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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-08-21
THE o* 4GE< .vurprEu,.

A communication to the Com
monwealih from Medicine Lodge,
Barbour county, Kansas. dated 18th
inst, giTes the following particu-
lars of fight between citizens and
Usage Indians:
Last Friday morning some hunt
ers brought word to this place that
q band of some fifty or sixty Little
Osages were camped on the head of
Swede's branch, eighteen miles east
of Medicine Lodge. In a few honrs
Capt. G. NJ. Kicker had TWENTY-FIVE
| meH in The saddle aud on the march.
On arriving at their camp q single
glance would suffice to convince the
| most peaceabIe Quaker that the
Washashe meant to fight. They
formed in line about 300 yards from
u.s. We had come to q halt and
were trying to disarm one of their
number, when the rest of their party
opened FIRE upon US. For a few
moments things were lively, both
parties fighting like men terribly in
earnest-We killing i've of their
number and they wounding one OF
our party. The Indians finding the
field of battle rather noisy, warm
place, resolved to beat q hasty re-
treat, closely pursued by the aVeng-
ing hand of the long outraged set-
tiers. For seven miles the very de.
mon of speed seemed let loose on
the broad, level bottom between
Swede's branch and Cottonwood
Finding that we could not over
! r. than e. \
serted camp and possessed our
selves of about forty head of ponies
which are most useful substitute
to many of our men who have losl
all their horses by the frequent raid
that have been made in this county
Only q few days since q party o.
these same Indians took four head
of large American horses from 1
citizen almost within gunshot o
town. Rowing bands are seen al
most every day in the vicinity o
Medicine Lodge aud Kiowa; blu
} we are poorly prepared to act, anC
only on the defensive our ammu
milton is scarce, our guns, ell told
are but fifty, and our supplies ar
nearly exhausted; yet we are liv
ing in hopes that the Governor ant
. AdjHtant-General will yet be abb,
, to send us arms and provisions t.
hold this post.
The angry demonstrations whicl
; have been manifested in the last few
r days are of considerable import
. viewed in connection with the act
, already committed. Even now q
I write, a dozen large prairie fire
, can be seen in two hours ride o
= this place. Again, we say, unles
? aid can be supplied from som
source, we must abandon our homes
to become again the hunting-groun
9 of the savage.
r Yours, truly, E. W. ILIFF.
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HydrOpI.Obfn.

CHICAGO, Aug. IA remarka-
BILE death by hydrophobia ACQUIRED
here Saturday. In the last week
in June 4 small dog owned by
John Sollette suddenly became
lazy and irritable, and one day as
Sollett's little daughter Lettie at
tempted to put him in the kennel
he bit her on the cheek, drawing
blood. The dog was soon after
killed on account of his temper.
The wound caused no alarm and
soon healed, but last Wednesday
L.ettie was seized with sickness,
which gradually increased until
Saturday. Her face grew livid,
her breathing became very irregu-
lar, she frothed at the mouth, gas
ped continually, and with her
body writhing in commissions she
died. This case is deemed re-
markable because it disproves the
theory of DIR. Hammond's disciple
that children do not die of hydro
phobia, and because death ensued
in this case much sooner than
usual,
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INDIAN MATTERS.

From the st. Louis Republican,
Aug. 16.
BIr. L. Spencer, the Indian trader
at the Wichita agency in the Indian
territory, thirty-five miles north of
Fort Sill, arrived in the city yester-
day. He left the agency on Friday
last, and came round by old Cher
okee town to Caddo, on the Missou-
RI, Kansas and Texas railroad,
where he took the cars. He brings
the latest intelligence from the In
dian reservation.
There has been no white men kill
ed in the territory within a month.
The United States mail is cent
round by Caddo and Ft. Sill since
the Indians committed their raids
on the Wichita, Kansas, route.
1t Is the general talk among the
military that troops are about NOV
ing on these Indians from four diff
ferent points-from Fort Dodge on
the Arkansas, from Fort Sill in the
Indian territory. from Fort Richard
SON in Texas, and from some point
in New Mexico. A few OF the Kio-
was, Comanches and Cheyennes
have remained on the reservation
all the time, and the Arapehoes are
determined to remain there QUIZ
ct. Satanic is sick at Fort Sill. He
has given up all ideas Of fighting,
and instead of being looked upon,
as formerly, among one of the worst
of the Indians on the plains, he has
calmed down in spirit and broken
into q serene old age.
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DIN Both sides.

