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Dodge City times., 1886-03-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail.
CONGRESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate on March Mr.. Pugh sub
mitted minority report from the Committee
on Judiciary in relation to removals and sus
pensions. The Senate went into executive
session, and when the doors were opened @
lengthy message was received from the Pres
ident upon the right of removal from office
After another executive session the Senate
adjourned. In the House several bills were
introduced and pending action on the Mexi
can Pension bill the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the I'd Mr.. Van Wyck
reported favorabiy, with an amendment the
House bill to increase the pensions of widows
ate took up the Education bill. Debate on
the bill continued until adjournment In
the House Mr. Morrill,, of Kansas. from the
Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported the
bill extending until July ], 1888, the time
within which applications for arrears of pen
sions may be filed. At the expiration of the
morning hour the House went into Commit
tee of the Whole on the Pension ApprOpria-
ton bill. When the committee rose the
House adjourned.
In the Senate on the Sd several petitions
were presented. one from many New York
savings banks asking for the discontinuance
of silver coinage. MIR. Beck offered resO-
luton, which was agreed to, calling on
formation in regard to the payment of the
public debt. and after the transaction OF
minor business, the Education bill came up
and was discussed until adjournment :. In
the House Mr.. Hatch, of Missouri, from the
Committee on Agriculture reported a bill to
establish agricultural experiment stations in
connection with the colleges of the several
States, At the expiration of the morning
hour the House, in committee, resumed con-
sideratiOn of the Pension Appropriation bill.
When the committee rose Mr.. Bragg, of
Wisconsin. reported the Army Appropriation
bill. and the House adjourned.
AFTER the presentation of petitions in
the Senate on the 4th the bill passed accept
ing from Mrs. Grant the tokens presented to
the late General Grant by foreign countries.
The Education bill was then taken up and
after debate the Senate adjourned in order
that members might attend the funeral of
the expiration of the morning hour, took up
the Pension Appropriation bill, and after de-
bate. the Speaker announced the special COM
mttee to investigate the facts concerning
the ownership Of the Pan-Electric telephone
stock by certain public officers as follows:
ney, Miller, Hanback, and Moffatt, and the
House adjourned.
AFTER adopting resolution on the 5th
calling upon the Secretary of the Navy for
information concerning the Dolphin and
other vessels, the Senate again took up the
Education bill, and after lengthy debate
the third reading was reached and the bill
passed; ayes, S; nays, ii. The Senate then
took up the report of the Judiciary Commit
tee on the removal from Office question but
soon adjourned. The House, after the call
of committees, went into Committee of the
Whole on the Urgent Deficiency bill. After
session, fifty pension bills passed. Ad-
jOurned
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11
Immigration to Dakota.

ST. PAUL, March 5.-R. NJ. Tuttle, of the
Daily Pioneer of Mandan. Dak.. who is in
town, says that the outlook in the West
Missouri country along the Northern Pacific
is encouraging. A good deal of work has
been done during tile winter to secure immi-
grafton from the East, and the superior ad-
vantages of that country are gradually be-
coming known among the thrifty farmers
in the East who desire free lands
for themselves and their soEs. There
Is every indication that the country
west of the Missouri will receive larger
immigration this spring than any other Sec
ton Of Dakota. Its fine farming and graz
ing lands, excellent water and immense
beds of Ignite coal lying near the surface.
are attracting the attention Of just the kind
of men that are needed.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE President, on the I'd, sent message
to the Senate requesting adequate legisla
tion for the protection of Chinese resi-
dents.
AS DR.. Blowitz, Paris correspondent OF
the London Times, was ascending the stair
case of his home the other night shot was
fred at him by some unknown person, but
missed him.
CARDINAL ANGELO JACoBINI is dead. He
was born at Genzano April 25, 1926, and
was created Cardinal on March q, 1882.
THE President has withdrawn the nomina.
tion of Edward B. Briggs, of the District of
Columbia lat his own request), to be Con
sui at Santos.
JACOB F. CHILD, of Richmond, Mo-, has
been nominated Minister to SIAM
THE Rev. DR.. Samuel Ramsey, who led
the split in the Presbyterian Church which
ended in the establishment of Southern
branch, died at Louisville, KY, on the Sd,
aged sixty-eight.
THE President has nominated Alfred H.
Terry to the vacant Major Generalship
held by the late W. S. Hancock
The wife of Senator Joseph r. Hawley,
OI SOuuoCUlCuC, ulcu dU ucT uOI10 III w 0Sl-
ington on the Sd.
THE Chinese Minister at Washington de-
MED recently that his Government was
meditating decisive action because of the
anti-Chinese riots.
THE pallium was conferred upon Arch
hop bisC6rrigan at St. Patrick's Cathedral,
New York, on the 4th, with imposing cere-
monies.
THE French Chamber refused to order
the Orleanist princes to leave France by a
vote of 345 to l76.
A TEST vote recently in the English House
of Commons showed Gladstone with 364 to
16O.
GENERAL BOULANGER, the French Minis
ter of War, has decided in favor of destroy
ing the forts of Paris.
FRED DOUGLASS, the we'll known colored
leader, has rendered his resignation as Re-
corder of Deeds for the District of Colum-
bia.
COLONEL E. II. MCPHERSON, a graduate of
West Point and well-known Indian fight
er, who at one time gained great reputa-
tion by rescuing two young women from
the Indians on the Platte river, committed
suicide at his boarding house at Evansville,
Ind, by taking morphine. Indulgence in
strong drink led him to the dogs.
EX-CONGREssMAN FINERTY, of Chicago,
was the orator at the Robert Emmett cele-
bration at the New York Academy of Music
March4. He predicted Parnell's success in
his labors for home rule.
AssoLANT, the French author, is dead.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

