The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-07-26
Southwest,
Wichita Is talking up gas again.

Southwest.
Wichita Is talking up gas again. i
Rush county thinks it has 8, Zoo voters.
Two or three cars Of new wheat per day
at Eldorado.
Peters Commercial tourists are get
ting numerous.
Seventy teacher enrolled in the Cowiey
county Institute.
An old tailor died on the streets in
Dodge City the other day. He was mis-
eriy in his habits and some $500 We're
found in his pocket book.
General George B. Mcclellan and Gen.
erai Slocum were in Dodge City last week |
and the Times says they stock IN the me-
tropolis by gaslight in the EVENING"
John B. Holmes lives in Cowley-not
Butler. After harvesting his wheat this |
and planted it to corn. The corn now
stands Is inches high.-Winfield Courier.
There is more crinoline floating around
the streets of Winfield now than in any
ether Kansas town of its size.-Courier.
An old man like you ought not to be
writing such items.
SAAoCS VI OOLlOA COunLNg uau
nine acres of wheat which yielded forty
bushels and six pounds to the acre, if any
dependence can be put in the Eldorado
Times word.
c. f. Boyle was down from Wichita
last Monday. He says there is war among
the elevator men at Wichita, with fire.
arms and threats of shooting. No one
killed yet. Prices Of wheat from p to
'55.-Winfield Courier
81. T. McCarty, one of the prominent
citizens of Dodge City, was shot IN one OF
the saloons Of that place last Saturday,
by a half-wItted man named Limping
Tom. McCarty died within an hour.
It IS little curious to see the Leader,
Sam Woed's paper at Cottonwood Falls,
supporting 'tgold bug'' Anthony for Gov
ernor, while Sam himself is running on
the Greenback ticket in Kansas and Colo
RADIO for Congressman.
There was gathering of the clans over
at Newton, last Monday, at which most
of those who want office were present.
Peters sent a special invitation to all the
boys to be on hand, and let him know
what position they wanted, and If they
worked for him pretty we'll he would see
that they got it. The consequence was
LA1C AtSd SOOQ 10
pay for that day, because all the support
ers want something .-Peabody Gazette.
AS an instance of success we refer our
readers to Mr.. o. Mooney, of Towanda.
He came to Kansas five years ago, and set
tied on farm near the Whitewater. Has
time. He has three daughters but. Nc
| sons. Paid $500 for his farm and has been
| offered $4,000 for it since Has 20 acres
hedged and under pillow. Fifteen hundred
bushels of old corn on hand besides fine
crop of wheat, oats and corn. Has 80 head
| of hogs, cattle, horses and other stock.
His orchard consists OF 400 bearing peach
| trees. Any man who Will work can make
money in Kansas.-Eldorado Times.
A singular story comes from Yelling
| ton, Sumner county. The handsome
wife IF wealthy farmer named Aaron
G. Smith, living near the town, eloped
with 8 German named jacob Adam and
went to Wichita, where they lived to-
gether for some time. A few days ago
she returned to her husband to see her
two children, whom she had left. It was
there arranged that she should return to
her parents in New York, and the hus-
| band having furnished the money to bear
the expense OF the journey, she went to
New York, taking with her the two
children. This incensed Adam, her par
amour, who visited Smith, with a revol.
yer In hand, but the latter succeeded in
planting load of buckshot in Adams
body, and at last accounts he was lying
in critical condition.
| a CENTENARIAN.-In Beaver township.
Cowley county, west side OF the Arkansas
river in the bend, lives John Anderson
| New arter, who is a hundred years old.
| He was born at COWpens, South Carolina,
Sept. 10, 1777. At two years of age he was
carried by his parents to Kentucky in
/ company with Daniel Boone and was
| with Boone some years. At enc time
when Boone and his men were in a fight
| with Indians, young New arter carried
water and waited on the men; lived at
Grab Orchard until IS years old, when he
went to the WIlds OF Tennessee, where he
lived ten years and married, when he
moved to Wayne county, Illinois. He
| was in the LIST Illinois volunteers all
Through the Black Hawk war as First
| Lieutenant, for which he was entitled to
| 50 acres land warrant. He only got 40, so
the government still owes him a forty
| During the Black Hawk war he pursued
/ a lot of Indians to recover two white
girls, Rachel and Sylvia Hall, whom they
had captured, overlook but did not at
tack for fear they would kill the girls.
| Negotiated and bought the girls of the In
dams, paying forty horses. After the
girls were recovered and safe, they again
pursued the IndianS attacked them, kill
ing GO Of them and recovering the forty
| horses. Soon afterwards they captured the
rest OF these Indians at BadaXe Creek, on
the Mississippi, with Black Hawk. After
this war he moved to Boone county, Iowa,
on the frontier, where, like Boone, he
| could avoid civilization. Here he lived
Twenty-Five years, but people got too
thick and he went to DacOtah, where he
lived four years, when he moved to where
he now lives which was two years ago.
He is hearty, gets around a considerable,
/ goes fishing and walks around among
his neighbors. Ae lived with his wife 81
years. She died at the age of eighty. He
lives with his daughter, a widew named
Lusina Corbin. Says his heart has not
/ pulsated SO as to be detected for 6S years.
Had q sickness then and thinks his heart
sunk to some other part Of his body. He
is dependent upon his friends and ought
to have pensiOn.-Winfeld Courier.