The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-05-31
Southwest.
No loafers in Peabody.
EImdale needs sidewalks.

ElmdaIe needs sidewalks.
Water mill at Peabody fixed fact.
More new stone blocks thought of in
Peabody.
The blue ribbon is faded and dirty at
Florence.
Population of Coffey county, $3.50; last
year, 7,179.
The Gazette talks nicely about the
wheat In Butler county.
T. P. Alexander is building business |
house at Florence 25x1OO feet.
ChIneh bugs and rust in Chase county. |
Wheat not much damaged.
The Burlington Patriot only has % col
umns OF advertisements. Poor Brownl
tits supposed that wheat harvest is
progressing in the Arkansas Valley this
week.
Population OF CowIey county, 1880;
number Of frmilies, 1888; dwellings,
2,7sS.
Sam Bennett, Of Elinor, has fourteen
mOnts' old calf that weighs eleven humid
red pounds.
The Winfield Courier takes the sensible
course and tells all it knows about the
small pOx in that city. Nobody is fooled.
We regret to learn that little Victor,
son Of NJ. NJ. Murdoch, of the Eagle. is
down with small pox. We trust he will
rapidly recover.
j. q. Martin, late Of the Cottonwood
Fall Courant, will start new paper at
KiAgman. the county seat OF the new
county named Kingman.
The Courier OF the 23d mentions three
cases of small pox in Winfield up to that
date. One, Mr.. Brooks, had died. Eve
rything was done to stop its spread.
The Beacon says three-fourths Of the
wheat in sedgwick county promises g
good yield, say, from ID to 20 bushels per
acre. The other fourth can be counted
from a half crop to a total failure.
The Wellington Press comes out with
big head lines about the glorious 4th,
and the people of Sumner county will be
at home that day to accommodate. ALI the
| world with an o1d-fashioned celebration.
Atlast accounts there were 81 cases of
small pox in Wichita, but as everything
was being done by the authorities and
citizens, that could be done to check the
spread Of the disease, 1t Is now believed
to be under control.
Borrowed clothes are all right on occa-
sions, and look well. And it's all right,
too, for the little fellow that runs Sam
Woods organ at Cottonwood Falls, the
Leader, to use PPentis' wit second hand
If he has none Of his own.
Augusta sent a delegation of citizens to
visit the Santa Fe directors, and got g
promise to build the road to Augusts
within a year, if Augusta will vote
S2&d0o' in bonds, which the Gazette
thinks will be done. Ia, ia, Benty!
According to the Eagle a fellow Lying
Enear Wichita has some trees which came
from Europe in a tin can. the same kind
the Eagles Junior came over in, and the
limbs put "out from the ground up" II
bears four kinds of berries. ., it's won
derful!
The probability is II the Dodge CITY
Times fellows are small and weakly look
ing, that the 'Sfeeling that Will encompass
them" after we meet, will be one Of gone
ness.-Emporia News.
Don't chaVp yourselves when YOU meet.
| We VIII meet you Gin the wheat by and
by."-Dodge City Times.
What do you think of 1876 and practice
on hea4h lift ? But you haven't got to
keeping your bottle out in the wheat have
your
Sam Wood has a communication in the
last Cottonwood Falls Leader, criticising
a Mr. Bailey of that county. We judge
Bailey has designs on the Office of Repre-
Esentative which is axih Sans constitution,
and he ia kes this means of "twisting' Bal
ley around to make him obnoxious. Sam
can afford to say anything, and among
other things says Senator Ingalls, voted
! for the law to demonetize silver. Sam
may be able to make some folks believe
that but not people who read the papers.
1t is an old gag.
An Individual named Scott. stole 8
horse in Harper county. and took it to FL.
dorado, VIII ere he sold 1t to VIM. Smith
After getting the money he took the train
and went to the neighborhood of Reading
in this county. Mr.. Cory, constable al
EIdorado, was apprised of the theft and
went after him, and captured him last
J Saturday, and he now languishes in the
Il
the theft The young man was to have
! been married last Sunday, and was on {
4 counting trip at the time of his arrest, bu
his blissful intentions were nipped in
the bud.
A case of much intesest was decided in
. the Eureka district court last week. II
1866, George W. Petty killed Rober
{ Clark at his home, on the Verdigris. 4
difficulty existed between them about
Y claim. They were bitter political oppo-
: nents. Clark went into the Union and
n Petty into the rebel army. The lattel
had been heard to threaten the life Of tn,
e former. In the year named he came VI
o with two accompliees, from the 1ndial
, country, and committed the murder
Nearly twelve years have elapsed and b.
. has just been found guilty of murder II
: the first degree, the evidence against hin
- being clear and strong At last justic
has overtaken the cold-blooded murder
q er, and he will spend the remainder of hi
d days in the Kansas penitentlary. Boil
men were well known and remembered
1t and the court house AZ Eureka was con
is stantly crowded during the progress o
er the trial. Hon. w. A. johnson, OF Garnett
and Col. Rizer, Of the Eureka Herald
Is county attorney OF Greenwood, conduct
:, ed the prosecution, and T. L. Davis de
: tended.
We append, from the Herald the fol
" lowing interesting account Of the lon
a. search for Petty, and his finsl capture:
N It may also be remarked that there wa
at never, so far as heard of, any attempt {
deny that Petty killed Clark, till after b
was arrested. After the killing no tfae
10 of Petty could be found. Judge KEYS, a
We old friend of Clark, offered = reward q
ne $500 for the capture. Fred Wilson, earl
N In the year 1867, went to Missouri ii
search Of the fugitive. and heard Of hin
. in Jasper county Of that state. Petty
u friends gave him warning aud he fe
as from that region. Wilson continuing hi
OF search heard Of Petty once in Arkansas
Y, in 1858. He traced him from that stat
into the Indian Territory. No clue couI,
be obtained after this, and Wilson wa
VI compelled to abandon the search. A yea
~ or more after Petty was las. heard Of i
re Arkansas 8 Fumor was set afloat in thu
at county to the effect that he was dead.
Id Nothing further was heard Of him IN
til 1872. In that year William Braze
went to Texas after heard Of cattle, an,