The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17
KANSAS NOTES.

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Three unsuccessful attempts at safe
breaking have taken place in Leaven-
worth lately.
Topeka has Welsh Sunday SCHOOL,
says the Kansas City Star. What of |
il? Emporia has two.
Gum chewing like the hustle has had |
its way, and both are happily passing |
away, passing away,
Farmers have made use of the warm
weather this winter and have done a
great deal of ploughing.
George w. Jones, alias Jerry w.
Freeland. at Abilene, has two wives,
three children and one case of bigamy.
The meeting of the legislature will
give the state press something to talk
about for the remainder of the winter.
An aged Italian woman at Wichita
tried to cut her throat with dull
knife q day or two ago. No casualties.
Syracuse Is enjoying case of scan
mag in which the damages for alienat-
ing a wife's affections are placed at
81, 600.
Springer City, which it was claimed
had a population of 1900, is purely a
paper town. There is not solitary
house there.
The Kansas City News speaks of
him as Newton" instead of Noble
Prentis. And this is the fame of an
author. Alas!
The juVinile orators of the state uni
versity will contest with each other on
the 23rd to determine who shall repre-
sent the university at Emporia in Feb
rurary.
The editor of the Richfield Democrat,
who has recently married, is an Oblig-
ing cuss. He promises to tell the
| brethren of the press IN a short while
whether marriage is failure or not.
! A swell young man, moving in way
up society and teaching in the Sunday
| school at Atchison, is connected with a
well known gambling den in the city.
Thus cards and the gospel go hand in
hand.
There is a grange organization in
johnson county that has existed for
several years. The grange owns a
bank. a store and a newspaper and
does its business in building belong
ing to it worth $4,000.
DR.. Wright moved Thursday. that the
committee on Health and Hygiene
have its name changed to Health and
state Medicine" committee. Another
member said if State Medicine meant
whiskey, he would favor it.
1
glory and honor. That and nothing
more. Governor Humphrey has offered
the Copeland hotel his entire salary as
governor if it will k eep him and his
wife. The offer was rejected.
Dean Adams and wife of Wichita
leave this week for trip to Europe.
When he returns he will tell his con-
gregation what he thinks Of the old
land if it takes a dozen sermons. That
is the kind of preacher he is.
The Mcpherson Republican objects
to the publication by Kansas Com
pany of transcripts of the daily records
of mortgages and other instruments
filed in the registers Offices. 1t calls
for law suppressing the nuisance.
Dodge City will fit out its COWBOY
band, that means to attend the presi-
Dental Inauguration, in fire style anC
accOutered in sombreros, leather leg
gings, spurs, and whatever else is need
full to wild west outfit.
The Arkansas City Traveller is sucl
wonderful newspaper that an Eng
fish subScriber-Who perhaps owns 4;
, duck pond somewhere near that thriv
ing town-went into conniptiOns be
causeone or two issues of it failed t.
reach him at Liverpool.
A train passed over the Santa F
Sunday from Mexico and destined TO
Chicago, bearing the body of younj
} man who had died in the former place
His mother went for his body ant
chartered the train, consisting of al
engine and two coaches, at an expens
of IS 800.
} In Monmouth township, ten mile
from Topeka, George Beach shot an
killed Robert s. Stewart in quarre
about their children, who were in tn
3 habit of scrapping at school. Moral
g let the youngsters scrap as much a
they like. They will soon get over it
and be all the better Tor It.
5 Freight Conductor Carruthers of tn
4 Kansas s. Northern railway, as hi
train was passing over the Kaw bridg
at Topeka yesterday morning at
!. O'Clock, fell between the cars Will
/ walking on top of his train and tie
D cars passed over him, severing bot
legs from his body.
Larned furnishes the state uditol
chairman of the state convention, reg
4 Ister of the United States land officE
f department commander of the G.. A
q R., chairman of the republican stat
= central committee, a state senator fO
a district of ten counties and the speak
o er of the house.
e Short sermons only go ct Wfchita
g a preacher who INDUCED IN the othe
p sort has been invited to resign. Tn
. congregation and not the minister
i nowadays the judge of what is best fo
: itself. The minister who studies t
t please God and not his church is apt
q find Jordan hard road to travel.
at Meriden there were too many car
didates for the postmastership, an
oil bod oh ncfi
sistent supporters, that there SCENE
: no way to settle the fight till one sue
q geSted an election. The various car
f didates agreed to abide by the reSul
@ of a choice by ballot, and the electio
was duly held. Like most Kansa
y items, this one is not complete with
S out one more sentence. 1t was tn
. first one on record.
@ THE Olathe Democrat, published a
= his old home, says that Ex-Governor 81
+ John has engaged in the real estat
business in Los Angeles, California
$ The firm of which he is member hav
+ 10 900 acres of land thirty miles mort
b of Los Angeles on the main line of tn
q Southern Pacific railroad, which the
propose to divide into suitable tract
y and sell at prices ranging from IS
l. S125 per acre. A clause is to be il
d serted in each deed forever prohibitin
the manufacture, sale or storage c
liquors of anv kind thereon, for beyel
age purposes.
Obituary.
From copy of the Rocky Mountai
g News, Denver Colorado. We clip tn
following notice:
/. Died:-In Denver. Col, December q
e 1888, of scarlet fever, Gladys tn
, youngest daughter, and again Frida
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