WINFIELD, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1882.

[EDITORIAL RE REV. TUCKER.]

[STATE NEWS.]

[PERSONALS.]

A. G. Wilson has been appointed city weigh master, in place of Brotherton & Silver, resigned. [NOTE: THAT CERTAINLY DID NOT TAKE LONG!???]

Interest on real estate has dropped one percent, per annum, at the office of P. H. Albright & Co.

Dave Payne and his Oklahoma boomer, have sent to Wichita for seed corn, stating that they are hard at work plowing in

Oklahoma.

E. V. Hovey has sold his stock of goods to Ira McCommon who is well known to many of our people, who will be glad to welcome him back to this city and willingly make room for him in the mercantile field. We are sorry to see Mr. Hovey retire from among the west siders. He has made many friends in business who will miss him but, who, we doubt not, will transfer their good will and patronage to Mr. Hovey's successor.

The City Council last night resolved to pay their proportion of the attorney fees for fighting the suit now pending against old Winfield township.

Mr. James B. Moore has received advices from his firm at Hartford, Connecticut, of the immediate want of $100,000 of first-class farm loans in Southern Kansas, and has given P. H. Albright & Co., instructions to procure their share at the lowest rates and they are now prepared to loan at 7 and 8 percent interest. Just how long this will last is an unsolved question, but during the next thirty days, loans can be made and paid for at a moment's notice. Money paid to the farmer the moment he signs the papers. With our past knowledge it does seem as if the farmers of this section have never had as good a chance to procure money at such low rates, or on such short notice, and all who want money this spring should call on us at once. We guarantee that we can give better terms than any loaning firm in Cowley County, and are ready to close and pay for $100,000 worth of loans at any time. P. H. ALBRIGHT & CO.

Governor Saint John's refusal to sign a requisition upon the Governor of Texas for Smith, the defaulting cashier of Danford's bank at Caldwell, may prove a serious matter to his Excellency. This thing of favoring men because they have held the political prestige enjoyed by Danford, is not becoming even to a man so unscrupulous as the evangelist.

NOTE: HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT!

Messrs. Horning Read, McMullen, Robinson, and perhaps others will erect windmills for the purpose of irrigating their grounds the coming season. Frank Barclay has a carload of piping on the road which he will use for that purpose. With plenty of water the question of growing trees, shrubbery, and blue grass is solved.

[MORE PERSONALS: THE COURANT, MARCH 9, 1882.]

The delay in putting up the telephone exchange in this city is occasioned by the failure in the arrival of the instruments. A number of wires are already up awaiting the instruments, which are looked for by every train. So far there are only four connections outside of the central office: THE COURANT office, the two express offices, and A. H. Doane & Co.'s coal office.

A representative of the paper boarded the train Monday, and in company with his better half, the comparative degree is acknowledged with all humility, took a "ride on the cars" down to our sister city and "did" the lively place to the best of our ability.

It had been some time since we had walked the classic streets and got sand in our shoes, and things seemed compara-tively strange and new. However, we had the energetic and genial presence of H. G. Fuller to remind us of home and keep up our spirits and didn't sigh for "home, sweet home" very much.

We were given gentlemanly care by the proprietor of the City Hotel, who satisfied the craving of a good appetite in a very satisfactory manner. Arkansas City is enjoying considerable prosperity. None of her business or dwelling houses stand empty, many new buildings are being erected, and there seems to be a healthy business life. The city by the canal has never had a real boom, but has grown steadily nevertheless, and while many other towns are standing still, this little city seems to hve just commenced to get in earnest about growing and stirring around.

We saw no loafers, except some noble red men, and everybody seems to have business that demanded their individual attention.

In the afternoon we visited the canal for the first time, under the guiding and protecting care of Will Mowry, who is known for his courtesy and kindness and who holds a large place in the life of the city. The raging canal wasn't raging when we gazed into its depths, but was as calm and shallow as a backyard mud-puddle in July. We could see where the angry waves had lashed its muddy sides when the head gate was raised. The water had been shut off to allow repairs on the flume walls of one of the mills; the water, when turned on, having broken around the walls on each side and causing considerable damage. This was at Ayres' mill, one that has recently been put up and furnished with machinery and will be in running order this week, it is thought. This mill is owned by V. M. Ayres, is a big investment for the place where it is established, and shows much labor under difficulties, and an enterprising spirit that should certainly be amply rewarded. The mill represents a property valuation of about $25,000 and is furnished completely with the most improved and modern machinery, not excelled by many larger mills. The milling work is under the charge of W. T. Bell, formerly of Wichita, and of known experience and ability.

Another mill is in process of building, owned by W. H. Spears, which when finished, will represent about $15,000 more of valuable property that the canal has brought to its banks. The mill will be of stone and well fitted out with machinery of modern make.

These two enterprises are certainly worthy of support by the farmers of that section and no doubt will receive it. The ability of the canal to furnish unlimited power is thoroughly demonstrated, and if the water can be controlled, as we have no reason to doubt, the question of ample and convenient water power at Arkansas City is forever settled. The canal is a big project for a few people of this county. It would be a big thing for the whole county to have engineered through successfully, and the canal is overwhelming evidence of enterprise and genius of the citizens at the terminus that will bring them victory or leave them with thin feet to the foe.

[MORE PERSONALS: THE COURANT, MARCH 9, 1882.]

Amasa Speed shook us all up today by informing us that he had sold his interest in the livery stable to John Keck, of this city. All the boys will be sorry to hear that Amasa has severed his connection with this popular firm. The new firm of Schofield & Keck contains two genial, sociable, and good business gentlemen, and we wish them all the success in the world.

[LYCEUM SOCIETY: STATE NORMAL.]

The Lyceum is the substantial society of the Normal, having been organized under a state charter in 1873. Most of the graduates who have gone out from the Normal are indebted to the old Lyceum for much of their literary culture. The membership now consists of a majority of the advanced students. Considerable excitement has existed during the past week in regard to the societies. Some time ago the faculty commanded each society to incorporate in their constitution measures excluding those not in attendance at school from active membership.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "MUNROE" - BETHEL.]

BIRTH. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Weakley, of Bethel, a fine girl.

T. E. Gilleland, of Bethel, has the finest lot of hogs in the neighborhood. Mr. Gilleland is a successful farmer, and is making money.

James Wilson, who lived on the Aleck Graham place, the past two or three years, I learn, has bought the Newbury place near Little Dutch.

Lou. Bryant returned from Caldwell one day last week, carrying one eye in a sling. Whether he ran against some man's fist I could not say.

I was wrongly informed in regard to Lew Myers. He has bought the P. Stump farm near Little Dutch, and will at once move his family on the same.

BIRTH. Born to Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Brown, a boy. By thunder, who would have thought it? George Brown, father of a big boy! George, I congratulate you. May you live long, and do so many times.

G. W. Yount, of Olive, has bought a derrick and other tools necessary for his stone quarry, and as soon as the weather is favorable, will go to work on his contract, furnishing rock for the United States Custom House at Topeka.

[PERSONALS.]

James Christian will deliver his lecture on "Ireland and the Irish" at Wichita.

The arbitrators in the Harter and Harris mill case have reached a decision, which has not yet been made public.

J. Flickinger, of Winfield, was in town Friday. He rented a room and will open a tin shop at once. Burden Enterprise.

Dr. Belmont, of Winfield, has established a cattle ranche on Deer Creek 12 miles from this place. Arkansas City Traveler.

The Wells Fargo & Co.'s Express will run over the

K. C. L. & S. K. railroad about the first of April. We think this will be a good move.

[MORE PERSONALS: COURANT, MARCH 16, 1882.]

W. O. Johnson has severed his connection with the coal mines of the Winfield company, and intends going to the mountains soon. Grenola Argus.

The M. E. Conference at Burlington appointed the Rev. H. A. Tucker to the post at Ottawa. The Rev. P. F. Jones was selected for this city.

Some of our home talent will put on a play some evening before long for the benefit of the Library Association. The play will be announced in due time.

Judge Torrance sentenced G. W. Scott to the penitentiary for seven years, W. H. Harvey for three years, and J. E. Burkholder for five years, at Eldorado last week.

We understand that the sheep men of this county are talking of having a public sheep shearing at this city sometime during the summer. We think that is a good idea.

Dr. Cole received a supply of bananas shipped some days ago from New Orleans by his son Hervy before he left that place for Cuba. We hereby return thanks for a liberal share.

J. W. Hamilton, of Winfield, called at the News office today. We are glad to know that he will move his family here and become a permanent resident. Emporia News.

Dr. and Mrs. Mendenhall, of Winfield, paid Mrs. Mendenhall's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Capps a short visit last week. The doctor has invested four thousand dollars in cattle and is now a full fledged "cow-man," as well as a first-class physician.

Judge Christian contemplates soon to start on a lecturing tour along the Santa Fe road to Kansas City. Judge James Christian has many friends who will be glad for the opportunity to meet him, as well as to enjoy hearing his lecture.

Ed. Nicholson, who used to be on the police force here, and went to Illinois about two years ago, got tired of the mud and general depression of that state, and has returned to stay. He brought a car lod of fine stock with him.

[MORE PERSONALS: COURANT, MARCH 16, 1882.]

The probate judge of Cowley county is getting rich from marriage license fees. Topeka Capital. How is this Judge? Have you become a bloated bondholder off the hard earned dollars from such unfortunate victims?

Mr. Thorpe, proprietor of the Kansas Tannery in this city, has on exhibition at the Winfield bank a beautifully tanned calf skin, upon which all the work was performed in just eight days.

The land entries for the past year received at the land office from Wichita number 230. Last year the number ran up over 600. There is little good land in the county remaining

unentered.

The delay in putting up the telephone exchange in this city is occasioned by the failure in the arrival of the instruments. A number of wires are already up awaiting the instruments which are looked for by every train. So far there are only four connections outside of the central office: THE COURANT office, the two express offices, and A. H. Doane & Co.'s coal office.

George Rhodes, our enterprising furniture dealer, has a show window of more than ordinary attraction. The window shows a large room, formed of muslin, which contains thirty-six live red birds, fluttering and flying around in the branches of a cedar tree. The birds were secured by Mr. Rhodes and Nate Snyder, and the sight is certainly worth going some distance to see.

BIRTH. Wm. Moore, in the west part of the city, is the happy father of a bright little girl, which put in an appearance last night, with Dr. Wells officiating as administering angel. The Doctor says there are times when the world looks blue; but that, notwithstanding his arrest, and persecution, his practice has more than doubled in the past thirty days.

There is considerable complaint from parties wishing to register that the City Clerk is not in his office regularly during business hours, and it is claimed by many that they have called frequently and found no one in the office. How is it, friend Beach, can't you set some particular hour when persons can register?

[MORE PERSONALS: COURANT, MARCH 16, 1882.]

E. W. Hovey left Winfield yesterday for other cities and other scenes. Ed has been here in the drug business for about a year and a half and but recently sold his stock of goods. He was a model young man and leaves many friends who join THE COURANT in wishing him success in every future undertaking.

The Baptist Sunday school of Winfield has begun the publication of a monthly paper called The Visitor. It is distributed gratuitously, and is devoted to the interests of the Cowley county Sunday schools. It is an interesting little paper, for which the Baptists deserve credit. Leavenworth Times.

On Monday evening last Mr. H. Mayer returned from Winfield with a man giving his name as S. T. King, who is charged with stealing harness from Marsh, Winnie, and others. We understand that the harness were found in his possession, together with considerable valuable jewelry.

Joe Houston was down from Wichita today and made us a pleasant call. We are always glad to see Joe and are pleased to learn that he is prospering in his present situation. We have always predicted his success and we will always have a hearty interest in his welfare.

N. O. Peterson arrived in this county from Michigan last Wednesday. He brought with him three car loads of blooded sheep which he is keeping at present on the farm of A. S. Tripp in Vernon township. We are glad to welcome such additions to this county.

[MORE PERSONALS: THE COURANT, MARCH 16, 1882.]

Ed. Cole is the victim of an unusual accident that has broken him all up. Ed. was trying to get about four hundred pounds of castor oil into the drug store when the case burst and the way the oil was castored around made Ed. sit down and weep.

J. H. Myton, Winfield's pioneer agricultural implement and hardware man, is raking in the laurel wreaths this year, on having the best implements, and as a consequence, the farmers are swarming his place of business.

John McGuire's thirteen year old boy had two fingers torn from his left hand Saturday by the bursting of a small shot gun while out hunting.

The funeral of James Service was held this afternoon at the Presbyterian churrch, the Rev. Platter delivering an impressive sermon. A very large number of our citizens attended the service, and followed the remains to the grave. Mr. Service had a host of friends here to whom his death will be a sad happening.

Mr. A. J. Walden, a well known traveling salesman, was taken sick at the Brettun last week, but with good treatment he was able to start out again this morning.

Mr. J. S. Loose, formerly of the firm of Loose & Lynn, of Winfield, Kansas, spent a few days in town the latter part of last week visiting with his brother, Mr. J. L. Loose, and left Monday night for Kansas City. Chetopah Advance.

Charles C. Black now drives the neatest and fastest turn-out on the road, he having traded a farm of 160 acres three miles south of town for T. R. Timme's horse and buggy. We are ready for a drive most any time.

[MORE PERSONALS: THE COURANT, MARCH 16, 1882.]

The Brettun House was the scene of quite a matinee this noon. Waldron, the young colored porter, who occasionally works in the dining room, made some impertinent remarks to one of the waiter girls with whom he had been quarreling for the last week, when the girl struck him with a goblet she was washing. The glass broke, cutting his ear severely and penetrating to the bone. A little scuffling was indulged in after the blow, when Charlie Harter came in and called the house to order. Waldron threatened to shoot the girl and had a revolver in his hand, which was snatched away from him by the head porter. The subject of the water girl's vengeance then went to the doctor's for repairs. The latest telephonic disptach states that the excitement is gradually subsiding, and no immediate fears are entertained of another outbreak.

"A good steal. When P. H. Albright & Co. took charge of Geo. W. Moore & Co.'s loans in Southern Kansas, their attention was called to a small farm in this county which was enclosed with a good wire fence, and was covered with a mortgage in favor of

G. W. Moore & Co. Mr. Albright, while passing the same place a short time ago, noticed the fence had disappeared, and he alighted from his buggy to make a closer inspection, when to his surprise, not even a post hole could be found. When he got back to Winfield, he began to tell his partner (Jas. B. Moore) of the theft of the wire fence, whereupon he inquired if they had stolen the posts. 'Posts! H__l yes!' ejaculated Albright, 'and the holes too!'"

The Wichita man is liable to make a reputation as the loudest sounding lyre that ever lied.

[MORE PERSONALS: THE COURANT, MARCH 16, 1882.]

During the trial of Thomas Sheddan before Judge Gans this morning, Mayor Troup appeared as council for county and while asking diverse questions, the defendant was walking the floor and in illustrating how he had attacked his wife recently, played that the Mayor was his wife for the time being and sprang upon him like an infuriated tiger, causing him to fall backward out of his chair and turn white as a sheet. It is probable that Mr. Troup will not wish to act as deputy County attorney again soon. Still he was not injured!

J. Q. Burchfield, of Howard, the boss agricultural implement man of Elk County, has been in the city a couple of days, and of course made THE COURANT office headquarters. We have had a great many friends in years gone by, but never a better one than Burchfield, and he is always a welcome visitor at our office or home.

Gen. A. H. Greene, the pioneer land broker of Cowley county, still leads the van selling lands in this section of Kansas. In a conversation yesterday with a very intelligent stranger from the east who is here looking for investments, the gentleman remarked that Gen. Green understood his business better than any man he has met in the west.

PRODUCE MARKET. Eggs, 10 cents per dozen; butter, 25 cents; live chickens, $2.10; dressed, 7-1/2 cents; live turkeys, $8 to $12; dressed, 10 cents per lb.; potatoes, $1.50 to $2.50 per bushel.

