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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15
Will Garland ResiRnf

New YORK, April ga Washington
special to the COMMERCIAL Advertiser saws:
The story Is again renewed that Garland
will soon resign. He hardly goes to Cab
met meetings and is not in his Office half
the time, but remains at home, where he
refuses himself toall save intimate friends.
Later reports say he is very moody and
inclined to be Respondent, manifesting
nervous anxiety as to criticisms upon
him in connection with the telephone
scandal. He denies, however, in most
positive terms that his resignation has
been asked for by the President.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15
Thirteen Murderers.

FORT SMITH, Ark, April 7.-Another
Indian Territory murderer was convicted
in the United States Court yesterday,
winch swells the number of convicted
murderers awaiting death to thirteen
Lincoln Sprole Is the thirteenth. He
murdered an old man named
Clark, and his son, Alex. CLARK.
last June, in the Chickasaw Natfen. There
was an old grudge existing, and Sprole
followed his victims. He first shot the
old man and then the son. The bullet only
crippled the boy, who fell upon his knees
and begged for mercy; but the heartless
murderer was deaf to his appeals, and
raising his gun, shot him dead.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15
General schofield's Successor.

CHICAGO, April 9.-Major-General A
III. Terry arrived at the Grand Pacific yes
terday and will to-day take command OF
the division of the Missouri. General
Sheridan reached the Palmer last evening
and he and General Terry had short con-
ference after his arrival. General Terry
declined to state who would compose his
staff or his personal arrangements for his
residence in Chicago. In his personal
appearance he is quite the opposite OF his
predecessor, General Schotield. He
stands several inches above the average
height and is not inclined in the least tc
corpulency. General Schofield will go te
New York next week.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15
TWO MORE BLAZEe.

A fourth fire started in the Cairo Shor
Line lumber yard, where a lot of dimen
| sion timbers for car construction wal
piled. There were also number OF cars
standing in close proximity, and they
commenced to blaze, attracting q crowd
of spectators in that immediate locality
The crowd stood leisurely and saw the
property consumed without making any
effort to save it.
Another blaze shot up in the vicinity OF
the Little roiling-mill, where there was q
number of Short-Line cars and cars be-
longing to various other roads. They
burned slowly, as there was but very
little wind blowing at 80 O'Clock this
morning, when East st. Louis was
Illuminated by four distinct and widely
separated blazes.
THE FIREMEN ORDERED OFF.
The ST. Louis fire department was neal
at hand and could have readily
extinguished the fires if the crowd
would have permitted them to do so
They had got the flames under con
troll at the second fire, about a thou
sand Yards below the shops, and would
have extinguished it if they had not been
interfered with by the strikers. About
1918 Assistant Chief Gross was helping
to push the burning cars from the train
with which they were connected when a
striker stepped up to him and said:
81 want to speak to you" Mr.. Gross
said he would give his attention in a mo-
ment, and allowed himself to be led from
the burning cars.
The striker said he represented a COM
mittee which had been instructed to in
form the fire department that they were
not wanted in East ST. Louis.
The Assistant Chief explained that he
had responded to the call of duty.
"Did you come here by the authority
of Mayor Joyce?" asked the mouthpiece
of the committee.
eyes,
"Take my advice. You had better
make sneak, anyway. 1t amt healthy
for you here.
it was no use staying there any longer,
and he withdrew his men and prepared to
return to ST. Louis. When they left, Mr..
Gross said it was useless for them to at
tempt to do anything. as the strikers
threatened their engineers, cut the hose
and had told him that they would not be
allowed to do anything.
The casualties occurring throughout
the evening to the firemen were the cases
of Denny Deering, of the Twenty-threes
Company, who fell through trestle ard
was nSneQ out with some dlfnculCy ana
sent home, and Roddy Walsh, of the
same company, who fell through the
trestle, but was not hurt.
THE CONFEDERATION SPREADING.
At the close of this report several new
fires have started up among the railway
property, the nature and extent Of which
is not known, however.
Another man was reported killed last
night, but nothing contirmatory has been
received. Greatest and most intense ex-
citement prevails, and there is no telling
to what extent the damage may go.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15
THE SECOND FIRE.

