The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-03-31
SOUTHWEST.


owned by the government.
Tie house of Wm. McGarry, In Rru-
no township, Sedgwick co., was des-
troyed by fire ON the night of March
10, and his two twin children, girl
and boy, both persisted in the hlmes.
From the Eldorado Times
Messrs. DOrnbaser and Hudson, the
gentlemen from Wilson county, who
passed through our town last week on
their way to Newton to attend the rail-
road meeting, returned on Thursday.
They staUed that the upper White wa
ter valley was the most beautiful coun-
try they ever saw and from appear
ances the most fertile We have always
claimed that the upper Whitewater
was the beet pot of land on the Amer |
lean continents and any man who sees
it will say so.
BIG GROwTH-CharlesA Andrews, of |
Prospect township, sends us a LON |
hardy poplar sapling, five years old |
from the cutting, which measures y |
feet inches high, and l7L inches in |
circumference. IC measures 49, in |
kches in circumference two feet from
the ground. This tree was put out on
transplanted at one year old.
One farmer in this county raised 947
bushels of wheat from 80 acres. He
sold 800 bushels at an average of $1.14
per bushel. He says he was only out
$40 cash for threshing. He and his
family did all the other work. Who
says it don't pay to raise wheat2
The Augusta Gazette gives figures
to prove that the best plan for the
townships through which railroad
is wanted, is to get it by voting town
ship bonds, instead of begging to get
county bonds voted.
The Wichita Eagle, speaking of the
weather says: ITO the unfortunate i'm
migrants who lately arrived. expecting
to find green prairies and singing birds
we must humbly apologize"
The "Italian weather. has evidently
been on big drunk. After allowing
farmers to pillow all winter, part of the
time barefoot, now in the spring time,
when "Gentle Annie" has about made
up her mind to put on her summer
clothes, it freezes up and maple buds
are scared almost to death by the mu-
sic of the sleigh bells.-Hutchinson
News.
Parties are talking of sending an
other fiat boat loaded with corn and
potatoes down to Little Rock, Arkan-
sas. The Arkansas river is full to the
banks now. and it will continue to be
for tour months. if it does not vary
from preceding years.
The Augusta Gazette publishes affi-
davits to show that Jariel WildaY rails
ed "Gold Drop" wheat on his farm adj
joining Augusta, measured bushel of
which weighed 6411a pounds; that 391
bushels averaged 60 pounds to the
bushel and that the said 391 bushels
were raised on six and one-fifth acres,
making the average IS bushels and
pounds to the acre.
The other day we met Hon. w. A.
Shannon, of Augusta, Butler county,
and from him learned something of the
interest felt in that region on the SUBJ
iect of railroads, and especially in cou-
nection with junction City. Mr.. Shan
non tells that there Is great desire in
that region for a road, and than any
body can get bonds on a reasonable
guarantee of its speedy con struction.
The committee appointed by the Pea
body convention to go to St. Louis and
consult with the Kansas Pacific direc-
tory, will make their trip next week.
1t is composed of Geo. w. Brown, Au-
gusta; n. Wilkie, Douglas; C. II.
Kurtz, Augusta; c. N. Scott, Arkan-
sas City; Mr.. Walton, editor of Cow
ley County Democrat; Frank Doster,
Marion A. FL. Lackey, Peabody; and
Mr.. Platter, Winfield. The Kansas Pa
cific furnish free transportation to
these parties. which would indicate
some interest in the matter. The peo-
pie of Butler county claim that during
the past year they have paid out for
freight to and from railroad, in the
neighborhood of $40, 900. That county
will produce this year 100000 bushels
of wheat, and if they are not have a
railroad they want to know what to do
with it. In this connection it may be
proper to say that the New York par
ties, Mr.. Fleiss and others, who took
some interest at one time in the Kan
sas and Nebraska project, are watch
ing these railroad movements of the
people, and are again investigating the
line of country through which it is
proposed the road shall run. We hope
they may be able to see their way TO
take b old of it.-Juuction City Union