The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-15
STATE.

rived.
Independence draws $500 per an
mum from her saloons.
Miners receive four cents per bushel
for getting out coal at Usage City.
The list of birds known to breed in
Kansas has been increased to one
hundred and thirty-seyen.
A child at lola ate piece of bread
containing arsenic which had been
put out to poisoa rats. The child was
saved.
An irreyerent man in Hays says he
prefers the organ to the preacher at
that plaee-the organ being provided
with a stop.
The County Clerk of Crawford ceun-
ty has ordered full set OF weights
and measures as provided by act of
the last legislature.
4 bull was picketed on the prairie
near Holton one day last week, when
horse coming within the circuit of
his cable, he gored it to death.
Two steers in the Usage Mission
herd of cattle, weighed 2,l6O and 2,24O
pounds respectively. A bull in the
same herd weighed 2,230 pounds.
Mr.. Mills Baxter, of Miami county,
In boring for water on his farm,
''struck ile'' four times at a depth of
twelve feet, at least pint of crude
petroleum being in each bucketful of
water.
DIR. NJ. A. Campdoras, of North To-
peka, has make repeated trials and
asserts that the mulberry cannot be
raised from cuttings in Kansas. He
has spent several hundred dollars in
the experiment.
A judgment against Samuel Lappin
for 81, s4S.74 and interest from Deem
Der 80, 1875, was issued from Judge
Merton's court, last Thursday, and
property owned by him in Nemaha
county will be sold to satisfy the same.
The Attorney General is confident
that all the money embezzled by lap
pin will be recovered.
B. j. Potter, of Hutchinson, has
shipped 5000 tons, or 16,OOO,OO lbs.
of buffalo bones to New York, Phil
adelphia and Baltimore, during the
prst three years.
John Emslie, of Cottonwood station,
some six years ago, purchased a COW,
from which he now has twenty-five
head of cows, calves and yearlings,
and has lost fine steer recently which
was also of her progeny.
A man at Peabody, disgusted with
the overflow, signed contract to sell
his property at fifty cents on the dol
lar of the appraised value. The con-
ditions were complied with without
the least misunderstanding. The
property consisted of eighteen lots, a
two-story house, and hotel, in pro-
cess of erection.
1t seems that the $1,000 which was
HYorked" out OF Senator POmeroy,
went back into his pocket. The
Commonwealth says:
John H. Simmons has brought suit
in the Douglas county district court
against Samuel C.. Pomeroy, John
Francis and Elias S. Slower for the
So 900 "York money, The plaintiff
alleges that this money was, on the
9th day of November, 1873, deposited
with Josiah E. Hayes, then treas
urer of the State of Kansas. That on
that day, Mr.. Pomeroy, "tor value re-
ceived," made, executed and deliver
ed to plaintiff transfer and bill OF
| the sale of the $1,000. That on the 1st
day of May, 1874, the said Hayes ''de-
livered the said 81 900 into the posses
sion and keeping of the defendants
Francis and Slower, in trust for the
tuue owner thereof That afterwards
the plaintiff presented to them the
said transfer and bill of sale given by
Mr.. Pomeroy, and demanded the 81,
600, which Messrs. Francis and Slower
refused to deliver to him, and after
wards paid the same over to defend
ant PomeroY through and by the hands
/ of A. M. York; and that said Pome-
roy, Francis and Slower converted
the same to their own use and benefit
to the damage of plaintiff to the
amount of $4,000" Mr.. Francis has
requested the attorney general to take
| charge of his defense. The defend
ants are required to answer by the
9th day of June.
The dam across the Little Arkansas
at Halstead, was swept away by thu
late flood and the mill damaged to the
amount of $1,000. The dam at I'll.
hatfield Green mill was washed GU
and considerable damage done to crop!
fences and out houses on South Fork
AS the procession was returning
from the cemetery at Lawrence, OF
Decoration Day, Lutte Lewis, a boy o
eleven, was thrown from his pony and
dragged quite distance, the pony'i
feet striking him as he ran. Wher
rescued it was found that no bones
were broken, although there was no
an unbruised spot on the boy any.
| where.
In Usage city last week Rev. Her
bet C.. Howe, superintendent of the
Scandinavian coal company, being
defrauded and being prosecuted sho
himself through the head with a re
volver, and lett a wife and three
children ia a destitute circumstances
Last week, Friday, Judge Camp
of this place, had very valuable
horse bitten by huge rattlesnake, or
the leg, while blowing on his CLAIM
eight miles north of Larned. Having
no remedies at hand for such occa-
sions, the plowman, after killing tn,
snake, came to town tor help. No
being able TO get any whiskey Judge
C. invited w. II. Hardison to 60 out
with him. The Doctor accepted o
the Invitation. When they arrived
there the poison was working activel,
and the bitten leg was swollen twIcI
the natural size, the body participate
ing in it very much. Judge C
thought the horse to be beyond help
as it was unable to walk but a step o.
two at time and was rapidly grow.
ing worse. DR.. 81. proposed trying al
experiment, and proceeded to injec
with hypodemic syringe, liquid am
monia beneath the skin, and did no
stop until fully an ounce had beer
thus administered. In an hour tn,
horse showed evidences of a decided
improvement, and the next morning