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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-08-19
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

GENERAL G. c. AuGER, retired, received
four pistol shots from quarrelsome negroes
whom he had ordered from his premises, at
Washington, early on the morning of the
18th. The General was very seriously
wounded. One of the negroes was arrested
the others escaped.
GENERAL ARTHUR SEDGwICK, a well
known lawyer of New York, has been
selected by the administration to proceed
to Mexico to inquire into the legality of the
proceedings and sentence against Cutting,
the American editor.
A CAN of gunpowder was exploded at the
residence of Assistant Attorney General J.
F. Tufts, at Atchison, Kan. on the 18th.
Tufts had been successful in prosecuting
saloon keepers, and this fact, it was
injury was done to the occupants, but the
house was badly wrecked.
CATHOLICS and Orangemen had another
fight in Belfast on the 18th. Ono or two
were killed with rifle shots and several
wounded.
THE Black Diamond steel works, Pitts
burgh. Pa, were partially destroyed by
fire recently. Loss, 100000 insured.
TwENTY-fIv novices took the veil of the
black nuns at Baltimore on the 18th.
TnR President has appointed John Goode.
of Virginia, to be special counsel on the
part of the United States in tho suit insti-
tuted at Columbus, O., to test the validity
Of the patent granted to the Bell Telephone
Company.
CLEARING house returns for week ended
August 10 showed an average increase of
ELL. In New York the increase was go.
GREEN BAY, Wis, on the 18th, was in i'm
minent danger of being destroyed by the
prevailing forest fires.
j. PIERREPoNT MORGAN has received as
subscriptions to Mrs. Hancock fund, since
the last report, 1881, which brings the
total up to SIC, $3.50.
REPORTS from Matamoras, Mexico, show
the revolution in full blast.
EXTENSIVE coal fields have been discov-
cred in the vicinity of Dulcigno, Albania;
The coal is of the best quality and easily
accessible.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas left Wash
ington on his vacation on the 18th to b
gone q month. During his absence no
Presidential postmasters will be appointed.
MRS. ROBINSON, charged with wholesale
poisoning, is also accused of poisoning
eighty persons in June at the strawberry
festival at the Park avenue Methodist
church, Boston, at which she oficiated.
A. QUINCH. a prominent farmer of Ora.
tiot. Wis, was attacked recently by
vicious bull and gored to death. His body
was frightfully mangled.
Two men were killed and two fatally in
jured in succession of accidents which oc-
CURED while tearing down the exposition
building at New Orleans rscsntly.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-08-19
CURRENT COMMENT.

OWING to rains in Russia the grain
crops are rotting and the farmers are
in great distress.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-08-19

ANOTHER gas well was reached near
the town of Grand Chute, Wis. The
gas, in escaping, threw water and mud
to distance of twelve feet.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-08-19

G. S. jerks, the new Solicitor Gen.
eral of the United States, has entered
upon the discharge of his duties.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02
THE LAND GRANTS.

There is no question before the peo-
pie of more interest than the forfeiture
of The unearned public lands granted
to railroads by the government when
the republicans were in power. The re-
publican party has made record upon
this question, and by that record let
it stand or tall. From July l, 1862,
to March 8, 1871, less than nine years,
they gave to corporations IA .53S, l34
acres of land, and these corporations
have earned, by compliance with the
terms of the grant, less than fifty mil
lion acres, leaving nearly ninety five
million acras that should long since
have been forfeited and returned to the
people. Never until the republi-
can party came into power, did the
government give the peoples heritage,
the public domain, to corporations.
The Northern Pacific railroad COM
pany was granted twenty sections of
land for every mile of road built i'll
| Wisconsin and Minnesota, and forty
sections in the territories and Oregon,
and was to be completed July 4, 1876.
The amount of this grant is over forty
eight millions of acres. Under the
decision of Secretary Schurz, the road
forfeited its legal rights by non-compli.
ance with its contract, it having at tht
expiration of the time 531 miles bull
and was entitled to 5,632,00O acres O
land. The balance of the $4,000 ,00t
acres should revert to the people.
The Atlantic and Pacific railroad ha
similar case. The Texas Pacific an,
other roads having grants amounting
in the aggregate. to l4i, ,538 900 acres q
land beside S64, 100000 in governen
! bonds have alike forfeited millions Q
t acres of this land by non comp lance
g long since, and no steps had beel
taken to redeem them until the induC
{ ton of democratic president into o
:, flee. The democratic party, i'll its pla
Il form at Chicago in 1884, demanded th
g. restoration of the public domain to ,h
d people, and President Cleveland in h
o first message 10 congress, called the
@ attention to the subject.
o Let us see what has been done
+ the two years Of democratic rule &
e ward restoring lands to the people wi
e desire to settle upon them. Commission
If er Sparks, by his order of April
s, 1885, approved by Secretary Lama
Is declares forfeited to the public donna
re O,OOO acres of land granted TO Il
I'd Texas Pacific railroad, and his deci
,e ion of Oct. 80, 1885, i'll the case
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02
GETTING READY.
Assignments for the Campaign.

