Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-12-21

crease Of cattle thieves in that vicinity.
A fatal disease resembling the ''blind
staggers" is prevalent among the swine OF
Mont g0merv county.
The transfer of the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad to the A.. I. & S. +.
Co. was made on the 18th inst.
There seems TO be Q luil in the contest
for Stale printer OF Kansas. with iudica>
lons tina. Marrin IS ahead.
Hon. :. c. Pomeroy il said 10 be a can,
didate aga,n for Senatorial honors. He
has taken rooms ut the Tefit House in
Topeka.
The Government Reservation at Fort
Larned Is to be sold-or at least an effort
is being made to have il SO disposed O0ns
iomestradS 10 actual settlers.
A farmer named Lumberg. living in
Mcpherson county. while returning from
Sallna on saturday. November -. was
murdered oy II tramp.
While this part eft Kansas found itself
clothed in thick mantle of snow last
eek. the entire East. from Maine TO Vir>
GINA, was toundering in a sea of mud.
One night last week the two stores. the
posi>otfice, Masonic hall and two dweli>
ings. in the little town of Lenexa. Johnson
county, were destroyed b. fire.
The Abilene Gazette saws the wolves are
making sad havoc of some Of the graves
in the Detroit graveyard one OF the graves
having been entirely opened and the
corpse exposed.
4 Great Bend man SAYS h will be forced
to move to the western frontier II any
more mlllireIs or dressmahers come to
Town. That they create a demand for
dress goods that is wholly Incompatible
with the price of wheat.
On Wednesday evening of last week T.
Mcdonald, section boss from Hutchin>
son, while going over the road with other
foreinen to examine its condition. fell from
a fiat car, near Pawnee Rock, and was
killed.
The AtchisOn Patriot states that about
one lot III every four IN that city is in
the hands of the county. on account OF
unpaid taxes. and that the aggregate of
unpaid taxes is in round numbers $40. 900.
The large sum Is the aggregate of taxes
for the last five or six years.
The Emporia Ledger says: 1t is res
ported that the work of widening the
road>bed Of the X. G.. T.. & :. narrow
guage railroad, from Emporla southwark.
will commence in n few davs- The object
is to make it suitable for the standard
guage Of track.
The scandia Republic saws that since
February l, 1873, LOO immigrant teams
have crossed the Republican river at
Scandia. They have averaged four persons
to the team. making a total of f. 500 addi>
tional inhabitants for Kansas. OF these
fully 4, 900 We're from Iowa, aud the bal>
ance from other States.
The North Topeka Times says: Shippers
will be glad to learn that the A., T. 4 S. +.
X. X. Co. are now building new stock
yards at North Topeka Junction. on tine
north side of the depot. and are prepared
10 accommodate all who wish to ship from
this side to either Atchison or Kansas
CITY over the ''old relableD Santa Fe
route. The immense packing house at
AtchIson demanded the building of the
new stock yards, which will De of incals
cuablc benefit TO shippers.
The citizens of Red Cloud. Kansas, on
Thursday of las: week. We're thrown into
a fever OF excitement over double mur~
der. The track hands of the Il. & II.
road had been on q strike for several days
and were drinking very hard. About noon
OF Thursday one of the drunken strikers
went into one of the saloons. and refusing
to pay for his drinks. he was shot down
and Killed bv the bartender. During the
afternoon a number of the strikers got to-
gether. sought out the slayer of their
brother striker and riddled hlm with bull