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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-05
THE AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

The report of the state board of agri-
culture opens with a statement of the
condition of crops on the Both of Sep
TENDER. The condition of the winter
wheat is presented by counties, and
there is a notable difference IN the re-
ports, ranging from total failure up to
full average yield. A large majority
of the counties, however, report an aver
age yield of from 10 TO Is bushels per
acre; others from 10 bushels; an.
others One-third of crop. We should
judge, from these reports that more
wheat was raised in Kansas than has
generally been supposed.
The reports concerning the corn crop
are as diverse as those relating TO winter
wheat. below the average" and
'about one-half q crop" are, however,
the most general reports. In some
counties the returns note a nearly total
failure. Twenty-four counties report
full half crop; four, above average;
thirteen, an average yield; eleven, be-
low the average; five, light crop; two,
two-thirds of crop; ten, one-fOurth of
a crop; and seven, a total or nearly a
total failure. Everything considered,
this is not bad report. Many cores
pondents state that the crop is the most
profitable one produced for years, ow-
ing To the large price it cOmmands.
The acreage planted in rye was go per
cent. above the area of 1880, and twenty
nine counties report an average crop,
while in twenty five the yield was below
the average. The area planted in oats
was, unfortunately, thirty per cent. be.
low that of 1890, but the yield has been
the best ever known in the state, in both
quantity and quality. Sixteen counties
only report yield below the average.
Concerning flax, nineteen counties re-
port average yields; IN thirteen the crop
was partial failue, and in two total
failure. The rice corn crop was not as
good as anticipated; buckwheat yielded
from one-fourth to a half crop; sorghum
was a very large and profitable crop this
year; the yield of castor beans was q fair
average; broom corn was a favorable
crop; and the reports concerning millet
and Hungarian are generally encourac-
ing. Fruit trees are generally in fine
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THE SITUATION IN TEXAS.

The condition of the political field in
Texas is attracting very widespread at
tentipn at this time. Evidently deter
mined effort will soon be made to brsak
the Bourbon lines. Representative Da-
Wis, o Greenback member of congress
from Texas, is thus quoted by the Wash
ington Post, in regard to the state of at
fairs, politically, in his state:
Thsre is a very strong anti Bourbon
element in the Democratic party in
Texas. The old Texan has more indi
Viduality than any other man in the
South, and his sons have Inherited that
Characteristic. He is opposed TO party
rule; he will not wear a collar; he be-
longs TO no man or to no set of men.
These old veterans and their sons are
anti Bourbons. When the civil war
commenced large majority of the peo-
pie of Texas were opposed to secession,
but they were dragooned into it. Gov.
Houston, in fact, urged them to acqui-
esce in the situation, saying
that the worst of all calam-
tiles was war with neighbors, kin
dred and friends. Five out of ten of
those who opposed secession when the
situation presented the alternative of
north or south. regarding the Union
Of their fathers IS virtually overthrewn
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his steps toward the bench in the yard
where he could rest quietly until attend.
ed TO. just as they reached the door
leading into the yard Fradenburg in
quired tenderly, MY friend, what is the
M alter with you?'
81 don't know, exactly" said the sick
man, hesitatlngly, "but believe have
got the small pOX-" Biff, bang crash T!
The invalid stood alone. Fradenburg
had vanished. The station was deserted.
Ollie climbed over the transom into the
city treasurer's Office Officer Nugent
jumped over the fence, and the chief
went up stairs to consult the mayor.
Fradenburg brought up against the
Barnum hotel, opposite the station, and
was collared by Conductor Weir, of the
TT. Scott, who gave him some informa-
ton about the man
Weir says he was on the train at Fort
Scott early yesterday morning, ticketed
TO Kansas City. He was so evidently
suffering from smallpox that all the
passengers deserted the car as soon as
they got good look at him. The fact
however, that he remained un-
suspected long enough to infect q dozen
car loads of people before his fellow
travellers fled
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For the Relief of the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. est is
pretty well settled that the committee
of the American Bar association will, at
its meeting iii New York in February,
adopt plan for the relief the United
States supreme court, which contem.
plates the establishment of another court
to consist of fifteen judges. One of the
committee Is authority for the statement
That this will be done in Difference to tho
wishes of the supreme court, rather
than for any other reason. He says the
judges of this court are unaltsrahly op-
posed 10 the other plan, which looks to
sub division Of the present bench into
separate chambers, each with iurisdic-
ton over certain classes of cases. The
judges think, in the first place, that this
plan would not give the relief sought;
that it would not enable the court, even
though treblcd in its capacity for work,
to hear cases coming up as promptly as
they could be heard, TO say nothing of
relieving the docket of cases that have
accumulated. In the second place, the
supreme judges think it would lower
the dignity, standing and influence Of
the court to divide il up for the sake of
getting more work out of il. ~Faex
probably will recommend TO 6ongress
the passage of an act providing for the
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WEALTH OF THE COUNTRY.

