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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-13
Going EIsewhs re.

We regret 10 learn that The gentlemen
who have been in Emporia for some
days past endeavoring to secure certain
privileges and money bonus for the
location of n glucose factory here have
accepted proposition to go elsewhere,
and the works are thus lost to Emporia
We regard this unfortunate for the town
and deplorc the dilatory policy which
has resulted in the failure To secure
such valuable industry. We are doing
a good deal of building in Emporia and
are making a large number of hand
some improvements, but unless
We devise some means to foster
labor and offer inducements
in the way of employment to people
who are already here or may desire 10
come, we fail to see how the business OF
the town is TO grow or what will sustain
our increasing population. 1t was a
great mistake, in our judgment, TO allow
such an opportunity as has been offered
US for building up the town to go by de.
fault
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The Roari Of aaaIth RnIs

AS will be seen by reference to the
city council proceedings, the county
commissioners assume the payment OF
two-thirds of the claims in connection
with the treatment of the recent small
pox cases in Emporia, and the
city pays the remaining third.
This, in our judgment, is very equita.
BILE adjustment of the matter, and we
believe will give quite general satisfac-
ton. OF course it was impossible to
take any of the patients to the county
infirmary, and as other accommodations
had to be provided, it seems only fair
that the county bear its share of the ex-
pense incurred in the treatment Of per-
sons afflicted with the contagion, which,
happily, has been confined TO few fam.
lilies. AS VIC observed yesterday, the
bills, as we view the matter, are not ex.
brilliant. when we consider the con-
tagious and loathcome character of the
disease and the great difficulty always
experienced in securing attendance for
those afflicted with a mAlady which is so
universally dreaded. The board of
health promptly took such measures for
the protection of the public as were de-
handed by the exigencies Of the situa-
lion. and thu thanks Of the community
are due them for their care and vigil
lance in preventing a spread Ct the con-
g.
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0h4lIs and Fever.
e. RIVAL, o Planter ct Bayou Sera.I.a.. says:
Nv DIantation Il In Q mAler!a1 district. For
several years could not make half Q crop on
Recount of bilious diseases and chill5. WAS
aeSrIV di9couraRed when began the use OF
TUFTS PILLS. The result was marvellous:
NV lAborera soon became hearty 0no robust.
md have had no further trouble.
They relieve the enGOE1ged liver, cleanse
the TSIOOH from poisonous, hlm1Or8, and
cause the bowels 20 Set naturally, with
OuG which NO one can Roe1 WELL
Try shh0 remedy fairly, and you W1u gain
q heaIfhy DAgea6t0u, Vigorous Body. Pure
Price, - Cent?. Once. - Murray ST. y. II.
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The Harper City Times gives Judge
Culver the following good notice for his
Grafton ut Harper on the 4th: Judge j.
+. Culver. of EmpOrIa, delivered the
Grafton of the day and it alone was
wnrth long trip To hear. 1t was not a
spread eagle address but was speech
containing much originality of thought
and earnest practical truths presented in
an informal, but entertaining way, that
won and retained the close attention of
the audience during rather lengthy ad-
dress, but which no one thought too long.
We had not the pleasure of listening to
much of the speech so we cannot give q
synopsis of it, but for those who heard
it, it needs no republication, for to a
greater extent than any speech ever de-
livered in Harper it is stamped on the
memory OF those who listened, TO bear
fruit in years TO come.
The judge pleased all who heard him
and will be kindly remembered by hun
dTeds of our citizens whom he conyinc-
cd without the least show of pedantry
that he is a man of high intellectual cul-
ture, natural ability and inherent good
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DR.. CordIey at Eureka.

