The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-07-30


The State Agricultural Society has
decided not to hold fair this year.
The Kansas exhibition at the cen
tenniAl is to be made by counties.
Wilson, late Of the Topeka Times,
has sued the Topeka Blade for libel.
Senator Ingalls, is at home.
Il. W. Teathere, of Jewell City, has
confessed TO stealing money letters
there in 1874, 70 the amount OF $I6O,
and is held in 1900 bail to stand trial
in the United states Court at Leaven-
worth. He is undoubtedly booked to
work for the State.
The Lawrence merchants are dis
charging their clerks, and locking the
stores when they go to dinner. The
city debt is $4se, 1902, and the inter-
est is what worries 'em.
In Fort Scott, on the 22d, German
girl named Carrie, 20 years old, started
a fire with kerosene oil. Her cEarred
remains were buried the next day.
The Topeka Times las changed
hands, Messrs. W. ii. johnson, Jas. L.
King and j. w. Wilson being the new
proprietors.
Mr.. Arch. Shaw, of Olathe, has en-
gagged 5000 bushels of corn, to be de-
livered in December next at % cents.
The new law in reference to drunk
enness and gambling OF officers
whether State, district, city, county or
Townships now in force. Under it
any officer, no matter what his rank or
pay, may be removed and his office de-
clared vacant by the district court, on
the complaint Of any citizen, if the
complainant succeeds in proving his
case or the defendant pleads guilty.
Mr.. Crane, proprietor of Durham
Park, sailed from New York last Sat-
lIrday, for England, to attend several
sales of short-hOrn cattle during Au-
gust and September.
Kansas City, NO., July 21.-The
AtchisOn, Topeka g. Santa Fe railroad
company will put two hundred men to
work in the morning, repairing the
track of the Midland railroad, recently
purchased by the former, and propose
to prosecute the work vigorously.
They have secured the lease of the
CarbOndale road from De Soto to Law
renee, and Kansas City will be the
eastern terminus of the line, AtchisOn,
the old terminus, falling to second
place. Through trains will run from
st. Louis over the Missouri Pacific to
Pueblo, Col, soon as the western end
OF the road is completed.
We are informed that this arrange
ment has all fallen through, and that
the A, T. & S. F. will not get the Mid
land railroad.
Burlington Patriot: Coffey county
claim 125 bushels of corn per acre.
Taxable valuation of property $2,O23,
SIS. Schmitt, the Burlington brewer,
says he must send to st. Louis for bar
ley, and yet Kansas soil will yield 4O
to 30 bushels of it to the acre. Ex-
Senator Butler, Frank Butler, and
Captain Putier, of Burlington, have
been left money by rich uncle east.
Wheat harvest is 100000 bushels, and
corn will aggregate 100000 bushels.
The Otter creek cheese factory has be-
gan sending cheese to Galveston, and
expects to find its best market there.
Sheriff Hoover recently nabbed a
couple OF chaps that were lodging
around with a herd of cattle from
Greenwood county, attempting TO
cheat that county out of the tax on
them, and collected near 500 for the
treasurer of Greenwood.
Will the Lawrence Journal report
the number of inches of rain fall dur
ing June and July? We..guess' from
one to three feet.
Mr.. Crozier, the superintendent OF
the Silk Culture Department of the
Colony of Mr.. BOssier, at Williams
burg, Franklin county, says that re-
cent letters from France bring the re-
port that the silk worm eggs from
Kansas, sent to that country, are pro-
ROuneed superior to the eggs sent from
Japan, which have heretofore borne
the preference in the market, The rea-
son assigned are, that diseases among
the silk worm are becoming so preva-
lent in Europe and Asia, that it is next
to impossible to produce a healthy
worm from any particular class of
eggs in the market, there, but that the
American egg from Kansas is entirely
free from the diseases of the East.
This is certainly big point in favor
of Kansas silk culture.
The city marshal of lola, who has
had q salary of two dollars per month,
has mereifuliy been granted an in
crease.
A most dastardly outrage was per-
petarted last week upon the organ
which has lately been in use at the
Lawrence Presbyterian Church. Some
sneaking vandal, evidently well ac-
quainted with the rear basement ap-
prOaeh to the church, made his way to
the organ loft and pried, twisted, bent
and broke most of the stops, and with
a knife slashed and cut the dummy
pipes and otherwise OutrageOusly in
iured the instrument. 1t was found in
this condition when Prof. Jackson's
choir went to rehearsal Saturday af-
ternoOn. The organ was obtained from
Mrs. Starrett, had not been purchased,
but has been on trial and during the
week. Mrs. S. had been notified by
the ladies of the society that they did
not wish to purchase. The instrument
was worth, perhaps, five or six humid
red dollars and damaged to the extent
of fifty or sixty. We are informed it
can still beused for choir purposes.