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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-09-12

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-The project
of forcing an extra session of congress
received the coup de grace at the cabi-
net meeting Saturday, but the verdict
thus rendered was by no means a sur
prise. While quite pronounced SEN
timent in favor of converting congress
at an earlier day than the regular
meeting in December existed and was
widely expressed in republican circles
some two or three months ago, its
force has been perceptibly ON the wane
until the advocates of the proposition
have dwindled TO mere corporal's
guard.
The president has never regarded an
extra session with any favor, but in
view of expressions of opinion from
many leading public men declaring
such session TO be necessary he had re-
Trained from committing himself one
way or the other until the proper time
should arrive TO consider and dcterm-
inc the question.
It is understood that the speakership
issue entered largely into the cabinet
deliberations and conclusion was
reached that that the administration
should do nothing that might be con-
strued as favOring or opposing or ad-
NauCsuk III IcldtuliiS the CdllGluacy OF
any one of the various aspirants foI
that important position.
Naturally the political situation was
widely canvassed and it was pro
noGnced bad politics to call an extr;
session without proper and UNSUITABLE
basis in the shape of immediatel,
needed legislation. In fact the pres
dent would have been in sore straits i'm
the efforts to explain IN his proclama-
ton the necessity for converting con
gress in advance ct the day OF its regu
lar meeting. The republican advo-
Gates of an extra session have beer
many, while few if any democrats hav
urged it. On the contrary prOminen
democratic senators and members hay
expressed themselves freely in opnosi
tion to the scheme.
The extra session proposition il
dead and its previous advocates ar
now 20 assist in the performance q
its funeral rites.
The cabinet was in session owe
three hours, aud il is understood Thu.
nearly the entire time was devoted I
the discussion of the advisabilitv @
calling an extra session of congress.
IL at any time, however, event
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HalAtead,. Aua1ver.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 9.-Murat Hal
stead will publish in his paper to-mor-
row the following in reply to n pub
lished statement that John A. Logan
Jr., of youngstown, Ohio, had refused
to send to the Mura5 Halstead club
portrait of General Logan for the rea-
son that his father, if living, would
not want his portrait hung in the
rooms of an organization named after
man WHO had slandered, yilified and
traduced him.
The republicans of Ohio felt them
selves wTonged when General Logan
failed to stand in the senate for their
rights in the matter of Mr.. Payne's
corrupt election to that body. They
were in grief for him rather than an
cry with him, and when he died they
were forgetful of all but his glory, and
there were no mourners more sincere
than they. It is regretable that his
son demands attention to the error
that clouded the close of his senatorial
career, but generous people would
more than once forgive for his father S
sake the impetuous indiscretion of the
son of the great general of the western
volunteers. have only to say of my
self that the young man mistakes me.
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understanding of our objects. We want
facts for the good of the whole people
and what we are to do is set forth in
the resolution
The resolution, which is known as the
Vest resolution, WSS adopted in con
gress May IS, 1888, and is as follows:
Resolved, That a special committee
Of i've senators shall be appointed by
the president of the senate, whose duty
It shall be to examine fully all questinns
touching the meat product of the
United States. and especially as to the
transportation of beef and beef
cattle. and the sale of the same in
the cattle markets, stock yards and
cities; and whether there exists or has
existed any combination of any kind
either on the part of the Trunk Line
association or the Central Traffic as
sociation or other agencies of trallspor-
tation. or on the part of those engaged
in buying and shipping meat products,
by reason of which prices of beef and
beef cattle have been so controlled
or affected as to diminish the
price paid the producer without less
ening the cost of the meat to the con-
sumner. That said committee may hold
its session during the recess of the SEN
ate. at such times and places as it may
determine up and shall have the
power to send for papers and persons.
and also to employ stenographer and
a seargent alarms; all necessary ex-
pences of the committee to be paid out
of the contingent fund OF the senate;
and said committee shall make report
to the senate at its next session by
bill or otherwise
Senator Plumb said it was unfair to
accuse the committee of any local pref
erences. There had been vital changes
in great industry, which had at one
time been profitable to vast number
of people west of the Alleghaneys.
