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ADVERTISING HATES.
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pace per month.
Local Notice, ten cento per line for the first
iatertloa and fire cento per line for each subae
qoent Insertion.
0T The Dose Crnr Tma Jus a large acd
growing circulation in Ford and adjoining coun
ties, and U a yalaable advertiilng medium. j&
The reason Kansas sweeps everything
before her is becauBe she raises such an
immenso crop of broom corn.
Fifteen years ago David Hostetter was
a peddler; now he is worth $16,000,000.
And advertising made every dollar of it.
What causes the boom ? Simply the de
velopment of the country, added to the
fact that we have the best country to de
velop that the sun ever shono on. This
causes the boom.
Prohibition, female suffrage, cheap
lands, the richest soil in America, an
abundance of rain, unlimited railway fa
cilities, natural gas, coal, a better than
average climate, summers practically nine
months long, and winters as mild as those
of Virginia, and republican supremacy in
politics, are among the many Kansas
things that attract the world.
Every young man who earns $50 per
month ought to buy a lot and make a
start of a home. The way to get a lot is
to save a little money each month and
pay down on it. Don't spend all your
money on fine livery turnouts and expen
sive dinners with gay companions. Put
a little of it into the ground, after many
days it will bring you a handsome roy
alty. Gen. Fonda has been absent for a num
ber of days surveying additions to Dodge
City. Dodge iB having a wonderful
boom, one that is solid and permanent in
its character. None of your ephemeral
booms that fade away, suits the solid
business men of Dodge. Her growth
this coming season will show the world
that she is the "Old reliable" of South
western Kansas. Fonda Democrat.
Kansas has, by the census last year,
90,000 more males than females. Since
there arc almost as many girls of school
age as of boys in the Btate, it follows that
the disproportion is chiefly among the
grown people. Further analysis of the
returns show that there are between the
ages of 20 and 24 years 10,000 more men
than women, and between the ages of 20
and 25 yeary 11,000 more men. Between
the ages of 20 and 40 there arc about 50,
000 men in excess.
Gen. Lafayette SimB left here yesterday
morning, to return to his new home at
Dodge City, Kansas. His many friends
here were sorry to see him leave, as he
had been a pleasant and prominent figure
among them for many long years. We
have known him intimately for ovor
thirty years, during all of which time he
has been a prompt paping patron of this
paper, and we can cheerfully commend
him to the people of Kansas as a genial
gentleman and in all respects entitled to
their confidence and esteem. Morgan
county (Ind.) Gazette, May 7.
Since the introduction of Arbor Day in
the Western States, millions of acres of
trees have been planted and are grow
ing, that would otherwise never have
been set in the ground. On Arbor Day in
Kansas it is estimated that 100.000 trees
were planted. In treeless Nebraska it is
said they have planted 400,000 acres of
trees. The value of such work cannot be
computed in dollars and cents. Arbor
Day should be observed in every state jn
the West until our railroads and homes
are embowered in shade trees. Arkansas
City, Republican-Traveler.
The expression, "Don't care a dam,"
certainly Bounds very profane, but in its
origin as given by Col. Yule, in his very
curious Anglo-Indian glossary, there is
nothing profane in it. The word "dam,"
as used in the expression, is of Hindo
origin, and is an abrcviation of the word
damvi, which is the expression, for the
infinitessi. mal in coin. The expression
"Don't care a dam," is equivalent to
don't care a farthing. The Dodge City
ites can now, without being at all pro
fane, declare that they don't care a dam
for the land office, even if they are not
truthful in the statements. Garden City
Sentinel.
The rapidity with which the value of
farmlands in Southwest Kansas are in
creasing shows how good an investment
in such property is. The country is yet
in its infancy, but is a very healthy bant
ling. It seems as though nearly all those
in the cast who are anxious to move come
to this locality. If property in the south
west is so valuable now, what will it be
come in the course of ten years, when
fully developed as a farming country?
