Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-04-21


swindling in cheap, bogus jeweiry-ess
peeially when negro soldiers were their
unsophisticated victims) could not live.
As for Mr.. r. G.. Cooks opinion. as
stated in the Times, fully concur in
every word by him stated. And instead
of downright falsehood,- is only too
true. and is certainly net Tissue Of
hes" by any means
Yes, Ellis is a railroad town" and the
paper in question might have added 80
is Hays City," and tho dependence upon
the same support as that Of the former.
Therefore think it very uncharitsble, if
not dishonest. in local newspapers. to
give utterance to tissue of misrepfesen-
rationsEto use the mildest term-that IL
calculated, and frequently has the effect
to deceive strangers, and especially the
cattle men. who have not always, like
good general. time to reconnoiter. before
he moves his large herds to new pastures
and shipping points.
The paper in question utters deliber-
ate falseho0d (but am charitable enough
to believe it does it through ignorance of
the matter under consideration when it
says that ''the farmers are not hostile
against cattle men,
Every one hereabouts knows the opin-
ion of the farmers of Ellis county on the
subject of driving Texas cattle through
their farms.
Was not Mr.. ID. A. Gilkeson elected
Representative by the votes Of farmers
last falli And was that not part of the
conditions between him and the formers
that the dead line should be placed west
of Ellis County And need only to refer
to the columns of the Sentinel, some
weeks back, to show that Mr.. G.. filed
his part of the contract faithfully, until
the very last moment. when seeing there
was no chance 10 defeat the bill. he
succumbed.
As for the county commissioners To-
eating a broad highway for the express
purpose Of allowing Texas cattle to APP
preach the stock yards" it is very en-
eouraging to the cattle men indeed. but.
Mr.. Editor, where is the stock man or
l'c.ntle merchant thai is wiling 10 confine
his herd. of probably 10, 600 to Is, 900 head
IN one drove. to the narrow limits of a
BROAD highway" when he has such fine,
open, well-watered grazing ranges as are
found in the vicinity of the Arkansas
river. in Ford and Clark counties.
Would the cattle men not be guilty of a
very himsy stroke of policy, if not very
foolish act. were they to drive their cattle
from eighty TO one hundred and fifty
miles further, into 4 much less suitable
grazing range, and then to meet the oppo-
sition of an indignant ard hostile eommu-
nifty of farmers and settlers. who do not
want their scanty growth of pastufase
devoured by thousands of foreign cattle,
from which they derive no pecuniary
benefit, aud that too to the detriment Of
their own cattle Especially is il the case
when the laws of the state protect them.
Again the Sentinel says ''the finest
pastures in the State are adjacent TO
Ellis. and outside of the dead line' Yes,
there is; but the adjacent is about one
hundred miles southwest of the said Ella,
and the cattle men will find il out. should
they chance to be influenced by sach
articles as the one referred to.
The writer has travelled from Ellis to
Dodge. and vice versa. to Camp Supply,
as well as further south. and is fully cogni-
zant of what he writes. He has no imme-
date interest in either Dodge or HAYS
City, but he Is interested in the cattle
business. as well as truth and veracity.
ARTfUL DODGER.
HAYS City. Kansas. April 10. 1877