ARKANSAS CITY TRAVELER

TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

I see nothing in the columns of your highly priced paper concerning our quiet town and vicinity, and it certainly should not be overlooked. A little man should not be overlooked simply because he is small, for he feels his importance as much as a larger one; and Maple City today feels her importance as much as Winfield, even though she is not quite so large. Her inhabitants are industrious and enterprising.

The people are social, and seem to be happy. The social party at Mr. Henson's last night was a grand success.

Arrangements are being made for an exhibition at the school house on the evening of March 15th.

Hoping this article will receive your approbation, I am, respectfully, J. A. G.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

"Arkansaw Traveler."

Learning that the original painting of the "Arkansaw Traveler" was in the possession of one John E. Reardon, of Little Rock, Arkansas, we wrote him, asking if it could be obtained, and learned the following history of it.

LITTLE ROCK, ARK., February 12, 1876.

DEAR SIR: Your card, making inquiry about the engraving of the Arkansas Traveler, has been placed in my hands by the postmaster of this place.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876.

We give below extracts from the annual report of the Hon. Edward P. Smith, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in reference to affairs at Osage Agency.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876.

The last rail on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe was laid last week, completing the line to Pueblo, Colorado, 633 miles from Kansas City and 617 from Atchison. This opens a new and independent line between the Missouri river and the Rocky mountains, and shortens the distance to points in Southern Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and the San Juan mines 143 miles. Through trains will be put on the line on Monday the 28th inst.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876.

Sedan is a flourishing little town. The court house is almost completed.

Some men at Sedan were enjoying themselves at the saloon last week, when one, under the influence of the "fire water," became enraged, and stabbed another near the heart, causing death.

A man who was carelessly driving along on Cana creek, the other day, with a shot gun lying by his side, very suddenly got the top of his head blown off.

Wheat looks well in this county.

Farmers are beginning to make preparations for planting corn. A. E. L.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876.

There was a sociable at Mr. Coburn's last Thursday evening, at which all had a pleasant time.

The protracted meeting at Dexter has closed with good results.

There will be an exhibition at Glenwood school house, near the mouth of Crab creek, on the evening of the 15th of this month.

The Patrons of Husbandry gave a supper at the Wintin school house last Saturday evening, where all appeared to enjoy

themselves. A. E. L.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876.

BEAVER, February 24, 1876.

Every day brings up something new to us. There have been quite a number of farms changed hands during the last six weeks in this vicinity and men from all parts looking for more. Let them come. The watchword should be more men and more money. Bring your families with you; come to stay and we will lend you a helping hand. You will find a people here with big hearts and open hands, if you are poor, come right along to Cowley or western Kansas and get you a home at once that your wife and children will be proud of in their old age. Wehn you land here, you will find men and women of as fine intellects as in any country. We have good schools, churches, and everything that would do honor to a country of far more age and experience than this.

The soil is rich; grass grows from 3 to 6 feet high on the uplands, and much higher on the bottom lands. Everything will grow here than can be raised in the same latitude elsewhere in the Union. This winter has been milder than usual. No cold weather at all worth speaking of, and it would do you good to see the farmers all over the country at work.

If you desire to have good health, come straight to Kansas. We have plenty of everything but money. Hardships have to be encountered in settling all new countries, but the worst of the battle is over. Notwithstanding the grasshopper and chinch bug ravages of 1874, our granaries are filled with grain and our tables furnished with all kinds of vegetables. If the present year's crops yield in accordance with the prospects now, there will be but few mortgaged farms in Cowley county. By the time the grass grows again, the whistle of the Iron Horse will be heard in your little town, Mr. Editor, and then you'll begin to see what men think of this country.

The time is not far distant when land in this locality will readily sell for $5 to $50 per acre. Look at the green fields of wheat from 10 to 400 acres in a piece which affords a richer pasture for your milch cow than any bluegrass. All a man has to do is to pull out his plow and go to work. There are thousands of good men renting land in the East, who would do well and ought to be in the West. A few years labor will enable you to own a better farm than you can rent where you now are and in a better country too. "Now is the accepted time;" come right along. We have good mills to grind your corn and wheat, good schools to educate your children in, good churches for you and your families to attend, and a people ready and willing to help you to get a home.

Now if you want to know more about this country and its advantages, subscribe for the Arkansas Traveler, published by C. M. Scott, Arkansas City, Cowley county, Kansas. I am a farmer and live near the Arkansas River.

F. BROWN.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876.

In the Senate, the bill for the protection of birds, as agreed upon by the Conference Committee, was passed. It permits shooting prairie chickens from August 15 to January 1, and quail during November and December.

Other bills were passed, establishing the salaries of various State officers; providing for the removal of public officers who are guilty of being intoxicated, or for gambling; requiring railroad companies to fence their roads; providing for the maintenance of insane persons who have been refused admission to the State Insane Asylum; authorizing the transfer of the balance of the railroad land fund now on hand and unappropriated to the permanent school fund of the State, and to vacate the office of the agent for the sale of said lands; increasing the salaries of County Attorneys, House Railroad Bills, Nos. 296 and 156, with amendments, were also passed.

In Committee of the Whole, the bill amendatory of the school law was recommended for passage. It requires a higher grade of examination for teachers, making it necessary for them to be up in botany and industrial drawing in addition to the present requirements. It also makes a first-class certificate good for two years instead of one as now.

In the House the testimony in the Mowry case was ordered printed. An effort was made to get up out of order the bill to strike the word "white" out of the school laws, but it failed to receive the necessary two-thirds vote.

A number of bills that had been perfected in Committee of the Whole, passed on third reading, including the Prohibition bill.

The House agreed to the amendment made by the Senate in the bill to pay newspapers for publishing the Constitutional Amendments, raising the amount to $6,285, by a vote of 69 ayes to 20 nays. The House also agreed to the amendments to the bird bill. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the appropriation bills.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876.

Prof. Baird, of the Smithsonian institution, has made arrangements with Indian Agents to have thirty Indian families come to the Centennial. A reservation has been prepared for them adjoining the Centennial grounds in a tract of five acres. The families comprise 200 people, and represent about thirty tribes. The Smithsonian intends to make application to Congress for the necessary funds to defray the expense of this delegation. The Centennial managers decline to defray the expenses out of the general fund.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876.

There is a prospect of a lively time on the frontier in the course of a few weeks. The Associated Press Agent at Omaha says he has official authority for the statement that the Sioux, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes have been and are yet making extensive preparations for an outbreak.

They have been purchasing large quantities of ammunition and arms wherever they could get them, going as far south as the Indian Territory for this purpose. Most of the warriors have left the agencies, and a descent on the frontier settlements may be looked for at any time. Advices from Washington are to the effect that the War Department is making arrangements to proceed against Sitting Bull, who is one of the troublesome chiefs.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876.

We are glad to learn that Mr. Franklin's bill to open the Indian Territory to settlers is being favorably considered by a large number--we believe a majority--of the lower house. The bill should pass, and that too, at an erly day. Mr. W. B. Clark, living below Wheelock, C. N., called at the Star office this week and exhibited a fine specimen of silver ore which was taken from a rich lode located in the Choctaw Nation. Caddo Star.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876.

It is said of Cyrus Beade, the new agent of the Osages, that after taking charge last Monday, his first duty was to marry a half breed couple who just dropped in as the new agent assumed the robes. Beade turned to the old agent, Gibson, and said he did not propose to commence business there, so he would resign long enough for Gibson to tie the knot for the waiting bride and groom. Courier.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876.

The band honored Hermann last night.

A slight snow storm prevailed on Monday.

GEESE almost live on the green wheat fields.

SCHOOL will be continued four or five weeks yet.

BOUNTIFUL rain Monday morning. Just what was needed.

NECK-TIE SOCIAL at the Central Avenue this evening. Go and get a neck tie.

REV. WINGAR was unable to attend the M. E. Conference at Emporia, owing to poor health.

Some parties from Wenona, Ill., came in last week, and will make a permanent residence here.

MR. FRANKLIN, a friend of Rudolph Hoffmasters, arrived last week. He expects to open a blacksmith shop.

BORN. On Friday evening, to Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Holland, a son. Weight 7-1/2 pounds. The Doctor is progressing.

OXFORD is wide awake to her railroad interests, and wants the extension of the A., T. & S. F. down the Arkansas.

Our merchants are advocating the cash principle, believing it will be best for themselves, as well as the public.

BORN. To Mr. and Mrs. Wingar Sunday morning, March 6th, a girl. Dr. Hughes was master of ceremonies. Weight--standard.

The child burned to death on Grouse creek, last week, had its clothes take fire while the children were burning grass and corn stalks.

A gentleman from Colorado stopped at this place who knew Jones $65 worth. He had defrauded him to that amount in a business transaction.

MARRIED. On last Sunday evening, by Judge Gans, Mr. Alfred Felton and Miss Belle Chancey. Hoop-a-la! Things are getting lively.

Last Monday evening was the time for the regular meeting of the Council. Owing to other matters, they did not meet until Tuesday evening.

A horse belonging to Mr. Mericle staggered on to the sidewalk, Sunday, and finally dropped down in the road and died. Old age and blind staggers was the cause.

S. S. MAJOR has charge of the City Hotel at Winfield, and invites the public to call. Sid has many friends who will be glad to enjoy his hospitality once more.

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MARRIED. On Sunday evening, March 5th, at the M. E. Church, by the Rev. J. Wingar, MR. HERMANN GODEHARD and MISS JENNIE GOODNIGHT, both of this place. Our congratulations go with the happy couple. Mr. Godehard is an old-time resident of this place, who has endured the trials and tribulations of bachelorhood for many a year, and is deserving of the repose, peace, and good fortune he has so lately engaged in. His fair bride has always been held in the highest esteem, and acknowledged an example of industry. "May the smile of the Great Spirit, which, in the view of the poor Indian, is reflected upon the waters, ever be reflected by their happiness and prosperity."

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A DEED OF GRATITUDE. A gentleman by the name of Reynolds, from Wyandotte, Kansas, came down last week and took old Mr. Sweet back with him, to provide for him a home and place of comfort in his old age. Mr. Sweet has been living for the past three years in an open log house, in a remote place up the Arkansas, and in almost a destitute condition. At one time he was one of the prominent men of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and counted his money by the thousands of dollars. During his prosperity he favored Mr. Reynolds, who did not forget it, and now comes to his relief in a time of distress.

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A LECTURE MONDAY EVENING. The first lecture of "The People's Lecture Course" will be delivered at the school house, in this city, by the Rev. S. B. Fleming, next Monday evening, March 13, at 7 o'clock. Subject, "The Education Demanded by the Times." The proceeds of these lectures will be given to the school bell fund. The topics will be of interest, and all are invited. Admission, 25 cents; students, 10 cents.

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The panorama man did not seem to appreciate our local mention of his show last week, and came into the office to inquire "Who wrote that piece?" We told him "We couldn't tell a lie--we did it with our little Faber," whereupon he waxed wrothy and intimated he had a notion to enter into a series of calisthenics. He became pacified, however, on being shown an iron maul, and postponed the exercies, greatly to the satisfaction of ourselves.

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CALLED. Messrs. Betts and Gardner, merchants of Eldorado, called on us last week, while stopping a few hours at the City Hotel. They were taking a look at the country, and enjoyed the trip very much. It was a little rough on Mr. Gardner, however, when one of our citizens took film for the tin-lantern show man.

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CITY ELECTION. Monday, April 3rd, an election of city officers will be held to fill the following positions: One Mayor, five Councilmen, and one Police Judge. The Mayor and Council will then appoint a Clerk, a Street Commissioner, and a City Marshal, if deemed necessary.

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MIXED. Mrs. Bird goes to Iowa next week.

Mrs. Williams expects to go soon.

Merchants go East soon.

Get ready for the Centennial.

Hard freeze Monday evening.

Fishing is growing in favor.

Plant your onions.

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MR. A. N. DEMING has removed from Winfield to Wichita, to take charge of the Douglass Avenue Hotel. Mr. Deming's reputation as a landlord has been established in the Southwest, and all its traveling men expect to make it their home while in the city.

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MARRIED. On Tuesday evening, February 29, at Winfield, by Probate Judge Gans, Mr. T. H. Henderson and Mrs. McMasters, both of this county.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 8, 1876.

Notice to Lumbermen.

Sealed bids will be received by W. D. Mowry, Township Clerk of Creswell township, at Arkansas City, until April 10th, 1876, at 3 o'clock p.m., for (3,000) three thousand feet of two-inch elm plank, ten feet long; said plank to be furnished at the Arkansas river bridge, near Arkansas City, by the 1st day of May, 1876.

By order of Township Board of Creswell Township.

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Mrs. Elkin, who lives on Sand creek, Sedgwick county, has killed upwards of thirty skunks. The business is quite

lucrative.

NOTE: THIS WAS AMONG BUSINESS NOTICES....????

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SADDLE HORSES, DRIVING TEAMS, AND CARRIAGES

Promptly furnished on short notice.

Hay, Corn and Feed for Sale,

with corral for cattle attached to the barn.

If you want to buy, sell, or trade horses, mules, hogs, buggies, etc., give him a call.

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Does a General Banking Business.

MAKES COLLECTIONS.

Loans Money on Real Estate Security

LOANS FOR CAPITALIST A SPECIALTY.

In the Savings Department of the Bank there will be received Sums as low as One Dollar, upon which will be paid Seven per cent interest.

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ARKANSAS CITY TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

From the Spirit of Kansas.

