ARKANSAS CITY TRAVELER

TRAVELER, AUGUST 30, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

Centennial Notes, Sights and Wonders.

On the morning of Tuesday, July 11th, we took passage to Wichita, by the usual mode of conveyance (Henry Tisdale's stage line) on our way to the East and the great Centennial. The weather was fair and the heat not so great but that with summer clothes it was comfortable traveling. We dined at Nenescah, lodged at Wichita, and on Wednesday morning at 4 o'clock, was seated in a commodious car, making speed five times greater than the day before, with fewer delays and more conveniences. Over the Santa Fe road to Kansas City, nothing unusual attracted our attention. The country was about the same as that of Southern Kansas, only that corn was not so well matured and the grass shorter. The regular fare from Wichita to Kansas City is $12.10. From Arkansas City to Wichita, by stage, $5.00.

At Kansas City at 4:35 we took the branch of the Hannibal and St. Joe, to Cameron Junction, and from thence to Quincy, Illinois, over the same road. Fare $9.50. At Cameron we met Dr. Gray, of whom we spoke in a previous letter, acting as conductor of a palace car.

We arrived at Quincy at 2 in the morning, and at 4:45 a.m. took the Toledo, Wabash & Western to Springfield, Illinois, and then to Chicago via the Chicago & Alton, arriving there at 7:50 in the evening. Fare from Quincy to Chicago $9.70. Here we rechecked baggage direct to Washington, D. C., via the Michigan Central, Canada Southern, N. Y. Central, Northern Central, etc., going via Southern Canada, Niagra Falls, Geneva Lake, Harrisburg, and Baltimore. Fare from Chicago to Washington $19.50. Southern Canada is a doleful country, almost wholly swamp or timber land. At the depot at Niagra we found a number of carriages, representing different hotels. In former days at this place, great confusion generally prevailed among strangers and coachmen in the strife for patronage, resulting frequently in knockdowns. The authorities have regulated it now so that the coachmen are not permitted to speak to a passenger unless they are first addressed; and the result is they have adopted the Congressmen's style of calling a page; that is, stand clapping their hands and motioning with their fingers. We had taken the precaution to inquire and make our choice of a hotel beforehand, and were driven to the Catarack House, one of the grandest hotels in the United States, built out on, and affording an excellent view of the rapids.

We remained at the Falls one day and a half, visiting the Canada side, Suspension Bridge, Burning, Spring, and all the principal objects of interest. The Falls has the reputation of being one of the most expensive cities to visit in the United States. Board is $4.50 per day. Carriage hire from one to four dollars per hour, and everything in proportion. It costs 25 cents to cross the bridge, 40 cents to see the burning spring, $1 for the hire of a rubber suit twenty minutes, to go underneath the falls, 50 cents for small, rude specimens of stone, etc., and these exorbitant rates are authorized by the Government, making one feel that they would hide the falls, if canvass sufficient could be had, so as to extort pay for looking at them. Such an interesting and National wonder, should cost as little as possible in order that persons of the smallest means could have the pleasure of witnessing them.

Leaving Niagra we passed through Central New York by Lake Geneva, one of the smoothest, clearest, and prettiest small bodies of water our eyes ever beheld. The thoughts of Lake Geneva even now makes our heart swell to think of its beauty.

Our road lay on the west bank; almost to the water's edge. On the east were the small, hilly farms, divided into little patches like garden spots, by the old style rail fence, making the wheat, corn, and pasture fields resemble sheep pens, rather than farming lands. Here could be seen the quiet home and unchanging life of an Eastern farmer, no different from the hardy handed sons of toil of the west. To him every convenience and comfort is offered. The neat, white-painted cottage to live in, surrounded by fruit trees of various kinds. The large and commodious barn, nearby. The spring house, grainaries, etc., all within a mile of cheap transportation and a never failing market. How long will it be before we enjoy the same? But we will not dwell on these beautiful homes; they are far beyond our reach, and the life, too, with all its comforts, a monotonous one to those accustomed to broad prairies, pure air, and ever changing scenes of life.

Our journey from the lake to Baltimore was after night, hence we saw nothing until reaching

WASHINGTON,

where we arrived Sunday morning. After spending the Sabbath with Dr. Wm. Pittis, we visited the capitol of the United States, calling on our members of Congress, heard speeches from different Congressmen and Senators, and then began a general review of the city, stopping at the U. S. Post Office, Treasury Department, Patent Office, Smithsonian Institute, Arsenal, Agricultural Hall, Art Gallery, Medical Museum, Soldiers Home, Government Printing Office, and numerous other places.

There were many things that surprised us at

PHILADELPHIA.

The city has a population of over 800,000, yet covers fully as much ground as New York; which has nearly 100,000.

We expected when we reached the city to find it greatly crowded, yet there was plenty of room and the only evidence of crowds was on the street cars. Then again we thought boarding houses would be full, while on the contrary hundreds of them are vacant, and many who invested largely in building hotels, restaurants, etc., are today bankrupt. All along the streets signs are out, "Boarding by the week." "Boarding by the day." "Meals for 25 cents." "Lodging 50 cents." This shows that many made preparations, and their expectations were not realized.

Philadelphia is a cheap place to live in. Good board can be had in first-class families from $6 to $12 per week. Their excellent system of street railways does away with the necessity of carriage traveling, and groceries, fruit, and eatables are very low. The city has a population of 800,000, and it lives in an area of 129-1/2 square miles.

There are 1,000 miles of streets and roads opened for use, and over 500 of these are paved. It is lighted by nearly 10,000 gas lamps. The earth beneath conceals and is penetrated by

13-1/2 miles of sewers, over 600 miles of gas mains, and 546 miles of water pipes. It has over 212 miles of city railways, and 1,794 city railroad cars passing over the railroads daily; 2,025 steam boilers; over 400 public schools, with suitable buildings, and over 1,600 school teachers, and over 80,000 pupils. It has over 400 places of public worship and accommodation in them for 300,000 persons; it has nearly 9,000 manufactories, with a capital of $185,000,000, employing 145,000 hands, the annual product of whose labor is over $384,000,000.

Many persons are prevented from visiting the Centennial on account of the great cost, and thousands living in the States of Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio, of moderate means, have abandoned the hope of seeing the greatest display the world has ever known. Those who are content with the moderate comforts of life, can visit Philadelphia for a very reasonable sum.

The following figures show the regular rates from Chicago, to which would have to be added the railway and stage fare from this place, being $36 each way, without incidentals.

The above rates are the "regular" charges, and can be materially reduced, counting board at $6 per week.

The ground selected for the Exhibition is Fairmont Park, just at the edge of the city limits, and contains 256 acres. Street cars from all parts of the city directly run to the grounds, as does the Pennsylvania Railroads. The Exhibition is the largest ever held in the world.

The following table shows the size of previous Exhibitions in acres and tenth, proving the Philadelphia grounds 200 acre larger than any previous to it, and the buildings alone, of this one, covering more space than the entire grounds of any others.

MAIN BUILDING

UNITED STATES' GOVERNMENT BUILDING

The above described constitute some of the most important buildings except those of Great Britain and the foreign nations. Almost every State is represented by some structure, most of which are only for the accommodation of their citizens and without a display of production of any kind.

Ohio has a neat stone house, made of stone from different sections of the State. Canada has a log house, and Tennessee a tent. To attempt anything near a description of each, would be to continue this article for years to come.

While we wish to mention those of most interest to ourselves, we must in justice, say that it is a mere iota to what the grounds contained. As yet we have said nothing of Old Independence Hall, Zoological Gardens, the English, French, German, and Spanish Government buildings, the Glass Works, Photograph building, Japanese Dwelling, the fountains, statuary, monuments, Patrons Camp, the great paintings in the Art Gallery, Water works, and wonderful machinery.

Among the curiosities that attracted our special attention was a Hindoo Idol, found in the Ganges river in 1831, and supposed to be 2,000 years old. It is of stone, about four feet high, and was named "Goor yu deb," signifying "Good of the Sun."

Another relic was a chair made from the wood of the tree under which George Washington took command of the American army, July 3, 1775. It was for sale at $1,000.

Another was a horse, raised in Ohio, that weighed 2,800 pounds at six years old, and stood 21-1/2 hands high. It lived twenty years, and when dead was bought and stuffed by Barnum.

In the line of writing material, we saw one ream of paper six feet wide by eighteen feet long, weighing 2,000 pounds, which, cut into ordinary sizes, would make 500,000 sheets of note paper.

One gun had a ten-inch bore and weighed twenty-two tons.

One Corliss engine furnished the power for all the machinery in Machinery Hall.

A short horn bull weighing 3,100 pounds was another animal wonder.

Fort Scott and Leavenworth furnished some excellent specimens of granite. That of Leavenworth is blue, and susceptible of very fine polish. That of Fort Scott, very dark, almost like coal, and equally well polished.

In the Women's Department was a printing office, conducted wholly by women. On the wall hung the familiar warning so common in composing rooms, "Don't speak to Compositors." We ventured to break over the rules, but were embarrassed to find the young lady addressed, with her mouth so full of apple, was unable to respond. So we concluded "Don't speak to Compositors," was a rule so as to allow the young ladies time to eat.

In one of the aisles of Machinery Hall can be seen an entire sewing machine, complete in all parts, occupying a space of not more than two inches square, run by a small thread for a band, from the Corliss engine. Nearby are all kinds of sewing machines, some with a fan attachment, so that the operator is constantly being fanned while the machine is moving.

In the Canadian building is a part of a white pine tree, of sixty-six years growth, that measures 303 feet high, and eight feet five inches in diameter.

A violin, 171 years old, made in 1705, was in exhibition and for sale at $1,000.

An infant's dress, made of point lace and linen cambric, is marked "sold" at $600; a bride's dress, of white corded silk and point lace, was priced at $4,300.

The Waltham Watch company exhibit a case containing 2,200 watches, the result of six days work in that establishment. Tiffany, among many rare and costly gems, had a diamond necklace valued at $80,000, the earrings to match priced at $60,000, a feather made of diamonds for $7,000, and bracelets, $13,000 each.

The entire set was priced at $160,000.

In the Telegraph department we met J. A. McManus, who is one of the chief clerks. John is married and has a family of one: a girl, about fourth months' old.

California made a grand display of silks, laurel wood, minerals, etc.

After a week's sojourn in the city of wonders, we left its busy scenes and gorgeous displays for a milder and more congenial place of retirement: the place always longed for and cherished most, home. Home, with its familiar faces, bosom friends, fond remembrances, and strong attractions; where we met our gray-haired father and aged mother, and took by the hand those who have shared the sports of childhood. To those who never enjoyed the blessing of a happy home, no idea can be conveyed of the pleasure in thus stepping from manhood back to the days of youth. We recognized our place at the table, the room we used to sleep in, the plum tree in the garden, and every path and short-cut through the fields and over the hills where we often trudged with our poke of chestnuts, or bag of walnuts.

