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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22
M K N II Lands

The late decision of Judge Brewer, effect
ing the land grants made the VI. &. * T.
railroad st the time of its construction, Is
Just now a matter OF absorbing interest to
Kapssus, and judging from the following
interview of Judge Walker As published
in the Globe Democrat, that interest is likely
to spread all along the line.
Win asked if Judge Brewer meant TO
take p sition invalidsting The title 10 the
whole Missouri Kansas s Texas grant in
the Nsosho valley.
at looks as If that is the view he takes"
said the Judge. Then he quoted from the
decision:
The Missouri, Kans-s snd Texss, by
building its road down the NsCsho Valley,
took nothing urder the act of 1868. This
destroys the legal title, for the act OF 1868
alone provided for Ger iica,ion to the
state.
"That," said Judge Walk,r, seems in
tended to apply TO the whole grant. This
was a suit vi h which we have had nothing
to do. Citizens of Kansas, who had dis
pute on their hands with the railroad COM
psny, brought the action to quiet titles. In
cidentslly,in the consideration of the rail.
roads grant Judge Brewer makes the asser-
ton quoted which seems directed against ih.
title to the whole grant. If the title Of
tie railroad should be ex;ingui-hed or
found TO be void, the land would, of course.
revert to the public domain. 1t was not
likely, however, that the lard Office would
take action until the decision OF the courts,
for an appeal would doubtless be taken.
Judge Walkers attention was called to the
Associated Press dispatch, saying that hun
dreds Of cit'z. of Kansas were Aockipg
upon the NJ. K & L. lands, stalking out
claims and making improvements
"If Judge Brewers position shon'd
should be sustained" ssid Judge Walker,
sand the lands should be decided to be a
psrt of the public domain, these parties
would have settlers claims or rights. IL is
not likely that anything will be done by
the gen, RI land office, as said, until The
question is finally decided, AMI thereto e
there can be no Official recognition OF these
claims"
"Judge Brewer" contiouei Judge
Walker, "r,cogn yes and s,suds
upon a recent ruling of this Office
regarding the selections by railroad
companies in the indemnify strip
Where grants Of alternate sections hves
been made to a company within a certain
distance OF its line, aud it is fund that
some of the land is ALREADY occupied, the
company is permitted TO go into the ad-
joining strip and indemnify itself for the
occupied land. There has been heretofore
a very loose construction o. this p:rmit OF
the indemni6cation, and ra:lro I'D companies
have claimed much under the indem-
nifying clause, with proving losses sus-
tanned. They have also selected the b St
lands in the Indemnifying strip. We have
ruled that they must first prove losses, and
that they must indemnify themselves from
sections nearest those lost to them by pre-
vious occupation. Judge Brewer recog-
nizes the ruling and sustains US in 1t"
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22
'Curfew Ordinance"

Chicago leiesran
Utah Is not exactly the spot of
earth to which the human race is
looking for revelations of morality,
but recent ordinance passed by the
municipal authorities of the town of
Ogden is a step in that direction. 1t
is known as the "curfew ordinance"
and provides for the punishment by
fine of any person, under Is years of
age, who is found on the streets after
9 o'clock p. M, unless he or she can
produce the written consent of parents.
There can be little doubt that much
of the vice and depravity of the day
lie the result of lessons learned in the
vicious school of the streets in youth.
The question of the power of the city
council of Ogden to enact the ordin-
ance in question is to be ventilated
in the court, but, from a moral stand.
point, there can be no doubt of the
need for better restraint of boys and
girls. Many of them are led to ruin
on account of their contact with vice
on the street at late hours Of the
night.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22
Beware of Cocaine.

