Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The following verses may throw some light upon the true meaning of the word mugwumps. The names used for birds or bats are not found in the dictionary; but Judge Bennett says they are all found in the swamps of Eastern North Carolina.

The mugwump roosts in the hollow log,

The sagwag sits in the tree;

Whenever I hear the hogwig sing

My heart is sad in me.

Whenever the snagpop toots his toot

To the wail of the migwag hen,

And the nigfunk chirps in the shrilly night,

You bet I'm lonely then.

Would it not be singular if the original mugwump proved after all to be an inhabitant of the dreary lowlands of North Carolina, roosting in hollow logs?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

No one can take a walk through Washington without being struck with the thought that it is not only a "city of magnificent distances," but a city of abrupt contrasts. This is especially true of the northwestern part of town, where elegant residences sometimes stand opposite or side by side with tumble-down shanties. There is no shading. It is black and white in startling proximity. One square built up with valuable mansions, inhabited by people certainly of wealth, presumably of good blood, carriages rolling from one well-kept door to another, the whole presenting a perfect picture of an aristocratic neighborhood. Just as likely as not, the very next square will not have a tolerable house and hardly a white inhabitant. Misery may bring one strange bed-fellows, but it seems that luxury sometimes brings one strange neighbors, for it is apparently in the finest parts of town that our colored brethren most do congregate. In a few years this will all be changed. The incongruities caused by an astonishingly rapid rise in the value of real estate and a tide of fashion settling in a hitherto undesirable direction will be smoothed away in time. At present, however, it is certainly a sight one can see in no other city. The rich and poor classes so mixed up together in the same locality, little frame houses renting for a few dollars a month on land worth three or four dollars a foot, colored children swarming on the street about their homes, just around the corner from some of the most valuable property in Washington.

The remark has been made, but it is worth repeating, that Washington affords more opportunities for picturesque architecture than any other city. An architect who takes any pleasure in his profession must delight in the oddity-shaped and irregular lots that abound here. The arrangement of avenues crossing the streets in a sort of irregular regularity creates any quantity of triangles, which offer tempting building sites to the architect who wants to be original and striking. These architectural opportunities seem to be well improved so far. The vista down some of the streets and avenues that have been built up lately is certainly varied and picturesque. It is a good deal the fashion to sneer at modern architects and to speak contemptuously of "gingerbread work." People who affect such refinement of taste that the pretensions of modern building grate upon their sensitive nerves, must find soothing and congenial surroundings in Philadelphia, for instance. Some Washingtonians delight in the wildest flights of fancy in brick and stone, but there will always be plenty of conservative spirits who can furnish the solid and handsome style which tones down the architectural eccentricity of more daring spirits, and the general effect of the whole is interesting and admirable.

Gen. Black's assertion the other day, when interrogated in regard to the refusal of Miss Sweet, the pension agent, to forward her resignation, that "the Lord made women" continues puzzle not only the women themselves but men, too. What did he mean? Is a question that has been answered in various ways. Shakespeare defines a woman as "a child of Grandmother Eve, a female; or, for the more sweet understanding, a woman." I suspect General Black's sweet understanding has been of one sweet woman, so recently that he was led to exclaim, "the lord made women," by way of throwing the terrible responsibility on Providence. I heard a cabinet officer say once: "When women are in the office, they give no trouble. But it's when they are out and trying to get in, that they are more than a match for us. We can't turn our backs on a woman and freeze her out of the room as we can a man. She will just begin to cry, and then a man feels like a 'brute, you know.'" But it seems Miss Sweet didn't even resort to tears--a woman's most formidable weapon. If there were any tears at all, they were probably shed by Secretary Lamar, who, I learn, was positively distressed by General Black's action. I was told that the president and the whole cabinet were quite stirred up over the affair. Gen. Black went to the White House to explain, and altogether, he had anything but a sweet experience of it. The upshot of it all is that Miss Sweet will probably serve out the balance of her time.

The president will take up his summer residence at Soldier's Home early this month, occupying the cottage which has been set apart for a number of years for that use. By residing thee he will have much more time to himself and will be able to take exercise. He is a great walker, but he is prevented from taking his customary walk by a want of time and an unwillingness to attract public attention by appearance on the street. The executive mansion at Albany is a mile from the capitol, and while governor, he was accustomed to walk the distance three or four times a day. Since he has been at the White House, he has taken a daily ride, but he misses the exhilarating exercise of a good walk. Nevertheless, the president is looking remarkably well. Miss Cleveland will reside with him at Soldier's Home.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The lecture of Rev. Dr. Fisher, at the Methodist church Friday night on "Utah and Mormonism" was highly entertaining and instructive and well attended. He was for several years pastor of the Methodist church in Utah, and has done missionary work for years all over the territory. He gave a sketch of the geographical history of Utah: her lakes, mountains, and valleys. Salt Lake is ninety-five miles long and forty miles wide, with the Jordan and several other streams running into it. It has no outlet. Constant evaporation keeps it status quo. The salt is so thick on its surface that one can lie down and roll over in it as on grass. Utah has 120,000 inhabitants, of whom only twelve thousand are Gentiles. The Mormon tabernacle seats fifteen thousand. Nearly every protestant denomination has a church there, though greatly hampered. The Mormon religion is similar to ours: repentance and immersion are necessary to proper faith. But they believe there are some sins not atoned for by Christ's death--some that must be blood 'atoned by the individuals themselves. When such a sin is committed, generally some breach of the church faith, the president appoints someone to do the act. The Doctor cited one case where the husband was the appointed. He came home to dinner, took his wife on his lap and while caressing her, drew a razor across her throat and watched her life-blood ebb away. Another wife, getting an inkling that she was to be blood-atoned, hid in a cellar for several weeks until the time of the sentence passed over--entering with hair as black as a raven and coming out with it as white as the driven snow. No woman has a chance for an inheritance beyond unless she is married to an elder of the church. Some of the numerously married men have from forty to sixty children. The wives are mostly quarrelsome among each other and usually scattered, keeping their king busy visiting around. Every member of the church is required to pay tribute of a large portion of their products and valuables yearly, under severe penalty. Numerous convictions are now being made under the Edmunds' bill, and many of the prominent leaders of Mormonism are going into old Mexico, to avoid the law.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

We dropped in on the drill of Company C, Kansas State Militia, at McDougall's hall Friday. The company embraces over fifty of our best young men, and under the training of their Captain, Chas. E. Steuven, one of the best drill masters in the State, are becoming proficient in the manual of arms. They will soon be capable of competing with any of our State companies on dress parade.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

ITCH and Kansas Scratches cured in 30 minutes by Woodford's Sanitary Lotion, warranted by Ed. G. Cole, druggist, Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

"One night last week," faberizes the Geuda Springs Herald, "in the northeast part of Winfield a woman gave birth to a pair of twins. At daylight the tired husband went to get a scuttle of coal and found four newly born kittens in a box, and going to the barn an hour later, he found a young calf, five puppies, and a brood of chickens." And that's nothing startling! Why, such productiveness in Cowley is scarcely worthy of note. Her whole atmosphere is ladened with prolific prolificness. But, dear immigrant, don't get scared over this matter. Come right along. Winfield will soon have thirty thousand inhabitants. Then we'll give productiveness a rest--in domestic affairs. It takes Cowley to knock the highest persimmon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The gravel train on the Fort Scott & Gulf railroad ran over Michael Millaty, a laborer, 7:30 Wednesday morning, mangling and crushing his leg in such a manner that he died almost instantly. He was about forty years old, and is said to have a family in Chicago. Dr. Thompson, the coroner, was telegraphed for, and an inquest held at about 11 o'clock. The jury returned a verdict of accidental killing, with no blame attached.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

It is not difficult to bring a suit for damages. When being examined for admission to the Texas bar, a young man was asked: "What is necessary to administer a will?" "A corpse and some property," was the prompt and satisfactory response. All that is needed to bring suit against a city for physical injuries is a hole in a sidewalk and a lawyer. To get a verdict, or to collect the money, if the verdict calls for a cash disbursement, is quite another matter. A man can ask for any amount. But if he is killed, his widow can only recover a limited sum, and in this is a grave inequality of the law. Take, for instance, the state of New York, where a large number of suits of both kinds are always occupying the attention of the courts. If a fellow is killed outright, the most his widow or heirs and assigns can collect is $5,000. If he simply dislocates his ankle, gets a finger out of joint, loosens a few teeth, or cracks a bone, the matter at once assumes totally different and vastly greater proportions.

Damages are seemingly estimated in the inverse ratio of the injury sustained, assuming for argument's sake that death is the highest possible damage. For example, at the present time a blacksmith is suing his employers for the loss of a single eye, on which he fixes the value of $10,000; a longshoreman charged $5,000 for a pair of broken ribs; a New York lady demands $50,000 for the loss of dignity and other pain caused by sitting down on an icy sidewalk; a number of other people have suits now pending against the city of New York for damages ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 each for every imaginable--and some of them are purely imaginative--injury superinduced by imperfect sidewalks, open coal holes, and similar snares.

It does seem a trifle out of proportion that a life is worth only $5,000- according to the statutes for such cases made and provided, while eyes at $10,000 each, ribs at $2,500 each, and the rest of the inventoried at the same proportion would make a millionaire out of any man who could discover some easy and satisfactory method of dismemberment and sale. As the matter now stands, the whole subject of exemplary cash damages for physical lacerations and losses is a reversal of the old axiom that "the whole must equal the sum of its parts." This is only too plainly and painfully apparent when the figures themselves testify that the left eye of a blacksmith is worth as much as the lives of two members of Congress, two doctors of divinity, or even two editors. Leavenworth Times.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Winfield saw the elephant Friday--in a very different role than ever before, on wheels. If there is anything that does excite admiration in the average heart, it is a view of the elephant, be he white or black. This wonderful, world renowned quadruped proved a splendid drawing card for the rink last night. The building was crowded. At precisely nine o'clock the elephant, accompanied by ring master Cole, entered the arena amid the applause of the audience and rolled around the room as though he had been raised on wheels. Mr. Cole explained that the funnel end of his elephantship was indisposed, nevertheless it was the most unique thing ever presented. He had every appearance of the bona-fide, well-trained article, but our reporter crawled under the canvas of the side-tent just in time to see Merna Pitts and Charley Forgey emerge from the interior of the animal--accounting for its marvelous skill on rollers. The boys also gave an exhibition of trick and team skating, after climbing out of the elephant that was immense. They can't be excelled. Johnnie Hudson and Will McClellan also appeared in the ring in some handsome bicycle riding. Will is just beginning to conquer the wheel, but Johnnie is a thorough champion. His performances last night were equal to any rider that ever struck the west. Altogether, last night's entertainment was one of the best the rink has ever afforded. Lovely music was furnished by the Juvenile Band. The boys are coming right forward. Their new leader, Harry Holbrook, is a thorough musician.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

It has been a long time since the writer has heard a preacher pray for a Democratic president or the success of a Democratic administration, and through the columns of THE DAILY COURIER I would respectfully call the attention of our Winfield preachers to this fact. If our friends could get hold of the Democratic masses, they would reap a great harvest. The writer has been attending church for the past thirty years and though religiously inclined has never joined one. One great reason being because he thought the churches showed a lack of charity for the Democratic party. Although not a church member and in humble circumstances, he has contributed as much as a hundred dollars a year for several years for the erection and support of churches. These words are not written in an idle manner or for the purpose of fun or sarcasm. I am in dead earnest when I say that I believe that if our preachers, who are nearly all Republicans, would practice the christian chastity taught by Christ and Paul, and reach out after the great masses of Democrats who have been driven, either rightfully or wrongfully, from our church, they would set on foot the greatest revival of any age. Allow me to say that the Democratic party is worth saving, and that to be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves is but to obey the Scriptural injunctions. S. P.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The growth of Winfield in the last year is beyond the fondest expectations of all. City Assessor Myers has about completed his rounds. Five thousand, one hundred and one inhabitants! Paste that in your hat where you can look at it often--paste it around in every conspicuous place! And put right under it these words: WINFIELD HAS SIX THOUSAND INHABITANTS. Of course our City Assessor didn't get those individuals who are a part of our legitimate population but go to swell the population of adjoining townships. Walnut has at least five hundred of our legitimate population and Vernon even more, which added to our census gives our correct population, over six thousand. We have 163 foreign born inhabitants and 174 colored. The Wellington papers will no doubt copy this article in full. Wellington's population is 4,447--about 500 less than their census showed last year. Winfield's increase is about fifteen hundred. And still they come! Whoa!!

