The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-07-23
NEWS.
sOUI.IIw FIST.

Charley Corderio's Wichita party for
tho Black Hills left Sidney, Nebraska,
on the 10th. There were % men and
eight wagons, well armed, and fully
equipped for mining purposes.
The Hutchinson News has enlarged
and Is now 32-column paper, and in
many respects one of the best in the
state. We will be pleased to learn that
this evidence of enterprise will be met
by a corresponding increase of patron
age from the citizens of Hutchinson
and Reno county. They will find that
community prospers by literally sus-
tanning good newspaper.
Three prisoners dug hole with a
jack knife through the 1S-lnch brick
wall of the Wichita jail, last week and
escaped. One Of them was Walter Ben
nett, a notorious horse thief and des-
perado.
From Cottonwood Falls LEADER
'That JONES'" who managed the
Emporia Jubilee picnic, and made from
$500 to So 900 out of Il, Is no relation To
sour Tom," we are sorry to say.
sixty Iilinoisans excurted past here
twenty ladies Ia the party. j. NJ.
Childs, city editor of the Joliet Repub-
lIean, brought the party out.
Tho French citizens of Marion and
Chase counties assembled together
Sunday, ON occasion of the national
celebration of the Fourth of July, and
organized a society, the object of which
will be to help one another continually.
The following officers were elected ::
President, Mr.. Murlet; Secretary, MIR.
Genette; Treasurer, Mr.. LalOge; Mr..
Sucker, Mr.. PhIlibert, committee.
The Beacon says Wichita will have
the south end Of the narrow gauge
from EmpOrla to that place.
Smith, brother of the Marion Centre
butcher, paid five dollars and costs to
Squire Graves, on the 9Th, for the
pleasure of beating said butchers wife.
On Tuesday, the 9th, at one o'clock
A. II. Willis Wlnstead, marshal OF Great
Bend, was shot by An assassin In the
rear room OF q saloon. Winstead was
reclining on q table, resting his head
on his right arm, his left resting on his
body. His face was near the window.
He was in conversation with Del uty
Sheriff Paine of Pawnee county. With
a Winchester ride the assassin fired
through the open window, hitting him
on the left arm about half way be-
tween the elbow and shoulder. The
ballet entered slantingly, and passed
out just back of the top of his should
frtfl hnt do
Gus flesh wound. About q month ago
one OF the lawless men that abound In
that section OF country came to Great
Bend, and while resisting an officer
was shot and killed. The shooting OF
Marshal Winstead was undoubtedly in
revenge for this act.
Sumner county has harvested $751;
POI acres of winter wheat, and the av-
eFage yield is estimated by competent
judges, at twenty bushels to the acre
The Marion County Record says thai
the wheat in that county will average
thirty bushels to the acre. The croE
is all harvested. Corn Is in tassel, and
the stand Is very full. Farmers loOk
for yield OF seventy-five bushels tC
the acre.
The notes of leading citizens OF Cot
tonwoOd Falls must be. very valuable
The Leader says:
The remnants Of the estate of ii. L
Hunt 81 Co., were sold at public auc'
ton last Monday. The store building
occupied by Caldwell & Co., was solt
to w. b. Bebee, of. Ohio, for S755. G
A. Britton bought the LOT south of har
ness shop for $40. The old billiard sa
loon building and lot, on Main street
was sold to Dave Wood for $145. ThI
stone stable and lot In rear OF the liv
cry stable was sold TO Mary Hunt TO
$50. s. A. Breese bought lot IL In blocl
n, for s.. 8. N. Wood bought lots
and 8, In block 8, tor 10; also blocks II
II, Is, Ii, IL and Is in Woods addi
ton, for $25. Judge Carter bought thu
40 acres near Elmdale, in sec. 2S, tip. ]!
range 2, for 1926. II. l.. Hunt paid 5,
for $1,000 in book accounts. N. j
Swayze bought $1,000 worth of notes
for $l05. S. N. Woods note for $12.4(
got no bidders so he bought 1t himsel
for 81 90. Four of Dave Woods note!
for 1878, brought $lG0 from SwayZe
Hewitt CraIk bought $l,2l2 in nOte
for $ll. Among the lot was note o.
his own for about $100. Shamleffer 4
Co.'S. note for 81 200 was purchased by
Ed. Pratt for 1925.
1t Is said one thousand bushels o
wheat were washed down Posey creek
Cowley county, the 18th.
William Berkey and s. G.. WintOl
are now building a HAT boat 1896 feet
to be launched ON the Arkansas an,
loaded with &c, 900 pounds OF flour 70
the southern market. II safe voyag
is made, which there is but little dOub
of, number of barges will be bull
and loaded with hay and corn this fall
Hay is worth $35.00 per ton In som
parts or Missouri and Arkansas, an
corn Is quoted ut from 80 cents to 81 u
In Memphis and New Orleans. Til
surplus of grain, four, etc., will De 5
great In this section that IL can be puT
chased low, and by using the river 10
transportation, can be carried to
market very cheap. The thousands q
acres of unknown hay can be cut, bale
aud shipped, instead of drying up o
the prairies, and labor given all VIII
want work. There has not been on
day this year but that q small ting hos
conld have naVigated the Arkansas b
following the channel, and as that
our only outlet, it should be looked Il
Let the farmers club together, shi
their own productions and realize tli
whole profit Ark. City Traveller.
Butler county pays twenty cents o
the one hundred dollars valuation
That Is less tax than any other cOuI
~ in the state.
Some time since hen was place
upon a nest of duck eggs With con
mendable patience she Matched out
brood. She tried her best to raise thel
as good hens chickens ought to grO'
up, but the contrary wee things woul
go into the water, and she left theI
~ shit for themselves as soon as POI
sible, 4 bout that time turkey hatcl
ed out four little ones and the hen b.
ing out OF job, formed a partnershi
with her, and the two wander aroun
together continually, taking very goo
care of the little turkeys. Last Mon
day stray dog came smelling aroun
when the two made an attack on Iii
and, after u harl fought battle, the
whipped him handOmely. II Eurel
Herald.
An exchange tells OF q man who W;
bitten by u eOpperhead snake, and VS.
almost Instantly relieved by an appl
cation of coal oil.
And now comes l.. +. Pixley an
euva that urhara HE COrTn wyaa