The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-24
KANSAS NOTES.

hhNOhO NO4Eos
Topeka is enjoying a boom in pea
nuts.
A young lady has become editor of |
the GascO Sun.
Barney Lantry is boring for coal near
Cottonwood Falls.
Wichita will have grand masquer-
ade ball February IA.
Helen Cougar will invade Kansas
once more in February.
Alfalfa is growing in grace and pub
lie favor in western Kansas.
Since Stacey was made secretary of
the state senate he has became Hon.
Mr.. Stacey.
The net profits to the government
last year from the Atchison post Office
were $50, 900.
Kittleman and Bethune will run 100
yards January 26, at Mitchell Kansas
for g 600 side.
The coal miners of Usage county
want six and one half cents bushel
for mining coal.
Rapid Transit in Topeka has been a
failure. An effort TO use electricity on
the principle line is being made.
The name of the postmaster at Sa-
betha is Christ, and he is a democrat.
Before long his name will be Dennis.
A Leavenworth paper says that a
bill will be introduced in the legisla-
ture reducing railroad fare to two
cents mile.
AT the Conway Springs sugar works
100. COO pounds of sugar and $4,000 gall
Ions of molasses were made during
the last season.
The Larned Democrat has been
swallowed by the Eagle-Optic. Will
the name of the new paper be the
Eagle-Optic Democrat?
, Ice dealers are getting desperate,
the changes in the moon are now
looked forward to in hopes that they
will bring a change of weather.
The Kaw ashamed to commingle its
} waters with 1.-THE big muddy" buries
, its head like an ostrich in the sand
above Wyandotte and disappears.
A Labette county young man mar
ried recently girl who had been
judged insane. The husband is now
, trying to have the judgment set aside.
? Kaffir corn which has been tried in
western Kansas has some of the quail
ties of the salamander, and is proof
, against heat or hot winds. Stock love
, it, they say.
They propose to pump the water
from a salt well at Great Bend into a
: pond in which oysters will be raised.
The next thing We'll hear of is tariff
on oysters.
The G. A. r, committee appointed
by the state encampment to select a
! site for state soldiers home have in
spected the Fort Hays and Fort Dodge
, reservations and will report to the leg
+ lature.
' Warden Smith of the penitentiary
claims N faal No anXiotv rqGnaafiuoY he
3 outcome of the investigation that will
: be made Of his management of that
: institution. He courts the fullest
2 scrutiny, and says that he has no fears
4 of the result.
: A boy shot his brother at Fort Scott
: the other day. The bullet made hole
IN his head letting out spoonful OF
brains. yet the boy continues rational
b. Time was when the brains were out
p the man was dead etc. There is rare
vitality in kanSan.
William Sherman a bright young lad
of 10 suicided at Topeka Monday after
r noon by shooting himself through the
: heart. His mother died some months
O ago, and he lived alone with his father
No one knows why he killed himself.
. at the tnext state encampment al
EmpOria. to be held March 18th, Usage
i. county should be we'll represented
J. There are six posts in this county. II
: each one sends delegate, and all the
commanders and past commanders
should attend, they would be a power
= dosage Free Press.
l. Pawnee Bill, an ignorant, long
g haired cow puncher, continues his pre-.
v parations to make "hero'' or a mar
r tyr of himself by invading Oklahoma
= at the head of a crowd of irresponsible
9 people who have nothing to lose. The
territory will be opened legally in due
!. time, when Pawnee Bill and everybody
else will be able to go in and take pos
e sessiOn.-TopekaJ Journal.
/ Atchison has a band of young ladies
d who frequent the Jail to sing and pray
d with the inmates. So says Il local pa
q per. This reminds us that ColC
y. Younger who by the way has pair Of
IL winning dark eyes draws the romantic
e young ladies of st Paul to the Still
h water penitentiary in squads. They
Or admire him for his spirit and the ma
:, toriety he has achieved. Who is thu
/ attraction at the Atchison jail?
Kansas has found a heroine. Whilt
+ skating at Salina the other day in com
f pany with young lady, a young mar
d broke through the ice and was in dan
a. ger of drowning when the young lad,
=, made rope of her shawl and drew hin
- forth. OF course he Will marry her
r and in old age will be blessed with 1
al handsome and interesting progeny VIII
D. will chase butterflies, make mud pies
get spooney and break through the ic
just as papa did.
70 Representative Burton, OF Dickinson
a. county, is somewhat tainted with tina
s: common disease that shows itself in a
= aspiring Statesmen-the big-head. L
20 fact, it is said that the malady ha
10 such a hold upon him that he is CON
Il PEELED to wear hat constructed @
y elastic bands. that the rise and fall O
40 his massive intellect may not be cor
" fined. But, then, all great men hav
ar their failings, and he is not alone il
70 this kind of head gear, for it is sal
n that Ralph NJ. Easley and T. Browe
10 Peacock go thus adorned.
Frank Locke, the seventeen-year-ol
/ lad who stuck A pistol in the face of tn
lie assistant cashier of the Armourdal
it bank and demanded the money of tn
bank. succeeded only in displaying hi
cool nerve, which was really refreshiL
in and greatly to be admired. Frank eV
ae IDENTIFY has thrilling and active fl
O. ture before him, if he can manage
keep on the outside of penitentiar
To walls for any considerable portion c
On his life. Such nerve, joined to Frank
I'D education and intelligence, will invit
as the companionship of older and MOI
experienced crooks, who will tax
Oh pleasure in bringing him up in the wa
b. he evidently wants to go.
it
is Undeservedly Laughed At.