Although not a Granger, I venture to drop you a line from "The Great Southwest." There is little to write about except the weather and crops. In the first place, our weather is all that could be desired--warm and pleasant. There has been but one day since Christmas that a man could not work out of doors in his shirt sleeves. In fact, carpenters and masons keep pecking away as though it was the month of September, and in all directions of our county you may see farmers plowing away as if it was in the early fall or spring. I am informed several have sown wheat and rye in the past month. The wheat that was sown in the proper season in the fall is looking remarkably well, and the acreage sown is at least a third more this fall than last.

While everything seems dull and but little going on here on the border, we have "peace and plenty." Crops of all kinds were so abundant the past year that we have no suffering for something to eat. Corn is plentiful, and selling very low, but not quite so low as a little north of us. Stock looks in fine condition. Still, this country lacks a good deal of being what it might be with a little industry, thrift, and economy.

As I ride over the country and see the large fields of wheat and corn, miles of hedge fence; neat and comfortable farm houses dotting almost every quarter section; neat little frame houses in all directions, painted white, with three windows on each side and a door in the end, with the ground tramped all around as though it was a base ball ground--it don't require a great stretch of imagination to tell you what such places are used for.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

The Black Hills.

Mr. Windom, (Rep., Minn.) in Congress, opposed the substitute. He said there were 1,200 or 2,000 persons now in the section known as the Black Hills. He believed the reports of gold there were well founded, and the Senate should not by this substitute compel those persons to leave that reservation.

Mr. Edmunds (Rep., Vt.) asked if they had any rights there.

Mr. Windom replied, technically no. He argued that the treaty with the Sioux Indians of 1868 had been violated by them, though the Government had faithfully complied with its part, and appropriated the million and a quarter annually for these Indians. At the end of the four years, the alternative was presented that the Government should continue to pay this million and a quarter or fight.

The Government had now tacitly given its consent to miners going to the Black Hills, as no efforts had been made during the last two months to keep them away.

He moved an amendment to the substitute providing that the provisions of this act shall not apply to that part of the Sioux reservation lying in and between the north and south forks of the Cheyenne river and east of the east line of Wyoming Territory. He said he was determined that the people of the United States should have the rights to go to the Black Hills and develop the wealth of that country.

Mr. Edmunds said if the Indians have violated the treaty, it was no excuse for any citizen of the United States going on their reservations, killing the Indians, and pocketing the gold. He argued that the gold hunters did not go to the Black Hills with the consent of the Government of the United States. On the contrary, the Government did all in its power to prevent them.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

Springfield, Dakota, Feb. 24. Wagon trains of every description are constantly passing here, bound for the gold fields. The different parties as they pass have from two to twenty-five wagons each. One party camped in town last night, and one could see camp fires of three other trains on the prairie west of here. Another Springfield party will start at noon today, consisting of seven wagons and twenty men. In this party are some of the best businessmen of this town, and they have better teams and outfits generally than any we have yet left here. The party is jubilant, and will be in the Hills in a few days.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

St. Louis, March 3. The Republican learns from a gentleman just from Fort Sill, Indian Territory, that the developments of yesterday will create no surprise out there, because everybody at the post has for a long time been cognizant of the fact that the traders here were required to send heavy monthly contributions East, and they even urged, in order to enforce monthly collections from their patrons, the necessity for making those remittances, exclaiming that they were required to pay for the privileges they enjoyed. Lees & Reynolds, post traders at Camp Supply, make no secret of the fact that they hold their franchise as a thing purchased at large figures.

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ARKANSAS CITY TRAVELER, MARCH 13, 1876.

The President has revoked the appointment of Evans as post trader at Fort Sill.

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APPOINTMENTS. The following appointments have been made by the M. E. Conference held at Emporia last week, for this

vicinity.

Arkansas City: Rev. J. J. Wingar.

Hutchinson: Rev. B. C. Swarts.

Wichita: A. Buchner, J. T. Hanna, Jo McQuiston.

Belle Plaine: D. W. Cameron.

Winfield: J. W. Carnavel.

Wellington and Oxford: H. J. Walker.

The Winfield and Arkansas City circuits are to be supplied. Rev. Stine, formerly located at this place, is stationed at Marion Center.

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By a letter received from Col. H. I. Marvin, of Kansas City, who, in company with Mr. Hunt, rode over the route from Independence to this place, via Elk City, Longton, Lazette, Tisdale, and Winfield recently, we learn that he submitted his report to the L., L. & G. Company, and it was received most favorably. The approximate cost of the entire line, including masonry, grading, ties, bridges, without the rails or rolling stock, is $580,000. The road is a practical one, and would meet with more favor in the county than any other proposed line. We except to hear further from them.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876.

The following is a list of cases that will stand for trial at the April term A. D. 1876, of the District Court of Cowley, and have been placed on the Trial Docket in the following order.

FIRST DAY--CRIMINAL DOCKET.

State vs. A. H. Horneman [listed 3 times].

State vs. Enos Copple.

State vs. Wm. Thurman.

State vs. W. J. Keffer and Emma J. Hawkins.

State vs. J. L. Melvin.

State vs. John Doe.

SECOND DAY--CIVIL DOCKET.

E. S. Babcock Jr. vs. S. Phelan et al.

Eph. Simpson vs. Geo. W. Gardenhire.

Geo. Warner vs. James Jordan.

Benj. G. Jones et al vs. A. T. Shenneman.

Jno. C. Hays vs. E. P. Kinne.

S. B. Sherman vs. B. H. Clover Adr.

Esther E. Fowler vs. John Brown et al.

David Thompson vs. E. B. Kager et al.

E. B. Weitzel vs. Joseph Smalley.

Robert Hudson vs. W. S. Voris.

A. V. Polk vs. A. J. McCollim.

Oliver Sparkman vs. Wm. and A. J. Thurman.

Harvey Olmstead vs. John Schwarten.

City of Winfield vs. S. Tarrant.

Jno. C. McMullen vs. Wm. M. Gray.

Elizabeth Sutton vs. B. H. Clover Adr.

A. J. Kimmell vs. David Thompson et al.

Francis Black vs. Ed Patton et al.

THIRD DAY.

W. S. Pane vs. M. A. and W. W. Andrews.

Martha A. Richmond vs. Chas. W. Richmond.

Robert Jordan vs. T. M. McFadden et al.

C. C. Black vs. A. A. Jackson et al.

Francis Black vs. A. A. Jackson Adr.

Frank Akers vs. W. B. Norman

Arthur Graham vs. T. J. Ragland.

Robert T. Jordan vs. John H. Brown et al.

M. Bretton vs. A. F. Tryon et al.

R. C. Seehorn vs. H. Brotherton.

T. H. Pryor vs. John N. Dunn et al.

Herman Godehard vs. Thos. Callahan et al.

Todd & Royal vs. Chas. Keesler.

Michael Harkins vs. Geo. Sweet et al.

Patrick Harkins vs. Geo. O. Sweet et al.

J. D. Bosworth vs. Willis Hunt.

A. V. Polk vs. A. H. Horneman.

Philander Wilson vs. Board County Commissioners.

W. S. Coltingham vs. School District 19.

FOURTH DAY.

Henry T. Ford vs. N. Roberson.

T. M. Graham vs. Thos Bell et al.

Abel D. Bent vs. G. M. Rouse et al.

R. B. Waite vs. John Morris et al.

Nancy Constant vs. K. J. Wright et al.

Susannah Holmes vs. T. H. Johnson.

J. M. Harcourt vs. T. H. Johnson.

J. G. Ackerson vs. H. J. Page.

W. J. Keffer vs. Emma A. Keffer.

Emma J. Hawkins vs. E. C. Hakins.

W. R. Constant vs. H. H. Constant et al.

Stillwell & Bierce Mfg. Co. vs. J. C. Blanein et al.

Mary Estes vs. Noah B. Estes.

L. G. Culling vs. Celia Davis et al.

John Worthington vs. W. R. Lewis.

F. M. Crosby vs. A. N. Deming.

T. J. A. Flows vs. Geo. Bauer.

Ella Elton vs. J. C. Elton.

John Mentch Adr. vs. T. H. Johnson.

FIFTH DAY.

Sarah Requa vs. Joseph Requa.

Joseph Requa vs. Joseph Nickles.

J. C. McMullen vs. Julia A. and A. N. Deming.

E. C. Seward vs. S. Tucker et al.

J. C. Blandin vs. S. A. Smith et al.

Joseph Requa vs. Jacob Bihlwaier et al.

Joseph Requa vs. J. W. Thomas et al.

Sarah Brown vs. Peter Pixler et al.

T. E. Kirkley vs. Wm. Hallitt et al.

J. J. Smith vs. Sarah E. Smith.

Arthur Graham vs. John Swain et al.

Mary J. Triplett vs. W. B. Doty et al.

Bolton & Creswell Tps. vs. M. C. Baker et al.

Adaline Sackson vs. L. C. Shales et al.

N. F. Bartine vs. C. Akers et al.

J. D. Pryor vs. L. M. Brown et al.

John Rief vs. Gertrude Rief.

R. B. Waite vs. C. M. Sloan et al.

W. H. H. Maris vs. D. M. Purdy et al.

SIXTH DAY.

A. J. Ady vs. S. A. Ady.

Barclay Hockett vs. R. R. Turner.

Elizabeth Kemry vs. V. B. Tillson.

J. B. Splawn vs. R. L. Walker, Sheriff.

W. B. Turner vs. R. L. Walker, Sheriff.

J. W. Martin vs. Wm. & H. H. Martin.

J. W. Martin vs. Wm. Martin et al.

Samuel Hoyt vs. S. L. Fetterman.

A. B. Johnson vs. C. T. Stewart.

David Thomas vs. Martin Stewart.

James Jenkins vs. A. N. Deming.

W. S. Voris et al vs. C. T. Stewart.

E. S. BEDILLION, CLERK.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876.

March 13, 1876.

The present wheat crop looks remarkably well, though the cold snap of last week had a tendency to stop its growth for the present.

Our farmers are all busily engaged in plowing and preparing for planting.

The dance which was to be given at Mr. Seely's on the 11th inst. was postponed for the lack of material.

The absence of Rev. Wingar and other ministers from the Holland school house has caused many of us to stay at home, having no place to go on the Sabbath.

C. C. H.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876.

TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. There will be an examination of teachers, desiring certificates, held at the County Superintendent's office, in Winfield, Friday, March 17th.

T. A. WILKINSON, Supt.

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Notice.

There will be a teachers examination held at Winfield, Friday and Saturday, April 7th and 8th. All teachers desiring certificates to teach in the county of Cowley will be present.

T. A. WILKINSON,

County Supt.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876.

ARKANSAS CITY, March 13, 1876

Adjourned regular meeting.

Present, S. P. Channell, Mayor; J. H. Sherburne, H. Godehard, and I. H. Bonsall, Councilmen.

Report of Finance Committee, on report of Treasurer, received and accepted, and Treasurer's report found correct, was, on motion, accepted. Moved and seconded that an ordinance be passed to pay for printing 2,500 circulars ordered by previous meeting; also to appropriate money to pay E. B. Kager for services as city attorney in adjusting back taxes on lots deeded to the city by the Town Company; also an ordinance for general purposes. Carried by unanimous vote. S. P. Channell, Mayor, recommended W. J. Gray for City Marshal. Moved by J. H. Serburne, seconded by H. Godehard, that he be confirmed on condition that he serve as Marshal without salary further than the fees of the office; carried by unanimous vote. Moved and seconded to adjourn, carried.

S. P. CHANNELL, Mayor.

I. H. BONSALL,

City Clerk, attest.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876.

The following marriage licenses were issued by the Probate Judge during the month of February.

W. M. Copeland - M. C. Kizer.

S. B. Elkins - Ida E. Moor.

John Stauffer - Ruth Burneti.

T. C. Robinson - Theodosia Williams.

James Rankin - Mary E. Fisher.

H. Godehard - Jane Goodnight.

T. H. Henderson - Hannah McMasters.

A. D. Felton - Sarah J. Chaney.

G. J. Anderson - Mary E. Martin.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876.

From the Kansas State Agricultural Report of 1875.

Organized in 1870. Named in honor of Mathew Cowley, First Lieut. of Co. I, Ninth Kansas Cavalry, who died in the service, August, 1864, at Little Rock, Arkansas. Square miles, 1,112. Population to square mile, 8.06. Population in 1860, 158; in 1870, 1,170; increase in ten years, 1,017; population in 1875, 8,963: increase in five years, 7,788. Increase in fifteen years, 8,805.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876.

A BIG TWO-COLUMN AD FOR J. W. SCOTT, JEWELER, DEALER IN AMERICAN & SWISS WATCHES! MARKET ST., CADIZ, OHIO.

AD PLAYS UP ELGIN WATCHES, SETH THOMAS CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, SPECTACLES, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, REPAIRING WATCHES, ETC. GATHER THEY WERE HANDLING EVERYTHING VIA THE MAILS.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876.

The County Commissioners meet April 3rd.

The Central Avenue is doing a rushing business now.

GRANDPAP STEELE, of Grouse creek, has removed to Linn County.

NINE boarders from the City Hotel went to the Central Avenue, last Monday.

CALLED. John Pryor and Mr. Baldwin, accompanied with Miss May Deming and Miss Greenlee, spent last Sunday at this place.

A gun went off while in the hands of a man on the street, the other day, and the ball just missed a horse that was standing close by.

MR. PARKER, of Boston, Mass., has been stopping at the Central Avenue for several weeks, looking out a location for himself and thirteen others from Boston.

It cost Houghton & McLaughlin about ten dollars, last week, to tell the people they did not intend to trust any more, and now the propose to do as they have said.