CUSTER LIVED HERE.

Among the old burnt clay hills, there is a cherished memory of the past, respected by great and small, where the lamented General Custer spent his early life. We listened with great interest to the stories of Gen. Custer's boyhood, told by an eye witness and familiar acquaintance of the family, who said the General and his brother used to ride into the town of New Rumley barefooted, on a bareback horse; and recalled the time when the Principal of the Hopedale Normal School ordered Custer from a fence post he was sitting on. Custer replied: "Professor, the day may come when I may be in authority, and you not, and I shall remember you." Time rolled on, Custer was appointed a cadet at West Point, war broke out, and the Professor one day found himself a Captain under command of General Custer, who asked him if he remembered the circumstance of years ago. The Professor did, and resigned his commission.

From Cadiz we visited the city of Akron, Ohio, town of manufactures. Here the largest water wheel in the United States furnishes the power for an oat meal mill. Wheels are buzzing in every direction, clouds of smoke rise all over the city, and the flames of fire tell of machine shops, rolling mills, and pottery works. A short distance from the city are the powder mills and match factories, where most of the powder and almost all of the matches used in the West are made. Akron is a pretty city with picturesque scenery on all sides, and a delightful place in which to live.

Sunday evening we took the western train from Akron to Chicago, and after a journey of one day and one night arrived at Kansas City. The next morning we took the train for Topeka and arrived at noon, in time to attend the Republican Nominating Convention of State officers. On Thursday evening in company with about 300 delegates, spectators, and lobbyists, we sped on to Wichita, and on Friday witnessed each candidate try his strength for Congress. Saturday morning we climbed into the stage coach again and in the evening reached Arkansas City.

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NOTE: SCOTT'S COVERAGE OF CENTENNIAL WAS COVERED IN TWO ISSUES

OF PAPER...I COMBINED INTO THE ONE ARTICLE.

HE SAID "CUSTAR" INSTEAD OF CUSTER....I USED CUSTER.

AGAIN...I FOUND OF INTEREST ANOTHER STORY, WHICH OF COURSE IS NOT ABOUT COWLEY COUNTY, KANSAS.

TRAVELER, AUGUST 30, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

Murder of Wild Bill at Deadwood,

[Special Correspondence of the Inter-Ocean.]

DEADWOOD, D. T., Aug. 3, 1876.

Yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock the people of this city were startled by the report of a pistol shot in the saloon kept by Messrs. Lewis & Mann. Your correspondent at once hastened to the spot and found J. B. Hickock, commonly known as Wild Bill, lying senseless upon the floor. He had been shot by a man known as Jack McCall. An examination showed that a pistol had been fired close to the back of the head, the bullet entering the base of the brain, a little to the right of the center, passing through in a straight line, making its exit through the right cheek between the upper and lower jaw bones, loosening several of the molar teeth in its passage, and carrying a portion of the cerebellum through the wound. From the nature of the wound, death must have been instantaneous.

A jury was convened which decided that J. B. Hickock came to his death from a wound resulting from a shot fired from a pistol in the hands of Jack McCall.

THE TRIAL OF THE MURDERER.

A meeting was called during the evening at McDaniels' Theater, which was given up by Mr. Languishe for that purpose. Officers were elected to conduct the trial, which was set for 9 o'clock this morning. Three men were selected, one to go up Whitewood, another up Deadwood, and the third down Whitewood early this morning, for the purpose of informing the miners of the trial. At the time appointed, the prisoner was led into the theater by the guard, and in charge of Joseph Brown, who had been elected Sheriff, and placed upon the stage beside the table at which was seated Judge Kuykendall and other officers of the court. The Judge called the meeting to order, and, in a neat address asked the people to sustain him in the discharge of the duties which devolved upon him in the unenviable position which they had forced him to accept.

THE PRISONER.

Never did a more forbidding countenance face a court than that of Jack McCall. His head, which is covered by a thick crop of chestnut hair, is very narrow as to the parts occupied by the intellectual portion of the brain, while the animal development is exceedingly large. A small sandy mustache covers a sensual mouth. The nose is what is commonly called "snub," cross eyes, and a florid complexion, and the picture is finished. He was clad in a blue flannel shirt, brown overalls, heavy shoes; and as he sat in a stooping position with his arms across his breast, he evidently assumed a nonchalance and bravado which was foreign to his feelings, and betrayed himself by the spasmodic heavings of his heart.

A hundred names were selected, each written upon a slip of paper and placed in a hat, from which they were taken by one of the committee who had been selected to draw the jurors. Nearly all the list was exhausted before the jury was declared full.

THE TESTIMONY.

The first witness called was Charles Rich, who said he was in the saloon kept by Lewis & Mann on the afternoon of the 2nd, and was seated at a table playing a game of poker with Wild Bill and several others when the prisoner, whom he identified, came into the room, walked deliberately up to Wild Bill, placed a pistol to the back of the deceased, and fired, saying: "Take that." Bill fell from the stool upon which he had been seated without uttering a word.

Samuel Young testified that he was engaged in the saloon; that he had just delivered $15 worth of poker checks to the deceased, and was returning to his place behind the bar, when he heard the report of a pistol shot. Turning around, he saw the prisoner at the back of Wild Bill, with a pistol in his hand, which he had just discharged, and heard him say "Take that."

Carl Mann, who was one of the proprietors of the saloon, testified that he was in the poker game. He noticed a commotion and saw the prisoner (whom he identified) shoot Wild Bill.

THE DEFENSE.

The defense called for the first witness, P. H. Smith, who said he had been in the employ of the defendant for four months. He testified that Mr. McCall was not a man of a quarrelsome disposition, that he had always considered him a man of good character. The witness testified that he had been introduced to Wild Bill in Cheyenne, and drank with him, and that the deceased had a bad reputation, and had been the terror of every place in which he had resided.

H. H. Pickens said that he had known the defendant four years and believed him to be a quiet and peaceful man. Wild Bill's reputation as a "shootist" was very hard; he was quick in using the pistol and never missed his man, and had killed quite a number of persons in different parts of the country.

Ira Ford testified he had known the defendant about one year and stated: "Like a great many other men, he would go upon a spree like the rest of the boys." Wild Bill had the reputation of being a brave man, who could and would shoot quicker than any man in the western country, and who always "got away" with his antagonist.

The defense called several others, the tenor of whose evidence was but a repetition of the foregoing. No attempt was made to show that Wild Bill had ever seen the prisoner.

THE PRISONER'S STATEMENT.

The prisoner was called upon to make a statement. He came down from the stage into the auditorium of the theater, and with his right hand in the bosom of his shirt, his head thrown back, in a harsh, lewd, and repulsive voice, with a bulldog sort of bravado, made the following statement.

"Well, men, I have but few words to say. Wild Bill killed my brother, and I killed him. Wild Bill threatened to kill me if I ever crossed his path. I am not sorry for what I have done. I would do the same thing over again."

The prisoner then returned to his place on the stage.

WILD BILL'S CHARACTER.

The prosecution then adduced testimony to prove that Wild Bill was a much abused man; that he had never imposed on anyone, and that in every instance where he had slain men, he had done so either in the discharge of his duty as an officer of the law or in self defense. Bill's reputation as a gambler was bad.

THE VERDICT--NOT GUILTY.

The case having been placed in the hands of the jury, the theater was cleared, with the understanding that the verdict should be made known in the saloon where the murder was committed. The prisoner was remanded to the house where he had been imprisoned during the night. At 9 o'clock the following verdict was read to the prisoner.

Deadwood City, Aug. 3, 1876: We, the jurors, find the prisoner, Mr. John McCall, not guilty.

CHARLES WHITEHEAD, Foreman.

THE FUNERAL OBSEQUIES.

After the inquest the body of the deceased was placed upon a litter made of two poles and some boards; then a procession was formed, and the remains were carried to Charley Utter's camp, across the creek. Charles Utter, better known as Colorado Charley, had been the intimate friend of the deceased for fifteen years, and with that liberality, which is a feature among mountaineers, had always shared his purse with him. Charley was much affected by the death of his friend, and incensed at the villain who had murdered him. A tepee was pitched at the foot of one of the giant trees which rise so majestically above Charley's camp. Preparations were at once made for the funeral. The following notice was printed and sent out. "Funeral notice. Died, in Deadwood, Black Hills, August 2, 1876, from the effect of a pistol shot, J. B. Hickock (Wild Bill), formerly of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Funeral services will be held at Charley Utter's camp, on Thursday afternoon, August 3, 1876, at 3 o'clock. All are respectfully invited to attend."

SOMETHING FOR BRET HARTE.

At the time appointed a number gathered at the camp. Charley Utter had gone to a great deal of expense to make the funeral as fine as could be had in this country. Under the tepee, in a handsome coffin covered with black cloth and richly mounted with silver ornaments, lay Wild Bill, a picture of perfect repose. His long chestnut hair, evenly parted over his marble brow, hung in waving ringlets over the broad shoulders. His face was cleanly shaved excepting the drooping mustache, which shaded a mouth--which in death almost seemed to smile, but which in life was unusually grave. The arms were folded over the stilled breast, which enclosed a heart which had beat with regular pulsation amid the most startling scenes of blood and violence. The corpse was clad in a complete dress suit of black broadcloth, new underclothing, and a white linen shirt. Beside him in the coffin lay his trusty rifle, which the deceased prized above all other things, and which was to be buried with him in compliance with an often expressed desire.

A clergyman read an impressive funeral service, which was attentively listened to by the audience, after which the coffin lid hid the well known face of Wild Bill from the prying gaze of the world forever.

SCENES AT THE GRAVE.

A grave had been prepared on the mountain side, toward the east, and to that place in the bright sunlight, the air redolent with the perfume of sweet flowers, the birds sweetly singing, and all nature smiling, the solemn cortege wended its way and deposited the mortal remains of Wild Bill.

Upon a large stump at the head of the grave, the following inscription is deeply cut: "A brave man--the victim of an assassin--J. B. Hickock (Wild Bill), aged 48 years; murdered by Jack McCall, August 2, 1876."

The city is now exceedingly quiet, although the people are determined to have no more jury trials.

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TRAVELER, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1876.

TROOPS ON THE TRAIL.

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TRAVELER, AUGUST 30, 1876.

Abandoned.

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NOTE: ABOVE IS CONFUSING! TRAVELER DOES NOT TELL WHERE THIS

REPORT CAME FROM...PREVIOUS REPORT SHOWED SOURCES AS

BEING CHICAGO AND ST. PAUL.

WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE THAT HARRY DUFFY CAME ALL THE WAY

TRAVELER, AUGUST 30, 1876.

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TRAVELER, AUGUST 30, 1876.

Will Cowley county ever have another agricultural fair?

An unusual amount of sickness prevails among the children of this vicinity.

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The Normal Institute now in session is in a very flourishing condition. Forty teachers are now in attendance and more are dropping in every day, with the prospect that the number will run up to sixty. Prof. Lemmon, assisted by Geo. Robinson, has charge. R. C. Story is expected this week to help in conducting the institute.

