The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-07-02

Mr.. WestDrook, near Peabody, Ma
rion county, sheared nine hundred
head of sheep, last month.
Hutchinson people can go to the
Emporia Sd OF July celebration and
return, for 3.25.
ID. p. Alexander, of this city, who
owns two or the three breaking teams,
hired two men last week, fitted them
up with an OK team, two plows, q POI
ny, cooking utensils and provisions,
and started them out to break land on
Mr. Hargis' place. In few days GO
ing out to mark their progress his sur
prise and chagrin can be imagined
when we tell how the men, teams and
plows had not been seen in that part
of the country. At last accounts he
was upon their track with prospect of
recovering his property-Wichita Ea-
gle
There is to be grand base ball
tournament at Wichita, July 9th, and
fireman's dance In the evening. The
Newton, Hutchinson. Peabody, Au-
gusta, EIdorado, Towanda, Emporia,
Topeka, and Wichita clubs are expect
ed.
Frank Doster, Esq, of Marion Gen.
ter, presented a bill of $50 for services
in obtaining q Judgment in favor of
Marion county against j. r. swallow,
for unpaid taxes of 1873. The county
commissioners cut his bill down to
$25. He sued the county, and has OBJ
tanned judgment of 1921, and costs,
$40. The county commissioners have
simply sGuandered Sill of county
money in contesting fair bill,
T. B. Murdoch, editor of the Edo
RADIO Times, says that he has in his of
fee, Butler county gram as follows {:
~ feet rye, 6 feet oats, 81 feet wheat,
4 feet blue grass, feet clover, feet
alfalfa, and 4 feet timothy.
The relief business is still going on
In Butler county. E. S. Gale arrived
home June 10Th, with another car load
Of wheat, corn, potatoes, &C.. from
jefferson county, Wis. The freight
charges were $50, which had to be
paid out of the relief articles.
J. c. Martin, of the Cottonwood
Falls Conrant, was beaten in the street
on the 10Th ult. by Sam. Wood. No
arrests.
A. r. Lee. of Chase county, claims
that his wheat yields 30 bushels per
acre.
Tho oonfhWoSf nanorc aro o6uiein0
the people not to sell their wheat too
soon. Parties are travelling over the
country engaging it.
Peabody is to have county fair
Sept. 10Th, 10th and 18th.
Greenwood county has large wheat
surplus, and proposes to haul it to En-
poria. The crop is from 175,OOO to
2OO, 900 bushels.
From the Arkansas City Traveller
Two dollars per day has been the
prevailing price for lobOrers in the
harvest fields.
NEW FLOUR. P. woodward pur-
chssed 300 bushels of wheat of A. A.
Newman last week, at ninety cents per
bushel, and will grind it this week.
MONEY IN SHEEP.-A farmer on
Rock Creek, this county, bought 800
| sheep one year ago, at two dollars per
head. This summer he sold the wool
from them for $4,000. and has 500
lambs besides. Sheep need but little
care in this climate, cost nothing to
feed, and are great profit.
from the Newton Kansan.l
A Harvey county farmer raised 1874
st alks OF good wheat in one stool and
from one grain, and yet people east
will continue to dodge stumps and roll
rocks out of the way to exc out farm
living.
The mennonites north of here have
purchased twenty-one rsaping and
moving machines in this place this
season, paying cash for the same. We
prophecy that about next year they
ilWill turn those stone roller threshers
that they got from the hills of Chase
j county some time ago, into foot stones
or something else, and put in theiI
plvces, our American threshing ma
chimes.