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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01
Indian Leased Lands.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-The senate
committee on Indian affairs on January
6 will begin an investigst ton of the leas-
ing of lands In the Indian territory and
Crow reservation by Indians to cattle
men. A number of prominent cattle
men and Indian chiefs will be SUBJ
pHnaed to appear before the commission.
One section of the revised statutes de-
clares that Indian tribes have no au-
thority to lease their lands. A sue
ceeding sections allows owners of herds
the privilege of driving their cattle over
the reservation on obtaining con-
sent of the Indians and government
Cattle men construe the latter section as
meaning that they may lease the lands,
and under this construction tnearly all
the Crow reservation In Montana and
Guapah, Cheyenne and Arapahoe reserv-
atoms In the Indian territory. have been
leased for periods Of from five TO ten
years at from two to twelve cents per
acre per annum. In the Cherokee strip,
also IN the Indian territory, nine cattle
men have exclusive control of 10000, 600
acres at an annual rental of SIC, 600
The object of the investigation is to en-
able congress to take intelligent action
on the subject If additional legislation
is deemed necessary.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01

Tue following little bit of Democratic
testimony, while 1t tends to show on the
part of II political brother lack of ap-
preciation of Mr.. John r. Mclean of the
EDquiTer, 10 probably too near the truth
to be humorous from Democratic stand.
point. II is respectfully referred to Mr.
Springer's committee:
Speaking of the recent election in
Cincinnati the Chattanooga Times says {:
The deputies were doubtless not saints
but their conduct on election days shows
them nanltelY better men than the
scoundrels of the police force or the
deputy sheriffs appointed by an officer
who was cOun ed in by Mr.. McLean's
thugs end thieves There has not ap-
peared a scIutIlla of evidence that the
deputy marshsls intimidated or attempt
ed 10 inlImidate q single voter The
proof Is overwhelming that fhe police
rougbs prevented hundreds from going
10 the bailot-bOx. They assaulted the
voters OF the other side IN several wards.
They behaved like q lot of Williams bent
on carry ing out orders 10 prevent az fair
election by promotion of repeating on
their side, and prevention Of voting on
lhr other side.n
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01
Labor statLstlcs

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 29.-Tne Post-Dis-
patch this afternoon publishes the result
of a canvass of the manufacturing por.
ton of the city with refernnce to unem-
pioyed labor IN the territory mentioned
The 542 firms or factories in December,
1888, employed a total of $4,000 men,
9, 100 women, 2.5l3 boys; grand total
OF "a, 703 persons. In December OF the
present year they are employing 25, 1928
men, 1921 women and 1000 boys; this
shows decrease of s, III men. 269 WON.
en- and 423 boys, or a total decrease OF
6.169 persons who are at present out OF
work. In the last two months OF 1888
from 1000 to 5000 people we're thrown
out of work IN st. Louis, 1900 being
relegated to Illinois by the closing of
one concern, the Vulcan IRON works
The Post Dispatch estimates that taking
into consideration this fact and the area
of city not canvassed, nearly $1,000 per.
sons are out of employment, nearly all eli
whom are skilled persons. The census
of 1880 credits st. Louis with 1900 day
laborers; and over half of them, it is
claimed, are also idle.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01
afopument PreparatIons.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-ATFangements
for the dedication of the Washington
ment are progressing rapidly. The CON-
mission appointed by congress TO ar
range suitable ceremonies extended an
Invitation TO the military, Masonic and
civil organizations, the latter not to
carry any emblems OF q political charac-
ter, to participate. Gen. Sheridan re-
quests ell organization intending to take
part in the procession to notify HIM at
the earliest possible moment In order
that proper places In the column may be
assigned them.
Detectives are at work on q case which
they suppose will reveal extensive
swindlIng operations. An advertisement
has appeared in several northern papers
which contains the names OF three citl
zens of the district, and state that they
have received an appropriation which
will enable them to distribute $4,000
mementoes Of the Washington mOnu-
ment which they will do on receipt Of
81 cents for postage. The piece of mar
BILE 70 be furnished as q menento Is 10
have q painting upon 1t and 10 be set in
Q handsome plush frame. The alleged
advertisers win probably be arrested
within the next two days.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01

