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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10

There is q new sensationl 1t comes
from that very respectable, very aristo-
cratic, and very foggish and pro-slav-
cry institution, the National Military.
Academy, at West Point. And what is
It oil about? Why, the colored man,
of course. ''There is a niger in the
wood-pile" again. The last citadel is
to be taken. Our colored brethren, who
have been diffusing themselves so gen.
orally into all the institutions of this
country for the past few years, have
concluded to go to West Point. Mas
ter Charles Howard, a fuIi-blooded
African, from Mississippi, has been APP
pointed a cadet at West Point, on the
recommendation of Hon. L. w. Pierce,
a newly-elected Congressman from the
State of j. Davis. He is described as
up TO the mark physically, and a very
bright lad. But think of a colored boy
training with the sons of rich snobs and
shoddyites,; at this very respectable red
tape institution. Think of this school
which had for years been largely devo-
ted to the education of s'blooded"
Southern rebels, who had never been
contaminated by mixing with negroes
except to be fed upon the milk of a coll
ored woman when they were young.
Ye gods there was boiling of the blood
when young Howard lifted his militia
ry hat and inquired for the West Point
hotel. 1t is said he was the first cadet
that was ever refused room ut this
very respectable institution. The colo
nels, ETC., held very Serious council of
war. Howard talked of his rights.
The white cadets seemed almost para
lyzed, and wanted some immediate steps
taken to keep them "above the negro"
ut is dreadful" says one. "Let us put
the niger in the river" says another.
Others talked of killing him. But
young Howard stuck to it, The pro-
gramme is to let him drill with the
whites until the examination in July,
when he will be reported as a failure
mentally, and sent back to Mississippi
But this will not be the last of it, and
we predict that the Military Academy
will be opened to the blacks. 1t will take
a fight, and Congress may have to in,
terfere, but West Point will have tC
succumb. The negro, who never re
belled against his government, ha
rights which West Point must respect
or 90 to the wall.
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DOWN THE NEOsHO.

A few days ago we took the noon
train on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
road, for ride down the Neosho VAL
ley. Nature is doing her share these
beautiful summer days to render the
trip in that direction desirable. On
either side, for miles, the scene is inter-
spersed with growing wheat and corn
crops, young orchards, green prairies,
"hedge rows of living green" and thrift
ty looking improvements. Not many
years back the settlements were all on
the. bottoms. Now they are stretching
out on to the hill sides. The best farms,
three years ago, could be bought for ten
or fifteen dollars per acre. Now the
holders can get thirty to fifty dollars
per acre for the best improved land, and
some would refuse any price, for the
reason that they can find no place under
the sun that would suit them better.
The railroad-that great mystery of q
road of which philosophers p are wont
to say 'begins nowhere and ends no.
where"-has done this. It's construc-
ton through the valley has wrought
this wonderful advance and improve
ment. And right here let us say it has
not been our good fortune to ride with
more accommodating conductors and
other officials, or in cleaner or more COM
Portable cars than those furnished by
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas folks.
The first town is Hartford. Our
friends there have reason to congratu-
late themselves upon their growth and
Improvement. From the car window
we could see many new houses which
bad been erected since our former visit
to this town. Near the depot is thenew
town of. Attica. 1t was laid out a few
weeks ago, and already has several COM
modious houses on its site. We believe
It corners" with Hartford, or at leastis
near by. Hartford is hound to- be q
fiourishing town.
Burlington comes next. The depotis
some distance from the main part of the
town, but we could easily see that it has
grown beyond precedent since the adj
vent of the locomotive. New houses
were thick in every direction. No one
WAO udS bCCA aOSCAtS flEOtb A1uA
for year would recognize the place, so
rapidly has it grown. We bad a
glimpse of the good natured phiz
of our old friend Major John
T. Cox, the railroad agent at this point.
He is business all over, and we should
say the company had done good thing
in securing his services.
Up to this point the wheat did moi
look very promising, but the engine
soon brought us to the stopping point
opposite Leroy, and here the crops be-
gan 10 look much better. The i'm
provement in the wheat fields was par
ticularly noticeable. The cars stop
about mile and quarter from Leroy,
where a hack is always in waiting to
convey passengers to and from the
town. We had the pleasure of making
the acquaintance, on the train, of C. ii.
Graham, Esq, Treasurer of Coffey
county. He gave US much interesting
information about the town and county.
Notwithstanding the road misses Leroy
the town is improving and business is
as good as ever. This has always been
Q No. 1 business point. 1t is surround
ed by as good an agricultural country
as any town in Kansas. There is per-
haps more good timber in the neighbor-
hood of this town than there is near
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ELECTION PRoCLAMATION.