The election of city officers takes place on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April. The township officers are elected at the general election in November.

OLD Folks' Concert Saturday evening. Admission, 25 cents; children, 15 cents. Tickets for sale at E. D. Eddy's and the Post Office. Concert begins at 7 o'clock, at the First Church.

RETURNED. Russell Baird and Robert Baird, both brothers of Thomas Baird, arrived last week from Canada. We are glad to see Russell back again, bringing his brother with him.

RETURNED. Wm. Berkey and S. C. Wintin returned last Saturday. Mr. Berkey has been visiting California, and Mr. Winttin, Colorado. They are satisfied that Southern Kansas is good enough.

FURNITURE. L. McLaughlin has the largest stock of furniture in Cowley county, and prroposes to sell at bottom rates. Call in and see the new styles of parlor furniture and the old style kitchen chairs.

A neck-tie festival was held in School District No. 31 on last Wednesday. It was well attended, and all present had a good time. The proceeds, which amounted to $23.10 were presented to Rev. Arthur E. Lewis.

PROF. T. A. WILKINSON called last week. The trouble he had with his partner at Wichita has been settled for the present. Gross rumors were afloat, as usual, on the matter, which we are glad to inform our readers were not true.

PAWNEE squaw was circulating a petition for "bread or ten cents," yesterday, stating that "he had served as a soldier." Some New Englander evidently wrote the petition, without knowing the sex of the party he was accommodating.

REV. J. WINGAR has been re-assigned to this place for another year, by the M. E. Conference, and Rev. B. C. Swarts to Hutchinson, Kansas. We congratulate our Methodist brethren on securing Rev. Wingar again, and regret that Rev. Swarts has been placed at so great a distance.

CALENDAR for the week: Wednesday evening, church choir meets; Thursday evening, prayer meeting; Friday evening, re-hearsal of O. F. C.; Saturday evening, Old Folks' Concert; Sunday eve., preaching at First Church; Monday eve., Hoyt's violin class, private; Tuesday eve., Young People's Christian

Association.

JEWELRY. On the second page of this issue we publish the advertisement of J. W. Scottt, Jeweler, of Cadiz, Ohio. The store is an old one, and the proprietor a gentleman of fifty years' experience. We have no hesitation in recommending the house, and can guarantee satisfaction. The make the sale of fine watches a specialty, and keep all styles of jewelry, watches, clocks, plated and solid wares, musical instruments, etc. Correspondence by mail solicited. Goods mailed to any address.

THE CENTENNIAL CONCERT. The concert, so long looked for, will be given by the choir of the First Presbyterian Church, on Saturday evening, March 19. The musicians and ushers will appear in full costime of ye anciente dayes of Seventy-Six. An interesting programme may be expected. The following characters will be presented: Mrs. John Hancock, Mrs. John Jay, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Lady Washington, Widow Bedotte, General Washington, William Penn, Gen. Wayne, Gen. Ethan Allen, Gov. Winthhrop (Massachusetts), Gov. Morris. All are cordially invited. Admission down to 25 cents; children, 15 cents.

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MARRIED. On the 9th day of March, 1876, at the residence of B. F. Martin, in Cowley county, Kansas, by Adam Walck, Esq., Mr. G. F. Anderson, of Butler county, to Miss Mary E. Martin. And at the same time and place, Mr. H. D. Olmstead to Mrs. Jennie Himer, of Butler county, Kansas. Both parties have our best wishes for their happiness and future welfare.

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BAD CUT. A son of Mr. Williams, living in Beaver Township, cut his foot with an ax while cutting wood, from the little toe to the center of his foot, and now lies on his back threatened with lock-jaw. The wound did not bleed a spoonful, although an artery was severed, owing to its being cauterized. It will evidently cripple him for life.

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The young people's prayer meeting closed without holding service last night. Considerable time has been required, in one way and another, and church matters are not as well attended to as heretofore. Let's have a change in the programme for awhile: say euchre or seven-up parties. Anything for a change.

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MICHIGAN CIDER, the pure apple juice, right from the cider press, at the City Bakery, for the small pittance of five cents per glass. Also, delicious oranges and lemons, all the way from Messina, for 75 cents per dozen. Apples, ditto.

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The Ladies' Society of the M. E. Church will meet at the Parsonage, Thursday afternoon, at 2 o'clock.

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Rev. Lewis, of the M. E. Church, preached to a good audience in Davis' Hall last night.

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MEASLES. A family of newcomers in town have the measles.

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RAIN. More rain today. The wheat crop is almost certain.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876.

NOTICE is hereby given that an election will be held at I. H. Bonsall's photograph gallery, in the City of Arkansas City, on Monday, the 3rd day of April, A. D. 1876, for the elecxtion of the following city officers, to-wit: One Mayor, five Councilmen, one Police Judge.

S. P. CHANNELL, Mayor.

I. H. BONSALL, City Clerk.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876.

Publication Notice.

D. J. Coburn vs. William Steel.

Before Timothy McIntire, Justice of the Peace of Creswell

township, Cowley County, Kansas.

THE defendant will take notice that on the 14th day of March, 1876, Timothy McIntire, Justice of the Peace, issued an order of attachment for the sum of one hundred and twelve dollars and sixteen cents ($112.16); that said cause will be heard on the 14th day of April, A. D. 1876, at 9 o'clock a.m.

Dated, March 14, 1876,

D. J. COBURN, Plaintiff.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 15, 1876.

FOUND. A common sized door key.

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LOST. A cable chain between Arkansas City and Mr. Godfrey's. The finder will be paid by returning it to Mr. E. J. Bowers.

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The Estey Organ Takes the Lead. W. D. MOWRY, Agent, Arkansas City, Kansas.

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I have a Champion Reaper and Mower I will trade for a team. NOAH McCOY.

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ARKANSAS CITY TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

A Trip Up the Arkansas.

Last Wednesday, March 8, I had a pleasant trip up the Arrkansas Valley to Val Verdi township, Sumner County, business, of course, being the principal object I had in view. On my journey up the valley, I noticed the farmers were all busy preparing the ground for spring crops. Mr. Dwyre, who resides two miles south of Thomasville, refused $2,000 for his farm last week, which is proof conclusive that he is not tired of Kansas. He has one of the best farms in Cowley county, located near the Granger mill site, on Evans creek. This is the best location for water power in the southwest. Parties wishing to build a large grist mill where they can obtain plenty of water the year round should not fail to visit this place. It is rumored that the Grangers have given up the notion of building for the present.

At Thomasville I met Mr. Nesmith turning over the sod. He intends breaking 160 acres this summer, and sow to wheat in the fall. At this point we have a splendid view of the surrounding country. Six miles further up the river I crossed to the west side of the stream, at a place known as Buffington ford. At this point we enter Val Verdi township, Sumner county. It is directly west of Beaver township, in Cowley; is six miles square, and is taxed a lower percent on the dollar, than any other township in Sumner. The land is all tillable, composed one-half of bottom and one-half upland, of the very best quality. One-half mile to the right from the ford we find the farm and residence of Mr.

W. H. Gasaway, a farmer by occupation, a Democrat in politics, and a reader of the TRAVELER. He has a farm here on the banks of the Arkansas of 215 acres, 130 under cultivation. Mr. Gasaway came to this State from Logan county, Illinois, one year ago this spring. He is well pleased with his new home, and thinks we will have a railroad soon. Everything he has around him appears to be in a flourishing condition, even to the Berkshire pigs and Shepherd dog pups, of which he has a goodly number.

Mr. Yager, living half a mile to the south of Gasaway, is a man of means. He has 900 acres in the township, farmed by himself and three sons. He also loans money at 12 percent interest: more generous than most of the monied men in this country.

Elder Gay is holding forth at the Jenkins school house, and a goodly number have turned to the Lord within the past week.

Yours in haste,

CHRISTMAS.

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ARKANSAS CITY TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

From Caldwell.

CALDWELL, KAS., March 11, 1876.

I do not think there is a better chance for a poor man to make a raise to be found, not only in this country, but in the world, than can be found in Sumner county, Kansas. When we consider the self-denying perseverence of New England men who toil among the hemlock hills year after year in order to barely procure a livelihood, and after a half century of hard labor and strict economy die comparatively poor men, we can form no other conclusion than that Eastern people in general are desperately ignorant of this great Western country. The conclusion thus formed is fully sustained by experience.

In the spring of 1870, I put about two weeks hard labor on one acre of land in Aroostock County, Maine, the trees had been cut down one or two years before, which was about one week's work, making 18 days hard work, and then did not raise as much crop, when valued at a cash price, as is often raised in Sumner county on the same amount of ground the first year after it is broken up.

It costs from $20.00 to $50.00 per acre to clear land in Maine, and even then it is covered with stumps and stone so as to hinder the operation of any kind of machinery for several years.

Before coming to Kansas I heard people talk as though they thought it required five yoke of oxen at least to break prairie; in fact, I thought so myself before coming to this country, but I was very agreeably surprised to find that one good team of oxen, horses, or mules could break from one to ten acres per day without difficulty. I have a small team of horses, weighing about 800 lbs. each, which it does not seem to worry to pull a 12 inch breaking plow all day.

Two miles from Caldwell (our little village of about one hundred inhabitants), are several quarter sections of the very best kind of land, which can be preempted at $1.25 per acre paid in one year after filing. We have in our little town a good school house, a church organization of 25 members, and our citizens are very kind, accommodating people. There is some vacant land at a distance of a mile from our school house, where we have an excellent school.

Caldwell has been a very rough place on account of its being located on the great Texas cattle trail, but at the present time I think it will compare favorably with any other town of the same size in the West. J. B. R.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

[From the Winfield Courier.]

The following private letter from our Congressman contains so many items of interest that we are constrained to give it to our readers. The idea of graduating the Osage lands and finally throwing them open to private purchasers is an excellent one. It would enable parties to purchase large tracts of grazing lands to the west of us that are of no value for agricultural purposes. We hope that our readers will feel at liberty to send us their opinions or will confer with Judge Brown direct.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. )

WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 28, 1876. )

DEAR COL.: I have been thinking whether it was not possible for some legislation in reference to the Osage reservation, in order in the first place to have actual settlers on the land prove up and get their titles with a reasonable time, and to reduce the price of all the refuse land east and west of the Arkansas River say to $1.00 per acre from and after Jan. 1st, 1877; 75 cents per acre from and after Jan. 1st, 1878, and to 50 cents from and after Jan. 1st, 1879, and all remaining on Jan. 1st, 1880, to be opened for sale at the latter price to all parties wishing to purchase. A provision, perhaps, that those on the lands have till 1877 to prove up, which in case we have a good crop would be as much as they would need. The idea is not very well developed even in my own mind, but I have a desire to see the western end of the reserve settled as the eastern end already is, and to have the portions on the Eastern end that are rugged and broken and have so far remained unsold, disposed of at a lower rate, and so made taxable, and compelled to brave its proportion of the public burdens.

Have you any suggestions to make in reference to the matter? How much land is today unclaimed in Cowley Co.? Any information we receive will be of importance. The bill for the sale of the Cherokee strip to actual settlers is before the Committee on Public lands. We hope to get it through. The only question in the case is whether the agents of the Cherokees now here are inclined favorably to the measure; if they are, there is no danger; if not, it will be hard to pass. We are consulting with them, they have copies of the bill and promise to give their opinion shortly. They seem favorable at present.

In reference to right of way through the Territory. I have introduced no bill because I have not found any corporation asking it. And you well know a general shot in such a case is pure buncomb, and instead of considering roads from the mouth of the Walnut to Western Texas and down the Arkansas valley as merely quixotic schemes, I am in dead earnest, and am consulting with all men I meet from Texas and Arkansas and interesting them as far as possible in the matter. * * * *

* * * Parties at Fort Smith are looking our way, and one gentleman informed me that the Little Rock & Fort Smith road is nearly completed to Ft. Smith, and the Co. will soon obtain in some way the right of way to Gibson, and will, if any inducements are offered, push further up the valley into Kansas.

Am favoring all measurers in reference to civil courts in the Territory, and all that look to the eventual opening up of the Territory to settlement, and am ready to put in the entering wedge. My idea is that while in the first few months the opening of the Territory would seemingly be injurious to the State by drawing thither a large population already in Kansas who are looking that way, yet that eventually it will be of benefit. While yet being settled it will furnish a market for the surplus of the Southern portion of our State, and when once settled the demand for an outlet will cause railroads to be built there connecting with our system in Kansas, and thus we shall obtain our desired lines both to the Mississippi and the Gulf. Our Kansas matters are moving well in Congress, and those of local importance will pass where money is not involved and even there we have strong assistance. Think on the whole the drift is very favorable to the Republicans and that unless we blunder badly, we shall elect the next President, and it now looks as if his name would be Blaine.

Truly Yours,

W. R. BROWN.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

The St. Louis Times has an article in regard to one A. J. Brown, a late confidential clerk at Fort Sill, who has just been arrested in St. Louis, and tells something more about Belknap's sutler contracts.

The Times' interviewer says:

He went to Cheyenne Agency, and there took charge of the sutler store of that post and conducted the business for Evans & Smith. He states that his employers paid Belknap $5,000 annually for the Cheyenne post; that he learned this fact from Evans himself.

Mr. Brown says that Evans made no secret of the fact that he had to purchase his sutlerships; that he frequently spoke of it among his employees and

DENOUNCED BELKNAP & CO.

for imposing such heavy terms as to take all the profits. About ten years and a half ago, Evans went to Washington to obtain a reduction of the assessments levied upon him by the Belknap party. He was unsuccessful, and on his return, while at Cheyenne, he gave vent to his indignation by roundling cursing Belknap and Marsh. Mr. Brown says that this circumstance impressed itself upon his mind because Evans was not in the habit of swearing.

