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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-22
LIST OF LANDS
For Sale by the
NEWS LAND AGENCY.
Below we give a partial list of Real
state placed in our hands
for sale.

M sso acres; 40 acres IN cultivation. 81
acres timber, l6O acres bottom: good stock
and well water; splendid feed lot; stone
house. 8 rooms; kood orchard; miles from
IISS. $50 acres; 80 acres fenced and in cut
tivatioD; good frame house of rooms; good
barn good well. stock water and cIsteTn; Z
miles rom Emporis Price Sl4 peg acre.
1lS6. A farm of 120 acres nrSt-clA9e eofeom
land. fenced ana cToss-fenced with hedges .
good orchard; good two-story frame house o.
rooms; COED well and abundaGce o. stock
water; miles from Emporis. Price. $3.50
Iis7. A farm of so acres hrst-class bottom
land. fenced and cross-Ieneed; good orch 4rd I;
q good one and q hall story stone house: M
finished; miles from Emporfa- Price. $500.
on easy terms.
I72 AZ so acre Iarm. all fenced. 20 AcreH
stone fiagging underneath. soil good. Abund-
ance of wa'er good range. frame house OF
rooms, good out buildings, mile 20 school
600 500 anu = ''''
ills. $50 acres, ali fenced, 90 acres In Guilt
yatIon. small house. permanent stock water.
y milo to P. o. and rail road station. verv
q sirai.le location ard good soil, terms easy
Price 81. eco.
cultivation, fences hedge. bAreed wine, large
ii anne house rooms barn 80 81 well nntsh-
ed. apple and peach orchard. good soil. good
Iisl farm of $40 acres. all fenced, 100
acres in cultivation, so acres timber, 100 acres
bottom. never failing water. email orchard,
house If 4 rooms. near school ans miles from
I'LL. $40 Acres; $50 acres fenced and cross.
fenced into six separate loSsi 9o
| acres under cultivation: 10 acres TIMBER loo
/ acres bottom; balance second bottom run
ming stock water in gravel-bottom creek !
range first class and permanent; frame house
| of one story ana four rooms; orchard Of SOC
bearing apple trees, 600 young apple trees
| Just CONNIE ncing to bear; $50 peach trees &c
| che nv trees and some small fruit; II miles
| from EmpOria; 81 miles from railroad sta-
| ton: mile from school.
lI5O An Eighty Acre bottom farm,
| all fenced with hedge; house has seven.
rooms; very large orchard; good location
six miles from Emporia-
| ll53. Eighty acre farm with bottom land,
| timber and water. small house. good orchard
| I6 miles from Emporia.
| IT'S. so acres all fenced. 90 acres in cuAti-
walton. 10 acrss timber. so acres bottom. rest
| second bottom. water Dow creek and good
| well. good range, good stable and correls.
| small house, Emporia u miles, railroad Sta-
| ton miles, school miles. Price $e5 per
| acre.
IlsI. 20 acres all fenced. 90 cultivation. 80
| acres tia DER. i6O acres bottom. y mile never
| failing running wates. fair buildings, small
| orchard, EmIoria miles, railroad station
! miles. school i mile. Price $500. on easy
terms
tracts varying in size, from 90 acres to 5000
lie sections, well watered and averaging in
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Wash1ngton Notes