Jay Bryan, a six year old son of Hon. T. R. Bryan, of Dexter, was seriously injured last Friday by falling from a loaded wagon, that was in motion, and being struck across the chest and shoulders with the wheel. The lad says the wheel ran over him, but his father thinks the boy must have been pushed from under the wheel as it moved forward; otherwise, the wagon was loaded heavy enough to have had fatal results.

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TRAVELER, AUGUST 30, 1876.

Jewell county has unearthed a mastadon which answers to this description: Tusks 9 feet long and 9 inches in diameter; thigh bone 4 feet and 6 inches; shoulder blade bone 2 feet and 4 inches in length, and 2 feet in width; teeth 4 inches wide and 9 inches long, with 4 teeth on each side, 20 inches between the eyes; length of carcass 52 feet; height 15 feet; coupling 8 feet from shoulder to hip; 5 feet across hips of solid bone; socket joint of fore leg 15-1/2 inches in diameter; 4 feet from the top of the head to the lower end of the jaw, solid bone.

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TRAVELER, AUGUST 30, 1876.

HOUSES are in demand.

MAGEE! Oh, where is he?

H. P. FARRAR has returned.

IMMIGRATION continues to come in.

No coffin sold in the city this week.

O. P. HOUGHTON is a Notary Public.

PRESBYTERIAN Sabbath school at 12 m.

ANOTHER Sheriff's sale notice this week.

DICK ROSEY will start for the Centennial next week.

The well-digger, Scott, is looking for that colt yet.

WHEAT threshing continues with its unusual activity.

BUTTER, 20 cents; eggs, 10 cents; spring chickens, 25 cents.

METHODIST Sabbath school at 9 a.m. Everybody invited.

The proceeds of the M. E. Concert amounted to $18.35.

J. C. FULLER, of Winfield, has returned from the Centennial.

REV. SWARTS is down from Hutchinson to spend a week here.

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E. D. EDDY expects to visit his home in Michigan in a few weeks.

SWEET POTATOES are in the market. They are worth $1.60 per bushel.

In some parts of Kansas pressed hay is used for fuel. It makes a hot fire.

New coffee mills, granite ware, cooking stoves, etc., at C. R. Sipes this week.

LARGE quantities of apples from Missouri and Arkansas are being brought into this county now.

J. L. STUBBS, Henry and Will Mowry went out Monday afternoon and brought back thirty-nine chickens.

SNAKE BIT. A daughter of Chas. Bash's was bitten by a rattlesnake, while plowing in her barefeet, last week.

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DEMOCRAT SOLD. Chas. McIntire sold the entire office of the Cowley County Democrat to Wm. Allison last week. Mr. Allison is to fulfill all unexpired subscriptions and advertising contracts. The publishing of the Democrat was an experiment from the first, and has now proven that the fourth paper cannot live in Cowley county. Mr. McIntire conducted the paper honorably and

thoroughly, and would have made it a good journal had he received sufficient support and encouragement.

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BASKET MEETING. A basket meeting began last Saturday on Grouse creek, near Lippman's mill, under the direction of Rev. Brady, M. E. minister stationed at Dexter, and will be continued until next Sabbath. General invitation extended.

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THE STORE ROOM OF CHANNELL & HAYWOOD's is now completed and the goods will be moved in this week. It is one of the neatest stores, and comprises one of the largest stocks of hardware to be found in the Southwest.

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The game law will allow you to shoot prairie chickens, wild turkeys, pheasants, and deer after the 15th of August. Quails must not be shot before November 1, and no insectivorous or carnivorous bird at any time.

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CHAPLAIN McCABE, of Chicago, will lecture at this place Oct. 31st, on "The Bright Side of Libby Prison. Its songs and its Life." Mr. McCabe has a wide reputation.

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MARRIED. Sunday, August 13, by Frank Hunt, Justice of the Peace, MR. ORVILLE SMITH and MISS MILAM HAWK, both of Sumner County. "Happy may they ever be."

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The members of the Hayes and Wheeler Club are requested to meet in Kager's office, Friday evening next, to elect officers and complete the organization of the club.

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R. A. HOUGTHON returned from Caldwell last week. We noticed his store room full of customers last Saturday, and concluded that Rube has all he can attend to at home.

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J. C. BENNETT, of Emporia, and Mr. Hyme, of St. Louis, both commercial men, made it convenient to spend the Sabbath at the Central Avenue at this place.

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The Ladies' Society of the Presbyterian Church will meet on Wednesday, August 30, at 2 o'clock p.m., at the residence of Mr. L. McLaughlin.

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UNCLE DAVID THOMPSON says the man that steals his wood the next time will be blown up, or get a dose of buckshot in an inconvenient place.

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CORN is cheaper than firewood, and many persons are burning it. We have two wagon loads we expect to send up the flue this winter.

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TRAVELER, AUGUST 30, 1876.

$88 LOST. Sunday evening, between Thomas Carder's farm and Fawcett';s vineyard, I lost my pocket book containing $88 in money, and notes to the amount of $66. The finder will be liberally rewarded. HERMANN GODEHARD.

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50 neatly printed visiting cards for $1 at the Traveler office. Send in your name and the cards will be mailed to you.

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LOST. Last Saturday, a summer shawl; all wool, double border. MRS. A. T. ANNIS.

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LOST. A lady's photograph, in or near town.

MARY URQUEHART.

Notice.

All parties knowning themselves indebted to C. M. McIntire for subscription to the Cowley County Democrat, who get their mail at this office, are requested to call at Judge McIntire's office and settle immediately. C. M. McINTIRE.

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FOUND. A brass door key.

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WANTED. A male teacher for school district 53 for a six months' term of school beginning October 1, 1876; ability to teach the rudiments of music; recommendation from District Board preferable to graded certificate.

WM. MERCER, Director, Bolton Township.

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ONE HALF section of land for sale, by John Dean, living nine miles west of county line on the Shoe Fly road, in Sumner county.

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TO RENT. 6 miles east of town, 14 acres of good land, broken last June. Apply at the Post Office.

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FALL BARLEY. Some choice fall barley for sale at Houghton & McLaughlin's and S. P. Channell & Co. Call early and secure it at once.

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FOUND. A leather belt with plated buckle. Apply at this office.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.

The farmers are all busy getting ready to sow their fall crops of wheat, but have been obliged to stop plowing on account of the ground being too hard to work. If rain does not come soon, a large amount of ground will have to lay over until next spring. Quite a number have threshed their wheat, averaging from eight to twelve bushels to the acre where a part is sod, and on old ground, from sixteen to thirty. In most cases where wheat has been headed, the stacks have been badly damaged, leaving the grain in poor condition.

We have a steam threshing machine run by Christy and Stevens, and a more gentlemanly set of men never traveled with a machine--no swearing, etc., quite unusual with such a company. They also do good work, and can turn out 900 or 1,000 bushels per day if necessary. Hartsock's, Kerr's, and other machines are busy at work over here, and giving good satisfaction.

I notice that J. C. Topliff and John Brown have at some expense introduced fall barley, which has proved to be a grand success. That on the farm of the former was very nice, yielding nearly forty bushels to the acre, and without doubt, it would have gone sixty bushels if it had been sown early.

Quite a number of improvements are being made. A. Battoni has nearly finished a very neat 1-1/2 story brick house; S. Pepper and John Brown have each underway a stone house, and several others are talking of building soon.

There is a good demand here now for teams to plow, as a large number are wanting to sow more than they can possibly do.

Grasshoppers have not as yet made their appearance, and should they come, but very little damage could be done.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.

PLEASANT VALLEY, August 30.

Plowing, harrowing, making hay and threshing are the daily vocations of our farmers now, the two former receiving the most attention at present, as the farmers are determined to do their seeding early this fall.

At the annual school meeting of district No. 10 there was no change of officers made, Mr. Ed. Chapin being unanimously elected to the clerkship of the district.

I understand that Mr. Joshua Birdsell's house and all its contents were destroyed by fire about ten days ago. It is thought the fire was caused by a defective flue. Such accidents as this will occur as long as people trust to the safety of a stove pipe extending through the roof, instead of a brick flue.

Messrs. Beach and Mumaw have invested in what is generally called a "portable humbug," viz.; the pulverizing harrow, which is being sold by an agent from the north. The harrow is endorsed as being good for all it is recommended.

The countenance of Jim Whitson was lighted with sparks of brotherly love, last Saturday, by the arrival of a brother from Kentucky. Mr. Whitson, Jr., expresses himself as being well pleased with our country, and will probably locate in Pleasant Valley.

I am informed that Holland and Holtby threshed for Mr. Beesley, of Beaver creek, 104 bushels of wheat from three acres of land. C. C. H.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.

RANCH RED FORK, INDIAN TERRITORY.

August 25, 1876.

As it is cool enough this morning to keep the flies quiet, I will write you a few lines. At 2 o'clock p.m., yesterday, the thermometer registered 115, but a cool wind from the northwest this morning has brought the temperature down to 68.

Agent Miles, with his two amiable daughters, stopped with me last night. The Agent reports all quiet about the Agency. Two squaws were killed and two soldiers badly injured by lightning during a severe storm that passed over that section last Sunday night.

Mr. Miles was on his way to Leavenworth after his wife, who has been there for some months.

The cattle drive is over. Quite a number of ponies have been driven past here this summer from Texas for Kansas and Colordo. The road is lined with freighters.

D. W. JONES.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.

RECAP: THE CAYUGA CHIEF MANUFACTURING COMPANY, PLAINTIFF, VERSUS THOMAS M. CARDER, DEFENDANT...SHERIFF R. L. WALKER; JAMES CHRISTIAN, ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.

SAMUEL HOYT, PLAINTIFF, TO SATISFY JUDGEMENT IN THE SUM OF $382.50, AGAINST GEORGE JONES, ELIZABETH JONES, AND JUHN RIGGLE, SOLD THE CLAIM OF JOHN RIGGLE.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.

NO CIRCUS this summer.

WATERMELONS are given away.

WALNUTS will be plenty this fall.

PEACHES will be plentiful in our market this fall.

IMPROVEMENTS are steadily progressing over town.

CONTRIBUTIONS for beer by express are taken up tri-weekly.

MEASLES have made their appearance in the vicinity of South Haven.

The roads have been more duty the past week than for many months.

MISSOURI apples are offered on the streets every week at two dollars per bushel.

A man came in from Missouri to Grouse Creek with eighteen head of work mules, for sale.

EIGHTEEN bushels of wheat to the acre was the amount produced on the sand hills near the cemetery.

WHEAT is coming up again. For a few days after the bank broke, it was difficult to sell at fair figures.

WHEAT sells all the way from 70 to 80 cents at Wichita. Considerable has been taken this week from this place.

CHARLES McINTIRE will start a paper at Cedar Vale, Chautauqua county. It is a small but growing place, 35 miles east of Arkansas City.

