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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03

The large increase in the number o.
sheep is the most notable feature o.
this report. The falling off in the mum
Der hogs is no doubt due to the unusual
ly high prices they have commanded
during the past year, which have in
duced farmers to sell more freely than
in ordinary years.
Pottawatomie has more horses than
any other county in the state, viz, 10,
215; Cherokee more mules, 800; Nema
Ia more mitch COWS, 1921; POttawat
Omie more cattle, 10000; Ford more
sheep, 46, 1856; and Brown more swine
1870. During the year ending March Il,
1881, the cheese made in factories ag-
Gregated sos, $40 lbs,, and the butter ia
313 lbs. The cheese made in families
aggregated 1877 1928 lbs, apd the butter
q, 245, 263 lbs. There are cheese factories
in forty-one counties, blt some of them
report very small product. The lead.
tured 122,112 lbs. last year. The
produce sold from market gardens,
for the year ending March 1st, last,
brought 1896, 0S3; the poultry and eggs
marketed, 1891 ,2G3; and the animals
slaughtered or sold for slaughter, &c.,
PSI 1874. The prairie hay cut in 1880,
aggregated 1.606, 916 tons; and the wool
clip Of the same year aggregated, 2,163,.
357 pounds, The area in farms aggre-
gates 1891 $50 acres, and in nUrserieG,
/, 533 acres The area In clover meadow
aggregates II, $50 acres; IN timothy, 49,.
100 acres; and in prairie 957, 351 acres
The area in clover pasture aggregates
Z, 132 acres ia timothy, 1880 acres; in
blue grass, 39, 548 acres; and in prairie
pasture, 1,149,072 acres.
There arc 1892 stands of bees in
Kansas, and their product, last year, was
142,257 lbs. of honey and E,ss7 lbs. Of
wax.
The bearing fruit trees of the State arG
as follows;
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Preferred Her Father-In.Law.

KANSAS CRY, No, Oct. 2a-Last
August Esta Carnahan, living near OF.
tumwa, deserted her husband and chill.
dren and fed with her father-in-law.
She was about % years old and very
beautiful, and, with her husband, had
lived in easy circumstances. Her Infat.
uation for her husbands father had not
been suspected until the flight Car
nahan pursued them until he had spent
q large sum of money without result. A
short time ago q letter was placed in
Carnahan's hands, the superscripsion of
which ne at once recognized as that of
his father. He opened it and found
it contained q letter from his
wife, deploring her crime, beseeching
him to forgive her and TO meet her al
Kansas City TO receive her back, Car.
naham complied with her request A
determination to be revenged aetuated
him to board train and respond to the
summons Ut his guilty wife, but on
reaching Kansas City he met neither his
father nor the woman. Canadian ap.
piled for assistance TO the police, and
paid them $50 70 scOur the town, but
without avail. They reported that no
such persons we're in the city, and he re-
turned home. To-day, however, the par.
ties were believed to have been discover
ed preparing % 60 70 housekeeping on
Locust street They admitted that their
name Was CarnAham and virtually adj.
mItted all the circumstances described
The woman seemed in no manner
desiriOus Of changing her lot. Friends
have notified the husband in Ottumwa
and domestic explosion il expected 70
f0lloW
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The Troy Chief cautions the press
against al. l.. Brown 81 Co :" of Walnut
street, Cincinnati, concern which is
sending out to Western papers an advcr-
tiscment of Useful household articles"
In pay for which they offer 81 worth of
goods. Any paper which bites at such
offers, or takes anything but cash in
pay for advertising, and that in advance,
at least quarterly, deserves TO he swim
died. There is n class of papers that
take anything and everything that is of
fcred them in the way OF advertising.
Some publishers don't care how big u
humbug thc article they advertise is, so
they can get some wood type, some mud
ink ar something Of that kind for pay,
They do not respect their business them.
selves or teach others To respect it.