The report asked Mr. Brown if Evans alluded to Belknap personally or to any conversation with him.

WHAT EVANS SAID

Brown: "Yes, he referred to conversations with Belknap in regard to Fort Sill and Cheyenne Agency." Evans had endeavored to induce Belknap to reduce the terms by representing to him that there were no profits left to his firm. He said he was paying $10,000 yearly for the Fort Sill post and $5,000 for Cheyenne. At Cheyenne Evans and Smith had the sutlership and Indian trade agency; but they kept one store from which they supplied the soldiers and the Indians.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

Attempted Assassination.

An ordinary looking man about 35 years old came into Kansas City on the Fort Scott train from Southern Kansas last week. He looked in bad health, and on leaving the care of the depot, inquired the way to the Sisters' Hospital. Seeing that something was the matter, the Times made an investigation and obtained the following information in regard to the man.

His name was George Brown, and for the past few months he has been employed as herder for a large cattle dealer down in the Indian Territory, below Baxter Springs. About two weeks since, on a dismal rainy afternoon, as he was on his way from camp to Baxter Springs, he was shot from his horse by a cowardly assassin and left on the prairie for dead. He remained in an unconscious condition until about noon of the next day. On coming to his senses he found he had been shot through the right lung, the bullet coming out of the back. He stopped the flow as best he could, and started on foot for the nearest house, some nine miles away. He was not able to go far the first day, but late in the afternoon of the second arrived and was kindly taken care of by the "squatter." He rapidly regained his strength and at last was taken to Baxter Springs. He then heard of the Sisters' Hospital in Scriptown, and purchasing a ticket, went there as above described to be taken care of.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

KANSAS CITY, MO., March 8. A special correspondent from the Black Hills, telegraphs from Custer [Custar ?] City on the 4th inst., via Fort Laramie, Wyoming, March 8, that a large party of mounted Indians made a sudden attack upon Custer, about one o'clock on the 4th inst., and succeeded in driving off all the loose horses that were grazing in the suburbs of the city. The Indians at the same time attacked an emigrant train at Pleasant Valley, nine miles below here. Every able bodied white man has been enrolled, and a party of sixty have just started in pursuit of the Indians, who have gone toward Red Cloud Agency. Charles Holt of Sioux City, was killed. A warm time is expected with the Indians now.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

Election of city officers in two weeks.

The Board of County Commissioners meet the first Monday in April, and will probably hold session during most of the week.

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Government Lands.

It is a fact not generally known, even by the residents of this county, that one-half of the land in the entire county is yet owned by the Government, and can be purchased by making a settlement on it and paying $1.25 per acre.

Before a month all the land mentioned cannot be termed vacant, for as soon as the vacant tracts are made known, the hundreds of home seekers already in this county will hunt them out, and make a settlement on them. Our object is to let the facts be known. In the eastern part of this county there are thousands of acres of far better land, for $1.25 per acre, than many farms "back East" worth $100 per acre.

Let your friends know it, and have them come to Cowley instead of locating on railroad lands, held at five and ten dollars per acre.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

Mr. Atkins reported back the Senate amendments of the pension appropriation bill, which were concurred in.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

The following is a list of jurors drawn for the April term of court: George W. Sharp, H. Holtby, W. W. Higgins, B. F. Wright, Isaac Towsley, James Kerr, A. H. Buckwalter, S. D. Groom, John Jones, J. A. McNown, Charles M. Peters, O. M. Ratts.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

The following are the appointments of the Wichita District M. E. Conference for the next year, held at Emporia last week.

ONLY LISTING PERTINENT ONES:

Arkansas City: J. J. Wingar.

Arkansas City circuit: J. B. Herbert.

Winfield: J. W. Canavel.

Winfield circuit: To be supplied.

Dexter: R. R. Brady.

Lazette: J. W. Stewart.

Douglas: G. W. Harrison.

Wellington and Oxford: H. J. Walker.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

The Senate has passed a bill for the admission of New Mexico into the Union.

A new town has been laid out at the new lead diggings in Cherokee county called Leedsville.

A party of 400 men have organized at Philadelphia to start for the Black Hills early next month.

Rich gold mines have been discovered in the Big Horn and Owl creek mountains, Wyoming Territory.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

W. W. W. arrived home last Thursday.

The recent freezes have damaged the peaches.

The township trustees ought to be at their assessing now.

Fuller is harrowing and rolling his forty-acre wheat patch.

Troupe has called the township trustees together March 27th.

Dr. Thompson, a valued reader of the COURIER, made us a visit last week.

Miller has sold his hardware store to a gentleman from

Leavenworth.

Representative Hackney came home from Galveston last week.

From the mound north of town three thousand acres of wheat are visible to the naked eye.

The teachers and pupils of the public schools of Winfield are enjoying a week's vacation.

If the weather and roads are fair, a good delegation will attend the Centennial Concert at Arkansas City Saturday night.

Mr. Palmer, from Medicine Lodge, was in town Tuesday selling young cedar trees and wild currant bushes to our citizens.

That reported double wedding, at Arkansas City, wherein four of Winfield citizens are said to have been swept into the uncertain abyss of matrimony, is a canard.

Mr. Senseney, of Nennescah township, has a chicken that was hatched April 20th, 1875, which laid the eggs and hatched a brood of chickens therefrom on the 14th day of the following September. She was a proud mother at the tender age of four months and fifteen days. On the 26th of February she settled down upon a new lot of eggs. Her offspring began to lay at five months of age. This is something to "crow" over.

Two citizens of Richland township are enjoying a queer result to a joke. One told the other that if he would carry a certain stone and lay it upon the wall of a house, then in construction, that he would give him a pony. The the surprise of the one who made the banter, the second party picked the stone up and delivered it upon the designated wall. Now the stone carrier wants the pony, and has brought suit to replevin it.

A daughter, aged five or six years, of S. W. Greer, who lives three miles south of town, on Monday, ate some concentrated lye. As soon as possible Dr. Headrick was called, who administered remedies that relived the sufferer. The child is likely to recover. A good remedy in such cases is vinegar or oil. Vinegar will convert the lye into acetate of potash, and any of the oils will unite with it and form soap; and neither the acetate of potash nor soap will materially injure the stomach. The parents of children who are in the habit of eating lye should keep oil and vinegar handy.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

Cheyenne, W. T., March 17. On the evening of the 15th Mr. Fielding came into Fort Fetterman from the camp at old Fort Reno, having left there on the night of the 13th. He brought letters, etc., from the men of the command. On the 7th General Cook left the main camp at Fort Reno, taking a pack train and fifteen days' rations for the cavalry and struck out after some Indians known to be north of that place, since which date nothing has been heard from him. On the way to Reno his command was attacked several times by Indians. One man was wounded but is alive yet. An infantry man is also wounded. There were no other casualties.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

WE, the undersigned, citizens of Creswell Township, in Cowley County, residing in the vicinity of the road petitioned for, respectfully request your Honorable body to appoint viewers to locate and survey a County Road, as the law directs, on the following route, viz: beginning at the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of Section nineteen in township thirty-four south of range four east, in Cowley county, Kansas, running thence west one-half mile on half section to the center of said section nineteen, and that the present County Road that is laid out and located as follows, to wit: beginning at said northwest quarter of said section nineteen, running thence south half a mile to the corners of sections nineteen, twenty, twenty-nine and thirty in said township (34), thence west one-half mile to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of said section nineteen (19), be vacated, set aside, and changed so as to run only on the half-mile line as first above described, the public convenience demanding it.

JOHN P. WOODYARD,

Principal Petitioner.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

Mr. Allison, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, in Congress reported with amendments, a bill providing for an agreement with the Sioux nation in regard to a portion of their reservation. Ordered printed and placed on the calendar of the afternoon session. It covers the Black Hills. The object is to open them to settlers.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

What constitutes a car load? is often asked.

In general, 20,000 pounds is a car load, or 70 barrels of salt, 70 of lime, 90 of flour, 60 of whiskey, 200 sacks of flour, 6 cords of wood, 18 to 20 head of cattle, 50 to 60 head of hogs, 90 to 105 head of sheep, 9,000 feet of solid boards, 17,000 feet of siding, 40,000 shingles, one-half less of hard lumber, and one-fourth less of green, one tenth less of joists, scantling and other large timber, 340 bushels of wheat, 460 of corn, 980 of oats, 400 of barley, 360 of flax seed, 360 of apples, 430 of Irish potatoes, 360 of sweet potatoes, 1,000 bushels of bran.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

E. D. BOWEN is in Missouri.

SCHOOL closes in two weeks.

Eggs are plentiful at six cents per dozen.

The City Council met again last Monday evening.

Next month several families will exchange places of abode.

AMOS WALTON toasted his number thirteens at our stove last Monday.

The dry goods and grocery merchants have resolved not to trust any more.

REV. SWARTS started to Hutchinson last week, to fulfill his first appointment.

The peach crop promises to be only a partial success in the west this year.

DR. ALEXANDER lectures for the benefit of the school bell fund next Monday evening.

A railroad company has been organized to build a railroad from Chanute to Winfield.

The cattle drive from Texas this season amounts to about three hundred thousand head.

South Bend Grange has a good library. A sensible plan, which should be generally followed.

Several Grangers "passed over the plowed ground" lately at Bethel Grange, above Winfield.

SPARROWS. Rev. Thompson is making an effort to introduce English sparrows in tthis section.

M. C. BAKER has been stopping at this place for several days, looking over his old stamping ground.

The driver of the mail coach got lost on Saturday night, but finally found his way. It was a fearful night.

HARNESS. Mr. Newton received a fine lot of horse collars, harness, etc., last week, and some excellent ladies' and gents' saddles.

If you want to later view a Kaw, Osage, or Pawnee Indian, come down to Arkansas City. You have the opportunity every day.

SIDE SADDLES. Jas. I. Mitchell has a new lot of ladies' saddles, of the latest make, and the celebrated Texan tree for gents.

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The boys think of organizing a Centennial Club in town. Knee breeches and cocked hats will distinguish them from the common run of people.

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THIRTEEN FAMILIES. We have received a letter from Mr. P. B. Arnold, of Lansing, Michigan, stating that thirteen Michigan families are about to locate in this vicinity.

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There will be a social given by the M. E. Society at the house of Mr. McMullen, on Wednesday evening, March 22. By order of the Secretary: All are cordially invited.

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The concert drew a full house. Any kind of a home entertainment is always well patronized. Let us have them frequently, and at a low price, so that all may attend.

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TOES OFF. We learn that John Breene cut two of his toes off while cutting wood for Mrs. Kirtley, last Sunday. He was on his way to Cheyenne Agency with flour and had to stop on account of the snow.

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THE PAWNEES say: "Injun sell bow for one dollar; whitey man say fifty cents. Injun no sell 'um; go off to railroad and sell 'um for two dollars." Even Lo appreciates the need of a railroad for his traffic.

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A snow of eight inches fell last Sunday morning, to the great surprise of everybody, and remained on the ground ever since. Several parties availed themselves of the opportunity for sleigh-riding, rabbit and deer hunting.

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WRITE to your friends and tell them that one-half the land in Cowley County can yet be purchased from the Government at $1.25 per acre. It is a fact not generally known. It is not the choicest, yet it is good land.

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MARRIED. On Wednesday, March 1st, 1876, by Esquire Letts, of Salt City, Mr. F. L. Davis and Miss Lydia Jones. In order to distinguish the gentleman from other members of the same family, we will state it was "Boots" Davis. Another man made happy. So mote it be.

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CANDIES. As a reminder that E. D. Eddy had received his new lot of choice and fancy candies, the office was tendered a half peck of them, and expressed themselves severally to the following toast: "May he ever live, and prosperity attend him." The responses occupied more time than the devoring of the granulated saccharine matter.

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ANOTHER LECTURE. The next lecture of the people's course will be given by Dr. J. Alexander, on Monday evening, March 27th, at the First Presbyterian Church. Subject: "Readings from the Diary of an Army Surgeon." Lecture free. Collection taken for school bell fund. Music will be furnished. Let the house be full. H.

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MAJOR CROWELL was down to Winfield last Saturday, after a post office defrauder. The bird had flown, but will most likely be taken on the wing, as the Major's scent for game is remarkable, and good even at long range.

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The thermometer indicated five degrees below zero Monday morning, before the sun rose. The coldest weather previous to this was in November, when it stood ten degrees above zero.

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Two weeks from Friday evening next the Young People's Christian Association will give the programme as published last week.

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Robert Crozier, L. F. Smith, and O. B. Gunn were in town last week to see about an extension of the Narrow Gauge Railroad.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

The Centennial Concert, rendered at the First Church last Saturday evening, by the church choir, was attended by more than one hundred persons. The introduction was made by Rev. Fleming in a manner that did credit to himself and gave spirit to the audience. The musical efforts were of high standing, and attended with success. The characters were interesting and somewhat comical. It struck us as a little funny to see Ethan Allen with his parted in the middle, and wearing white pants. George Washington, of the little hatchet fame, was introduced as the father of his country, and afterwards exhibited his skill on the organ in a manner that was "not so slow" for so aged a gentleman.

Mrs. Washington, the wife of George, and mother of her country, was attired in complete white.

William Penn, like other members of the company, looked aged enough in his hair. How they came to get William in reach of the Centennial year was more than we could solve, although he was brought forward as the grandfather of his country.

Widow Bedott was also represented, and recalled by the audience after singing the song given to her name.