A case of the virtues of religious revivals has just been called to our notice. In 1877 Mr. T. C. Woodruff, now with Spotswood of this city, gave a man a check for a lot of eggs he had purchased in Harnellsville, New York, and made a mistake against himself of ten dollars. The man noticed the mistake at the time, but being hard up at the time said nothing about it.

Since the religious revivals have been going on in New York state this winter, the gentleman has become able to pay back the ten dollars, and after writing to Mr. Woodruff and asking how much would settle the bill to date, and being answered that the ten dollars would do, sent a draft for the amount with interest, amounting in the total to thirteen dollars. It was a good act by the gentleman, and Woodruff feels about thirteen dollars better than he did.

DIED. Again we are called upon to announce the death of a well known citizen, Mr. Hanchett, father of Frank Hanchett, proprietor of the dairy. On last Thursday morning he struck a refractory horse with a pitch fork, when the animal kicked, hitting the fork, the end of which struck Mr. Hanchett near the abdomen, from the effect of which he died yesterday. The funeral services were held Thursday morning. The Rev. Cairns delivered the sermon. Mr. Hanchett was 72 years of age; was born in New York state, and leaves a family of two sons and a daughter. He was a great student of books, and had a large and well selected library. He was respected as an excellent man by all who knew him.

Hon. W. P. Hackney, of Cowley county, is in the city, and, as we understand, is a candidate for Congress. Mr. Hackney has oftentimes been supported by his friends and neighbors for important public positions, and there is no question but what he now has their warm support for the position to which he aspires. He is a competent and trustworthy gentleman and would make a valuable member, and one too who would likely remain in Congress a number of years after having been once elected.

DIED. Mr. John Service died at about half past eleven Saturday, March 11, 1882. His death was caused by heart disease. Mr. Service had been at Wellington with Mr. Platter assisting in some religious meetings and returned on the 6 o'clock morning train. He was feeling in better health than for some time past and had no premonitory symptoms of the disease which carried him off. He was sawing wood in the yard in the rear of the house of Mr. Tucker, where he was boarding, when he felt a severe pain in his side, and entering the house laid down upon the bed and died within fifteen minutes. This news will startle our citizens who were acquainted with Mr. Service. He has long been a resident of this city and county and was one of our most prominent citizens. He had many friends and was held in universal respect for his Christian character and upright life. He was an ardent worker in the cause of temperance, and a leading member of the Presbyterian church. He possessed considerable property interests here and had always labored for the advancement of the city and county.

His sudden and startling death will be deeply regretted. We were personally acquainted with him and knew him for a man of many virtues and few faults, and it is with pain that we record his removal from our midst. The suddenness of his death increased the feeling of solemnity among our citizens and brings forcibly to our mind the realization that life is of a most uncertain and transient character. Mr. Service leaves a sister, the only member of the family now living, who is well known in this community for her deeds of charity. In this hour of bereavement, she has the sympathy of the entire community.

The Burial of a Good Man. On Monday we followed to its last resting place on the earth the form that once contained all that was of value to John Service, an Elder in the Presbyterian church of this place. To say that he was a good man, as the world understands the word, is only to speak in part his worth.

DIED. The sad intelligence was received Tuesday by Mrs. Lee that her son, Herbert, had been taken with typhoid pneumonia and after an illness of two days had died.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "WILLIAM J." - NORTH FAIRVIEW INTELLIGENCE.]

Messrs. Huston and Nichols have taken charge of the Dunkard mills. As Mr. Nichols is an experienced miller, and David Huston a boss hand to jerk sacks around, we predict success for the new firm.

Charles F. Baxter has given the people reason to believe that Judge Gans will be interviewed ere long, as he has purchased a bedstead and grind stone. Well, Charley, the purchase of the bedstead is well enough, but oh, wouldn't we hate to be in your place, when we think of the grindstone.

WILLIAM J.

[LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.]

At a late meeting of the Library Association, the following officers were elected for the year ending January 31, 1883: President, Mrs. M. J. Wood; Vice President, Mrs. T. B. Myers; Secretary, Mrs. A. H. Doane; Treasurer, Mrs. W. L. Mullen; Directors, Mrs. H. H. Mansfield, Mrs. Elbert Bliss, Mrs. James A. Bullen, Mrs. J. Swain, Mrs. J. B. Schofield, Mrs. J. A. Earnest, Mrs. W. H. Shearer, Mrs. J. G. Shreeves, and Mrs. G. W. Miller.

It would be a great encouragement to the ladies to have the gentlemen come manfully to the front and buy a yearly ticket. Three dollars for one year is a small sum when the benefits to be derived from the investment are considered, still if every family in Winfield would purchase a ticket, it would place the laides in a position where they would feel justified in not only sustaining a Library but would open an attractive reading room. Many entertaining and instructive volumes have been added to the library during the winter. Let all see to it that they have a personal interest in this association.

[MORE PERSONALS: THE COURANT, MARCH 16, 1882.]

The scholars in the west ward are having their natural rights whittled down to a pretty fine point. The boys have been forbidden to bring their sleds to school and they are not allowed to engage in that grandest of all sports, snowballing. The girls are not allowed to play "keep house," and the future looks pretty dark for the little folks. When we went to school a restriction of our right to snowball would have been as good cause for mutiny as the abuses of the American colonies by King George was cause for the declaration of independence. We expect the scholars will, before long, be restricted to the privilege of gazing idiotically at the ceiling and twirling their thumbs.

A suspicious circumstance happened at the Hoosier Grocery that may furnish some clue to the high handed raid on Mr. Jenning's hen coop last Sunday night. A lady accosted Charles Hodges and inquired the price paid for chickens, which Charles informed her was eight cents per pound for fat and young chickens, dressed. The lady then produced from under her apron a large dressed chicken weighing seven pounds which Charles purchased, and which upon critical examination, proved to be a fourteen year old rooster and tougher than the head of a base drum. The spring chicken will be on exhibition for a few months and we advise Mr. Jennings to call around and see if he can recognize the departed.

[MORE PERSONALS: THE COURANT, MARCH 16, 1882.]

Mr. S. P. Jennings, who lives on the old Holmes place south of town, was last Saturday night the victim of one of the most bold and daring robberies and of the most dastardly character that is recorded in the annals of crime. During the night a band of seperate and hungry men forcibly entered the chicken coop and stole eighteen chickens, cleaning out the ranch, and leaving it as desolate and chickenless as the grave. Age or sex was not spared; the old and the young, the low and the high, the tough and the tender, were swooped down upon by the invaders and torn from their peaceful and happy home. The outrage stands out in the light of the nineteenth century a dark blot upon American civilization. Brave roosters and fair hens were cut off in the plentitude of their existence. The penitent and impenitent were alike taken. The repentant hen who had gone to sleep happy in the resolution that she would lay more eggs in the future, and the beligerent rooster who had promised himself a free fight in the morning, shared alike the horrible fate that awaits stolen chickens in general. Such a sack was never seen since Rhoderik Dhu laid waste the pleasant hamlets of the Lowlanders, or the itinerant preachers of Indians struck terror to the yellow legged chickens of the backwoods. Never before has such a case of "fowl" play been brought to our notice. There is every reason to think that Jesse James and his villains are at the bottom of this. The last train robbery at the Blue Cut brought but little money, and these hunted desperadoes are probably at some rendezvous on the Walnut, tearing those innocent and unfortunate victims of their red-handed crime, limb from limb. The coop that once held a happy family is now desolate and empty, and where once resounded the happy cackle of the rooster and the clarion notes of the hen is heard nought but the mournful echoes of the passing sounds. Mr. Jennings has the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community in this prostrating blow that has left his heart and hen coop such an aching void.

We are informed that the Domestic Sewing Machine Company have appointed D. F. Best sole agent for the "light running Domestic," for Cowley County in place of F. M. Friend, their former agent. With the "light running Domestic" and the "New Silent No. 8," Mr. Best fears no competition, and in the future, as in the past, will continue to do the largest sewing machine trade in Cowley County. When in the city, call and see him.

Mr. Best is also the agent for the Smith American organs.

Hereafter the South Western Stage Co. will run a hack to and from Salt City at least twice a week and as much oftener as the public convenience demands. Parties wishing Geuda Springs water or transportation can leave orders at Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express office, or at the Brettun House, where it will be promptly attended to. A. C. BANGS, Agent.

[SOME ADS: COURANT, MARCH 16, 1882.]

BROTHERTON & SILVER...Have removed, and are located Two Doors North of J. B. Lynn's, Winfield, Kansas.

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MILLER & DIX, WINFIELD MEAT MARKET, CENTER OF BLOCK NORTH OF THE POST OFFICE, WINFIELD, KANSAS.

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ED. L. BRINING, CABINET MAKER AND UPHOLSTERER, EAST SIDE, SOUTH MAIN STREET, WINFIELD.

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E. DEVER, PROPRIETOR OF THE STAR BAKERY, TWO DOORS NORTH OF WHITING'S MEAT MARKET, WINFIELD.

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WINFIELD LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, OVER POSTOFFICE. [J. C. McMULLEN, PRESIDENT/H. G. FULLER, SECRETARY.

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THE HOOSIER GROCERY, NORTH MAIN STREET, WINFIELD.

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IRA L. McCOMMON, CITY PHARMACY, SUCCESSOR TO E. W. HOVEY & CO., THREE DOORS SOUTH OF THE BANKS, WINFIELD, KANSAS.

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C. M. WOOD, LIVESTOCK DEALER AND SHIPPER, OFFICE TWO DOORS SOUTH OF THE BANKS, WINFIELD, KANSAS.

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P. H. ALBRIGHT & CO., OFFICE FRONT ROOMS, OVER THE POST OFFICE.

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WHITING BROS. MEAT MARKET, TWO DOORS NORTH OF SPOTSWOOD'S, WINFIELD.

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THE WINFIELD JEWELRY HOUSE, GGEORGE A. SCHROETER, AGENT, SOUTH OF 76 HORNING 76, ROBINSON & CO., WINFIELD, KANSAS.

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PRYOR & KINNE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, REAL ESTATE, LOAN & INSURANCE AGENTS, OFFICE IN WINFIELD BANK BUILDING, UP STAIRS.

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T. F. AXTELL, PROPRIETOR OF THE ENGLISH KITCHEN RESTAURANT.

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WM. NEWTON, DEALER IN AND MANUFACTURER OF HARNESS AND SADDLES.

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HARTER BROS., DEALERS IN DRUGS AND MEDICINES, WINFIELD.

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WINFIELD LIBERY FEED AND SALE STABLE, SCOFIELD & KECK, PROPRIETORS, MAIN STREET, WINFIELD.

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SOUTHWESTERN STAGE AND OMNIBUS LINE, DAILY LINE OF STAGES FROM WINFIELD TO DOUGLAS, EL DORADO, AND AUGUSTA. LEAVE ORDERS AT ALL HOTELS OR THE CO.'S OFFICE, 9TH AVENUE. A. C. BANGS, AGENT.

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[MORE ADS: COWLEY COUNTY COURANT, MARCH 16, 1882.]

WINFIELD DAIRY AND CHEESE ASSOCIATION. THE NEAREST DAIRY IN TOWN. WE DELIVER MILK, BUTTER, CHEESE REGULAR TO THE TRADE. GOOD GOODS AT REASONABLE RATES OR NO CHARGE. HANCHET BROS.

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ELI YOUNGHEIM'S MAMMOTH CLOTHING HOUSE, ONE DOOR NORTH OF POST OFFICE, WINFIELD.

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S. H. MYTON, DEALER IN SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE AND FARM MACHINERY. COPPER AND IRON WORK DONE ON SHORT NOTICE.

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A. T. SPOTSWOOD & CO. AD PLAYED UP STRICTLY CASH BASIS.

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JOHNSTON & HILL FURNITURE...UNDERTAKING GOODS.

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WINFIELD MACHINE WORKS. SAMUEL CLARKE, PROPRIETOR, AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER. SHOPS NEAR A., T. & S. F. R. R., WINFIELD.

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COAL & WOOD...AT ALLEN JOHNSON'S. OFFICE ON MAIN STREET, FIRST DOOR NORTH HARTER BROS.

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QUINCY A. GLASS...WALL PAPER & BORDERS! NO ADDRESS.

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[EDITORIAL COLUMNS.]

We are authorized to announce H. H. Siverd for re-election to the office of Constable of the City of Winfield.

We would like to ask the Courier if the "first five months of prohibition" didn't commence on the first of May? We will also ask that paper why it quibbles to shield its candidate? We will also ask the Courier how it could suppose that Saint John got his information from anything published in that paper May 5th, when his statements covered five months after that date? Will the Courier please answer?

The most extensive railroad operation now in the west is the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, with its long line and many

branches. Some time ago the Topeka Commonwealth gave some statistics from the expense account for the year 1881. We find that during that period they expended for new buildings alone the sum of $426,840.73. For new iron bridges they spent $165,721.04; new steel rails, $1,640,540.73; stone ballast, $12,058.70, making a grand total for the four items named of $2,215,167.86, the greater part of which may be classed under the head of incidentals. In addition to this there is an army of employees whose monthly pay aggregates hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Commonwealth states that the improvements planned for the present year will require a much greater outlay than was made last year. For instance, over $30,000 will be expended at Topeka alone. There is at times a strong prejudice against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Company, but we greatly doubt that thee is an institution in the State the loss of which would be felt one-tenth as keenly as would be the loss of this road.

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James Christian will lecture at Emporia April 1st.

School district 122 has voted $200 of bonds to refund other indebtedness.

Coal is sold at Independence banks for thirteen and a half cents per bushel.

T. K. Johnston is expected home from Durango, Colorado, the first of next month.

Bliss & Wood have telephonic connection, and the convenience will undoubtedly be great.

The name of the office, Little Dutch, Cowley County, Kansas, has been changed to "Akron."

The Santa Fe Company is putting iron bridges across the stream on the Walnut Valley Branch.

Curns & Manser have sold the Lewis Meyers farm in Walnut township to J. E. Mautz for $3,500.

F. W. Schwartz has purchased the farm of N. W. Johnson, in Walnut township, the price paid being $2,700.

M. S. Roseberry has sold his farm in Beaver township, through Bryan & Harris, to Hamilton Barnes for $2,000.

[MORE PERSONALS: THE COWLEY COUNTY COURANT, MARCH 23, 1882.]

Fish Commissioner Long wants all dams constructed according to law by the 1st day of May, or he will make music.

The gross receipts of "Esmeralda" amounts to $100.25. The expenses were $47.50, leaving for the Library Association $52.75.

H. C. Hawkins has sold his farm in Vernon township to George T. Bacastow for $3,800. The sale was made by Bryan & Harris.

Pete Baden is getting his new headquarters fixed up in good style, and everything resembles a large grocery stock down that way.

A farmer named Hughes, nine miles north of Lawrence, has been arrested and bound over for stealing a barrel of liquor. What next?

Hon. C. R. Mitchell, of Cowley county, will succeed Gen. T. T. Taylor as a member of the State Board of Charities. We congratulate Robert.

W. J. Hodges has returned from St. Louis from his first shipment of sheep. The remainder of his large flock will soon be placed upon the market.

Joe E. Conklin, Esq., of the "hub," was in town last Saturday on business. He informed us he had made arrangements and given the necessary instructions for the erection of a summer residence at Geuda Springs, the same to be commenced right away.

The young people in placing the play of "Esmerelda" upon the stage were grealy assisted by Mr. Boles, clerk for J. S. Mann. Mr. Boles has had several years experience in the dramatic line, and proved a valuable assistant to the club.

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Tally one for the telephone. It is being extended into the country. Dr. Davis is building a house on his farm on the mound east of town and will soon move out. He will keep his office in town and have telephonic connection with his farm house.

Some wicked person has poisoned John Pryor's watch dog, and John says it's a dog gone shame, as he will have to sit up nights with his chicken coop now. John should be thankful that the nights are growing warm.

