The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-07-19
OVER THE STATE
How would it do to change The name
of Tan.k. 10 Nov Santa FeS

How would it do to change The name
Of Tnpek4 10 New Santa Fe2
WIggins predicts tnat the 2OIh of;hIs
month will Ike the hottest day of the
season. Our readers had better be look
ing mp their last winters hannels.
1t is somewhat doubtful whether
AtchisOn gets a new hoIel this season.
but there is a strong movement on foot
in that city to uniform its base ball
club
Wichita Eagle: Our sixty FIVE thous-
and acres of wheat has eli been harvest
ed and stacked, our twenty-fY thousand
acTes of oats are tiIling, and our thirty
eight thousand acres of corn is showing
tassel
A new town by the name of Marshall
has been laid out in SedgWiek county,
on the line of the proposed Santa Fe
extension west from Wichita. The
town is named for Marshall NJ. Murdoch,
of Wichita.
Kansas has now two hundred and
forty nine posts, and thirteen thousand
members of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
Winfield, SO the Telegram says. gets
away with two hundred gallons of beer
daily, to say nothing about the whisky
and other drinks. We thought that was
& prohibition town.
NJ. NJ. Murdock, of the Wichita Eagle,
Ventures the gloomy prediction that
"three-fourths nf the counties in the
stale are going to fall into Democratic
control the coming autumn" Marsh
always Las turn with his liver about
this season of the year.
A number of the Prcsbyierians Of To-
pska are Withdrawing from that church
because the contract for making plans
for their new house of worship was
awarded to an architect of agnostic ten
denotes. There are a great many kinds
of people at the state capital.
There will be two state fairs after all
If the Topeka people will raise 5000
for the State Fair association and Law
renee will raise 81 600 for the Bismarck
company. Bismarck had announced
her fair off because the railroads refused
To give a rate of one cent per mile, as
heretofore.
The Atchison Globe describes the OBJ
sequies of citizen of that place al
which there were 1913 vehicles in the
funeral procession which was the largest
ever known in the history of the town
We infer from this demonstration OF
popular regard that the occupant of the
hearse must have been brewer
Eldorado Times Douglass is spread
ing out nightly. Her school house
once matter of great pride to the town
is outgrown and handsome 5000
building is taking its place. The pas
year has seen more business building
erected in Douglass than any two pre-
vinus years and they are generally o
: q substantial character The residenc,
portion of the town shows up astOnish
ingly.
Junction City Union; The Leaven
worth Times correspondent at Topck
sends that paper a weird and wonderful
story of a man once prominent In Kan
sas affairs, and three times a member c
the Kansas legislature, who has for te
years lived in miserable shanty In To
peka, refuses to read newspaper, an
has never seen the capitol building
The Atchison Champion says that
sickening fear comes over it that thi
story is lie. A man who has bee
a three times a member of our legislator
isn't apt to bury himself; he is general
e discovered rushing around to be electe
again, or to secure a federal appoin
, nent A man cannot got out of dool
q anywhere in Topeka without seeing IL
. capitol. The only part of the story tn
has an air of credibility is that the ol
y man refuses TO read the Topeka paper