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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11
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Five Kansas towns are now, or soon
will be, governed wholly or in part by
women. They are Cottonwood Falls,
Rossville, Baldwin, Oskaloosa and Ar
gonia.
The statement evidences the fact
that the men are disposed to give the
women a chance to show what they can
do in the management of public af-
fairs. Not every woman can manage
fairly well her own little domestic
concerns. But that is not to the point,
as all men are not adopts in guiding
their little boats over the sometimes
vexed and stormy sea of life.
While the spheres of action of men
and women touch each other, they are
quite different in kind. A woman may
not do a mans work, and man would
consider it waste of energies to de-
vote himself exclusively to the domes-
tic affairs of the house. While each
can to some extent aid the
the other in their respective spheres,
neither could with any reasonable
degree of success take the place of the
other; certainly not permanently so.
The man plans, buys and sells. The
woman sews, knits and cooks. Oc-
casionally, when necessity compels,
the man can cook somewhat, can sew a
little and darn things vigorously, The
woman too, when driven to it, can
plan little, can buy and sell, and do
other things commonly regarded as
masculine duties, indifferently we'll.
But, after all, the fact remains that
neither could become permanently a
substitute for the other.
The management of public affairs
are directly in line and only an extern
sion or application of mans peculiar
duties. Even a better order of execu-
tive ability in man is required in pub
lie than in private affairs. The
query now suggests itself, can wom-
an, who is admittedly unable for OBJ
vious reasons, to take the place of man
in the control of privateaffairs. become
successful rival of his in the
larger and more complicated condition
of public affairsp That is the problem
which nothing but actual experiment
alton will solve. That IS the problem
which woman has herself undertaken
to work out in the five towns named
above. She has begun in "a modes
way, to be sure, as the towns are small
and the extent and scope of he
public duties limited and quit,
simple. But, should she succeed
which you may doubt if yov
choose, she will be encouraged to ex
tend her efforts into more complicate,
surroundings.
That council of women may gov
ern Oskaioosa fairly well, is no proc
that they could do the same in Topek
or Kansas City. Until they shall hav
demonstrated in populous centers thei
ability to direct and control IN publ
matters, the problem will remain uI
solved, and therefore matter of legit
mate doubt among men. Petticoa
rule in the five towns mentioned wi
be watched with considerable Interest
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11
I'VE disasters from wind and fire

THE disasters from wind and fire in
Dakota are simply appalling. The
great velocity of the wind obscured the
sun with the clouds of dust carried
along. Communication of all kinds
was stopped. Even railway trains
were forced TO lay up, the engineers
being unable to see the track ahead.
The flying dust was bad enough, in
places destroying growing crops, but
the fires were terrible. Whole counties
were ablaze and thousands of farmers
lost houses and every dollars worth of
property they possessed, The ruin and
devastation wrought reminds one Of the
fearful calamities reported occasionaIIy
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

Councilman McCown here took his
seat in the council.
Complaint being made by several citi-
zens of being arrested for driving over
a supposed sidewalk in the southwest
part of the city, the council after full
explanation of the matter being made
declared all fines which had been i'm
posed on parties for same released, and
the matter of the irregularity of the
walk was referred to the committee on
streets and alleys.
Mr.. Rich filed a notice that he would
contest the election of j. r. WhitehiIl
from the Second ward.
Mr.. Phillips moved that when the
council did adjourn it be until next
Monday evening at eight o'clock for
the purpose of hearing and deciding
the contest between Mr.. Rich and Mr..
Whitehill of the Second ward.
The council proceeded to canvass the
vote cast at the election held April
End, 1889
The mayor appointed w. V. Phillips
and J. NJ. McCown as tellers.
The tellers made the following re-
port which on motion was adopted.
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council:
WE. the undersigned tellers appoin-
ted to canvass the votes cast at the
| election held April 2, 1889, beg leave to
report that we did so canvass said
votes in the presence of the mayor and
I council of EmpOria, and do report that
the following named persons received
| the number of votes indicated opposite
his or her name respectively, for the
| several offices indicated as follows:
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

A WASHINGTON dispatch reports
Senator Teller as much disguised with
the president, with whom he had a row
over the Halstead matter. The sena-
tor says the president will do nothing
Tor the senators who voted against con-
hrmation. If true, this will be rather
discouraging to Kansas republicans
who are already feeling a little blue
over the situation. Now is evidently
the time for Hallowell. Hackney, Bur
tom and the Jeunesse Doree of Kansas
politicians to strike.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11
KANSAS PATENTS.

