The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-08-20
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KANSAS ITEMS.

Men from the east are baying wheat
in every settled county.
1924 people, 1,439 dogs and l,ll6
sheep, in Osagereunty.
Burlington has ], 442 population, Cof-
fey county 7,ls4 in all.
Atchison celebrates the completion
of her railroad bridge Aug. "a.
The female temperance crusade has
been revived in Topeka.
The Commonwealth has late advices
from the ''gOld diggings" in the Blue
Hills OF Lincoln and Mitchell cOuntiet.
The prOspectOrs have goue, generally,
to the harvest fields, and will not re-
turn for several weeks. In many To-
calities claims have been staked of,
but no work done. There are people
on the border who believe good dig
gings will be struck in that locality,
and propose to show their faith by their
works.
The Lawrence Journal suggests that
so far as farmers cooperating is con-
cerned, one of the most successful
things in that line is to cooperate In
making cneeSe.
AS the Midland track from De Soto
to Kansas City will be completed by
the 18th, and the AtckisOn, Topeka &
Santa Fe built to Los Animas by the
10th, the completion of this extensive
continuous rail will be appropriately
celebrated by an excursion to the
Western terminus about Sep. lst.
The Salina Herald relates a story of
an officer, who, during the rebellion,
being required to do some work in a
swamp, put in a requisition tor 'EOne
hundred men eighteen feet tall, to work
in a swamp" and adds that ''if any of
those men are alive yet they can get
big wages gathering corn in Kansas
this fall"
Col. Knapp, a merchant of Wyan-
dOtte, has IA farm in Sumner county.
Last week he started from WyandOtte
to harvest his wheat. He cut it on
Thursday, threshed it on Friday, took
it to Wichita and shipped it Saturday,
arrived here with it Monday, sold it to
Single Tuesday, "A was eating eX-
celIent biscuit made from it Wednes-
day, less than a week from the time
when the wheat was standing in the
field, two hundred and fifty miles away
and nearly forty miles from the near
est acknowledgements Gazette.
''There is more comfort to twenty
four hours in the Kansas climate, than
a week In the Eastern States," is the
general judgmt mt.
Mr.. Henry's wheat crop in Dickin-
son county, about which SO much has
been said, amounted to $4,000 bushels
from l 800 acres, or nearly 20 BUSH
els to the acre. He has sold $4,000
bushels of the crop to a miller in Leav-
worth.
The AtchisOn Champion says: "The
Kansas Pacific rail road company is
getting up q Set OF blanks known as
death warrants which are to be sign
ed by every emplOye of the company.
The nature of these death warrants il
to relieve the company from any
claims for damages resulting from an
accident on the road, to any members
in their employ. No matter how the
accident or death occurs, whether by
being crushed between the carr or by
a train crashing headlong through a
bridge, these death warrants are To
relieve the company from any claim
whatever, and from furnishing any
assistance to the injured party. So far
in case of accident, the company has
paid the doctor bills and given the in
jured party halt pay, but under the
new order of things this is to be shut
off. Nor are the employees allowed any
, nnfinu i'm this thnuy 10 a
either to sign or throw up their places
and make way for those who will com
ply with the cOmpany's demands"
If the road could also compel all pass.
: engers to sign their death warrants
before entering the cars, it would have
things very well fixed.
, On the night of Tuesday, July 9th
the rains which had raised North LOnI
creek, in the north part OF COffey cOun
ty, eliminated in such pouring rail-
that tidal wave 6 to feet high swep
t down the valley, doing immense dam
!: age. Mr.. Flack, who lives on the bot
tom. 40 rods from the stream, says thu
waves nearly reached the top of hi
barn, and carried away not only hi
crops, but cattle, hogs, wagon AM
other property.
: The Elk Falls journal has moved u
Sedan, and will be known hereafter a
the Chatauqua Journal.
A private letter from COncordia
} Cloud county, states that on Sunda,
) last large army of grasshOppers pass
, ed over that place going south. The.
commenced passing over at 10 O'clOcl
, in the NOR ming and it was B O'Clock il
the afternoon before the last had left
, They were flying quite high, and ha
they came down and been as vOraciou
, as last year, could have cleaned out tn
: corn and potatoes NEST effectually
Il Commonwealth of the 9Th.