The census returns show that the as
sessed value OF property for taxation IN
Ghe United States is $16,s77, 1876, 567, be-
ing $336.s7 per capita for a population
OF 80, 1885, 1888. The rate per head in New
England is $86l 81; in the Middle States,
$47s.55; in the Western States, 1888. 63
in the Southern States, Sl5029 The
state, county and town debts amount to
$445 81 head in New England; in the
Middle States, $4I.57; in the west, 3d.
II, and in the south, S13.43. The differ.
epce Is much less than the difference in
wealth. The real wealth is probably
more than double this valuation, aggre-
gazing $4,000. OOO, coo, or over $500 per
canita
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4 Terrible Scouree.

GALVESTON, TEX Dec. 2S.-Mexican
news, via BrownvIlie, says the yellow
fever is still bad in Yucatan. One hun
bred and eighty persons have died in
the town.
ST. PAUL, Dec. % -Advices from Da.
kOta indicate a terrible scourge Of
smallpox around Mapleton. Forty
cases have thus far appeared, OF which
twenty five have proved fatal. The cpl
demIc is spreading rapidly. Il seems
to be more in the nature of q plague
than smallpox, the disease PROVING fatal
in twenty-four ehOurs, and the blood
gushing from the eyes, ears and nose be-
fore death. All other symptoms are
clearly those of smallpox.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-In view of the
prevalence of smallpox at various points
in the west, Surgeon-General Woodward,
of the Marine hospital, has issued an or.
der for his subOrdinates at Cincinnati,
Louisville, Cairo and ST. Louis to vacci
nate without oh arge all Steamboat men
on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers who
may apply.
WAsHISGToN, Dec. PA telegram
from the Navajoe agency, n. NJ, re-
ceived at the Indian Bureau, asks for an
immediate shipment of vaccine points
enough TO vaccinate five hundred per-
sons, as the small pox is spreading there.
No further news of the small pOx cpl
demic in the north Nv est has been received
at the Indian Bureau.
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by the reciprocal action of the Republi-
cans and secessionists, went with their
section, now become their country, aud
gave to the cause their earnest and pa.
triotic support. But this large element
in the Democratic party has NOT forgot
ten the Bourbon spirit that precipitated
the war and drag0oned them into ruin
To-day they are anti Bourbon. A large
portion of the old secession element is
anti Bourbon. They were honest and
sincere then, and they have no apologies
70 make. But they have concluded to
ignore the old issues, and address them
selves to the living, vital issues of the
hour. This element is very considers
BILE. andis earnest, active and brave-as
earnest in their Unionism today as they
were in their secessionism some twenty
years ago. They want to bury the past
end to work for the present and the fH=
ture. To do so they must break from
the Bourbon camp.
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An UnweleOme visitor.

