militia remain
on the line. We had better let th
contracts go than to have no farm
. ing along the line.
Kline & Meigs purchased on,
acre near Salt City, for $500, con
tanning the sulphur springs. o.
this acre is a pond of water, fron
/ which three different kinds of min
: eraI water can be dipped, which i
claimed by persons who have dranl
and bathed in 1t, to be very healthy
Press.
TIE following persons were chos