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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-05-16

To the Honorable Council:
sIRs: Being only resident and not .
citizen OF Emporia have been unable 70
prevent the great wrong you committed
On Monday night. 9Th inst. 1 have been
anxiOusly awaiting the result OF your de-
alterations, but yet have had faith that 8
council chosen by temperance people
would prove true, not only to their own
manhood, but to what they value more,
their own interests. Gentlemen, you I'M
did, In that one night, the labor Of years
Of faithful Christian men and women who
have striven TO make Empora home for
the refined and inteliige emit, and refuge
for those who were fleeing from the tyrant
liquor.
Emporia has been noted aII over the
Union rs the one fair spot where murder
and robbery were not licensed, and now
you propose to disgrace her and ruin heT
fair name, sending grief and despair moi
only to the hearts Of her own citizens
but to those Of many who have beer
watching from afar, and have believed in
purity and honesty because Of Emporia':
| existenc e.
God May forgive those who sin in ig-
norance, but He will surely punish those
who deliberately commit crime.
In the day OF Judgment I had rather
stano in the place Of the poor, veal
drunkard than in that OF the cold-blood
ed liquor seller, or the cool crafty, mar
who, for the sake of few dollars, vii
deliberately plan a brothers. destructi on
1 think 1t speaks well for the integrit.
and intelligence of our lawyers that liq
uor selling was not stopped long ago. 1
speaks well for the integrity and energ,
of our council that they have given VI
the battle to-day, and with far-sighte,
economy, have concluded to enricl
themselves out of the sins and weakness
es of their brothers.
May God pity the poor drunkard, an
our poor city which has for rulers me
whose chief thought is mouey-getting
and who love themselves better than thei
neighbors j.
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Harvey Comfy.

From the Newton Kansan:
ID. Harlan, who has for some time
figured rather conspicuously in the pa
pers as committing a rape upon a de-
fenceless girl while upon a freight
train between this place and Emporia,
the night of March Goth, and who was
arrested here first, and afterward re-
arrested and taken to MAJ ion county,
was sentenced to seven years in the
penitentiary, last week. Good!
Newton has passed ordinances to
suppress all gambling and disorderly
houses.
Newton pays $4,000 per year fol
freight on flour from Topeka.
w. A. Thomas & Co., at the famous
green front store, made the larges,
sale this week that has been made in
the city in one day, viz: I44,OOC
pounds of flour, or l,4OO sacks, a parl
Of which was loaded on wagons and
sent south.
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From the Walnut Valley Times we
learn the following:
SeEator Ingalls, is to visit the Wal
nut Valley.
They have had re-survey of the
Eldorado townsite, and no man knows
whose lot he is on. We had the re-
survey mania here several years ago.
Every different surveyor gave the
boundaries of the lots different loca-
ton. The way we settled It was tc
keep ON till We found a fellow who
threw the lots back to the Original
lines, and there the matter rested.
The Eldorado Times is still afflicted
with the Towanda war. Cause, whis-
ky. The whole town of Towanda ha:
serious attack of the eGcoethes scri-
bsnd;, and the communications fly
thick. That paper promises us 1
whole page next week. Wonder 4
anybody ever reads them.
A brick kiln is about ready for III,
fire at Eldorado.
Ice ola cent at Eldorado.
Work is progressing on the new ma
tional bank building at EldOrado.
The Times wants the public squar,
improved this spring.
Several horses have been stolen il
the vicinity of Eldorado lately. Sine,
tie Douglass hanging scrapes hors
thieves have not been very plenty il
Butler county.
The Butler county attorney, Alfret
l.. Redden, has instructed the town
ship trustees to assess all mortgages il
accordance with the Attorney Gene
rails decision declaring the law 'ex
emptiug mortgages unconstitutional
The Augusta Republican says:
The people along the valley of TIL
Whitewater are, we understand, max
ing a move toward getting a mai
route established running from Pea
body via Marri5oo, Plum Grove, ant
ToWanda to Augusta. This is a stel
in the right direction. The valley O
the Whitewater is thickly settled, an,
that, too, with ar enterprising an,
thrifty people, and at present thef
mail facilities are very poor and irreg
ular.
Marble is the new town being es
tablished about seven miles north @
Plum Grove on the line of the S. j., K
81 I. T. railroad, and is to be the mid
way station between Peabody an,
Plum Grove.
Oranges of the patrons of husbandr,
are being rapidly organized in Butte
county. This is secret society, adj
hitting male and female farmers.
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st. Louis Market.