May 18th, 1870.
By virtue of authority In me vested, /, H. c.
Cross Mavor Of the city Of Emporia, do hereby
proclaim and make Known that an election
will be held in said city on 8 IA
Thursday the 18th Day Of June, 1870,
at which election all the qualified electors Of
said eity shall be entitled TO vote upon the fol-
lowing proposition, to-wit: Shall the city OF
Emporia issue her bonds in the sum Of six
Thousand dollars, So 00Ol for the purpose Of
erecting and completing boarding houses for
the use Of students Of the State Normal School.
Those voting in favor OF sid proposition shall
vote written or printed pallet, as foiiows :;
Those yeting against said proposition shall
vote a written or printed ballot w0rded as fol-
lows: Against the Bonds to Build Boarding
Houses
The bonds to be issued for the above prop
osItion are TO be payable ten years after date
OF issue, with ten per cent interest, payable
annually. and cannot be sold for less than 30
The election TO be conducted under the gem
eraI election laws of the State Of Kansas, ex-
cent that the returns shall be made 10 the City
Council the day amer said election
POLLS AND OFFCERSs
First Wdrd-Af the office OF =. Borton, on
Commercial street between slxsn a1a SesS Ess
gUisou and j. Maurer. CieEks-HafTy Mayse
and Geo. B. Cooper.
Second Wdrd-At the office Of J. 8. Clese,
land. ON Fifth avenue, between Commercial
and Mechanics streets. Judges-J- s. Cieve-
land TbesnsE MurtIock and W. Davis. Clerks
w. A. Randolph and J. L Williams:
the ofiie.e Of q. Y Hart. on Commercial street,
between Fourth and Fifth avenues; ynaSes-
A. R-Baneroft s siantoE s5.d yon 2la,; s.lson'
Foasrth Rud-At the Jewelry store OF Jonn
Steffen on Commercial street, between sixth
and Seventh avenues. Saeges-Jonn Bay,
! L Glars ana = Aes- Il. c. eRoss, Mayor.
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A Trip no LEROY.

~Oh, declare, this is pleasant, riding
on rail-" Whoop! hurrahi Here
go, down the great Neosho Valley,
through the farms, over the prairies,
across the creeks, by the towns-and
jump of the train into the weeds up to
my neck, about two miles south of Lee
roy. There is no depot here, not even
platform, and the train did not stop.
These railroad men have spite at Lee
roy, some how. Well, after a fearful
leap got into q hack and rode through
one of the finest wheat fields that /
have seen this year, and cross the riv-
er to Leroy. The town is not improv-
ing great deal. I saw two or three
new houses going mp. They have new
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10