It will be a better paying investment than
anything else into which a man can put
hit money. Farmers -who are working
the worn out land injhe east should make
a note of this. . .... H
A-gentleman speaking of Wichita the
other day asks a few questions with re
lard to that city, which we append:
As I stood on the broad streets of this
bustling city a few days ago, I felt be
wildered while thinking over and looking
at the marked changes that a couple of
decades had wrought. I asked what
magician had evoked these stately struct
mres from the wilderness? What wizard's
wand had waved these lately unbroken
plains and given shape-and proportions
to these pretty mansions', and touched
these beautiful homes with rainbow hues.
What hand held the palet and brush that
tinted .them as delicately as the lights and
shadows that shimmer in the summer
breeze?
We would suggest as an -answer to the
last: Smith & Jones, house and sign
painters, aatiafactioB guaranteed.
BODGE CITY
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AS A KAILROAD CENTER.
The Times continues its rant on the
railroad question. As the spring months
grow on apace, and the bright summer
sunshine continues more and more radiant
ly, our faith in railroad projects for Dodgs
seem brighter and brighter.
It is now a well established fact that
the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Rail
road will be built to every important
town on the line of the Santa Fe Railroad.
The Wichita & Western is pushing its
line westward, with Dodge City as the
objective point. The Chicago, Nebraska,
Kansas & Southwestern Railroad, are
hurrying up their movements in order to
take up the $140,000 bond proposition
voted to their aid about a year ago. The
Dodge City & Trinidad R. R. Co. have a
corps of surveyors on the line, while the
Santa Fe road are moving in the same
territory. The Rock Island road is con
templating a project to Dodge City, and
all these moves are growing daily into
stern realities.
Our map gives an imperfect outline of
the proposed roads, but the reader can
easily determine the routes contempiatea
HURRY UP!!
THE END OF THE .WORLD !
The Startling Event Prophesied to
Occur Between 1 892 and
1900.
The Dodge City boom must be done
for in a short space of time. The end of
the world is prophesied :
Rev. Mr. Baxter, of England, has taken
for his subiect. "The sreat crisis is at
hand." lie took up the question of the
"seven trumpets" of Revelations. These,
he said, would be sounded thrice toward
each of the four parts of the world, and
would be the signal to prepare for the
the millenium. All calculations pointed
to a period between 1892 and 1900 as the
beginning bt the of the millenium. The
anti-Christ was to come out of the house
of Napoleon, and to be of fierce counten
ance and a man of sin, full of wiles. He
is presumed to be Prince Jerome Napol
eon or Plon-Plon. Number C66 on the
forehead or the right hand, would desig
nate Napoleon's followers. All others
were to perish on the guillotine. He
would make a seven years' covenant
with the Jews, but would break it after
three and a half years. The Jews would
be greatly persecuted. About this time
Christ would appear and the 144,000
watchful Christians would be taken from
earth in an instant. In the last three
years before 1900,over 200,000,000 demons
would rule the earth for thirteen month's,
and kill one-third of the people of the
world. Demon locust with scorpion Btings
would do deadly work for five months.
Elijah and another would come to help
Christ with power to kill, with fire out of
their mouths. From 1892 to 1900 the
world would gradually become converted
until the sounding of the seven trumpets,
when the world would be destroyed by
great earthquakes, fire and other destruc
tive agencies. Then the reign of Christ
would begin and continue 1,000 years.
Attention was drawn to the great earth
quakes in Europe as one of the omens of
the coming trouble.
THE SPIRIT OF BROTHERLY
LOVE.
There are times in the affairs of every
man, when intruders are peculiarly un
welcome. Especially is this true at
house cleaning time, wash days, the time
set apart for afternoon naps, and various
other domestic arrangements, not calcu
lated to put the participants in a suitable
frame of mind to receive visitors. Not
long since a Kansas editor called on a
Missouri brother of the same calling, and
found, that gentleman very busily en
gaged in averaging up the births and
deaths, for the purpose of finding out
whether the town had gained any inhab
itants in the last decade. It was found
through close calculation that the town
had made an increased one " inhabitant,
in the eleven years just preceeding.
When the Kansas brother returned
home he, in a thoughtless moment, un
generously made note of this item, and
mailed a copy to his Missouri friend.
