The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-08
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Cherryvals now has 3 national bank.
Mound vsIlev b,s : p,ock Ie0isIatu,e.

OYER TIE STATE.
CherTyvAle now has national bank.
Mound Valley has naock Legislature.
Diphtheria has run Its couse az Can
ION.
The grand jury is in session at sa-
lima.
PIeasantOn has a literary society of
100 members.
School land sells 10 Norton county at
81 an acre.
A new skating rink has been opened |
at Louisville.
They have spelling schools in Sheri-
dan county.
Typhoid malaria exists considerably
around Edmond.
The Odd Fellows will organize lodge
at Simpson sOon-
A general store is wanted at .Neah,
Greenwood county.
The years crops in Kansas are esti-
mated at &15 100000.
Antelopehunting is all the rage in the
vicinity Of Dodge City.
Cherokee county is discussing the
question Of new court house.
The Wellington Guards lost $50 on
their masquerade bail Christmas eve.
In SedRwick county corn is Is to 1sc
q bushel, and the farmers are using it
for fuel.
The loss to Sheridan county through
prairie fires Is estimated by the Sentinel
at $4,000.
The Cowboy band of Dodge City are
talking of going to New Orleans to the
Worlds Exposition.
Anthony and Harper are still contend
ing for the honor of being the county
seat of Harper county.
The AtchisOn Jehersonisn club has
passed resolutions endorsing H. Clay
Park for postmaster.
The Ft Scott city schools employ
twenty-eight teachers and have enrolled
1.s47 pupils this year.
1t is reported that the Union Pacific
will build an extension from Crete,
Nebraska, TO Belleville, Kansas, via.
Chester.
N. B. Perry, formally city editor of
the Leavenworth Times. has become in
sane, and is now confined in the Leav-
enworth jail.
The people of Sumner county will Pc
tltion the legislature for a new Judicial
district composed of Sumner, Harper
and Barbour counties.
Strong efforts will be made at the ap-
preaching session of the legislature to
have new charters issued TO Leayenworth,
Topeka and Atchison.
William Martindale Is making prepa-
rations TO rebuild his mill at Burlington.
Its capacity will be one hundred and
twenty i've barrels of flour daily.
There are thousands of acres of land
in Western Kansas subject to settlement
that is fully as good as the bulk of the
land IN the much-coveted Oklahoma.
David Copeland of Topeka, now 80
years old, is the Oldest continuous resi-
dent of Shawnee county. He settled
near the town site of Tecumseh in 1852.
CIaussen. the Newton vitrol thrower,
was captured at Dodge City and taken
back. He plead guilty and was bound
over in the sum of $2,5OO. He went to-
jail.
The State University will ask the leg
islature this winter for an appropriation
of $50, 900. OF this amount $50. 900 will
be required TO build natural history
building.
The Missouri Pacific people hsYe OBJ
tanned q charter for new road to extend
from Paola, Kansas, on its Kansas and
Arizona division to Kansas City a dis.
lance of "a miles.
The Catholic college at st. Mary's
was robbed last week of large sum o.
money and valuable papers. The thieves
were apprehended at Lawrence aud ovel
81 200 recovered.
John Sherman of Eureka, was sent Il
Jail by Judge Graves for refusing to ties
tifY before the grand jury in liquo
, case. He said he had promised not Il
tell, and therefore went to jail.
Mr.. Frank Babcock reports that h
recently saw at. the residence of Mr..
T G. johnson In Silver Lake township
Shawnee county, a chrysanthemun
which had 4O5 blossoms and buds.
, Sedgwick county made 10000 pound
of cheese last year. 100000 pounds @
| butter in families, $4,000 pounds of but
, ter in creameries. Sedgwick is the sec
8 ond butter making county in the state.
T The largest yields of wheat reporte
by the state board OF agriculture is on
i from Russell county of 6O1I bushels pc
. acre; and. Ellsworth and Lincoln couI
n ties each furnish 8 field that yielded .
: bushels per acre.
A series of meetings are being held i
q kingman county for the collection {
= historical material. The plan Is to hol
10 6 meeting OF the citizens of each town
of ship, and especially the oldest settler
J. and record the happenings worthy {
N preservation.
D. The editor of the Independence Sta
Is says that he has lately been shown
~ piece of ore. found in MontgomeI
L county, containing copper, lead and 81
'r YER, apparently in paying quantities
% The agricultural liar is the only rel
IL success IL Kansas.
- The legal season for shooting qua
expired with the first of January. tt
slaughter of quails has been immenl
this year. Never before has there bee
such a quantity IN market. Prices hay
= kept up we'll for the reason of larI
shipments in Colorado.
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Mrs DR.. WaltOn's Periodical Tea.
Mother Walton has prescribed tn