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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

THE governors message is volu-
minous document which no doubt you
know if you have done your duty and
read it. 1t is well worth the reading,
for it abounds in useful information
concerning the affairs of the state. No
where can you find, in compact and
readable form, so comprehensive a re-
view of state affairs and institutions
and the manner of their working. Ely
cry man should read it, and likewise
many women, if not all. 1t may not
be as interesting to the ladies as the
latest novel, but if they are to cut a
figure in politics, and vote and make
speeches, as many of them think they
should do, why they must read mes
sages and legislative proceedings and
the like. Young men should read it.
especially the sophomores, who some
times wrangle and split hair with theil
professors, and think themselves won
derfully smart Let them read it also
1t may do them some good.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

A MEETING of the clergy at Topeka
one night this week condemned the
use of intoxicants at the forthcoming
inaugural ball. Nothing was said of
dancing. The line was drawn at drink
ing. The Wichita Eagle deplores the
action of the clergy as unwise, because
it will place the state in an awkward
attitude before the world. The world
cares very little whether the gentle
men who gather at the ball bowl up or
not. Generally speaking, the men who
dance love the flavor of old wine. The
clergy at Topeka are as well aware of
that fact, and not one bit better than
the world whose frown or tidicule
Marsh appears to dread. 1t sounds a
little queer, however, to hear of minis
tiers of the gospel condemning drinking
by the functionaries and elite of the
capital eff a prohibition state,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

NEXT Monday the Harrison electors
will assemble in thirty-eight states and
elect General Harrison and Levi p.
Morton president and vice president.
This is a purely one-sided election, and
for that reason "a farce. When the
Cleveland electors were defeated No
vember 6, the matter was practically
ended, though paradoxically enough
Harrison and Morton as a matter of
fact and law were not elected to the
presidency any more than Cleveland
was. Gentlemen called electors who
are supposed to be friendly to those
two gentlemen for president and vice
president, and will therefore vote for
them next Monday, we're elected. That
is all the November election determ-
ined. The presumption now is that
Harrison and Morton will be elected, as
no one else is running.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17
NOBLE PRENTIs quotes a member Of
the state senate as predicting the fol

NOBLE PRENTIs quotes member of
the state senate as predicting the fol-
lowing course in that body:
The body as far as it goes, "pro-
poses to revise the present assessment
and taxation law, so that all property
will be assessed at its cash value. This
will pass. 1t will reduce the bank
rates of interest and provide penalty.
This will make fight, but it may pass
the legislature, The senate will pass a
bill to reduce the salaries of county
officers. The senate will have fight
oyer bill to stop the sale OF beef not
slaughtered where offered for sale. A
measure will be introduced for a sys-
tenn of printing and selling to the pu-
pills of the state a series of school books
at cost. 1t is hoped it will be adopted.
l hope the senate will provide for a
new insane asylum and reform school
for girls. The senate will favor the
creation of the Office of state superin-
tendent of banks, to make banking in
stitutions more secure. The senate
! will vote for a reduction of the prices
paid for state printing. The senate
will reject all laws authorizing the vot-
ing of bonds for any purpose. All ap-
preparations for educational, ch2rita-
bic and penal institutions will be re-
duced. The bill to regulate sleeping
car rates will not pass. The insurance
companies will not be compelled to pay
their policies in full"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17
TnE POOR HOUSE.
An Aged Couple Deserted By Children Who are
Able to Support them in Luxury.

An Aged Couple Deserted By Children Who are
Able to Support them in Luxury.
There are at present in the county
poor house an old couple aged seventy
five and seventy-six respectively who
have seen better days They came to
Kansas few years ago and lived in
this city for while, where they re-
ceiyed county aid. About four months
ago they were taken to the poor farm.
where they now are. They have been
deserted by their children, it seems,
and want to go back to Ohio from
whence they came. They have a wild
owed daughter in California who is
wealthy. but does nothing for them.
Mr.. Cochran. the keeper of the poor
farm, is making an effort to get money
enough from her to pay their way to
Ohio. Only few DAYS ago he wrote to
| her for that purpose. The old mother
said to him when writing, tell her fol
Gods sake to not let us die in the poor
house" What commentary that is on
some things. All the old folks ask OF
the daughter is money enough-aboui
S45, to carry them to Ohio, where they
have relatives and friends who will
| take care of them.
There is another old lady there also
whose step-children, living in the coun
ty, are either unable or unwilling tt
keep her and have suffered her to go t
the poor house after they had got all he
money, about 81 400. She. too, want.
to go to Ohio. where she has wealthy
brother who would take care of her i
she were there. These cases illustrat,
the ups and downs of this life and tn
cruel selfishness and heartlessness O
man when he tries himself.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17
A DIG IN The Rfba