When the latter came across the item he
sat immovable in his scat, smothering up
his ire long after the office boy had fin
ished iris day?s toil, and the evening
shades had begun to cloak his form in
darkness. He then desperately penned
these lines, and in order that there 'might
be no possible mistake he set up the copy
himself and placed it in a conspicuous
place in the sheet: t.
P. M. Jackson, who has beek waking a
strenuous effort to exist by ruBciarMkree
column newspaper on the despIaiM&j
western Kansas, was in town lae Jre?v
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His blood-shot vision was greeted with
scenes of ravishing beauty. He was per
mitted to gaze on growing crops, and
trees and grass and water, a vision which
he had hitherto been permitted to view
only through the false and unsatisfactory
medium of the mirage.
What a disparing feeling must needs
prevade the soul of this unfortunate be
ing, as he turns his back on this beauti
ful paradise and sets forward towards his
meager possessions in a land where skel
etons of deserted villages present a scene
as dismal as the wrecks of caravans on
the African desert.
FOTHEBINGHAM
GED.
DI8CHAR-
Inthe Fotheringham express robbery
case, in St. Louis Hay 4th, during the
testimony of Conductor Spengle, it was
shown that the robbery was not commit
ted in the city, whereupon the defense
moved that the case be thrown out of
court. Judge Normile expressed his
opinion that the robbery did not occur in
that city, therefore his court had no ju
risdiction and dismissed the case.
IT TET NEEDS A GRAMMAR.
Buildings for nine different colleges are
now going up in Wichita, Kansas, apropos
of Iwhich the Eagle of that town emitted
the following scream the other day:
"Now what has Topeka and Lawrence
got to say, with their measly little State
University and Female Academy? Wich
ita has got the business and has got the
enterprise, and she is going to have the
education or bust a flue. Let them two
antiquated villages on the Kaw river bot
toms hold their peace. Wichita, with her
nine colleges, her sorghum sugar factory,
and her seventy-six wide open drug stores
is the metropolis of Kansas, and there is
no getting around it." Educational
News (Philadelphia).
THE SANTA FE ROAD.
Agent Flynn, in Denrer Ncwi.
The thirteen branches which the Atchi
son, Topeka & Santa Fe is building in
Kansas, are well under way, and a rail
road man who has just returned from that
state says, that within a year they will
all be completed. The statement that the
company is purchasing steel rails in Eng
land is believed, as the mills in this coun
try are greatly pressed with orders, which
they cannot fill. Five rolling mills in
Pittsburg are said to have orders for over
a year, and that the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe was compelled to go to England
to have their orders filled immediately.
The company's plan cannot wait a year,
and failing to secure what they want in
this country they were compelled to go
to England to get it. A railway official
who has been watching the course of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe said yester
day that within two years the road would
have a complete transcontinental system
BEECHER'S SUCCESSOR.
A great many surmises have been made
as to who will be Henry Ward Bcecher's
successor at Plymouth church. It is now
thought that his successor will be Rev.
Joseph Parker, who is next to Spurgeon,
probably the greatast preacher in Lon
don. Dr. Parker will conduct the Bec
cher memorial services, and the members
of the church will have an oportunity to
hear him, and judge him, for themselves,
An American minister, traveling in En
gland, who listened to Dr. Parker in his
London pulpit, Baid of him: I went to
hear Dr. Parker, and he is one of the
strangest and withal one of the great
est preachers I ever heard. I was struck
with his peculiar manner of opening his
sermon. To chain the attention of his
audience, he would fold his hands in
front of him, and stand before his audi
ence, swaying his body to and fro for full
five minutes without uttering a syllable.
This evidence of egotism did not give me
a very favorable impression. But this
disagreeable feeling soon melted away
under the influence of the matchless or
atory of the sermon.
CROP REPORTS.
Wheat Greatly Improved-Large
Acreage of Oats and Corn.
The Kansas Farmer of this week pre
sents a very complete report of the con
dition of crops throughout the state, and
it makes an excellent showing. Dry
weather had delayed early vegetation, and
interfered somewhat with the germina
tion of seeds, but about the middle of
April copious rains fell in every county,
bo that now wheat is growing vigorously,
the young oats covers the ground well,
meadows are green, and cattle are living
on new prairie grass. The acreage of
wheat is small, but the prospect for wheat
growing is very good. The presence of
chinch bugs in some localities is discour
aging, but they are not at all general.