The conditions had been changed SO
that all this profit has been concentra-
into few men. The committee was
| instructed to do certain things and it
intended to do them feariessly. If the
charges of monopoly were true. the
people should know it, and if they were
not true, that should be known. The
interests involved were of such an eX-
tent that to charge local preference
seems not only unjust, but NONSENSE
/ oaI
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Reaumed Its session !.

KANSAS Cry, sept. 10.-The sena-
torial cattle investigation committee
resumed its session to-day. Senator
FarweH of Chicago joined the commit
tee at its morning session, having ar
rived on the early morning train. The
first witness was David Reagan, a
dealer for forty-six years in cattle in
Atchison county. His testi-
mony-is to cOrrobOrate the evidence
given yesterday concerning the lack of
competition at present in the Chicago
market and the existence of combi-
nation between the packers. James HI.
Paine, a live stock commission mer-
chant of Kansas City thought the only
method of restricting the spread of
Texas fever and of ultimately stamp
ing it out was the establishment of a
permanent system of sanitary regula-
tions under the national department
of agriculture
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LAFAYETTE, La, Sep. ia brutal
murder was committed SIX miles from
this place on the Abbeyville road Mon
day night. Near the road side stood
small cabin and in this lay the mutt
lated bodies of Rosemond Cormier
(colored) and his daughter Rosalie,
aged 10. Rosemond, who was over so
years of age, was whipped and ordered
to leave some months ago by band of
regulators and failed to obey. It ap-
pears that about 10 o'clock party OF
masked men rode up to his house and
demanded admittance, and on being
refused, broke down the door. The
old man fred both barrels of a shot
gun into the crowd. killing white man
named John Judiee. Rosemond then
fed pursued by the now enraged
party who fired repeatedly at the
fugitive. They overlook him about 200
yards from mis- house and blew the en- :
tire back part OF his head off and then
crushed in the frontal bone by blows
with their guns. The body OF Rosalie
lay stretched in front of the cabin this
morning with her throat cut from ear
to ear. The little cabin was rlddIed
with bullets from Winchester rifles
and smaller arms; about 200 balls hay
ing been fired into it. as the cabin was
an isolated one. The ccroners jury
could find no evidence discriminating
any one. The body of masked men
who murdered Rosemond and his
daughter numbered about thirty. Tie
regulators bsfore reaching Cormier' 3
house, severely whipped two negroes,
Turn Montgomery and Joseph,
alias Toby Cobb. The victims
were fearfdlIy lacerated On
their hacks and reeaived molly wounds
about the head and face inflicted with
an instrument made by attaching a
piece of buggy trace about two feet
| long TO ahandie made of wood about
the same length, It is learned that
about two months ago Cobb had q ne
gro school teacher living with
| him and this man was ordered 70 leave.
Not doing so party went TO Cobb's
house one night and demanded that
| the teacher be given up, Whereon Cobb
grew angry and fired into the crowd
wounding two of them. Since that
time vengance has be vowed upon him
and it was wreaked Monday night.
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whi1ae,,anal nInrder.

LONDON, Sept. 10.-At $50 O'Clock
this morning a policeman found the
body of a fallen woman lying at the
corner of arailway arch on Cable street
Whitechapel. An examination of the
remains showed that the head and
arms had been cut off and carried
away and the stomach ripped open the
lnteStlneS lying on The ground. A
Gordon of police instantly surrounded
the spot, but no arrests have, up to
this hour, Is a. N. J, been made. PO-
licemen pass the spot every fifteen
minutes. Those on duty last night say
they saw nothing suspicious. The
physicians who examined the body
state that in their opinion the murder
and mutllation occupied nearly an
hour. 1t is surmiSed that the murder
carried off the head and arms in a bag.
The murder is the worst of the whole
series of Whitechapel murders.
The manner in which the limbs had
been severed from the body shows that
| the murderer WAS possessed of some sur
| gical skill. The woman was about thir-
| ty years old. Her clothing was shabby
and she was evidently spirit drinker.
| The remains have not been identified.
| The most intense excitement again
| prevails in Whitechapel. Crows sur
D4O III W4AAOA. OAAS
body lies.