Gen. Wayne bore the sword so dreaded by Russell Cowles.

Gov. Winthrop made himself useful during the early part of the evening as usher, as did Paul Revere; both finally retired to a more convenient place for inspection, and added to the group on the stage.

Mrs. Sipes, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. C. R. Mitchell, and Mrs. Meigs occupied front seats, dressed in old style, and caused some merriment.

All in all, it was a good concert, and added one more evening of enjoyment to the eager public.

The characters represented were as follows.

Ethan Allen - Prof. Hulse.

George Washington - Will. Mowry.

Mrs. George Washington - Miss Sherburne.

William Penn - Luscious Norton.

Mrs. John Jay - Mrs. R. C. Haywood.

Mrs. Alexander Hamilton - Miss L. Norton.

Mrs. John Hancock - Mrs. Newman.

Widow Bedott - Mrs. L. C. Norton.

General Wayne - Frank Hutchinson.

Governor Winthrop - J. C. Topliff.

Paul Revere - Kendall Smith.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

The following new scale of postal rates has been sent us by a correspondent.

A one-cent stamp for a circulair,

A two-cent stamp for a newspapier,

A three-cent stamp for a sealed lettair.

All licked on the right corner.

Lick, brothers, lick with care,

On the right hand side, not everywhere,

Unless you want the postmastair

To make things hot, and "cuss and swear."

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

Judge 13th Judicial District: W. P. Campbell.

Board of County Commissioners: R. F. Burden,

Robert White,

Wm. Sleeth.

County Clerk: M. G. Troup.

County Treasurer: E. B. Kager.

Deputy Treasurer: Jas. L. Huey.

Probate Judge: H. D. Gans.

Registrar of Deeds: E. P. Kinne.

Supt. Pub. Inst.: T. A. Wilkinson.

Sheriff: R. L. Walker.

Coroner: Sim. Moore.

County Attorney: A. J. Pyburn.

Clerk District Court: E. S. Bedillion.

County Surveyor: W. W. Walton.

Examining Surgeon U. S. Pensioners: W. Q. Mansfield.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

Trustee: Wm. Berkey.

Clerk: A. C. Endicott.

Justices of the Peace: T. McIntire and I. H. Bonsall.

Road Overseer: A. A. Davis.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

Major Beede, the new agent for the Osage and Kaw Indians, is finding a warm reception in this, his new home.

Joseph Pah ne-no-pah-she, Governor for the Osages, has ordered the chiefs and counselors of the tribe to meet him in council at this place on Monday next. Indian Herald.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 22, 1876.

An exchange tells about a man being found "in an unconscience state." That is what is the matter with Belknap and lots of other people.

Mrs. Secretary Bristow is said to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in her own right. She has no use for post traders, and, beside her husband is not Belknap.

The Hartford Courant remarks that the exposure of Gen. Belknap's iniquity is evidently regarded by the Democratic press and party leaders as the greatest windfall the party has had since the first battle of Bull Run.

Captain Eads' work at the mouth of the Mississippi is already an assured success. An ocean steamer drawing sixteen feet has come safely through the pass, and the current has been increased in velocity at the rate of six feet per second. The Captain declares that he will reclaim all the overflowed country continguous to the Mississippi without holding another foot of levee.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 29, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

Chicago, March 17. The following telegram was received at Gen. Sheridan's Headquarters, from Gen. Terry, commanding the Department of Dakota.

Mouth of Big Horn, March 6.

Arrived at Fort Peace March 4, and relieved the garrison. The Fort was evacuated today at noon. The original garrison consisted of forty-six men, of whom six were killed, and eight wounded. Thirteen had left and gone to settlements by night. I found in the Fort eighteen white men and one negro, and have brought them away; saw no Indians but found five lodges here of about sixty Sioux, who fled south. Think they were watching the Fort to pick up men venturing out. We start for home tomorrow.

(Signed) BRISBIN, Commanding.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 29, 1876.

THE FIRST GUN IS FIRED.

Cheyenne, W. T., March 22. Captain George Cook of the Third Cavalry, has just arrived here from Old Fort Reno, General Crook's base of supplies. On the 20th a courier arrived at Fort Laramie with the first news from Crook since he left Reno. Crook had an engagement with Sitting Bull on the 15th, near Fort Phil Kearney in which sixteen Indians were killed. General Crook lost two men. Sitting Bull ran off sixty of Crook's pack mules on the night of the 14th. Crook sends Captain Cook here to enlist 500 men to reinforce him. The Captain has already enlisted about 100 men, whom he picked up between here and Fort Laramie on their way to the hills. He has sent them to Cook, and is enlisting large numbers of Black Hillers here.

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Fort Laramie, W. T., March 22. A party from Custer City arrived here last night. They report that ten days ago a fight occurred between the miners and Indians on Deadwood Creek, about sixty-five miles north of Custer.

The Indians have been committing depredations on the creek and have stolen a good many horses. The miners organized a party and pursued and attacked them in camp. A fight ensued in which thirteen Indians and one white man were killed. The whites, following up their success, ran into so large a camp of Indians that they were obliged to fall back to their permanent camp on Deadwood. The above news came into Custer on the 15th, the day before this party left Custer. Further trouble is anticipated.

It is reported that several Black Hillers wandered off during the recent severe storms, got lost, and perished.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 29, 1876.

We have received another letter from W. J. Budd, of Van Buren, Arkansas, stating that the Little Rock & Memphis roads are anxious to extend their line of railway, and asking what our people can do towards having the route surveyed.

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STEAMBOAT. Parties at Plainfield, Ohio, are constructing a boat with the intention of putting in on the Arkansas River this spring, to ply between Little Rock, Ark., and this place. It will be of light draught, but capable of carrying sufficient burden to make the trips pay. Hay and corn are in good demand in Arkansas, and lumber and southern products are staple articles here. We expect to see a boat launched at this place within the next three months. The Arkansas River is the third largest river in the United States, and with proper effort can be made a navigable stream.

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Usury Legislation.

The recent legislation on usury, and tax on mortgages, has caused capitalists of the East to order their funds withdrawn from this State. This will have the effect of making money scarcer, and the rate of interest still higher. Where money could be obtained at twenty-five percent, it cannot be had now at all, and in cases of necessity the demand will be thirty and forty percent. The Corbin Banking Company, of New York, who have almost wholly supplied portions of this county, have ordered their funds withdrawn. Several parties for whom the Arkansas City Bank were doing business have done likewise, and others with whom we are acquainted cannot be induced to loan in this State, though they receive twice the amount they get at home. The trouble is, we have too much legislation on loans and securities; making matters always unsettled, and breaching the confidence of capital.

Repudiating bonds voted in good faith, the illegal taxing of mortgages, and constant attempts to evade payments promised will never bring money down to a legal and reasonable rate of interest. We must gain confidence, instead of losing it, and the more capital we can induce, the less the rate of interest will be. The following article, taken from the N. Y. Tribune, gives some good advice.

Mortgaqes Not Taxable.

The Supreme Court of California has recently made a decision of the utmost importance, if it is to be taken as a precedent in other States. The Court means to assert squarely and positively that the taxation of mortgages is illegal, because, to use the language of Chief Justice Wallace, "Mere credits are a false quantity in ascertaining the sum of wealth which is subject to taxation as property, and in so far as that sum is attempted to be increased by the addition of those credits, property taxation, based thereon, is not only merely fanciful, but necessarily the unconstitutional imposition of an additional tax upon a portion of the property already once taxed."

If this be good law in California, it certainly ought to be in most other States; for the decision is based solely upon the commonsense principle enunciated above, and upon the clause of the Constitution which proves that "taxation shall be equal and uniform throughout the State," and "all property in this State shall be taxed in proportion to its value, to be ascertained as directed by law." He shows the iniquity of taxing the same value twice, once in the hands of the debtor and again in the hands of the creditor, and proves the absurdity of it by the suggestion, that when the debtor pays his note the tax upon it ceases, though there has been no diminution whatever in the sum of the general wealth.

As to the practical effect of this kind of taxation, Chief Justice Wallace, in his concurring opinion, shows with perfect clearness that it is the debtor after all who pays the double tax. The country is so often and so passionately asserted by those who advocate this species of taxation, as bearing upon the money lenders, that the Chief Justice did well to pay some little attention to the matter. He says: "The taxation thus imposed nominally upon credits having resulted in the double taxation of the money, the additional tax must of course be paid by someone. The borrower is the consumer. The interest which he pays to the lender is the prime cost of the delay for which he has contracted. If the Government, by the imposition of additional taxes, increases the cost, the borrower, being the consumer, must pay it." This is of course undeniable, and yet the strongest advocacy of this tax upon mortgages comes from men who are paying from eight to twelve percent for money which they could readily get for six or seven, if the lenders were not compelled to protect themselves by usury against unjust taxation.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 29, 1876.

There are salmon in the Little Arkansas river.

Paola will send a delegation of twenty to the Black Hills.

The Leavenworth coal shaft yields a million bushels of coal annually.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 29, 1876.

Washington, March 20. The House Committee on Appropriations today commenced the consideration of the Indian appropriation bill by sections. This bill, as prepared by Mr. Randall for the committee's action, is based upon the assumption that the proposed transfer of the Indian Bureau from the Department will be effected and therefore makes no provision for Indian agents, superintendents, inspectors, etc., nor for any miscellaneous object except such as are required by the express stipulations of treaties. All the usual appropriations for general and incidental expenses are therefore omitted. The amounts which in the judgment of the committee are needed for the subsistence and clothing and transportation for the Indian service, will hereafter be provided for in the army appropriation bill, to be expended by the commissary and quartermaster department. Under these heads Mr. Randall believes that at least half a million of dollars can be saved annually. The plan contemplates the making a great saving in transportation by removing all the principal agencies to the vicinity of military posts.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 29, 1876.

Two hundred and fifty-eight thousand Texas cattle are to be driven into Kansas for shipment east this season. Most of them will be driven between Dodge City and Ellis, so that they can be shipped on either the K. P., or A. T. & S. F. roads, as freights are offered.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 29, 1876.

Gardens are growing.

School closes next week.

Court begins next week.

MAX FAWCETT goes to Emporia in a few days.

ONIONS are green, and "taps" will soon be in order.

WOOD is in good demand now. Bring us a cord.

There are a great many inquiring for land, lately.

Now it is reported lead has been found on Sam Endicott's place.

PROF. KELLOGG will be here this week, or as soon as court adjourns.

Two weeks ago Mr. B. Geiser was the recipient of a ten pound boy.

The boys have been playing havoc with the ganders on the Arkansas.

The Young People's Christian Association meets next Friday evening.

Get your trees ready to set out on Arbor Day, as set apart by the Governor.

During the late snow, the rabbits ate off large spots of wheat in some localities.

The parties sent after fruit trees to Chetopa are having a fearful time with mud and snow.

The County Commissioners meet the first Monday after the first Tuesday, or April 10th.

It has been emphatically demonstrated that wild geese cannot be caught by riding horseback.

READ the lists of land and town lots for sale. Now is the time to purchase, while property is low.

COAL. It is expected coal will be brought to the surface at the derrick, at Salt City, next week.

MR. SKINNER can't get along without "Bob." He bought her back again this week. "Bob" is a her.

There would have been an over-crowded house at Col. McMullen's last Wednesday, had the weather been favorable.

TRUSTEE CHAMBERLAIN started out last Monday on his township work. He has until the 10th of May to make his returns.

NEW POTATOES. Mr. S. H. Deweese ate new potatoes for his dinner last Saturday. They were covered with hay, and have been growing all along.

BONSALL says the moon is to fall down, and the world to come to an end this Centennial year, and is going to leave the country. He's got 'em, sure.

TIME CHANGED. The time of holding the M. E. Sunday school has been changed to half past nine in the morning, instead of three o'clock in the afternoon.

MARRIED. By his Honor, J. J. Letts, of Salt City, Mr. LEWIS SAMPLES and Miss ZELMA BELKNAP. There will be Samples of Belknaps in due course of time.

DICK WILSON, the rustic rural perambulator for Threlkeld & Co., of Kansas City, elongated his pachyderm remains at the Central Avenue, last Monday, after taking several orders in town.

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DIED. On Tuesday, March 18th, of paralysis, Mrs. Judith Dent, aged 76-1/2 years. Mrs. Dent was stopping with Mr. Coombs, and had come from Wenona, Ill., but a few weeks since, enduring the journey remarkably well, and expressing herself much stronger thereafter, until taken with this, the second and last stroke of the dreaded disease.

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REV. TANNER, of Wyandotte, Kansas, of the M. E. Church, will preach at Parker's school house on the second Sunday in April. His main object will be to see about organizing a German church.

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BUGS IN BARLEY. Our attention was called to some yellow looking barley, a few days since, and upon examination we found it covered with small black bugs, with wings, about the size of a flea. They looked as though they were dead, yet may have been only chilled. They have appeared since the snow.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 29, 1876.

Parties who lately arrived from the Osage Indian Agency, inform us that everything is passing off quietly as well as harmoniously at the headquarters of the Osages. Many of the Indians sowed wheat last fall and the crop look well. The dusky sons of the forest, or some of them at least, have gone to work with the determination of doing something for themselves, and it is confidently believed that many more will follow their example. The Indians like their Agent, Major Beede, who labors energetically for the comfort and advancement of his charges. A wise, humane, and liberal policy is being pursued, and the Indians seem to take to it. Our informants were very well pleased with the evidence of prosperity and enterprise, that is everywere manifested about the Agency.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 29, 1876.

