The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-02-05
SOUTHWEST.

carnival last week
Representative Harry Van Trees,
had both feet amputated at Topeka
last Monday. Tue legislature will
make an appropriation TO pay his
expenses, as he is very poor.
The Wichita city council have
the Office of street
aud the police have
been put TO work mending side
walks.
Large quantities of fish were
speared and shared through the
ice last week. A great deal of re-
creation, enjoyment and good eating
was obtained in this way.-Wiehita
Eagle.
No train from Granada for three
weeks up to last Tuesday, with q
hundred and fifty men at work on
The track to clear the snow away.
Mr.. William Houston brought US
specimens OF salt, which he found
ia the Indian territory on what is
known as the little salt plains, eight
miles south OF the south line of the
state. The specimens were taken
out of the water at the junction of
the two streams, Sand creek and
Cimeron. The quantity seems in
exhaustable, and the quality very
fine.-Wichita Eagle.
Twenty-six rested men were sent
down from Atchison last Thursday,
to relieve the workers on the track
below Hutchinson. Snow had blown
and froze over the track in some
places TO the depth of eight feet.
Under the new State apportion-
ment the Wichita Eagle thinks the
Southwest will have over thirty
five members of the Legislature.
The Peabody library building
contract has been let to Topeka
builder, who begins operations as
soon as the weather will permit.
Tho new Methodist church, in
Hutchinson, will be dedicated on
Sabbath, the 14th of February,
1875.
A daughter OF Mr.. Goodell, aged
about nine years, was accidentally
shot last Sunday afternoon. She
was handling q revolver when it
was accidentally discharged, the
ball entering just below the eye,
passing back of the eyebaIl and
lodging somewhere in the brain.
She was alive at last accounts.-Eu-
reka Herald.
The railroad company are ship
ping ice sixteen inches thick from
Larned to their ice houses in New
ton.
Eureka leads off in the mad dog
this season.
Last Friday afternoon a Mennon-
lite man, living at tho section house
near the stock yards, and aged
about sixty years, fell drought the
railroad bridge across Sand creek,
near the old tank, and killed him
self. 1t is supposed that he must
have been getting out of the way OF
a train, and made q misstep. The
distance he fell was some fifteen
feet, and struck the ice upon his
/ cad.-Newton Kansan.
Alex Herman, confined in Jail at
Eureka, last week made q determjn-
ed effort to freeze and starvc him
self to death.
We are informed that a man from
he northwest part of the county,
went to Marion Centre recently,
became intoxicated and subscribed
'or the Record.-Peabod Gazette.
MIRAcLE.-An old woman, living
rear Arkansas City, persisted that
On several occasions, she has seen
lowering over the village, at al
height of four or five hundred feet,
| large black serpent. The earnest
ness with which it was told, caused
many to give some credit to il, and
III watched to see it appear, which
t did, on last Friday, at about noon,
md many bear witness that it was
rue. 1t has since been ascertained
hat 1t was flock OF geese.-Ark' n
as City Traveller.
The Mennonites don't like Paw
lee county.
Sedgwick City is having a great
revival.
Howard county wants the Indian |
Territory opened.
A bridge across the Arkansas, at
Peace, is talked of.
Union prayer meetings are being
leld at Great Bend.
The Walnut is being damned |
rear Great Bend, for milling pur-
POSES.
Caldwell claims it viii have an |
immigration from Minnesota in the |
p.ing.
1t is estimated that Cowley coun-
y will produce half million bush
lis of wheat this year.
The Marion county folks appear
D want Frank Doster, of Mariou
}entre, for Judge in place of Judge |
Brown.
Joseph Shandley, a young man of
wenty three summers, was arrest
d in Arkansas City last week,
harged with forgery ola note.
The Coffeyville Courier says the
Delaware Indians prefer the open
ng up of the Indian Territory to
he present condition of affairs
here.
The Great Bend REGISTER says it
as reliable information that the
Arkansas valley will receive an IN.
immigration from IIIi-
OILS, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michi-
an, next spring.
Indian Agent Miles reports that
lear Heart, Limpy and Chief Kill