SECRETARY MANNING has answered
the resolution of the House calling for
statement of the moneys seized at
New Orleans by Generals Butler and
Banks, between the dates May 1, 1862,
and May 1, 1865. The Secretary says
General Butler seized and accounted
for 1892 ,534. taken from New Orleans
banks, while General Banks seized
S17. .SS9 in cash.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

The grand jury for the New York
Court of general session after being
sworn into office were charged by Judge
Gilderslceve on the 1st. After detin-
ing their duties he said they should not
find an Indictment unless the circum-
stances warranted it. He referred to
the alleged corruption in the procuring
and granting of the franchise on which
the Broadway surface railroad is now
operated, and said: .'Let the axe fall
where it may. We have but one code
of laws. They recognize neither color,
nationality, nor rank
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

THE German press loudly protests
that the rebuilding of Rome will re-
suit in the destruction of its remaining
antiquities. Memorials are being
signed by artists and architects every
where protesting against the sacrilege
of Roman building spectators. The
National Zcitung of Berlin warns the
municipal authorities of Rome that
they may learn in an unpleasant man.
what are the views of the world of
culture
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

SENATOR VANCE, who recently went
to Detroit to bring Senator Jones back
to Washington with him, failed in his
mission. He saw Jones, and remon-
strated with him about his conduct, but
it did not produce the slightest effect.
Jones told him that he was capable of
attending to his own private affairs,
and his matrimonial aspirations were
included in that category. Vance gave
him up as hopeless case. Senator
Fair says he was with Jones in Dublin
several. wears ago. and that he had a
similar adventure there, pursuing the
beautiful Irish maidens with his i'm
portunities to such an extent as to dis
gust everybody. and to make himself
the common talk of the town
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11
A Circuit Rider Drowned.

PIEDMONT, Mo-, March 5.-InfOrmation
has been received from Van Buren, Carter
County, of an accidental drowning which
occurred in Current river, four miles above
Van Buren. Rev. James Hardy and c0Es-
panion, both mounted, were about crossing
the ford when two young ladies came up
who wished to cross The gentlemen each
took lady on behind him. Mr.. Hardy's
horse stumbled in the river and MI. Hardy
rather severely jerked the reins, when the
animal reared and fell backward into the
water. The young lady succeeded in g.
Gaping, but Mr. Hardy was drowned. Al
last accounts his body had not been found
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

The House Committee on Private
Land Claims has agreed to report
favorably bill to give the heirs of
Myra Clark Gaines land scrip for 36, 457
acres, the amount of a grant made by
Spain to persons from whom she
claimed to have procured titles.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11
MISCEILANEOJrS.

