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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-01-26
Senator PIumb's Successor.

We notice by the Emporia papers
that at the January meeting of the
board of directors of the Emporia Ma
tional Bank a new president has been
elected to succeed Senator Plumb, who
requested to be relieved, but remains
in the directory. The new executive
is gentleman widely known in the
financial circles of the west, an init
mate associate of the Senator and for
some fifteen years or more both have
been closely identified in business and
warm in friendship. Indeed 1T is fact,
at least well known to the business
community of Emporia, the former
home of the editor of this paper, that
ever since the election of Plumb to the
senate, Major Hood, the new president,
as vice-preSident has practically per-
he is just now only formally in
stalled.
We take the opportunity to heartily
endorse the local papers in their
Worthily bestowed compliments, and
wish to add this little testimonial of
the high character and esteem in
which Major Hood and the bank in
question, are held by those who are, OF
have been, a part of the business COM
of the most faithful men in business
we ever knew, prompt and methodical,
courteous and Of scrupulOus fidelity to
the large trusts he holds. He is most
valuable man to Emporia, and for that
city and her people has done many
acts of generosity, some of which have
been noted in the papers from time tC
time, but very many, we are confident.
have been known generally, only to
those most nearly concerned. The
liberality and kind heartedness OF
Major Hood have won him many
warm friends. among which the writer
trusts he is one.
No higher testimonial could be de
sired by the officer than the continu.
Gus success of the banking institution
over which he presides. The. Emporis
| National is one of the most solid in
situations in the state and has always
been so during its history. The CAPT
tai and surplus is nearly quarter of s
million and it is currently understood
that it has probably the wealthiest di
rectors in the state. The cashier, Cap
tain Heritage, has been associated al
such, we think, with the old and new
president for nearly score Of years
If the reader considers this an adver
tisement, he will please accept it TO
what it is worth, we believe we ar
only Voicing the general sentiments o
many other friends of Senator Plumb
and his associates. AS for Majo
Hood, aside from his warm devotion t.
his home, family and friends. hi
highest ambitions seems to be for bus
mess preferment. in which he certainl.
has proud record, and of which tn
recent selection is only formal recog
milton. We congratulate the bank ant
Emporia.-State Journal.
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Wretched men and women long con-
DENIED to suffer the fortunes of dyspep-
STA are filed with new hope after few
doses of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
This budding hope blossoms into the
frujtion of certainty, if the Bitters is
persisted in. 1t brings a reprieve to
all dyspeptics who seek its aid. Flatu-
lence, heartburn, sinking at the pit of
the stomach between meals, the ner-
Yous tremors and insomnia of which
chronic indigestion is the parent, dis
appear with their hateful progenitor.
Most bene6cent of stomachics! who
can wonder that in so many instances
it awakens grateful eloquence in those
who, benefited by it, speak voluntar-
lily in its behalf. 1t requires a graphic
pen to describe the torments OF dys-
pepsia. but in many of the testimoni-
ais received by the proprietors of the
Bitters, these are portrayed with vivid
truthfulness. Constipation, bilious
ness, muscular debility, malarial fevers,
and rheumatism are relieved by it.
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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 16, 1885,
The law makers are endeavOring to
make the Capital City a model of NOR
ality, and may they have success in
their laudable purpose, although there
are many cities that cannot boast of
as much morality as Washington. But
still, the people here want to leave as
little temptation as possible before the
statesmen away from home, and so
clasp hands with the representatives
in the good work. One day during the
week Representative Cutcheon intro
duced bill in the house, providing
that within ninety days after its pas
sage there should be held in the district
an election to determine whether any
Intoxicating beverage shall be made or
sold here. The temperance people are
pushing the measure with vigor, and
if the bill passes congress, the measure
will be carried by an overwhelming
majority. Later in the same week
Senator Blackburn introduced in the
senate. a bill making it unlawful in
this city to bet, gamble or make any
books and pools on the result of race
of any kind. the result will be to
greatly purify the moral atmosphere of
the city and make it a desirable place
of abode for all congressman the year
round.