The following is a list of patents
granted to citizens of Kansas for the
week ending April 2, 1889, reported
specially for the EMPoRIA DAILY NEWS
through the Office of w. A. Redmond,
solicitor of patents, 631 F. st. N. W.,
Washington, D. c.:
w. A. Heney, Media; wagon brake
lever.
John w. Hartman and H. P. Clay,
Prescott; wagon brake.
j. P. Hale, Welleyille; combined
wire stretcher, tightener and splicer.
G. w. Mullenix, Yates Center; COM
bined harrow and drag.
E. w. Phillips, Garden City; conduit
for cable railways.
William Queen and F. A. Dake, AL
mena; corn plow.
A. w. Rumsey, Kiowa; clevis,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11
Report
OF Plymouth school. District No. 81
for the month ending March %:
Number enrolled to date-75
Number enrolled this nonth-6I
AmERICUS NEWS.

AdERICUs. April 5.-Mr. VIM Ran
kin and Miss Minnie Tressler were
united in the bonds of matrimony at
the residence of the groom's
parents yesterday evening, Rev.
Rankin, assisted by James Ran
kin and Rev Hammond, officiating.
The farmers are rushing things this
nice weather.
M. S. Hutchins has sold his feed
mill to l.. A. Wood. Mr.. Hutchins
will stay in the mill for while at
least, and continue to roll the belt.
Numerous families are setting out
shade trees in front of their places.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

Last night fire again broke out in
the Finley building occupied by Burke's
butcher shop and grocery. TWAS seen
Immediately by one of the guests at the
Palace hotel and the alarm of fire was
promptly sounded, bringing the fire de-
partment quickly to the scene of confla-
grafton. The fire, strange to say, had
gained but little Roadway and was
easily quenched. A look around the
building, at the coal oil tank which was
on fire, the floors, barrels, every con-
ceivable thing literally drenched with
coal oil, and every preparation made to
give the fire full headway at the
start, and then seeing how very little
damage was done by the fire astonishes
one. 1t is almost the Identical spot
where the flames were started before.
The first time ii was in the cellar I'M
der the cellar door; this time it was
just over the door. The fire did no
more harm this time than it did before,
and then it only burned the
floor some what. This time
the coal oil can is alone in
jured. There is something very strange
about these fires. An expert would
not begin the work in just that way. it
does seem. There were no combustible
drugs this time. In fact, there should
be a Thorough investigation of the whole
thing, taking ali things into con-
The broken panel in the
"
experienced In the business. The
hing should be closely looked into.
It was evidently the work Of an in /
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

THE Leavenworth republicans who
opposed the election of Col. d. Il. An
thony as mayor have memorialized
Governor Humphrey, begging that
that some one else be named in his
stead as police commissioner. They
charge that he is the friend OF the
jointists and as such cannot be depend
ed to execute the law. Evidently
there is nothing left for the colonel
and his sister, Susan B., whose elo-
uuence in his behalf was wasted, but
to 90 to Oklahoma and start anew.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

THE appointment Of Bob Lincoln and
Fred Grant to important consulates
has provoked Sol Miller to indite a
half column editorial in the Troy Chief
in denunciation of the idea of prefer
ring commonplace men to important
political stations simply because they
are sons of somebody. So disguised is
Solomon, he AYERS that. it would be a
good thing if, ''as fast as male chill
dren are born they were mixed up, so
that is could not be told who any OF
them belonged to- Then we should
hear no more of the grandson" and
''son of his father business.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

HENRY GEORGE has succeeded in
arousing good deal of interest among
the English in his peculiar land theo-
RES. So has the Salvation Army OBJ
tanned firm footing there, simply be-
cause the conditions favoring both ex-
ist to much greater extent in that
country than in this. Americans do
not repine at all at Henry's popularity
among the English. They are per-
fectly willing that his land doctrine be
Tasted in that country first.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11
KANSAS NOTES.

