Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-07-14
Observation-Disclosures.

CAMP SUPPLY. l. T., July 8, 1877.
100 degrees in the shade at Camp Sup
ply. Oh. for . little Of Pixies Peak
breezes.
The PaymasteY il expected at Camp
Supply this week.
Last paw for the boys for four or six
long months. On. ye Congressl
Sixteen regiments viii; be about the
number after Congress meets.
Very good bathing in the Beaver river.
This way for fun, ye sports.
"Scotty" was on his mus, before he
LETT. So was Diamond
Lieut.. Guard left Camp Supply for his
new station. Fort Dodge. on the 9Th
inst. having remained behind to transfer
his 9. N. stores.
Garrison court martials arc in vogue
here. and the boys are unhappy-that is,
the refractory element
Polly's train arrived here on the Sd and
discharged the baggage of Co. A Of the
10Th on the 4th. and left the same day for
Fort Elliott, Texas.
The glorious 18th was entirely ignored
here. The Indian Territory being out of
the United States probably is the cause.
| or the nOn-advent Of the Paymaster.
Plains, curranis and mulberries are
ripe. and the turkeys are setting on the
trees a short distance down the river,
waiting for the sportsmen
Buffalo were seen last week three miles
west Of this post. Where's We sportsf
1t is all mistake about vegetation not
growing in this section of country. For
ocular proof call on Burke, the Post
Gardner. He will show you some huge
specimens of turnips, onions. beets, rad
ishes. cabbage and corn. and if the grass
hoppers keep away one month longer. the
garrison will prosper in the vegetable line.
1t is astonishing TO see the effect the cli>
mate of the Indian Territory has on the
mercantile business. How costly staple
articles grow down this way, and only
one and half degrees south of Dodge
City. What dear. costly read that is.
Those Boys in Blue" who recently
came to this post miss their daily mails.
as we have but two mails per week from
Dodge City TO this point They arrive
here on Tuesdays and Fndays, and depart
for Fort Elliott. Texas, on Tuesday even
ing of each week. One mail per week is
the only accomrA odation southwest of us,
and that. too, by army transportation
The POstoffice Department it seems can't
see the propriety of establishing mail
M TO Fort Elltnft hat lsftIa
iicant eight-cOmpany post, but the people
who live down that way can see il, and
can go five better.
We sent off a ''bumbshell' to north
west Last week, and We have no doubt
down this way but what you Dodgeites
will hear from the ''bumbshelln soon.
have been worrying my brain for sew
eral minutes to find some worthy item to
note, but l am like many others-the |
more I reflect the more bewildered and
undecided become.
If George Washington (of Ratchet and
other notorietyi. General Lee or Stone
wall Jackson were yet alive. my hesita-
tIOn would have an end instanter. But |
to the mysterious son Of Ohio or Ken |
lucky. whose wonderful insignificance |
and the erCwning virtue of intellectual |
called him forth as one of the |
Damaseusian Blade manipulators and
at the shrine of Cuffy and
Cuffesses, and bewailing in plaIntiye |
accent the condition of the poor, benighted |
dark race in this semi-civilized land of
rattle snakes rbin mania Ooffara opI