William Ogden, who is connected with the brewery west of town, has had action commenced against him for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors. He will be tried before Justice Buckman next Tuesday.

Madam Rumor has it that Frank Williams, our Frank, will take charge of the Occidental at Wichita next Monday. Frank is a good one, and will give Wichita a first-class house.

Timme, our enterprising tailor, is building a neat residence on his farm three miles south of the city. This looks a little suspicious, but then all signs fail in dry weather.

George Warner and J. B. Wall, two of Rock township's boss farmers, came in and deposited a couple of the almighty dollars last Saturday.

McGuire Brothers have a new scheme to attract trade, in the shape of a fine musical instrument. Do not fail to call and see and hear.

Word reached us Friday that the flume walls at Ayres mills, on the tunnel at Arkansas City, have been washed completely out. Mr. Ayres had just finished repairing a bad break in the same place, and turned the water in the canal for the second time with the result as stated. This is very discouraging. Mr. Ayres has worked hard, expended much money, and was getting in good condition to start his mill, and these catastrophes are not the most cheering things in the world.

Newton Hager, who went from Rock township, this county, to New Mexico, something over a year ago, seems to have struck it rich. He has some fine mines in the Pecos Mining district, about twenty miles from Glorietta. He sent recently to Judge McDonald a lot of specimens of silver bearing ore taken from his mines, which will assay from 100 to 500 ounces of silver to the ton. The quartz can be seen at Hackney & McDonald's law office.

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THE COURANT is under obligation to Friend's Millinery House for the use of one of their famous Davis sewing machines, which is without any doubt one of the best machines made.

On Saturday last E. C. Seward, with characteristic recklessness, dodge all business responsibilities for the time being, and quietly wended his way to the babbling brook, there to fish and freeze and freeze and fish. He returned in the evening with a string--in his coat pocket--and one small catfish, which he carried through town in his boot leg.

The Winfield Loan & Trust Co. is fully organized and in perfect working order. They are placing loans on good security, in any amount at lowest rates.

The sidewalk between the Presbyterian Church and the Court House is becoming very uneven and should be leveled up, if the good name of our city for sidewalks is to be maintained.

BIRTH. A. B. Sykes, foreman of the Courier office, is the proud father of a newly arrived girl baby. Of course, we smoke when a printer makes a break like that.

The arbitrators in the Harter and Harris mill case have, after a long and tedious siege of work, arrived at a decision, in which they find that Lewis Harter is indebted to C. C. Harris in the sum of $1,835.62, due for rent of mill property. The arbitration has passed off smoothly, and the decision is satisfac-

tory. The costs amount to $176. This is a good deal cheaper, more expeditious, and leaves a better feeling than a case in the courts. Arbitration is the best thing in the world for those persons who desire only exact justice.

We are in receipt of a long communication from Thomas W. Sheddan, the man who was adjudged insane last Monday. The communication is a biography of his life, and is written in a very good manner and with no show of insanity. The letter is addressed to the public and closes as follows: "I am still in the county jail and so far as anyone can tell am just as sane as I was two or three months ago."

The Douglass Congregationalists will build a church. The Index says: "A few weeks ago they had an architect here from Topeka to draw plans for them, and on Wednesday last, Mr. S. A. Cook, of Winfield, considered one of the best architects in the state, came up for the same purpose, and drew up a plan that seems to give general satisfaction."

[MORE PERSONALS: COURANT, MARCH 23, 1882.]

The ladies of Winfield are after the COURANT man with a sharp stick, and threaten to crush the paper out of existence. If those wide-awake merchants will keep their liberal ads hanging on the brush, there is no danger of the c(o)urrants drooping off.

The telephone instruments, wires, poles, and everything necessary to complete the exchange in the city, have arrived and the balance of the instruments will be put up and in working order in two or three days. It is a nice and convenient improvement for the city.

Hon. Al. R. Greene is lecturing in several towns in southern Kansas, and his lecture is highly spoken of by the press.

Members of the Wool Growers Assocition and all others interested are requested to meet at the Court House on Saturday, April 1st, at 1 o'clock P.M. to elect officers and arrange for the annual public shearing. A. C. Crowell, Secretary.

Dr. Lee, fined $100 and costs at Oskaloosa for selling liquor contrary to the provisions of the prohibitory law, evaded the officers and is now a fugitive from justice. It is supposed he went to Kansas City.

For ways that are dark and tricks that are wicked commend us to the livery stable men. Two unsophisticated ministers con-cluded to take a ride to El Paso yesterday. One of the divines was from a little backwoods town named Winfield, the other was no less a personage than the bishop of Wichita. Now the aforesaid bishop, notwithstanding the historical fact that Paul footed it to Assos, keeps a good horse and prides himself on knowing how to drive. Not to be tedious in our narrative, we will state that the bishop concluded to take his reverend brother from the rural district out for an airing; and hence, proceeded to the livery stable and ordered his own Iroquois to be hitched in with another fiery steed of the livery man's own selection. The stable boy proceeded to his work and soon the bishop and his curate were driving towards El Paso. But the stable boy had forgotten to supply them with collar straps and soon the buggy was on the heels and the collars on the ears of the horses.

The fiery charges sprang forward and for the space of ever so many minutes the gospel traveled faster than it was ever known to travel, even in temperance Kansas. The gospelers forgot, for the time being, election, predestination, eternal sovereignty, and foreordination.

The curate in his endeavor to assist the bishop kicked the stuffing out of the dashboard and still the horses flew over the earth, the buggy danced in the air, and the hot blood rushed into the faces of the usually sedate dominies. Onward they sped until the phantom ship of the "Flying Dutchman" was nothing compared with the flying parsons. Finally, they corralled the team in a hedge row. The curate said "Amen" and the bishop sung the long meter doxology. Wichita Times.

We don't believe that story, and will ask Mr. Platter if he knows anything about it.

Thomas Poar, Milo Hare, and Harry Lester were brought before Justice George H. Buckman charged with "shooting and throwing stones and making boisterous and contemptuous noises." These are the young men who made the attack on the Santa Fe train in Pleasant Valley township, and were arrested on complaint of conductor Miller. Poar and Lester were fined $20 each and costs, and Milo Hare $10 and costs. The amusement cost the boys $92.45. The young men are well known in the neighborhood and two of them are the sons of highly respected citizens. We are sorry that such a thing occurred, and the boys are sorry themselves, having promised never to appear in such an aspect again. Liquor was probably the cause of the disgraceful act.

The Cherokee Indians, the most civilized nation in the Indian Territory, number twenty thousand actual citizens. It supports one hundred and seven schools, in which the instruction is given in English, a boys' high school, a girls' high school, an orphan asylum, an asylum for the insane, blind, and indigent, and other public institutions. Out of five thousand one hundred and sixty-nine men over eighteen years of age, only sixteen are hunters and five fishermen, three thousand five hundred and forty-six are farmers, and the rest are professional men, merchants, mechanics, and laborers. It will not do to call the fellows savages. A. C. Democrat.

Several of our grocery dealers have made what we consider a wise move. Messrs. Ed. Cochran and Ed. Riley have contracted for the delivery of groceries around town. They have taken the delivery business of five of our grocers, and expect to secure it from all. Each gentleman has a ward, and a red flag at a grocery is the sign that goods are waiting to be delivered. If, under this scheme, goods can be delivered promptly, we think the move is a good one and will result in a saving to our people, as of course the consumers of the goods have to pay the expense of

delivery.

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Henthorn of the Burden Enterprise, has been spending most of his time in Winfield recently. What the fellow is after we can't say, but he seems as happy as clam in summer water, and never appears to care whether he goes home or not. If there is anyone at Burden who has the welfare of Henthorn at heart, they should come over.

The Wichita Times, speaking of one of Winfield's popular preachers and one who has, perhaps, more admiriers than any other one man in Southern Kansas, says: "Rev. Platter of the Presbyterian Church in Winfield has been in our city a week assisting in a series of meetings at the Presbyterian Church. Rev. Platter is a man not over thirty or thirty-five years of age. This we guess. Yet it is hard to guess at his age as he is a well preserved man in the prime of manhood. Handsome, jet black hair and mustache, full chest, straight as an Indian, and of a commanding appearance. He would make a splendid looking Knight Templar in uniform. As a speaker, he has a mellow voice and an easy delivery. But there is a feeling all the while as if he were not doing his best. It seems as if there was a reserve force that he hesitates about calling into line. He does not let his voice out, does not put as much oratorical power into his sermons as there is in the man. In a word, Platter's sermons are not a full expression of the man. There is a much more powerful sermon left unsaid than is ever spoken out to the people. We judge that sometime in the past somebody has drilled too much caution into the preacher. He wants to loosen up the brakes, and let the train move along. Let the people hear that sermon that you always keep back behind your large bump of cautiousness. Now, in that criticism we do not mean to say that Platter is not a powerful preacher; on the contrary, he is as pleasant and instructive a preacher as we have heard for many a day. There are no poor preachers in the Presbyterian Church.

The M. D. is the worst paid professional man, and they are not to be blamed sometimes for growling a little at being hauled out of bed in the cold at the dead hour of midnight, when it is possible they will never get anything for it, but occasionally they make a mistake about the paying ability of their patients, as well as newspapers and other people. A couple of Winfield's pill rollers made a mistake recently which proved profitable to one of their rivals.

One of them was called to see a sick child six or eight miles in the country, and things not looking very stylish or wealthy around the country residence, the medicine man concluded not to go again; and when he was sent for the second time, said he could do the little child no good, and recommended another doctor, who went once also, and before leaving said he would not treat the child unless he could have his bill secured. This made the granger mad, and he came to town and employed Dr. Emerson, who it appears goes at every call, money or no money in sight. It now turns out that the farmer is pretty well-to-do and always has money, notwithstanding the looks of his clothes. The child is gradually improving, and the wrath of the granger has increased to such an extent that he swears he would burn his wealth before he would pay either of the first two physicians a cent for what they have done.

P. H. Albright returned from Sedan Thursday evening. He has been over there nearly a week, most of which time we presume was squandered sitting up to that lovely piece of humanity of the female persuasion. Albright reports everything lovely over east, and from the faraway look in his eye, he will go over again soon just to place a few loans.

The Union depot at Wichita turns out to be a very tame affair, only to be a small building to be put up by the Santa Fe folks to take the place of the old one worn out in years gone by. The freight stored there and consigned to and from Winfield aided much in rocking the old structure.

Maine is cutting ice twenty-four inches thick, and it is so clear that the blush of modesty can be seen through it. When our Winfield dealers come to sell their ice, say at four cents a pound, there is no danger of seeing their blush of modesty, either through the ice or anywhere else.

Mr. Thorpe, proprietor of the Kansas Tannery, left for New York Wednesday for the purrpose, in connection with other business, of working up a boot and shoe manufactory at this place. Mr. Thorpe is in earnest in establishing this enterprise, and we hope he will be assisted as much as possible by our businessmen. We might just as well manufacture our own hides and those of the surrounding country as to have them shipped east, manufactured into boots and shoes, and returned for us to purchase and pay the expense of shipping each way, together with the profits left in the hands of several middle men. We are close to a large stock range where the supply of hides would never fail, and there is all the southern and western country we might supply with boots and shoes.

We speak with some knowledge when we say that this branch of the Santa Fe railroad is liable to extend through the Indian Territory, opening up the south and giving us connections that will make our position in regard to manufactories all that could be desired. We urge upon our citizens who desire to see this city become something besides a country town, to awaken to this matter, sound the subject to its depths, and use every effort towards securing something of this kind.

The play of Esmeralda, given Thursday by the Winfield Dramatic Club, brought out one of the largest houses the opera house has seen for a long time. The general expression is that the play was "first rate," and we do not hesitate to endorse the sentiment. The parts were well taken, and the make-up and general rendition of the play would have been no discredit to many professional troupes. There is no doubt but that Winfield possesses ample ability in this line to support a flourishing dramatic club, and we would like to see one on a firm and permanent foundation.

Spotswood has very much improved his storeroom by cutting a stairway in the center of the sales room which connects with the basement where is kept all the staple articles and case goods.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "MUNROE" - BETHEL ITEMS.]

Mrs. Mary Newell, of your city, is visiting her parents at Bethel.

Tom Veale, of Olive, will plant about twenty acres of broom corn.

Beckie White entertained a number of lady friends last Sunday evening.

I understand there is to be preaching at Bethel next Sunday evening by Rev. Brown.

Peach trees are in full bloom though not as full as last year, but plenty for a good crop, if they don't get another freeze.

Johnny Willis, of Renton county, Arkansas, an old time boy of Bethel, has returned. Johnny, we of Bethel are glad to see you.

Miss Lizzie Wilson and Miss Clista Goffemire, of Winfield, paid Bethel a friendly visit one day last week. Come again birls.

Miss Jennie Lowry, of your city, was visiting friends at Bethel Saturday and Sunday. Miss Lowry taught the winter term of school at Bethel and was much liked by all the scholars.

Miss Maggie Song returned from her visit to the asylum where her brother was taken to some time ago, and reports him as getting along well. She says she believes in less than two months he will be well and at home, and it is to be hoped that he will.

Tom Wilson, of Shelbyville, Illinois, who bought the McNeil farm, has just finished a story and a half house, 16 x 24, with shed kitchen, and moved his family into the same one day last week. The two Misses Wilson will attract the attention of all with their rare beauty and accomplishments. The folks of Bethel welcome them to their future home.

Mrs. Catherine Burns, of Mount Carmel, started Tuesday the 31st via K. C. L. C. & S. R. R. for a visit to friends in Pennsylvania. The object of Mrs. Burns' visit to her old home is a reconciliation trip. As it would take too much of your space to give the particulars of this affair, I will wait until she returns and will give the reader a full account.

Munroe is in trouble, and its all about something that has been said or that has not been said. They all say that I lie, and never tell the truth. I will let the people judge for this item, at any rate. I know I lie when I say that Squire Anderson has not got another marriageable daughter. I know I lie when I say that Robert Weekly's youngest son is the homeliest lad to be seen. I know I lie when I say that Sam Burger's mustache is in sight. I know I lie when I say that Pete Sipe will trade horses again, without sending the trader to consult his wife. I know I lie when I say that George Youle has the prettiest wife in the world. I know I lie when I say there is not a girl at Bethel who does not want to marry. I know I lie when I say that everybody knows who "Munroe" is.

MUNROE.

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Hon. Bill Hackney returned Monday evening from his little tour through Arkansas. He says they may form all the combinations against him they desire, and he will get a solid delegation from Arkansaw and the Cherokee Nation. You bet Hackney works them up wherever he goes.

DIED. Died, at his residence, in Burden, this county, March 15, 1882, William Smith, aged fifty-six years. Mr. Smith came to Cowley county eleven years ago, and settled on Silver creek, when there were but few inhabitants in that section. He leaves several relatives and a host of friends in this county who mourn his loss.

Frank Manny has the telephone in good working shape. The more we see of this instrument the greater becomes our admiration for this wonderful development of human genius.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "CLODHOPPER" - OMNIA.]

John Parsons is feeding two cars of fine steers, which will be a credit to him when put on the market.

J. W. Johnson, of Greenwood county, has one hundred and fifty head of cattle feeding at Mr. Daggetts' on Timber creek.

Of sheep Messrs. Wolsey and Strother have their eight hundred head nearly all fit for the buther, if they were disposed to sell them for mutton.

BIRTH. The only local item worthy of notice this week is the birth of a son to H. F. Jackson, of Harvey township, which he says weighs nearly seventy-five pounds.

James Messinger has one hundred and fifty head of sheep in good condition. Mr. Chamberlain has 2,500, and Mr. Hamell about 900. Mr. Stolp some 500 besides several smaller lots, all, so far as I can learn, in good flesh and going through with very little loss.

