EMPORIA NEWS.

[FROM JULY 2, 1869, THROUGH MAY 20, 1870.]

JACOB STOTLER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

[EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1870: STOTLER & WILLIAMS, EDITORS & PROPRIETORS....JACOB STOTLER/W. W. WILLIAMS.]

Emporia News, July 2, 1869.

SCALPED AT WASHITA.

What the Victim Says About It.

A victim of Indian vengeance in the present struggle along the borders and in the Territories, and one that will forever have cause to remember it, arrived in this city Saturday night, departing for his home in New York, near Bufield, Monroe County. His name is Delos G. Sanbertson, and he lost his scalp at the battle of Washita. He has been an inmate of Laramie hospital since that event, and was discharged about ten days ago by reason of the expiration of his term of service. He allowed the curious to examine his poll, and a look at the still red and tender spot from which the scalp was jerked away was not calculated to prejudice any person in favor of Ahar lifting.@ As but few persons have ever undergone the process and lived, perhaps the sensations experienced by Mr. Sandbertson will interest and enlighten. He says:

AI was in the infantry. Custer had command of the troops. There was quite a force of cavalry with us, but they were about a mile in the rear when we first discovered the reds. Some of the troops had been sent around so as to attack from the other side. The reds were camped in a sort of valley, and we were within eighty rods of them for half an hour before daybreak. Just in the gray of morning the firing commenced on both sides, and we had it all our own way for a few minutes, the cursed snakes being much confused, and not knowing what was up. At length they rallied, and we could hear Black Kettle shouting and ordering. The vermin got into holes and behind rocksCanywhere they could find a place, and began to fight with a will. We fired whenever we could see a top-knot, and shot squawsCthere were lots of themCjust as quick as Indians. We just went in for wiping out the whole gang.

AWhen it was fully daylight, we all gave a big yell and charged right down into camp. The lodges were all standing yet, and lots of Indians in them. As we ran through the alleys a big red jumped out at me from behind a tent, and before I could shorten up enough to run him through with my bayonet, a squaw grabbed me around the legs and twisted me down. The camp was then full of men fighting, and everybody seemed yelling as loud as he could. When I fell I went over backward, dropping my gun, and I had just got part way up again, the squaw yanking me by the hair, when the Indian clubbed my gun and struck me across the neck. He might just as well have run me through, but he wasn=t used to the bayonet, or didn=t think. The blow stunned me; it didn=t hurt me the least, but gave me a numb feeling all over. I couldn=t have got to my feet then if all alone, while the squaw kept screeching and pulling my hair out by the handful.

AI heard some of our boys shouting close by, and the squaw started and ranCone of the boys killing her not three rods off. The Indian stepped one foot on my chest, and with his hand gathered up the hair near the crown of my head. He wasn=t very tender about it, but jerked my head this way and that and pinched like Satan. My eyes were partially open, and I could see the bead work and trimming on his leggings. Suddenly I felt the awfulest biting, cutting flesh go on round my head, and then it seemed to me just as if my whole head had been jerked clean off. I never felt such pain in all my life; why it was like pulling your brains right out. I didn=t know anymore for two or three days, and then I came to, to find that I had the sorest head of any human being that ever lived. If the boys killed the viper, they didn=t get back my scalp; perhaps it got lost in the snow. I was shipped down to Laramie after a bit, and all the nursing I got haint made the hair grow out on this spot yet.@

Emporia News, July 9, 1869.

INDIAN MATTERS.

ST. LOUIS, July 3. General Sheridan has issued instructions derived from the General of the army to the following effect: All Indians when on their proper reservations are under the exclusive control of their agents. They will not be interfered with in any manner by the military authorities, except upon requisition of the special agent resident with them, his superintendent, or the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington. Outside the well defined limits of their reservation, they are under the original and exclusive jurisdiction of the military authorities, and as a rule will be considered hostile. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has instructed his superintendents and agents regarding Indians now on their reservations, and under their orders, and department commanders will make use of every means practicable to inform the Indians not on reservations of the wishes and intentions of the Government towards them, and of the location of their respective reservations. All Indians to whom this information has been given, who do not immediately remove to the reservations, will be regarded and treated as hostile, wherever they may be found, and particularly if they are near settlements on the great lines of communication. Department commanders will give such instructions as may be necessary for a perfect understanding of their duty under all circumstances on the part of post and detachment commanders.

Emporia News, July 9, 1869.

Someone mistakenly remarks that the fourth of July occurred in 1776, and that the Declaration was signed on a Sunday. This is not the fact. The Fourth of July, 1776, occurred on Thursday. The Congress began its discussion of the subject on Monday the 1st, on Tuesday the 2nd Aresolved that these United colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent States,@ on the 3rd the form discussed, and on Thursday, the Fourth, the document was signed.

Emporia News, July 9, 1869.

LETTER FROM PIKE TOWNSHIP....Plymouth, July 6, 1869.

Typing up only part of article.

AOn leaving town this morning to go to the southeast part of the township on business, we noticed a new house going up in town which we learn belongs to Joe C. Bailey, of Clinton County, Ohio...an excellent painter.

A. . . Leaving the main road we soon found ourself at J. H. Phenis=. He has his fine residence nearly finished, which reminds us very much of the more eastern States. Now, Jim, if you will only hang some good gates in the place of those old slab bars, >it=ll seem more like it.=

Other places visited: A. G. Pickett=s; L. M. Garlinghouse; G. W. Kirkendall.

AWe noticed on the old Phenis farm, now owned by Fred Workman, some splendid looking wheat. . . . This is a handsome farm situated on the east bank of Phenis= creek.@

Emporia News, July 9, 1869.

MORE INJUNCTIONS. The Lawrence Republican Journal of a late issue says:

AWe don=t like to hear about injunctions. It is an unpleasant subject to write about. It is with great dissatisfaction that we learn that the stockholders in the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road talk of getting out an injunction against giving to Willis Gaylord, Pomeroy=s brother-in-law, 100,000 acres of Pottawatomie lands, which, as we understand, he claims as attorney=s fees, or something of the kind. Of course, no one supposes that Gaylor ever did service amounting in value to 100,000 acres of Pottawatomie lands, or that if he should receive a title to the lands they would long remain in his possession. It is convenient for a Senator to have a brother-in-law through whom to do business. The brother-in-law system is an excellent one. AAnd then came@ the Rev. Moses Brown, Acollecting Indian funds@ and Apropagating the gospel.@

By all means let us have the injunction or something else that will cause Pomeroy=s transactions in the above matter, as well as other land grants, to be sifted. If he is guilty of the corruption charged, the people want to know it; if he is not, they want to know it. The public are not governed by motives of spite or jealousy. It is due to them that the truth should be know. Let us have the injunctions.

Emporia News, July 9, 1869.

Geo. Estes offers some of those fine cattle of his for sale.

The express office will hereafter be found at the office of H. B. Lowe, on Commercial street between Seventh and Eighth avenues.

That fine team that is often seen on our streets belongs to Harry Norton. Although Mr. Norton is continually pressed with business, he yet has time to take an occasional drive, always remembering his friends when he does so. We thank him for a ride to the grove on the 4th.

Emporia News, July 9, 1869.

Large numbers of Texas cattle drovers are passing through town every few days on their return to Texas. These drovers, after disposing of their cattle at Abilene, invariably return by this route to Fort Gibson and then home. Intelligent cattle dealers tell us that as soon as A. T.& S. F. Railroad is completed to this place, it will be nearer and more advantageous for drovers to bring their cattle here to ship them. This road will undoubtedly secure this vast trade as soon as it is built.

Emporia News, July 16, 1869.

Messrs. Kellogg & Norton, of the Normal School, have the contract for editing and publishing the Educational Journal for two years. It will be published at THE NEWS office.

Emporia News, July 23, 1869.

THE LATE INDIAN FIGHT.

Omaha dispatches say that Gen. Augur returned from Fort Sedgwick on the 18th. Gen. Carr=s victory is more complete than first reported. Over 4,000 horses and mules were captured, with a large quantity of powder, and nearly five tons of buffalo meat. Among the killed is the noted chief, Standing Bull. About $900 in money was found in the camp, which was given to Mrs. Weizal, a white woman recaptured. This was the same body of Indians who last year fought Gen. Forsythe, and recently committed depredations in Kansas.

Lieutenant Beecher, of the Pioneer Scouts, reports meeting small numbers of Sioux Indians on the Republican. Three of them were killed and three wounded.

[Weizal...Weizel...Weitzel???]

Emporia News, July 23, 1869.

Charley Sipes, as a velocipedestrian, is a success.

Emporia News, July 23, 1869.

ALL ABOARD. Hank Lowe is Ticket Agent for all Eastern railroads and will sell through tickets for all points East. Persons desiring through railroad tickets over any of the railroad lines will find it to their advantage to consult Mr. Lowe. The stages are now making close connections with the railroad at Carbondale, and by buying through tickets here there is no necessity of any delay in traveling to any point East, North, or South. Office, on Commercial street.

Emporia News, July 30, 1869.

A company of State militia is to be stationed at Marion Center for the protection of the border against Indians.

Emporia News, July 30, 1869.

J. C. Topliff, of Aurora, Illinois, has been spending several days in town, looking for a business location.

Emporia News, July 30, 1869.

F. G. Hunt, who has been traveling extensively of late in the southwest, says he never saw such crops as we are having this year.

Emporia News, July 30, 1869.

H. E. Norton, of Emporia, publishes each month a neat little real estate paper full of good matter. He is one of the most reliable real estate men in the State, and is selling a great deal of land. Topeka Record.

Emporia News, August 6, 1869.

CHEROKEE NEUTRAL LANDS.

Hon. Sidney Clarke, Honest John Speer, Major H. C. Whitney, and others are down on the Cherokee Neutral Lands passing resolutions and making buncombe speeches. Accounts of their doings appear from day to day in the Lawrence Tribune. We learn from that paper that AHon. Sidney Clarke=s popularity was attested by the deafening cheers that greeted his appearance on the platform,@ and that John Speer gave a short and telling speech, that was frequently interrupted with uproarious applause, and was greeted at the close with a cheer that made the old woods ring.

Senator Pomery was burned in effigy. It was stated that as he had abused the trust reposed in him by the people of Kansas, by sacrificing their interests to the greed of monopolists and speculators, and further, by many dishonest acts, had rendered his name a disgrace and reproach to the State, the citizens of Southern Kansas would thee attest their detestation of his course by publicly burning him in effigy.

Alas for AOld Beans.@ He has been picked and cooked, so there is nothing left of him but a little wind.

Resolutions were passed requesting Senators Ross and Pomeroy to resign their seats in the Senate and no longer disgrace the people of Kansas by their misdeeds.

All this was done at Jacksonville, on the 28th of July, when there was an AImmense outpouring of the people.@

Emporia News, August 6, 1869.

