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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

The following was the testimony
given at the coroner's inquest by the
Emporia victims of the cable accident
in Kansas City:
P. E. Stromberg came forward limp
ing. He is the Emporia gentleman who
was on the runaway train, and whose
stirring experience was told in the
Times yesterday. He was in the pas
senger coach, the seating capacity of
which was fully tested.
t'You remained in the car all the way
down?"
down. was the only one, so far as 1
know, who jumped off the coach.
When stopped rolling 1 found myself
hanging to the railing. AS l fell the
coach struck me in the hip. About the
time gained my feet the train struck
the one standing below.
The testimony of Mr.. Stromberg
brought out curious coincidence. He
was with Mr.. Peters, also of Emporia.
IF this cable should break where
would we go to?'' Mr.. Peters had just
asked him.
so, we'd stop right here" replied
Mr.. Stromberg, 'the brakes would stop
u.s.
''I'd just said this" said Mr.. Strom-
berg in his testimony yesterday, when
some one ran through the car and be-
gan putting on the brakes. jumped
to help him. We were nearly half way
down then. When we were nearly at
the top of the hill 1 felt a jarring as if
the brake was being applied but would
not hold.''
To a juryman the witness said he
didn't look particularly, but he
thought there was no brakeman at the
rear end when he boarded the train.
That was where the man ran to put
on the brake when the train started
back. It seemed to have no effect.
]. D. Peters, also of Emporia, was
the coach as 1t went down the plane.
He was not certain whether there was
| brakeman on the rear platform when
the train started. He noticed that the
car stopped before it reached the top
| of the incline.
''This made me nervous" said Mr..
Peters. "Then I noticed a jerk
we were going down hill and
passing the train on the other
track, which was also going down. An
employe of the road rushed through
| the car from the grip car and put on
the brake. I could have jumped then,
as we were going comparatively slow,
but waited for the action of the brake.
The employe turned the brake one way
| and then back the other way,
unless there are two brakes
| there 1t had no effect
that could see in checking the speed
of the train. My father started to jump
| of. told him it wouldn't do. Dragged
| him to the east end of the car and told
him to brace himself. Then / pro-
ceeded to brace myself, just as the col
lision occurred. crouched down and
held my place when the crash came.
My father was thrown clear to the 9TH
er end of the car and there were two
men on top of him. There was no one
at the brake at the east end of the car,
am positive"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16
Letter From Rev. Lott.


WATERTOwN, OAK, Feb. 4, 1888.
EDITOR NEWS: - My old friends
in Kansas may desire to know
how we are fiourishing in the land of
billiards and fuT overcoats. We are
we'll, happy and unusually hungry.
Do not infer that we have nothing to
eat; such is not the case. This is a
land of plenty; plenty to eat and ap-
petites to eat it. The great blizzard"
of which you have all heard much is q
thing of the past, to be forgotten when
the bright sunshine returns again in
the spring. There is no use denying
that there was great loss of life in the
northwest, especially IN the southern
part of this territory, more than in the
northern part. This is possibly ex-
planned by the character Of the snow
and the time of day of its coming. 1t
struck this city about p. m. No one
was lost in this county. Some were
caught out and suffered much; yet no
one died. / was in Sioux
Falls, ITO miles southeast OF
here. 1t was terrible to see. Men
were unable to reach their homes. In
the city, it was at time of day when
schools were closing in that part OF
the territory. Many teachers refused
1
Those who undertook it were lost.
The snow would fill the eyes of those
who had to face it. Horses nostrils
| would close, and they would fall for
want of breath. One man declares
| that it filled a tool chest with snow,
that had no opening, but the key hole.
| 1t would suck right in. Some say
they have seen worse storms. l never
have. One would imagine he could
L hut foiI NUh
| trying it. With the exception of that
day we have found nothing unbearable.
People are as comfortable here as in
Kansas. People will go out more here
with the thermometer at 80, than in
Kansas at zero. January Is, it was
45 below zero, yet we had a fair at
tendance at our morning service, and
a good audience at the Y. M. G. A.
I spoke of SINK Falls as was there
week, as no trains were running. Coal
has not varied IN price during the
winter. Hard coal has been SO dol
lars ton all the time. We
have burned little over two
tons, using a gasoline stove in an adj
joining room. We can usually warm
three room with one stove.
| Some of my statements may seem
unreasonable to you Kansas people, sc
they would to me had never tried it
Our health has been unusually good
Some of us have had bad colds. Some
of US felt little evidence of cold the
first Of the week while it was thawine
for the first. The weather has beer
very fine for the past two weeks. II
has spoiled the sleighing for the pres
emit. 1t is a little colder to-day-1t
above zero in the shade. From what
can learn infer that the shortness Of
the growing season, and not the cold
winter, is. the bane of this country
Our work is growing some now in the
cold weather. We have as yet no de
sire to return to Kansas.
More anon. r. L. LOTT.
P. Stocking out of the window
: see the air is full of snow this after
noon, and the prospect is favorable fol
q cooling OFF. - B. i. i.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16
ORATORICAL.
The Contest Results in a Victory for
the State University.
Baker University Second, the Nor
NAL and Washbu.n Third.
The College of EmpOria at the End
of the List.

