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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-04

The exercises held last evening at the
First NJ. L. Church were the pioneers
of new system which results from a
graduation of the county schools.
The church was crowded. Rev. Alt
mon led in prayer. Music was rendered
by the orchestra.
After the opening exercises County
Superintendent A. A. Stephens spoke
on the nature and plan OF the move
ment. lie then introduced the first
speaker George Toomey of Americas.
who delivered an excellent Grafton on
Building"
Miss Eta McMullen OF Neosho Rap
ids read highly creditable essay on
1.-The Circumstances and Curiosities of
Life"
Miss Josie Makemson of Plumb re-
cited The Might of Love- with good
effect.
George ToOmey, Miss Elsie Bond.
Miss Maggie Jaquith and Harry
Toomey gave a song Moonlight WIN
Come Again." which was well re-
ceived.
Lewis n. Kerr of Allen creek dis
cussed Difficulties" and succeeded
very we'll with his subject.
Miss Anna Davidson of Americas
read an essay on 1.-The Valley of De-
cision." The reader possessed full
rich voice and gave a good, clear de-
livery.
Miss Ella Baysinger of Hartford
gave recitation Kansas The re-
citation was not clear and loud enough
to be heard in the rear seats, but it
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Institule Items.

EMPORIA, Jnne q, 1889.
Good attendance to-day and every
body interested.
The committee appointed few days
ago to remodel the county course of
study have finished their work and
Professor johnson explained it as it
now is to-day in the methods class. ~
motion was made and seconded to ac-
cept the course; it was then laid upon
the table and probably will be consld-
cred further tomorrow.
The philosophy class are still on the
dynamo question.
Miss Prices work on methods of
teaching grammar is very much apPre-
ciated by the teachers.
In the ''A' geography class to-day,
the subject of the formation of the
continents was well handled by Messrs.
Clifford, Strain, Brown, Fowler, Spiker
and Williams.
The process of making beer was full
" explained and illustrated in the
physiology classes by Professor Stew
ems.
The following persons visited the in
stitute to-day: Misses McMullin ant
Vangundy, Neosho Rapids; Misses
Mabel Scott and Grace Kirkendall
city; Miss Kilgore, Hartford; Miss SAILS
bury; Mrs. d. w. Eastmen; w. n
Lawler, Lebo; Charles Finley; Harve.
Makemson; PrOfs. Richter and BehOt
eguy, Emporia college.
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was we'll committed and fluently spO-
ken. The orchestra furnished music
which was well appreciated. Miss
Laura Kilgore of Hartford spoke on
energy" The speaker bad a good
subject well thought out but had not
paid enough attention to the delivery.
Miss Eta Phillips of Duck creek read
an essay on where There's a viii
There's way" She read in a clear
strong voice which was we'll adapted
for the occasion. Her essay was good.
Miss Elsie Bond of Americas en-
crossed the attention of her audience
and gave pleasing redition of ''Jane
Conquest" The speaker had eviden-
tly studied her selection and her voice
and gestures showed culture.
Miss Lottie Moses of Olpe read an
essay on 1.-The Common schools. :"
She had a highly creditable essay.
Rev. Sergeant addressed the gradu-
ates in an excellent and classical
speech rich with gems of thought.
Rev. Altman made the presentation
speech and conferred the diplomes in
well chosen remarks.
The following is list of the gradu-
ates.
District No. 2. Misses
Lillian Courtney, Maggie Jaquith,
Elsie Bond, Belle Lineback, Minnie
Raley. Ella Elliott, Anna Davidson:
Messrs. George Toomey, Harry
Toomey, George Butler, George Gibson
Ely Elliott, Albert p. Myers, Albert
f. Scott.
District No. 20. Neosho Rapids
Miss Eta McMullin, Miss Ada Man
ming.
District No. %, HartfOrd-Mis:
Laura Kilgore, Miss Mabel. HOviOus
Miss Ella Baysinger.
District No. As, Olpe-Mr. Arthur
Moses, Mr.. Charles Everett, Miss Lot
tie Moses.
District No. II, Hartford-Miss Mag
District No. 81. Emporia-Miss Rosi
| Childers.
District No. 80, Plumb-Misses 10
sic Makemson, Jennie Barrett. MI
Harry Markemson.
District No. Is, Plymouth-Mr. Wi
liam MCPHERSON.
District No. 81, Reading-Mr. job
Goldberg.
District No 81, Emporia-Mr. Sam
uel Velvick.
District No. 81, Emporia-Mr. Wi
liam Blair.
District No 81, Americus-Mis
, Belle VanVOris.
District No. 10, Americus-MiS
Agnes Seegar, Mr.. Lewis a. Kerr.
District No. 4, EmpOria-Miss Eft
Phillips.
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war I'm q Mining District.

