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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
state News.

A,a.s Mcdonald. living on a rancho eight
miles sontb of Wilson, on Coal creek, was thrown
from his horse while cOralling his stock few
lavs since. and was so seriously injured as to
rasse deatb.
A u;.ts of Thomson creek. Ellsworth conn
tv fell dead in the harvest field recently He
was apparently perfectly well few moments
before his death. Heart disease is the cause as
signed.
Al. ,h. h.,n;est set of neonls xa t,ow of
Aooes n.t .ne AZ Danes. who form en- s.tt,e.
on -, ~ NJ e,r miles southeast Of ivndo, Thsv
na,,s me"s ,n,o ,h;s country some fonr wears ago
~hegan moor in money but rich in pluck
and frugal habits. They got their farms
at Al So have built houses planted trees, or
cbartls VINEYARDS, hedge rows-raised abundant
crops Of oats. corn and wheat-are ont of debt
and are ,nioyipg the glorious privilege of being
independe1t. They are not merely satisfied, they
are banny.-Osage Sentinel
,r, Cha,,oan or..l l., A.
iaJy i,s ,;t,so an ths antIa ,,'r ,5n ,ins hv
oi .th o.oeAs fs,v davs as,o '"'ee ''''o' y
@ias''es'
The vienna pea"1 ieasns, oy Mr. Emery
noManu' % ..iJi m ,,a.r snansta va q" ,..sa,', ~,
unIgslns moi 80 wh,ls hin, Sro,u ~, ,'j
s .ne po,so .ha ,on dronning ont af th,. In.I.,
III: i: - ~. hr,tor, ahout eft,, e., ~ 80
:" ;sd;staiv hnt livsS ,oniy fa,v n';m
.. an" '"' Wv -''''
u'cs'
The southern hansas aarahce says: Last
evening, as DTS Lowry anu irVln ana Mr. w. I.
Mckee were out nding, tne ongSy was accident
ally upset, as they tnrned the corner OF Dr. KEN
daifs place, Ohe-hai in'iS hor'h"eSt OF Town.
All were thrown OUT, ahd Dr. Lowry was taken
up 'or ue"u.
Captain Maurice > Bell, member OF the last
Legislature from Montgomery county, died Mt
his residence near ndepeiiienoe, ON tne ootn UT,
of rheumatic fever. Captain 7et was one OF the
earliest se.'erS "i the c""n.s. s'u "'' uea'u @ -
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
The English wheat Harvest.

The following estimate of the English crops is
given by Mr.. Thomas e. Scott, recognized aa-
thority in grain statistics in letter to the Lon
don Times. He writes: The variableness Of the
wheat crop generally this season leaves one
at liberty to dognatize TO the probable aggre-
gate yield; but taking the best aud worst crops
on various farms in wide-apart districts, and
striking an average and then assimlating these
averages from districts ranging from 50 to 100
miles south, north, east aud west of London, l
have come to the following conclusions:
1. That We have not mere than 8, 300, 900 acres
under wheat in the United Kingdom, being
about 500,0 acres less than last year.
2. That the yield will be two bushels under sn
average crop, or say % bashels per acre. This
exceeds by six bushels an acre my estimate of
last years crop, and would yield an aggregate
product of II, 900 quarters. Deductins 1000,
900 quarters for seed required for home use
I0,50O,0OO quarters remain TO meet censunip-
tion of ~ 900 $50. The deficit is ii 100000 quar-
ters, which is 50U,300 quarters more than
anticipated on the 2lst Of April last. Last year
estimated the aggregate product from larger
area at less, and the foreign supply required at
IL million quarters; il has already reached la
millions, ard there sixteen days to run to
complete the agricultural year.
This exceeds by three millions of quarters or
f9,0O0, 900 of money the average imports for the
previous four wears. Fortunately the great
wheat fields of Russia and America, each with
an area of six times greater than our own, are
wheat We are now receiving comes opportunely
to our shores; and our own unexpectedly early
harvest is likewise as great boon to the conn
try timely remittance is to an individual
when bill is due. Had il been fortnight OF
three weeks later, as was expected, it is hard to
say what would have kren the price of bread,
for it is well known that have no wheat
stock on hand, either M rick yards OF granaries.
and That all foreign wheat growing countries are
pretty well cleared.
The main drawbacks TO the wheat yield this
year have been: First. The want of drainage,
necesstating the continuance of the ridge-and-
fnrrow system which always causes a large per
centage of tail corn secondly, defective ears from
empty cells, caused by rnst OF maggOt, and oc-
curing not, usual, at the top or bottom of the
heads but in the centre. These blanks, after
examining many hundreds of heads, l estimated
at loss of bnshcl acre throughout the
whole wheat crop, which ON 100000 acres
amounts to nearly half million quarters, and
over a million 5000, ,OO0) of money; thirdly,
thinness of plants on the ground, especially on
the heavier soils, and the absence of tillering.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