Senator Withers, from the Committee on appropriations, reported the House bill to supply deficiency for feeding Sioux Indians. He moved to strike out of the bill the words 100,000 dollars and insert 150,000 dollars. The amendment was agreed to and the bill passed. A bill providing for an agreement with the Sioux Indians for a portion of their reservation was taken up.

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TRAVELER, MARCH 29, 1876.

Two farms for sale, four miles from Arkansas City; one on the State line; both with timber, house, breaking, well, stable, orchard, etc. Will sell for $3 per acre.

C. W. ROCKWILL.

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Young calf for sale at J. Alexander's.

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To Rent. A log house and five acres of ground, joining the town site. Inquire at the TRAVELER Office.

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Down, down they come! Harnes and saddles at

JAS. I. MITCHELL's.

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To Rent. 50 acres broken bottom land on the Arkansas, 7 miles n.w. of town, on east side of river. W. D. FURRY.

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The Best ox and drove whips in Kansas at J. I. M.'s.

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Lime. I have a lot of fresh lime always on hand, 3 miles southeast of town, at 18 cents per bushel. W. H. MOORE.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 5, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

An army officer, now in Philadelphia, who was stationed at Fort Sill for a number of years until quite recently, told a Philadelphia Times reporter that it is located in the southwestern tract of the Indian Territory, about forty-five miles from the Texas border and one hundred and sixty miles from Atoka, the present terminus of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad. It was built in 1868 by General Grierson, of the Tenth United States Cavalry, and is situated in a beautiful country. The land is well timbered and watered, and nature has made it one of the finest posts in the southwest. The post was established for the accommodation of six companies, but at present there are twelve, ten of cavalry and two of infantry, on the ground. It is situated on a bluff two hundred feet high, overlooking Medicine Bluff Creek. It discloses the fertile plains, dotted with the tents of the soldiers and the smoke curling from the wigwams of the Indians located in large numbers but half a mile off. The fort derives its name from a romantic story told by the natives. Miss Sill, a dusky damsel, becoming chagrined at the attentions paid by a stalwart brave to another local coquette in the far distant past, made a Tarpeian rock of the bluff and ended her career. In the neighborhood of 5,000 or 6,000 Indians, mostly

KIOWAS AND COMANCHES,

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TRAVELER, APRIL 5, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

WINFIELD, KS., March 27.

Township Trustees met pursuant to notice of County Clerk. On motion of Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Hunt was elected Chairman and R. H. True, Secretary. On motion, adjourned to 1 o'clock.

1 O'CLOCK, P.M.

Township Trustees met pursuant to adjournment. The following basis for assessment of real estate was adopted: First, $10; second, $8; third, $6; fourth, $5; fifth, $4; sixth, $3; seventh, $2; eighth, $1.25: provided, that lands containing valuable improvements on small tracts shall be assessed as the judgment of the assessor may decide.

Stallions kept for breeding purposes shall be valued at from $100 to $200.

Race Horses: $100 @ $500

Horses, six months old and over: $10 @ $150

Work Cattle, per yoke: $50 @ $100

Blooded Cattle, per yoke: $10 @ $100

Domestic Milch Cows: $15 @ $30

Texas Milch Cows: $5 @ $20

Fat Cattle: $15 @ $40

3 yr. old Steers: $20 --

2 yr. old Steers: $12 --

6 mos. and under 2 yrs.: $5 @ $8

Mules: $125, $100, $75, $50.

Mules, 6 mos. and over: $25 @ $50

Asses: $50 @ $200

Sheep: $1.00 @ $2.50

Hogs: $5 @ $25

Goats: $3 @ $5

Farming implements assessed at discretion of assessor. Carriages, the same; watches, jewelry, etc., the same.

Resolved, That a copy of these proceedings be furnished the county papers.

J. S. HUNT, Chairman.

R. H. TRUE, Secretary.

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Striking it Rich on Newton's Fork Near Custer City,

The Omaha Bee of the 21st inst., contains the following.

"Major Armstrong, of this city, has received a very

interesting letter from his son, Robert, who has been in the Black Hills for three weeks. The letter was dated Custer City, the 27th of February. Among other interesting items he states that on the night of the 25th, considerable excitement was created by some new discoveries. Boyden & Berry, who are putting up a saw mill near Custer City, while digging a well, took out dirt paying 50 cents to the pan, before striking bed rock. This discovery was on Newton's Fork, a creek that is perfectly dry at present. The discovery was made late in the afternoon. Boyden & Berry and their employees waited until dark and then staked out 8,000 feet. The news soon became known, and then a lively stampede ensued. People were going backward and forward all night. Bob and a Mr. Young, formerly of Omaha, started out at 10:30, and after going through ravines, up hills, and down again, they met others coming back, who stated that claims had been staked out for four miles. Bob and Young staked out some claims and then returned to camp. He has nearly completed a cabin, 18 by 24 [? FIGURES ARE HARD TO READ...COULD BE 18 X 2-1/2 ?], on his town lot, and proposes to throw it on the market for $150.

"There is but little mining going on at present, as the weather will not permit of work to any great extent, and the miners don't expect to do anything until spring fairly opens up."

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TRAVELER, APRIL 5, 1876.

March 28, 1876.

We are prospering as best we can, considering the disagreeable weather; have had quite a little winter since the first of March.

The farmers in this vicinity are waiting patiently for more settled weather, in order to put in their oats. The health of the community is very good, with the exception of the general complaints of colds.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 5, 1876.

Dr. Black, of Winfield, has an overcoat that is made of material which is over two hundred years old. At least two centuries ago, it was in a bed coverlid. It is a peculiarly woven fabric, and resembles lamb's fleece.

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Nineteen freight cars loaded with stock, household goods, and farming implements, and four full coaches of passengers, passed over the Santa Fe railroad, on Friday of last week to settle in the Arkansas valley. The passengers were from Illinois and Tennessee.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 5, 1876.

Gen. Custer, in his testimony before the Clymer Committee, is said to have been very bitter on General Belknap.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 5, 1876.

Court is in session.

Buildings are scarce and in demand.

Don't kill the birds--ten dollars fine.

The ground is thoroughly soaked with water.

The County Commissioners meet next Monday.

CHARLES McINTIRE has been at home several days, sick.

CLAIM taking has been very frequent during the past week.

BORN, to Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, Friday morning, a boy--ten pounds.

JOHN BREENE hobbles about now on crutches. He expects to recover soon.

MANY persons are selling out to newcomers of more means, and enterprise.

A number of families in Winfield and this county are burning corn because it is cheaper than wood.

The passengers in the stage coach last Friday evening had to stop over at Dog creek, near El Paso.

They have just taken the census of the Kaw Indian tribe, and find they number 482. They are still on the decrease.

COURT was delayed last Monday, awaiting the arrival of His Honor, Judge Campbell, who was detained by high water.

Mr. J. C. Bennett, the heaviest groceryman that masticates his food in the Southwest, was in town last Monday interviewing his many friends.

The aggregate enrollment of students for the past term was 120 names: males, 63; females, 57. Amount of tuition received, upwards of $32.

LEAVENWORTH has two steam boats plying between their city and the Black Hills. "Nellie Peck" and "C. R. Peck" are the names of the boats.

REV. FLEMING and wife left on the stage yesterday morning. Mr. Fleming will attend the Presbytery at Hutchinson, and Mrs. Felming will await his return at Oxford.

MARRIED. At Emporia, Kansas, at 3 o'clock p.m., on the 17th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Clark, Mr. J. A. Blair and Miss Katie Wendell of Caldwell, Sumner County.

There will be a Social of the M. E. Society, at the house of J. C. McMullen on Wednesday evening, April 5th. All are cor-dially invited. By order of Secretary.

[NOTE: I LOOKED FOR CARD...COULD NOT FIND IT! NOT SURE ABOUT FIRST NAME...ARISTA COULD BE WRONG!]

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POTATOES. While plowing the ground for J. H. Sherburne's garden, Mr. Hutchinson found a quantity of fine large potatoes that had never been dug, and had been in a perfect state of preservation all winter.

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MIXED. An effort is being made by some commendable ladies to institute more social enjoyments. We need them.

Query: Who were the two businessmen that labored last Sunday? We couldn't see any ox in the ditch, and think he must have had corn enough.

All of our lawyers are at court this week.

Mrs. Dr. Hughes started to Topeka this morning. Her mother is not expected to live.

C. J. Beck brought with him from Missouri as fine a span of mules as we have ever seen in the county.

Walker traded his grays off last week.

Freighters have been in demand since the late heavy rains.

The stage coach got into Sand creek, last week, and saturated the mail matter.

Grouse creek has been booming.

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A BOAT drawing four feet of water could run up the Arkansas river now, without any trouble. The river is full from bank to bank. Corn could be purchased at fifteen cents per bushel, and floated down to Little Rock, whee it would readily sell for seventy-five cents. If a boat should come up now, and pay cash for corn, the farmers would be hauling corn to town for a week after the boat had left in hopes of getting rid of the stale product.

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MARRIED. By Rev. S. B. Fleming, on Sunday, April 2, L. Perry Woodyard and Miss Eva Jones.

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T. H. McLAUGHLIN went East to purchase their spring and summer stock of goods this morning. Since this firm has adopted the cash in hand system, they expect to offer better inducements than ever before, at rates that will surprise the public. They do an immense business and can handle goods at a very small profit. Their stock is yet large and complete, and for cash, you can buy as cheap or cheaper of them than any house in Cowley county, Independence, or Wichita.

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CONSIDERABLE trading and selling has been done lately. The demand for land is growing more every day, and the vacant tracts are being rapidly settled upon. With the prospects of a good crop, and the new residents, Cowley will make another advancing step this year.

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J. LINDSEY STUBBS departed for Emporia last Friday, and will accompany his father to Washington, D. C., where he has been summoned to testify before the Commissioner of the Interior.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 5, 1876.

The election of city officers passed off very quietly last Monday, with the following result.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 5, 1876.

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Two milch cows for sale by Samuel Huff, two miles east of Newman's mill.

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Strawberry Plants, 75 cents per 100; one mile north of town.

W. S. HUNT.

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CORN. Mr. Logan will pay 15 cents per bushel, cash, for 1,000 bushels of good corn delivered in Arkansas City.

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M. A. FELTON

Has purchased the carriage and blacksmith shop formerly owned by L. C. Wood, and is now prepared to do all kinds of wood and iron work. Repairing a speciality. All kinds of grain taken as a remuneration. Motto: "Live and let live." Give us a call.

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ARKANSAS CITY TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

Dear Sir: As there is a growing desire among the people of the Eastern Townships to know more of this vast new country, I have thought that a few items from this county might not prove uninteresting to your readers.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876.

Our readers will remember that sometime ago, we called attention to the importance of a railroad up the Arkansas Valley to Ellsworth, or some other point on the Kansas Pacific road. A company has now been organized to build the road from the K. P. down the valley to meet any road that may be constructed up the river from the terminus of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad. Also arrangements made for application to be made for a right of way through the Indian country. Offer is made to aid the enterprise contemplated from this end, to be furnished by the people along the road, say $75,000, if the road goes to Wichita, and $30,000 if to Arkansas City.

MORE TO ARTICLE...I SKIPPED.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

We received the following letter last week.

COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA, March 31, 1876.

DEAR SIR: I have met with a person who pretends to be a big cattle man, and wants to buy a large stock farm. He goes by the name of Madison, but it strikes me tht he is the same person who went by the name of Jones in Arkansas City. If you have that photograph, I would like to have it, and if you will send it, I will return the same after I find out if he is the same person or not.

Truly Yours,

GEO. A. SCOTT.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

Mr. English introduced Hon. Amos Walton, editor of the Winfield Plow and Anvil, whom he announced to the audience, was a wheel horse in the Democratic party. Mr. Walton said he did not come to speak but to hear others. He came up to see how the Democratic party organized, as Cowley county was to organize next week. He said they intended to organize down in Cowley to clean out the Republicans. He thought it was time that the Government was handed over to the Democrats. He said the Republican party had promised to reform, but better expect the thieves in the Five Points to reform. Works but not words was what he was in favor of. The interests of the west and the south are identical, and he cared nothing for the howl of bloody shirt, Jeff. Davis, and Andersonville.

Clean out the carpet bag government and restore the south to the government of the people. Al the rats and thieves are in the Republican party, and as soon as it succeeds again, it will pardon out all the criminals it has sent to the penitentiary. Wichita Eagle.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876.

The bill establishing a Territorial Government in the Indian County, which has been so long discussed by the Committee on Territories, may now be considered as finally defeated. The Committee will probably begin entirely anew and attempt to prepare a bill which, while it will establish a general form of government over all Indian tribes, will not at the same time interfere with tribal government already in existence. This bill will be somewhat similar to that recently reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs but great doubt is entertained in regard to the passage of either.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876.

STEAMBOAT. Mr. Samuel Hoyt started last Sunday for Cincinnati, Zanesville, Plainfield, and the upper Ohio river, to make a purchase or offer a bonus for a boat for the Arkansas River. A company has been formed and chartered, under the laws of this State, and the matter will soon be demonstrated whether the river is navigable above Fort Gibson. If it proves a success, it will be one of the greatest blessings Cowley county and Southern Kansas has ever had. Thousands of bushels of corn, potatoes, and other products, now a drug on the market, could be sold for cash, and southern products laid down at our doors at a much lower rate, besides it will eventually open up the great lumber regions of Arkansas, and develop a section of country now scarcely

inhabited.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876.