The assignments of prominent demo-
cratic speakers for the ensuing state
and congressional campaign. made by
the executive committee of the state
democratic central committee, are as fol
lows: Senator F.M Cockrell will speak
at Upton, Oct. Long Oct. 2; ka-
hoka, October t Memphis, October 5;
Edna, October s; Milan, October 7 :;
Meadville and Chillicothe, October 8;
Maryville, October 8; Butler and La
mar, October u; Marshtield, October
13; Springfield, October IA; Cassville,
October l5: Pineville, October 16;
Neosho, October 49,. Carthage and
Webb CITY, October 19; Bolivar, Octo-
Der 20; West Plains, October 81; Pop
lar Bluff, October %; Ironton, Octo-
Der %; Kansas City, October 25 Platts'
/ burg and Lathrop, October 20; Mays
Vile and St Joe, October 27; Albany
and Denver, October 2S: Grant City
| October %. and Gailatin, October 80
Senator George G. Vests appoint
ments are a follows: Potosl
October i; Boonville, October IL
! Columbla, October u; Huntsville
| October IA; Carrolton, October Is
Col. john f. Philips will speak a
Warremsburg, October 2; Odessa, Oc
tober 8; Lexington,October 9; Holden
October II; Knob Noster. October u
Hickman, October l6, aud Blue Springs
October %.
! Hon. Edward McCabe, of Palmyra
will address the people at lndepen
dence, October Is. Lexington, Octo
Der 10; Warrensburg October 20
Holden, October Il.
Among others who have receive
: appointments from the committee ar
N. Z. Benton, NJ. l.. Clardy, Jaspe
N. Burks, \. c. Claiborne, a. NJ
Dockery, j. j. Russell, d, II. McIn
: tyre, J. j. Smith, o Ii. Travers, j.
Walker and j. E. HAZEL.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02
THE ST. OUIs-KANSAs CITY SHORT
LINE PROJECT.

[From the St. Louis Republican, Sept. Isl
The St. Louis Kansas City Snort
Line project seems to have had ne"
life, vigor and energy impaired TO IL oy
the successful completion or substantial
announcement that has fallen 10 otner
new railway enterprises of late, and It's
MANAGING officials are once more en-
thusiastic. The project is not only
GOOD one on general principles because
OF the lack of railway faclllties III tne
region it proposes to tap, Out mas mefit
as financial proposition ana snonlo oe
pushed to completion, which II ooupt,
less will be unless its projectors shouio
be scared off by the threats OF power
full rivals. According to the prospectus
of the company, the line traVerses teii
of the largest, wealthiest and most
populous counties in Missouri, passing
across the state from east to west anu
over the line of the first railroad survey
ever made west of the Allegheny
mountains, and over which the I" Wa
bash and Pacific" would have been
built had it not been for "private spec
ulation" and the want of Information
among the people as to the value OF
railroads. The population OF the coun-
ties mentioned, including the cities OF
ST, Louis and Kansas City, comprise
more than one-third of the whole popul-
alton of the state, and the taxable
wealth of said counties and cities, more
than half that of the entire state, with
an actual wealth of more than S9oO,
900 900, and increasing in ratio un'
paralleled elsewhere. Still the resources
of this country are practically unde
velOped, owing, in a great measure, u
the want of railroad facilities, and dl-
rect communications with its natura
, markets.
. The productions of these soils are a
3 varied and phenomenal as the Dll
themselves, and nothing grows IN tina
latitude that cannot be produced Il
: perfection there. The average annua
, Weld of wheat for five years endin
with the crop of 1885 exceeds lO,ooO,
900 bushels; corn, 4O,OOO,OOO; oats
: 100000; rye and barley, 400, ,OOO; pc
e tatoes, 3,5O0,0O0 bushels; hay, 6O0,OO
q tons; tobacco, 5000, 900 pounds; WOO
2 100000 pounds. The number
horses, mules, cattle, sheep and hos
It grown and shipped annually from the'
= counties is 80 great as to make IL
Is computation incredible to those wi
>. are not familiar with the country. I'll
:. assessment for 1886, for state and cou
u ty purposes, shows in the counties me
o toned, lis, 900 horses and mulesi 1ot
l. 900 neat cattle: 1l5, 900 sheep, and 26s
II 900 hogs. If these figures were null
)" piled by three the actual numb
'e would come nearer being reached.
Is Ifthese estimates are not overdraw
j. and they probably are not, the loc
10 business awaiting the opening of Il
- - line together with new tariff th
ot would be created by building up ne
le towns should be sufficient to pay f,
10 Weld on the actual cost of construct
20 and equipping the road, and if the CO.
~ pany is capitalized on that basis the
" will be no question about the ventu
c. being a sound business proposition.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02
Cure for Piles.