THE FRUIT OF KANsAs.-There is, perhaps, no
State in the Union that outranks Kansas in the
growing and culture Of fruit. She has taken
several premiums at State and National Fairs
over all competition. Priding ourselves, as we
do, upon the fruits of our own Missouri valley,
which is unsurpassed as a fruit-growing region,
accord to Kansas her full need of praise in
this regard. Adapted by nature and climate to
the production of fruit, its growing has been
wonderfully developed by experienced and taste
fnl gentlemen, whose lives have been in part
devoted to the business. This year the orchards
peaches. We hear that there will be a fine dis
play from that State at our exposition in Sep
tember. She acquitted herself handsomely last
season, and our fruit-grpweIs will have to look
well TO their iaurcfs III She competition offered.
-KaRsas City Times.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

" Our farmer correspondent from District
No. 60 takes issue in favor of assessing County
officers upon their salaries We still believe that
a promise upon the part of aspiIant for
Office is a fiinsy dependence, and leaves the
question at loose ends. The only true way is to
fix these things by law, and then let them alone,
as long as the law is complied with. And rs to
members of the Legislature, if they are the
creatures and servants of the people, they are
entitled to respect. Petition has ever been rec
ognized as the proper way for people to make
known their wishes to their representatives. in
legislative bodies. Members o. lie Legislature
are not recognized as servants in the same light
that oxen are; and it is hardly the approved
thing to issue commands and directions to them
in the same way that oxen are driven. After
comforting that dignity upon a citizen, do not
place him in position to deprive him of all dig
nifty, even that of independent manhood.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

A NATURAL REsULT.-Nben a few of the news
papers and some of the Agricultural Societies
raised their voices against the practice of horse
racing at Fairs, majority of the press and all
the fast men and gamblers treated the protest
with derision. People were getting too uice, aud
wanted to make nish moral associations or camp
meetings ont of Fairs. The Fairs would lose all
their interest, and would not take in money
enough to pay expenses, if racing were abolished.
Well, the Fairs have commenced, and horse-rac-
ing is the great feature in all of them. Atcbison
was the first the list, and about the first news
of Importance was, that boy had his neck brok-
en- in the races, another one was SO badly injured
that he can hardly live, and several valuable
horses were injured. Still later, a clergyman was
run over by the racing horses, and SO badly ill.,
jured that he will probably die. But, it was said,
the boy who was killed was violating the rules,
and taking ufair advantages. Just so. 1t is
gambling, nothing more nor less, and has its
tricks to swindle people ont of their money or
their premiums. The boy had seen old gamblers
do it, and he must follow their example, if be
would become proficient in the art.
Fatal accidents at Fairs are of frequent occur
renee, and in nearly every instance are they the
result of racing. The victims, too, are almost al
ways boys. But racing must go on at Fairs, for
it draws big crowd, and brings the money.
Let the youth be denoralized and let the young
lives be sacrificed before they have entered upon
the years Of manhood, so that horse-racing is up
held, and the money comes in!
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