The acreage of oats is greatly increased
over former years, and the corn area will
be immense. Stock is in good health,
and went to pasture in fair condition,
Fruit prospects, even for peaches, is un
usually encouraging. The report covers
nearly every county, and it comes direct
from the farmers themselves. The state
is in very good condition, and all the peo
ple are in cheerful mood. Immigration
continues very large and railroads are
building or projected in most of the coun
ties. THE IjAND OFFICE.
The Garden City papers publish the
following :
Department op the Isteiuob,
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GENERAL LAM OFFICE,
WAsnnfGTOK, D. C, May 3d, 188'
Register and Receiver, Garden City, Kas:
Gentlemen: I have received your re
port of the 28th ultimo in regard to the
removal of the land office from Garden
City. Tour report is entirely satisfactory.
There is no substantial reason for a re
moval and no recommendation to that
effect will be made by me. To allay the
suspense that has grown out of this ques
tion, perhaps it would be well to let the
purport of this letter be generally known,
i. Respectfully . Wm. A J. Sparks, -
UOOTUBBoner.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
The following is a complete list ef mil rail estate
transfers in Ford connty, for the week ending
Saturday, May 7th, 1887, aa compiled ty JerU
gan & Lee, abstractors and conTeyancora :
Cimarron Hotel Co to C H Beery lots 1 & f
2 blk 42 Cimarron 13000 00
C II Beery to Cimarron Hotel Co lots 1 &
2 blk 42 Cimarron 1J000 00
FB Apperson to L E 4 H XcGarry part
blk 27 Shinn's add Dodge City 10000
J H Finlay to Ezra Best lotlG blk 7 Fonda 25 00
FB Apperson to Sarah S Coleman nK ns
wvandnKofswJ21723 100000
J R Coleman to F B Apperson w of nw
J4andnofswJ4 2127 23 1000 00
Spsareville Town Co to John HMnir lot
1 blk 2 Speareville 80 00
AT&SFRKCoto JesseHBirch ee4
15 25 27 480 00
S Hadgett to I MudgettnwJ 10 25 23. . . . 400 00
SGros8toALoni9BwX142D23 650 00
LJBlrdtoH.WBi8hopneX?4 29 25 1025 00
TS Jones WB Rhodes lots 46 48 blk 30
Shinn'sadd Dodge City 625 00
W B Rhodes to Mary D Rhodes lots 46 48
blk 30 Shinn's add Dodge City 625 00
P H Snghrue to Carrie Wilber lot 8 blk 12
Dodge City 1050 00
D F Owens to F B Apperson part blk 27
Shinn's add Dodge City. 100 00
E D Miller to H O Seal lot 8 blk 35 Cimar
ron 2000 00
J E Gambril to G K Gordonjot 3 blk 10
Cimarron 900 00
D G.Stratton M A Jacobs lotO & 10 blk 60
Cimarron 700 00
ArkVT&LCotoCE Perry lot 1 blk 46
Cimarron 100 00
C M Weeks to C E Perry M lot 1 blk 40
Cimarron 230 00
Ark VT&LCotoML Wade lot 18 blk
22 Cimarron 00 00
EMRatclifftoAVBarker lot 9 blk 12
Cimarron 1200 00
J A Robinson to F A Barker lot 6 blk 25
Cimarron 1150 00
S B McMay to J A Robinson lot 6 blk 45
Cimarron 600 00
J C Fahnestock to F H Barker lot 7 & 10
blk 45 and all blk 13 Cimarron 2600 00
D L Orton to Harriett Longfellow sw4 29
2822 400 00
E. S Cromer to L M Ferrier lot 17 blk 14
Speareville 100 00
J M Bell to W B Dickie lot 10 Olive's add
Dodge City 310 00
M C Steele to B Reed part blk 50 Dodgo
City 1200 00
