The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28

Mill dams are being erected on the
solomon, Walnut, Republican, Verdi
girls, Elk, Little Arkansas and Neosho.
Mrs. John NJ. Crowell, of Atchison,
has been appointed on the Ladies' Ma
tlonal Centennial Committee FROM
Kansas. -
Henry King, postmaster at Topeka,
has been rendered position on the
consolidated Globe and Democrat of
st. Louis @
There is some talk of calling the
legislature in extra session to- look at
that bible recently purchased by the
State Librarian.
A late report concerning Col. Antls-
Ony, says: "He has disappointed all
the prophecies of physicians and COR
tradicted every case in history
Junction City is proud OF its new -four
mill, which viii turn out $50 barrels
of scream of wheat" per day, and runs
by water power, q dam having been
put across the Kansas river, furnishing
go horse power.
Chester Thomas, Jr., the Wakarusa
granger, has been greeted with new
surprises. While attempting TO re-
plant his corn fields he was visited BY
an army of grey squirrels, who dug
the grain from the ground as fast as
he planted it, right before his eyes.
He has called on the Topeka sportmen's
club for help.
John Lappin, aged seven years, a
son of State Treasurer Lappin, fell
from the roof of q house to the ground,
on Friday last in Topeka. The mus
cles of one OF his shoulders were bad
ly injured and it is feared that the
spine has been affected.
The Olathe Mirror and News Letter
says that the farmers have been plot
ting andintrigning against the grass
hoppers, digging trenches and blowing
| burrows to arrest their march, eaptur-
ing bushels of them in traps, and nets
and pitfalls; but still there is no per-
ceI tible dimlnution in their numbers.
A field may be cleared of them to-day,
but tomorrow it may be visited by a
new army of them from the adjoining
fields, and in the efforts of one man
to destroy the pests are rendered fruit
less for want of cooperative aid of
his whole neighborhOod.
Capt. j. w. Steel, of Topeka, now
U. S. Consul at Matanzas, Cuba, is ex-
pected in Topeka in a few days, with
his wife. He has been granted three
months leave of absence.
A narrow guage railroad is proposed
from Kansas City, Kansas, through
Wyandotte, johnson and Miami conn-
ties, into the Bates county, Mo-, coal
mines. Enough coal land has been de-
voted to secure the building of the
road. Narrow guages are becoming
more popular every year.
S. S. Prouty is now on the Topeka
Commonwealth.
Douglas county, in the district court,
has won its suit to recover its 100000
bonds for the l., L. 6 G. railroad CON-
pany. Judge Basset decides that "the
county of Douglas recover OF the rail-
road company three hundred thousand
dollars, the value of the bonds issued
and one hundred and four thousand
dollars, the amount of interest paid by
the county, together with interest al
seven per cent. per annum on the lat
ter amount from the various times o.
payment, and at the same rate on the
100000 from the time that ineerest
has not been paid.''
The monotony of "bringing in thai
wood next week to pay for my paper
has become stale.-Council Grove Re
publican.
The opening of the Alma anG
Council Grove salt wells has brough
salt at Manhattan down to 50 per bar.
rel.
In 1868 there was no railroad il
Kansas, in 1868 there were GAS miles
and in 1872 2,340 miles.
junction City is to have a chees
factory.
; Grasshoppers weigh thirty-thre
> pounds to the bushel.
John Houser, of Elm Creek town.
, ship, Morris county, lately sold to j
w. Simcock, of Council Grove, TIVE
hundred bushels of wheat at $3.50 pc
/ buskel.
The Manhattan Industrialist charge:
for advertising, one cent per word eacf
insertion.
: Geo. Anderson, Topekan, jumped
from a fence, and lit upon a stake
which went through his thigh, infiict.
ing a severe wound.
Sidney Clarke has left Kansas, t.
f dig gold in the San Juan country.
Fredonia has 513 population.
1 One of the most carefully and thor
E oughly edited papers in Kansas, is thu
Wilson County Citizen, published b,
. John S. Gilmore, aged 26 years.
+, The hurricane at Baxter Springs, OIL
the 9th, took the roof off the fin,
school building there. Damages 1850
: Near Columbus blew three farm house
? to pieces. 1t then went to Carthage
!, Mo-, blew down a frame house, churcl
steeple, and unrOofed a wooden ant
3 Touring mill, besides doing a grea
deal of minor damage.
The Douglas county Commissioner
. will offer a reward for grasshoppers
= by the pound.