The cattle men who played "Sunny Kansas" by letting the summer pass without providing feed in sufficient quantities for a Canadian winter, put in their time trailing up their stock and cursing Kansas. A Mr. Adams, of Harvey township, on the head of Timber Creek, I understand, has lost several hundred dollars worth of cattle, and B. F. Ayres of the same township, some cows.

About ten inches of snow fell here in March.

The several farms in this neighborhood on which proceedings have been commenced to foreclose were mostly mortgaged by men who were discouraged and wanted to get back to Missouri, and never intended to pay either interest or principal. The others failed to pay an installment of interest, and being caught in bad company, are to be mercilessly bounced.

CLODHOPPER.

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George Osterhout has a fine selection of house plants which he has lately received from the east. The selection contains some beautiful varieties, and among them we notice a calla lilly in bloom, fuschias, pansies, geraniums, and other fine varieties. The most valuable and rarest plant in the selection is a variegated geranium, bearing from one root a dark and light flower. This species is very rare in this country and is prized by lovers of domesticated flowes. We would advise those desiring house plants to call around and see the fine selections.

Almost every evening there are a large number of hoodlums who gather on Main street. They indulge in swearing, foot-racing, playing tag, and hurrahing around generally until they are exhausted by fatigue, which is not generally reached until a late hour. Let our council pass an ordinance prohibiting those boys from being on the street after night, and then have it enforced. If the parents of these young candidates for the pen cannot control them, it would be better to let the law take a hand.

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The building occupied by Hudson Brothers for the past six years as a jewelry store is being moved out to clear the way for their large stone business house. One by one the old frame fire traps give away and good buildings take their places.

W. R. Talbot, of Cherryvale, came over on Monday evening's train. Mr. Tablot is a partner of A. W. Davis in the hotel business and a first-class young man.

Considerable trouble has been experienced in getting a jury in the case against the breweryman on trial today for the violation of the prohibition law.

[AD: COURANT, MARCH 23, 1882.]

RECAP: THE BOSS HAVING GONE TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON FOR THE PURPOSE OF BUYING THE LARGEST AND FINEST STOCK OF BOOTS AND SHOES EVER BROUGHT TO THIS MARKET, THE TWO SALESMEN, JOHN HYDEN & E. C. SEWARD, PLACED THE AD...FOR...SMITH BROTHERS, 3 DOORS NORTH OF THE POST OFFICE, WINFIELD, KANSAS. [JOHN HYDEN/E. C. SEWARD.]

COWLEY COUNTY COURANT

WINFIELD, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1882.

A. B. STEINBERGER, PUBLISHER.

OUR AIM: TO TELL THE TRUTH, OBEY THE LAW, AND MAKE MONEY.

OUR MOTTO: WORK FOR HOME, TALK FOR HOME, AND FIGHT FOR HOME.

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[PERSONALS: COURANT, MARCH 30, 1882.]

Robert W. Robinson and L. H. Underwood, of the Ft. Scott nursery, are in ttown.

A new sidewalk has been put down in front of the building just east of this office.

Ed. Cole was very sick a couple of days last week but is around on his own pegs again all right.

Bert Crapster now regales himself by driving Black's fast horse about every afternoon.

The Santa Fe Company is putting iron bridges across the streams on the Walnut Valley branch.

Some fiend has hurt little Jack, Dr. Jones' fine dog. Jack has really more trouble than a married man.

Arthur Bangs, one of Winfield's nice young men, came up to see "Hazel Kirke" last night. Wichita Times.

[MORE PERSONALS: COURANT, MARCH 30, 1882.]

The Courthouse yard is being filled up, and will, when completed, present a finer appearance than any other block in the city.

Judge Jimmy Christian, "the old man eloquent," will lecture on "Ireland and the Irish" at the M. E. Church next Monday evening. Wichita Times.

Mr. Ringwald, a young man who stopped in Winfield several weeks a year ago, and then went back to Illinois, returned with his wife Saturday morning, and will make this his future home.

The city registration books closed Saturday with 510 voters registered, the first ward having 275 and the second 235. It is estimated that something over 100 voters have failed to register.

A magnificent flag-stone pavement, about sixteen feet wide, is being put down on the west end of the Methodist church, and adds very much to the outward appearance.

Dr. Jones and S. C. Smith gathered up their cannons yesterday afternoon and started out to deliberately murder all the game they came in sight of.

TO THE PUBLIC: I work as other men; I believe in the Sabbath day, "to keep it holy," and take my rest; and in kindness to each and all, I wish if you desire to see the flowers, hot-beds, or visit my place, that you call on week days instead of Sunday, and you will find me ever at your service.

FRANK MANNY.

The Winfield Dramatic Club will reproduce the beautiful drama, "Esmaralda" at the opera house one evening week after next, the proceeds to be applied to the benefit of the M. E. Church. The M. E. choir will also furnish some splendid music in connection with the play.

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Prof. R. A. Tappan, of Independence, a dancing master who bears the marks of a gentleman and comes recommended as one of the most skillful teachers in the west, is in our city, with a fair prospect of working up a good class.

I will commence a mixed grade private school in the east ward school house April 10th. In connection with this, will take up the study of German.

MRS. WILL B. CATON.

C. Haywood and wife, of Arkansas City, are visiting in Emporia. Mr. Haywood has closed out his business at the former place, and is looking around for a new location. Emporia News.

Sam Clarke, our boss machinist, is down at Arkansas City doing a big job of work for one of the mills there. Clarke is a good one, and it is a hard matter to keep him at home.

There may new lumber yards spring up, but none can compete with the Chicago Lumber company. Do not buy a bill of lumber without first seeing Will Smith.

Tip Davenport and wife were up from Arkansas City last evening and attended the dance at the hall. We hope they will come up often.

From the Caldwell Commercial we learn the following concerning the horrible murder and robbery of Henry Stevens in the Indian Territory.

"Word was brought up Tuesday to the effect that Henry T. Stevens had been murdered and robbed last Sunday morning near Fort Reno. Stevens left here one week ago last Monday with a wagon and five horses to go to Fort Worth, Texas, for some cattle belonging to Campbell & Dorsey, of Wichita. He was accompanied by Charlie Parsons, who he brought down from Wichita, and Jim Morgan and Ed. Derusha, both of whom he hired at this place. The facts as written by Parsons are to the effect that on Sunday morning while the party were in camp on Deercreek, Morgan snatched Parsons' revolver and taking his own off the wagon, drew both upon the party and told them to move off to a hill a short distance away. Parsons and Derusha obeyed the order, but Stevens refused to go. Morgan shot him, rifled his pockets, taking about $170, and mounted one of the horses and started off, leaving the others. Parsons went on to Reno, where he telegraphed to Mr. Campbell at Wichita.

We are informed that Morgan took the road towards Caldwell and at Bull Foot left one of the horses. Since then nothing has been heard from him. Morgan, it is said, came here last fall from Denver. He is described as a tall man, with long brown hair and blue eyes. Stevens, the murdered man, is from Grand Lodge, Michigan, and had lived at Wichita for about a year and a half, where he made many friends. Parties have gone down to Reno to obtain the body and bring it up. Every effort will be made to capture Morgan, and if he is taken alive, there is no question as to the means of taking care of him."

Mr. Fred C. Hunt and Mr. W. J. Hodges went to St. Louis last Saturday, to be gone perhaps a week. Having retired from THE COURANT editorial corps, Fred. has taken this trip as a matter of recreation. Fred is one of the best and brightest young men we have ever known, and we were never associated with anyone who so fully filled our mind's eye as he. THE COURANT is indebted to him for the larger portion of its best productions, and it was not without regret that we let him retire.

The following named gentlemen have been drawn as petit jurors for the next term of District Court, which convenes in this city on the fourth Tuesday in April.

Henry Gardner, of Cedar Township.

J. R. Lewis, J. B. Tucker, and S. B. Fleming, of Cresswell.

Willis Elliott, Samuel Wells, John Moreland, and Frank Moreland, of Liberty.

J. D. Hon, of Pleasant Valley.

Wm. Beeson, of Silver Creek.

W. P. Heath, of Maple.

W. O. Johnson, of Winfield, is in our city for the purpose of organizing a Council of the National Union. This society offers a very fair and equitable plan for life insurance. In its territorial extent it excludes all yellow fever sections, which is regarded as a very desirable feature. Both ladies and gentlemen are admitted and allowed to insure for from $1,000 to $5,000.

MARRIED. Sunday afternoon at the residence of Mr. John Beard, in this city, Mr. Amos Becker and Miss Lillian Seely promised to "love, honor, and obey" and Judge Gans then authorized them to fight it out among themselves. THE COURANT, with their many friends, wishes them a happy time of it.

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Remember and go to the Flag Drug Store, where you can save from fifteen to twenty-five percent, for cash. We sell exclusively for cash, and give our customers the benefit of low prices.

If you want a perfectly pure baking powder, call for the Golden Rule, warranted to be composed of pure bicarbinate of soda and the best cream-tartar, and nothing else. We have tested it ourselves, and prefer it to all others. WALLIS & WALLIS.

A good joke is now being revived on our fellow townsman,

W. P. Hackney, since he is acknowledged to be one of the most prominent applicants for a place upon the next Kansas delegation in Congress. The yarn runs thus.

Some several years ago Will went to Kansas City in company with Judge Torrance, Frank Williams, Bob Mitchell, and a couple other gentlemen who have passed into history. The party put up at a fine hotel notwithstanding they were not at that time accustomed to such things. The landlord seeing they were from the rural regions, stowed them away in the third or fourth story, saying when he left them that should they want anything they could ring the bell, and should any of them wish to come downstairs, if they did not feel like returning the way they had ascended, to take the elevator. It wasn't long of course until our Senator concluded he would take in the town (he had not been around as much then as he has since), and ringing the bell, a boy appeared at the door of their room, asked what they wanted, and was informed by Hackney that he wanted the elevator. The boy was puzzled for an instant, but recovering himself took in the situation, and asked very honestly what the Senator wanted with it. Seeing he was in deep water, but determined not to give himself away, Will yelled out with more force than eloquence:

"Why, you d__n fool, I want to see how it is made!" The boy ran back downstairs, the companions of the Senator smiled, and when the party went out to town, they used the old-fashioned winding stairways. Of course, Hackney now says this is all a lie, but McDonald, his law partner, says he believes every word of it, and that he thinks Will wanted the elevator upon which to ride into Congress. If any of the Wichita papers take advantage of this serap of history, the editors will be promptly dispatched to that home from which few weary travelers return.

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The Little Dutch School of Fairview township was closed today, the 24th of March. The patrons of the school, and friends from surrounding districts, gathered at the school house and spread a very tempting dinner in honor of the occasion, after which came the exercises of the afternoon, which consisted of declarations interspersed with singing. Then followed short speeches from the gentlemen. Prominent among them was one from Mr. Limerick, in which he set forth the ill looked after school fund. And it certainly is the most poorly looked after of any public money. The exercises closed with the presentation of a photograph album in behalf of the school by Mr. W. B. Wimer, one of our honored school board, with a few appropriate remarks. Mr. Wilson has made an excellent teacher, doing all in his power to make the school attractive and instructive. L.

Jake Nixson, our popular register of deeds, is arranging to soon become a millionaire. He has lately been granted a patent on a corn husker, which promises great results from a financial standpoint. He also has a patent on a wagon jack, which he expects to pan out in good shape. He is now expecting a patent on some other inventions, which he declines to give away until he gets the papers. At this rate he will become the inventor of the age. Burden Enterprise.

Mr. G. H. Buckman, the present incumbent, is a candidate for reelection to the office of justice of the peace, and from what we can ascertain, with a fair hope of success. Mr. Buckman has held this office since in Winfield all together, something over three years, and has given the best of satisfaction. There can be no good reason why he should not on election this spring, and it is generally conceded that he will be.

Mrs. Busby and Miss Greenlee have opened a dress making and ladies furnishing store, the first door north of the old Williams House. They make a specialty of Kensington work and have patterns for stamping anything anyone may require in that line. The ladies are requested to call and see them.

The Burden Enterprise says: "Last Sunday morning when Miss Ella Hiseler went into her millinery store she saw that her carpet was on fire. She had a pitcher of water handy and succeeded in putting out the flames. A strip of the carpet two feet wide extending entirely across the room was burned together with the hay under the carpet. The greatest wonder is that the building was not burned. She cannot account for the fire."

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David Hattery, a sixteen-year-old son of a very worthy citizen, living near Baltimore, Cowley county, was sent to this town last Saturday with grists of corn for his father and some of the neighbors. Upon his arrival in town he offered his grain for sale and soon found a purchaser; receiving $6.50. He then put his team in Ogg's stable, bought some clothing, and put up for the night at Throop's boarding house. On Sunday morning he paid his board bill and went to the stable, ostensibly for the purpose of getting the team and going home. He was seen about nine o'clock that morning at the stable, since which time he has not been seen. His brothers were in town Sunday evening in search of him. David has been a steady, trusty boy, and has a pleasant home and no cause can be given for his strange disappearance.

While in Winfield this week we visited the "Headquarters" and jobbing house of J. P. Baden, in the McDougle building, the new brick building just finished on the corner south of the old Williams' House. Mr. Haden has fitted this elegant store up in good shape, and is selling goods in job lots at St. Louis prices, thus giving the smaller merchants the advantage of goods at wholesale prices, without freight. Mr. Baden is one of the closest buyers that visits the eastern market, and by buying goods in large lots and paying cash, is enabled to give very low figures to parties wanting job lots of goods. Such a store as the "Headquarters" is of great advantage to Cowley County, and should be liberally patronized. Burden Enterprise.

CARD OF THANKS. In behalf of the ladies of the Library Association, allow me to extend to the members of the Ivanhoe Club, who rendered so acceptably the society drama, "Esmaralda," our heartfelt thanks. We appreciate the effort as much for the interest shown in this philanthropic work as for the money received, although there has never been a time in the history of the association when money has been more needed. The handsome sum of fifty-two dollars and seventy-five cents was netted to the society. We hope the club will feel encouraged from the large house given them, and that we may again be honored with an opportunity of listening to them.

MRS. E. T. TRIMBLE, Secretary.

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The postoffice department has ordered the establishment of a new office at Alfred, Douglas county. The office at Concord, Sumner county, is discontinued; mail goes to Wellington. The office at Norway, Republic county, has been moved a mile and a half northwest of the Mo. Pac. road. The following postmasters have been commissioned: Peter Leecher, Chouteau; Frank Mason, Sandago; Hiram Sherman, Oakridge; George Durge, Cecil; John H. Hamilton, Hunnewell; James Blair, Floral; Lawebert Pond, Clarion; John Carnahan, Alfred, Douglas county.

THE COURANT was misinformed last week and caused to give out the report that the Canal Mills at Arkansas City had been damaged by water, when there was no damage sustained. Mr. V. M. Ayres, the proprietor, was up today, and informed us of the error, which we are pleased to correct. Instead of being washed out, the mill is in good working order, and Mr. Ayres says he will be ready at any time now to attend to the wants of the public so far as the milling business is concerned.

Our young friend, Ed. Greer, local editor of the Courier, is one of the dryest jokers in the world; and he had just as soon play a joke on a member of his own family as not. Ed's wife is a friend of his, and so she is subject to his jokes. She hates Indians, and always locks the doors when she sees the beggars who camp around Winfield coming towards the house. Ed knew this, so he hired an Indian to go up to the house and slip in, and beg a pair of Ed's old pants of the good wife, which she would gladly give to get rid of him, and then offered the Indian half a dollar if he would go right into the parlor and put the pants on. Ed thought it would be a splendid joke on his wife, and he got a young man named John Hyden, a preacher's son, to go with him and watch the fun from a distance. The Indian got in the house, and when he asked for a pair of old pants, the good lady saw through the joke, and she gave him Ed's Sunday pants, and he went in the parlor and was going to put the pants on. This was too much for her, and she went to the kitchen and got a dipper of hot water. Nobody knows exactly what occurred, but Ed and John suddenly saw an Indian come out of the front door, with one leg in a pair of black doeskin pants, and the other pants leg dangling in the air, and the Indian yelled as though he was in pain, and he pulled out for the camp up on Dutch Creek. As he passed the two gentlemen, the Indian said: "Squaw heap spunky. Ugh! Hot water!" and he was gone. Ed went home and asked what the news was, and found that he was out a pair of Sunday pants, in the pocket of which was twelve dollars in money and a pass on the K. C. L. & S. road, and his wife says when he wants to send his friends up to the house to do so, by all means. She will be at home. Ed has got the conductors all fixed so they will spot the Indian and take up that pass the first time he presents it.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "MUNROE" - CHIMES FROM BETHEL.]