THE REIGN OF LAwLEssNEss.-Thc Lexington
Caucasian, a straight-out Democratic organ, COM
menting on the wild reign of lawlessness every
where prevailing in Missouri under the present
State administration, says:
Mnbocracy-wild, brutal demoniac mobocracy
-rrigns triumphant in Democratic Missouri!
And our "high and noble patriot"-our 'eninent
christian statesman"-Our ''heroic Governor,
Sle Wondson-for refusing to hoist whose des-
pcable, dsmnable name to its masthead, the
Caucasian was denounced as a recreant and trait
or-Sile Woods0n sits idly in his gil,le,l den, aud
with all the power of the State at his command
sees her soil run red with the blood of her mob
murdered eitizens-sees human life made the
cheapest, vilest thing in all omr borders! Down
with himl Down with every frand aud failure,
ignoramus, ass and dastard-whether Radical or
Democrat!
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

GRABBER's DEFENCE.-COngressman Lowe
has written very weak letter to the Burlington
Patriot, in defence of his vote the increase of
salaries. He says hs opposed it by number of
votes, until it was finally incorporated in the
general appropriation bill, when heyoted for it
in order to save that bill. He thinks the people
will sustain him, and says that only few edit
Ors, who have a personal grievance, denounce
him. Judge Lowe shysters the question. He
knows perfectly well that that is not what he is
denounced for He is denounced for taking the
back pay grab, after pronouncing it wrong, and
giving number of votes against it. Let him
meet the question squarely, and satisfy the pub
lie on that point. The way the people will sus-
tain him, will astonish him. He will find that a
big majority of the people of Kansas have "per-
sonal grievance"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
CORRESPONDENCE.
NoY the ChiJ-1
aEsu~~~~ss.-Au. >,

"Hnprscfieable."
EDnoR CWEf-Sir:-As ven are mistaken In one thing,
you may be guilty Of .ths whole law. Let examine
the merits of discovery and that ii is
full and there is demand for the article, then give il
fair trial
Il Is believed that the salaries Of certain officers Of this
County hgh and all cas.-s should pay equal
share Of public exPense~ vscasclnde that there Is
demand fur the article referred and II the principle Is
good, we ought To approve instesd Of condemn IT,
the County Convention adopt the resolution and nom
mate sueh disposed seek after oce but
allow the once to seek after them doubt that honest
upright capable men be found who viii readily accept
the terms and abide By them May be such win be select
ed not able TO make fun hand the farm bear
the bod ladder and II ballot Is entered into
and knows the mind Of the delegates until the vote
Is eoused and A is declared the pominee
A. Of bidding for the Office II A. forward and takes
obligation that bis oce increase the school
fund and leave himself salary folowsf II the pro-
cceds Of his Office reach $500 be returns 5 and saves @
from $500 he returns SIS and 80 total ss. and
sl25; from taoo0 he retarns e and $50 and s24o total
s3i5 and si6ss; from aoe he SIS and ESQ.,
and sa4O and $500 total ssls ses5 weare
ddent there plenty Of good competent in
tbis County who would gladly accept the Offices at the
Aforesaid rstes and abide by their obligation Yet such
will not advertise themselves candidates for fear Of
criticism and the Convention ought hunt them out and
fully test the praeticsbty Of the proposition its i'm
p'ovemeDt
Representative needs the assistance Of the people to
enable him effect necessary ,eforms and he should feel
that he is their servant and try their bidding Pe
tons do not always express the judgment Of the peop
but If they meet in council they advise direct The
idea of sovereign people peioning him to do his duty,
should be abandoned And hs the proposed sys
its imE Ia adopted The sooner bribery and
corrutios will cease and elections conducted with
prudence and dignity But salaries must continue be
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

My advice, then (' advice, gratis, y to the gen.
tlemen who planning to make a new party il
this: First find ont what great question of pub
lie policy is likely to divide pnblic opinion. Next
find out if you can, the right side of that ques-
tiOn. Then take your stand mantully on that
side of the question, and let your party consist
of those whom yOu can find to stand with You.
Do not make yOur party first and then invent an
issue, but remember that only new issue, and q
live one, can make new party.-Dr. Leonard
Bacon, in Christian Unopi.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
where arc Our Fruits