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Cowley County is certainly a counterpart of the Garden of Eden. The balmy sun of May shines down on a glorious scene. Like a pretty maiden, she is rosy, smiling, and captivating. She is winning new suitors every day, and although she may jilt them occasionally, by some trifling freak, they still look upon her with love ad admiration. Even though some may receive disappointment, the still, like the young lover who had been rejected, look upon her with love and adoration, and envy those who are favorably treated by her. The lover returns to his "first love" at the first opportunity, and winks at her as fondly as before, and at times a little more so. Oh, there's no use talking, she's the belle of the State, and the paradise of the Union. If you live in the muddy, gloomy, drowning east, don't hesitate a day, but sell out your swamp, and come to Cowley where your possessions will make you fifty or seventy-five percent richer the first year. Come along and be happy with us.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

And now it is Mr. and Mrs. George F. Gilbert. George and Mary F. Wilson were last night united in the blissful bonds of matrimony by Rev. B. Kelly, at the groom's home. A very pleasant party of intimate friends were present. We have noticed a matrimonial look on George's visage for some time past. He has our congratulations. In the words of the late lamented Rip Van Winkle, "May you leef long and been happy." George remembered THE DAILY COURIER with an elegant assortment of cake, sandwiched with choice Havanas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Hon. W. P. Hackney, of Winfield, and J. F. Ready, Esq., of Wellington, were here on Monday taking the deposition of Mr. C. G. Kline in the case of Joseph Doniphan vs. the A. T. & S. F. R. R. Co. The case grows out of the fact that Mr. Kline, while a conductor on the road, put the said Doniphan off the train for refusing to put up the necessary collateral to pay his wife's transportation from Wichita to Wellington. Mr. Hackney represents the railroad company and Mr. Ready the plaintiff, Doniphan, who alleges that he has been damaged $6,000 worth. Medicine Lodge Cresset.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

At the Band of Hope meeting Friday afternoon, little Maudie Burk assisted in the exercises, rendering a song and recitation in a manner which won most favorable comment from those present. Maudie is an exceptionally bright and winning child, and under private tuition is advancing rapidly. The mother has tested the bitter of earth--walks in the terrible path described by Soloman; but she exhibits a pride and affection in the proper training of her little girl, that wins the admiration of all.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Santa Fe has some 1,500 men at work on the branch from Waterman, on the Atlantic & Pacific, to Colton, on the Southern Pacific, where it will connect with a branch now in operation to San Diego, and owned by the Santa Fe. This new branch will be completed by September and will be an important line of the great inter-state system, which, now that it has reached the Pacific ocean, will soon be looking for a stopping place on the Atlantic shore.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

R. J. Varnell, proprietor of a meat market and restaurant in Eureka was arrested Tuesday morning, charged with bigamy. The warrant was issued at the instance of Mrs. Susie Varnell, of Manhattan, Kansas. She has in turn been arrested on the same charge by Mrs. Lydia Varnell, of Eureka. Both parties are under arrest, awaiting trial.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The address of Gov. Martin at the celebration at Topeka of the birthday anniversary of U. S. Grant is worthy to be recorded and sent to the people of Kansas. Here it is.

MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: The felicitous occurrence of the birthday of a great American soldier and a great American civic society at the same date, have perhaps for the first time been generally noted within the past week or so. But hereafter, and especially in the distant future, it will afford a happy opportunity for the blending of military and civil celebrations.

The very general and spontaneous celebration of a living man--of a man, too, who occupies no high office, but is simply one of 55,000,000 American citizens--is something unique and remarkable in this country, if indeed it is not in the civilized world.

But everything in the career of Ulysses S. Grant has been phenomenal. For years, during the war, thousands doubted whether he had any military genius. Yet, in every position in which he was placed, he succeeded where others had failed. From Donelson to Vicksburg, from Vicksburg to Chattanooga, from Chattanooga to the Potomac, and from the Potomac to the Appomattox--everywhere, this grave, silent, self-controlled man went, he inspired confidence and organized victory.

He is the only man of our day and generation--perhaps the only man of any age--who has lived to read the judgment of impartial history concerning his career and achievements. The receptions given him, the great honors paid him by princes, potentates, and people in every civilized country during his voyage around the world, voiced the verdict not alone of the present but of the future, concerning Ulysses S. Grant. What the historian who writes a hundred years hence may say of Thomas or Sherman, or Sheridan or Meade, we cannot guess; but what he will say of Grant is determined already by the universal assent of the civilized world.

I have, now and then, heard the cynical sneer: "There is nothing so successful as success," applied to the achievements of Gen. Grant. It was fashionable in some quarters, a few years ago, to refer to him as "an accident of the war." But I believe that to act with common sense at all times and under all circumstances is the very highest and grandest development of human genius. And this was what Gen. Grant, as a soldier, always did. Read his dispatches, his orders, his directions to his subordinates; and through them all, in a strong and steady current, runs the force of an inflexible, well balanced purpose of lofty devotion to duty, of unconquerable courage, of unselfish patriotism, of dignity without arrogance, of patience, confidence, and conviction. If this is not greatness, where has there been a clearer development of the result of greatness?

It is fitting and appropriate, therefore, that this great American citizen should receive, during his life, such honors and such kindly remembrance as the celebrations that are taking place today throughout the length and breadth of the land, give expression to. He has outlived detraction and survived partisan malice and sectional hate. For weeks the whole country has watched, with moistening eyes, the bulletins from his sick room. And now, when a gleam of hope survives and there seems to be a chance that the great soldier may live for years, his countrymen gather by thousands in every hamlet, town, and city throughout the land, and the universal hope and prayer that goes up from their hearts is, "Long live Ulysses S. Grant."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Word was received here by Sheriff McIntire Friday that a murder had just been committed at Elk Falls, and to look out for the murderer. After much trouble THE COURIER succeeded in gathering the following particulars.

The person who did the killing was L. J. Eatherly, and the victim, his father-in-law, J. M. Messmore. It seems that some months ago the young man took several of his father's teams and pocketed the proceeds. His father-in-law replevined the teams, and the person to whom he sold them had him arrested and sent to jail. A few days ago he got out and went to the house of his father-in-law to see his wife. After the visit he left and soon returned again when the father-in-law ordered him away. This incensed him and he placed a revolver to the old gentleman's head and blew his brains out. The murder was committed about half-past eight o'clock last evening. Eatherly is six feet in height, has long burnsides and moustache of sandy color, thirty years old, and had on a dark suit of clothes, intermixed with yellow and green; gray overcoat and broad brimmed, wooly, white hat. He is supposed to have come this way.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Yesterday was ushered in and out amid the tears of heaven, sandwiched with as glorious sunshine as ever gladdened the path of humanity. After the morning shower Old Sol stepped out and threw his radiance in splendor o'er the whole landscape, making all nature buoyant with gladness. Amid such surroundings none could subdue worshipful spirit and all journeyed church ward. But in the evening the storm cloud hovered o'er the earth, the vivid lightnings flashed, and the very damp dampness came upon all, disappointing those ministers who had prepared grand sermons for grand congregations. But the morning hour for worship was perfect and the congregation at

was large and unusually appreciative; in fact, the sermon was worthy of unusual appreciation, one of the most powerful that has yet fallen from a Winfield pulpit. The exercises were opened with most appropriate music by the choir, after which the following announcements were made by the pastor: Miss Nellie Brown's lecture under auspices of the Woman's Relief corps on the 7th, at the Opera House. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will meet at Mrs. Garlick's Tuesday at three p.m.; services next Sabbath as usual. The pastor prayed earnestly for the president of the nation and all under him in authority--for the Democratic party. Dr. Kirkwood then handled the subject of charity in a masterly manner; text, first Cor. xiii:1-2-3. . . [SKIPPED SERMONS MENTIONED FOR EACH CHURCH.].

The Sabbath school was held at its usual hour, 10 o'clock, with a very good attendance. The regular prayer meeting for Wednesday evening was announced. Also the public reading in the Opera House Thursday evening by Miss Nellie F. Brown, an elocutionist of Boston, under the auspices of the Woman's Relief corps. The pulpit was filled by Rev. O. W. Jones, in charge at Wichita. The pastor, Rev. Snyder, was also present, having been disappointed in his contemplated trip last week to Ohio. He will not go now until May 11th. . .

In the absence of Elder Myers, who is at Wellington assisting in the services there, the pulpit at the Christian church was again filled by Elder Clay. . . . Elder Clay is a young man of much promise, and the Wellington people are fortunate in securing him. The Ladies' Aid Society of the church meets Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Dr. Tandy.

Rev. Dr. Fisher filled Rev. Kelly's pulpit yesterday. The church was well filled. The music, both vocal and instrumental, was as usual, excellent. The opening selection was especially fine. The first lesson ready by Rev. Kelly from the 53rd chapter of Isaiah, was one of the most beautiful passages of God's word. After a fervent prayer by Rev. Kelly, in which he invoked God's blessing upon our President, his counselors and all others, the chant of the Lord's Prayer was sung. The following announcements were made: The Ladies Aid Society will meet next Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m., with Sister Hilton Jennings; the Sabbath school, this afternoon, at 3 p.m.; the Young People's meeting Thursday night at 7:45; class meeting next Sabbath, Bros. Jennings and Berkey, leaders; Miss Nellie Brown will give a reading at the Opera House Thursday evening, under the auspices of the Ladies Relief Society of the G. A. R.; Dr. J. B. Ford, of Independence, will exchange with Rev. Kelly next Sabbath; an official meeting will be held next Friday evening; all members are requested to be present; the trustees of the church will meet Monday afternoon at 4 p.m., at the First National Bank in regard to business of re-seating this church. Dr. Fisher presented one of the most touching discourses we have had the pleasure of listening to for years. The congregation were spell-bound, many being moved to tears. Such a discourse is a rare treat. . . .