DURING heavy gale the entire roof of
the Rockland County IN. W almshouse
was blown off. The building, which is a
large one, contained many inmates, but
none were injured.
The House Committee on Public Lands
by a test vote has put itself on record as
in favor of the repeal of the pre-emption
land law.
A STRIKE occurred the other day among
the employees of the Dry Dock, East Broad
way & Battery Railroad Company at New
York and all the cars stopped running.
The cause was because the company took
on new men, intending to discharge the
old ones as soon as the new men under
stood the work.
j. II. AUFDEMoRTE, the embezzling New
Orleans sub-treasury clerk, has been sem
fenced to five years Imprisonment IN the
Chester ulL) penitentiary and to pay .
fine of 5000.
The laborers on the Annapolis & Balti-
more Short Line railroad struck for higher
wages recently.
A BOAT in which John Walker and Eus-
tace Burnham were riding near Digby, n.
S., recently upset during squall and both
were drowned.
Two men were killed and one seriously
injured by a train jumping the track at
Island Pond, VT, while trying to force the
snow blockade recently.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered the
commander of the United States steamer
Galena to deliver to the United States Mar
shai at Key West, Fla, the steamship City
of Mexico, seized for being engaged in .
flibustering expedition against Honduras.
GEORGE W. LAKE has been convicted in
the Richmond County (N. " court of hav-
ing ruined his own illegitimate daughter,
by whom he had five children, four of these
being idiots.
THE associated chambers of agriculture
of Great Britain have adopted resolution
favoring the Imposition Of import duties oD
foreign grain.
The Russian Government has ordered
the Polish poet Kraszeivski to return to
prison on May l. The poet says that his
return will soon be followed by his death,
IS he is now in feeble health
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

AT a fete held in Perpignon, capital
of Pyrenees Orientales, France, recent
ly, forty thousand persons were pres
ent. An aeronaut made balloon as
cension, although the wind was blowing
violently. The balloon dashed against
trees and buildings and finally burst,
when it fell to the ground with the
aeronaut, injuring him dangerously.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

A DISPATCH from London says: Lord
Rosebery, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
has given instructions to British agents
in China to assist English manufact-
urers and merchants to secure control
of the Chinese market, and to conduct
their treatment of the claims of the Chi
nese Government to suzerainty over
Burmah with that end in view.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

DIR. SCHLIEMANN, whose original fir
mans entitled him to One-third of his
findings in Turkey, two-thirds going to
the Sultan, has succeeded in rebuying
the Sultan's share. He promises to give
the whole collection to the Berlin
Museum.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

REAR ADMIRAL SIMPSON of the navy
has been placed upon the retired list,
having reached the age of sixty-two.
He entered the service in 1910. During
the rebellion he was Fleet Captain to
Admiral Farragut.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

For years past the Town Council of
Cambridge, o., has annoyed the Balti-
more 4 Ohio Company by arresting en-
gineers, conductors and brakemen for
running trains on Sundays. The COM
pany has now determined to tear
its tracks up through the town and 60
round by way of Georgetown, thus
leaving Cambridge without railroad.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

THE Western Union Company has
concluded to pay the amount of back
tax on the capital stock called for by
the Judgment under which the general
offices of Broadway, New York, were
seized by the sheriff.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11
Schooner Adrift.

NEW YORK. March 5.-A dispatch from
Riverhead last night says: "A large
schooner was seen anchored Oh Rock
Point, three miles out on Monday.
She rode the gale until this morn
ing, when she was seen to break loose
and drift toward the shore. Last night
she was hard aground on bar with
the sea breaking over her. Her distress sig
mails are flying, but it Is impossible to get to
her. The life saving crew made an un-
successful attempt to get q line to her.
Running ice makes it impossible to get .
boat from or to her. II is impossible to
learn her name or any particulars
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

THE wheat plant in Kansas, West
ern Missouri and Eastern Nebraska is
reported to be in good condition, but
the acreage is largely below that of
last yoar
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

The Army Appropriation bill as re-
ported TO the House, appropriates for
the maintenance ct the army during
the next fiscal year the sum of $685.
2Q- 200
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

The fiftieth anniversary of the de-
claration of Texas independence was
generally observed as holiday
throughout Texas on the I'd. At sun
rise the Galveston artillery fired a
salute of thirteen guns in honor of the
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Finance Minister reported to
The Dominion Parliament recently that
the public net debt of Canada ON
March was S20S, 100000.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

