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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31
NO DISSENTING VOICE

Senator Plumb's reelection to the
United States senate was known for
quite while to be foregone conclu-
sion. The result of the joint meeting
of yesterday did not therefore surprise
anyone in Kansas, where the lay of the
ground was familiar to all. Else
where, however, the unanimity with
which he was elected to third term
may contain something of a surprise
for those who are not acquainted with
Kansas politics. Such political occur
rences as that are by no means fire.
quent, and when they do happen are
regarded as in a manner extraordinary.
Senator Plumb has attained a high
rank in the senate, which Is far from
being lessened by the manner of his re-
election. 1t is common TO point to Wash
ington as young surveyor, to Patrick
Henry as grocer's clerk. to Lincoln
as a rail-spliJter and to Garfield as a
canal boy. Henceforth in Kansas, pre-
ceptors of the young will ask their boys
to regard the example of Senator
Plumb, who went like Franklin from a
printers case to the United States SEN
ate, and after twelves years. service IN
that body, was reelected for six years
more without dissenting vote.
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ON I0RDAN,s Road.

The penitentiary investigating COM
mittee had a little seance yesterday
with the Times correspondents at
LeavenWorth, ThurstOn and SCHNEIDER,
These gentlemen were quite communi-
cative of course, and told the commit
tee whom to call before 1t, and what
their sources of information were. AS
a result an adjournment was had to
Monday, when the committee will
meet in Leayenworth and get down to
business in business-like way.
At Topeka the belief is general that
there is something very rotten at the
penitentiary. The crookedness is by
common consent laid at the doors OF
the directors, especially Hiatt and
Richter. There are a number of sus-
picious circumstances that point tC
them as men who have an intimate &C
quaintance with Doodle.
Not much is said about Warden
Smith, and at Leavenworth democrat:
and republicans alike acquit him Of
any completely in wrong with the di
rectors. Neither is it believed for &
moment that Governor Martin has any
knowledge of the Doodle business
Confidence in the integrity of the com
mittee is very strong, and no one fears
that there will be any withdrawing
done. at any rate the price of lime
remains steady and low. The examin
inatiOn will be searching one, ant
somebody is going to find before it i
ended that Jordan is a hard road t.
Il
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

THE EMPoRIA NEWS, as well as many
other exchanges, calls on the legisla-
ture TO say whether or not capital pun
ishment shall be the law. Why not
speak out and say which it shall be?
Give the legislature to understand
what the sentiment of the state is in
reference to capital punishment, and
say it in way that can not be misun-
derstood. Tribune.
Very well. The NEWS believes in
hanging, or otherwise infiicting the
death penalty, on every one that de-
serves it. 1t favors the speedy execu-
ton of the sentences pronounced on
those criminals now in the pen" I'M.
der sentence OF death to hang. In
other words, it favors the execution OF
the laws and judgments OF courts that
on account of official timidity, are sui.
fered to fall into contempt. Now
where do you stand?
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31


MAX O'RELL, in his book on Broth
or Jonathan and his Continent" says
that there is ''an American aristOcracY
into which it is more difiicalt to pene-
trate than into the most exclusive
mansions of the Faubourg st. Germain
or Mayfair and Belgravia." There are
he says in Philadelphia, Beacon street,
Boston, and Washington square, New
York, people who look with much more
contempt on common mortals than dc
the Montmorencys of France or the
Towards of England. If this is the
way in which certain phases of Ameri-
can life impress Europeans. what right
have we to vaunt our democratic spirit
and denounce at the same time caste
and class elsewhere?
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

THE Topeka Journal of yesterday
gives in the most heartless manner an
account of banquet rendered Tuesday
night by an Official of the Santa Fe to
q number OF distinguished gentlemen
among them being Governor Eumph-
rey and several state officials. The
supper lasted from to y O'Clock. Be-
ing all prohibitionists, no whisky OF
beer was allowed to come upon the Ia
BILE. OF course not. For their stom-
achs' sake, however, they slipped lit
tie wine. Among the brands sampled,
We notice the following in the Journal:
DRY Monople, ? .PerrEer Jouet, J, To
kay, ? DRY Catawba, . ssSt. Julien, y
Chateau La Rose and Madeira. .
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31