HODGE MURDOCK has a boy. That is, there is a new boy at his house, belonging to him and Mrs. Murdock. Dr. Shepard's presence was demanded.

G. B. GREEN is building a house 36 by 14 feet with an L, 14 by 20 feet, with main part 14 feet high, on Grouse creek, estimated to cost nearly $1,000.

A. J. PYBURN came down last week to see his many friends in this vicinity. He will be the nominee for State Senator on the Democratic ticket this fall.

The teachers' examination for certificates takes place at Winfield next week, after the close of the Institute, which will probably be Friday and Saturay.

The social of the Presbyterian society will be held at the residence of Mr. O. P. Houghton on Wednesday evening, Sept. 13.

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CANDIDATES. L. J. Webb will probably be the nominee, on the Republican ticket, for Representative from the northern district of Cowley county; J. M. Allen for County Attorney; R. C. Story for Superintendent of Public Instruction--that is, if "straws show the way the wind blows." The friends of Capt. McDermott insist on him coming out in place of Allen, but the Captain is slow to aspire for any honor. On the Democratic ticket, Amos Walton is fishing for Representative again, from this district, and the friends of Judge Christian want him to come forward as County Attorney, and Judge Gans for Probate Judge.

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REAL ESTATE. H. O. MEIGS has entered into partnership with a gentleman from Illinois, and will open a real estate office at Wichita. To the public generally, we take pleasure in recommending Mr. Meigs as a man of good judgment, a careful purchaser, and one in whom every confidence can be placed.

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GONE EAST. T. H. McLAUGHLIN is rusticating about New York and Boston, and laying in a supply of fall and winter goods for this market. We can expect something nice in the goods line, when Mc. returns. He will take in the Centennial before

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GRASSHOPPERS! Last Thursday evening a cloud of grasshoppers came down on the farms about four miles north of town, but were too late to do any damage. We believe they have all moved on from this county.

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COURT begins Tuesday, Oct. 3rd. The docket is not very full, and the session will probably not last longer than one week. The jurors will be selected on the first day of the court.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.

A meeting was called to form a Hayes and Wheeler club on Friday evening, September 1, at E. B. Kager's office. Wm. Sleeth was chosen chairman of the meeting. On motion S. P. Channell was elected President of the club; C. M. Scott, Vice President; C. R. Mitchell, Secretary; I. H. Bonsall, Corresponding Secretary;

W. S. Hunt, Treasurer.

Wm. Sleeth, E. R. Thompson, and H. P. Farrar were appointed as committee on constitution and by laws.

On motion E. B. Kager, Geo. Allen, Wm. Sleeth, A. W. Patterson, and W. D. Mowry were appointed an executive committee.

On motion E. R. Thompson, H. G. Bentley, and W. D. Mowry were appointed a committee on music, with power to form a glee club.

Moved and seconded that the proceedings of this meeting be published in the TRAVELER; also a notice of the next meeting of the club, and an invitation extended to all Republicans in the country adjoining to join the club.

After listening to remarks from Messrs. Kager, Scott, Rev. Thompson and others, the meeting adjourned, to meet Thursday night, September 7.

S. P. CHANNELL, Pres.

C. R. MITCHELL, Sec'y.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.

[From the Wichita Eagle.]

This Wednesday morning, the First National Bank posted a notice on its doors that it had gone into voluntary liquidation. No further statement is made, except that so much money had been checked out for wheat yesterday and a failure of currency expected this morning by express, forced a suspension of payments. They say their assets are abundant to meet all liabilities. We venture no opinion.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.

Prints: 7 cents

Flour: $3.00

Bacon: 16 cents

Lard: 16 cents

Butter: 20 cents

Eggs: 10 cents

Molasses: 50 to 90 cents

Sugar from: 6 to 10 lbs. for $1

Dried Apples: 15 cents

Peaches: 15 cents

Currants: 12-1/2 cents

Prunes: 12-1/2 cents

Blackberries: 16-1/2 cents

Salt: $1.75 @ $2.00 cwt.

Rope: 15 cents

Potatoes: 40 cents bushel

Tea from: 40 @ $1.25

Coffee from: 25 to 30 cents

Coal Oil: 50 cents

Flooring from: $2.50 @ $4.00

Common boards: $3.50

Siding: $2.70

Lathes,

per 1,000: $5.50

Native Lumber: $2.15 @ $2.50

Pine Shingles: $5.00

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876.

FOR SALE. A six-octave Estey Cottage Organ can be bought cheap for cash. Apply at Eddy's drug store.

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COME, FRIENDS, pay up; we are crowded to meet our payments, and must have our pay. HENRY FRANKLIN.

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80 acres of land to rent for wheat, with two houses attached. Inquire at KELLOGG & HOYT's.

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TO RENT. 6 miles east of town, 14 acres of good land, broken last June. Apply at the Post Office.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

Reform within the Republican Party.

WILLOW VALE, Sept. 5, 1876.

Having been a Republican since the organization of that party, believing in the fundamental principles of that party, and anxious for its prosperity and perpetuation, I cannot but look with alarm at the widespread and general dissatisfaction within our ranks at the recent unexpected, disastrous, and disgraceful culmination that (through the apathy and neglect of the people themselves) has rendered it possible for the commercial politicians--the trading rings, shsyters, and tricksters, who have taken advantage of such apathy to debase the primary meetings for the election of delegates, and prostituted by fraud and chicanery the last county convention--to nominate a man of notoriously bad character for the high and honorable office of State Senator.

Now, Mr. Editor, in behalf of our party, which has shown such energy and made such a gallant effort to reform abuses within itself; in behalf of that party that has not hesitated to drag from power some of our most trusted leaders, because of their trickery and rascality; in behalf of decency, honesty, and respectability; in behalf of the people of Cowley county, our good name and fame hereafter--in the name of all that is honorable in this Centennial year, let it never be said that there were enough infamous Republicans in Cowley county to elect this man to the Senate.

Have the people forgotten the Kansas & Nebraska railroad fraud, and Manning's effort to get the bonds of this county for it? And how today Marion county is groaning under a debt of one hundred thousand dollars issued to this corporation? And "still they have no railroad!" Oh! Such hypocrisy! Such rum bosh! It may satisfy the unthinking, but to people of sense it is the merest clap trap to catch votes.

Last fall it was a Granger Bank; this fall it is a railroad. Last fall Manning pocketed the Granger Bank charter that was placed in his hands, to be filed with the Secretary of State, by the Grangers of Cowley County, who had pledged $60,000 to start a Grange Savings Bank. In full fellowship with the movement before his nomination, he suddenly discovered it was not popular with the money changers of Winfield (when he had withdrawn from the campaign)--and yet this man boasts that he is a Granger, and wants the Granger vote.

The time was when such men might, by the aid of the power and prestige of a presidential campaign, secure their election, but that day is passed.

The Republicans propose to break the power of party ties whenever the machinery of the party places men on the ticket obnoxious to them, and they will scratch them, regardless of consequences. The time has passed for self-styled dictators of the party to dragoon us into doing their bidding. The party whip is powerless, and when the ides of November shall come, we will by voice and ballot defeat this man--that the cup of bitterness prepared by providence in the elevation of this man (the consequence of our neglect of duty at the primaries) may pass from our lips.

Cowley county expects every man to do his duty, and if he does, the threatened disgrace that hovers over the good name of our county will pass away forever; and this man who bolted the Republican party in 1870, and organized the bolter's and Democratic Reform party of that day in Cowley county, will be drive to his old comrades for aid and comfort. Further, the Republican party will be purer and better therefor, and the disgrace attendant upon the recent frauds upon our party will never again be repeated.

BRUTUS.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

The Philadelphia Ledger of August 23rd, says:

"The Kansas State Commission arranged yesterday with Mr.

P. T. Barnum, the showman, to supply him with specimens of the wonderful productions of that State, the object being to give the display greater publicity. The specimens include corn, both in the ear and on the stalk; wheat, oats, hemp, osage orange, castor beans, millet, barley, rye, and grasses of various kinds.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

Silverdale Not a Bolter.

FRIEND SCOTT: In a recent issue of the TRAVELER appeared an editorial in regard to the late Senatorial convention, making it appear that the delegates from Silverdale township bolted with the other townships named, and withdrew from the convention.

As I was one of the delegates, I deem it my right and my duty to deny the assertion. There were no grounds for saying that we of Silverdale bolted, save the fact that a gentleman, who had no right whatever to say so, said "Silversale will have nothing to do with this convention," and then withdrew. He did this before the properly elected delegates arrived, who were unavoidably detained.

When they arrived, they presented their credentials, and admitted into the convention, subsequently denying the statement presumptuously made by the self-constituted delegate from Silverdale-remaining in the convention to the end. They endorsed the nomination, and I now claim that the Republicans of Silverdale will sustain them at the polls.

L. LIPPMANN.

SILVERDALE, Sept. 5, 1876.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876.

Chicago, Sept. 4. The Inter-Ocean's Bismarck special says the latest by couriers arriving today from the Indian expedition is as follows.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

The Winfield Courier tells how Mr. McClure attempted to cross Cedar creek, his wife and five children being with him. The team lost footing, and the current carried the wagon box off and it was soon overturned. The wife clung to a bush and the father saved two of the children, nearly losing his life in attempting to save the others. The three youngest were drowned, also the team, and fifty dollars in money and some other effects were lost. The harness and wagon were recovered.

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TRAVELER, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876.

We have received from E. C. Manning, and by his request, publish the following notice.

PUBLIC MEETING.

I will address the voters of Silverdale township at Lippmann's mill, Saturday evening, September 23, 1876. At that time I respectfully challenge all persons who have aught to say against me to be present, and make their charges publicly, that I may answer them.

E. C. MANNING.

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NOTE: AM VERY PUZZLED OVER THE AUTHORSHIP OF THIS COLUMN.

IT WAS ONE OF THE "EDITORIALS"...NO SIGNATURE GIVEN.

DID SCOTT DO THIS?

TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876.

A HAPPY DAY FOR ARKANSAS CITY.

We learn by letter that the bids of A. A. Newman, Haywood (of Channell & Haywood), and McLaughlin (of Houghton & McLaughlin), for flour and transportation to the different Agencies south of us have been accepted as follows.

This will give a cash market for wheat at our very doors, freighting for a number of teams, and employment to many men, and build up for the town a business greater than known before.

Mr. Thomas Lannigan, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, has the contract for beef, and will purchase largely in Cowley and Sumner counties. His contract is for beef on the hoof, at $3.73-1/2 for Kiowa and Comanche, 2,650,000 lbs.; for Cheyenne and Arapahoe, 3,000,000 lbs.; Wichita, 550,000 lbs.; Osage, 500,000 lbs.; Pawnee, 1,500,000 lbs., at $3.56.

With the prospect of the Walnut Valley Railroad, the steamboat that is now on its way, and the general prospects for good crops, we look forward to a bright dawn of the future.

