The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-23
SOUTHWEST.
Eldorado wants an opera house.
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EldoradO wants an opera house.
Winfield is having union meetings
Toledo is enjoying protracted meet
ing.
The NJ. f. church at Cottonwood Falls
is holding revival meetings.
And now Eldorado is talking about
water works for her man street.
The Times says Eldorado Is TO have a
Democratic paper within sixty days.
Col j. C. Nye, of Eureka, writes us
under date of of the 14th, that the engin-
eers are at work on the GOuld-Garri-
son road this SIDE of Leroy, making the
final location Of the line.-EldQrado
Times.
The Congregational church is crowded
nightly to hear the debate on the Bible,
between Mr.. Phelps, of Kansas City, and
Rev. John Taylor, of this city. The de-
bate will continue every evening Except
Sunday till the 19th.-Cottonwood Falls
Leader,
Some of the townships of Reno county
are to vote bonds to get the Kansas Pa
cific branch railroad now running
to Mcpherson, down to Hutchinson. The
distance is thirty miles and the X. p.
company propose to extend to Hutchin-
son for $S5,OOO.
The petitions for Walnut and Doug
lass townships have all been signed up
and the propositions will be submitted
by the county board TO a vote of the
townships this week. If they carry it is
expected hat the road from Augusta to
douglass will be built this summer, with
depot in Walnut township.-Eldorado
Times.
Brother Stewart wants to use our sane
tum on Sunday mornings for a Bible
class and prayer meeting. We are go
ing to speak TO our wife about it, and if
she consents he can have it.-Eldorado
Times.
He believes in getting right in among
the sinners-oJ, in other words, in ''beard-
ing the lion in his den"
TWENTY FARMs.-Mr. C. w. c. Mum
sci, of Bloomington, Illinois, the gentle
man who recently bought the Chittenden
farm on Duratchen'and Satchell creek,
and who is the owner of large body of
land between Duratchen and Satchell
creeks, is letting the contracts for twenty
farm houses to be built on his lands at
once, to be occupied by families COM
ing out from Illinois this spring. North
ern Butler is filling up rapidly.-Eldo-
RADIO Times.
On Tuesday afternoon of last week
Sheriff johnson arrested one James Mes
senger, at Cottonwood, on suspicion of
having escaped from the Missouri peni-
Tertiary, at Jefferson City, and telegraph
ed that fact at once TO the prison au-
thorities After holding the man until
10 O'Clock the next morning, upto which
time he had received no answer, and
having the man Webster to look after,
referred to elsewhere, he released Mes
senger and started for Kansas City.
During his absence a dispatch was re-
ceived from Jefferson City verifying the
| sheriffs suspicious, but the bird had
! flown-COttonwood Falls Leader.
Mr.. A. B. Webster, a former resident
of this county, but lately of Missouri,
| was brought to this place last Sunday
morning by VIM. Norton, charged with
horse stealing. Webster was admitted
to bail on Tuesday to appear for prelim-
| mary examination on Saturday. Sheriff
Johnson arrived on Monday night with
Webster's stock, consisting of several
fine horses, among them thoroughbred
stallion. He also brought with him, as
| an accomplice of Webster's, one VIM.
Duncan, of Carbondale, but after thor
Ough examination he was set at liberty,
there being no evidence whatever against
im.-CottonwoodF Falls Leader.