New York Tribune
The chemists, who are compound
ing cocaine tabolids for the noses of
catarrhal patients, ara also putting
up cocaine troches for the threats of
suffers from bronchial aud pulmonary
complaints, There is reason for be-
lieving that the market will speedily
be flooded with cocaine lozenges,
cough-drops, soothing-syrups, patent
plasters and every kind of cure-all.
Advantage will be taken of the sud-
den reputation which this singularly
effective curative agent and anasthe-
tic has obtained. Cocaine will be
recognized by patent medicine manu-
facturer's as popular catchword,
and the business of prescribing and
compromising it will be speedily
overdone. That there is need ofgreat
caution in the promiscuous applica-
ton of so powerful an agent as
cocaine to every i'll to which flesh
is heir requires no argument.
While it ss not by any means a new
drug, its characteristic property of
deadeniDg the sensibility of nerves
has only been known for a compare
lively short period. Sufficient time
has not yet elapsed to enable the
medical profession to judge of what
may be called systematic or general
effects of the use of cocaine. 1t
would be natural to suppose that an
agent capable of producing such
potent results when applied to eur
faces where nerves terminate must
affect the entire nervous system when
it is freely and constantly used.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22
The Air Line.

The Glide Democrat publishes the follow
ing interview with General Guitar, who is
auxions to be the next governor of Mis-
souri,, and also the president of the St.
Louis and Kansas City air lire road:
Gen. Odin Gniiar, of Columbia, Mo, is
q guest at Ho'el Bsrnum. Last night 8
reporter of the Globe. Democrat had a little
chat with Gen. Guitar, during which he
expressed himse on the political outlook
as follows:
81 think the future is pretty clearly out
lined. The democracy can't stay in power
longer than one term"
"Why?"
"For the reason that the rexl team they
have hi,ched on 10 the car OF government,
will prove refractory and uncomfortable,
and the people will soon discover that they
are overloaded and unsafe for the work.
But am not in politics now, or turning
any thoughts in that direction. My visit
in 81. Louis has quite different purpose.
which il to arrangs for the sale of my grand
herd of Eagle Park Jersey cattle at the ST.
Louis fair grounds on Friday, the 9th of
next October. Besides am the vice presi.
dent of the st. Louis Kansas City Short
Line Railway company, and expect to
devote . good deal OF my time to that en-
terprise in the near future"
what steps have been taken toward the
building Of this rosd?"
"An engineer corps, headed by oue of the
most skillful and reliable engineers IN the
West, and fully equipped, is now in the
field mskiDg q survey and location of the
line, which survey will be completed with
in the next ninety days"
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22

The Rio Grande river which has al.
ways played scurvy tricks on the own
ers of land along its borders has at
last made it necessary for decisive
measures to be taken. Below Ell
Paso, for some fifteen miles down, the
course of the Rio Grande has for the
last few months undermined the banks
on the American side at great rate,
SO much so that furnishing farms, Or
chards and vineyards are disappearing
to the great alarm of their American
owners. When the United States
loses by this abrasure of territory,
Mexico of course, gains. The county
authorities are afraid that the loss will
become 80 heavy that it will after a
while affect the sum total of taxes
collected from riparian proprietors,
and they are celebrating as to what is
best to be done in this emergency.
an effort will probably be made at the
next session Of congress to get Federal
aid in the premises, so that levees and
the bank revetment can be erected.
The Rio Grande is becoming more I'M
certain and eccentric than ever. For
some sixty or seventy miles below Ell
Paso there are good many islands in
the river, and large ranches contigu-
GUS to 1t that have changed their ma
tionality under the treaty of Guadal-
oupe Hidalgo a number of times,
transferring themselves after passing
a few years in Mexico to the Texas
side of the boundary, and then becom.
ing Disguised with cowboy civilization,
returning to the Mexican side. There
is now an International dispute respect
ing the dominion over large island,
which cannot be settled until a more
definite establishment Of the bound
ary,
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22

The ten hour labor and standard
time laws have gone into effect in
Michigan and in accordance with the
clocks, men are snow compelled to get
upand make the fires for their wives
to get breakfast shortly after the
noon of the night" 1t is confidential.
ly stated that in consequence the
divorce courts in that section will
have unusually full dockets during
the coming winter and that mother.
in-laws will be cut after the same
old pattern and advise wives to not
"yield an inch" in the question Of
alimony.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22