Friday at the Baker University
in Baldwin City the annual oratorical
contest took place. This was an i'm
portant event and the six schools that
had contestant did their best to Sc
cure good representative. The
schools represented were State uniyer-
sity, State Normal, Washburn college,
Baker university, Ottawa university
and the College of Emporia. The
representatives from this city were Mr..
McClintoek of the Normal and Miss
Lulu Barnett of the college. These
were each accompanied by two dele
gates appointed by their respective
schools.
After the close OF the Normal socie-
ties last night in this city, the pupils
and faculty gathered in the assembly
room to await telegram from the con
test. The waiting students were en-
tertained in one way and another unit
II O'Clock, when it was learned that II
telegram could reach this city from
Baldwin City until this morning. Thu
anxious students then dispersed.
This morning the following Telegram
was received by A. r. Taylor, presi
dent of the Normal:
A. r. Taylor:
University first, Baker second, Nor
NAL and Washburn third.
(Signed) RHODES.
Mr.. Rhodes is one of the delegate
from the Normal. Prof. KingerY o
the college also received dispatch sim
liar to the one above, excepting it con
veyed the information that the Colleg
of Emporia was the last on the list.
The winning man is L. A. Stebbins
Mr.. Anderson was the Representative,
of Baker, and Mr.. Erickson of Topeka
represented Washburn.
The delegates from this city will no
be home until late tonight. as they
were compelled to remain and maxi
arrangements for the contest mex
wear
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16


SPEARvILLE BLADE: A sick and dis
gusted lot of passengers were on the
east-bound train Wednesday, return
ing from their trip to California. They
were very much surprised at the fine
appearance of this part of the country,
and one man declared that this was a
far better looking town than Los An
geles. 1t must be an i'll wind, indeed,
that blows nobody any good. Who
knows but that, after all, the great to-
do about the golden state, that has car
ried so many past our doors in the
night time, will be of some little bene-
at to us by bringing at least few
back over TINS part Of the road in day
light and permit their seeing what a
beautiful country we really have.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

Governor Martin on Thursday is
sued his Arbor Day proclamation. It
is as follows:
The designation by the Executive, OF
a day to be devoted TO the planting of
trees has been approved by public SEN
timent and is justified by the expert
ence and good results Of former years.
Therefore, 1, John A. Martin, Gov
ernor of Kansas. do hereby designate
and appoint Wednesday, April 4th, as
Arbor Day, and do request the people
of Kansas to devote that day TO- the
planting of trees, forest, fruit, shade
or ornamental, around their homes lin
their fields, along the highways, and
in the grounds surrounding schools
churches and other public buildings
The officers of the several school dis
tricts of Kansas, and the teachers en-
ployed in the public schools, are espec
tally urged to give attention to the
planting of trees in school grounds and
parks.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

