The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-03-26
Oyer TIE STATE.

Lesve0worth has registered 2,42O
voters.
Strong City claims to be the only town
in Kansas that does not owe q cent.
Writ Walton Is now publishing daily |
edition of the Clay Center Dispatch.
Newton has voted $4,000 in bonds for
the purpose OF erecting q new school
house.
1t Is proposed to hold reunion of the
Sixth Kansas cavalry at Wichita some
time during the spring
The AtchIson coal company have
struck an eighteen inch coal blossom 700
feet beneath the surface.
Belle Plaine has voted $25, 600 as an
inducement to the Memphis s. Atlantic
railroad 20 build to that town.
A Cherokee county farmer has dis
covered five and half foot vein of
coal about eighty feet under ground.
A lady living in AtchIson, whose son
was killed on the Missouri Pacific road
9 few weeks ago, has sued the company
for $4,000
1t is reported that the Bfethodists OF
the Southwestern district will build a
college. We presume it will simply be
an academy.
A large number of wagons recently
passed through Wellington with their
sides decorated with this inscription:
ain Cleveland we trusted, in Oklahoma
we busted"
A woman named Heath living at
LeavenwoFth endeavored to dispatch her
husband by throwing lighted lamp at
HE head. He was badly wounded and
q doctor is now attending him.
Allen county, Kansas, walked away
with the golden medal and a hundred
dollar cash prize for the best display of
apples at the New Orleans exposition
Ksnsas Is always heard from.
/ TIE Fort Scott s. Wichita road is hav-
ing i've fine Pullman combination chair
and sleeping coaches manufactured at a
cost Of about $4,000 each. They Will
be ready for use IN few weeks.
FL Dorado wants the new soldiers
orphans home. for the establishment of
which the legislature voted $25, 600.
The town or city that secures it must
give 100 acres of land and So, 600 in
cash.
At a meeting of citizens of Leaven-
worth 3 resolution was passed asking
the sheriff to request all saloons to close
April l, 1885. They believe the saloons
IN that city can be closed without trouble
and without expense.
A bold attempt was made Wednesday
night to rob the safe belonging to a
Wichita business firm. Seven holes
were bored, but the daredeVils could in
no way force an entrance through the
inner plate. They succeeded only in
carrying off two revolvers.
N. B. Slocum, a farmer near Blue
Rapids, Kansas, committed suicide by
hanging on the 18th. He was a man of
considerable wealth, but he had gotten IN.
to some difficulty as administrator of an
estate, and 1t is thought a threatened
lawsuit drove him to commit the rash
act. He leaves a vile and family, who
stand high in the community.
Fredonia Times: The first apple tree
orchard In Kansas was set out near
Usage Mission, on what is known as the
Lakeview farm and owned by James
O'Brien, by Presbyterian missionary
society, in 1915. The Usage Indians, a
few years afterward, burned the build
iugs and cut down the orchard. The
Catholic fathers at the Mission planted
peach and apple orchard in 1S47, and
some Ofthe..a apple trees are yet standing
and bearing.
a young preacher in Wellington made
himself very free with his money, of
which he had e large amount, and some
of the sharpers concluded they would
fleece him. They got him into a private
room, got him to drinking wine and
beer and then coaxed him into a private
game of "draw." When the game
closed at late hour every man in the
party was dead broke except the young
preacher, who turned out to be one OF
Kansas CitY's slickest sharpers.