The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-03-05
OKLAHOMA.
A Special Commissioner Sent to Argue
NNHRI,

A Special Commissioner Sent to Argue
With Cleveland.
LAWRENCE, Kas., March Hon.
Sidney CLARK, who served this state for
six years in congress, left Saturday even
ing for Washington as chairman APP
pointed by state convention of Okla
homs boomers to lay their claims before
President-elect Cleveland and ask him
to suspend the ordering of troops 10 the
Oklahoma country until congress taxes
affirmative legislative action upon the
question. Mr.. Clark has had good
deal of congressional experience on sub
iects of this nature and the Usage land
controversy and also the question OF GUST
ing settlers from the Cherokee rented
lands was before congress when Mr..
Clark was q member. and he always
took the side of the settlers, and was
largely influential in securing such
favorable and prudent presidential action
that q conflict between the United States
troops and the settlers was avoided, and
the settlers in the end won their case.
Mr.. Clark was summoned by Gen.
Weaver, ex Greenback Presidential can
didate and member-elect to the Forty |
ninth con gress, to meet him in Wash
ington. Gen. Weaver, through his pa
per and otherwise, has worked up quite
an Oklahoma fever in western and CEN
trail Iowa. In south west Missouri the
tever runs high, and in southern Kansas
the boom RACES with greater intensity
than ever before. Mr.. Clark will at
tempt to convince the President that
by a long line Of presidents, as well as
by the treaties themselves, and by con-
gressional action In similar cases, II is
the right and the duty OF the president
to withhold the sending of troops to drive
out settlers from the Indian Territory so
long as they remain on ceded govern
ment lands, holding, with decision
rendered by Judge Miller of the supreme
bench, that lands where the Indian title
is extinguished cease to be part of the
Indian Territory. The meetings held
all through this country indicate that
the troops will have plenty OF work to DO
if they propose to keep the settlers out.
Gen. Grant-His Condition Very Dan
gerOus.
In regard to Gen Grants health, Col.
Frederick Grant said to reporter SAT-
urdaY afternoon: MY father is very
sick man, There is no use in longer
denying the fact. We have made every
effort to keep the facts from the public,
because we knew that as soon as II
should become known that be was dan
gerouslY i'll, there VIC uld be hundreds of
letters coming in with every mail, and
this would only excite him, and make
cure less hopeful. My father has had
very little rest for the past few nights.
He was up and about his room for lit
tie while Yesterday, and we hope to get
him up to-day, but he IS suffering con-
slant pain in the ear and head. For any
facts concerning the nature OF the DIS
ease refer you to his physicians. They
are DR.. FordYce Barker, DIR. j 81. Doug
las and DR.. H. B. Sands, of this city, and
DIR T. NJ. Merker, of PhiladelphIa.
DR.. Douglass said AZ am no wise re-
sponsible for the rose coiOred report that
appeared in the Medical Journal lately.
Two days before the report was publish
ed had conversation with DR.. Sands
at Gen. Grants house. AS q result OF
the consultation We both decided that
the cancerous growth at the root OF the
tongue was hardening and steadily
growing worse. A micrOscopical exam
ination by an expert proved beyond
doubt case of malignant ephithelial
growth. Gen. Grant is q very sick man.
l think there is little or no hope of his
recovery. He is breaking down, but
has displayed much courage. In less
than a month he did as much as six or
eight hours work day, but has had lit
tie or no sleep tor the past eight days. We
have tried to keep the knowledge of his
true condition from the general because
he had so many other troubles to bear
1 have all along maintained that his
trouble is from cancerous growth at the
root of hts tongue, caused,
undoubtedly. by excess in smoking.
Every time he speaks, or breathes, or
eats, this is disturbed. 1t is difficult to
treat it for that reason. There have been
times when the growth has been tempo
rarily checked, but it has never been ar
est I'd, and is steadily increasing. There
has been considerable loss of the soft
palate. He takes nourishment every
day IN liquid form. He can not eat
solid food, because he has lost all his
teeth. They were extracted in the hope
| of easing the pain in his face. This pain,
although-it resembles neuralgia, is not
that pure and simple, but is q reflection
of the pain caused by the cancer in the
throat. He has been suffering from
severe pain In the right ear and on the
top of the head. To ease this his head
is kept wrapped in hot f1annels. l can
not say how near the end he is. He may
live for months yet, as men suffering
from this disease have done, but don't
think there is any hope that be will ever
recover"