They cannot get Legitimate
business advertisements at fair rates be
cause legitimate business men avoid
such papers. II is such papers that
help keep up eastern swindlers Of the
kind mentioned by the Chief. All pa
pers should make IL n point Ia know
that the article advertised comes within
thc range of legitimate busisess enter
prise, and then they should demand d
fair rate for work in cash, and always in
advance, unless the advertiser is known
Ia be perercctly responsible. AS long a.
ahere are papers to advertise for them FOL
1othing we suppose such swindlcrs will
aNi4f
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VIVA, scov,l,e - Go,nr N no

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jacksonville,
Guiteau's counsel, OccasiOned much sur
prise to-day when he declined to raise
the point of jurisdiction, the argument
on which had been set for the 3Olh inst
1t Is stated, however, that the point is
only reserved so as to be of service
to the accused. Should he be tried and
convicted q writ Of habaas corpus will
be taken and the plea of want of iuFis.
diction then raised. Should it then be
decided that the district court was with
out Jurisdiction, Mr.. ScoVille has heen
assured by very high legal authority that
his client could not be tried in New Jer.
sey, as that would be To put him in per.
il of his life for the second time for the
same offenSe. Should the argument be
made before the trial, and Judge Cox
decide that he had no jurisdiction, this
chance for the life Of GGiteau would be
lost
The district attorney, opposing the
postpOnement, said: "Had anything
been presented upon which the court
could act except the statement Of the
counsel that he would establish the fact
an insane man killed the Presidents II
was more important the sane man,
who aSsasSilated the President, should
promptly expiate that crime. That was
what the people were waiting for, and
not that this man should be proved in.
sane"
The court, in granting a postpone
ment TO November IA and no longer
said: "If this were an ordinary case Of
voluntary arrangement for the counsel
to enter into the case he should say the
case should not be suhordinated to theil
engagements, but it was q consideration
not to be disregarded that the order Of
the court had taken counsel from the
performance of other engagements"
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The remuerance ltnion,

WAsHENGToN, Oct aSth.-At the wo-
men's national temperance convention
today Mrs. Malloy read long letter
from Gov. st. John, of Kansas. detailing
the practical results from prohibition in
that state. He says the prohibitOry law
is working admirably in every part of
the state, with the exception of two or
three large cities, where a whisky ring
exists. This ring, says the governor. is
circulating reports that the prohihitory
law is not working we'll. He quotes
from the statistics to show that since the
law went into effect drunkenness and
crime have decreased in every part of the
state, and the morals of the city have i'm
proved. Prohibition" says he, ''has
been a blessing to the whole state. If
women could vote, and / wiGh they
could, the rum power would be buried
beyond resurrection" The governor
closes his letter by saying; ! hope the
convention will re-elect Miss Willard
president. Her influence in the cause OF
temperance has been great, not only in
the West, but throughout the entire
country. He expressed the opinion that
If the question of returning TO the old
law was up it would be defeated by 49,.
0O0 majority.
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THE BOLTER.

The political "bOlter" is an institution.
We would sometimes be lonesome with
out him. This is good year for him,
and Kansas has him bad. 1t is stated
that in large number of counties there
are boilers tickets in the field. We al
ways held that boiling is proper under
certain circumstances. We have seen
very few occasions when it was duty
to bolt. But these occasions and cir
cumstances seldom arise. When bolt
proceeds from other motives than pub
lie good, or the cleansing Of q party, it
does not deserve the support of the
voters. a bolter is generally made
up of good deal OF
fool, more mule and an awful load of
egotism. He is fellow who assumes,
when his desires or plans are thwarted,
that he is bigger man than his par
ty and Immediately proceeds to demon
straie that fact by boiling. He has a
mission then, which is the dissemina-
tion of his personal grievances. He is
bent on revenge. lie snorteth up and
down the valleys, he paweth the earth
and maketh things look blue. He fills
the air with anathemas against the par
ty. and the "reg'lar ticket" The party
becomes corrupt when it drops him. We
have often been amused at the ways of
the bolter. They are not past finding out.