An exchange says: We have croaked, ana
have dome so with good, sensible feeling, for the
masses of mankind are short Of peaches, pears,
and even apples; but here comes little isolst-
ed section. lust such another as the south shore
of ak, Erie was when We first knew it, viz
the eastern shore, OF a section thereof of Lake
Michigan Let MS take for a cooling the HesterR
RwraI. the writer and correspondent of which
dates Sonth Haven, Michigan, aud see if, while
we rejoice with them just now, the time does
not come to suit them in the same mold Of suf-
fering. agonizing thoughtful, sangune lahhr
that has for years exercised other celebrated
fruit gruwing regions:
.PrYdiction is no longer in order to the
peach crop in this State, for, full crop is six
ed fact"
s.Mr A. s. Dyckman informs me that il re-
auir-f ten men for twenty days to thin ont bis
oyerbur,leurd treesi Two hundred days work
thinning out the fruit in orchard! Mr.. ID.
saws he expects nearly 800 bushels of Early
era " for,ls-tlouble the quantity of last year.
His entire crop will probably exceed l2,OOO bask-
cts: last year he shipped 10,500 baskets.
dealers frum abroad have already bargained
for the products of several orchards, paying 500
for the entire crop of one orchard; 81 per bask-
ct for the products of othe. orchards. The larg-
er producers, like Mr.. Dyckman, will probably
realize 81 per basket.
YESTERDAY visited the apple orchard of L.
NJ Bailey, Just outside of the village corporation;
his crop Of apples has been estimated at LOCO
bushels. His pear trees are also overloaded
with fruit, and he will have plenty of peaches.
'The berry crop has been large one, and
grapes never promised such an abundant yield,
notwithstanding the excessively dry weather.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

II One of the dying groans Of the White
Cloud Leader, is to the effect that somebody in
that town rented a house to a person who has
made a bawdy-house of it. This is awful We
just know that the confidential friends aud adv-
snrs of the Leader cannot sleep on this account.
They will sell nut and leave. There just
about dozen men we could name, of the Leaders
political clique, who would lose their appetite
at the very thought of bswdy-house being in
the same town they live ini
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

USThe White Cloud Leader, in its dying kicks,
pitches into most everything and everybody.
Among others, it gives the St. Joseph Exposition
a rake, accusing it of promising the country pa
pers two-column advertisement, in order to
induce them to puff it, then going back on its
promise. This is the first we ever heard of that
If the Exposition managers ever held ont snch
inducements, they never sent them over this
way. They have not violated any obligations
with rs, nor played any sharp tricks upon us.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

The Democrats Of Maine passed resolution
declaring that the Republicans, being in a major
ity in Congress, were responsible, not only for
back pay, but for all the evils of which the coun-
try complains "iRcluding the seduction of the Dem
ocatie menbers Of Congress to the corrupt schemes
of the Republican party"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

1t is announced that Judge Lowe has gone to
Washington on "public bnsiness.n 1t cocurs to
rs that the most important business Judge Lowe
can have in Washington just now is to pay back
the s 900 back pay he iilched from the public
treasury at the close of the last Congress.IKaR-
sas Reporter
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

The Philadelphia Press Sums up the substan-
tial results of Republican policy as interpreted
nnder President Grant" as follows: Its Hnpar-
alleled currency, its financial success its rewards
of labor, its comfort to the emgrant, its topples
of redeeming wilderness and improving cities,
and its peace with the world-all combined in
universal content and peace
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

tY Some of the papers that advocate the elec-
tion of Grandmother Larimer to the United States
Senate, are Publishing sketch of his biography,
in which his operations in Colorado form prom
ent-feature. There is Q young. man in this
County who has distinct reesllection of those
operations. He would like to see 6 considerable
amount of money yet due bi,n,from the General,
for work in surveying some Of his towns.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

The voters of one county in Iowa are manifest
ing their opposition to the principle of the salary
steal in very pointed and practical way Their
representative in Congress voted for the salary
grab bill, and then pOcketed the stolen money.
the heople of the aforesaid county, in view of
the disgrace attaching to them by the condnct
Of their congressman, have Voluntarily subscribed
IS. 600, the amount of their members steal, and
forwarded it to the United States Treasury.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18
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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

