The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-01-15
aOUTH WEST,

The A, L. Il ). +. IL. Il. Co. paid
treasurer Gray, OF Barton counry
$s,921 90 land tax, aud S3.473.47 tax
on rolling stock, Euad bed, &C.; total,
$9,031.09 This Is half of tthelr tax,
the other half of which will be paid
on or before June 21st.
Eggs fifty cents per dozen in Arkan-
sas City.
For the first time In Arkansas City,
New Years calls were made. So says
the Traveller.
Cowley County Telegram is the
name of the largest t'patent outside'
paper in the Southwest.
All dry goods and grocery stores
will close at seven O'Clock on Tuesday
and Friday of each week in Arkansas
City.
The Kaws complain of the cattle
furnished them by Mr.. FenloD, and
don't want to accept them. Better
cattle, for less money, could have been
furnished from this place, If Mr.. Glib
son hadn't desired to favor his pets
Arkansas City Traveller.
Wichita has tirst-cIass dramatic
club.
The Augusta Gazette says: "Our
friend G. w. Brown has quite a cmi-
osity in his yard, in the way of q
peach tree. We examined the tree on
Christmas day, and found the buds
growing nicely and the leaves in a
perfectly green state." This last cold
snap, we Opine, has taken out all that
greenness.
Newton and Peabody received $40
Mennonites, last week, straight from
the possessions of the Russian Bear.
Great Bend has an amateur dramat-
ic club that gives first rate entertain
ments. So says the Register.
Large quantities of game are
brought in daily to the Wichita mar
ket. and shipped to the eastern cities,
where remuneratiYe prices are real
lied.
The regular passenger train west
from Newton on the A, T. Sc S. F.
road has been taken of, and hereafter
there will be run a daily mixed train
instead.
The A., T. & S. F. company, through
their agent, had a conference with the
county commissioners, on Saturday, in
which they offered to pay their taxes,
less the eight mills levied for the re-
demption of county scrip, and the
amount added by the state board of
equalization. Yet the company re-
ceived only aine hundred thousand dol
lars last year for freight to and from
Wichita. The commissioners refused
the offer and the case will go to the
supreme court.-Wichita Beacon.
A railroad meeting was held at Au-
gnsta on Saturday evening last.
Whoop it up over there. Wichita will
assist you when the proper time comes.
Beacon.
The Wichita boys anticipate giving
a grand masquerade ball on the End of
February, in commemoration of the
birthday of Washington.
The city OF EIdorado is out of debt,
with cash in the treasury.
A number of new business houses
will be put up in Eldorado next sum-
mer.
The trains OF the A, T. & S. F. road,
west of here, were showed in on Mon
day, Tuesday ard Wedn esday.-Hutch-
inson News.
Winter wheel all over the county
still looks well, and, farmers are en-
couraged by a prospect of a bountifnl
harvest another year.-Sumner County
Press.
SIX hundred and foSty-three Mem
nOnites came over the A., T. & s. F.
last week. They will settle in the Ar
kansas valley.
Butler county has agents in Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa and Mich
igan, soliciting, aid for the destitute
of that county. What has become of
that seven or eight hundred millions
of bushels of wheat the Times talked
about last fall, and all all the corn?