They are easily understood. We remem-
Der him when he was n devoted partizan
and strong advocate of the "reg'lar
ticket" Then his name was on the tic
ket His party gives him an Office, and
he becomes inflated. He gets smart
and influential, and powerful. He COM
mcRces fixing things to perpetuate him.
self Time passes on. lie wants Office
again. He comes ia contact with some
other fellows who have not been asleep
He finds they are just rs smart rs he is, for
it is n fact that in every position in hu
man affairs, sooner or later, we find, In
sailing around the sharp corners, op
ponents who are little smarter than the
smartest of us. So our smartcst politi
clans gets beat. Our boiler goes into the
convention, and there are moves on tho
checker board which he did not see, and
to use e Eorcible expression, he 'getS
left" Then We find out how deep his
devotion to his party-to principle
was. He don't propose to stand it. Il
is too awful bad for the dear people tC
be robbed of his services, and il he cam
have what he wants, the party and it,
principles may go. He proposes Il
knock the whole political skillet into
the fire. He bolts. lie is bigger mar
than the party which has given him tn,
only importance he ever had, and h'
proceeds to prove it by fight on every
thing and everybody. The best treat
ment that can be meted ou
TO the bolter is for the
people to squelch him. This they gen
I orally do, and the average dissatisfied
. individual then becomes sour and land
c in the opposition party. In his "rul'
: or ruin" policy as a general thing h
D ruins himself and nobody else. Thlnl
$ OF the cheek of the fellow who, becaus'
r. he fails to carry his personal points
: asks the whole party to go back on it
0 own work. Reflect on his presumption
5 There can be no surprise in the fact tina
f the people generally give them wha
!, they deserve-defcat. chaGrin and oh
/ liYion
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DEMOCRACY AND FREE wHIS-
XIV


The Sentinel Of this week puts itself
squarely in opposition to the enforcement
of the prohibitory liquor law. Referring
! 10 the convictions of Mrs De Ludolf and
Daniel Stack it wants "tO see all right
and honorable means used to punish vio-
lators OF law" Hence it regards every
one engaged in making up cases against
the traffic rs ingaged in sorOng and dis
honorable business. That luminary goes
on TO say
at is no excuse that it is TO suppress
an evil. The end never justifies the
means in the cause of temperance any
more than in any other laudable work. II
the prohibitory law cannot be enforced
without resorting 10 such means, there
is something wrong in the law and it
| ought to be remedied. Under the old
law the sale of intoxicants WAS sup
pressed without any difficulty and no
such unworthy means was resorted to-"
This law is not going To enforce itself.
Its violation is hourly studied and
practiced. All good citizens should as
sist in its enforcement; not because it
favors temperance, but because 1t is
the law. The people Of the stale
declared for prohibition. The constitution
was amended in December. That fixed
the policy of the state. The liquor men
agreed 10 quit, if let alone until their
licenses expired. They were let alone,
but did not quit. The prohibitory Law
did not take effect till May 1. There
was plenty of time TO engage in decent
occupation. The traffic is now lawless,
and the men engaged in it and the poll
ticians and newspapers who support it
are lawless.
Defrauding the revenue OF the general
government, the making and passing of
counterfeit money, cOnspiracies of all
kinds, like the liquor traffic in Kansas,
are usually carried on in the dark or on
the sly. The government employs de-
teciives 10 ferret out these wrongs. Over
thirty years ago there was a great CON
spiracy along the line of the Michigan
Central railroad WIN. H. Seward was
employed by the company and he en-
ployed detectives, aud the great plot
which might have destroyed thousands
of innocent people was discovered, and
the violaiors of the law brought to trial
According 10 the Sentinel this in
stance, as well as the settled policy of
the United States for half n century,
were neither fright" nor honorable"
The last sentence aboYe quoted deserves
q passing notice Ii is historically false.
"Under the old law the sale of inioxi-
cants" was never Suppressed" The
law was not the suppressing kind. The
men engaged in the liquor traffic then
and now were law-bFeakers. AS we have
stated, The constant violation of the old
license Law Vas the occasion for the
present law.
We suppose the reason "Ono Bell"
got people to buy liquor and retain it to
produce il I'm court as evidence. was,
that the prosecution wanted witnesses
who knew something and would not be
like the editor of the Sentinel, who,
when recently called rs II witness. swore
he got something TO drink, but could
not tell what II was he got. Besides it
was matter of precaution to preserve
the liquor, so that witness should not
get so tpsy as TO impair his memory.
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would give his personal attention to the
/ printing of a speech. One morning
| Oyster found him basily at work s,cut.
ting up copy" for the printers. Hello
| Oyster, I'm ahead of you. See, I'm d.