disturbance. The caboose belonged to
the Vandalia Line, while the boX-cars
were one Burlington Missouri River, a
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and a Chi
cage, Milwaukee & ST. Paul, all empty.
After the cars had nearly burned to the
ground chemical engine arrived and
played stream on the fire, but it did
little good and the firemen retired.
THIRD FIRE.
AtI2:l0 O'Clock the Waterman at the
Yards of the Cairo Short Line detected
another fire in the oil-sheds, which i'm
mediately burst forth and developed the
building i'm flames. 1t was a commodious
wooden structure, rendered additionally
infiammable by the oil with which
the floor was saturated. The fire,
fed by barrels of oil, swept
westward, and in few moments one OF
long train of freight cars on the nearest
track caught fire. The wind, which had
been driving the flames in the direction
of the round-house and shops, grew as
the intensity of the flames increased. The
fire crept along to the main buildings
and spread to another of the cars which
separated it from the shops.
Only few moments more
elapsed before the flames leaped
to the next parallel track, ana at one
O'Clock this morning there were six or
eight freight cars ablaze, and the shops
were menaced by the aggressive element:
An engine near the round-house whistled
continuously for assistance. The crowo
of spectators increased from minute 70
minute as the fire below faded out in the
night under the exertion of the st. Louis
fire department, and transferred the
theater of the excitement to the shops.
"Nothing can save the Shops" was the
general comment, and itbecame apparent
! that not only the buildings to which the
fire was tending were doomed, but also
half dozen long lines of loaded an0
empty freight cars which filed the inter
! vening space.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15
Militia on Guard.

EAST ST. Louis, ILL.,, April 1O.-Eight
companies of militia and one battery ar
rived during the night and are now station
ed over the different yards, guarding the
railroad property. The battery is from
Danville, and have a Calling gun, and the
infantry are from Vandalia, Greenville,
Sparta, Champaign, Decatur, Mas hville
and Springfield.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15

"A new clock is ad, er sed to run for
hundred centuries, When. the German
maker frankly adds, its ''mechanic
works will have to be changed
Iroy Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15

That was all he had to say on the subject of
the new Irish constitution.
The proportion OF Imperial burdens which
he had to propose that Ireland should bear
was one to fourteen. He thought that the
balance to it's credit, but the only fund that
1t would have if left alone would be the soil
Of no %av 'hs the
money except by carving it out Of this years
budget, and he proposed that in future Ire
land should pay one fifteenth toward the
RE then went on to speak OF how
much Ireland res gained by and ting
much Great Britain would lose
to Ireland by the flow Of money from one to
he stated with confidence, not as an actual
demonstration, but matter of certainty
the irish receipts gained from Great Britain
amounted to less than 81, 400 900. He then
entered into an elaborate calculation OF the
total income and expenditures of Ireland in
the course of which he stated that the total
charge to Ireland, as an imperial condition,
he put at f3.'42,000. He stated as an instance
of the intense
DECENTRALIZATION OF THE IRISH ADMINISTRA-
TON
that while the post office in England
showed large surplus It just paid its ex-
lures of Ireland, including a payment as
sinking fund as the Irish portion of the in.
was a total income Of $3.50, 600, or a surplus
to the government of f4o4 900.
Continuing, Mr Gladstone sail: )" 1t natur
ally has been said in England and Scotland
that we for great many years past have
been struggling to pass good laws for Ire
land We have sacrificed our time, neglected
our interests and paid our money, and we
have done all this in an endeavor to give
Ireland good laws. That is quite true with
regard to the general course of legislation
since 1S49 Many of those laws have been
passed under an influence which can hard
ly describe as the influence of fear. With
regard to the history OF the land question
no man could know that until he had fol :.
lowed 1t from year to year, beginning with
the Devon Commission, the appointment of
which, In my opinion, did the highest honor
and then to examine the mode in which the
whole labors of that commission had been
frustrated BY the dQminiQn Of saAfsh inter.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18

