The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-12-07
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ken blacksmith named WhitlOck. They
went to Wichita and last week Sarah
succeeded because Whitloek sent for his1
wife and family.
When farmer gets drunk in Great
Bend, they shut him up in the Gala
boose and then burn the building, and
the drunken man along with it.. At
least, that was what happened to John
Mcmillan, Nov. "a.
Little boys in Cottonwood Falls carry
matches, and hence w. r. Bradley has
got to rebuild his stables. Loss $50.
Murphy club at hatfield Green with
so members to begin with.
Buffalo meat is retailing at Dodge
City at five cents pound.
The commissioners of Sumner coun-
ty have been perpetually enioined from
issuing the bonds to the Kansas City. |
Emporia & Southern railroad, on the
I'd day of last July.
President Nickerson has offered to
extend the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe railroad through Sumner county,
from either Eldorado or Wiehitas pro-
viding that the county vote bonds 70
the road to the amount of $1,000 per
mile.
Susan B. Anthony failed to lecture
in Peabody, and offers no explanation
to account for her non-appearance.
May be she has eloped with some lucky
young man.
Patterson, the man who stole .
moving machine from Eureka last
summer, and was in jail there awaiting
trial, escaped on the 24th ult.. and at
last accounts had eluded very vigo-
rous pursuit. 1t was wonder he did
not steal the jail and carry it Of with
him. ~
DIR. VIM. Brown aud Thomas Craig,
two citizens OF Wilson county, who re-
sided in Greenwood county eight years
ago, have been arrested and brough
back to Greenwood county, on charge
of having been the principals in the
murder of two young men named Bled-
soc, in the latter county, in 1865. The
accused are anxious for trial, and as
sert that they can establish their limo
cence. The Bledsoes, it appears, were
arrested on charge OF having killed an
Indian, and the parties who had them
in charge at the Bledsoe house, said
they heard the Indians were coming to
kill the Bledsoes, and so they started
with their prisoners to the Verdigris
river, but were soon fired upon from
the timber near the roadside, and only
the prisoners fell, the guard escaping.
The BledsOes were found the next
morning, one dead and one dying, and
the escort, among them Brown and
Craig, were then accused of the muir
der. Some of them were tried before q
Salt Springs J. P. in 1869, and dis
charged, but the late grand jury found
an Indictment against BreWn and
Craig, and hence their present arrest.
Their conviction is doubtful.
Capt. Lee, of Cowley county, went to
EmpOria, last week, to inquire after
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twelve miles of the grade completed
and ready for the ties; the abutments
for the Cottonwood bridge nearing
completion; large number of ties
and construction train at Emporia,
and he reports everything as looking
very favorable for the building of the
road.-Augusta Gazette.
'Rah for Capt. Lee.
C. H. Lamb, of Douglas, was the re-
publican nominee for register of deeds
in Butler county, but was defeated, and
the Augusta Gazette ascribes his death.
last week, to the disappointment of his
defeat. Mr.. Lamb was evidently not
fitted for this cold and calIous world.
Another vein of coal has been dis
covered about six miles north of Eure-
ka, on a piece land owned by Mr.. E.
Tucker.
Citizens of Towanda have organized
a company to bore for coal and oil, and
will commence operations near that
town at once. We hope they will meet
with sue cess.-Eldorado Times.
.. Oil right. Sink it on 1924. We
always thought luck would strike We
: uns sometime if we could only live un-
til the time came along.
Three millinery stores at Douglas. :
No honest work, however humble
can disgrace an honest mau.-Cotton-
= wood Falls Courant.
No, but it can make him awful tired
e and spoil his clothes until he wishes
he had a chance to be president OF
j cashier of savings bank for few
days and by one grand stroke lay up 4
n competence for a luxurious and influ.
entail old age.
The Madison Times says that Trasl
is going to lay out a rival town site {
mile and half south of that place
Now if we had the choice between So
den's mill site and Tasks town site
we would rather take the mill, by 1
dam site.
Madison has barber shop.
The Murphy movement began il
Wichita last Sunday. Among othel
speakers was Judge Campbell, whs
wanted to sign the pledge, and sait
he was opposed to licensing saloons o.
y having any license money paid int,
the public treasury. We don't know
II of any place where the room for re
b form in that respect is quite so exten
q sive as in Wichita.
We are informed that the graders
camp on the narrow gauge has beef
g moved this side of Eagle creek, ana
n that q gentleman who came dow
> from EmpOria few days ago COUNTIES
sixty teams at work Oh the grade line
This force ought with the machinery
s used be able TO carry the work alonI
n at rapid pace. Major Fuller ha
promised US new hat in case he fail
10 have the cars running into Green
wood county by Christmas As tina
8 time is less than month away we ar
e beginning to fear we will be compelleG
to receive the hat--Eureka Herald.
: Eureka is also having temperate
n revival. Judge Peyton among other
has made some good sDeeches