The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-03-24
STATE

county man mas -'p 'A~iSS
of blue grass. -.
Under the new law dogs will have
to emigrate.
There are salmon in the Little Ar
kansas river.
State Treasurer Francis has remov-
ed his family to Topeka.
The a. T. & S. F. now runs a through
train Sunday.
Paola will send delegation oftwen-
ty to tile Black Hills.
Kansas corn is two,cehts bushel
more than eastern corn.
The A. T. 4 5. FL shipping dress
ed beef from Las Animas.
They are ing for a. water pow
er at the mouth OF Tie Kaw.
Douglas county held a greenback
mass convention on the 18th.
The N. K. & T. disburses $4,000 per
month for labor at Parsons.
The A. T. & s. F. are increasing
their machine shops at Topeka.
The defaulting treasurer of Kansas
City, Kansas, has been captured.
The Leavenworth coal shaft yield u
million bushels OF coal annually.
The Kansas City Times is putting up
double cylinder Hoe press.
Another occupation gone-the new
law plays, cat professional jarymen.
A single hole in the gF56hd . i9 Mi-
amiecOunty produced eighteen skunks:
Excellent coal beds have been open
ed in Melvern township, Osage county.
The people of Topeka want herd
ordinance, so that the can plant tress.
The Humboldt paper mill has begun
/ by making load of wrapping pa
per. ...s.,....-..<.,-
The new dog law will practically ex.
terminate the dog tribe, If it Is entOrc-
ed. -
ingalls, and Harvey both voted to
reduce the Presidents salary to $685.
600.
Coal is being put upon the cars at
Carbondale for five and half cents
a bushel.
Twelve cigar factories, employing
$50 men, in Leavehworth.
i 1t is rumored war has been declared
between Governor Osborne and d. Il.
Anthony.
A Valley Falls lady was badly mu-
tilated the other day about the face by
a colts hind foot.
The L. S. pension agency at Topeka
disburses over three hundred thousand
dollars annually. ~,
The regents of the. State University
are vigorously preparing for Normal
department.
Somebody has figured out the aver
age price of corn in the State to be %
cents per bushel.
Ben Simpson, OF Miami county, is
going to emigrate to Cheyenne, Wyom-
ing Territory, and stay there.
Four hundred wagons on the streets
of Ottawa last Saturday. That is what
it is to have country settled.
The legislature having refused to
make an appropriation for the State
Historical Society, that body does not
know whether to struggle along or
not.
A Coffey county farmer recently in
du lged in a smoke with a cob pipe,
which cost him a stable and three head
of horses.
An Oskaloosa maR-writes from Cab
ifornia that they have squirrehin that
country that beats the grasshopper to
DEATH
Nelson Abbott, formerly of the
Atchison Patriot, was the seventh son
of his mother, who was herself sew
enth daughter.
The NJ. K & T. Brakemen continue
to strike against the order requiring
them to ride on the tops of the cars
while the trains are In motion.
The Touring mill at Wichita is
wrestling with the question of cheap
fuel. They burn from 1000 to g.
600 pounds of bran per day.
The kansas Centennial Commits
sioDers have contracted for the erec-
ton of their exhibition building,
which will be completed April 10th.
The Methodist membership in Kan
sas has now reached and exceeded
$4,000, which is more than all other
denominations put together.
Great excitement exiets at Baxter
Springs over lead mine discoveries in
Lowell township. six miles south OF
the Springs. Lead ore has been struck
only 8 feet from the surface.
Gov. Osborn has issued proclama-
ton naming Saturday, April list, as
"Arbor Day" for the citizens OF the
State of Kansas. Every honest citizen
is expected on that day to plant tree.
| Two hundred and fifty-eight thou
sand Texas cattle are to be driven into
Kansas for shipment east, this season.
Most Of them will be driven between
Dodge City and Ellis, SO that they can
be shipped on either the K. p. or A. T.
& S. F. roads, as freights are offered.
Mr.. Sears, of Rock Island, Illinois,
effers to organize company to dam
tile Kaw river at Topeka, and furnish
water power and water works, at a
cost of $3.50, coo, and furnish 100000,
lJf Topeka will furnish $l60, 900. He
don't want it in city bonds, howEpef 50
A terrible storm of hail and rain
passed over Southern Kansas Friday
afternoon the 10th. Along the line of
the Missouri River, Fort Scott Do Gulf
railroad Twas especially severe. Hail
stones as large as hens eggs fell, and
the ground was fairly covered with
| them.
Rev. E. Il. Chalk, of Armstrong,
Kansas, was delegate to the North
Kansas II. E. Conference in session at
Lawrence, last week. When the train