Eureka Herald: To those who are
fond of personal "reminiscences DR..
Cordley's lecture on the EARLY Memoirs
of Kansas" at the Congregational
church on Wednesday night of last
week, was very entertaining. The title
OF the lecture is calculated % awaken
false anticipatiOns, however. Anything
connected with the early days of Kansas
naturally associates our minds with the
thrilling events out of which Kansas
was evolved. Hence, when DIR. Cordley,
who became a resident of Kansas TWEEN
ty-five years ago, fails TO indulge in a
description of incidents of animation
in dealing in memoirs of early days,
his auditors will be more or less disap-
pointed. That which the lecturer really
attempts to deal with is the manner and
habits of the enthusiastic class who
came to lay the foundation of the CON-
munity that we to-day invite the world
to admire. We think the most complete
thing in the lecture was the unique
style 10 which prominent individuals
were described. The fifty minutes con-
sumed in the delivery of the lecture were
not tedious to us, and did not seem to be
to any one in the audience. 1t contained
good English, which we have been pain
ed to discover has not always graced the
efforts of those who have asplred to the
ranks of lecturers in Eureka; and that
is one of the first essentials of a good
lecture.
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ADVENT OF THE COLOSSUS OF
ROADS,
by Which Is Meant the Six United EnOr-
NOUS Railroad Shows of the Sells
brothers.

by Which Is Meant the Six United EnOr-
nous Railroad Shows bf the Sells
brothers.
Hereafter Sells Brothers name will
be as good on a show bill as Wander
bits is on a bank check.-Binghamp-
ton On. W Daily Republican.
Sells Brothers great exhibitional ven
ture, which is to unfold its six canopied
treasure-houses at Emporia on Saturday,
July 18th, has finally solved for US the
much-discussed, so-called problem OF
life" That problem, here and now, has
resolved itself into the one great ques-
ton, not of who is going TO the big show,
but who can possibly afford TO be lett at
home on the great day of its appearance.
Having thoroughly convinced the pub
lie that it is an honestly advertised exhi-
bition, and that its promises are as good
as old Vanderbilt's, or any other mans,
there is going to be many a do
nestle mutiny of "irrcpressible conflict
dimensions, when it comes to deciding
who are not to be permitted to feast
amazement with wonder-rounded eyes,
by gazing upon its huge pair of full
grown hippopotami, strange woody ele.
plants, majestic giraffes, rare midget
dwarf elephant, Arctic Amplitude, per-
forming Colorado cattle, tremendous
tigers, roaring sea lions, gigantic felines,
monster two horned white rhinocerOs,
fifty tons of performing animals, Chas.
Fish, the "hero horseman," Signorita
Adelaide Cordona, the French family
Davene, the Caron and Washington
troupe, the twenty comical clowns, Lot.
tie Aymar, Jeronimo Bell, and thou.
sand and one separate shows of equal
interest, not to speak of the magnificent
street parade, with its enormous caravan
of Asiatic and African elephants. its
Sultan-like army of camels, its three
bands, lcviathan locomotive steam or
chestra, and living avalanche of daz
Zling sensations, which the average boy
would walk ten miles on his hands to
see. For the sake of peace, and in the
name of universal enjoyment, spare nc
effort to so arrange it that all may take
in the best show of their lifetime, and
one whose memory will be q continual
pleasure.
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soldier. R..n,on

The following circular has been issued
TO all posts OF the Grand Army of the
Republic in Kansas:
HEADQUARTERS GRAND Army OF the
REPUBLIC, DEPARTMENT or KANSAS,
OFFICE OF JUNIOR V. CoMAANDER.
Fort ScoTr. Kansas, July g.
To Post ComBsd1eifHg Post No-,G.AR:
CoMRADE-ln obedience 10 appoint
meni from the committee of arrange
ments for the grand soldier, reunion and
eneampment Vi the g. A. r., 10 be held
at Topeka, Kansas, September 1ltlI To
10th, 1882, | am authorized TO convene
representation of the various posts OF
the g. A. r., of southwestern Missouri
and southeastern Kansas, at such time
AS may designate, to perfect regimen.
Ial and brigade organizations by cleo
ton of proper officers, and 10 make ar
engagements for transportation, assign
ment to quarters, etc.
You are therefore notified that such
meeting Will be held at Fort Scott, Kan
sas, Tuesday, July 10, 1882, at 2 80 p. m
at headquarters VIM. II. Lyle Post
G. A. x.
Each post will be entitled to one rep
resentative and Yote-but can send u:
many delegates as the post may see fit Il
such meeting
This will be the grandest reunion eve
held in the United States, and all com
rades of The q. A r. and ex-soldier
and sailors who can possibly attend
should he there
All ex-soldiers and sailors who hav
not as yet been mustered into the G.. A
X. can attach themselves 10 the Variou
posts for reunion purposes.
Yours In F.. c. and l.,
H. w. POND,
Junior Vice Dept. Commander.
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PERSONAL MENTION