Our friends down street, OF the
"patent outside" are disposed to
be accommodating. AS is their
custom, they are on both sides of
politics. The patent part, printed
in st. Louis, advocates the cause of
the Republican party, by printing
the addresses of such Republican
leaders as Senator Morton, while
on the inside they hoist the Reform
ticket aud just more than swallow
the Reform movement. The Re-
pHblicans ought to be grateful, be-
cause they are given the preference
ofthe part edited away from home,
and possessing the greatest ability.
II the Reformers can stand this the
Republicans ought to. Whether it
is just the clean thing for paper to
advocate both sides, we leave for
those Interested to decide.
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From Omaha.

OMAHA, Aug. 1.-THE following
telegram was received by Gen. Ord
to-day from Fort Fetterman:
A Cheyenne half-breed from
Powder river reports that at a
council of the Cheyennes and Ar
rapahoes it was decided to recall
all hostile parties from the vicinity
of the railroads and return to
the agency, that about 200 lodges
of Cheyennes passed thirty-five
miles north of this post Friday
en- route to the agency, that they
were very hungry and eating their
horses. 1 send this rumor for
what it is worth.
Seth Cole and f. Il. Byre, pos
tai clerks, who preferred charges
Of corruption against Postmaster
Yost and Special Agent Furay,
have been dismissed from the ser
vice, and it is understood that an
investigation made by Special
Agent Hawley has cleared Yost
and Furay OF all the charges.
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EDITOR NEws:-By The News of
last week I learn that can Obser-
ver'' is alarmed at my suggestion
in the notice ofthe annual meeting
of the Cooperative Association.
He affects to ''snell afmice." The
suggestion referred to was made
as a matter of convenience and
economy. This is an exceedingly
busy time with farmers, and as a
majority of the Association are
probably Republicans, together
with the fact that much time has
recently been consumed in the at
tendance Opon political meet.
ings, and that the annual school
meeting would soon require anoth-
er half day of our precious
time, it was suggested that we
"kill two birds with one stone"
L did not propose to any body from
either Chase or Franklin counties
to 'look on" and add to our respec-
liability, but that clubs do as ours
did, organize after the election and
choose their delegates. The gal
liant and patriot cold Republican
party is not SO poverty striker as
to desire to appropriate any re-
spectability that does not rightful-
~ belong to it.
s. NJ. WHEELER.
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Chase l,ou.,y PoIftIc..

CoTToNwooD FALLS, Aug. L..
EDITOR NEWs:-The Republicans
of this county met in mass conven-
ton to-day, and elected DR.. Geo.
w. Williams as President.
DIR. Geo. w. Williams and S. A.
Breese were elected as delegates to
the state convention, and Hon. A.
S. Howard and j. e. Winnie as del
egatcs TO the congressional conyeu-
ton.
w. A. Morgan, who was Browns
chosen delegate, was defeated, and
introduced q resolution instructing
for Hon. w. r. Brown for congress,
which was almost unanimously laid
on the table. Our people faVo'
somebody else. A resolution ask.
ing Judge Brown to resign his
Judgeship, in case he was nominal
ed for congress, SO as to allow u;
to elect his successor at the genera
election, was introduced and ably
advocated by Hon. 7. S. Jones, F
p. Cochran, Col. W. S. Smith, ant
others.
Hon. J. W. McWiIliams intro
duced resolutions insisting that tht
principles advocated by the Patron
of Husbandry were identical will
those advocated and practiced b!
the Republican party, censurinl
Granite fina: cial policy, and declar
ing as the choice of our people 70
next President, Hon. James G
Blaine, of Maine.
Mr.. McWilliams ably advocates
his resolutions, and was repeatedly
cheered during his eloquent speech
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The Cody Business fa Caba