PERSONAL. Generals Sturges and Custer of the U. S. Army; Col. Hale, of Junction City; Chief Engineer Robinson, of the Neosho Valley Railroad, and others were in town during the week.

Emporia News, August 6, 1869.

Mr. Newman, of the firm of Newman & Houghton, has gone East after a large stock of goods.

Emporia News, August 6, 1869.

Max Fawcett is agent for the Vineland Nursery, near Lawrence, and has all kinds of trees, shrubs, and flowers for sale.

Emporia News, August 13, 1869.

CLARKE AND THE TREATIES.

It becomes more evident every day that Mr. Sidney Clarke has acted the demagogue in the matter of the Joy land swindle and the Osage Treaty. He has lately been down among the settlers on that land fomenting discord and mob spirit. An interesting article on his recent action, from the Missouri Democrat, as well as an extract from his speech to the settlers, may be found in today=s paper. The sequel to his late move is found in his nomination for the U. S. Senate. The Lawrence Journal gives the following two items to show the position Mr. Clarke formerly occupied on the Joy purchase.

AUnder the circumstances which Mr. Clarke will never ask us to relate, he stated on a certain occasion, in the city of Philadelphia, that he must hurry back to Washington to help make the Joy purchase. Cicero, in his great oration against the conspirator, Catiline, asked: AWhere were you last night; where were you the night before; in whose councils were you; by whom were you surrounded?@ Clarke will never ask us who was with him in the city of Philadelphia on that occasion, by whom he was surrounded, to whose syren songs he was then listening, and what pleasure he was then enjoying, when he made the remark that he must hurry back to Washington to help consummate the Joy purchase.@

Further than this, Mr. Clarke, in his railroad speech at Paola, September 8, 1865, used the following language:

AThis policy ought, and I think will, secure to your road (the Border Tier) by treaty, valuable Indian land in Miami and Johnson counties, and the CHEROKEE NEUTRAL and other Indian lands south of Bourbon county. The OSAGE LANDS, west of the Cherokee Neutral Lands, should, in like manner, BE CEDED TO THE LEAVENWORTH, LAWRENCE & GALVESTON ROAD. What I can accomplish to this end as your Representative in the Lower House of Congress, I shall labor earnestly to do.@

The Journal further remarks:

AAs to the Osage treaty, the charge has been made direct by one of the first and most prominent Republicans of the State that Clarke did offer to sell, but the terms of purchase could not be agreed upon. This question can be settled by a committee of investigation. Will Mr. ClarkeCdare he ask for a committee of inquiry?@

Emporia News, August 13, 1869.

THE LAND TROUBLES.

The reports from Kansas of meetings in the Neutral land region, and of the movements and speeches of Hon. Sidney Clarke, the member from that State, indicate that he proposes to attempt a division of the Republican party. We do not put much confidence in the accuracy of these reports. We know how intense and bitter is the personal warfare in Kansas, and how reckless some people are in their statements when very much excited. But two assertions, from two different quarters, deserves especial notice. The press dispatch from Leavenworth, which ought not to be biased or distorted by either faction, says that the meeting held on the Neutral lands, resolutions were passed unanimously denouncing Mr. Joy, the Senate, and particularly Ross and Pomeroy, asking them to resign, appointing Aa new and independent State Central Committee,@ and Acutting loose from the Republican party.@ A letter to the Lawrence Journal, asserts that Mr. Clarke, in the course of a speech at Iowa City to some Leaguers, said:

AI do not advise violence to be used to prevent the construction of the Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad through the lands occupied by the settlers; but I do advise you to stand firm and united to a man, and no road ever can be built without your consent. Why? Because if a weary traveler should come along, and wishing to rest, sits down upon a pile of railroad ties, and, while smoking his pipe, a spark should happen to fall and burn up the ties, could anyone blame you for it, and say you were using violence to prevent the construction of the road? I reckon not. Or suppose the prairie grass should, by some such accident as the burning of the ties, take fire and burn up the wagons, tents, and the instruments of the engineers, could that be charged to you? I think not. Now, whoever heard of the railroad car running through a country (when the inhabitants did not want them) without rails or ties? I never did. Yet I don=t advise force to prevent this most damnable railroad swindle, but I know that these accidents do and will happen in the best regulated communities. Now, gentlemen, if any such thing should happen to this swindling road, you must all be in bed and asleep when it happens, or as soon after as possible.@

The same letter says that at the close of Mr. Clarke=s speech, a motion was carried, nominating him for the next United States Senator from Kansas. Now the term of Mr. Ross expires in 1871, and that of Mr. Pomeroy in 1873.

It is very proper to ask whether these statements are true or not. They come from responsible sources, but we are not disposed, without the most convincing proof, to believe that Mr. Clarke would use such atrocious language as is here attributed to him. Nor do we wish to believe that, in the hope of ousting somebody else and reaching the Senate, he has permitted friends who nominate him for that position, at a meeting where he was present, to adopt resolutions Acutting loose from the Republican party@ without any protest on his part. Either these statements are entirely untrue, or Mr. Clarke has himself cut loose from the only class of men who can ever successfully support any body in KansasC the sober, honest, and law-abiding Republicans. There are enough of them to swamp any party of railroad burners or law defilers at any election. There are enough of them to teach any whom it may concern that Mr. Pomeroy does not own the Republican part of Kansas, and that Mr. Clarke cannot break it up. It is high time for uneasy politicians to remember that the people care not a button for their selfish wrangles, and value men only when they suppose them to be faithful representatives of great and just principles.

We have spoken frequently and frankly of the corruption of the generation of Kansas politicians who followed in the footsteps of Lane. These men seem to think that it is the height of folly to waste anything like good faith, sincerity, or honesty, in a political struggle; that principles are merely the painted cards with which the game is played; that the good people are made to be cheated; that government is an institution devised for cheating them, and that he is the greatest statesman who can cheat them most thoroughly. Until Kansas shuffles that sort of men under the ground, politically, it will continue to be a political Botany Bay. That Mr. Pomeroy has served himself rather than the people of Kansas, they ought by this time to know; if they do not, nothing that we can say would enlighten them.

Charges of serious character have also been made against Mr. Clarke, but in regard to the Osage treaty we recently gave his own account and denial. We do not wish to think that he is the man to speak as he is represented to have spoken to the Leaguers. As we have often said, we think the Joy treaty a swindle, and hope Mr. Clarke, with the evidence gathered from the Indians, will be able to induce the Government to set the matter right. But because the treaty was wrong, it does not follow that it is right to resort to violence, outrage, and defiance of law to prevent the building of a railroad, and we hope Mr. Clarke has not been counseling a people already reckless and lawless enough, to any such course. It is the misfortune of Kansas that no such question can there be considered, as it might be elsewhere, calmly, temperately, and with regard for order and law, but it must always be seized upon by demagogues and hungry politicians to make political capital for themselves. In opposing the custom of selling Indian lands by treaty ratified by the Senate only in secret session, Mr. Clarke has done right. In denouncing the Osage treaty, he has done right. But if he has been advising Leaguers to violence or lawlessness; or if he has been planning a division of the Republican party, he will find that he has taken one step too much.

Emporia News, August 13, 1869.

Paper indicates that fall term of State Normal School will begin September 13, 1869, and that L. B. Kellogg will be principal again and H. B. Norton will be associate principal.

Emporia News, August 13, 1869.

Newman & Houghton are now selling off their present stock of goods very cheap, to make room for a large and complete stock which their Mr. Newman is now purchasing in New York and Boston.

Emporia News, August 13, 1869.

Big article re EMPORIA NEWS getting the first power press in the Neosho Valley from George Taylor & S. P. Rounds, of Chicago, Illinois. He gave thanks to his friends: Harry Norton, Major E. P. Bancroft, Col. P. B. Plumb, Major Wright, Profs. Kellogg and Norton, and others not named.

Emporia News, August 13, 1869.

On Monday last Col. L. N. Robinson bought of Mr. M. Roberts, of this place, seven lots formerly owned by Prof. Norton, in the northeastern portion of town, for $2,500. Mr. Roberts bought them of Mr. Norton some three months ago, for $1,000. We sold one of these lots two or three years ago for $15. . . .

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

GOOD NEWS FOR KANSAS.

By private letter from Washington we learn that the surveyed portion of the Osage Reservation known as the Atwenty mile strip,@ is now open to settlement, under instructions from the Interior Department, to the local Land Offices, dated June 3, 1869, the material portions of which we quote below.

A1. That the said resolution is designed to protect and secure the rights of bona fide actual settlersCcitizens of the United States, or who have declared their intentions, where such settlement claims may be duly proved and paid for at any time prior to the 10th of April, 1871, the period of limitation fixed in the aforesaid resolution, except where a valid adverse right exists.

A2. The late Secretary of the Interior, under date November 8, 1867, ruled that in virtue of the acts of Congress approved March 3, 1863, and July 26, 1865, the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston, and Union Pacific Southern Branch railroads were entitled to the odd numbered sections along the line of their routes which fall within the tract of country ceded by the first article of the treaty with the Osage Indians of September 29, 1865, the sections in place restricted to ten miles additional.

AThe Department decides that the aforesaid ruling of 8th November, 1867, is of controlling authority, and consequently that the rights of said companies are protected by the last proviso of the aforesaid joint resolution.

AThe withdrawal for the above named roads, viz: Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston, and Union Pacific Southern Branch, was made by letter of January 21, 1868, and became effective from February 4, 1868, the date of its receipt at your office.

ATherefore the lands thus withdrawn and awarded by the Secretary=s decision are to be regarded as set apart for said companies, with the exception of any such tracts on which actual settlement may have been made prior to said withdrawal. Such prior settlements of this class being protected by the act of 27th March, 1854, >for the relief of settlers on lands reserved for railroad purposes.=

AThe 16th and 36th sections are reserved by said resolution for school purposes, and are to be respected accordingly, having due regard, however, for the rights of settlers coming within the terms of the resolution of March 3, 1857 (stat. vol. 2, page 254), wherein it is provided that where settlements are made upon any portion of such 16th and 36th sections prior to survey, the settler shall have the right to purchase the tracts settled upon or occupied, >as if such sections had not been previously reserved for school purposes.=@

It will be seen that anyone, no matter if he has exercised the right of pre-emption, who settles upon this land can obtain the same, by proving settlement and cultivation, and paying $1.25 per acre cash, prior to April 10, 1871. The only excepted portions are sections 16 and 36, which are reserved for common schools, and the odd numbered sections along the line of L. L. & G. and U. P. S. B. railroads. The reservation for railroads only affects Neosho and Labette Counties, while all the land except school land, in the southern part of Sedgwick, Butler, and Greenwood, and the northern part of Howard, and nearly all of Wilson Counties is open for settlement.