"After completing your. survey, what do
you purpose doing next"
ave propose then to secure the right of
way and local aid along the line to the ex-
tent of $4,000 or 5000 per mile. With
this as . nucls as we will have no difficulty
In consummatiug arrangement to put the
road under construction, and to complete
1t within twenty moths"
"What particular interes: has ST. Louis
ii this enterprise? ?"
she ever hsd In any enterprise of the same
magnitude. Passing, rs this road will,
through the center of our state. aud
through eight of the most populous and
wealthy coun les in ii, representing, with
the two terminal counties, st. Louis and
Jackson, one-third of the entire state, snd
nearly one-third of its population. II will
become the most important local railroad
in the state.
"What effect viii the building of this
rosd have upon the city of st. Louis ?"
Its immediate and direct effect will be
to bring back 10 ST. Louis the trade of all
the wealthy counties through which it
passes, and which has been diverted By
foreign roads to Chic go and other cities
further east"
care the capitalists and business men OF
st. Louis mauifesuing any interest In the
building Of your 70 'd?"
fhey are, and promise hearty co-ope-
ration and substantial aid when our euler-
prise reaches point where they can be
properly extended. Still they are to be
educated to the or at importance of this
enterprise to the city o. ST. LUIS"
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22

fort, and the devotees of this mode of
curing ills, every now and then pro-
fess to have found new examples which
they can utilize to prove that they
are right and the rest of the world
wrong. 1t is certainly true that the
annals of history as we'll as of the day,
have furnished some curious records
of people who have been restored to
health by faith and prayer, and since
these records have been made on the
statements of people who are in every
way reliable, it is impossible to con-
trovert them by the mere expression
of non-belief. Instances can be cited
in the lives of most people whesein
death has apparently been foiled in
its object by the persistent faith and
prayers of those most nearly concern
ed, aud since it is not possible to un-
derstand the two greatest mysteries OF
nature, viz 4: life and death, the most
skeptical dare not deny that miracles
of faith are still possible with Omnip-
otence. One of the latest instances of
this kin comes from Louisville, KY,
where young lady who had been
bed-riIden with spinal complaint for
the past year has been perfectly re-
stored to health BY the aid of prayers
to God, and her faith that he would
cure her. Whatever may be said for
or against this system, no man or
woman who has been without this
essential, has ever been enabled to
"rise take up the bed and walk" so
far as has been heard from or proven,
and after all, this is the main point at
issue.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22
The Right Of Suffrage.

Chicago Sun.
1t is expected that two or three
thousand women in Boston will this
winter exercise the restricted right of
suffrage allowed them under the laws
of Massachusetts,. The right is given
only to taxpayers, and applies to
school elections. This step toward
universal suffrage is not a very long
one, but it may suffice for an expert
ment, from the operation of which
women themselves may be enabled
to determine whether they really
want anything more of the same sort.
That is, after all, the essential ques-
ton, for if it shall be made apparent
that the wemen of America desire to
add the excitements of the ballot to
their already large and rather varied
assortment of recreations and smuse-
ments, the "tyrant man" may as we'll
gracefully initiate the traditional coon,
and come down without further
trouble or attempt at resistance.
1t is in the nature of a curious
coincidence, by the way, that one of
the most eminent ladies of the Catho-
lie communion in America, the wife
of General Sherman, has been a
steadfast opponent of the movement
favoring the extension of suffrage to
the sex, and it is now q Catholic
priest in Boston who has moved the
women of his church to prepare for
exercising the ballot privilege in the
coming school elections. How the
ladies of other religious sects will view
the movement remains to be seen, but
it is tolerably safe to guess that if the
voting women prove to be as num-
erous in this years election as is now
expected, there will be ten times
more of them when the next ballot
boxing period comes around.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22

