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DODGE CITY TIMES: vol. vn. DODGE CITY, KANSAS, FEB. 12, 1881. NO. 39. ! "" A WIXTER PRE3UBT. Some fean were expressed, Saturdsy for the safety of the Arkarsas liver bridge it this piece, The liter rose several fret and at four o'clock in the afternoon large cakes of ice were fl ating in the a ream. For rev eral days trains were delayed from the wot owing to freshets and ice gorges in Colors do. From the West Las Animas Leader we male the following extracts concerning the freshet and damage done by it: 'The mild weather of ibe last few days das made an iinpre eioo. on eotnetbing up the Purgdtoire, the Caddo, Mud at d Rule creeks at d tLat something ia liquid form ha come ruehmg madly down and is going onward toward the tea. The sjapicion U that there h s been a heavier enow fill in ihe conous ol tbe Purgatoire than lias lieen known before for ten years. Ceriaiu it is that such a flx.d as this was cever known brf re in the Pur gatotre in winter time. It came down Tuts- day night and Wednesday, and Friday the water was in manj p'aces kalf a mile wide, and cjuld be seen from high points for miles around. The liquid was of a thick paint-like corvta'eniy, and bad a somewhat disagreeable, sulphurous odor. Strange as it may seem, ihe tulphurous 1 quid carried on it buSiin immense cakes of ice, many aa large as ihe side of a two stury house. Win d haulers who stared out early in the mcrn'ng for tbe south turned back and ap palled llieir Irieuds with the story of (he flood and the fad that a dozen or so Kama with drivers were LeU on the other side. Parties who s arted for Ft. Lyon soon re turned with the news that a i art of Ft-Ljcn bridge wa tone, and that the railroad track and bridge at the Purgatoire were under Water. The Frt Lyon wagon bridge orcr the Ar kansas Went out in Sec ions Weduesd .y. Ar. immense gorge of ice formed above it, from eight to ten feel Irgb, running back a quir tr of a mile. A span firel gave way near the middle which set the ice in motion, a' ter wuich ibe piles were mowed down like straw. Two spans remained about midway and four at each end. Two miles below Caddo the river mad a dttHir from its old channel toward tbe south blufl, crossiog the track, and his washed oat 1600 (set of the grade. Three miles farther down tbe can em re rone tie track, and ii in sapposaJ baa caused similar damage there. The bjttom between the new chamel and the old is pretty well cotered with water. P.otn tbe Pueblo Cbititaa: Thursday's tutern train was delayed about nine boon by tbe washing away of tbe Api-h ipa biiJge. M jet ot tbe streams in this section bare been on a high for severs! tiajs, owing to Ihe warm weather ana melting of ice and mow in the moaotain. The Apiahapa and Hu erfano are flooding their banks and eauriog considerable damage to ranchmen living al eg the banks of the stream. Toe streams all i.a u rally run ytrj rapidly, and when thiy te:ooje swollen by their tributaries the water carries away everything in its mad career. Even the placid Arkansas seems to be inclined lo gtt its bsck np, andwss yeeterd iy rising rapidly, but it will take a pie ly Li; lhaw to fLod its banks, as there is considerable room b tween shores. It looks as though the pricg floods bad commeoced and if ibis should proie true, Pu-blo might as well say good bte to a pure water supply the coming summer. So far as heard no gicat damage by the Purgatoire flood hsa been done, but much is anticipated before it aba'f s It is rot known yet whether trains over the Santa Fe will be able togellhroujb to-day, but it is hoped ttey will. ' FARM AXD STOCK LETISR. Io the Editor or the Times. Labxeij, Kas., Feb. 5, 1SS1. Wheat is wintering safely ; the no's all sem roio.l. Although we had ate pat tunny Kansas the first few days of Ibis mouth, and I suppose the ground hog did come out and take a look at Liiuatlf as I was afraid he waul,); but Feb. u rv has put on her m tut le aain. I hi pe eh- will keep it on until si e is obliged lo con- gu It to Ibe raj bjg. Yes'erday opened wi h fcg and damp wind from southeast ard turned lo light rain towaida night. Ibis