WASHINGTON, D. G, Jan. 16.-Resr
Admiral Powell is dead.
The annual report of the department
OF agriculture, now in press, makes the
record OF corn production for 1884,
], 795, 600 900 bushels, wheat nearly 513-
100000 bushels, and oats 5S3, O00, 900
bushels. These aggregates are the lsrg-
est ever recorded. The rate of yield is
25.8 bushels for corn, wheat IL, and oats
274. These are the figures tor the per-
manent record.
The comptI oller OF the currency has
appointed 6. j. SturgIs of Chicago ex-
amiGer of national banks, vice Oakley,
resigned.
A meeting of the house committee on
navel affairs to-day, Representatives
Boutelle, Talbot and Bsllentine were
appointed q subcommittee to consider
the bill providing for the distribution of
the Greedy relief vessels. Routelle ia
vors putting the Alert in complete re-
pair and returning her to the Brit
ish government with the thanks of
congress. He says the vessel was pre-
sented to the United States for a specific
purposes and now as that purpose has
been accomplished it would be the
proper thing TO return her.
Concerning the proposed inv eStlga-
ton of the death of Cadet Strong at the
| naval academy, by tie vote it was de
| cided that no investigation should be
made. The members that opposed the
Investigation based their opposition on
the ground that no evidence had been
presented sufficient TO warrant Investi.
CATION.
At n recent meeting of the house mill
tarY affairs, Slocum was instructed tc
call up in the house at the first oppor-
tunlty the bill introduced in the senate
providing for placing Grant on the re-
tired list. At meeting of the commit
tee to-day q motion authorizing him tc
call mp the bill passed by the senate on
the 14th, and having for its object the
retirement of General Grant, was
lost, 8 to 2. Those opposed
were Roscranz, Slocum, Morgan
Walford, Murray, Connelly, Lyman and
Bayne, those tavoriDg Cutcheon and
Steele.
The senate committee on pensions re.
ported adversely to the bill to grant 4
pension of $50 per month to Emma De
Long, widow of the late Lieut.. DeLon(
of Jeanette fame. 1t was reported tina
the majority merely recommend an in
| definite postponement of the bill. Sena
tor Blair submitted q minority repor
recommending q pension of $50 pc
1 month
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Double Ended War.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16,-The cut rate
war seems likely to become double end
ed instead of being only a contest Ofrates
westward. This will be prtcIpitated by
the ugly fight now being opened by the
Grand Trunk and Lake Shore since Jan
uRry LIST. though In measure secretly,
the Grand Trunk has been car
rying emigrants from Montreal
and Quebec to Chicago for 500
The Allan line of steamships plying
between Quebec and Liverpool has had
a contract rate of 81 for emIgrant traffic
from Quebec to Chicago. and more re-
Gently European agents have been per.
mltted to draw orders on Montreal aud
Quebec for Chicago transportation OF
sIeerage passengers at above rate. 10 re-
talistion the Lake Shore is now cutting
rates from Chicago east, though not
openly. The result of the
Grand Trunk and Allan line
contract is that the steamship lines
of this city are now loudly demanding
the same rate on emigrant traffic TO Chi
csgo as enjoyed by the Allan line
Any settlement of the rate will now he
more difficult because none of the COM
panies are disposed at once to restore
rates. They could not do so uGiIl the
foreign orders of the Grand Trunk
agents expire, and these orders are nm
limItei, therefore no date can be fixed,
and the field becomes demoTaiiZed. The
New York Central to-day is selling sec.
ond-class tickets to Chicago at 50, and
the Eiie at the same rate.
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Civil Wnr.

PANAMA. Jan. 5.-Most alarming con
dition of affairs prevails throughout tn .
republic. A general conflict Is immi-
nent. Civil war exists Ia Cundinainsr.
co, Boyacs, Santador and MagdaIena.
and il seems ab0nt TO break out in the
important state OF Canca. Here IN Pan
anna may occur, but there Will little
bloodshed. Heavy fighting has already
taken place in the interior. The radi-
cal party has Joined the faction of the
conservatives. They are endeavOring TO
turn ont the liberal governments OF the
different states, which are the strongest
supporters Of the government of Presi-
dent MuneZ; then. If successful, they
will unite the states they hold in an ef-
fort 70 overthrow the general govern
ment. A severe skirmish occurred 10
Santador and Boyaca. and 9 cable thi s
morning says that battle has taken
place At FunJe in Boyaca In which the
federal forces were defeated. The com
mendes-in-chief, General Montiiar, and
another general was killed.
A LARGE EMERALD
In the celebrated Muse emerald mines.
situated at BoYaca 10 this republic, al
emerald has been found weighing in the
rough over one pound, the largest emer-
AID eyer discovered.
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FARMING LANDS.