our early territorial days. To the cities ssthat
were, but are not" To the cities, to employ
the language of our spiritualistic friends,
which did not fully materialize; to the cities
of "a, and to the cities of 81.
Having said so much concerning the cities
of the past, what shall l say,
what can say, concerning the cities of the
present! What should l say? Or rather
why should say anything concerning them?
Are they not all there to speak for them
selves? And, if they cannot speak, have
they not all got steadfast friends and stall
wart champions to speak for them? Aye,
and if needs be to fight for them. Has
their light at any time been placed under
bushel! Could any description of mine do
justice to our cities? Could !, by
painting, beautify the rose? s'Behold,
then, and Judge for yourselves"
There Is Atchison and Leavenworth
and Wyandotte, and Lawrence, and Fort
Scott, and Ottawa, and Topeka, and Empo-
ria, and Wichita, and Manhattan, and juno
ton, and Salina, and Great Bend, and Hutch
inson, and Dodge and Garden City,
and hundred Others, which would
exhaust both the poet and the painter,
as well as the historian, to portray them in
all their effulgent glories. What the
jewels are to the crown! What the stars are t.
the armament, so are our cities to the broad
and splendid domain of our commonwealth.
And as the stars give life and light, and
beauty, and glory, and effulgence to the sky
above, so do our cities give life, and light,
and beauty, and glory, and effulgence to the
earth beneath.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18

Ferry raid, or five hundred such raids? Cook
aad been at Harper's Ferry some twelve
Nonths, and Brown and his followers four or
i've months, and yet not a slave had been en-
listed for the crusade by either. How much
effect would such raid have to produce Sc
.essiou or the abolition of slavery, with
Kansas and tho federal government in the
secure possessionof the south
No, no: the food tide of slavery extension
received its first permanent check in Kansas.
t was the refiuent wave from her borders
hat carried Abraham Lincoln into the white
house, drove the south into rebellion and
buried slavery SO deep that for it there can
De no resurrection; Not only is the state of
Kansas thus indebted to the territory,
out the late slave states that con-
tended so earnestly to extend their peculiar
institution, are doubly indebted. These
states have not only been redeemed from a
olighting curse, but have been prospered in
,very way as never before in their history.
So general and widespread is their prosper.
ity that so far as known not citizen can be
found in the eutire south who would re-
ings resulting from the territorial struggle
10 not stop here, for the nation itself has
been born again, with that birth which
brings with it ''peace on earth, and good
will to men," The old contentious, bitter
ness and irrepressible conflict between tho
north and the south have given place to mu-
tual respect, love and good will. The United
States now constitute Union in reality, as
well as in name, with like institutions, like as
pirations, and common destiny. Our Union
thus cemented, has become the envoy of all
nations. and terror to all enemies. The
freest, happiest and most prosperous people
ON the globe, we have become q place of
refuge for the oppressed of all nations. Such
being the result of the territorial conflict,
well may the contestants embrace each other
on the 18th birthday of this wonderful state,
and hencefoTth dwell together in unity, I'M
der a government that knows no north, no
south, no east, no west, but that is zone and
inseparable now and forever"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18
Census of March, 1885.
TOWNS AND CITIES.

