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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-05-06

Favorable reports of good crops this
season are coming in from all over this
State. Never before did wheat and
oats in this section look better or give
better hope of bountiful yield than
they do at this very time. The wheat
specially looks beautiful. The fields
present an appearance of the most
beautiful green. 1t is probably well
that the prospect with us is so good
for In some States and in California
particularly the prospect of good crops
is not ut all encouraging. In the GEN.
trail and southern portions of the Pacif-
ic State the average yield will very like
ly not be third of a crop. People are
fast learning the fact that Kansas is The
State after all.
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another expiring in the fortunes of fire
and burnt to ashes beyond recognition
If he can contemplate the agonies of
such a bereavement-can imagine the
fruitless searches for his remains-the
hope against hope for years that he
might be prisoner and would again
return to partially console and bless
mother in her Affections for those car
ried to the grave-of the time spent to
bring to justice the murderers-and still
be unable to realize reasons why i
might have failed to discharge intricate
duties. Iwould rather be guilty of the
worst my enemies have said of me than
be so heartless wretch as that
beg the public to consider that send
ing dispatches over the country is poll
tics, not business-and to suspend their
Judgment. Whatever investigations
have been made are entirely ex parte.
aud have not seen line of the result,
and was never notified to be present,
nor permitted. From the fact that the
Supervisor of Revenue who had the
accounts voluntarily assured me that
his investigations should not be made
public, and that have not seen them, l
think am warranted in saving that no
reporter could have sent ont just ac-
counts. For instance, for political pur-
poses it is stated that Gen. G. w. Bah
cock and Gov. Thomas Carney are on
the bonds, when their names never were
on any bonds of mine as United States
Collector, or in any other official capac-
ity.
have resided in Kansas for fifteen
years, and can appeal to my neighbors
of ali parties for the integrity of my
character, aud l unhesitatingly assert
that have never intended to defraud
the Government out of dollar. What
ever may be the result of inyestiga-
tions, shall shrink from no response
bility. / shall do all in my power to
save the Government and my securities.
All that have have ever been ready
to give up, and would rather be pau
per than do injustice to either.
shall soon be in Kansas, and L hope
to be able to satisfy all reasonable men
that am not deserving of the treat
ment which have received.
1t is unnecessary to say that Hon.
Sidney Clarke had no knowledge of the
state of my accounts, and no possible
connection with them, and that the as
sertion that l ever attempted to stifle
investigation, or know of any person
else doing so, is entirely without foun-
datiOn in fact. JOHN SPEER.
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advantageous to school as to have it
well graded will not be denied by those
who have had experience in teaching.
With two small school houses this
work cannot be properly attended to-.
The rooms will be crowded. The high
er departments will be so jammed that
candidates for promotion from lower
rooms cannot be accommodated, while
the lower rooms themselves will be
crowded more and more by fresh arri-
walls each day. Under such a condition
of things it will be utterly impossible
to have the schools rightly graded. I'd.
1t will be more satisfactory to the resi-
dents of the several wards to have q
central building, accessible with equal
ease from every ward, and accommoda-
ting the children of every ward, than to
have a house OF such size and placed in
such locality as to accommodate the
children of but one ward. Let us have
our large central house first, and then
when the city has attained q population
of eight or ten thousand, and the CEN
trial building, together with the present
building, will not answer our school
necessities, build the ward houses. This
is the plan adopted in most Of the cities
in eastern States, and is considered by
competent judges as altogether the bet
ter one. Sd. The people of this city
can make no investment which will pay
them better than to erect as near the
heart of the city as possible fine large
school house structure that shall not
only meet our present school necessi-
ties, but shall be something in the way
of an ornament to our town. 1t will
afford ample facilities for the education
of our children it will enhance the val
ue of property here twenty per cent. ;
it will bring many people here we 9TH
erwise shall not get, and they will be of
that class that will do us the most good.
1t is conceded that we must erect a
school house this season. Shall it be of
the kind recommended by the commit
tee whose report was published last
week, or of the kind herein pleaded
for? Burlingame, not one-tenth as
large as Emporia, has just completed a
school building at a cost of $4,000.
Fort Scott is building one that will cost
about $4,000. Let Emporia do like
wise.
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The army bill before the Senate pro-
vides for the reduction of the number of
enlisted men to $4,000. 1t allows the
President to honorably discharge officers
who may apply for discharge. The Offices
of General and Lieutenant General will
expire when vacancy occurs. No ap-
pointments arc to be made in the grade
OF Major General until the number is
reduced to three, nor any in the grade
of Brigadier General until the number
is reduced to six. After the incumbents
of the positions of chiefs of staff, such
as Quartermaster, Adjutant-General,
General, ETC., retire, their successors
shall have the rank of Colonel instead
of Brigsdier General, as at present. The
nav of officers Is fixed as follows:
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JOHN SPEER'S STATEMENT.
From the Kansas Tribune.l
WAsHINeroN, April 25, 1916