Governor Humphrey has fixed April |
IL as Arbor day.
In Phillips county blue grass Is al
ready ten inches high.
They are signing for COW and hog
ordinance IN Lawrence.
There is a boom in Kafffr corn in
western Kansas this year.
Clark county goes in for castor beans
to the extent Of 8 900 acres.
They are still finding the last of the
buffaloes in the Texas Panhandle.
A RaWlins county farmer has set
out go. eco box elder trees this spring,
Sixty Oklahoma colonists from Cali
fornia astonIshed Newton one day this
week.
The fai. at Mcpherson is the rainbow
party. Every gentleman brings a
needle.
They claim that the thermometer
marked SO in the shade at Abiline last
Tuesday.
The northwest Kansas editorial asso-
citation will meet at Minneapolis Kan
sas May %.
Owing to the scarcity of ice, refriger-
ators will be converted INTO chicken
coops this summer.
The butter and cheese manufactur-
ers association of Kansas will meet at
Salina April 10.
Dickinson county farmers have had
meeting in which it was resolved to
fight chinch bugs with prairie fire on
grand scale.
In several places Kansas farmers are
discussing ways and means't to put the
binding Irvine trust instead Of them
selves in the soup.
Five town in Kansas had women
are Cottonwood Falls. ROssville, Bald
win, Oskaloosa and Arvonia.
The press throughout Kansas is now
very busy raising one of the greatest
crops ever grown in the state. The
prospect is now very flattering for
small grain. The principal fear is from
the chinch bug.
The Oklahoma Capital a new enter
prise in journalism has just appeared.
| It is printed by Ed. Greer at Winfield
for the present, but will be moved to
Guthrie IN the Territory of Oklahoma
April q.
at meeting in Emporia twenty
nine additions were made to the church
and hundreds turned from the door.
If the order could have been reversed
it would have looked more encourag-
ing.-Hutchinson News.
The Oklahoma Capital puts the
query, what should those going to
Oklahoma take along?'' Some money,
| a large amount of pluck, shot gun and
a return ticket to Kansas. wouldn't be
| bad selection. News.
The Topeka papers must be very
hard run for news when they state that
Tom Osborn is a candidate for Con-
gresham Ryan's place. They might
with equal proprietY, announce that
the Kansas river continues to flow
down stream.-K. G. Star.
James T. Stevens, an old citizen of
Lawrence, died Tuesday morning at
ter an Hines of about year. He went
| to Lawrence from Illinois in 1859. He
was one of the founders of the Spirit of
Kansas, established in 1878, with
which he was connected until 1880. The
funeral will take place on Thursday.
An Atchison man has patented an
| opera chair with and electrical device
so arranged that by touching button
on the stage the chairs will close.
That is good, but an electrical device
that will shut up all the hoodlums in
the gallery will be even mere apprecia-
ted
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

GENERAL BoULANGER took to his
heels as soon as the government talked
Of prosecuting him for conspiracy
and is now fashioning and Illuminating
very bombastic but harmless man.
festOes in BRUSSELS. The government
il doubtless very glad to be rid of him
on such easy terms.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

FANNY DAVENPORT is to appear in
La Tosca" at Wichita. This moves
the Hutchinson News to mutter some
thing about having her diamonds
stolen'' while there. For his own
peace OF mind-large piece, of COURSE
Colonel Easily ought to quit Hutchin-
son altogether. Get consulate or
something else.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

THE friends of the Santa Fe will be
glad to know that its stock went up
seven points yesterday and at the
close stood at 49b. The new and pow
erful backing which it is reported to
have received in the last few days,
combined with the contemplated
change of directors all management
is the probable cause.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11
R..aI HsY Unala.