Geo. KIzcr has accepted position
with the Rice Brothers.
G.. w. Bennett is able to resume bust
ness after an illness of some days.
Misses Sarah Howe and Carrie
Hughes are visiting friends in Usage
City.
A. c. Gray will be pleased to see his
friends at the grocery store of Ireland
Brothers.
Thos. Carter, of Baxter Springs, Ar
kansas, is visiting DIR. Slower and ex-
poets to settle in EmpOria.
VIM. Niccols, a prominent citizen of
Bloomington, Illinois, who is prospect
ing in Kansas, is a guest at the Park
Place.
d. b. Shuey, the new preacher of the
Reformed church in this city, arrived
in Emporia Saturday from New Provi-
dence, Pennsylvania.
A letter received by q gentleman in
this city from Luther Rees states that
the latter will go into the pension de-
partment at Washington on a good sal
airy.
John A. Janus, whose studio is in the
new Holderman block, has just com.
pleted very fine and life-like oil por-
trait of the mother of J. II. and ]. A.
Graham, of this city.
II. E. Torrington, the agent of the
Santa Fe at this place returned last even
ing from Maryland, whittier he was
summoned some weeks ago by the Ill
ness of his eldest brother who died some
days since.
w. +. Chalfant, Jr., has been appoint
cd deputy register of deeds and took the
oath of Office yesterday. Will is one of
the best young men in EmporIa, and
will prove q valuable man in the regis
ter's office.
Andy Ireland, ]. N. Bandy, c. A.
Schneider and Frank White started west
last Thursday on the cannon ball" for
tour of some weeks through Colorado
and New Mexico. That kind ola crowd
ought to have a mighty good time out
west.
Miss Leonora Sedgwick, the lady who
succeeds Mrs. a. p. Morse as teacher of
the high school, is graduate of the
Granville, Ohio, female seminary and
has taught at that place for n number of
years. She is said TO be a lady of ex-
cellent qualifications.
jimmie Hilton, who has acceptably
filled the position of baggage master at
the Santa Fe depotfor some months past.
will go to Atchison on Monday to work
for Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express. He is
first class man for such a position, and
we are glad to know that an increase of
salary Induces him to make the change.
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ouR NEw SCHOOL BuILplNos.
The Contract for Their Construction Let
to Richardson a Son.