II on the right side and lower part Of the
diaphragm. though playfully meant and de-
hVered, Is calculated to evoke profanity from
chappy whose liver is out Of order. When
that region is sore and congested, pokes seem
nendish. Look at q mans countenance ere
You prod him under the ribs. II his skin and
eyeballs have saIloW tinge. y0u may infer
also that his tongue Is furred, his breath apt
60 be sour. that he has pains not only beneath
his ribs, but also under the right shoulder
blade. Also that his bowels are Irregular and
his digestion impaired. Instead Of making q
tocoSe demonstration on his ribs, Recommend
him TO take. and steadily persist in taking,
Hosteter,s Stomach BiEtefs, the finest anti
bilious and Alternative medicine extaQt In
comparable Is Il. also, for dyspepsia. rheu-
maf1sEa. nervousness, kidney trouble, and
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17
About three weeks ago the northeast

About three weeks ago the northeast
was visited by great storm, accompa-
MED by intense cold, that did vast dam
age on land and sea. Yesterday the
programme was varied somewhat by a
destructive cyclone that struck in
PENNSYLVANIA, causing fearful loss of
life and property in small places. The
west viii, of course, sympathize with
the east, and if they need any help
Kansas can spare them a few car loads
OF watermelons, peanuts or potatoes,
OF which we have quite surplus, if
western editors ten the truth.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

On her way from Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, to Kansas City Emma Abbott
received the terrible news of her hus-
bands death. The telegram was
handed to her at Garden City Sunday
afternoon. Carelessly she broke it
open, not suspecting its contents, and
expecting to meet her husband in Kan
sas City in a few hours. On reading
the few words that told of his death at
Denver, she uttered a shrek of pain
and gave way to such despair as was
most piteous to behold. The members
of her company gathered about her
and did what they could to calm her
spirits, but in vain. Her married life
with General Wetherell had been a
most happy one. Just before receiy-
ing the telegram announcing his death
she had been speaking jOyfully with q
member of her company, of her meet
ing with him at Kansas City III a few
hours. 1t was a terrible blow. The
joint estate of herself and husband
which all becomes her property is est
mated at 50 800, 600.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

THE EMPoRIA EVENING NEWS was
able to get out the governors message
in full on Wednesday evening, quite q
scoop on the morning state contempt
raries. The message was only released
at 4 O'Clock Wednesday afternoon, and
only those newspapers that stood inn
had chance to publish it right away.
Wichita Journal.
So far as we have seen the News
was the only paper in the state that
published the message in extenso on
Wednesday.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

GEORGE t. ANTHONY of the Ottawa
Republican thinks Governor Martin
exceeds his duty in rushing to the de-
Tense of the penitentiary ring. The
charges against 1t, he says, are too cir
cumstantial and broad to be ignored
George T. thinks there is an African
in the wood pile.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

The reports of township officers of
the following townships were ap-
proved:
Ivy, Americas, Elmendaro, Center.
Reading and Emporia.
Casper Killner, George Moss and w.
A. Kearns, were reappointed viewers
on s. II. Williams road petition.
The board then adjourned until p.
m. on Monday, January IA.
Attest, ROLAND LAKIN,
County Clerk.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

THIS is the situation in the lower
house of congress. y handful of mem
bers turned flibusters to defeat the
Oklahoma bill. Weaver of Iowa, who
favors it, has lately turned filibuster in
order to fight the devil with fire. AS a
result, the house is thoroughly and
completely blocked, and nothing is
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

AFFAIRS in Hayti are going from bad
to worse. Legltime, who was elected
president few weeks ago, is in a fair
way to be driven from the country by
his adversary, Hypolite, whose rabble
of an army is driving before them the
half loyal troops of Legitime.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

MRS. LAURA NJ. JOHNS was prompt
ly on hand when the legislature met in
session Tuesday. She has engaged the
services of Jim Legate for the entire
winter If necessary to champion a bill
providing that two members of the state
board of charities shall be women.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

THE senate consented yesterday
to a reduction of the duty on
pearls form 25 to 10 per cent. The
democrats strange to say, who have
been clamoring for a reduction Of
duties opposed this one, and what is
more singular than that even, went as
tar as to ask for an increase of the
tariff on diamonds, from 10 to % per
cent. Queer people, these demo-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

THERE is such a thing as being too
free with ones mouth, too smart, too
dip. If Jay Burton of Abilene had re-
strained his Ciceronian eloquence when
he joined hands with Dick Colver to
remove the capital from Topeka, he
might now be speaker of the house.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

Sol. MILLER, noticing editorially ex-
Governor Robinson's attack on Lane,
discusses briefly the relations which
those two men bore to each other while
both were actors on the same stage.
BE says that Robinson told the truth
about Lane. who was a bold, bad man,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

