The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-19


Island: "a man who abuses his wife
is not considered great, even in the
smallest state in the Union"
No one has the temerity TO fix tho date
when the star route trial will probably
end. Generations yet unborn may rise
up and be charmed with tue musical
tones of Ingersoll's voice as he pleads
the cause of his injured clients.
BY unanimous vote of the conyen-
tion of Texas and Kansas cattle men
held at Dodge City, it was decided to
exclude six shooters from the ranges
This will be grateful intelligence to gen.
tlemen aspiring to the mayoralIy of
Caldwell.
Commonwealth: Breach-C f-promise
suits against women are becoming so
numerous that ere long no woman will
feel safe in listening to the tender moth
ings of lover without securing from
him announcement of all claims against
her estate.
The highest saloon license in Iowa is
$1,000, and yet the dram-shops flourish
with the proverbial vigor of the green
bay tree. Prohibition cripples the
whisky traffic worse than anything else,
and is the most effectual method of cor
recting that evil
A man recently hanged himself at
Canton, Ohio, because dinner wasn't
ready when he came home from work.
It is interesting to speculate upon the
course which such true Buckeye
would have pursued had he eyer run
for Office aud been defeated.
Leavenworth Times: 1t is said the San
Ia Fe road is having special car built
for the Kansas railroad commissioners.
1t is furnished with all the latest i'm
provemeDts and conveniences. even to q
billiard table. Will this be the means
OF furnishing 70 the world more Schaef
fers?
A Gallatin, Mo-, correspondent Of the
Kansas City Journal says: every
drummer that comes to the town must
see Frank James, many of them making
presents of q purse of money or sending
from Chicago or other places presents
in the shape of goods by these admirers
handled"
The Topeka Capital has discovered a
mutual admiration society" among
certain newspapers of this state. and
evidently feels bad about it. Never
mind Bub, you just stand around and
bawl, and perhaps the boys will take
some notice OF you after little.
II Is said that the preachers and news
papers of Chicago have under contem.
platIOn the establishment of a close cor
poration for the purpose of wagIng war
on the wicked people of that town. We
doubt very much whether Bill Story, of
the Times. will go into pool of that
kind.
Chicago Inter-OcedR: Kansas is not as
large as many of the other western
states, but II is bigger than all New
England with New Jersey thrown in tor
good measure. The great west will not be
long distance from the center of COM
merce one of these days, and the world
will not have TO wait long TO see 1t.
Lawrence Morning Sun: The consti-
stutionality of the registry law Is 10 he
tested in the supreme court 1t Will
then probably be determined, that as il
cannot stand the test, every citizen has
right TO vote. Citizenship may be TEN.
porarily or partially lost by removal
from the state, county or ward, but not
by neglect la register. He may, when
presenting his vote, be required To prove
his citizenship. Such, we predict, will
be the opinion of the supreme court
II is reported that the Santa Fe CON-
pany-is having q palace car erected at
of the railroad commissioners. # is TO
be fitted mp in grand style with kitchen,
parlor, billiard room, etc. We shall take
Il for granted this is a mistrke until we
find out otherwise. That sort of thing
wont do at all. These commissioners
are the servants of the people, aud not
the pets of the railroads, and we believe
they are men of toe much good sense to
engage In any such toolishness as is re-
portkd.
The appropriation of $4,000 for the
purpose of buying army tents for the
Kansas g. A. r. was singularly unforiu-
nate. It was introduced into the house
and sent TO the committee, where it was
lost. Another bill was drawn up and
passed both houses The G. A. r. folks
thought their appropriation sure then,
but few days ago when Major Ander-
son applied for the bill it was missing.
Inquiry revealed the fact that Governor
Click had never seen IT, and an inyesti=
CATION followed. the result of which was
that the bill was found in the waste pa
per box.
The latest mining sensation in Col
orado Is the "Cave Strike" at the new
camp Of Red Mountain. in oursy coun-
", which a couple of contractors dis
covered by the accident of falling
through crust of snow into the mouth
of cavern. Curiosity led Them to ex-
plvre the cave, and they were rewa,de.f
as the story goes, by finding it lined
with rich mineral. The establishment
which always lends fascination TO a
properly constructed mining story is
found. in this instance. in the announce
meut that the cave was evidently the
lair OF some wild beast, it's sides and
floor being covered with hairs and in.
tested with fleas.