Johnny Moffitt, who made a big stake in…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

unty is almost a farce. Even when a conviction is found it is usually in such a mild form as to be a travesty on jus- tice. Grant county is becoming the dumping ground for criminals from other counties, and will continue to be unless some of them get an occasional sentence. Johnny Moffitt, who made a big stake in Kingston some years ago, has just returned from a prospecting trip in Sonora. He found the country hot and dry and is not very favor- ably impressed with it. He is on his way to Kingston. The lower end of Main street is being leveled up. It is useless to expend time and money by filling in as nothing short of a Nicholson or a concrete pavement will with- stand the water which flows through the street every time a heavy rain visits this section. On Wednesday John Bruce sent a check of three thousand dollars to Mrs. Henrietta Tull of Niota, Illinois, that being the amount the brotherhood of locomotive engineers paid on account of the death of her son, John Tull, who was killed in a wreck on Strauss hill a few months ago. Quail are being driven in from the hills and valleys, and nine were shot from one tree in front of the Cottage saloon Wednesday afternoon. Will some of our weather prophets explain what it means? From Ihe November 6, 1891, Issue of The Enierprise