The Cody Business fR Caba.
New YORK, Aug. ia pitiful
story of horrors of Chinese cody
ism in Cuba is told by an educated
Chinaman, q mandarin of the third
class, now in exile. From this ac-
count it appears that the condition
of Chimes laborers in Cuba is
much worse than that of negro
slaves. The poor Chinaman is
held for limited period, his own
er has paid a good price for his
term of bondage, he must get all
he can before the cooly's freedom
comes. Death so often intervenes
before the end ofth term of ser
vice that it is estimated that only
one in twenty lives to return to
China. The writer thinks there
can be no hope for the Chinese
people until there is a chance in
the ruling race.
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THE PEsT.-The grasshoppers
seem to be progressing slowly to-
ward our eastern limits. They
were passing this city yesterday in
countless numbers a little to the
west of south. In Leavenworth
and Atchison counties they have
worked their way nearly to the
Missouri river. A gentleman
from Gardner, johnson county,
tells US they reached there in not
very great numbers last week.
Between here and Topeka they are
present in large force. and doing
much damage. In parts of this
county south of here they have
gone in swarms, eating up some
fields of corn and not disturbing
others.
1t is too early yet to determine
the extent of the loss that will be
inflicted upon the state at large.
1t is heavy enough, but not as bad,
we think, as would be thought
from the reports from some quar-
journal.
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Political.

The Republican primary cleo
tions last week, to choose dele
gates to the state and Congression-
al conventions, seem to have attract
ed much interest throughout the
State, and to have been well attend.
ed.
A dispatch from Topeka claims
that GoYenor Osborn has 81 of the
l16 delegates so far reported. This
dispatch gives Horton 40 and Small
wood %.
In the first Congressional district,
Col. VIM. A. Phillips seems to have
q majority of delegates, although
the reports are very conflicting.
The convention met yesterday.
In the second district Col. Cobb's
denomination is conceded.
In this, the third district, an id
telligent guess cannot be made as to
the result. So far as heard from
Judge Brown has carried the coun-
ties in his district. John Guthrie,
CIV. Eakridge, and p. B. Maxson
will all be warmly supported.
All we ask OF these conventions
is to give us the best men in the
State for the various offices.
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Since the Farmers and etc.

Since the Farmers and etc. con-
vention last Saturday, which
provided for the election of sepa-
rate sets of delegates for the eoun-
ty and senatorial conventions, the
"lxers" ofthe affair, have conclud-
ed not to burden the dear people
with electing so many delegates,
and have changed the call to suit
their plans, so that but one set OF
delegates will be elected to all the
conventions. tits better that they
should run this thing, You know.
1t is a happy thought to save the
people trouble in liking up
things for an honest party. Two
or three sets of delegates would
not be so easily handled.
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There now seema to be

There now seems to be o sort of
undercurrent movement in some
parts of the state to nominate Geo.
L. Anthony for Governor. Should
he be nominated we would have, at
the proper time, for he would be
elected, the clearest headed man in
the state at the head of the state
government.-Parsons Sun.
We hope that under current will
swell into q grand tidal wave that
will sweep Mr.. Anthony into the
Governors Office. In this part of
the state Mr.. Anthony would carry
everything before him. He would
be the strongest man the Republi-
cans could nominate.
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4 Card fro1n GOV. Osborn
Topeka, Aug. Il, 1874.

To the Public:
It is uselessto deny the fact that
= great calamity has oyertaken the
people in some parts of the state.
The corn crop Of many of the coun-
ties has been entirely destroyed by
grasshoppers.
This is especially true in the
West, where the country has
been newly settled, and where the
people are lily prepared to bear the
loss. In most of the State the
wheat crop was excellent but the
settlers of the past year have rails
ed no wheat, and many of them
have been relying upon their corn
crop for subsistence through the
coming winter. It is feared that
in some localities some of the peo-
pie viii suffer for the want of the
necessaries of life unless some
means can be devised for their
reIiet.
The Legislature has placed no
funds at my disposal which can
be used for that purpose, but /
hope to be able to aid in
carrying out some plan here
after to he agreed upon,
which will avert suffering
and want. The first thing to be
done, however, is to obtain full and
reliable statistics from the locali.
ties most severely afflicted. take
this method of suggesting for the
convenience of the county authori-
ties of these various counties, as
we'll as for our information, That he
boards of County Commits
siorers take immediate steps tc
ascertain the exact condition of
affairs in their respective counties.
Every family in each of these
counties should be visited and 6
careful inventory made of theil
condition and amount of avsieablt
effects. A synopsis of this should
be forwarded to the executive of
flee, with such suggestions as thu
Commissioners may see fit t
make, as to the means to be EN-
ployed for obtaining the relic
needed.
An investigation already mad
in some of the count les, has show
J them to be in much better condi
tion than was at first supposed
and it is hoped that like inVestigs
tions throughout the sections effect
ed, will dissipate in great degre
the fears hitherto entertained
AS before intimated, 1 am ne
clear as to the means whic
should be employed to secure th
4 needed relief. On one poin
however, / am clear: Kanss
may be poor, but she ca
= and will take care of her own need,
THOMAS A. OSBORN,
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. An Ugly Fmct.

