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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23
TROY, KANSAS:

"SUccEss"- John writes to an lndianap-
oils preacher, that prohibition in Kansas is
grand success, and that every trne man and wo-
man in the State supports it. II may be eonsid-
cred an open question whether prohibition is
Success grand or otherwise, with saloons run
ming openly in almost every prominent town in
the State, and saloons by the dozen right under
St Johns nose, in Topeka We were at Topeka,
Tuesday We were hungry for beer, and got
hungry for it about three times while there.
Each time we went into different place, and
got what VIC wanted. They sell beer and other
liquors without concealment, in the most public
places in the city, and have their signs out.
We were told that there were thirty saloons run
ming in Topeka. The City Council has passed
an ordinance for licensing houses to sell soda
water, giHger-pop, and ''Other drinks" and the
other drinks are being sold. A meeting was
held at the Methodist church, Monday night, at
which resolutions were passed asking the Mayor
and Council to resign; but they do not appear
TO be tumbling over each other in their haste to
obey the command. This is how prohibition is
a grand success in Kansas.
Troy has always been in favor of liquor IL
cense, and always had saloons, when the law
permitted it. Yet, since the prohibtory law
was passed, we have yet to hear Of town in
the State that has come near Obeying it as
Troy has.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

CoNKLING's UNTESABLE PosITIoS.-Utterly hope
less of success themselves COnkling and Platt may
he able. by delays and SIilful combinations throw
the election over To "A Democratic Legislature and
this last chance they seem now resolved upon. If
thesc vacancies had occurred in the regular order of
service, it-mght be possible to find plausible
for the stubborn and useless resistance now
making in behalf of the two ex-Senators. But the
vacamcie. of their own voluntary creation. Not
n shadow of principle involved in it. Their
constituents did not ask them to resign, and did not
desire it. STILL there might have been a show of de-
fence if the Legislature had fit to return them,
pired. But il made impossible TO return them
except a enemies of the Administration which many
Of their warmest friends utterly refuse To do. From
the first, large majority of the Republicans of the
Legislature have refused TO he placed in that posi-
tiOn. And in the face of their decision the two
Senators, sustained by less than one-fifth of the Leg
slature still offer their defiant alternative, that if
they themselves not returned, no Republican
shall he allowed TO take up the trust they abandon
cd. II incredible that they hope TO he
sustained in such "A pOsiton.-DOsOn IdreTfiscr.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23


II il reported that Jay Could while in Atehison
Kan, announce, his intention Of extending the Mis-
souri, Pacific 70 Omaha. This la. long been a fnvor
te project Of Mr. Tamagc, General Manager of the
Missouri Pacific, and has been urging il for several
years. During their stay in that city, the enterprise
fully discussed, several of the citizeu- being
called to furnish information concerning the
country lying between the two cities and the best
sion. IL Is reported was. that Mr.. Gould directed Mr.
Talmnge to make arrangements mt the earliest pos-i-
hle moment to extend the Missouri Pacific from
Atrlsnn 10 Omaha.
II is Understood that the line will run parallel
with the Central Branch road TO point about u mile
and half west of the city; thence northwest cross
ing the St Joe & Beaver read Robinson or Sever,
ance. possibly far west lIawatha. thence TO
Falls City, Neh.. and thence, in rs ncurIy a direct
line practicable, to this city.
The advantages of the new line to Omaha nre not
Atehson will run through the richest farming conn
try in the Missouri valley, and the close connection
with the metropolis of kansas viii assist materially
in the transportation of produce.
Ii Is reported, IN connection with this scheme, that
the Is. & NJ. Company are intending TO compete with
the line by utilizing thsir facilities for direct
line also between Atclison and this city. The old
road bed between Falls City and Brownville. Neb.
is to be at once iruned by the B. & NJ. Company
That company already has n line in operation from
Nebraska City to Brownville and il has leased the
A. * y. road for long term Of years. There is,
then, gap between Nebraska City and Plattsmouth,
and it proposes To build n road between the two
places. From Plattzmouth il has line to Omaha.
by occupying the two gaps mentioned above, it
would secure a direct line from this city Omaha
west of the Missouri Omaha Herald.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

