The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-20
EDITORIAL AND NEWS NOTES.

Jewell county expects to raise $780,
900 bushels of corn this year.
1t is announced that Senator Davis, of
West Virginia. wants to retire to private
life. Consent.
The Douglass county delegation to
the state convention are for Thacher for
governor.
Jim Legate gets the credit for running
the Leavenworth delegation into the st.
John fold.
The Mirror, the leading paper at
Olnthe, St. Johns home, is opposing
the governor vigorously.
The secretary of the interior and the
newspapers are giving Dave Payne just
what he is itching fora little cheap
notoriety.
The booming of the guns at Alexan-
dria was heard, by telephones attached
to the submarine cable at Malta, a dis
tancc of 500 miles.
Missouri has only 4,901 miles of rail-
road and Kansas 1850 miles. Missouri
was admitted as a state in 1920, and
Kansas in 1861 "POer Old Missouri"
The official returns show that Barton
county had 3,703 sheep in 1891, and in
1882 it has 4,O35. The number of bush.
els of wheat for 1882 will be about l.
10000.
johnson county's winter wheat crop
for 1882 will be sos, 191 bushels raised
ON SO ,423 acres, being an average yield
of II bushels per acre. This is the
lightcst yield we have heard of in this
state. tDF.t,
1t seems that four of the Lcavenworth
delegates are not for St. John, after all.
Our private opinion, publicly express
ed" is and has been from the first, that
none of them will vote for him in the
convention.
1t will probably create some surprise
throughout the state to know that the
Leavenworth delegation to the state
convention on the 9th proXimO were in
structed by vote of % to II TO vote for
st. John for governor.
Topeka Capital: The Howard Cour-
ant says it will be the duty of the next
legislature to divide the state into
"CongrcgationaI' districts OF course
that will make all the other denomina-
tions mad, and then therc'll be n row.
The parties who have been violating
the prohibitory law recently in Hutch
inson are in far way to come to grief.
Prosecutions have been begun and Will
6e pressed vigorously. If the people in
the lawless communities want the law
enforced it can be done.
Maj. James NJ. Hayworth. of Olathe,
who has long been in :he service of the
Indian department, and who is one of
the most honest and capable men in the
department, has been appointed in
spector Of Indian schools. The major
would make number one superintend-
ent of Indian affairs and we hope to see
him ''git there"
Commonwealth: Doniphan county
elects six delegates opposed to st. John
Douglas county elects nine delegates for
Thacher; Ellis county sends three dele
gates for Thacher; Leavenworth county
five for st. John and four against him.
Twenty-seyen delegates have been elect
cd, five being for St Johns nomination
and twenty-five against him.
Dave Payne, 1t seems, though distinct
ly told by the secretary of The interior
that he world not be allowed to do so,
is going to try another advance on Okla
homa- He states that the secretary of
the interior admitted that the Law, tech.
nically construed, was in favor of the
settlers. but the policy of the govern
ment was averse 10 the opening OF the
territory.
Mr.. John T. Raymond is busily pre-
pairing TO bring out a unique and purely
American comedy under the suggestive
title, "For Congress" We have a no
ton il will be good one. The author
might have gained some COOL ideas for
this play had ne visited Topeka in the
closing days of last month, where some
thirty patriotic ciuzens Of this state
were gathered who had up COMPRESSION
al lightning rods.