One of the p1litest men at Topeka
and the most assiduous Sin his atten-
tions to the senators is Geo. II. Case
This gentlemen. who went TO the state
convention as candidate for governor
with a beggarly following which he
hoped to trade off for something of
value. is said to have sold out to Hum
phrey for the promise of either railroad
commissioner or warden of the peniten-
tiary. AS the governor has no sure
thing OF the first, it is probable that
Case will get the penitentiary plumb.
provided he can make himself solid
enough with the senators to get his APP
pointment confirmed by them. Inview
of the existing scandal there, the SEN
ate will be very careful and cautious in
saying who shall succeed Smith, the
present incumbent. That is why Case
is so sweet on the senators.
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him, and win be enforced Il he fails to
comply with the agreement.
shipvrsoksd.


In the show window of Davies s.
Cunningham's book store may be seen
very pretty model of the sailing yes
sci Lara" which was lost In the Pa
ciflc ocean in the fall of 81. The ship
was under command of our fellow
townsman, Captain Curry. He and his
wife and nineteen others were on the
vessel, which would carry about 1900
tons. Thevessel carried at the time 800
tons Of coal, and on the 23rd day of
October took fire from spontaneous
combustion and those on board
were compelled to leave her
in the small boats. They
were l $50 miles from the nearest point
of coast, being in latitude 118 degrees
west and ten degrees north. The ship
wrecked yoyagers were twenty-three
days in reaching the coast of Mexico
and during that time had but one-hali
pint Of water each to keep them alive
They were nearer dead than alive wheT
they at last reached land, but all sur
vived. There is no case on record save
this where woman endured the hard
ships of wreck on the sea over eigh.
teen days.
The model is true in every respect
and the captain has been about foul
months in making it. simply using hi
leisure moments. The ship was al
English Canadian vessel and at the
time of the disaster was bound for San
Francisco, having been on the waite
$50 days. The little ship has attracted
considerable attention and man,
are the questions asked in regard to it
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31
For vsgranoy.

Friday afternoon an able-bodie d
colored man, who has not lost days
work in many months. was arrested on
a charge of vagrancy. The case comes
under one clause in the statute on va
grancy, which says: ANY abIe-bod-
led married man VINO shall neglect or
refuse to support his wife or family,
shall be deemed a vagrant." Las
summer this man, Dave Burton, Was
brought before the justice on a charge
of rape under the new law. To avoid
the severe punishment which the law
in1icts for this crime he agreed to
marry the young lady. which agree
ment was considered satisfactory by
the girl and the complaining witness.
her father. Since that time he has not
given dollar to her support, hence
the arrest. He pleaded guilty. and
was fined $50 and given thirty days in
the county jail. He, however, agreed
t. pay into the haads of the county at
torney, sl2 each mouth for his wifes
support, and he was released. The
fine and imprisonment hangs nger
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

BEHOLD the beauty of sophistry.
When asked by distinguished clergy
man at clerical meeting why he pub
lished column ofsporting news in his
paper daily, Editor Shepard of the
New York Mail and Express ans
wered in a confused manner that he
did it for the cause of Christ. He
thought that sportingl men might in
that way be induced to read his relig-
ious texts, church news, sermons and
pious editorials. In other words, he
believed in doing evil that good may
come-to him in a financial way.
Shepard enjoys the distinction of be-
ing the foremost journalistic Peck
sniff in the United Safes.
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For Grand Larceny.