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HOW IT WAS DONE.

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ME THINKS RIDGELY'S ACCOUNT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN "CUM GRANO SALIS" ... VERY DEFINITELY! HOW COULD ONE MAN OBSERVE SO MUCH!

TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876.

KILLED. Josiah H. Kellems was struck by lightning last Thursday evening, while near the residence of Frank Walker, and instantly killed. The deceased came to our county from Illinois about seven years ago, was 28 years of age, and unmarried. The bolt seemed to have struck him on the head, passing down his body and out at his feet. Walnut Valley Times.

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TRAVELER, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876.

POTATOES are scarce.

RAIN is much needed.

CENTIPEDES are gone.

The corn trade is dull.

The Arkansas is very low.

ONIONS are plenty this year.

FARMERS are cutting up corn.

THRESHING machines are busy.

SWEET POTATOES are getting good.

The wheat market is getting lively.

APPLES will be cheap here this fall.

FARMERS are preparing their ground.

SPLENDID shower Saturday morning.

VEGETABLES are not plenty in market.

EMIGRATION to and fro on the increase.

CORN will bring a good price next winter.

SEVERAL cases of malarial fever are reported.

GRASS ten and twelve feet high is common here.

The County Commissioners meet Monday, Oct. 2nd.

ED HORN was brought up from the Pawnee Agency, sick.

ESQUIRE LETTS, of Salt City, will visit the Centennial soon. Cowley is largely represented in the East this year.

FEARFUL. A child of Mr. King's, living up the Arkansas, fell out of bed last Sunday and broke its neck. The parents are greatly distressed.

The bell tolled twenty-one times last Monday night, in remembrance of Miss McComb, who was twenty-one years of age at the time of her death.

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DIED. On Monday evening, Sept. 11th, 1876, at the residence of Rev. S. B. Fleming in this City, Miss Mary R. McComb, daughter of Rev. D. S. McComb, of Fern Valley, Iowa, aged 22 years. Cause: pulmonary consumption. She came to this climate to restore her health from Pennsylvania in the company of Rev. Fleming in the early part of last June, but to no avail.

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SCHOOL DISTRICT CLERKS are reminded that the new law requires them to make out their annual report on or before the 28th of August on each year. They will make out their reports and forward them immediately to T. A. Wilkinson, County Superintendent, of whom school laws should be obtained.

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The Sociable of the 1st Presbyterian Church that was to have been held at the house of O. P. Houghton this week, has been postponed on account of sickness in the family.

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The funeral of Miss Mary R. McComb, takes place this morning at 10 o'clock.

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PARTIES wanting graining or marbelling will do well to call on Geo. Allen, who has an engagement with Mr. Wm. Parker, a painter of some experience, and who never fails to give satisfaction. The work on Channell & Haywood's new room was done by him.

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160 ACRES of land in Beaver Township, 40 acres broke, and hedgerow. H. HOLTBY.

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WHO wants to trade wood for a stove. C. R. SIPES.

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YOU can purchase at the Arkansas City Bank a farm of 160 acres of first-class land, thirty acres in wheat, some fencing, most excellent spring water, in good neighborhood, for $800 down, the balance in yearly payment of $100 at 12 percent interest.

J. C. McMULLEN.

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NOTICE. All those knowing themselves indebted to the firm of Parker and Tesh, will call and settle immediately. Owing to the death of Mr. Tesh, the business must be settled at once.

CHAS. L. PARKER.

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The man who took my plow from the field will save himself from exposure by returning it. WM. GIBBY.

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COME, FRIENDS, pay up; we are crowded to meet our payments, and must have our pay. HENRY FRANKLIN.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 13, 1876.

We learn the painful news that Mrs. James McClure, who lost three children by drowning last week, is temporarily insane.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 20, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

A Reply to Mr. Lippmann.

FRIEND SCOTT: Mr. Lippmann evidently takes it to heart because it was claimed Silverdale bolted at the late Senatorial convention. I wish to give him the honor of being a delegate, but deny that he was there in time to vote--and I care nothing for his twaddle, was not that he misrepresented the language I used. At the time of voting Silverdale was not represented, and I told the convention she was not, nor did she wish to be. He makes me say that she would have nothing to do with the convenntion, while in reality I said she wanted nothing to do with it; and at the vote next November you will see my statement verified. Now, friend Lippmann, if you propose booming for this fellow, E. C. Manning, do it fairly and in the interests of your ring master, and you may possibly get to run for Sheriff.

H. L. C. GILSTRAP.

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Pat-teck quaw, a Sac chief, recently died of pneumonia.

Indian Agent Burgess and his family have gone north.

Instructions to the Sioux Commission are nearly complete.

B. F. Overton is newly elected Governor of Chickasaw Nation.

The Government favors the removal of the Sioux to this territory.

Full blood Sacs and Foxes talk of building a church on their reservation.

Alex Rankin garnered 1,550 bushels of wheat this year in Kansas.

The Choctaws will put into market nearly 3,000 bales of cotton this year.

The sale of arms and ammunition to Indians at nearly all the Agencies is prohibited.

Chief Keokuk, of the Sacs and Foxes, lives in a brick house and has 200 or more cattle on his farm.

The Ute Indians, after having been feasted and armed to fight the Sioux, skedaddled when on Cheyenne River.

250 tons of hay have been made on the Pawnee Reservation this year by the "blood thirsty and thieving Pawnees."

In meetings for the religious worship at the Sac and Fox Agencies, I. T., Dr. Cook reads aloud one of his ancient dreams of heaven.

The stubborn Mexican Kickapoos, who have persistently objected to the building of a school house, are now successful grain growers.

The Caddo Star thinks the financial condition of the Choctaw Nation is as rotten as New York was during the palmiest days of Tweed.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 20, 1876.

One of the most earnest efforts was made at the Republican Convention, held at Winfield last Saturday, that ever has been made in this county, to correct a blunder made at the premature Convention. It was in the shape of a resolution, being a minority report of the Committee on Order of Business, denouncing the nominee for State Senator, and asking the Convention to repudiate the nomination.

Twenty-eight representative men from different parts of the county favoring the resolution, thereby proving that nearly one-half of the people of Cowley county were opposed to the nominee. It really is too bad in these days of hard times and grasshoppers, to have another affliction added to our lot by the disgrace of sending a man of such notorious record to represent us as a Senator, when it is our first representation from Cowley as a Senatorial District. But regardless of the sanguine feelings of the friends of Mr. Manning, and their boasts that they will carry the county, we have the satisfaction of a belief that he will never see the Kansas Senate as a Senator from this county.

We should have preferred to had placed on the ticket a man whom the whole people would have endorsed, and who have been a credit to the county and a representative of the real sentiments of the true Republicans of Cowley county, but as that was not done, the sense of duty, right, and justice will teach the voters the correct course, and all will end for the best.

Before the close of the Convention, the following nominations were made.

COUNTY ATTORNEY: James McDermott, 32 votes.

John Allen, 30.

PROBATE JUDGE: H. D. Gans, 35 votes.

S. M. Jarvis, 26.

SUPT. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION: R. C. Story, 35 votes.

W. C. Robinson, 26.

CLERK OF DISTRICT COURT: E. S. Bedillion was nominated by

acclamation.

A motion being made that a County Central Committee be elected, giving to each township in the county one member, the following were elected.

BEAVER: C. W. ROSEBERRY.

BOLTON: W. S. THOMPSON.

CRESWELL: C. M. SCOTT.

CEDAR: W. A. METCALF.

DEXTER: JAMES McDERMOTT.

HARVEY: L. L. NEWTON.

LIBERTY: JUSTICE FISHER.

MAPLE: W. B. NORMAN.

NENESCAH: WM. HAYDEN.

OMNIA: WM. GELLARD.

OTTER: R. R. TURNER.

PLEASANT VALLEY: ALBERT DEAN.

ROCK: O. H. EAGAN.

RICHLAND: J. S. VANORSDAL.

SILVER CREEK: JOHN CLOVER.

SPRING CREEK: R. P. GOODRICH.

SHERIDAN: H. CLAY.

TISDALE: J. F. THOMAS.

VERNON: J. S. WOOLY.

WINFIELD: T. K. JOHNSON.

WINDSOR: BEN CLOVER.

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St. Louis, Sept. 8. The Board of Indian Commissioners completed their labors here today, and most of them left for home tonight. They will go to New York, where the proposals for clothing, etc., will be received and contracts awarded.

Contracts were awarded here to the following parties.

Beef on the hoof: Thomas Lanigan, Arkansas; Mr. Rosenthal, Santa Fe; Messrs. Park, Armour & Co., Chicago; Castner & Spencer, St. Paul; James E. Page, Sioux City.

Bacon: W. E. Richardson & Co., St. Louis; Armour & Co., Chicago.

Corn: F. H. Davis, Omaha.

Flour: C. E. Hodges, Sioux City; Castner & Penner, St. Paul; N. P. Clark, St. Cloud; N. W. Welles, Schuyler, Neb.;

J. G. McGannon, Seneca; Messrs. Newman, Haywood & McLaughlin, Arkansas City; W. S. Spleidgelberry, Santa Fe; and Newman, St. Louis.

Hardbread: James Gameau & Co., St. Louis.

Soap: Goodwin, Beher & Co., St. Louis.

Transportation: Northern Pacific Railroad; D. I. McCann, Omaha; John A. Charles, Sioux City; M. Brunswic, Chicago; A. Staab, Pueblo; Col. Enagle, Cheyenne; Ed. Fenlon, Leavenworth;

D. H. Nichols, Cheyenne; O. Hecht, Cheyenne.

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Steamboat Meetings!

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Prairie fires are of daily occurrence.

Hops grow wild in the Territory.

An Osage has 127 cattle in Oklahoma.

Wolves kill the young cattle of the Osages.

Peter Perrier has 160 hogs on this reservation.

The watermelon crop is a failure.

Negroes have murdered a policeman in Dallas, Texas.

Some half-breed Osages are successful bee hunters.

Shawnees keep up smudges in which their ponies stand all day to keep away from flies.

Two Arrapahoe Indians have gone to Fort Smith, charged with murder at Cheyenne Agency.

Thousands of buffalo range between the North and Salt forks of the Canadian River, west of Wkeleton Ranch.

Cheyennes and Arrapahoes are hardening their ponies' necks for the collar, so they can do their own freighting.

George Waite, a white man and an accomplice of George Keeler, furnishes liquor at horse races on the Cherokee line.

"Pa she Tow-wah," "Hay Town," is the name given Independence by the two Osage Indians. There is some significance in it, and it has reference to the material first used in the founding of this smart town, and also keeps alive the Indian traditions which will one day be eagerly sought after.

Coker, the murderer of Johney cake, a respected Delaware Indian, was shot and severely, if not mortally wounded while in a saloon in Coffeyville, Kansas, on the evening of the 3rd inst. The town on this occasion was full of Delawares, some of whom have long sought this white outlaw, and, though the shot was fired by a party in the rear of the building, and in the night time too, it is supposed to have been the work of an Indian who had sought this opportunity to avenge the death of his friend.