On the 9Th of December last, Cap
tain Eric Won Alexson and Captain
Polly Bryan, Of the Salvation Army,
were married at Little Falls, N. Y
Polly was pretty, and knew it, and to
highten her charms, she wore hustle.
This disguised the hallelujah shriekers
who had assembled to witness the
ceremony, and worked up the feelings
OF General Moore to such a pitch that
he entered an oral remonstrance. His
first and all subsequent protests fell
upon unheeding ears. Polly liked the
hustle, and, woman-like, resolved to
wear it no matter what happened.
The result is that she and her hus-
band have been deprived of their COM
missions, and are no longer permitted
to beat the bass drum, blow the horn,
or shout GLORY in the street parades.
Their revenue has also been cut of,
and as they must live they propose to
recruit an opposition army on the
broad and eternal principal that the
present army in an unmitigated fraud
and has been doing some very crooked
work. Schlsms and heresies are part
Of the history of all great religious Or
CARNATIONS, but this is the first time,
so far as is known, that a schism has
besn caused by so simple thing as a
Woman's hustle.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

Rev. F. d. 10y ,Eof Americas, was in
the city on his return home from Otta-
wa where he has been as conference
evangelist assisting the Rev. j. NJ.
Frame, pastor of the Methodist Prot
estant Church of North Ottawa, in a
protacted meeting which was COM
menced on last New Years eve and is
still in progress with most gratifying
results at each meeting, sixty-eight
conversions having been made and the
interest still increasing. Mr.. 10y may
return to render further assistance ii
his health permit, he being worn out
with excessive labor. The meeting
has been one of remarkable success
the result being largely due to Mr.
Logs pulpit efforts.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

THE possibilities are that Senator
Plumb, when referring to Oklahoma
matters, knew what was for the best
interests of Kansas as state fully as
well as did the boomers who assembled
at Kansas City. What may be of ma
terial interest to one or two border
towns, may be of deadly damage to the
rest of the state. This is worthy of
serious consideration.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

BLIZZARD romances are beginning to
come in from Dakota, and one of the
most entertaining is that of a man
who disemboweled large OK, crawled
inside, pulled the hole in after him, and
slept there quite comfortable all night,
but awOke in the morning to find the
carcass frozen so solid that he couldn't
get out. With the further details of
his rescue by passers by, who heard
his mutfled cries and chopped him out
with an axe, this narrative is one of
absorbing interest.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16
LIBBY PRISON.

A company has been formed In Chi
cago for the purpose Of removing the
famous, or rather infamous, Libby
prison from Richmond, Virginia, to
Chicago.
The building is built OF red brick,
three stories high, and covered with an
old-fashiOned gabled roof. 1t fronts
on Carey street, and runs back almost
to the James river, the first story in
the rear being the basement in the
front. 1t was built in the good old
fashioned. substantial manner, which
| is distinguishing feature of the plain
architecture of the south, and is aa
solid to-day as when erected, over fifty
years ago. 1t contains about six hun
bred thousand bricks, stone caps and
sills, and is surrounded on three sides
by a stone sidewalk. It can be taken
down, removed and rebuilt just
as it now stands in Richmond
The company propose to number
every brick, stone and shingle. The
building will be taken down in sec.
lions, and the material will be boxe(
up and transported by rail to Chicago
They viii carefully draw every mai
that has not rusted away, and grind III
the mortar and use it, as far as posi-
BILE, in the rebuilding. Every beam
joist, door and window viii be set il
place. The cost of the enterprise vii
be about $500 600. II will be surrounds
by another building, 200 by $50 feet
with a glass roof, and on the wall Oppc
site the rear of the prison will b
painted a panoramic view Of the Jane
river and the country beyond. Josia
Crafty, one Of the incorporators, i
talking of the scheme, said: "It shout
be understood that there is no idea @
waving the bloody shirt in this; it
simply a business speculation for whs
there is in it,"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