An official statement shows that the
aggregate exports from Great Britain to
he Spanish West India Islands
amounted. during the first nine months
of this year, TO only $5.025,OO9 The
imports from the Spanish West India
Islands during the same months were
$4,034, 600. These figures show a ma
terial falling off in the exports from
Great Britain to Cuba and Porto Rico.
In 1888 the exports to the Spanish West
Indies tor the whole year were about
100000, and in 1882 about $11,-
500 600
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01
A Sad Suicide.


ST. LOUIS, Dec. 30.-The inquest 70.
day on the body of Father Rupplin VIII
took strychnine In a saloon on Sunday
terminated in verdict of suicide. tn
deceased left letters and a certificate
saying his name was Rev. Ferdinand
Baron Won Kupplin, Catholic priest.
One of the letters read: 81 committed
suicide on account of poverty and
incurable sickness. had no
shelter, no bread, no home, no
means and may God help me-" Another
letter in the deceased's hand writing
states he was born at Franken!eldt, Can
ton Thurgan, Switzerland, March 2, 1e4i /;
that he was the son Of Baron Joseph
Won Rupplin, and that he was ordained
a Catholic priest at Buffalo, N. Y, De-
cember 18th. 1870, by Bishop Stephen
Vincent Ryan. The body will be buried
from the moTgue.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01
The Naval Approximations.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Secretary
Chandler has in preparation a circular
10 the heads of bureaus instructing them
in the matter of the fiscal responsibility
of the department after the 31st inst. ,
beyond which dale the current appro-
pria tion for the naval service does not
extend. 1t congress acts at once on re-
assembling no endorsements will
result from the failure to make appro-
prIatIons In advance, if there should be
dead lock of considerable length, the
navy department will continue to serve
various useful purposes, though it will be
al considerable Inconvenience, and the
pay of the navy will go on. Contracts
may be entered into for the continuance
OF the work which has already begun
under the former appropriations and
supplies may be purchased, but for all
these purposes the department will mere
ly give certificates instead of cash, and
sailors, officers or contractors will be-
come creditors of the government. In
cases of emergency the department may
accept the services of individuals or pri-
vate vessels, but cannot hire or contract
for such services.
The prospects for an early rcconcilia-
and the senate, isenot good. Incidental
expressions by members of the house
committee, indicate q purpose not to
confer with the senate upon either of the
three amended bills
Randall has sent Secretary Chandler q
copy of the "thiriy-one days bill' las
amended by the senate so as to provide
for six months) with letter, asking if
the amount therein provided will be
sufficient tor the department during the
remainder of the fiscal year.
There can be little doubt that the sec
rotary will declare the amounts named
for some bureaus insufficient, which fact
may be used IN justification Of the posi-
ton of the house In refusing to assent to
the senate amendments. Should the
point be made that amendments pro-
posed are too low, the senate
committee will meet it by showing that
the disputed measure in the house bill
was prepared last session upon the basis
OF the estimate and only objected to that
the senate by its amendments had made
the appropriation too high. The senators
will moreover urge that they are not
welded to the amounts IN either of the
pending bills, but are willing to adjust
them in conference.
The chief point now made on the part
of the senate is that the passage of the
appropriation bills, not based upon the
recent estimates, is an evil which can be
justified only by much graver emergen-
cies than now exist 1t is also argued
that If the disagreement of congress is to
go back to former bills, the practice will
amount 20 a permanent annual appro-
priation for the department affected and
the abolishment of such appropriations
has been one OF the prospective. and In
part accomplished, reforms of recent
years
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01
The following document ID being cir