w WASHINGTON, April 70, 1870.
While here attempting to promote
the settlement of my accounts, find
dispatches and articles calculated to do
me great injustice, going the rounds of
the papers. l have heretofore thought
that no answer was required from me,
as no good could be accomplished,
through newspaper discussions, and l
do not propose to enter into details
which properly belong to officers or
courts.
1t is believed that did not give that
personal attention to the business of
my Office of United States Collector
which the intricasies of the position re-
quired, for reasons which are too well
known to those acquainted with me and
my circumstances to need recapitula-
ton. A just public will discriminate
between errors, whatever may be their
causes and willful wrong.
While utter no censure on others,
and hesitate not to take any just respon-
sibility upon myself, il is but truth to
say that did not personally make up
the claims for ATTACHMENTS, and, while
here, am unable to explain intelligibly
their character. These accounts invol-
we'd between one and two millions OF
dollars, embracing great numbers OF
items, running through four years OF
the most exciting times of the war.
Every paper aud book, with a consider
able amount of stamps, were DESTROYED
in the Quantrell raid, and in the Price
raid, a year after, all the books, papers
and moneys were carried of by my
clerk and buried in the earth when
Prices army was reported to be adyan-
cling on Lawrence, and while / was
with the troops. These and other una
voidable circumstances would have con-
fused and distracted better men than
claim to be.
The public know that had three chill.
dren murdered during the period allu-
ded to. In the terrible visitation OF
Quantreh my eldest boy was shot, un.
armed, innocent and unoffending, in the
streets Another was supposed to have
been burned to death in the rsIins of the
town, his body was never found. Two
| years later, when l was on my way &C
Washington for the purpose Of consult
ing in regard to my accounts, / received
a despatch at st. Louis stating that q
third son--a promising boy of sever
years-had been accidentally shot and
killed. do not claim that these Attic.
tons gave me right to do wrong-I ash
no sympathy-I have a right to de.
mand justice without the prejudice o.
newspaper abuse for political purposes
IF any parent can contemplate the spec
tacle of two sons carried to his hearth
10 wash the brains from their heads-0
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STATE NEWS ITEMS.

BACK AGAIN.--Governor Harvey as
is his custom, dropped in to- see the
Record the other day. After his long
confinement in the stifled air of Wash
ington, fouled as it is by all sorts of po-
litical smells, it evidently did our Chief
Magistrate considerable good to breathe
the free and healthful atmosphere which
pervades these premises. Gov. Harvey
has labOred faithfully at Washington in
connection with the Governors of other
Northwestern States in behalf of the
plan of establishing water communities
ton from the Mississippi to the lakes,
and has also "kept an eye OUT on the
"apportionment bill" Governor Har-
vey, like every other man who leaves
Kansas for a season, looked glad to get
back, and we know that our share of
Kansas was glad to see him back.-I'o-
peka Record.
A CoNTRAsT.-Two weeks ago on
Monday last, three young men, from
Lapeer county, Michigan, Messrs. Boil
ton, Rosco, and Watkins, left their
homes in the midst of some two feet of
snow and came to Kansas. They were
not little astonished to find vegetation
so far advanced in Kansas, and every
thing looking as forward as though it
were III May or June in Michigan.
They were enthusiastic about Southern
Kansas, and stated we were at least fif-
ty years ahead of some of the older
| 4.
ments. There is full six weeks differ
ence in the opening of spring between
these two States. One of these Young
men informed us his father had spent
twenty years of hard labor on his farm
and had just got the stumps sufficiently
cleared off so he could use moving
machine. Tie same amount of labor
| expended on a farm in Kansas would
have put half a dozen farms under the
best of cultivation. They inform us
there will be a heavy immigration from
Michigan to Kansas this season.-Bur-
lington Patriot.
FATAL CARELEssNEss.-O Wednes-
day morning last another victim was
added to the long list of those who have
come to an untimely end through the
careless handling of firearms. Henry
Bodine, one of our most esteemed citi-
zens being almost instantly deprived OF
life by a shot from pistol in the hands
of William Patterson. The particulars
as we learn them, are substantially as
follows Mr.. Bodine was on the street
conversing with Mr.. Boyle, and Mr.. Pat
terson, standing near by, exhibiting the
points of Smith & Wesson revolver
to Mr.. Craft, when the weapon was
accidentally discharged, the ball strik.
ing Mr.. B. in the forehead and lodging
in the brain, causing death in a few
minutes. The unfortunate man was
one of our oldest settlers, and highly
respected by all who knew him. He
had been married but few months, and
leaves heart-broken widow TO mourn
his sudden and untimely taking off
Mr.. Patterson is an aged man, whose
gray hairs ought to have brought hin
wisdom sufficient to prevent his evel
taking one of those miserable murder.
GUS weapons in his palsied hand.-Os
,oego Register.
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EMPoRIA MARKETS.