mcruing du elled a fine coat of snow, and still continue o fall steadily from tie north and north east. It is too la'e to hurt anything except gnw, but wi 1 replac the old crop with an early start ol new. It will be splendid lor wheat, aod if it.Uih weather lasts the week ou we may look for a good early spring. Now ia the time stock wants their be-t feed, and we lope stock men will provide well this ni n b. All s'Ock that have been kept w.ll up to this time, with a little ad dmon or good feed during ihe roug'i day up to March, will pay tieir owneis good internet on the capital Invested. It is the only way to make profit out of stock, and es pecially in a country like this where feed is I'lenly and cheap M.n who will riot 'ed eiock on millet at $4 or corn at 28 to 30, ought not to have anv s'ock to cire for. 1 hink this winter will -rove Ihe fallacy ol more stock thn f.ed, epec:ally an.ong the sheep men. Experhnre i a dear school, but fool will learn in no other. Sorghum frxM.r and sorghum reed are growing greatly in favor with the farmers whu raided fork-hum tbe past season. Tbe be-t mode of rai-li g and harvesting the rrop is becoming; quite intending, and we thi. k it would be a splendid etibjea t lo discu-w through 'our pi era. I am cif the opinion it will take ih- III are of millet among far mers an feeders. I think Ibe seed quite sa gneid as Indian corn lo- sheep, and that it is almost as go I lor cattle or home not at work. I o not think it right t set the standard of eorhura seed at 42 pounds a it weighs at If a 56 pounds t the u-ea-ured bushel 1 he si-ed raided in this vicinitr i- quite as heavy as corn. bo-neof our bay mercbinla are pressing mill i lor shipment west. 1 tbiuk it is good move, as the scarcity of hy and feed of all kinds will lequir all we cm snare rom Kansas tgond figurea I paid $25 per ion for hay lo fra-d my sheep at ihe b-gar!y liitle tewn of Grenada, and 75 cents lor a team lo haul It about twenty rode. W. J. CotTur. Marie Rose has ben photographed in 158 -positions. This is an advertisement, but Ihe variety of attitudes can be beaten easily by abov 5ytarso'd who is told to ait still at a funeral or a piayer meeting. LlJVh'TA COUPLE MARRIED BY TELEGRAPH. Wednesday last, says the Leader, furn isbrdabitof a aensalioa for both La Ani mas and La Jun a. A. wadding always ex cites some curiosity pats the young women In a flatter acd tlectrioaa the young amen. This was a wedding and what made ii pe culiar'? funny was ibe fact that it was act ually p'rformed by telegraph. The officia ting minister being at West Lit Anima, the bride and imom at La Ji-nta. Nor was it dove for a joke. The time set for the times t for the marriage was Wednesday; ibe minister had been duly ens-seed to gt up on the-train that morning, but lo, tbe flmdl io train could go. Ihe bnur lor the ceremo ny wa drawing near, all preparations nad been mavis for stani ig at 4 p. m. on a brid al trip. In ihta dilemma, a request came lo nev 31 r. insor mat the ceremony t per formed ny telegraph, lo wbiih the minister upon brief rtfltctionconsentel. Such thin.s had been done. It only depended upon the iuu oi i tie par jes to me ceremony at either end of the lite. All things could be made safe bv having Ihe requisite witnesses at both place. This !s Ibe way it was done: At four p m. the bride and bridegroom with their witnesses were standing in the telegraph o' fice at La Junta; the clergyman. Rev S A. Winsor, with his witneves in the telegraph office at West Las Animas. The operator at L Junta was M. P Dooley; at West Las Animas. Ed. L. Teed. The fifth telegram was as follows: For ss much as Levi C Gillen and Ida Wickham have consented together in bolv wedlock and have declared the same before God and these witnesses, I pronounce ther are huaband and wife, together ia the name of the Father end ol tbe Hon. and of the Holy Ghost. TJIE P.ASOE. We hear of ro losses of stock on the ranch south during the storm of last Sunday. We Mitre there were some loss es reported feviously. The snow storm of Sunday extended no farther west than Pierceville. PROVIDIXO FOR WIXTER. We ara pleaeed to notice an