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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01
Railroad superintcndcnts.

CHICAGO, June 25.-The general superin.
tendents of the railroads centering in this
city have finally decided to form an associa-
ton for the protection of their mutual in
terests. A preliminary meeting looking to
this object was held several days ago. and
a canvass of the non-attendants, which was
completed this morning, shows that there is
unanimity of opinion concerning the ne
cessity for the formation OF an organiza-
ton. Fears are still entertained of further
railroad labor troubles before fall. and in
such an event The roads, it is understood,
will be prepared to act jointly for each
others interests.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01
Bishop futile.

ST. LOUIS, June 26.-The following Is
the official notification of the acceptance of
Bishop futile Of the call to the Bish0pric
of Missouri:
The clergy and laity of the diocese
will be grati6ed to learn officially
that the RI Rev. Daniel S. futile,
S. !. d., ,has consented to accept
the Episcopate of Missouri. The standing
committee have thought proper to pub
lish in this connection an extract from re-
cent letter written by the bishop: THAT
my heart is lovingly grateful for the
marked honor they have done me, and to
beg their prayers that IL Gods providence
send me to them, under His guidance and
by their help 1t may never BIZ forfeited"
CHARLES HOFFMAN,
Secretary of the Standing Committee,
Diocese of Missouri.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01
SURVIVED THE SHOCK,
How . Rich Lover Won tho Girl Who Mad
Tilted Him.

How . Rich Lover Won tho Girl Who Had
Tilted Him.
A tall man with a somber look on hi,
face entered Major Mackelvane's private
Office, and stammered:
Major, have most unpleasant tidings
to communicates; try and nerve YOURSELF
What is it? My house on fire."
mo, Major, worse; far worse. Your
daughter-my dear sir, prepare yourself
your daughter has brought disgrace or
your proud house by eloping with the
gardener"
"She has, eh? Take cigar with me
I'm going to have holiday. That
gardener she refused three weeks age
when he was an honored guest, worth
eight hundred thousand dollars, SO he dis
guised himself with hoe and a straw hat
and inside of two hours she asked him to
elope with her. desire to say hurrah. -
St. Louis Whip.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

to the boss. There is no doubt that id
the Fourth OF July young America -
flnds fullness OF joy-lr i!limitable, al
sorbing, satisfying pleasure-tAat knows
no counterpart. That this Joy j. ;,ceuliss
to and inseparable from the day itself is
manifest from the fact that there is not d
cents worth of fun in Hiring fire-cracEers
the day after the Fourth, and the only
enjoymeaSthat attaches to it week or
SO before Is in anticipation of the surpass-
ing Joy to como. This anticipation is like
that which precedes picnic or school
vacation, ouly magnified to about the
four-hundredth power.
There never was a boy vet in the full
vigor OF a boys tireless physical possibili-
ties who did not wish by gol," that to-
morrow was going to be the Fourth, and
who did not wish further that every dav
for week VAS going to be Fourth"
making sort OF series ofparental "terriG-
cations and juvenile hilarities. Ut is
scarcely necessary to remark that there
never was parent who did not heave q
sigh and thank his or her stars that the
Fourth was safely over.) If some boy
could have been boy from the first
Fourth OF July celebration up to this one
hundred and tenth recurrence of the ma
tional patriotic CONFUSION, it is perfectly
safe to assert that that boy would have
lost not single iota OF his JOY in the cele-
braton, and would come up fresh and
smiling (if he hadn't got killed Off to this
as ready and eager to ram
down" touch off" etc, as he was the
first day he ever 'let one go off in his
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01
FIOgged by His Flock.

