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DODGE CITY TIMES
SEVENTH TEAR. DODGE CITY, KAS., MAECH 15, 1883. NO- 856
THE SHIALLPOI.
There have ben fixteeu cases of small
pox, of which fix cases have proved fatal.
At no time were there mor than two cases
under treatment in the city, and these casts
were quarantined. The majority of cases
were removed to the peat hospital at the
fort. The discipline and regulations carried
out by Dr. McUarty, Ciiy Physician, was
timely and efficient. Ihe Board of Hetlth,
consisting oi Dr. MiCarty, Mayor Webster,
and duncilmen Emenon and Bell, Used
all means to prevent the spread ol the dis
ease. Other cauecs combined to render the
disease fatal to these who?e names are here
mentioned.
The death are as follows: Al. Updegraff,
Thcs. Bagg, Alice Bugg, W. E. Gonyo, Y
O. McClanahan, and Hannah, a woman
from the south side of the track. J. S. Me
Carty died outside of the jurisdiction of the
city authorities, and bia death is men
tioned as it is tuppoped he contracted the dis
ease while visiiing Updegraff.
Those who have recovered and who are
at present lying in the pest hospital, are as
followf: Lee Marnhall, B. Cline, (recovered)
ArbucLle (recovered,) A. Fulfcner, W. E;
Hood, a child and eister-in-law of N. Brown,
Fred. Singer's adopted child has re
covered Mw. Frank Singer is recovering.
A child of Wm. Hessman is recovering.
The two latter named cases are the only ones
in the city, and the houses are quarantined.
At first the nature of the disease was not
known, and t-otne persona unknowingly ex
posed themselves. But as Boon fa the City
Physician and the Board of Health took the
matter in hand, the danger of the disease be--couiing
epidemical ceased.
The city was as free as at any time, du
ring the period of the "scare," but to coun
teract the false impression obtained abroad,
of the prevalence ol small-pox in Dodge,
was about as futile us aa attempt to stop
Windy Wiggins.
Affairs in Dodge have resumed, people go
to church, and business men don't carry in
their vest pockets vials of carbolic acid. The
buBinepR of the city was carried on as usu
ai, 'and now we expect to see business flour
ish with the opening of spring and the con
tinuance ot the March wind.
The proportion of deaths is great, but the
condition of the patients rendered the disease
fatal. It is questiooable whether Tom Bugg
died of small-pox, his name being enrolled
in the list of emall-pox deaths. Those dying
with small-por had not lived according to
proper rules. The irregular dissipated course
of 'their lives had broken them down physi
cally and made them fall easy victims Co the
dreaded disease.
STOP.
Soon after the late cold spell, the Pan
handle mentioned that thousands of dollars
worth of cattle had died. This, we presume
i? what stt the rumor afloat that this section
had been unusually unfortunate in the loss
of stock during the cold weather of a short
time back. While thousands of dollars
worth of cattle have died on account of the
cold weather, yet when we take into con
sideraiion the almost fabulous herds that
range here, and get at the per centage of
low, it dwindles into insignificance. We
hare questioned every stock man that has
, been in Mobeetie for the past two weeks,
and nearly even range has been represented
and they all estimate that one per cent, wil
Sorer the entire loss, and the greater part of
ibis is confined to through cattle that were
brought here lata in the fall, and turned
loose upon a new range, and thin in order.
We trust those who have Been instrumental
in helping to spread the first report, will be
just as free and willing to-circulate this lest,
which may be relied uyon as the true state
of affairs in the Panhandld. Teas Panhandle.
TUB CITY ELECTIOIT.
The time for the election of city officers is
approaching, and our citizens are beginning
to devote some thought to the candidates
mentioned for mayor and councilmen. The
city administration for the past two years
has been charcteris-d by rig d economy
and a strict and impartial enforcement of the
1 iws. Thieve, robbers, vagrants and confi
dence men have not been permitted to ply
their nefarious schemes here, much less to
find an abiding place in Dodge. The city
debt has been reduced from ssveral thousand
dollars to a few hundred dollars, many im
provements have been made and altogether
the city is in a healthy condition financial
ly and otherwise. Shall this condition
of things continue and exist, or shall
city affairs resume a former condition, when
thieves, robbers and confidence men held
decent people in terror, and committed their
lawhss acts in defiance of law and order.