Man SPLIT Two ny CTcLoNE.-My son.
Nennor A. House, while on the road from Atchison.
last week. was riding in company with gentleman
on horseback, about dusk, Thursday evening, north
east of Emporia, when the great cyclone struck
them. lie drove ahead few rods, when he the
man, whom he left hut few moments before, split
in two by the terrible monster. The horse lev
eled to the ground and killed. He rode to n house
and while in the house the roof was taken of, but
none of the inmates harmed. He then went TO the
barn for protection but that was blown way and
the other until he forced to find protection in
gutter. lie said the storm gathered in the heavens
and looked like great dark cloud in the shape of n
funnel with the small portion at the base, and as
the storm increased il grew larger at the base He
said trees boards etc. were Hying in the air. and he
had all he could do TO keep out of their way. lie
said that what struck and split the in two
looked like fire. b. II. House..
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

CoSKLISG's SERVICE To Ills PiRTr.-Thc mischief
that Roscoe CUnkling has wrausht the party since
the Ith of March is ncalculable but it is nothing
either by bargain surrender, permitted him To
again regain his old position of leadership II is he
who has robbed il of its majority in the Federal Sem
and perjury: he that has divided it into warning fac
tions; he that has arrayed part of it against the
Administration Of its choice and he that has prepar-
ed it for defeat in the pivotal State in the Union
If he should succeed now by favor fear, trick de
vice, what would it be afterwarlsi Ii would he
simply the creature of Roscoe Conkling. II he dom
mated it before what would he do if in this conquest
ne conquered it utterlyi He has injured it sufi
cently already. but it repair the injury he has
inflicted by casting him out and only by casting him
ont Ii must relieve itself of the impuatiOn of be-
ing simply party of spoils and the way to do that
is to relieve itself of Roscoe COnkng, who has made
that charge possible The whole future oi the party
seems to depend upon its Reputation of him and his
infamous trading and demoralizng policcal hcreses.
philadelphia Telegraph.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

~ Gen. Kennedy, of Ohio, was the man to
whom Hayes gave his opinion of Conkling; but
Kennedy, being Conkling man, afterwards ad-
ded to the story, by reporting lot of still worse
things that Hayes should have said of Blaine,
in the same conversation. But now comes a sis
ter of Gen. Kennedy, who gives the lie direct 10
Gen. Kennedy. She says she was present in the
carriage during the whole Of that conversation
and twas brought about bya remark of hers rel
atiyo to Conkling; that Hayes said substantial
ly Of Conkling what was reported, but did not
speak dsrespectful word of Blaine or any 9TH
er man. The next question is, who the deuce is
Gen. KennedYf
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

u scientific Frenchman advances the the
DRY that many of the mysterious disappearances
of persons are caused by their being wholly con-
sumed, by spontaneous combustion, which sud-
denly breaks forth without warning, from some
unknown cause. He says he once witnessed
such an accident. If such were the case, Il
looks reasonable that somebody would OCCASION
ally witness the catastrophe, as It is hardly
probable that all the victims would sneak away
and hide about the moment they were going to
spontaneously combust. Some parts of their
clothing would be left, or their shoes, or but
tons, or pockct-knives. That Frenchman doesn't
make n good story ont of il
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

Es."-Recently, store at Norton
Vile, Jefferson County, was robbed by masked
men, who entered in the evening, while the pro-
prietors and several customers were there. A
private detective OfAtchsOn, named Dougherty,
undertook to work up the case but circumstan-
tial and other evidence pointed strongly toward
himself rs the leader of the gang of robbers. lie
is now under arrest for the crime. One Polk
Wells, formerly Of Doniphan, who is supposed
to have been one of the robbers of Burke's store,
mt Geary City, several years ago, was the prin-
pal aecOmplce of Dougherty, in this late rob
berry, but he has not yet been caught. There is
n widespread feeling that many robberies and
other crimes are the handiwOrk of sO-called
detectives" Then they push themselves for
ward to work up the case, directing suspicion
from themselves and covering up the real facts
until the traces are all lost, and no clues are
left to follow the crime to its proper source.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23
The ConstitutiOnaIity of the Temperance
Inw Sustained.