The President has approved the acts
removing the disabilities of Alexander
Stewart, of Mississippi, Edward G. But
Ter, of Missouri, and Thomas L. Rosser,
of VIRGINIA.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

TIE New Jersey Supreme Court has
decided that the act under which the
State and local boards of health were
organized is unconstitutional.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11

kIOWA County has been reOrganIZed.
This takes two tiers of townships from the
north of Comanche County and two tiers
from the south of Edwards and makes a
county twenty miles north and south by
thirty miles east and west.
THERE are thirteen women holding conn
ty Offices in Kansas. One of these is
county clerk. two are registers of deeds
and ten are superintendents of public in
structions.
SPRING not yet in sight.
The charter of the Henry Electric Rail-
way Company was filed at Topeka recent
ly. The purposes of this corporation are
to acquire all letters patent that are
granted to John c. Henry, of Kansas City,
Mo-, for his inventions in electric railways
and electrical locomotion, to develop and
introduce such inventions in connection
with such other inventions as may come
into the possession of said corporation; to
vehicles and vessels used for the transpor-
tatioh of passengers and freight with the
said inventions. The capital stock is placed
at $4,000.
j. K. GROVER has been appointed sheriff
of the unorganized county of Wallace.
KANSAS postmasters lately commits
stoned: Elihu P. Forrey, at Chandler;
William G Galle, at Christian; George Lent,
at Greenwich; William Wielers, at Herki-
mer; John Beland, at St. Joseph; Andrew
B. Jardine, at Streator; Samuel Warnocx,
at Sugar Valley, and David NJ. LAUDER, 1T
Wade.
AS ONE of the results of cheap tickets to
California, Charles Lee and Mrs. Z. r.
Dixon recently eloped from Leavenworth,
buying tickets for California, each taking
two children. The irate husband Of Mrs.
Dixon telegraphed to intercept them.
JOE WHITE, veteran horse-thief, OF
Leavenworth, has been retired-sent 20 the
peuitentiary for twenty-one years.
Dodge City times., 1886-03-11


farm at Summerville, S. c. The severe
winter and protracted cold weather have
stripped the tea plants of their foliage. The
Commissioner is of the opinion that the
experimental tea farm had better be aband-
oned.
The daily papers of the Sth were filed
with strikes, boycotts, combinations and
other labor movements more or less threat
ening.
IHE Paris BourSe was uneasy during the
week ended March 6. Other European
money exchanges were reported steady.
FIRE recently broke out in the Ford &
Shoemaker mills at Akron, O., destroying
the structure and many other buildings.
The losses were estimated at nearly 1,0OO,-
600; partially insured.
SEVERAL hundred miners in Pulaski
County, KY, recently threatened to drive
away the convicts and their lessees who
were operating in the district. The Gov
ernor was appealed to and the free miners
were overawed by the militia, but the peo-
pie were determined that the convicts
should be ousted as soon as the militia
were withdrawn.
The Senate was not in session on the 9th
The House was occupied in general de-
bate on the state OF the Union, the drift of
the speeches heing to the silver question.
The Abbess Malegne Caseponse, while
dining in the hospital of the Sisters of the
Poor, at Perpignan, France, recently was
attacked and murdered by band of ruff
fans Several of tho miscreants were ar
rested. Their motive was supposed to be
robbery.
OALBERT FRIEDLANDER, of the firm of
Friedlander & Co., cloak manufacturers
OF New York, was arrested the other day
on the complaint of Jordan, Marsh & Co.,
merchants of Boston, charged with de-
frauding that firm of So, 600 by collusion
with their buyer, one Hughes, who has con-
fesssd.
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Brothers in Battle.
A PATHETIC SCENE ON THE FIELD AT
FAIR OAKS.