This will be good news for the hundreds of settlers now on the land, and for thousands of others who are awaiting this opportunity. We are personally acquainted with a large portion of this land, and we unhesitatingly state that thee is no better in the country. It is well watered by such streams as the Neosho, Verdigris, Fall River, Walnut, Whitewater, Little and Big Arkansas. These all have numerous branches, nearly all of which are well timbered, and whose valleys, varying in width with the size of the streams, are as rich as any in the State.

The great bulk of these lands lie west of a line running south from this place, and this is the direct route for the vast tide of immigration which will soon settle up this magnificent domain. Within three years, the Aseat of empire@ in this State will be in the Neosho and Cottonwood valleys. Mark the prediction. Bancroft & Co.=s Real Estate Register.

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

LETTER FROM FRIEND STANLEY.

FRIEND STOTLER: I came here with John Butler, of Salem, Ohio, and Achilles Pugh, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who have been appointed by the Executive Committee of the Yearly Meetings of Friends to visit the different tribes of Indians in the Central Superintendency, in order to encourage them to come and remain on their reservations and adopt the habits of civilized and Christianized society, and cease from their hostilities towards the whites and the Indians. As friends and advocates of the cause of peace on earth and good will to man, we feel called upon thus to labor in accordance with our well known and peaceable principles; and advise and encourage our friends who have lately been appointed to the important positions of Indian agents to the faithful discharge of their duties in every respect.

We have procured the services of William Griffienstein, as pilot to the Indian Territory, to assist us in carrying out our mission amongst the Indians. The above named will likely return from the Indian Territory in four or five weeks.

Three of the President=s Committee to visit the Indians, etc., have gone out to Fort Hays and will from there have an escort to the Indian Territory, where we will likely meet with them from time to time. I have lately received a letter from Lowrie Tatum, agent of the Kiowa and Comanche Indians, who wishes me to come there and assist him in his agency; and as I have felt at times it would be right for me to spend some time among those who have been Plains Indians, in order to assist, as opportunity offered, to encourage them in adopting civilized habits and also instruct them in the teachings of our dear Savior, and tell them of the blessings conferred upon the Christian, etc., I concluded to go.

We left Topeka about 2 o=clock p.m., on the 27th of 7th month, and passed through Emporia on the morning of the 29th. Our friends liked the appearance of the place, and we made some addition to our supplies. They had never camped out before we started on this trip, but they enjoy it well. We crossed at the Baker Ford on Cottonwood, and on to Bazaar, El Dorado, and Wichita, near the mouth of the Little Arkansas. Near this place we met several droves of cattle. I found much more improvement along the roads than I expected.

At Wichita we met a messenger with letters from General Hazen, requesting us to go by where Agent Darlington lives, and take him to Camp Supply, and on our way look out for a location for the Cheyenne and Arapaho agency.,

After leaving the Arkansas River and going south we found the country more level and sandy; but some good, rich land until we came down nearly to the south line of Kansas, where we found the country not so good, and in many places barren spots. From about the south line of Kansas, we came in the prairie dog region, where it is said that the dogs, owls, rabbits, and rattlesnakes all live together, in their houses dug out in the ground. We saw many of the dogs, which are about the size of a polecat. We also saw some of the owls. The buffalo grass prevails over this region, and the soil appeared to be a hard, tough clay, very much like our land in Lyon County where the short grass grows.

I am now about 25 miles south of the north line of the Indian Territory, and from here I expect to go about 160 miles south, to the Comanche, Kiowa, and Wichita agency.

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

There is quite a large tribe of Indians living in the central part of Iowa. They are of the Musquakies, and number about four hundred. They own about three hundred acres of land, near Orford, in Tama county. The squaws cultivate the land, while the men lounge about at their ease, and eat up what the women raise.

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

M. G. Mains, who lately visited this place, writes his impressions of the country as follows, in the Indiana Herald.

From Burlington we traveled up the Neosho Valley to Emporia, the county seat of Lyon County. This valley is to Kansas what the Wabash valley is to IndianaCleaving out the Ahager.@ It is certainly the most beautiful and productive valley your correspondent ever saw. . . It is down this lovely valley the Southern Branch Pacific Railway is being rapidly built. By the first of January, next, the cars will be running from Junction City, on the Kansas Pacific Road, through Emporia to Burlington, and the entire line will, no doubt, be completed in a very short time. . . .

[FOR SOME TIME PAPER HAS PRINTED RUMORS RE ANOTHER PRINTER COMING TO EMPORIA.]

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

J. C. Fraker has bought the store of goods of C. V. Eskridge, and the old corner is closed up. The Governor retires from business, having accumulated a sufficient amount of this world=s goods to enable him to spend the declining years of his life in peace and happiness.

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

[News from Americus dated August 11, 1869.]

Gen. Geo. A. Custer and Capt. Amos S. Kimball bought thirty-five lots in Americus last week.

Emporia News, August 27, 1869.

A STRANGE STORY.

Reappearance of a Man Stolen by Indians Thirty-Three Years Ago.

Thirty-three years ago there lived in Lewiston, Logan County, a farmer by the name of Harris Hopkins, who had a child, a boy, between three and four years of age. One day while the farmer was at work in a field some distance from the farm-house, the boy started from the house across the field to see his father. The last seen of the little fellow was when he left the house. Hundreds of people turned out to search for the lost child. The river was dragged, the woods searched, reward offered, but all to no purpose. After days of weary and anxious search, the little fellow was given up by the parents and sympathizing friends. The few Indians living in that neighborhood were friendly and peaceable, and no suspicion ever attached to them, and the affair was forgotten or only talked of as a mysterious disappearance.

The Hopkins family at length left their old home and settled in Illinois, and up to ten days ago none of their old neighbors in Logan County had expected to see any member of the family again. The astonishment of the old settlers in and about the neighborhood can be conceived when, week before last, a tall man, browned by exposure to sun and storm, and speaking the broken English of the half-civilized Indians, made his appearance at Lewiston, and claimed to be the child missed 33 years ago.

He stated that a Cherokee Indian, wandering through that section, had enticed him from the field as he was going in search of his father, and had carried him to the far west. The old chief had treated him as his own son, and having been taken away at so young an age, the memory of his parents and former life had faded from his mind. For thirty odd years he lived as an Indian, and supposed that he was the son of the old chief who claimed to be his father. A few months since the chief, then high in rank in the Cherokee Nation, and very advanced in age, found himself on his death-bed. Shortly before he died he called his adopted son to his bedside, and informed him who and what he was.

As soon as the old chief was dead and buried, Hopkins came to Logan County in search of his parents, whom he found had moved to Champaign City, Illinois. He, however, remained during last week at Lewiston, to gratify the curiosity of the old settlers, who had aided in the search for him 33 years ago. His reappearance has caused quite as much excitement in Logan County as did his sudden and mysterious disappearance a third of a century ago. Sandusky (Ohio) Register, July 28.

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

WHO NAMED OUR COLLEGES.

RECAP:

Harvard College, named after John Harvard, who, in 1838, left to the college 779 pounds and a library of over 300 books.

Williams College, named after Col. Ephraim Williams, a soldier of the old French war.

Dartmouth College, named after Lord Dartmouth, who subscribed a large amount, and was President of the First Board of Trustees.

Brown University, from Hon. Nicholas Brown, a graduate of the college, went into business, became very wealthy, and endowed the college very largely.

Columbia College, called King=s College till the close of the war for Independence, received the name of Columbia.

Bowdoin College, named after Gov. Bowdoin, of Maine.

Yale College named after Elihu Yale, who made very liberal donations to the College.

Colby University, formerly Waterville College, named after Mr. Colby, of Boston, who gave $50,000 to the college in 1866.

Dickinson College, from Hon. John Dickinson. He made a very liberal donation to the college, and was President of the Board of Trustees for a number of years.

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

Admiral Farragut has recently admitted, in a complimentary letter to Admiral Bailey, that the latter officer is entitled to all the credit for the capture of New Orleans.

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

One-tenth of the population of New York are paupers.

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

A correspondent of the New York Tribune, after enumerating the various railroads in which Mr. James F. Joy is a heavy stockholder, says: AHis aim is to secure one unbroken line, of uniform gauge, from Boston to Galveston, TexasCa work second only to the Pacific Railway in magnitude and importance.@

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

A dispatch from Camp Supply, Indian Territory, states that the Peace Commissioners had a most important meeting with the Cheyennes and Arapahos, at which a large number of chiefs were present, and the results are reported favorable.

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

A Washington dispatch says the agitation of the question of removing the capital has had a demoralizing effect upon the property owners and capitalists there. They begin to think that the Western men are really in earnest, and that unless some action is taken, the removal will be accomplished. An effort will be made to organize a movement to defeat it, and some money will be contributed by capitalists and property holders, like Corcoran, Riggs, and Henry D. Cooke.

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

KANSAS NEWS ITEMS.

The taxable property of Kansas is estimated at $75,000,000.

Oil has been struck again at Ft. Scott. We hope nobody is hurt.

The Leavenworth Commercial says: AWe are credibly informed that the authorities at Washington, influenced by Gen. Sherman=s representations, are seriously contemplating the establishment of an arsenal at Ft. Leavenworth, which shall be the point of supply of the military force operating out on the plains and the country west of the Missouri.@

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

STARTLING NEWS. Various rumors of bank failures, suspension of work on the railroad, and other exciting stories have been afloat in our community for some days past; but the most startling intelligence has just reached us. It has just been ascertained, for a certainty, that Newman & Houghton=s new goods, direct from New York, have reached Topeka, and next week there will be offered at the old stand of Newman & Houghton the largest and finest stock of dry goods, carpets, hats and caps, boots and shoes, etc., ever seen or heard of in Southern Kansas, which will be sold so low as to astonish all the world and the rest of mankind. Come and see for yourselves.

Emporia News, August 20, 1869.

[Clipping from a local correspondent for the Commonwealth.]

Col. Robinson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern Superintendency, has purchased a fine building site in town, where he intends to erect an elegant residence this fall. The Colonel is a brother-in-law of our esteemed townsman and banker, S. B. Riggs, Esq.

Emporia News, September 3, 1869.

C. M. Wood, of Douglass, Butler County, Kansas, was in our office this week. He says the Atwenty mile strip@ is all taken in that county, and that the country is filling up and improving rapidly.

Emporia News, September 3, 1869.

We had the pleasure, this week, of meeting the father, mother, and sisters of our fellow citizen, Prof. H. B. Norton. They seem to be much pleased with Kansas, and say that in all crops we are far ahead of Illinois, this year. We hope they will have a pleasant visit among our people, and we shall not be much surprised to hear that they have concluded to become citizens of our State.

Emporia News, September 3, 1869.