BLACKFOOT CITY, Mont, June %
Grave fears are entertained of gen.
eral uprising and wholesale butchery
in the Orofino mining district on ac-
count of the operations of an organized
gang of site claim jumpers from the
east and south. The gang consists of
two brothers named Moore, one from
St. Louis. Alexander Weir and
Jno. II. Andrews of llliOn, New York
and about twenty Kansas cowboys in
their employ. Last Saturday the
MoOres jumped the town site of Gran
tie, where in sinking an extension we'll
they uncovered what was supposed to
be to be the richest vein of gold bear
ing quartz in the territory declaring
an offer from the Granite company to
compromise for a third interest in
the find. The brothers set to
work to develop their claim,
while Weir and Andrews who
who are in on the deal, moved over to
Champion, a new town Il few miles
west. They started in boring u we'll,
and as a result of their investigations
and with the aid of the Moores aud the
cowboys, they jumped the whole site.
1t develOpes that pay dirt was struck
twenty feet from the surface, the ledge
running north and south for nobody
| knows how far. Dozens of claims each
running l 500 feet with the ledge, have
been staked out by jumpers who have
dispatched a mounted messenger to
Helena for aid to enable them to re-
| tain possession of property. There is
a great deal of excitement over the
affair, and old miners who have seen
the quartz ledge uncovered by the gang
say it is richer than that at Granite,
which is estimated to be worth S. 900,
600. The sheriff and a posse of depu-
ties have gone to Champion to prevent
i trouble.
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PROrECTED MINERS sTARvING

PROTECTED MINERS STARVING
Everybody knows of the squalOr,
.wretchedness and poverty of the thou
sands of Pennsylvania miners. Or if
there is any who does not know it, let
him get copy of the report made to
congress at the close of the last ses-
sion by the committee sent into that
state for the purpose of asceTtaining
the condition of the laborer there
and read it carefully. The con-
dition of the Siberian exile, con-
demned to slave in the mines, is no
worse. The Pennsylvania miner, in
the language of the report, is "a polit-
ical and industrial slave" What has
been true for some time of the Penn
sylvania miner is coming to be true of
the western miner. In the states of
Indiana and Illinois, thousands of
miners are this moment actually starv-
ing in enforced idleness, or because the
prOtectected coal baronS. at whose mer-
cy they are, refuse to pay them remun-
erative wages. Aid is beng sought
from any and all quarters to keep
thousands from death by starvation
The governor of Indiana has found il
necessary to appeal to the public in be:
half of the starving miners. What is
the significance of these facts? What
their meaning? Why simply this
} that so far as they are con
cerned, the protection guaranteed
them in the coal tariff is glitterinl
: humbug, farce and a fraud. 1t wa
/, never intended by the men who pro
s cured it as protection to labor, b,
4 maintaining wages. If the effect O
g the coal tariff was to keep wages up, tn
d coal barons would never rest a momen
o until they had it removed. That j
f has no such effect, and is not tn
o slightest impeachment to their cuttin
down wages, while it does increas
their profits, is ample reason why the
want it, and would fiercelY oppose it
removal.
The sympathy naturally felt for til
T. poor devils now starving in those tW
states is somewhat dampened by tn
sr reflection that they almost cracke
IS their threats last fall yelling for prote
r ton, which their employers told the
~ would, in the event of Harrison's ele
ton, give them high wages and turkt
At and pie every day. In month aft,
- the election, instead of being raise
re their wages were cut down % per cen
n and the turkey and pie vanished in
m the dim distance. Could the IrconditiC
e. have been any worse than it is, h;
III Grover been elected? That is que
We tion they have already decided f
er themselves.
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Another Horse TheirCaught