Sheriff Worster returned from Leav-
enwOrth Friday morning, hav-
ing arrested George Hill on a
charge of grand larceny. The
arrest is made on an indictment of
the grand jury which sat last Septem-
Der. Mr.. Hill was formerly justice of
the peace at Strong City, but the larce-
ny said to be committed is the stealing
of a $50 gold piece from F. E. Mackey
who lives just back of the Normal.
Hill is an old soldier and was found by
the sheriff at the Soldiers Home at
Leavenworth, where he has been for
several months
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31
The KANGAROO Cont.

The inmates of the county Jail, in
order to overthrow imaginary disorder
and relieve the monotony of prison
life, have organized a court which they
have named the kangaroo court. -
The rules are very strict and every
new man is at once put on trial. Cupp
is judge, J. P. Atkinson, the operator,
is clerk. Nose Murray, colored, is sher-
iff and Copsy who has been in for
drunkenness, is deputy sheriff. AS
Cupp goes out in March, Murray will
probably succeed him. When Hall
was incarcerated he was tried
and sentenced to be hung.
Yesterday morning Hill was tried
and fined 81. He pleaded poverty and
The fine was reduced to one pound of
tobacco. The rules of the court are
very nicely gotten up and are signed
by all the Office holders in the Kanga-
roo court.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31
A SMALL BOYS REVENGE.
He Creates Family Row Osker His Father
Pretty Typewriter.


4 good story is told on a certain well
known lawyer, who now has one of his
daughters to manipulate his typewriter in
stead of the winsome blonde who was form
erly handsome piece of furniture in the
Office. The change came about In this way:
One day his 10-year-old son wandered into
his Office just as the legal light was examin-
ing a letter written by the hired amanuensis.
In order to read the letter it was necessary
for the lawyer to bend over the back of the
young lady's chair. The youngster looked at
his parent, took in the situation, and then
said: "Pa, want quarter"
"I'm busy now, don't bother me, boy" said
the father, and he continued to hang over the
shapely shoulder of the fair typewriter and
peruse the letter which she held in her hand.
"Pa," said the boy again, 81 want a quarter.
You'd better give it to me and III clear out. ("
Don't worry me, tell you," said the
father. Cant you see that am busyT'
The youngster didn't say any more, but
just hung around the Office. He looked out
of the window and counted the white horses
as they went by; he emptied some sand into
an inkstand, and then thickened the COM
pound with muciiage, and did a lot Of other
mischievous tricks such as will only suggest
themselves to 10-year-old boy. But he kept
close watch on the governor and typewriter,
and every now and then would shrug his
shoulders, as much as to say: ''Iu get even
with you"
Finally the lawyer was ready to go home,
and, taking his little boy by the hand, they
walked to their modest appearing, but hand
somely furnished residence. Very little was
said on the way, and the father was evidently
nettled at what he considered the misbehavior
| Of his son. When the family sat down to din
ner he narrated the circumstances to his wife,
and she sternly told the young man that If he
could not behave himself she would not let
him go down to his fathers Office again.
The boy didn't seem to mind that much,
and finally said, as he balanced his fork on his
forefnger: Perhaps was somewhat rude
| and impatient, but, mamma, il you'd seen pa
| lean over that pretty typewriter and play
with her bangs. and whisper in her ear, you'd
have thought he'd been glad to give me q
quarter to get me out Of the way. / never
knew how much pa was stuck On her before"
The youngster was sent away from the
table in disgrace, and he subsequently re-
ceived striking evidence Of a parents wrath,
| but there was also an agreement between the
parents that resulted in the dismissal Of the
! fair typewriter the following day.-Washing
ton Star
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31
To Revive the Use of the Lance.

The question of reviving the use of
the lance In the French army is again
being discussed. A military expert,
IN letter to The Temps, has much to
say In favor of this weapon. He APP
pears TO think it was abolished after
the war without Sufficient reflection,
and mentions two incidents In the bat
tie of Waterloo in which English cav
airy. while in the act of charging
French troops, changed their purpose
when they saw those armed with the
lance, and attacked other regiments
supplied with short weapons. The
writer thinks the main argument en-
ployed In abolishing the lance In the
French army-the length of time
needed to obtain a mastery of the
weapon-an erroneous one.-London
Telegraph.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31
REsTnTCT TMmlGnATEON.


