The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-02-07


Preparation for the spring elections
is already under way. Two women at
Abilene have registered.
Strange evidence at Fort Scott. The
Tribune and Monitor agree that the
KirmesS was a grand affair.
Captain John j. Boyd clerk of the
district court at Atchison died yesteT-
day morning at the age of 55s
Atchison has no cooking main, but
it will have dog fight soon in which
the stakes will be 500 side.
Scully the British landlord owns S0,-
600 acres of land in Butler, Marion,
Marshall and Dickinson counties.
Last Wednesday the Union Pacific
acquired control of the Leavenworth,
Topeka and Southwestern railroad.
A wonderful thing occurred at Salina.
A thief broke into a refrigerator and
stole everything in it but few bottles
of beer.
Noble Prentis calls the fellows who
exposed the penitentiary steal in the
Kansas City Times, 1.-The alumni of
the pen."
A seduction case in which the dam
ages are laid at 800, 900 is dividing at
tention at Wichita with the Brown
mystery.
James Martin, father of Ex-Governor
Martin had a fall off the porch the
other day at his home in Atchison that
may prove fatal.
T. j. Hume formerly an Atchison
barber has invented something new in
a cash register superior to anything of
the kind yet made.
G. W. Newman & Co., the largest
mercantile firm of Usage City, have
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Bros.-State Journal.
The state superintendent has decided
that teacher is not liable to expulsion
for opening school with prayer and the
reading of the scriptures.
The Leavenworth Sun is authority
for the statement that D. r. Anthony
would soon assume editorial control of
the LeaVenWorth Times.
Walt. Mason's new phrase "when
check meets check then comes the tug
of gall may be respectfully referred to
Jim Legate and j. r. Burton.
An Atchison paper makes a vigorous
kick against the slender physical pro-
portions of the actresses who are lately
appearing there in abbreviated COS
tune,
Lopez who denied in the witness
stand the confessions of fraud in the
penitentIary deals, is to be given a
place on Governor Martins paper the
Champion.
The White Caps have sent a threat
ming notice to the keeper of Topeka
boarding house. 1t is commonly be-
lieved that the boarders are the White
Caps in this case.
The Lawrence Journal tells of the
great possibilities in corn fodder. If
fod
off all the mortgages in western Kan
sas in ten years. Wonderful.
Hutchinson salt men will of course
order an investigation of the state
ment made by Belle Plain sheep man
to the effect that Hutchinson salt killed
100 head of sheep for him.
Another Brown a restaurant keeper
at Wichita has mysteriourly disap-
peared leaving a pretty and heart
broken wife and a good business.
Brown is fatal name in Wichita.
Winfield is nearly broken hearted
over the loss of the railroad ''soup
house." Let Arkansas City take away
it's court house and Jail, and its woeful
condition would be fearful to contem-
plate.
AS could be expected they are having
trouble at Fort Scott in connection
with the the Kirmess, but the female
head of the show has not yet attempted
to knock down any of the supes, as she
did in Wichita.
The vigor with which every town
and city in Kansas is striving to Sc
cure the new insane asylum would
seem to indicate that an additional in
stitutiOn of that sort is very badly
needed in that state.-Butts.
1t has been discovered that there is
not a Baptist, Unitarian. Lutheran,
Universalist, Catholic or Episcopaljan
in the Kansas senate. 1t is probably
not generally known, but the MethO-
dist is the state church in Kansas.-K.
@. Star.
Almerin Gillett of Emporia. whose
term as railroad commissioner expires
in April, desires reappOintment and
| is laboring for that purpose. If Mr..
Gillett ever failed to get anything he
wanted it must have happened before
he located in Kansas.-K. G. Star.
Woung Lee, Chinese laundryman
| at Emporia' held rattle at his place
the other night for $40 stand cover,
and drew the lucky number himself.
This PRECEDENT, however, should not
| induce any one else to shave their
heads for the purpose of keeping of
the flies.-Butts.
Four hundred dollars worth of time
was taken up yesterday by the Kansas
legislature in talking about an eight
hundred dollar appropriation for the
| Emporia Normal school. The subject
was then left in the same condition in
which it was found. Comment would
| be observation-disclosures Tribune.
Scene in prohibition Atchison: Two
men driving up Commercial street to-
day met man driving down, at Third
| street. When opposite each other.
they stopped, and after exchanging a
| few words one of them produced pint
of whiskey. from which they all drank
| in turn.-Globe.
The Office clerks in the state house
| at Topeka, with few exceptions, are
lazy shiftles set. No matter how in
dustriouS a young man may be, it
spOils him to work IN the state house.
He becomes time server, anxious for
quitting time to come, when he may
give himself up to industrious loafing.
Five minutes before the bell strikes
| for noon he begins to arrange his desk.
and promptly at the first stroke he is
/ in the wash room, and a moment later
is out and gone. Back at two o'clock,
he drags life until quitting time again,
when his round of pleasure begins. II
your boy has laundering for a state
/ house clerkShip, send him rather to the