The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31
KANSAS NoIEs.


It takes 500. 900 to start q bank at |
Arkansas City.
The Kansas Legislature contains ten
newspaper men.
Another bank ''busted" at Alma.
Liabilities 90, goo.
Salina has shipped a car load of
horses to Pennsylvania.
A school boy at Parsons stabbed a
schoolmate to the heart.
Yates Center thinks it produces the
best building stone In the west.
Usage county has thirteen news
papers. That is twelve too many.
A A inch vein of coal Is reported at
Paola, and twenty foot tape worm at
Ossawatomie.
CiInmaron has a doctor called Pan
cake. Every one knows that pam
cakes are unhealthy.
John a. Martin is said to be cam
didate for governor of the Soldiers
Home at LeaYenWOrth.
J. A. Smeadly was arrested at Wyan-
dotte Wednesday for trying to accumu-
late as many wives as Solomon.
DR., C.. II. Young of Concordia died
Monday from the effect of having
some teeth extracted on Saturday.
probability about May 1, and the COM
pany of soldiers there now removed.
The boys and girls at Hartford will
duly celebrate ST Valentines day with
a grand masquerade ball in the even
ing.
R. T. Snediker of Hartford has Sc
cured a position ON the NJ. K. s. I.
railroad and gone to Parsons to begin
work.
Omer Flickinger of Hartford has
| secured q position as salesman in the
dry goods house of W. w. McCurdy at
| Topeka.
A Douglas county gentleman claims
| that the stockmen of Kansas City rob
the farmers of Kansas annually of
$500, 600.
Sam Woods is still distinguished
editor in Stevens county, all rumors of
his skedaddling to the contrary not
withstanding.
Mrs. Cushman of Leavenworth has
secured a considerable petition asking
that she be appointed member of the
state board of charities.
No clue has yet been found to the
| murder or disposition of the body of
! E. J. Brown the Wichita man who dis
appeared suddenly few nights ago.
The salary of the governor of Ohio
has been advanced from 81 600, to
$1,000. A gentle reminder of what
should be done in Kansas before long.
An irrigating company has been
chartered N Seward county, which
will dig ditch thirty miles in length
from the Cimmaron river south east
Tito Meade county.
A pass over the kansas City s. Pa
cific." new railroad, was laid on a
senator's desk this morning. The
pass expires before the railroad will be
fully in running order.-State Jour
nal.
Martling the young man who has
just been tried at Kansas City for muir
der, was convicted of manslaughter in
, the third degree and given three
, months in jail and fine Of 500 dol
lars.
A party of Kansas legislators wen
to CraWford's opera house the Othe
: night to see a soubrette who had beer
} a 1vertised to appear at that place, bu
, when a woman came onto the stag
with a dress on that reached to he
shoe tops, the solons went to the ticke
window and demanded a return o
their mOney.-ButtS.
A large number of cattle are beinj
corn fed in southern Kansas this win
r ter and the favorable weather has en-
f abled the feeders to get them in goo'
r condition at a less cost than usual.
great many are now ready for marke
but the present low prices are not en-
: couraging to shippers and many o
] them will lose money unless bette
. prices prevail.-Anthony Republican
. An old Leavenworth county farme
advises Kansas farmers to get thei
: ground in readiness and the see
planted as soon this spring as the
can. They cant be to soon with it b
i says, for hot winds will come that wi
4 blast late crops as surely as they ar
. put in the ground. The old gentlema
bases his predictions on an eXtende
= experience,
: DIR, H. A. Eberle Kansas City ad
? Vertising quack was arrested a day O
two ago at FredOnia for swindling
His scheme was to offer to cure pat
d lent on the mo cure no pay" plan. III
= took notes, as he said to secure pay
: ment, which were not to be collects
only in case of a cure. Of course tn
: notes were discounted and had to b
q paid, cure or no cure.
p The body of a Doniphan county fal
mer named Ferdinand Won Lever wa
found Yesterday lying in field at som
1 distance from his house. The hea
;, WAS crushed and the clothing burne
off it. The weapon with which tn
u murder was committed, the handle of
S scythe was found lying near the BODY
r His house in which he lived all alone
@ being an unmarried man, was raj
sacked, thus proving that the murdC
was prompted by Doodle. No trace
of the murderer have been founC
/: therefore it is credited to an unknow
d tramp.