Kansas CRY, Dec. 29.-There was a
big panic yesterday at police headquar-
teTs, caused by the appearance of man
feaFfully broken ont with smallpox
He said he came from Fl. Scott and
wanted to 90 to the hospital He was
hurriedly removed TO the pest house.
The circumstances surrounding this
case are serious, but contain an element
of grim hamoF A knot of men az
usual were standing in the front entrance
TO police headquarters. when little in
significant looking man, with white
SLOUGH hat and general slouchy air,
approached. The chief of police was
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Rrand in dakota

YAEKToN, Dakota, Dec. 30.-Last win
ter the county of Douglass was organ
lied in southern Dakota through the
gressest fraud. It has only about forty
voters, and the total value of its taxable
property will not exceed twelve or if
teen thousand dollars, yet the banking
firm of Joseph Pattsn & Co., of New
600 of Douglass county bonds are on
the market there. They were informed
that the county had neither school
house nor an authorized school district,
and that the securities named are Also
lutely worthless, as the entire organize
tion of the county is Illegal. Chas. Coy,
clerk Of the districs court and e&ndi-
date for the marshalship ofhis territory,
has been remoyedsbecanse of certain sus-
piciOns against him in this connection
He is prominent politician Of Bon
h0mme county.
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sort of printed thing which would throw
light on past events. From a small be-
ginning five or six years ago, most
valuable library has grown up. In the
item of newspaper files, which
are considered by all TO be the very
best material Of history, and the best
objects Of collection for a miaeellaneous
State Library, the Kansas State Histori
cal society has been more successful
than any library in this country during
the same period, the library of congress
alone excepted. Our society has now
nearly two Thousand bound volumes of
newspapers files of Kansas
newspapers, and almost wholly contrib
uted by their publishers. With these as
a nucleus, a large collection Of books,
pamphlets, maps, documentary publica
lions, manuscripts, etc, relating to
Kansas and the west, and in fact to the
whole country, has been brought to-
gether. Since the society has got fairly
going so as to show the character of the
work, the state has willingly cOntribut-
ed the payment of the principal part of
the expense of taking care of its library
and collection, has given ii place in
the state house, and is now fitting up
for it ample and well finished rooms in
the new building. Every citizen of the
state takes pride in the work of the So
cIeiy; and, as the years pass, this pride
and interest will greatly increase.
As the library of the Historical society
has grown up, the question of bringing
| into il the miscellaneous books of the
State Library has naturally arisen, and
has been the subject of consultation be-
tween the directors of the Historical So
| ciety and the trustees of the State Libra
ry. We have before US a pamphlet
which has been prepared by a commit
tee of the Historical Society, intended to
show the reasons in favor of the pro-
posed action, The reasoning is cOnclu-
sive, and the facts brought forward arc
very instructive, as exhibiting the his
tory of the State and Historical Libra
ries, and showing the principles upon
which they should be founded. There
should be no hesitation in regard to the
proposed change, The matter of con
centrating the library work of the state
| in the manner proposed can only be 6
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AN oPPoRTUNE CORRECTION