The following document IL being cir
cnlatSd IN Mississippi:
1--WE, the undersigned members of the
cnlored race. and citizens OF the state of
Mississippi, after mature elaboration
upon the discOUragilg and hopeless cir
cumstances surrounding our race in this
state aud the south generally,
And whereas, the result of the late
neF IN which our state elections are con-
Quoted (most notably the last one) has
caused US to fully realize the insecurity
of the rights and privileges guaranteed
by the constitution of the state and gen
eral government, in cons. queace OF
which our people are threatened with q
general Generalization that may result
in a great injury 10 them and the CON-
munIty in general,
Therefore we do hereby unite IN a call
for q general mass convention, 10 con-
vene ia the city of Jackson on the -
dsy of January. 1885 II is earnestly
B. sired that every county in the state
>ia ~ tutiy represented.
far purposes of this convention are:
r. TO ascertain the true condition
and - J ags 0f onr people in the sew.
eral O. a lies.
So; 'nS-rO set forth our grievances
ia a n'aiu and straightforward manner
Tlrrd-ro determine upon the besi
course OF redress and finally devise some
means for beiIering our present deplora
Die condition
ANY addresses and communication
properly submitted by our white fellow
eitiz~ns, shall command respectful con
stdeTHtiOun
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01
The ouss,iOu OF Polyeamy.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Judge Petit
grew, OF the Utah commission, will leave
for the west Monday. He said tonight:
"Never, since the organization of the
commission, has the United States judge
at Salt Lake City enforced to the extent
that is necessary, the provision of the
EdmuDds law until now, and the present
Judge Zanes' efforts TO eradicate pOlYgs-
my are encouraging to the commission
er. Prior to his appointment. believers
In polygamy were allowed upon juries,
and no good came from the trial of &C
cused parties. Judge Zanes will not
listen TO a believer or sympathizer with
the polYgamIsts, sitting in the jury box,
and if he did. under his rulings with the
slightest evidence there would be a con-
Yiction. If the present tone of the Nor
mon press was sustained IN advising its
patrons to shoot down officers who came
to their houses TO arrest by process,
Judge Pettigrew thought there might
be trouble.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01

II could paint the lady Of my dreams;
That fair, faint vision of a broken sleep;
AS delicate TO Sie1e upon and keep
As morning mists that hang above the streams
I'd take the blackness OF n starless night
To paint the raven shadows of her hair,
And draw in long, fine strokes with daint:est
care
The sweeping lashes shutting out the light.
The light OF her bright eyes, ali. could / blend
The dazzling sun to softer stars and moon.
The tender twilight with the gorgeous noon,
Perhaps could approach the charm they lend
And for her throat think I'd take the snow
Fresh from its sleep on some far. lofty peak,
And then 10 match the damask OF her cheek
Battle its fair beauty with morn's rosy glow.
Her subtle form would make an endless strife
Among the plant tenants of the wood;
Nor fr, nor pine, nor graceful hemlOck could
Fer match her grace-a Hebe come 10 life.
Such is my dream. and though SO passing fair,
'Twould seem absurd its counterpart TO
trace;
Yet, in that GOmcday, nesting face 10 face.
l may learn then IL Is not half 50 rare.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01


Speakiog of making cabinet states the
Globs Democrat alludes TO the remark
of retired statesman OF forty years ex-
perience who declares that he has never
known a cabinet that did-nOt have to be
made over after the president-elect got
to WashIagtcn. Mr.. Lincoln, he says,
was Obliged to change his selections
several times In the last few days before
his Inauguration; Grants first cabinet
weat to pieces after he had sent the
names TO the senate; Hayes
had to break his slate aud substitute
at the last two or three persons whom he
had not seriously thought OF appointing;
and Garfield did not come to full con-
clusion until after midnight of March 3,
Window and Kirkwood- both being put
on, and Gresham taken of, at that time.
The rule seems to be, this gentleman
goes on to state, that the earliest and
apparently the surest names disappear
at the close; at any rate, he adds, il is
certain that no cabinet has gone to tthe
Senate in recent times without a new
name inserted in the last twenty-four
hours, and with few of the original feat
ures left undisturbed.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01
Washington wtrinEs


