The Weekly Critic du lieu suivant : Rossville, Kansas • 3

-is- And IE3etciH axoccis, ST MAMS, KAE fflvo Til WEEKLY CRITIC- cold moonless night, perhaps constituted the most favorablo conditions for so grand a spectacle. ally wounded'. lie iticd at 2 o'clock In the afternoon. Bob and Emmet Palton did not stop note the effect of the shot. They ran around the corner of the building and returned the fire of Cox and Cubine.

The latter fell dead in his tracks. Charles Brown was in ranRc of a shot, ST. MA tub MILL, I make the best Vlonr on Ike MARKET My brands are Royal, Suberb and Gilt Edge. Corn Meal ithe Btjt Made Bring me your grist and 1 guarantee to Satisfy You. guarantee satisfaction in all my Dealings While I manufacture, buy and ship all kinds of (train and I am always in the 3 Tliorcipson.

E. YOCUM, FOR Ice Cream, Ginger Ale, Lemonade, Finest Candy in the City-Cigars and Tobacco DEALERS IN Groceries, Queensware, Boots and Shoes Cigars and Tobacco Everything in our Line at Low Prices. K. D. JOHNSTON, Hardware, Stoves, Outlcry, Barb Wire, Twine, Haying and Farming Tools.

Proprietor of Silver Uake yfiarhest Market Price Paid for Grain. The whole northern sky was spanned with broad, brilliant lines of lights of various hues, and these luminous bands waving and dancing in unison. In conjunction with these, there were bright, broad straight ravs of white lights contin- uously shooting up from the northern horizon in every direction. Those in the center reaching almost to the zenith. Each alternately fading away to bo replaced by others of equal brilliancy.

AU nature surrounding us appeared to be bathed in a wierd crimson coat- inor. No nen can fully notray or o- human art ever imitate the grand-enr and sublimity of this heaven designed and gorgeous spectacle. Amongst those eight or ten rough mountain men, with myself who stood in silent awe and admiration, there was no ribaldry or course jesting. I think each one felt as if he was individually in the immediate presences of the Almighty God. Horse Jottinas.

HAL POINTER. OT WITHSTAND! NG common breed i their go ni i heat-after heat in the middle of th summer, in close, and hard contested races, the last heat bettor than tho first, with seemingly no breeding of any value, except the Lewzuoro and Timolean that is claimed too far back in Tom Hal to be of much importance to Hal Pointer. This again induces uh to think as we have often thought and said, that ws believed t.iut fine breeding is not required in the pacer to make him go fast like it is in the Gunners and trotlers; snme'imes pacing colls go from six to eleven heats and still the last heats bcin faster than tho first. Hal Pointer's first race was made at Columbia, in October 1888, and was beaten by Engineer Hal, going the two first heats in 2:32 each. In 1889 he comnieiieel early, having wintered well, ami was in good condition in every way with splendid training, and every, thing be in his favor to make a iod campaign.

He open-od IU campaign again at Columbia, and won his race in three straight heats 2:28, 2:27 and from there ho went to Cleveland, O. and enteied that great circuit and won his race easily over a field of good horses, from there he went to Charter Oak Park. From there to St. Louis, and then to Philadelphia where ke mot good horses at each place and beat tbem easily. He then went to Terro Haute, and mot little B.

we think tho grandest little horse America ever produced, little roan pony, weight about ISi pounds, no breeding, first season out, badly trained, and equally as badly driven, he drove Hal Pointer to the last inch of his speed in three grand heats in 2:12 and 2:13 going nnder the wire each beat at Hal Pointer's throat and mounted the imcinsl throne the world, but liko Jny-Eyo-Soo he held tli in great position but a few weeks. J.nM ween uic iiim-m, yv ino- race ever made in the world wes paced by Guy, Flying Gib and Mascolte. Five heats paced. Guy winning the race, wliih- Maseotte won a heat in this race that de-1 thorned llal Pointer and thejpacing full to 2:04, some contended the time was still Guy outfootcd the other two and won the race. Mascot te's 2:04 made him the king of pacers, but this groat heat and race stands out ready to bo beaten by Hal Pointer or some other great horse that is now unknown to tne pacing world and cut the mark down to two minutes, and we be-leivc that this great heat will yet be beaten before the season closes, and that Maseotte' roien may be short.

