The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-02
KANSAS NOTES.

Lusk, editor of the Sun, has been
postmaster at Parsons. :
The Fort Scott jailer is mourning i
The flight of a couple of jail-birds. 4
The Unitarian conference will meet
IN Unity church, Topeka, May 6.
Frank MacLenuan has been elected
president of the Topeka Press club.
The Waubaunsee county delegates
stand: Miller, two; Curtis, two; Finch
one.
1t is said that Sam Jones will be an
attraction at the Ottawa assembly this
year.
A livery stable at Paola burned
Thursday night. Thirteen horses were
cremated.
w. S. Huff of Cambridge died of
poisoning. His family is suspected OF
doing it.
They complain of being Overburdened
with eggs in Brown and Nemaha
counties.
A couple of ladies at Topeka were
severely shocked by lightning yester-
day morning.
Corn planting is now we'll under way. |
The acreage in corn this year Will be |
the largest Kansas has ever had.
AS they have begun to manufacture |
ice at Sterling, we may expect to hear |
of a creamery and canning factory |
soon.
The Atchison Patriot has gone into |
the hands of a receiver. A newspaper
in that condition is like a SNOWFALL in
the sun.
An Atchison county farmer seventy
years old. and the father of house
full of children, asks for divorce from
his wife.
Charles II. Robinson has been APP
pointed on the board Of police commits
sioners OF Leavenworth, vice Judge
Hacker, elected mayor.
A number of farmers around In
gals will plant small patches of cotton
this year as a trial, hoping to make
cotton raising profitable.
On Monday night the Western I'm
ian telegraph Office at Wichita sent
out 49 900 words in n hour and a half.
Fifteen operators did the work.
Emporia society is just recovering
from the effects of a remarkably bril-
liant lug breaking" which occurred
at that place a short time ago.-K. G.
News.
Senator Ingalls, has gone to New
| York to attend the centennial celebra-
ton on the 30th. The hotels at Atchi-
son are doing light business in conse-
quence.
| The county commission erS of Trego
county offer reward of five cents for
| the hide of every rabbit brought in.
crops in that county.
A Wichita man has invented puz-
zle that lays Pigs in the Glover" in
the shade. 1t was supp' Sed that if
anything truly puZzling should appear,
it would be in Wichita.
The Topeka primaries show that
Metsker and Curtis ran Il pretty even
race, so much SO as to make 1t doubt
full which of them will secure an en-
dorsement at the county convention.
Curtis appears to be few votes ahead.
The delegates elected from Marion
| county to attend the congressional con-
ventiOn at Emporia are: ). T. Sackett
hyler Riddle, r. f. Battey, Captain j
A. Pike. T. B. McKercher l.. +. Knowles
and j, n. Moore. The delegation Is
unanimous for +. w. Hoch.
Major John K. Rankin, of Lawrence
has been appointed superintendent of
| Haskell institute. the Indian school
near that city He is an old Kansan
was Kansas soldier during the war
, and is in every respect au excellent
man for the INSTRUMENTATION Cham
piOn.
Prof Hay, the eminent geologist OF
Junction City, spent yesterday in the
/ city. He was on his way to KingmaL
, to examine the shaft of their salt mine
In an hours talk of the salt deposit OF
Kansas he told us Some-to uS-won-
derful scientific facts in connection
= with Prof. Mudge's predictions, back
in 1854, in connection with the red OF
Asiatic stone deposits. Eagle
Mr.. Whitegoods-It's queer that We
don't hear from Jenkins. He hash I
sent in an order for more than week
: Where is he now, do you think?
Somewhere in Iowa"
THAT accounts for it. He Away!
gets drunk in prohibition state.
i, shall have to give him route where
= there is less drinking and fewer tempt
, ations. Chicago Herald.
g.. F. Farmer of Lacrosse, Wiscon
, sin was in the city this morning, eli
route from Oklahoma. He left witt
q the Patriot sample of the soil of tina
t country. 1t is as red as red Ochre anC
q contains some mineral substance. 1
is sand, and wouldn't grow beans.
man who entered a quarter section o
T | land adjoining Guthrie commenced t,
= ploW. AS soon as he turned over thu
n sod and exposed the soil the wind tool
: it up and carried such cloud of SAM
into the town that the residents arOst
a en- maSSe and made him stop blowing
n and turn the sod down again, unde
penalty of lynching Pa
:. triOt.
Isaac La Grange, president of tn
. Wvandotte National bank, Kansa
I, City. Kansas, saved Clarence Lennon
y from drowning in pond. Mr.. l.
y Grange saw Lennon ride his horse int
N deep body of water which had bee
formed by heavy fill. Upon striking
&c the pool the horse plunged in and it
l. rider was thrown into the center
q where the water was ten feet deep
Mr.. La Grange sprang from his buggy
> and taking the bride and reins iron
d the horse, he rushed to the pond I
n rescue the young man. When b
J. reached the pond Lennon had gon
down the third time La Grange throw
ing the bride into The water. Lemmo
u seized it with death-like grip and b
e was pulled ashore.
II John H. Smith, who Will retire iron
d Office as warden of the state peniten
Ie tiary May 1st, was in town few hour
: to-day. He has made all preparation
for leaving, and has sent his family K
D his old home in Columbus. Cherokee
g county. His successor, Geo. II. Case
p and his family, are already at the pris
. son. Mr.. Smith will, after a shor
rest. probably engage i'll the bankin
'e business. There will probably be NJ
5, other change at the institution. Jone
% win continue as chief clerk, and Hig
- gins as deputy warden. This will le
70 S. o. Mcdowell out of all chance for
u place under Governor Humphrey, I'm
le less he is continued as executive cler
"a at Topeka, which will hardly be done
as the place has been offered to D. q
McCray.-AtchiSonG Globe.
a Two girls living near Atchison go
an old suit of mems clothes, stuffed
with straw and placed it in the cente
n of the track of the Omaha extension
1T bracing it up facing the north. HaVin
n done this they secreted themselves nea
- by awaiting the freight due from Atch
ison. The train came putting up tn
Is grade on time. in charge of Enginee