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DODGE CITY TIMES.
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VOL. 'YII. DODGE CITY, KANSAS, MARCH 17, 1881. NO. 44.
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THE JUDGESHIP.
Got. St. John, in tie sppoiotment of a
JuJge in the new district, ret the political
machinery in the Arlaneaw Taller a bilin
hot He displayed strategy; a coop d'etat,
brealing up a "tripartite" a political corr
pjct. He threw a birnbehell and kilkd a
political Cx ar a C-zsr.
t Senator Srang was appointed Judge
aga'nsl the wishes of the tii-party, the tea
party, and the par-tee. But he will male a
good Judge all the same.
1 The "expose" shows that Booth, Inman
and S rang tried to deliver the unhatched
tig', hot the Governor wouMn'nt eet on the
nest. Ue wouldn't incubite!
t He was "imperviousl" "
t Judge Strang is the innocent Tictim of
the Governor's political designs on the U.
S. Stnate. Strang used no hook or crook,
or device. He could.o hers could not qualify
under tie Gaternitorial dispensation of the
cece sary qualification. He got it I
t Why was Inman pcted day and night
at the porta's of the Executive icxvt? Did
he hare dis'gos on the Governor's vice
cellar? DU he carry a club?
Did the Governor lose any chickens?
Hence S ring's appointment!
Ales! the beet laid p'acs of politicians
gan aft agleel "
Who hath woet who hath sorrow?
He that drink the bitt-r cup of political
t t t t : t t t
t Raw and blcody bones lilt
t Eierybcdy, more or lets, knows Judas
Iwariot. If not by pergonal espeiier.Ce, by
repulatioc. He was a gooi one. He de
served hinging; bat he sol I out cheap and
died of remorse. Served him right!
t The Governor ued his prerogative. All
Governors have 'em. Tbe Governor baa a
a right to a j reroative, and to ue said pre
rogaiive with the Great Official S a'e Seal
Ad Attrajtcr Jtprra ! But the Governor
di in't u'e his prerogative as a number ot
lhemaea cf the Arkaneaw wished. What
can be done about it oovl Keep cool! You
owe the Governor ooe, if not two.
Hoc tt (iiAiss when you get a cool chance.
Lifeisshori! ST "S3 Lei's shake!
lire a la Jirpulllcana!
CZAR OF RUSSIA ASSASSINATED.
la all points of the land where ttlsgraphic
new could prnetratr, a shock was felt by
thousands on Sabbath afternoon last at tht
intellijince of the aesinition of Alexander,
Czar of Russia.
The Emperor had attended a grand parade
in the Michael Manage, one of the large
quires of St. Petersburg, and was returning
therefrom at the time of the catastrophe.
Tbe two aseaseirs coccerned in tbe plot,
who were sworn members of the Nihilist
organization, were lying in wait for the Em
peror and bis escort. A bomb TO thrown
and exploded under tbe carriage, doing con
sidtrable damage thereto. The Czar alight
ed unhurt, but he bad scarcely reached the
pavement when a i.eond missile exploded at
his feet, sbatlerirg both legs below the knee
and inflicting other terrible injuries. The
fallen Czar was immediately conveyed in an
unconscious state to the Winter Palace,
where he died in a few hoars. A few min
utes be'ore his death the Emperor received
tbe sacrament, being surrounded in his death
by such of the imperial family as were in
St. Petersburg.
The two Nihilist assassins were imme
diately arrested, one of whom received from
the mob such injuries as to shortly cause
hi death. An officer and two Cossacks
were also killed by the explosion.
, TIIE PACIFIC ROUTE.
The connection of the A. T. & S. F. E. R.
acd the Southern Pacific Railroad cow opens
the great continen'al route to the Pacific
coast. We shall soon see the beneficial ef
fects of the consolidation of there grand en
terprise. Travel will be tersely increased
acd business greatly augmented along the
line of the route. The opsning ot tb s grand
highway will attract thousands of rcople
over the road. Colorado, New Mexico and
Arizona will iqually be benefitted. We can
Dot exlimat the advantages to le derived
ty Karnes, and larticularly the western
border. Ihe influx cf imovgrants to tbe
Great West will add to our own population.
Tbe exchange oi products of the Pacific
Coast with truss of the Wes ern Sta'es will
add to the business cf the country. Com pe
tition by railroad to the Pacific Cast will
naturally increase Ihe transportation erst
and west; and the southern route will secure
the bulk of the trade. The business inter
ests of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona
will draw the traffic over this line, acd Kan
sas is bound to profit by the new commerce
which will increase year by year.
