The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-03-19
SOUTHWEST.

Usage Agency, Indian Territory.
A minstrel troup has been organ
lied in Arkansas City.
On last Tuesday morning sixty
car loads of immigaHt freight were
at the Wichita depot waiting deliy-
cry.
Passenger trains are arriving each
oight loaded to the 'gunnels," with
immigrants, travellers, and baggage.
Wichita Eagle.
A correspondent Iof the Eureka
Herald relates that several farmers,
in Greenwood county have sown
blue grass seed and that it is grow
ing nicely, and did well last season
notwithstanding the drouth.
The burnt district is speedily to
be rebuilt. Geo. Salisbury has men
at work preparing the foundation
for handsome brick. Negotiations
are also pending for the purchase of
the Mccullough property, of the es-
tate, the lot occupied by Hope &
Richards as 8 wholesale liquor store
lit will undoubtedly be secured by
the party who intends building.
Judd Harrington will rebuild the
Southern hotel as soon as he can get
ih0brick. All the rest are falling
iuto line, and so soon as the mater
ial can be procured, new and mod.
ern bricks will replace the ragged
row of frames that SO suddenly dis
appeared on the night of the 9th OF
February.-WichiIa Eagle.
The Garnett & Fall River rail-
road, the wind work. for the exten
sion of q branch of which to Wichi-
IN. was worked off here last fall, has
come to grief. Anderson county,
which contains the Initial point OF
the enterprise, has commenced cult
for the recovery of her bonds held
in escrow by the State Treasurer
Wichita Eagle.
The influx of immigration, or the
influence of bland skies, or one or
oath, had the Eft ct to bring the
mems of this region down to both
teet and set them TO work, as g con-
sequence eggs are now plenty In
market, at ten cents per dozen.-
Wichita Eagle.
A man in Chase county will fence
in 1000 acres OF laud this spring for
pasture, between Elinor and Stafford.
We have been informed by those
who pretend to know, that the cattle
drive from Texas to Kansas, this
ear, will not be over 10000 head, of
which about $4,000 will go to Wich-
ita.
Reports are in rather quiet circu-
IL ion that vein of coal about two
feet in thickness has been bored
| through few miles north OF town,
aud Il company is about being Or
gaulzed to investigate the matter.
We wish they would, and alsO wish
they would fluid the coal.-Newton
Kansan.
Emporia is eighteen years old and
cant boast OF murder within the
city limits. Newton cou boast of
about two dozen before she was
year old.-But those times many of
our present population never ex-
perienced, and are now NUMBERED
among the things that were.--New-
ton kansan.
The Little river bridge is COM
pleted and work on the one across.
the Big river has been commenced,
and is progressing finely.-Wichita
Eagle.
Great Bend has real live poet,
but he knows something, and pre-
fers to expend his surplus in catch
ing fish rather than in writing
verses to the annoyance of editors.
One Frank Jones brutality beat
and MANNED young man named
Albert Horn, in a saloon at Arkan-
sas City, one night last week.
Jones was arrested but subsequent
Iy made his escape from the consta-
bic who had him in charge.
On Tuesday morning oflast week
burglars "went through" the resi-
6ence of the deputy treasurer of
Mcpherson county, relieving that
official of 5000 private funds and
$1,000 county funds. At last &C.
counts no clue has been obtained to
the thieves.
A colony of fifteen hundred ne
groes, from Colsmbia, Maury coun-
ty, Tennessee, will soon settle in
Barton county, on the line of the
Santa Fee railroad. 1t is said they
are we'll supplied with means, are
Industrious and will make good
class of citizens.
An effort is being made to organ
ize masonic lodge at Larned.
Reno county received $1,000 ont
of the $4,000 worth of relief goods
distributed by the Central Relief
Committee.
A man near Marion Centre nearly
bled to death at the nose last week.
The Legislature gave five hun
dred dollars to Van Trees, the froz-
en.footed Representative from Bar
bour county, and also paid his doc
tor and hotel bills amounting to as
much more.
And now there is trouble at FL
dorado between the county relief
society aud the member of the
Christian church. 1t seems that
one of the agents of the relief socie-
y named Mitchell who went east
To beg. was also authorized, by the
Christian churcli of Eldorado, to
solicit funds to aid in building q
new church for that organization.
Charges are now freely made that
the church is being built with aid
sent in for the poor. The Times
tries to straighten the matter out,
but its no use. For the next seven
ty.five years there will be dark
hints thrown out that that church
was built by funds really belonging
to the poor people of the county.
Eldorado is to have a tannery.
| At the opening of court in Nc
Pherson county, last week the offic
ials could scarcely get fuel enough
to heat the room, on account of the