HELENA, Ark, June o6.-Last Saturday
while Henry Jones, an Industrious honest
cOlOred man, was at work in his field a
negro preacher named William Lyle went
to his house and carried away all the nova
bic property that was in the house and con.
cealed the same in an abandoned house
near by. The theft aroused a good deal of
interest and posse of negro men set out to
find the culpfir. Circumstances pointed to
the preacher, but it was not proven on him
until some of the posse traced him to the
spot where the goods had been concealed.
The discOverer Immediately notified his COM
panions, and that night body of them,
masked, went to the preachers house, took
him out and came very near beating him to
death and gave him twenty-four hours in
which to leave the neighbOrho0d. The
above facts are significant from the fact that
it is the first instance upon record in this
section, wherein the colored people have
taken upon themselves the administration
justice to one of their own race.
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Thoughts, Serious and Facetious
Incident Thereto.
The Day as Viewed from Many Stand
Poants-The spaZtan Mother" Young
America" Let Loose The Con-
ventlonal Picnic.
A lOriginal.l

gle, there is no day in tho calendar fraught
with SO much and so diverse interest
There is no use talking, the Fourth oil
July double discounts any thing in the
line OF holiday yet familiar to the
American mind. 1t is on the Fourth oi
July only that the American heart makes
its most formidable demonstrations OF
patriotism and shows up what it can do. ~
And the American heart, by the way-not
TO speak boastfIllr-is capable of consid-
erapie. All It 'Sants is chance; and that
Chance the Fourth affords.
The Four On presents as many different
pulses as. the moon, according to preu-
oices' favorable or otherwise, through
VINO lit is observed, and these depend large
~ upon the age nerves and property in
ysoived OF the person conducting the OBJ
servation. Some, it m.ist be confessed, do
not possess that patriotic spirit which
should temper their Judgment. Many, it
possible, look upon the national day rs
necessary evil-as grievous as the re-
turn of a lady's birthday after forty: some
hail it's approach as the harDinger of ex-
Gulsite delight-the glad tidings of great
JOY; while many, it is probable diligently
strive to persuade themselves that it is a
blessing in disguise, deiuding themselves
with the iancitnl idea that somewhere in
this holiday there turks an indescribable
pleasure which only the continuous 'fizz"
OIL 'squlbs' and other distracting agents
prevent t'hm from discovering. To such
us thus make n chimera of Fourth OF July
Joys it is scarcely necessary to remark
IN At their expectations are never realized;
che deusive vail of powder smoke and sui
phurous odors scarce ever rises sufficiently
TO reveal the hidden joys or dispel the
a!lusion
To those who look upon this glorious
anniversary merely as an aggravated
outbreak OF feeling snd firc-crackcrs, it is
probable that no class is more conspicu-
Gus than mothers. The regulation Amcri.
can mother it may be said without ex-
aggeration, looks upon the Fourth as
terror, sort of epidemic of punk, pow
der and dsfgured small-boys; or an i'm
personatcd DESTROYER of youth, sizzling
with hot breath and rcd rockets, going
about with "nigger chasers," and hor-
tible gun wads, seeking smal-boys to de-
YOUR. The average females conception OF
the instruments of destruction used by
this y-exterminator it can not be de-
MED, are somewhat vague; she does not
know whether it be punk or gun-wads
that constitute the most formidable
demolishers OF boyish thumbs and ears
or whether 1T he "squibs' or torpe
does that most insidiousy puncture
the youthful flesh and despoil the
comeliness of the childish coun-
tenancc, but she has an idea that
any OF the fiery mediums through
which the eNubcrance OF the Young Ameri-
can finds vent are wretched denominations,
likely to Ego OFF, at any moment and she
abhors them accordingly. In this, it must
he admitted with chagrin, the American
mother does not entertain that noble and
unselfsh devotion TO country that actuatcd
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

"knew they would be late" and they all
ran for it.
Arrived at the depot, Jones was hot, the
starch was fading from his collar, and
they found that the train didn't leave for fit-
teen minutes. They got seated, the chill
car. just as Jones had got settled down
to cool and wipe the perspiration from his
brow, and the bell was ringing for the
train to start. Mrs. Jones discovered
that she had forgotten the tickets, Zach
Gus was out on the platform, and Maria
had her finger squeezed in the window.
Jones made dive for Zacheus and dis
concerted the provender basket; Mrs.
Jones shit for" Maria and knocked her
hat out of the window, while Nebuchad-
nezzar cried and jumped up and down on
fat lady's toes. But at last they got ad-
justcd; Jones snatched Zacheus into the
train, Mrs. Jones found the tickets in her
hand and Nebuchadnezzar sat down in an
old lady's lap.
When they arrived at the park Jones
got together the basket, TIE shawls and
parasols. with the exception OF some they
afterward found at the railroad Office in
the city. Mrs. J. took the children in tow,
except three that fed out OF the other end
OF the car and got lost in the crowd. As
Jones got on the platform he discovered
Zachariah balancing on a plank that
crossed the ditch and heard Mrs. Jones
shrek
"For Heavens sake Zacheus, come out
from under that carl"
Jones was never SD put out in his life
and yelled, with his hair standing on end
and blood in his eye:
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

