The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-17
STATE.
1880 dogs in Kansas.


1880 dogs in Kansas.
Kansas has 2l3,23S school children.
Linn county dogs kill 455 sheep an
nually.
The permanent scool fund amounts
to S205, 900.
Fifty barrels of salt per day is pro-
duced at Alma.
The pepOle of Tonganoxie think
they have found zinc.
Salt butter will kill the chiggers
and allay the irritation.
The recent strike proved Kansas
City to be the gateway OF Kansas.
The number of visitors at the rooms
of the State Board of Agriculture
average 800 weekly.
According to the State Board OF
Equalization the average value OF
land In Kansas is-S4.11 per acre.
The Superintendent OF Insurance Is
going through the Missouri Valley
Life Insurance Company.
If there is anything proven by ex-
perience 1t is that what should be put
into the ground well and in season.
The Kansas Pacific is fitting out q
grand excursion between Kansas City
and Denver, to come on about the first
Of September.
General Sherman has obtained from
the Secretary of War authority to es-
tablish an infantry school for training
and practicing at Fort Leavenworth.
The Lawrence journal reports q
tremendous sunhower, which by act
ual measurement is seventeen inches
in diameter and fifty-two in circum-
ference.
There Is q case in the district court
of Atchinson wherein none of the
original parties who brought the suit
are living, and the attorneys who filed
the first papers are out of it.
While Joe Waters was making a
humorous speech at a picnic near
Topeka, the other day, In the midst of
q thrilling passage the loud braying of
a donkey near by disturbed him. But
Joe was equal to the occasion, and
promptly shouted. zone at a time,
please"
The bodies of Captains Yates and
T. w. Custer, First Lieutenants A. E.
Smith, Donald Mcintosh, and James
Calhoun, late Of the 7th Calvary, who
glouriously fell in conflict with hostile
Indians, in the battle of the Little Big
Horn, last summer, were buried at
Fort Leavenworth last Saturday.
Franklin county has not paid any
interest for two years on $3.50. 600 in
railroad bonds. johnson county is in
the same fix, and offers to compromise
with the bondholders at the rate of
90 cents on the dollar.
They may talk about California,
Colorado, and Oregon, and Montana,
and the Black Hills, and San Juan,
and Texas, and the lead mines; but
the men who stick to DOniphan coun-
ty, and get down to business, will have
the most to show in the end.-Troy
Chief.
So of Lyon county, or most any
in Kansas.
From 175 to 2nO miles of railroad
will be built this year in Kansas.
Here is a hint In time by the Abb
lene Chronicle: "Go in whatever d.
rection you may you can see farm ma
chlnery, that will not be used again
for nearly year, lying out in the
weather, rusting and rotting."
The patent outside publishers talk of
a convention to see If they
cannot obtain better terms from the
publishers of their articles.
In Topeka, on the 10th, a seven
year old daughter of A. p. Ennis
was thrown from her horse and hung
head downward In the stirup when
the horse galloped for two rods
q crowded street, but she was
short and her head just missed the
street and various wagons she passed,
and suffered no serious injury.
Julia Gleason, a young lady in North
while sitting in her doorway
on the 10th was struck in the temple
by a bullet which cut an artery. This
bullet was fired by q fellow firing at a
target on an island in the river. Miss
Gleasen's life was saved. and the tar
get sporter fined $25 for firing within
the city limits.
1t is claimed that the action of
LeaVenworth county in resisting the
payment of interest on bonds, does
not meet with the unanimous approx
al of the citizens of that county. If
so, the paying part of the community
ought to hold a meeting and make
itself heard. !.