Mary Collar to AnnaL Wilden lot 56 Ft
streetDodge City 100
L E Johnson to B Reed part of blk 51
DodgeCity 1500 00
A Haeke to D F Owens lots 34 5 6 blk 18
Boyd's add Dodge City 340 00
Eato H Waldcn to J A Sisk lots 1 2 3 blk 47
Cimarron 800 00
R Uansfleld to Wm Newberry stf of nw
Ji and n X of sw U, 26 27 24 500 00
Thoe Stewart to Wm Newberry sK nejf
& ntf of setf 26 27 24 500 00
L P Horton to M W Brown lot blk 5
, Wilbnrn 50 00
j A Comstock to M H Shoemake lots 34
andstfofnwi25 2624 1900 00
I Mudgett to Jesse Stevons se& 10 25 23. . 1000 00
S A Armstrong to G W Fehnnan lot 21 22
bik32Ford 300 00
W N Lock to W J Fitzgerald Be 27 28 24 1500 00
TEFitzgeraldtWN LockseJ4 222724 1800 00
B Harris to BS Brunswick lots 51 53 blk
33 FairTicw add Dodge City 340 00
Spcarvillc Town Co to H M Clark lots 7 &
8 blk 11 Speareville 90 00
Cimarron Land Co toH P O'Neal lots 7 &
8 blk 2 and lots 4 3 and 6 blk 21 Cimar
ron Land Co's add Cimarron 400 00
J H Crawford to N B Elaine lots 2 3 blk
9 Crawford's add Dodge City 550 00
Walter Stratcr to Geo H Nelson cK of blk
63Dodgc City 700 00
M R Prather to J S Bagby blk 62 Dodge
City 1450 00
Julia L Soper to J S Bagby lots 1 2 blk 37
Dodge City 500 00
Ark V T & L Co to C E House lota 11 12
blk27Cimarron 110 00
Louis Kluber to M H Kluber nw& of no
H and neJi 152923 100
M II Kluber to Louis Kluber nw qr of n
e qr and ne qr of ne qr and se qr of no
qr 152923 ' 1000 00
G C Farnum to J W. nughlett s hf of sw
qr sec 29 and nhf of nwqr 32 29 22.... 1000 00
WECalentoMaryE Simpson sw qr 29
2924 104000
Ark VT & LCo toD G & T JStratton lots
1 2 3 4 blk 79 and lots 1 2 blk 80 Cimar
ron 600 00
G W Foughty to T J Stratton part blk 12
Fonghty' add Cimarron 50 00
T Weston to S Bates n hf of te qr 5 28 22. 1200 00
A H Boyd to E A Smiley lots 5 6 blk 23
Boyd's add Dodge City 375 00
R W Evans to Sarah I Coleman c hf of
blk 25 Evans' add Dodge City 250 00
M Harris A Curtiss lots 10 11 blk 23
Boyd's add Dodge City 325 00
FTMWenie to SA Bullard hf lot 16
Chestnut st Dodge City 500 00
Mrs S M Davis to John Rush lot 7 blk 21
DodgeCity 200 00
M Collar to W Straeter e hf of blk 63
DodgeCity 373 00
P F Parsons to W B Hess e hf of ew qr &
whfofseqr312724 700 00
H W Bishop to D Pitman ne qr 24 29 25 1075 00
H W Bishop G N Amy seqr 24 29 25 1050 00
G A Sanford to RM Wright lots 3 4 sec
17 2624 1402 00
J J VanValkenburg to J W Hughlett s hf
of ee qr and ne qr of se qr and se qr of
neqr62822 3240 00
C E Argabright to R L McCormick lots 3 4
andchfofswqrl82721 850 00
D M Frost to J S Bagby 75x142 ft blk 8
Shinn's add Dodge City 475 00
Speareville Town Co to I Mudgett lot 17
blk 18 Speareville 55 00
E M Ratcliff to J M Simpson lot 9 blk 11
Cimarron 1000 00
G W Gorton to W D Mooro lot 1 blk 14
Wilbnrn 150 CO
L Puis to S Puis nwqr 22 29 21 1200 00
J C Winfrey to J L Barnett se qr 14 29 22 500 00
B H Thompson to J C Van Valkenbnrg nw
qrofnwqrl5 28 23 100
J W Emmons to Enterprise Invest Co aw
qrl02922 ; 8500 00
WHHinkls to Enterprise Invest Coe hf
ofnwqrl52922 1000 00
J W Emmons toW H Hinkle e hf of
nwarl52922 .... 650 00
MAY WEATHER.