Congress owes it to the country
to restrict immigration. This. of
course, can be done without shut
ting out a desirable class of immi-
grants seeking to become Americans
and to better their fortunes. But this
land should not become the Botany Bay
of the world. a receptacle into which
is poured the Tiffraff and offscouriDgs
of mankind. There is not a country
or people high or low from Kamehatka
to California, travelling westward of
course, or from the Arctic to the Ant
our populations. In most cases the ac-
cesslons are from the lower strata of
social life, including not only the very
poorest. but the worst, meanest and
most depraved and Objectionable ele-
ments. Paupers, criminals, outlaws
and Outcasts, socialists, anarchists and
they who cannot support themselves,
have come even as the locusts came upon
Egypt, bringing with them their vices
and pestilential heresies about society
and government. This flood of dis
eased and depraved humsnity should
be stopped. The sooner the better
There is room yet for honest, industri
GUS, law-abiding immigrants. Ever
for them opportunities are; not wha
they once were, but they can find some
thing better perhaps than Europe of
fers them. For them there is wei
come.
So rapidly is this country filling VI
that in few years it will rank in pop
ulation with Hindoostan and othe
Asiatic countries. It now exceeds an!
country in Europe excepting Russia
and will soon have distanced her.
is time something should be done t
check the extraordinary increase.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

THE Arkansas City Traveller is a
great admirer of Mr.. Fairfax, the color
ed member from Chautauqua county,
and gently rubs the sal skin fur on his
character by saying that he lis one OF
the most brilliant and level-headed
members of the present house" and
that she has a bushel of brains of the
finest texture 1t Is now Mr.. Fair
fax's turn to say that the Traveller is
the ablest and most discriminating
journal west of the AlIeghenies.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

THE senate committee on fees re-
ported adversely yesterday Senator
Murdock's bill reducing the fees of
county officers. The:obby did its work
well. The matter was not ended, how
ever, as the minority succeeded in hav-
ing the bill printed 1t will be discussed
yet become law, although it cmust be
admitted, the opposition to it is strong.
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KANSAS PATENTS.

The following is list of lpatents
granted to citizens of Kansas for the
week ending January 22d. 1889, re-
ported specially for the EMPoRIA
DAILY NEWS through the Office of W.
A. Redmond, solicitor of patents, 631
F. st. N. W. Washington. d. c.
G. w. Harrop, Manhattan; hame-
fastener.
F. A. Hoover. Kimeo; door check.
S Huffman, Matanzas; corn-planter.
T. A. Perry, Abilene; trough for wa
tering stock.
John Thomas, Kansas City; appara-
tus for use in dressing hogs.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31


Wednesday Abbie, the twelve-year-
old daughter of MIR. and Mrs. James
Booker, colored. of Congress street,
met with peculiar and fatal cccident.
She was sitting in room in their home,
holding the babe, and with one hand
undertook to stir the fire. She shook
the stove too much in her efforts to
poke the fire, and the stovepipe
fell down, striking her in the
temple, cutting fearful cash
and burning the side of her face
and her ear. No one was with her ex-
cepting her brother. Others of the
family heard the noise and on coming
INBOUND her lying on the floor. Physi-
an were at once summoned but she
was dead before they arrived. Her neck
was found to be broken and it is sup
! posed it was done by the force of the
pipe and by her jerking her head trying
to dodge it. She had been ailing some
for several days, but had been attend
ing school regularly. The father left
yesterday afternoon for the coal mines
in Arvonia and did not learn of the sad
event until his arrival home Thursday
evening.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

IN the sudden death of Congressman
Burnes the Missouri delegation in the
house has lost its ablest member. Very
few men have grown as rapidly after
entering congress as did Mr.. Burnes
Since Mr.. Randall's health failed sew
eral months ago, he has performed the
duties of chairman of the committee on
appropriations, next to ways and means
the most important committee in the
hnnGa
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

