The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-19
KANSAS ErcH1NGs.

-he DGitcinS line.
Large quantities OF corn is being mar
zeted al Usage City.
Montgomery expects To raise 1000 /
acres OF cotton next year. Id
The Leavenworth Press says Senator (
Plumb viii survive Defrees. Is
Three fatal cases of small pox are re
ported as occurring at Fort Scott.
The Masonic fraternity of Augusta
give grand masque ball tonight.
The energetic Kansas Central viii
soon be running trains into Minneapo-
lis. |,
The Knights Templars of Wichita
will hold arc-union and ball on Febru-
airy sth.
All the gentlemen who have ever FILL
ed the gubernatorial chair Of Kansas
are yet living.
The sanitary condition OF Cottonwood
Falls is good, and doctors are growing
lank in purse.
The boom still continues. Two whis-
ky-sellers at lola have been arrested and
fined; 800 each.
A mortgage on the Topeka and Mem
phis railroad for SO 100000 was filed at
Topeka Thursday.
The Parsons Sun says: They most
everlastingly mulct fellows who get
drunk at Emporia."
The Odd Fellows of Alma have pur-
chased lot and contemplate erecting a
hall at an early date.
the law against killing quails, after JAN
nary LIST, is now in force.
The religious editor of the Monitor
says the ice-men Of Fort Scott are ''long-
ing to gather at the river"
Yates Center has not enough corn for
home consumption, several car loads be-
ing shipped there from Kansas City.
| One hundred lawyers and doctors of
Leavenworth- twere arrested last week
for neglecting TO pay the occupation tax.
The Baptist-of Clearwater, kSedgwick
county, propose organizing, and erecting
a church edilce the coming summer.
The Kansas division Of the st. Louis
and San Francisco railroad has been
completed to Haistead, Harvey county.
Fines to the amount OF $3.50 have
been assessed against Parsons whisky
sellers. Only $3.50 has been collected.
Kansas has "a clerks in the Interior
department, that being her, proper pro-
portion under the present apportion-
ment. ..,a. ....,
An engineer corps is now at work sur
veying the line of the Kansas Southern
and Texas road from Mcpherson to Ster-
ling. ...ss
A few days ago Woodson county ed
itor put on the Gloves to show black
smith how to box. The editors 81 1"
got badly ''pied." ==.ss a-ssa
Il The Leader says that quite a number
of Cottonwood Falls people are talking
Of taking inn the conductors ball, in
Emporis, on Washington's birthday.
Kansas beats the rest of the Union for
newspapers, says an exchange. They
are got up there regardless of expense,
Kansas editors being generally wealthy.
A few days ago Junction City boy
was out hunting, and started fire on the
prairie. 1t got away from him. and a
hay famine in that vicinity is imminent.
j Leayenworth expects to increase her
population 5000 during the present year.
We infer from this that there has been
recent boom in the marriage license
business.
Last Saturday Lobert Beterbener, a
young man who lived near Wichita, at
tempted to pull loaded shotgun out of
a wagon, by the muzzle. His funeral
was largely attended.
The following patents have been re-
Gently granted to Kansas men: Mining
knife, NJ. r. Reeves, of Grenola; grain
spout. J. NJ. Henderson,, Atchison;
compound lever, j. and W. Hiatt, indie
pendence.
Down at Douglass the other day
man supposed to be whisky spy, went
into a business place, called for whisky,
and was told they had none. He swore
they had, and that he would have it. He
got it-over both eyes.
The contracts have been let for the ex-
tension of the Vinita branch of the San
Francisco R. R. Mr.. Hobart of Oswego
has the contract for sixty-two miles,
from Vinita to the Arkansas river, and
he wants 500 men and teams.
The Medicine Lodge Index says
Wichita men are religious even under
the most trying circumstances. A dea-'
con recently asked the prayers of the
congregation ''tor the low-lived son of a
pirate VIII ostole my clothes-line.'
"Western soldiers may thank Senator
Plumb for the removal of the pension
Office to Topeka" says the Newton Re
publican "He has been working in
this direction for some time, and gener-
ally accemplishes what he undertakes"
The prehistoric writer of the Salina
Herald has exhumed, at depth Of
eighty-seven feet, in that vicinity, q
wagon load of skulls, bones, skeletons,
kettles, rings, ETC., but closes the article
without mentioning where he got his
whisky.
The case of Mrs. Leonard Smith
against the Santa Fe railroad, asking for
damages for the killing of her husband
last winter, says the Topeka Press, was
allowed to go by default. In considera-
ton thereof the company paid the wild
ow $500.
A Harvey county man explains why
the prOhibitory law was successful in
case in which he was one of the jury
men. He says, ''there were eight ia
natics on the jury, and they stuck to it
till the other four got so Internally dry
they had to give in"
At a church festival in Dodge City the
other night, handsome bible was raf-
fed of for $25. It should have brought
more, but the Dodge people are said to
entertain scruples on the score of intro
ducing into their homes literature of
the merits of which they have no per-
sonal knowledge.
Col. 3. 8. Prouty was presented by the |
citizens of Junction City with an ele
CANT gold watch and chain Tuesday
evening The colonel has been SUN. |
GENTLY faithful to the interests of that |
town to amply merit any token of re-
gard and appreciation which its people |
may extend to him
Mrs. Mary Bergman brought suit
against Hanover saloon-keeper for $10,-
900 damages for selling whisky to her
husband A verdict of $1,000 actual |