| In 1860 there were only ten towns and cit
les in Kansas having a population in excess
| of 500 each; only three having over COO
each and only one having over {, 900 inhab-
itants. In 1880, ninety-nine towns each had
population in excess of 500; fifty five towns
and cities had each over 1000 inhabitants;
six had each over 5000; and three had over
| 1900 each. In 1885, each of 154 towns had
over 800 population; ninety-one towns and
! cities had each over ZOO: twelve had each
over 5000: six had each over 10000; four
had each over Is 600; and two had each moro
than 10000.
! ORIGIN AND CHARACTER OF THE POPULATION
| The origin and character of the population
in Kansas is, in this connection, worthy of
special note. Every state in the Union, and
every territory except Alaska, contributed to
the population of this state. The United
States census of 1880 shows that 233, OG6 per-
sons born in Kansas were then living in the
state. The singular fact that native born
Kansans were then living in every state and
territory, is shown by the same authority.
Illinois contributed 1O6,992 to our pOpula-
| ton: Ohio, 1886; Indiana. 77,096; Missouri,
GO,22S; Pennsylvania, IS, 236; Iowa, 55,972;
New York, 1919; and kentucky, 32,379.
Three other states, Tennessee, Virginia and
Wisconsin, each contributed over 15, 900; and
all others less than that number.
The same authority shows that tho 80
called exodus" from the south has been
greatly exaggerated; louisiana and Missis-
sppi furnishing only 4,O67 of our coiored
population, while nearly 1900 came from
the three states of Kentucky, Missouri and
Tennessee.
The colored people constitute, at tho pres
ent time, less than four per cent. Of our to-
tai population, and the inhabitants of for
eign birth little more than ten per cent. of
the total.
THE MATERIAL RESOURCES OF KANSAS.
The growth of our state in population has
its material resources. The United States
census of 1880 shows that while Kansas at
that date, ranked as the twentieth state in
population, it was the eighth state in the
number and value of its livestock, the seven
teenth in farm products, the fourteenth in
value of farm products per capita, the TWEEN
tleth In wealth, the thirteenth in education.
the seventeenth in the amount of it's indebt-
edness, state and municipal, and thu tven-
ty-fourth In manufactures. ONLY ona stafa
Nebraska, shows a smaller proportion of per-
sons unable to read and write. And in TWEEN
weight OF the forty-seve states and terri
tones, taxation, per capita, was greater than
it is in Kansas
In 1850 Kansas was the sixth corn,produc-
ing state OF the Union. Only Illinois, Iowa.
missouri, Indiana and Ohio then produced
larger crops of this cereal. But tho corn
product OF Kansas that year was only lOl.-
ellis bushels, while for tho year 1895 Il
was iS4 IDS buahela. q 1aae1,dopble TIA
crop Of 16dG
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18

LILO VI De2du III 1oIO
While the world was still talking of our stat
as drouth- powdered and insect-eaten coun.
try, Kansas was preparing for the Centenni.
al, and getting ready for a great future. And
in 1876 she sprang into the arena of nation.
with display of her products and resources
which eclipsed them all, and excited the
wonder and admiration of the whole civi.
GZed earth.
From that time to this the development O,
Kansas has never known a halt, nor have the
hopes of our citizens ever been troubled BY
a doubt More permanent and costly home.
have been builded, more stately public edi-
fees have been reared, more substantial i'm.
provements have been made on farms and in
towns, more wealth has been accumulated,
during the decade beginning in 1875, than
during the two previous decades. No citi.
zen of Kansas, from that day to this. has ev-
er written letter, made a speech. or talked
at home or abroad. with his fellow citizens
or strangers, without e1alting the resources
and clarifying the greatness of the state. No
legislature, since that time, has ever doubted
the ability of the state to do anything it
pleased to do.
A new Kansas has been developed during
that period. The youth of 1875 has grown
to the full stature and strength of confident
and intelligent manhood. The people have
forgotten to talk of drouths, which are no
more incident to Kansas than to Ohio OF
Illinois. They no longer watch the clouds
when rain has not fallen for two weeks. The
newspapers no longer chronicle rains as If
they were uncommon visitatious. A great
many things, besides the saloons, have gone,
and gone to stay. The bone hunter and the
buffalo hunter of the plains, the Indian and
his reservations, the jayhawker and the Wild
Bills, the Texas steer and the cowboy, the
buffalo grass and tho dug-outs, the loneIi.
ness and immensely Of tho unpeopled prai.
ries, the infinite stretching Of the plains,
unbroken by tree or shrub, by fencs OF
these have vanished, or are rapidly
vanishing. In their stead has come, an1
come to stay. an aggressive, energetic. -
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18
NOT THE HISTORIAN.