SIX HUNDRED families have just
been hustled out of Oklahoma by the
nations defenders, the boys in blue.
When will people learn to have a little
common sense, or less greed for
snaps They will follow the advice
Of such irresponsible blatherskites as
Pawnee Bill, and go dragging their
poor families in OK carts hundreds of
miles through an uninhabited country
in search of landed estates, of fortunes
in alkali or sand, and having endured
trials and priVatiOns worthy of better
cause, find that they have only i'm
itated the folly of the boy who stole into
the circus and was unceremoniously
kicked out for his pains. This last
cleaning out of the dupes may serve as
lesson to others stricken with the
OklahOma'feVer.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

The new pulpit furniture for st.
Marks Lutheran church has arrived.
1t consists of five pieces, three chairs,
communion table and an octagon pull
dit. 1t Is all in walnut and very hand
some and adds very much to the in
ternal appearance of the audience
room. 1t was present from the Rev.
George d. Gotwald. of Kansas City.
Missouri, a warm friend of the pastor.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

The ladies of the Woman Suffrage
assiation lately held in Washington did
not forget to pay their respects to and
lay their claims before congress. This
pleasant duty fell to the old and relia-
BILE Susan B. Anthony and was per-
formed Yesterday in her usually happy
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

Almerin GiIlett whose term as rail
road commissioner expires in April
wants a reappointment it is said, and
is laboring for that purpose. Three of
the six members of the executive coun-
ell are pledged to him. Four are re-
ouired to elect of course, but three can
defeat an opponent. AS attorney gen.
eral kellogg is his friend. it is probable
that he will be his own successor. Elk
Lieutenant Governor Riddle is after
the snap as well as Geo. Ii. Case.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

AN exchange says 1.-The legislature
could do nothing more beneficial for
for western Kansas than to pass law
encouraging the erection of sorghum
sugar mills Oh, yes it could. 1t
could pass law encouraging the cree
ton of fine farm house, with all the
modern improvements, for every far
mer in western Kansas. In addition,
it could pass law for encouraging the
growth of common sense, which is as
desirable in some gu rters as sorghum
mills
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

THIS is what we call refined sarcasm:
One gentleman in the legislature said
yesterday, stanuing in his place that
another member who had just been
speechifying. did not know his mouth
from a post hole when talking about
TUatpr
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

POWELL CLAYTON of Arkansas told
"A newspaper man that the southern
member of General Harrison's cabinet
would be taken from Missouri. This
is case where the wish is not father
to thu thought, even if Powell believes
what he says, which is doubtful.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

THE proposed new insane asylum and
industrial school for girls have pro-
duced a great ferment in western Kan
sas. Each crossroads village is max
ing bid for one or the other of them
as if its entire population was made up
of imbeciles and orphans.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

ELLA WHEELER Wilcox informs an
anxious world that she will write nc
more after her fortieth birthday. Does
Ella think that the heyday in heI
blood will have become tame and hum.
BILE by that time? Now let us hear
from AmeIie Rives.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

WHEN patient makes a payment
on account to certain Atchison doc
tor he marks it ''pade'' on his books.
This circumstance is noted as proof
OF the fact that correct spelling has
nothing whatever to do with a thor
cugh and comprehensive knowledge of
medicine or of bookkeeping.
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aToneY 30 obi~t.

You can trust the average Haytian
negro with large sums Of money, and
he VIII not steal A French merchant
informed me that he had on more than
hundred occasions sent Thousands of
dollars in gold coin and In paper cur
rency over the wild mountain road from
Jacmel to Port au Prince by single
messenger, without losing a cent, On
the other hand, fondness for petty piI-
fering is universal The same centle-
man stated that after the black messen-
ger delivered the money he has known
hun TO sneak into the room and steal the
canvas wrapping of the parcel New
York Herald