The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-05-06

in the southeast hare taken to chewing
tobacco. We always thought the efforts
of Representative MiIlington, of Craw-
ford county, in behalf of female suffrage,
during the late session of the legislature,
would come home TO roost.
Junction City's new opera house, now
in course OF erection, will seat 1000
people. The stage will be large enough
for the appearance thereon of the largest
operatic and dramatic companies in the
country.
DR. Bancroft, travelling man for Ride
nour & Baker, Kansas City, whose cir
cult is from Wamego to Salina and the
the wheat prospect in his district is "the
| best in the world" as he expresses it.
OF every one hundred acres of wheat not
to exceed two acres will be failure
Junction City Union.
Mr. Blair Lord has presented TO the
Kansas Historical Society, the pen with
which, as stenographer of the congress
ional committee in 1856, he took down
the testimony upon which the commit
tee based its report upon the condition
of affairs in Kansas, and did so much 10
make il free state.
Hon. A. Brown, of johnson county,
informs us that the A. T. s. S. F. Co. are
building a double track from Kansas City
to Olathe, TO connect their branch from
that point to Ottawa. 1t looks as though
the road from Ottawa TO Emporia, via
the Marias des CYgnes will be built this
summer and perhaps double track
Usage County Chronicle.
Saturday we talked to over fifty men
from all over the county about their
wheat We found only one man who
suffered any. There never was such an
enthusiasm in this county over the crop
and fruit prospects. The farmers are
putting in thousands of acres of corn.
The rain Sunday will bring Il right out.
Taking it all together we do BOOM
Hutchinson News. -E
The attention q Cot Dan. r An
thony is called to The aiaHning fact that
chinch bugs are -beginning to menace
the Kansas wheat crop. If those pestif-
erous insects are permitted 70 accom-
plish their lncendiary purposes, ii is
foregone conclusion that President Gar
field viii never bounce LIE Due to make
room for a LeavenWorth editor at the
head Of the department of agriculture.
Usage CITY Free Press: There will be
a grand temperance May party at Seran-
ton, May 7th, under charge of the legal
temperance association aud the Sunday
school. Governor ST. John, Amanda
Way, Hon. s. Bradford and Hon. A. B.
Jetmore, with other speakers will be
present. G. w. Arbuckle, the organist
and singer, with band, and other sing
ers, will be present. Reduced rates will
be given between Topeka and Emporia.
Exercises begin at 10 O'Clock. Every
body invited.
The wife and daughter of Nelson, the
scoundrel who ran off with the bank de-
posits at Usage Mission Il few days ago,
are now in Fort Scott in reduced circum-
stances. 1t is said that many people of
Usage Mission treated them in very
rude manner, as if they were responsible
for the rascality of the husband and
father. Mrs. N. actually gave up to the
men who searched their house for valu-
ables. the furniture she owned, her pi-
ano, bedding, and a sum of money found
after Nelson had gone and which he Sc
GREETED in the house, hoping his wife
would discover and keep it for her own
use. She said that if she was only al
lowed her sewing machine she and her
daughter could make an honest living
by taking in sewing. This sort of spirit
has made her many warm friends in Fl.
Scott and among the better classes of
Usage Mission.