ANNIHILATED. The Dalton Gang Completely Wiped Out They ltnltl til Ilaiikt (loffeyvllle, ami Fle are Shot-roar Oltliens Killed In the Flu-tit With the Desperadoes, Jiattle Wltffthn Datum. CoFrr.rvii.nt, Oct. 6. The Dal-tons, only rivals of the James ud Younger brothers, and cousins of thorn' daring; men last namrd l.otorious ai train robbers and murderers reckless, cruel, ubiquitous the terrors of the In.

tei'i'iUivy, Oldahonm uud western Kansas are uo more. They ami their immediate followers have icn wined out of existence ns completely as though swallowed by an cunhquulid. Yesterday morning six members ot tho Paltou gang, divided into twe squads, made simultaneous attacks upon tho Condon and the l-'irtt National banks of this city. Cue of the most desperate battles on record ensued. Bub and Urn ttan Palton.

Tom Evans "Tejas Moor, peradoos, were killed ouLriglit. wa T. Connelly, marshal of ConYyviiie; George Cubiua, Cool and shoe dealer; Lucius Baldwin, clerk, and Charles Brown, a shoemaker. Thomas O. Ayre, enshler ilt.

-i Emmet Dalton arc pn.u lly u.n.u and others ar ahtiitly wounded. The most remarkable incident of all this bloody battle was the work of Jim Spears, a livery stable keeper. At the sjnnd firing lie grabbed his WlnchukUii' ai.d with Htcady nerve and deadly aim Ihi worked it. He killed three of the desperadoes in rapid sue-eeaeion, Hhooting an an expert murks-man would at inanimate targets. tl when the town was surilel the apperanec on tho street of six nii-a, heavily armed with WlncheKters and Colt's revolvers.

They were Bob, Ornt and Eininet Dalton, Tom Evans, "Texas Jack" Moore and Allle Ogoe, They had tied their horses in an alloy and coming rapidly out upon the street, Urat I Ulon, Kvaus, Moore and Ogee untnred the bank of C. M. Condon Co. Bob and Emiuut Dultou passed across the street to the First National bank. Charles Smith, a barber, recognized them and waved hU hand to them.

They responded to the salutation. The foflr who entered the Condon bank ordered Cashier Ball end Tellor Carpenter to tnrow up tneir bands and give over th.mm.v Hull awpiiwi. J.VJ UIUIII not as the time look was on. Thoy asked him when It would be open, and accepted his statement of 9:80 o'clock, although it was nearly 10 o'clock then. Ball was ordered to hand over the money on the counter, amounting to some which he did.

Bob and Emmet Dal ton found In the First Nutlonal bank Cashier Ayers, his son Bert and Teller W. II. Shepherd. These men were ordered to throw up their hands and Bert Ayres was instructed to put the money in a bag Which the robbers had provided. Young Ayres complied but told the Daltou that he did not know the ootn-blnatton to the safe.

Turning te the elder Ayors Bob Dalton oalled him by i name and. with an nath nnniin.n u4 miuecil. After securing from the vault some 120,000 the brothers got the banker In front of them and marched them out of the front door. Barber Smith had in the meauwhile given the alarm and men had hastily secured weapons and were rushing to the scene. As Bob and Emmet Dalton emerged from the bank Paulflo Express Agent 8.

Cox and George Cubine opened Are upon them w.v.uu,. wounding tttnmet The brethers tnrnsd and, running lot the bank, Thin Wi Baldwin met them, end there, too, he met his death. One ef the brothers Iweught his heavy six shooter int play ii4.BsldJi.eU tlte ji4ewm mart- Of to Silver Lake, O. A. ZICKEFOOSE.