Vidlpg copy" Yes, senator, see You
are ahead OF Me; but 1 went home only
| six hours ago. and shall be here for six.
| teen consecutive hours "Well, know
IFS hard work, Oyster. have been at
| it, and know what night work means. -
| voorhees, prepares his speeches care.
fully and revises moderately. He is one
of the few, very few. men who use
manuscript in such way that not a
| single Oratoricai grace Is diminished
| thereby. Whether this is because he
commits his speech we'll TO memory or
not We never could tell We rather
| think he does. But, with or with.
| ont manuscript, Voorhees, is an ora
tor of the first school. As rule, the
| very sight OF manuscript in the hands of
speaker is enough tai nerve one for
bore. pemosthenes was night when
he said: "Oratory is delivery-tleliv-
ery-deiivcry," and delivery is killed by
manuscript.
Jones, of Florida, always a hard stud
ent. labors diligently at set speech.
He is passionately fond of Edmund
Burke, and knows his works as we new
er knew any other 10 know them. He
has a memory equal to Blaine's or Ben
Hills. and time and again have We
heard him repeat page after page of
Burke's immortal speeches. It is the
same with the speeches OF Phillips,
Grattan, Curran aud O'COnnell. Jones
is a very able man. His Democracy Is
extreme, but out of politics lac is one of
the best fellows the world over
Davis, of West Virginia, though an
old member of the senate, has made but
one speech-on agriculture. 1t was
printed exactly as it was written. HIS
remarks are LETT to the tender mercieS OF
the stenographer.
Beck, Davis colleague on the commit
tee of appropriations, is the most rapid
talker in either house of congress. Well
for him that the senate has such n stem
ographer as Dennis Murphy, whose
hand travels over paper like lightning.
We doubt if his equal could be found
anywhere. Beck is an untiring work
er, has the constitution of Kentucky
race-horse, and no amount of labor is
too heavy for him. He is not much of a
reviser. going on the principle of Ponti-
US Pilate-QuOd scripsi, seripsi. He is
as blunt as joey Bagstock, and as good
natured as Mark Tapley. AS there are
mo leaves TO print" in the senate, no
senator can publish q spaach without
first having at least read it from manu-.
script. The first page of the Daily
Record is quite a desideratum as the
place to air the title of q speech, and
many grave senator who would will
ingiy set at the end of McGregor's table
is 10th to have his speech hidden in the
middle of the Record. In vain to attack
Solomon's theory against vanity
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Topeka Capital: The gentle BULLDOG
or is abroad in Emporin, and il making
himself both numerous and obnoxious,
The temperance people have been max
ing n warm for the whisky sellers, and
in return the latter have been making II
uncomfortable for the witnesses of the
temperance people, one of whom, a
young man oi less nerve than zeal.
packed up, skipped, and his mother
hasn't heard from him since Threats
were cxiended 10 the youth, and
hr, taking them for earnest, and being
afraid for his own life, did not stand
upon the order of his going but went.
The temperance people down that way,
however, do not propose TO have such
goings on any longer. and il necessary
will protect their witnesses. A good
way Ia do, also, would be for the wit
nesscs TO take care of themselves and
permit no bulldozing whatever. The
prohibtionisis have become thoroughly
walked up at Emporin, and having Sc
cured two convictions propose To keep
the hall rolling.
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Guiteau and the Insanity Dodge.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 28.-Those
who have the most to do with Guiteau
and have kept close watch upon him
since the preparation for the defense be
gan, are thoroughly convinced his in
sanity plea is sham. There was moth
ing in his conduct at the jail up TO the
time this plea was decided upon as the
main line of defense that suggested IN
sanity. At first Guiteau, It seems,
would not agree TO it, but "a soon as ne
did, his conduct and his talk and writ
ings at once confirmed it. This branch
of the case, however, was overdone, and
both Guiteau and his counsel seemed to
become aware OF the fact At present
Guiteau has returned TO the condition Of
the man and the actions which charac-
teriZed him during the months Of the
President's sufferings. He seemed To
he perfectly relieved upon the subject of
personal violence, and with this all evil
dences Of excitement have disappeared.
He is in perfect health. There is no ex-
cited condition, aad his sleep is sound
and perfectly natural. In short, 50 far
as can be determined. there are no symp-
toms OF any physical arrangements
which usually attend case 81 insanity.
