The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-03-19
STATE NEWS.

Paola.
The Leavenworth soup house is
about to close.
Six divorce cases pending in
LeavenwortE county.
The University lands are to be
appraised and sold.
A miser died in. Kansas City re.
Gently worth S125,OO0.
The Stale Grange is to build a
warehouse in Topeks.
A genuine ghost troubles a wild
ow in Franklin county.
Usage county is getting ready for
another county seat election.
Kalloch opened out in San Fran
cisco to an immense audience.
The Catholic Parochial Schools of
Leavenworth, contain 720 scholars.
Sixteen o. s. prisoners escaped
from Fort LesVenWorth last week.
s. s. Prouty is to write up the
Mennonites for the Chicago Tri-
bune.
Several county officers in differ
ent parts of the State have resigned
on account of the cutting down of
fees by ,he last legislature.
Cyrus Smith has sold his interest
in the Po;osi mining lands, near
Pleasantou, Kansas, to Joe CASTOR
and Sam. Caldwell, for $1,000.
DIR. j. B. Wheeler, an old resident
of Doniphan county, is dead.
Topeka is quarrelIiDg over the
location of the public buildings.
Judge Valentine expects to re-
move his family from Ottawa, and
become resident of Topeka, on or
about the first of April.
w. H. Bancroft has resigned the
assistant superintendency of the A.,
T. s. S. F. railroad, and Mr.. Egbert
of the B. s. NJ. r. railroad, has been
elected to fill his place.
During the month of FebEuary,
twenty-six car loads of baled hay
were shipped from Chanute.
Thirteen thousand acres of land
have already been entered at the
new Government land Office, at
Larned.
The heavy timber for the bridge
shops at Leavenworth are being
placed in position.
The Baxter Springs Sentinel says
less Hthan an average crop of corn
will be planted in Cherokee county
this year, but the cotton, fax and
castor bean crop will be largely in
creased"
The Coffeyville Courier antici-
pates a largely increased cattle
trade there this year. 1t publishes
a list of some hundred thousand
head now on the way or about to
start nOrthwsrd.
Hereafter, any one caught fooling
around this Office with a load OF
obituary poetry" for publication,
will be arrested and turned over to
the United States Marshal, and tried
under the civil rights bill. We are
determined TO see If there cannot
be an end put to this insulting the
dead with "doggerel" obituary no.
tices.-Osage County Chronicle.
Franklin county has voted TWEEN
ty thousand dollars in bonds under
the county bond relief bill passed
by the Legislature at it's recent ses-
sion. Johnson has also done the
same, by just seven majority.
The Winchester News says: The
rage for fax seed this season is i'm
mense. 1t is safe to calculate 1000
acres being sown this spring. This
will yield about $4,000 bushels of
seed, which is sold to be delivered
In September, and will start almost
$4,000 in circulation in the town
ship. Good for Jefferson. It's far
mers are awake to their ready mon
ey interests.
The Burlingame cheese factory
last season used 35,4S7 gallons OF
milk, which made 33,495 pounds of
cheese. These figures show that on
an aYeEage 101a pounds of milk
make pound of cheese. The fac
tory paid to farmers in its neigh
borhood, for milk, S2.73S SO. The
milk furnished made an average per
COW Of $14.
A Russell county German under
took, the other day, to split log of
wood by means of powder; he sat
down on the log to smoke after
lighting the fuze. He has recover
ed from his injuries, but says that
in future she sphlits him mid der
AK"
The $4,000 bonds ordered by the
Legislature to be issued to
pay claims arising out OF
the Indian troubles on the south
west border last summer, have been
purchased at par by the commission
ers of the permanent school fund.
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The last Junction City Uuion
t'sloshes around" at q lively rate
about the Republicans and their
caucuses in the last legislature.
Few of our readers are probably
aware of the immense extent to
which the poor in this city make
use of loans from the pawnbrok-
ers' shops. There are in New
York and Brooklyn some 400 of