WASHINGTON, d. g., Dec. 29.-Secre-
tary Lincoln has gone to New York for
q few days.
The secretary of the navy to-day re-
celved cable message from Admiral
Davis, Nsgasaki. Japan, announcing the
death on board the Trenton of Naval
Cadet T. V. TOney of Illinois.
The president has approved the act
deIaching Grundy county, Tennessee,
from the southern division of the dis
trict of east Tennessee and attaching 1t
to the middle district of the state.
Gen. HezeE, chief signal officer, has
submitted to the secretary of war charges
against Assistant Adjutant General Nc
KeeYer for having made derogatory re-
marks concerning the management of
recent Arctic expeditions. The charges
relate entirely to General McKeever's
alleged comments on the course pursued
by Lieut.. Greeley, and no reference
is made IN them to what General
McKeever is alleged to have said
of the chief signal officer.
The secretary Of war has recommend
ed to the chief signal officer
the charges preferred by him
against Sergeant Otto Holt North, of
the signal service, OF condbct unbecom-
ing an officer and q gentleman in hay
ing tempered with the private mail of
Lieut.. Greedy. with instructions to detail
a court martial for his trial.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01
Omcial COMMUNICATIONS.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The secretary
of the treasury to-day sent telegram to
the collector of customs at San Fran
cisco in reference to Chinese imml-
grants. The following is q copy:
"Section of the act of 1884 Is to Gp-
ply only to Chinese merchants coming
for the first time to the United States.
Chinese merchants former residents in
the United States may be admitted on
any satisfactory proof of such facts by
certificate or otherwise"
The secretary of the navy to-day re-
ceiVed q cable message from Rear Ad-
miral Davis, commanding the Asiatic
station, dated Nagasaki, December %,
saying that Trenton returned to Maya
saki from Kenea, where he left affairs
quiet, and reports the japanese are the
only foreigners immured in that country.
The secretary of state has received a
communication from Thos Osborne,
United States minister to Buenos Ayres,
concerning the removal of the remains
of Augustus Caesar Roadway, United
States minister, who died in that city in
1924. Osborne says that while in the
process of removing the bodies OF the
dead from the old Protestant cemetery
ct BuenoS AYres to a new one the re-
mains were found, and he took charge OF
and has them deposited in vault In the
new cemetery pending their future In.
terment. "After consulting with Con-
sui Baker and the most prominent Amer
lean citizens of Buenos Ayres l thought
best to purchase lot in the new GENE.
terry and remove the handsome monu.
ment donated by the Argentine govern
ment at the time of his death and place
II over the remsins."
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01
DEATH nEC AIrITHAN