TorEKA. June 2l.-The druggists cases, involving
the construction of portion of the recent temper
ance law, were decided by the Supreme Court to-
day, and the Court held that the grant Of power to
the Probate Judge TO issue permits valid. The
act was not unconstitutional although it restricted
class namely. the druggists, the right to se-
cure permit and sell Intoxicating liquors. Ii also
held that the law did not apply TO cologne, bay rum
of lemon, tncture of gentian, other arti-
ces of established and character found in the
United States dispcnsatOry, other like standard
authority and customarily used for medical, toilet
and culinary purposes, and further, to coriials
btters and other compounds of the ordinary intoxi
eating liquors. that whether they within
without the statute, question of fact to he
tied in each particular by jury. The test he
ing that of Intoxicating liquor remaining a dstinc
tive force in the compound, il within the stat
ute, although the other ingredients might be of
medium
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

WHY MIsTAKEi-The AtchisOn Champion, in
an article on the New York Senatorial question,
seems to take both sides. 1t says the appoint
ment of Robertson was a mistake. Why was it
n mistaken Because Robertson ignored the die
tation Of Conkling, but voted as desired by his
constituents, and paved the way for Garfeld's
nomination, was it a mistake in Garfield in re-
fusing to punish or rebuke Robertson to please
COnkling Garfield either did right or did
wrong in This matter. If he made mistake, he
did wrong, and COnkling had right to kick,
and has a right TO demand an endorsement from
Republicans. If we thought that Garfield made
n mistake, we would hold that Conkling should
be sustained. majority of the New York Re-
publicans seem to think that Garfield did not
make n mistake, and therefore they demand that
Administration Republicans be elected to the
Senate, in place Of COnkling and Platt.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23
The St. Joseph and Highland RaiIrond
Organized.

meeting was held at the Board of Trade rooms
yesterday, Tor the purpose Of organizing II company
for the purpose of constructing. maintaining and
operating a railway in the State of Kansas from a
point upon the Missouri River opposite the city Of
st. Joseph, in the State of Kansas in northwesier
erly direction, through the County of Doniphan in
the State of Kansas, to point Mt the city Of
Highland; thence extending northwesterly through
the Counties Of DOnphan and Brown, in the State Of
Kansas, to point upon the boundary line of Kansas
and Nebraska, To he known the st. Joseph, High
land and Northwestern Railroad.
The capital stock placed at $50 600. and a
company organized. The following are the
NAMES OF TTK ISCoRroRAToRs:
John +. johnson, Jonathan Leigh,
w. II. Feney, John L. Motter,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23
Ii Was Had for the Bull.

keppler has given, in the number of Pack for tie
last week, sequel to his cartoon of April 6tl-It
Looks Bad for the Bull" The bull was represented
in April as standing thc railroad track, head
down, and bueking at the locomotive From the al,-
pearance of the present cartoon il would that
"a catastrophe has occurred. The Administration
train is still all right but the buckng bull has had
tumble. The train runs n high trestle-woTk. up
held by supports labeled Public Confidence" The
bull is descending gracefully from high, head
downward and must in n moment strike in the qnag-
mre below. The lineaments of the bully bovine
closely resemble those of a late senator from the
State of New York. Garfield is acting M engineer of
tho Administration train, and Blaine the fireman,
while Window as brakeman gives the signal To
Only the bull TO he having n sad time of IL.
The title of the cartoon is And Ii Was Bad for the
Bull" All will recognize its force and admit its mp
pcation.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

VALUABLE ISFoRMATIoS FOR GRLST.-It is to be
regretted that man Of General Grants strong
persists in confounding opposition to a third term
with hostility TO himself Ii is true that he should
comprehend that, if he had been descended angel,
and General Garfield had never been born, he could
not have received one more vote in the Convention
The objection was and is to n third term. Ii is n
distinct substantive and independent proposition of
civil policy, wholly irrespective of persons which,
is hoped. will some day lind its way into the funda
mental law, and prevail forever. 1t is our convie-
tion that no amount of public service will he al
lowed to constitute an exception to this salutary
rule; and il ought to console even q disappointed
savior of his country that but few think that
Washington himself could have commanded third
term; and that to him has been vouchsafed the en-
viable privilege of demonstrating the adamantine
trmness of public sentiment point which the
Father of his Country left unsettled.-ALbdny EreH-
iag JOsu9ldl
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23
Supreme Court SyIrabi.
W. l.. Challiss vs.. ID. NJ. Smith.
Error from Doniphan County.