1IS9 A farsl of 40 acres, 80 fenced. s. in
cultivation. Frame house 3 rooafs unnnish-
ed. Young orchard growing. 1helve miles
from EmpOria, tin, e miles from Fail road sta
tion school house near Price $40 terms
easy,
ISL. 400 acres, 100 fenced, 50 in cultivation.
good large 2 story stone house of rooms,
good outbuildngs. good orchard. all Kinds OF
fruit, good well and ponds. good sOi-. EN-
pOria II miles. K. q. station mics, school
near.
1Is9 800 acres: 100 acres fenced. I'D acres
in cultivation; 3 miles from EmpoTia. Price.
So 400.
1870, $40 acres, all fenced; % a res in culti-
walton good stock water: about so acres first
Glass bottom lard. about 10 acres timber, bal
ance in meadow; small house of rooms; 8
miles from Emporia. Price. $14 per acre.
I19I $40 acres all fenced and rrsss-fenced {;
some timber; abundance of living water
good stock corrals; new twO-story frame
house of rooms; good large barn; all the
improvements are first class; miles from
Emporia- Price, $4,000.
1892 20 acres first class bottom; Is acres in
cultivation, 3 acres timber: good well and
river water; box house OF rooms miles
from Emporia. Price, $3.50.
IIss. farm of $50 acres first class bottom
land fenced and cFoSs-fenced with hedge; a
good new tWo-s story frame house OF rooms /;
good orchard; good feed lot; ~ miles from
EmDoria. Price, $50 per acre.
We have q large list of unimproved land in
acresin body. several half sections and wit
price from Sc % per acre TO SIS per acre.
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The 81. Paul Pioneer-Press tells the
following indident in connection with
one OF the worlds greatest pi-
anists: "On Christmas day a
party of six ST. Paul young
people went up 10 Minneapolis for a
wild lark. After visiting the opers
house, roller rink. reireshment parlors
and other places similarly attractive,
they finally sought brief rest in the
spacious paFlcr of the West. A moment
after their arrival there strange gen.
tleman entered. and seating himself al
the piano. began ID run few scales. To
him tue boldest of our young gentle.
men salds
Can you play, sIr?'
ooh, yes, drum q little
Would you mind playing for US &c
waltz@
Net at all
So pleasant was the waltz that Its rep
etiuon was requested again and again,
and finally, when our young people sub
sided bresthless, Mr.. Pianist was re
warded with an %, thank you; you play
very nicely AS he was Withdrawing
the hotel clerk entered and was interro.
pated BY one of the young ladies:
DO you know who that gentleman il
who just played tor us?'
oh, yes, Miss; that Is Joseffy.'
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nRnRRAL nRIm


The following extracts from addresses
on the Edmunds' bill which has passed
the senate 70 place Gen Grant on the re-
Tired list with full pay are Of general
interest.
Senator Cockrell said: On the retired
list Is not the place Tor private citizen.
It has been created for officers who, be
ing still in the service, hsd been rem.
dered unit for duty. There is neither
justice nor proprieiy in placing private
citizens on such list. Gen. Grant Is
now enjoying the receipt of $4,000 .
year which is enough tor the support of
any citizen.
Senator Edmunds said: / concur in
the general principle LAID down by Cock
reIl as 20 the retired list. That ii is not
the place for private citizens; but as q
senator and citizen 1 am glad of the op-
porIunity 10 ask the passage of this bill.
Gen. Grant has served his country
faithfully and gsllantlY in the
Mexican war while a young lieutenant
and he became general of the armies of
the United States on an occasion OF very
considerable importance and interest.
am stating il mildly 10 order not 10 ex-
cite the the temperaments of anybody
on the other side Of the chamber. Gen.
Grant was removed from the office of
general of the army OF the United States,
| from which he would have been retired
when he reached the proper age, and
| put on this very list, 10 assume again
| command of the armies of the United
States and commander in chief under
the constitution. He had not sought it.
He obeyed call of duty that removed
him from the technical place he had
held IN the army TO q higher place as
constitutional commander of the United
States. Under the law, when his term
expired, he became a private citizen. In
that state of the case, and under circum-
| stances which all knew, and in view OF
the honor, respect, gratitude and duty
we owe him as primus illustrius IL the
history OF this country, would be glad to
/ have q unanimous vote for the bill.
/ Senator MsXeY said, heretofore op'
! posed efforts of this character being op-
posed TO placing private citizens on tAE
retired list, but the circumstances oil
this case were exceptional. AS a south
ern man could not but recognize that
when the supreme hour came 70 the
southern states, when they had TO yield
up all save their honor, no man had ever
acted with more magnanimity and gen.
crosby than U. 8. Grant did at Apo
mattox. Not only DO remember tina
fact, but the people among whom live
remember il, and do not believe there
Is today a man in the south who would
begrudge a reasonable and fair supper
for Gen. Grant in his decliuIng years.
Senator Voorhees, said Cockrell's ref.
erence to Gen. Grants income might
create misapprehensIon in the popular
mind. When the guaranteed term should
expire, SIX years hence. the inv0stmen
fund would prove of little value. HI
added that IL he was a southern man hi
would strongly favor this measure. H
recalled the fact that Secretary Stanton
wanted 20 arrest and Imprison Gen
Robert E. Lee, after his surrender a
Appemattox, and Gen Grant told Stan
ton that Lee was his parOled prisone
and not hair of his head should be mo
I
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nnER nHEacr Anr


