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tat lefl as lata as ii ii ii ii ii HOBTGAOE STATISTICS. The Legislature should provide this winter for an annual report of the amount and character of mortgages on real estate recorded in each county during the year. The first report should embrace all mortgages now actually in force, and the mortgages should be classified in order to show for, what purpose the money obtained was used, either as part payment on The Dominion of Canada contains an area of territory but little inferior to that of the United States, and omit-ing Alaska, a greater area. The acquisition of this vast territory, while not opening to our people a country more inviting to1 live in than what they already possess, would attract foreign immigration and result in the withdrawal of vast capital that now finds in the west vand south. Were the annexation of Canada an immediate possibility we should be compelled to view with alarm its effects upon states situated financially and commercially as Kansas is to-day.

In the west, at least, the annexation of the Dominion of Canada can not be looked upon as either expedient or desirable. A In our "Quit Business" sale, there can be found many useful article appropriate for Ira It's to your interest to not lose sight of us when hunting Holiday Gifts, any more than it's to your benefit when wanting any kind of men's and boys' wearing apparel. We are selling our entire stock, without reserve, at Actual! 'irstCob can afford to do buiness without a profit, but Not that we love to, or because we And Gent's Furnishing Goods Business FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1888. HORLLETY WALLS, Editors and Frop'rs. OFFICIAL PIPES OF CITY AXD COUXTT.

A merry Christmas to all Gt. Marys is raisiug a Paruell defense fund. Dr. Anna Potts seems to be inter esting the Topeka public. Kansas paid out for school pur poses durin? the past year $4,703,537.84 The "Lesson of Defeat" is still a taking head-lino in democratic newspapers.

The Sftlina Republican has blossomed out as a daily newspaper. Success attend it. Kansas will receive $71,743.33 if the direct tax bill becomes a law. The bill involves over $15,000. The two largest military reservations iu the United States, if not in the world are in Kansas Forts Leavenworth and Riley.

Jesse Burns, a Manou county farmer, committed suicide last week, and it is supposed the act was prompted by financial reverses. Dickinson county has an election contest case. V. P. Seed9 has contested the election of Mr.

Peck to the office of probate judge. Gov. Martin is busy gathering facts for his forthcoming message to the Legislature. Gov. Martin can discount Grover Cleveland writing a message any dav iu the week.

A writer in the Marion Record urges the community to let up on boom humbugs, and settle down to building up Marion's fame as a sanitarium. They have a mineral spring. The New York World 6ays that Pieston B. Plumb, United States Senator from Kansas, ranks higher iu Washington, where his substantial worth is now appreciated, than he does in his own town of Emporia. Boston Corbett, the famous slaver of John Wilkes Booth, who several months ago escaped from the Topeka Insane asylum, is now in Old Mexico where he considers himself safer than in the United States.

His Cloud county farm is in charge of an administrator. It ifl a condition and not a theory that at present confronts the democracy, and this may account for their very remarkable change of front on the Dakota question It is better late than never, but where is the democrat who will not say now that it is better never late? Mayor Hewitt of New York has called Editor Cockerill of the World, a liar, and Col. Cockerill has retorted by writing a letter to Mayor llewitt declaring the latter to be a liar, aj blackguard and a slanderer. The people of Gotham are all agog over the prospects ot a duel which they think are very, flatteriug. An extra session of the fifty-first Congress is one of extreme probability.

The republican party don't propose that a whole year shall be wasted before the surplus shall be reduced, but will proceed to reduce at once, by passing a bill similar iu form to the senate tariff bill. It is not necessary to put off the necessary reduction of the revenue uutil 1890. Senator Inoalls observes that it is all a mistake to suppose that he has any feeling of hostility to Cleveland-He says that Grover Cleveland is nothing to him but a curiosity a curious thiU(T to be studied. He is no more to me," says the senator, uthan the Sphynx of Egypt, a crow flying in the air, the Washington mon-nment, a telegraph pole, the captive rhinoseros in Barnum's circus." The visit of Levi P. Morton to Indianapolis is oue of the most important social events in the history of the noosier capital.