increasing diapo-ilion, on the part of the stock men, to secure permanent location and provide for l-oible contici.encife by buildng sheds and putting op some food for the poorer stcck. Eeery ten-ibl- and far-seeing mm must see tte i.ece-i-ily for providing lood lor stock duriug winter, is only a qmstion ot time, even lu Birb.,ur county. The range will gradually beet me uiore crowded, until it will not offer audit ient grazing, both sum mer and win er, aid when that time couirs, the stock holder will be Icrtunaie indeed whoia prepired against any enap judge ments of ihe weather. We would adii-e every stock man who expects lo erg.ge in the stock bustnees, to secuie a permaneul lo catiou Where he may prepare to store food fur bis stock wbeu it becomes necessary. Medicine Lotlge Cresset. Tbe Medicine Lodge Index ears: "8a far asour obrxrvjliou gues, sod I rom what We can leara from stock men themselves. Cattle are looking well, although Ihe winter fcas been an unusually aeveie one. Thougb cat lie, that Were diiv.n ia la'e. are not dome Will; hut cattle thai have been wintered here, are do at nnelr. Some few cattle have died, but tbe cause of this was tl eir I ab 1 ity to procure water. We have convened lib a number ol a ock jnen from diflereot portiona ot tbe nation, and they all unite in raying mat cattle weie never in better condi tion than at ibe present time, from ihe West Las Animas Leader. thireaieiwe iiiugs thai Beet count) must have: Que is a pile driver, tbe other a pOvT-bouee. lbs roar or tbe Purga'olre mar be beard three mi ea awr, and aa lor its udor, 11 smells io neaven. It is said lhat from 300 lo 400 head of dead cattlti have been removed Irom the vi einity of Ft. Lyon by tbe military authori ties. Some weeks ag there waa talk in a qnie war of two imrarsnt public enter prises for W. Las Annua-, vie a woolen factory and a latge hotel by a slock company. Bo'h are feae ble and wou'd proaw noble prijects for tteirowth of ir.etown. Shell ibey be allowed lo parish? Shall the town be allowed lo get down tike starving cow, never lurieeagaia. Tbe opioioo now ia obtaining that owiaa to the preTal nee of lb hard weather in the stock region, cattle will be scarcer nxt year, bat the shortage will be made up to produc ers ia ibe aburdiDi greea neil ttttaaa, ibe aopeiior condition of the cat J letntiaiag, and the con-equenl appradatiosj ia Value. Chaw. Pausoie returned Toe day from a trip lo Ike rancne of lowers A Godgell on the Dry Ctaaarroa. H bad a bard trip oat on account of extreme cold wea-her and tbe aoow, and the eoow was no betier returning. A iter gelling out Bity ml ea it was iron two to ten teat deep laying in driita la Ihe beak' ol ihe etrem. On the pane not a patch of bare ground was lo he a-cn, and the aaow f equally ditr beted would hare been six incnes on tbe level. Very lil'le bar ground waa seen on tbe Cariixo or Cimarron, mod sooth of Ibem the snow was Slid to be 2 'eel deep on the level. I be river ard north ern cattle on tbe Cimarron in great numbers and Ihe stock of the Gmatron were oil ihe Beaver and Canadian. On his retbrn Mr, Parsons sat a the snow had melted none be Iweeo the Carrixi and Pa-gtoire on Satnr day. He Crceaed Smith Canon on a gorge or ice Wl.tch bile I it to the top and was over 100 feet lung. The water was running in tie Canon at Ibe time loo deep to cross Mr. P. waa so much impressed with the depth or the snow ad low temperature that be u wit ing to lay a wager that be can find plenty ol ice and aoow there in July. The Atchison Champion puts the here of the Kanssa Legislature into four rla s.s on the prohibition question. It say: "It is more than probable that the violent extremists, reinforced by a number wbo do not believe in sumptuary law at all. will enact the most extreme featurea of the most extreme laws that have beea presented, the one dase voting for such provisions because they believe Ibem to ha right, aod Ibe other class supporting them because they desire to force a reaction of public aentimeat against prohibitory legauauon." 