This is the serious problem in the coming
city election. We believe the citisens of
Dodge City are not prepared to hand the
city over to the freedom of confidence
men, and we believe they have suf
ficient interest in the election to turn out in
force, in body and in spirit, and put in office
men who are known to be law-abiding, hon
est and true.
Larry E. Deger is prominently mentioned
as the candidate for mayor. Mr. Deger was
marshal in Dodge City a few years ago and
he was a terror to violators of the law. As
mayor he would strictly enforce the ordi
nances. He would not permit thugs, confi
dence men and robbers to infest the city.
He is the man the people want, because he
has got the nerve and back bone to do his
duty. Under his administration the people
would be protected and they would feel the
security.'
R. E. Burns is a candidate for re-election
to the office of Police Judge. Judge Burns
has incurred the ill will of some people be
cause he has done his duty, and because be
made violators of ordinance feel what virtue
there was in the enforcement of the law.
The fines collected by him amount to several
hundred dollars more than was ever paid in
to the city treasury in one year. Burns has
eeme enemies, but he has soma earnest
friends, who will sustain him because they
will sustain law and order.
Several gentlemen are mentioned for the
ccuncil. Gee S. Emerson- and H. B. Bell
are members of the present council. Henry
Sturm, Dr. McCarty and J. S. Kelsey are
prominently mentioned. No ticket has
been designated yet; but we mention the
above ticket for the purpose of bringing the
attention of the public to the issue.
No convention has been called by the
friends ot Degsr, reform and order. The
people must not be hoodwinked into the sup
port of men and measures detrimental to
the interests of the city and the safety and
protection of the people.
Let every man who has the honor, integri
ty and safety of Dodge City assist in the
election of Larry Deger to the office of Maj
or. The issue of the coming municipal ad
ministration is narrows to the simple ques
tion of whether decency and good govern-
t shall be the order, er whether thnge,
robbers snd confidence men shall infest the
city, again.
We do not believe Dodge City is retrograd
ing. ' The moral sentiment of thii communi
ty must be respected. Lswlfs-n-s nny b
tolerated, but we very frankly state that
lawlessness shall not rule.
Let the patriotic, peace loving, law ahidirg
citiaen put on his armor. There is dinger
ahead
One of the laws enacted by Congress in its
closing hours modifies the postal money
order system so as to authorise the ispue of
money orders without corresponding advios
of $5 and less, to be on engraved pxper, and
known as postal notes, payable to bearer,
such notes to be invalid afttr three months,
but the holder can after that time get the par
value of the note by applying to the Pst
Office Department at Washington. For is
suing a postal note a fee of three cents shli
be charged. This same lsw authorises the
issue of money orders in denominations of
$100 or less, but none for more than $100
can be issued. The following fees are fixed
to be chsrged for money orders: For order
not exceeding $10, eight cents; from $10 to
$15, 10 cents; $15 to $30, 15 cents; $30 to
$40, 20 cents; $40 to $50, 25 cents; $50 to
$60, 30 cents; $60 to $70, 35 cents; $70 to
$80, 40 cents; $80 to $100, 45 cents.
The legislature of the stale of Texas
made a Contract with a syndicate of four
Chicago capitalists, by which the syndicate
were to build for the state a statehouse to
cost $3,000,000, and were in turn given im
mediate possession of three million seres ol
public land. Now the legislature has passed
a bill withdrawing from the market the
school, university and asylum lands of the
slat,about fitty-four million acres, for ninety
days after its adjournment, aa a protection
against speculators. It is said that the ef
fect of this bill is to double at once the value
of the syndicate's lands, and on these three
million acres the syndicate propose putting,
according to a Chicago journal, three hun
dred thousand head of cattle, at an outlay of
say six million dollars.
Now that it is established beyond doubt
that the recent great floods of the Ohio and
of other Western rivers were due to the un
protected character of the watersheds where
those streams had their rise, we are fur
nished an unanswerable argument for the
proposed schemes to stop the clearing off of
forests on hesd waters, and one equally as
strong in favor of admitting Canadisn lum
ber free, in order that the denudation of the
wooded slopes may be the 'more easily
checked. The rapid destruction of Northern
forests must cease, or many river bottoms be
abandoned by the people.