Later details concerning the finding
of the body of the murdered woman in
in Whitechapel this morning show
| that there was no blood on the ground
where the body was found, neither was
there any blood ON the body. From
this it is evident that the murder was
committed in some other place, and
that the body was subsequently de.
rnoffnd Iaxl,
trunk was nude. A torn and bloody
chemise was found lying near the
body. The arms were intact, but the
legs were missing. 1t is believed that
the woman has been dead for two days
Three sailors who were sleeping under
the arch next to the one under which
the body was found were taken int
custody by the police. They con
WINGED the authorities, however, thai
they had seen or heard nothing of Z
suspicious nature, and they were dis
charged.
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KANSAS CITY, Sept. 9.-Senator Vest
said this morning that the statements
that he is against Kansas City and
Chicago and in favor of st. Louis in
the dressed beef investigation is all
nonsense. He said no INTELLIGENT per
son familiar with the circumstances
could make any such statements, as
his personal interests are in Kansas
City.
THE dressed beef trade, . said Sem
ator Vest, was diverted from st.
Louis in 1872 by what was known as
the EveneFs' combination, composed
of railroads and shippers, by which the
shippers were guaranteed a rebate of
SIS car from Chicago east. The
present commissions acts cannot divert
the cattle business back TO st. Louis,
nor can anything else do it. The
stock yards of st. Louis are in Illinois.
and it can never be a strong Compel
itor with Chicago and Kansas City. ]
don't understand the attitude of some
of the papers ON this subject. We are
simply after facts, and we propose tC
i get them if possible. The dressed beef
men at Chicago did not testify before
us, but we got much valuable testi-
mony from producer and shippers.
This investigation, continued the
senator. sis of national extent and j
wish the Star would republish the reso-
luton under which we are acting, as
passed IN congress. That gives clean
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The Human IntelIact.

We ought to be perfectly happy that
we live in this glorious age of scientific
thought. We believe there never was
another age in which the astronomer Of
Harvard observatory could PROFOUND the
following problem and receive SO many
perfectly reasonable answers to it: ''Sup-
pose" said ne, s'that three snakes. each
two feet in length, should touch each
other by the tip of the tail, thus making
a circle six feet in circumference. Sup
pose that each snake should begin to
swallow the one in front of him. In
what way would the resultant figure,
after each snake had swallowed the one
IN front of him, differ from the original
circle2'' The answers have been many
and various, some of them. we are In
formed, 'sentering the consideration of
the fourth dimension of space" because
any one of the snakes would have fol-
lowed the two in front of him and yet
have been swallowed by the two back of
him, and, therefore, would be both in
side and outside of his two fellows. The
man who lives in an age when men can
tackle and grasp and make SO clear to
others an idea OF this sort has no bust,
ness to be going about talking of the
good old times, or looking hopefully for,
ward to anything more millenniumish.
Washington Post.
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The substance of what Mr. s. B. Ar
mour of Kansas City said before the
senate committee yesterday will be
found below:
S. b. Armour was called. He said as
a preface to his testimony that he de-
sired to assure the committee Of his
profound respect but to inform them AZ
the same time that he should refuse %
answer any and all questions that
have tendency TO reveal the inside Of
his private business, or to expose 20
his competitors his trade secrets.
Vest assured him that the commit
tee had NO disposition to pry into .pTl-
Aate affairs, only so far as they might
be OF exceptional interest TO the public.
AS to your refusing TO answer ques-
tions, we shall record your refusal ana
refer the question TO a high tribunal,
the senate of the United States, Wheth-
er or not we can make you answer sfe
questions.