A bill that meets with general APP
prevail in many of its provisions is one
introduced by Representative MacDon-
aid to simplify the rules of evidence in
pension cases. It provides that the ac-
ceptance of soldier into the service
shall be evidence enough of his sound
ness at the time of enlistment, assum-
ing that if he is good enough subject
to be accepted, and to fight, he IS en-
titled to a pension for disability in
CURED in the service. At present the
pension Office requires proof that the
soldier was sound in body when he en-
listed, no matter whether he served
faithfully for three years or longer,
and it resolves all presumptions against
the soldier, while the proposed bill pro-
vides that all preSumptionS shall be in
favor Of the applicant.
The bill proposed by the ''great
objector," Holman. of Indiana. limit
ing three years after the passage of
his bill, as the time for presentation
and payment Of claims against the
versely by the committee on the
judiciary, to which it was referred.
The reception at the White House,
on Thursday night to the Diplomatic
corps, was one of the most brilliant
ever witnessed. The parlOrS
were deliberately decorated with
the rarest flowers and plants, and the
court costumes We'd in their beauty
with the beauties of nature. The
attendance was large, and the guests
assembled early and the reception
lasted until IL o'clock. The English
Minister was accompanied by Sir John
Chamberlain, the English Fish Com
missioner and that worthy was envel-
oped in as much gold cord as any of the
other foreign diplomats. II.
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several resident properties in the citya
but all are completely covered with
mortgages. The stock that is left
which is very little, is also covered
very deep in chattel mortgages. The
Emporia National bank hold a little
less than 5000 of his paper, with
very little security. The Citizens
bank hold 5000 with good security
for part Of it. Joe Eckers, a farmer
west of the city, who bought crib of
corn of him, is also left for a few
hundred. One or two of the dry goods
merchants of the city have
large accounts with him with very
little to secure them. He has hereto
fore been considered well-to-do and has
dealt very heavy in the cattle trade.
The depression of the stock business
has had something to do with his fail
ure to meet accounts, and from a few
letters of his private correspondence il
will be seen that he has been support.
| ing others beside himself.
Major Hood informed a NEWS rep
resentative Friday that he had tele
graphed to different parts of the coun
try and was going to bring him back il
possible.
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Worth Knowing.


Mr.. W. II. Morgan, merchant, LAX
City, Fla, was taken with severe
Cold. attended with a distressing
Cough, and running into Consumption
in its first stages. He tried many so
called popular cough remedies and
steadily grew worse. Was reduced in
fies b, haddificulty in breathing and
was unable to sleep. Finally tried DIR.
King'sN Discovery for Consumption
and found immediate relief, and after
using about a half dozen bottles found
himself well and has had no return of
the disease. No other remedy can
show so grand a record of cures, as
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption Guaranteed to do just what
is claimed for it.-Trial bottle free at
B. Wheldon's Drug Store.
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experience in railway train SER
vice. The chief examiner is to
have a salary of $500 and the
assistants 81 800. The board is to
meet at Washington once a year and
with the aid of the secretary Of the
treasury, map out the work for the
examiners. The board will also have
power to revoke the licenses of con-
ductors who violate the oath which they
must take when receiving them. This
is another outcropping Of the doctrine
Of paternal government. Why not
put the railroad directly under the
control of the government? It
would be quite as consistent. If rail-
road companies that are responsible
for all damages totravelers or for loss
of freight, have not sense enough
to select the most competent and re-
liable men for conductors, they should
be wiped out. Cummings is famous
newspaper man. He ought to intro
duce a bill requiring competitive ex
animation by government officials FOL
the conductors of newspapers. We
suppose his first effort would b.
directed to make Pulitzer move on
The government ought not to under
take to do anything that private enter
prise can do as well, or better-Daytol
Journal
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Card OF Chanka

Hartford Post, 1856, G. a. R., at
their last regular meeting offered
the following resolutions: Be it unan-
imously
Resolved, That the officers and mem
bers of Hartford Post 1856, extend our
congratulations and hearty thanks to
Colonel A. NJ. Flory and Judge Charles
Fletcher, of Emporia, for their attend
ance and participation in our public in
stallation, and the pleasure they af-
forded us by their eloquent speeches
in recounting the events of army days.