NEWPORT, R. L. April 6.-Mrs. VIII
son, widely known by her maiden manner
Ida Lewis, added another yesterday TO
g long list OF lives saved by her in New
port harbor. Her uncle, Henry Lewis,
skiff. fell oJerboard in the harboE near
the Iinme Rock light house, Of which
she Is keeper. She saw the accident
and pat out in her boat and rescued her
uncle in an exhausted condition.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

JAY GOULD, the wizard, is reported
as saying the other day that no man
should have more than a million.
Not perhaps, if he covets a crown of
glory in the next world. But as Jay
has never manifested any very strik-
ing symptoms of religious awakening,
it is probable that he was speaking
only in Pickwickian sense.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

EX-GOVERNOR MARTIN says that
Judge Chandler has never done any
thing to merit the appointment he got,
and the Ell Dorado Republican, Bent
Murdock's paper, says he lis not re
publican, and was not elected judge on
the republican ticket" Then why did
the Kansas delegation and George R.
Peck push him through?
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

TIE first and most important duty
devolving ON Minister Ryan after
reaching the capital city of Mexico, is
of course, to accustOm his stomach to
the inspiring beverage known as
pulque. After that he will be called
on to see what can be done in behalf
of American lard which the Mexicans
have seen fit to BOYCOTT.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

CONGRESSMAN RYAN regards Thos.
Osborn as formidable candidate for
congress, although that gentleman
says he does not want it, and has hur-
ried home from Washington to prevent
the people from electing him. If he is
to be trusted, the voters of this district
will not be permitted to make sacri-
fee of him in that way.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

REV. c. F. MORTIMER of Salina said
in his sermon last Sunday that most
marriages are failures. Either the
clergy are not fulfilling their mission
on earth. or, what is more probable,
the Rev. Mortimer's digestive appara-
tus needs tOnipp I'D.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

WHAT dire disasters from trivial
causes spring. A Philadelphia hus-
band whose wife, did not look upon
cooking as a fine art, emphasized his
disgust for her culinary preparations,
especially for loaf of heavy" bread
nv auicfdinU
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

ACCORDING to the Chase County
Leader the woman's ticket elected in
that city last Monday was huge joke
by the boys. But now that they are
elected the women propose to qualify
and give the aforesaid boys the full
benefit of the Joke.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

On grounds of political expediency,
merely because the women are believed
to be opposed to liberalism, the woman
suffrage bill now pending in the Eng
lish parliament is likely to become a
law by the aid of the tories, who want
to use it as a weapon of defense against
the encroachments of the liberals I'M
der Gladstone.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

The friends of Editor Halstead pro-
pose to ''vindicate" that gentleman by
making him Senator Payne's successor
in the upper house of congress. Anoth-
er rumor has it that the president will
reappoint him next winter, when the
presence of eight new senators will
almost insure a confirmation.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

A CoLoRED woman 1O6 years old
voted for the democratic candidate for
mayor at Leavenworth. If such enter
prise as that had been forthcoming last
fall, well, hosts of republican states
men would Aow be saved the worry
and expense of running down offices
they viii never get sight of.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

SINCE Kansas got two or three APP
pointments, grumbling has almost en-
tirely ceased. But little is required to
keep hope alive in the soul of poll
tician. While hopeful, he is the JOLT
est of creatures and everything goes.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

AND now Edwin Booth is added to
the list Of dramatic casualties for the
season. Every one will sincerely hope
that his Illness is such that rest and
care will entirely overcome it. Should
he be compelled to retire from the stage
there Is no one to take his place.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

from China or India. The patience Of
the American granger who can endure
the awful vicissitudes Of life in Da-
kota, is something extraordinary. Is
it to be wondered at that he sits still
under a condition of economic legisla-
ton whereby tine east reaps the benefit
of his hard and seif-denying labor?
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