Prof. Blake says of May weather: '
There will be some light frosts in May,
but tbey will not do much damage ex
cept in the extreme northern states, and
even there the damage cannot be great,
as the season will not be sufficiently far
advanced at the time the frosts come.
The rainfall in May, east of the Rocky
Mountains, will be well distributed, most
sections having enough for farming pur
poses and but few places having too
much. Some of those few places will
have a large amount of rain, but there
will be more places that will not have
quite enough, though there will be no ex
tensive drouths. The general distribu
tion of rain for the month will be very
near normal, and the words "normal" or
"ordinary" always include spots of ex
cess and deficiency, but no great extreme
over large tracts of country.
Aside from a few frosts the temper
ature will be warm and pleasant for two
thirds of the month. While some places
will have severe storms and cyclones,
yet they will not be sufficient in number
and magnitude to prevent the month be
ing considered a nice one on the general
average.
To the close observer, a great quan
tity of what may properly be called
nonsense, has been filling the columns
of trade journals, on the possible effeot
of the Inter-State Commerce Act upon
distribution. Predictions of the direst
disaster have been made, with absolutely
no foundation. Fears have been ex
pressed that output would be curtailed,
commercial expansion retarded, and
profits diminished, by the increased
charges of freight. To us, the situation
does not appear grave, by any means.
Though, it is true, that distribution
will be temporarily checked, the demand
for staples will soon obviate this, and
production, necessarily, will be equal
to the demand. The possible effect
upon the paper trade may superinduce a
conservative spirit among dealers, but
competition and demand will continue
as strong as ever, and prices may be
forced up correspondingly. Thus far,
the increased aggregate in shipping
rates haye checked the market slightly,
but no other change is preceptible, or
anticipated. There is always a level,
and some compensation to every thing.
McCLURE PLACE.
AN ADDITION
TO DODGE CITT, KANSAS.
84 ACRES IMMEDIATELY EAST OP THE
WAT5S WORKS STAND PIPI and ADJOINING BOYD's ADDITION on
the North has been Platted into
THREE HUNDRED NICE LARGE
RESIDENCE LOTS.
and Placet Eeeord.
FOR 15 DAYS. COMMENCING APRIL 21st, 1881 9 LOTS in this ADDITION
Will be for sale at a GREAT REDUCTION. Come quick. Now is the time to secure a Rargain. TERMS :
ONE-THIRD CASH, Balance payable in six and twelve months.
Gall at The Dodge City Land, Law and Loan Company3 Under Gluck's Jewelry Store.
REGULAR comrcix pro
ceedings The city council met Tuesday May 10th, 188",
at 7:30 P. M., persuant to adjournment.
Present: R. W. Tarbox, Mayor ; Fred Gardner,
President of the Council ; L. K. Hclntyre, J. A.
Arment L. N. York, A. Curtius and J. W. Mahan,
Councilmcn.
Fred Singer tendered hit resignation as City
Marshal, which on motion iras accepted by the
mayor and council.
On motion all appointive city officials were de
clared vacant
The Honorable Mayor, made the following ap
appointmenta which were duly conflrcd by Tote of
the council, and the clerk Instructed to issue com
missions of office to the same :
City Marshal. Andrew Falkner.
Assistant City Marshal. F. A. Heinako.
Policemen. II. II. Carter, Cal. Parka and C.
Plunkctt.
Street Commissioner. D. B. Whitcsides.
City Clerk. O. F. Jones.
City Attorney. B. D. Swan.
Chief of the Fire Department C. M. Beeson.
Asat Chief ef the Fire Department. Charles
Shields.
City Scavenger. John Madden.
The mayor appointed the following standing
committees :
On Streets, Alleys, Side-walks and Pnelic
Grounds: L. N. York, J.W. Mahan and J. A. Ar
ment. On Claims and Finances: L. E. Mclntyre, A.