Published every Friday, and enters the post ofiice as second class matter. FRIDAY, OCTOBER; I02- Classing The Plains Thirty Years Ago. Chap XI. -r TC like to talk on the subject of staging, but lest we may tire oar readers we, after relating a few more incidents will dismiss the subject. Between Virginia and Helena we bad eight changes, averaging near-ly sixteen mil's apart, making rather long drives, but in that mountainous country, we had to select our stations where water and grazing was plentiful.

At' the stations ir stock were turned out to graze on the moun tain bunch grass till coach time the following day, when a ranchman who wasnaid for doine so would have them in a corral ready for u. We worked our stoCK all through the winter in this way, ana was surprised at how well they stood it. Two young men, one on each end of the road did the driving, and a smith went over Urn road once a week and did the shoeing. It used to be tho custom every summer for a few steamboats to come np the Missouri river as far as the falls of Ft. Benton, and after remaining a weeK or so return In the summer of '05 about a dozen miners who wished to return to the states agreed with us to be taken from Helena to Benton, a distance of about ona hundred and thirty miles.

We fitted up an emigrant wagon with four horses and started a driver with the outfit to meet the boat; in about eight cb.ys Theo. re turned with everything in good shape and on coming into the office banded over to ns two hundred in gold dust as our profits on the trip. In tho winter time especially when the road was heavy, it often rcquir- ed all day and hall the night to Biake the drive from ono end of our stage route to tho other. -Y-l, ii was in coruary 'uo we were our way from Virginia to Helena shut inside, with a coach load of passengers. The weather was very cold and we had tho curtains all closely buttoned down.

After a long and tedious upgrade we had arrived on the summit of a bare mountain Wdge, our coach baited, Tho driver wrapped lond iy on the top of the coach ith his whip, and at the same time exclaim ed, out!" In an instant very drowsy passenger was wide wake, it was then nearly eleven o'clock in the night. One passenger suggested robbers, another one aid, "highwaymen," there was then soramble to conceal funds, watches and other valuables, and at the same time, 'guns and revolvers were got in readiness. A passenger carefully pushed a curtain aside xolaimed, "Northern lights." The door was then thrown open and all bands climbed out. The scene was jrrand, beyond description. It is reported by those who have visited the Artio regions that auroral displays in that far northern country re very brilliant, yet I cannot conceive bow Dr.

Kane or Kir John Franklin could have ever witnessed a display of more grandeur or sublimity. History tells us of very grand uroral diplay witnessed in New Eugland in November 1887, bnt In this latitude, 88 degress, the borealis is rarely seen, and then is niually very feeble. Further north, from the top of timbtrless mountain, still, clear ioo, and he leu, to cue uiree iiour-. later. Thomas Avevshad seen all this in the moment he stood Irresolutely in front of his bank.

Then he gathered his scattered thoughts and started to run. But the bandits who were robbing the KlrRt National bank, had heard the and they turned and opened up on the fleeing; man, shooting through windows. The shots came as a volley and Ayers foil seriously if not fatally wounded. Bob and Emmet quickly iolned the rest of their band and start ed for their horses, but they were inei the targets for a perfect fustlade and Jim Spears was working his Winchester with cloflk-Uke regularity, coo anu Grant Dalton and "Texas Jack" were killed at the mouth of the alley, not, however, before Bob had killed City Marshal Connelly. Tom Evans and Ogee inountcd their horses and -dashed o't of town, but Evans was hit hart and fell dead from his horse half a mllo away.

Cashier Ayers is very low, but has a chance to recover. Three Rilled an the Sauta Fe. PCKnLO, Oct 10. At a late hour last night, six miles north of Pueblo, on the branch of the Atchison, Topeka Santa B'e railroad, a freight trolu was wrecked by striking a eow on a small bridge. Tho engine was thrown from the track and burled under half a dozen cars.