The receptions were the most elegant, the attendance the roost select and the most noted that the state has ever known. The newspaper men were iu clover, and it is said that Gen. Harrison and Mr Morton had more trouble in eluding them than in attending to all the remainder of their business. The Garnett Canning company's books show that 200,000 cans of tomatoes and 150,000 cans of corn have been put up this season, at a cost of a little over $23,000 for produce, labor and material. The company has sold and shipped sixteen car loads of tomatoes, four cars of corn, and six cars of apples, making in all twenty-six cars.

The farmers who supplied the corn and tomatoes are well pleased with their part of the returns, corn paying on the average a little over $10 per acre and tomatoes a little Bhort of $25. The thousands of land, or for making additional im or otherwise. Farm property should be given separately from city property. Under the present financial condition of the people, the volume of mortgage indebtedness would be a valuable acquisition to the statistics of the State. We firmly be lieve this would prove an advantage to the people, showing them the exact condition of the mortgage indebted ness of the State, and enabling them to know their true condition as a peo ple.

It is needless to say that such a report can not be secured; it is already taken from the records in many counties in the State for the informa tion of-private corporations; and we fail to see why the public should not have access to the same information in a condensed form. In the state of Illinois annual re ports of this character are made to the Legislature by the State Bureau of Labor Statistics. They are com piled from every county in the state, with great care, and present a highly interesting and desirable class of statistics. For instance the report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics for he current year will show the exact number of mortgages in force in the state, the character of the security and the purpose for which the loan was made whether as part of purchase money for improvement of property mortgaged improvement of other property or for speculation. The report for each county is given sepa rately, and city property and town lots are given separately from farm lands.

The present report conveys the gratifying information that the mortgage indebtedness of the state is but 12.63 per cent, ot the assessed valuation of 1880, and a much less per cent, of the present valuation. The total farm, lot and chattel mortgage indebtedness of the state of Illinois is $402,053,118. Of this amount is upon farm lands outside of Cook county and the total indebtedness of the state outside of Cook county is but $138,414,999 in loans, and $42,293,025 in deferred payments. This showing proves that the indebt-edness of Illinois was greatly exaggerated, for political purposes, by Ihe democratic and union labor campaign liars before the election. There is little doubt but that the same is true of Kansas, and if the figures were compiled we believe this would be shown to be the case.

The State Board of Agriculture would be an excellent bureau, all ready, for obtaining the required data. We hope the Legislature will enact a law similar to the Illinois law for the compilation of mortgage indebtedness statistics. NOT TO BE DESIRED. The question of the annexation oi Canada has progressed so far that a measure looking in that direction has been introduced in Congress, by Mr. Butterworth of Ohio.

It will not disturb the public mind very much for a period of years, at least and the sum total of the movement will simply be talk and little more. The time has not come for any such wholesale acquisition of territory, and even had it apparently arrived, so far as Canada's wishes and desires are concerned, it is a grave question whether annexation would be an expedient measure lor the United Stales to consent to. The northeastern states are doubtless for it. seeing with the eyes of self-interest the measure of its importance to them. But there is a vast territory to which the annexation of Canada would not bring any advantage.

On the contrary, the doubt is not an imaginary one that such a step would work a great detriment to the interests of the central and southwestern states and territories. Western representatives in Congress should watch this question narrowly, not from any immediate danger of anexation, but because its a gitation means the possibility of such a measure being finally reached. The west should oppose the Canadian scheme from the 6ame motives of self-interest that the east will favor it. What little influence the west now asserts in National affairs would be measarably diminished should such a large territory be added to the northeast. Capital would be prone to try investment in the new field, and the general interest as well as much capital would be diverted in that direction, leaving the west the worse for the acquisition.

The development and enrichmeut of the states of the Union are the objects of first importance, and until this vast field is exhausted it would be an unwise policy to greatly extend our borders and vastly increase the national 1. 1 nra to quit the in Council Grove. since we began our Rite Clotting, prices. YOU CAR3 I Bale 11DEMEM want to and are going customers we have had SUITS fiflD Great Closing-Out THE JOKE OF THE SEASON. Before this year is entirely gone, says Web Wilder in the Hiawatha World, we must place on record the best political joke of the season, of the year, of the campaign.