SOMETHING NEW. In this age of improvement and progress, almost every day brings something new. Among other new things Newman & Houghton have just received from New York a splendid stock of carpetings, mattings, oil cloths, table covers, etc., which the ladies of Emporia and vicinity are particularly invited to call and examine. A full line of domestics, dress, and fancy goods will be opened in a few days. Also a large and carefully selected stock of hats, caps, boots, shoes, and clothing. Please call and see our goods and prices.

Emporia News, September 3, 1869.

O. P. Houghton has bought out the interest of I. D. Fox in the late store of McMillan & Fox. The new firm may be found in the old room near the courthouse, with a heavy stock, and always ready for business.

Emporia News, September 3, 1869.

O. P. HOUGHTON, of the firm of Newman & Houghton, would respectfully inform his old customers and friends, and the public generally, that he has purchased the interest of I. D. Fox in the establishment of McMillan & Fox, No. 128 Commercial street. I shall take equally as much pleasure in selling groceries and woolen goods at my new place of business as I did in measuring calico at my former place.

I have decided, after deliberate consideration, that a city life in Emporia, surrounded by so many congenial spirits, is preferable to herding Texas cattle on the frontier.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

IMPORTANT LAW SUIT. We learn from an authentic source that Mrs. Thompson, who was the first settler on the present town site of Oswego, in Labette County, is going to contest the right, in the United States Land Office, of the Oswego Town Company, or any person claiming under them, to enter the land. We understand that she was the first settler on the town site; that she never sold or disposed of her right, or was in any manner identified with the Oswego Town Company. These are significant facts, and are of material interest to the inhabitants of that beautiful young city. Several new and important questions will arise in the trial of the case, which will be of vital interest, not only to the citizens of Oswego, but to the citizens of most of the other towns on the Osage lands, the most important of which will be the right of any town company to enter any portion of the Osage lands. The joint resolution passed by Congress, April 10, 1869, enabling settlers to enter their lands, is entirely silent with regard to the rights of town companies or corporations of any kind. If the land office should decide adverse to the title of town companies, it will be productive of great hardship to the citizens of many of the towns on the Osage lands.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

General Rawlins, Secretary of War, died at Washington on Monday afternoon.

General Sherman, it is stated, will act as Secretary of War as interim. General G. M. Dodge of Iowa will probably be appointed to the position.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

A QUESTION OF VERACITY.

A few days ago the Leavenworth Bulletin published the following letter, which it says was written by Senator Pomery, just before the time of the impeachment trial.

U. S. SENATE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON, April 16, 1867.

DEAR LEGATE: I want you to see the P. M. General in person and ask him for the P. O. at Leavenworth, and if he will give it to you today, he may count on my support for his nominations, and should either himself or the President get into trouble, even if it be impeachment, they can count on me to get them out, by word and vote, and you may say so to him. Don=t go home without making the trial.

I sent for you last night, but could not find you. Burn this as soon as you have read it.

Very respectfully, S. C. POMEROY.

True copy: CORNELIUS WENDELL.

The publication of this letter caused considerable consternation among that class of people who had heretofore had confidence in Mr. Pomeroy=s radicalism. One J. F. LegateC

ADear Legate@Cthan whom there is perhaps not a bigger political shyster in the State, rushed into print with a denial, charging that the letter was a forgery. This denial, however, had not the effect of convincing the public in the slightest degree that the letter was not genuine. The Senator, well knowing that Legate=s Acertificate of character@ would be rather damaging than otherwise, comes to the rescue in the following card, which we find in the telegrams.

AThe above slip, containing what purports to be a letter from me to one Mr. Legate, concerning the Leavenworth post office, and my promised support of the President, is, as I have once or twice before published, entirely false, from the first word to the last. Not one sentence, or word, or syllable, was ever seen or written by me or by my sanction. A baser forgery could not be perpetrated, as I have proved before a committee of the House of Representatives, of which Hon. B. F. Butler was chairman, called, I think, the Investigating Committee, and I defy them to produce the letter in my handwriting, or of my signature.

The Missouri Democrat=s Washington correspondent has the following in relation to the matter.

Gentlemen of this city (Washington) to whom ex-Postmaster General Randall explained his connection with the alleged letter of Senator Pomeroy to Legate, gives Randall=s version of the story. He says that Cornelius Wendell was in his room at the Post Office Department, when the alleged letter of Pomeroy to Legate was shown him. He asserted that he knew the Senator=s handwriting well and that the original was in that handwriting; that he insisted upon having the letter or a copy. The original was refused, but at Randall=s request, Wendell made a copy in his presence and certified to it. Randall afterwards took the copy to the President and explained his possession of it. This was in the presence of a gentleman now in the city.

The Topeka Record throws more light on the subject, and administers some wholesome advice to the Senator. We confess the matter looks a little bad for Mr. Pomeroy. Of course, he is an interested party, and his denial is therefore to be taken with that degree of allowance which should be accorded to a man pleading his own case. The Record says:

AThe Senator is no doubt perfectly safe in Adefying@ anyone to bring forth the original letter; for, as we are informed, he, by some means, induced Legate to return said document to him; and (we presume) he destroyed it. But there are several photographic copies of the valuable missive in existence, which Cornelius Wendell went to the expense of obtaining, and which are scattered around among Kansas men as souvenirs. If the defiant Senator would like to see one of those facsimiles, we think we can put him on the track of it without any trouble. And furthermore, we repeat the fact stated a few days ago, that a prominent citizen of Topeka,Ca gentleman whose testimony cannot be impeached,Cstands ready to make affidavit that he saw and read the original letter while it was in the hands of Legate, and that the copy as recently published is, he verily believes, substantially correct. If Senator Pomeroy would like to have the name of the party, he can get it by asking us for it.

We have no desire to do Senator Pomeroy or any other man injustice; but we are anxious to see the much-talked-of corruption of Kansas politics uncovered and laid bare to the public gaze, no matter whose reputation may suffer thereby. And now, since Senator Pomeroy, after so long a silence, has entered the field to defend himself against one charge, we hope he will not subside until he has given some attention to the numerous other accusations equally as important as this, that have from time to time been brought against him, and which are referred to regularly day after day by nine-tenths of the newspapers in Kansas. But it will not do to dismiss these charges with Adefiant@ denials. They are surrounded by circumstances and backed up by evidence that cannot be swept away by explanations so full and explicit as to leave not the shadow of a doubt.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

THE PRICE RAID COMMISSION.

Report to the Governor.

Your commission, appointed under an act of the Legislature, entitled an Act to provide for the auditing, settlement, and assumption of the Price Raid Claims of October, 1864, and the Indian Expedition of July and August, 1864, under command of Major General Curtis, approved Feb. 29, 1869, would respectfully make the following report of their action.

Your commission have acted, and registered claims numbering five hundred and eighty-three, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of ninety-seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventy-four cents ($97,871.74). Of this amount we have allowed fifty-seven thousand, four hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty-two cents ($57,415.82) as follows: For material, supplies and transportation, twenty-eight thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars and fourteen cents ($28,474.14). Damages sustained twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty-one cents ($27,832.51), and of miscellaneous claims, one thousand one hundred and nine dollars and seventeen cents ($1,109.17).

In addition to this, allowed on muster and pay rolls, and not included in the aggregate, the sum of fourteen thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-two cents ($14,946.72).

In our action we have not been governed so much by prescribed forms as what we deemed just and equitable between the State and claimants, as our construction of the law permitted our action to take considerable latitude.

At the same time we have required written vouchers to establish each and every claim coming before us.

Our action in some cases was governed by circumstances surrounding and such outside information as we could obtain.

Our labors have necessarily been of a very tedious character, from the fact that two commissions preceded ours, and many claims coming before us in duplicate and sometimes triplicate vouchers. To avoid allowing claims a second time has required a great amount of investigation and reviewing.

The total expenses of the commission have amounted in the aggregate to the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars and ninety-two cents ($1,250.92).

We remain very respectfully your obedient servants.

LEVI WOODARD,

THOS. S. TAYLOR,

DAVID WHITAKER.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

LETTER FROM FRIEND STANLEY.

KIOWA AND COMANCHE AGENCY, NEAR FORT SILL, 8th Mo., 23rd, 1869.

RESPECTED FRIEND, JACOB STOTLER:

I arrived here eight days ago, after a rather tedious journey. Just after getting into the northern part of this Territory, we crossed Salt Fork, which is quite a wide stream, with a very sandy bottom; but when we crossed it, the water was low. The water is said to be quite salty. After traveling ten miles we crossed a small creek called Shawnee, and sixteen miles further on we came to Shelton Creek, where a number of Shawnees had died with the cholera two years ago. From there to Read Fork we crossed some small streams and passed about twenty-three hundred head of Texas cattle. While we were stopping near the drovers, they caught a grey wolf with a lasso and brought it into camp. It is about sixty miles from Salt Fork to Read Fork. We tasted the water of Read Fork and found it to be quite salty. The Texas cattle trail comes in on the north side of Read Fork, and from here to Washita the Texas cattle have been driven along the road that is traveled by the trains hauling goods and provisions to this place and Fort Arbuckle. Some of them have been heavy losers by the Texas fever getting among their oxen. In one case, nearly all the oxen in the train, about one hundred and fifty head, died, and the teamsters had to get the mule teams from the Fort to haul their goods the rest of the way. From Read Fork to North Canadian, it is thirty-two miles. The latter stream is about four rods wide. The country from the south line of Kansas to the North Canadian, I think, is rather poor; but from this point south, through the Canadian bottoms, and also the Washita, the land is pretty good. I think, notwithstanding, we might let the Indians have the country if we can get them to settle down here and be contented.

A new post has lately been established here, which is called Fort Sill, about thirty miles from Texas, near the Wichita Mountains, and ten miles east of a point called Mt. Scott. There are several sutler stores at Fort Sill. General Grierson has a pretty good house, but most of the buildings are poles about ten feet in length, set in the ground and covered with dirt. There are also many living in tents. There is said to be about four hundred colored soldiers here. The tents make quite a show on the banks of Medicine Bluff creek. They are on a raise of about sixty feet above the creek bottom on nicely rolling ground. Most of the Comanche IndiansCnearly 2,500Chave come in, and appear inclined to settle down and be peaceable with the whites. Their principal chiefs, Asahava, and Tosa, say that they are going to travel the white man=s road. Asahava has been a great war chief and has fought the whites; but he has changed his course, appears well inclined, and tells the Kiowas, who appear not so well inclined, that he will take sides with the whites against them if they should be hostile. They all know he is a brave man and warrior. We feel hopeful that by judicious management and care, there will not be much more hostility towards the whites. It is, however, a very critical time, and we much desire wisdom from above to enable us to act in such a way as to promote glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and good will to all men. I have often felt a desire to use my little influence in obliterating all hostile feelings both among whites and Indians, and encouraging a feeling of charity amongst all. I hope we will all bear in mind that like begets like, and therefore if we act harshly toward the Indians, they will in like manner act harshly towards us. On the contrary, if we act kindly and respectfully towards them, it will encourage the same feeling and action towards us.

