The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-30
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Decoration Day May 30. is legal
holiday.
Senator Plumb is expected to arrive
home from the east next week.
Tomorrow will be the sixty-ninth an
niversary of Odd Fellowship.
Mrs. BAN, widow Of the late DR.. J.
D. Balm, is to be the next postmaster at
Great Bend.
The Dispatch hotel &C Clay Center has
changed hands and will be refitted- w.
W. WaltOn's power is waning.
The Kansas Sugar company will plant
coo acres of cane in Rice county; the
Sterling Syrup company 400 acres.
The Kansas City and Southeastern
road may conclude to make e Dorado
point on their line. ItlOoks that way
now.
The Wichita Driving association will
be held at that place June %. Three
thousand dollars in premiums have been
offered.
Forty Young men at Hutchinson have
sent in their names to the adiutsnt gen.
eral asking HIM to organize a military
company.
LeavenWorth has organized base bali
club, and will obtain charter. Shares
are $40 each, and the capital stock not
to exceed 5000.
The site selected for the new govern
ment building at Fort Scott Is lot 100
x120 feet on the corner of Scott avenue
and Locust street.
A number of prominnet citizens of
Wichita, have chartered the Wichita
academy and will proceed to erect
building costing $4,000.
The state board of psrdons recon-
mended between twenty-five and thirty
convicts for pardon during their first
session, which closed yesterday.
A double calf, perfect in all It's parts
from shoulders back, with one head,
eight feet, two distinct bodies. and two
tails, was recently born at Oneida, Kans.
During the past year l, 25O,OOO acres of
land have been taken up in the Lsrned
district. At 100 acres each, says the
Chronicle, this represents 10000 peo-
pie.
At Washington. Kansas, on the 18th,
SIS, 600 of Washington county per
cent bonds were sold at auction at $500
on the 500. Pretty good sale for Kan
sas.
At Omega a man named Conway, who
has been afflicted during the winter,
with rheumatism, took a fit of cramping
and had the bones of both legs and one
arm crushed by contraction of the mus
cles.
Ex-Governor Charles Foster of Ohio,
together with ex-Speaker Kiefer and
Mr.. Amos Townsend of the same state,
and Senator Plumb of Kansas, are in
New York upon business which In
wolves large railroad and cal interests
in the west
The total taxable valuation of all
property in Butler county is S4,513,-
207 20, being about $196 per capita.
Butler county is out OF debt and does not
owe dollar in money or bonds to any
body and has several thousand dollars in
the treasury.
According to the monthly report of
Professor Snow of the university, the
rainfall for the month of March, 1885,
was less than corresponding months for
the preceding seventeen years. The
rainfall within the last few days has
also been unprecedented.
An axtra train left Florence last Sun
day for Ell Dorado and when near that
city the engine and some of the cars left
the track, injuring couple of persons.
A lady passenger in the car that went
over held to the arm of her seat with one
hand and chung to her little child with
the other, and both mother and child es-
capped without injury.
On Saturday last T. P. Fulton, editor
of the Ell Dorado Democrat, had A. Shell
don, editor of the Ell Dorado Times, ar
rested upon the charge of criminal libel.
Sheldon gave $500 bonds for his appear
ance at the next term of the district
court. The article which is alleged to
be libelous appeared in last weeks issue
of Sheldon's paper.
The Winfield Courier says that Frank
Nanny, of that town, has applied for
permit TO manufacture beer for medical
purposes. The Courier says If the per-
NIT is granted it cannot be revoked for
five years aad 1t fears that Winfield will
be afflicted with overproduction of beer
if Frank lives up to the law and only
sells to druggists in unbroken packages,
An Officer of the st. Louis s. Emporia
railroad writes the FL Dorado Republi.
can that they KAYE twenty-five miles of
track laid and the cars running and they
are expecting TO make arrangements for
work to begin both ways from Emporia.
The company is looking in this direc-
ton for an outlet. and We would not be
surprised to have proposition submit
ted for this road this year. We want the
road and will do our duty in the prem
ises.