At the close of the sermon Rev. Kelly made some appropriate remarks. Mr. and Mrs. Jameson and Mrs. Shaw united themselves with the church by letter.

Morning lesson 38 verses from John, 4th chapter, subject, "The Woman of Samaria at Jacob's Well." After reading the lesson the Pastor, Rev. Reider, offered a very fervent prayer, after which the choir rendered some beautiful music with their usual ability. Following this the usual announcements, including the subject for the evening's discourse. . . .

Owing to the storm and small audience, the discourse announced for the evening was postponed to next Sunday, and the Pastor preached on the subject of "Love to God and Divine approval."

[I have had a tough time trying to figure out why the following article appeared on the front page of Courier. Like so many issues during this time span, it was filled with errors in spelling, etc. Further, it appears that the entire article was not given. MAW]

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The advanced position the young State of Kansas is taking in matters pertaining to the education of her people, the excellent school system--the immoralities filtrated from the commonwealth by the inauguration of an advanced political system are just occasions for pride and emulation. It is wise and commendable to look well to the qualification of those who are to occupy the position of teachers and instructors of the young. It is not only important but it is essential to success, in training and disciplining the intellect and morals of the young of our country, that the standard of qualification be high and exacting. While this is commendable, wise, and just, the applicant for the high position of teacher should have a just and fair opportunity to vindicate his capability and fitness for the high position in the examination by which his qualification is tested. The answers returned to the several questions, in the various branches to be taught, are to decide his fitness. That being so, it is but just to the applicant that the question propounded should be pertinent, clearly stated, and free from ambiguity so there can be no misapprehension of its intent and boundry. The questions should admit of an answer, positive, and unequivocal. If the question is itself, an absurdity, the applicant should not be held responsible for an absurd answer. Looking over the questions submitted by the State Superintendent, correct answers to which is the test of fitness, we find the following.

"Name, locate and give function of each of the five principal cavities of the body." This question does not admit of an intelligent or rational answer. It is itself an absurdity too preposterous to be seriously propounded with any view to answer. A cavity is not a thing per se, but the absence of anything, a space enclosed by a wall or structure, which exists only relatively. It is a state or condition, not a thing. Since nothingness so far as we know can express no activity, so nothingness can have no function. The function of an organ is the work it does--the action it performs. An answer to this question would be in parallelism to the answer of an Indian when asked how guns were made. He said the white man took a hole and ran iron around it. A hole could as easily be taken and utilized for constructing gun barrels as to perform functions in the body. The organs enclosing cavities may perform functions, but cavities as yet have shown no inclination to function. How must the applicant answer this question to win, and how must he answer to lose? When this question has served its purpose and performed its function upon the pedagogue, and he writhes only in remembrance of it and his destiny by virtue of the answer he returned, will the State Superintendent please perform the trick publicly that we all may know how and with what cavities perform functions.

Question 4th: "Trace a particle of sugar from the mouth to the left hand, naming the various divisions of the digestive and circulatory tracts through which it passes." Like the old philosopher when asked to explain why dropping bullets into a cup brim full of water did not run the water over, he is said to have answered because it does. So this question wants to be answered. You cannot trace a particle of sugar from the mouth to the left hand because it takes no such course. Sugar taken into the mouth, thence to the stomach, never enters the system as sugar at all. It is decomposed and loses all traces of sugar long before it enters the circulation. What sugar the blood contains is secreted by the liver, and it secretes sugar irrespective of any saccharine food taken into the stomach. How the applicant is to answer this question to win and how to lose, we hope our Superintendent will answer after it has served the purpose upon the pedagogue. We are pleased to see most of the questions are pertinent and to the point, and on the whole are well taken.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

I came into Cowley County and Winfield on Thursday, looking after the interests of fish culture and propagation, and on investigation, I find that there are a large number of persons who are engaged from time to time in catching fish in the Walnut and other streams, by the use of seines, nets, and various other devices other than with the hook. Now I wish to say to all persons who have been thus engaged, that it is in plain violation of law, which forbids the catching of fish in the state of Kansas with a seine or net of any kind, during the months of "April, May, and June," and all persons who so engage, are subject to a severe penalty, and it is my intention to see that the law in this particular shall be strictly enforced hereafter, and I call on all law-abiding citizens to desist from the violation of this law, and to assist in its enforcement, by reporting its violators to your county attorney, whose duty it is to prosecute all offenders. This law applies to all the waters of the state, whether the Walnut, the Arkansas, or any other stream. Especial complaint has been made of the extensive violation of this law along the Walnut, below Searing & Mead's mill. Now, I want to say in all kindness that those parties must desist from this continued violation of the law at their peril. I wish to further say that after the owners of mill dams put in fishways (which they have all agreed to do) it is absolutely a violation of law to take fish with a seine or not within eighty rods of a fishway at any season of the year; and parties so violating the law are liable to be arrested and fined on the information of any citizen. Before closing, I desire to express my appreciation of the kindness which has been shown me since coming into your beautiful city and especially to your fish association, through their representatives, Messrs. Q. A. Glass and V. R. Bartlett. Persons desiring any information on this subject will be cheerfully answered by addressing me at Wamego, Kansas. S. FEE, Kansas State Fish Commissioner.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The following are the real estate transfers for Saturday as taken from the Records of the Register's office.

M. J. Hawkins to John G. Hiatt, e ½ n e ¼ sec 9, and n ½ n w ¼ of 10-37-8, 160 acres. $1,200.

Joseph Hedge et ux to S. I. Steams, 480 acres in 33-31-7 and 4-32-7. $2,500.

P. W. Zook to Millie Zook, lots 10, 11, 12, block 10, Manning's addition to Winfield. $1.00.

Frank J. Hess and wife to D. J. Murphy, lots 5 and 6, blk 30, Arkansas City. $700.

C. H. Searing to F. J. Hess, lot 6, blk 87, Arkansas City. $1.00

Wm. L. Aldridge to R. B. Norton, lots 18, 19 and 20, blk 52, Arkansas City. $450.

W. H. Booth, ex ux to Wm. Brown, lot [?], blk 3, Dexter. $75.

L. E. White to L. D. Hulse, s ½ ne ¼ 3-31-6, 80 acres. $1,000.

Frank J. Hess to Julia E. Searing, lot 6, blk 87, Ark. City. $1.00.

J. N. Fleeharty ex ux to M. H. Tipton, tract n w ¼ of 15-34-5. $2,500.

M. M. Tipton and wife to J. N. Fleeharty, tract n w ¼ 15-34-5. $200.

H. Correll to James Moore, e ½ of s e ¼, 1-33-7 e and lot 27, 6-33-8, 135 acres. $750.

E. H. Albert to G. W. Savage, s ½ of s w ¼ and s w ¼ of 25-30-7 e, 120 acres. $500.

T. A. Bickett to J. A. Bickett, lot 17 blk 202 Andrews ad. to Winfield. $65.00

Helen M. Atwood to L. H. Braden, lot 1 blk 164, Leonard's ad. to Ark City. $300.

Fannie A. Skinner to Mary A. Hess, 15 lots in block 59, Ark City. $750.

A. B. Rockwell to H. M. Atwood, 3 lots in blk 60, Ark City. $400.

Martha J. Edward, F. Fisher to Susanah Lewis, lots 8 and 9, block 198, Winfield. $700.

Willis Smith ex ux to J. W. Whitson, lots 7, 8 and 9 in blk 23, Smith's ad. to Udall. $90.

E. Fisher to E. M. Hertzler, lot 5 block 178, Loomis add to Winfield. $215.

Valentine Morris to H. C. Knox, ½ of the n ½ of n w ¼. 10-34-4 e, 2 ½ acres. $2,500.

A. B. Standiford ex ux to J. D. Parkinson, n e ¼ 6-34-4. $1,600.

New Salem Town Co. to J. P. Gardner, lots 16 and 17, blk 13, New Salem. $50.

J. C. Circle to M. A. Circle n ½ of s e ¼, 22-32-3 e Vernon tp. $750.

J. Swarts and husband to A. Weir, lots 6, 7 and 8 blk 192, Swarts add Arkansas City. $28.50.

Flora M. Austin and Husband to Valentine Berkey, lots 1, 2 and 3, blk 139, Ark City. $300.

John Alexander et ux to V. Berkey, lots 19 and 20, blk 130, Ark City. $200.

C. A. Baker to J. C. Duncan, lots 21 and 22, blk 139, Ark City. $1,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Henry R. Burgess, for a number of years captain of police at St. Louis, died of heart disease at Baxter Springs Thursday noon. He was going home to dinner and dropped dead just as he reached the door.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The St. Johnites will undoubtedly take great pleasure in the recent appointment of Jacob Mueller as consul general at Frankfort. Mr. Mueller was one of the bitterest anti-temperance men in Ohio, and was president of the State Liquor Dealers' association.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

It is reassuring to be informed that the negotiations for more adequate extradition relations between this country and Canada are progressing satisfactorily, and are likely to be soon completed. The dominion will cease to be an embezzler's paradise when this is done.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Pittsburg trunk horror seems to be as mysterious as the late trunk mystery of St. Louis. If this thing of packing up "subjects" in trunks continues, everything bigger than a lady's reticule will become objects for inspection on all lines of travel and at all hotels.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Prof. H. Snow, of the State University, furnishes us his tabulated statement of rain fall. The rain fall in the month of April just past was 5.72 inches, being greater than for eighteen years. 1884 comes next with 5.62 inches. The lowest was in 1870, being 1.08 inches.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mr. Sittig, the obnoxious member of the Illinois legislature, announces that he is going to New Orleans, as he is paired with a recently deceased member and does not care to vote on any question that may come before the legislature. New Orleans malaria or yellow fever has a better opportunity to do the country a great service.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Czar has evidently determined that, so far as titles are concerned, he will keep fully abreast with the English sovereign in Asia. He will soon be crowned as emperor of Central Asia with magnificent ceremony. Between the emperor of Central Asia and the empress of Indian, Asia promises to be a much governed country.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Miqúel's experiments have shown that the number of microbes in the air was always proportionate to the density of population. In a Society of Arts lecture, Dr. Poor has asserted that epidemic influenza is certainly due to an aerial poison, and that since the discovery of the bacillus of phthisis, consumption must be regarded as an infective disorder.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

"Crotalism" is the name given to a new disease now affecting the horses and cattle in Iowa and other western States where is found growing the wild pea or rattlebox. Prof. M. Stalker, of Ames, Iowa, has been experimenting with the plant on horses, and finds it a virulent poison, affecting the liver, stomach, and brain. Many thousands of horses have died, as it is supposed, from eating the plant.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

During the violent storm last Thursday, Mrs. Nancy Estes, living in the eastern part of Johnson County in this state, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. She was passing from the barn to the house during an intermission of rain, and in plain sight of her family when she fell. The gold eye glasses worn by her were melted and the shoes torn from her feet. The same lady was struck by lightning once before, sustaining a very severe shock. Mrs. Estes was 75 years of age and leaves a family.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

V. P. Richmond, before the Illinois Wool-Growers' Association, said: "I am satisfied that the free use of sulphur will prevent, if not cure, the scab in sheep. Two flocks of sheep on farms adjoining mine were badly gone with the scab, and several times for the past three or four years, a scabby sheep would occasionally be with mine, and I did not then, and never did, have scabby sheep. While these scabby flocks were near me, and for two or three years after, I fed freely of sulphur. Should I ever have scabby sheep, I would use sulphur freely inside and outside before trying any other remedy."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Out of thirty-two young men of New York City who were examined last week for West Point cadetships, only nine were accepted as physically sound. Such a note might well make the young men of our cities pause for a moments thought. No man who violates the laws of health can long have a healthy body. How few there are who do not study fashion and humor appetite more than they do the laws that pertain to a healthy body. Beer, the cigarette, too much amusement, and the hidden vices are making havoc with the physical manhood of all our towns and cities.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The WINFIELD COURIER has on foot "something that will astonish the newspaper fraternity along the border," and the Telegram advertises that it has now a large dose of paralysis which it proposed to turn loose to wither, blight, and astonish, etc. Meanwhile the "fraternity" can only watch, and pray, that Bros. Millington and Black are not going to have a slugging match, or even spur for points. Hurry up, and end our suspense. Sedan Times.

