The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-11-29
OVER THE STATE.

Fit. Scott pays eight cents for coal.
Ottawa has q new Methodist church.
Atchison is to have a new 100000
union depot.
Nearly all the wells at Independence
have gone dry. .........-,
The taxable property of the state is
S137, 4sO, 529.s3.
Lyon county pays to the state treasury
this year, $2O,394.1O.
The Kansas state grange will meet at
Lawrence the third Tuesday in Deem
Der.
For congressman, the first district of
this state cast AZ, 182 votes; the second,
40, 418; the third, 42,463. --. ..--
Ward Burlingame is to be the Wash
ington correspondent of the Atchison
Champion again this winter.
Some people who went to Washington
Territory last spring from Woodson
county wish themselves back in Kansas.
E. D. Barrett was caught between two
cars at Ottawa, the other day, while at
tempting to couple them, and was bad
ly mashed.
Osborn county cast lib Republican,
So Democratic and rs Greenback votes,
and is set down as the banner Republi-
can county.
John Graple died few days ago near
Troy, aged SO years. He was an infidel
to the last, and bequeathed his body to a
st. Joseph medical college.
The question of extending the n. K.
& T. railway from some point between
Junction City, via Enterprise, Abilene
and Solomon City to Salina is agitated.
Lappin & Scrafford's real estate was
sold at auction last week Ii brought
$4,000, which win pay off the claim of
the state against Lappin and leave his
creditors $1,000.
The friends of Hon. Dudley Haskell,
in Lawrence, just previous to his depart
ure for Washington, went to his house
in force, took him by surprise, and pre-
sented him with fine gold watch.
Governor Anthony Indignantly denies,
in letter to the Commonwealth, the re-
port started by the Atchison Champion,
that he intends leaving the state if he is
not elected to the senate the coming
winter. ~
In Genava township, Allen county,
the Republicans nominated and elected
Alex Purvis, colored man, to the Office
of trustee. Mr.. Purvis was a delegate,
to the congressional convention in the
Second district which nominated Mr..
Haskell. @
Thanks to Hon. P. I. Bonebrake, audit
or of state, for copy of his first biennial
report. 1t is a complete showing of the
transactions of the state for two years,
and is handsomely gotten up by state
printer Martin.
The earnings of the A. T. & S. F. R, R.
for one week in November, 1877, were
$75, $50; and for one week in November,
1873, SOL, 900. The earnings of the
Kansas Pacific R. r. for one week in
1877, were $1OS,51s; and in 1878, they
were $122,512,
james Smith, the newly elected secre-
tary of state, ran 908 votes ahead of the
highest man on the Republican state
ticket in Marshall county, his home,
and where he has lived many years and
held the Office of county treasurer and
county clerk four years each.
We see that D. O. McCray, late of the
Hartford Enterprise, later of the Park
ervilIe Enterprise, and now of the Nc.
PhersOn Freeman, and not year in the
State, We believe, win be candidate for
post Office master" Of the next house,
etc. For further particulars see the last
Council Grove Republican. =
The Santa Fe road has issued neat
little advertising card containing a con-
else compilation Of statistics regarding
the development and growth in populss
ton of the nine counties, Harvey, Reno.
Pawnee, AcPherson, Rice, Edwards.
Barton, Rush and Sedgwick-an in the
Arkansas valley. The -comparison is
made for seven years past, and the show
ING IA wonderful. es-sss, 49, 49,