Just what will be the result of the
driving out and murder of the Chi
nese at Rock Spring, is hard to ar.
rive at or be foretold at this time.
The Chinese government will hardly
allow the matter to pass without a
rigid investigation into which treaty
obligations and international law will
figure to a considerable extent. That
the result will be serious there is no
question. A handsome indemnity
will no doubt have to be paid by the
national government, while it will
cost Sweetwater county and the terri
tory many dollars for prosecutions.
1t is not a matter that can be passed
over without notice. 1t is of too
great a magnitude, and while the un-
dercurrent has undoubtedly been the
foolish experiment of bringing the
Chinese to this country and pitting it
against white labor, yet the constitu-
ton of the United States will have to
be revised before the affair can hope
in any. way be in accordance with the
rights of the people. Since this is
not likely to be done, the matter be-
comes q most serious one, and the in
dications are that the end will not be
reached for many a long day to come.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22

DR.. Sonneschein, the celebrated
Jewish rabbi, has suggested to his con-
gregation in St. Louis, the establish
ment of Monte6ore mission in that
city, for the purpose of commemorat-
ing the fame of the great philanthro-
pist, and also to educate by literary
and educational agencies, the thous-
apds of semi-eriental Jews who have
recently come to this country for a
home. This form of Jewish charity
is one in which all can participate,
and the idea of DR.. Sonneschein is an
excellent one, which, as it deserves to
do, is being well received.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22
ary
Lower The Tariff.
New Orleans States.

New orleans states.
The duties collected on imported
fabrics of wool, silk, cotton, glass and
earthern ware, fax and hemp, iron
and steel, last year amounted to the
goodly sum of SS8, 900, 000-or almost
the half of the entire customs revenue.
The value of the goods on which this
collection was made was little, but
very little, more than double the
revenue collected, so that practically
the duty all round on imported goods
made from those articles amounted
to fifty per cent. The fact that $780,
900 600 worth of these goods was
imported into America during twelve
months is clear enough indication
that the present tariff does not ans
wer its end. Protection does not
protect. American consumers will
obviously have these commodities lie
spite of fifty per cent duty. Then
why, with this clearly expressed de-
termination on the part ofour country.
men, infiict upon them runious taxa
ton, which is at the same time need
less? Why keep up an impost, which
increases the price of commodities by
one half. while it does not protect
home industries7 There is no use
answering that it helps to increase
the revenue. The one half of the
ACQUIRING revenue is not wanted. 1t
goes merely to swell the deposits in
the vaults of the treasury, and is for
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22
WEEKLY BAZOO.
SEDALIA, Mo-,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER e. 1885.

After all the stories that have been
told of John w. Mackay's fabulous
wealth it turns out that he is only
worth about s2O,0OO,0OO and this
will account for his envy of news
paper men and his desire to buy the
New York Herald. Since this is
not likely to be accomplished, however,
he will have to continue in poverty
and rub along until the Colorado
Bsomrang" or the Tombstone
shorter" will give him a chance to
grow rich and down the Herald 10
its own gore,
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22

all present purposes exactly as valu-
able a. if it were deposited at the
bottom of the Atlantic.
A reduction of the duties on these
manufactures from so to (say) %
per cent would answer every purpose
in view. 1t would protect home indus
tries as efficiently as they are now
protected under the higher fgnre; it
would bring into the treasury quite
as large an amount of revenue as is
necessary or desirable; and finally it
would reEeve the consumer from
heavy disbursements which are OPP
pressive as we'll as useless.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22
John Bulls Failure.
ST. Joseph Gazette.

John Bull has failed again 10 the
yatch race between the Puritan aud
the Genesta, as he does in everything
else he undertakes when the Yankees
are against him. England Is a solid
and substantial oil 1 county, but she
is not fast enough to cope with the
ambitious young Americans, who al
ways 90 in to win in any contest, and
are never liable to be defeated when
they get fair deal. The Genesta
made gallant and plucky fight for
the cup, but lost, as she might have
expected.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22
A Startling REQUEST.

