The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-06-07

sumner fOOts up 12,O7s souls.

Sumner foots up 1a.O7S souls.
19o,6SS Texas cattle on their way to
Kansas.
Wichita is shoutin' about new $4,000
N. E. church.
Harvesting in full blast in Sumner epun-
ty May both.
Sumner county has six representatives
at Ossawatomie.
No rust in Greenwood and q good crop
Of wheat promised.
The wellington Press is for Col. Mar
tin for Governor.
Peach trees loaded in Sumner county
st three years of age.
Kinsly is to have its third paper, the
''Kansas Stats Zeitung.
Lew Hanback,. of Topeka, GRATED on
decoration day at Larned.
EldOrado wants the congressional con-
vention, so does Peabody.
There were p cases of small pox in
Wichita, and only two fatal.
Population of Sedgwick county increas-
ed nearly 1900 in the past year.
Hutchinson thinks she has sold 1000
harvesters and mowers this spring.
The Wellington Press has seen some of
the new wheat and pronounces it fine.
Between the LIST and 18th of April
Dodge City only took in $1,000 for license.
Conductor Prince shot and killed
tramp at Syracuse, on the santa Fe, last
Thursday.
Denison's new water mill at Eureka
receives grists from five counties besides
Greenwood.
Marion county has had an average year.
ly growth in population, of 942 for eight
years. Tha2s good.
We understand Prof. CantelI A. Biglie,
of the East, is soon to become connected
with the Wichita Eagle editorialIy.
The cash sales of a firm In Wellington,
the other day, footed up $4O0. So says the
Press. 1t thinks others did as well.
Col. Sellers lives at Kinsley. He has a
mammoth wheat farm, says the Graphic,
and don't take turnips and water now.
Roses of all varieties flourish extremely
we'll In this valley.-WIchita Eagle.
That's the way you account for it, is it 2
Bro. shinn, of the Dodge City Times
has just returned from trip to TT. Eli
oft, Texas, an interesting account OF
which is in his last paper.
Cowley counts on a million and a-hali
Of wheat. We believe it is 1900, O0C
bushG Is, in round numbers. the Esgle
claims for sedgwick county.
| Moirarty, of the &. D. Council Grove
has been elected 9Th Sergeant Of the C.
g. Guards. We don't want him to come
foolin' around here with shoulder straps
on.
Scott. of the Arkansas City Traveller,
will mount his Indian pony and excurt
$50 miles through the Indian territory in
to Texas, instead of ''taking in" Putin
Bay.
This is the poetical way in which tn,
KInsley Graphic puts it: "The Santa F.
road, the great com mercial artery of thu
west, is fringed by a million acres o
golden grain"
$3.50 acres of wheat in Sumner county
A yield of 20 bushels to the acre, and
selling price of 80 cents bushel thi
crop will be worth the magnificent sun
of 81, 1892 200. Poor farmersi
The commissioners of Butler count,
have offered a reward of 5000 for the cap
ture Of the murderer of j. Fl. Paul, thu
making an aggregate sum of $1,075 now
offered for the apprehension Of the perpe
traitor of this bloody deed.-Eureka Her.
aid.
=. The steamboat, "Arkansas Traveller
is doing lucrative busInes. on the rive
below this point. With cargo of flour
for the Pawnce Agency she steamed
handsomely down the stream last week
; Who says the Arkansas river is not naVI-
gable?-OxfOrd indie pendent.
For about four days Wichita resembleC
the average town for deafness. In walk
ing up and down our deserted streets, on
could readily imagine himself in Empo
of the old played out towns of the east.
ern part OF Kansas.-Wlchita Eagle.
Sam. W. Howe, Sheriff of Marion coun
ty, who has been absent for the past tel
days on a secret service mission, returned
last Wednesday from Indiana, with Jo-
seph Hollow, desperate character, VIII
L was convicted of perjury four years ag
/ in this eounty.-Marion County Record.
Topeka Commonwealth: We notice the
i expression, "postoftice organs" used il
regard to papers that support the re-elec
ton of Mr.. Ryan. Some philosopher will
"Congress head" on him ought to settl
. the question, which is the more awful of
tense, to support man because he give
you post office, or to abuse him becans
he don't give you one?
, In the pocket book of the editor Of tn
!, Marion county Record, who was an
J nounced by the Peabody Gazette, as Ma
rion county's candidate for Lieutenan
Governor, was found pack Of car DIS ant
counterfeit $5 bill. The pocket-bool
was found in hay NOW. The editor o
the Record always maintained an excel
lent reputation, till, in an evil moment
he consented to run for Office.
A man named Thomas has been yer,
pious and Jealous as a leader and preach
er in religious meetings, at Wichita, 70
Cwo years, but recently he has had
call to go to Iowa with sheriff to ans
] wer for certain forgeries while his nam
/ was Jones and residence in that state. l
. is stated that he has more wives than tn
, statute contemplates. If this sort Of thin
Is to go on what will become of Wichita
TUE BACHLoR CREEK MURDER.-W
are glad to learn that there is prospec
that the murderer will be caught Ran
l johnson got on his trail and discovered
8 PauPs horses where the murderer ha
traded them in Missouri, They wen
through town yesterday morning, gra
' and q sorrel. The man who had the hor
ses is out with johnson, and says b
y should know the one who traded them
n him. They think there is NO doubt abou
finding him. We are also informed tina
. q large number Of persons have gon
r from Garrett to assist in the search.
sister of Mr.. Paul IL said to reside in Mis-
5 souri, near where the horses W ere traded
l-Eureka Herald.
: Justice seems tardy but sure in Green
wood county. We gave the Particular
last week, of man named Petty bein
found guilty Of murder in the first degre
: in Judge Peyton's court, lately in sesso
n at Eureka, after an escape Of II year
n Another case was tried there last weel
a In which William Brown and ThomS
Craig were found guilty Of murderin
Jacob and William BIedsoe, in 1865,
|, years ago. 1t is said these are the BIe'
. soes who lived awhile in this count
II They came here from Missouri, and wei
Il Reading Township.