The Kiowas, numbering nearly 2,000, are somewhat inclined to commit depredations in Texas, as there have existed, for several years, hostile feelings between them and the settlers. But we are hopeful of getting these troubles settled.

The agent at this place is our friend Lowry Tatum, of Iowa, who superseded Col. A. G. Brown, late of Colorado, who has exerted great influence amongst the Indians of the Plains. He still remains here as a clerk in one of the stores.

Agent Tatum has gained the respect and esteem of all whom I hear speak of him. The General in charge of this post has great confidence in the agent=s ability, and Gen. Grierson is equally appreciated. I have mingled with them both and think they are just the men for their respective posts.

The President=s Commission has lately been here, and also our friends, John Butler and Achilles Pugh. They all had a satisfactory council with the Indians. The agent accompanied our friends, who expected to go directly to Emporia, and from there to Topeka and Lawrence. The agent is going directly to Iowa Yearly Meeting, where he will meet with many of his friends, from whom he is desirous of selecting suitable persons to come with him to this place to instruct the Indians in farming, school learning, etc. I am expected to remain here during his absence.

Our dear friend, Brinton Darlington, late of Muscatine, Iowa, has gone to Camp Supply, in order to be amongst the Indians that he is agent for, viz: Cheyennes and Arapahos. These tribes are the most difficult to manage, but we think we have a very suitable Friend for their agent, and believe that he will be able, with Divine help, to control them, and thus get them to abandon their roving and warlike habits and settle on their reservation, which will probably be on the Canadian River, west of the road leading from here to Harker. Our friends and the Commission had a pretty satisfactory visit with the last named tribe. There is one thing that is giving great dissatisfaction amongst the IndiansCthe stopping of their rations of sugar and coffeeCbut the Commission thinks some satisfactory change may be made. We feel very desirous of suppressing, as much as possible, all hostile feeling, and thus save life and money. Fighting the Indians is found to be very expensive, and causes much suffering to our soldiers and often to others.

Very respectfully,

THOMAS H. STANLEY.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

On Thursday the Quaker agent for the Omahas came to town with three Indians on his way to the Kaw Agency. It seems that a few months ago a party of the Kaws made a raid on the Omahas and stole eighteen ponies. The Omahas supposing the theft was committed by the Otoes, made a raid on them, capturing twenty-five ponies. The Otoes recaptured their ponies and killed several of the Omahas. The agent has spent eight hundred dollars in hunting those worthless ponies, and will probably be out as much more before he gets home. City Union.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

AD. WOOL! WOOL! WOOL!

McMillan & Houghton,

DEALERS IN Wool, Woolen Goods, -AND-

GROCERIES,

New Store, below Wright=s, near the Court House, EMPORIA, KANSAS.

The motto of this firm shall be ASmall profits and quick returns.@ We are paying the highest market price for WOOL, either in cash or goods.

Our stock of woolen goods is complete. It Cannot be Equaled West of the JACKSONVILLE (ILL.) FACTORIES. To our stock of Woolen Goods we have added a LARGE & COMPLETE STOCK -OF- GROCERIES.

[This is the new store O. P. Houghton tied himself to. Weird!]

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. McMillan & Houghton. Newman & Houghton.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

[Under Local Notices.]

Just Received. Large stock of Groceries at McMillan & Houghton=s.

Now is the time, and Newman & Houghton=s is the place to select new dresses.

If you want a Blanket that will stand the rub, go to McMillan & Houghton=s.

A splendid stock of Flannels, plain and fancy, just received at Newman & Houghton=s.

Cheap Balmorals and Coverlets, at McMillan & Houghton=s.

For Ladies= and Gent=s underwear, go to Newman & Houghton=s.

Woolen Blankets. A large stock just received at Newman & Houghton=s.

If you wish to see something new and tasty for table covers, call at Newman & Houghton=s.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

Hank Lowe has succeeded in getting covered hacks to run on the Neosho Valley stage line. A good thing. The APan Handle,@ as the stage boys call the Neosho Valley route, is doing well.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

BIG GROWTH. We have to record that the indomitable Max Fawcett is ahead on trees. On Friday last he brought us some specimens that had made the following growth this season. Apple tree, this year=s graft, four feet two inches; box elder, six feet; thornless honey locust, six and a half feet; maple, seven feet and one inch.

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

NEW AGENCY. Hanna & Danford have opened an office in Jones= building, over Newman & Houghton=s store, in the room lately occupied as a Presbyterian church, where they will do a general agency business. They will buy and sell lands, furnish abstracts of titles, pay taxes, do conveyancing, insurance, etc. . . .

Emporia News, September 10, 1869.

The Presbyterian Church has leased the upper story of the new building of Truworthy & Tandy, on Commercial street, and will occupy it for a place of worship till they can build. It is a very commodious room, much larger, better ventilated, and in every way more suitable for a growing congregation than the one they have been occupying. It will be ready for use by Sabbath week. Services next Sabbath at the hall over Newman & Houghton=s store, morning and evening. Sabbath school at 9 o=clock a.m.

Emporia News, September 17, 1869.

DISTRICT COURT, Lyon County, in session since Monday last. Judge J. H. Watson, presiding. We are indebted to F. G. Hunt, Esq., deputy clerk, for the following proceedings.

Anna M. Harper vs. J. L. Harper. Dismissed at cost of plaintiff. F. G. Hunt, attorney for plaintiff.

Timothy McIntire vs. H. G. Fant. Dismissed by agreement. Ruggles & Plumb for plaintiff; Almerin Gillett for defendant.

Attorneys present: Ruggles & Plumb, Almerin Gillett, Wm. B. Parsons, Peyton & Sanders, Cross & McCarty, P. M. Foote, E. W. Cunningham, W. H. Skinner; F. G. Hunt acting as clerk.

[Only listed a few cases.]

Emporia News, September 17, 1869.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Thirty thousand dollars have already been paid out to six hundred pensioners since the 4th of September. There are two hundred more to be paid.

Gen. Sherman=s commission as Secretary of War appoints him until the end of the next session of Congress. The law does not prevent him from holding the two offices of General and Secretary of War, but he must elect which salary he will accept.

Emporia News, September 17, 1869.

KANSAS NEWS ITEMS.

The Indians are making their appearance again on the Solomon. Col. Moorhouse was in receipt of the following letter yesterday, dated Solomon Valley, Camp Plum Creek, Sept. 10. AI have the honor to communicate to you that we discovered Indians on the South side of the Solomon river at 7 a.m. this morning between the mouth of Plum Creek and Lebanon. Pursuit was at once given, which lasted until late in the evening. They showed no signs of fight, and kept well out of the range of our carbines. Tomorrow morning, at daybreak, B. starts to scan the creeks south of the river, and would respectfully request you to forward to us at once 2,000 rounds of Spencer carbine cartridges, as we have only seven rounds to the man. Our scouts, on arriving at Salt Creek today, informs us that Capt. Pilley=s scouts saw three Indians at the forks of Salt Creek.@ The foregoing was written by Capt. Winsell, commanding Company AB,@ Second Battalion Kansas State Militia. Commonwealth.

Emporia News, September 17, 1869.

A few days ago, in the Solomon valley, as two soldiers were leisurely enjoying a ride, they discovered a trail, which their curiosity prompted them to follow. They soon came upon two Indians, to whom they gave chase, and which resulted in both Indians getting killed. The coroner=s jury rendered a verdict of accidental shooting. How careless frontiersmen handle shooting irons, particularly when there is an Injine in front. Junction City Union.

Emporia News, September 17, 1869.

A correspondent writing from the Far West, says: AAn old trapper, who crossed these plains thirty-five years ago, assured me that when he first saw them there was no grass at all, but only a few sage bushes and cacti. Now there is a thin soil formed over the sand and gravel, and grass covers the entire surface. And, it appears, that this enriching process goes on faster and faster every year. This is why so many people have been astonished at not finding any AGreat American Desert,@ and conclude that it was only a myth. The truth is, that it did exist, but, like many of the things in this changeful America, it has passed away.@

Emporia News, September 17, 1869.

[Americus]

Mr. Wm. Wilkinson, of Kingsville, Missouri, spent a couple of days looking at the country here last week, and thinks he will become a citizen and engage in business in Americus. . . .

Emporia News, September 17, 1869.

T. B. Murdock, our foreman and assistant local editor, stated out this week to make a thorough canvass of Lyon and adjoining counties. . . .

Emporia News, September 17, 1869.

EMPORIA TRIBUNE. This is the name of the new paper about to be started in this place by Mr. Mains. The gentleman arrived here about a week ago with his family. His materials are at Carbondale and will be here in a few days. We have not learned how soon the paper is to be issued, but presume it will be but a short time before it makes its debut.

Emporia News, September 17, 1869.

NEW BUSINESS HOUSE. We clip the following notice of a new business firm in this place from the Aurora (Illinois) Beacon.

James C. Topliff, of the firm of Topliff & French of this city, returned last Monday from a trip to Southern Kansas, where he will soon return, and with his former partner, open a store at Emporia. He reports farming and business prospects looking extremely favorable now in that country. At Emporia they waited several weeks before getting a store, so great was the rush for places in which to open business. We wish the gentlemen every success in their new location.

Mr. Topliff returned a few days ago and informs us his stock of goods will be here in a week or two.

Emporia News, September 17, 1869.

Article re the Aold corner store@ building of C. V. Eskridge being burned to the ground. The burning was the act of an incendiary. Loss included a safe, carpenter=s tools of Mr. McGowan, and the building, estimated at from $1,000 to $1,500. The books and papers in the safe were severely damaged. The building was undergoing repairs for the purpose of occupancy as a store.

Emporia News, September 17, 1869.

E. H. COATS announced his candidacy for Sheriff of Lyon County.

JAMES H. PHEANIS announced his candidacy for Sheriff of Lyon County.

There were two others: A. J. Armstrong and John S. Watson.

Emporia News, September 24, 1869.

MARRIED. At the residence of W. R. Bradford, Esq., corner of State street and Fifth avenue, September 18th, by Rev. M. L. S. Noyes, Mr. ORRIN P. HOUGHTON, of this city, to Miss MARIA BISBEE, of Sumner, Maine.

MARRIED. At the residence of the bride=s father, in Weld, Maine, September 6th, 1869, by Rev. A. Maxwell, A. A. NEWMAN, of Emporia, and MARY M. HOUGHTON, of Weld.

Emporia News, September 24, 1869.

[New Advertisers. Newman & Bro., McMillan & Houghton.]

McMillan & Houghton are receiving the largest and best stock of Cassimeres and Jeans ever brought to Emporia.

Emporia News, September 24, 1869.