John Mench, of Olive, has some Pennsylvania friends visiting him. They will locate here.

Julius A. Lee, of Omnia township, was at Bethel one day last week. Mr. Lee is an old-timer of Bethel.

Johnny Clegg and wife will start for Buena Vista, Colorado, in the near future. May success attend them.

R. W. White and wife, at Fairview, were visiting friends at Bethel last Saturday and Sunday. R. S. teaches the Fairview school.

Mr. Editor, are there no other state officers but St. John? If there are any, plese name them, as the majority of the people have forgotten all about there being any but St. John.

Is. Weakly is a wealthy batchelor of Bethel, but he isn't going to be very long, judging from the frequent visits he makes toward Seeley. I will keep an eye on you, Is.

J. C. Roberts, our assessor, has been around, and how inquisitive; he must know all. If every man who came along was as inquisitive as Mr. Roberts, we should be tempted to use "cuss words." J. C. is a good one, and is giving satisfaction.

One can scarcely refrain from terming the Sergeant Mason sentence an outrage, which, for severity smacks of the dark ages. Mason was standing guard over a fiend who had robbed the nation of one of its noblest men; he was not a mere machine, even if he was a soldier, but had feelings and sympathy like thousands of others, and as he was pacing his beat with measured steps, he became so exasperated that he gave way to his feelings and sent the leaden messenger, which, if it had done its work, would have saved the country a disgraceful trial and an enormous sum of money. Petitions should be sent from every hamlet for Mason's pardon.

B. M. Murphy, another of Bethel's most worthy citizens, will cause the printers to spill ink on his name. Mr. Murphy took a bath in the murky waters of the Walnut last Sunday evening. It wasn't because he wanted to; no, he knew better, but he did it just the same.

While crossing the river in a small boat, kept at his place for the convenience of his neighbors, it is thought that he was thinking of the new check rower he had bought the day before. Anyhow, he fell in "ker chuck," head and heels. When he came up, he made a grab for the boat, and said rather sharply, "Stop, d__n it, I want you!" and here came a tussle to get into that boat. He worked till he was out of breath, but could not make it. Here he changed his basis of operations. Was there any bottom? He would try it. So letting himself down expecting to go under head and ears, to his great surprise he found the water to be only waist deep and he waded out and fastened the boat. Here Ben made a wringer out of himself, wringing his clothes and standing in the sun till it was almost down. He concluded he could venture into the house, and as Ben entered his wife asked him what was the matter. He replied with rather a suspicious look on his face: "I have been chasing the calves off the wheat, and I'm all perspiration."

DIED. Died, March 26, 1882, six miles northwest of town, Mrs. F. G. Lahman, aged forty years. She leaves a husband and three children to mourn her sudden departure. Mr. and Mrs. Lahman were early settlers in this part of Kansas, and there are a host of friends who deeply regret her untimely departure. She bore her sufferings patiently, never murmuring during all her illness. Her life went out like the peaceful closing of a summer day meeting the gathering shadows of the last long night, with the unfaltering trust that the darkness would break on a more beautiful day than ever dawns on earth. The blossoms are just peeking into life to welcome her to her last resting place to sleep until the resurrection morning.

Dearest mother, thou hast left us,

Hear our loss we deeply feel,

But tis God, who hath bereft us.

He can all our sorrows heal.

MUNROE.

[COMMUNICATION FROM CRESWELL.]

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A. D. Speed never will quit his fiendishness if he lives to be six hundred years old. Sunday morning, when everybody close was in bed, Speed took O. M. Seward's law sign and put it up in front of Mrs. Page's window, and several times during the day parties called to get information concerning an action for a divorce. It is now rumored that Speed will be arrested for trying to force a person to practice law who had not yet been admitted to the bar.

Ladies, call and get a new hat at wholesale cost at the Bankrupt Store, 9th avenue.

There were nineteen deeds of transfer filed in the office of Register of Deeds of Cowley county during the week ending March 25th, 1882. The aggregate amount of money paid for the nineteen pieces of real estate foots up to the handsome sun of $24,663.50.

Farmers, call at the Bankrupt Store on 9th Avenue and get bargains in all kinds of goods.

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J. A. Goforth has been appointed administrator of the estate of Nellie Sellers, deceased.

An inventory of the personal property of Lewis Moore has been filed in the Probate Court.

The administrator of John Brooks has been ordered to compromise with certain creditors of said estate.

Petition has been filed in the Probate Court for the sale of real estate belonging to George Fox, a minor.

An order has been issued by the Probate Judge for the sale of real estate belonging to Wm. Frieer, deceased.

Seth W. Chase has been appointed Justice of the Peace of Tisdale township, by Governor Saint John.

The administrator has reported the sale of real estate belonging to J. I. Cottingham, and the sale is confirmed.

Our township assessors are taking the sentiment of the people on the question of the repeal of the herd law.

Prairie fires appeared at nearly every point of the compass last evening, the horizon appearing one circle of light.

J. D. Hanlon has been allowed his demand for $11.75, against the estate of J. S. Hardy, by the Probate Judge.

Judge Gans, of this city, will preach at Mulvane, Saturday evening, April 8th, and the following Sunday at 11 a.m.

Will Robinson has purchased the residence of Hon. A. J. Pyburn, on South Loomis street. Well, that's all right. Why not?

A claim of Anthony and G. J. Robinson for $83, against the estate of George Naylor, has been allowed by the Probate Court.

Our citizens are planting at least ten times more trees this spring than they have during any previous season. Let the good work go on.

Hon. Thoms Ryan has been complimented with a place on the Republican Congressional Committee, as the representative for Kansas.

A report of the sale of real estate belonging to the estate of George Naylor, deceased, has been made to Judge Gans and the sale confirmed.

There will be about one hundred and thirty cases stand for trial at the next term of the District Court, which convenes in this county, April 25, 1882.

The high school has provided itself with electric apparatus, and the scholars are taking lessons in practical electricity. The girls say it is quite shocking.

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W. H. Smith, our boot and shoe man, and O. M. Seward, of this city, have been drawn as jurymen at the next term of the United States District Court.

Stanley Crandall, the printer, came in from Winfield Wednesday and will put in the balance of the week visiting in and around Howard. Stanley is a "solid muldoon," is well known, and has scores of friends in Howard, and we are glad he is with us once more. Howard Courant.

The following marriage licenses have been issued by the Probate Judge since our last report.

John Stout and Bertha Berkeorber.

Nicholas G. Harris and Mary E. Adams.

Michael J. Reilly and Mattie L. House.

Wm. E. Lynch and Fannie Barnes.

Moses H. Williams and Rebecca J. Elliott.

Samuel L. Amerine and Ettie Hill.

David Nicholson and Minne B. Walworth.

Rev. Jones, the new M. E. minister here, is said to be the ablest and best educated member of this conference, and everyone who knows him speak of him in the highest terms as a gentleman. Those of our people who have made Mr. Jones' acquaintance are highly pleased with the Bishop's appointment.

In the case tried before Judge Buckman last Wednesday of the State of Kansas against Mr. William Ogden, for violation of the prohibition law, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. The defendant was sentenced to sixty days in the county jail, and adjudged to pay the costs of the suit.

The Arkansas City Democrat says the present prospect for the erection of new buildings this spring and summer there is very encouraging, and that from present appearances more houses will go up between now and fall than any preceeding year has ever seen. Good enough.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "OCCASIONAL" AT GEUDA SPRINGS TO WICHITA.]

But your readers will probably prefer a description of the Springs. They are seven in number, located in a radius of twenty feet, and--as singular as the assertion may appear--all containing a distinguishing difference of taste. They are composed of eleven constituent parts, or remedial agents, strongly charged with carbolic acid gas. Around these springs is an artifical stone wall three or four feet high, with an opening at one side where the water all flows through a single pipe, forming what is nown as the "combination." This flows beneath the hotel and bathrooms, where it is pumped up and heated for bathing purposes. Near this is the salt lake from which considerable salt has been manufactured. These springs have but recently come into the hands of a company by whom it is being developed into one of the "booming little cities" in this "booming State." New business houses and residences are going up as if by magic, but still the demand cannot be supplied fast enough to satisfy those who eagerly seek the benefits of its waters as remedial agents. Dozens of houses are under way, and dozens more are under contract, while dozens of workmen are pushing the work, and dozens of teamsters are providing the material for new buildings.

James Stiner has just completed, and is now occupying, a neat and cosy little hotel building. Dr. C. Perry has ten houses completed for residents, and has contract for ten more, while a number of other parties are securing locations, putting in foundations, and bringing the lumber to the grounds. The hotel proper is under the efficient control of A. H. Bookwalter, and Hon. C. R. Mitchell is President of the Town Company. Either of the above gentlemen will be glad to furnish other desired

information.

It is only seven miles from here to the Nation, where there is plenty of game, timber, etc., and where stock men have herded their entire winter without additional feed.

Excellent opportunities are offered to parties with capital--who desire to build--lots being furnished free to those who agree to put up good buildings. But all of the free lots will soon be taken at the rate at which they are going off, and from this on, the town will be built up with a rush. If desired, I may write again soon.

Yours, OCCASIONAL.

[A TRIP TO THE MOUNTAINS: "J. K."]

He goes on to say that at Socorro he met several Cowley County friends: Dr. H. C. Holland, A. J. Rex, and G. W.

Ballon [? Ballou ?] and son, Frank. "These gentlemen are doing first rate in their respective callings. Dr. Holland is having a good practice, George Ballow [NOW HE HAS IT BALLOW ?] is dealing in mining stocks, and A. J. Rex is working at his trade and watching his mining interests. Mr. Rex owns several 'prospects' or 'leads,' specimens of which he gave me. His claims are said, by experts, to be worth a good many thousand dollars. On the second day after my arrival at Socorro I was taken violently sick with erysipelas in my face and head accompanied with typhus fever, and the next two weeks are blank. To Dr. Holland, at whose house I lay, and to his estimable wife, and A. J. Rex, I am under many and lasting obligations for their great kindness and assiduous care. The morning of the 11th of March I was able to get aboard the train, and right gladly did I turn my face Winfield-ward, arriving home on the 13th inst. But being illy able to stand the journey, it sent me to bed another two weeks. But thanks to the skill of Dr. Emerson and the kindness of other good friends, I am able to finish this desultory letter begun several weeks ago. J. K.

[PERSONALS.]

Mr. Gridley is adding a small office room to his building adjoining Dr. Mendenhall's office.

Jno. Eastman, blacksmith on ninth avenue, announces himself by advertisement.

AD: JOHN EASTON'S BLACKSMITH SHOP.

ON NINTH AVENUE [WORDS BLANKED OUT] LIVERY STABLE.

NOTE: AD SHOWS EASTON...ARTICLE SHOWS EASTMAN...???

Tom McGuire moved his family from the second to the first ward today, and thereby loses his vote.

M. L. Robinson, who has been at Robinson, New Mexico, for the past two months, is expected home by every train.

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Mrs. Blackaby, recently from Illinois, has rented the restaurant recently conducted by Mrs. Jillson on South Main street.

J. M. Spencer, from El Paso, Texas, who was once proprietor of the Lindell, of this city, is here visiting old time friends.

J. B. Magill, of the Winfield foundry, is putting up a fine iron front for the new McLaughlin building at Arkansas City.

Corn for sale by the wagon load. Enquire at McGuire Bros.

GEO. H. CRIPPEN.

Whiting Brothers, of this city, are now supplying most of the small towns connected with us by rail with fresh meats, hams, etc.

A. H. Doane & Co. are building a warehouse 35 x 125 feet in the rear of their office on Ninth avenue. They will use it for storing coal.

A. J. Henthorn, successor to T. J. Floyd in the Burden Enterprise, came over to the hub Monday evening, and has been visiting friends here.

John D. Pryor has purchased the Winfield Meat Market heretofore owned by Miller & Dix, and is going to make a bloody butcher of himself.

Mr. Chas. C. Black and family, Mrs. Brettun, and Miss Crapster left on the Santa Fe Tuesday for Hampton, Illinois, where they will spend the summer.

Cowley County will be entitled to eight delegates to the Third Congressional Convention, which meets at Emporia May 24th.

E. F. Widner, one of our Winfield printers, is now cuffing the devils around in the Wichita Times office.

Capt. Siverd took the blue ribbon for the largest majority and strongest vote in our city election, and those who voted for him will never have cause to regret it.

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MARRIED. Married, at the Frazee House, in this city, Sunday, April 2nd, 1882, William H. Johnson and Marion A. Foster, Rev. E. P. Hickock officiating, all of Winfield.

Wharton & Shearer, of the bankrupt store on Ninth avenue, got a lot of nice posters printed at THE COURANT office this week. The boys are building up a good trade.

Mr. Moorehouse starts for his ranch in the Territory tomorrow. The cattlemen are having a good deal of trouble on account of the big prairie fires which burned off the range.

A gravel train is now running daily between Arkansas City and Newton over the Santa Fe road, hauling gravel from Arkansas City to the road on the main line. It makes a round trip every twenty-four hours.

Wm. Cotrell and an old lady named Lee, were arrested in Arkansas City Thursday and brought to this city and held for preliminary examination, to answer to a charge of having stolen some household goods from the K. C. L. & S. depot in this city a week or so ago. They were arrested at the instance of Kake Keffer, of Arkansas City, who claims the goods were his and that the parties got them away from the depot by false

representations.

The land and creek, adjacent to my buildings, cost me $200.00 per acre. If I should go on someone's lot in the city, without his consent, and take his berries, it is considered a theft; but it seems that laymen, ministers, and others think they can trespass upon my premises and take fish without permit, leave, or thanks. Is this sufficient?

FRANK MANNY.

C. C. Harris says those bottles he had in the basket contained a new kind of patent medicine he has been working on for some months, for the use of Winfield invalids. The story may be straight, but then if he finds a patient who will stick to this patent medicine a few months, it will, we hear, have a demoralizing effect upon him.

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Cowley County has long been famous for the excellent quality of building stone taken from her quarries and shipped to all the principal towns in the state, and now she is getting quite a name for her excellent gravel beds upon which the Santa Fe company is now drawing upon daily for a train load.

Mr. Redfield, of the Humbolt carriage factory, is in Winfield taking an inventory of our future. He wants to find a live town to which he may remove his factory, and has about made up his mind Winfield is the place of all others he has been looking for. We think so to.

About one hundred and fifty shares have been taken in the Winfield Building and Loan Association, and the money all loaned out at good interest. There are still shares to be taken and those who have small amounts to invest will find this a good place to put it in.

The residence of Henry Ogden, who was sent to jail the other day for violating the liquor law, by selling beer, is said to be occupied now by half a dozen swamp angels. We have heard the question asked several times, whether the charge is for the better or worse.

We learn by telephone that our religious friend, Deacon Smith, now orders his supplies by telephone, since the central office is empowered with authority to receive telegraph messages. He usually takes advantage of the reduction made on night

dispatches.

The state school fund was last week increased to the amount of $39,612, from the proceeds of sales of government lands within the former Indian reservations in this state, according to the terms of the act of admission to the Union.

