The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-03
KANSAS NoIFs.

1Oi 1Soerd ONCE. he says so nlm-
self.
An exp-robate judge at Marysyille
was convicted Of violating the liquor
law.
The attendance of state teachers at
the association in Topeka is very
Kansas built more miles of railroad
IN 1888 than any other state IN the
Union.
Kansas City ..wet goods is an inn
portant adjunct to Christmas festiyi-
ties in Topeka.
In Finney county they regard the
alfalfa crop as more valuable than all
else raised there.
Charley Lantry of Strong City re-
turned last week from hunting in the
Indian Territory.
HIawatha believes in health and
muscle. 1t is going to build a gym
nasium for ladies.
Eighty-eight persons were killed last
year, and !, 4S4 injured in railroad ac-
cidents in the state.
A canary bird thirteen years old
makes glad the heart of the editor of
the Concordia Daylight.
A few Kansas papers are trying to
boom Charles s. Gleed for United
States district attorney.
A hardware store at Quenemo was
burglariZed Monday night of lot of
cutlery and other Things.
It is reported that Sam Wood has
| been invited by the citizens Of Woods
dale to make himself scarce.
The Oswego Bee assured its readers
| that Kansas does not contain single
! illiterate-and then-died.
In melee at Winfield Christmas eve
| in which thirteen shots were fired, one
| WertZ was dangerously shot.
Thursday night incendiaries tried to
burn the depot and buildings of the
Topeka Rapid Transit company.
The struggle for the spoiIs in this
state between the old and young guard
promises to be rather interesting.
A pair of boot leggers like a Gemini
of balloons are looking through the
barred door of the POttawatomie Jail.
Bill Hackney has returned to Win
| field to wind up his affairs, when he
viii return to Seattle, w. T., his future
home.
The worst thing that can be said of
Kansas, so goes the Hutchinson
News, is that she gave 36, 236 votes for
Streeter.
| AG 1dOld GuO soup IdCh6G Was IT,
Versed. Two gallons of it-oyster
soup-went into cow that broke into
a restaurant.
Scott county, Kansas, is offering
! farms free of rent, with seed thrown
in, to all who will come and take pos
session of them.
The race question will be discussed
| in the state house on the second
| Wednesday in February, by a conven-
ton of colored brethren.
The Topeka Journal says that the
| collector system will not be abolished
January Ist on the Santa Fee, but will
have to go before long.
An enterprising citizen of James
town converted eleven skunks into
| hair oil. Kansas ingenuity can mas
ter any situation or condition.
The Emporia delegation from the
State Normal, attending the teachers
meeting, held a reunion at the Cope
land hotel in Topeka last night.
| There is one school in Douglass
county in which parents taboo gram
mar. Had went" is as current there
as yellow Jack" at Jacksonville.
| A rumor is in circulation that the
Chicago s. Alton company Is negotia-
ting for all the M, X. & 7. lines north
of the Indian Territory. Wichita Ea-
gle.
The Dedagogues in session at To-
peka will present petition to the legis-
| lature asking an appropriation this
winter for geological survey of the
state.
Mrs Longshore-Potts, the lecturer,
was the Little QuakeTess" at Topeka.
At Lawrence she became the ''queenly
| quakeress. What will she be at
Wichita?
We learn from the Topeka papers
that the Ampnion quartette of this city
is winning golden opinions by its sing
ing at the teachers meeting in the cap
ltal city.
Lobdell, a DightOn lawyer and can
didate last summer for attorney gen.
eral, is at present under cloud,
charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Topeka has grievance. 1t is never
| without one, is it? Babies in the
theater is what ais her now.S~Nothing
less than Elijah's infant devclriug
bears will make some Topekans
happy.
Orrie Smith, a seventeen-year-old
boy of AtchisOn, shot and killed him
self on Christmas day in precisely the
same manner as did young HerZig of
this city. In draggingi his gun after
him in getting out of wagon, it was
discharged, the load entering his right
breast.
Near Usage City day or two ago
two men were out for drive. While
going rapidly round turn, one of
them, who was drunk, was thrown out.
alighting on his head in pond.
There he stuck in the mud and was
almost drowned before his companion
could stop his horse and rescue him.
at Newton a few nights ago young
Jayhawker was caught in the act of
robbing a neighbours hen roost. In the
effort to get away, he left his hat and
boot in possession of the other party.
In the morning that Jayhawker had
the gall to call and demand his hat
| and boot, threatening to invoke the
vengeance of the law If they were not
delivered up instantly Did you ever
hear the like?
A doctor at Winfield reports a case
of what he calls spotted fever It is
twO-year-old child. According to
this physician it is an Inflammation of
the covering of the brain and spine,
causing small spots to appear all over
the body. The spine of the child is
curved until her head almost touches
her heels. The disease destroys con-
seriousness, and when the victim recoY-
ers, which is seldom, defects in some
faculty nearly always result.-Topeka
Journal.
Thomas Osborn has brought from
Washington the banner which he some
time ago promised to the county show
ing the largest numerical increase in
the vote over 1886. Shawnee having
the largest increase, 3,700 votes, gets
the banner. 1t was made in Washing
ton, of the finest silk doubled. and is
elegantly mounted. Its dimensions
are seven feet by nine. 1t will be suit
ably iettered at Cranes printing house,
and on some public occasion formally
presented to the central committee of