The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-21
OVER THE STATE.

"heat crops promising all over ;ae
state
salina is TO have another daily news
paper.
A gas company has been organized at
SalIna.
An Episcopal church has l,een organ
lied al Beloit.
Immigrants arriving at the rate of
1000 per day
DIR. Hogeboom, of Osllaloosa. is to re-
move to Topeka.
Chief Justice Horton has located per
manently in Topeka.
A lodge OF the knights of Honor has
been organized at Manhattan.
A community of free lovers is being
established in SaliLe county.
The Shepherd Touring mill at Fort
Scott has been destroyed by fire.
The gamblers had a row in Topeka
saloon Saturday night. Two fights, but
nobody hurt
Hon. c. :. Aldrich has been appoint
ed chief clerk of the government land
Office at Kirwin.
Joseph w. Entram, aged % years, was
burned to death in prairie fire in Rice
county, the other day.
In single day last week over three
thousand settlers for Kansas passed
through Kansas City.
Five hundred cOlonist's are coming 10
settle on lands along the Central Branch
road in northern Kansas
Rev. Mr.. Moys, the Methodist pastor
at Minneapolis, has been compelled to
resign on account of i'll health.
c. c. Hutchinson, the founder of Hut
Crimson, Reno county, is building Il
town in Macon county, North Carolina
The Central Branch railroad company
now employs twenty five locomotives on
its line of road. Three years ago it only
employed four.
The Leavenworth, Lawrence IL Gal
weston railroad is to be extended west
ward from Independence through Elk
and Cowley counties.
The old fellows are coming 10 the
front" again. Judge l.. ID. BaIly is a
candidate for police Judge in Lawrence
and uncle Chef. Thomas for the same
Office in Topeka.
While man named Ellis Dukes was
talking with the wife Of Il man named
Wheatley, at Cherryvale, Mont gomery
county, on Thursday Of last week, Wheat
ley shot and killed Dukes.
A bigamist at Olathe named Sargent
has been sent to the penitentiary for five
years. He married Miss Ncitie VIII
lOughby, of that place, with whom he
lived only two days. He left former
wife in Michigan.
Willie Cavanaugh, aged 10 years, cid
est son of Hon. Thomas ii. Cavanaugh,
late secretary of state, was killed while
hunting on the farm of his father, IN
Saline county, last Wednesday, by the
accidental discharge of his gun. The
many friends of the parents throughout
the state will sympathize with them in
their distressing affiictiOn.
SERIOUS PLAY-We hear of IL novel
| scrape which occurred recently in Ne
maha county. Some boys who attend
| one of the district schools organized Il
| mock court and tried two of their school
mates for horse stealing. The court
found the prisoners guilty, and they were
sentenced to he hung. 1t would be sup
posed that here the play ended, and in
fact it did, for the two boys were actual
/ W. nntSih.a int rfoY
ing, rescued the boys just in time to save
| their lives. The parents of the injured
youths were naturally very indignant
and procured the arrest of the offenders
They were tried on charge of assault and
battery, and heavy fines asscssed.-Law-
| renee Journal.
The Washington correspondent of the
Atchison Champion says:
Senator Plumb has been appointed
member of the senate committee to in
vestigate all the circumstances attending
| the origin, progress, and results of the
raid made 10y the Northern Cheyennes
| last September. Mr.. KiTkwOod, of Iowa,
is the chairman, and the committee will
visit the locality of the reservation after
the close of the extra session of congress
The amount placed in the sundry civil
bill by the house, for the Topeka build
ing, was $4,000; this was raised to $50
600 in the senate and the conference
committee compromised on $4,000.
The $1,000 appropriation for Mrs. Short
remained in the bill.
Mr.. Strawn, of Strawn, wanted to get
one Phillips out of his (Strawn's) house
Phillips did not propose to vacate.
| Strawn went with twelve fearless citi-
gems to assist Phillips TO git" Phillips
armed himself with a corn cutter and
said clay on old Mr.. Nc" Strawn, or
''any other man." One man rushed INTO
Phillips castle" when the latter COM
menced general slashing of his Uranium
and body, with evident design of max
| ing his flesh mince-meat He then ran
| to Burlington and gave himself up, sup
| posing he had killed the invader Said
invader, it is believed, will recover And
that's all We know about it,
A GOOD BOARD.-The governor has APP
pointed an excellent board of commits
sioners for the erection of the new wing
/ to the state house. j. b. Anderson, ESQ,
Junction City, is an old railroad super
intendent, is q man of wealth and char
acter, and one who will take pride in the
work which has been imposed upon him.
| Col. II. H. Williams, of OsawatOmie, is
number one man in every respect, of cool
head and clear Judgment, well known
| to the people, and always favorably
known. Mr.. Hammond, of Emporia, is
an experienced builder, who is highly
spoken of. With such board as this we
shall expect to see the building erected
in the best manner and strictly within
the appropriation made by the legisla-
ture. We want no New York capitol
job put upon us, and with this board of
commissioners we do not believe there
will be.-Lawrence journal.
Postofflce changes in Kansas during
the week ending March 8, 1879, furnish
ed by VIM. VanVleck of the post-Office
department:
ESTABLISHED.
Alicari, Ness county, Albert F. Smith,
p NJ; Anderson, Pratt county, Mabel
E. Taylor, p M; Lookout, Mcpherson
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