Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-12-16

The cold wave signal was out yesterday morn
ing, and the cold wave came along also
Neutral Strip expeditions and town site schemes
will become numerous since the passage Of the bill
attaching the Strip to Kaneas.
CD. Gavin, of Garden City, was in the city
Monday. Mr.. Gavin belongs to the temperance
society lately organized in Garden City.
The Bank Of Dodge City lie to be organized into
the First National Bank Of Dodge City. The bank
will open as q national bank on the first Of JAN
| uary.
A rainbow appeared in the north Tuesday after
noon at $50 o'clock hard wind prevailed all
day on Tuesday. At half past four a light rain
and snow fell.
Dan Snyder, a brakeman on Conductor Haun's
train, had two fingers of his left hand cut OF be-
| tween the bumpers Of two cars on Tuesday. The
little finger severely mashed.
There will be Masque Skating Carnival Christ
mas night, and a masquerade ball on New Years
Eve, at the Opera House Rink Come and bring all
your friends. A costumer from Kansas City will
be present.
Andrew Falkner and Al Triton have purchased
the -four and feed store of II. Heusts, east Of the
Dodge House, and will continue business at that
stand. These gentlemen are well-known Santa
Fe railroad men, and we have no doubt will do a
good business. The TIMES wishes them success.
II is reported that the Santa Fe railroad will con-
struct shops and a round house with twenty-one
stalls, at Dodge City. The company have the deed
to the land on which the shops and round house
are to be located. These shops and round house
have been long time coming, but we are just as
glad all the same.
An excursion train in two sections passed here
Saturday, for California. There were eleven sleep
ers in the second section. The passengers were
mostly frem the Eastern states, from highly cul-
tured Boston, staid Philadelphia and proud Indi.
ana. They passed through Kansas with delight
ful weather, and no doubt enjoyed our scenery.
Quite disastrous fire occurred on the r. I.
Holmes ranch, near Deerfeld on Sunday He
had 1,lOO acres in grass this year, which was cut
and put in fty-seven stacks close to the railroad
The locomotive spark again got in its work to ad-
vantage, destroying % stacks containing $50 TONS
In such cases the railroad company is responsible,
and will have to meet the bill.-Garden City Sem
tinel, 14th.
Reliable information comes from Dodge City to
the effect that the Hon. C. j. Jones is negotiating
for the Dodge House This will be a surprise to
many persons in Garden city who will wonder
what 1t means.-Garden City Sentinel.
1t means that C. j. knows good thing when he
sees it. Charley knows that it is Dodge City that
will be the big city of the west
Garden City is big enough to sport more airs
than she does. Would it not be good idea to
number the houses! Under the present arrange
ment 1t is impossible almost for a person to fine a
residence unless it is pointed out to him.-Senti-
mel.
The houses in Garden City are go few and far be-
tween that there is no trouble in pointing them
out to strangers, why number houses that stand SO
far apart? But Garden City is very airy. 1t has a
street car and thinks it owns the earth.
Bro. George says there are twenty preachers in
his district, and that nineteen of them have claims
and one religion. Garden City Herald.
We suppose the preachers are governed by
surroundings and circumstances. Nineteen out
of twenty preachers in western Kansas will find it
necessary to take claims--that is about the most
of anything they will get But perhaps, some Of
them will be poorer off with claims than without
claims. They will be poorly paid any way you fix
it.
The Youths Christian Association met at the
residence Of L. X. Mcintyre, on Monday evening.
There was attendance of about 40 persons. The
meeting a very interesting one. No one is en-
titled to membership unless belonging to one of
the evangelical churches. The objects Of the as
sociation are worthy ones, and the promotion of
good society and christian purposes will certainly
be attained. The next meeting Of the association
will be held Monday evening, at the residence of
N. b. klaine.
This is the time of year to renew subscriptions
and arrange for reading matter for the new year.
Will not the readers of this paper do little mis-
sionary work by speaking to their neighbors about
its merits and inducing them to subscribe. To
every person already subscriber, who will send
one new subscriber with the cash for one year, We
will give as premium the entire list of books |
given nnder the head Marvellous Prices" All
subscribers paying up their subscriptions and one
year in advance will be entitled to the list of books
under the head Marvellous Prices.'
Rev. A. P George, presiding elder Of this dis |
trict called at the Herald Office last evening and
made pleasant VISIT and when he got ready to |
leave discovered that he had traded hats with |
some He admitted that the hat he now has is |
better than its predecessor, which would be sus-
pcious circumstance if the possessor was other /
than preacher, but We presume it was mistake. |
We shall hang our hats out Of his reach all the |
same, for he might make another mistake.-Gar- |
den City Herald.
Bro. George never "traded" hats with Garden
City editor. He must have traded with an editor
of neighboring town.
At special meeting of the board Of commits
sioncrs last Tuesdays, an election was called for
tie northern tier of townships of Meade county,
consisting of Fowler, Crooked Creek and Mertilla,
for the purpose of voting on proposition made
said township, by the Denver, Memphis & At
lantic r. r. company, through B. E. johnson,
attorney and authorized agent, to build and equip
a line of road through said townships. Twenty
ship through which the road proposes to pass,
which if given, the road will be built, with sta
tons at Fowler City, point in Crooked Creek
and ut Mertilla. The road will tap
the finest portion Of the country, and will prob
ably be the first to enter it's bOrders.-FOwler
Graphic, 9th.
Pension Agent Click stated yesterday that
Spencer, the man at Dodge City who raised his
pension check from So to 600, had been arrested
by the government officers, and has been bound
1t is now learned that he held his check some five
weeks after receiving it. before he presented it at
the bank, and that he was advised by several men
OF Dodge City, one OF them connected with the
bank which paid the check, to raise it in the man.
ner he did. These men are parties to the crime