The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-07-16
SOUTHWEST.

buLI0r county mas receiver another
invoice of government relief, 1900
pounds. The Gazette suggests that ii
be sent to the grasshoppered counties.
Milton Gable has sold the Wichita
Beacon to Frank Fisher and Frank B.
Smith.
The Newton city council has voted
the following salaries: For Mayor
800 per year; treasurer, $50, and
cOuncilmen, $50 each.
A horse was sun struck on the base
ball grounl ], at Augusta, on the 81, and
died instantly. :
Frank Duval shot the thumb from
his right hand, on the third OF July, at
Florence. He was celebrating with q
pistol.
Our people who went to Emporia, on
the third, came home tired and good
natured. They report an immense
awarded to a Welsh Presbyterian Sun
day School.-Peabody Gazette.
Lucius E. Manley, proprietor of the
Augusta Steam Mills in this city, owns
q farm in Walnut township, whereon
he grew, in 1873, from 160 acres, 2,470
bushels of wheat from the same land
in 1874, he grew 2,260 bushels; and this
year, from the same field, he harvest
$500 bushels, making total of $3.50
bushels of grain in three years. The
whole expense of blowing, seeding,
harvesting and threshiHg, during that
NuEtf laow
some profit for Mr.. Manley, and de
monstrates that farming will pay in
Kansas, even during grasshopper in
vasions. Mr.. Manley will seed 360
acres to wheat this fall Augusta Ga
zette.
b. Robinson, eleven miles east of
Wichita, says he has thirteen miles of
three-year-old hedge, which is so per-
feet that it will turn a rabbit any
where.
w. p. Montgomery, of Wichita, dis
posed of some five hundred of cattle
last week, at from three and three
quarters to four and a quarter, which
is accounted good sale.
MIR. Thomas informs the Winfield
Courier that all the seeds obtained
from the Agricultural Department
have produced the largest and best of
anything ever brought to Cowley
county.
We shall export from Chase county
this year, 250, 1000 bushels of wheat,
which at 81 per bushel, will net US
over $50 to each person, an average of
$500 to each family. Our taxable prop
erty is over 81 500, 900; divided among
three thousand Inhabitants, is over
$500 each, or $500 to each family.
Considering this property is appraised
at one third its real value, it makes a
pretty good showing for Chase county.
Leader.
The II. E. church at Peabody will
be dedicated on the 30th of August.
Moser's wheat, eight hundred bush
els of which he threshed and sold last
week, weighed "a, 60 and $50 pounds
70 the bushel, averaging "NO. l." in
any market.-Eagle.
In the matter of the real status of the
"count S-offices" question, our last
weeks note of explanation seemed to
be misunderstood by some. The effect
OF the order of the Supreme Court was
just this: 1t leaves the offices in the
Occidental block, where the County
Commissioners had placed them. The
Court did not deny Judge CampbeiPs
original jurisdiction, but sustained him
in dissolving the Injunction, the coun-
ty officers viii therefore remain where
they aIe. unless removed by the Com
missiOners. As to the contempt"
matter, the Supreme Court denied the
hdbeds corpus, leaving that matter just
where it stood before, all of which we
hope now is perfectly plain.-Wichita
Eagle.
The Eldorado Times summarizes the
Butler county grain crops as follows,
which It says is exact: 10000 acres of
wheat, yielding SOC, 900 bushels, all in
stack 1000 acres Of oats, averaging
over one-half a full crop; 5000 acres
of rye, the yield per acre being very
large. Aillet and Hungarian grass, n
fair crop; 81, 900 acres of corn which
viii yield an immense crop, because it
is silking out and the ground is satur-
ated with rain. Prairie hay limitless.