The examination of applicants for teachers took place at the school house at Winfield Friday and Saturday, April 7th and 8th. Professors T. A. Wilkinson, A. B. Lemmon and E. W. Hulse constituted the Board of Examiners. There were twenty-nine applicants, named as follows:

The ages of the applicants were 15 to 23 years, and the average standard eight, on a scale of ten.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876.

Washington, April 7. Indications are that the House Committee on Territories will report favorably on the Senate bill for the admission of New Mexico.

The committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department examined H. D. Norton, who testified that he was appointed clerk to disbursing clerks at the Post Office Department at $1,200 per year, but that by an order of Postmaster General Jewell, issued last December, he had since been paid $150 a month out of special appropriation for preparing Department building and extending its basement. In reply to a question, witness said this was in direct violation of law.

The Spencer investigation closed today, the committee announcing that counsel would be allowed two weeks in which to prepare written arguments.

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TRAVELER, ARPIL 12, 1876.

The state penitentiary turns out four hundred pairs of shoes daily.

Three hundred people passed through Atchison in one night for the Black Hills.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876.

ABSTRACTS AND BOUNTIES.

I would respectfully state that I am now prepared to draw Deeds, Mortgages, and all papers pertaining to the transfer of Real Estate. Will also collect the Extra Bounty allowed soldiers by the recent act of Congress. Abstracts furnished of all lands in Cowley county. Office at the Arkansas City Bank.

A. W. BERKEY, Notary Public.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876.

Fine rain last Sunday.

No ice for this summer.

Fishing parties are talked of.

School began again last Monday.

One crazy man is confined in the county jail.

Mr. Tisdale was in town a day or two last week.

COURT will not adjourn before the last of this week.

ARKANSAS CITY was well represented at court last week.

MR. CRANE, of Osage Agency, made us a short call last week.

A child of Mr. Norman's died last week from the effects of measles.

J. L. STUBBS is at present clerking in George Newman's store in Emporia.

MR. M. E. WELCH, a stone cutter from Osage Agency, has located among us.

MR. NORMAND's family have the measles. The have been in town but a short time.

MR. BEEDE, Agent of the Osages, talked with the Kaw Indians last week. They think they will like him.

No preaching at the First church last Sunday. Rev. Fleming was attending the Presbytery at Hutchinson.

No frozen cream, soda water, or lemonade during the hot winter this year. Reason why: winter too mild.

CAPT. J. E. C. LEACH adorned our sanctum this week. He is one of the best known cattle men and contractors on the border.

S. S. MAJOR conducts the City Hotel at Winfield, and is the favorite of all traveling men. He understands hotel keeping.

WM. P. HACKNEY and John Folks, of the Wellington Press, had a misunderstanding last week, which resulted in a fight.

And now it is Jimmy Simpson that has gone and got marrked, Miss Hester Fowler is the lucky one, and Rev. Platter sealed the tie on the 2nd inst.

Bolton township has three of her residents on the jury: more than any other township in the county. They are Frank Lorry, Wm. Turner, and A. J. Kimmell.

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Arkansas City Traveler, April 12, 1876.

PROF. KELLOGG OF EMPORIA, called on us last week. He has been attending court at the county seat. Mr. Kellogg has many friends and a wide reputation in Cowley county.

The bill providing for the sale of the Pawnee Indian Reserve, in Nebraska, has passed both Houses of Congress. The Pawnees will not have to go hungry any longer, now.

A railroad meeting will be held at Oxford next Saturday to canvass the project of and take steps to procure the extension of the A. T. & S. F. road down the Arkansas Valley.

MARRIED. At the residence of the bride's father on Thursday, March 30, by Rev. F. W. Nance, Mr. Wm. E. Merrydith and Miss Mattie M. Callison, all of Cowley county, Kansas.

MR. TRISSELL, John Hoyd [? Hoyt ?], Daniel Hunt, Wm. Anderson, John N. Fleharty, Thos. S. Parvin, George S. Callison, Albert Hamel, returned from Chetopa last Sunday, where they have been after fruit trees.

Everyone who has been absent a short time express themselves surprised at the number of new buildings that have been erected within the past year. Many farmers have built comfortable farm houses and barns.

NEW GOODS. Mrs. Godehard and Miss Bowers have a fine assortment of tasty and elegant millinery goods for spring and summer trade, at prices extremely reasonable. Please call and examine before purchasing elsewhere. Plain sewing and dress making done in first-class style.

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MIXED. Charles Wilson is visiting his relatives here.

Lively trade in town Saturday.

We received an interesting letter from Mr. Parvin, which we should have published, had not the party returned in time to tell it.

Dr. Leonard's hired boy turned out his horse, "old John," the other day, with a rope on. The horse got in a pond and drowned himself.

Trissell's trees are receiving considerable attention from the farmers.

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THANKS. The ladies of the M. E. Sewing Society have the thanks of the editor, as well as the office boys, for the kind remembrance paid them last week, in the way of pie, cake, turkey, etc. We cannot think what good act we have performed to merit the compliment, or we should repeat it weekly. May the Sewing Circle increase in prosperity forever more, and the members thereof live to be as old as Methusalah.

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We take pleasure in announcing to the ladies of Arkansas City and vicinity that our grand opening of millinery goods will take place tomorrow, April 13. We can truly say that our goods excel anything ever exhibited in Arkansas City, both in style and variety. Come and see for yourselves.

MRS. GODEHARD,

MISS BOWERS.

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A pound social will be held this evening at the residence of O. A. Porter, for the benefit of Rev. Wingar and family. Each individual cordially invited to bring a pound of anything suitable for family use. By order of Ladies' Society of M. E. C.

JULIA GIBBY, Secy.

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PREACHING Saturday eve. at Davis' Hall by Elder Buckner; quarterly conference after service. Sabbath school at half past 9 o'clock a.m.; preaching by Elder A. Buckner at half past 10, followed by sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

J. J. WINGAR.

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A lively time is expected during the session of the M. E. Conference, to be held at this place beginning one week from today. There will be a children's picnic, musical feasts, and an excursion to the Indian Territory.

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MRS. FITCH has gone after her spring stock of millinery goods, and upon her return will open the finest assortment in that line ever brought to Cowley county. She invites everybody to come and see for themselves.

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All members of Creswell Grange are requested to be present at next regular meeting as business of importance will be

transacted. W. S. THOMPSON, Secretary.

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The Commissioners will adjourn today. The next meeting will be the first Monday in June.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876.

Guelph township comprises one of as many fertile square miles as any other municipal division of Sumner county. It is situated in the southeast corner of the county, is sounded [?] on the south by the Indian Territory, on the west by South Haven township, on the north by Walton township, and on the east by Cowley county. The lands are exceedingly fertile, are well watered, and convenient to large bodies of timber. Some of the best lands in the township are yet subject to preemption, settlement and purchase at $1.25 per acre. Press.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876.

A committee of Congress has reported adversely on the claim for damages of the widow of Capt. O. F. Short, who was killed by the Indians while surveying U. S. lands in the western part of this State, about two years ago.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876.

Gov. Osborne will on Tuesday next leave for the northwestern frontier of Kansas, where fears are expressed of an impending raid upon the settlers by Indians returning from the Black Hills country. The Governor will visit all the border counties and effectively organize the militia for a system of ready cooperative defense. It is a timely precaution, and Gov. Osborne's promptness and energy in preparing for the emergency is characteristic of his discharge of official duty. K. C. Journal of Commerce.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876.

Hon. W. P. Hackney, of Winfield, has been spoken of as a candidate for Judge of this district, in place of W. P. Campbell, whose term expires this year.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 12, 1876.

Washington, April 3. The House Committee on Military Affairs unanimously adopted the report of the committee transferring the Indian bureau from the Interior Department to the War Department.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 19, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE,

WINFIELD, KANSAS, April 10, 1876.

Board met in regular session. Present, R. F. Burden, W. M. Sleeth, Commissioners; A. J. Pyburn, County Attorney, and M. G. Troup, County Clerk. Journal of last regular session read and adopted.

Fred Moe, Trustee of Maple township, appeared and asked the Board to make an appropriation to send a pauper of his township to friends back east. They agreed to not make said appropriation.

William Schooling is hereby appointed Treasurer of Omnia township, vice J. M. Junkins, deceased.

Z. W. Hoge appeared and asked the Board to revise his personal property assessment for the year 1875. The Board being fully advised, have agreed not to change said assessment.

Petition of Evan Shriver and others of Sheridan township presented, and the Board being satisfied that the resident land owners had consented in writing to the location of said road, and that said road is practicable, the same is hereby ordered opened, recorded, and platted.

John Cain appeared and asked the Board to remit his personal property tax for the year 1875, and the Board being fully advised in the matter, agreed to lay the matter over for the present.

Bills were presented and disposed of as follows.

Bill of James T. Shepard, for services rendered a pauper, laid over until next regular session.

Petition and bond of Reuben Bowers and others, of Bolton township, presented and granted, and the following persons appointed viewers: T. M. McIntire, P. Endicott, and W. Wilson, who will meet at the plce of beginning of said road, and proceed to view said road; and the County Clerk is ordered to give the necessary legal notice.

Petition of J. R. Smith and others, of Sheridan township, presented and granted, and W. H. Clay; W. Hamilton, and Wm. M. Smith are appointed viewers, who are hereby ordered to meet at the place of beginning of said road, and proceed to view said road; and the County Clerk is ordered to publish the necessary legal notice.

Report of viewers on J. H. Service county road approved; and there being no legal objections thereto, and being satisfied that said road is practicable, the same is hereby ordered opened, recorded, and platted.

Petition of E. R. Moffet and others, of Maple township, asking the Board to open a section line road, presented; and the Board being satisfied that the written consent of the resident land owners had been obtained, and that said road is practicable, the same is hereby ordered opened, recorded, and platted.

Petition of J. P. Woodyard for county road presented, and rejected for the reason that said petition did not contain the legal number of names.

Petition of James Craven and others for section line road presented, and the written consent of the resident land owners having been filed, and the Board being satisfied that said road can be made without unreasonable expense, the same is hereby ordered opened, recorded, and platted.

Board adjourned to meet April 11, at 9 o'clock a.m.

Petition for section line road signed by C. W. Frith and others, of Sheridan township, presented, and J. J. Hawkins, James T. Conrad, and E. Shriver appointed viewers; and the County Clerk is hereby ordered to publish the necessary legal notice.

Petition of W. Elkins and others, Silver Creek township presented, and rejected for want of bond and written consent of land owners.

Petition of A. A. Wiley and others of Spring Creek township, asking for a view and survey of a county road, presented; and granted; and W. E. Ketcham, Sanford Day, and W. W. Thomas appointed viewers; and the County Clerk is hereby ordered to give the necessary legal notice.

Petition of H. C. Fisher and others, of Otter township, asking for the location of a section line road presented, and granted, and said road ordered opened, recorded, and platted.

Petition of P. G. Smith and others, of Dexter township, asking for a view and survey of a country road, presented, and granted, and C. T. Smith, Geo. W. Jones, and H. C. McDorman appointed viewers; and the County Clerk is hereby ordered to give the necessary legal notice.

Petition of H. C. Fisher and others, asking for a view and survey of a county road, presented, and granted, and Martin Tolls, John Wise, and Jacob Smith appointed viewers; and the County Clerk is hereby ordered to give the necessary legal notice.

Petition of Reuben Bowers and others, of Bolton township, asking for the vacation of a county road, presented, and granted; and W. H. Speers, John Carder, and Amasa Davis appointed viewers; and the County Clerk is hereby ordered to give the necessary legal notice.

Petition of Mathias Hoyt and others, of Silverdale township, asking for a view and survey of a county road, presented, and granted, and Chancey Robinson, J. M. Clayton, and Wm. Ogden appointed viewers; and the County Clerk is hereby ordered to give the necessary legal notice.

Petition of Thomas Baird and others, of Bolton township, asking for a view and survey of a county road, presented, and granted, and Abram Shurtz, Henry Pruden, and William Turner appointed viewers; and the County Clerk is hereby ordered to give the necessary legal notice.

Petition of P. H. Somers and others, of Creswell township, asking for the location of a section line road, presented, and granted, and Ed. Hoyt, David Bright, and F. A. Cowles appointed viewers; and the County Clerk is hereby ordered to give the necessary legal notice.

Petition of John Owings and others, of Richland township, asking the Board to open a section line road, presented, and the Board being satisfied that said road is practicable, and the written consent of the resident land owners having been filed, said road is hereby ordered opened, recorded, and platted.

Report of viewers on the L. W. Miller county road read and approved, and there being no legal objections thereto, said road is hereby ordered opened, recorded, and platted.

In the matter of John Cain's personal property tax for the year 1875, the Board have this day agreed to remit the same; and the County Clerk is hereby authorized to transfer the same to abstract of taxes refunded on errors.

Report of viewers on A. D. Lee county road approved, and there being no legal objection thereto, and the Board being satisfied said road is practicable, the same is hereby ordered opened, recorded, and platted.

Report of viewers on S. H. Sparks county road was read, and there being no legal objection thereto, and the Board being satisfied said road is practicable, the same is hereby ordered opened, recorded, and platted.

Petition of Thomas R. Carson and others, of Richland tp., asking for the location of a section line road, presented, and granted. The Board being satisfied, that said road is practicable, and the written consent of the land owners having been filed, said road is hereby ordered opened, recorded, and platted.

It appearing to the Board that the S W 1/2 of S W 1/4 of Section 11, and N W 1/2 of N W 1/4 of section 11, township 31, range 7, were not entered until October 13, 1875, it is hereby ordered that said tracts be transferred from the tax roll of 1875 to abstracts of taxes refunded.

The Board examined and approved the official bonds of the following named township officers.

