The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-09-05


no other purpose than to show that the |
school houses are not the property of
English syndicates.
THE C. B. s. @. has given notice that
it also will make Kansas City a whist
ling station, and win make through |
rates on shipments from points west of |
the Missouri river. This is in full |
keeping with the logic of the situation.
AN English company proposes to in
vest ten to fifteen millions a year in |
American land mortgage securities. |
Let the company invade Ohio. They |
will find there land mortgages enough |
to absorb all the loose money in the
kingdom.
ACCORDING to the programme of the
Globe-Democrat, congress should re-
move the tariff on glass. Such is the
penalty denounced by it against all
trusts fostered by protection. AS
there is tariff on glass the glass tar
if should go.
THE Steamship City of Paris arrived
in New York Tuesday making the trip
from Europe in the shortest time ever
recorded, that is five days, nineteen
hours and nineteen minutes. That is
downright marine racing of the MAUD
81 sort.
Miss ADELE REED has sold the
Westphalia Times, and will give her
entire attention to her other paper, the
Lane Star. Miss Adele now has time
to indulge an occasional Irritation, if
so minded.
| The naval battle at Milwaukee yes
terday was an inspiring spectacle.
There were schooners by land and
schooners by sea. The principal diff
ference between the sea and land ser
vice was that while one was thrilling,
the other was filling.
THE fellows who started shoe fac
tory last spring In the old brewery
building at Lawrence have been try
ing to run the concern without money.
Their men have quit and gone out on a
strike to the number of about fifty, be-
cause they have had no pay for several
weeks.
: THE Leavenworth Times is authori-
ty for the somewhat surprising bit OF
I news that the assessment of last spring
4 gave Hutchinson hardly 10000 popu.
lation, a fact which the News of that
town has studiouslY concealed. When
Wichita finds that out what yowling
= her sneers will call forth from Hutch
: inson.
e WE publish elsewhere Colonel Eli
It otr +. IShepard's extremely wise anC
: philosophic comments on the Soutl
IS and its people. The colonel's great
stro nghold is his piety and christian
character. His piety seems to be il
IS proportion to the virulence with which
IT he can hate the people of the south
n As the Globe-Democrat says she is
IT symphony in soleclsms. or in laiI
IS terms typical ass.
: SENATOR INGALLS, who has gone t
!, Washington again, says that he wi
"a camp on the steps of the interior de
partment until he secures a revocation
of Messerve's appointment as pres
,g dent of the Haskell institute. Sue
" fidelity as that to the interests of hi
"a Kansas constituents is what enthrone
d. Ingalls, in the hearts of all true an
loyal Jayh awkers.
At a SPECIAL to the Kansas City Time
u of yesterday attributes the folIowin
a. break to commissioner Tanner: Il te
ht you, comrades, this $12 month, sma
ie as it may seem, will often preserve tt
~ virtue of some dead comrade
~ =, 4
great indignation in the encampmen
&c If Brother Tanner is guilty of 81
IS aforesaid bad break, he is to be pitie'
M IL not, somebody deserves good kicl
ed ing.
WICHITA has Just fenced in h,
~ Five Points. . To have place on h
townsite worthy to be called 'sthe Fl,
ue Points, is of no little distinction
'st That Wichita was duly alive to til
" circumstance is quite evident from Il
fact that she has put u fence arour
the noted spot. All that Il
Weedy Wonder lacks of being Got
nd am, is the Atlantic Ocean and Cast
ne Garden.
IL COLONEL ELLIOTT i. SHEPPARD
of perhaps the most picturesque crank j
it'll the country. AS such, and as an e
is. ample of the union in the same persC
ar. of viruient hatred and profound reli
ow ious veneration, it is hoped that Il
Mt? colonel may long be spared to us. 4
in a successor to George Francis Trai
sri- when that notable worthy shall ha,
ar left the stage, the colonel ought to |
lily able to give satisfaction to all lovers
nrk the picturesque and grotesque.
~ THE G. A. r. encampment at Nj
- waukee endorsed the resolution of
'n' year ago asking for a disability pei
sion bill and service pension. Co
'ne poral Tanner said only a few wee
ago that the treasury could not
an present stand such drafts on It as q
the enactment of a service pension b
It would call for, and suggested that q
ar matter be deferred for tirne. III
ust is how Tanners suggestions were I
han cetved.
Il THE Lawrence Tribune sa7o {,
owing to the number of .srobeI1ss
the the republican ranks in Kansas &
ca year, and the amount of kicksz1 e
he viii do, more democrats and lB.lsso
re- dents win be elected this fal III
nal ever That is probably true Y
TO there are very few Of those nov i
bering about "a rebellion c