The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03
OVER THE STATE.

OVER THE STATE.
Trade is good at Arkansas City.
Larned is the boss broom corn market.
Coal thieves are doing we'll at Parsons.
Theodore Triton is to lecture at Law
renee.
East Atchison saloons arc now closed
on Sunday.
The thieves did well at the Fort Scott
fair last week.
Cowlsy county has in her treasury a
cash balance of $4,000.
Liveried coachman at Topeka o myl
Amt we getting along?
Apple, peach and pear trees are blos-
soming all over the state.
j. E. Davis, of Sterling, is going 10
start bank at Nickerson.
1t is stated that John Speer is again
editing the Lawrence Tribune. He's
good 'un, is John.
The st. Louis and San Francisco CON-
pany are talking of building a road from
Augusta to Newton.
Parsons has 1,04S registered voters
and the best part of it is that most all of
them are Republicans.
Ex-Governor Corney, of Kansas, one
of the best executives the state ever had,
is now in the Gunnison country, in Col
| orado.
The Kansas Central railroad (narrow
guage) is laying track at the rate of a
mile day, and will reach Clay Centre
next week.
Governor George A. Crawford, of Kan
sas, is runnin g coal mine in the Gun
nison country We rather expect this
pays better than lecturing on kansas at
the centennial"
The new N. E. church in Madison
will be dedicated Sunday, November
9th. DR.. Cowles, of Topeka, Elder Rice,
of Emporia, and Rev. C. w. Gullctt, of
Eureka, will be present.
Augusta Gazette: Work is progressing
on the railroad from Sedgwick to Hal
stead. The distance is eight miles.
When completed trains will run through
from st. Louis to Halstead.
A young man at Ottawa nearly raised
the roof off the hotel where he boards on
finding d. B. opposite his name, but
quoted down and set 'em up when he
learned that it meant day boarder.
Sheriff Jabe johnson, of Chase coun-
| ty, captured Connacher, who has twice
broken Jail at Cottonwood Falls, at Las
Animas, last week, and has him in Gus
tody again. Connacher seems to be q
slick one.
Usage City Press: Scranton is won
der. 1t is getting away, in many re-
spects, with any town in the county. We
were there for a few hours Monday and
the evidences of prosperity on every
hand were overwhelming.
Pawnee county has peoples" tick
ct and the Larned Chronoscope says of
it: The peoples" ticket has candi-
date at the head who says, "There is no
God" and one at the tail says, "By Cd,
I'll run if don't get four votes"
The Bourbon county fair appears to
have been q grand success. 1t rained
one or two days, the grand stand fell,
and the exposition in all of its features
seems to have more than realized the
hopes of the most sanguine friends of
the enterprise.
Col. Prouty has hidden adieu TO the
patrons of the Junction City Union, and
mex: weeks issue will be by the owner
and former editor, George w. Martin,
who has been eight years state printer.
The paper will appear in u new dress,
and will be edited with the we'll known
| ability and vim of Mr.. Martin. We
hope Col. Prouty will not long remain
out of the newspaper business.
Council Grove Republican: A full
corps of engineers on the Leavenworth,
Topeka, Salina and Western railroad
made their appearance in town on Wed
nesday and began the work of the per-
manent survey, preparing the line for
the letting of sub-contracts. Their or
uoIS are W pEOCCCN ob OuCS aAA AOSoVC
the line permanently and definitely,
from here to Salina. Work is now pro-
crossing rapidly and satisfactorily on
the eastern division between Leaven-
worth and Topeka, and we may fairly
anticipate that work will begin here at
an early day.
Larned Chronoscope: The crop of
1881 in this county will be long remem-
bered. Several farmers have realized
net profit of over $40 per acre on broom
corn and wheat. Money is plenty and
the people contented. 1t is common TO
meet men who have just sold their crop
and have $500 to $1,000 cash ahead.
Cattle and sheep men are also happy.
They have raised or purchased their win
ter feed and their stock enters the win
ter in good condition, better than any
previous season. A large area of win
ter sown and the prospect is A. No. 1.
Over three hunnred thousand dollars
have been paid out by the banks in this
city, this season, for the wool, wheat and
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