NEW FIRM. As will be seen in a new advertisement, G. W. Newman supersedes O. P. Houghton in the dry-goods business. Young Mr. Newman has been in the store some months as a clerk, and has already made many friends by his urbane and gentlemanly deportment. We wish the new firm a rush of customers and drawers full of greenbacks.

Emporia News, September 24, 1869.

RETURNED. Our fellow townsman, A. A. Newman, has returned from Maine, where he had been spending several weeks, a few days ago. As will be seen in the proper place, he brought with him a wife. The lady of O. P. Houghton also accompanied Mr. Newman here. We welcome these gentlemen among the Benedicts of the town, and wish them and their brides a long, happy, and prosperous residence with us.

Emporia News, September 24, 1869.

Among our new subscribers this week is General Custer.

Emporia News, September 24, 1869.

Ads.

McMillan & Houghton still have some of that choice corn meal so much praised.

A large stock of home-knit socks, at 60 cents per pair, at McMillan & Houghton=s.

If the ladies want any kind of HEAVY SHOES, all they will have to pay for them will be $1.25 to $2.00, at McMillan & Houghton=s.

Coverlets, Balmorals, and Blankets; any price, color, or quality at McMillan & Houghton=s.

Emporia News, September 24, 1869.

Ad. T. MORRIS, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, EMPORIA, KANSAS. . . .

Office over Newman & Houghton=s store.

Emporia News, October 2, 1869.

Friend Thomas H. Stanley came home last week from a trip into the Indian Territory, where he went with the peace commissioners sent out by the society of Friends. His travels extended nearly to the borders of Texas, and most of the return trip he made alone, on a pony, camping out by himself at night. He thinks the ideas entertained by some people of an Eldorado southwest are principally imaginary; that Adistance lends enchantment to the view.@ The country became poorer, he thinks, as he proceeded southwest, until extensive divides of poor, red, thin soil, exhibiting only the buffalo grass were the features of the country. Lyon County, in his opinion, is far ahead of any country seen on his trip.

Emporia News, October 2, 1869.

Newman & Bro. are out with a fine display of business locals. They have the goods, and are bound to sell.

Ads.

Fine Bleached and brown Table Linens, at remarkably low prices, at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

Carpetings. Best Hartford three ply, Ingrain two ply, Venetian Stair carpet Coir, Matting, Hemp, Oil and Rag Carpetings, at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

Call and see our new plaid dress flannels, shirtings, and Huseys. NEWMAN & BRO.

Woolen and Cotton Yarns, at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

Nice Lot of Zephyrs, at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

New Styles in Ladies= Shawls. A full line of high colored plaids, at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

Best Goods at lowest prices, at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

A full assortment, best buck and gauntlet Gloves, at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

Kid Gloves, black, white, and fancy colors, at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

Complete Stock of ladies=, gents=, and children=s hosiery, at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

Cotton Bolts and Wadding, at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

Cloakings and ladies= cloth, at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

Dress Goods and Trimmings, at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

Ladies= Silk Vests, at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

Best Green Teas @ $1.50 per pound.

Best Black Teas @ $1.25 per pound. at NEWMAN & BRO=S.

Emporia News, October 2, 1869.

Ad. Taken Up. Five white pigs. The owner is requested to call and take them away.

L. B. KELLOGG.

Emporia News, October 8, 1869.

The Topeka Commonwealth suggests an excursion of Kansas editors to California over the Union Pacific railroad. Count us in, provided the company will give us a free pass, board us on the trip, and give us a suit of Agood close@ to make the journey with.

Emporia News, October 8, 1869.

The Western Union Telegraph Company now has 3,469 stations, 52,099 miles of line, 104,584 miles of wire, 103 miles of submarine cables, 2,607 instruments for reading by sound, and 1,334 recording instruments.

Emporia News, October 8, 1869.

Although there are three freight trains running daily on the California Pacific Railroad, having a capacity of one thousand tons per day, the grain is rapidly accumulating along the line.

Emporia News, October 8, 1869.

NOTICE. ATCHISON, TOPEKA 7 SANTA FE RAILROAD.

SUP=TS OFFICE, A., T. & S. F. R. R. CO., TOPEKA, June 23rd, 1869.

The above Railroad will be open for business Monday, June 28th, 1869, between Topeka and Carbondale, at which point trains connect with stages for Burlingame and Emporia. Trains will run daily (except Sunday). . . . T. J. PETER, Sup=t.

Emporia News, October 8, 1869.

Messrs. Newman & McLaughlin have commenced the construction of a new business house, 26 x 70, 35 feet high, on the corner of Mechanics Street and Sixth Avenue. The building is to be of stone, with brick front supported by cut stone columns. It is to be finished and ready for occupancy by next May.

Emporia News, October 8, 1869.

EMPORIA TRIBUNE. This paper made its appearance Thursday, Mains & Nixon, editors and proprietors. . . .

Emporia News, October 8, 1869.

Messrs. French & Topliff are about to open the best stock of boots and shoes, hats and caps ever brought to Emporia. These gentlemen are enterprising businessmen, and notwithstanding the destruction of Gov. Eskridge=s building, which was being fitted up for their occupancy, and the delay in receiving goods, will be able to accommodate customers in a few days. They will occupy the room opposite the post office. It is their expectation to wholesale largely. Their goods have been bought of the manufacturers at the lowest, and they are able to say positively that they cannot be undersold, and that their goods cannot be equaled in quality or variety. It is a matter of congratulation and encouragement that we are to have such men amongst us, and we bespeak for them a generous patronage.

Emporia News, October 8, 1869.

Asa Gillett has purchased, for the firm of Gillett & Hadley, the lot and building now occupied as a residence and millinery shop, next door north of Newman & Houghton=s. He bought of T. Johnson and C. Sipes, paying them $2,000. Less than a year ago these gentlemen bought the property for $800.

Emporia News, October 8, 1869.

John Wayne & Co. have located at Burlingame with their immense lumber yard, and advertise in our paper today. Almost everybody in Southwestern Kansas knows John Wayne personally or by reputation, and he needs no commendation at our hands. [TYPED THIS UP STRICTLY FOR HUMOR!]

Emporia News, October 8, 1869.

The Southern Kansas Stage Co. have their hands full now-a-days to accommodate the traveling public between here and Burlingame. We counted sixteen passengers on one coach this week, and learn that eighteen came in Wednesday night. Two coaches per day run between here and Burlingame.

Emporia News, October 15, 1869.

A TRIP DOWN THE WALNUT.

I left Cottonwood Falls for the Walnut country on the 4th inst., passed up the South Fork, over the hill dividing it and the Walnut, and stayed overnight at Mr. Hubbard=s, two miles below the Sycamore Springs. The country up S. Fork is improving some. They are putting up a good stone schoolhouse at Bazaar, and I saw one or two good dwellings going up along the creek.

Mr. Hubbard and his neighbor, a German whose name I cannot remember, bought several sections of land on the east side of the Walnut, and are making large stock farms. They have several miles of Osage orange growing. It is doing well. Mr. Hubbard is from Cleveland, Ohio. He has a fine herd of cattle, and a large flock of sheep. Commend me to Mrs. Hubbard for a good cup off coffee. I met Mr. McWhorter here. He was grunting lively over a long ride on the mower. He and Mr. Baker were cutting a Afire-break@ around a large territory here to save feed for their stock.

The next day I passed down the country through Chelsea and El Dorado, and passed the night with Lieut. Conner, one and a half miles below the last named place. Mr. Conner has quite a number of cattle and some horses. He has a good farm and has raised some of the largest corn we have seen. He and his hospitable Yankee wife make their house a pleasant place for strangers.

The next day I passed down the country through Augusta, and spent the night with Mr. Lamb, late of Cleveland, who is erecting a hotel in Douglass. He and his excellent lady know how to keep hotel, and when they get their house finished will have a good place for the traveling public. Douglass is beautifully located on the east side of Big Walnut, about one mile below the junction of Little Walnut. It is a new place, and they are laboring under great disadvantages in the way of getting lumber; but they expect to have a mill in the course of two weeks. Besides the hotel they have a store in charge of Mr. Douglass, the gentlemanly proprietor of the town, a blacksmith shop, and two or three other buildings. I saw two new buildings going up, one of which is to be a store. Eight Mile, Muddy, and Rock Creeks put in near the town, which afford timber for a large settlement. I preached to a small congregation. There was a melodeon in the house, and a small choir was extemporized, which gave us a good sing. I have the honor of preaching the first sermon in Douglass.

The next day, Thursday, I returned to Augusta. There are six houses in this young village. Mr. James has a very neat dwelling. There are two good stores and a blacksmith shop. They are collecting material and laying the foundation for a hotel. A drug store will go up this fall. There is a steam saw mill near the town. The Good Templars and Masons are organized. The Baptists have an organization with monthly preaching. There is a Sunday school under way, and the district school will open on the 11th inst. The town is situated on a plain, between the Walnut and Whitewater Rivers, one mile above their junction. I preached to a small congregation Thursday evening. Friday was a stormy day. I remained and preached again in the evening, when I had a better congregation. I found a number of Methodists here, but they are as sheep without a shepherd.

I stopped with Dr. Stewart, a staunch Texan, who is engaged in merchandising and cattle trading. I spent the time very pleasantly in reading one of his philosophical works, Spencer on Biology. After reading all day and a greater part of two nights, I left off and asked the question, AWhat is life? Who can tell?@ Spencer says, ALife is the co-ordination of actions.@ AWhat is action? What is the co-ordination of actions?@ But enough of this. I may trouble your readers some day with a short article on the subject.

I will take my leave of the Doctor and his kind family by saying that Mrs. Stewart knows how to make good coffee, and keeps the best of buttermilk.

On Saturday I drove up to El Dorado. The town was full of people. Judge Lambdin says trade is good. The Republicans were holding a primary convention. I see a new stone building going upCa residence, I presume. Several new buildings are now under contract. Quite a number would go up if lumber could be procured. They need a good saw mill. The citizens have bought out the dram shop and closed it up. That was certainly a good day=s work, and speaks well for the citizens. Rev. Mr. Gordon, late of Emporia, has just reached here. I found them all in a tumble, but he righted things up and insisted on my preaching in his newly occupied house. It has been used for that purpose previously.

Sunday afternoon, in company with Rev. Gordon, I drove up to Chelsea and preached in the evening in a private house. I stopped, of course, with Capt. Donaldson. Chelsea is improving some. They are building a schoolhouse which will be a credit to the place when it is finished.

The crops all the way up and down the Walnut Valley are very good. I never saw better corn and potatoes anywhere.

Monday I started for Emporia, and stayed overnight with a Mr. Norton, three miles from Bazaar, on South Cottonwood. He has a good farm in the bottom, surrounded with the Aeverlasting hills@ of that region. I should think from the names among the good people that St. Michael and St. Patrick were the patronized saints. I reached Emporia on Tuesday, tired and hungry. C. R. R.