The announcement of the death, at the
age of so, at his home at Canton, Ohio,
on Friday last, of c. AultmaD, a man
whose business ability and integrity,
wealth and philanthropy have given
him a wide and hOnored name, will at
tract the attention of many of our read
ers to whom his record is known as an
inventor, manufacturer, capitalist and
philanthropist The estate of Mr. Ault-
man, at the time of his death, is esti-
mated at from 81, OOC, 600 to 100000.
The following facts Of his lite will be of
interest. He was born at Uniontown,
Ohio, near Canton, in 1927. He. with
e. Ball, the lats George Cook and Lewis
and Jacob Miller, first organized the
moving and reaping thresher, harvester
and engine business, and established
mammoth plant in Canton, Ohio, now
operated under the firm name of =. Ault-
MAJ s. Co., with a capital stock OF
$1,5OO,OO0. In 1868 Mr. Aultmau aud
some OF his co-workers estab-
lished the large establishment OF
AuItm3n, Miller 8 Co. In 1868 the
First National Bank of Canton was or
ganized by Mr.. Aultman and others, and
he acted as president from Its organic
alton In 1867, Mr. AultmAn started in
business in MANSFIELD, o., in connection
with II. H. TAYLOR of Chicago, now de-
ceased, for the purpose of manufacturing
the vibrator threshIng-machine, which
is also made at Battle Creek, Mich. Mr.
Aultman was identified with the follow
ing business enterprises and other Or
RsnizatiOns At the time of his dealh:
C. Aultman 8 Co, the Canton Wrought
Iron Bridge Company, the Canton Glass
Company, Nichols, Shepherd s. Co.. at
Battle Creek, Aich., President of
Aultman, Taylor s. Co., of Mansfield
President of the First National Bank OF
Canton, and he also had interests in q
number of mines in the west. He was
treasurer of Mount Union College,
q director and president OF the
board of trustees of the First Methodlss
Episcopal church, president of the Lin
coin club of Canton, and member of a
number Of benevolent Organizations.
He withdrew from the Akron establish
ment q number of years ago. Mr. Ault-
man was married In 1876 % Eliza Wise
of GreentoWn, Ohio, who died in Febru-
airy, 1866. One child WaE born to them,
daughter, now the wife Of Mr.. George
D. Hsrter. In the fall of 1859 he wss
married to bis present wife, nee Kate
Barron, but ss that time Mrs. ReYnold
of Philadelphia. OF the riches that he
accumulated during wonderfully active
life, thousands of dollars went to educa-
tIonai and religious institutions and
projects and to public entsrDr1ses. There
are monuments to his generosity that
make it needless to review his record of
philanthropy.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01

Chicago Current: The United States
supreme court has recently handed down
a decision affecting life insurance which,
while 1t is Immediately adverse to the
companies. will sill greatly strengthen
public confidence in this form OF invest
ment and protection. The late William
Orion, president of the Western Union
Telegraph company, died within two
months after taking out a large policy.
The Insurance company refused to pay,
believing it had been deceived as to the
physical condition of the insured man.
The company sirove to prove
such deception by constrasting
the statements of Mr. Orion, at the
time the policy was issued, with the tes-
timony of MIR. Orton's own physician.
The supreme court rules that such phy-
stefan is debarred from giving such tes-
timony, and that the applicant, when he
stated that he was not afflicted with a
disease of the liver, may be supposed to
have spoken honestly, as the company
presumably protected itself through q
physical examination of the applicant
by its own doctor This decision will
lead 10 more thorough examination OF
applicants by the companies, and can
not fail to benefit the entire interest of
life Insurance-a system which IN a
striking way exhibits the progress of
society.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-01


WASHINGTON, Dee. 29.-NoihIng has
been heard in this city to-day touching
Gen. Grants financial affairs.
Gen. Sherman has not yet arrived and
It Is now said will not be here until after
the 1st of January. Gen. Beale said to.
night: 1 am OF the opinion that Wander
bIlt will not dare to take advantage of
the Law to such an extent as TO sell Gen.
Grants personal effects. Aside from that
however, II has occurred to me that
Vanderbilt may be acting for Gen:
Grants benefit Having 8 preferred
claim to Gen. Grants property he may
execute the law and obtain possession,
return it subsequently,, simply to prevent
some claimants who came after from
securing Gen. Grants effects. So we had
better wait and see If things are in as bad
shape as reported. No doubt an effort
for relief will prove successful Gen.
Grant is national property, add the ma
ton takes pride in the honors he has re-
ceived. If congress Is unwilling to put
him on the retired list OF the army, let
them make an appropriation TO purchase
the mementOes he has and place them
on exhibition at the Smithsonian InstI.
tute.
The Star says the prospects Of the bill
fog the retirement of Gen. Grant are not
good. The bali passed the senate on the
18th of May last and was placed oE the
speakers table in the house, where il
now remains, buried under 127 other
bills, with no possible chance of resur-
rection. Is has not even been referred
to the house military committee, the
chairman of which, Gen. Rosecrans. Is
supposed 70 favor it. The only way il
could be reached would be by taking It
up by unanimous consent, and this is
rendered ont Of the question by the fact