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Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

The TINES will issue t~O o. three Illus
trated editions between now and the first
of April These viii not BE boom edit
ions, but will show up the advantages Of
Dodge City and Ford countya they are.
If our real advantages were generally
known, farmers by the hundred would
be anxious to locate in Ford county.
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

j. McCurdy has been appointed deputy
sheriff. This is good appointment, and
will meet with general approval. We
trust that Dodge City will not be burd-
ened with whole raft of deputy sheriffs
carrying guns as heretofore. 1t would
be an outrage upon law and decency
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

Insure with Wenie & Boyer. 3
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

TIME CARD NO l.
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

The Bee Hive barber shop is now the
best equipped shop in the city; three first
class men
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

In letter to Mr. r. NJ Wright, dated
December 18th, 1887, Mr. w. l. Way, of
the A. T. g. S. F. r. r., says: ''As to
the round house of which you spoke, l
believe it is the intention of the company
to take action in the early part of the
the year. AS you understand great
deal of the material is on the grounds,
and we are in readiness to begin as soon
as we can afford the expense
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

You can't afford to do something be-
cause some one else does 1t M ght lead
to future embarassments. We have seen
people purchase a new riding plow or a
new buggy. not because they could afford
it, or needed it, but because their neigh
Dor bought one, and they didn't want to
be seen behind.
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

ED. TIMEs.-In the contest case at
Cimarron yesterday to decide whether the
temporary commissioners had the right
to cut the county into commissioners
districts, and to determine who were
elected commissioners at the last general
election. The right prevailed. The
Judges decided the present incumbents
had no jurisdiction whatever.
I A NJ
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12
THURSDAY, JANUARY, 12, 1888.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.

A'L.ssa', Ea'sas \ Ealzais 4. 4.
TROCK ISLAND ROUTE
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

For first-class BATH hot or cold, 20 to
the Bee Hive barber shop bath rooms.
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

All things work together for the good
Of our beautiful city.
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

We have two passenger trains each
day from Dodge City to Bucklin.
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

LIE. McGarry & Co. are expecting
from 90 to 80 land buyers from Ohio
about the first of FEBRUARY. Nothwith-
standing the dull times, this firm is doing
an extensive business. They are now
buying up bargains in real estate, and
arranging with eastern capitalists, and
making every preparation to meet the
immense boom, we are sure to have in
the early spring
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

l.. E. McGarry & Co. are making a
large number of loans at reasonable rates.
This enterprising firm is always in the
front, with easy money, and bargains in
real estate. They have lately secured a
large sum of money to be invested in
western securities. If you want money,
YOU will do well to see them
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

Rev. Z. Z. Sheldon, wife, and son E.
r. are up from Spearville on short visit
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

BORN to Mr.. and Mrs. Barley Jan.
4th, girl
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

PREsBYTERIAN CHURCH.-Rev. T. N. Boyd pas
tor. Services at usual hours every Sunday. Sab
bath School at 10 A. ".
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

Miss Bessie Cline of MinneOla, is visit
ing friends in Dodge City.
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

Little Bessie Jones, who has been ser
iously Ill, is convalising.
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

The Mugwumps got the county print


The Mugwumps got the county print
ing.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Barley Jan.
4th, girl
Miss Bessie Cline of Minneola, is visit
ing friends in Dodge City.
B0RN.-to Mr.. and Mrs. Farnk Singer
Jan, 10th, nine pound boy.
Little Bessie Jones, who has been ser
iously i'll, is convalising
All things work together for the good
Of our beautiful city.
We have two passenger trains each
day from Dodge City to Bucklin.
Rev. Z. Z. Sheldon, wife, and son E.
r. are up from Spearville on short visit
For a first-class bath, hot or cold, 90 to
the Bee Hive barber shop bath rooms.
The Bee Hive barber shop is now the
best equipped shop in the city; three first
class men
We are glad to see Frank Pope up, and
around again after his severe spell of
g H., e. H.
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

BoRN.-to Mr. and Mrs. Farnk Singer
Jan, 10th, a nine pound boy.
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

