The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-02-23

STATE.
Tree-planting is next Ia order.
Buffalo are returning north in large
numbers.
p. G. Reeder, of Hutchinson, has a
flock of 600 Mexican ewes.
Strangers are beginning to arrive in
Kansas looking for land.
Hays City now claims to have seen
the great meteor of December last.
Well-organized hunts have failed to
discover wolves in Central Kansas.
A large amount of corn still stands
in the fields in DonIphap county,
through which cattle roam at will.
The Cewley County Telegram
charges $3.50 per year, or ten cents
per copy. 1t is a seven-column paper.
One man in Atchison operates six
teen elevators and corn shelters along
the line of the line of the A. & n,
railroad.
Hemp raisers report that their crops
will average 1900 pounds to the acre.
Hemp liz worth $1lO per ton.
A number of dogs recently attacked
a valuable COW in some private stable
at Leavenworth, and nearly killed her.
Corn OF Minneapolis is selling at 20
cents and potatoes at 40 cents per
buahel, and fat hogs are quoted at $1.25
to $3.50.
1t is claimed that 800 men in Leav-
enworth manufacture annually 5000
wagons, 200 of the men being con-
Victs.
An assessment of % per cent. has
been made on all notes given to pay
attorneys fees in the Usage ceded
land case.
Thomas Anderson, of Holton, burns
walnuts for fuel. They cost 20 ceats
per bushel more than coal, but are
much more Clearly.
One of the arguments advanced
against the adoption of the herd law
is that it will deprive thousands Of
families OF the use of cow.
A mad dog in Ellis county has been
doing serious mischief biting other
dogs, cattle, sheep, goats etc. No less
than seven farms were visited.
N. E. Parker, of Valley Falls, hasa
corn crib 304 feet long, 16 feet wide,
and II feet high, full of corn, and an
other same size nearly com pleted is
halt full.
A Rumber of sheep which laid for
10 days buried in snow drift in the
Ellis stock yards, have been taken out
alive and apparently none the worse
for their burial.
An article in the Oswego Indepen-
dent upon the subject of tape worms
in cats and dogs was being read by a
gentleman to his family in that town,
when the cat under the table suddenly
vOmited three. One was two feet in
length, and the other two ten inches.
Concordia Expositor: While talk
ing OF grasshOpper eggs, it might be
well for us to say that persons who
argue that they must freeze before
they can hatch are very much mista-
keR-at least we are told so by a re-
sponsible party, who says he dug up
some of the eggs during the coolest
days this winter, and they were in the
same condition as when deposited by
smother hopper :" 1t has been also
stated that the young grasshoppers
will STAND freezing and thawing, like
the snake, without even diminishing
its ravenous appetite, but this we
doubt very much, although man from
this vicinity says he brought grasshep-
per eggs in his house, where they
hatched, alter which he laid one of the
'litile ones" on the snow for an heur
or more, and upon thawing it out by
The stove it hoped about as though
nothing had happened to it. ''They're
quare haste, anyhow"
The entire amount of rain in Kan
sas, in the year 1876, including melt
ing snow, was 44.1S inches, than any
previous annual rain fall upon our
record, and is 1428 inches above the
average annual amount for the eight
preceding years. Either rain or snow
fell on 1O2 days. The usual amount of
rain was well distributed, there being
no damaging excess or deficiency in
any month of the growing season.
The n. 7. Tribune: Col. Preston
B. Plumb, the Senator elect from Kan
sas, Is said to have been successful as
a printer, an editor, lawyer, a soldier,
q legislator and a banker. He will be
40 years old next October.
During the year 1876 one business
man in every one hundred and FORTY
seven in Kansas failed, the average
liability being $4,000.
Hon. j. R. Mead, of Wichita, came
up from that city yesterday. He
thinks that not as many grasshopper
eggs were laid down there as farther
east. He says there were millions of
eggs in 1867 but they were not troubled
with grasshoppers the next year. Mr..
Mead says that j. G. Fraker, the pres
idsnt of the national bank at Wichita,
has disappeared, but that his family is
AZ
MIR. Fraker brought $4,000 to Wichita
and opened a private bank and by
showing his money induced Mr.. Mead
and others 70 take stock in q national
bank. It turned out that every cent
OF the $4,000 he had was borrowed
money, and he drew meney from the
bank TO repay il. The stockholders OF
the Wichita national bank say that
Mr.. Fraker played one of the best
confidence games they ever saw. Mr..
Mead lost $50, 200 BY Mr.. Fraker, but
We are glad to know that he has pieu-
ty of means left Commonwealth.
Governor Anthony has sent q long
special message to the Kansas Leeis-
latare on the subject Of the public
lands under the cnntrol of the State, |
and especially with reference to the
school lands. The message gives
an elaborate history Of the several |
grants made To the State. The whole
system by which our school-Iands are
and sold the Governor thinks
is cdmbrous, complex and wholly un-
satisfactory. He states that il Is Inn
possible even to ascertain the amount
of lands sold and remaining unsoId.
BE recommends that the Office of land
commissioner be established, that off,
Ger to be elected by the people, and to
hold for the same time az other Off
GERS. Ali the business pertaining to
the apprlisement and sale of school
lands should be in the control of this
officer, under strict legal restraints
He estimates that the school lands. dis
posed OF under proper conditions.