The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-08-08


fire in this fashion: ssThe Santa Fe |
company have long been contemplating
removing their general offices from
Topeka, but there was no sale for their
immense building. 1t caught fire, early
one morning last week, and although it
was fire proof. it would have burned
down, had not the Topeka firemen
worked heroically and saved it. Now
the company are terribly mad at the
6remen, and viii probably order the
city government to discharge them. The
insurance on the building would have
brough them more than they could sell
it for.
STATE Auditor Mccarthy has issued
a circular letter addressed to the sher-
ifs of the state and informing them
that ''the legislature, at its last ses-
sion, failed to make any appropriation
for conveying prisoners to the peni-
Tertiary, and no bills for services of
this kind can be audited until the next
legislature convenes and makes pro-
vision for the same" Mr.. McCarty
suggests in the circular that IF the
several counties would, pay such ac-
counts and present the bills to the
next legislature, through the auditors
Office, it would relieve the sheriffs
and, no doubt, would be provided
for.''
THE Grand Army Post at Topeka
gave Harrison Kello an over hauling
for appointing pension examining sur
geons who were not SOL
diers, over the heads of
surgeons who were. And in their
raking, they came near giving Cover
nor Humphrey pull, on account of
the part he took in it. Those Topeka
Grand Armv fellows must be queer
set of old boys. What do governors
and congressman care tor old soldiers,
when they come in competition with
men who ''belong to our crowd?''-
that is, men who are lick-spits, and
able and willing to do dirty work.
Troy Chief.
ALEX BUTTS says in the Kansas City
Star that the sheriff will not sell any
farms in Kansas this year. That
sounds well, to be cure, and is only
meant TO compliment Kansas ON her
splendid crops. But few, perhaps
only a few, farms will be sold by the
sheriff. No matter how good the
| crops, when the railroads, the cattle
combine, the plundering trusts and
protected monopolies get their share,
there is precious little left for the far
mer. Mortgages are bad enough, but
when the above named leeches have to
be fed literally, what show has many
a farmer to stand the sheriff off?
THEY elected B. z. Waggener mayor
of AtchisOn, because he was strong
aud able man, perhaps the strongest
man in the city. They knew very well
that he was the attorney for ii railroad
coming into that town, at salary of
$4,000 year. A complaint was
framed and voted this week by the cit
liens against it, which the mayor, its
attorney refused to sign, and now there
is big row on hand. The people are
often queer lot. Just like a weak
minded individual who scolds his wife
when he blunders, they put the blame
on some one else when they tumble
into the hole which they themselves
dug.
SENATOR HOAR says that annexation
of Canada is out of the question, ''be-
cause there is no annexation senti-
ment in Canada" That ought to be
enough to silence the clatter raised a
year or so ago about annexation.
States come into the union only when
the people in certain territory petit
tiOn to be made Il part and parcel of
the nation. No one ever heard of a
state being coerced into the union. The
free will and wishes of the people are
the first requisites to political union.
1t is on those principles that free gov
eminent rests. Popular sovereignty
means nothing else. Political union
with Canada may be desirable, but it
can only be SO with the full consent of
the Canucks themselves. Until they
ask to be taken in all this talk about
annexation is preposterous rot, ungen-
erous and un-AmericaD.