The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-20

editorial management as well as in
politics.
The first number contained 3 reg
istry Of the voters Of Americas town
ship, by which we fnd there were l5S
voters therein, and In running over the
names We discover that 133 Of them
are not now residents here, though we
believe the registry was an honest one
at the time it was made. Who would
have believed that so great . change
In this respect had taken placer
Among the Territorial News Items"
we find that Topeka had then $50 reg
istered voters.
Americas at this time confined two
steam saw mills, and one Of them was
provided with q burr for grinding
corn. The county seat then remained
here, and In the local columns Is = mo-
tlce that the september term Of the
district court, Hon. Rush ElmOre pre-
siding, had Just been held In town.
''The docket was light and soon dis
posed Of"
DR.. A. White announces that he ''has
plenty Of quinlne on hand, which he
is ready and willing to dispense to the
afflicted"
z. Stubs has shingle machine In
operation on the Neosho.
A. MarsOu has Q building erected for
a cabinet shop.
Messrs. Grenell & Archer have built
a smith shop. and are erecting build
ing for stocking plows. They intend
manufacturing all kinds OF plows
adapted to the wants of the country.
The third term of the Americas
school Is announced by G. w. Tor
renee, teacher.
Among the local announcements is
the following:
'sMany OF the citizens of the Neosho
and Cottonwood valleys are perhaps
not aware that there Is q weekly hack
running between Americus and Tope-
ka. Any OF our citizens who may
have business at Topeka or any other
point In the northern part OF the Ter
rItory can leave Americas on Monday
morning and arrive In Topeka the next
evening, from which place daily
coaches ran to the towns on the Kaw
and Missouri rivers"
r. n. Ruygles and s. L. Kenyon
have cards announcing their readiness
to attend to the legal wants of the peo-
pie.
In No. OF the Sentinel appears the
law card OF "A. I. Baker, whose adj
dress is Agnes City, X. T." This
brings to our mind the horrible tragedy
OF his being killed and burned In his
own house some two years after, by
Bill Anderson.
No. 8 Of the paper, Oct. 10, contains
an account Of the destruction of the
Santa Fe mail by the KIowa Indians
at Pawnee Fork. Also that q new
treaty has just been made with the
Kaw Indians, by which they are to re-
tain q tract of land nine by fourteen
miles square In the southwest corner
of their reservation, and the debts Of
the tribe are to be paid of at once.
''The treaty is said to be very unsatis-
factory Co the Whites,''
The election on the Wyandotte con-
stltution had just taken place, at which
Americas polled ninety votes and EN-
poria one hundred and seventy six
all but nine in the two towns being for
the constitution,
The registry OF voters In the county
was as follows: Emporia, $50; Forest
Hill, 200; Americas, 100; Cottonwood,
1876; Waterloo, 100; Fremont, 95 ;
Agnes City, 50; Cahola, Go.
In the issue of October 17th, Is the
following item which shows the nu-
merical strength of the RsW Indians
at that date:
sKAw PAYMENT. - The payment OF
the annuity due the Kansas Indians
took place at the agency near Council
Grove on the 9Th. The amount OF the
annuity for the present year wal
5000. The tribe at present numberI
1,035-200 less than last year."
About this time the papers were I'LL
ed each week with calls for conven.
lions and "cards" of prominent" men
who were anxious to place thsmselEe.
"right before the people," There were
Republican and Democratic conven-
, lions for the nomination OF all officers
, from constables up to judges, anC
there were generally fuli sets Of ''bolt.
ers'' In the field besides. There were
plenty Of candidates. for all the Offices
. and as most OF them were OF recen
3 importation, 1t seemed incumbent upol
: them to ''define their positions In tn,
a most public manner, which they usual
|. ly did with cards, over their ful
names. Some Of them had brough
= their previous COED characters" wit
. them; others threw themselves bae
: on their dignity and de1sd their enc
, mics to "prove any charge" againG
them. Some Of those ''cards," an
Il speeches Of "bolters," put forth b
= men who are even yet anxious for th
= people to try them that they ma
&c prove their undying patriotism as We
as their "sterling honesty" would al
DR. pear "queer'' II reproduced now.
D. In the issue last mentioned the edI
% or says: "The hitch in the count
3. board Is finally severed, and the count
Or orders are at last Issued with which
as erect the court house In this place
= The first jail In the.county was
- hewn logs and the court house was
nimsy frame structure, built of natl
"a. lumber. both OF which buildings we
a. situated on the public square in ii
-, place. The Americas people regard
"a the fight over county seat settled VIII
:. they had secured those "publlc IL
- proVements.'' The aboard OF SupI
- Vlsors" was then composed OF eiS
=. members, Of whom A. I. Baker,
-, Stubs, r. Best, s. G.. Elliott, N. Ste
NJ enson and C. Columbia voted for {
~ appropriation for the county building
AZ and Robert Logan and Eli Davis vol
,.r against.
In the fall Of 1859 Americas revs
In such prosperity as abe never az
rn- saw until the u. K. & T. railroad '
on built in 1863. With the county sea
md ''nxture;" . large hotel in full bl.
cen with all its rooms crowded; with
and two saw mills down on the 'sley
the running on full tilae and GROVE
the with work, everybody eonsidered
but future success OF the town a. beys
} of peradVenture. And Ie was also q b