And be it further
Resolved, That the Hartford Call
deserves our good will and thanks, for
the many kind favors it has shown the
order. And
Resolved further, That we would be
ungrateful if we failed to acknowledge
and appreciate the excellent music fur
nished by the choir and Rogan's Or
chestra: and also, the many kind
friends who contributed so literally to
our bounteous supper on the occa-
sion.
Resolved, That copy of the ferego.
| ing resolutions be furnished the Hart
ford Call" and the Emporia papers fol
publication.
THOMAS CAMPBELL,
w. II. FLICKINGER,
B. F. W. PERRY,
4 NrNTNaT
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PROTEOTTNG KANsAs.


The urgent need Of an authoritative
denial Of false reports abOIt the raw
ages of cold weather in Kansas does
not seem to be understood by few ex-
changes in that state which have COM
mented on the dispatch sent out by
the Times to the Associated press.
The night before extravagant state
ments had been sent from Topeka by
boyish correspondents of papers In
Chicago and the east. The Associated
press agent in Kansas City, where the
news from Kansas is made up for trans
mission to the east, received peremp-
tory orders Monday night to report
fully news Of damage from cold. The
Topeka falsehoods had put him before
the central Office at Chicago in
the light of suppressing news.
He was in an unpleasant posi-
ton, having no dispatches upon which
i to base a story of suffering. The
/ Times saw that positive denial from
a responsible authority was necessary
/ to prevent a revival of the exaggerated
accounts formerly sent by money.
making correspondents in Topeka and
Wichita and to check the Associated
press in its tendency to accept the
falsehoOds as truth. Kansas had to DC
protected and The Times has been toC
active in its friendship for the STATE
connected with this city by every til
of commerce and good feeling to hest
tate in such an emergency. III!
Times is proud to say that its dispatcl
has had the desired effect and that TIN
Associated press, at least, will not LEM
itself to the dissemination of anothe
batch of wanton lies.-K. G. Times.
DR.. MunfOrd is deserving of tn
, thanks of every lover of the state o
, Kansas for the manner in which he II
futed the false stories which were en-
enating from unscrupulous correspond
ents. who were paid according to tn
number of words they sent. Telegram
were also received at this Office frol
eastern papers asking for informatio
as to lack of fuel and reported suffe
ing in Kansas, which were answere
3 by giving the truth. These reports SCI
4 out from Emporia, however, owing
e lack of Sensational matter, were M
= quoted SO freely as the ones made up
lies. In some instances they were NJ
published, the papers sending for the
> either thinking they were untrue I
preferring to publish the more sens
tional dispatches from the WIGHT
liars. While we do not agree in a
things with the Times, We do thirk thi
D as a newspaper it is grand succe
l., and that in all matters it aims to do Il
t square thing by the state in which
: very large proportion of its readers T
| side.
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society made the beginning Of its library
in bookcase in the state auditors Of
fee. Its domicile was under the sem
ate stairway, in the northwest corner
of the east wing of the State house.
Its third home was room on the lower
floor, on the north side Of the east
wing. When the west wing was COM
pleted the present rooms were occu-
pied and were believed to be spacious
enough to last twenty years. Four
years ago the rooms were crowded, and
there was an overflow into a large un-
finished room in the basement. The
society is not yet thirteen years old, it
has upwards of 40, 900 volumes, and
still our friends in this State and in
other States are sending US precious
gifts, and we care for them the best We
can. Last year Judge Adams had
bookcases made and placed in the hall
Of this wing, and some people stuck up
their noses and said it was desecra-
ton OF these handsome corridors. MIR.