who held it to be grand for their offspring
to lose their ears, fracture their limbs,
spill their blood, and in extreme cases.
even get killed, and be brought home on
shields (for they didn't use shutters in
those days. dead-dead for their country.
Mothers at the present day have entirely
eschewed the fascinating pleasure OF glad
~ letting their sons die-cven on the
Fourth. What is true of American moth
ers is largely true of American fathers.
The primitive love OF country seems to
have waned in the human heart. That
grand and heroic devotion to ones native
land. which, in the days OF traditional
poetry and song, prompted men to yield
their lives on the altar of their country,
to hew their ways into the thickest of the
fight, and there. sinking exhausted inpools
OF blood, give up the ghost at the shrine of
battling columns and die protecting the
body of a fallen chief or kings no longer
emulated by fathers in real life, in their
own persons, nor is it looked upon with
especial favor by them when exhibited by
sons; indee,i, in most cases, it appears to
have become distasteful to fathers to see
their sons shoot off their ears and MAIN
themselves in working off, with cannon and
crackers, the wild frenzy of their patriotic
devotion.
Old maids and old bacheiors-two classes
OF people totally unlike and yet in whom
there appears a strange analogy-are,
equally, with fathers and mothers, averse
to Fourth of-Julys. The explanation of
their disaffection probably lies in the
TACT that their temperaments won't stand
the racket.
To tell the truth, the pleasures of Fourth
of July seem, to the greater part OF the
race, idealistic and illusory; there is a sort
OF effort to get some fun out of what isn't
bit funny. 1t is like fooling with an
electrical machine. So that the only por-
tion OF the population to whom the
Fourth Of July comes with real unadulter-
ated delight is the younG-and this means
especially
Christmas is more properly the girls
holiday, but the Fourth eminently belongs
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01
Suicidal.

LAREDO, Tex, juno 26.-About nine
o'clock last night G. Spence, boot and
shoe merchant applied to D. Randolph, Z
druggist in the same block with him, TO-
some strychnine, and stste1 that tho poi
son was to kill cat Being responsible
man the poison was given to him and liz
few minutes his stepdaughter ran in t.
the drug store and summoned the druggist
to come and see her father g he was very
sick. The druggist repaired 10 Spence'a
house and found him on the floor in par.
nxysms. A physician was summoned and
proper antidotes administered. This morn
ing tho would-be suicide b out Of danger
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01
Tho Founder of milwaukee,

MILWAUKEE, June pa private dinner
party of old settlers will take place here
this afternoon in honor of the semi-centen.
NAL anniversary of the arrival in the city of
one of their number. 1t Is precisely fifty
years since William A. Prentiss, Milwau.
KEGS well known citizen, arrived here from
Vermont, having covered the distance by
team. The population at that time con-
sisted Of plenty of Indians and very few
white men. He leased twenty-foOt dock
on the river front for 500 year and
opened the first store. Later he became q
lawyer. He is now 81 years Of age and en-
joys perfect health. He has been a mem.
Der OF several Legislatures and also served
in other public capacitiea
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Convicted.