ST. LOUIS, May IA.
Hemp-Dull; $50 @I08 for strictly prime
and choice undressed.
Flour-Inactive; demand chiefly order
at steady prices.
heat-Spring stronger; No. regular
$1.24, soft 81 33@l So, fall higher No. Aired
in elevator Sl.5U, No. , 81 GO, No.2 $3.50.
Corn-In better demand; No. mixed
39a39Hc.
Oats-In better demand and higher; No.
2mixed 35@36c, seller May 36c.
Barley-Dull; buyers standing eff.
Rye-Steady and unchanged.
Pork-Dull and nominal; SIT .50a17. SIX
Dry Salt Meat--Entirely nominal-ne
offerings and NJ sales.
Bacon--DulI; shoulders 73Sas1zc clear
ribs 915a10c, clear sides 10a1U%c for job.
bling and rider lots, hams 14al6c.
Lard-Quiet and unchanged; country
| 77<aSc.
Whisky-Firm; SOC.
Cattle-Quiet; beeyes S3.OOa5.75, inferi-
| or and common $2.00a3. 80.
Hogs-Unchanged; S4.6Oa5 10
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Reno Comfy.

The Hutchinson News says:
Hutchinson has the longest bridge
west of the Mississippi river. 1t gives
free passage across the Arkansas, a
distance of ohe-third OF a mile.
Eight hundred and fifty homestead
ers have been located in Reno county
during the past year, and fifteen thou
sand acres of railroad land sold during
the last six months.
Last Sunday four buffalo ran past
the town of Castleton. and one was
shot.
d. d. Olmstead will complete the
bridge across the n innescah this
week.
The county commissioners have di-
vided the county into seven townships.
They are named Reno, Clay, Valley,
Castleton, Little River, Nickerson and
Haven.
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EMpoR1A, Kan, Nav 12. 1s73

EMPoRIA, Kan, May II, 1873.
To the City Council Of the City Of En-
pOrid::
GENTLEMEN We, the undersigned,
clergymen of Emporia and vicinity,
having been informed that it was
stated before your honorable body that
majority of us favored the granting
of license for the sale of intoxicating
liquors, wish tn say that so far as we
know the statement is incorrect, and
We wish to enter our earnest protest
against the granting of licenses under
the ordinance passed.
Signed, NJ. j. FREY,
A. NJ AvERILL,
G. E. LEWIS,
w. c. HARDING,
w. ELLERY COPELAND,
d. w. COKE,
CHAs. T. MELVIN.
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A DREAM.