711EDEADLISE. The Topeka correspondent oftheKania City Journal says: 'The question of chang ing the location of what ia known as the "dead line" is upper-most in the minds of a gnat many statesmen, acd there are proe pecU of an extremely lively encounter be tween the opposing fOICet b, wg,;cn is closed. The dead line, as is well under. stood, is an imaginary lice drawn acrosa the western portion of Ihe state, and the territory west of Ihe line set off as a path through which Texas and Indian Territory cattle may lie driven up in-o Xebratka. Accord irg to the law, all Southern stock found' east of tte line are subject to extermination. On the dead line matter ihe Western mem bers, who on all other suljects maintain an unbroken front, are somewLit .!;.,.,..,l "Boa" WrigbL the memtr (mm tv.,1 .1 City, is the patron saint of ibe ''cow boye," and fails lo appreciate tbe ideas of th. ..,(. culturwts, who are inflated with Ibe belief mm ii is ineir ewotn uuty under Ibe laws oi the state to move tbe line to a point wiihin twelve miles of the state line, thus leaving a meie country road fur Ibe passage ol herds. Wrigbl is a first-rate fellow, but ea r... suDKCiibed to lhat doctrine placed on record oy loeiaieu. n anicgton, tbal agriculture is the most healthful and elevating pursuit which can be followed by man. nob ia also a partner of ihe fiim of vViight, Beverl-y & Co., of Dodge Cite , which firm comrainda and thrives from ibe trade brought by the lVxas caitle. If the lioe ia moved Dodge C tr will Lot have the viaitora and Wright will loose the trade. He has recorded a series of oatb tbal Ibe line will remain un charged, and aa bs heads a large following hold ihem io the ho low of hia hand, so to apeak, ii is probable lhat he will d j sue cesvlul tattle to the movement In ronoactioo with this subject of Ibe dead line, it might not be oat of place to remark lbs int-nse interest mnitestd by the aver age K'l aaa in everything lelaiiig to stock, upoo ihe growth of which, according to his reckoning, the future poMbilitinof tte lata depend. Whisper "catile," or "sheep," to a Kansas stock grower, and yi.u are at once leai ed op against the Olcs; cunetuieot fence, and ihe exact figcrea are produced. Tbe counilera acres ol grass which yearly go to waMe are brought upt the numb, r of bead of cattle or sbeeo wi.lch mnrht ha maintain. ed thermo, Ibe market value ol beef, mut ton aud wool pieemed, together wita a close elitnale of the e'ear Droit when. could b- realised by u ilia ng ike graacrop. I bo autistic are invariably sappleavsuted wiih aaotbar reriea of coanautioaaaia wkiesa C4. Sellars deaeonatrsua beyond a pread venture that by followirg the bneiaeaaof stock aroeiaz every ehiaea of Karat estvld oea aw a illioaalr la lr, tea, Uiaea, of ar the oaraidetwestv year. I had hithetto aia'ained a Iraa belief ihat the Dewspaper boaiaeeaa, I a gaaMral thiag, Dwaasd oot bet-t-r than earthing- else, aad sfoeded kiiarbl. er peoapecU of ot afliMnee. Thi is (slCey, a otiaooo "taeva aouuag like leatbsr." A herd of b. is better than mock LiU Pillaburgb." KISSLBY GRAPHICS. Fifiy-ix bead of cattle have died atat OSerle this winter. TnetV minions ia it for aavbodr that will open a firs'-Class laundry ia Kin.ley. Atteatioo U called to the adverttavawent of the temperance lilliard hall, a new pleas ure reaurt in this air. Easeern paper have a good daal lo say about the great rush tbal will be mad in Ih spring from the Eaat to the Western statt. We know of no better locatioa for a woolen mill than Kiralry, Edwards coonly, Kansas. Men looking abuat for aa opening 10 invest capital shoo d bear this in mind. Workmen were patting np a new tele graph wir yeavetder. Thi makes four wire along the liae ol the Santa Fe. lha one they are now potting up is called the Kansas City and Denver. According to the report furnished us by the signal office at Dodge, Ihe highest tem perature durlsg the month of January wa fifty-aU degree. Tee I-iweet, eighteen be. lowxrro. Tbe prevailing diiection cf the wind wa north. People now begin to talk about th back boceofwin'er being broken. Lsdia aad gentlemen, oor reidence in this cooetry for soma "iine ha taught Ua that ih back hoc of a Kanssa winter break about the first ol April ach year.