The Chicago Tribune which is strong
advocate of license as a Ineans of reguia-
ting the liquor traffic, and which has
devoted much of its space of late 10 etli.
torial structures on the prohibitory law
of this state, has, in justification Of its
position, published a number of specials
from Kansas, representing that prohibi-
tion is an utter failure all over the state
that Kansas City liquor houses have
been selling more intoxicants in Kansas
than ever before, and that the law has
had the effect Of almost entirely cutting
off German immigration to this state
The Atchison Champion, which has
always questioned the expediency of
prOhihitOry legislation, in commenting
upon these Misrepresentation, and nota-
bly, upon a special to the Tribune from
Wichita which sets forth that 10000
people have emigrated from Kansas 10
southwestern Missouri since prohibition
has become the settled policy of Kansas,
makes the following observations:
Some of these statements are partially
true; others are wholly false. We think
it is true that the prohibition
law is u failure, except in
few places in the state, and we
are satisfied that the shipment of
liquors to private consumers, from
points outside the state, has been enor-
mously increased. But the statement
that 10000 people have left Kansas and
gone TO Missouri because of the adop-
ton of the prohibitory law, is pure bosh
Kansas has not lost three hundred in
habitants, all told, because of the adop-
ton of this law. Further, we do not be-
lieVe that foreign immigration to Kan
sas has been materially effected by the
adoption of prohibition. Only few
weeks ago a very large colony of pros
porous Germans, direct from the old
country, settled in Brown county, always
one of the strongest temperance coun-
ties IN the state, and every day or so we
hear of the arrival of emIgrants from diff
ferent European countries at some point
in Kansas.
The Champion does not regard the
prohibition law as the perfection of hu-
man wisdom, as is we'll known. But, on
the other hand, it has no patience with
the stupid talk about prohibition harm
fully effecting the growth and prosper
ity of the state. Whisky has not built
up Kansas, and if there was not drop
of it in the state the fact would not hurt
Kansas. Liquor is simply destructive
force. It impoverishes always. Every
dollar that is spent for it is wasted. 1t
is neither strength, nor food, nor fuel,
nor clothing, nor comfort, nor happiness,
nor anything else that goes 10 make a
state prosperous and great. ARd so, if
Kansas could etfectualGy and finally ban
ish It, the state would gain, not lose, In
all the elements of real, healthtul de-
velopnlent. The question of liquor is,
therefore, one of methods. Men gener-
ally 1dc3 not differ about The onccts nf
liquor Plat about the methods or means
oEwIsch It's use can be best regulated or
aholiShe.d y
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THE NEWS.
A Treasury Problem

-
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-Sccretary OF
the treasury FOlger has before him a
! dithcult problem in dealing with the
question OF what TO do in the cases of
treasury employees who have been car
ried on the lapse fund roll, but who are
now marked for official decapitation.
owing TO the running out of the fund
from which they are paid. This lapse
lund" is made up from the excess of ap.
Preparations for any one division brought
about by the death, resignation or re-
moVal of clerks in that division. A GER
tain sum is appropriated yearly for each
division. It during the year clerk
should die resigR or DO removed and his
place should not be filled for a month or
two, or three months the amount of his
salary would go TO make up the "lapse
fund" Sometimes the fund reaches to
considerable proportions, but at present
it Is exhausted, and the clerks borne on
the roll, some forty in number, are
marked for discharge at the end of the
current month. There is one pc
cuiiarity about the appointment of
the clerks on this roll. which. however
promises TO make trouble. This is that
they are all of what is knowa in Official
parlance IS "fresA blood" They are re-
csnt appOiRtees, and the influence which
occurred their appointment is of the
present day. They have appealed TO
this influence, and now the appointing
clerk and the secretary are besieged by
congressman and other men of influence
to retain these people and let others go
who have been in office for years. and
who can no longer COMMAND the infiu-
ence which appointed them.
Another difficulty In the case is that
the employees borne on this lapse fund"
roll, with four exceptions, are females,
and their dismissal would entail a great
hardship. Consequently the secretary
is anxious to avoid such a course if pos
sible. Several plans have been spoken
of to afford relief One is TO split
up the salaries of other clerks with these
employees; another, to endeavor to secure
an additional appropriation which will
allow of their being carried, AMI the
third to have conference of the heads
of the various departments, fluid out all
cases where more than one momber of a
family is in government service, and, by
stSieking them of the list. find room for
toe lapse fund" employees.
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Tine Republican ontlook in arkansas.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 3o.-Judge VII
hire, eX-congressman from Arkansas, is
in the city, and in relation to matters po-
litical in his state says that, in his opin.
ion, the Republican party there has ev-
cry prospect of success in the near fu-
ture. As to the long estrangement of
tex Senators Dorsey and Clayton, he was
not in the confidence of either of them
at the time the trouble between them
was inaugurated, but supposed it arose
through jealousy as to who should con.
troll the federal appointments in the state.
snow" said he, "it Is the purpose OF the
Republican party, independent of past
differences, to reorganiZe. Senator Dor
sey has left the state, and Senator Clay
ton and others have undertaken the
work. The only element that is fighting
against reorganization is a class
only. The people favor unity
and harmony. Dorsey has not lived in
the state Tor four years. He told me
last summer that he should never again
interfere in its local politics. We will
carry the state at another election by Sc
lecting the best material for all federal
ppointments-men whom We will not
have to apologize for when We go into
the canvass. This spring or summer
there will be convention for the pur-
pose of reorganization. In that reorgan.
ization the uppermost idea will be the
success Of the republicans in the state.
Their hope of success depends first, upon
a division of the Democrats on the debt
question. One wing of the Democratic
party favOrs u reputation of a large
part of the state debt. Another, COM
posed of Senator Garlard and other
Democrats, favors an honest, Just and
fair settlement. The division between
the two, in my opinion, is so wide that
it will result in the placing
of three tickets IN the
field at the next state election, the repu-
diatiUn, Republican and debt.paying
Democrats, OF fusion ticket of the
honest, ebt-paying people and the Re
publicans. In either event the election
of the Republican ticket will be Sc
cured. | regard the people of Arkansas
far in advance of those of any other
state in their energy aRd- da5ire for
improvement, and that sentiment will
have a tendency TO make a change in
the parties there. ! think it would be
a misfortune in the state to lose Senator
Garland, and | believe he will be re-
elected. The people are proud of his
past record, yet / am assured the repu-
diators will be against him. If the ma
jority of the legislature consists of Gar
land, Democrats and Republicans, the
Republicans will support Garland in
preference to any other Democrat. The
probability is that the next legislature
will not be Republican, but that the
Republicans will hold the balance of
power
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Ingalls, at LeayenwOrth

