The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-01
KANSAS kOIES.

congressman refers competitor,
Charles s. Eby is sick in bed.
Fred Douglas will lecture in Novem-
Der at Atkinson, Leavenworth and To-
peka.
Atchison had a democratic torch
light procession last Friday night of 500
torches.
n Hutchinson man found nothing in
South America to compare in excel
lence with the town of salt and pork.
Kansas produced this year more
wheat, both winter and spring, than
any year since 1884. and the biggest
yield OF corn since 1885.
In the neighborhood of Garden City
prairie chickens are fiocking by the
thousand. They are said to have come
from Nebraka and Iowa where they
were starving.
The total value OF farm lands in
Kansas last year, according to the re-
port of the state board of agriculture
just out, is 1888 DO. 155, and of farm
ing implements So, 332, 534.
In spite of, or perhaps because of the
temporary depression, in Santa Fe
stock lately, Colonel G.. K. Holiday of
Topeka invested $60, 900 in it at Boston
last week, says a Kansas editor.
Mrs. Langtry's appearance in Law
renee Thursday evening was undoubt-
edly the social event of the week. The
opera house was filed to it's utmost ca
pacity with the elite of the city, and
while the ladies did not, as rule, fancy
the Lily" it is reported she captiva-
ted a number of the stronger sex
Lawrence Journal.
Leavenworth accounts for Topeka's
larger registration by saying that in
the latter city there is large number
of young men working in the railroad
Offices on short Salaries. while in Leav-
enworth with a larger population, sal
aries are good and men marry young.
salaries in the latter city go TO Tope-
ka and work for small ones.
Prof. Snow has returned from the
nickel mines IN Russell county, and
says that the Indications are not very
| favorable for the metal.$ The geolog-
ical formation is not such would war
rant the belief that there is nickel
there in paying quantities. Prof.
Snow examined some specimens and
found only one-tenth to one-third of
| one per cent of nickel in connection
with cobalt.-State journal.
There is movement on foot to Or
] ganiZe company of AtchisOn capital
| lists to engage in the manufacture of
| agricultural implements. 1t is argued
| that Kansas uses more implements of
| that kind than any other state in the
| union, according to its population. and
/ they should be made at home. Piows,
cultiva:ors, hay-rakes, hoes, garden
rakes and a great many other nipple
! mentS could be manufactured in Atchi-
son cheaper that in states farther east.
| 4 factory of that kind would therefore
| paw large dividend from the very be
ginning.-Atchison Champion.
Lord seokvills Vests Letter
For the satisfaction of our readers
we give below Minister Vests letter
to Murchison at Los Angeles, Califor-
MIA.
BEVERLY, Mass, Sept. l3, 1885,
Sir: l am am In receipt of your letter
of the 4th inst, and beg to say that
| fully appreciate the difficulty in which
You find yourself in casting your vote.
| You are probably aware that any po-
litieal party which openly favored the
mother county at the present mo
ment " ould lose popularity, and that
| the party in power is fully aware Of
| this fact. The party, however, Is,
! believe, still DESTROYS of maintaining
| friendly relations with Great Britain.
and is still as DESTROYS OF settling all
| questions with Canada, which have
been unfortunately reopened since the
retraction of the treaty by the Repub
lican majority in tie Senate. aud by
| the Presidents message, to Which you
aIIude. All allowances must, there
fore, be made for the political situa-
tion as regards the presidential election
thus created. IL is, however. impos-
sible to predict the course which Presi-
dent Cleveland may pursue in the mat
ter of retaliation, should he be elected;
/ but there is every reason to believe
that, while upholdiBg the position he
has taken, he will manifest q spirit of
Cancellation in dealing with the ques-
| ton involved in his message. en-
close an article from the New York
Times OF August p, and remain, yours
faithfully, L. ). SACKyILLE WEST.