Will Whitney's house in the second ward is enclosed, and when completed, promises to be one of the neatest and tastiest residences in the city. I. W. Randall is the contractor, which insures a first-class job.

Mr. John Case, whose residence just south of M. L. Robinson's was burned just before completion last fall, has commenced again, and now has a much finer and larger building nearly enclosed.

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We had occasion last evening to visit the Brettun barber shop, preparatory to making ourselves look pretty for the dance. As we entered, the extreme emptiness of the establishment struck us with dismay. A second glance showed us a piece of colored anatomy which seemed to be alive, apparently engaged on some remnants of cigar stumps. A few well directed remarks to the aforesaid anatomy in regard to the whereabouts of the proprietors convinced us that the anatomy was just barely alive, and that Charlie Steuven had gone fishing, and had either been kidnapped or drowned, and that Nommsen had gone down the street and been the victim of some foul conspiracy. Turning these things over in our mind, we got our shaving cup, climbed on a stool in front of a glass, and proceeded to demonstrate that we were independent of the bloated bondholders who ran the shop. About the time our face resembled a snow-drift in Alaska, Harry Bahntge dropped in, and thinking we contemplated suicide, declined to be a party to it and left. As Harry went out one door, Speed came in the other. We felt a little uneasy when we saw Speed--it made us think of his goat and the pranks of its versatile nature. However, we suggested that he did not have much time to lose. That did the business--he was soon in the same condition as to lather as we were. At this stage in comes Timber Toe Smith. Things now took an interesting phase. Smith insisted upon doing the shaving. Speed objected, but his objection was overruled, and he was laid back in the chair. Sufficient towels and things were placed about his neck to cover any accidents or slips that might occur. Smith made several well directed but ineffectual efforts to cut Speed's cheek. It was not long though before he of lumber notoriety got in his work and brought blood in three places. This was enough for us. We were shaved and fifteen cents ahead of the game, and had not lost any blood yet, and did not propose to be. Thus thinking, we took what we supposed to be a last, fond, lingering look at Speed and fled.

Dr. W. Graham, of Winfield, Deputy Council of the National Union, came up today and will institute a lodge this evening at the Masonic hall. W. O. Johnston, of Winfield, whom we mentioned last week, has spent a week with us working up the organization. The prospects are that the lodge will start out at once in good working order. Douglas Index, 31st.

Fred Whitney, the manager of the telephone exchange here, says there is a fair prospect of connecting Wichita and Winfield by telephone, provided the two towns desire it and will lend their united assistance. We shall be able to give the conditions by which the connection can be made in a few days.

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All persons who are not subscribers to the telephone exchange and have no instrument of their own, are prohibited from sending messages of any kind over the telephone line, unless they call at the central office, where they can send all such messages the same as from a telegraph office.

FRED P. WHITNEY, Manager.

DIED. W. D. Lester, of Beaver Center, this county, died Thursday evening, and was buried Friday. Rev. F. M. Rains, of the Christian Church, preached the funeral. Mr. Lester has been a resident of Cowley County for about ten years, and was highly respected by all who knew him.

Miss May Jackson, of this city, who so efficiently and patiently attends to the telephone central office, received the sad intelligence Friday of the death of her grandfather, Mr. Geo. Shupe, of Mt. Pulaski, Illinois. The old gentleman was nearly eighty years old.

George Schroeter, our jeweler, has concluded to go into the chicken business for amusement this summer. As George has no wife and babies, he must have something to take care of, so he has commenced the "culture" of hens.

Mrs. Daniel Bovee, who lives near New Salem, stepped off the pavement in front of Doane's coal office Tuesday morning and broke her leg. Dr. Emerson was called, and after the limb was set, the lady was taken out home.

Our young friend, Tom Wisdom, foreman of the Wichita Times and formerly of this office, has been sick for a few days. He has many friends here who are sorry.

Arthur Bangs thought he would break Charley Black's runaway nag of its tricks Monday, so he hitched it on to a buggy and started around to take in the city. The horse wouldn't have it that way, and started to run a little just for fun. Arthur was unable to manage him, and after letting him run awhile, tried to pull him into a lumber wagon on Main Street. He succeeded in guiding the horse sufficient to run the buggy wheel against the wagon, which threw Arthur out of the buggy and into the wagon box without receiving any serious injury.

The horse then went out east on Ninth avenue and the last seen of him he was going on east between the mounds, with the buggy following him very modestly. The same horse ran away with Charley Black Sunday when his wife and children were in the buggy, and Mrs. Black was considerably injured.

LATER. The wild animal has been captured and brought into town by Jim Vance, and the buggy is being carried in in small pieces.

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A squaw was taking in the city today rigged out in a Government blanket, red flannel drawers (we've got Short for authority for this), a four dollar pair of button kid shoes, clock silk hose, and no bonnet. The outfit of Indians in town today have been taking a great deal of interest in the city election, especially in the success of Frank Finch, A. H. Doane, G. H. Buckman, and Judge Bard. Frank is credited with the silk stockings, and it is said the other fellows fitted out the bucks with the valises they were toting around.

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Burden comes to the front with a shooting affray, though so far we have been unable to get the full particulars, only being able to get one side of the story, that of the man who did the shooting. The man who was shot is Ben Saunders, and his assailant is Henry Causey. The two live on adjoining farms about four miles west of Burden, and from what we can learn, have not been on the most friendly terms. Causey is an old resident; and according to his story, some eight years or more ago had his land surveyed and planted a hedge on the line, as then established between him and the farm now owened by Saunders. It appears that recently Saunders had a new survey made without giving notice to Causey, and the new line established runs over onto Causey's land, taking away from his his hedge and a strip of cultivated land. Thursday, Saunders went over into Causey's field and began plowing, when Causey went out with a shotgun and ordered him off. Saunders refused to go, and said he had a notion to go and get his gun. Causey said to go ahead and get it, when Saunders replied that if he should, Causey would run. Causey said for him to try it and see, and Saunders started toward his house, but after going about a hundred yards turned and came back and picked up some stones and threw them at Causey. He then started on to plowing when Causey fired at him, the shot taking effect in Saunder's legs, which seemed to lessen his appetite for agricultural pursuits the remainder of the day.

Causey came over to Winfield in the evening and tried to have the County Attorney have him arrested for assault and battery, but Mr. Jennings refused to file a complaint against him until he had time to look up the case. Causey has retained Henry Asp to defend him, and is expecting to be arrested any hour. He says he would much rather have a preliminary examination here in Winfield than over at Burden.

If there is a young man in this city who has perseverence, it is Eli Youngheim. For one straight half hour this morning, we watched him try to sell a Nez Perce squaw a pair of bright red socks, but after vainly striving to make him understand they were too short, she stepped back from the counter, drew up her frock and illustrated to him just about how long she wanted them and that the ones he was trying to sell her wouldn't reach nowhere. When we left the store, the Indian had done out and George Headerick was fanning Eli, trying to revive him.

Capt. J. M. White, of Howard, one of the most studious and hardworking lawyers in Southern Kansas, came over on the Tuesday evening train to attend to some legal business in the Burchfield-Lindley replevin case, tried before Justice Buckman today. Capt. White is ever wide awake in the interest of his client, and if he has half a show, gets everything out of a case there is in it. It will be remembered that White was the attorney for the defense in the case of the State of Kansas vs. Martin Barber, tried in the District Court here in 1877, wherein Barber was tried for shooting his brother in a hotel at Dexter.

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The election for city officers in Winfield Tuesday resulted in the election of the following named gentlemen.

Justices of the Peace: T. H. Soward and G. H. Buckman.

Constables: H. H. Siverd and Frank Finch.

Councilmen:

First ward--R. S. Wilson.

Second ward--J. C. McMullen.

Members of Board of Education:

First ward (long term)--J. C. Fuller.

(to fill vacancy)--George Emerson.

Second ward (long term)--B. F. Wood.

(to fill vacancy)--A. H. Doane.

The election was conducted in an unusually quiet manner, and the best of feeling prevailed through the entire day.

From an unnamed Maple township correspondent:

E. J. Coal is building a new residence on the Gibson place.

John Walck, Sr., is building a rock barn, for the completion of which he has just received a car load of lumber.

Will Wadle and Ben Norman are going to Colorado this spring.

John Walck, Sr., is on the sick list.

In Justice Buckman's court the cases of John H. Lindly vs.

A. T. Shenneman and James Lindly vs. same, action in replevin, judgment for plaintiff. Pryor & Kinne for plaintiffs, and Capt. J. M. White, of Howard, for defendant.

FOR SALE: Half interest in an established livery stable in this city. Good reason for selling. Also, for sale or trade, 160 acres of first-class farming land, one mile from Seeley.

SID S. MAJORS.

A Geuda correspondent of the Arkansas City Democrat ventilates himself to no small extent, and winds up his letter with the information that Mr. Mitchell has sold his property in Arkansas City, and is going to move to Geuda Springs.

That Foss is building a large store to be rented to F. L. Davis, who intends to fill it with groceries.

That Mart Bixler is about ready to move into his new store at Geuda.

That Wm. Berkey has a new awning in front of his store. Take notice ye loafers.

That Foss has gone to east St. Louis after thoroughbred cattle; also is going to bring a fine Percheron Norman stallion.

That Hall, Axley, Neer, and Walker have taken a trip to the Cherokee Nation, for the purpose of buying ponies.

That there is soon to be an I. O. O. F. Lodge instituted at Geuda Springs.

That the hotel is going up for a certainty.

That there is more building at Geuda Springs than any town in Southern Kansas.

That winter wheat is looking better than ever before at this time of the year.

That Miss Una Royal and Lina Snyder are going to attend the Manhattan College another three months.

That Dr. Vawter is looking toward Geuda Springs with a view of locating permanently.

That Mr. Marshall, of Leavenworth, and one of the Geuda Springs Town Company members, proposes to build a summer residence at Geuda Springs.

That Dr. Perry's houses are almost completed and ready for occupany.

BIRTH. That they have a new boarder at the bath house. It's a girl and Buckwalter is the happy man. He sets up the cigars.

That 'tis an awfully bad year for candidates, and a good one for snakes, on account of the scarcity of "St. John's

amendment."

That it is a good joke to buy one of those double strength lamp chimneys to take home and throw into the house for your wife. She thinks it will break, "you know," and givs a scream, and, the chimney hits the stove leg, well, she calls you an old soap keg, and you go and put the team away, get kicked in the abodomen by a mule, trying to figure out where that joke came in. The next time you buy, the cheap ones are good enough, and then you ain't liable to play jokes on your wife with that kind.

That Jake Musgrove is set up ready for business. Groceries as cheap as anywhere in Kansas.

That Patterson, the butcher, is going to tear down the old Salt City saloon building, move it to the springs, and construct a two-story house out of it.

That T. C. Mills is about to sell his three-year-old colt to Wm. Thompson, for $300; pretty good price for a colt.

That a party of young folks got badly fooled; went into the country to attend a supper by invitation, went early, stayed late, no supper, went home down in the mouth, and also in the region of the digestive organ.

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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. Council met in regular session, Mayor Troup presiding. Roll call, present: councilmen Read, Gary, and Mater; City Attorney Sewerd; Clerk Beach. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.

Petition of A. T. Spotswood and 12 others for sidewalk of usual width and construction, along the east side of block 153 and along the west side of blocks 172, 171, and 170 was presented. On motion of Mr. Gary the prrayer of the petition was granted and the attorney was instructed to prepare an ordinance in accordance therewith. Ninety days from the passage of the ordinance to be allowed property owners to complete the same.

The reports of Treasurer for months ending Jan. 15, Feb. 15, and March 15, were presented and referred to Finance Committee; also clerk's quarterly statement for quarter ending March 15, 1882, referred to same committee.

The following bills were allowed and ordered paid.

City officers salaries March $68.00.

C. W. Nichlos, work on streets, $19.50.

C. H. Wooden, removing nuisance, $3.75.

H. L. Thomas, street crossing and gutter, $11.75.

The following bills were approved and recommended to the County Commisioners for payment.

McGuire Bros., goods, city poor, $4.90.

J. A. Earnest, same $8.35.

G. A. Rhodes, coffin, same, $10.00.

It was moved by Mr. Read that a committee be appointed to confer with county Commissioners relative to cost of constructing a frame with wind mill attached on Court House Square, carried.

The Mayor appointed Messrs. Gary and Read such committee.

On motion council adjourned to meet on Friday evening April 7th. M. G. TROUP, Mayor.

Attest: D. C. BEACH, City Clerk.

Jake Musgrove, an old time Winfield boy, who has been running a store, trading in stock, and getting rich down at South Haven, Sumner county, for the past eight years, has opened a store at Geuda Springs. Jake is one of the squarest men Winfield ever produced, and will add much in building up the new home for invalids.

A little five-year-old daughter of J. C. Fuller was walking the stringer of a picket fence Tuesday evening, and falling, caught her feet between the pickets, and was suspended until Mr. R. S. Wilson ran about a block and rescued her. The ankle was considerably sprained, but no bones were broken.

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It is no indication that Mr. O. M. Seward is not popular in this city because he received twenty-four votes for constable yesterday. Had Messrs. Speed and Chapman brought him out a day or two sooner, he would have swept the field.

[WINFIELD TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS.]

FOR SOME REASON THEY SKIP #1 AND #2...AND NO. 6..????

3. M. L. Read's residence.

4. Fred. Whitney's residence.

5. M. L. Robinson's residence.

7. Hackney & McDonald's law office.

8. Wilson's transfer office.

9. The Court House.

10. Adam's express office.

11. Wells, Fargo express office.

12. A. H. Doane & Co.'s coal office.

13, THE COURANT office.

14. Carruthers' residence.

15. A. T. Spotswood & Co., grocery.

16. Bliss & Wood, city mills.

17. M. L. Read's bank.

18. The Courier office.

19. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe depot.

20. K. C., L. & S. depot.

21. Frank Manny's residence.

22. The Brettun.

23. Steinberger's residence.

24. J. P. Baden's general store.

25. Curns & Manser's loan office.

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Schofield & Keck now have a team of goats.

James Kelly, who returned from New Mexico three weeks ago and has been laid up ever since with erysipelas, is again able to be out, though he looks considerable worsted.

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An important real estate transfer was consummated yesterday, Chas. C. Black selling the old Maris corner building occupied by J. P. Baden, to A. D. Speed, the consideration being $6,500.00.

Uncle Robert Hudson is refitting the Lindell Hotel in fine shape, and now offers to the public the best of accommodations at reasonable prices. His house is papered, painted, and calsomined throughout.

Fred C. Hunt is back from his visit to St. Louis, and reports a pleasant trip. Fred says they have a pretty good sized town over there, but that it doesn't seem as though it would be a pleasant place to live.

A stock company is being organized at Harper, Anthony, and Medicine Lodge, for the purpose of connecting these three places by telephone. In our judgment it will be but a short time before all the principal villages of Southern Kansas will be thus

connected.

Mr. Kennedy, the gentlemanly agent for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe company, says there will soon have to be additional help added to his force at this place, if business over their road continues to increase.

Tuesday we saw Frank Barclay striking out for Timber creek, with his double-action, duplex fishing-rod, which reminds us that the fishing season has opened, and now honest Ben Cox, Chapman, and the balance of the teamsters will have to take a back seat as for straight out, downright lying as the average fisherman can double-discount the mighty hunter.

Steinberger, of the Winfield Courant, had audacity enough to criticize a Methodist preacher, and now the women of that town are just going for him. We imagine that we see Stein down, not only upon his knees before them, but doubled up like a carpenter's rule, imploring their forgiveness as though his heart would break. Grenola Herald.

That doesn't begin to express it, Cratsley.

Prof. A. H. Tappan will commence a series of lessons in the art terpsichore, at the Opera House in this city on Thursday, April 6th, 1882. Lessons for children will begin at 4:30 in the afternoon, and lessons for adults at 8 o'clock in the evening. Mr. Tappan is an excellent instructor, and those who wish instructions in all the latest dances will never have a better opportunity to get instructions.