Some years ago in a neighboring
city young man of fine promise
was murdered by a drunken man in
q political brawl, and ever since thai
time when campaign professions
parade the streets his aged mother
shuts herself alone in her darkened
room to keep out the sights and
sounds which recall the death of heI
boy. His life was lost and her life
was made desolate because another
man was drunk, because a0lsisky acaS
sold. That man was my brother
and that woman is my mother. Last
night l went down to the council
room aud saw the city fathers sit
tiug about table piled with books
and papers, while the roll was CALI
ed and the vote was taken on the
petitions to grant license under the
new ordinance. Then I went home
to bed and dreamed a dream. l
dreamed that was in the council
room again and the city fathers sat
round as before. But the books and
papers were removed, and in their
place lay the body of my brother.
The wound which the drunkard's
bullet had made was bare and bleed
ing, and the blood dripped on the
floor. AT his feet sat his gray
haired mother as motionless in grief
as he in death, with her head bow
ed on his limbs. AT the head sat
the mayor, his wise and kindly face
without a cloud. For no man there
regarded either the mother or the
boy. Then dreamed that the roll
was called and as each man answer
ed "aye" the gouts of blood broke
forth afresh from the CHASTITY hole
iH his side. Perhaps it was only be-
cause the mother shuddered, per-
haps only that the air was stirred
by the tone, cannot tell but when
the vote was "no" the blood sunk
back, and when it was sage" it
spouted forth anew. And it acas a
lie. Then the mayor voted "aye"
and even the blood of the corpse
stood still. And the wise and kind
" mayor dipped his pen into the
open wound as though it were a
cup, and signed the license with my |
brothers blood. Then my dream
was confused and / know not what |
until the light was dim and |
he room lay in shadows and the
were gone and none re-
NAMED save the mayor, the mother
md the boy, And the haired
mother. his mother and mine, rose
Tromi her seat and dipped, not 8
pen, but her trembling finger into
he open wound, as though it were
cup, and with the blood of her
on marked the brow of the mayor,
aging, "fhe brand of Cain ;" and
he shuddering air repeated, '.the
,rand of CAIN" and the walls re-
choed "ihc brand of CAIN" and I
woke. But 81 had dream that
vas not all a dream"
p p nrY ~rn.,-r,x
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The most intense excitement is
said to exist among the citizens OF
Cherryvale and those of the sur
rounding country in regard to the
additional discoveries ofthe victims
of the Bender devils. Nothing can
equal the cold blooded, deliberate
and hellish villainY that character
lied tho murders, and that punish
ment commensurate with the crime
will be surely and certainly melted
out to them Is as certain as the
transition of time.
When VIM. York was first missed
he was traced to Cherryvale but
no further. There the trail was no
longer trail, but myth, mystery,
an enigma neither the unwearied
patience of friends, nor the sacrific-
ing devotion ola brother could solve.
Cherryvale is small town on the
Leayenworth, Lawrence and Gal
weston Railroad, and is in Labette
county, about fifty miles from the
south line of the State. To the
south of Cherryvalc, some two miles
or less, stands n frame house, having
in front a large room where the
meals are served, and in the rear
u sleeping room furnished with two
beds and some scant additional
furniture besides. This was
tavern kept by William and Thorn
as Bender. TO the right of the
dwelling house was an clubhouse,
as the diagram shows, and in the
rear was an enclosed garden of pos
sib!y two acres.
The search seemed TO end sudden
ly ut Cherryvale Suspicion, ifever
entertained, fell upon no one. There
were various surmises, coniectures,
and expressions of opinion but for
the life of any man he could not say
what had become OF DIR. York.
One day early in April some men
from Cherryvale rode over to the
Bender house--a tavern, too, IL was,
where entertainment was furnished
TO travelers-to inquire concerning
DIR. York, and to learn, ii possible,
some
TIDINGs OF HIS FATE.
They learned nothing, however.
None of the Blenders had seen him,
nor his mysterious disappearance,
nor anything..that pertained to him.
From the Kansas City Times.
NhASh iou a correspondent OA Tue
ground, we get the following addi- |
tional particulars:
1t would seem as If the Cherry
vale party alarmed the Blenders.
William Bender, now that the ter
rible secrets have come TO light, and
now that the shallow graves have
given up their CHASTITY aud mutilated
occupants, can be remembered as
having acted very strangely. Twice
he had come into Cherryvale and
had been noticed upon the OCCASION
of each visit, TO loiter upon the out
side of crowds, seemingly having
no business, but eagerly intent all |
the time, in listening to everything
that was said.
A gentleman riding by one day |
saw a calf lying dead inside the yard |
evidently starved to death. His |
suspicious were Immediately arous-
ed by the desertion of the house aud |
he notified the Cherryvale authori- |
ties. A party was organized in
SANITY and set out for the Bender
mansion. Then it was remembered
that about two weeks before this
say somewhere near the 9th of
April-William Bender had sold to
some persons either in or near
Cherryvale watch, some clothing
OF fine character, two mules, and
perhaps q shot gun or two and some
pistols. How did he come by these?
If the dead could speak the question
might be readily answered. :.
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hocking into Cherryvale, and enor-
nous rewards are to be offered for
the arrest of the murderers. 1t is
supposed that they have been fol-
lowing their
HORRIBLE WORK FoR YEARS.
Plunder is the accepted cause DIR.
York, it is said, had large sum of
money on his person, and that he
stopped at the house either to feed
his horse or get drink of water.
While hating for either he was
dealt the blow which killed him in
an instant. Every one who knew
him liked him.
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List O advertised letters remaining in
the postofiee at Emporia, Kansas, for the
week ending Nay Il, 1873.
Biggs Mrs, Burris J, Boyle Lennox B,
Baker Philander. 2. Brown RoIlin B.
Cline I j, Carter William.
Denman George s, 2, Dawley j 81, Dunn
Ford Jas w.
Martindale Pauline W Mrs, Mcconnell
Theo.
Hurton d B, Hilson John, (due 22<e. J
Owen Thomas II s.
Putnam Emma Miss, Parker Mary c
Mrs, Price Samuel, Piper Samuel II.
Roberts Mary L Miss, Robinson John
&c.
Shaffer John, Stewart Frank, Shaw p q.
Todd Zelda Miss. Thomas Harmon,
Thompson Hannie Mrs.
Wright Anna Miss, Withers John B,
Wilson Charley W, Williams Virgil W.
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rELEGRAPHIc MARKETS
New York Money Market

NEW YORK, May Il.
Financial affairs are dull. Money in
good demand at Z, but during the after
noon declined to per cent, with late
dealings at 495.
Sterling duh, sI<@ss< for GO days, e9E-
@97s for sight.
ing from LILY to 1.17X, and closing at
1888 1.177s. Loans to 1872. Clearings
$1,000 900. Treasury disbursements $685.
600. The export produce for the week is
nearly $4,000, GOO.
Governments dull and steady.
State bonds dull.
Stocks dull and weak.
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THE SOUTHWEST.
Barton County.