| believe that every soldier who was on
the battle field can recall some sad Incl
dent. perhaps fully as touching as the one
am about to relate, and for the purpose
of calling out some of these experiences,
more characteristic of real war than most
of the amusing incidents so often related.
/ give this, of which was eye witness ::
At the battle of Fair Oaks, during the
early part of the fight, some portion of
my regiment, the 1Xlird Michigan, and a
part of the Fifth Michigan and some por-
tons Of other regiments got scattered and
came together at the front. The major of
the Third Michigan was among the num-
Der and took command of US.
While we were engaged in fighting l
was standing near two brothers, know
not of what regiment, but possibly of the
Michigan Fifth. They were standing side
by side, loading and firing. But few
shots had been fired when one of the broth
ers was struck above the lett eye with
ball, which passed through and came Gut
the back of the head, penetrating the
brain. He fell to the ground. His broth
err ceased firing and knelt by his side and
tied his handkerchief about his head, held
his canteen to his brothers mouth,
from which he drank freely, then,
as though forgetful of the sad
scene, arose to bis feet and resumed his
loading and firing; but the night was
coming on and we had to fall back and
try to get with our respective regiments,
and then came a scene that brought tears
to many a manly eye, and sorrow to many
a manly heart. even though used to suffer-
ing and such sights.
The brother who was unframed
knelt by the side of the fallen one, and
after giving him a drink from his can
teen. he asked calling him by name),
do you know me, brotherp" The
wounded brother could not speak, but
raised his hand, which his brother took.
and by the pressure of which he knew he
was recognized, and then he told him we
had to tall back. then kissed him for the
last farewell. and while the tears flowed
freely. the soldiers turned aside, and soon
the place was left far behind; but amid
all the years that have gone by since then
that scene comes up TO me as wildly as
on the day it TRANSFERRED, and even in my
dreams, when other events of battle have
been vague and mixed up. / have seen,
as real as on the dav of its occurrence. the
sad events have Just related. There is
no doubt but this will come to other eyes
that witnessed it.--Chicago Leader.
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winter. The trail over which these thirst
| ing cattle pass is lined with the dead
bodies of the animals which have been
unable to endure the torture. The ground
| is dry and parched, and the believing of
the suffering herd can be heard for miles.
All through the cattle country 10 the west
and south of here the same condition OF
affairs exists. Coming ont Of winter
that was unusually severe, the surviving
cattle were hardly able to get their
strength before they were made the VIC
tins Of the drought. In some cases herds
have oeen found so weak from this cause.
as to make a roundup impossible.
hundreds of cattle being on their knees
and too weak to move. On all the rang
es carcasses are met with by the hundred,
and ID some places by the thousand, by
| far the greater number having persisted of
cold and hunger during the winter. One
man who drove 1000 yearlings into the
Arkansas river country in this vicinity last
fall, found only fifty of them alive this
this spring. About oue-hal tot the native
cattle and nearly all the pilgrims on these
ranges have died.
In the early days of the stock industry
the Buffalo grass, which was then plenty,
was depended Upon to keepthe cattle alive
during the winter. 1t grew luxuriantly,
and after the first frost became like hay in
appearance and quite as nutritive. While
this lasted the cattle that could get 10 it
were able to survive the winters, if they
were not too severe; but it is singular
fact. that with the disappearance of the
buffalo. the grass to which his name was
given has gone also, and on none of the
ranges east of the mountains is it now to
be found in any quantity. 1t has been
succeeded by grass which is good enough
when green, but after it has been touched
| by the frost. it is Of no more value as feed
than common straw. Cattle driven to des-
peration will sometimes fill themselves
full OF this stuff. but it contains little nour-
lshment. 1t generally hastens the dis
tempers which result in their death.
Approaching the situation as never be-
fore, number of big companies have
come to the conclusion that if they are to
continue in the business they must do
something more than turn a few thousand
cattle loose on the range to shift for them
selves. Where this decision has been
reached. great barns have been built, or
are now in course of construction, which
cover several acres of land. and in which
thousands of cattle may be properly housed
and fed during severe weather. When
the South and Southwestern breeders take
some such measures to provide adequate
| " for their herds, the contingency of a
dry season will not find them in such a
situation as that which now confronts
| them.
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the grand jury. A true bill was found.
charging Gaines Edwards with the MUIR
der. Last Tuesday, MIR. Dick Donnon,
deputy sheriff of Marion county. returned
from Alabama with the old man, now 76
years old. Next week he will be brought
before the superior court upon the charge
of murder alleged to have been committed
80 years ago. His second wife is still liv-
ing-has large familv-children and
grandchildren. The old man was not
placed in Jail, but was allowed the free
dom OF the county until next Monday.
Some believe him guilty. others assert his
innocence, and confidently predict his &C.
quittal.-Atld,ata Constitution.