Mr.. w. Gleason, sheriff of MCPhG
son Co. arrived in town at 1890 to-
day with man by the name of Farren
with horse stealing. Last
night, Farren stole a team of
horses, harness and spring wagon
from farmer living near Mcpherson,
and after driving them about three
miles, concluded that two horses and a
wagon would not be sufficient for his
wants, so he stopped at farm house
and without consent of the owner led
off valuable horse which he took
with him.
The officers of the county were noti-
fed at once, and a search for the
thief was Immediately instituted.
They obtained track of him
in short line but lost
all trace soon after, but succeeded in
hearing of him again near Parkers-
vile. About midway between Park
ersville and Council Grove the posse
came upon their game in a thicket and
while one of the men went to Council
Grove after the marshal, the rest
watched the thief. He made no re-
sistance when caught, and upon little
close quizzing gave full confession of
his guilt. He said he had no particu-
lar motive in stealing the horses, only
that he wanted them, and had no place
in view to which 90 take them except
outside the state. Sheriff Gleason
lodged his man in the Jail at this place
till he could get train to Mcpherson,
where Farren will be held until he can
be tried.
During the past few months several
horses have been stolen in this and ad-
joining counties, but invariably the
thief has been captured. This certain
ly speaks well for the vigilance of the
officers, and cannot be too highly COM
mended.
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THERE are social distinctions that
even millions cannot purchase, though
it is said gold can buy anything. Be-
hold the worth of title as compared
with that of the yellow metal. There
is a crowned hog peregrinating over
Europe now whose unwelcome APP
prOach is dreaded by every pOtentate
whom he intends visiting. Yet all are
making the most elaborate prepare
tons to receive him with such honors
and ovatiOns as a Demosthenes, a
Newton or a Burke could never hope
for. This royal hog known as the
Shah of Persia, visited Europe few
years ago and was guilty of the boldest
assurance, the most astounding effront-
cry, and the most disgusting beastli-
ness in his social intercourse with Eu-
ropean royalties. He vomited on the
aged Empress of Germany. In talking
with the Princess of Wales he laid both
his hands OH her bare shoulders. 1t
took thousands of dollars to clean and
disinfect the palaces occupied by him
and his filthy retinue. Yet his royal
brethren will smile on this pagan hog,
and lavish as much ceremony and at
tention on him as though he were an
other Marcus Aurelius. Sham! Dis
gushing sham!
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FreIeh, Rn,e Conventlon.

The principle first and second class
cities of Kansas, were represented at
the convention for the consideration of
jobbing freight rates, held at Topeka
last Wednesday. The delegation from
Emporia consisted of Mayor Griffith,
E. F. Sprague and Roland Lakin. Mr..
Griffith was elected chairman of
the convention and Mr.. Le-
bold of Abilene secretary. An
organization to be known as the Man
ufacturers, Jobbers and Shippers assO-
citation of the State of Kansas - was
effected for the purpose Of protecting
the jobbers and shippers from exorbit-
ant freight rates. J. n. Stricken of
Topeka was elected chairman of the
executive committee; Rob't. Pierce of
Topeka secretary; also as members of
this committee, Messrs Harwi, Johntz.
Griffith, Turner, Lakin and SnalIey.
the railroad officials expressed their
intention of treating all kansas towns
in fair and business like manner in
regard to freight rates. so the conven-
ton took no direct action in regard TO
the lowering of freight rates atpresent.
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intruders who pay no taxes here, pay
no license fees and care nothing what
ever about the welfare of the country,
further than as they can work it for
large sums of money.
Some grocery men said to-day that
orders enough for ten car loads of
groceries have been recently secured
by these Chicago fellows. We think
that mistake. But they seem to
have done land Office business in this
county all the same. and number
around the city think that the goods
they sell are somehow crooked
Persons wishing to improve their
memories or strengthen their power of
attention should send to Prof. Loisette,
237 Fifth avenue, New York, for his
prospectus free as advertised in an
other column.
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1T is gratifying to learn that Senator
Ingalls, is d prohibitionist. He does not
say so, but that is the inference from
his language in the interview of yes
terday reported elsewhere. His friends
and the Topeka Capital will of course
be delighted by what he said concern
ing the great need for prohibition in
this state, and the certainty of its en-
during as a permanent state institu-
ton. His language now proves that
the senator's ideas have undergone
quite change since he sneered at pro.
hibitiOn about year ago by saying OF
it ''they''-that is the prOhibitionists
Of Kansas-''have got their prohibi-
ton, and the people have got theiI
beer, so everybody ought to be con
tent, or words to that effect.
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I the officer was standing near the door
talking to Mr.. Fuller, Mrs. Fuller
appeared with revolver in her hand
She reached partly over her husband,
who was standing between her and i
Officer Wood, and fired, the revolver
being so near the officers head that he
felt the flash of powder in his face.
Officer Wood sprang to one side be-
fore she could fire again, but the
woman evidently though she had fin
ished him, for she shut the door and
could be heard laughing in hysteri-
cal manner and saying, II killed him!
I killed him! Did you see me kill him?"
The officer did not make the arrest.
Concerning the account published in
the NEWS last Tuesday of the horse
stealing in Chase county, in which the
name of lone Moon" was mentioned
as partner of Dan Triggs, we wish TO
say, lest any misrepresentation should
/ arise, that Mr.. Cal. Moon was not the
party alluded to. That gentleman
resides in Pike township, and for that
reason, fears that some may suspect
him of being the Moon alluded to. He
/ says that he returned from Oklahoma
the latter part of May, and has been
continuously at work ever since on the
Carter farm which he rents, about six
miles west of town. Everyone in that
neighborhood is aware of the fact. He
has no knowledge whatever, he says,
of the horse stealing by Dan Triggs,
further than what he read of it in the
papers.
Rev. Joseph Brown is leaving his
residence at 25 Rural street on account
of foreclosure of mortgage held by
Mr.. Jay, MI. Brown has been unfOr-
tunate and among other things built
and donated the church on NeOshO and
First street to the Baptist denomina-
tion of which he is a member. He has
lived twenty years on the place and
made all the improvements. He has
not paid the interest on the sum 81, zoe
for over two years. Mr.. Jay offered tC
let him sell the property lots IL and Il
Rural and make what he could over
and above the claim; this was refused
l Mr.. Jay then offered to let him keeI
81 900 on interest if he would pay the
balance; this was refused. Mr.. Jay
then offered to let him stay and pay
I rent at $3.50 per month with the priv
ilege of selling the place and get all TIT
n benefit of the sale. This was refused
and so the place was ordered sold anC
:, the sale was confirmed by the distric
d lcourt. The order was issued for eject
e ment but stay in the proceeding
+ will give Mr.. Brown time to move. II,
@ will vacate the premises to-day and g,
II to one of his sons places.
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RafIwav Nnte.