Barton County.
From the Barton county Progress
we learn that:
Great Bend is lively.
School opened At great Bend last
Monday.
An eastern ''greenie'' went out from
great Bend few days ago to kill
some buffalo with his revolver. He
shot his horse. It will be impossible
for him to get anybody to go out ard
show him how it is done. He might
hit so small an object as a man.
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r B. DILwoRTH.
ENpoRIA. Nav 18TH. 1879.

Mr.. EDITOR: In last weeks
Ledger appeared three ordinances.
The first is to license "dram shops
and tipping shops" that shan't seIl
to pinafored children without the
consent of their pas and their mas.
This, with an apparent flourish of
trumpets, as much as to say. the
people shall know it is I, and no
other Spicer shall claim the credit,
is signed,
Mayor"
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Teachers Examinations.

THE Board of Examiners had decided
Il to hold no more examinations till
August, and published the same in the
papers Of last week: but owing 10 the fact
that some persons now teaching were
sick. and could not attend the last exam-
ination, we have decided TO hold an ex-
animation on the last Saturday in May.
This examination will he held at the brick
school house south Of Emporia, in school
district No rs. The examination will
commence at 9u'clnck Il. M.
CHARLES CAVANESS,
Il. j. CARMICHAEL,
1921 MARY JANE WATSON.
Board Of Examiners,
Mar INA
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Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, May II.
Flour-Steady.
Wheat-IrreguIar end unsettled; No. 1
springS1.36<, No. 9 S1.31 case, Sl.29 ga
l 80 June.
Corn-Dull and lower; No. mixed 4lc
cash, 42a421s May.
Oats-Dull and a shade lower; 33k
cash, 341<c June.
Rye-Dull and dropping; 69J<aT0c.
Barley-Dull and nominal; 72aS0c ac-
cording to location.
Provisions-Quiet and steady.
Mess PoTk-$I6. 95al7.O0
Lard-$9.10.
Hams in PickIe-1Oa101s. shoulders $3.50
shortribs $50, clear sides sac.
Boxed Meats-Shoulders6 3<a6% short
ribs 9a91sc,
Whisky--Firm at S91<c.
Cattle-Dull aud weak except for very
choicest grades; the latter sold at sc. 25a-
6.35: large number OF common quality
left in pens.
Legislative and firm at S5.00a5 p for
common to fair, and S5.25a5. 40 for good to
choice
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The second ordinance not having
the high moral force and tone to it,
(no tippling or dram shops in it, but
simply "for the protection of shade
trees, y is modestly signed,
IN. SPIcER, Mayor
The third and last ordinance pass
ed by this conclavs of saints is sin
relation to licenses" and here again
the wor,i license has such attraction,
although nothing to do with "dram
shops or tipping shops" that he
again John HancOck's it, thus:
"Approyed MOVES SPIcER,
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SedgWIck County

Feathers from the Wichita Eagle.
y gentleman arrived in our city this
week from Illinois with thirty five
stands OF Italian bees, all in good con-
dition.
The fair grounds have been located
on Mr.. Neely's 40 acres, just east OF
Chisholm creek, opposite the Wichita
stock yards. N. A. English has been
elected President.
Brick laying has been commenced
On the new hotel building.
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Sumner County.

From the Belle Plain Democrat we
gather the following items:
Both fall and winter wheat are lock-
ing very promising.
The Democrat wants people to come
to Sumner county while land is cheap.
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Road Notice.