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The two names most frequently seen on boxes of produce transferred at this place, enroute for the western trade, are

J. P. Baden and A. T. Spotswood of Winfield. These two firms are doing an immense grocery and produce business, and their names appear in the Winfield newspapers about as often as they do on the boxes of produce. We do not say it complainingly, but because we have seen the books and know what we are talking about, and state it is a fact that either of these two firms spends as much money for printer's ink every year as all the grocery houses in Newton combined. Stick a pin here.

And having such men doing business in our town, Brother Lemmon, accounts for Winfield's visible superiority over Newton. It requires businessmen to make a town, and Winfield is filled with them. Come again.

The name of W. F. Tansey is added to our list of announcements today, as a candidte for reelection to the office of Justice of the Peace. Mr. Tansey has held the office to which he aspires for some time, and we have yet to hear the first case wherein he has not done his whole duty as such an officer. He is a sober, upright, and honest gentleman, and in every way worthy of the respect of the people of Winfield, and entitled to a hearty support at the hands of the voters.

George Osterhout, in Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express office, has just received his spring invoice of house plants, and they are truly the finest assortment we have ever seen. Among them we noticed some of the finest Begonias, Geraniums, Maderia vines, roses, verbenas, petunias, oleanders, fuchsias, and new German Ivys, and callas that can be found in any market. George is an artist in caring for his plants, and those who want a fresh lot of the handsomest house plants, cannot find a better place anywhere in the west to buy them than here in Winfield, at the Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express office.

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The Courier, as usual, gets off in error last week, concerning the passenger rates between Kansas City and Chicago, stating that tickets are selling between these two points for $5.00, while the facts are that no tickets are being sold for less than $7.00. Such published statements are very detrimental to our local agents here, causing the public to mistrust their veracity, when they are charged more for through tickets than these published statements say they are selling for, and the Courier should be a little more careful in its statements.

J. S. Sturgis and a Mr. Best and two sons, both young men, of Moline, four of the most substantial, enterprising, and wealthy gentlemen in that section, have been looking over our town today and studying our future. Mr. Best is looking for a location to put in a large new grist mill for his two sons, and they seemed to be favorably impressed with Winfield. We hope they may conclude to come here, as such men are the kind required to boost us along still faster.

Arriving home Thursday morning from a dance at Arkansas City, Dave Harter cycloned his buggy in front of THE COURANT office, and it is a little the most complete wreck we have seen recently. We presume Dave went to sleep immediately after letting his girl out of the buggy, and the team in returning to the stable got tangled up with a post. Dave was considerably injured himself, we understand.

The Wichita Times does not take very well to Judge Christian's lecture on "Ireland and the Irish," and says it is a disappointment. While the old gentleman may not make it what some orators could, he will not be offended at Shelton, because these Dutch never do speak favorably of anything modern. The trouble with the Times man is that he can't "catch on."

We are unauthorized to announce John Ledlie as a candidate for the office of constable of either the first or second ward of the city of Winfield, subject to the court, without going behind the returns. Come to think about it, though, as we bring John's frame before our mind's eye, we don't know but what he has first-class physical qualifications for an alderman.

George B. Dusinberre came over from Howard Thursday evening after a mare taken by J. Q. Burchfield, of that place, from the Lindley boys of this county, under a chattel mortgage.

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Mr. Jacob Seeley and family left for Nothern Iowa Wednesday morning. Mr. Seeley was an excellent citizen and we regret to lose him. He will go into the stock business in Iowa.

[ITEMS FROM "CLODHOPPER" RE OMNIA.]

The people of Omnia are taking steps to solve the fuel and protection question, by planting peach trees. Dr. S. Daniels last year planted some fifteen acres, and this year W. S. and

C. P. Cogswell have planted about ten acres each. They don't propose to spend their time, patience, and muscle on water elm knots at seventy-five cents a load, any longer than it will take for our excellent soil to produce peach wood.

As intimated in our last, the people in the southwest corner of district 113, who were deprived of their privileges by the removal of the school house, are, in connection with others in the corners of Mt. Vernon and Baltimore districts, petitioning for a new district, lapping around on the south and east of 126, which territory will all be contained in about three sections, and propose to build a school house on the southeast corner of 126.

MARRIED. Upper Timber Creek indulged in another wedding on Thursday, the 23rd inst., when at the residence of the bride's father, Miss Mary Adams was married to Mr. Nicholas Haris, of Elk county, at 1 o'clock P. M., by the Rev. Firestone. A large assembly of neighbors and friends witnessed the ceremony. Immediately after the blushing couple departed for their future home on Elk river, followed by the good wishes of their hosts of friends for their happiness and prosperity.

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An Otto correspondence who signs himself "New Subscriber," gives vent to his feelings in the following manner.

Pretty much all the farmers' faces we have seen look glad and joyous at the prospects for an excellent crop this year. They say we have had rain enough to make a crop, if no more should fall. The wheat looks oh, so utter, too nice for anything. The cattle look so happy and contented as they roam over our thousand hills, nipping the first green shoots of the tender herbage as it comes forth to gladden nature. The ground for the corn crop is nearly all prepared for planting, in which business many are now engaged. One gentleman planted eight acres of corn three or four weeks ago, and so far as we know, it is doing well. Otto post office has been moved up to Virgil school house, district 102, eight miles due south of Dexter, on the township line. E. P. Miller is the gentlemanly and accommodating postmaster. Mr. Miller also keeps a store, hotel, and a feed stable, to all of which he seems to be doing a thriving business. Mr. Gooch is the village blacksmith, has a good business, and gives satisfaction. We call the town Otto after the post office. It is a good business point, being removed quite a distance from any town of importance. In the few post offices we have visited during the distribution of the mails in this eastern part of the county, we have been astonished at the immense number of COURANTS, one being dropped in nearly every box in the office. Our citizens like good papers and choice intellectual literature.

We noticed some very mysterious actions about noon time on the part of C. C. Harris, who acted as though he had been morally corrupted by the allurements of a hen roost. The first time we noticed him he emerged from a back alley accompanied by a basket, which seemed to cause him an unnatural amount of anxiety. We thought at first that C. C., being a single man, was a little nervous about being seen with a basket. Will Smith, of the lumber yard, with his usual keen eyesight, looked at things in a different light, however, and proposed a personal examination of the basket and contents, and thereupon made an excursion after Harris, who sought refuge in his den. Our feelings at this time were numerous, and we immediately found business which called us into the Harris neighborhood. C. C.'s explanation was eminently satisfactory to Mr. Smith and ourselves. He murmured something about the exportation of some kind of screws as we quietly left the room and drew our coat sleeve defensively across our

mustache.

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A. H. Green, of this city, one of the most successful and enterprising land brokers in Kansas, has opened a branch office at Arkansas City, which will be under the personal supervision of Nat. Snider. We presume there is no question but that Green has sold more land in Cowley county during the past six years than any other two agents in Southern Kansas, and there is no doubt but that his Arkansas City office will soon build up a good business. One thing those people down there can safely bank on; he is straight and reliable in every transaction.

A number of the Creswell delegates to the Republican county convention held in this city last fall have been subpoenied to appear before the United States grand jury at Topeka next week, to give evidence concerning a colored gentleman named Andrews being requested by the proprietors of the Brettun to not go into the dining room to eat when the room was filled with white people. Brother Harter says, "Let 'em go in; that he is running his own shop and proposes to fire . . . he pleases."

[INDIANS.]

The Commissioner of Indian affairs is quoted as saying that there will be no more Indian pow-wows in Washington while he is commissioner. If Commissioner Price has decided to put a stop to this absurd custom, he will, at least in one respect, exhibit good common sense in dealing with the Indians. The practice of an Indian agent selecting half a dozen wild savages with whom to form a peripatetic show and afford an excuse for filching a large expense account from the public treasury when he may wish to visit the East, upon the pretense that the Indians wish to confer with the Great Father of the national capital, is as vicious as it is fanical [? WORD PARTIALLY BLOCKED OUT ?] and absurd.

[INDIANS.]

The Osages recently held an election for head chief, all the same as white men. Joseph Pawneepashee was the successful candidate, beating Hard Robe by six votes. The result was satisfactory to both sides, and an account of the election says that it marks an era in the advancement of the Osages toward

civilization.

[PERSONALS.]

Mrs. Capt. Lowery is visiting friends in the East at

present.

T. K. Johnston will be home from Durango the latter part of this week.

Ben. Simpson, of Miami county, has been reappointed U. S. Marshal for Kansas.

O. F. Boyle was the only member of the city council of Durango who was reelected.

Messrs. Hyde & Long have the contract for the carpenter work of the new Conklin building.

Charlie France and Tip Davenport, two of the jolliest fellows in Arkansas City, were up here last Saturday.

About $2,000 to loan on good real estate security, on terms to suit the borrower. HENRY E. ASP.

Crow Dog, who murdered Spotted Tail, has been sentenced to hang May 11. This is a case in which the Tail went before the Dog.

Nobble E. Dawson, a brother of our Wm. Dawson, has recently been appointed stenographer of the House of Representatives at Washington.

James Bradley, ex-county Superintendent of Chautauqua county, has accepted a situation in the land office of P. H. Albright & Co., of this city, and will move his family here from Sedan in the coming week, and will make Winfield his future home. We are always pleased to welcome such young men as Mr. Bradley to Winfield.

The office hours of the telephone central office on Sunday hereafter will be from 8:30 to 10 in the forenoon and from 1 to 6 in the afternoon. Office hours on week days will be from 7 A. M. to 10 P. M.

Charles Campbell, Esq., of Short Hills, New Jersey, is here looking up a location. He thinks some of joining Mr. Thorpe in the tanning business. We hope he may, as it would make a strong firm.

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Southern Kansas is the best place on earth to raise sheep. Wool and mutton are good crops. Let us have more sheep and then a woolen mill right here at Winfield.

MARRIED. Married at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. Frederick, of Winfield, April 9th, 1882, by Rev. J. Cairns, Mr. Henry Phenix and Miss Mary J. Frederick.

Real estate transfers have been filed with the Register of Deeds, since April 5, 1882, to the valuation of $61,843,000, representing sixty-one transfers.

There is considerable talk of another large carriage manufactory coming to Winfield. There is no better town in southern Kansas for it.

Allen Johnson is home again after a short visit to his old home. He looks as hale and hearty as ever, and his trip seems to have agreed with him.

While in Arkansas City yesterday C. A. Bliss took a look through the Ayers mill on the canal. He pronounces it to be a good one.

CONFUSION! IS IT AYRES OR AYERS?

Windmills are becoming numerous about town. Soon every person who has a plot of ground will have one of these useful

institutions.

A. H. Arrment has bought the stock of the Champion furniture store of George Rhodes, and will continue business at the old stand.

G. A. Hamilton, S. A. Brodhead, and William Carter, of Belle Plaine, are stopping at the Brettun and looking over our country.

O. P. Darst, guardian, has been ordered by the Probate Court to invest $600 in real estate for the benefit of his ward, Ira Allison.

Charley Richards, who has been spending the winter here, returned to his home at Columbus, Ohio, last Thursday.

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Speed, Seward, and Smith went out fishing the other afternoon with unusual good success. Speed caught a terrible cold, Seward caught a glimpse of his best girl as he passed her home, and Smith caught the toe of Frank Manny's number eleven boot, for fooling around his premises. They returned home just after sundown with a long string of excuses, telling how busy they had been, and that they could not get time to go fishing on such a fine afternoon.

Dr. H. R. Wilson, our former popular citizen, who has been engaged in the mercantile business at LaCygne, Linn county, is down for a few days visiting old friends, and expressing his regrets for having left us. There is a strong probability that the Dr. will return to his first and sweetest love in the sweet by and by. We could see signs of it in his eye.

Mr. R. Cornell, an eastern gentleman who thought last week of engaging in business here, left this afternoon for Iowa. He had rented a house, paid two months' rent in advance, and in a fit of homesickness started east again where he has some relatives. He was about as homesick as any man we have seen lately.

The contracts for the erection of the Conklin building were all let yesterday except the carpenter work and excavation.

J. W. Connor does the masonry, J. W. Crane the plastering, J. M. Reid, the painting, and Horning Robinson & Co., the roofing, and J. B. Magill, the Iron work.

Mrs. E. G. Sayles left Arkansas City last Saturday for her home in Brooklyn, New York. Mrs. Sayles came west about six months ago for recreation and goes back to her musical labors very much rested and pleased with our western country.

MARRIAGE LICENSES. The following marriage licenses have been issued by Judge Gans, since April 1st.

Edward McAllister and Lovina Pierce.

Henry Phenix and Mary J. Frederick.

S. D. Klingman and Mrs. M. E. O'Dell.

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We like Frank Jennings, but he is now subject to no little joking on account of the manner in which the Courier slobbered all over him for having given an opinion and having it sustained by the Commissioners, and Judge Torrance, as well, to the effect that the officers were not entitled to their fees in criminal cases, when the defense was acquitted. The officers interested did not feel inclined to accept the opinion as final, appealed to the Supreme Court, and that tribunal having reversed the decision, the boys will now get their fees and the county will be called upon to put up a few dollars costs. It will now be in order for the Courier to switch, declare the County Attorney ought to have known better, and give him a genuine drubbing, just for luck. Not in earnest, of course, but simply as a matter of form. Of course, Frank was a brilliant attorney when he objected to the allowing of these claims; but now that the Supreme Court says he was wrong, former comments do not go, and the Courier must right itself or not be the champion of the taxpayer.

John D. Pryor is getting it on the nose regularly now. A week ago he had the misfortune to kill his last calf with a stone. Then we were gulled into lying about him going into the butcher business. Then to cap the whole thing, last evening when it commenced raining, John started home from the lodge room in a dead run, when it was so dark he could hardly keep to the sidewalk. As he was dashing along, something came against him like a cyclone going down hill, and John went home and had his mouth dressed up so as to be able to work today. This morning he came up the street with the intention of sweeping up the remains of the man who had run against him, but the flood had carried away all signs of the collision.

James B. Moore bid farewell to Winfield, for a time at least, Friday, and started for Fargo, Dakota Territory, where he will look after the interests of his firm before returning to Hartford, his home, for the summer. Jim is an excellent young man and made many friends here, who will be pleased to see him return at any future time. He really seems like one of our own boys.

Billy Impson has put up quite a machine for the manufcture of ice cream, and will be able to furnish the finest frost during the summer, in large or small quantities, either for private or public use. This new machine is propelled by horse power, and Billy is able to grind out ten gallons of the stuff at one grind. He proposes to do the ice cream business here this season.

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Jake Nixon, our Register of Deeds, has just received official notice from the Commissioner of Patents that his patent of an improvement on sulky plows has been examined and allowed. The application was filed at Washington March 2nd. This is good news for Jake, and he looks forward to the time when he will be a bloated bond holder.

Last Saturday J. P. Baden sold his house and lot on tenth avenue to Dr. Schofield, and yesterday he bought the Dr. Davis residence on the corner of eighth avenue and Manning street, paying we understand $1,500 for the same.

A sufficient number of sheep men failing to be present at the courthouse Monday, no public shearing was called, nor even a meeting held. We do not know what the cause of the small attendance was.

Sunday Riverside Park was thrown open for vehicles and during the day probably three hundred buggies and carriages, including baby carriages, passed through the gates, and hundreds of people on foot were going and coming all day. It is safe to say that two-thirds of the city's population visited this popular resort during the day. The blue grass that was sown last fall has made a splendid stand and with proper care will soon cover the entire surface when the grounds will be simply perfect. If future generations don't erect a monument to the memory of Messrs. Read and Robinson, S. C. Smith and Capt. Lowery, to whom they are principally indebted for this institution, they will neglect their duty. In the meantime we would like to see this generation chip in and put up some rustic seats and otherwise adorn the grounds which they will use so much the coming summers.