DENVER Col, June 26.-Yesterday
evening in the district court a verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree was
found against Andrew Green, colored. On
the 18th Of last month he shot and killed
John c. Whitney, street car driver. his
object being robbery of the money box.
He was accompanied by Kansas Withers,
another negro, at the time. For nearly q
week the murder remained q mystery.
Then Green gave the matter away while
drunk. Subsequently he made = comics.
sion, duplicating Withers. An attempt was
made to lynch them at the time but it was
thwarted. Green obtained separate trial
and the jury was out only long enough to
write out the verdict.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

SESALIA. Mo-, June 26.-Wm. Brown, .
young man residing in East Sedalia, was
gored By bull yesterday afternoon and
received injuries which it is thought will
prove fatal. He was crossing pasture
when he was attacked by the Infatuated an
imaI ana feiied to the ground. He arose
and ran as far as the fence when the bull
again overlook him. The animals horns
entered his abdomen, inflictine . wound
four inches in length, from which the en-
trails prOtruded ard fell upon the ground
Assistance finally arrived and Brown was
rescued, but it is feared too late TO save hIs
Ifa
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Peoria, H., Has u Serious COnflagration-
Damage, 100000.

PEORIA, LII. June 26.-The warehouse
Of The Consolidated Tank Line in this city,
containing 10000 gallons of oil, burned
yesterday afternoon. The burning oil COM
municated with the freight house of the
Peoria Il Pekin Union railway near
by, and that. was also burned to-
gether with thirty cars and large
quantity Of freight The total loss
will approximate 100000. The Peoria
& Pekin Union railway carries a total of
insurance of $500 and the loss will be
adjusted in the proportion that the property
destroyed bears to the whole. The loss OF
the tank line is estimated at $4,000. The
burning oil spread in all directions and it
was with great difficulty that other valuable
property in the vicinity was saved. The
fire was one of the most destructive that
has visited this city for years.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01
WOman's Face.

"What furniture can give such finish to
q room, as q tender woman's face" asks
George Elliott Not any, we are happy to
tempers the tender expression. The pale,
anxious, bloodless face of the consumptive,
or the evident sufferings of the dyspeptic,
induce feelings Of sorrow and grief on our
part and compel US to tell them of DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery" the
sovereign remedy for consumption and
other diseases of the respiratory system as
we'll as dyspepsia and other digestive
troubles. Sold everywhere.
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"Zachariah, climb ont OF that ditch, or
I'll tan yuut Internal little skin," and then
he stood zacheus on his head for about a
minute.
But when they reached the grove and
Jones had got 4 halter on Zacheus, and
they found 81 nice shady place where the
sun would strike surer than guns in about
fifteen minutes. Jones began to feel easier
in his mind and sat down to view the stu
alton, just where somebody had spilled
some lemonade; but it did not matter-he
got right up, and only swore. Mrs. Jones
took a napkin and made the grass stain
on his aft quarter about n foot square.
Then he stood up in the sun to let his
pants dry and said:
by George. Mrs. Jones, Fourth-o
Julys amt what they're cracked upto-
Great Scott! there's Nebuchadnez- and
he hauled him, heels first, out of the lem
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

"And how's your father nowadays"
asked an Eastern woman of her friend
whose pater lived in Kansas. Il trust the
old gentleman and the rest of the family
do not sui5er a. much from rheumatism as
formerly"
no. they don'k Father writes that
since the last tornado out Tiers. there
hn'ta- T. the houes."-z7kBifs
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

For restoring faded and gray hair to its
original color, use Halls Hair Remover.
Sufferers from malarial disorders will find
a specific in Ayers Ague Cure. Try it.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

back against the door to keep Zacheua
from riding on the platform. while that
hopeful was riding on the other one.
The baby cried all night with the ice
cream collie, and Jones swore he'd nevcrgo
to another Fourth of July picnic, 80 help
him.
But, nevertheless he pro badly will.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

