Show THE HE TH OF OP few persons in iii the stat Staf Shave any my idea of the pro proportions ite phe rations of the grasshopper plague on the plains of the far west 4 the tho he kansas olty city is informed inform by johni johnl grift h esq who difo has hag just returned return ca from flom junction unction 3 city kansas that that city is overrun with tho tile insects they come como in swarms from the west so thick that the sun aun ia 15 hidden hidde wherever theL they appear they are stripping corn fields and eating uj tho grass weeds and leaves leand on the tho trees the lawrence makes mention of their advent there and says their thein ravages have havo so far been confined to a track alrack twelve miles wide and three hundred miles long some somo idea p f tho the vast quantity of these insects may bo be inferred iufer Infer from the fact of their having got oil on the redl railroad track of the tho union pacific road in such numbers as to cause the wheels to slip on the rail the freight train due duo at wyandotte gyan Wyan dotto saturday evening was actually detained several hours in consequence of the grasshoppers havill havili having taken possession poi session of the tho foad road lou eouts louis a dispatch sep 15 |