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A lion Of Tar0o


ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 28.-Passengers on
the state train to-day report lively time
at Gainesville Monday pight, after the
performance of Coup'a show. A c0un-
tryman came to the show with a pet bear,
and while in a maudlln condition was
showing the little animal around. Sew
eral canvassmen, shouting drunk on vile
whisky, seized the countryman and
wrested his bear from him. He swore
vengeance against them, and, haYing
collected number of drunken friends
from the rural districts, repaired to the
train, upon which the animals were being
loaded, and attacked the CIRCUS men,
The row soon became general; more
than one hundFed shots having been
fired. The marshal of the town inter
fered and was promptly shot down, but
not dangerously hurt. A white man re-
ceived painful wound in the neck,
while q negro man, who was standing
about one hundred yards from the bat
tle-ground, and taking no part in the
riot, was shot through the head with q
wandering bullet and inatantly- killed.
While the fight was at its fiercest lion
and bear escaped from their cages. The
lion keeper pursued the owner of the
bear about a mile and murdered him in
cold blood. The battle over, the circus
left without the lion, which is still
roaming about the village, seeking
whom he may devour. Businesa is sus-
pended, and the terrified people arc
armed and on the alert.
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The Speakershlp.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 2S.-Repre
sentative Holman. of Indiana, said, be.
fore leaving for home, that the Indiana
delegation would stand by Congressman
Orth, who was q candidate from Their
state for speaker, should there appear
any chance for his election. Mr. He'll.
man thought Congressman Hiscock
would receive double the number of
votes on the first ballot OF any other can
didate. He has been steadily pushing
his interests, and would receive the sup
port of the entire New York
delegation, besides large num-
Der of New England votes. Mr..
Heilman did not think Kasson had a
chance for the reason he had been out of
congress so long, and he regarded Keif.
or as a much stronger candidate than
KassOn, who could be elected should
a compromise be necessary between
HiscOck and Keifer, which he could not
imagine. Mr.. Frye, he said in concIu.
sion, would have made an excellent
speaker, aud could have succeeded had
he been in the house; and know for a
fact he would sooner be speaker than a
senator. Governor Foster is much
pleased with his talk with President
Arthur. He thinks the latter is deter
mined to do all in his power to heal the
differences in the party where any exist.
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At the last Congressional election
Georgia polled lat ,S24 votes, electing
nine members of Congress, and Mich
igan, represented by an equal number of
members, polled 352,5e6 votes. One
hundred and thirty-one thousand
four hundred population is the appor-
tionment to a Congressional district.
Under this apportionment Georgia and
Michigan have each nine members.
With the same population Georgia, like
the Southern States, highly political,
averages only 16,425 votes. Why do
these colored voters stay away from the
polls? Are they intimidated: This is
not peculiar to Georgia. Only five OF
the Southern Representatives make a
bstter showing. and they but very
small improvement. The definite cause
of this state of things should be inquir
ed into by our National Legislature.
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CONDITION OF OUR COUN

CONDITION OF OUR COUNTY.
Republicans can point with pride to
thc record of Lyon county in business
point of view. Her finances have been
handled as ably and us carefully as those
al any county in the state. Notwith-
standing she carried, for some years, a
debt of 100000 for railroads, besides
school district debts OF $4,000 to $50
600, her people never even seriously dis
cussed Reputation or compromise" OF
her debt The interest was always paid
promptly, and to-day not dollar of her
bonds can he bought at less than their
face value We say Republicans can
point with pride to this record, because
most Of the time the affairs of the coun-
" have been under their control
Individually, as well as collectively,
we are satisfied our people are in as good
condition as those of the most prosper.
GUS communities of the West. The
court records, as we'll as the private nc
counts of the people, will prove this as
sertion. In the last two years, with a
population of over II 900. there have moi
been twenty five real estate sales by the
executive officers of the county. Seven
ty-fvc or eighty per cent of our taxes
are always paid before or by the time
they Are due, and the delinquent taN
sales are really slim affairs.
Altogether, we think the people q
Lyon county can safely trust the busines!
interests of the county in the hands o
the party which has made such splen
did record in the management of he
public affairs. There is no call for any
change and so the people will conclude
on election day.