The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-05-17
erate News.
Small pOx at Granville.


Small pOx at Granville.
Linn county Is saloonless.
Topeka still has the scarlet fever.
Not licensed saloon in Crawford
county.
The recent census gives Humboldt
a population of 400.
Schuyler Colfax m ade an able tenn
perance speech at Olathe.
Diptheria is raging fatally among
little children at Concordia.
Topeka district court ground out
five new lawyers Saturday.
Judge Perkins has named his twins
Moody and Sankey.
Douglas county has a soldier of the
war of 1912, aged 90 years.
Two Dunkard churches are being
erected in Douglas county.
A catfish weighing 16O pounds was
recently caught in Douglas county.
Kansas City has seventeen lodges of
Knights Of Pythias and q membership
of 552.
The State Greenback Convention is
to be held at Emporia, not at Topeka,
July Sd.
The herd of cattle of the late George
Grant will be sold in a short time by
the executors.
Colonel George w. Veale, of Tope-
ka, has been thrown into bankruptcy
by his creditors.
Neosho county sent seven prisoners
to the penitentiary at the last session
of its district court.
William Martindale's mill at Bur-
Iingtoa has ground 10000 bushels OF
wheat since last November.
Ex-senator Pomeroy has been aG-
mitted to the tar at Atchison. He
will make good lawyer.
We understand from a reliable
source that George A. Crawford don't
want to be Governor.
Alb cars OF coal. zinc ore, corn, cat
tie, etc., shipped from Girard in April,
Colfax had good audiences at Olathe
Burlington and Ottawa last week.
Olathe folks insist on letting the
useful cow grange on the blue grass
of the pnblic square.
Mr.. James Wickersham, nine miles
southeast of Salina, killed nine wolves
last Saturday.
Seven hundred dollars have been
subscribed for the erection of church
on Mill creek, Riley county.
The Salina opera house was dedicat
en- on Monday evening, 10Th ult. Tn,
auditorium has 500 arm chairs.
Two hundred and forty-one ca
loads of freight were shipped from
Concordia during the month of April
It is rumored that Van Bennett viii
; leave Cherokee county and engage il
the prac tice of his profession at hi
former home in Iowa. Consent.
Morris county will soon vote on
: proposition to issue So, 900 in bonds 70
the erection of bridges across the Neo
, sho at Council Grove and ParkervillC
Henry Brems, of Salina, attempte
: to pull toward him a loaded gun, muZ
zle foremost. The coroner's jury at
tached the blame for his death to hi
stupid carlessness.
Judge Beal, of Pottawatomie county
sheared 1917 pounds of wool from on
: sheep this spring; from one lamb
pounds IA ounces, and the aVerag
lambs fleece weighed 81 pounds.
: Twelve hundred snakes were kilIe
, In q snake den on the farm Of WilliaI
Adair, in Cloud county, last Sunday
Fifteen hundred were previously kill
ed at the same place since last winter
1t seems hard that, in order to max
point on the Governor, it should b
necessary to charge all the other Stat
: officers with .idiOcy.-COmmOnwealtl
Such things will happen, you know
: when there is war.
. The Central Branch company ar
now paying their section men $1.2
. per day instead of S1.I5, the pric
heretofore paid, and also the price pal
for all Kansas railroads.
The Kansas Farmer notes as instanc
of energetic weights of steers in Kan
sas, four head Of cattle said there late
? ly which brought $235, their aVerag
/, weight being $50 pounds.
At the solicitation of Col. w. A
Phillips, Mr.. Mason D. Sampson, edi
] tor of the Saline County, KS, Journa
: was recently appointed Commissions
: to the Paris Exposition, vice F. I
J Baker, fraudulated into Alfred Gray
{ place.
. Near Columbus, on the 4th, Allel
e Smith sheE and killed Ira Hyde, an
s then took to the woods, holly pursued
g Smith owns the farm which Hyd
q tenanted, and shot Hyde because th
latter tore down pig pen. Hyde wa
\ a good man, and leaves a wife and ST
:, children. Smith is q widOwer, and ha
four children, and is said to be a YER
vindiclive and high tempered man.
The Kaw Land Commission has de
termined to report no persons as set
tiers unless some improvements ar
found upon at least one of the legs
subdivisions claimed in each case
Statements of claims and improve
ments will be received at the Office &
7 the Commission in Council Grove
until Saturday, May 18th, 1873, in
elusive. By order Of Commission.
JOHN w. BELL, Sec'y.
May 10th. 1873.
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