The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-05

joice the pedestrian at Marysville.
There are fifty-eight more girls than
boys in the public schools at Topeka.
| Wilson shipped 100000 pounds of
wheat during the month of November.
Coal thirty inches thick at depth of
sixty feet is the luck of Independence.
The value of the products of Kansas
IS thirty per cent. greater this year than
| last.
Yes. that Ia so; Kansas for climate,
and Missouri for liara-Fort Scott Mon.
| itOF.
The number of sheep in Kansas is
SO6,323, an increase Of 319, 1871 over last
year.
The number of sheep in Kansas is
500, 1898, an increase of 379, 1881 over last
year.
Contracts have been made for $780,
600 brick, to lay in Girard this coming
| season.
The Methodist church at Winfield has
received fifty-eight new members re,
Gently.
The packing houses in Kansas City,
Kansas, Kill about 1000 hogs daily at
present.
AT Oswego they have ginned about
SS1SSAA1
$50 acres.
For good climate and liars, Missouri
and Kansas are Observation-Disclosures
City Times.
lkinSleS is to have a new eating house
$50 feet long by so feet deep, and two
stories high.
and four baggage cars have Just been
built in Topeka.
Topska's new water works will furn-
ish 100000 gallons of water every
twenty-four hours.
After the first of January prairie
chickens and quails cannot be legally
killed until next fall.
The wool clip for Kansas for next sea-
son has been estimated by well informed
parties at 10000, 900 pounds.
A Wilson county farmer last week
cold 12a hogs that averaged 35T pounds.
The price was $3.50 per cwt.
Gen. Sherman praises the condition of
fhe school at Fort LeayenW5rth, Kas.,
land its management vssR highly.
Between S14,O00 and ,is,0 zoo is paved
.kthae smPloyes ofsthe ssaalte=s ana Z y
kshafss and smeiseEs 81 New PittsbgSe
nper month. -.
J. r. WiRchip, cashier OF the RiIey
county bank, at Manhattan, Kzs., COM
nIitted suicide. His business affairs are
reported all straight
On the south side of the Arkansas
river, four miles west of Dodge, sovea-
teen bushels of potatoes were raised
from one peck of seed.
There are PAS locomotives employed
on the Santa RE road, and hundred ad-
ditiOnal ones have been ordered to be
delivered during the coming year.
At Fort Leayenworth there is one 81,
pOAnder CohOrn mortar which is an
English trophy captured by United
States troops during the war of 1912.
The estimated number of car.l0a Is of
stone for the central capital building is
10000. and of these $500 carloads go
into the foundation. The two wings
are up.
Daniel Woodson, appointed secretary
of Kansas territory by President Pierce,
and acting as governoV during the
stoEmy peTioda Of 1854 and 1855, IL a
resident of Coffeyville,.
An engine and Pullman, last Salur-
day, made fifty miles an hour between
Ellis and Wallace, and the distance be-
tween Ellis and Ogallah, ten miles, was
made in exactly ten minutes.
Medicine Lodge Crescent: Captain N.
b. BlantOn has sold enough turnips this
year to purchase the material for fencing
one hundred and ten acres. Pretty
good for one turnip patch:
Not satisfied with two and onc-half
feet of coal, the Leavenworth Coal COM
pany have sunk a shaft 800 feet below
where they have been working, and
struck vein seven feet Tia lex.
The Central Branch road will run reg
ular trains to Lenora, Norton county, on
the 10Th of January. Lenora is 295
miles west of Atchison, and 25 miles
west of the present terminus of the road.
Rawlins county takes the lead ON
ON wool. Richard J. Stephenson, OF At
wood, has lock of CotsWold that meas
ures eighteen inches In length, and it is
stated by Mr.. Stephenson to be of only
five months growth, aRd from q lamb
at that.
Seven hundred men are at work in
AtchisOn county on the Omaha extension
of the Missouri Pacific. Track laying
has begun, and il Is expected that the
new line will be completed to Hiawatha
by March.
Arkansas City. ccowley county. ha.
/, river into her canal The fall is twenty
one feet to the mile, and furnishes al
most illimitabie power for manufactur-
! ing purposes.
At the annual meeting of the State
Grange at Topeka the other day, the fol
lowing resolution was offered and passed
unanimously by a rising vote.
ResOlued, That the constitutional pro
hiblton of the sale of intoxicating liquors
meets our unqualified approval, and
Gov. ST. John in his efforts TO enforce
!. it shall have our united support.
0 County Attorney Willsie has institu
/ ted libel proceedings against W. II
Allison, of the Wellingtonian, who, il
an editorial which appeared in that pa
per last week severely censured WillsiG
for dereliction Of duty in not enforcing
= the prohibitory Law. We are pleased e
: note this evidence of enterprise anG
= prosperity on the part Of our plucky
: contemporary.
o LeaEenwosth Times correspondent
2 from Wyandottei There is q mar
. named Taylor who is trying to max,
\ his fortune out Of Irish potatoes, and b.
4 Is in fair way to succeed. He resides
4 in Wyandotte, but his largest patch Il
1 on the farm of Simmons, In the rive
bottom, near Edwardsville. Last sprinj
he planted 200 acres Of this farm in pc
! tatoes, paying rent at the rate of 81 pc
I acre Out Of his crops his sales have al
!. ready amounted TO over $15 coo, ant
8 there are many more potatoes 20 follow
, His planting was mainly Of the VARIETY
! known as the Early Ohio. Late varie
ties, such Is the Peach Blow and New
York Mercer, seldom come to much ii
this strip of country, but the early varie
ties always do well.
r McPheEso1 Freeman: Mr. J. A. &c
d Council, living weas OF this place, OF
= Little river bottom. came out from ILL
+ A0is last spring, bought section o
II land and planted $50 acres ia broom
e cora. He row has IS tons Of broom
e corn Of the best quality. for which h
d has been offered $40 per ton. HI
I. planted the crop from May 5th to JUL
10Th. The crop was never cultivated
d while the xaiue Is about 5000. On
Il specimen shown rs was from so ecre
Z planting Of July 10th. This nature.
i IN tWc months. and Is worth $1,000
3 Here Il money with but little WORK an
) time. almost sufficient "a pay fOg the En-
i tire section Of land. Bun aEr aeCcn
e nell Il msn Of push ard energy, an