The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-08
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We are anxious to hear Prentis' YER
diet on the editor of the Peabody Ga
zette. We will promise in advance
TO say nothing about it.
Tie Rackensack Traveller Gays that
two-thirds of the Kansas editors are
inffdeIs..
The editor of the Peabody Gazette
says the first day of February was a
solemn truth." We suppose the fell
lows who had bills agsiRsthim thought
it an awful solemn day.
The Butler county man who suicid-
ed near Emporia, on the 18th inst, |
was james A. Beckon, who formerly /
lived in Hickory township. He piac- |
ed the muzzie of shot gun TO his eye, |
pulled the trigger with his toes, scat
tered his brains around promiscuousiy. |
His mother and sister reside in this |
county.-Augusta Gazette.
TneEldoradoTimes thinks fifty build |
in&s Will be commenced in that city
soon as The weather settles.
The Merhodist's of Hutchinson aIe
having "big meetin.'"
We will take about a thousand bush
els of corn on accounts due, allowing
the market price therefor. Arkansas
City Traveller.
Wen bet you "four bits'' you don't.
The Arkansas city bank has moved
to Winfield.
Mr.. ireland, representing the house
| of A. A. Baker q Co., OF Emporia,
made one of his periodical visits to
EureKa last week. We are glad to see
Mr.. Ireland, but we regret that Colon
Ell Benefits duties elsewhere keep his
benign countenanee from our midst
Eureka Herald.
Population of Winfield 1911.
And now the Winfield Courier sets
its local solid. We don't like 'em that
way.
Bro. Niekerson of tha Santa Fe gave
800 to the. new Babtist church of
Newton. 1t was dedicated last Sunday
week. OK .a..r ...s .4a
Two Of the gang who. attempted to
rob the A, T. s. S. F. express train at
Kinsley, have been captured, as the
following telegram shows: e ga
DODGE CITY KAN, Feb. IA spec
ial train in charge of j. Fl. Phillips,
conveyed the captured express rob bers
to Kinsley, for a preliminary trial.
West and Rendsbaugh were fully iden-
titled by the operator (Kinkaidj and
two others but waived examination
and were held in four thousand dollars
bail each. Tilgham, who was arrested
TO day, was also held in a like amount.
On motion of the State his examina-
ton is set for February II. H. E
dryden, of Dodge City, appeared for
the Edams express company and coun-
a ty attorney Macarthur for the State
!, No one appeared for the defendants
There is much excitement in Dodge
: City and Kinsley- The capture o.
q three more of the robbers is regarded
as certain.
Harvey county is grangeless.
Every body getting religious a
Wichita.
n Coal has been discovered on Bucl
creek, twenty five miles north of Dodg
City.
# A company has been organized a
t Kinsley to prospect for coal in Ed
wards county.
Tim McCarty has been appointe'
{ postmaster at Larned in the piece O
o DIR. Thompson, of the Press.
r. NJ. Watson, late of the Chas
i County Leader, has gone into the liv
n cry business at Cottonwood Falls.
n One hundred and twenty five build
ings have been erected in Kinsley, Ed
}, wards county, within the past si1
q months.
: The old camp pot that Daniel Boon
n of Kentucky, used to cook his grub in
: has been heard of in Madison, Green
:, wood county.
A woman from Wichita name,
f Brown left her baby ON a door step il
8 Kansas City, last week, for which sh
Il was arrested and made to take bacl
n the infant.
A man in Chase county, who los
e two children and all his Household
s goods by freshet last summer, hs
recently had his stable and all hi
= grain destroyed by lightning.