The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-04
LOCAL BREVETIES

Mr.. Raley of Americas sold his
at that place, consisting of a
block of lots and a 81 400 house, to j.
L. Palmer, for $500. j.
Newton is somewhat torn up over a
war about school books. The time is
come when a new contract must be
made, ami the troublesome question is
about making the change. Some want
it and some others don't.
A barrel and boy and a pail of
water were engaged in washing win
dows on south Commercial Thursday.
The boys footing broke and he was
plunged into the barrel. The bucket
brought up the rear with a shower
bath, and the whole outfit rolled into
the gutter.
The peach crop is beginning to re-
veal it self, It's here and there might
loaded up to the beam with boxes this
morning. The Howard branch train |
delayed the regular Santa Fe passenger
fifteen or twenty minutes-all on ac-
count of peaches.
Some people imagine that the Sand
witch islands is where our sandwiches
are made. They evidently mean the
railroad eating house sandwiches found
along some of the lines of the Kansas
railroads, and reason that the time
elapsed in getting them here is what
hardens them. There's method, but
no truth i'll it.
Two young men employed as farm
hands on Fox creek, in Chase county,
got. into d dispute Tuesday evening,
when one of them called Hull, jerked
out knife and plunged it into the
heart of the other fellow called ChrOn-
ECKER, killing him instantly. The cause
of the dispute was mere trifle. Hull
was arrested.
AS an answer to d question which
has frequently been asked, we publish
the following list of salaries of this city:
Superintendent of schools 81 800; prin-
cipal of Highschool $685.; teachers in
high school $50, $65, $40, S75; 5th grade
teachers SIS; 3rd grade teachers $45 to
=
grade teachers $50 to $50; assistant
teachers $33b. These salaries with
the exception of superintendent are
by the month during the time the
schools are in session
According to the Lawrence Tribune
Prof Snow is authority for the state
ment that disease called 1.-The white
fungus has broken out among the
chiEch bugs that is destroying then
| by the millions wherever it has spread
) 1t is so called because the bugs at
tackled by it are covered with a white
: fungus, and soon die, covering whole
j. fields with their dead bodies. The pro
Y fessor boxed up number of the sicl
: bugs with some healthy ones, and in I
couple of days allhad died, thus prov
ing that the disease is contagious.
Il J. V. Saunders of Cottonwood Fall
was in the city Thursday afternoon. HI
says that Dan Triggs is in Jail at Cot
tonwood Falls and has not yet had
. preliminary hearing. The horse
stolen were the property of a couple O
men called Ryan living on Camp cree
in Chase county. The Ryans are sal
= to be slick, and had the horses picE
" eted out in hiding, trying to evade tn
officers who held executions agains
them. When in hiding, Triggs an
his pals, whoever they were, made
II sneak, and scoOped the entire LOT
Il fourteen head, and struck out 70
Oklahoma.
d On the 10Th of June, two men calm
y themselves Chas. Simpson and
n Elliott went to the home of Mrs
+ Hampton acolored wo man living fv
: miles south of Emporia, and producing
q q paper, said it was mortgage OF
y her four year old roam COW, which
q was over due. After considerably
a parleying they found the cow ant
drove her away. Mrs. Lampton'
y friends followed the matter up, anC
: found that the two men were Franz
4 E. Pugh and the notorious Tom Kin
nevan, and that the pretended mort
gage was IA hoax. The two wOrthie.
were arrested last evening and brought
before Judge Fletcher. who fixed theiI
: trial for Saturday morning. The
: charge against them is getting prop
erto under false pretenses.
3 Policeman Wood of Wichita, went tC
, the house of Mrs. Fuller to arrest
, her son for disturbance he had made
/, earlier in the day. Before the Officer
5 reached the house Mrs. Fuller bega1
= yelling at him. wanting to know ifhs
had q warrant for the arrest of her boy
{ AS he approached nearer she ran into
the house and closed the door. While