The Richmond State Journal ssys that it is a
mistake to suppose that the Republicans of vir-
gina are made up wholly Of negroes and the low
er classes of whites. 1t asserts that many of the
best white people in the Stats are in the Repub-
licsn party, and that there is scarcely a County
in the State in which there are not fifty to hun
dred white Republicans
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

Ev- 1t is announced that the proprietors of the
st. Joseph Gazette wish to dissolve their partner
ship, but cannot agree upon the terms, and that
consequently, the establishment will be sold at
public sale, on Monday, October6t The Gascfte
is the best paper ever published in st. Joseph,
and it is to be hoped that it may not suffer by
the change.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

Hon. Charles A. Foster, in writing Tn a friend.
says about returning the back pay: al did moth,
ing bnt simple duty in the back pay matter, and
it seems too much credit is given me for it. Are
political virtues getting 50 scarce, that when a
public man simply does his duty be must be ap-
plauded for itf"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

We are glad to s. that the Democrats of Fay
yette have changed their tactics They have
turuefi forty-One speakers out to pursuade the
colorvd voters to vote with them. Heretofore
they didn't condeseend to parsuade them, but
undertook to bully them. Progress .-Lonisrille
Comm0Hroulh.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

~ The Topeka Commonpealtk acknowledges
a call from Judge Sanford, of Eskridge, the su-
thor of number of proposed Constitutional
amendments" If Eskridge, after whom the town
was naned, should call, we suppose the paper
would annI Iunce him as the suthor Of numerous
concurrent resolutions
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

r We really believe that our old friend,
Judge Bailey, of the osege Sentinel, has became
frightened at the "third t.ru" buggaLoo. He
keeps pegging away at Grant very much after
the style of ex-senator Ross. Judge, if you can't
find Judas Iscariot's rope, perhaps Ross viii lend
you Jim Lanes pistol!
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

AN INTERNAL SwINDLE-We understand that
the Kansas Legislature last Winter appropriated
5000 for the use of the State Board Of Agricul-
tnre- We farther understand that said State
money As premiums for horse racing. What
nextt-Eldorddo Times
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

In recent interview, Ben. Butter Is repre-
sented rs saying that the laws of his country
made IL his daty 10 take the back pay, and that's
why he took it. Bat the laws Of his country
made II his duty 20 take Fort Fisher and he
didn't do it.-if. Lonis Democrat
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

q California has risen like Sampson. with pl and
has burst the green wthes asunder She has started the
ball-Osags Sentinel
We never knew that Samson started a bull.
Perhaps he may have started bray, when he
got after those cnsses with jaw-bone.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

n If Senator Morton and some others were
too honest to draw their back pay steal, because
the principle was wrong, why did they let it
stand suiject to their order until they were
forced by pnblic opinion to return it to the
treasury Why did they not, like Senator Sum-
ner, take the very earliest opportunity to spurn
the amount, and place it beyond their reach and
poweri Too thin, boys.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

II "Will there be g bolt at wercesterf
asks newspaper, speaking of the Massachusetts,
Republican Convention. As Gen. Butler and all
his forces were there, il the spoon stories were
true, there should have been q bolton every
mans door.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

The master sailmaker Of the Cbarlestown Mas
sachusetts) navy yard is now engaged in repair
ing the identical flag allnded TO in the song of
Fort NcHenry In 1914.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

The last survivor of the Harvard class of 1902.
which numbered among its members President
Allen, OF Bowdoin Callege Gov. Levi Lincoln,
Leverett Saltonstall, the Rev. DIR. John Goldman,
Samuel Hoar, and Others. died, last Monday, in
Boston, IN the person Of William Minot, aged 80.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

~ A Leavenworth paper says that a saloon
keeper of that city has sned Gov. Osborn for the
collection of a $50 whiskey bill. If the Governor
viii hunt Blenders, !" he ought to paw for them.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-09-18

TALLY,-The White Cloud Leader makes news
paper death number twenty that the Chief has
bad to record in Doniphan Comfy, since it start
ed fresh grave will be found in this Beuder's
field of newspaperdom. Nexti