Piles are frequently preceded by u sense of
weight in the back, loius and lower part of
the abdomen. causing the patient to
suppose he has some affection of the
kidneys or neighboring organs. At
times, symptoms of indigestion are present.
flatulency. uneaslness Of the stomach. etc. A
moisture, like perspiration, producing very
disagreeable itching, after getting warm, is q
common attendant. Blind, bleeding and
itching piles yield at once to the application
of DR.. BosankO's Pile Remedy. which acts
directly upon the parts affected. absorbing
the tumors. allaying the intense Itching, and
effecting a permanent cure. Price 80 cents
Address, The DIR. Rosanko Medicine Com.
panv, Piqua, Ohio. Sold by Charles w
LoOmis. uOvSvl
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02
RELIGIOUS.

Elder Terrell will preach at the Christian
church Tomorrow.
Elder Henry is conducting protracted
meeting at Greenton.
Rev. J. 8. Dulin will be ordained the third
Saturday 10 October, at the Baptist church at
Greenton.
Rev. J. G. Vogel will preach tomorrow
at the German NJ. E. Church, at 1890 d. m.
and 1880 p. m. Sunday school at a. IN.
Daily services at the Catholic church, 81
o'clock, a. M; Sunday services 81 and 1O4
o'clock, q. M, and q O'Clock, p. M, Rev. .
j. Lilly, officiating.
Rev. G. l.. Leyburn will preach at Maple
Glen tomorrow afternoon, at O'Clock.
Rev. A. Dobler VIII preach tomorrow II
the German Evangelical church OF this place
Morning service at 10:30; evening service al
1880, o. m. Sunday school at 8 a. m.
The Ladies Missionary Society OF the Bap
t,st church will meet this morning at tel
O'Clock, IN the audience room of the NJ. +
church. Ladies connected with the mission
ary work are cordially invited.
Christ church, 14th Sunday after Trinity
Morning PRAYER with sermon ut 1O:3O y. IL
Evening Prayer at O'Clock, p. IN. Sunda
school, 8, a. M. Wednesday evening ser
vice, Z 80 o'clock. Rev. John Davis, Rector
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02
THE JUDGE AND THE MAJOR.

From the Kansas City Times. Sept. "a
The republicans of the Fifth district
renominated Major Warner yesterday
with carefully arranged appearance
of harmony. Yet it is known that
there is by no means that brotherly
feeling everywhere i'll the party which
the proceedings indicate to the unsoph-
islicated. If there was reasonable
chance of election Major Warner would
have had trouble i'll securing the nomi-
nation. AS it was the opposition to
him had not thought to offer any avail
able man to bring about a contest.
The harmony was therefore produced
with comparative ease.
Major Warner i'll accepting the nOmi-
nation SAID that he had been elected to
the forty ninth congress by an unpre-
cedented majority liz Kansas City. He
did not say an unprecedented majority
in the district, being too cautious to
call up the figures He did not say
that he would have to overcome cleal
democratic majority of nearly 3,OUO
| Nor did he recite tile fact that he was s
| fusion rather than a republican candi
date in 1884; nor that he then confront
ed divided democracy instead OF the
united and victorious party of thi
year.
The major did not 60 into the labo
question. He did not explain that HI
totally disagreed with his party organ
and with most of his republican friend
about the rights of laboring men: Will
the major make his canvass by ignor
ing the subject? Will he fall into par
ty harness and abuse all labor organi
cations as revolutionary and destruc
tive of social law? Will he straddl
or will he coddle the Knights OF Labo
while the organ and the rest of the re
publicans continue to call the Knight
thieves and desperadoes? The dis
trict will be glad to hear from him an
to know how he and the organ wi
arrange a platform.
The major is not going to be electe
and the interest felt is purely that
e reasonable human curiosity. The cal
4 vass will be exciting only on accoul
:, of that interest in watching his dexter
tV.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02