To Richardson a Son
ESPoRIA, Kas, July 3, 1882
The board Of education held an adj
iourned meeting in the high school,
President L. Il. kellogg IN the chair.
Present.. Il. Kellogg, s. b Riggs.
ID. c. McMurtie, H. b. Morse, r. Cord
ley, T. p Hall, ID. w. Morris. Absent
r. NJ. Mills, w. ]. Jones, N. T. Nix.
Richardson 81 Son, builders, being
present by invitation of the building
committee, suggested that the walls in
the upper stories of the new buildings
be made twelve inches instead of seven
teen inches, and that the joists of the
second floor be fourteen inches instead
of twelve inches, and that the joists be
put 10 inches apart instead of fourteen
inches.
Mr.. Riggs moved that the specifica-
tiOns be changed as follows:
Reduce the wall above the second floor
to three brick, the number of brick COM
puted by a brick mason, TO be deducted
from the contract at the rate of $40 per
thousand. Add to the contract price the
value of the difference between 12-inch
joists and 14-inch joists, computed in
feet at 81 25 per 100 feet Carried.
The following was presented for the
consideration of the board.
Whatever plaster is omitted in either
building TO be deducted from the con-
| tract price at the rate of % cents per
yard for brick work and % cents per
yard for lath work.
Carpenter work provided in the speci-
fications which the board may elect TO
omit, to be estimated and deducted from
the contract price. Estimated value TO
be determined by arbitration il agree
ment cannot be made by contractor and
superintendent
AS to the payment.Oi the builder, the
following motion was made: Moved
that payments be made upon estimates
every two weeks upon material on the
ground. Carried.
Moved that the bond required of the
contractor be equal in amount TO the bid.
Carried.
Moved that the bid of Mrssrs. Rich.
ardson 81 Son for $11, 1888 be accepted
with the notifications above made
Carried.
Moved that when we adjourn we dc
so to meet tomorrow Thursday at 4
O'Clock p. m, at the Office of Mr.. Riggs
at the corner of Fourth avenue and
Commercial street Carried.
Moved that the building committee
with Mr.. Riggs and the clerk, prepare 6
bond and contract and present il to the
parties.
That the building. committee be- re
quested to confer with John Hammond
or Mr.. Morehouse or any competent
person to act as superintendent of thG
building and report tomorrow after
noon. Carried.
Moved that the building COMMITTEES
employ the county surveyor to establish
the corners of the sites, and the commit
tee be authorized to establish the grade
and the position of the building on thu
lots. Carried.
Moved that the janitor's wages for on
month, $25, be allowed and an orde
: drawn on the treasury for the amount
) Carried. Adjourned.
p. J. CARMICHAEL, Clerk
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Fire at Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, July IA fire destroyed
Freed Lees saloon and James Gibbs
house, Newburg, early this morning
Loss, 81 900; no insurance. Shortly al.
terward Il gasoline explosion occurred
in Thomas DAVIS store. on Harvard
street. which set the buildings in flames
and rapidly spread to the adjoining
places. Davis loss is $1,000; no insun-
ance. Hogen's furniture store suffered
to the extent of 1890 insured. John
BlaisdelI, barn losses $500; no insur-
ance. Mrs. Alva Sawyer, house, losses
$3.50; uninsured; and Mrs. George
Williams house was damaged $3.50 !;
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The following bills in connection with
the recent smallpox cases in Imports
were audited


OF the above, 5000, the claim of E. F.
Sprague, is for the pest house near the
NeOsho: $685., the claim of ]. NJ. Crit
fifth is for tents; and $3.50, the claim of
Mr.. Haines, is for a wagon, all of which
will be available for future emergencies.
There were other bills presented aggre-
eating in the neighborhood of $500,
which the board disallowed. The claims
passed upon by the board of health were
submitted to tue county commissions rs
to-day.
We believe the board of health have
only taken such measures as were neces-
sary for the proper treatment of patients
and it is due to their vigilance that the
cOntagiOn has been confined to the few
families afflicted with the disease. The
bills, in our Judgment, are quite reason
able and we hope they may be promptly
alIOuyad
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Hung to a Pecan Tree.

ST LOUIS, July IA Republican Ire.
dell, Texas, special says that yesterday
morning Il negro committed an outrage
upon the person of Mrs. W. G. Pugh,
wife of farmer living four miles west
of this place. Pugh had goneshunting,
leaving his wife alone with the negro
Saylor, who, as soon as Pugh was away,
committed the assault, using knife 10
iniimidate his victim, The 9eighbors
soon got together and caught Saylor
here. The prisoner was taken to Pugh's
house for Identification, but the lady
was so much indisposed that it was
thought best to postpone the exam ina
tion.
Saylor was taken to the Meridian Jail
at II O'Clock last night. The door of
the building in which saylor was con-
fined was broken into by masked men,
ami after short scuff1e with tho guards
the negro was taken TO q pecan tree
three hundred yards from the depot and
hung.
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Our New Marshal.

M. Birdsall, who was appointed city
marshal by the mayor last evening and
was confirmed by the unanimous vote
of the council, is well qualified for
that responsible position, and the action
of our municipal Legislature in choos-
ing a successor TO Mr.. Bell seems to
meet with very general endorsement
at the hands of the people.
Mr. Bell, the retiring marshal, who
desired 10 be relieved of his official du-
ties by virtue of the large draft made
upon his time by his business affairs,
has made one of the best officers Empo-
ria ever had. and his record during his
term of public service is one of which
he and the city have reason to be proud.
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Notes From the xorthwest.

