The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-04-23
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An elevator is traII9 heing built at
Wichita. 1
It costs - cents f.'r i, team and was-
on to go over the Arkansas bridge ut
Wichita.
Sedgwick county wheat has begun
to joint.
a vein Of clear white gypsum four
feet thick, has been dug through at
Wichita.
a CoWley county coicred man,
named Bates, has been sent to the PEN
itcntiary for year. just for stealing
smoked JAeat. What does the civil
rights bill amount tc, if smoked meat
can't BE equally divided?
Since the new city dads were elected
one of the two saloons of this city has
gone west 20 grow up with the coun-
ry.-IIutchinson News.
We thought Hutchinson did not
have any saloons.
James Tudhopc, OF Mcpherson coun-
ty, had man arrested on charge of
robbing the county treasury, but the
charge was so evidently malicious that
the Justice taxed Tudhope $50 for
costs, and sent him to the Hutchinson
Jail for not paying. He got ont of
that by writ of habeas corpus, Judge
Rickse er deciding that q man cannot
ha co. o,,nI,
Arkansas City is really city, as it.
has regular, permanent bootblack.
Prof. kellogg left town on Thurs
day last for Emporia, where he intends
to practice law.-Arkansas City Tray
eler.
James High viii soon eret flour
ing mill on the Cottonwood river, be-
low Florence, in Marion county.
j. G. Walker, of HAlstead township,
has left q bunch of winter wheat at
this Office containing 81 stalks, which
he claims grew from one grain of
wheat, and wants some one to beat it,
If they can.-Newton Kansan.
Peter Butler is a Mennonite, living
fifteen miles north of Newton. One
night last week strange man knocked
at the door, and when Peter opened it
the visitor, struck him over the head
with revolver, and knocked him
down. He next knocked down Mrs.
| Butler, and then took their cash, Sc,
and vanished. Dir. Butler wants to
know if people generally borrow mon
ey in that way here.
Mrs. Callahan brought suit against
Thomas Callahan for divorce, on the
ground of habitual drunkenness and
| extreme cruelty. During the prog
ress of the trial, one witness, being
asked the question as to whether he
had seen the defendant drunk, said,
''well now, don't know what you
call drunk" and turning to the court
continued, 81 would like to have the
Judge tell me what drunkenness is.
Will your honor just explain to me
how a man feels when he's drunk. -
Judge Campbell had to join in the
| general roar that followed.--Winfield
Courier.
John II. Folks, editor OF the Sumner
county Press, went with the editorial
excursion to Galveston, and just be-
fore starting, was married to Miss
Frances A. Norton, of Topeka. He
enjoyed the trip immensely.
w. NJ. Allison, of the Winfield Tele-
gram, was married in that city last
week, to Miss Annie Hardwood.
A large number of Russians are
still at Florence, about three hundred
occupying three houses. Over thirty
of the number, since last fall, have
died.
THE PREMIUM DEAD BEAT COUN-
TY.-We clip the following extracts
from couple of Southwestern papers.
1t was asserted last fall in the Edo
RADIO Times that Butler had more
wheat than any county in the interior of
the state. If what these papers say is
true, the people of that county don't
stand in very enviable light:
1t is said that Butler county has re-
ceiyed more aid from eastern states
than any other county in Kansas. The
I WIDOWS and orphans, whose hard-earh-
ed mites have come to swell the
VI stAu 1IOECSalu5 VIII
doubtless read with pious 10y the fol-
lowing item from the last issue of the
official paper of said county (Eldorado
Times:
Butler county don't owe dollar to
q living man, and has $4,000 cash in
the county treasury
If this financial exhibit is correct.
we risk mourning the censure of q few
indOlent dead beats, by remarking,
that for that county TO solicit aid from
abroad, is disgrace to the county of
Butler, and the State of Kansas, and
an imposition and outrage upon the
credulity and charity of the people OF
the eastern states. Boosting OF wealth,
and whining about poverty, are not
the most harmonious standardization
County Record.
! We endorse the above castigation
from the Record. If Butler county
has $4,000 in her treasury, and is out
of debt, then, ''dead beats" is no name
for her commissioners, trustees and
aid solicitors. Swindlers, frauds,
thieves, would be a truer and more ap-
ropriate name. If the above is true,
| it stamps upon the people of Butler
county a disgrace that will never be
washed out. Mendicancy under such
circumstances is simply s11iRdIiRg
That $4,000 matter needs explanation
badly.-Peabody Gazette.