Emporia News, October 15, 1869.

We notice the return of our friend, Prof. H. B. Norton, after an Instituting tour of some days. Wherever he goes the teachers will be benefitted.

Emporia News, October 15, 1869.

Thanks to Max. Fawcett for a present of fine Concord and Dracut Amber grapes from Barnes= Vinland Nursery, at Lawrence.

AD. VINLAND NURSERIES, (Formerly Coal Creek), AT VINLAND, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS. All kinds of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Grapes, Shrubs, etc., delivered at Emporia. MAX. FAWCETT, Emporia, Kansas.

Emporia News, October 15, 1869.

PERSONAL. We call the attention of our readers to the card of Dr. Mansfield, who comes among us an entire stranger. The Dr. is an old school physician by education, but like thousands of others has examined and embraced the doctrines and practice of the new. He is directly from the city of Richmond, Virginia, where he has been practicing his profession since the end of the late war. During the war the Dr. was a regularly commissioned Surgeon of the Union Army, and served in that capacity with the 92rd [?93rd?] and 118th New York State Regiments, from the beginning to the end of the rebellion. He is a Licentiate of Apothecaries Hall, London, England, graduate of the University of Buffalo, State of New York, and member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy.

CARD. DOCTOR MANSFIELD, HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.

Offers his professional services to the citizens of Emporia in all the branches of medical practice. OFFICECFront room, over Emporia Bank.

Can be found any hour of the night at the Madison House, Room 9.

Emporia News, October 15, 1869.

Emporia, Kansas, is said to be going ahead, and it is predicted that the census of 1880 will give it a population of fifteen thousand people, and a tax-roll of five million dollars.

Emporia News, October 15, 1869.

TOPLIFF & FRENCH. The goods of the new firm have arrived and are opened for the present at the building lately occupied by Mr. Hughes, opposite the post office, on Commercial street. Their stock of boots, shoes, hats and caps is large, and embraces all the varieties kept in such an establishment. No one will fail to notice their new advertisement.

FAIRLY BIG AD. NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS!

Low Prices! Low Prices!

TOPLIFF & FRENCH

HAVE JUST OPENED THE LARGEST STOCK OF BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, AND GENTS= FURNISHING GOODS Ever brought to this market, which we have bought of Eastern manufacturers, and will sell at LOW PRICES, at WHOLESALE & RETAIL, FOR CASH. OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE, Commercial Street, EMPORIA, KANSAS.

Emporia News, October 15, 1869.

Ex-Governor Crawford and Col. J. M. Steele are about to enter upon the real estate business at Emporia. There are no two men better adapted to that branch of business, and none more worthy of unlimited confidence. We need say nothing in behalf of Gov. Crawford. A tried, capable, and successful soldier, for four years the Chief Executive of the StateCin none of the varied relations which he has sustained to the community has a shadow of reproach ever rested upon him. Col. Steele was Lieutenant Colonel of Volunteers during the war, and also served as Adjutant of the 19th Kansas Cavalry during the campaign of last winter. He is an active, go-ahead, wide-awake man, and would prove a valuable addition to any community.

These gentlemen go to Emporia to aid in setting up and developing the magnificent country which bounds that place on every side. Both are thoroughly posted as to the capabilities of that section of the State, and while we cheerfully commend them to our friends at Emporia, we trust that they may increase in wealth as rapidly and substantially as the splendid region with which they are henceforth to be associated is bound to do.

Emporia News, October 22, 1869.

BUSHWHACKER MOSBY.

Yesterday, while riding in the Pennsylvania Avenue cars, who should enter but Col. Mosby, late C. S. A. From the fact that he carried in his hand a little black valise, on which was printed in large white letters, ACOL. JOHN S. MOSBY,@ everybody in the cars was per force made acquainted with the countenance of this notorious bushwhacker and cowardly murderer. He comes to Washington very frequently, put up at Willard=s, and attracts great attention. He seldom hears any good of himself from the conversing groups at the hotel, for some of his victims are generally about to make a few comments on his character as a Asoldier.@ How soon the human heart forgives! The men murdered in cold blood by this wretch are legion, and yet he visits Washington, Philadelphia, and New York, and his Democratic brethren receive him with distinguished honors. One of his dastardly acts alone, which I never call to mind without a shudder, should bring him to the gallows and ignominious death. In the fall of 1864, when in the valley of the Shenandoah, with the prince of soldiers, Gen. Sheridan, a number of brutal acts, perpetrated by this fiend, came under my own personal observation. The one, however, to which I particular refer, was the hanging of seven Union prisoners near Berryville. Gen. Custer had, a few days previous, executed a rebel spy near Middletown. This so exasperated Mosby that he determined to be avenged, and calling out his prisoners, he made them cast lots for death by hanging. Capt. Brewster, of Sheridan=s staff, was among the number, and was one of the lucky fellows drawing a blank, which, in that particular lottery, although not a winning card, was a very desirable one. I shall never forget his narration of that terrible affair; the pathetic appeals for mercy; the brutal oaths of the captors as they tightened the fatal ropes about the necks of the prisoners, and the frightful death struggle. One hour after this act was perpetrated, I saw the bodies as they hung by the roadside, the faces black from suffocation, and the tongues protruding from the bloody mouths. It was a sight to rouse the blackest demon of vengeance, and as Sheridan=s dusky columns passed, many an eye kindled with wrath, and many a vow was taken to avenge that horrible atrocity. AVengeance is mine, saith the Lord of hosts,@ but Mosby, the rebel butcher, seems to fear neither God nor man, as he swaggers into Washington, ostentatiously parading to the public gaze his full name and former title and rank in the army of the rebellion.

Emporia News, October 22, 1869.

THAT LETTER.

The Pomeroy-Legate business has been brought by the Leavenworth Bulletin to a square issue of veracity, not between the Bulletin and anybody, but between Mr. Pomeroy and Legate on the one side, and Cornelius Wendell and Legate on the other. This statement may seem odd, but so is the position of Legate. He has apparently Apaired off with himself.@ Cornelius Wendell writes that the original letter, which he then believed and still believes to be in the hand writing of Senator Pomeroy, was shown to him by Legate, to support his application for office. If there was a forgery, Legate must have perpetrated it, one would suppose. He asserts in his card that the letter was a Atrumped-up affair@; if so, who concocted it? Did some adroit necromancer contrive to put the letter into Legate=s hand, and force him to go to Wendell with it? We might imagine that Legate forged the letter to help him with Wendell; but the fact that he was then, and is still, on the most intimate terms with the Senator, forbids that idea. There is only one possible alternative. Either Wendell deliberately contrived the whole story, and states what is false, or Pomeroy wrote the letter and now falsely denies it. To support the latter view, a letter is published by the Atchison Champion, from General Butler, who says that he well remembers the matter, and that it Aappeared to the entire satisfaction of the committee that an infamous attempt had been made to complicate you (Pomeroy) with regard to Andrew Johnson, by the forgery of your name, presenting the forged documents to the Postmaster General, then having an outside party take a copy of the forgery, so that it could not be detected, then destroying the original so that the forgery might be safe, and then publishing the contents of such copy to your injury.@ The General adds that Athe evidence was plenary to show that you (Pomeroy) had nothing to do with the matter,@ but that he has not the copy of the evidence at hand.

This testimony from Gen. Butler does not explain how the paper, now declared to be a forgery, came to be shown to Wendell by Legate, then and now the Senator=s friend! If the statement of Wendell is true, Gen. Butler and his committee did not get to the bottom of the matter, for Legate must have been party to the forgery, if the letter shown by him to Wendell was forged, and it is inconceivable that in that event the Senator would still treat him as a friend. Throwing Legate out of sight, therefore, the question is simply one of veracity: ADid Cornelius Wendell see a letter supposed to be in Pomeroy=s handwriting in the hands of Legate?@ Or did the said Wendell concoct the whole story, and try to damage Pomeroy by still lying? The Butler letter does not meet that question, though possibly the evidence which he does not send might do so. Mo. Democrat.

Emporia News, October 22, 1869.

Notice in paper re strayed or stolen stock: W. L. COTTINGHAM, Four miles west of Emporia.

Emporia News, October 22, 1869.

AD. LATEST STYLES IN LADIES= FURS. Russian Fitch, Astracan, River Mink, Siberian Squirrel, French Sable, and Cony Furs, in new styles at prices as low as they can be bought at St. Louis, or any eastern city. Call and examine for yourselves. NEWMAN & BRO.

LADIES TRAVELING BASKETS and Morocco Bags. NEWMAN & BRO.

A FINE ASSORTMENT Ladies Silk and Morocco Vests. NEWMAN & BRO.

LADIES AND GENTS= Rubber Overshoes at NEWMAN & BRO.=S.

[There were more that I skipped.]

Emporia News, October 22, 1869.

McMillan & Houghton ran their usual ads plus a few new ones. I skipped.

Emporia News, October 29, 1869.

THE CHEROKEE LAND TROUBLES.

Brevet Major General W. B. Hazen, in a letter dated at Hiram, Ohio, October 4, and addressed to the Associated Press, Washington, says:

AI notice in the special Washington dispatches of October 2, published in the West, the following:

ATHE CHEROKEE SETTLERS. Statements from persons well known here, and regarded perfectly reliable, have been received concerning the reported outrages by settlers on the Cherokee neutral lands. The writers say that the reports circulated against settlers are in a great part manufactured in the interest of railroad and land companies.@

Hazen stated: AThe foregoing is false in every particular and should be corrected. The parties engaged in these outrages have from the first ingeniously denied these charges against them in such a way as to prevent, if possible, any inquiry into the matter by the Government. In September I was sent there with troops, on account of these troubles, and a personal investigation found in all the charges of capturing engineer parties, attempting to hang one of the engineers, burning up all their instruments and property, the tools and property of working parties and many thousand ties, literally true in every case, besides much that has never been reported at all, as it greatly retards the prosperity of the country.@

Emporia News, November 5, 1869.

FROM EL DORADO - October 18, 1869.

Dr. Kellogg has gone on a trip to Nebraska to visit his father, who is dangerously ill.

Emporia News, November 5, 1869.

Election over: E. H. Coats elected Sheriff.

County Clerk: R. W. Randall defeated. D. S. Gilmore elected.

Emporia News, November 5, 1869.

CHASE COUNTY. Three candidates for Representative: F. B. Hunt, A. S. Howard, and Capt. H. Bradley. Mr. Hunt was elected.

County officers elected: Commissioners, G. W. Brickell, H. E. Snyder, and H. L. Hunt.

Treasurer: U. B. Warren.

Sheriff: F. E. Smith.

Emporia News, November 5, 1869.