Curtius and Fred Gardner.
On Fire Department and Water Works: J. A
Arment, L. X. York, and A. Curtius.
On Sewers, Gas and Electric Light: Fred Gard
ner, L. K. Mclntyre, and J. W. Mahan.
On Police, Markets and Ordinances: Fred Gard
ner, L. X. York and L. K. Mclntyre.
Board of Health: B, WTarbox, L. K. Mclntyre,
A. Curtis and Dr. C. A Milton, City Physician.
On motion the Mayor and Council arc instruct
ed to visit President Strong, of the Atchison, Teg
peka & Santa Fe railroad company, at Topeka for
the purpose of securing public grounds for the use
of the city.
On motion a petition asking the Mayor and
Council to levy a direct tax to pay for the sprink
ling of certain streets was accepted, and referred
to the City Attorney.
On motion, a petition to grade Railroad avenue,
Elm aid Vine streets, and Avenues A. and B,
also to build sidewalks on Military Avenue, was
accepted and referred to a committee on streets
and alleys.
By vote of Mayor and Council the city printing
was awarded to the Dodge City Times.
On motion the Council adjourned.
G. F. Jones, City Clerk.
CAMPAIGN CURIOSITY.
We had a coincidence this week.
Senator Harrison arrived in this city on
Tuesday morning, as an attorney in the
Spencer bank case. The same day E. S.
Tichenor, sexton of Hill Dale Cemetery,
while at work in bis garden, found a cu
rious looking coin, described as follows:
On one aide were the words, "Major Gen.
W. H. Harrison, born Feb. 9, 1773." On
the reverse side was the picture of a log
cabin and a barrel of hard cider. The
cabin is surmounted by an American flag
and surrounded by forest trees. At the
top are the words, "The people's choice,"
and below, "The hero of Tippecanoe."
The curious coin is of brass, and is excel
lently well preserved- It was purchased
by C. F. Sims, Esq., for one dollar, and
presented to Senator Harrison, a grand
son of the aforesaid W. H. The presen
tation took place at the Mason House.
Mr. Sims made a neat little speech in giv
ing the coin into the keeping of Senator
Harrison, and the latter made an appro
priate reply. This is the second of the
kind the Senator has been presented
with. The first one was found in Ken
tucky by a colored man, and by him giv
en to Senator Harrison through Cassius
M. Clay. Coins of this kind were quite
common during the campaign of 1840,
when Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison was a
candidote for President of the United
States, and was at that time elected to
that office. Morgan County (Ind.) Ga
zette, May 7.
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0fficSg.,Khonfuftorc1 - - DODGE CITY, KANSAS.
SANTA PE'S AXXUAJI
REPORT.
A Boston special to the Times says:
The annual report of the A. T. & S. F.
railroad will be an unusually interesting
document. The Santa Fe lias laid out for
itself extensive new fields of railroad con
stmction towards the west and northwest.
Leaving Ness in the central part of Kan
sas, an extension is being built across the
prairies of western Kansas and eastern
Colorado, for from 5500 to 400 miles to
Colorado Springs. From Kiowa, one of
the termini of of the Southern Kansas,
on the Indian Territory frontier of Kan
sas line, it is proposed to cross the Indian
Territory and northwestern Texas and
over the Llano Estacado and the south
western part of S"ew Mexico at almost an
air line, on to El Paso. The prospective
line, which is at least six hundred miles
long will effect a saving of more than
that distance in passing from Missouri
river points to the Mexican frontier, and
the building of it would bring El Paso at
least six hundred miles nearer the Mis
souri river and effect the advantages of
distance claimed by the Atchison, u for
midable rival of the Mexican National.
The construction of the short branch will
then give Arizona a new and independent
line from southern Kansas to the connec
tion of the Atlantic and Pacific, and an
other, and by all odds the shortest trans
continental route.
There arc some men who talk loudly of
booming the town, spending their money
at home and patroiizing home industries,
yet, at the same time, you will find them
sending their printing to some other town
where she can yet it done at a few cents
cheaper. Ft. Scott Tribune.