Under democratic legislation and
under democratic county administra-
ton, the county and town ship debts,
mainly contracted when the mass of
heavy taxpayers were robbed of the
suffrage, have been cut down one
third, and the rate of interest reduced
from ten to six per cent. Every in
terest coupon, every county warrant
and school order, with the exception
of two or three districts, are promptly
paid on presentation and readily circu
late on par with gold and greenbacks.
Who wants to return to the extrava
gance of republican rule or misrule.
Vote for straight democrats. Vote to
continue healthful and economic ad.
ministration of county and state af'
fairs. Pay no attention to republican
agents or orators who smile in you
face and slap you in the back
Let no democrat falter nor forget th'
days of prescription. We want Ut
more of radical rule or ruin in thi
county.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02

ed our hands in virgin snow and won
dered how long since it fell where we
found it in June. Here, too, we found
the air strangely hard to breathe. We
could scarcely take in enough of it to
fill the lungs. Some of the passengers
expressed great difficulty i'll breathing
at all, but the writer did not feel this
until he had Cn the language OF his
young companiom in an undignitied
manner left the car and descended a
few feet to put his hands in the snow,
and had turned his steps up its hill
again, toward the train then he realiz-
ed the difficulty, and felt the rarity
and purity of the air, and to reach his
place in the car, he exclaimed to him
self, "hlc labor, hoe opus est" Here
on this high mountain, nearer the
heavens than he ever was before, lei
us pause tor another week.
Yours, r.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02

Since the presidents return he has
devoted considerable of his time to in
quiring about federal officeholders who
have violated his order directing them
not to engage in political conventions
He expressed himself very torcibly up
on the subject, and has ordered
an Investigation to be made OF each
officer charged with having taken
any part in recent conventions. He
said that he proposed to have the Or
der respected and when it was proven
conclusively to his mind that it hac
been violated, the guilty persons woulo
be Immediately dismissed from the
service.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02
TARIFF REFORM.

New York, Sept. 27:-A circular
has been issued to the merchants. bust
ness men and all engaged in trade and
manufactures in New York city and
vicinity to assemble in mass-meeting
October next to take steps to secure
the nomination and election OF repre-
sentatives in congress pledged to re-
wise the tariff and especially to repeal
the duties on raw materials.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02
B0LPlNG TIE STATE TICKET.
IFrom The EuItOn TeIaprauhl

The republicans of the counties of
Gasconade, Usage, Cole, Franklin, ST.
Charles and Warren are not likely to
print the republican state ticket at the
head of their county ticket because of
the prohibition plank in the republi-
can state platform. They say that put
ting the state ticket on with the cOup-
~ ticket would he an endorsement of
the Sedalia convention on the prohi-
/ binon question, and lose to the county
! ticket iarge number of votes which il
might otherwise receive. it such cases
the plan adopted is to leave each coun.
ty to do as they thought proper in the
matter,
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02
ONLY TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.

~ In order that all citizens o. eNe co""'
tn, especially democrats, may @no.o
sohot is going on in the ca"vass =" tN's
county, we offer the Intellsgencer from
no,u until November 15, at 70 GEMS
Subscribe aoiM our nearest agent. we
yaut you all to read it, friend ana toe'
90 take Advantage of this offer rfght
QaCQU.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02

Sedalia Democrat: The republican
editors who have been making the as
sertisn that Col. John F. Philips will
run behind his ticket in the Fifth con-
gressional district, because he is "com-
paratively unknown write themsei-
YES down asses of monumental propor-
tlons. For thirty years Col. Philips
has been in public life in Missouri, and
in no section of the state is his ability
unrecognized or his honesty question:
ed. If he does not lead the democra-
tic ticket, his central Missouri friends
will be greatly surprised, as they re-
cognize the fact that he is just the mar
to hang on the fence the hide of the
republican nominee, Col. VIM. Warner
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02