Paris, Sept. I'm. Allan Large, min.
lister of the interior, has instructed all
public officials who are candidates for
election to the chamber of depu les to re-
sign their posts.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22
The Strikers Give In.

Cleveland, O., Sept. l9. Two hundred
employees vent to work at the Cleveland
rolling mills to-day, and the back bone of
the great strike is broken.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22
A Pitiful Political Condition.

Christian Advocate.
Consider into what pitiful politi-
cal condition We have fallen when
good men can be frightened away
from political life by the defIement
of political associa ton. The condi.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22

Faith has no doubt, much to do
with the success of any particular eff
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-07-16
Our signal Service.

Through Mr.. Collins, OF Texas Con-
trail Railroad, and Mr.Wiillam Hill, OF
the Merchants Exchange, tho. signal
service will DO in complete working
order within the next fow days, and
as tho reports are received, signals in
keeping with the weather will to
hoisted. THE HERALD printed the
indications several days since; but
does 40 again that the reader may cut
IL out and paste IL in his hat:
Following arc the signals that VIII
be used and their interpretations: No.
l-White flag with largo rcd sun in
center, "higher temperaturo" or
warmer weather; No. 2-Whito flag
with red crescent in center, slower
tempsrature~ or colder weather; No.
3-White flag, rcd star in center. "sta-
tionary temperatures" No. 4-White
flag with large blue center, general
rain or snow; No. 5-White flag with
blue crescent in centre, clear or fair
W sather; No. 6-White flag with blue
star In center, local rain or snow; No:
BLACK square in white field, cold
wave or norther.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-07-16
HAMPTON AT MANA SSAs
HOW HIS LEGION SAVED THE DAY
Alleged Error. Of Generals Johasion aud
Imbodsn Corr cied-wsde nsmp-
ton and stonewsii Jackson
~ Heroic Counterpart

CnARLRsToS, \. o., July l3'-ihe
News and Courier publishes u long
letter from General Wade Hampton,
correcting errors In recent articles OF
Generals Johnston and lmboden'
touc hing tho first battle OF Manassas
Tor Bull Rum. General Hampton
shows that the Hampton Legion, GOO
strong, which he commanded, arrested
tho victorious columns OF Sherman
and Keys, who were driving the Com
federate forces back, ana that the
Legion so delayed tho Federal advance
as 10 enable endorsements to DO
brought up. The News and Courier
gives an elaborate review or the
battle, the history OF which
IL claims must now DO rewritten. lts
conclusion is that Hampton was to
jackson nj Manassas what Jackson
was 10 the whole Confederate loft.
HAMPTON saved Stonowall Jackson a.
Jackson saved the army, and II was
the magnificent fighting of the Legion,
under terrible ODDS, that gave jack
son time 10 bring up his troops 10 posi-
tion. Had he not had opportunity 70
form the Virginianh, who hiterward
"stood like stone wall, the battle
would have been irretrievably lost.
Tho opportunity 10 form those Virgin
ians was given to Jackson by Hamp-
ton and his men, and given by them
alone,
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-07-16

WHEN the st. Louis Globe Demo-
crat receives and pays for q special
cablegram from London, 6,0C0 words
of length, and refuses to publish it be-
cause the disclosures of English Up
per-Ten society are ESQ filthy and in
decent" the accounts must have been
horrible indeed. When royal blood
so generally revels in such indecen-
cies, there can be but small hopo for
the nations future. Greece and Rome
rollicked in their rottenness when
the day of their destiny was in its last
decline, and the night of decadence
was setting in. In this day and gen
Grafton this Maiden Tribute to Modern
Babylon, this story of pilgrimage to an
earthly he'll, should shame the civilized
world and make England bow her
head. Before this traffic that collects
from everywhere these human parcels
at the great central mart, in London,
to send them anywhere, recruiting
brothels far more diligently in refer.
ence to physique examination than
soldiers for the Queens army, the old
slave trade of the South psles its inef-
fectual fires. The Pall-Mall Gazette
has done the world service in ferret
ing out the facts, however much we
may regret the ugly publication.