Dodge City times., 1889-11-28
LATEST NEWS.

LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for the Convenience
Of Hurried Readers.
The evidence in the Cronin case was about
all in On the 25th.
The price of silver in London is higher
than it has been in several years.
', An oil well has been di.coyered at Erie,
Kansas, at the depth of oily 100 feet.
Columbus, Oh O, has an old man in Jail,
who, it is thought, there, is old man Bender:
There are 12s,OOO old soldiers in Kansas.
The G. A. R. has in its ranks only 1900 OF
these.
The first republican caucus of members OF
congress, to select officers of the house
meets November 81.
Persistent rumors are afoat in London to
the effett that there is a revolution in pro-
gress on the island of Cuba.
Business men of the two Kansas C.tvs
have raised $4,000 to put a line of freight
steamers on the Missouri river.
| Representatives of all the railroads in
Kansas will meet the ailroa1 commissioners
December 4, to consider rates on salt and
fuel within the state.
A resolution passed the Cherokee senate
| by a vote of IA to 3, authorizing tie appoint
ment of commission to negotiate sale OF
the outlet to the government.
Shelmeyer, of Pennsylvania, to be pension
AGENT at PhiladelDhia
Prof. E. NJ. Shelton sewers his connection
with the Agricultu al college on anuary !,
and goes to Australia to become the ayri-
cultural superintendent of that country.
Santa Fe stocks 355s.
Foreign powers have commenced to direct
| their representatives. in Brazil to continue
with the prov sional go erpment the rela-
tions heretofore maintained with the en-
pire.
The lower house of the Austrian parlia-
ment has approved a project for canal
starting at Vienna to connect the Danube
and the Oder. The exchequer is to share
| the cost.
l.. Five hundred Missouri corporations have
ignored the law" and two foreign compa-
nies also. The charters of the home COM
panies will be revoked and legal proceed
Au&o COuAuCuCC0 oSoAA SuC OtuCASs
In the foot ball game Yale defeated Har-
ward by score of to O.
The battle of Trenton, N. j., will be cele-
brated there December 26 by Sons of the
Revolution.
Gold bearing quartz from the mines of
Ishpeming, Mich, has recently been as
sayed and Is said to be the richest gold bear
ing rock ever taken from an American mine.
The Pacla, Kansas, Land ard Gas CON-
pany has struck another fow Of excellent
lubricating oil in we'll No. on the Russell
field. The company are max ng arrange,
ments to sink ten more wells Immediately.
The Portugese court is sensibly alarmed,
fearing that the Portugese army may fol-
low the example of Brazil This W II pre-
vent Dom Pedro from going to Lisbon. He
is likely to spend the winter at Toulon and
Nice.
The lower house of the Montana legisla-
ture organized in two branches, the repub-
licans meeting in a hall on Main street and
the democrats in the court house. The re-
publicans had thirty members, two more
than quorum.
The Boston Office of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad company announces
that majority of the bondhol6ers have al
ready assented to the plan of reorganlz L
ton and that sufficient funds are in sight
for all requirements.
The British government is not satisfied
with what the Canadian government has
DONE in the direct on of increasing the effi-
cieney of the military strength and coast
defenses of that province, the whole militia
on the Pacific not totaling zoo men.
The Maritime association of the port of
New York urges congress to establish de-
partment of commerce, with cabinet officer
as chief, to foster and promote our ocean
carrying trade. foreign and domestic, and
our inner commerce by water and rail.
A Missouri law requires political party
which has cast less taan 3 per cent. OF the
ertire vote at the last election, and which
desires to place a ticket in nomination, to
first procure the signatures of per cent. OF
will debar the prohibition and union labor
parties from the field at the next election.
One. of the remarkable things connected
with the change of government in Bra ii Is
the fact that it is impossible to get any re-
plies to any private dispatches sent to Rio.
A censorship has evidently been established
on all cable messages, particularly those in
Quiring into the new order of things, and
what effect it will have upon the CONNER
cial world.
The north bound Missouri. Kansas 4
Texas passenger train was robbed at Pryor
creek, twenty miles south of Vinita, l. T..
by robbers. who uncoupled the engine, mail
and express cars and run them on two miles
to Pryor switch, where they cleaned out
everything in the express car. The passen-
gers were not robbed. The amount of the
robbery is not known.
The commissioner states that business has
fallen off greatly at all the Kansas and Ne
braska land Offices, owing to the fact that
very little government land remains to be
taken in those states. The need for the
the western Kansas and western Nebraska
land offices for the past three years is no
longer felt, and they will be reduced to
minimum.
The United States commissioner OF inter-
nal revenue has decided that liquor dealers
on side of Kansas cannot send liquors c. q.
d. to points in that state without paying q
retail liquor dealers AK for every place
not completed where the dealers license
covers his business, and such license does not
exempt hlm from special tax at place where
the sale is completed.
The customs officials estimate that the |
federal treasury was defrauded ast year by |
whisky smugslers at Qubec alone of q sum |
considerably in excess of S25QOOO. The
sci ures thus far in the vicinity foot up III
barrels OF nifty gallons each. upon wn'ch the
duty should be e GO per gallon. This would |
make $4,000 that the smugglers would |
have pocketel, but there is no ascertaining |
how much they have already defrauaed the |
revenue out of.
The United States attorney for the north |
ern district of Texas reports 3 feeling of
hostility on the part of certain state officers |
towards the federal officers, which makes it |
difficult to enforce federal laws. He asks |
that the court be removed from Graham to |
some point where it will not be obstructed |
BY lawless element. He says: "The at
mosphere of shotguns and sixshooters is not |
q proper one for any court to be held n in |
Q civilized country, muci less one of the
dignity of the court Of the United States"
Better Than Oklahoma.
1.NO acres of the choicest land in the San
Luis Valley, in Southern Colorado, all under
fence. xafer-rlChts secured and ditches