Palmer vs.. the Atlantic and racine
railroad company, held that 2'ooo'ooo
acres was restored to the public ah"
his ruling was sustained by Secretary
lamar. These lands were largely oc-
cupied by settlers whose claims werc
contested bv the railroad company.
The action OF Commissioner oparks'
sustained by Secretary Lamar, relieves
the settlers of the companys hostile
claim. and opens all the lands to entry
bv citizens under the homestead laws
Case of McRea VS.. Northern racine
railroad. Commissioner Sparks hoids
that the road has forfeited 2,oOo'ooo
acres. and if the commissioner s decls-
ion is approved this large amount OF
land will also be restored to the puDilc
domain. the commissioner recon-
meuds that suits be brought to set aside
the title to 10000 acres of land IN the
state of Missouri claimed by the Al
lan;ic& Pacific, ,and still larger amount
from the NJ. X. ST. railroad. So we have
in the present administration repre-
sentatives of the people instead OF co.,
porations, and they have in the two
years restored to the public domain oo'-
900 900 acres of land; and bills forfeit
1 ing SO, 900, 900 acres more have already
passed the house and are now in the
p senate, which. if passed by that body,
; will make the amount the enormous
: sum of SO 10000 acres, or more land
. than is contained in the states OF Mis-
s souri,, Kentucky, Virginia and Kansas
!, combined. Every citizen who loves
+. his country, and who wants to strike
= down the vast power and influence OF
q monopolies, should vote and act will
: the democratic party. 1T there ever
Il was a time we needed honest and ablt
e men to represent us in congress, 1t Il
now, when we are fighting corpora
d tions. Let us, therefore, send JudS
0. Philips into arena of battle where hi
T. voice can be heard in defense of tn
it rights and liberties Of the people agains
I SOA
st porations; we want the public land
e. for settlers, we want to repossess whs
IN is our own. There is now an army
ne men ready to move into Oklahoma, t
te secure cheap lands for homes for them
bt selves and their families. When, if a
t these public lands are restored thel
of will be bounteous domain and home
he tor all who desire them. The republ
ed can party is committed to corporation
he and railroad syndicates, land should NJ
3. be longer entrusted with power. tt
at Fifth congressional district should d
ICE her whole duty i'll matter OF so gray
at importance, and send man of abili
to congress who is thoroughly in a
mt cord with the people and the dem
I'D cratic party on the question of resto
H. ing to them their heritage-the pub
or domain-for actual settlement.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02

Hop. John Walker, auditor OF state
bss been in Lexington, this week, upon
business in the circuit court. Judge
Walker on being catechised as to his
reputed candidacy for governor says
that as a natter Of fact there Is nc
such candidacy. He gently but very
firmly denied the soft impeachment.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02
School Desks,

We wish to inform school boards in this
and adjoining counties that we have manu-
actured, and now ready on hand, good sup
ply of our we'll known School Desks, which
we offer at low prices.
Very respectfully,
aug2Stf III. L. +. WINKLER.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02
sSSJGNEE,S HNTICE

NO1lCE is hereby given to the creditors OF
N j. Lee Carter aud 10 all others Interested, I,
that at the December term. A. ID losG Of the
Lafayette coGnty circuit court. to be b' gun and
held in the city of Lexington. IN said county,
on the n day of r", e.uher. a. ID, lssG and
on the frs day al -aii term or IA soon there
after as counsel III be heard. shall apply to
said court far II discharge from my trust as
sign.e OF said J. L. Carter.
WILLIAM 4. REDD.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02

Another bond call of S15, 900. 900 was
issued on the 9th, payable November
1. This makes $4O,OO0.OO0 called in
within the last two months and is pay
ing off the debt pretty rapidly, but
why not call in the whole of the three
per cents at once and stop interest.
The surplus in the treasury is ampl!
sufficient and could not be put to better
use.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02

Hon. Edward McCabe Of Palmyra
Is announced to make a campaign
speech in Lexington on Tuesday, 18th
of October. Mr.. McCabe is one of the
most eloquent and accomplished ora
tors in the state and rare treat is Ill
store for the citizens OF Lafayette coun
". Let the democracy and the pub
lie remember the date.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02

Post Dispatch: -" 1t appears tha'
democratic congressman who become
wearv of the cares of state can lind
rest and seclusion at any time by op'
posing or obstructing an equitaoie It.
vision of the tariff"
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02

There is talk of an exhibition III
London, showing the whole process OF
evictions by models carried through Il
the streets, family of evicted peasants
being brought over for that purpose.
Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1886-10-02

Chairman Shields, of the Missouri
State Democratic Committee, says:
"We believe that Missouri will seno
to the next congress a solid democratic
delegation of fourteen congressman
and we are convinced that we will
elect the state ticket by larger major
ity than it has ever received before.