The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-06-09
SOUTHWEST.

Col. p. B. Plump, of Emporia, as
presiding officer has no superior. If he
represented the State of Kansas in the
United States, then we would be proud.
Hutchinson News.
AS a secretary for State conven-
ton Prof. Evans. of Great Bend, is not
a success. We believe there is much
in locality, but in the choice of sec
retaIy for a noisy body of men, lungs
are entitled to be considered. Evans
locality is right but his lungs were de-
f1cient.-Ibid.
Emporia is willing to furnish Con-
gresham and his name is Buck. Mr..
B. is not stranger to the politicians,
and we know no reason why he could
not represent this, the third district,
acceptably.-Peabody Gazette.
Peabody will celebrate the 4th.
The project of a branch from the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road
down the Walnut valley is dead. Pres
ident NickersOn informed the delegates
from the interested counties, at the con-
ference held at Wichita, last week,
that the company would not, at pres
ent, undertake the work. He encOur-
aged them TO hope, however, that 1t
would, before long. submit PROPOSE
ton for building a road from the Santa
Fe track to Eldorado. The Walnut
Valley Times is not yet discouraged,
and we hope its faith and perseverance
may reap their reward. - Peabody
Gazette.
The hailstorm that devastated part
of Sumner county, May %, also did
great injury along a strip from two to
four miles wide, between the Cowskin
and Minnesota, in Sedgwick county.
The magnificent wheat fields
that in the morning promised rich
and abundant harvest, at shutdown
were nothing but fearful waste. The
haIlstones were about the size of a wal
nut and fell in immense quantities.
Conglomerate stones, consisting of q
dozen or so of the regular hail frozen
together, as large as goose eggs, fell
here and there. Prairie chickens, jack
rabbits, snakes and domestic fowls
were killed, and horses knocked down.
Young orchards suffered badly. Heavy
rain accompanied and succeeded the
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The saddest incident of the torn was
the loss of the life of young Martin
PARCELS, son of James PARCELS, a
bright boy about fourteen years OF age,
who was with an older brother break
ing prairie at the time the storm cam e
upon them. 1t seems that the cattle,
through fright, ran off during the
storm, after which the two boys start
ed on their horses to overtake and
bring them back. In attempting to
cross a ravine which the floods of fall
ing water had suddenly filled bank full
the youngest lost his balance and was
swept away by the terrible torrent.
His body was not found until the next
day. Seine of the fields of wheat were
lett without single standing head
The young corn was literally beaten
into the ground. The prairie grass
even, IN places was killed. In ravines
the hail drifted up several feet deep
Lyman Brandt picked up hailstone
that he couldn't get into an ordinary
pint cup.
There was u short item in the Her
aid referring to the fact that our ex-
ports exceeded our imports, but no al
fusion was made to the national debt
The NEWS had probably no wish to
misrepresent US, and we would like tC
see it correct the error.-Eureka Her
aid.
; We have not the Herald now which
| kInn 70
think it was May 18th, and if the Her.
aid will clip it and republish it, we
: will copy it verbatim, and are conf
dent it is substantially as we stated.
Last Friday some internal scoundre
5 shot yearling bull belonging to thu
3 Kenner boys. 1t was one they pur'
chased from N. T. Pritchard, the same
one that attracted so much attention al
5 the fairs in Greenwood and Lyon coun
2 ties, taking the premium at both. Hi:
E hind leg was broken, and it is doubtful
if he can be saved. The wound look
like that made by ball from rifle
= Eurka Herald.
ID. Connor, of Butler county ha
: bought Carr, Scott & Co.'s Golt
Medal Steam Threshing Machine. Tn
machine cost 81 $50, and it will be tn
first one brought to Southwestern
Kansas. 1t will be able to thrash 1,
200 bushels of wheat per day.
Y G.. w. Carpenter, Esq, traded for
horse some time ago, giving fifteel
;, dollars to boot. Monday night tn
owner of the horse, who lives nea
t Sedgwick, demanded his horse, alleg
S ing that he had been stolen. He mad
! out q clear case, and, we understand
got the horse.-Hutchinson News.
q Harvey county had $4,000 acres IN
n der cultivation last year and has so
L 600 this, an increase of 10000 acre
Is $4,000 of that being in fall wheat.
i The Eldorado Times reviews th
d railroad prospects of the Walnut vale
s. in this way:
: Having spent six months time en-
q deavoring to work up a proposition
I. build this road the entire length {
this valley, and having failed, an
as there is not at this time one singl,
feasible, railroad project within reac
g, of any portion of this valley, we wi
q at once and without delay fall back o
our original proposition and that is
II have this company build sufficier
a number of miles of this propose
= branch this year that will enable th
farmers of Butler county to mark
their wheat. AS this will not involN
L the voting of county Bonds, and
a thrte or four townships will have
- assume the responsibility, and as Il
.. road will not in any way, shape,
form interfere with any other schen
a. that may be inaugurated, we hope q
enemies of our project will let
n. alone.
q The high honor of presiding ov
~ the deliberations of the late r
~ publican State convention was cor
IL ferred on Colonel Preston
Plumb, of Emporis. 1t was fit
assigned to one of the most accou
Cd plished and popular leaders in Il
State, and Col Plumb indicated b