On the whole it is the best political joke we ever heard in all our born days. It is so good, so very, very good, that we delay the telling ot it prolong the pen and fill khe space with words to add polixity, give time, to lengthen and hold off and keep away from telling it. It can be told in a line, in six words, in no time at all; and it is true, verily and absolutely and beyond all denial true. Though denied oaths and affidavits two miles high it will be still true and forever true. And this is the fact The National Democratic Committee sent to Kansas $25,000 to be used in carrying the State for Cleve land.

They thought it was a doubtful State. Senator Gorman will not deny this statement. Men in Kansas will confirm it. For a great, big, overgrown fool always select a great big overgrown Democrat. Sent $25,000 to Kansas 1 The total vote cast at the late elec tion for president was 10,863,454, as against 9,296,703 in 1884, an increase of 882,487.

Of this vote Cleveland received outside of Colorado not yet officially reported Harrison, 6.185, 799: 242,984: Streeter, 142,868. Colorado's estimated vote of 12,648 for Harrison reduces Cleveland's plurality to 98,261. Had the colored republican vote in the eleven Southern States not been suppressed, Harrison's plurality over Cleveland would have been at least 200,000. The republican vote in thirty-seven states in four years in creased 370,108, upou the face of the recent returns, while the democratic returns show an increase of 449.440. This does not include the republican" increase in Colorado.

It is evident from the facts which cannot be success fully contradicted, that if the republi can vote in the South could be made to appear in even approximate accuracy, it would show that the republicans have made a larger gain in the popular vote of the country than the democrats have. A correspondent of the Wichita Eagle, in an excellent article on "The Corn Problem," says, among other good things: "Plow deep and fit your ground early and well; plant the earliest variety of seed you can get, early. Begin cultivating early and keep it up with diligence until the corn is made. Multiply Tonr men and teams by two, or divide your acres to be planted by two, or in some instances better take three for the multiplier or divisor as the safer rule. Again, not a bushel of corn should ever be sold off the farm until it is converted into pork beef or mutton.

A convention of members of the Legislature from the 5th and 6th Congressional Districts have requested Hon. Z. T. Walrond, of Osborne, to become a candidate for speaker of the House. This is supposed to be Burton's scheme to bring Henry Booth to time, and secure the chairmanship of an important committee at least.

The people are not so much interested in the question of the speakership, as iu the probability of a few sensible laws being enacted. The Inter State Commerce commissioners in session in Chicago, are discovering by thorough investigation that the Inter State commerce law is practicaly a dead letter. The railroads centering in that city, the Comraision-ers find, neither in their freight nor passenger business pay any attention to the law. They evade its plainest provisions and defy its penalties. They are having mighty interesting times down South.

The Birmingham affair will suffice for a sensation for some time to come in Alabama; Mississippi has had a most daring train robbery, in which one passenger was killed, and an incipient race war, which has already resulted in several murders, and more bloodshed will doubtless follow. If you want to see a nice lot of slipper in different shades and colors for X-mas presents go to Wm. Stenger's. 5Mt. The best assortment of candies in the city at Leech's drag store.

51-2t Fresh candles at Shenberger's. Have been highly elated at the very great bargains they have received. Our stock is fast decreasing and those who yet have to buy their winter clothing and furnish- ing goods had best fall into line or get left. TJ OtfESGOATS, Hosiery, Hats, Caps, Gloves, Mittens, Jeans Pants, Odd Cassi-mere and Worsted Pants, Overalls, Neck-wear, Silk and Wool Mufflers, Silk and Linen Handkerchiefs, Wool Shirts, Percale Shirts, White Dress Shirts, TJnlaundried Shirts, Suspenders, Gold Headed and other Umbrellas, Canes Bags, Trails, Oil and Grips, Club Which all go at wholesale AVE EJORIEY tMn OMeag-oGlo G. W.

CLEEK, Manager..