Hold, brethren, the suspense must continue yet a little while. These surprises are in training and in time will burst upon your fevered vision like an Aurora Borealis in June.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Says the Rev. Mr. Gifford, of Boston: "People go to skating rinks for pleasure. That is enough to condemn them." To which the Milwaukee Sentinel adds: "Of course it is. People are not put into this vale of tears to have pleasure. We are all miserable sinners, who are here for a brief probationary period to try and fit ourselves for eternal gloom. Satan inspires us even as children to romp and play and have pleasure--and later we find pleasure in a thousand ways with the entire approval of our perverted consciences--in the songs of birds, the brightness and sweetness of flowers, in the warm sunshine, in the laughter of children, in music and art. It's a bad world, and, except a few lonely souls who never smile, we are all in a bad lot."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

All Americans will rejoice that the Niagara Park reservation bill, so long pending in the New York legislature, has become a law. The great cataract and the wild gorge below are the possession and pride of the nation, although held in trust by one state. It is no longer possible to prevent the river banks from Chippewa to Lewiston in primeval ruggedness; but there is little temptation to encroach on the edges of the gorge, where the principal offender is the peripatetic painter of sign advertisements. The bill signed by Gov. Hill sets apart 188 acres in the immediate vicinity of the falls, including Goat Island and all the smaller islands adjacent, and a strip of land on and below the cliff to the river's edge, and embracing all the points from which the cataract is visible. When the state enters into full possession of the land it will be kept, as far as possible, in its natural condition, and tolls and disfiguring adjuncts, now so conspicuous, will be abolished. With the destruction of the system of plunder so long and successfully practiced upon tourists may come a rehabilitation of Niagara as a summer resort. A more delightful spot never fell into the hands of thieves and extortionists.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Complaints have been made of an article in THE DAILY COURIER in relation to the licensing of Frank Manny to manufacture beer for the excepted purposes. That article was not written by us and did not express our sentiments. In the rush connected with the work of making a live daily paper, and while our work was new to us and unsystematized, the article got in without our noticing it until our attention was called to it after the edition had been circulated.

While we are friendly to Frank Manny, personally, and sympathize with him in his heavy losses consequent upon the prohibitory law changing his business, which was legitimate, into an illegitimate business; while we have desired that he should strictly obey the law and that the State should remunerate him for his losses, we have not desired that he should be licensed to manufacture beer for any purpose and do not desire that he should escape the penalty of any violation of the law.

We do not doubt that he has persistently violated the prohibitory law, as is alleged, and we have no good reason to believe that he has become a supporter of the law and will cease to violate it. The issue to him of a permit to manufacture for any purpose would furnish him with a cover under which he could violate the law with much greater safety and would serve as a kind of shield against prosecutions for its violation. We do not believe that anyone can afford to run a brewery in this county or would attempt it if he believed that its products would be in demand only for legitimate purposes. We are not aware that beer is made for mechanical and scientific purposes at all, and are confident that the amount needed for medicinal purposes in this whole surrounding country would not pay for running a brewery though the brewer should receive a hundred dollars per gallon for the beer actually used for this purpose. The desire to run a brewery therefore presupposes that the druggists of Winfield and surrounding country are going to grossly violate the law, are going to sell immense quantities of beer for a beverage, under the pretense that it is for medical purposes, and that the object of running the brewery is to supply and help such law-breakers. It is boldly urged that the druggists are going to sell enormous quantities of beer in violation of law; that they are going to make retail liquor stores or low doggeries of their drug stores, and are going to be supplied by breweries in other States through the railroads and express offices unless the beer is manufactured here; and it is argued that we ought to build up manufactures in our own midst instead of building up the manufactures of other States; that the brewery here would make a home market for our farmers' corn; make a demand for labor and all sorts of merchandise, and would help the boom that citizens are talking of for Winfield and Cowley County. This is all bosh. The benefits to this city and county could be all put in your eye without any inconvenience, while the evils would ruin thousands of eyes. We might as well argue that the small-pox is going to prevail in this vicinity, anyhow; that people of other States are going to send it in and make money out of it, anyhow, and we might better manufacture our own small-pox and get the profits of it.

But we do not believe that all these anticipations of profit to the druggists are going to "pan out." We believe that under the law we have the means to fine druggists who violate the law heavily, send them to jail for a few months, and to shut up their shops as nuisances, and we believe we have the officers of the law who will see that the law is enforced against all recalcitrant druggists, express companies, and all others. We believe there are parties in this county now who will find the temperature too hot for their constitutions in a short time. The signs of the times portend a hot time for beer and whiskey venders, however slyly they ply their trade. If the experience of this summer and fall shall show that the law is anyway lame in regard to drug stores, transportation companies, and pocket bummers, the extra session of the legislature next winter will supply the deficiency. The people of the State have shown that they mean business in this matter, and our present legislature have shown that they understand what the people want, and are determined to supply these wants in the most effective manner known to them. And they will do it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Dr. Phillip Krohn, of Atchison, one of the State temperance organizers, delivered a speech at Leavenworth Saturday evening pursuant to an appointment previously made. The court room in which the meeting was held was packed by the saloon people and their friends to the exclusion of all other classes. The temperance people, in particular, were crowded out, not over a dozen being able to gain admission to the room. The crowd began to show signs of disorder early in the meeting, and the doctor's appearance was greeted by hisses and threats, but he was not deterred. He delivered his speech according to program and handled his subject and the mob, which composed his audience, with his accustomed fearlessness. After the meeting Dr. Krohn attempted to leave the room by the main exit, but was prevented, and then tried a side door when he was assaulted from behind by a ruffian named Julius Haug, who struck the doctor with his fist. Police Judge Stinson here interrupted and arrested Haug, and Dr. Krohn escaped to the sidewalk. Haug afterward, by the assistance of two confederates, escaped from Stinson and the three followed Dr. Krohn to renew the attack; but the plucky preacher stood them off. A meeting had been arranged to be held at the Baptist church in the evening but a committee from an organization known as the "Leavenworth Legion," notified the trustees of the church that the church building would be in danger of destruction if Dr. Krohn were allowed to speak, and the project was accordingly abandoned until some future occasion. The action of the whiskey people is denounced by all good citizens of Leavenworth, as one of the strong citadels of the anti-prohibitionists, their intemperate and violent action at Saturday's meeting, and the brutal and cowardly assault upon Dr. Krohn, have done a great deal toward solidifying the rapidly changing sentiment of the community in favor of the enforcement of the law.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

We notice that there are seventy-five copies of the Chicago Weekly Inter-Ocean delivered to subscribers at the Winfield postoffice. Now that Carter Harrison is going to make the Inter-Ocean pay him eight hundred thousand dollars for damaging his character by calling him the consort of thieves and gamblers, we are glad that it has so good a circulation to help it out. It was a pity that good Carter's character, which was so pure and radiant, so benevolent that everybody believed he protected the unfortunate thieves, gamblers, thugs, and ballot-box stuffers, who always voted for him against unjust persecution, should be damaged to that extent by that wicked Inter-Ocean saying that he consorted with these same friends and supporters.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Sound moves through the air at the rate of 1,142 feet in a second, say a mile in five seconds, twelve miles a minute, 720 miles an hour, 17,280 miles in twenty-four hours, and yet the sound of Cleveland's voice in the appointment of our friend Sam Gilbert to the Wichita land office has not reached him, though it should have been on the way thirty days ago. It must have Dyered out.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Right Reverend Bishop Gilmour, Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the many eminent church dignitaries who have publicly added their emphatic endorsement to the wonderful efficacy of St. Jacobs Oil in cases of rheumatism and other painful ailments.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

THE DAILY COURIER was the first paper in Kansas to publish an account of the Elk Falls murder of Friday night. THE DAILY always "gets there."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Since the President has evinced a disposition to take his own time in the matter of the decapitation of postmasters whose terms have not expired, except in cases where there is good cause for prompt action, the hungry applicants have been hunting for cause against the incumbents all over the country, and it is said that the department is already loaded down with cords and cords of charges against postmasters. It is reported that there is in Winfield a crude newcomer who has been here a few months and who expects to be appointed postmaster through the powerful influence of his friends in Kentucky, who, he supposes, will be able to control the Kansas appointments. We never heard of this person until we were told he was an applicant for the post-office, and do not know that we have ever yet seen him, so we know nothing of his qualifications, but it is reported that his Kentucky friends have advised him to drum up charges against the postmaster and send to the department, and that he has done that same thing. We presume that these charges will never be read at the department, and that long before they can be reached, George Rembaugh will be postmaster of Winfield. We have no idea that Kentucky statesmen will have any influence in the appointment of Kansas postmasters, or if they did, that they would take any special interest in the Winfield applicant. Probably not one of them really cares a cent about the applicant except to answer his letters courteously and encouragingly and then forget him. The Winfield Democrats have expressed a preference for George Rembaugh and have agreed to support him, and we conclude that their wish will settle the matter as to what Democrat shall receive the appointment.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The New York Commercial and Financial Chronicle, in reviewing the annual report recently issued of the A. T. & S. F. railroad says of the development of that great system:

