The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-23
KANSAS NOTES.

Hartford is going to celebrate on dec
grafton day.
Avon township. Coffey county. wants
a sugar factory.
Arkansas City will have a free deliv-
cry postal service July 1.
A. G. Watrous has been appointed
post master at Madison, Greenwood
county.
Hon. Geo. L. Anthony will give the
annual address before the Alpha Beta
literary society at the state university
at Manhattan, Friday evening, May "A.
H. G. Rush of Leavenworth recently
bought the Stuyvesant ranch, in Os-
borne county, for 1925 900 cash. The
property consists of 4, 800 acres of good
land.
F. w. Mcconnell a Lawrence citizen
was killed while at work as a carpen-
ter on the building destroyed by wind
in Tacoma Washington Territory
Tuesday.
Newton will celebrate the evening of
memorial day at the opera house with
taDleauX, Rotations and music. The
committee on arrangements has wise
ly barred out speeches"
n handsome Hutchinson white Wo-
man the wife of a common labOrer be-
came infatuated with dashing young
son of Ham who boasts that he is $50
lid'' with her.
| They have SO many secret societies
at Wichita that those who wanted
something new, had to organize what
they call the Suicide Club" Wichita
is good place for such club.
Barney Sheridan and the owners of
the Atchison Patriot could not agree
on price ard the former returned to
PaoIa where he will continue to pub
lish the Spirit.
! Ex-County surveyor M. b. Wayde of
| Coffey county was arrested last week
on a charge of illicit intercourse with
thirteen year old girl named AddIe
Holmes. His bail was fixed at $500.
The Coffeyville Sun says that the re-
cent hail storm in that vicinity ruined
the wheat crop. Fields that two weeks
ago promised thirty or forty bushels to
the acre were so pelted by the hail that
wheat stalks were broken, and have
since turned yellow.
} A Burlingame man is practicing a
wicked deception on an innocent old
family cat. He has taken away her
kittens and substituted three very
young wolves. The babies are grow
ing finely and the poor puss does { sus-
pect that she is misplaciGg her atfec-
tons
Monroe Campbell, who killed Charles
Gordon and was found guilty of muir
} der En- the second degree at this term
of the district court, was sentenced
this morning by Judge Cozier to twenty
years in the penitentiary.-
worth Sun.
D After Cliff Hetherington had gone to
8 bed, in AtchiSOn night before last, a
9 thief got into his room and stole dia-
q mond-studded watch worth $3.50, a sol
: itaire diamond ring worth 5000, a dia
J mond collar button worth 500. and {
9 diamond shirt stud worth 5000.
1 Some men have Offices piled upoI
them until they scale off, while mel
more deserving cannot get one. Chap
man of Great Bend, was nominated a
presidential electOr last fall, after
which he was nominated for state sen
It atOr and had to give up electOr. Nov
II he has been appointed to land offict
and is compelled to resign the sena
torship. AS their is no scarcity of tim
l. Der why wouldn't it be a good idet
!" to pass 'em around?
II Senator John j. Ingalls, and Lieuten
/. ant Governor A. j. Felt met for tn
r first time few days ago at Atchison
: in the Champion Office, being intro
y duced by Ex-Governor Martin. MI
y Felt had seen Mr.. Ingalls, twice before
Ie but he had never met him.
1T is singular we never met before,
said Mr.. Ingalls,, without any prelim
inaries. You are just two days olde
i than I, having been born Decembe
3. 9th, 1888, and was born on the 10Th
% Governor Felt was surprised that Mr.
Ingalls, should have given the date o.
+ his birth second thought or notice, i
Q it had ever come under his observation
b and especially that his memory wal
sufficiently retentive to gather in ant
treasure up such details. He was re
lating the incident to-day to Genera
;, Wilder. when the latter referred to TIT
ANNALS of Kansas AMI found thai
J Mr.. ingalls, had given the dates cor
t rectIy.
e The largest and most important sail
Y deal yet contaminated in Hutchinson
was closed yesterday when Parr s. Co
OF Galveston closed contract with the
: Riverside Salt company for z 1000 tons
q or 500 cars of salt. Parr & Co. are the
? heaviest importers in America, Their
sales last year amounting TO 40, 00C
! tons. They have decided to use the
Hutchinson salt in the future, to the
exclusion of the English article.
Banker Lewis, chairman of the
board of police commissioners of WITCH
! ita, has kept in his bank q large lot OF
whisky taken in a raid on a jointist.
, To-day he was served with a writ OF
,, replevin, and gave up the goods. When
asked why he kept the liquor in his
? place Of business instead of police