Bent County register., 1888-04-28

Cleveland.
Two firemen On the Midland road
at Colorado City Monday, had q
fight, one was Ailied by the other
with knife.
The editor ef The Granada G.'aphic'l
thinks The Lamar people are awful
nice, he more particularly means the
young ladies.
a little daughter of the editor of
the Kinsley. [Kaus..l Meroury has
been aihng for three months aud is
very sick at this time.
Mad dogs at Albuquerque, Ne"
Mexico again, all the dogs Of thai
town Should be killed and new
start made with CANNES.
Men have been IN town this week
to buy lumber for two large hous"s
at Carrisso. They come to Lamar
for lumber from near and far.
The ladies at Washington, d. c.
are endeaS orins to raise money TO
secure a statue of Washington TO
present to the French republic.
]. L. Dyser,, of Dodge City, was
tried IN the United States court At
Topeka for sending obseuce lettters
to lady. The jury disagreed.
The Daily Citizen, of Trinidad is
authority fer the statement that there
are places in that city that stink SO
bad that skunk cannat stand it.
The Granada Graphic thinks the
county should cast an eye in the di
rection of that town when a candi-
date for representative is wanted.
Sam Jones says the northern dem
ocrats don't know enough to do the
proper thing, he wants them to pat
tern after their southern brothers.
Ford County, Kansas, viii have
herd law after the first day of June.
this sounds strange TO tbose acquain-
ted with the history of that county.
There is no more snow III the
mountains than usual, bat it coyers
more range, and 1t is thought will
cause the streams to be very high In
June.
| We are under Obligations to Con
gresham Synes for copy OF hiE
speech in the house of Represents
,iyes on the military and postal tele-
graph bill.
At Cooper, Texas, B. f. Boydston
shot Miss Lulu Frazier because she
wanted to postpone their marriage
and then killed himself. The young
lady will die.
John &. Sweeney who attempted
to rob the Wabash passenger train
near Missouri City, No, in January,
has been sentenced TO twelve years
iu the peni,entiary.
It will soon be lime for candidates
to announce themselves and we hope
they will 10 50. There has been en-
lirely too much modcsty III this to
suit the newspaper men.
Trinidad wants channel for the
river that runs through that town to
have straight run TO avoid over
flows. II viii require good deal Of
work but viii pay to do 1t.
Brass bands at practice had better
look little out, one at Denver this
week was 6ned twenty-five dollars in
the police court as nuisance. They
will practice in the suburbs in the
future.
DIR. Collier says to young men, get
married, and intiinates most any g;rI
is good enough for man, and TO
the girls he says marry any honest
young man you love, but never mar
ry dude.
Some Of the papers have arrived
at the sensible conclusion that boom
articles do not help their towns, we
never believed they did, publish the
truth uncolored, and when strangers
cotne in they will not be disap-
pointed.
r We learn from a reliable source
that the U. S Land Offices at Larned
and Garden City are TO be consoli-
dated and moved 10 Dodge City,
Kansas, such a moYe will be blow
for the two former named and give
the latter boom.
A curious case has attracted atten-