lam not, however, the historian of this
occasion. Very properly the committee as.
signed to my honored predecessor, tho first
governor of the state-vhoshas been vithand
Of il during all the lights and shadows OF
Vhirty-one revolving years-the duty of pre-
,entinQ an rhetorical sketch Of the difficulties
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18


coming administration"
Can it be possible that the effect OF
such raid as that at Harper's Ferry, almost
unanimously denounced by the whole north,
specially denounced in the platform of the
,arty, and the denunciations reiterated BY
its candidate, could be to aid in the election
If Mr.. Lincoln. To ask such a question is
% answer it. Not only did the raid not help
The republicans, but as soon as the facts were
pro-slavery members of the senate investi-
eating committee, Mason, Davis, Fitch, say
that not a single slave could be induced to
voluntarily join the raiders, and when arms
we're put in their hands they refused to use
them, and escaped from their captors as
soon as they could do SO with safety.
The republican members of this committee,
Collamer and Doolittle, said that "the les
sons which it teaches furnish many consider
atoms of security against its repetition.
The fatal termination of the enterprise
in the death and execution of so large part
OF the number engaged; the dispersion of
the small remainder as fuCitives in the land;
the enure CsIncIInatfon OF the slaves 70 m
surrection, Or to receive aid for that pur-
pose, which was there exhibited; the very
limited nunbe. and peculiar character of
the conspirators, all combine to furnish as
surance against the most distant probability
of its repetition" 1t is evident from all the
facts in the case. that this raid not only did
not help, but hindered the republican cause,
causing the rebellion, or the destruction of
and that it did not have feathers weight in
slavery in consequence of it.
Let US reverse the picture for moment.
Suppose, instead of a free state slave state
had been secured in Kansas with the power
to extend the institution at will, into all the
territories. Suppose, as a consequence, the
Kansas struggle had not made" a victorious
republican party in 1860, but had secured the
election of Breckenridge, the southern candi-
date for president, would tho south have
then seeded, and would slavery have been
ebolished? And would either event have
frnnsnired In consequence Of the HarDer's
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-01-16
The Stars Washington spec

The Stars Washington special
says: Your correspondent has
made careful canvass of the Sen.
ate, with the assistance of three Of
the most prominent members Of
that body. He finds out that the
following Democratic Senators will
stand with the President in his
financial view: Mcpherson, Gray,
German, Payne, Butler, Hampton,
Gibson and probable Wilson. On
the other hand, the two Oregon
Senators one from Nevada, two
from Colorado, two from Kansas,
two from Iowa, Sabin Of Minnesota,
one from Michigan, one from Wis
consin, Evarts of New York, Blair
Of New Hampshire, the two Vir-
ginia Senators and Don Cameron
Of Pennsylvania will stand by Beck
in his position on the silver ques-
ton. There are forty-five straight
silver votes in the Senate, besides
others who have not declared them
selves unreservedly.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-01-16
A STATE LOTTERY.

The Louisiana lottery is drawing
a great deal of money from this
State, and the money could just as
we'll be kept at home as not. The
Grass Valley Tidings has the fol-
lowing to say in this respect, and
its remarks apply equally well
here:
"California ought to have a lot
terry Of it's own, managed by a
Board of Commissioners. There is
nothing honest, decent, moral or
improving in lottery, but still this
State should run one: There is
everything dishonest, indecent, I'M
moral and debasing in State lot
terry, but still the State should
have one Of its own. Deal with
things as they actually are and not
with things as they should
be. This lottery should be estab-
lished and conducted for the pur-
pose of keeping at home the money
now sent to New Orleans by the
people of this State. That money
has made the New Orleans mana
gers very rich, enabling them to fly
high at Saratoga and other watering
places, and they build villas In
many pleasant locations, Califor-
MIA money ought to be given to
California lottery managers.
Some Of our ex-State officers, whom
juries pronounced innocent when
said officers were tried for taking
State money, would make excellent
lottery directors. Very many Cali
fornia people do send their money
away to the Louisiana concern, and
this State should open a hogglng
game of its own to accommodate
the gambling propensities of the
good people here. An amendment
which permits lotteries in this
State should be added to our con-
stitution.