Three men were crushed beneath the engine. They were Engineer Joseph Miller, aged iO, whose parents live at Elgin, 11L; C. MoCnne. head bri'icjnaii, Archie Buchanan, tie fireman. Denver capitalists will and sanitarium at I'hccrfiS) BAD WRECK.

hotel be: i-'s Son Killed in a Wreck oa tho Missouri Pacific. cOujtcil Gbov Oct 7. A through freight on the Missouri Faclfia went through a burning bridge about sixty mile, west of morClhj? and the anginar, a T. Peffer, son of United States Senator Peffer, and the fireman, Clint Howard, were both Instantly killed. Charlie Hart, another fireman, was badly bruised and ft brakeman named Orlflln severely hurt, After th aooldent occurred the wreck took fire and thirteen cars of grain were iic dead ciiifiueer uuu il.

cman both have families living here. The Florid Eleotloa. Jacksonville, Oct of the state is hardly ss heavy as was expected. This is accounted for by tlia fuct that the poll tax requirements kept down the aggregate of qualifications In nil parties. Up to 11 o'clock full returns had not been received from any one of the forty-nve couiuies, but precinct votes furnished a 1 for calculations.

Mitchell, 'tn "ut, hoe carried the state by at Knit M0 majority, though his vote ill hardly reach 30,000. which is 10,000 less than the vote polled for Fleming, democrat, in 1888. Raskin, people's party, cannot by any possibility, nhow up with more than s.ooo. whieh Is 18,000 lass than the republican yoto four years sara Oelameter CiuUtjr. Meacvim.b, Oct 7.

The jury in the embezzlement cases against the Delamcters returned a'verdlot of guilty as to John V. Dclamelcr urid not guilty as to the other defendants The jury stood ten for conviction and two for "POO acquittal upon the fliat ballot The Hpnil Y.I n.na 1. 'j nmiu mittiAr lor IUBUV years and the republican candidate tor governor lu 1890, when he was defeated by Robert E. Pattison, the present incumbent The embezzlement charges were the outgrowth of the failure of the Delaraater Banking Co. in December 1890.

The Kleetloa la Oearcla. Atiauta, Oct 7. The demoorate mads clean sweep in the state election yesterday, snowing nnder the combined people's and republican partiss with almost the old time majority. The first returns indiuated ft clear majority of about 80,000, but as the report continued to come this was slowly but surely inoreased until at noon to-day the leaders of the democracy claimed the re-eleotlon of Oov. Northen by 70.8M.

T.anyieu bead. IOstdom, Oct Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England and the greatest of the living metrical writers, passed peacefully to his rest at 1:80 o'clock yesterday morning, aged years. So gentle and painless was the passing away jhat the family did not know he had gone until Dr. Clark broke the news to Lady Tennyson, who bore the closing -scenes of her great trial well in Spite of her extremely delicate health. Ale or ChICAOO.

Out. 1(1 rtnuall OI mwuige-n, arrived at the Grand P- lf- Ue spent a portion of the day "Uh some friends la the city and left 'or Kaunas City for the purpose of Uk- lQ the campaign in Kansas. ZICKEFOOSE BROS. RESTAURANTEURS FiiK! Cigars tl Tobacco Oysters in Season in Any Style. Nadeau Building.

aL Kansas Wit. ZICKIFOOSE Fine Gaudies, Nuts and Fruits. Worn Stock. A. W.

GABBEY Haw Bargelnsi for You In Dry Goods, Flannels, English Flannelettes, Muslins, Dress Goods, Calicoes. In fact anything you want in the Dry Goods line. Talk About Peirts? Why I have the largest stock of Pants, Overhauls and GENTS FURNISHING GOODS ever brought to Rossville. HATS, WELL YOU KNOW IT? IF YOU DON'T COME AND SEE I have tho latest styles of Hats, ever shape and color at prices that will surprise you. -ALL NEW GOODS.c3 latoh, and ended seemingly as fresh him to open the safe.

The latter tolas at the Start- loWBd mstructlons and himself put the At. tt i xT-i- money in the bag. purposely overlook-After this Hal Pointer met Direot I lug two bundles of each, bnt Bob at Columbia, who beat Hal 10 mke things certain went into the in the unprecedented time of 206 flat, a match wn then made in which these two horses paced at Independence, Iowa, for $5,000. They met and paced the race, Hal beat the little black horse easily and in not very good time on account of tho bad condition of direct. Aiew montbiago be went to Tt iro Haute, and made the race ex liu ltfe, pawng a mile in 2:05 No Old Slielf 4.