IN 1851 Kansas ranked as the thirty
first state in the union; in 1870 it was
the twenty-ninth; in 1880 the twentieth;
and it is now the fifteenth. During
the past quarter of century kansas
has outstripped Oregon, Rhode Island,
Florida, Arkansas, Vermont, New
Hampshire, Connecticut, Maine, Min
nesota, Maryland, Mississippi, Califor-
mia, North and South Carolina, Ala
bama, Wisconsin and New Jersey.
The people Of Kansas are restless for
progress; new manufactures are build
ing, railroads are being constructed,
school houses are almost within
stones throw of each other, and indus
trial development has already brought
leisure for intellectual pursuits.-NeW
York World
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

a SAN FRANCISCO paper says there
are not less than 10000 men out of en-
ployment in that city at present, with
the prospect that the number will be
considerably increased before spring.
The demand for female help is greater
than the supply, but every branch of
male labor is filled to overlooking.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

ATTORNEY GENERAL BRADFORD
has issued a circular to county
treasurers informing them that the
courts have refused the application of
the Pullman Palace Car company for
an injunction restraining the collect
ions oftaxes against the company for
the year 1885, the same are now collect
able. He also informs them that a
temporary injunction having been
granted against the collection of taxes
for 1887, the taxes for that year are
not now collectable. The result of this
has been that at Halstead on wednes-
day night the sheriff levied upon and
chained to the track Pullman coach
on the Santa Fe road for the taxes due
to Harvey county from the Pullman
company for the year 1885.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

THE Hutchinson board of trade has
published an invitation to all the real
estate men of the Arkansas valley and
the southwestern counties, to meet at
Hutchinson on the 18th inst, for the pur-
pose of taking measures to secure a
fair share of the immigration which is
expected to pour into Kansas this
spring.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

Miss MINNIE FREEMAN, the little
Nebraska school teacher who saved
the lives of her pupils at the risk Of her
own, is as modest as she is brave. 81
feel" she says in a note to the Omaha
Bee, Il feel that too much has already
been said of an act of simple duty. No
toriety do not desire.'
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

THE Atchison Champion, the Topeka
Commonwealth and the Capital all
still use the second page for editorials.
This, however is no indication that
either or any of them are second-class
journals. 1t merely proves the old as
sertion: at is hard to learn old dogs
now tricks -
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

THE State Temperance alliance is
shaking the knout over the head of the
republican party, and threatning to
castigate it unless it meekly consents
to pass every measure the ''cranks''
may formulate. To party of spirit
defeat would be preferable to this
slavish subsection to an organization
dominated by fanaticism. How much
longer viii the republicans stand FTP
OF course, If they rebel they will lose
control Of the state, but rebellion is
better than poltroonery and serfdom.
And if independent republicans should
rebel they would have the satisfaction
Of knowing that their fate would be
shared by the prohibitionists. When
ever the republican temple falls it will
bury prohibition in its ruins.-Du-
buque Telegraph.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

THE Christian at Work is printed on
the same press that prints the Police
Gazette; but there is nothing more re-
markable in this than in the fact
that the type which is one day used
in a newspaper Office to describe a
prize-fight or a wedding is the next
day used to present sermon or give
an account of a funeral.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

B., and whose sympathies are with the
ex-union soldiers, are just a. welcome
and are treated just as well as are re-
publican politicians. For instance, who
stands higher or is treated better than
was Col. Moonlight when he was q res-
idsnt Of this state. The trouble lies
not with the G. A. B. The boys know
their friends, and also their enemies.
What does seem strange. however, il
that democratic editors take 50 much
interest In an Organization to which so
few of them are eligible to membership.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

''JEM" SMITHS hackers have ac-
copied Sullivan's offer to knock out the
English champion in six rounds or for
felt GOO. This will afford the Ameri-
can slugger the long hoped for chance
of getting in his favorite blow on the
British Jumpers under jaw OF jugu-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

THE Winfield Courier states that
Winfield expects to entertain greater
number of guests during the G.. y. R.
encampment week than was.ever gath
cred together in the history of the
country. The Courier believes that
10000 or 1000 is not to high a figure
to place the number that will be pres
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