Caldwell is moving for q water works.
Parsons people are discussing char
itY ball.
EldOrado is troubled with counter
feiters.
The Pratt Water Works company has
received its charter.
A Wellington branch of the original
Payne Oklahoma colony has been crgan-
Jzed.
1t is reported that the Boomer, paper
devoted to the settlement of Oklahoma,
Will shortly be started at Coffeyville.
The Farm journal is q weekly paper
published at Chapman, Dickinson
county. Kansas. The editor is Harry
Swift.
Democratic Messenger: A Crawford
county baby, born Nov. 10, weighed 10
pounds at birth, and 90 pounds when
ten days old.
Charles Dicken. a farmer, living three
miles east of La Cygne, committed sui.
eide last week by jumping in front of q
freight train.
VIgilauts have posted bills at Harper
notifying certain gamblers and ssloonistl
to leave the city. The matter creatsd
considerable excitement.
A motion TO suspend the rules and
pass the bill to abolish the taxes on to-
baccO and distilled spirits used for man.
ufacturiDg purposes was lost in congress
by IS yeas TO 1913 nays. The Kansas
delegation voted nay.
Manhattan Republican: Speaking
of the low price of corn, Hon. George
Pickett, of Mayday, vino called in re-
Gently says that he can remember when
his father in Illinois offered 1000 bush.
els of corn for $50 and could not sell it
AtchIson Champion: Fort Scott has
two flowing wells. lola hes flowing wa
ter At $50 feet deep. At Mound Val
ley, Lsbette county, flowing wa
ter was reached at 400 fee
deep, and the we'll continued to tn,
depth of 753 feet. A we'll at Oswego
400 feet deep, has good supply of wa
ter but requiers pumping. Girard ha'
well $50 feet deep which requires
pumping $50 feet.
Winfield Courier: The Methodist hay
q movement on foot for estabii- hing 4
great university at Topeka. A lady IL
Topeka has subscribed $4,000, gentle
man the same amount, and $4,000 viii
be raised by other Topeka Methodists
In addition to all this wealthy gentle
man has agreed to give 100000 on con
diton that he shall have the privilege o
giving it a name. a university of thl
''financial caliber" whouid overshadov
all other institutions in the state.
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RESIDENCE PROPERTY.

ISL. frame house of rooms. good
stable, cistern and hyiTant in yard east
front, lot and location first class Price 81
300.
lI4a. house OF s rooms, IN two lots, good
we'll and eister plenty OF fruit and shade,
large stable, capacity OF c stern $50 Dds.
Prize 50 500.
1l7S two story brick. residence of lO
rooms. good out buildings, abundance OF
shrubery, location first lass, an q front and
convenient to business, will be sold cheap
and on easy terms.
1I5s 4 suburban place OF = 3-4 acres, 81
rod from city; new frame house rooms and
and cellar; young orchard planted; good well
and good soil. Price 81 200.
1lsS Residence properly two corn lots,
one block from Commercial street, house oi
fonr room, stab and we ].
1149 A frame house OF seven room. Good
location.
Il.O a new frame house of four rooms
good size, good stable ana buggy house. gool
well; q corner lot on Commercial street, easy
payments. Price s., 100
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The largest check ever drawn up prob
ably Ia this country has been framed
and hung up 10 the treasurer's Office OF
the Pcnnsy lSsnia Railroad company
The sum is $l4,9l9 O52. and The ins,itu-
ton cashing 4 was The National Rank
oI C,",.n rec, Now YORK city. II is
draw" ~ t-v.r o.: X Gdrr, Peabody &
Co. of Thai gay, a II - ,n she full settle
ment OF the large b.uck .ul shlrcs which
that firm procured for The Pennsylvania
Railroad company IN order that it might
obtain . controlling interest in the Phil
adalphia, Wilmington Sc Baltimore Rail
road company. The date Is June Z,
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The Oliver Bro. :. sn.n.n.ion

PITTsBURG, Jan. 17-There continues
TO be much gossip about the Oliver
Bros & Phillips suspension. The im-
preston Is growing that the firm thought
II best TO suspend and did so voluntarily.
They concluded that il was useless 10
endeavor to carry q dense load any
longer in the lace of the present condi.
ton Of trade, and after q week or two
consideration IT was ce1clu0ed to stop
payments. h. A. Oliver has been hypoth.
coating his securities since last May aud
so have other members of the firm. Mr.
Oliver put up his part Of his holding Of
the Pittsburg and Western stock IN
held as collateral in New York.
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c.. l,,..nr.u

Mr.. VIM. Thomas, of Newton. Ia,
says: "My wife has been seriously af-
fected with . cough for twenty-five
years, and this spring more severely
than ever before. She has used many
remedies without relief, and being urged
TO Try DR.. Kings New Discovery, did
50, with most gratifying results The
first bottle relieved her very much. and
the second bottle hiss absolutely cured
her. She has not had 90 good health for
thirty years." Trial bottles free at B.
Wheldon's drug store. Large size,
G1!OO. ~
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The Somerset Explosion.

