The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-01-28
SOUTHWEST.

Lie SutUOT Vi Lne fAluOTduO lines
has reached Topeka, in his search af-
ter a railroad for Butler county, and
sensibly suggests that it is better for a
county to vote $4,000 and pay for it
bonds, sell them for $4,000, and pay
$1,000 per year interest On them till
"the crack of DOOM"
The new railroad project from Flor
ence to Salina and also from Florence
to Arkansas City via the Walnut Val
ley is the last project on the boards.
Come on with your rOads.-Eldorado
Times.
Newton has organized company
to bore for coal, and Il board of trade.
A colony of twenty persons, of
Washington and Green counties,
Pennsylvania, have purchased three or
more sections in township p, range Z,
Chase county, for the purpose of sheep
raising.
Another effort is being made to con-
struct a railroad from Junction City to
Arkansas City, over the line of the old
Kansas q Nebraska road. 1t is pre-
sumed that the h. Z. company will
take hold of the work and construct
and operate the road, it reasonable
amount of local aid is given to the
enterprise. When the matter is more
fully developed we shall have more to
say concerning this project.-Augusta
Gazette.
Martin & Timmons raised the mon
ey last eek to meet the notes held by
Sam Wood, and regained possession OF
the Cottonwood Falls Courant, and an
nounce that they will continue its pub
lication. During its brief suspension,
however, the Leader secured the coun-
ty printing.
The Mills pig case, of Greenwood
county, has been decided by the Su-
preme Court by refusing to grant the
appeal, and Mr.. Mills has been sent to
jail, in default OF his fine, and legal
costs, amounting to 500. Quite dear
pig.
Iank-pins is the name of queer
production found in this valley, being
a nut about the size of a hazel nut,
which grows in a pod the size of tea
cup, each nut in little cell just large
enough to hold it. About sixteen OF
these nuts grow in a single pod, and
like the chufas are very palatable.-I
Wichita Eagle.
A foundry and machine shop is an
enterprise now demanded at Wichita.
For all the mill machinery repairs, ag-
ricuitural implements and mechanical
repairs we send now to places long
way eff, which necessitates delays, ex-
pense and VeXation. Besides all the |
iron work for the fronts of new build |
ings and the like there is no nearer
supply than Fort Scott or Atchison.--
Wichita Eagle.
The Eagle evidently depends upon
the newspapers for information, and
seeing no advertisement of a foundry
in EmpOria, it naturally concludes that
there is none here.
Messrs. Henry Obee, S. Leeburg.
have contract for four hundred feet
of the water-power canal. 1t is the
deepest excavation on the line and
contains about five thousand cubic |
yards OF earth. The work is well un-
der way.-Hutchinson News,
We learn that the A. T. & S. F. rail-
road company haYe fixed their fare |
from the Missouri river to Pueblo at |
$33 first class, and $50 second class. |
This, we presume, will nccessitate the /
putting the fare On the Kansas Pacific |
railway at the same price. 1t is $4l.5O.
Colorado already begins to feel the re-
suit of the competition.-Newto
News.
The Rice County Gazette, published
at Peace, by E. B. Cowgirl, is the new
est paper in the Southwest, and starts
off with quite a readable number. We
should Judge it will be edited in a way
to please its readers, but a printer
ought to be employed to look after its
typogrs phical make up.
BLACK HILL ITEMs.-Andy Corcoran
who resides here, returned some weeks
since from the vicinity of the Black
Hills. He intends returning there i'm
the spring. Last Tuesday he received
q letter from an associate at Sydney,
nearest railro ad station, informing him
that miner was just in from the Hills
with over $1,000 In gold dust of his
own digging. The miner returned
with seVeraI loaded teams for the
Hills. Seth Blanchard, brother Oft.
A. Blanchard of this place, is in the
Hills and has b. en- all winter. He
writes home each week or two, as OPP
portunity offers for sending letters to
the railrOaa. He says several hundred
men are in the Hills and that paying
gold is there and that times will be (
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