The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
ATArE NEWS.

A Kansas City man boils grasshop-
pers into soap.
They work on the Atehison bridge
night and day.
Four first-class cheese factories in
Marshall county.
Irving is receiving mill maehiuer ~
from Wisconsin.
A number of eastern colleges have
representative looking through Kansas
for places to invest funds.
The crop of a dead prairie chicken
recently picked up in Marshal county
contained Hiss grasshoppers.
A farmer on Coon creek, in WASH
ington county, recently lost twenty
one head of cattle by high water.
Near Atchison per cent. of the
spring crop has been taken by the
grasshopPers. In Doniphan 30 per
cent.
The OswegO Independent thinks the
recent election of officers of the NJ,
Il. q I. as the dawn of better days.
During last winter the State of Kan
sas exported 2O,OOO,OOO of prairie
chickens and quails caught in traps.
These would have destroyed millions
of young grasshoppers, to say nothing
about eggs picked up.
Col. H. L. Taylor has been appoint
ed Register OF the land Office at
Wichita, vice w. S. jenkins. He was
at one time the agent of the Shawnee
Indians, and Sergeant-at-Arms of the
House at Its last session.
The Council Grove Democrat office
is advertised Tor sale June Sth.
In Crawford county recently ire
mendOus exhoFtati6n by a minister
raised sixty cents for the building of a
church. After meeting, IN ten min
utes, 1926 was. raised for the purpose
of buying key of beer.
Judge Usher and Col. Lernard, OF
st. Louis, Lawrence s. Western
pheasant Hill, Lawrence & Carbon
DALEY railroad, have been east inter
viewing the A, T. & S. F. stockholders
Topeka had better look out.
The Topeka Commonwealth claims
that the A, 7. & S. F. has accepted the
100000 city bonds veted two years
ago, for railroad machine shops, took
the bonds, and gave security to locate
its shops there, and is now trying to
buy the bridge works building.
Lieut.. Gov. Salter is Assessor OF
ChetOpa township, Neosho county, and
is personally attending to the duties OF
that office. "Honor and fame from nc
condition rise"
A Troy girl recently killed Ilfty-one
snakes in an afternoon, and then fixed
up her hustle and back hair and went
to spelling school in the evening.
The United Brethren church at To-
peka has been investigating some
scandal. The lady was exhonorated,
and the man who circulated the stories
expelled from the church for Islander.
The last pier of the Atchison bridge
is down twenty-cight feet.
Girard claims that the James broth
ers are loaffng around there.
last week real estate at Topeka
changed hands to the amount of $34,-
4s5.
Emporia furnishes Topeka with
fOandry work, and the Blade is mad
A Coffee county saw mill has got
out this spring 100000 feet of saw logs
Fort Scott has her beef killed in
Texas.
Labette county will have peaches
this year.
Ft. Scott is organizing military
company.
Judge Stevens has decided liz favor
of Pleasanton az the county seat o.
Linn county. Poor old Mound City
weeps again.
Tuesday 25th ult., the people. O.
Usage county voted on the county sea-
question as follows: Lyndon, S92
Usage City, 79l /; ShiretOn, 7S5; making
the election a draw, neither having g.
ceiyed a majority of the votes CASE
Another election will be held on tn
Sth of June, when it is expected the
fight will be between Lyndon and
Usage City, with Indications in favor
of Usage City.
The Centennial Board resolved tC
erect separate building on the Cen
tennial grounds ut Philadelphia, fol
the display of Kansas products, and
which can be used as a home anG
headquarters by all citizens of Kansas
who attend the Centennial Exhibition
A Labette county man and wife Wis.
tied OswegO recently, taking a three
year old child with them. The parent.
got drunk, had fight, and wound al
in the calaboOse, taking the child witt
them.
A Wabaunsee. county well-diggel
recently came across a walnut log vel
preserved, twenty feet under ground
The head of buffalo was found re.
Gently near AliAa fifteen feet below
the surface.
The NeOdesha paper steals its locals
from the Fredonia Citizen.
The Junction City Union and Otta
wa Republican threaten US with tn,
next newspaper war. BY the way, W.
have not seen Il copy of the OtEIw;
Republican for three months. HISS
gone back on us?
Topeka police authetities are making
it warm for yagabonds and bumme rs
An OIathe man says he has roasted
few grasslIOppers and pronouncte
them a nutritious and delicious articI
of diet.
Franklin count y has had ten news
papers-nine of them are dead.
A Wilson county farmer has fifty
acres in broom earn.
Two thousand acres OF cotton In
Montgomery county.