The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-10-04

: time, which was granted. KaI
sas was thus required to do q
much work in one hour as woul
have taken a whole day under o.
binary circumstances.
Q Missouri had asked, throug
Moses, Mcbride and Baylis for a
2 extension of time until Wednesda
night, as they had a lot of frui
coming on from independence
which they would not be able Z
display at an earlier hour. Tn
} extension of time thus asked TO
. was granted by the superintendent
of the fruit department, who ex
tended the same courtesy to Kan
sas for the same purpose.
] The peremptory demand O
Missouri for Kansas to stop he
display at halt past 3 o'clock p. m
of Wednesday, was in palpabl,
violation of the agreement be
tween her and the superintendent
to have the time extended t.
Wednesday night, for both states
AWARDING COMMITTEE.
| Displays having been brought
Ito a close on Wednesday at hal
past three o'clock, the agricultur
al board were officially Informed
that the contestants were nov
ready for the examination of the
awarding committee. In a short
time the board sent proposition
for the committee to be raised by
the two contestants in the follow.
ing manner, to-wit: That each
society select three suitable per.
sons from whom the board WOULD
select one out of each three thus
proposed, and then proceed to Sc
leet the third one themselves. To
this proposition of the board,
Missouri peremptorily refused to
accede.
The Missouri delegation then
sent u proposition To the Kansas
delegation TO the effect that Mis-
souri, name one, Kansas one. and
these two to select third man. To
this proposition Kansas acceded.
Missouri selected Mr.. Baylis, of
Lee Sumit, and Kansas selected
Col. e. B. Lines, of Waubaunsee.
This agreement was entered into
late in the afternoon of Wednes-
day. On Thursday morning,
Missouri informed Kansas that
they suggested as the third man,
gentleman by the name of Nc
Crazy, of Canton, Illinois. Mr..
McCrary being an entire stranger
to the Kansas delegation, and a
gentleman unknown in pomolog-
ical history, refused to accept him
as the third man, without inter
viewing him as to his knowledge
of fruits.
Mr.. Mcbride, of Missouri, and
Secretary Bracket, of Kansas,
were dispatched to confer with.
Mr.. McCrary and get him to ap-
pear before the Kansas delegation.
Mr.. McCrary promised to answer
our request at eleven o'clock;
when the time arrived he was I'M
able to attend in consequence of
being confined to the exhibition of
his stock, which were either then
in the ring or would be in a short
time. 1t was again said he would
be ready at one o'clock. The
above hour arrived and no Nc
Crary. The hour of three o'clock
was then fixed. Failing to put in
an appearance at three o'clock
Kansas urged the naming of some
other man. To this Mr.. Baylis
objected, stating at the same time
that the responsibility was too
great for him to assume, and he
thought it would be a great re-
sponsibility for Col. Lines to as
sumo. Thus, after waiting on
Missouri one whole day, they,
through Mr.. Baylis, wilfully de-
feated their own proposition by
refusing to name another man or
allowing Col. Lines to propose
one. Mr.. Baylis further stated
he would leave for home that
night, yet he remained until and
during Friday.
Matters thus being brought to
dead lock by the Juggling of Mis-
souri,, the matter was at about 4
o'clock on Thursday afternoon re-
ferred back to the board of agri-
culture, requesting them to APP
point the committee. The board
then instructed the superintend-
ent of the fruit department to Sc
lect his committee and put them |
to work. The superintendent felt
the matter too responsible for him |
and again referred the matter |
back to the board. Tue board |
then proceeded to appoint the |
committee, consisting of the fol- |
lowing persons, to-wit: G. B. Lines,
of Waubaunsee, Kansas Il. S.
Raglan, of Independence, Mo-, and |
a Mr.. Downing, Of the board of
agriculture, of Iowa. Mayor Ra-
gan refused to serve, and Mr..
Downing could not be found, al
though search was made for him
until night. The board held an
other meeting that night, and APP
pointed the following gentlemen
as awarding committee, to-wit:
c. B. Lines, as before, Judge |
Lewis, of Westport, Missouri, and
G. L. Anthony, of Leayenworth
City, Kansas. Judge Lines, after
his thanks to the board |
for the honor done him, declined |
to serve. The board then pro-
ceeded to remodel the committee
by appointing Captain 6. T. An
thony, of Leavenworth, Professor
Miller, of Manhattan college, and
Mr.. McCrary, of Illinois, the last
named gentleman having hereto
fore been named by Missouri for
this purpose. The committee thus
proceeded to. execute
the duties assigned to them in q
way which win command the re-
spect of all intelligent fruitgrow-
ers. The award of the 500 pre-
MUM was made to the Kansas |
state horticultural society.
REMARKs.
1t will be seen from the above |
statements of facts, that all the de-
lay complained Of was justly |
to the Missouri dele
CATION from Wednesday noon to |
the final award. They resorted to |
various stratagems and devices to |
staye off decision, that they might
at least have it to say, that it was |
a draw game. They persistently |
refused to accede to any thing Of
fered them by the board Of agris
culture for bringing the matter to
a close and on two occasions |
backed down squarely from their
own propositions, after they were
acceded to by Kansas. We should
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