CHAPLAIN BRIGHT, who opened the
house with prayer Monday, invoked, -
says the reporter, 1.-THE divine blessing
and forbearance' on that body. The
chaplain was there two years ago and
knows very well how it tried the divine
patience. Forbearance is good and
very well put.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

WALCoTr, the newly-elected senator
from Colorado, is bookish but brilliant.
An omnivorous reader, he takes in ev-
erything rare and curious. He is a
successful lawyer and well fixed, and is
q wonderful improvement ON Bowen
and Tabor.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17
COMMISSIONERS, paocELDIN6s.
COUNTY Clerks OFFICE, l
January 10. 1889.


Board of county commissioners of
Lyon county met in regular quarterly
session on January 7. 1889.
Present, John s. Grimsley. chairman.
T. E. Mcmillan and S. v. Bitter.
The following business was trans
acted:
The assessor Of Emporia township
having made certificate Of error, the
assessment of the following tracts OF
property were changed as requested by
him:
Lot g. Porterfelds subdivision reduced
Lot g. Porterfeld,s subdivision, reduced
from $50 to $40.
81 4 in seE. s-ls-1l. reduced from 81 800 to
NJ of nws4 IO-sc-n. reduced from $40 to
Contract for cleaning court house
vaults for one year from January l,
1889. to January 1, 1890. was let to Geo.
Williams,
Report of reviewers of road on appli-
cation of a. G. Shepherd was accepted.
The minutes of last regular and sub
sequent special meetings were read and
approved.
VIM. McCreary, of Fremont town
ship, and a. j. Griest, of Center town
ship, were appointed treasury exami.
ners for the ensuing quarter.
IL was ordered by the board that the
assessment of NJ. E. Latshaw, in EN-
poria city, be reduced $500 according tC
an agreement made by the board OF
equalization, and had been overlooked
The assessment of Jas. Geuther
guardian, was reduced from 81 ,S45 tC
81 SIT, said assessment being an error
as shown by probate court.
The contract for Fe-fooring county
clerks Office was let to E. F. Sprague
County warrants remaining un
claimed for three years and over, wert
Cancelled to the amount of 1920.
The following official bonds were ap
proved:
w. j. Combs, probate judge.
j. G. Traylor. clerk of district court
T. J. Waters, justice of the peace
Waterloo township.
L. R. Ludy, justice of the peace
Jackson township.
w. II. Irwin, constable. Empori;
township.
A. c. Coleman, constable, Reading
township.
N. Stevenson. constable, jackson
township.
Thomas Evans, constable. Elmeu
daro township.
, W.T.. Starr. clerk, Elmendaro town
ship.
J. H. Phillips, clerk, Pike towr
J. R. Maddox, clerk, Empori
township.
: The following bills were allowed:
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

jim LEGATE evidently estimates the
value of prayer by the elegance of
diction employed. At caucus meet
ing of the legislators he took the lib
eIty to say that he did not believe in
going away from Topeka for ehaplains.
A minister, said he, who would come
one hundred miles to make daily two
minute prayer for three dollars day,
could not make a prayer worth listen
inn 70
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

THE advice to get married. given
in the NEWS Tuesday was not in
tended primarily to boom business in
Probate Judge Combs office. We
trust however that such will be the
effect. Then will matrimony be a
double blessing. A blessing to him
and to those who seek his services.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

GENERAL HARRISON must have been
more suave than usual when Senator
Blair called on him a few days ago.
The old gentleman went away and
nominated the general for president
four years hence.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

THEY say you can always tell EN-
poria people at the theater because
they are SO well-bred. No Emporium
was ever known to ask the loan of a
strangers opera glass.-State Journal
No, nor hurl missiles from the gal
lery at the bald heads in the pit, as
the Topekans are said TO do.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

WHISKY is now selling ON the market
at S1.03 gallon. Remove the tax and
you could buy two gallons for a quar-
IN That is how it would be if the
recommendations of the Chicago plat
form of last June were carried out by
cOnOra9S
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

WERE we living in any other state
we would move to Kansas. Were we
living in any other city we would move
to Winfield. That's the sort of malcon-
tent we are.-Winlield Visitor.
Whereat everyone but those in Win
field would rejoice.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

