The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-13
SOUTHWEST.
No empty houses in Arkansas {

No empty houses in Arkansas City.
Saturdays weeks snow reached Ar
kan sas City in the night
Twenty-Five car loads of bones ship
ped from Kinsley in ten days.
Mrs. C. A. Garlick and daughters, of
Ceder Point, went to EmporIa, last Mon
day, where the children will attend
schOOl.-Chase County Leader.
The Kingman Mercury says: Choice
two-year-old cottonwood trees were sold
on our streets last Fridry at $1.25 per
thousand.
Harvey equity is circulating petitions
asking the Legislature to pass law regu-
lating the rates of freight and passenger
traffic over the several railroads in the
state.
About two hundred persons are inquir-
ing of the delivery clerk every week
what has become of Walter II. Shupe's
Greenback Advocate?" This is a con-
undrum that the late elections fully an
swer.-Wichita Eagle.
Sedgwick county is to vote whether or
not she will sell her stock in the Wlchi-
ia branch of the Santa Fe road, on the
10TH She has had an offer of so cents
on the dollar. The proposition to sell
will probably carry.
There Is an interesting sequel to the
mail robbery mentioned last week, and
the arrest made by John NJ. Crowell. 1t
appears that the mail that was robbed
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turns from Anthony, in which there was
d county-seat contest.-Wichita Eagle.
A few of our people interested in mu-
SIC, attended the Kansas central musical
convention, at Emporia, last week. Per-
sons were present from various parts OF
the state and Of course many fine singers
and excellent voices were gathered to-
| gether. The honor of furnishing the
purest toned soprano voice fell to the
lot of Eureka in the person of Mrs. T.
l.. Davis. Without qualification the
qualities of her voice were recognized
by all of the best judges as being superb
or to that of any other who appeared at
the convention. 1t was remarked by
one gentleman who had heard all the
most noted singers for the last fifteen
years, that he had never listened to q
better quality of tone. This was the first
occasion on which Mrs. Davis had ever
consented TO go away from home to sing
and consequently her merits were
known to but few persons in Kansas
We confess to feeling of local pride in
having our little town posses the prima
donna of the state.-Eureka Herald.
THE WORLD TAKE Without
doubt Wichita made the largest ship
ment of wheat from first hands last
month ever made by any wheat market
in the United States, exceeding the best
effort ever made by herself twenty seven
cars, making round total, in the twenty
six buying days, of one thousand and
twenty-five cars, or four hundred and
thirty thousand and five hundred bush
els of wheat, representing a cash value
to the sellers of about quarter of a
million dollars. To remove this vast bulk
required forty cars per day of four hun
dred and twenty bushels each. The Eagle
was criticised last May and June when
it held that three million bushels OF
wheat would be shipped from this city
from July '78 to July 10. In the three
months ending November 80, there were
run out 1898 cars of wheat, representing
at least one million two hundred and
thirty three thousand nine hundred and
sixty bushels in the grain, to say nothing
of the product in flour of twenty mills
within the territory from which this
wheat comes.-Wichita Eagle.