Trustee: C. W. Jones, W. S. Williamson, W. W. Thomas,

B. A. Davis, and A. Chamberlain.

Clerks: S. B. Goodrich and S. Tyler.

Treasurers: Jas. A. Barr, E. Shriver, S. A. Frederick,

A. G. Felton, C. R. Myles, and R. W. McNown.

Justices of the Peace: Robert Thirsk, Henry Hulse.

Constables: Thos. C. Groom, O. W. Loucks, J. T. Conrad,

A. B. Odell, J. W. Elkin, and Jacob Craig.

Petition of E. Shriver and others, of Sheridan township, asking for the location of a section line road, presented, and granted; it appearing to the Board that said road is practicable, and the written consent of the land owners having been filed, said road is hereby ordered opened, recorded, and platted.

The Board being of the opinion that it is necessary, and for the interest of the county, that there be purchased and made a duplicate tax roll for the year 1876, the County Clerk is hereby ordered to purchase and make said duplicate, at the expense of the county.

By virtue of authority vested in the Board, by reason of chapter 77 of the session laws of 1875, be it remembered that the Board have on this 11th day of April, 1876, appointed James L. Huey County Treasurer of Cowley county, Kansas, to serve from the first Tuesday of July, 1876, to the second Tuesday of October, 1876, and the County Clerk is hereby ordered to notify him of said appointment.

Be it remembered that on this 11th day of April, 1876, the Board have appointed James McDermott, of Dexter township, and

H. P. Farrar, of Creswell township, a committee to assist the Probate Judge to count the funds in the hands of the County Treasurer at the end of the first quarter of 1876.

It appearing to the Board that a warrant was issued in favor of A. S. Thomas for $40.45, on the 19th day of May, 1874, and numbered 861, for costs as Clerk of the U. S. District Court; and that afterward said Thomas was paid by G. L. Thompson, and said Thompson received Cowley county bonds in payment of a certain judgment and said costs: it is hereby ordered that said warrant number 361 be cancelled and destroyed.

The County Clerk is hereby ordered to have the county printing of his office done as he in his judgment may deem the most advantageous and just for the county, until next session of the Board.

Board adjourned to meet on the first Monday of June.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 19, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

There were in attendance upon the District Court in this county, the following named attorneys.

General Sherry, of Leavenworth.

Judge Adams and Major Ruggles, of Wichita.

Judge Christian, C. R. Mitchell, and E. B. Kager, of Arkansas City.

Prof. Kellogg, of Emporia.

Capt. McDermott, of Dexter.

Judge McDonald, of Wellington.

Messrs. Pryor & Pryor, Allen, Boyer, Pyburn, Webb, Millington, Hackney, and Alexander, of Winfield.

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Amos Walton toasted his number thirteens at our stove last Monday. Arkansas City Traveler.

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Last Saturday we had the pleasure of meeting Judge N. B. Cartwell and J. C. Pinney, of Longton, Kansas, and M. S. Manwell, of Greenfield Township, Elk County. They came over to Cowley to work up an interest in, and to organize a local company, for the purpose of securing aid to build a branch of the L. L. & G. railroad from Independence to Arkansas City, via Elk River. After talking with our citizens in a call meeting, of which Major Sleet was Chairman and Joseph Sherburne, Secretary, a party was invited to attend the meeting at Winfield in the afternoon, where Directors of the local company were elected to meet at Canola, Elk county, today. Rev. Fleming and Wm. Sleeth were selected as Directors, from this place, Rev. Platter and M. L. Robinson of Winfield, and Tisdale and Lazette were to elect one each. There are to be thirteen Directors in all: Six in Cowley, six in Elk, and one in Montgomery. After the meeting held at Canola today, we shall know more of it. The line as proposed, is the one needed most, and would meet with more favor in this county than any other proposed route, as it unites the eastern portion of the county with the west. The L. L. & G. Company gives the assurance that if the road bed is graded and culverts put in, they will iron and operate the road. As is generally known, the above company is bankrupt, but the bondholders of the road give the assurance that with what capital they possess and what can be induced, they will build the line. From present indications Cowley county will lend aid to but one project, and that will be the first practical one submitted to the people.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 19, 1876.

Venison is in season between the first day of September and the fifteenth day of January.

Wild Turkey between the first of September and the first day of April.

Prairie Chicken between the fifteenth day of August and the first day of February.

Pheasant, Partridge, or Quail, between the first day of October and the first day of February.

Wood Cock, between the first day of July and the tenth day of January.

Dove or Meadow Lark, between the first day of August and the first day of February.

The law does not prohibit the killing and sending to market any description of game not mentioned above.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 19, 1876.

Fort Larmie, Wis., April 13. [PAPER HAD "LARMIE"]

A man named Rowser, who formerly belonged to the 14th infantry arrived here yesterday and reported that he and his party of five men were attacked by Indians just south of the Cheyenne river on the 7th inst. when returning from Custer City. One of the party named Mormon Storms, from Iowa, was shot through the shoulder, not seriously. The Indians are very numerous in that section. A great deal of stock has been run off.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 19, 1876.

How the grass does grow!

No more court for awhile.

The Arkansas is lowering.

ASPARAGUS is on the market.

STOCK is fattening on grass in the timber.

TEAMS from the Pawnee Agency were up last week.

The early onions have put the singing schools in disgust.

HEATING stoves have begun to hunt for the outside of the houses, lately.

EIGHT or ten new buildings are being erected in different parts of town.

The harvest of wheat will be very early this spring. The wheat has jointed already.

There is a bad mud hole after crossing the first bluff north of town, that should be fixed.

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I do not intend to undersell or be undersold by any shop in Cowley county. Will duplicate Wichita, Independence, or Coffeyville prices. Wheat, Corn, Hides, or Furs as good as Cash: and these or Cash only will buy. Repairing neatly and promptly done.

Thanking the public for past patronage, I hope, by close attention to business, and fair and upright dealing, to merit a continaunce of the same.

James I. Mitchell.

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ANOTHER railroad proposition. This time from Independence to Arkansas City, and Elk River.

MOCKING birds can be heard on almost every street in town, and hundreds can be seen in the woods.

There is an unusual commotion among the yellow-leg chickens this week, and the rooster ceaseth to crow.

The M. E. Conference begins at this place today. A number of prominent ministers are in attendance.

JUD MARSHALL, OF LEAVENWORTH, talks of moving to this place, and of starting a dry goods and grocery store. Come along.

There will be a meeting of the United Brethren, at Theaker's school house on the 29th of this month, at eleven o'clock, a.m.

DR. HOUSTON, and son John, of Leavenworth, are breathing the mild air of Southwestern Kansas once more. They meet many friends.

JUDGE McINTIRE is helping Mr. Chamberlain on the assessment of this Township. The time allowed the Trustee was very short.

IN TOWN. Judge Gans, Tell Walton, Amos Walton, James Kelly and wife, and two other Winfield people were in town last Monday.

MR. A. A. WILEY, of Maple City, shipped one car load of cattle last week, and received therefor four and five cents per pound, gross.

MANY claims have been taken since we advertised the vacant lands. There are plenty left around Lazette, Tisdale, Dexter, and Maple City.

HON. JAMES KELLY, who occupies the official position of

P. M., at Winfield, accompanied by his wife and boy, stopped at the Central Avenue Sunday evening.

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A. N. DEMING visited this place last Saturday. He is one of the most popular landlords in the Southwest, and is at present one of the proprietors of the Douglas Avenue Hotel, at Wichita.

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MR. EDITOR: We were all glad when the sidewalks along the business portion of Summit street were completed, but are now pained to know that some of our merchants have appropriated them as a platform on which they exhibit their wares, and neglect to remove the articles at dark. It starts anew the "Old Adam" in the almost devout when returning homeward from church these dark evenings, to be severely punched in the stomach by a plow handle, or when the small boys have drawn the plow across the walk, to trip over it and smash our new beavers against salt barrels--and infinitely worse, when our lady friend, in assisting us to regain our perpendicular, soils her newest a la mode tie-back by contact with a kerosene barrel.

WOUNDED CITIZENS.

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An interesting conversation took place between Amos Walton, of Winfield, and the stage driver, last Friday evening, that provoked the laughter and indignation of all present. It seems, from the driver's account, that Amos has been in the habit of "dead beating" his passage on the stage, and on this occasion the driver objected to it. However, Amos got through, but not until he had received a sound cursing from the driver. This is not the first instance of this kind, as some parties concerned in the Masonic festival at this place, and one conductor on the railroad, can testify.

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LECTURE. Mr. Charles Reynolds will lecture at the court house in Winfield this evening, for the benefit of the "Building Fund" of the Presbyterian church of that place. Subject: "The March and Convoys of Civilization." Admission, 50 cents.

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DIED. On Wednesday, April 13th, 1876, during confinement, Mrs. Flora Myrtle, wife of John Myrtle; aged 16 years and six months. The deceased was thrown from a horse some two months previous, and died during a second convulsion.

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REV. FLEMING and family returned last Wednesday. Mr. Fleming was selected as one of the number to attend the Synod, to be held at Brooklyn during the month of May. This will also enable him to visit the Centennial.

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INVITED. J. H. Sain sends us an invitation to ride thirty-five miles to Caldwell to attend a dance in his new drugstore. We'd do it in a minute, John, but we had one here lately, and it took all the skin off of our heels.

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There being no Sunday school at either church next Sunday, the children are requested to attend the children's meeting at 3 o'clock p.m. All are invited.

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COL. MANNING and James Kelly made us a call yesterday.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 19, 1876.

The New York Herald of the 11th inst., gives the following synopsis of the famous decision of the Osage Coded Land Case.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 19, 1876.

For carrying concealed weapons they sentence a negro in Georgia to twelve months' hard work in the chain gang and $50 fine. How many white men in that country do not carry concealed weapons?

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TRAVELER, APRIL 19, 1876.

ONLY TEN DAYS MORE!

I shall not take any photographs after the 25th of April. All in want of work will do well to call immediately.

I. H. BONSALL.

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Vacuum Oil, Vacuum Oil. AT J. I, MITCHELL'S.

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Wanted. Two girls to do general housework. Inquire at the Central Avenue Hotel.

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J. I. Mitchell will oil a set of his make of harness at one-half price with Vacuum Oil, and warrant it the best.

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The patrons of Rose Hill Nursery, near Chetopa, have our sincere thanks for the promptness on time of delivery at Arkansas City. We wish you all success in tree growing, and the pleasure of eating the fruit. W. B. TRISSELL, AGENT.

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Ten milch cows for sale. Cal. Dean.

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Maps of Arkansas City for one dollar at this office.

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A Printing Press and Type enough for a small newspaper for $50, at this office.

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All kinds of writing material, box paper, envelopes, dime novels, dime song books and papers at the Post Office.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 19, 1876.

Concordia is going to organize a company of militia.

Twelve wagon loads of trees recently started from Chetopa to Arkansas City.

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TRAVELER, APRIL 19, 1876.

Yah-hah is the Creek name for wolf.

700 Creek Indian children are now in school.

Augustus Captain is President of the Osage Council.

Large flocks of mallard ducks dot the waters of the Arkansas River.

Some of our Kaw neighbors have been dancing at Osage Mission, Kansas.

The missionary's wife who struck at an Indian, in her dream, hit her liege lod.

The only flouring mill in the Creek Nation has just been started at Muscogee.

To-ho lah, a Creek Indian, owned fifty slaves at the beginning of the war in the States.

There are now more than 300 colored voters in the Creek Nation, who were once slaves in the tribe.

T. L. Roger, of Cherokee and Osage blood, is secretary of the council now in session at Osage Agency.

Seminoles and Creeks livin the same Reservation, though each tribe makes laws for its own Government.

"Big Jeff," a darkey who weighs 300 pounds, was once a slave in the Creek country, but is now judge of the Creek Nation.

"No co-sil la" is a member of the Creek Nation, and served as a scout in the service of the U. S. for a term of three years during the late war.

"Yah ma-cah" and "It u mar-tle," of the Creek country, have more than 500 hogs and think that more than 10,000 may be found in their reservation.

Owing to continued snows and swollen streams, chiefs and counselors have been unable to return, and of course nothing of importance has yet been done.

The Methodist members of the Seminole tribe hauled stone, made lime, and built for themselves on We wo kah river, near Seminole Agency.

Fortunately, the people of this Agency are now practically temperate, hence the continuance of old time frog-ponds in the street is excusable in the absence of funds to be used for "civilizing purposes."

Mr. Conner, who has been so prominent in the service of Major Gibson during his official administration, is building an excellent border farm, near Sedan, Kansas, and expects to give us the parting hand at an early day.

The Osages have unanimously petitioned Congress to make one more liberal appropriation of their money. They are in earnest about it this time, and are urging their new Agent, Beede, to represent them in Washington at once.

The people of this (Osage) country are suffering another financial panic, and our landlords cannot afford hotel keeping without occasional settlement of board bills, though they have have been made by representatives of the "fair sex."

A tornado nearly 60 feet wide passed through the Delaware country on the night of the 5th inst., and blew to pieces the Delaware Baptist church. The loss of this new and well finished structure will be keenly felt by our Delaware neighbors.

As wolves gradually relinquished their hold upon our town-site and vicinity rabbits took their place, and on Monday last, since the earth has been so deeply burned in snow, the Osage school boys got loose and picked up twenty-four of them without the aid of dogs.

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The Independence Courier says that the new agent of the Osages made a speech to the Indians the other day, telling them that he came down to make them quit stealing and running in debt. After he got through the Indians "Resolved, New agent heap dam rascal; worse than Gibson."

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