TEAs-YOung Hyson, 81 -5o4s 90 per 10; Imperial
80 to 24oi GGnpowdeT; 80; Early breakfast, $50;
CoFPEE~Rio, IS TO soc per h.; Java 4Oc.
sTGAR-Refned, 10 to zoe per lbs crushed, s2c.i
ToBAcco-Virginia natural leaf, $40 to rs per
H.; Gold Bar, lbs; Navy, 100; Grape Juice, 9Oci
Fine cut, so.
RIcE-15c per h.,
HoAINY-Sc per lb.
1.25: Golden syrup. I'D; Star syrup, Us.
XINEG1E.SideF Soc per gal; sSrgeIamGo 4Oe; ~.
white nsh 15c per ID, $50 per Kit; cod nsh f5c.
20 DRsGD FRUITS lSc: per hi; peaches
CANSED G0oDs~Poaches 20 and soc, per can;
pine apples soc: pears zoe; tomatoes IS and Sc
corn Sc; oysters ssc: Holsters SOC; sardines Soc
BErTER-7S5 to 45c per ID.
EG0S-15e per dozen
IHRD[so to Sc ss per ID. - " ''OO i'>-
HAXs-Conntry cured 22c per III; sugar cured
BAcoN-s2c per h.
soAP-Extra family 1sgIc per ID; palm Toe.
CASDLEs-Star sc per Id: talIow 20c
kEEosETs o Z. o Per gallon cEystaii1ed eOc
SHoT-soc per lb
PoWDER~aOc per ib; blasting 4Oc
Dry Goods.
PKISTs-Sprague's, American, Richmond's, Mer.
imaek D.. 1a1zc per I'd; Wamsutta 10c.
sHEETINGs-stark A, Indian Head, and Greai
BLKAcHED MUsLINs-Launsdale, sc per I'd
Bates Mills axe; Reynolds 20c; Senperidein A.
25c; Washington Z, 16SSc Massasoit sc; Canoe iOc
DEN1Ns-2S 20 soc per I'd.
SHIRTISG STRIPE-20 to SOC per I'd.
WOOL DELAINS-40 to 5Gc per yd
MERINOs-75c 70 81 . per I'd
FLANNKLs-Sg to SOC per yd.
poHEsTio GTNeHA $50 70 s5c' per I'D.
SATENETS-I5c to 81 90 per I'd.
HOOP SKIRrs-50c to $2O0
Bread Stuf1E.
FLOUK-XXx. 500 per sack; Xxx, 400; Spring
wheat, 50 to 500
CORN AEAL-$l. 90 per buShel.
GRAHAA ELoUR-4c per Id.
BUcKwHEAr FLoUK-1c per H.
Small Grain.
wHEAr-spring, 6Oc- to soc per bushel; best Fan
81 so per bushel-
CORN-ae to SOC per bushel
OATs-40 to SOC per bushel-
Fresh Meats and Poultry.
BKEF-Choice steak 15c per lb; choice roast 15c
other qualities 10 to 12c-
PORK-GhOice steak 1ss per Ii; sides and mid,
dlings 15c-
CHIcKESs-Laree. dressed or alive ssc
Lumber.
CLEAR1 To : inch-per thousand, SO Q So
SELECT inch-per Thousand. SIS
COMMON firessedD per thousand so.
fLooRISG--per thousand. go. S4z5o q 80 50.
CEILING = and 4-per Thousand. $S5 9 SIS
SIDING-per thousand 80. 81 80, SO q So so.
FENcISG-Per thousand $3.50 q so
DIMENSION LUMBER C2x4, zx6. 2xS 2x1Ol- 50 q
So so.
SAVED SasNoLEs-per thousand S a Ssq5
CHICAGO LAfH-per Thousand, $40.
ROUGH BoARDs tcommonl-per thousand. $4000
Doors, Sash. Blinds, re-. ut manufacturer pri.
ees, freight added
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above utterance, we are still at some
loss to know whether Mr.. Clarke was
absent simply On one oecas orion in a
few instances. The remainder of this
eloquent speech of our able representa-
tive is marred-we might say spoiled by
the frequent bat ungentlemanly inter-
ruptiOns of both members and speaker.
Mr.. Calkin breaks in upon him to state
that the gentleman from Kansas has al
ready been brought before the House
and fined for being absent. The Speak
er states that the Hon. Mr.. Clarke has
the floor by the courtesy of Mr.. Dawes,
and that he must confine himself to the
question before the House, and there
fore desist talking about himself. Mr..
Clarke essays to. speak again, but is
promptly called to order by Mr.. Will
lard he makes another attempt, trying
to the question. But it is extremely
difficult for Mr.. Clarke to confine him.
self He gets but little way on when
endeavoring to say, "For 1 believe there
is no member, with the exception of my
self, who more promptly attends the
sessions of the House and attends to
its business more diligently" Mr.. Ben
ton rises to his feet and says: "My
point is that it is not in order for the
gentleman to stand up here and adver-
| tise how punctual he has been in attend.
ing the sessions of the House, when the
question under consideration is wheth-
err the House will or will not excuse &
member for non-attendance on par
ticular occasion" The Speaker tells Mr.
Clarke that he nssGst confine himself tC
the question under discussion. Mr.
Clarke tries again, but with no bet
ter success than before. Finally the
Speaker says, ''The gentleman is clearly
out of ORDER" Thercupon Sidney sit'
down and Mr.. Dawes takes the floor.
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The House of Representatives has
passed resolution directing the Secre-
tary of the Interior to place the name of
Mrs. Lincoln on the pension list, and to
pay her $1,000 per annum. This is just,
and should have been done long ago.
This country owes too much to Abra-
ham Lincoln to justify her in allowing
any opportunity to pass of showing
that she appreciated his worth and
holds in lasting endearment the memo
ry of the man and his services. His
widow is poor. She has frequently
asked this government for aid, and it
seems to us that n proper respect for his
name should have brought her long ago
ample provision. We rejoice at even
this tardy action of the House, and
hope the Senate will speedily concur.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-05-06

