Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-01-26
EDWARDS COUNTY.
From the Kinslr, Rspsblicsn.

rfoih tae Ministry uspeoiichn
Wild geese continue TO disport IN the
river perfectly sasisfied With our climate.
These beautiful lovely moonlight even
/ ings-but then We have nO front gates IN
Kinsley.
We uIge upon our farmers TO plant corn
the coming spring. II properly cared for
Is will yield paying crop IN the upper
valley.
One Of tho good slgne of the times-the
loads of luT1 Der leaving our yards daily
/ tor the ne gh boring prairies.
A new school district is being organized
south of Knsley, and We hope soon to see
neat new school house lOomiog up.
Build school houses.
| Snow six inches in debth on the cattle
range thiriy-iive miles southwest of Kim
sley. and still our wheat iieids are green
and growing. and prairies brown and bare
here.
Have You forgotten those happy times
when with Maud" YOU wandered over
the woodland hill and gathered ferns and
autumn leaves. Then call at our sane
tum. We have beautiful fern boquet.
Already the advance guard of the com
ing throng Of emigrants and land buyers
| Is arriving. Several gentlemen from Penn
! sylvania. Ohio and Iowa came in Sunday
morning. and they have come by every
tram during the week.
Birthington's washdav four weeks from
next Tuesday. Providentiaily in accord~
ance with tho eternal fitness Of things,
&. W. and the editor Of the REPUBLICAN
were born on the same day-0f tho month.
Tho only prominent difference between
George and us. the Father of his country
couldn't tell lie. and We can but won't
More than four hundred passengers ar
rived in Topeka Thursday Afternoon over
the Aschison and Kansas City lines from
almost every eastern and northern state.
and remaining at the Capital over night
the train of nine coaches started for the
Arkansas Valley at $50 Friday morning.
There were l3S from Limos, 81 from Iowa.
81 from Indiana. - from OHIO, IL from
Pennsylvania. $ from New York, Is from
Wisconsin, from Michigan, and several
from Missouri. New jersey and Mississip-
pi. From Newton west they stopped at
every station, intending to see kinsley
before they buy. About fiftv came
through TOR kinsley. twentv for Offerle.
nineteen Tor Spearville. At least forty
| local and foreign agents OF the company
accOmpaD ed the excursion. which. inclu>
ding hail hundred children. increased
| the parry 10 near five hundred. The
train came through from Topeka IN thir-
| teen hours The next excursion will ar
rive February 18th.
| NIRAGR-We have often spoken Of and
admired the grand mirage view ento-
tainments in the early morning hours
here, but the moot interesting panoramic
moving scene i'll nature upon which our
eyes have yet Toasted, was presented
Al = 80 o'clock Tuesday morning 10 de>
scribe il mnuiely would be To describe
the Indescribable. We have watched the
changing tints of natures Kaleidoscope at
sunrise IRON the summit of Mt. Washing
ton aud fhe Rockies. The scene WAS
grand. From the heights OF the Alps II
was impressive; from the hurricane deck
IN mid ocean. when angry waves Ike mim>
&c mountains rose and fell lit was sublime
But there Is a peculiar beauty attaches to
the shliIIng mirage sunrise scenes here IN
our grand prairie valley, that whilst not
so sublime, 50 grand. so impressive, is
hardly less Interesting To the west was
pictured a vast sheet of clear water which
like silver lake with beautiful shrubs
and grasses gl,sIened In the morning sun
for a few minutes and disappeared The
villages up the line stood out In bold re-
let. the buildings towering high. like
'.casties in the AIR." Farm cottages ten
and fifteen miles away doomed up for 3
lev minutes and then disappeared.