The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-11
SOETHWEST.

Ponies arc cheap an NlchlIa--9lo' 10
$25.
Hay plenty at 81. to s.. at Wichita.
They held sort OF fair at Marion
Center lately to sell wagons, farm
utensils, etc, to thirty families of Rus
slams who had come into the county.
The ''natives'' found the Russians very
close buyers.
Land is cheaper in COwly county
than it will ever be again. So the
Winfield Courier thinks.
Prof. l.. 3. Kellogg, after spending
two days ut the Usage Agency last
week, and learning the deliberations
of two weeks council of the Osages,
says there is no danger of an outbreak
by that tribe. He says, however, that
small parties of the young men in
squads of ten or fifteen, may slip out
and do mischief to Isolated settlers
Winfield Courier.
A gentleman who has just arrived
here from the vicinity of Blooming
ton, ILL.,, says the drOuth has been rs
bad there this season as it is here
Winfield Courier
New corn has been selling in town
this week. We saw one load go for
thirty cents per bushel, but the usual
price is GO to G5 cents. Wheat is still
ranging about so to So cents.-Win-
field Courier.
The township trustees of Sumner
county, report to the County Commiss-
toner's that there are LEO destitute
persons in that county that will need
help. That is 4 pretty large turn ont,
and the Wellington Press thinks the
number over stated.
The Walnut Valley Times and the
| Winfield Courier, are plain and severe
in their denunciatiOns of the way in
which Prof. Norton was Counted
out" of the the State SUPPLEMENTARY
at the late Republican convention.
Both the editors were delegates, and
Mr.. Murdoch, of the Times, is positive,
because he kept account of the vote.
These papers thro'v the blame of the
affair on Thacher, president of the
convention.
New corn is worth from fifty to sew
enty-fifty cents in Eldorado.
Col. Manning of Windfeld, Capt.
Booth of Pawnee, and Mr.. st. Clair
of Sumner county, will try their hands
for Senator in the Republican con-
vention of the Wichita district.
MIR. Ketehum, of Plum Grove, in
; forms us that lie lost fifteen hun
; dred pound steer last week from eat
, ing corn stalks with chinch bugs on
them. Mr.. Wilcox lost five COWS and
one steer from the same cause. Farm
ers will take notice and keep their
cattle ont of the corn stalks.-Eldora-
do Times.
| Butler county, according to the Ell
dorado Times, has ten or twelve
thousand dollars in her treasury, and
more corn than any five counties
north or west We conclude there
will be no suffering there, nor no need
, of outside aid.
Old corn 20 cts. Mt Arkansas city.
Corn and wheat are as cheap to-day
> in Cowley county as in any State in
r the extreme West. So says the Tray
| eler.
Il IL
o when the Kansas Militia is called out
and the new settlers have bought oui
the panic stricken parties who want
t. leave, that land will be higher, and
= money more plentiful than it would
1 have been had there been no grasshop-
g pers or Indians. Any man that evel
n dreams of locating in this State viii
s never find better opportunity fol
n buying than at present. 1t can't las
long, for as soon as the Indian scare
subsidies half of the former resident!
will return, glad to remain.-Arkansal
City Traveller.
The 100 stand of arms reached Ar
kansas City few days ago, and wer,
: placed in the hands of reliable parties
Scouts are continually going an,
p. coming from the Indian Territory
= and along the State line. There will
be no danger only to the extreme out
- er settlers.
40 We wish the Arkansas City Travele
n would lead its editorials.
Il, Agent Williams, of the Kickapo
Agency is compelled to reside in tow
for the safety of himself and family
OF rs there is no protection offered in hi
de portion of the Tcrritory.-Arkansa
et, City Traveller.
its The town of Medicine Lodge is CT
tirely surrounded and enclosed by
it stockade of cedar posts, for pIotectio
he against Indians. 1t is garrisoned b
about a hundred men commanded /
he Capt. Collins of Hutchinson, who 81
la percedes Kicker in command of Il
rs, post.
70 PURE GRTT.-Wc saw a man b
h Iia tween this place and Wichita, mowiI
hay with a scythe, and raking it I
ms with n rake made of poles, with rol
attached, hauled by two oxen. Tn
ms man will provide for his stock, n
the will see that his family do no. sufft
lu- How many who are able to do mu
md better are attempting to do nothin:
-n Arkansas City Traveller.
r. On Saturday last, we received of
'"-o c. Dwelle, some fall wheat, grown
ses' his farm in Cottonwood township.
ear is the white Tappahannoek varie
and weighs, we should judge, sixl
-. five pounds to the bushel. A sam
' should be sent to the state fair. I
90 grains arc as plump and large as a
we have ever STRAIGHTFORWARD Fs
rim Leader.
, m Dave WEIGH, who went to Colora
- last spring, has returned perfectly d
au gusted with that country. He 81
ling kansas is a paradise along side of
eek Cottonwood Falls Leader.