A meeting looking to the organiza-
ton of q new political party was held
laot week in New York. The meeting
was composed of dissatisfied republicans
aud democrats. The planks in their
platform are first, a civil service sys-
tenn; second, minority, or rather pro-
portional representation third, reform
of the revenue tariff; fourth, return to
specie payments; fifth, the purchase OF
the railroads by the Government. The
last plan is urged upon the ground that
either the railroad companies will own
the Government or the Government
must obtain control of the railroads, and
that the last is the least of the two evils
The organization intend to issue an ad.
dress, in n short time, to the nation.
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or course It isn't any of our business.
In other words, it isn't our funeral, 'as
We don't belong to the ring" but we
should just like to know, as matter of
news, what has been done with the EN-
poria postoffice. In the language of the
eminent Wakefield, it was in ''statute
squaw" the last we heard of 1t. Is the
gentleman who looked for his commits
sion so long and anxiously to be disap-
pointed? Is there a war among the
rosesl Don't the sweet scented "spoils"
party of Emporia, who hang around the
few little offices here like a lot of buzz
Yards around a carrion, agree? Our
Emporia postofiice is controlled by a
gentleman who lives in the rural dis
tricts. Business men of Emporia and
those most directly interested have no
say. II is no use for them to petition or
write letters. There is such nice Re
publican state of affairs among our
Congressional delegation that we have
to inquire of gentleman in the country
about our postofice. Can't he decide
WHOM to give the Office to?
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"a business man Of Springfield, Illinois,
who has recently been travelling through Kan
sas, writes 20 the Springfield journal that the
most OF the -four offered for sale In the grocery
stores In that State is marked Quincy -
Sufncy paper. r-f....-
That's nothing terrible. There are
two very good reasons for 1t. The
immigration has been so great as to con-
sumo an extra amount of flour in this
State, and wheat has been SO low since
the last harvest that q large proportion
OF our farmers have refused to sell, and
still have immense quantities of wheat
on hand. Did the aforesaid business
man learn that thousands. of head Of
cattle which were driven into Illinois
last year, and nearly all the seed corr
which was used in Southern Illinois
this year, were marked "Kansas ?" Per
haps he was not looking for items OF
that side.
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ARKANSAS CITY.
Its Advantageous Location and Fiattering
Prospects.

- AEuSPcsN5s
The above is the name of new town
located on the site lately occupied by
the Creswell town company
1t is located near the junction OF the
Arkansas and Walnut rivers, and is sur
rounded by extensive and rich valleys
of land, and plenty of timber. 1t Is at
the point where railroad down the
Walnut valley will form Junction with
one up the Arkansas valley, both of
which win be built at no distant day.
1t possesses splendid water power,
which Messrs Beedy. s. Newman are
under contract to improve by the erec-
ton of water Touring and saw mill at
an early day.
1t now has splendid steam mill in
successful operation, owned by Major
Sheath, late of EIdorado. A single
mandatory will be in running order in
a very few days.
Twelve buildings are up and in pro-
cess of construction, among which is
Woolsey's hotel, which has front of
fifty feet on the street, and is thirty-two
feet deep. There are in the town at
present four stores, one hardware, one
grocery store, and two that keep a gem
eral stock. -
|. Twenty-six buildings are under con-
tract tie be put up just As soon as the
lumber can be obtained. Among these
we may mention buildings for lumber
yard and carpenter shop, bakery, res
| taurant, boot and shoe store, drug store,
| clothing store, dry goods and clothing
store, meat market, stage and express
Office, book store, cabinet shop, resi-
dences, etc. e
The Southern Kansas Stage Company
will commence running a tri-weekly
4 line of hacks to Arkansas City in about
ten days, carrying mail twice week
from Eldorado. They have become in
{4erested in the town, and will immedi-
ately put up large stables, and make this
their headquarters for the stage and ex-
press business in Southwestern Kansas.
/ Many of the new business houses to
be put up are large two-story buildings.
Among these is town hall 25x40 feet.
| A school house will be erected during
the summer.
A ferry will be put in running order
across the Arkansas at this point, at an
early day, and it is thought much of the
Texas cattle business will be done al
Arkansas City this summer.
Native lumber is furnished cheaper
than at any point in Southern Kansas
Stone is plenty.
A newspaper viii be established here
during the season. For this object the
company offer liberal inducements.
The town company offer great induce
ments to settlers. No lots are sold, bu
/ they are given away to those who viii
build business houses and residences.
] There are plenty of good claims with
! in two to five miles of the town.
5 The people are enterprising, wild,
awake, and will do all in their power Il
! assist new corners.
One or more churches viii probabl,
be built this season.
The Arkansas and Walnut valleys ar
. unsurpassed in the West for fertility o
! soil, and plentiful supply of timber.
Water has been obtained in Arkansa
City at q depth of sixteen feet.
Now is the time to settle in that POI
ton of the country if new corners wan
: | first choice.
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printing ONCE, from which the South
ern Kansas AdcocGte win soon go forth
I saw the editor He looks like he had
the intelligence, snap, and neatness TO
get up fine sheet. shall be surprised
if the Adrocute is not good paper
The people are building. a fine bridge
across the Neosho. They propose to
celebrate its completion on the Fourth.
IF Leroy gets a road from Garnett,
which they now confidently expect, the
town will go ahead. 1t has q fine conn
try around, and Esaw some of the iarg-
est corn, and best wheat that l have
seen this season. C. r. r.
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Notice to Contractors.
MAYORS OFFICE.