The A. T. & s. +. Railroad Company
have petitioned the House Pacific Rail-
road Committee that its name be
changed to the National Pacific Compa-
NY. and that it be allowed to construct
it's road to such point on the southern
or western boundary of this State as
maybe most desirable or suitable, and
that 1t be allowed to extend its road
from the point where it shall leave the
State line of Kansas to point on the
Rio Grande ut or near Albuquerque,
and thence along the valley of the Rio
Grande to a point on the southern
boundary of New Mexico, opposite FL
Paso; and that such corporation be
granted the saEe grants, rights, privi-
leges, etc, as are granted by act of Con-
gress approved July q, 1866, to the At
lantic and Pacific Railroad Company.
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WHAT SORT OF A SCHOOL HOUSE
20 SHALL WE BUILDl

A committee appointed to consider
the expediency OF building school
house to accommodate the rapidly
growing school room necessities of EN-
poria, after due investigation unitedly
join in recommending the erection in
the second ward OF q school building
at Q cost of not less than $1,000. We
heartily agree with these gentlemen in
their belief that the present school
room accommodations are altogether
too limited to properly care for the
present number of pupils in Emporia.
We must build another school house.
We must build it Immediately. The
only question with regard to which
public opinion can be properly divided
is in respect to the kind of a school
house it is best to build. The commit
tee favor the erection of what may be
properly termed ward school house.
It's object will be more especially to ac-
commodate the children living in the
ward in which it is proposed to erect
IL. Tho cost of such n building need
not exceed at most 5000. and may not
be SO much. But our own opinion
is that IL would be much wiser to build
q fine, large, central school building al
perhaps triple the cost, one that would
accommodate ali the more advanced
public school scholars for years to come
The present school building could be
used for the primary scholars. AS the
town grows SO as TO have a population
so large that the children cannot be &C
commodated, then let the ward schoo
houses be built.
This plan seems to us better for sew
eral reasons. 1st- A large central schoo
house, with a sufficient number o
rooms for the high school, the interme
diate school, the secondary and prima
nv departments will furnish excellent fl
cilities 10 properly and thoroughly grad
our schools. That no other thing il 81
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NOTICE.