Affirmed.
Br THE CoUKr. BREWER J.
!. Plaintiff commenced an action against Defend.
ant n nonresident. attached certain real estate,
made service hy publication, obtained iud smen and
order of sale of attached property. The Defendant
did not personally appear, and jurisdiction was oh
tained by attachment and publication only. There
after and before any sale of the attached property
Defendant coming into the State, Plaintiff ignoring
entirely the attachment proceedings, commenced an
action the original Indebtedness, and caused the
arrest Of Defendcnt thereon. The Defendant plead
e,l in abaiemcnt the attachment proceedings. Held
That in the absence of evidence, that the attach.
lnent proceedings had been contaminated by u sale
or that they yAneless by reason of defect oi
title in property attached membranes thereon
otherwise, the plea properly sustained and a
Judgment in favor of the Defendant must he affirmed
All the Justices cOneurriny
true copy. Attest:
lsEAL- C.J Brown
(ierl Su,.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

PERSONAL PARTr-If Mr.. Conkling, or even
Gen. Grant, both together, should indulge in
the deusion that they divide the American peo-
pie into political parties upon the question of their
personal complaints and ailments they would find
themselves exposed TO a much severcr disenchant-
ment than Mr. Conkling has experienced already.
No in this country at the present day. is strong
enough to organize personal party of respectable
strength and combination is strong enough to
ganze party on the ground of personal grievances.
All that Mr.. Conkling do, and, suppose, all
that he will succeed in doing, under any cIrcum-
stances, whatever he may attempt is TO go into OPP
position to the administration with other people in
the ordinary way, and neither he nor anybody else
knows beforehand where he will stand when gen
eral breakup comes, if it does come.-y y. Eretiing
Post ICari SclHT-s paper.J
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23
Bf THE COURT.


Bf TIE Court UouTox C. ]
l. The requirement of the statute relating TO the
collection Of taxes for the publication Of the redemp
ton notice is not merely directory. Such tax sale
is nevertheless, precedent condition 10 valid tax
deed.
? Where the notice of redemption in a tax pro-
cee,ing sets forth the requirements of the statute
and also contains erroneous statements of the day
and year of the tax sale and such statements are
interviewer into the notice 10 contradict its statu-
tory terms and therefore to he misleading. the
tice is insufficient, and defective be fatal to
the tax deed
1876 action for the recovery of the real property
therein embraced, begun April 22d, 1872 and in
such action, the controversy turned upon the vali
ty of the taxdeed. Hed The Plaintiffs right 10 sue
not barred by the statute of limitation in sub
division 3. l6 Of the code, n different limita-
tion Is specially prescribed in H. chap. 81 laws
of 1876.
All the Justices concurTng.
true copy. Attest:
lsEsLl e. J. BRowS,
Clerk Suprcnc Court
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

EwYoRK.-The situation remains unchanged.
There is no indication of break of the dead
lock. II is reported that Conkling ard Platt
have given up all hope of reelection. Grant is
in New York, and it is said that he has been in
vited there by the Conkling faction, in order TO
make him their candidate, in place of Conkling.
If such is the case the sign does not yet seem to
be right, for he has not been put forward. 1t is
very doubtful whether lac could get as many
votes as Conkling. Grant has lost popularity
faster, in the past month, than he can ever re-
gain. He has ''talked too much with his mouth, /"
and made himself ridicnlons reneralIr
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

A CORRECT ESTIMATE OF GRAST.-"Every sincere
friend of General Grant, said a veteran Republican,
Yesterday wil deeply regret that he entcrtains the
sentiments which attributed to him in the Chi
cago dispatch. They not the sentiments he held
when first elected President, and they in no
sense Republican sentiments, but opinions ho has
come to entertain of late" This we Believe is the
feeling of large majority Of the Republican party,
and of many thousands of men who will never cease
TO remember the great service of General Grant.
But our people not hero worshippers. If Gener-
nj Grants views are not sound, if he takes the
wrong side Of important ISSUES, he will not be fol-
lowed by thoughtful mcn.-BostoR Journal.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