DELICATE diseases Of either sex, however
induced, radically cured. Address, with IL
cents in stamps for book, Worlds Dispen.
sary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

climbs the staircase to tho village church
bclfry and, with half dozen companion MS,
startles the slumbering town with the dis
cordant pcals of the cracked bell, and
then fees with precipitatc haste and
boisterous laughter, to hide away, ard by
and by venture back again to wake the
echoes, growing bolder and holder when
no one comes, until at last, with perfect
unrestraint, lie shivers the air until the
sun comes up. and by rousing to life OF
day the village people, dispels the fun that
consisted solely in the mischief. Our an
cestors enjoyed this sport; SO did we; SO
do our boys now, though in the city they
are mostly deprived OF it.
In another respect the Fourth is or eat
1t is the
DAY OF PICNICS.
The writer remembers sucl. a day. The
Sunday-school-the one that Jones be-
longed to-was going to have one. Mrs.
Jones said:
'Now, Jonesie, dear. we'll go and take
the children-it'll bS such a nice change for
the little loves.
Jones agreed, and said ''pienics were his
strong hold"
So they got up at five o'clock in the
morning, got the children out on their pins
there were seven. all under twelve years
and fixed them all up nice.
Jones combed their hair, tied the baby's
sash, put on his white pants and vest,
took the youngest of the family incum-
brances on his arm and basket in his
hand with Zachariah hanging onto the
handle; Mrs. j. followed in his wake with
a young Jones under each wing and a
sweet smile on her face. and they started
ior the train, the rest of the young J oneses
skirmishing along the TANKS. Mrs. Jones
saw man running, so she got nervous,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

PLEASE n. mber that GLENN's SULPHUR
Soar pres all the advantages of Sui
phur Bath = cheap rate. HILLS HAIR
AND WHisl DYE, Black or Brown, Soc.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

TALK Is cheap-except through the tele-
phone.-Nec BrunsricE Fredonia.
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No More Swearing for Him.

"You cay the trout weighed ten
pounds?"
Eyes sir; it was the biggest trout ever
saw
"And it got away from you?"
Yes"
"Wili you take an oath to that"
"I'l take no more oaths; Iswore enough
about it when it got away."-Yonkers
Statesman.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

BACK PAY-Kicking book agent out of
your off1ce.-XerchdMt Trdpeler.
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hand
Notwithstanding
our ancestors are
wont to tell lis
that they knew
nothing OF fire
crackers and torpe-
does, but used to
amuse and MAIN
thcms elves with
anvils and blunder-
busses, or flint
locks. while the
smaller children
amused themselves
with slices OF gin
ger bread and
Jumps OF brown
sugar; we are prone
to believe that they
must nave known
something of the
JOYS that lie coiled
up in a pin-wheel,
or, atlcast, if these
were foreign to
tn cir acquaint-
ance that they
must have found Il
Joy somewhat like
that of the modern
boy, who, at two
a. IN. of the morn
ing of "the glori-
GUS, stealthily
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

THE Texas Siftings suggests that this is
the season of the maiden all for lawn
tennis
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

"SrIcK to It," as the fly-papsr observed
- the fy.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

II afflicted with Sore Eyes use DIR. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water Druggists sell it. 25c.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

THERE ar 30 things a woman likes to
get into rs-her front hair and her
name.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01
ElY'S
CREAM BALM

I haze used taco
bottles Of Hy's
Cream Balm and
consider myself cur
ed. I Suffered 20
years from catarrh
and catarrhal head
ache and this is the
first remedy that at-
torded lasting relief.
ID. r. Hgyi,sson,
f45 Lake Street, Chi
cdgO, I'LL.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

TIE best thing yes discovered for sea-
sickness Is port.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

Best Goods sre Put In Smallest Parcels
The old proverb is certainly true in the
case of Dr. Pierce's PLEASANT Purgative
Pellets,' which are little, sugar-wrapped
parcels. scarcely larger than mustard seeds,
containing as much cathartic power as is
done up in The biggest, most repulsive-look-
ing pill. Unlike the big pills, however,
they are mild and pleasant in their opera
tion-do not produce gripping palms. nor
render the bowels costive after using.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

PIso's Remedy for Catarrh is agreeable
10 use. 1t is not liquid OF q snuff. SOC.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-01

A NEW York paper says the milk sold I'm
that city is q white ie."
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STOCK CUTS

We will furnish duplicates Of LIVE STOCK
CUTS, or any other Cut shown in any Specimen
Book, at or below quoted prices for same.
A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO.,
Electrotypers and StereOtypers
gu West Sixth ST.. Kansas Ctr.
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GOING A.FISHlNG.

t, nevertheless. he robably will.