Fifty young ladies of Newton, N. J.,
have formed a "Maiden's Mutual Pro
tective Band." The object is to girlcott
the young men who smoke, drink or pla
billiards. One of our exchages very truly says
that everjlocal paper gives from $100
to $500 in free lines for the benefit of
the vicinity in wliicb it is located. No
other apency can or will do this. The
local piper, in proportion to means,
does more for a town than any ten men,
in all fairness, man to man. -Its con
ductors ought to be supported, because
a local paper is the best investment a
community can make. It may not be
brilliant, or full of great thoughts, but
financially, is more of a benefit to a
caamunity than a preacher or teacher.
A special from Newark, Ohio, says
tlat the Baltimore and Ohio paymas
ter who visited that place compelled
ivcry employe of the road to sign a
pledge to abstain from the use of in
toxicating liquor before he could draw
his pay. Thi3 movement is said to have
been started because of the ugly minora
about drunken train men in connection
with the Republic disaster on the 4th"
inst.
Prohibition is not without its friends
in Texas. Among the newspapers sup
porting the amendment are the Blossom
Prairie-Bee, the Cisco Bound-Up, the
Overton Sharpshooter, the Rossa Cy
clone, the Seymore Scimetar and the
Jefferson Jiinplecute. With snch a
formiable array of bristling journals
spouting true Texas slang it looks as
the amendment ought to hump itself
along.
DICKINSON,
With the "flowers that bloom in the
spring' ' comes the usual crop of discov
eries of old abandoned mines in Mexico.
This time they are richer than ever.
32ADQUAKTI?It8 FOR FINE
imF.M SHOES, tVAliK-IIVC; SHOES
AIY1 HlilPPEKSI, AT THE ECON
OMY' SHOE STORE.
Tho people of the United States aro
not crowded. An exchange figures it
out that the entire u'0,000,000 of peoplo
of this country could be settled in tho
state of Texas, and then not be as much
crowded as they are in many countries
in Europe.
A great sensation has been caused in
Virginia by the fact that cyclone which
visited several counties took the roofs
off the houses of two state senators
who lived twenty-nine miles apart.
The event 13 thought to have a deep
signification. Ordinarly when any
thing of this description is to be done
the people attend to the matter them
selves. Another repulsive criminal has in
fatuated a talented young lady away
from a sumptuous home. These cases
are becoming very common of lato.
The criminal of to-day is something of
a hero, and the darker and more at
rocious his crimes, the higher he gets
in the esteem of a certain class of giddy
young girls.
The only piece of ground possessed
by the United States of America, else
where than America itself, is the little
spot of land on which the American
legation is built is the town of Tangier.
This was given to the American nation
by the Sultan of Morocco, the legation
in all other countries stand on ground
rented, but not owned by the American
government.
JohnT. Raymond did not use tobacco
or intoxicating beverages in any form.
But there was a screw loose somewhere
in his makeup. He had been earning
from $70,000 to $80,000 per annum
lately, but it is found necessary to ad
vertise a benefit to raise money enough
to keep his family from immediate want.
Perhaps acting the part of Col. Sellers
so many years had a dizzy effect upon
his financial intelligence. He got him
self hopelessls mixed up with the char
acter. The secretary of state for Mass
achusetts have issued a reporb showing
to what extent women have
taken advantage of the law passed in
1880 permitting them to vote at school
board elections. In 1881, 1,571 ladies
voted, and in 18SC, 1,911. The largest
possible female vote in the state
is 310,000 and hence it would appear
that, after six years, less that six
women out of every thousand take the
trouble to record their votes.
-Talking about absent-mindedness"
said a sleeping ear conductor, "I think
the worst case I ever heard of was that
of a passenger in my car last fall. She
was a St. Louis woman, about 45 years
old , and she had a horse shoe with her
which she had found in the street while
on her way to the station. She brought
in along she said, because 'finding a
horse shoe while starting on a journey
was the surest sign of good luck. But
what do vou suppose she did next
morning? She reached under her
pillow, got her false teeth, packed them
away in her valise and put the horse
shoe in her mouth. And she never
discovered the mistake, either, 'till she
corked' her jaw with the toe of the
shoe -while trying to get away with a
beefsteak." -Ex.
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