One of the facts revealed by Mr..
Beecher's statement, and which,
while it may not palliate his case in
the public eye, will certainly lower
his opponents, il the "black mail"
which was levied upon him. Not
less than $1,000 does Mr.. Beecher
aver that he has paid in one way and
another to Tilton. At one time he
raised 5000 by q mortgage on his
home and handed the money over TO
Moulfon for rilton. This has q
bad look for both sides-for Beech
or, as the public will be slow to be-
lieve that an absolutely innocent
man, as he claims to be, would have
allowed himself to be thus bled
and for TilsOn, as il looks like max
ing money out of his shame. 1t il
true Tilton denies having receiy-
ed any money from Beecher,
bat it was paid through Moulton.
Mouiton may also deny having re-
ceiyed il, as Beecher says he threat
ened he would, but the public will
believe, as things now stand, that
Beecher was pretty freely bled by
the other side.-LaWrence Journal.
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We have not seen q man from any
quarter of the State this week but
that believes the nomination of Geo.
I. Anthony for governor, would be
the very beat thing the Republican
convention could do for the party
and for the State. His nomination
would create al enthusiasm that
would sweep the State like wild fire.
We have no hesitancy in pronounc-
ing him the most acceptable and
best man for the place, in the party.
Then why not nominate him?
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Reform Congressional Com
YentiOn.

TOPEKA, August 9th, 1874.
Pursuant to 4 call issued by the Independ
ent Reform Committee for Congressional
Convention the delegates of the Third dis
trict met ut Topeka, August 9th, and organi-
zed by electIng w T. Douthit, Chairman.
After some discussion the following resolu-
ton was offered by Peter Bell, of Coffee
county, and passed.
ResoIUed, That we do now adjurn 10 meet at
Emporia, September 4th, 1874, at 10 O'Clock to
put in nomination n candidate for Congress
| from he Third Congressional District, and
| that We do most earnestly ask the friends of
Reform and good government to cooperate
with US by sending three delegates from each
Representative District, and would RECON-
mend that they meet to elect dele gates at their
| different voting precints, Saturday. August
e9th. j. v. RANDOLPH,
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Mrs. Burnham, of the st. Louis
Republican, says: Theodore gives
the impression that Mrs. Tilton is q
beauty, but Elizabeth is forty; has
had seven children, was never hand
some, is shapeless, with . dull, or
binary face set between two rows
of cork-screw curls, that give q
school-marmy air to her. She's just
the woman, if / was q man, that 1
should 60 to for q good pattern for
q flannel under-shirt."
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The reform convention at Tope-
ka last week did not only talk pur-
ity and fair dealing in politics, but
they gave US q lively example of
how they intend to run things when
they get into power. NJ. L. Hud-
son, of Bourbon county, was NOM
mated for Governor by an over
whelming majority on the first bal
lot and was then cheated out of il
by pure unadulterAted, unblushing
cheek. McComas did it with his
little hatchet.-Parsons Sun.
And now, to show us how they
appreciate such trickery as that
played on Hudson by McComas,
they propose to nominate the latter
as the Reform aud pure candidate
of their party for Congressman.
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y. y. H2aRdOHph's Advertise
xnemt Of r. ID. NaaxsOm. eG al.