Dennis, the State librarian, has had
| similar cases made and placed in the
halls OF the east wing. He also had an
overflow that filed one room in the
cellar. The State library is also grow
/ ing with great rapidly. But the walls
of the central building of our capitol
are now going up with reasonable
speed, and the State house commits
sioners assure US that both libraries
shall have ample room when that lofty
building is completed.
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A NOVEL contest is going on. a
western paper claimed that A. w.
Smith could walk away with ''three
bushels of wheat" The Ottawa Re
publican says o. c. Gillette, of that
city, can tote four bushels of wheat,
and is therefore, better candidate for
governor" A northern paper declares
that Web McNan, of Gaylord, can
stand up under five bushels, and for
that reason is the only man qualified,
but it now comes to light that Jim
Hallowel can lift a man who has 100
bushels of condensed state, beneath his
vest and therefore Jim should be gov
ernor. None of these men have the
voices, belonging only to Funston and
Smith, with their $4,000 volume, all
sound and no substance.-K C.
Journal.
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Representative Cummings of New
York has introduced in the house a
bill providing for the license of rail-
way conductors. The bill is the one
recommended by the National Associ-
alton of Railway Conductors at their
recent convention. 1t prohibits the
employment by railway companies of
conductors unless they shall be first en-
amined and procure license from the
examining board created by the bill.
This board is to be under the control
of the treasury department, and is to
consist Of chief examiner and several
assistant examiners, each to be selected
for his knowledge, skill and practical
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THERE are very grave reasons to be-
lieve that the confirmation of Mr.. La
mar was secured by bargain between
the president on the one hand. and SEN
ators Stanford and Stewart, who gave
the decisive vote for Mr.. Lamar. on the
other. The following special CORES
pondence of the Globe-Democrat re-
veals some interesting circumstances
connected with the confirmation:
1t now leaks out that Senator STAN
ford was the first to move that the in
junction of secrecy be removed as soon
as the confirmation was made, and upon
his motion the democrats, with the aid
of himself and Senator Stewart, Or
dered the action of the senate commu-
nicated at once to the president. Sena-
tor Stanford's eagerness in the matter
has since aroused the suspicious of his
fellow senators on the republican side,
and even the democrats are in
clined to feel shy of the Californian and
his ''me to" follower. 1t is now alleged
openly, and without contradiction that
the president purpoSely withheld the
Pacific railroad report as sort of club
to be used in the Lamar controversy,
and that he used it with effect, the
consideration of the change of policy
being the votes of the two Pacific rail-
road senators to secure the confir-
nation of the Mississipian. One of the
stipulations which these two senators
made, it is said, was the removal of
Sparks, and later the removal of LIE
Barnes, the chief law clerk in the gen.
eral land Office. Mr.. Lamar and the
president succeeded jointly in GUST
ing Mr.. Sparks, and Mr.. Lamar's
last official act as secretary of the in
terror was the removal of lie Barnes.
who, it now transpires was the author
of the reform" decisions so obnoxious
to the land-grabbers. These matters
are now common talk in political Cir
cles, and there is much speculation as
| to what the reform administration may
do next
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THE Abilene Gazette, which is
claimed to be the leading democratic
organ of this state, says:
Now is the time for the democrats of
Kansas to cast about for a gubernato-
rial candidate.
For the benefit of THE Gazette the
name of Hon. H. c. Norton of this city,
is suggested. Two other prominent
democratic names from this city are
mentioned elsewhere in an extract
from the Kansas City Times, either of
which would do to use for such a pur-
pose.
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Some days ago We promised to pub
lish the military history Of Col. J. w.
Feighan, Emporia's candidate for de-
partment commander, and In compli-
anee with said promise give our read
ers to-day the following circular issued
by Emporia Post IS, G. A. B., which
speaks for itself and answers al that
was promised:
HEADQUARTERS EMPoRIA PosT No.
IS. G. A. r., DEPT OF KANSAS.