The first of the whisky cans under tbe
prohibitiunary amendment, being tbe suit
against L. W. Head, was called last week at
Topeka, in Judge II zen'a Court. After
considerable wrangling tte case, was dismiss
ed on a technicality, the prof ecut ion having
failed to charge that the defendant fold liq
uor fcr ether than mechanical, medicinal or
scienti&c purpoees. The merits ot tbe eve
were not reached, and new information will
have to be filed. There seem to be a gen
eral feeling against tte prosecution of these
suits. Tbe cit'zena' comrxittee, appointed
to take charge of the matter, have reported
adversely to the (resent suits, urging that
inasmuch as the saloon keepers have prom
ised to close up by the 1st of May, the tem
perance people should place them en their
honor and cot institute suits until after that
time.
A Washington correspondent of tbe Chi
cago Tribune, commenting on the jajii
railroad butldlcg now golrg on in New and
Old Mexico, and with the full idea of the
magnificent future of the nation evidently
looming up before him, speaks in florid sen
tences of the "manifest des iny" of the coun
try, and declares that the "next great move
ment of the General Government will be to
make North America one great republic
under one 3 ig, inc'uding Canada and Mexi
co. Tbe Mexicans arejonly jealous of us on
account of ihe war we made against 'hem in
behalf of slavery. We wsnt a government
under one head, acd one Ccngrca, from the
Artie sea to the Isthmus of Panama. We do
not want it in our selfish interests, but in tbe
interests of mankind."
The Colorado Canle Growers' Association
in session at Denver, the o her day adopted
a series of resolution regardiog pleuro-pneu-toonia,
.concluding as follows: Resolved,
That we recommend a convention, to be
btld in Kansas City in September or Octo
tober next, in Ihe interest of western stock
men, for tbe purpose of creating combined
action in pressing the necessity upon Con
gress for national legislation on the subject
of contagious diseases of live stock, and that
we solicit correspondence on th's point.
Southwestern Kansas has got to have her
boom says tbe Garden City Optic. Thugs
are gathering slow but tare, and that tbe ten
or a dozen counties in the extreme southwest
are to go through in history without making
things ring may be a mistaken idea in some
people's pstts; while others who have seen
A GROSS LIBEL.
The Medicine Lodge Index perpetrates a
boge joke. It prints the followicg great
libel:
A Dodge City man recently went into Ihe
office of ihe Fifth Avenue Hotel at Topeka,
acd pulling out a gun, commanded the
loungers to quit staring at him. They im
mediately averted their eyes, and one got np
yawned, and said he gueesed he would re
tire. He was told to sit down or he wou'd
gtt shot. He sit down. The the clerk
moved toward the door to give the alarm
when the man from Dodga cocked his pis
tol ard commanded a halt. Acd there that
crowd of loungers, with pistols in their
pocket, sat for boor9,- guarded by a man
with an empty gun, until a patrol of police
came along and did their duty.
GYPSVil.
Immease beds of gj pum crop out in many
portions of this couLty. Our citizens will
watt a cheap building material, and we sup
pose gypeum will be fonnd practicable. In
Barbour county fine build.ngs are erected of
gypsum blocks. The Medicine Lodge Index
eays.
"There is little donbt in the minds of in
telligent people but that in the near future
iheieailbe an immerse trade in tbe gyp
eum thai is found in inexausiihle quantities'
near town. Already it is used fir a variety
of purposes such as buildings, fences, mon
uments, etc., and but comparatively few ex-
teriments have been made with this mate
liil as yet. We were informed not long
since that farmers in the WilMty ol Great
B-ml have been csing gypsum as a fertil zer
nsd find it equal to bone dust. A geotle
man living at Hirper in'ormed as that he
had shipped a barrel cf it to a firm in S .
Loui, who Will make a practical trt of it
as a feniltz r. If if proves to be as valuable
for such laws' as they inisgicg. Immense
qnantiiies will be shipped ewt just assoon
as a railroad re-cms in s point.
.-REPORTS FROM TIIEJIAXOE.
Mac Wallacs'aod Charley Hartman, rep
resenting northern cattle owner, came op
this week from Latin, Kansas. The; went
over the rcu e for the purpes of asce-eain-ng
the extent of Ihe losea of cattle. They
found between here and the state line 223
head of cattle killed by the trairs; and from
IS'ate line to Lakin 272 bead; in all 406
head Killed Dy trie cars, a. n-y were accom
panied by an agent of the Santa Fe compa
ny from Lakin to tbe Stale line, also kept a
tall-y. They foend about 1000 hUes in the
hands of Kanas parties, and estimated that
one-half tte dead cattle had been skinned
on that section of their route. The stock
east of Ihe Suite line dees not look as well
as that in Colorado.
Considerable numbers or cattle are getting
mired in Ihe creeks. The banks of mud lelt
by Ihe late freshets are very treacherous
Even humans are liable to be taken in by
them.