The Walnut country is filling up rapidly. Mr. Renfro, of Cowley County, informs the Chase County Banner that the settlers on what is known as the Athirty mile strip,@ in the Osage diminished reservation, are much encouraged in relation to the prospects of obtaining their lands, since the recent action of the chiefs of the Osages during the late visit of Supt. Hoag to the Nation, as well as the promises made by him. He informs the Banner that immigration still continues unabated, and that all the settlers want, down there, is to be Alet alone.@

[RENFRO, COWLEY COUNTY...SOUNDS LIKE A VERY EARLY SETTLER.]

Emporia News, November 5, 1869.

Hon. I. T. Goodenow has been appointed Land Commissioner of the Southern Branch Railroad.

Emporia News, November 5, 1869.

An addition of 60 feet is being put on to the west end of the Robinson House, to be done in thirty days. A stone addition, three-stories high, fronting on Merchants street, is to be put up soon. . . . Mr. Robinson appreciates the fact that we are to have two railroads here soon, and is making his calculations accordingly. Let it be understood by the public generally that the Robinson House will, in a few weeks, be the largest and best kept hotel in this part of the State.

Emporia News, November 5, 1869.

IMPROVEMENTS. [Several mentioned.]

Solomon Nawman, of Clarke County, Ohio, commenced about ten days ago, and has a neat cottage nearly completed, on Neosho street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.

Emporia News, November 5, 1869.

CRANBERRIES. Thanks to McMillan & Houghton for a nice package of fresh cranberries. The public will find a supply at their store.

Emporia News, November 12, 1869.

We hear it rumored that A. J. Armstrong will contest the right of E. H. Coats to the office of Sheriff.

Emporia News, November 12, 1869.

TRI-WEEKLY. We learn that Parker & Tisdale, of the Southern Kansas Stage Company, have made arrangements to run tri-weekly coaches from Emporia to El Dorado, Butler County, via Cottonwood Falls, for the transportation of mails and passengers. This is a move in the right direction. The people of Chase, Marion, and Butler Counties will be rejoiced to hear this.

Emporia News, November 12, 1869.

Work on the new business house of Newman & McLaughlin is progressing rapidly. The basement is completed, and the cut stone front for the first story is being put in. This will be, when finished, one of the best buildings in town.

Emporia News, November 19, 1869.

The Chase County Banner informs us that a row occurred down in Cowley County the other day between a wagon boss and a Negro teamster. The Negro was wounded in two places, and a bystander received a shot in the right eye, killing him instantly.

Emporia News, November 19, 1869.

COWLEY COUNTY.

The Osage Indians Getting Troublesome.

Organization of a Citizens= Protective Union.

On Wednesday we had a call from Mr. W. W. Andrews, of Cowley County, from whom we have late intelligence from that new county.

There is beginning to be some anxiety about threatened troubles with the Indians, and Mr. Andrews was on his way to Topeka to lay before the Governor a petition signed by almost every legal voter in that county, asking him to take measures for their safety. He also brought us the proceedings of a meeting lately held there, at which a ACitizens Protective Union@ was organized, the constitution, by-laws, and resolutions of which we publish below.

Mr. Andrews informs us that immigrants are pouring into that county at a rapid rate. Nine families arrived the morning he left, and dozens more are now on their way thither. It is becoming well known that Cowley is one of the best timbered, watered, and agricultural counties in the State, and between this and next summer the rush will be great.

Mr. Andrews says there has been no outbreak with the Indians yet, but they are saucy, and are committing petty thefts among the settlers. Where the men are about home in considerable numbers, the Indians do not disturb anyone, but they watch, and when they find the men absent they visit the houses and compel the women to cook meals for them, after which they load their ponies with provisions and leave. When they can find two or three settlers out from other settlements, they make a regular business of robbing them. The Indians assert that they will not hurt anybody, but that settlers shall not open claims below the mouth of Dutch Creek. They have robbed and driven back all who have ventured below that point, and the settlers, knowing their treachery, fear trouble will break out.

It must be recollected that these settlers are not on land where the Indians object to their going, further than that they want to save their hunting ground. We hope the Governor will make speedy and decided action in the matter, and do all in his power to relieve the demands of these enterprising people. They have gone on to these lands with the assurance from Superintendent Hoag that they should have peaceable possession of them. Notwithstanding the promises the store of C. M. Wood was burned by the Indians.

CITIZENS= PROTECTIVE UNION.

COWLEY COUNTY, KANSAS, November 7, 1869.

The citizens of Cowley County assembled at the house of Dr. Graham for the purpose of organizing a Citizens= Protective Union.

N. J. Trusty was elected Chairman, and Dr. Graham, Secretary, after which the following constitution, by-laws, and resolutions were presented and adopted.

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE 1. This Association shall be called the Cowley County Citizens= Protective Union.

ARTICLE 2. The object of the Association shall be the mutual protection of citizens, both in claims and property.

ARTICLE 3. The Association shall be composed of those citizens residing within Cowley County who subscribe to this Constitution.

ARTICLE 4. The officers of the Association shall be a President and Secretary.

ARTICLE 5. This Constitution may be altered or amended by a vote of two thirds of all the members present.

BY-LAWS.

ARTICLE 1. This Association shall hold at least one session in each year, at such time and place as may be determined upon from time to time.

ARTICLE 2. The officers shall be elected at each annual session, by ballot, and shall remain in office until others are chosen.

ARTICLE 3. The President shall preside at the meetings of the Association, preserve order therein, put all questions, announce decisions, appoint committees, and call meetings at his discretion, or at the request of three members.

ARTICLE 4. The Secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of meetings, answer all letters addressed to the Association, give proper notice of the meetings, and attend to such other business as generally pertains to this office.

RESOLUTIONS.

Resolved, That the members of this Association use their influence to encourage immigration to the bounds of this county.

Resolved, That owing to the outrages having been perpetrated upon the property of citizens of this county by the Osage Indians, that we petition the Governor for protection.

Resolved, That each citizen be entitled to hold a claim of one hundred and sixty acres of land, provided he improves and resides upon the same within thirty days after making his claim, and that we recognize as improvements sufficient to entitle a man to protection that there be a house upon the claim, and at least five acres cultivated within twelve months from making his claim.

Resolved, That we recognize no man=s right to hold a claim of more than one hundred and sixty acres of land.

Resolved, That in the transaction of business this Association be governed by parliamentary rules.

Election of officers being next in order, Dr. W. G. Graham was elected President for the ensuing year, and C. M. Wood Secretary. Adjourned.

N. J. TRUSTY, President.

W. G. GRAHAM, Secretary.

Emporia News, November 19, 1869.

We return our sincere thanks to our neighbor, THE EMPORIA TRIBUNE, for the following flattering notice of our paper.

THE EMPORIA NEWS. This old and ably conducted newspaper will, on the first of January next, be enlarged to a 36-column sheet. The News is already one of the largest and best papers in Kansas. Mr. Stotler is an experienced and indefatigable newspaper man, and has been remarkably successful in furnishing the people of Lyon County and Southern Kansas with a most excellent paper . . . .

Emporia News, November 19, 1869.

A good saw-mill is now in operation at Witchita, Cowley county, and a town is rapidly spring up. [KAY...IS THIS ALL A MISPRINT???]

Emporia News, November 19, 1869.

[An accusation came from H. Brandley of Matfield Green, Chase County, Kansas, dated November 7th to Editor Stotler re dirty campaign run by H. L. Hunt, Chairman of the Democratic County Committee, stated that Hunt virtually ran the ticket that was elected: H. L. Hunt and H. E. Snyder as Commissioners, etc.]

Note: Editor Stotler stated: AIn another column we publish a communication from Chase county. We know nothing of the matters spoken of, and do not wish to be understood as endorsing it.

Emporia News, November 19, 1869.

E. T. Sprague has the contract for the wood work on Newman & McLaughlin=s new business house on Sixth Avenue. Mr. Sprague has been here all summer, and has the reputation of being a good workman.

Emporia News, November 19, 1869.

[FROM PLYMOUTH...COMMUNITY 7 2 MILES WEST OF EMPORIA.]

Our winter school was opened last Monday by Geo. Melville.

[Plymouth: laid out in 1859...about half way between Emporia and Cottonwood Falls. Had many Quakers.]

Emporia News, November 19, 1869.

Roll of Honor...paid their subscription: C. M. Foulks, J. H. Page.

Emporia News, November 26, 1869.

Several loads of goods passed through town on Tuesday for Baker & Manning, of Douglass, Cowley County. Mr. Baker went through on Monday.

Emporia News, November 26, 1869.

PERSONAL. Toplif & French, owing to their unexpected large trade, have been compelled to have more room; consequently they are, today, moving their stock of boots, shoes, etc., to the room lately occupied by Bay & Hall, which has been fitted up for them. This firm is agreeably disappointed in the amount of business done in Emporia, and their sales have been double what they expected. They will hereafter be found at the old stand of Bay & Hall.

Emporia News, November 26, 1869.

CONTEST. A. J. Armstrong is contesting Mr. Coats= right to the office of Sheriff for the next two years. We heard it reported that Mr. Randall would contest with Gilmore for the Clerk=s office, but learned yesterday that he had abandoned the matter. There is scarcely a doubt but that he would have been successful had he done so. Mr. Randall made no effort for the office, not spending one hour in electioneering or giving the denial to any of the lies that were circulated about him.

Emporia News, November 26, 1869.

AMERICUS...About nine miles northeast of Emporia, near the Neosho River.

J. D. Gibson, oldest merchant in Americus.

Squire R. W. Randall ran a Real Estate Agency at Americus.

[So far names mentioned on the whole do not ring any bells.]

Emporia News, December 3, 1869.

PERSONAL. Mr. D. H. Norton, of Illinois, brother to our Prof. Norton, was in our office this week. He comes to Kansas, we believe, to make it his permanent home, and will probably Astick his stake@ in Cowley County.

[D. H.....COULD THEY BE REFERRING TO CAPTAIN GOULD NORTON??]

Emporia News, December 3, 1869.

Committee member Temperance program given at Methodist Church: G. W. Newman.

Emporia News, December 3, 1869.

LARGE GROWTH. Max Fawcett exhibited in our office, last week, a Concord grape vine one year old from the cutting, set out last spring, which produced fourteen main roots measuring in the aggregate 53 feet in length. Nine of the fibers were measured. A number of roots were broken off in taking it from the ground. The longest root measured nearly eight feet. This vine was planted on bottom land that had been subsoiled once. No manure or extra cultivation had been put on it.

Emporia News, December 3, 1869.

ELECTION CONTESTED. A. J. Armstrong filed papers with the County Clerk, Nov. 24th, and the required bond with the Probate Judge, preliminary to contesting the election of E. H. Coats to the office of Sheriff. The statement contains the names of fifty persons who are said to have voted in Emporia township, illegally, for Coats, and five who voted illegally in Jackson township. The trial of this matter has been set for the 22nd inst., when