EMPoRIA, Kas., June 1, 1905
CEALED Proposals will be received at this
y office up 10 O'Clock d. M, on June 18th,
A. d. 1870. for furnishing material and build
ing sidewalks on Sixth avenue, between Com
mereiaI street and East street, provided by
ordinance, approved SIay Sd, 4. ID. 1870.
The estimated cost Of walks II feet wide. is
a5 cents per hneal foot, and of walks feet
wide, 70 cents per lineai foot. Plans and spec
iicatfons Of said walks to be seen at my office.
Proposals viii also be received at the same
time for building trestleS- or supports under
said walk at such places as needed, as Is shown
by plans and specifications above mentioned.
Estimated cost Of treStles per ifneal foot, for
sidewalks IL feet wide, Is 25 cents, and for
walks feet wide. Is 10 cents per liheaI foot.
Said walks and trestles to be completed with
IN thirty days from time Of accepting bid All
bids to be accompanied by bond Of the bidder
and acceptable sureties conditioned for the
faithful fulfilrnent of proposal. IL accepted.
Said bids are TO be sealed and directed 'tPro-
posals to build Sidewalks
o95 n, C, CROSS, Aavor.
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A WORD TO PATRICK HENRY,

We find the following bit of ''per-
sonap about the senior editor of The
News In the Workingnaan's Journal
published at Columbus, Cherokee eoun-
ty, Kansas, one of the counties on what
Is known as the Neutral Land, which
paper is edited by that specious dema-
gogue, Amos Sanford, who calls him.
self the 'sPatrick Henry" of the Neu-
trail Land:
s.His urbanity secured his election As Speak
er, but his betrayal % the trust reposed In
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10

A very destructive fire occurred in
Louisville, KY, last Saturday morning,
entirely destroying the extensive foun-
dry and machine shop of Dennis, Long
4 Go. The loss amounts to 100000.
I60 men are thrown out of employment.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10

We call the especial attention of the
New York World and other eastern
journals which have lately been telling
such wholesale lies about a drouth in
Kansas TO the following dispatch from
Rochester, N. Y, dated June I'd:
vegetation Is suffering severely In this re-
gion Tor want OF rain. In some sections farm
ers are blowing their winter wheat.'
If this condition of things existed in
Kansas there would be volumes of hor-
rible stuff in the eastern papers about a
fhmina
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10

We feel like apologising this week
for the publication of several personal"
articles. We have labored to keep THE
News free from them. We love peace.
We hate contention and personal quar-
rels. In some way our name has been
mentioned in connection with Office
this fall. We have never asked any
body TO mention Il and have forbidden
several from doing so. Out of desire
20 keep up peace and harmony we have
permitted column after column of per-
sonal abuse and ridicule.to go by nnno-
ticed until II seems TO us we cannot
quietly do so longer. We care great
deal more for a decent name than we do
for any ONCE, and we intend TO try to
maintain one. We are not aware that
we have wronged any of the papers
which are abusing US. We know that
they belong to the patronage ''ring" and
are willing they should do all they can
for their masters, but we don't feel like
letting them tell so many falsehoods
about us, without rejoinder.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10

Miss Alice Carey, who has been very
Ill for several months, is said to be grad
ually recovering. This will be cheering
news to her many personal friends and
to the thousands WOO correctly acknowl-
edge her TO stand at the head of the list
of American poetesses.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10

We understand that the meeting on
Monday last on the Kaw Reserve was
tolerably we'll attended. Speeches
were made, resolutions were adopted
and q Squatters Association was formed.
There is good deal of dissatisfaction
over this meeting among the people in
the vicinity of the Reserve, especially at
Council Grove and Americas.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10

Henry Ward Beecher believes in
walking out or riding out or in writing
letters on the Sabbath, and says he
wouldn't sign petition against allow
ing horse-cars to run on Sunday, DEEM
ing 1t no worse for the poor to ride in
the cars than for the rich to ride in their
carria0ea.
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at Is very dry here. Wheat looks
badly" The above sentence is taken
from letter from Genesee county,
New York, dated May 30th. Has the
New York World heard of this drouth
under its own nose? Lett look nearer
home for drouth news.
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Election Notice.