The spring elections are gently ambling
to the front, and the howl of the ward poli
tician will soon be heard in the land. This
is not said in a spirit of disparagement
There are really few things on earth so im
portant as the spring election, and it is high
time for the intelligent citizens to turn over
and wake up.
Call on Horder A Shields north of poet
office when anything in the line of tin, sheet
iron, copper or sine work you want done.
A letter accompanied by affidavits was re
ceived at the general land office which states
that 90,000 acres of public land in Barber
county, Kansas, has been fenced in by tres
passers and that parties wanting to settle
were not permitted to enter. An instance
was cited of a nun being driven off by force.
The attorney general ie of the opinion that
the United States marshal should bt called
npon to drive of trespassers.
Dos ferget that Horder A Shields repair
ell Use of itsm
CIMARJBSJIV CULLING.
Cimarron township. How do you like
the name?
The plowing and ilintirgof seeds for feed
has already begun in ihi vicinity.
Metfr-.A.S. Tracy and C. J Dixon took
a trip to the upper Pawnee ou a hunting ex
pedition. Mr.C. Parker and wife, fr m tbe Pawnee
Valley, eptnt a few dny this week in town
visiting friends and acqu lintancc s.
A cloud appeared in the pomh-west Mon
day eve .ing and shown) every indication of
a thunder shower ''Where is Foughty."
Cimarron Township comprises the por
tions of Gray and Mede counties that were
by recent freak of the Legislature attached
to Ford.
The county commissioners created the
township o Cimarron and readjusted the
lines of Dodge City township in special ses
sion the 9ih inst.
Mrs. G. W. Tyior we understand has
purchased 2,000 nice, thrifty young catalpa
tree?, which she proposes to set out on her
timber culture claim, one mile west of town.
Messrs. Reeve and Hudson ars construct
ing a private irrigation ditch through their
farming lands, four miles west of town.
This is a commendable enterprise and is
deserving of a large success.
Lew Kuhn, one of our old time boys, we
are sorry to learn is down with the small pox,
in Albuquerque. N. M. His wife, Ruth,
daughterof our fellow citisen O. C. Mitchell,
writes under recent date to her people, that
he is getting better and with ordinary care
is out of danger.
All kinda of tinware made at Horder A
Shields' new tin shop.
L.)w)K AT ItH.
From tk franklin Frees.) r
Take a young man, a tall young man, with
a small hat, a long face, n lengthy neck, n
short body, a pair of long slim legs, with
arms to match, and both arms and lege larg
est at the - extremities put him in a
Seymour coat, encase his legs in eel-skin
pantaloons, with sufficient bow in the legs to
give passing glimpses between them of the
mashed and astonished world that lies ahead
of him as he walks; cram his flat foot into
pointed shoes; tie an eyeglass to his lappel;
give him a delicite moustache and cane to
play with and if there is a grander sight
under the canopy of heaven, we haven't the
time to think it up. Perhaps a monkey
with a tin tail conies nearest to the phenome
non. Go to Horder & Shields for to have your
tinware repaired, four doors north of the
post office.
cbbyak rmmTrn WAifrzm.
Wahtkd. 2,000 large sued cedar posts.
Inquire of R. M. Wright, Dodge City, Kas.
What is Npposed to be a ssad stone was
shown to us this week by Mr. R. L. Battis,
who lives 12 miles sooth of this place, on
the Medicine river. He owned n yearling
steer which was entirely bund since it was n
calf, and two weeks ago the aaissal rofasod
to eat and suddenly died. Mr.Battas mads
a post mortem examination and fesnd in the
stomsch a large hard ball, about ive inches
in diameter, which he now has. It is of n
grayish color, hard, and looks as if com
posed of hair, it being slightly pons. As
fsrascaakjwlgedkiaeoliaasjeattbe
weight of an ordinary crequet ball. It If
said that mad stones grow in the) stosaschs
of animals, and if soeh is the case, Mr. Battis
certainly has one. He wc4rid net ps a price
on the strange obfset, hot usrsssas n wfl
Hagness to allow anywneln need of a need
It try iSspiepessks.-MsdisJai Long
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