EsIPoRIA, Lyon Co., Kas., Nov. 5, 's7. }
To ALL COMRADES, GREETING:
At a regular meeting of Emporis
Post No. 5, G. A. R., held November 5
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ON Wednesday last the manager of
the Lily Clay company billed Milwau
kee with posters of such character as
TO impel the modest mayor to order
them taken down or the indecent por-
tions covered up. Dates and figures
were pasted over the nude figures, and
the performance was subsequently at
tended by an unusually large audience.
The mayor had unintentionally helped
TO advertise the show.
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Matthew Brown recovered $500
damage from Putnam yesterday before
Judge Evans. twill be remembered
that Putnam fled a complaint against
Brown some weeks ago, charging him
with feloniously breaking down gate
to secure some wood Brown had pur-
chased. This case was discharged and
Brown brought suit to recover the cost
of this same wood.
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Said to Hsye Sknppea Oue.

.Rumors have been afloat in the last
day or two that Elijah Moore, an old
resident of Lyon county, had left for
parts unknown and left several credi-
tors with very little or no security.
From Maj. Hood and Hon. VIM. Jay
We gather the following facts: Mr..
Moore is bachelor and has lived on
farm and rancho west of the city for
over twenty-five years until year
ago, since when he has resided in the
city. He cwns considerable land and
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THAT the joints are not all closed in
Wichita or Atchison-we are not sure
which-is evident from the following
item from the Atchison Champion.
No such head could be found outside
of a joint: "a citizen of Wichita,
Kansas, has an interesting specimen
of ancient American art. 1t is head
cut in Dakota sandstone, and was
found on the Saline river, in Kansas,
near some sandstone ledge. The face
is nearly all nose, but the eyes, ears
mouth and nostrils are well defined,
and also bands running around the
top of the head.''
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THE postal regulation requiring post
masters to charge one cent on letters
published as non-delivered, usually
known as advertised letters, has been
revived. 1t is an old law which has
been dropped from the revised post
office code and consequently went out
OF use, but the law has never been re-
pealed, and is now to be enforced as
before its omission.
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THE Abiline Gazette Says the
Topeka papers have not presented any
defense against capital removal. We
believe the Gazette is right. And, by
the-way, the Topeka papers, so far we
have noticed, have also neglected to
present any defense against removing
the Kaw river. The Gazette should
attend to this. Why not make one
job of the whole thing, and take both
to Abilene at the same time?
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Rena,Ve Her Youth

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson. Clay
Co., Iowa, tells the following remark
able story, the truth Of which is
vouched for by the residents Of the
town: ST ann % years old, have been
troubled with kidney complaint and
lameness for many years; could not
dress myself without help. Now I am
free from all pain and soreness, and am
able to do all my own housework. I
owe my thanks to Electric Bitters for
having renewed my youth, and removed
completely all disease and pain Try
q bottle, SOC. and 81. at Ben Wheldon's
Drug Store.
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THE following item is we'll worth
persual and consideration by some of
our young single ladies. On those
married of course it will be without
effect.
A good looking girl who removed
ably seated in the theatre, had four
offers of marriage inside of twenty
four hours, and she deserved them.
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BURLINGTON Republican: We had
thought no bigger fool could be found
than the men who named their papers
the Thomas County Cat, the Soap Box
or the Razzooper, but there has. 1t is
the man who has discarded a decent
name and called his paper the Giasti-
cutus. He lives in Kansas, too.
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If Arbuckle, the coffee man, had
adopted the language and sentiment of
the poet when corresponding with
the fair lady of Ironton, he would
have written this OF the his and ks
which were so munificently rendered
by mail:
Thanks 10 my gentle, absent friend
A kiss you, In your letter send;
But. ah, the thrilling charm Is lost
In letters that arrive by post;
That fruit can only luscious be
When gathered melting from the tree
Such a missive read in open court
would have been received with rap
turous applause.
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THE plate telegraph paper yesterday
showed its usual enterprise and the
beauties of its system of obtaining
news. Under an Emporia date of the
18th it had report of the accident on
the Howard branch that occurred on
Tuesday morning. Better late than
never, however