IS- The Republican Viee-President of the
United States is at Albany, working to re-elect
a Senator for the purpose of fighting the Repub-
lican President of the United States. But was
Arthur elected Viee-President of the United
States, or Vicc-Presidcnt of Conklingi The
Great Resigned imagined that he was going to
run the President-perhaps Arthur was elected
his Vice President
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23
A WuD GoosE CuAsE.-Some of Mr.. Copklinc.s !,

WILD GOOSE CHAsE.-Some of Mr.. Conkling' in
discrSet friends going about with a good deal of
stored electric energy which they threaten to let
loose to the destruction of their enemies. Part of
their plan is to before the corruption inves-
tigating committee six eight of the Younger and
anti-C Conklns members of the Legislature and ask
them whether not they have been promised places
in the Custom house. IL is said that the Staiwarts
claim be able prove that places have thus been
offered, and. of course, they connect Judge Robert
sons with this corrupt solicitation. The
energy out of their bottled lightning. Troy
Timex fRep1
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

~ They are tearing the insides out of the
old Telft House, at Topeka, and the oldest sta
gers would not recognize its rooms, its narrow,
crooked halls, its starways, and the front Office
where the visitor so smoked and smothered
with tobacco smoke, that he became an easy
prey to the designing politician. Amid the
heaps of PlasterinG, laths, and rubbish, there is
a general blending of bell-wircs, wrecked con-
sciences, broken hopes, old screws of all kinds
and dimensions, old corruption, and a sickening
oder that carries the recollection back To the
dining-room in its palmiest days. Alas, for the
good old times,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23
DIRECTORS.

DOnilhdR County, KdnSas-John p. johnson, Jon
athan Leigh, John $. Long, B. 5. Campbell. William
II. Finley, Is. a Scaver, W. II. Forbes, Daniel Kloss
A. s Campbell, James Myers, W. ii. Bayless John
Bell, Thos. a. Dunn.
81. JoSeph Ho.-John l.. Motter, James McCort!
Richard Z. Turner, William NJ. Wyeth, John W.
Bailey, X. l.. Mcdonald.
The survey will he made and the road located at
once. The names Of the incorporators and directors
arc sufficient guarantee that it will be built at
once, and another section of the country opened up
to the growing trade Of st. Joseph.-H Joseph Her
aid, lSh.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23

THE WAY IT LOOKS At DIsTASCE-We even IN
derestimated the thinness of the bribery trick.
Bearing upon its repulsive front persuasive indiea-
tions Of its own improbabity, yet We thought i,
would harm Depew, connected as he was with great
corporations But sueh is the squald misery of the
dirty device that Depew actually gains votes, in
spite Of the packed investigation committee, which
Is trying To stretch out the wretehed bribery trav-
esty and play il for all it is WORTH to gain time. to
force an adjournment-to do anything to ruin the
Republican party if Conkng cant rule it-India,,-
apois IInd Nears.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-06-23
TnE RIvrK-AL1. pAxeEn or JrxE FLoon OyEI

The RIvER-ALL DANGER OF AJUSE FLOOD OVER.
The Missouri river for three months has been
object of extreme sOlirtude the part of the popuia-
ton along its banks and since the first overflow in
April great fears have been entertained of the reg
ular June So that many farmers have neglected
refused replant the lands which were last flood
ed, for fear they wOnd again lose their seed and
labor. The Herald this morning conveys the glad
tdings the authority of Dr. Gum, that all dan
ger of an overflow is now over. The waters were
yesterday reported falling at YanktOn, SOnx City
and PlattsmOuth, showing uniform decline at all
those points. The fall at this place. from the high
point reached this month"; has been just feet,
and only the most extensive rains throughout the
entire Missouri Valley, north, again send up
that point. This will he good news to thousands
and more especially to the railroads, who have suf
cred untold damage by the wreck of road-bed and
loss by delay and impedcd travel.-S Joseph Herdid