SOMERSET, Pa, Jan. 15.-The follow
ing is list OF the victims of last nights
dynamite explosion at the Somerset
chemical works: Killed-Scott Shsef-
fer, Henry Turner, who leaves a wife
and i've small children. lDjured-Hugh
Ray, foreman. badly burned on the face
the hands and body of Jsmes Hawlett
were similarly injured. There are 500
pounds of nitro gIycerine in q building
fifIy yards from the place where the ex-
plosion occurred The factory turned
out about / 500 pounds OF dynamite a
0aV
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Pontiac has ninety. one manageable
widows who are greatly interested Al
present in a young music teacher Of that
town who has inherited $4,000 by the
death of an uncle. The ladies of the
place who have heretofore intimated to
their marrIageable daughters that the
young man was "poOr, but honest" are
revising their classification Ct the young
male population of the town.
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Senators Plumb, Vest, Dawes and H.
gals called on President Arthur lately
and asked HIM to modify bis order con-
corning the boomers The president
said that tue law was plain. and left him
no alternative, especially MS the settlers
had invaded the territory in defiance OF
bis proclamation, aud seemed TO Invite
conflict While ne would regret any
unfortunate consequences that might
ensue, and sYmpathized with the colo
nists. whom he thought had been de-
ceived as tn their rights. yet he could
not avoid the atieadsot responsibilities
aud thereby leave the complication as a
legacy to the incoming administration.
He moreover added that the only solu-
ton ofthis vexed question was with con-
gress, as he was bound la execu the
laws as he found them.
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Here Is the way Chinese society re-
porter writes il up; The brides dress: II
was of pale blue hi; long. trimmed with
rare old toYsh, while the trousers we're
OF six full lengths OF yellow sIgee. Her
hair was dressed Ia Hong Kong. Her
charming little feet were half hidden In
a bewitchiug pair of silk slippers, with
the heels knocked of The vision of
loveliness Wss placed in closed car.
riaRe and driven to the apartments OF
the bridegroom, who was wondering
what sort OF a companion his relatives
and friends. had selected for him. He,
of course, had never seen her
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The Storm.

ST. Louis, Jan. 16-The sleet storm
which set in here yesterday continued
all night and to-day has turned into a
regular clustering snow storm, and a
heavy fall of snow is threatened. Street
traffic Is already impeded and the street
cars are run only With great difficulty
and by doubling teams. The storm has
great breadth. extending throughout the
entire west ard reaching as far south as
Northern Texas. The temperature is
below freezing point.
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War has broken out among the edi-
tors OF Nebraska, They are accusing
oach other of having red hair. One of
the accused persons gets in some fine
work by saying that not only his hair
but his paper is read. This joke is of
the vintage Of 1910. but has not been
worked much Recently
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Frairhf Emharro-

CHICAGO, Jan. 15.-The embargo put
upon the freight traffic OF the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad by
reason of the strike of the freight brake
men and conductors, Is a serious one
here, and no trains except passenger are
leaving the city and the employees about
the freight depots are out of work. The
strike Is NO small matter" said q promI-
nent Pennsylvania road Official, "here in
Chicago and the entire northwest our
trade will tall of greatly when it is un-
dersiood freight Is not being forwarded
except on other roads" He expressed
the view that settlement of the present
difficulties will be reached shortly
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Persons sun: One OF the leading
social events of the event. of the present
winter in Philadelphia was ball given
Dva number OF people who call them
selves the American peerage. No one
is eligible to membership who cannot
trace ancestry back to an English king
or nobleman. Strange as il may APP
pear. there was large all, ndsnce and
all were members. The oTiginators of
this movement have large stock of
family records and they can tell Il in
from Ave e. ten minutes whether an ap-
plicaut has aristOcratic blood or not. AS
the dues are small there seems to be no
reason why the association should not
comprehend all the idiots in America
before many years have elapsed