LONDON, June 29.-Dispatches from
Delagoa bay reports serious state OF
affairs there, arising from railway
troubles. a portion of the railway has
been destroyed by the Portuguese
An English engineer who tried TO de-
fend the works was fired upon. The
foreign residents are greatly alarmed.
They are crowding to the British con-
sulate for protection. The Portuguese
have placed British interpreter under
arrest. The English residents demand
his release.
The Standard, commenting 'on the
resolutions adopted by the sharehold-
ers of the Delagoa Bay Railway COM
pany yesterday, blames the sharehold-
ers for imprudence. It urges that it
will be useless to force Portugal to full
fill her concession TO the company. and
thinks that Portugal should merely be
compelled to return to the company
what it has expended and to pay in
deInnity for the disturbance it has
caused at Deiagoa bay. It says that
even Lisbon must be blockaded if that
step is necessary to obtain justice.
The Times is in favor of forcing Port
ugal to fulfill the concession. The re-
port received by the Chronicle from
Durham, that the Portuguese decree
cancelIing the concession had been re-
Scinded. is not confirmed.
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The CrOnfn Case.

CHICAGO, June 29.-Ever since the
investigation into the murder of DR..
Cronin began there has been apersis-
tent search for d policeman who APP
peared at Dinan's livery stable late ON
the night of DIR. Cronin's death and in
quired if all the horses were in. 1t was
at Dinan'S stable and on the order of
Detective Coughlin that the horse
and buggy were secured in which Gro
min was decoyed to his death. 1t was
a natural suppositiOn that the police
man who inquired who his escorts
were, had this particular horse in mind
and that he was therefore implicated
in the crime. The Times this morn
ing says that John Delany, lookup
keeper, at the east Chicago avenue sta
ton, which is about a block distant
from Dinan's stable is the man. 1t
bases the statement on the fact that
Delany is member of the notorious
camp No. 2, Clan-na-Gael, and that he
is an intimate friend of Coughlin and
that he has been identified by Dinan's
hostler az the man in question. The
paper says that Delaney, when Ques-
toned about the matter, made ner-
vous denial of its truth but showed
signs of breaking.
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Failed TO Identity.

