The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-11-16
And Other Interesting News by Specials.
Kansas City.


KANSAS CITY, November 13.-[Special.l-
j. NJ. Smith, farmer aged about go, was
swindled out of $3.50 ON an incoming train
on the Council Bluffs road near this city to-
day. 1t was the freight bill racket, Smith
advancing the money on bogus $1,000
bond rendered him as collateral by new
found friend. Smith, accompanied by a
son, was on his way from Columbus juno
ton, Iowa. to locate in Dallas, Texas. The
confidence men escaped with their booty.
Press dispatches from New York havin g
announced that Vanderbilt and associates
have formed q new company for the ship
ment of dressed beef from Chicago to
New York at rate cheaper than is now
charged Chicago men now interested in
the business express grave fears that the
real interest IF Vanderbilt's movement is
to kill trade by raising freight rate so that
it will be impossible for present shippers to
do business with profit. There is loss of
about so per cent. tonnage to railroads by
shipments of dressed beef instead of cattle
on hoof, and eastern cattle men and rail
drive out the new enterprise. Chicago
shippers are seriously alarmed At
Kansas City the Fowlers and Ar
mours see in the movement a gigantic
boom for Kansas City, in her facilities for
receiving cattle from Texas, New Mexico,
Kansas and Nebraska, and it is believed
by packers here that ultimately almost all
beef intended for the eastern markets will
be dressed at Kansas City and shipped in
refrigerator cars. AS Vanderbilt has no in
terest here, his opposition to the shipment
of the new commodity from Chicago
would only hasten the transfer of the
business to this point. The difference in
a,t ln
Chicago and the east is SO small, and the
convenience of Kansas City to western
grazing grounds is so much great, that it is
believed this must before long become the
great slaughtering mart of the country, and
among our cattlemen and packers here the
matter is attracting the most absorbing at
tention.
Meagre deta lis of frightful railroad acct
dent on the Chicago IL Alton road have
been received here. From reports rece yed
it seems that a construction brain
was backing down to Oak Grove,
this county, with train load
of hands on their way to supper. By
some misunderstanding hand car was left
could be stopped the caboose ran onto the
hand car. The caboose was lifted up and
thrown off the track, and six fiat cars and
one box car followed and were
ditched. Six men were killed
outright and number injured. |
The track was torn up and SO bad wreck
made that no trains can be moved over the
track either way for several hours. AT pres
ent il is impossible to give names of the
dead or any further particulars.
This morning about 2o'clock Bob Hughes |
and w. r. Davis were found lying dead on
South Sixth street, st. Joseph. Hughes
had three bullet holes in his head |
and Davis had one in the temple |
and one through the heart. |
Investigation revealed the fact that de- |
ceased had been gambling all night and |
had won a considerable sum of money |
from two men called "Red' and ''Shanks." |
The theory is that one of these men killed |
the deceased. On this account ,"Shanks" |
has disappeared, and as yet no arrests have |
been made. The men killed bore hard !
names.