The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-09-24
sOUTHWEST.

j. w. Hamilton, one Of our county
commissioners, living near South Ha-
ven, threshed 1885 bushels of wheat
last week, from a field of twenty-five
acres. He seeded the ground with one
bushel to the acre, and allowed his
stock to run on 1t all winter. Who
can beat 1t ?-Wellington Press.
Mr.. Morgan Jones, near Elinor, has
purchased of Mr.. Alvin BFandley, near
Bazaar, his Tom Thumb bull, which
Is now two yeSrs old, perfectly formed.
about two feet high and weighs about
$50 pOunds.-COurant.
The Eureka Herald thinks it is full
time for savings bank in Greenwood
county.
We are informed that Sam. Wood
was rotten egged At the depot last
night as he was about to leave on the
east bound freight. We hope the per-
petratoFS OF this WRntoa end IN merited
outrage will be discovered and Puaish-
ed as they deserye.-Hutchinso News.
1t is the opinion of the best lawy era
in this city, that the publication of the
delinquent tax list of this county, In
the form in which It was published, by
order of the commissioners, lie illegal,
and that any sale of the property ac-
vertised will be void. This being the
case, OF course no order for the pay
ment can be issued by the board. -
Hutchinson News.
What form was it advertised in?
Another big excursion over the At.
Gibson, Topeka 8 Santa Fee r. r. Is an
nonnced. This time, all the way from
Elmira, New York, to Las Animas,
Colorado.
The vacant buildings in Wichita
have eli been put to use in storing
grain.
The Wichita Eagle has . weed i6
feet high, Is 8 sample of ORe farmers
crop down that way.
The new -four mill ct Oxford is 70 be
three stories high, and will cost when
completed, 1900. The ditch Is tWo
and one-half miles long, has eleven
feet fall, and is now ready for the wa
ter.
A q, 600 trotting match took place
at Wichita on the 4th, between two
horses, and one of them stopped at
certain point on the track and could
not be made to pass it. It had been
whipped there the day before. The
other logged along and took the purse.
A farmer residing not over q thou
sand miles from Newton, sold to KILL
am & Hubbard, last week, seventy
nine bushels OF wheat in which there
had been mixed two or three hundred
pounds Of sand.-NeWton News.
Marion Center has held meetings in
favor Of getting . branch railroad from
Florence, and has sent q committee to
know what the A. T.& S. F. officers
think of it.
A farmer by the name of o. K. Rip
perdam, living near Newton, planted
number of wild plum seeds two
years ago, and this year has improved
from them. Make q note Of this.
S. N. Wood has bought cut Fl. p.
Ninde's interest in the tom site. and
contemplates moving kere.-Rice Co.
| Herald.
Larned could easily get iRto eae
church, but the Methodists, Baptists,
Presbyterians, and Congregational
lists are all trying n have ediflees eI
their own. The latter have received
$s5 from Chicago, TO begin with.
The Baptists OF Newton have engag-
ed Rev. J. A. Heagy, for four months
and viii proceed 70 GHIsh their build
ing.
The Lsrned Press favers Col. P. B.
Plumb for Governor.
Burris and Kies, the defanlting ex-
officers of Reno county, have been adj
mitted to $500 bail each.