The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-08-20
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SOUTHWEST.
The Eldorado Times charges S. fDr
cash in hand.
The Cottonwood Falls quarry is TO
furnish 5000 feet of dressed stone for
the Topeka insane asylum.
Newton is to have Episcopal church
services once q month.
Bishop Bowman will dedicate the
new Methodist Episcopal church at
Peabody on Sunday, August 29th.
A train of thirty-five Mennonite
families unloaded at Newton last week.
In July, there were skipped from
Wichita 142 car loads, or 3,I39 head
cattle.
The Hutchinson News says that Mr..
Diffenbaugh's two acres of wAeat, that
was measured for the purpose of COM
peting for the premium at tie fair,
was threshed by Messrs. Shahsin f. Bell
last week, and weighed forty eight
bushels and three pecks to the acre.
The injunction asked by the eitiGeas
of Augusta to restrain the expenditure
of $1,000 on county buildings at Edo
RADIO, as per action Of the board of
county commissioners of Butler coun-
ty, has been refused.
The Wichita Eagle says that S. w.
Richmond sowed last fall one hundred
and fifty-four square rods OF rye, lit
tie less than an acre, upon which six
teen horses, six cows and thirty head
of hogs pastured during the winter to
threshed the other day, and yielded
about fOrty-fiye bushels at the machine
or ever fifty bushels to the acre.
A portion of the stockholders In the
old first national bank of Edo
RADIO, have organized state bank tc
be called the Butler county bank. w
P. Gossard, president; A. H. Gossard
cashier.
There was severe hail storm al
Syracuse, about dfty miles east o.
Grenada, on the 11th. 1t lasted about
thirty minutes and was about q nll'
in width. Every window facing nortE
was broken and the crops injured.
Topeka runs a ten cent omnibus tie
tween the X. P. depot and 10th street
all day.
In one day last week Wichita SD ip
ped ten tons of watermel0ns and on
ton of wild plums to Atchison.
And now the Eldorado Times says /
has been claimed by sundry individual
since time out of mind, that a majorft
of the voters OF Butler county were il
favor OF dividing the county on tn
= twenty mile strip and forming q neN
county out of the territory. To settl
this matter fairly before the people, W
ask those who are in favor of divisio
to bring out candidate this fall ant
run him on that issue; and we Wh
! are opposed to division will bring GU
an anti-diVision candidate. If = ma
jOrity OF the voters of this county VOt
: for the division candidate upon a fai
g and square election, we will agree
forever aiLer hold our peace. If on tn
other hand, majority vote for the an
ti-divisiOn candidate, we will expeC
&. those who favor division to stop q
> once and forever the agitation of thi
question. Let the issue be made.
: Butler county taxes lowest of an
;, in the State.
Last February it was discovered ths
the former clerk, and the chairman (
the board of commissioners, of Ra.n
county, had drawn fraudulent count
warrants to the amount OF $20,OC
which the former treasurer cashed, an
all then divided the plumber. AS 500
as the new officers came in, the oil
ones fed. Last week A. C. Keis, Il
=. clerk, was arrested in Atchison, b
, Sheri If Step, and the latter will get Il
$500 reward offered for his prisone
The other two have not yet bee
caugL.
,fI SsdgWick county population, s, 1905
d The Peabody Gazette says tn.
e when the A, T. 81 5. F. passeng,
l. trains change time the western boun
r, train will be three hours earlier an
n the eastern one three hours later, tina
le heretofore. and that they will stop fl
meals at the Grand Central hotel
,e that town.
g. Michael Shay, three miles west
he Florence, claims that his II acres
N wheat threshed out 49, bushels D,
s. acre.
&c While Judge Campbell decided tn
the Butler county commissioners ca
2 expend all the meney they choose
III erecting court house building, Provi,
ed they cali it temporary, he ais
rs at the request of the lawyers for Il
I'd people, Messrs. Adams, English
d, Ruggles, granted them thirty da,
ne time to prepare the case for the 81
preme Court, and also made an ord
II restraining the commissioners fro
be expending mere than one thousaI
he dollars In repairs, prior to a decisis
by that court.
Kansas is q wonderfully producti
country. For instance: q water me
re- on was weighed at this place Ia
sh week, and then sent 20 WellingtO
where it was weighed again, and hi
nj gained tlso pOHHds.-Oxford Press.
1t Gideon stevens, an elderly farm
: on the little Walnut, Butler count
en- was proved to have set fire to y
~ oS Nessiek's and Mr.. Elders whe
IA stacks, and cutting the throat of wi
IS. ow McCullough's horse. Last week
delegation of farmers went TO his hou