CHEYENNE, W. T., July 7.-Chas. A
Hoyt the attorney arrested at Phenix,
Arizona, January last upon adescriptiys
associated press dispatch charged with
larceny of certificate of deposit, value
So 600, and brought here, was discharged
to-day, the Indictment being set aside
on demurrer.
The latest reports from the Crows is
that cattle killing continues, and hun
dred of parties are destroying wheat
fields in northern Wyoming. A report
that settlers killed three Crows lacks
confirmation. 1t is feared another In
dian var will be inaugurated.
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The county commissioners inspected
the bridges at Neosho Rapids and
Shafer's ford Thursday and express
themselves as fully satisfied with the
work on both structures. New peirs
have been put in at the Neosho Rapids
bridge and the west bank of the river
has been protected by Eip-rap. The
contractor was L. w. Lewis, and the
masonry is said by the commissioners
10 be firstclass- The same report is
made concerning the bridge at Skaters
Ord, where peirs have been built for a
superssructure which will be PM ua NJ
an early day.
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NATIONAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest from, wa.LInst,

Items OF Interest from washington.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-The confer
encc committee ON the bill 10 enable
national banking associations To extend
their corporate existence agreed upon
the only remaining points in contro-
verSy, the house conferecS reccding
from their disagreement to sections 12
and ID of the bill added by the senate
already published.
Morrill, presented the senate a meme
rial from the wholesale liquor dealers Of
Philadelphia, urging congress to extend
the time for payment OF taxes on dis
titled spirits.
Cockrcll introduced bill to repeal
all laws granting public lands To Mis-
souri, to aid in the construction and eX-
tension of the St Louis IL Iron Noun
tain railroad and to declare such lands
in Missouri forfeited to the United
States.
The cabinet again today considered
| the affairs of Chilli and Peru.
At the instance of the counsel for the
prosecution the grand jury will be re-
convened Monday, when the newly dis
covered evidence IN the star route frauds
will be laid before that body by the
| proseC utiOn, and there is no doubt of
their ability to obtain new indictments,
| but the defendants cannot be tried be-
fore October. The testimony of Con-
| tractor Walsh is said TO form part of
the evidence Ii is reported that prom.
inent officials not yet openly mentioned
will be indicted in connection with the
star route frauds. In the cases now on
trial the government expects to close
within three days.
The house committee on commerce
directed Representative Washburn To
report with favorable recommendation
the bill for the construction of bridges
| across the Mississippi river at st. Louis.
Secretary Teller says if Captain Payne
makes another raid into the Indian Ter
ritory he will be put out in summary
way.
The secretary of the navy to night re-
ceived the following telegram from En-
gineer Melville, dated Irkutsk:
arrived at Irkutsk with Ninderman,
Naros and relics. Missed harbor on the
Lena. Sent for Bartlett TO join him.
Want permission to return home"
The house at the evening session pass
| ed forty-five pension bills and several
bills granting condemned cannOns, and
then adjourned till tomorrow.
About ten years ago e. G.. Matthews,
then assessor of internal revenue at Den
yer. Colorado, was granted authority to
erect small building on lots owned by
the government for use of an Office. He
erected three, renting them out as stores
at the rate of $500 month ever since.
Secretary Folger ordered an investIga-
| ton, with the result that Matthews be
| dispossessed, and the rental in the future
/ be paid TO the government.
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An article on stock shipments, which
recently appeared IN the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, says that out of 100000 head
OF sheep handled at the yards at that
place wiihin.th the last year, the flock of
j. II. Mclean, purchased in Ohio last
fall, averaged the best. Mr.. McLean's
ranch is near Horton station, and he is
one of the most successful wool.
growers in Kansas, though he has only
been In the business for abouta year.
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Medical meeting.

The regular monthly meeting of the
Lyon county medical society was held
last Thursday at the Office of DIR. Frost.
DR.. Page asked leave of the society to
postpone the presentation of his paper
on Smallpox" until the next meeting,
which was granted.
DIR. Biddle presented the subject OF
Functional Disease of the Liver" re-
porting three cases. An interesting dis,
cussion OF the paper followed, in which
all the members present participated.
The next meeting will be held on the
first Tuesday evening in August.