The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-06

LeavenwOrth has turned off her
street lights because she had no way of
paying for them. The town is now in
total darkness. Cities without any
source of revenue, save taxation, must
all come to it.
Chief of Police Gardiner received in
formation of the arrest of Bill Haddix.
at Emporia. Haddix is colored man
with bad character and is wanted
here for stealing wearing apparel from
Major L. j. Anderson, o. the Rock
Island.-State SOurnal.
James Gordon Bennett paid Paris
doctor S., 900 for three minutes work
cutting a wart off his neck. In
Kansas, warts are removed every day
gratultOusly by old women, who tie
strings around them and then throw
the strings under board where they
will rot.-K. G. Star.
The Atchison Patriot, the oldest dem
Ocratic paper in Kansas, is to be sold
June % by order of the United States
court. This is rendered necessary by a
disagreement of the owners, not on ac-
count of any lack of value in the prop
ertY. The Patriot is well established
and good paying paper, and Will prove
valuable to the right kind of man
purchasing it.
Bion S. HutchinS, who aimed high
when Harrison was elected, has finally
accepted the position of deputy coal
oil inspector, at $50 a month. Mr..
| HutchinS was secretary or something
of a campaign committee last fall, and
ION The quiet" tells his friends that he
was responsible for the 81 900 majority.
Carpenter, who is Hutchins' chief, has
been in Kansas but a short time, and
never did anything ''for the party" y
| Atchison Globe.
An exchange speaks of the five Kan
SaS towns under the rule of women,
Cottonwood Falls, Rossville, Baldwin.
OskalooSa and Argonia, as the dead
est, dullest and stupidest old moss
backed towns in the state. 1t also
says that it is the lack of energy that
prompts them to elect women mayors
and councilWomen; and. that the
cheap notoriety that these decayed,
worm eaten towns gain from having
elected women to manage their NUM-
ciple affairs is on a par with the enter.
prize of a Observation-Disclosures
patched-trousers proprietor of laun'
dry wherein bis wife does all the bust
ness.
; The medicine Lodge people claim
: largest in the world. The water fol
the factory is to be supplied by an ar
tificial lake which will cover more
than seven acres of ground, and thu
average depth of the water will bI
about six feet-in the center. ten feet
, The water will not be a stagnant pOn(
but will be supplied and discharges
at The rate of 2 $50 cubic feet minute
The supply is derived from flowing
stream of soft water, by way of cana
n hsalf
built by the city last year.
Guthrie has forty dry go9ds stores
! fOrty-Seven lumber yards, four banks
? thirteen bakeries, ten shoe stores, sey
: enteen hardware stores, fifteen ban
Der shops, five printing Offices, fou
newspapers, six news stands, two dali
r papers, fifteen hotels, thirty-fiVe reE
t taurants and boarding houses, fou
f gun stores, tWenty-seven drug stores
two brick yards, five furniture stores
; ten blacksmith shops, fifteen implC
g ment houses, five churches, two oper
i houses, twelve photograph galleries
: six meat markets, four bath house
three music houses. twenty feed store
nine livery stables, twelve laundrie!
I, five harness shops and more comm
f every day.
!, Pat Cleary murdered Jesse Turne
4 January 3, 1888, at Lincoln, Kansa
" He was convicted of murder in til
y second degree, and sentenced to twel
|, ty years in the ''pen." The supreu
d court ordered new trial, and CleaI
r. was brought back to Lincoln. He w;
again put on trial May 16. The jul
p disagreed, eleven being for convictIC
1t and one for acquittal. He finally plea
e guilty to manslaughter in the THU
: degree and was -gJHaen three years j
the pen. Monday night he broke ia
/ but was captured, and the citizens di
d gusted with judges and juries an
e knowing him to be. a bloody murdere
took him to railroad bridge and hun
him.
An amusing story is going arouI
concerning couple of western banl
ers. Mr.. Walker, cashier of the Schuste
u Hox bank in st. Joe, lately went
visit at Mr.. Obendorf's house for Dime
Is and was such a we'll behaved man tia
Mr.. ObeDdorf imagined he must be r
: ligious. When dinner was ready, NJ
Walker was invited TO ask blessing
n which he did, after a fashion aftC
# some hesitation and blushing. Nj
. Obendorf congratulated himself on h
Shrewdness in not offending his reliI
GUS guest, and few weeks later weI
: to st. Joe, and was invited to Dime
: with MIR. Walker. When they So
II down to dinner MIR. Walker thought
would never do to offend a religion
D man like Mr.. Obendorf, SO he invite
b him to ask blessing. Mr.. ObendoI
e bluShed and hesitated, but final
mumbled out something that was az
T cepted as blessing. After dinner
I. while riding, about the city. they talke
5 on religion, when itdevelOped that bot
men were free thinkers, and that the
q had never before asked a blessing a
3 dinner Globe.
Press Opinions on KeIIy's speech.
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