: A CHAPLAIN in the Kansas legisla-
ture gets three dollars day. AS his
services are limited to about two min
Htes each day, their value is estimated
not so much by duration as by the
need there is for them.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

dishonest, unprincipled and q dema-
gogue. He wonders how or why the
administration upheld Lane in his
dirty work in Kansas, and regards its
support Of him as a stain on its history
which not even Lincoln's martyrdom
can wash away. Yet, while condemn
ing Lanes wicked career, Sol. thinks
that Robinson injured himself and
damaged his prospects by turning his
back on the republican party and the
friends in it who had stood to him in
evil days. He.was badly treated by
the administration without doubt, but
Sol. thinks he should have had the phi
losophy and high reach Of soul to heal
it, and take fortunes Bullets and re
wards with equal grace. Had he dom
so, instead of lamenting in his old ag'
over spilled milk, he might be revealing
| in the smearkase of the present.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

THE American navy caught the yell
low fever at Hayti, says an exchange.
No, says another, the American navy
could catch nothing; the yellow fever
caught the navy.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

A sTocKHoLDER in the Standard Oil
company lately committed suicide.
What a pity more of them don't get
conscience-stricken.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

Mrs. NOBLE PRENTIs continues at
the helm of the Newton Republican
while her husband reports senate pro-
ceedings at Topeka for the Journal.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

BUFFALO JONES" of Garden City is
said to enjoy the proud distinction OF
being the wit of the house in the legis.
: latnre. Jones is a legislator in the in
torest Of his buffalos.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

THE state press is disposed to treat
the penitentiary matter somewhat
slightingly. An investigation is urged
by all, however.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

WILL the present Legislature add a
search and seizure clause to the prohi-
bition law?
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

THE railroad presidents-that is the
big fellows and their friends, the bank
ers-came together in New York yes
terday and resolved to-obey the law.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

PEOPLE in the northwest feel better
now. They have some snow at last.
The northwest without snow in winter
is Ike house without carpeting.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

THE Oklahoma affair is not such a
small matter, after all. 1t is big
enough to cause a deadlock in the ma
tional house of representatives
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

A HOUSE caucus of the Kansas legis-
lature decided that girls should not be
selected as pages.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

GOVERNOR MARTIN embraced the
opportunity to tell the legislature all
he knew about the affairs of the
state.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

e CANADA has an indebtedness of $780,
100000. If Uncle Sam aches for a
union with her it will be for love, not
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

GOVERNOR HUMPHREY does not
need to spin it out so far when he
comes to send message to the legisla
ture.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

Governor Martin Thursday pardoned
H. S. Day of Morris county who shot
and killed DR.. ]. A. Hopkins two
years ago in consequence of the lat
ter's desertiOn and defamation of his
discarded wife who is a niece of Mrs.
Day. He also pardoned W. W. Mag
ruder of Kingman County, who was
sentenced to the pennitentiary last
May for two years for assaultiEg with
intent TO kill one W. G. Wilson.
The affair was the result of an old
fued. and Wilson was the aggressor.
1t is a matter of sincere regret at
Lawrence that Prof. A. r. Marsh, who
at present fills the chair of Language
and Bellies Lettres in the State Uni
versity. has rendered his resignation to
take effect at the close of the present
college year. His reason for resigning
is that he has accepted an offer from
Harvard which pays him four thou
sand dollars q year for services that
now bring him eighteen hundred dol
lars, besides allowing him two years IN
which TO travel abroad On fun pay.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

A JOINT committee OF eight viii in
vestizats the penitentiary matter.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

rheumatism is caused by Tactic acid
in the blood, which Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla neutralizes, and thus cures rheu-
matiSm,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

Social serenity at Walnut Grove, neal
Lebo, is violently agitated over forth
coming ''chicken match''-Leboniar
for cooking main.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17
KANSAS PATENTS.

The following is list of patents
granted to citizens of Kansas for the
week ending Januaryg 9Th, 1889, re-
ported specially for the EMPoRIA
DAILY News through the Office of w.
A. Redmond, solicitor of patents, 6S1
F. st. N. w. Washington. d. G.
Chester Bullock, Kansas City; safety
brake for cable cars.
Charles Fuller and J. II. Cunning
ham, Ludell; vehicle breake-gear.
L. d. Hall, Concordia; lawn mower.
T. j. Howard, Highland; gate.
channel cutter.
D. K. Wade. Mcpherson; delineator.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

THE indications are that winter is
is not coming.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17
LErTERs aOvsHTIsED.

List of letters advertised at the Enporfa
possofIice for the week ending January 6th,
1S2g. Parties calling for these letters will
please give date of advertisements and pay
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-17

his old home, says that Ex-Governor st.
John has engaged in the real estate
The firm of which he is member have
10 900 acres OF land thirty miles north
of Los Angeles on the main line of the
Southern Pacific railroad, which they
propose to divide into suitable tracts
and sell at prices ranging from IS to
S125 per acre. A clause is to be in
serted in each deed forever prohibiting
the manufacture, sale or storage of
liquors of anv kind thereon, for beyer-
age purposes.