We suppose Mr.. Maxson owes
go" a vote of thanks for bringing
him into notice, but we don't know
what right J. v. Randolph has to
charge the well-meaniug, earnest
men who circulated and signed q
petition requesting p. B. Maxson to
run for congress, as descending "'be-
meath the dignity of men," Being
Changers don't disfranchise US, or
prevent us from taking an active
part in politics if we want to. The
truth is, these men mean business,
and consider themselves response
BILE for testifying to the character
and ability of q true man whom
most of them have known from five
to fifteen years, and no lying or
sensational newspaper reports can
make them believe differently from
what they know. They are citi-
zens whose character makes them
unimpeachsble, and their high stand
ing in their own neighborkoods
makes such a recommend a valuable
one. There was needed more reli.
able signers than 80" is, as COM
mon reports say his past record
won't bear examination, but now he
has been elevated as a Reformer
we do hope he will do better in fu'
ture; and really we don't know
that it was any of his business i
such recommends were sent forth
TO individuals and to a dozen news
papers for publication. Jo., yor
were little late with your adver
tiscment. You ought to have go
it out little sooner. You nigh
have worked on the prejudices o.
some soured individual, and turn ed
q vote or two. How IS it, "Jo 2" Arr
you now working for Eskridge al
So per day, as you told me you use(
to do, or have you reformed?
Better attend to your peanuts, m!
boy, and let well-meaning mel
alone, and not try to hatch up any
more of those old electioneerins
tricks. We would advise you Il
not try and reform our politics il
that way, for you will have to re
| member that "those who live il
glass houses should beware how
they throw stones"
| W & HA,NA
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10 Delegates.

TOPEKA, Aug. I7.-Hon. John
Guthrie, chairman of the state CEN
trail committee, publishes the fol-
living card in the Commonwealth :
In order to facilitate the organ
ization of the Republican state con-
Yentien, to be held in this city on
the 18th instant, it is desirable that
the delegates elected to the eonven-
ton should forward their creden-
tails ct once to the undersigned, who
will carefully preserve the same for
the proper person. The committee
desire to prepare 3 correct roll of
the convention. JOHN GUTHRIE.
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NORMAL SCHOOL.
The Fall Term Will Com
mence September 9th.
Examination For Admission
September Sth.
Tuition and use Of text books
in Normal Department
are free.
Incidental fae 50 nar Tarm
Incidental fee. 50 per Term.

GTATUTE age for admission TO Normal
y Department is sixteen for ladies, and sew
enteen, for gentlemen.
A High school and Grammar School
Department, will DE organized in
which those students who are not Of
legal age, and those who do not design to pre-
pare for teaching will be classified. Students
in these departments will be taught by Nor
NAL teachers only. There will also be opened
Primary Department for scholars of all
grades below the grammar. This will be
under the direct care and instruction of a
lady teacher of large experience and rare
ability. The best improved methods of OBJ
1ect Teaching, with carefully selected illus
trative apparatus, will be employed. Normal
students under the direct oversight of the
teacher in charge Of this department, win in
part give instruction, but in all cases the
most careful attention will be given to secure
thoroughness and as rapid progress rs Is con-
sistent with accurate scholarship. Those in
this department VIII pursue a .judicious grad
ed course OF study ,prePa ratory to the gram
mar grade, and will enjoy all the advantages
of q Select School. Tuition per term paya-
BILE in advance, will he 81 90 for High school
$50 for Grammar school and Sa0O for Pr Imsry
All who purpose attending, IN any aspaIa-
ment, should he present for examination and
classification on Tuesday September Sth.
tor ctrculsTs address the President,
$3.50 G. r pOMEROY
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The editor of the Rnrlinoto

The editor of the Burlington
ia. Hawkeye has discovered .
woman who will get up at six o.
clock, kindle the fire, get breakfast,
rout out the family, wash the dish
es and six children, sew q button
on the neck Of her husbands shirt
and hunt his hat, go to a mission
Sunday-school and teach q class,
attend church, rush home and have
dinner over and the things cleared
away in time for the afternoon
Sunday school, read the Sunday
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Congressman Foster, of the
tenth Ohio district, has a pretty
sure prospect of returning TO Con-
gress again, and so contributing
further to Gen. Buffers unhappi-
ness. Thus far no opposition has
appeared to him in the Republican
ranks, and his denomination by
reclamation is expected.
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A letter signed "a Priest" has
been received by the secretary of
the treasury, inclosing q 500 note
on the Tenth National bank of
New York. The writer Of the let
ter states that the money was re-
ceived by him at the confessional
as conscience money due the Unit.
ed States.