NOTICE Is hereby given that petit
IN tion will be presented to the Board
OF county commissioners OF Lyon county.
=, 1873, asking for the view and location
OF county road as follows, to-wit: Com
mencing at the southeast corner OF the
city OF Emporis, and running thence
south one-half mile to intersect the eoun-
y road on the north line Of sec. -, tn. I9,
range IL. J. IL. SLOCUM,
sOw2 Principal Petitioner.
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1t is reported that Mr.. Peter has
resigned his position as general
manager of the A. T. & S. F. rail-
road, and taken up his residences in
Cincinnati. The reported cause Is
that the directors decline to elect
Mr.. Peter president of the road.
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FIGHT WITH A RAILROAD CO.
On the first page we publish, from
the Atlantic Monthly, n very in
teresting fight had between a citi-
zen OF an eastern State and rail
road company. This will be read
with interest, as it is well told, and
shows what a man has to go
through when he undertakes a-law
suit with q railroad company.
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The party from Cherryvale arrived
at the house (A) which is marked in
the diagram as located directly
upon the Usage Mission road, hav-
ing the out house OBJ in the rear
and TO the south of IL.
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ROAD NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that a petit
IN ton will be presented TO the Board
Of County Commissioners Of Lyon county,
at their regular meeting, TO be held July
:, 1873, asking for the view and loca-
ton Of county rosd as follows. to-wit:
Beginning eighty rods east OF the north
west corner of the northwest quaI ter of
section No. Il. tp. Il, of range IL; thence
south enc mile to the south line of said
section. N. j. WILLIAMS,
Principal Petitioner.
April 80, 1873. 2Ots
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LEGAL,
TO THE PUBLIC

HAvISG resigned The ofics Of Attor-
- ney OF the Missouri. Kansas and
IeXas railway company for Kansas, and
having opened 4 law Office In this eity.
snail give my undivided attention TO NV
PROFESSION. Those piacin:: business in nv
hahos may rest assured that 1 will use
every honest effort TO make .aiisf.rtorS
returns. Very respectfully,
WILLARD DAVIS.
Parsons, Ham,, March ~ 1873. $3.50
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The CHERRYvALE HoRRoR.-At
latest accounts three moro bodies
had been discovered, victims of the
Bender murderers, fourteen in all
The Blenders had been traced TO St.
Louis, and it Is believed they. have
gone'to Germany.
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Sher.idss sale.

DY virtue of an order of sale. issued
Id out Of the District court of the 9th
judicial District, sitting in and for the
county of Lyon and State cr Kansas, in a
cause wherein Saliie V .CEitd> " as plain
tin, and Isaac NJ. Earnhe5Tt, Job Throck-
morton and james n. White, defendants,
l will, on Monday, the 10th day OF May,
1873, at IL O'Clock a. M. at the front door
of the court hnuse. in aid county. Offer
for sale, at public auction, to he highest
bidder, for cash in hand, all the right,
title and interests Of the said defendants,
In and to the following described real es-
tate, tO-wit: The whole of block No. 10,
and the north half Of block No II. in the
town Of Hartford. Lyon county, Kansas.
Appraised at $500. Given under my Of
fetal hand. At Emporia, this 18th DAY Of
April, 1873. JOHN BAY.
1870 Sheriff Of Lyon county. Kan.
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- . -
FowLER's LAST BooK.-The pub
fishers have sent us a copy of Prof.
o. S. Fowler's "Sexual Science, In
Guiding Manhood, Womanhood and
their Mutual INTERPRETATIONS, its
Laws, Power etc. We comply
with this request, though we cannot
wells pare the space, in the hope
that we may be instrumental in saw
Ing some one from being victimized,
who might otherwise be induced 40
purchase it through the misrepre-
sentation OF agents or circulars.
There is little good, we are sorry
TO say, to be found in it; probably
enough could be got from its $50
pages to I'LL half column of our
paper, but tho balance is trashy and
vile. 1t lie as vile as the catch-pen-
ny works advertised by professional
quacks, while II is far more danger
Gus, because this sometimes profane,
always vulgar author, this Prof. O.
S. Fowler, dares TO mix up with his
worse than filth, moral thoughts
that should never be found save
with the pure. There is not q sin
gle entire chapter that the pure
minded can read without of'ense,
That any man could be found TO
write such work is surprising, but
how is our wonder increased that it
could find publishers after it was
written. We had rather admit to
our home the Police Gazette or
Days Doings than this volume.
We do not hesitate TO say that if the
world reaches point at which such
"science" as this is needed, purity
will indeed be banished. Our best
wish to the world is that the entire
edition will prove a dead loss to
those engaged in getting it up.
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NEWS AND EDITORIAL lIRNS.
John Stuart Mil is deadi !,

The great Indian trouble on the
Medicine Lodge river is all confin-
cd to those jealous towns east and
north who want to stop claim seek
ers with them. There has not been
a single Indian in Barbour county
in two months.