The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-01-08
STATE HTENla.

Wilson county is shipping wheat
to Texas.
The Clyde Reporter is buried be-
sides its four predecessors.
People in Coffey county pay their
taxes better this year than last.
Elk Falls wants the Indian Terri
tory opened up to white settlement.
Large numbers of mallard ducks
have been killed in Miami county
this season.
The Garnett Plaindealer says the
new tax law does not work well in
Anderson county.
A woman and her daughter are
engaged in hauling freight between
Dodge City and the Fort.
George c. Smith, formerly of Leav-
enworth, is now q member of the
Mississippi State Senate.
The Kansas Agricultural College
has ten telegraphic instruments, and
twenty-five cases of type.
The Board of Commissioners eff
the State Penitentiary, will RECON-
mend the abolition of the convict
uniform.
Major Ellsworth, an ex-Captain
in the Nineteenth Kansas, was late
ly murdered in the Indian Terri
tory.
A ply stefan writing to the Atch-
ison Champion says that "bran-eat-
ing is a hnmbug." Shake, doctor,
shake.
Oskaloosa advertises stockings
from cotton raised, picked, carded,
spun and knit within six miles of
that burg.
Mr.. Dillingham;, OF Lincoln county,
puts in his time manufacturing
skunk oil, and now has three gallons
on hand.
The steam heating apparatus of
the cathedral at LeavenwoIth cost
$4,000, and does the work of three
furnaces.
DIR. John Swinburn, of Albany,
N. Y. :, owns 10000 acres in Jackson
county, and proposes to build a
cheese factory.
Two hundred persons avail them
selves of the Leavenworth soup
house. The Appeal says some OF
them are spongers.
The Marysville News heads its
list of subscribers who come in and
pay up, "Of such are the kingdom
of heaven"
Among the receipts of the State
Relief Committee are fifty bed COW
erings from Bullene, Noores &
Emery, of Kansas City, Mo.
1t is said that the Mennonites
who were colonized at Topeka for
awhile last summer, offered to Mac
Adamize the streets for fifty cents a
day and board themselves.
Gen. William Larimer, of Leav-
enworth, has received from Miss
Ida L. Greeley, a gold pen, a
souvenir of her father, Horace
Greeley.
Mr.. d. G.. Millison, of Wichita,
has received a contribution for the |
destitute IN a shape of a draft of
$22S.70, contributed by the citizens
of his old home in Pennsylvania.
Maj. w. G. Ransom, for a long
time the efficient treasurer of the
Lawrence & Calves
ton railroad, has been removed, and
G. ii. Prescott, treasurer of the
Gulf road, removes the Office to
Kansas City.
Mark. j. Kelley, of Pittsbarg
informs the Beloit Ga
zette that he has advices of one
hundred families in the vicinity of
Pittsburg, Pa, who are making pre-
partitions to move to Mitchell and
Osborne counties in the spring.
Ca-Hic-Ca-Te-Da, principal chief
,f the tribe OF QuaSaw Indians, died
It his home in the Quapaw Nation,
i've miles southeast of Baxter
springs, on Friday last, after q brief
Illness, at the wonderful old age of
ne hundred and fifteen years.
johnson Clark, q wealthy farmer
f Miami county, declared that SIS
month was enough for q good !
chool teacher-that he would teach
Dr. that himself. His neighbors !
box him at his word, and now he
! Swinging the CAD" in a country 9
,hool house. Il