Chairman Vest conducted the exam
nation with an occasional suggestion
and question by Senators Farewell aud
Plumb. After relating how his bust
ness had grown from asman establish
ment to one that is now valued at 81 >
500, 600, and in which is employed from
200 TO 1900 men daily. Mr.. Armour
explained that the Kansas City Ar
mours and hesChfcago ArmOurs con-
Quoted entirely separate packing
houses. They were, in fact, c0mPe-
titors in the same market
In reply TO questions regarding the
prices paid by the witness for cattie
and the prices received for the yarlcns
parts of the animal after il had been
slaughtered and dressed. It Is found
that the profit only figured up 80 cents
per head.
ssHum-m-m, must be SEINE mistakc
there. . meditated Mr.. Vest.
do you think soI asked Dir. Ar
mour. "Now what do you think
would be a fair profit on 4 steer Of Az
erage weight and quality"
None of the senator's would venture
an opinion. Mr.. Armour had balsn6e
sheet with him showing the prodt Bat
he did not wish to expose his business
He would not give the total profit bnt
would let the reporters figure y out,
The balance sheet showed, he said That
ing the year 1885, They hGd Dettet
him 1916 cents profit per head
The former testimony said Mr. Fe9ts
showed chat the price OF meat 70 ts5e
consumer had not decreased during ti58
time that cattle hf1 depreciatsd ia
value. How did thas come about and
who gained the proiit2
Inc prices OF meat 70 INC culi51-4trL
has decreased on all but the ebcI5e
cuts, y said the witness. The prizes q
those Had been maintained because ziEo
demand for that kind Of meat had IN
creased. More people ate better meat
Coming to the question of the combine
Mr.. Armour denied that there was suy
combine, at least that ne was 1nseL-
ested In. Whenever he bought cattle
he came in competition with Other
buyers, and WEeneveF he sold dressed
was no agreement, so far as he knew,
/ In Kansas CITY.
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Noe Iol.e


WINCHESTER, Kan. Sept. Sat-
urday night about II O'Clock crowd of
boys started out to have some fun
one of their number, Willie Ray left
them and went home. Soon after he
left the boys suggested that they visit
him and put IA tick-tack on his window
TO scare him. The joke turned out to
bea serious one. As "A result David
Lane aged fifteen years and Tom Gar
diner aged eighteen years
were fatally shot. Lane re-
ceived three shots in the face. and
lodging in the brain paralyZed the left
side of his body. Another shot en-
tered his cheek and another went
through his nose. He cannot possibly
recover. Gardiner was shot in four
places, the neck, mouth, head and
through the lungs He may recover.
Ray fired single barrel shotgun at
three of the boys. He thought they
were burglars. Ed. Lewis received q
flesh wound in the arm.
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KANSAS CRY, Sept. "a special to
the Journal from Topeka says: Judge
Brewer of the United States circuit
court to-day extended the jurisdiction
of Receivers Cross and Eddy of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad over
the property of the following railroad
companies: The East Line s. Red
River, with headquarters at Jefferson.
Texas; the Dallas & Wichita and the
Dallas u Greenyiile companies, with
headquarters at Dallas; the Gaines
vile, Henrietta & Western, with gem
eral offices at Gainesville; the Taylor.
Bastrop 81 Houston, with general
Offices at Houston, and the Trinity &
Sabine. This action Was taken at the
request of the Mercantile Trust COM
pany of New York, which became a
creditor of the roads on the condition
that they would agree TO a receiver
whenever the interest should be de-
fauited.
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KANSAS Cry, Sept. I0.-The city is
full of Rremen to-day. They have
come to attend as delegates the seven
teenth annual convention Of the Asso-
citation of Fire Engineers. The repre-
sentation includes the chiefs of fire
departments. their subordinate OIL
GERS and the superintendent and their
assistants of fire alarm and fire com
panies- Six hundred delegates. from
nearly as many cities in every state in
the union. are present. The associa-
ton was organized for the purpose of
discussing and devising means for the
Improvement of fire departments and
apparatus. These are the subjects
that viii engage the attention of the
present convention. The convention
was called to order by Chief il. l.. Stet-
son of Minneapolis. Minnesota. presi-
dent of the association. Capt. III. A.
Hills OF Cincinnati called the roll. 587
delegates responding. Mayor Dayen-
port of Kansas City welcomed the del
egates, President Stetson responding.
After the appointment of she usual
committees the convention adjourned
until O'Clock this evening.
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Pu,asnn. rIilI All,ance-

Declaration OF purposes OF the PIeas-
ant Hill Alliance of Lyon county.
