The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
OVER THE STATE.

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Sixty-five men. are at work for one
firm in the Cottonwood stone quarries.
Cottonwood Falls cast rs votes at
the recent election and chose ]. P. Kuhl
for mayor.
The Wichita Eagle expects to see the
Arkansas SO high that it will overflow
this spring.
The newspapers of Kansas are already
figuring on the money value of the
spring showers.
Bill Grifflnstein asks another tug at
the mayorship of Wichita. The Demo
Gratis got away with the town.
Winfield bank stock is booming. 1t
declared its fourth semi-annual dividend
of ten per cent on the first instant.
Capt. Carey was knocked down and
robbed In Wichita on Monday evening
last, within few feet of his own door.
The last Cottonwood Falls Leader
/ wades into the trio of gents who edit
the State Journal in style that is anus
ing.
1t is Il fact, no longer tieniable, that quite a
per cent. OF the wheat leids show a damaged
condition. There are some fields in which u
full third OF the stools are dead.-Wichita
Eagle.
Sedgwick county beat the proposition
to vote bonds for the enlargement of her
county buildings. The Eagle thinks
this was mistake.
The editors up in Smith county, whose
doors furnish eligible points of observa.
ton, report that section of Kansas as be-
ing ravaged by wolves.
The water facilities of Wichita are to
be utilized in the enforcement of the
prOhibitory amendment, and by the cree
ton of large Touring mill.
Numerous burglaries in and around
Parsons have made the editors and
preachers of that town so nervous that
they go to bed with their clothes on.
Clay Center claims to be the Queen of
! the Republican Valley. We have al
ways held that Writ Walton would some
day succeed in impressing his modest
individuality upon that town.
A street railway company has been Or
ganized in Topeka, the incorporatorS of
which are about TO commit the grave
error of running the line lengthwise in
stead of across, Kansas avenue.
AS spring has advanced. it has develo ped
the fact that there has been , large loss In
the wheat crop, by freezing. 1t is In spots,
| Ne oil fIaa ~ On
side of the road the field will be in q fine con-
dition, and on the other the wheat is frozen
out.-Newton Kansan.
L. ]. Perry, of the Republican, did not
get quite votes enough to elect him may
or of Paola. He would have made a
number one mayor. He had been on
the city council for year, and succeeded
in making enemies enough to beat him
for mayor.
Everybody will be glad to see tina;
that "old rookery" the Tefft house
widely known as the Taffy house, at To.
peka-has been sold. One of the Sells
Bros, of circus fame, is the purchaser,
and he proposes to thoroughly remodel
the building.
Major Miles, agent of the Usage and
Kaw Indians, has been authorized by
the government to invest the surplus
funds of those two tribes in cattle. He
will purchase from two to four thous
and head. 1t is claimed these tribes OF
red men will succeed better as cattle
raisers than they will as agriculturists
Probably.
THE News is not an advocate OF
arbitrary laws, but it believes that be
fore the plan of prohibition can be thor
oughly tested in Kansas, it will be
necessary to pass another amendment tc
the constitution, regulating the pre-
vailing methods of architecture, and for
bidding the construction or use of bust
ness rooms with back doors.
The old Tefft House at Topeka has
been purchashed by A. d. Sells, one of
the Sells Brothers, showmen, for SEQ, 900
Persons who are familiar with the true
/ inwaIdness of that institution during 6
political picnic at the state capital, will
readily admit the propriety of vesting it:
management in a person who is thor
oughly versed in the methods of running
a f1rst-class circus.
! The county commissioners of MAN
county have awarded the county adver
Using to the Miami Republican because
it has the largest circulation. This i:
undoubtedly sound, and is just the poin
on which a majority of the commission
ers in this county decided the matter. I
will now be in order for the other paper
! to call the commissioners of Miami coun
ty thieves and robbers. One of the pa
pers that bid on the printing here, ant
, raised howl because it was given t.
, THE NEWS, is already dead for want O
, support Our commissioners would hav
made 'big strike" had they awarde'
Z the printing to that paper.