Hon. Wm. Penn Adair, a Cherokee who has ably defended the interests of the Indian people before Congress, is now at his home in Vinita, Cherokee Nation.

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Will buy and sell Real Estate on Commission.

We have for sale CHEAP LANDS, TOWN LOTS, AND FARMS.

Improved and unimproved; also, business and dwelling houses for sale and for rent. We will loan and invest money and pay taxes for foreign parties, furnish abstracts or titles, make con-

veyances, and do a general Land Office business.

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TRAVELER, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1876.

COOL weather begins.

QUAIL are very plenty.

SCHOOL began last Monday.

The council met last Monday.

The roads are no longer dusty.

REV. FLEMING is down with fever.

REMEMBER the steamboat meetings.

THERE is not a pound of ice in town.

NOTHING doing in the Justices' courts.

FROST will appear before many weeks.

No marriage licenses issued for some time.

HICKORY nuts and walnuts are plenty on the creeks.

GEO. O. SWEET is at 25 Washington St., Alleghany, Pa.

There are a dozen families in this town that are anxious to secure good dwelling houses.

It is claimed that the Wichita National Bank will be able to resume business in a few days.

MRS. FITCH will have some new fall and winter millinery goods this week. Call and see them.

MARRIED. At South Bend, Saturday, Sept. 10th, by Esquire

J. P. Eckles, Miss Emma J. Straub and W. J. Keffer.

MR. WM. PARKER is doing some very fine work at O. P. Houghton's new residence. He is a splendid workman.

MOST of the town people have put up their winter hay. Hay is plenty at three dollars per ton delivered, or $1.75 on the field.

JOSEPH HOYT has returned for a short visit to Cowley county. Joe has plenty of friends and a wide reputation on the border.

We received a note yesterday from Jack McLay. He is perched up in the mountains, at Magnola, Colorado, among the clouds and grasshoppers.

JIM LEONARD, after perambulating around in Illinois and Philadelphia, has at last "come home to work for dad." He thinks he is about as good a man to work for as he knows of.

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The following is the list of jurymen drawn for the next term of court.

William Morrow, Sheridan Township.

G. S. Story, Maple Township.

J. C. Roberts, Winfield Township.

Rudolph Hite, Dexter Township.

John R. Thompson, Richland Township.

T. B. Myers, Winfield Township.

Hiram Blenden, Spring Creek Township.

J. E. Campbell, Windsor Township.

D. Francisco, Silverdale Township.

A. S. Capps. Nenescah Township.

S. H. Tolles, Pleasant Valley Township.

James Alley, Otter Township.

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The following persons were appointed last Saturday as delegates and alternates to the Democrativ Convention, to be held at Winfield on Saturday, the 23rd.

Delegates: J. Benedict, A. Walton, T. McIntire, P. F. Endicott, A. J. Burrell, M. E. Welch.

Alternates: W. M. Berkey, Wm. Green, Jno. Harmon, S. Johnson, W. Dolby, Wm. Gray.

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PAPER AT CEDAR VALE. The parties at Cedar Vale did not make satisfactory arrangements with Charles McIntire to start a paper at that place. Mr. Blevins, of Oxford, had some idea of giving them one, but we learn the contract has been made with Wm. Allison, of Winfield, who promises the first edition soon.

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The Presbyterian Society will hold a package social at the residence of Mr. C. R. Sipes, on Wednesday evening, for the benefit of Rev. Fleming and family. All are invited. By order of society. MRS. NEWTON, Secretary.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 20, 1876.

MULE TEAM FOR SALE. I have a good mule team, with wagon and harness, I will sell for $325. W. H. WALKER, Salt City.

Inquire at this office.

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All parties indebted to J. T. Shepard will please call and settle the same with money or note.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876.

TEACHERS.

The following teachers were in attendance at the examination held at Winfield, Friday and Saturday, September 15 and 16, 1876.

WINFIELD. Louis P. King, Lusetta Pyburn, Mr. J. Huff, M. E. Lynn, Mary E. Bryant, E. M. Snow, Sallie E. Rea, C. A. Winslow, Amy Robertson, Mall Roberts, Mrs. Bell Siebert, H. W. Holloway, Mollie A. Davis, O. S. Record, Rachel E. Newman, Ioa Roberts,

F. T. Ross, Geo. W. Robinson, J. K. Beckner, Emma Saint, Sarah E. Davis, Maggie Stansbury, M. D. Snow, Byron A. Snow, Helen Wright, Mina O. Johnson, Kate Gilliland.

ARKANSAS CITY. Lizzie Landis, Laura E. Turner, T. Kate Kawkins, Adelia DeMott, Fannie Skinner, Frank A. Chapin, Xina Cowles,

H. M. Bacon, Stella Burnett, Anna O. Wright, J. M. Hawthorne,

Georgia Christian, Jefferson Bowen, Mrs. A. R. Hauser.

LAZETTE. K. L. Ward, Kate Fitzgerald, M. S. Smith, George Lee, Lucy A. Randall.

DEXTER. Miss McDowell, W. E. Mereydith, C. W. Dover, J. C. Armstrong, Mary I. Byard.

TISDALE. Gertie Davis, Ella Wickersham, Emery I. Johnson,

Anna Mark.

ROCK. T. P. Stevenson, Chas. H. Eagin, Polly Martindale,

J. T. Tarbet.

OTHER LOCALITIES:

Oscar J. Holroy, Lizzie Conklin, Cedarvale.

Mary E. Buck, Anna Buck, Canola, Elk County.

Veva Walton, Oxford, Sumner County.

T. B. Kidney, Mrs. Sarah Hollingsworth, Polo.

Porter Wilson, Red Bud.

Wm. E. Ketcham, Maple City.

R. B. Carson, Little Dutch.

I. H. Edwards, Floral.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876.

PLEASANT VALLEY, Sept. 18, 1876.

The grasshoppers came, and are now gone--no one knowing from whence they came or wither they went. It is to be hoped they did not deposit eggs enough to do any damage, even if they hatch out this fall.

Mr. Wilson Shaw has just completed a barn and granary, which are a credit to the valley. Although the grasshoppers have been here recently, Mr. Shaw demonstrates that he is going to stay with them if they will stay with him.

Mr. Henry Cristie, who hailed from Davis county, Iowa, only two weeks ago, was bound in bonds of double blessedness with Miss Mary E. Retherford, of Pleasant Valley, last Saturday. The ceremony was performed at Winfield by Judge Gans.

C. C. H.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876.

Millet is worth twelve dollars per ton.

Immigrant wagons rolling into Kansas.

Attendance at Centennial steadily increasing.

Centennial building and contents are worth $104,820,350.

The biggest strike at the Centennial is the Kansas

Exposition.

An $80,000 fire across the street from the Centennial Main Building.

Barnum has secured the Kansas Centennial exhibit for display in Europe.

Kansas corn crop estimated at 100,000,000 bushels, worth

$30,000,000 to $40,000,000.

To get rid of a cold, put nitroglycerine up your nose and hit it with a sledge hammer. The cold will go away.

Kansas Supreme Court affirms decision against railroads, giving full value for stock killed, with attorney's fees for collecting the same.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876.

Charge Number One.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876.

The creditors of the First National Bank [Wichita] are satisfied that the assets of the bank, if honestly administered in the interests of the stockholders, will pay dollar for dollar. If they should pan out much under 100 percent, they will feel satisifed there has been a leak. Mr. Fraker, we understand, has conveyed his entire property to the bank to held meets its

liabilities. Beacon.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876.

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

CRIMINAL DOCKET.

State vs. A. H. Horneinan [?] Horneman.

State vs. W. J. Keffer et al.

State vs. J. S. Meloin.

State vs. Will M. Allison.

State vs. Emily J. Wilson.

CIVIL DOCKET.

N. K. Jeffries vs. M. S. Read.

George Warner vs. James Jordan.

Robert Hudson vs. W. S. Voris.

Oliver Sparkman vs. Wm. Thurman.

Francis Black vs. Ed Patton et al.

W. S. Paul vs. M. A. Andrews et al.

Francis Black vs. A. A. Jackson, ad'r.

H. T. Ford vs. N. Roberson.

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

W. R. Constant vs. H. H. Constant.

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

Brettun Crapster vs. S. D. Williams.

E. E. Kirkly vs. Wm. Hallett.

Arthur Graham vs. John Swain et al.

H. F. Bartine vs. C. A. Kers et al.

John Rief vs. Gertrude Rief.

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

L. C. Norton vs. G. O. Sweet et al.

Barclay Hackett vs. R. R. Turner.

David Thomas vs. Martin Stewart.

M. S. Read vs. E. G. Willett et al.

Cowley Co. Bank vs. T. M. Carder et al.

F. R. Hudson vs. Robert Hudson.

Frazee Bros. vs. C. H. Kingsbury.

A. Covert et al vs. R. B. Waite et al.

David Rodocker vs. James Jordan et al.

F. Weathermire vs. Joseph Likowsky.

G. S. Manser vs. E. G. Willett.

Wm. Shivaly vs. H. M. Rogers.

H. T. Ford vs. James Ford.

Sophia Laubner vs. Peter Theis.

Emma J. Hawkins vs. Wm. Hawkins.

C. C. Black Adr. vs. D. D. Whisuant.

W. A. Sharp vs. R. L. Walker.

George Carman vs. W. H. Nelson.

M. E. Quimby vs. J. B. Gorham.

A. W. Graham vs. H. O. Meigs et al.

S. A. Groswold vs. L. F. Griswold.

G. W. Ballou vs. R. B. Waite.

B. D. French vs. R. L. Walker.

R. B. Waite vs. G. W. Ballou.

M. T. Jackson vs. Jas. H. Jackson.

Dietz & Rov_nd vs. E. W. Coulson.

B. D. French vs. R. L. Walker.

R. G. Thompson vs. S. J. Thompson.

R. B. Waite vs. F. R. Hudson.

Frank Gallotti vs. Amelia Gallotti.

City of Winfield vs. Wm. Hersman.

J. S. Hilderbrand et al vs. John B. Holmes.

Nelson Gunsaullis vs. Mary Gunsaullis.

W. B. Skinner vs. W. G. Kay et al.

J. L. Farwell vs. Robert Hersbrough.

R. E. Gault vs. F. P. Smith.

R. E. Gault vs. T. P. Smith.

Samuel Hoyt vs. W. H. Brown et al.

Annie E. Brown vs. J. D. Brown.

G. P. Harris vs. F. W. Ward et al.

M. A. Baker vs. P. D. Baker.

D. H. Cross vs. N. J. Cross.

E. J. Kenton vs. Harvey Kenton.

Robert Hudson vs. F. R. Hudson.

J. C. Hix vs. Nancy J. Stewart.

J. C. Hix vs. Jas. Stewart et al.

E. S. Torrance vs. S. W. Green et al.

Samuel Hoyt vs. Frank Gallotti.