"If there is one feature above any other distinguishing the Atchison, it is the marvelous success that has attended its development. From an experiment in an untried field--for such it was at the outset--it quickly attained a degree of prosperity almost unexampled. The end of 1878 found it with a mileage of only 868 miles, and gross earnings less than four millions, and net earnings less than two millions. Its founded debt was $14,175,000 and its stock was but $8,615,000, with nothing being paid upon it. At the end of 1884--six years after--we see it operating directly 2,375 miles, not including the Sonora system or roads owned jointly with other companies, or the Atlantic & Pacific, which, if all were added, would give a mileage of 3,600 miles; and on the 2,375 miles directly operated, the gross earnings were $16,294,883, and the net $7,314,907. The funded debt on the same mileage was $16,144,500, and the company had $56,913,250 stock outstanding on which 6 percent dividends were being regularly paid. Could there be any better evidence of a healthy, prosperous growth than this? This field operations, of course, have been enlarged, and from being a purely Kansas road it has been practically extended to the Pacific ocean. An interesting point in connection with the Atchison's growth of earnings is the fact, that, like other roads, it has made its gains despite a constant decline in the rates received. Thus in 1880 the average rate per ton per mile was 2.431 cents; in 1884 it was only 1.882 cents, a falling off of nearly one-quarter. In the same interval the average rate per passenger per mile declined from 3.347 cents to 2.648 cents.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Emporia New's special from New Orleans says: Our dearly beloved state is still in the van. Kansas again heads the procession and carries off the banner prizes at the World's exposition. An array of premiums which makes every Kansas heart swell with joy and pride has been won by the great "Sunflower" State. Our products have paralyzed the less fortunate inhabitants of other States, and indeed have beaten the world. Read the record the awarding committee has given: Kansas, the first premium on white corn; the first on yellow. And the jury afterwards recommended that in addition to the above premiums a gold medal be given Kansas for the best corn in the world. Listen, again! Kansas is awarded the first premium on winter wheat; the first premium on flour by graduated process was awarded to Bliss & Wood, of Winfield, and the first on flour by the old process to Pierson Bros., of Lawrence. The Franklin County sugar works captured the first premium on sorghum sugar; the Rice County works, second on sorghum and amber cane sugars, after a hot contest by the middle and northwestern States. Kansas received the first premium for the best hundred varieties of apples. The State, it is known, duly received ten first and two second premiums on short horn cattle and the first premium on polled-Angus to Arren of Nemaha. Kansas takes sixty-five miscellaneous first and second premiums besides, all this in the face of great odds. While the Kansas legislature appropriated for the display but seven thousand dollars, Dakota gave thirty thousand, Illinois twenty, Nebraska twenty, Ohio thirty, Indiana thirty, Iowa twenty-five, Minnesota thirty, Wisconsin twenty, Texas, California, and New York fifty each and still we lead them all. Kansas men here feel as if they were the cream of the earth and are treated that way too. Commissioner Bacon is as happy as a clam at extraordinary high tide, and through him the people are doing Kansas proud. Mr. Bacon was serenaded and Kansas given sweet words till you couldn't rest. The exposition attendance yesterday was the largest yet known, estimated at from 40,000 to 60,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A DAILY COURIER reporter dropped on the camp of the followers of Couch at Arkansas City the other day, to find that the boomers have nearly all picked up their beds and walked--some of them to sorrowful homes, others to the west where there is "land for the landless and homes for the homeless," with no blue coats or Democratic President to molest or make afraid. Their camping ground is a dilapidated vacuum--only here and there a forlorn looking tent and sad-eyed boomer. But Spartacus Couch is there. Oh, yes, and protests against the report that any of the boomers have disbanded in lasting disgust. They're ready to return at my beckon, says he. If they haven't gone, as indicated, where the woodbine twineth, the lion roareth, the whangdoodle mourneth, and boomers fail to boometh, then the fool-killer certainly should shoulder his meat-ax and stalk among them with a gory determination. This hankerin' after "Injin" land must be squelched--and the hanker is squelching itself.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Opening a new and wonderful vista of the most magnificent features of the show world.

In its entirety the most complete on earth, embodying in its overpowering unity many great shows coalesced in one, each separately forming a grand show in itself, while all combined completes the grandest of amusement enterprises. Four to six acts at one and the same time, equestrian, gymnastic, acrobatic, contortionistic, aerial and athletic, executed by a collection of the world's very best artists. Two hundred in number, radiant with such names as

MR. JAMES ROBINSON, The most fearless, dashing and daring bareback rider in the world, whose name has been sounded in both hemispheres by the trumpet-tongue of Fame.

MISS EMMA LAKE, A most graceful and charming lady equestrian, whose performances in the side-saddle on the backs of her trained steeds are actually a poem in motion.

ANDY SWEENEY, The Hercules of the arena.

MR. ROBERT STICKNEY, The most intrepid, courageous and marvelous sachem of the saddle, general athlete and versatile artist living.

PRIMROSE & PRICKETT, High trapezists and their 20 double somersaultists.

MISS VIOLA RIVERS, The equestrian juggler. A charming and beautiful lady rider, who is a perfect model of excellence in aesthetic equestrianism.

GEO. ZURELLA & EMMA DU BOIS, High wire bicycle artists.

PROF. JOSEPH BERRES, And his wonderful dog circus.

MR. JAMES STOW, Equestrian director and wonderful horse rider.

BRAZIL BROTHERS, Wonderful acrobats.

LEOPOLD BROTHERS, Acrobats and gymnasts.

FRANK ASHTON & MDE. TUONSHA, Aerial ring artists.

In general athletic and calisthenic exercises, forming a constellation of bright stars greater than the united strength of any ten shows in America.

Under the immediate supervision of Prince Ko-Kin-Seg-A-WAO, by permission of the Mikado, consisting of various troupes of Japanese Artists, in sword-walking, balancing and equilibriumistic feats, unequaled anywhere in the world. The only

ever exhibited. The ebon-hued feline wonders of the world. Group of graceful Giraffes. The only giant two-horned Sumatran Rhinoceros ever seen. Whole herds, droves, dens, cages, lairs and vans of Wild Animals. Whole troupes of first class performers. A circus of trained animals, a world of wild ones. While towering above all, and overshadowing the greatest of animated nature stands the giant elephant, Xerxes, whose weight exceeds ten tons, and who carries a band of twenty musicians upon his massive back. Droves of trained zebras, camels, hyenas, dromedaries and a host of others too numerous to mention. Showing a degree of intelligence that is perfectly startling. A monster Arabian Circus and a complete Western wilderness show.

Our grand street pageant, a world of splendor, wonder and sweet sounds. Grand, dazzling and bewilderingly beautiful, many bands of music, many golden chariots, cars and cages. A whole menagerie of wild animals open in the streets.

One ticket admits to all of our entire show. Excursions on all railroads at reduced rates.

Do not miss it!

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Spring has come at last and the public, as usual, are coming to the Headquarters for Clothing, as we are selling at prices to suit the times.

to attract patrons. Our representations are uniformly reliable; as we hold the confidence of the public, our word is a sufficient guarantee. Old customers ask nothing else. We conduct our business on a broad gauge plan. Our prices are beyond compare with any other house.

You should see these suits to appreciate the prices. Special drives in Child's Suits. Our single pant stock is very complete. Nice goods at prices that will please you. In fact everything in our house at fully 20 percent less than any other can or will sell you same quality of goods. Our $2.75 fine Dress Boot still keeps the lead. Solid sole leather counter and insole you know. Full line of Men's, Boys' and Children's

Wedding and fine dress suits a specialty. You are invited to inspect our new stock in the best arranged and best lighted clothing store in the State. Call for any articles named in this ad and you will be shown them. Thanking the public for the liberal patronage of the past, I remain

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

My stock of Fly Nets and Dusters is unexcelled, either in quantity, quality or price. The famous "Lace Leather" Net, for work teams, cheap, and lasts forever. It is made of oil-tanned calfskin and gives universal satisfaction.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

To all persons owning lands on the line of the Kansas City and Southwestern Railroad Company, as the same is now or may be located through the County of Cowley, in the State of Kansas.

You and each of you, are hereby notified that the undersigned Board of County Commissioners of Cowley County, in the state of Kansas, will on the 8th of June, A. D. 1885, on the north line of section number six (6) in township number (80) south of range number seven (7) east in Cowley County, Kansas, where the line of said railroad enters said section, commence and from day to day (Sundays excepted), proceed southwesterly along the line of said road, through the townships of Harvey, Omnia, Richland, Fairview and Walnut in said county to the city of Winfield in said county and thence to the city of Arkansas City in said county, and thence in a southwesterly direction to the south line of said county, and lay off a route for said railroad, and appraise the value of the land taken from each quarter section or lot of land through and over which said line of railroad is now or may be located in said county, and assess and adjudge the damages to each quarter section or lot of land through and over which said line of railroad is now or may be located in said county.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

WHEREAS, on the 5th day of May, A. D. 1885, at a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Cowley, State of Kansas, the following, among other proceedings, were had by and before said Board of Commissioners and duly entered of record on the journal of their proceedings of that day, to-wit;

"In the matter of the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic Railway:

Now on this 5th day of May, A. D. 1885, at a session of the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Cowley, State of Kansas, duly holden at the Court House in the City of Winfield, in said county, present, S. C. Smith, chairman, Amos Walton and J. A. Irwin, members of said Board, and J. S. Hunt, county clerk, comes J. Wade McDonald, attorney for the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic railway; and presents to the said Board the petition of J. M. Barrick and seventy-eight other resident tax payers of the municipal township of Fairview, of said county of Cowley, praying that a special election be called for the purpose of submitting to the voters of said township a proposition for said township to subscribe to the capital stock of the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic railway, to the amount of ten thousand (10,000) dollars, and to issue the bonds of said township in the sum of ten thousand (10,000) dollars in payment for said stock upon the terms and conditions in said petition mentioned and provided for; said petition being in the words and figures following, to-wit;

To the Honorable Board of County Commissioners of Cowley County, Kansas.

We, the undersigned petitioners, resident taxpayers of Fairview township, in Cowley County, respectfully ask that you submit to the qualified electors of said township, at a special election to be called for that purpose, the following proposition, to-wit;

Shall the Board of County Commissioners of Cowley County order the County Clerk, for and in behalf of said township, to subscribe for twenty shares of $500 each of the capital stock of the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic Railway, in accordance with the laws of the State of Kansas, and in payment therefor issue the bonds of said township, running thirty years, bearing six percent interest, payable semi-annually, redeemable after ten years, at the will of said township, provided said township shall give one year's notice to the Fiscal Agency of the State of Kansas at New York City, of their election to call any of said bonds, upon the following conditions, namely;

When the roadbed of said railway is built and track laid, of standard gauge, and cars running thereon, from a connection with the Missouri Pacific, or the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf, or the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad, through said township, with a suitable depot and side track sufficient to accommodate the business, located at the most convenient and practicable point in said township, the bonds of said township, to the amount of $10,000 shall be delivered to said railway, upon the delivery by said railway to the County Treasurer of twenty shares, of five hundred dollars each, of the full paid capital stock of the said railway, issued for and in the name of said township.

Unless said road shall be completed as aforesaid, within two years from the time of voting said bonds, said railway shall forfeit all right to said township bonds.

The form of ballot to be used at such election shall be as follows: "For the subscription to stock and issue of bonds to the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Railway;" and "Against the subscription to stock and issue of bonds to the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Railway."

And your petitioners will ever pray.