GAMUEL j. HAINES, a nonresident of the
- State of Kansas, will take notice that he
has beer sued by z. B. Plumb, that his petit
tion against him is filed by said Plumb in the
District Court of Lyon County, Kansas, and
that he must answer said petition, on or before
the 18th day of June A. D. 1870, or the same
will be taken as true and a judgment rendered
accordingly, requiring said Samuel j. Haines
to exhibit his title in and to certain real estate
in said Lyon county, to-wit.: The west one.
half ~ and the northeast quarter N of the
northeast quarter u of section thirty 1907,
township eighteen (1s) and range twelve (12 !,
and decreeIng that the tile of said Samuel j,
Haines is null and void as against the title OF
said T. b. Plumb.
Dated May 9Th, 1870.
RUGGLES & PLUMB,
1920 Plaintiffs Attorneys
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NOTICE.

ID the State of Kansas, will take notice that
she has been sued by p. b. Plumb; that his pc.
tition against her is filed by said Plumb in the
District Court of Lyon county, Kansas; and
that she must answer said petition on or be.
fore the 18th day of June, A. d. 1870, or the
same will be taken as true and judgment rem.
denered accordingly, requiring said Barbara
Ridenour to exhibit her title in and to certain
real estate in said Lyon county, to-wit: The
southeast quarter (N) of section eleven, IN
township eighteen, 49, and range twelve, II J
and decreeing that the title of said Barbara
Ridenour is null and void against the title OF
said p. b. Plumb.
Dated May 9th, 1870.
RUGGLES PLUMB,
1920 Plaintiffs Attorneys.
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The reduction of the public debt for
the month of April amounts to SI1 ,697, :
1913. Gen. Grant, 1t seems, is determ-
ined TO fight it out on that line during
the entire term of his administration.
The people will feel very greatly in
clined to give him four years more, af-
ter his present term of Office expires, to
enable him to carry on the same good
work
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The Lincoln National Monument As
ISOLATION has S155, 600 in readiness for
the construction of Mr.. Lincoln's mon
ument. Mr.. VIM ID. Richardson has
been employed at cost of $4,000 to
complete this fall the entire monument
saving the sculpture, which Mr.. Lorrin
G. Mead, now at work I'm Italy, is to
complete at cost of $4,000. So says
the Topeka Record.
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$25 Reward.

CTRAYED or stolen from the subscribers at
y the junction of the Cottonwood and Neo.
sno rivers, on the night of the 2Sth of last
month, a black team-horse and mare-5 years
old this spring., about 10 hands high, star in
the forehead Of each, both some white feet,
harness marked, mares name about half rub
bed of. e. BECKES d son.
Mau IN
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Cattle for Sale.

T \ lots to suit purchasers, a large number of
i choice domesticated steers, one, two and
three years old; also heifers, one, two, three and
four years old, and cows, all in tine condition.
Apply ut camp on Rock creek, five miles from
Douglass. Butler county, Kansas.
1920 j. B.LAWRENCE, Agent.
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Dissolution Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that the partner
IN ship heretofore existing between William
Andrews, jr., and o. Y. Hart, in the Real Es-
tate and Insurance business, was dissolved by
mutual consent on the 18th day OF April, A d.
1870, MIR. Andrews retiring. The business will
hereafter be conducted by o. y. Hart, at his
office, No. 141 Commercial street
WIN. ANDREWS JR.
o. Y. HART.
Emporia, April 18th, 1870. lS-lt.
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A destructive fire occurred in Leaven-
worth on Wednesday OF this week. An
entire block, with the exception of two
brick houses, was consumed, in one of
the best quarters of the city. Loss
about $4,000.
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The brethren at Salt Lake City are
providing themselves with arms, and
have commenced drilling for the pur-
pose of defending their beloved institu-
tons. Their voice is now for war, al
though Brigham insists that he is for
peace.
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In all probability the question in IA
vor of lay delegation in the NJ. E.
Church is settled beyond doubt. The
Wyoming and Central New York Con-
ferences had q vote few days since,
and gave n majority in favor OF the
measure. Ait'
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Strayed or Stolen.

A Mule, dark bay, rather heavy in size, with
~ u wart over the left eye, saddle marks ON
the back, and shoe of the left front foot; has
been missing from my premises since Sunday
evening the LIST of May. Any person leaving
information at this office leading to the recoV-
cry of said mule will be rewarded in the sum
of $50 llS-tf1 STEPHEN EVANS.