We are sure that times are getting bet
ter. Money is easier, and business is
looking up Last Friday we collected for
the months of November and December.
We did not present bill during the
whole day, but what was paid promptly.
The business men were in good spirits,
and universally reported trade brisk.
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

THE YoUTH's CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION meets
every Sabbath afternoon at o'clock, atPresbyte-s
rian church.
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

They have struck natural gas at Lyons,
Arkansas City, Hutchinson, and Wichita,
but not in sufficient quantities to be of
and value. There has gas been found
all alOrg the Arkansas valley. They
will all find abundance of gas if they
would bore to the fourth strata of sand.
But it remains for Dodge City to develope
the strongest natural gas wells in the
state. We have 1t, and we are going to
bring It to the surface
Dodge City times., 1888-01-12

The following charter for the Dodge
City school of Theology was filed with
the secretary of state last week for this
city with the following named incorpora-
tors A. p. George. J. W. Wright, Her
man H. INLAND, OF Cimarron NJ. Bam-
ford, w. S. Smith, of Garden City 6.
Lowther, j. G. Wilkinson. B. F. Young
er. D. F. Owens, J. II. Crawford. Dodge
City w. w. Burns, j. D. Shaffer, of
Speareville; T. D. Tull, of Meade Center;
]. H. Smith, of Fowler City c. R. Rob-
insOn, of Ashland
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
THE EXPRESS BUSINESS
How it Stands If Relation to the Commerce
Law.

How it Stands ir Relation to the Commerce
Law.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The formal de-
cision of the interstate commerce COM
mission upon the question whether ex-
press companies are subject to the pro-
visions of the act to regulate commerce,
was announced to-day. The names and
organization of the various express COM
panies doing business in the United
States are given. There is nothing in
the nature of the express BUSINESS which
prevents its being carried on by an or
diuary partnership, or even an individual,
provided the necessary contracts can be
obtained with the transportation lines.
The most usual contract is the ore which
pays to the railroad company forty per
cent. of the gross receipts of the express
company. but various other methods
of settlement are also employed.
The arguments urged by the express
companies against their being treated as
subject to the act are considered in de-
TAIL The fact that they perform many
other services besides the transportation
OF property is not regarded as a reas-
on why the act should not be treated as
applying to their business as common
act are considered with relation to the
express business, and are found to be in
theory as applicable thereto as to the
business of the railroad companies. The
requiring of annual reports from the
express companies is said to be mat
ter concerning which the public have a
right to be informed, and congress may
particularly desire the knowledge.
amount of their capital stock, their
funded debt or the money invested in
their plant or business; the volume of
their business with the expense thereof,
rates charged and the methods upon
which the rates are constructed. The
capitalization of some of the companies
is known to be quite large, amounting to
many millions of dollars in each case.
The difficulty of framing schedules for
the information of the public is not
found to be greater than in the case of
railroad companies which have complied
with the act. The bringing of the ex-
press companies within the provisions
of the act is found to be practic-
able and on some accounts desirable.
The express companies, which are
simply branches of the railroad
Jig c1nlAOo duo OpO1dGSo
its ordinary ataff by an independent
bureau or by the combination with other
railroad Companies are found to be cover
ed by the provisions of the act, In the
case of the Independently organized ex-
press companies, however. operating
under contracts for transportation, the
language of the act as it now stands is
found to be so framed as not to bring
them distinctly within its provisions. The
preliminary investigation by the interstate
commerce committee of the senate did
not include the business of the express
companies and was confined almost
wholly to that of the railroad companies.
Upon all these considerations the com
mission has thought best to refer the
subject to congress-, as in any one case
of doubtful jurisdiction, it is far better
that the legislative body should remove
the doubt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
THE READING STRIKE.