And said Board of County Commissioners having duly heard, examined and considered said petition together, with the evidence in support thereof, doth find that said petition is in writing and is signed by more than two-fifths of the resident tax-payers of said township, and it is in all respects according to, and sufficient in law. It is therefore ordered by the Board of County Commissioners, of the county of Cowley, State of Kansas, that a special election be held in the municipal township of Fairview, of said county, on Wednesday, the 10th day of June, A. D. 1885, and that thirty days notice be given by the Sheriff of said county, by publication in THE WINFIELD COURIER, a weekly newspaper printed and published at the city of Winfield, in the said county of Cowley, and of general circulation in the township of Fairview, for the determination by the qualified electors of said township, of the following proposition, to-wit;

Shall the board of County Commissioners of Cowley County order the County Clerk, for and in behalf of said township, to subscribe for twenty shares of $500 each of the capital stock of the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Railway, in accordance with the laws of the State of Kansas, and in payment therefor, issue the bonds of said township, running thirty years, bearing six percent interest, payable semi-annually, redeemed after ten years, at the will of said township, provided said township shall give one years notice to the Fiscal Agency of the State of Kansas at New York City of their election to call any of said bonds, upon the following conditions, namely;

When the roadbed of said railway is built and track laid, of standard gauge, and cars running thereon, from a connection with the Missouri Pacific, or the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf, or St. Louis, Fort Scott and Wichita Railroad, through said township, with a suitable depot and side track sufficient to accommodate the business, located at the most convenient and practicable point in said township, the bonds of said township, to the amount of $10,000 shall be delivered to said railroad, upon the delivery by said railway to the County Treasurer of twenty shares, of five hundred dollars each, of the full paid capital stock of the said railway, issued for and in the name of said township.

Unless said road shall be completed as aforesaid, within two years from the time of voting said bonds, said railway shall forfeit all right to said township bonds.

And it is further ordered that the form of ballot to be used at such election shall be as follows: "For the subscription to stock and issue of bonds to the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Railway," and "Against the Subscription to stock and issue of bonds to the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic Railway." Now

THEREFORE, I, Geo. H. McIntire, sheriff of the county of Cowley, State of Kansas, in pursuance with the aforesaid proceedings and order of the said board of county commissioners and the statutes of the State of Kansas, in such case made and provided, do hereby proclaim and make known that on Wednesday the 10th day of June, A. D. 1885, there will be held in the township of Fairview, of the county of Cowley, State of Kansas, at the usual voting places therein, an election for determination by the qualified electors of said township of the proposition embodied in and set forth by the above and foregoing order of said board of county commissioners, at which said election the ballots used shall be in the form specified, and provided for in and by said order of said board of county commissioners. Given under my hand at my office in the city of Winfield, Cowley County, Kansas, this 5th day of May, A. D. 1885. GEO. H. McINTIRE. Sheriff of Cowley County, Kan.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Wheat, cash: 87. Wheat, June: 88-3/4. Wheat, July: 90-7/8.

Corn, cash: 47-5/8. Corn, June: 47-3/8.

Wheat, No. 2 red, cash: 78-1/4. Wheat, No. 2 red, June: 87-5/8.

Corn, cash: 40-1/2. Corn, June: 41-1/8.

Hogs: $3.87-1/2.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The County Fathers met in adjourned session yesterday afternoon and today. H. P. Snow was appointed Trustee of Silver creek township to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. Chandler. Road petition of M. L. Wilson was granted and G. W. Gardenhire, M. K. Hull and S. Morris appointed viewers. W. L. Pridgeon, a whiskey victim, and Wm. Schafstall, in for assault, were released from the bastille. Pridgeon was required to give good and sufficient bond for payment of half the cost of his conviction, which he did, and now enjoys sweet liberty. Petitions containing over forty-two hundred names were presented asking for the submitting of a proposition to the people of Cowley to vote stock in the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Railroad, and the election was called for June 10th, the company guaranteeing the cost of election providing the road is not built as specified. Petition of the K. C. & S. R. R. company asking that the Commissioners begin on June 8th the condemnation of the right of way for said road, if the bonds carry, was guaranteed. A Petition containing 154 names asking for the calling of an election to vote $10,000 in Dexter township was acted upon, calling the election for June 10th, and the Eye was designated to publish the proclamation. Elections, in pursuance of petitions, were also called for the same date in Ninnescah township, $10,000, the Sentinel to publish proclamation, and in Fairview for same date and amount, THE COURIER to publish proclamation. The Board meets on June 1st, as a Board of Equalization. If any one has any tax grievances to adjust, then is the time to appear and have it looked into. The assessors returns for 1885 will then be equalized.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The District Court is still grinding, with over a week's work yet before it. G. B. Shaw & Co. against Irwin D. Franklin, et al--continued by consent of the court. Hattie D. Appling vs. Edward H. Appling--divorce decreed the plaintiff on grounds of abandonment, with custody of children, she to pay the costs. Lydia J. Johnson vs. William H. Johnson--divorce given on grounds of cruelty, she awarded custody of the two children, with $175 alimony; defendant to pay costs. Judge Torrance left yesterday afternoon to meet a sister at Newton, who would pass through there going east--possibly his only opportunity for years to see her. Judge G. H. Buckman is presiding in his absence, and a mighty dignified and handsome judge he makes. That bewitching wink spreads tranquility and good will all around. The jury in the case of Andrews & Losure vs. Dick Gates, suit to recover contract price for painting and graining Dick's house, after being out thirty hours, was dismissed. It stood eight for plaintiffs and four for defendant. The case will continue to next term. The wealth involved is $24--costs of suit so far, $150.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The resources of a thirsty individual in a prohibition town are varied and amusing, if not dangerous. Two plain drunks, John Hawley and William Johnson, were before Judge Turner last night. Nestling in the nether garment was found a quart flask, almost empty, of "Tar of Wine Balm," a panacea for consumption, warranted to be quick and sure. It answered their purpose, after failing to obtain "bug juice." They were country cowboys. Hawley paid $11.22, but Johnson got off, there not being quite enough "balm" to go around.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

W. G. Seaver, R. Hite, C. W. Ridgeway, A. J. Holland, W. E. Meredith, and Mr. Gray were in the city today, returning from Arkansas City, where they met the citizens of that place regarding the D., M. & A., getting a largely endorsed pledge for unison of effort in securing this line for Cowley. Arkansas City is coming up manfully in support of both the D., M. & A. and the K. C. & S. propositions. They sent in, with less than four days work, over seven hundred names for the calling of the D., M. & A. petition.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Money to loan by Jarvis, Conklin & Co., Winfield, Kansas. Interest coupons are delivered when the interest is paid. Privilege is given of paying the mortgage in installments, or the whole loan, any time after the first year. No trouble of finding the mortgage, when it is paid. Annual or semi-annual interest. We guarantee the cheapest rates. Do not fail to call and see us if you are thinking of making a loan.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Our enterprising boot and shoe firm, O'Meara & Randolph, are mad. Through some mistake in an order left at this office, their big advertisement was dropped from the Weekly this week. They never allow THE COURIER to go out to the world without something fresh and new from their house, and as the mistake was ours, they have a right to be mad. THE COURIER always tries to make reparation for any wrong of this kind.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The skating rink is making some necessary improvements. A ticket office, a gents' smoking room, an opera door, also a railing around the room. The band stand will be raised, and an organ is on the road. The managers are wide awake.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Our reporter caught a matrimonial victim this afternoon in the Probate Judge's office, one of our well known boys. It will soon be Mr. and Mrs.--well we promised not to. The initials are G. F. G. and F. F. W. Now guess.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Miss Nettie R. McCoy and class, assisted by the Courier Band, will give another of their entertaining concerts at the Opera House on Thursday evening, May 12th. Admission 25 cents. Begins promptly at 8 o'clock.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

An order of sale of real estate has been made in the Probate Court in the matter of the minor heirs of Thomas G. Ticer, deceased.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Tunnel Mills will start tomorrow under the charge of L. C. Harter. The mill has been thoroughly overhauled.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

We have about two dozen white bed spreads, slightly soiled, that we will sell at a bargain. M. Hahn & Co.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

W. C. McCormick was up from Otter today.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Chas. W. Martin was down from Udall today.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

O. H. Fitch was up from the Canal City today.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

E. W. Woolsey, druggist of Burden, was down today on his monthly tour to the Probate Judge.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

M. S. Barrick, of Akron, was in the city this morning. They have enough rain water up there to moisten some of the dry districts.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Dr. Alexander, of the Terminus, came up on the freight this a. m. and returned on the passenger. He had to fly around to complete his business.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Dr. Headrick, father of our George D., is very low from general debility and expected to pass away at any time. He is one of Winfield's oldest citizens.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Uncle Johnny Roberts, assessor of Walnut township, has completed his rounds. Walnut shows an increase for the past year of about 380 in population. She shows up 854 males and 726 females: a total of 1,580. There are 11 foreign born females and 24 males; 7 colored males and 6 females. The number of families is 295: averaging about five. The personal property roll is not yet footed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mr. O. C. Branham, our S. K. agent, was the victim of a very happy surprise, the other day. His wife and little daughter presented him with an elegant gold watch--a perfect beauty--with the monogram, "O. C. B.," skillfully engraved thereon. They had planned for the present a year before, and in all that time Mr. Branham was without even an inkling of what was coming. He finds now that he can afford a gold watch just as well as not--since it comes in such a nice way.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mrs. James Rothrock will leave in a few days to spend the summer with friends and relatives in Troy, Pa.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Miss Ora Farrar, daughter of banker Farrar, of Arkansas City, and a very charming young lady, is visiting at Mrs. J. G. Bullen's.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Will V. McConn, formerly local on the Arkansas City Traveler, is here on court business. He is now in the real estate business at Belle Plaine and doing well.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Capt. Stevens, Messrs. Carson, Phenix, and Thompson were down from Richland Friday, looking after the interests of their township in the new railroad proposition.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mr. Willis Wilson, Trustee of Richland township, was down today. He is not through assessing yet, but has got far enough along to count on about fourteen hundred inhabitants.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

W. A. Lee is putting another addition on his residence. He puts on a new piece every spring and his house is fast growing to be one of the most neat and commodious residences in the city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Whig Southard, brother of "Tuck," so well known among Winfield's early-day salesmen, came in last night. Whig has been making this route for years in the interests of St. Joe dry goods. Tuck is living at Independence.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Hon. C. R. Mitchell is over from Geuda. He reports the afflicted from all quarters coming in to test the waters of the Western Saratoga. The season is opening up in lively shape there. Bob says a railroad is the only thing necessary to make Geuda the liveliest health resort in the country.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Senator W. P. Hackney purchased the Rigby residence next door to J. C. Fuller's yesterday for five thousand dollars. He will remodel the house so it will look less like a castle and more like a home, fix up the grounds, and make it his permanent abode. It is one of the most desirable places in the city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Messrs. Bedilion & Jennings, our new real estate firm, start off at a lively rate. This month they disposed of three lots in Loomis' addition, several in Fuller's and Menor's additions, forty-eight lots in the new Highland Park addition, and the returns are not all in yet. They are waking the echoes on city property.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Robt. Ratliff and family were down from Udall today.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Dr. C. W. Grimes, of the Terminus, was in the city last evening on business and returned on the night train.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Silas P. Hahn and Ida Chapson, and Isaac Bedgar and Anna B. Wegstaff were clothed by Judge Gans today with authority to enter the blissful bonds of matrimony.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Judge Torrance reset the District Court docket this morning, extending to the 14th inst. The court has been grinding away all day on the case of Andrews & Losure vs. Dick Gates.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