Misfortunes never come singly. Sunday night Dr. Davis had a valuable horse stray away from his stable. Monday afternoon one of his little boys had a finger cut off in a cutting box, and the same evening the Dr. received a severe kick on the leg from a vicious horse standing in the stable. The only consolation he has is that he advertised the strayed horse in THE COURANT, and found him Monday.

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It was Hobert Vermilye who stopped John Pryor as he was running home in the storm Friday night. He stopped him on his mouth and nose, but it was sometime after John was in bed with a plaster on his mug before Hobert knew he had been knocked down, and not until Saturday evening did he ascertain the cause of his soreness. Pryor looked around for his friend a few minutes after the collision, but could not find him, and supposed he had run. But all the while Hobert was lying there upon the ground senseless. It was not until after he had been rained on for an hour or so that he came to and got up. Each thought he had been struck by lightning. There is a little moral to this whole business, boys! Hereafter, when it is so dark that you can't see anyone in front of you, don't run into them.

OBITUARY. Died, on the 10th inst., Frank Hammer Cole, aged 11 years 3 months and twenty-one days. He was buried this morning with honor, from the residence of M. L. Read, Esq., that gentleman being chief mourner, while Mr. George Darling offi-ciated as sexton and undertaker. While it would seem that eleven years is not much in the life of a human being, there is no doubt he died of old age. Frank's early life was somewhat checkered. He was born near Beardstown, Cass County, Illinois, on the farm of Hon. D. J. Cole, now a prominent Greenbacker of Great Bend, Kansas. When but a few months old, he was kidnapped by Frank Hammer, a prominent citizen of Beardstown, who had him properly christened, calling him Dan, in honor of Mr. Cole. He came to Kansas with Mr. Read, we believe, sometime in 1872 or 1873. Mr. Read, being a sensible specie paying man and abhoring Greenback heresy, had the name changed to Frank, whether by act of the legislature or not, we can't say. There is no doubt but that he lived happily in Mr. Read's family. Certain it is he was well cared for. Those of us who saw him every day will bear cheerful testimony to his well fed body and rubicund countenance. His coat was always of the finest texture and latest pattern. He was not very large, but he strutted around with his silver collar and brass exemption tag with all the pride of the largest

Newfoundland.

Frank Manny has for sale in any quantity cabbage, tomatoes, and sweet potato plants of all the different varieties. Each one purchasing 10,000 plants and over at one time will be presented with a chromo, either Jesse James, Saint John, the present Governor, or of the next Governor of Kansas.

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Arkansas City folks complain lodly because the town seems to be infested with women of easy virtue. It's the women of uneasy virtue that bothers the Wichita fellows.

E. I. Johnson, assessor of Sheridan township, has made his report to the County Clerk in a neat manner. The increase in population in Sheridan over last year is eighteen.

T. B. Ware, a farmer living in Vernon township, received a car load of lumber from Chicago this morning, which he is going to use in some substantial improvements on his farm.

The Board of County Commissioners met in regular session Monday morning, and hve been busy transacting the usual routine of business. All three members of the Board were in attendance.

The personal property tax of Ezra Meach has been remitted in each township where he is taxed with sheep, except in Walnut.

The appeal of Thomas Parvin in a matter from school district eighty-nine was rejected, and the action on the County Superintendent sustained.

In the matter of the L. M. Brown County road, the Board ordered the road open from the southeast corner of section 20, west one mile to the southwest corner of the same section, township 30, range 6.

Hayworth county road ordered opened from the northeast corner of section 2, to the southeast corner of section 14, township 20, range 6.

The petition from district fifty-three has been laid over until the July session of the Board.

The petition of D. S. Roach for a ferry on the Arkansas river was granted, and the County Clerk directed to issue license for one year.

Road tax, $1.60, was remitted to W. J. Orron, the northeast quarter of section 35, township 31, range 4, in Fairview

township.

The Board then took up the claims filed against the county and proceeded to audit them.

G. A. Rhodes, who has had about thirty red birds in the front window of his store room, opened the window the other day, restoring the little singers to light and liberty. They lingered around a few minutes, thinking there must be something wrong, and then flew away to the timbers, their natural house.

We have often thought that a book could be written on the cruelty practiced in confining these beauties of the forests in cages, thus robbing them of all they possessed, their freedom to fly where they choose. There are many arguments against such cruelties. If it is kept up, it won't be long before there will be no red birds to cage in Kansas as has been demonstrated in the eastern states. At many places in the east where the forests were filled a few years ago with these wild birds, not a one can be found today, they having emigrated it is supposed to escape being captured by people who would cage them to sing a few months and then die in their confinement.

W. A. Majors has filed his annual settlement as administrator of the estate of W. R. Majors, deceased, with the Probate Judge. He was then ordered by the court to make prorata payment to creditors of the second class, and to give notice and make final settlement at the next July term of court.

A claim of M. D. Read for $478.81 has been allowed by Judge Gans, against the estate of S. L. Brettun, deceased. Also, one of Horning, Robinson & Co., for $25 has been allowed. Also, one of J. W. Conner for $215.00, and one of J. M. Alexander for $180, and one of A. G. Wilson for $135.42.

NOTICE. Dr. F. F. Davis of Marion, Kansas, will be at the 9th Avenue Hotel, Winfield, Cowley county, Kansas, on the 20th day of April, 1882, and will remain until the first day of May, where he can be consulted as a Specialist on the following line of diseases: Tumors of all kinds, Glandular Enlargements, Hemorrhoids, or Piles, Fistula and Catarrh, Cancers, Malignants, Ulcers, and all diseases of the skin. No charges for consultation. Reasonable fees for treatment.

New Organs in elegant case, warranted for six years, $65.00. New Rosewood Pianos, largest scale, $200.00. We are not agents, but buy for cash only, and have no rent nor traveling expenses to pay, therefore we can sell as low as any music house in the United States. ED. FARRINGER, WINFIELD MUSIC HOUSE.

SPRING OPENING. At Friend's Millinery House, Winfield, Kansas, Mrs. Friend will display Chicago, New York, and St. Louis Pattern Bonnets and Hats April 17th and 18th. All are invited.

Mrs. Charles Bahntge left yesterday morning for a visit to her old home, Joplin, Missouri. Now, if Charlie goes to flirting with the young ladies too much, we'll just squawk, as we consider him under our care until Mrs. Bahntge returns.

The executors of S. L. Brettun, deceased, have filed their annual settlement with the Probate Court, which has been accepted and approved. It shows the handling of something like $30,000 in funds during the past year.

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Geo. Cole, assessor of Ninnescah township, was the first one to make his returns to the County Clerk. The report is neatly prepared, and shows an increase in population over last year of seventy-six.

Elizabeth Crane has made final settlement as the executrix of the estate of Jacob T. Crane, deceased. The settlement was approved by the Probate Judge, and Mrs. Crane discharged as such executrix.

Chas. A. Black, executor, has been authorized by the Probate Court to compromise a claim with Mary Dillsaver, a creditor of the estate of S. L. Brettun, deceased.

One hundred and sixteen taxpayers of Sheridan township favor the repeal of the herd law to take effect in four or five years, while only nine oppose the move.

LOST. Between Rock and Winfield, a buffalo robe. Name of R. Schofield is on inside. Return to Schofield & Keck's livery stable and get a reward.

FOR SALE. Two Phaetons, one buggy and one family wagon, three springs and two seats. Will either sell for cash, give time on part, or trade. Call at Schofield & Keck's livery stable.

Geo. W. Robinson has made final settlement as administrator of the Thomas J. Harris estate, the same being approved and he discharged by the court.

J. H. Hamilton has been ordered by the Probate Court to sell the personal property belonging to the estate of the minor heir of C. W. Dreman, deceased.

George W. Clark, of Longton, Elk county, dropped in to see THE COURANT today, on his return home from New Mexico.

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A claim of Lynn & Loose against the estate of Sarah D. Johnson, deceased, has been allowed in Probate Court.

DIED. Mrs. Ida Greely Smith, eldest daughter of the late Horace Greely, died yesterday of diphtheria.

Elizabeth Smith has made final settlement as administratrix of the estate of C. S. Smith, deceased.

Corn for sale by the wagon load. Enquire at McGuire Bros.

GEO. H. CRIPPEN.

Kansas has 1,400,000 sheep, and the number is increasing

rapidly.

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Norman Shirtliff is hedging his place.

Farmers are about through planting corn.

Absence prevented me from getting a letter in last week.

A horse race and preaching at Bethel last Sunday evening.

Grandpa Binkey, who was taken to Illinois a few days ago, is recovering.

R. I. Hohgue, of Olive, has planted out ten acres in an apple orchard.

Mrs. Maggie Robinson, of ElDorado, is visiting her parents, Mr. amd Mrs. J. Mentch.

John Weakley is planting ornamental trees, and beautifying his residence. Likewise T. E. Gellilun.

BORN. Born to Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Wilson, a fine girl--a ten pound girl.

Miss Amanda Davis is visiting friends at Bethel. Henry is supremely happy. No wonder he disfigured his face last Saturday.

Aunt Martha Harris, of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is visiting her twin brother, 'Squire Anderson.

John K. Hedge of Noble county, Ohio, is stopping with Mr. Younts, of Olive. Mr. Hedge is a gentleman of education and means. He will no doubt locate in our neighborhood.

George Brown is cutting down his Lumbardy poplar for wood.

Gussie Mentch returned from the far west one last week, after an absence of about three days in Harper county, Kansas. After supper he folded his arms and took a walk over his father's farm. At the stable he remarked that old Fan looked natural, but his young sisters had grown entirely out of his knowledge, and that he hardly knew the place.

Sam Burger was the victim of an April fool, and nearly got the fillin [?] kicked out of himself in consequence. Sam let a young lad have his gun to go snipe hunting. This lad, to play a joke on Sam, put about a quarter of a pound of shot on as much powder, and called Sam out April 1st to shoot at some snipes nearby. Sam took dead aim and blazed away. I pause to laugh. After turning exactly thirteen somersaults in mid air, he called himself to a halt. Then examining to see if any bones were broken, and to take a long breath, he asked his sister if she saw that comet strike him.

George Arnold is another of our young men who came to grief, and will cause his name to go thundering down the ages. One evening not long ago he went out in the wheat field after a cow which had broken loose, and still had about eight or ten feet of rope attached to her. George crawled up and got hold of the rope, twisted it well around his hand, and then raised up. The cow started off rather unexpectedly, and jerked him down and dragged him to the house, a distance of about two hundred yards. George was heart sick; he wasn't hurt much, but somehow or other he wanted to get on the windy side of himself. Then the idea of driving a cow home in that style, and in grass, beat him. After donning his Sunday suit and throwing the one he had just abandoned behind the hog pen, he made a rush for the stable to avoid coming in smelling distance of anyone, mounted his best horse, and sped toward town. I think he will vote to repeal the herd law. MUNROE.

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The school boys kites are already beginning to ornament the telephone wires.

George T. Wilson has moved his stock next door to J. B. Lynn's store room.

The stone masons have commenced work on the Hudson Brothers new jewelry store building on the east side of Main street.

Mrs. Impson has gone to Kansas City to visit her relatives. We fear the boys will have to go in and console Billy or he may go into a decline as he says he never felt anymore wretched in his life.

AD: BILLY IMPSON'S ICE CREAM PARLORS....Ice Cream, Lemonade and the Finest Fruits the market affords. Fresh Oranges and Lemons always in full stock.

W. P. Hackney and A. H. Green did the dirty work for the ticket termed prohibition by the Courier. We have always been told that the views of the two men were entirely different upon the prohibition question.

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Tom Wright and D. W. Frew have opened up a livery, feed, and sale stable on Ninth Avenue, opposite Doane's coal yard. They are putting in good stock, have excellent accommodations for transients, and will treat all well who favor them with their patronage. Give them a trial, after you have seen their ad. in this issue.

AD: WRIGHT & FREW, LIVERY, FEED & SALE STABLE, Opposite Doane & Co.'s Coal Office, Winfield, Kansas. Good teams furnished on reasonable terms. Best of attention given to the care of stock, and a large high fenced lot for herds of stock of all kinds. Give them a trial.

Mart Robinson brings flattering reports from his new town, Robinson, in New Mexico, and says the star of the Black Range stands high in the heavens, and everything looks exceedingly flattering for the Winfield boys who opened up that camp and have assisted largely in building up the now flourishing little town of Robinson.

Judge Torrance has issued a new set of court rules for the Thirteenth Judicial District, which have been printed and bound in neat form. These new rules prescribe that on the third day of the term the court will make a new assignment. All parties interested will be required to take notice, and attorneys in cases in court are expected to be present and assist the court in making the assignments.

That item of ours a few days ago about John D. Pryor buying the Winfield meat market was all a lie, and Geo. Miller was to blame for it. John threw a stone at his calf the day before, and killed it, the stone striking it in the forehead, and the bloody butcher induced us to misrepresent John in consequence.

Last Thursday H. H. Causey, living four miles west of town, shot B. F. Saunders, who lives on a farm adjoining, throwing some fifty-nine shot in his left leg and thirteen in the right. The difficulty arose over the possession of a piece of land cut off of Causey's farm by recent survey and added to the Saunders farm. Mr. Saunders went onto the strip to plow and Causey ordered him to leave. Saunders refused to leave and insisted on going ahead with the plowing, when Causey shot him, taking effect as above. Dr. Phelps was called and dressed the wounds and Mr. Saunders is getting along very well. Mr. Causey was arrested and had a preliminary examination before Squire Smith, at Burden, on Monday and was bound over to court, the bond being placed at one thousand dollars. Burden Enterprise.

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Will W. Frye, who many of our young people will remember, especially some of the young ladies, has left Oswego and gone to Socorro, New Mexico, to take charge of the Socorro Sun, whose present proprietor and editor is a dashing young widow. We trust Will will make the Sun shine.

About a year ago Ed. Bedillion and some of the other county officers had their fee bills rejected by the County Commissioners under advice of the County Attorney. They appealed to the District Court, which decided that in certain criminal cases where a conviction was not had, the county was not liable for the officers' costs. An appeal was then taken to the Supreme Court, which has reversed the lower court's decision, and the boys will get their fees.

Some of our citizens, among whom are Sam. Myton, M. L. Read, J. L. Horning, Robinson, and others, are not going to have their yards dried out anymore, nor take chances on being burned out by a fire. They are having windmills put up and making extensive private water works improvements around their premises. Frank Barclay has just received the piping for the completion of these works.

Cowley County is always ahead in everything good. She now comes to the front with the largest heifer in the world. This fine heifer belongs to our fellow townsman, W. L. Mullen, and is the finest specimen of the bovine specie we have ever seen, heard of, or read about. She was raised by Mr. R. S. Stevens on Timber creek about seven miles northeast of Winfield, and is now four years old, clear white, and weighs three thousand pounds. Her form is perfect, and as smooth as an artist could paint a picture. She is five feet eleven inches high, eleven feet around girth, thirty-six inches across the hips, twenty-six inches around the forearm, and twelve feet long. Mr. Mullen purchased this heifer last fall, and has given her the best of care. During the past five months she has gained in weight six hundred pounds, an average of four pounds per day, and is still increasing in the same proportion. Stockmen from every direction have visited Winfield to see this extraordinary animal, and now Mr. Mullen has an offer of $1,500.00 for her delivered in

Chicago. He has contracted with the Santa Fe company for a special car, fixed up to accommodate her, and will start east in a few days, stopping at different places to exhibit her as the "Cowley County Calf," and thinks now, he will accept the Chicago offer for her, should he not be able to do better.

He will only travel for a short distance at a time, in order that she may have ample opportunity to rest up, and not became fatigued from the journey east. In this, he evidently treats her with more consideration than many men do their wives. "Kansas Queen," as Mr. Mullen calls our fine heifer, is a wonderful animal, and we are proud to record her as a Cowley County

production.