The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-05-07
nuzP TIE STATE

1nS supreme court " SnIo StdtS meets
next Tuesday.
This is an exceedingly late spring all
over the state.
Alma, Kansas, with about 800 inhab-
itants, has two skating rings.
Kansas Shsrthorn cattle premiums at
New Orleans amount to $1,000.
The champion bicycle rider at New
Orleans is q Kansas boy from Topeka.
The Usage county fair Will be held at
Burllngame September %, %, "a and %.
A controversy over s. pig and fifty
cent dog in the Smith county court. cost
that county over $500.
The city of Wellington has made the
Wellington Daily Press, edited by Hon.
Jacob Stotler, the Official city organ.
A Texas cattle man has offered to de-
liver to a party IN FInny county 1000
head OF yeArling steers at $13 per head.
The Cloud County Critic predicts that
in the next election there will be three
papers in that county supporting the
prohibition state ticket.
z. E. Fuller, of Ottawa, has been ap-
pointed as delegate TO the National Com
mercial convention, to be held at Allan
Ia, Ga, May 10, 20 and 81, 1885,
The governor on yesterday appointed
James A. Ray of Wellington judge of
the Nineteenth judicial district of Kan
sas, vice George D. Orner, resigned.
Twenty-three thousand acres of land
were recently entered in one day at the
Garden City land office. The settlers
are largely in Clark, Meade and Conan
che counties.
The two counties having the NEST
corn in store on March %. 1885, were
Butler and Brown, the former having
1884, 466 bushels and the latter 1.326, GIL.
Usage county comes next with 1891 .453
bushels in her granaries.
Mai. Tom Anderson, ex-postmaster of
Topeka, was seriously injured yesterday
by the accidental falling of a horse that
he was riding. The horses shoe caught
on the street railway track on Sixth
avenue and threw Mr.. Anderson violent
Iy TO the ground, seriously bruising him.
Atchison Globe: A committee Of gen.
tlemen from Sheridan county are IN the
city to-day, trying to induce the Mis-
souri, Pacific company to extend the
-
meth, a distance of 104 miles. They
make very liberal offers of aid, and OLD
Everest now has his hat off thinking
about it.
The directors of the Santa Fe railroad
who have been making a tour of inspec.
ton over this road, arrived in Topeks
yesterday morning at 10 O'Clock. having
made the run from Las Vegas to Topeka
740 miles, in less than twenty. four hours
or an average of over forty miles an hour
This speaks we'll for the Santa Fe rolling
stock. The directors left in the after
noon for Boston.
Newton Republican: Pat Sherman
the present city marshal of Topeka. 1
man who has been on the force of tina
city for years, said: 81 can keep bette
order in this city, with only two police
men, with the saloons closed, than car
with dozen or N orewith the saloons
open" There Is q knock-down argu-
ment from a man who does not talk sen
timent but simply views the matter as
peace officer.
Wichita Eagle: MIR. Henry Anderson
the resident manager of the Anglo
American Loan and Investment com
pany, whose paid up capital is $250,OOC
and at the head of which company stand
Sir E. Synge Hutchinson, bart, England
ordered Yesterday 10000 stamped wrap
pers, all of which will be addressed ant
sent to individuals contemplating Amer
lea as a future home. Each Wrappe
will contain circulars of information ant
q little pamphlet descriptive of tn
Great Arkansas Valley. This is but tn
first installment of this company's docu
ments which are being printed as fast a
possible. The Johnny Bulls, one
reaching this broad, rich valley of sun
shine and health, of fruit and grain, vii
never want to go back to the little fogg,
isle presided over by Queen Vic. and rul
by Gladstone.
Hutchinson News: A horrible affai
that came near proving fatal one Occur
red at the Penny s. George mill last Fri
day night. 1t appears that as Mr.. w.
Putt, the foreman, was passing By a
upright shaft, in motion, his ''slicker
caught thereon, and in an instant he wa
drawn in contact and being whirle
around with frightful rapidity. Almol
providentially, the night watch wa
standing near the bell cord, and takin
in the situation at glanc'
rang vigorously, and, provideI
TALLY again, it would seen
the engineer was standing with his han
on the throttle, so that the machiner
was brought to a standstill by the tim
Mr.. Putt had made not over eighty rev
, olutions. These eighty revolution
however, would have been sufficient I
have killed him had he not grssped til
shalt and Rugged it tightly, thus escal
ing many knocks that otherwise woul
have been received. AS it was MIR. Pu
escaped with adislocated knee, fracture
/ ribs, and bruised arm, legs and chest.