Outfits are being made ready for tbe spring
hunt, bat no date of meeting has yet been
mentioned. The Pan Handle men will have
to be consulted be'ore plans can be made, as
the bulk ot cattle from here are on thai
rarce.
James E- Fros,an experienced cattle man,
places the lose on the mats of cattle at 60
ner cent. The 5 per cent estimate for range
cattle cannot be true, because this is the lose
ihe best seasors. Ureal losrei must still oe
bar as the time for cattle to die is yet to
come. West L Animas Leader.
Judge Strang held his first term of court
In the newly created Sixteenth Judicial
Dstrict st Kinsley, Edwards county, on
Tuesday, the 15th in-t.
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The fact that the Mormons hare bought a
large tract of land in Mexico would losk as
though Ihey were a little afraid cf the future
action of the Govcrcmtnt, notwithstanding
all their bloater.
m
The item of $30,000 for permanent bar
racks at Fort Leavenworth, inserted In the
sundry civil service bill, paed safely Ihe
ordeal of the Conference Committee and
will be available for the purpose named.
Mr. Ansel R. Clark of Sterling, a gentle
man prcminently known in Kansas, was
married on Msrch 8th, to Mrs. Minnie Wil
lieion, at the les'dence of Wot. R. Dennison
No. 1C0 Howard Avenue, U.ica, New York.
Vennor has been prognosticating sgain.
Hesiyswe are to have an abundance of
winter yet. There are several storm p.'rlods
set down for the month of March, viz., Ihe
lath, 20 h and 21at. Heavy snow storms
are sel down for the latter part of tbe month.
It is said that an individual who is hold
ing some Arkansas cattle on E'm Creek, has
a novel way of branding them. Ha punches
a hole in tbe animals car and ties a red
string in it. He does this becau-e his cutis
are too poor to brand. Medicine Lodge
Index.
The sundry civil service bill includes an
item of $20,000 to supply garden and field
seeds to sufferers by the drought last year in
Western Kansas and Nebraska. The dis
tribution is to be made under the direction
of the Commiasioosr of Agriculture, and
parties interested should make application
to bim. No plan of distribution has jet
that vim anit fall nf fltataa wtA . nf C.m I Ium Ammm ittl nmn ffa fiisi-aai ths)
proudly foretell that there is a grand future I diatfibotioa will be made through the State
aor wis utuo pan ot tne giooe.
Twen y-three years sgj Hora Everett
planted twenty three acres of wa-te land on
his farm, near Council B ufis, with black
walnut. Thetneser now from 16 to 20
inches throcgh and have been sold fur $27,
000. This gives Mm as income of $50 per
acre fcr tbe os o' the land.
Darirg our absence we were informed by
a gentleman who has been prominently con
nected with seviral railroad enterprises of
southern Kansa, Ibat the Sir.ti Fe compi
ry were making arrangements to buiIJ a
road iroia Dodge C tr to Arkansas City via
Medicine Lole. MeJ cine Lodje Index.
Under the postal laws heretofore, mer
chant and business men bars had the privi
lege of sending out statements of accounts
through the the mail for one cent. Thede
partmett has eet aside this p oridoo, and
this is now made firs: class, sad letter pos
tage is again required.
The approprisiions m-de by tbe Lgis'a
lure wi I recessitale a leyy for general reve
nue purl-OS's for the year 1S32 of A mill,
and for the yeir 1833 of 3j mills. This is
a reduction of mill for 188 j and 1 mill for
1S31 compared wiib the levy tor 1831. Add
tbe mill for Stale Heu-e exUnvcn and
mill for interest and sinking fund, make a
total levy tf mills for the year 1882 and
4 mills for 1883. Thus there is a tctal re
duction cf 1 mill over tbe levy of last year.
"John," tbe Topeka correspondent of the
Leavenworth Time-, give a short biographi
cal sketch of a number of Ike members of
tbe Legi-lature. We extract the ske'eh cf
tbe member from this county:
"Hon. B. M. Wright, of Ford, represent
ing the one hundred sdd twenty-second dis
trict, hss been a member of the boose for
several terms and is one of the best known
men in lbs state. Hs is a prosperous holi
ness mar, popular with everybody sni a
rorsl stood fellow, if ever one sat in the halli
of legislation. Hs was one of the represen
tatives of the immense cattle interests of the
Southwest, being a large stock owner him
self, and Misled materially la the psssage
of aecialatioa for the rnteettoo of Kansas
cattle from the direarwa which come from
tbe country sooth of Kansas Mr. Wright
hss a Ilea, by tight of popoJariry, npoa
Ford county, sad can coatistM to eosse to
come to the lecMatitr from his district as
long as be fssJa like it."