CHICAGO, June 29.-The grand jury
came into court this morning and
handed in batch of twenty-four in
dictments. None of them, however,
was against anyone connected with the
Cronin murder Lookup Keeper De-
laney appeared at the entrance to the
grand jury room. He was exceedingly
Indignant and strongly asserted his in
nocence of any connection with the
Cronin case, as charged by the Times
this morning. He went before the
grand jury and local news agency
says that he not only denied the
charges, but that the hostler in Dinan s
livery stable failed to identify him, de-
claring that he did not resemble the
man who inquired if all the rigs were
in on the night that Cronin was muir
dorod
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Canaed 81 Wnsnont.

CINCINNATI, June 29.-The injured
by the accident on the Ohio & North
western railroad near Batavia are all
reported to be doing well. This MORN
ing Receiver Samuel Hunt is probably
the most severely injured, but he has
recovered consciousness and all fear Of
fracture of the skull is gone. General
Passenger Agent Rhodes was able to
walk to the train this morning and
went home. The accident was caused
By a sudden heavy rain of local char
acter. almost a cloud burst, swelling
the little stream and weakening the
foundation of some of the bents. The
trestle was q new one. The train men
did not know of the food as there had
been no rain at Batavia mile or two
m
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TO Erect a Nlonument.

MoNTICE Ill June 29.-The Illi-
nois division of the Sons of Veterans,
in their annual commencement yester-
day appointed committee with GEN
eral A. Quincy of Springfield as chair
man, for the purpose of raising money
to erect monument over the grave of
DR.. B. F. Stephenson. the founder of
the Grand Army of the Republic in the
United States. The monument will
be erected at Petersburg, Illinois
where he is buried.
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Grocers Hot

The announcement in the NEWS of
Yesterday that three car loads of gro
ceries had arrived in the city with con-
signments of goods for private citizens
in the town and country, made quite a
stir among the grocerymen. They are
quite wrathy over it to-day, and express
themselves quite warmly about the
matter. They cannot understand how
Chicago houses can send men this dis
lance, who travel through the country
and sell staple groceries to the farmers
for less money than they themselves can
buy them for. One gentleman in
speaking about it said there is some
ting rotten in it. Here is telegram
showing-it which quotes graduated
sugar laid down in big lots at the Mis-
souri, river, at 81 cents. Now how can
this Chicago man go out in Lyon coun-
ty and sell barrel of sugar to a far
mer for7 or7a cents a pound? There
is something rotten in it, 1 tell you. :"
Others resent the intrusion of these
Chicago men as unwarranted and a
violation of every business principle,
whether they stole the goods or came by
them honestly. Our EmpOria mer-
chants pay taxes and licenses here, and
do all in their power to accommodate
the farmers by buy ing their produce,
their butter and eggs, their poultry
and their fruit. They don't make a
cent, as rule. on the stuff they buy of
the farmers, and frequently lose money
on it. But they take it merely to ac-
commOdate their customers in the
country. They can't quite appreciate
the idea of people WHO look to Emporia
for market for their surplus produce,
sending orders for household provisions
to Chicago. They think it decidedly un-
fair and unjust. AS for the people
who sell these goods at bankrupt
prices. they regard them as impudent
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FORAKER knows that he "was nom
mated for governor and that alone, "
but he also recognizes the fact that his
party has right to call HIM to duty
lin any capacity, and at any time. u
Indeed, indeed sirs, but that is start
ling discovery. How can the man
sleep soundly with the consciousness
ever present with him that his party
may take whimsical notion to remove
him from the gOvernorship where be
enjoys salary of 5000, to make him
United States senator at salary Of
only 5000. Unhappy thought
wretched man, unfortunate Little
Breaches.
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KANSAS PATENTS.

Granted to citizens of Kansas for the
week ending June 25, 1899, reported
through the Office of w. A. Redmond,
solicitor of patents, 63l F street, N. w.
Washington, d. c.
A. II: Bixler, North Topeka, lamp
extinguisher.
Paul Burlow, Cain, coffee boiler.
A. j. Gum, Valley Falls, nut lock.
John Schlyer, Hays City, fence sig
nal.
James S. Taylor, Wichita, check
reii1honk.
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Leaned IntO the FLAMES.

CLIFTON, Tex, June 29.-H. T. Ole
son, who lived with his son-in-law on
farm few miles from here, made a
sacrifice of himself Thursday night.
He was abusing his daughter, when
her husband ordered the quarrel
stopped. The old man procured shot
gun, chased the family out of the
house and then set fire to the prem
ises, keeping the neighbors out of the
house with the gun until it was almost
destroyed. Then he leaped into the
flames and was burned up.