The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-29
Southwest

SOUaAWesGa
Peabody has become q city of the
third class.
The coal shaft near Wichita has got |
down s92 feet.
Stalks of winter wheat so inches |
high are reported in Sumner county.
Oxford wants another tug at the
county seat question for Sumner
county.
VIM. Grafenstine, the father of
Wichita, is now a candidate for mayor
of that city.
The wheat in southwestern Kansas
stands from fifteen to seventeen inches
high and of luxuriant and thrifty
growth.
Some Sumner county farmers pro-
pose to protect their peach blossoms in
case of a threatened frost, by keeping
fires of straw about their orchards.
An Episcopal church is being estab-
lished in Wichita. The Bishop admin
istered the sacrament to % persons
there the 10th, ana confirmed five
others.
B. NJ. Terrill, liveryman of Winfield,
won $500 on the 18th, by driving his
best team from that city to Eldorado,
A miles, In IL hours. The team was
not distressed, and trotted home next
day.
Wichita pays her city officers per
year as follows: Mayor, $3.50: Council
men each, $50: Clerk, $3.50; City At
torney, 1920; Police Judge, $500 ;
Marshal, 100; three policemen each,
$72O; street commissioner, 81 per day i.
Through the efforts of Mr.. o. P.
Houghton, the white girl with Pawnee
Pete will be taken charge of. Commits
sioner Hayte has instructed Agent
Soaring to see that she is cared for. It
will be an exception to the rule If she
would remain with the whites, as most
children when once accustomed to In
dian life seldom leave it for the ways
of the whites. The Indians have al
ready impressed her with the idea that
the whites are her enemies, and she
avoids all conversation with them, oft
en- breaking in sobs and tears when
urged to tell her history.-TraVeler.
Augusta Gazette: On Sunday
morning two children of Martin
Flanagan, who lives in Bruno town
ship, were playing in a hay-covered
granary. A neighbor had set oac a
fire, which got away from him and
threatened Flannigan's place, who set
out a back fire. and before he was
aware of it this latter had set his
granary on fire. The mother FASTENED
to rescue her children, and saved the
oldest, aged five, without serious in
jury but the younger one, aged three,
was far from the entrance, with the
flames intervening between mother
and child, thus rendering its rescue
impossible. Its little body was burn
ed to crisp.
Mr.. Fuller, engineer of the Kansas
City. Emporia & Southern railroad,
came down last Thursday, and on FRI
day morning met the commissioners in
session. The bonds of the county,
amounting to 100000, and the stock
of the company to an equal amount,
were enclosed in one package and ad-
dressed to Donnell, Lawson 6 Co., the
Fiscal agents in New York, to be held
by them in escrow until the roa is
completed in sections of ten miles. The
bonds are invalid unless the road is
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ed as the length of the road will JUST
fly. If but one line is built through
the county $4,000 or $50, 900 of these
bonds will never be issued.-Eureks
Herald.
Messrs. Frank and Mark Oliver, OF
, this city, we're interviewed by q coup
lie of road agents last Saturday evening
the 23d, between here and EldOrado
and robbed of their money and watch
: es at the muzzle of two six inch navy
= revolvers. The above named gentle
men spent the day in Eidorado in the
transaction of some business for the
firm OF A. w. Oliver and Co.. When
some seven miles this side of town, 10
the early evening, on their return
] home, they were oYertaken by two
men on horseback who passed them
and then fell back one upon either side
of their victims, pulling at the same
} time a couple of REVIEWERS and demand
! ing their money. The boys protested
that the assulting parties had made
NO, we know who you are and whai
: we are about. We have watched yoE
ali day, and followed you into the bant
at Eldorado.' Frank and Mark there
upon told their new found friends Il
make their own search. The princi
pal portion OF the money was il
Franks watch fob pocket and was not
= discovered, the greatest loss beinE
their watches. The highwaymen werC
going to cut the boys team loose, bu
told them that If they would agree tx
! drive on and not turn back they would
, forbear. The scoundrels threatened &
sheet if the boys deceived them as Il
: the amount on their persons, when
they were told that they lacked thu
I sand. The moon was shining veFS
bright and the boys think that they
would have no trouble in recognizing
], the scoundrels. Coming on some twC
] miles into Towanda, where they relst
ed the circumstances, . man presen
9 described the party to T, and said b.
/. knew them. The robbers went bach
in the direction of Eldorado, which
must be q nice place, with its bob-taI
road, blind editor, and road agents
q We would like to live in suclI town
We did not learn whether any effort
, were being made to bring the robber
D to their just deserts or not.-WichltI
q Eagle.
l Capt. ]. N. Allen, formerly U.
| pension agent at Topeka is president O.