James Cooper and Capt. J. B. Nipp got in today from two weeks at Ashland, and report things westward in a most prosperous condition. They are members of the Ashland Town Company.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A young child of John and Martha Robinson, who have recently moved to this county from Kentucky, was buried on the 28th inst. The services were conducted by J. H. Reider at the Winfield House.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The writer hereof has had a stone sidewalk put in this month. It is the handiwork of Wm. Moore & Son. The stone was dressed in their quarry, hauled in and laid, consequently we are deprived of the pleasure of stumbling over three or four loads of spalls lying around. The stones are all large and average six inches in thickness, are laid perfectly, and it is altogether the best stone sidewalk we have seen. The job cost ten cents per square foot.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Capt. M. N. Sinnott Sundayed with his Canal City friends.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mrs. Chas. C. Black spent Sunday with Mrs. W. M. Allison in Wellington.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Dr. Harvey, from Junction City, is in town. He is looking around for a location.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mrs. J. B. Nipp, wife of our County Treasurer, is quite ill--seriously so, it is feared.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

F. A. Wilkins, from Illinois, is working for Ostrander & Staymen. He is a first-class workman.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

James A. Cairns got home today from a few days in ruraldom, at his brother's Omnia township stock farm.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Henry Tincher is here from Danville and will locate as resident salesman for the Bloomington, Ill., nursery.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Hackney & Asp will begin the erection of their splendid new office soon. It is to be of stone, pitched face, with all the modern adornments and conveniences.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Henry E. Kibbey, now with G. B. Shaw & Co., Burden, came over yesterday for the southern trip of our young folks.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Frank McClain and Will Harlow were over today from Burden. Frank had been to Wellington looking after musical affairs.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Dr. Tandy is now occupying the office formerly occupied by Dr. Mills, over Curns & Manser's. He has fitted it up very neatly.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Fred Kropp is moving H. E. Silliman's residence across the street north. Mr. Silliman contemplates the erection of a fine residence soon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mrs. J. M. Hauskins arrived this morning from Jersey County, Ill., called by the illness of her father, Dr. J. Headrick, who lies at death's door.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Cal. Ferguson came in from Dodge City Saturday, returning today. His new mail and stage routes in that section are proving good investments.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mrs. T. H. Miller and children left today for a six months' visit in Lockhaven, Pa. A long time for Mr. Miller to stand the novelty of "widdy hood."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mr. Jas. H. Finch is sinking rapidly and is not expected to live through the week. The Grand Army boys are paying him every attention possible.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

We have just learned of a bit of productive news from Beaver township: two bouncing girls born to Mr. and Mrs. John Kessinger, on Thursday last.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Udall has a delegation in attendance on District Court today, among whom were D. D. Kellogg, T. M. Kelly, A. L. Shultz, E. M. Ballanger, and E. M. Buffington.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Dr. Headrick is lying very low and his death is hourly expected. The Doctor has been growing quite feeble of late, but no one expected so sudden a change for the worse.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

D. M. Adams, Pleasant Valley, sends us a tabulated weather report for April. It shows 3.89 inches rainfall: 1.30 inches in one day. Light frosts on the nights of the 3rd and 12th. The rainfall was 1/3 inch greater than April, 1884.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Rev. J. O. Campbell, Arkansas City's U. P. minister, will be married on Wednesday next, at Stafford Springs, Connecticut, to Miss Grace B. Medbury, who at one time resided at the Terminus. Rev. Campbell is one of the brightest young ministers in the west.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Will C. Higgins, editor of the Udall Sentinel, was in the "hub" today. He is making the Sentinel one of the brightest little sheets in all Southern Kansas--one that would be a credit to a much-larger town. The citizens of Udall have a jewel in the Sentinel, and we are glad to note the evidences of its appreciation.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Judge Albright has found his book. The Telegram says it was through the medium of an ad in that paper. In the common acceptance of things this could not be, for is it not stated by Plutarch and other ancient historians that democrats can't read? The book was found through the medium of THE COURIER, of course.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A nest of youthful would-be desperadoes has just been discovered in this city that is another frightful example of what comes from allowing boys to "just grow up," without any parental training. This little gang was composed of Frank Kretser, leader, Thomas Gill, second man, and Hansen and Willie Olmstead, anxious followers. Neither of the boys are over twelve years old. Thomas' friskiness is absolutely unparalleled. He is an ex-boot black of St. Joe, and says he blacked Jesse James' boots many a time while Jesse was in St. Joe under the name of Chas. Howard, just before his assassination. "If I'd knowed he was Jesse James, my name would uv been Git there Ell, an' instead of blackin' his boots I'd a skipped." Frank Kretser and Thomas were thorough James students--they had poured over the lives of the desperadoes and determined to duplicate them. Thomas was turned over to the hospitality of the Hotel de Finch from Justice Snow's court for complicity in stealing two dollars a few weeks ago from the money drawer of the Lindell Hotel--holding him as a witness in the District Court against the darkey who put him up to stealing the money. He ran around at will, however. He was caught in further deviltry the other night--in a covered wagon in an alley in South Winfield, surrounded by thirteen undressed chickens. The wagon had been standing there a week, during which time the four boys above named, under their elected leader, Kretser, had used it as a den in which to prepare the festive fowls, brought in on their nocturnal hen roost forages, for the market. The father of Thomas Gill caught them. All got away but Thomas, who was marched off to the Sheriff's office, the father having more faith in official influence than in his own. Thomas gave the whole thing away. The boys were professional petty thieves. Everything they could get hold of was appropriated, concealed, and when opportunity afforded, were disposed of. He took Marshal McFadden to a place in the north part of town and dug a four-tined pitchfork and other articles out of a manure pile, where they had been awaiting disposal at some second hand or other store. The chicken racket was only a few nights old. A few nights ago they armed themselves with razors and prepared for a bold dash. They took a good horse from a stable near the S. K. depot, the four straddled him, and started to decamp. But before they got to the mounds, one of the kids fell off and broke his wrist. He set up a fearful yell and the boys all caved, took the horse back to the stable, and gave up the job. They are all tough cases--especially Frank and Thomas. The former is the son of a widow. These two will likely go to the State Reform School, where there will be some show of bringing them out. The others seem to have been led into the game and will likely get off. The two leaders are now in the county bastille. All the boys are unusually bright--with native talents most promising. But the experiences of a street gamin are not conducive to anything but deviltry. They want to be put in school, cleaned up, and made to think they are as capable of good things as anybody. This done, they will come out all right yet--make useful and honorable men.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A most enjoyable occasion was the social at the Presbyterian church Friday night by the Young Peoples' Social and Literary Society. The room was beautifully festooned: exhibiting all around the deft hands and superior taste of the young ladies of the society. They have made a splendid reputation as social givers. The room was crowded with youth, age, and beauty, and enjoyment supreme. The young ladies flitted around over the floor with bewitching elasticity and persuasiveness. With such excellent ice cream and cake, such lovely decorations, and so many pretty young ladies and handsome young gentlemen, no wonder the society cleared over fifty-five dollars. Of course, the boys were nicely initiated--at dishwashing and other feminine pastimes, in which they found unalloyed pleasure. We hope the young folks will give us another festival soon. Its success is assured. Much of last night's enjoyment was due to the lovely music discoursed by the Courier Band. Their music is always charming--the most beautiful music perfectly rendered. If there is a better band in the fair West, no one has seen or heard it lately. It is one of our most laudable institutions.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mr. W. J. Hodges has received notice of his appointment, by President Cleveland, as Post Trader for the Ponca reservation, thirty-five miles in the Territory, embracing the Ponca, Otoe, and Nez Perce tribes of Indians. Mr. Hodges has done this thing very quietly. While others in Southern Kansas have been puffing and fuming in solicitation of positions of less personal import, he has got his credentials without the least trouble, though the applicants for the place were numerous. It is a valuable position. He has the exclusive franchise for trading with these tribes. All supplies obtained otherwise than from the government must come through him. Mr. Hodges returned yesterday from a survey of the premises, and will soon commence business there. The family will probably remain here. Mr. Hodges has received about the first Presidential appointment for this section.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The District Court wrestled four days with the case of Jacob Teter vs. R. B. Waite, suit to recover the worth of five hundred bushels of corn. The plaintiff was a sub-renter of one of Waite's farms. Waite bought out the original renter, and appropriated the entire crop and ousted the plaintiff. In a suit in the justice court, Mr. Waite was beaten and a judgment of $197.50 rendered against him on the corn deal. He appealed the case and in a jury trial ending last night, a judgment was given in favor of the plaintiff for $179.59. The costs in the case will be about $500: twice the original worth of the corn.

M. A. Mann, Arkansas City, vs. Adam Mann: divorce decreed, with custody of children and property.

Dennis P. Hurst vs. Benjamin Bartlow: suit to reform lease, now on trial by jury.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mr. W. H. H. Marris, well known to all our people, met with an awful loss Tuesday night last. During the few days preceding, he had sheared six hundred head of very fine Merino sheep, anticipating from the prospects that the bright, sunshiny weather had come to stay. Tuesday night, however, that cold, heavy rain came down and the next morning Mr. Marris entered his sheep lot to find the ground strewn with the dead carcasses of four hundred of the animals. A large number of them were full grown, the young lambs having been separately cared for, and the loss will foot up over fifteen hundred dollars.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

All the engineers on this end of the Ft. Scott road accompanied the remains of Daniels to Ft. Scott last Saturday. On Sunday it was found necessary to send a train out to the Ninnescah bridge with material; and no engineer being on hand, Mr. Bauman put his daughter, Bessie, a school girl, in charge of the engine, furnished her with a fireman, and she did her work nobly, handling the throttle and guiding the iron steed as well as the best man on the road. This girl has frequently run the engine about the yard, but never before made a trip on the road. We don't know of any other road having female engineers. Wichita Eagle.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