TOPEKA has unearthed a band of
Juvenile thieves. Three of them have
been arrested, and were found to be
the sons of respectable parents, all
under thirteen years of age. They
will be sent to the reform school.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

AN Emporia woman tied her oldest
boy to the bed post, slapped her little
girl, called her husband an ''old snooz-
er," and then went to church and
helped the choir sing: ''Save One
Bright Crown For Me. *. G. Star.
The above would be real cute if it
had not been used is referring to other
places before either Kansas City or
Emporia were discovered.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

Mr.. BENT MURDOCH is now in New
York under treatment by DIR. Knapp,
the celebrated oculist. He is feeling
in good spirits as the doctor has given
him strong hopes that he may effect
a restoration of sight.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

THE republican candidates for secre-
tary of state are numerous, but we have
only heard one democrat mentioned
and his name is John Rohr, of Leaven-
worth. The Standard says he is one
of the best men in Kansas, and has
never yet been defeated for Office
Champion.
We have several similarly qualified
men in Emporia. But then they never
were defeated because they never ran
for nffica
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

WE think it about time that some
action be taken to put stop to the al
but systematic Justification on the part
Of newspaper correspondents, whether
resident or sent here, In regard to the
condition of the state and its people.
Occurrences which, in other states
would be passed by without attracting
SO much as casual attention, are picked
up, magnifed and colored into q sens
alton and sent out broadcast and pub
lished to our very great injury. 1t
seems to us that the state has suffered
and this sort of thing has gone on about
long enough, and if some one Of these
sensation mongers were made an ex-
ample of by an indignant community,
| IL would, no doubt, serve as whole
some restraint upon others Of like
bent. The idea Of a community like
Dakota, which has suffered hundred
times as much as Kansas during the
present winter, sending contributions
/ of provisions to this state under the
| impression formed by the lying reports
sent from here, is not only absurd, but
is compromising to the states high
sense of honor and dignity.-Eagle.
As Wichita is the recognized head.
Iquarters for lying and sensational cor
respondence, the Eagle man should
have had enough astuteness to tumble
to the fact that the Dakota cOntribu
lions were somewhat similar to thelat'
hangings, shootings and lynchings il
No-Man's-Land-mer emenations o.
Eighty correspondent who took THU
method of attracting public attention
to that section of country.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

A BILL to prohibit the granting Of
marriage licenses to tramps, paupers,
idiots, drunkards and felons, and to
keepers, inmates or visitors of houses
of ill-fame, has been introduced in the
Toxua state sanata
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

EVERY voter should read the speech
of Col. Jones, of the Florida Times
Union, in our telegraph columns to-
day. 1t shows the falacy of the cry Of
chean telepraphY.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

ACCORDING to one of our exchanges
nothing is better calculated to make
a favorable impression upon the stran-
ger than the good sidewalk and
clean Streets" Emporia has the finest
streets of any city of its size in Kansas.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

THE people of Rochester, New York,
thought the telephone company was
practicing extortion, and so ordered
out their instruments. The telephone
company waited year, and then came
to the terms of the people.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

AN exchange says that in 1887,
among all the states and territories,
Dakota ranked fifth in production OF
gold and ninth in silver, but forgets to
state that Dakota ranks first every
year IN the production of billiards.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16
.aw YnrE VnfcannI

TIE New York Voicepublishes this
item: 81 have not seen q drunkard for
two and one-balf years, y writes con-
gregational minister in Cheney, Kan
sas. Where is the minister in q license
state that can say TIE same?-C Capital.
On Tuesday last man was on trial
before the police judge at Larned ON
charge of being drunk in the n. e.
church on the Sabbath previous.
Larned IL IN Kansas,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

COMMANDER WHALEN and Quarter
master Dowlan of the Peter Cooper
post, G. A. B., New York, who were
arrested two weeks ago for parading
with music on Sunday, have been dis
charged from arrest, the magistrate
stating that G. a. r. organizations are
exempt from the law governing such
naradoa