Samuel Hoyt vs. Geo. Jones et al.

Charles Fiske et al vs. J. J. Johnson.

William R. Warner vs. M. G. Troup Adr et al.

E. S. BEDILION, CLERK.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876.

B. F. Baldwin, S. S. Moore, R. C. Story, A. H. Siverd and Daniel Maher were appointed members of the Republican Central Committee, for the 88th Representative district.

The members of Adelphi Lodge No. 110, A. F. & A. M., are hereby notified that P. G. M. Harmon G. Reynolds will address the fraternity at our hall in Winfield, Thursday evening, Oct. 15, 1876, at 7 o'clock p.m. All Masons in good standing are invited to attend, and bring with them their wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters. After the address a Chapter of the Eastern Star will be organized by Bro. Reynolds, if desired.

By order of the Lodge.

J. S. HUNT, W. M.

L. J. WEBB, Sec'y.

The District Conference, Wichita district, of the South Kansas Conference, M. E. church, will convene at Augusta, on Wednesday, the 27th day of September, 1876, and will be in session until after the next Sabbath. All ministers, also other members of the church so desiring, are most respectfully invited to attend.

J. HARRIS, Pastor Augusta Charge.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876.

Advertisement.

Mr. Gilstrap in his answer to a communication from me to the TRAVELER, makes some assertions and some insinuations that I feel inclined to reply to. I do not care for his twaddle if he would not misrepresent me. He makes a very nice distinction about what he said at the convention and what I make him say. The difference is certainly astounding to the many readers of the TRAVELER, that he said "she" [Silverdale, I cannot account for the gender,] "was not represented nor did she wish to be, and she wanted nothing to do with it," and audaciously make him say, "she would not have anything to do with it."

If anyone can find any material difference in the two assertions, they are in possession of a happy faculty for judging small matters. It seems to me, even in my blind adherence, that if Silverdale did not want to have antying to do with that convention, no power could make her, and as H. L. C. Gilstrap is not Silverdale Township, and the only one that I know of who asserted she wanted no hand in the matter, I presume to say he could not speak for a number of other citizens of this township who did; consequently, I am forced to think that Friend Gilstrap attached too much importance to the reputation and influence of one H. L. C. Gilstrap. So much for this part of the communication.

Now, Friend Gilstrap, a word to you in regard to the imputation you strive to cast, about my booming around for this felon, E. C. Manning. You say "do it fairly." I defy you or any other narrow, prejudiced, and harping person to show otherwise, and I would advise you before impugning my motives, to scrutinize yours and see if you are not looking into a mirror that casts back your own shadow.

As for the ring-master thrust, I am sorry your influence is of so little importance that you cannot supplant him, but it can be helped.

Do you remember my answer when L. J. Webb was a candidate and you strove to have me vote according to the dictates of your prejudice, by telling me at the polls that if I voted for him, you never would support me for sheriff? Do you remember that? Well, I am just as independent now as I was then, and if at the proper time I make up my mind to run for sheriff, I will have to be fully satisfied that my course and actions are condemned by better friends and truer republicans than you are, before I will be driven off the track.

L. LIPPMANN.

P. S. Since writing the above, I have been informed that I was secretary of the meeting that elected me as a delegate and failed to write my credentials until I reached Winfield, and wrote them in C. A. Bliss' store and that C. A. Bliss was a witness to the shameful sight. And now that I am pushed so close, I feel an open confession would be a relief, so I will acknowledge that at the primary held in our township on the 9th of this month for the purpose of electing delegates to the county convention and to the representative convention, the occasion upon which you promised to see that "that fellow Lippmann would not have the opportunity to misrepresent Silverdale Township again, "having assured those gentlemen who did not wish to see me a delegeate, that you would be there and all would be right. The result I hope you have not forgotten, but as secretary to that meeting, I was compelled to write out credentials in favor of my master's servant and did not do it until the day of the convention, in Ed. Bedillion's office; and still I rear my head in effrontery and do not feel ashamed of my act, but I am inclined to think that there is ample ground that somebody should feel ashamed.

In conclusion, friend Gilstrap, let me say this to you in that spirit of kindness that ever characterizes my actions, don't cast too many insinuations, don't slur those that cannot in their ignorance see wisely like you, and of all things don't make so many statements that will have to be verified at a future time; and in all probability, there will be no cause for you and I to see who can say the meanest things.

Boomingly

L. LIPPMAN.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876.

A little son of Silas Kennedy, of Winfield, had his leg broken last Wednesday. He was with his father, who was hauling a load of wheat to this market, and while walking or playing alongside of the wagon, slipped and fell. The wagon passed over his right ankle, badly crushing the bones. His mother is nursing him at the Valley House. Beacon.

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TRAVELER, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876.

MAKE your fire guards.

UCH-TUN-BA-KA, and old Osage friend, called on us last week.

STOVES. Benedit and Sipes are getting in their heating stoves.

FIFTY-FIVE children attend the primary school, and thirty-five the graded.

MR. WM. COOMBS has returned from the East and the Centennial, improved in health by the trip.

CAPT. McDERMOTT made one of the best speeches ever delivered in this county at Tisdale last week.

JAMES I. MITCHELL shipped one car load of wheat to Kansas City and received 76 cents per bushel for it.

MRS. BROWN, mother of Wm. Burkey, aged 70 years, started to Iowa, alone, last Monday to see her son.

The steam thresher has been at Dr. Leonard's and Dr. Hughes. Some of Dr. Leonard's wheat yielded over thirty bushels per acre.

LOST MONEY. One man from Grouse Creek lost $20, and another $40 at the show, last Tuesday, betting on another man's trick. "Never too old to learn."

The members of the Hayes and Wheeler Club are requested to meet at Benedict's Hall tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of transacting business.

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ELOPEMENT. A couple came down from Douglass last Sunday for the purpose of being made one. They stopped long enough to get supper in town, and then put in half the night hunting for an able bodied minister. At twelve o'clock at night Rev. James Hopkins was found, and in presence of several witnesses, married the youthful couple in the Indian Territory, near Poke Steven's house. The groom's name is Jeremiah Buttingham, and the bride, Rachel Quinby, both of Douglass. The bride was but fourteen years of age. The cause of such great haste was from fear of the angry mother, accompanied by a gentleman with a shot gun.

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RUNAWAY. A mule team took fright near Mr. Fitch's yesterday afternoon, and ran up the street. Three ladies were in the wagon and two leaped out, leaving Mrs. Chafee and her babe alone. With remarkable presence of mind, she laid her child down, took up the lines, and ran the mules into a fence, and stopped them. Mrs. Crow, one of the ladies, had her shoulder thrown out of joint. Mrs. Andrew Brown had the back of her head badly cut, and her child had its leg broken. Several parties ran to assist them, and got their shins peeled.

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RUNAWAY. Yesterday morning Orville Smith's mule team took a notion to run away, while they were standing hitched to a spring wagon, with their heads in the door of Walker's stable, and Orville holding the lines. The lines broke and the mules ran through the stable, tearing the end completely out of the barn, and upsetting and breaking the wagon. No damage was done to the animals.

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We learn that in almost every deposit of grasshopper eggs, a small worm is found destroying them. Mr. Wyard Gooch and J. C. Topliff report several examinations, resulting almost invariably in finding the presence of the worm. With the chances they will have to undergo in the spring of being killed by the cold rains, we think grasshoppers will be few next spring.

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The City Marshal performed a very embarrassing duty last show day. It seems one youth came to the show with his girl. Another fellow cut in and cut him out. Then the youth appealed to the city marshal. "Billy, that fellow has my girl. Won't you get her back for me?" Billy considered the matter, and negligently made the request and comforted the afflicted.

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We understand that Mr. O. Smith, near South Haven, has some wheat and fall barley up; but the grasshoppers seem to be eating only the former, leaving the barley very little damaged. It would be advisable if every farmer would sow some barley, as the corn crop is very uncertain should the grasshoppers hatch out in the spring to do us any damage.

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TRAVELER, SEPTEMBER 27, 1876.

St. Paul, Sept. 21. The Pioneer Press has a special from Madelia announcing the capture of four of the Northfield robbers. The four captured are those of whom the track was lost in the timber around Mankato, two of hom are supposed to be the Younger brothers. The dispatch says the four missing robbers went to a house at 7 o'clock this morning, about seven miles north of here, and bought some bread and butter and started west on foot.

News was sent in as fast as a horse could travel, and forty or fifty men were after them as soon as they could get horses and arms. They drove them about eight miles north of here. They then had them out on the open prairie and opened fire on them. The robbers returned the fire, but kept working toward the river and at last got there, and hid in the bushes.

By this time our men were all together, and surrounded the bush the robbers were in. Firing became general, our men firing all the time. As last the robbers saw there was no use, and gave up. One was killed, and the other three wounded. The one supposed to be Cole Younger is badly wounded in the hand and back. It is thought that one, perhaps two, will died of their wounds.

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Winona, Minn., Sept. 22. The three wounded robbers now in Madelia jail have confessed that they are the Younger brothers--Cole, James, and Robert--but refuse to divulge the name of the dead man or the names of those killed at Northfield, or tell who are those that got away, saying they are bound by an oath to keep these things secret. Cole Younger has a rifle ball in his head and two in his body; James had half his upper jaw shot away, a bullet in his shoulder, another in his breast, and eight in various parts of his body. Robert, the youngest, was only slightly wounded in the side, but has a bad wound in the right arm, received at Northfield. James was also wounded in the right shoulder at Northfield.

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Six hundred wagon loads of wheat were delivered by farmers to Wichita warehouses and elevators one day last week.

The Russian immigrants have already formed three villages in Ellis county. They now number over one third of the population of that county and will soon be the majority.

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TRAVELER, OCTOBER 4, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

E. C. Manning, proclaiming to the people before the election that he was a friend and supporter of Sidney Clarke for the United States Senate!

WHEREAS, For the first time in the history of Cowley County the Republicans thereof are called upon to nominate a candidate for the office of State Senator, to fill said office for the next four years from said County in the Senate of Kansas; and

WHEREAS, During the term of four years next ensuing for which the said Senator from Cowley County will be elected there will occur the election of two United States Senators by the Legislature of the State of Kansas; and

WHEREAS, The honor of our State, and particularly of the Republican party thereof, has heretofore been sadly tarnished by the open, notorious, and inscrupulous use and receipt of money in all of the election of United States Senators, by the Legislature of the State of Kansas; Therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Republican party of Cowley County that every consideration of public policy and political integrity imperatively demands that our Representatives in each House of the State Legislature at the time of such approaching United States Senatorial Elections should be men against whose character for personal probity and political integrity, not the breath of suspicion has ever blown; and be it further

Resolved, That as the Republican party of Cowley County numbers within its membership hundreds of men whose characters are as spotless, both personally and politically, as the new fallen snow, and whose abilities are fully adequate to the honorable and efficient discharge of the duties of State Senator, we will therefore in the coming contest for that important and honorable position support no candidate therefor whose past and present political, as well as personal, history will not bear the closest scrutiny and most unsparing criticism, when viewed in the light of the foregoing resolutions.