One Thousand Men Employed in the City of
BrOtherlY Love go Out. Officials Reticent.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. BIN early
1000 men, employed in and around the
extensive freight depot of the Reading
railroad company at Willow street wharf,
went out ON strike this morning and
the work of handling freight there is con-
sequently badly crippled. This action of
the men was in pursuance of the decis-
ions of various local assemblies OF the
Knights of Labor last evening to support
the order of the Reading convention.
The men who went out were employed as
conductors and brakemen on the Willow
street shifting crews, and in handling
freight and in other capacities at the
depot.
At the general offices of the company
on Fourth street no information regard
ing the situation could be obtained this
morning, the officials stating that they
had nothing for publication. Everything
was reported working smoothly at the
depots at Ninth and Green streets and
at Sixteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
1t Port Richmond the non-union men
who took the places of the strikers
several days ago we're at work but the
force is a comparatively small one and
nothing like the usual amount of coal is
being handled there by the compar y.
About 900 coai-handlers were formerly
employed as Port Richmond wharves,
while it is estimated that not over $50
are so employed at present.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.

A Registry Law Cannot Stand Between Man
and His Constitutional Right.
CRDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Dec. 31.-Jndge
Stoneman, of the supreme court. to-day
declared the registry Law unconstitution-
al. The case was the one brought by Col.
Clark VS.. the election judges of the Fifth
ward of this city, who was refused the
privilege of voting on election day, not
having registered. The complainant
averred that during the time when under
the law he might otherwise have become
registered, he was necessarily absent at
Des Moines in attendance upon the
United States circuit court, in which he
was a practiciDg attorney. The defend
ant demurred 20 the plaintiffs petition.
The demurrer raised a question on the
constitutiOnality of the registry act. The
decision of unconstitutionalityw was based
upon the Massachusetts case, Copen VS..
Foster and similar cases in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska,
and Oregon, the court holding that with
these decisions the Legislature could en-
act no law which would deprive voter of
his constitutional RIGHT.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.
Some $4,000 Miles Built in the United States
the Past Year

Some $4,000 Miles Built in the United States
the Past Year.
CHICAGO, Dec. 31.-The Railway Age in
review of the railway construction for
the year 1887, will say tomorrow that
1887 has surpassed all other years in the
extent of railway mileage constructed in
the United States, the total SO far re-
ported reaching 1874 miles. Reports
yet to come will probably swell it
to not less than 1900 miles.
This is all new main line
track, side tracks or relaid track not be-
ing counted. The greater part of this
predictions sncrease of the railways has
4aken place IN few western states.
Kansas leads with a total of 2O7O
miles; Nebraska comes next with J,1O1;
Texas, 1:055; then the following: Colc,ra-
do, 418; Oak, 760; Mich, 700; Mont, GIG;
Missouri, 554; IndiaN Territory, 499, and
so on. Many of these lines have been very
costly, as for instance those over the
Rocky mountains in Colorado, the south
ern Pacific extensions in northern Cali
fOrnia, the Atchison, Kansas CITY and
Chicago extension, the Northern Pacific's
work ID the Cascade mountains etc. Care
full estimates show that not far
from 1925 100000 has been expended on
the lines completed during the year in
erecting buildings, etc. The money
which has thus been expended furnished
temporary employment to g vast army
of workmen, and has given temporary
employment to another army of prob
ably $4,000. The extensions of the year
bring the railway mileage of the United
States TO 150,710 miles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
OPIUM MAY BE IMPORTED.

Judge Hoffman Holds There is Nothing to
Prevent Chinese Engaging in the Business.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31.-Judge Hoff-
man rendered a decision in the United
States district court in Which the right of
the Chinese to import opium is sustained.
In December, 1886, the custom house
authorities seized quantity of
opium valued at nearly 100000
which had been shipped from
Panama to Woo Sing d Go. of this city.
The opium was held in virtue of a clause
in the treaty which forb1ds the Chinese
from engaging in the opium traffic.
Judge Hoffman holds that the treaty is
not selfexecutory, and congress having
adopted no legislation there was nothing
to prevent the Chinese from engaging in
the business.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
PROPOSED NEW RAILROAD.