To the qualified cOters of School District No.
1, Lyon county, Kansas:
HlHERE will be an election held at the stone
i school house in said district on
Saturday, June II, at g o'clock p. M,
at which time all the qualified voters of said
district will be entitled TO vote on the question
of issuing the bonds of said district in the sum
of six thousand dollars, for the purpose of
building an additional school building in said
district, said bonds to he payable in ten years
rate of ten per cent. per annum. Parties IA
voring the issuing of said bonds will vote a
written or printed ballot follows: For
School Bonds" Parties opposing the issuing
OF said bonds will vote a written or printed
ballot as follows: against School Bonds"
22-23 A. n. HANNA, Clerk.
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Red Cloud, the Indian chief, now Wis
ting Washington, declines to have his
photograph taken. That's the first In
dian we ever heard of who didn't want
to figure In the picture galleries.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10

There are great many men in Kan
sas who consider Sidney Clarke very
Promising man-for instance, all who
have been promised that they should be
Register or Receiver in the new land
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Weston, the great pedestrian, lately
walked the distance of $50 miles in 81
hours, 80 minutes, and Is seconds, for
doing which he received the sum OF
81 500. p
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Two hundred U. S. troops sent to the
Canadian border TO watch the Fenians,
have been ordered to Fort Leavenworth
for duty on the plains.
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A letter in the Lawrence Republican
from Marseilles, Illinois, says. at is
dry as powder here, and the crops are
suffering from want Of rain.
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The Government in It's. generosity,
offered to endow professorships in
Highland University, provided the in
stitution would undertake the educa-
ton Of Indians, and we see that at the
late session OF the Presbyterian Gener.
Al Assembly, at Philadelphia the
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10

Mr.. Vallandingham has declared his
intention of retiring to private life, and
having nothing 70 do In the future with
politics.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-10

The New York Sun states that Mr..
Fish win soon be succeeded in the State
Department by Senator Morrill,, from
Maine. ~
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condition of the government was
accepted. 1t may be well enough for
the government to try this experiment,
but we have but little faith in its doing
any good for the Indians or government,
unless persons are selected out of whom
the copper is very nearly bleached. We
have heard of several instances among
the Sacs and Foxes, Osages and other
Kansas Indians, where they have been
highly educated, aud after being re-
turned to their homes they took imme-
diately to the breech-clout, pack pony,
and the nomadic life of other Indians.
The women are worse in this respect,
we are told, than the men. While the
experiment promises so little, it is well
enough, perhaps, to try it. Our red
brother is getting about as troublesome
as our @colored brother formerly was,
and let us try experiments with him
till we get him disposed of in the most
liberal and humane way. Meantime,
while VIC are trying these experiments,
we are still In favor of the old fashion
ed powder and BAN receipt for those
who commit depredations ON our from
tier tsI
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EDITORIAL AND NEWS.

Horace Greeley is lying very sick and
2 fears are entertained Of his recovery.
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New Advertisements.

8. LAWRENCE,
AND SURGEON. ONCE and Res
idences one door south of the Emporia Ba-
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Buffalo Robe Lost.

r OST between the Court House and Soden,s
ii mill, on Wednesday evening. June Stl, a
Comanche robe. The finder will be suitably
rewarded by leaving it at THE NEWS ONCE
1924 RANDALL BROWN.
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@fraYed.

soNE flley, one year old, sorrel color very
little white in the face, tail cut n few
inches above the hough. A reward Of SO will
be given to any person who will return the
same to my residence. one-half mile north Of
town. f23-25l EDWARD MORRIS.
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P. G. HALLBERG.
MCMILLAN & HOUGHTON,
BAILY & PAINTER,
B. TRUMBULL, O..
FERGUSON & HARVEY,
MORRIS & BOTTGER and
A. A. BAKER & CO., (wholesale grocers.)
Grocers and dealers in Emporia; and lib
eral Reward offered to any one providing q
better Baking Powder than Gillets.
GILLET, MCCULLOCH & CO.,
chemical Works.
1925 81 Mich. avenue, Chicago.