Profoundly impressed that we, the
farmers of America, who are united by
the strong and faithful ties of financial
and home interest should, when or
our declaration of Intentions. We
therefore resolve:
/. To labor for the education of the
agricultural classes in the science of
economic government in strictly nom
partisan spirit, and to bring about a
more perfect union of said class.
2. That we demand equal rights to
all and special fsvors to none.
3. That we ret lrn to the old princi-
pie of letting the office seek the man,
instead of the man seeking the Office.
4. To indorse the motto, ''In Things
Essential, Unity, and in All Things,
Charity"
5. To develop a better state mental
ly, morally, socially and financially.
6. To create better understanding
for sustaining our civil officers in main
tanning law and order.
Z. To constantly strive to secure en-
tire harmony and good will to all, and
bTotherly love among ourselves.
8. To suppress personal, local, sec
tional and national prejudice, all UNI
healthy rivalry and all selfish ambi-
ton.
8. The brightest jewels which it
gamers are tears of widows and orphans
and its imperative demands are to visit
the homes where laceTated hearts are
bleeding; to assuage the sufferings of a
brother or sister; bury the dead; care
for the widows and educate the or
phaRs; to exercise charity towards Of
Tenders, to constTue words and deeds
in their most favorable light; granting
to others, and to protect the princi-
pals of the National Farmers alliance
and Cooperative union until death.
Its laws are reason and equity, its car
dinal doctrines inspire purity OF
thought and life, its intention is .'peace
GU earth and good will to man.
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The phonograph has lately been employed
abroad in diplomatic correpondence.
The formal opening Of the Chicago Electric
club took place IN the new quarters recently.
Telegraph poles in India are made of iron,
on account of the destruction Of wooden ONES
by The white ants
Professor Blake is experimenting with the
view of perfecting a system Of telephonic
communication at sea
Coal cutting machines run by electricity
are now 50 far perfected that they can cut
between 200 and 300 tons par day.
The Niagara Falls convention Of electri-
clans gives promise OF full attendance and
an exceedingly interesting exhibit.
In 1858 the average charge per Geographic
message was $1.04. and the profit II cents.
In 1883 the corresponding figures were 81
cents and cents.
In Spain the native electric light compa-
MES have been so unsaccessful that the whole
matter OF lightning has been turned over to
English companies.
The changing of light vibrations In the
photoscope into electric vibrations ara said to
be similar to that which takes place ia the
microphone in sound waves.
Several accidents from the explosion Of
mineral oil lamps having occurred ia railway
cars in Buenos Ayres, the government has
given directions that hereafter all railway
cars are to have electric light fittings
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senator PInmh on rrigntion.

Senator Plumb is blue over the out
look for irrigation IN Western Kansas,
because most of the rivers come through
Colorado and Colorado can use all the
water before it gets to Kansas.
So the engineers have said before
when the plan of irrigation included
only lateral bitches or canals. There
is not, If Colorado never. digs another
canal to absorb the supply, enough
summer water in the rivers to guaran-
tee extensive irrigation, but there is
enough water wasted in the spring to
give Colorado fair supply and I'LL a
great many reservoirs in Kansas.
The water originating in Kansas
during the spring would, if confined in
well constructed reservoirs, irrigate
most of the country which needs an
artificial water supply.
The investigation of irrigation meth
DDS is really in its infancy. While the
process, in simple forms is as old as
agriculture. the study of means for
close and economical control Of limited
water has never been pushed far. To
pursue the study is the main business
of the senate committee, including
Senator Plumb. The area which has
plenty of running water through the
summer month is comparatively small
and if the committee aud the govern
ment engineers can not get beyond the
lateral canal system it will have hard
ly paid expenses. From New Mexico
to Dakota the great interior dry basin
is scantly supplied with big rivers. TC
bring many millions of acres under
the beneflcent influence of irrigation
the system of storage reservoirs must
be perfected. Some members of the
committee certainly understand thu
necessity, for they have been using the
governments privilege to set apart
acres of public land in suitable local..
ties for reservoirs. 1t is the reservoir
system the committee will study wheL
Kansas is reached. kansas CITY