DAKOTA may produce very good
quality OF spring wheat IVY hen it hts, !"
but what else it is good for except per-
haps safe republican majorities, is not
quite clear What, with its billiards.,
cyclones and prairie fires, home life on
and hazardous.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

a-,THE Topeka Journal made splendid
britlynt against the Cap.-Com. and the
Democrat on the mayoralty question
and defeated both in the election of
Cofran. In overthrowing the machine
Frank has done good work
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

COLONEL ZEN AS SMITH still finds it
is necessary to inform the people Of
Leaven worth that he is the responsible
editor Of the Times. 1t is rather hard
on the old man to have his editorial
primacy questioned so persistently.
Yet we do not see any special glory in
it just now, since Uncle Zenas' brilliant
and able efforts i'll behalf of Colo
mel Anthony were only so much ammu-
milton wasted.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

COTTONWOOD FALLS will be for the
coming official year entirely under pet
ticoat government. With his wife
mayor, the duty of defending the adj
minlstration through thick and thin is
imperative with Editor Morgan of the
Chase County Leader.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

IT is rumored that United States
Marshal Jones whose Office is at Topeka
has sent in his resignation. Governor
Click still holds on to the pension Of
fee. His time does not expire until
OctohRr
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

EXCESSIVE smoking may have caused
Booths paralysis, but the revenue
from the sale of imported cigar stamps
will not be lessened by a knowledge of
the fact.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

As POLICE commissioner, d. r. An
thony will make it sultry for certain
classes in Leavenworth that contrib
uted aid towards plunging him head
long into the broth.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

Nor all natives of Indiana get office,
but very many of the offices have gone
to gentlemen who at one time lived in
that state. Jake Admire, an excellent
appointee by the way, is of this class.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

CONGRESSMAN RYAN's resignation
has been received and accepted by
Governor Humphrey. An election to
choose his successor has been called
for Nav q.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

A WASHINGTON dispatch says that
the Cherokee commission will not be-
gin negotiations with the Indians for
the Strip before June Ist
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

We therefore recommend the adOp-
ton Of the following:
Resolved that the following named
persons are hereby declared to be cleo
ted to the offices named after their sew
eral names respectively at the election
in the city of Emporia on Tuesday,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

THE recent lengthy communication
from Stanley was penned six months
ago. So long has it taken to reach
civilization from the interior of the
dark continent
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

Mrs. DR.. Ira F. Packard, mother of
Mrs. L. J. Acheson, of this city, died
at her home in Sturgis, Michigan,
April End, 1889. Mrs. Packard was
quite well known in Emporia and the
news Of her death will be received with
sorrow and regret by large circle of
friends
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

HUTCHINSON has an Ice factory, a
Godsend to Editor Easley, who can
now manage to keep reasonably cool
until the anti-Oklahoma fever, of
which he is victim, abates.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

THE Minnesota beef inspection bill
has passed the legislature and is now
in the hands of the governor. In Wis
consin a similar bill was defeated this
weak
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

THE Parnell commission has once
more set up its dull and dreary grind.
The defense will now present their
side Of the case, which may prove more
or less interesting.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11
PENNSYLVANIA.
Booth Improving.

NEW YORK, April 6.-It was report
ed this morning that Mr.. Booth was
greatly improved in health and it is ex-
pected that he viii have entirely recoy-
cred in two or three days.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

THE younger members of the bar and
friends of Colonel Jim Hallowen at
Wichita are conspiring to knife Judge
Sluss when opportunity offers.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

SENATOR INGALLS, will return next
Wednesday to Atchison, where he will
spend the summer, and superintend
the rebuilding of his new house.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11

LEAvENwoRTH sat down on Col. r.
ID. Anthony hard, very hard. Will
cousin George indite an epistle con-
graduating Judge Hacker?