But it is said that Sidney Clarke now endorses Manning. Certainly. It is reported to Clarke that Manning will be elected to the Senate this winter. He will, if elected, vote this winter for some man for United States Senator to fill the office now held by Gov. Harvey, and two years hence to fill the office now held by Senator Ingalls. Clarke is in hopes the lightning may strike him, and commercial politician that he is, he is ready to eat his own words in order to help Manning--that Manning may hereafter help him. Clarke is certain that in this way he can be of service to Manning, and thus place Manning under obligations to him. Each knows the rascalities of the other, and they put their heads together to help each other, on the principle of "You boost me and I will you," and all their followers with one voice shout: "Great is the little Manning!" But, again, we find by reference to the testimony of ex-Gov. Carney before alluded to in this article, that Manning approached him for the loan of money, and when asked by Carney who he (Manning) was for, for United States Senator, he said, "You (meaning Carney) are my choice;" that between Caldwell and Clarke he had no choice. How so, Mr. Manning? You told the people of Cowley county before the election that you were for Sidney Clarke, and you told Clarke so as you stated in your speech on Saturday, Sept. 16, at the county convention; and you swore to the same thing in Washington, as we shall show hereafter.

Now, by reference to the testimony of Gov. Carney, you will see that he swears money on good security could be readily had at that time in Kansas for 12 percent. Why did you not borrow the money of men who loaned money? It was because you wanted pay for your vote, and this was the dodge you took to get it. Everybody knows that men are not usually paid cash for their votes, but notes are given that all parties understand are never to be paid. Especially is this so in the light of your own testimony taken in connection with the fact that Sidney Clarke at that time was and now is financially worthless.

Again, in the same issue, we made the following charge:

The reader will remember that after Mr. Manning made oath to the facts above set forth, he was called to Washington to be sworn in the Caldwell investigation, and the following is his

testimony.

WASHINGTON, January 21, 1873.

The above evidence can be found on pages 301 to 309 of Mr. Manning's testimony before the U. S. Senate Committee in the Caldwell case.

Again, in the deposition of Gov. Carney before referred to, he swears he did see Caldwell for Manning, that Caldwell agreed to loan Manning the money, that he told Mr. Manning thereof, and that Manning told him they could depend upon him.

Again, we find in Mr. Manning's testimony before the U. S. Senate Committee above referred to, the following instructive statement.

Read all the foregoing testimony, dear reader, and then tell us that you will vote for this man, and that his reputation is as spotless as demanded by the convention that nominated him.

But again, having proven charges 9 and 10, we propose to make charge 11 against you, Mr. Manning, so stand up. We charge that you, as a member of the State Senate of 1866, committed the gross offense of lying most shamefully, and by your vote in connection with other members of the Legislature, you robbed the present and future unborn generations of the children of Kansas of five hundred thousand acres of land, worth fifteen hundred thousand dollars.

Now the above is a serious charge, but we propose to prove it, and for that purpose we copy the third section of article six of the Constitution of the State of Kansas, adopted at Wyandotte, July 29, 1859, which has been in force ever since, and reads as follows.

Below we give the votes and protest of members of the Legislature when the bill was passed. The people of Cowley county will do well to read these copies of official documents taken from the House Journal of 1866.

Gentlemen voting in the affirmative: Messrs. Authur, Brakford, Brice, Bond, Callen, Cavender, Craig, Cochrane, Coffin, Drake, Dow, Fletcher, Graham, Green, Griswold, Harmon, Harrington, Harvey, Hollenberg, Holliday, Johnson, Kelly, Massey, Mix, Montgomery, Moore, McCabe, Nash, Parker, Pearmain, Pennock, Power, Quinn, Rankid, Reese, Rue, Sanford, Stewart, Smith, 43rd, Stotler, Underhill, Walker, Wilson, and Mr. Speaker.

Gentlemen voting in the negative were: Messrs. Allen, Bauserman, Cain, Carlton, Foster, Glick, Gross, Humber, Jackson, Jennison, Kellogg, Knight, Kunkel, McAuley, McLellen, O'Brien, Preston, Phillips, Rodgers, Stabler, Shepherd, Smith, 15th, Smith, 17th, Smith, 36th, VanGaasbeck, Pellhouse, and Woodyard.

Mr. W. A. Phillips then offered the following protest, which was ordered to be spread at large upon the Journal of the House.

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TRAVELER, OCTOBER 4, 1876.

"Vindication" Meeting.

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TRAVELER, OCTOBER 4, 1876.

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TRAVELER, OCTOBER 4, 1876.

Four lodges of Osages are over trading with the Cherokees.

An Osage fell dead on Saturday last.

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TRAVELER, OCTOBER 4, 1876.

[TRAVELER NEVER PRINTED ANY TREATY.]

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TRAVELER, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1876.

SHOO, fly.

COURT is in session.

SLIGHT rainfall last Thursday.

A number of stoves went up last week.

MAKE your arrangements for firewood.

WINDSOR is the largest township in the county.

The skies are illuminated nightly with prairie fires.

The walnuts have fallen, and are now ready to hull.

POTATOES, 40 cents; eggs, 10 cents per dozen; butter, 25 cents per pound; quinine, $5 per ounce.

PROF. BACON resumed his labors in the public school last Monday, after an illness of one week.

WOOD. We will take cord wood on subscription, and allow the highest market price. We need some now.

NEW-COMERS every day now, from almost every State. Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa seem to be the best represented.

DIED. On Wednesday, Sept. 27th, of pneumonia, Edward F., son of Bernard and Elizabeth Geiser. Aged six months.

CHARLEY LISH's dog jumped through the glass in the door of Channell & Haywood's new store, Saturday. Damage, one V.

OUR LAWYERS are attending court this week. C. R. Mitchell has thirteen cases on the docket in which he is employed as

attorney.

DR. HUGHES had one-half day of leisure last Friday, after six weeks' hard riding. All the medical men will have more time since the frost.

The County Commissioners met last Monday, and will probably be in session the greater part of this week. It is a regular meeting.

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ELDER ALSOP, a Christian minister, delivered two sermons at the brick church last Friday and Saturday evenings, and one at Oxford Sunday evening.

A meeting of the stockholders and directors of the Commercial Agency will be held at Wichita, Thursday, October 5th.

E. R. POWELL, Secretary.

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ARKANSAS. From A. W. Patterson, who was lately over at Chetopa buying apples by the load, we learn that times about Chetopa are as dull as anywhere. The grasshoppers were more numerous than they were here, and ate the tall wheat that was up. In talking with Arkansas men, he learned that apples were 35 cents per bushel, sheep $1.50 per head, milch cows $20 each, and hogs as dear as in Kansas.

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119 TEAMS. Thos. Parvin counted 119 teams loaded with wheat last Friday, on their way to Wichita. One difficulty, lately, is the scarcity of cars to ship the wheat, and frequently buyers refuse to purchase on that account. No. 2 wheat, last week, brought 80 cents; No. 3, 70 and 75 cents per bushel.

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HUNTERS. Kendall Smith, Beall, Bentley, and August Lorry spent a few days hunting in the Territory last week, and got one deer and some small game. They report turkeys scarce and hard to get, on account of the high grass.

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DIED. On Thursday, September 28th, at her residence on Grouse creek, in Silverdale township, Mrs. Ann Allison, aged 57 years. Whe was a devoted number of the M. E. Church.

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TRAVELER, OCTOBER 4, 1876.

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TRAVELER, OCTOBER 4, 1876.

List of those receiving certificates at the examination held at Winfield, September 15 and 16, 1876.

"A" Grades: Xina Cowles, Ella Wickersham, Mary A. Bryant, Geo. W. Robinson.

"1st" Grades: H. M. Bacon, H. W. Holloway, Miss Mall. Roberts.

"2nd" Grades: Emery I. Johnson, J. H. Edwards, Wm. E. Ketchum, J. C. Armstrong, Oscar J. Holroyd, C. I. Record, T. B. Kidney, Porter Wilson, R. B. Carson, M. L. Smith, J. T. Tarbet, Charles H. Eagin, E. W. Snow, M. D. Snow, Byron A. Snow, C. W. Dover, George Lee, J. K. Beckner, Frank A. Chapin, J. M. Hawthorne, T. P. Stevenson, Mrs. Bell Seibert, Mrs. A. R. Hauser, Fannie Skinner, Sarah Hollingsworth, Sarah E. Davis, Stella Burnett, Laura Turner, Anna O. Wright, Veva Walton, Georgia Christian, Gertrude Davis, Adelia DeMott, Lizzie Conklin, Sallie Rea, Miss M. J. Huff, Miss M. E. Lynn, Miss C. A. Winslow, Lusetta Pyburn, Helen Wright, Anna Buck, Mary E. Buck, Ludy Pedell, Kate L. Ward, Emma Saint, Mina C. Johnson, Maggie Stansbury, Kate Gilliland, Rachel E. Nawman, Kate Fitzgerald, Mary I. Byard, W. E. Merydith, Ioa Roberts, Lizzie Landis, Amy Robertson, Kate T. Hawkins, Anna Mark.

"A" grades are valid two years, "1st" grades one year, and "2nd" grades six months. There were four "A" grades, three "1st" grades, and fifty-seven "2nd" grades.

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TRAVELER, OCTOBER 4, 1876.

There are 133 patients in the insane asylum at Ossowatomie.

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TRAVELER, OCTOBER 4, 1876.

NOTICE. All persons knowing themselves indebted to me on account, or otherwise, are requested to make prompt payment in cash or marketable wheat at home prices. NATHAN HUGHES. September 29, 1876.

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CHOICE FALL BARLEY may be had at Houghton & McLaughlin's, Channell & Haywood's, or of the undersigned, at $1.00 per bushel. Now is the time to sow. J. C. TOPLIFF.

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800 ACRES of land, improved and unimproved, for sale at the Arkansas City Bank, on five years' time at 12 percent interest.

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TRAVELER, OCTOBER 4, 1876.

S. Matlock reports one half of the Pawnee tribe now sick.

Pony buyers from New York have made their second appearance this season.

Daniel Moulton, a white man from the New England States, died from hemorrhage from the lungs, on the prairie, in

Coo-wee-scoo wee district.

Upon the subject of Indian affairs, nothing has yet been heard from the Yearly Meeting of Friends in Iowa.

Indian Agent Cravens reports all the buildings at his agency, excepting three, as being carried away by the flood. His records and papers are all gone.

Dr. Daniels, of the Indian commission, was once agent at Red Cloud, and now finds many old friends among the Sioux.

A family of three persons have recently been found dead in Missouri. The parents evidently died of congestive chills, and the child in its efforts to obtain nourishment fell into a bucket of water and drowned.

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