The Wisconsin Central Will Have Direct
Line from Portage to Chicago.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 31.-Mr. John e. Bur
ton says the Wisconsin Central is pushing
the much talked of Lake Geneva g. Port
age railway project, although another
company will build it. When completed
an equal number of shares in the Central
will be transferred for stock in the Gene
va line, giving the Central control. 1t
will not be long before gang of men
will be set to grading, as the preliminary
surveys have all been made. 1t is the in
tention of the Central to spur off from
Antioch, or lear there, on their present
main line, to Geneva, thence up to Port
age by the new route, connecting them
with their southern division. This line
would be used for through business, and
would shorten the distance greatly over
that of any other road running into ST.
Paul from Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05

companies to charge more for the day
than the night service, namely, the fact
that the wires are in great demand for
the commercial messages at compare
lively high rates during the hours from
ten in the morning to three in the after
noon, but he believes such reasons should
not operate as regards the government
lines, and that the government should
have no preferred patrons as to the rates
for like classes of business or
as to the order of transmission.
The rates TO be named in his amendment
are based upon a unit OF 100 words or
fraction thereof, and are as follows: For
500 miles or less, % cents; between 500
and 1000 miles, so cents; between 1000
and 500 miles, 35 cents; between 1,500
and 1000 miles, 40 cents; between 1900
and 5000 miles, 10 cents, and for more
than 5000 miles so cents. When more
than one copy of the same dispatch is
sent to different newspapers at the same
or ct different offices, the postmaster gen
eral is to prescribe rates to Se charged
for drop copies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05

next'to Vincenues is the oldest town in
Indiana. In Oct, 1889, Virginia caused
town to be surveyed on the north
bank of the falls of the Ohio, described
as being situated in the county of
IlliGois. This was to be laid off in the
reservation of 10000 acres granted to
General Roger Clark and his men and
officers, who marched with him and re.
duced the British posts at Ksskaskia and
Vincennes- The fee simple, together
with the government of the town, was
vested IN ten trustees, March 1, 1884.
Thomas Jefferson, Arthur Lee,
James Monroe and Samuel Hardy IN be-
half of Virginia executed the deed trans
ferring to the United States all title of
Virginia to the Northwest Territory, but
expressly excepting the rights of the set
tiers ander the grant to General Clark,
known as the Illinois grant. 1t is main
tanned that the claim will have strong
showing before the supreme court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
WILLIAM HILTON;s Will.
He Makes Large Number of Charitable Be-
quests,

He Makes Large Number of Charitable Be-
quests,
Boston, Dec. 31.-The will of the late
William Hilton was filed in the probate
Office this afternoon. To his wife and his
daughter Caroline Hilton Fiske he leaves
100000 each, and makes the following
conditional public requests: Fifty thou
sand dollars to the Massachusetts gen
eral hospital, $4,000 to the Phillips acad-
envy at Andover, $4,000 to the Williams
college, $50,000.to Harvard college, $780,
600 to Amherst college, $4,000 to the
American board of commissioner for
foreign missions, $4,000 to the Ameri-
can home mis- ionary society, S25,OoO to
the American missionary society, of
New York, $4,000 to the
Boston city missionary society.
$4,000 to the town of Salisbury, $4,000
to the Boston Dispensary, $4,000 to the
Boston Young Women's Christian asso-
citation, $4,000 to the home for little
wanderers, $4,000 to the Children's
hospital, $4,000 to the Abbott academy
of Andover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
AN INDIANA TOWN IN TROUBLE.

Their Streets Seized by Railroads and Other
Parties-They viii Protest Vigorously.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 31.-The people
of the town of GAINESVILLE, Ind, which is
situated between Jacksonville and New
Albany, on the Ohio river, are in great
state of agitation from various causes.
One is the seizure of their streets by
railroads, the state and other par
ties, They mean to protest vigor-
ously. A movement Is now on foot to
organize, hold an election and send dele
gates to the national congress and de-
mand admission as territory or district
under the old Virginia charter, which
they hold is still in force. GAINESVILLE,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
GOVERNMENT POSTAL TELEGRAPH.
SEN Cullom Concludes Like Rates Should be
Charged for Like Glasses of Business.

