Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-01-16
LATEST NEWS.
Condensed for the convenience
of Hurried Readers.

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Senator Blackburn, of Ker .acky, has been
re-elec. ed.
A Farmers Alliance lodge IN Missouri
have resolved to boycott all merchants who
do not patronize the.r meat market.
Senator ingalls, and family have taken a
magnificent house on III street. Washing
ton, with half block of the Shoreham,
where Senator Plumb is located.
Masonic loo ges IN Nebraska, commencing
at Lincoln, are expelling all members who
are in the business of selling liquor.
Merclrial thermometers at Wells. New,
indicate % degrees below zero. Spirit Their
mome:ers at Like indie a.ed 20 below.
Missouri is asking congress to expend
| 100000 to remore snae- from the Missouri
river, between Kansas City and st. Louis.
I. n. Sedgwick's residence at Emporia
burned. Loss, 5000. His sister was in
Wred from Jumping from a second story
window.
Reports received from Shanghai are that
an extraordinary force of the Oh .nese fought
| the natives ne1r TakOwa, IN the island OF
Fornosa. and 100 of tie Chinese and 400
OF the FormoSas were killed.
| al ocCEts Ill DTdLlI
| prOclaims the separat on of church and state,
| guarantees religious liberty and equality
and continues the life stiperds granted I'M
| der the monarchy.
The federatlon conference will open at
Melbourne February 8. Delegates will be
present from all tae Australian colonies,
New Zealand and the FIJI islands.
The Angus Smith system of three eleva-
1 A. Lvyn
English firm. 1t is said the price is Sl.OC0,-
900. The capacity of the three Is two mil
| lion bushels.
County Attorney Terhune, of Chicago.
has begun mandau Us proceedings against
| ex-County Attorney Bliss for the recovery OF
''the Off e files in the Doodle cases" against
certain contractors.
Calvin S. Brice is the winner of the seat
of H. B. Payne in the United States senate,
| representing Ohio.
Smallpox is fearfully prevalent in Texas,
on the Mexican border, and quarantine has
been established.
The Kansas State Bar association adopted
resolutions expressive of great satisfaction
over the appointment of Judge ID. j. Brewer
os associate justice o. the supreme court OF
the United States.
The theatre at Shantuug, China, stands on
terrace supported b. wall fifty feet high.
During crowded performance this wal!
gave way. and with it fell the theatre and
the audience. The dead are nearly 20.
The returns as received by the board of
trade, London, show that during the month
of December the impotS inc eased 33O,Ot0
pounds annd the exports increased 2,0sO,OO
pounds, as compared with the correspond
ing month In 1883.
The December report of the department
of agriculture shows the total product of
wheat, crop 1889, to have been $50 $4,000
bushels. Tne aggregate of all cereals is
bushel per capita.
Tne Ohio legislature Is in session and the
democratic fight for United States senator
is on. Colonel Brice has the lead, with
John Fl. Thomas close second. Republic
cans likely to give their complimentary
vote to Ex-Governor Foster.
The Penticost band, or faith healers. are
operat ng in Illinois the same as in many
reported cases In southern states. They en-
t,ced two respectable young ladies to leave
their homes and go with male members of
the band. from LOvingtOn. The feeling
against the lecherous brutes is running very
high.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas bondhold-
plan of reorganization unless the income
bonds are given voting power until they be-
come a fixed charge at the end of five years.
1t appears that about s.. COO, 600 of the
bonds, ont Of a total of S2s, OO0, 900 are held
in Ioadoh and Amsterdam.
The st. Louis, Arkansas & Texas railway,
in conjunction with the Kansas City, Fort
Scott Il Memphis railway, have reduced
rates on wheat, corn and oats and all mill
inn nrndp1atS ID ca-fl hundred WEIGHT.
from a. to IS cents. The reduced rates
apply to all points in the states of Missouri,
Kansas and Texas.
Final papers of treaty between the United
States and the Occur d'Alene Indians have
been signed at Spokane Falls, Wash. The
treaty conveys 222,tO1 acres of the most
valuable parts o. the Occur d. Alene reserva-
ton, embracing the largest portion of the
beautiful lake of the same name. and much
rich mineral and fine timber land.
Governor Hill, of New York, in a mes
sage to the legislature. argues against the
Australian ballot system, tried in Massa-
chusetts lately, and highly appla uded by
the governor of that state. In the same
message Governor Hill favors the ''regula-
ton of the liquor traffic by Just and aquita-
BILE excise laws rigidly enforced"
The pension committee of the lower house
of congress has reported in favor OF the
repeal of so much of section 1858, revised
statutes, as provides that no claim of a state
mllItiamau for pen 'ion ON account of dlsa-
bill ~ from wounds or injuries received IN
battle with rebels or Indians while tempo
.ly rendering services, shall be valid un-
less prosecuted to successful issue prior to
July 4, 1874.
A jackson, Mich, dispatch says the in
designations there settle the case OF the old
woman under Indictment at Oswego, Kan
sas. as being Mrs. Bender. Her statements
of her whereabouts during the period of the
Bender murders have proven to tie true,
thus sustaining an abb. VI the other
woman, held as Kate Bender, moth ng has
as yet been proven to sustain an abb IN
her case.
The Iowa probition;sts. in state conven-
tio1, say: sit is not the purpose OF this
al organization to the interest of any party
or faction, but we ecognize the fact that
legal prohibition can only be secured and
enforced through legislators and officers
cho en by the people; and we further de-
clare it is not only the privilege, but the
duty of every citizen favorlny prohibition
to make his influence and power felt and
recognized at tie polls"
Before the ways and means committee ].
S. VanDuser, of Elmira, n. Y, SAID that
everybody realized that something must be
done to help the American farmer. In
times past they had found profit in raising
leaf tobacco. Now that industry was threat
ened. To-day there is no longer demand
for American grown wrapper tobacco. 1t
has been replaced by the Sumatra wrapper,
pleas ng to the eye, but inferior in flavor.
There was NO profit in growing tobacco here
if the wrappers were not to be protected,
for in the wrappers was all of the profit.
Better Than Oklanoma
100 acres of the choicest land in the San
Co,,xhor,, l,oyorodn oil under