The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-15
OYER THE STATE.

and e Topeka.
Kinemants to have a $4,000 brick
md stone hotel.
The question Of water works is being
.gitated in Lawrence.
The First National bank of Harper
began business on January list.
MAJOR E g. Ross is fsvoraqlV men.
Toned for governor of New Mexico.
The Topeka city council makes an al
lowance OF sos month to the public
library.
Wichita Eagle: 'Lightnlng seldom
strikes in the same place" Don't it? We
live and learn.
To keep the district schools of Kansas
running the past Sear there was raised
and expended the sum of $3.Sl8.904.65.
'Exodusters" about Lenvenworth are
said to be suffering from want and cold
or weather than they have been accus-
toned TO formerly.
Wichite's streets are sea OF mortar.
Stills and boats will soon be In demand
unless old frosty makes the town speedy
visit; is the wall OF the Wichita Eagle.
Messrs. G. G. Bracket, G. Y. John
son and Abner Allen are the Kansas
delegates TO the Mississippi Valley Hor-
ticulturat society. next session, to be
held At New Orleans this month.
A lady in Wichita the other day
created great deal of amusement by
parading the street two hours wearing a
cloak on which was q card reading
Former prlce, $50; marked down to $12
to close out"
The farmers of Jewell county met at
Mankato and organized an association
to contest the claim of the Atlas men.
who have been endeavorinG to defraud
them by their cunninglV devised
schemes and cut.thrOst contracts.
Cherryvale Globe News: A Cherryvale
girl who made bet OF fifty kisses on the
election, and lost. says she is going to
have fair count if she has to canvass it
9 dozen times. We glory in her spunk
we would do the same thing IL similarly
situated.
Dodge City Times: A party of gentle
men are considering the project OF an
irrigation canal on the south side of the
Arkansas river. This is an enterprise
that will soon be consummated. The
irrigation canal on the north side of the
Arkansas will be completed to
Dodge City.
The Globe recently published a short
and spicy biography of fifty OF Atchi-
sons best known bachelors. We are
looking for the number of that paper
which shall contain sketches of the old
maids of Atchison, but haveSnot seen ii
yet. Howe has some caution. We
guess he knows what subjects to tackle.
Mcpherson Press: Well filled corn
cribs on every quarter section is what
one sees in travelling over this county.
They tell of food for man. of fuel to cook
and warm by; IN short, Of almost every
thing necessary for mans subsistence
and enjoyment. Corn is king of cereals
it can be applied to more uses than any
other.
The ninth annual meeting of the Kan
sas State HistOrIcal society will be held
in the senate chamber at Topeka, on
Tuesday evening, January 20. 1885, fol
the election of one-half the members OF
the board OF directors, ana the transac
ton of such other business as may come
before the meeting. A meeting of the
O'Clock p. M, of the same day, in the
rooms of the society. All members ar,
requested to be present.
Daily Press: Other counties can con
tinue to brag on their large turnips and
| pumpkins but Sumner takes the CAKE
on big wheat. The grain buyers of this
city have become Disguised with the ole
system OF buying this cereal by weigh
or measure, and have adopted a new
method, and will buy by the kernel
This new scheme will go into effect ate
the LIST OF March, and the price will b,
regulated on q basis of six grams o
wheat to the bushel.
The coroners office does not go beg
qing down in Sumner county, at leas
the Wichita Eagle would have it other
wise. Il says: The Office of coronel
is said to be the biggest paying office il
Sumner county. Its a mighty cold day
when no csdaver, stiff or freshly lait
out corpse, fails TO turn up somewher
within the bounds of that county. Th
coroner selects new standing jury 70
each year, the members of the outgoin
one just as regularly embarking in tn
banking business"
The report of Col. w. G. Jones, wal
den of the Kansas State penitentiary fo
the fiscal years ending June 80, 1SS;
and June 30, 1884, has just been mad
public. 1t shows that in the first {
these years the penitentlary was ope
ated at q loss TO the state of about So 90
In the year ending June so, 1884, Ii
total earnings were $147, III 90, Will
the total expenditures for running Ii
institution were 1921 ,4O1 80, leaving
net earning over all expenditures for III
fiscal year of 1884 of $25,716 90 Til
number of inmates on July 1, 1884. W,
S5l. The estimated total for the mai
tainance of the pemtentlary for the f1sc
year 1886 is $152 lOS2, and for Iss
$139 .226.
The number OF organized school dis
tricts IN Kansas show an increase ov,
last year of about 200, there being no
6,4S0 There are 6.161 school buildIn!
In the state, which, with property
8 connection, are valued at So 1858, 20
The number of school houses erectt
this year was $50, valued at $3.50, 81
In these schools we're 206 1877 ma
and 1874 .979 female pupils. or a total
390,4l6. To instruct them were empio
b ed S,155 teachers. The number of scho
districts sustaining schools three montl
and over during the year was 6.030.
order to keep the schools of Kans
+ working the sum of $3,3ls, 9O4 .65 W
raised and expended. The addition
! expenses of state institutions, colleg
and private schools are not included
the figures given.
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