Sen. CulIom Concludes Like Rates Should be
Charged for Like Glasses of Business.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator Cullem
will Introduce an amendment to his postal
telegraph bill Immediately after the re-
assembling of congress, changing the
rates named in the original bill, more
especially for the transmission of press
matter While he believes congress
ought 30 prescribe rates for the use of
the government wires as it prescribes
rates for use of the mails instead
of leaving it to the discretion of
the officials, yet the rates named in his
bill were designed merely as suggestion
to the committee which should have the
bill IN charge. With subsequent study,
and with the information which has come
to him from many soarces, he has reach
ed the conclusion that there ought to be
no difference in the use of the govern
ment lines between the service of like
character rendered to the even
ing papers and the morning
papers. He says he appreciates that
weight of reason which leads private
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05

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The Milwaukee, Lake Shore d. Western
Railway has been we'll named the Fishing
and Hunting Line of Wisconsin, passing,
as it does, through thousands of acres OF
but partially explored woods and within
easy reaching distance of lakes and
streams that have never been fished by
white men, all we'll stocked with the game
fish for which Northern Wisconsin waters
are noted, The woods abound with game;
deer, bear, wolf, mink, beaver, pheasant
and other game are quite plentiful.
THE ONLY LINE
From Milwaukee to the new Iron Mining
District in Wisconsin and Michigan that
reaches ALL of the developed Mining
towns; GOGEBIC, wakefield, BESS
SEMER, IRONWOOD AND HURLEY.
Direct line to ASHLAND and DULUTH
Sleeping cars between ASHLAND and
CHICAGO.
The GUIDE Book, and other descriptive
matter, containing full information, maps
and engravings of the country traversed
by the line, will be sent to any address on
application to the General Passengers
Agent.
CHAs. L. RYDER, Gen. Agent, los Wash
ington St., Chicago.
City ticket Office, 62 Clark St., Chicago.
Chicago Depot Cor. Wells and Kinzie
Sts., &C. il N. w. R'y.)
City ticket Office, 102 Wisconsin St.,
Milwaukee.
II. f. WHITCOMB, CHAs. Y. McKINLAY,
GenI Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agent, !
MILWAUKEE,, WIS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
G0GEBIC IRON REGIONS
Everything Indicating A Revival of
Business in The Rich Mineral Range.
Scheme TO Sell 1000 Mile Tickets to
Keep Them Out of Hands of Scalpers.
WILD CAT WORK IS OVER.
And Mining Business in the Gogebic is Beins
Placed on a Business Like Basis.

And Mining Business in the Gogebic is Being
Placed on Business Like Basis.
WAUsAU, Wis, Dec. 31.-Au reports
from the Gogebic iron range point to a
speedy revival of business in the iron
producing regions. Many of the mines
that have been shut down for several
months are commencing work again.
Most of them have changed hands, and
sta1t cut under new homogeneous, with
the promise of an avoidance of misman-
agement in the future that has brought
the mining business of this range into i'll
repute. All the properties that were
shipping last summer are again being
worked, except those of Moore i Benia-
min aud John Burton. the titles of which
are SO mixed that endless litigation will
ensue. A better feeling of security is now
felt by stockholders, as it is believed that
much Of the 'wild cat" work is over, and
the business is advancing to a firm and
substantial footing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
MINOR MORTUARY MENTION.

Judge Rappallo, of the New York court
of appeals. is dead.
DR.. G. n. Blount, of Kokomo, Ind, is
dead, aged IS years.
Mrs. J. R. Thompson, well-known tenn
perance worker, has dice at Cairo, ILL.,,
aged so.
Darwin Kenyon, freight agent of the
Lake Shore d Michigan Southern rail
road at Buffalo, N. Y, is dead, aged 81
years.
John ". King, rich aDd prominent
citizen of st. Eouis, aged SO years, has
died suddenly in Yonkers, N. Y, where he
was visiting.