LEANESwoRTH, Dec. 20-This afler-
noon Senator and Mrs. Ingalls, arrived
from Aiehison and were met at the de-
pot and escorted to the residence of ex-
Senator Caldwell, whose guests they will
be while in the city. Tonight q large
audience assembled at the opera hodse
to hear Senator Ingalls, address On his
personal recollections Of President Gar.
field The address was listened to with
the closest attention throughout, and
frequently interrupted by outbursts of
applause Alter the lecture an informal
reception was hald, and the most cordial
feeling prevailed. The freedom Of the
city has been extended to Senator In
gals during his sssy here, and oar cfti-
zens ara vying With ezch other tomake
his visit q pleasant enc.
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ClOee upon the announcement that a
baggage masher at AichisOn was fatally
injured the other day by trunk which
fell upon him, comes the statement that
forty medical students Of KeOkuk, Iowa,
have contracted smallpox from a corpse
upon which they had been working.
ISa't II about time to quit painting Jus
lice with bandage over her eyes?
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Busines Statistics.

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-The total num-
Der of business failures for the year of
1881 throughout the United States is
stated by the mercantile agencies of Z.
g. Dun & Co. to be Z, 5S2, involving LA
bilities slightly over eigbty-one millions
of dollars. The failures for the year
previous were only Abs. with Liabilities
of SG5. 900 900. The increase is, however,
regard ed by the agency as small in pro-
portion to the enormous growih in the
VOLUME of trade and especially ia pro-
portion to the number OF persons
engaged in business. Compared with
1873, the showing is strongly to the
advantage of the year just closed, the
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GOING TO BE A GIANT.

The Indianapolis Journal after short
raview of the quarterly report Of the
Kansas state board of agriculture, says
And this Is Kansas, which, but few
years ago, was an unproductIve prairie.
In reading these statistics one can but
reject upon the probable condition of
this;infsnt empire, had slavery succeed
ed Ia making II q slave state. II already
SURPRISES in production several of the
old states. In twenty years it will be
gjsnt- Think Of one hundred and TWEEN
ty-twO millions of farm products in one
year from q state which, twenty years
ago, was on the boundary Of civilization
and almost uninhabiIed."
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A social. cyclone has burst upon
Bloomington, Illinois, compromising
The character OF Rev. II. o. Hoffman,
pastor Of the II. z. church, who is
charged by9S servant employed in his
family. with being the father Of her
IllegitimAte babe. This Is dreadfully
wicked world and man Is Rwfnlly NOR
al