The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-01-29
STATE ITEMS.

no county to l ,2T0 persons.
The poet of the Leavenworth Ap
peal is an inmate of the county jail
The Frcdonia Citizen has been ell
ected official paper of Wilson conn
ty.
a 5000 school house was burn
ed at DeIphos. Ottawa coanty, or
the S!h inst.
4 Gov. Osborn has earned a portion
iof his salary by appointing 43S no.
taries public.
/ Il air. Andrews, of Indiana, do
mated three tons of -four to the pool
of Mitchell county.
The Marshall County News il
printed on paper made at Blue
Rapids, BIarshall comfy.
1t is said that Eric, NeosAo coun.
~, is the banner town for taxes, it,
taxes being Is per cent.
a lncky Hutclisonian ate water.
melon on the 10Th inst. lie keeps
his fruit IN his cellar.
/ Louisburg, Miami county, has
sent over 500 worth of supplies to
the Western Kansas sufferers.
Whitehonse, arrested rs one OF
the Muncie train robbers, was dis.
charged for want of evidence.
Kansas has as many daily papers
as Vermont, West Virginia, Missis-
sippi and Arkansas combined.
A colony of Mennonites have left
Hutchinson for Newton and Flor
ence where quarters are cheaper.
The Usage Coded Land case will
come up before the Supreme Court
at Washington on Monday, Feb.
30.
Usage Mission has shipped to
Texas during the fall and winter,
five hundred car loads of wheat and
-four.
Lawrence had second, skating
carnival on the 10Th inst. Two
hundred excursionists from Topeka
participated.
The Usage County Chronicle
thinks about the most profitless
business in the world is publishing
! all "eight column paper in q seven
.column town."
Shawnee county was awarded
bnt one officer in the Legislature,
Mrs. Flowers, the journal clerk.
This Legislature docs not encourage
''h0me talent"
The Hays City Seminal announc.
cs that Ness county has been organ
lied, but does not state whether
bonds have issued yet to build three
railroads and court house.
We learn from the Adjutant-
Generals report that Sol. Miller is
an aid-de-camp to Brigadier. Gener-
al Dreaming, and is therefore en-
titled to the title of "Leftenant''
Miller. The right man in the right
place.
The Mennonites who recently
discovered the twenty eight inch
vein of coal in the edge of Marion
county decline to sink shaft to the
same or allow any one else to do SO
on their land.
During the "cold snap" it was
found necessary to stop trains on
the Narrow Gauge Railroad and
take the locomotive to some farm
er7s fireside and warm it. The
Leavenworth Appeal says this.
The able-bodied men who apply
to the City OF Lawrence for assist
ance are put at work breaking stone
in the calaboose yard. They are
paid at the rate of fifty cents per
cubic yard. a man can earn about
a dollar day at this work.
According to the Commonwealth,
the Santa Fe road offered several
destitute recipients OF army blank
cts and relief goods three dollars
day for cleaning the track between
Kinsley and Dodge. They refused
to work for less than four dollars.
The Mcpherson Advocate ac-
knowledges the receipt from the
State Central Relief Committee of
6,OOO pounds of flour, 5000 of corn
meal, seven bushels of hams, and
several bushels of other articles, by
the receiving agent of Mcpherson
county.
Mrs. VIM. d. Russell, of Wichita,
formerly Miss Kittie Bell OF Leav-
enworth, lady of rare musical &C.
complishments and fine singer.
has been giving concerts at Wichita
for the benefit of the destitute of
that locality. At one of them re-
ceipts reached about 500.
Chas. b. Peck, late General Super
intedent of the L. L. s. C. r. r.,
has been appointed Assistant Gen
eral Freight Agent of the Grand
Trunk Railroad Company, and will
have charge of the entire freight
business of the company in the
company in the United States, with
headquarters at Detroit.
The relief business is little mix
ed in Douglas county. The Central
Council of the Changers decided to
send solicitors cast. and assessed
the sum of five dollars on each
grange TO defray expenses. On the
other hand remonstrance was
circulated IN Lawrence and sent to
the Central Relief Committee at TO-
peka, demonstrating against an en-
dorsement of these solicitors.
James Hurt, of Newton Howard
county, was chased by gray; timber
wolves a short time ago. The Elk
Falls Journal says that the animals
became SO embroidered that they
sprung at Hurts horses throat and
body. Hurt dism0unted and shot
FIVE of the pack dead, and then
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