I will sell my one-twentieth interest in the town of Ashland, the county seat of the new county of Clark, together with one of the four principal corner lots in severalty, if application is made at once. A recent ruling of the company makes personal and immediate attention necessary on the part of every member. Business matters at home will not admit of my absence. Hence I am compelled to place this interest in the market, although reluctant to do so. For the person who can go out and attend to it, there is a fortune within the next three years. No town in the west ever had brighter prospects, present and future. ED. P. GREER.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Will McCartney and a young man named Gage settled a difference at Ashland last week by a regular pitched prize fight. Gage sent Will a challenge and they retired down under an embankment, agreeing not to bite or scratch and went at it. They fought for a half hour, until both were exhausted and retired with battered noses, broken fingers, many bruises, and a profusion of blood. The further understanding is that as soon as both recover, they will try it again. Both the boys exhibited lots of grit, and neither would call for quarter. Young Gage is a brother of Frank's at Arkansas City.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Ben Bartlow objects to THE DAILY COURIER making him the shootist in the case of Hurst against Bartlow. The party of the first part handled the double-barreled persuasiveness. Ben. got $87.40 and some shot, proving himself through the able counsel of Dalton & Madden, in the right. It was an original action in the District Court to recover four hundred bushels of corn.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Yet are the rascally burglars on the rampage. Last week while Mr. S. D. Pryor was in attendance on court, about 10 o'clock, someone attempted to break in the front of his residence. Mrs. Pryor was reading in the back room, with the blinds down. The burglar evidently thought all had retired. She was frightened at the strange noise and called out, "Is that you, Sam?" The burglar then skipped. Mr. Pryor found on returning home that the lock of the front door had been broken with a jimmy. The burglar seems to have returned later in the night, as the screen in the front door, firmly locked by Mr. Pryor when he entered, was broken open, with signs of tools having been used. Winfield is infested too freely with these sneaking whelps. The officials are using warm vigilance, with a good scent, and something will soon "drop" with a very dull thud.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mr. M. M. Scott found a small child on South Millington street this afternoon. It is a little girl about two years old, golden hair and blue eyes. Flannel dress all torn and tattered. The little one was crying as if its heart would break. It is in Mrs. Troup's charge. Some mother's heart will probably be gladdened by this item.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Rev. P. B. Lee returned Saturday from Wichita, where he heard Rev. Joseph Cook, the great Boston lecturer, last evening, in "The Seven Modern Wonders of the World." In his first proposition Mr. Cook spoke of the rapid transition of Thought and Matter. He compared the world of today with the Roman Empire in the days of Caesar, when it took one hundred days to send a message around his Empire, and now ninety days is all that is necessary for a man to travel around the whole world at its greatest circumference. His illustrations were all drawn by comparison with the Roman Empire, and were very forcible. In the seventh proposition he spoke of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean sea as neighbors, and said if they were neighbors when one hundred days were required to make the rounds, how much nearer are the civilized nations of today, when you can start from Kansas and visit any of them and return in three months by circling the globe.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Hands on your pistol pocket! Jesse James is abroad in the land! Tommie Gill, the twelve-year-old Jesse James of the Juvenile gang, whose exploits were chronicled before, skipped Friday, taking with him a fine, loaded six-shooter, belonging to Jailor Finch. The officials allowed Tommie to be a guest of the outer instead of the inner courts. In the momentary absence of a watchful eye, he made himself scarce. He is a small, chubby, bare-footed gamin with freckled face, abbreviated pants, and a wily tongue. Nothing has been heard of him since his departure. The man who captures him will please deliver him at the Sheriff's office, Winfield, Cowley County, Kansas. The State Reform School needs him badly.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mrs. W. A. Swaffer and George Anspaw are languishing in the county bastille on the charge of bigamy. They left Independence together, he leaving a wife and children and she a footless husband. His feet were frozen and amputated 14 years ago. He walks on his knees, leather padded, and is altogether a man of misfortune. The offenders were arrested by a U. S. Marshal on the Osage reservation, I. T. Their trial comes off before U. S. Commissioner Bonsall at Arkansas City next Monday. The woman's husband is here to appear against her.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The "Winfield National Bank" will open for business as successor to the Winfield Bank on June 1st. The directors have been elected and the organization fully closed. The gentlemen composing the directory are live, energetic businessmen of large capital, and will make the "Winfield National Bank" take high rank among the solid monied institutions of the State.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Captain Steuven appointed the following non-commissioned officers of Company C., K. S. M., at a special meeting last night. T. J. Harris, orderly sergeant; M. L. Wortman, commissary; G. F. Corwin, second sergeant; Albert McNeil, third; H. G. Norton, fourth; and C. H. Collins, fifth; W. T. Madden, M. F. Kelly, J. L. Ward, and D. R. Jackman, corporals.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mr. James Kirk has commenced valuable improvements to his Eighth avenue flouring mill. He will put on substantial additions and put in the roller system. Mr. Kirk proposes to keep in front of the procession. His mill started with small pretensions and has gradually spread until it is now one of our foremost manufactories. Still we boom!

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

We learn that Mr. W. H. H. Marris has lost two hundred more sheep since the four hundred mentioned yesterday. They came through the storm in such a weak, chilled condition that they all gradually dropped off. Every sheep that had been sheered turned up its toes: a lost of over $2,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mr. D. M. Adams informs us that Excelsior District, two miles south of town, reorganized their Sunday school last Sunday, with Mr. John Ferguson, superintendent; Miss Anna Robertson, secretary; Paterson Byers, treasurer; and Miss Crawford, librarian. The school meets at 4 o'clock.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Some of the boys were on a big "high" Friday--got too much "wine of tar," that wonderful panacea for the ills and pains of life. It gave each of their pockets a seventeen dollar and a half pain. Marshal McFadden came down on them with his weather eye.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

W. R. McDonald has been doing the business for the past week. After his big ad. in THE COURIER last week notifying the public of his closing out sale, he could hardly set clerks enough to wait on the crowds.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A branch of the Flowering Peach was left with THE COURIER Saturday from a tree of that variety in W. W. Limbocker's yard. The blossoms are very beautiful, but the fruit is not reported worth much.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mr. H. B. McKinney, after a tour of the eastern part of the county and western Chautauqua County, returned Friday evening in time to enjoy the Pink T. festival given by the Y. P. S. and L. club.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Dr. Park was called on a case at three o'clock this morning, but for the first time in his practice failed to respond. This was cruel in the Doctor, but his explanation is entertaining as well as satisfactory. He wasn't that kind of a doctor.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A. H. Green attached the musical instruments of D. F. Best and closed his place of business Friday, for $40 in rent. Mr. Best claims he don't owe the debt and will replevin the goods and stand suit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

We are just receiving our second stock of carpets, handsome patterns in Ingrains, Tapestry and Body Brussels. M. Hahn & Co.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Agent Kennedy, at the Santa Fe depot, has a round trip rate to New Orleans at $20.50. Inquire of him for particulars.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Don't fail to hear Dr. Fisher at the Methodist church tonight, on "Utah and Mormonism," a subject of great interest.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Stewart Hotel, on South Main, has been refitted and is now running under the proprietorship of C. E. Meixel.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Brown & Son deliver gasoline to any part of the city, at 20 cents a gallon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

One hundred monuments and headstones of marble and granite in stock. Prices to suit the times. W. H. Dawson, South Main street.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Splendid weather for web-footed bipeds.

J. C. Snyder has one hundred pure bred Plymouth rock chicks.

Madam Rumor says Miss Edith Holland contemplates attending some university next fall.

From present indications, it will hustle our farmers to get done planting corn before harvest.

"Neptune" now makes his bow under a new guise. He only lacks a petticoat to complete the mask.

School was suspended in District 115 last Thursday and Friday because of the indisposition of the school marm.

New hitching facilities have been added to the Victor school grounds for the convenience of teams this week by the enterprising citizens adjoining.

While Ed Watt was riding his pony Sunday, it unfortunately stumbled into a hole and broke its shoulder blade. Ed will have to run races a foot now.

Here is an infallible remedy for toothache: Pick your teeth with a toothpick made from a tree struck by lightning. Jim Albert says it cured him. Pick your teeth anyhow with anything whether you have toothache or not.

"Mark" purchased a handsome patent-clasp photograph album of W. B. Holland, canvassing agent, last week. W. B. is handling some excellent and beautiful styles of albums in connection with a valuable and practical farm book: "Manny's Stock Doctor. It is now in order for "Mark's" reportorial friends to forward their shadows and increase his galaxy of celebrities.

Sunday Rev. P. B. Lee fulfilled his promise of punctuality, and at 11 o'clock delivered an entertaining and instructive discourse at Irwin chapel. Text was taken from James iv:8. An unusually large congregation was in attendance. Rev. Lee goes to Ohio this week to attend National Conference of the church. Rev. Jno. Rupp will fill the appointments at Irwin chapel during the absence of Rev. Lee.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Miss Lillie Liddill is visiting Mrs. J. C. Hendrickson.

Items are scarce, so I will close for fear this will find the wastebasket.

Dave Wyant and family have been spending a few days visiting friends in South Prairie.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Alling, a boy, last Thursday. Mother and child both doing well.

John Hillyer has sold his farm. We have not heard who he sold to. John says he is going farther west.

Mrs. Capt. Rowe has been sick for some time, but is now convalescing under the excellent care of Dr. Wilkins.

Miss Hattie Utley is teaching school in the east part of the county. May success attend her; also J. F. Rowe began his spring term of school at Windsor last Monday.

Bob Straughn is visiting his mother, Mrs. Riley Bedell. He is from Arkansas and intends locating here if he likes the country. We are sure he will stay in "Sunny Kansas."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Members of the entomology class are now capturing all the insects they can find and liberally treating them to cyanide of potassium.

Two weeks last Friday afternoon the students enjoyed a rhetorical feast prepared by a division of the third year class. The exercises were interesting and instructive.

Only seven more weeks of this term. Then the tired and book-worn students will be permitted to return to their happy homes and loving parents.

The class in botany are very busy gathering and analyzing flowers and plants. Each student is required to present at the close of the term forty or more different specimens. They must be pressed, mounted, and classified.

Last Friday, Miss Katie Markum was honored with the editorship of the Gleaner, the journal of the Alpha Beta Literary Society. An excellent number of the paper is reported to have been presented. Miss Markum is one of Cowley's progressive students.

Thursday evening last the Board of Regents and Faculty, accompanied by their wives, were the guests of Mrs. Kedzie, superintendent of the culinary department. A sumptuous repast was served after which the gentlemen delivered brief but appreciative speeches. Ex-State Superintendent, A. B. Lemmon, was present with his lady.

Last Friday night the college was highly entertained with a lecture by Hon. Noble L. Prentis, under the auspices of the Alpha Beta Literary Society. Topic: "The temptation of Smith." The large audience expressed their appreciation by frequent and hearty applause. The lecture was replete with wit, humor, and sparkling gems of thought.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Aley Brothers lately bought 80 acres of land of Dan Rash.

We will plant corn in this neighborhood when spring comes.

L. N. Guthrie is fencing a pasture; D. Ramey is also doing the same.

We have been trying to get the surveyor to do some work in this township for the last year; but so far, without success, although he has set several times different times to meet us and establish our lines. If he has more work than he can do, he should appoint a deputy.

What has become of our school district notices. They were posted in February, stating that if no appeal was taken, notices of the organization would be sent in, within the specified time. We have not heard from our worthy superintendent, who, since he has held the office, has been in the banner Republican precinct about ten minutes.

The citizens of Winfield and Arkansas City show a great amount of honor in railroad matters, when they ask the people of southeast Cowley to help build them another road, we having already helped them to get two; but they say that if we want a road in our part that we can vote township bonds to secure it. If this is their plan, they may expect to hear from us in future elections.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Plenty of rain.

Health good.

John Williams has finished planting corn.

Ask Mr. Copeland about Mr. Robertson's dog.

Mrs. Midkiff was visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. Z. B. Myer, last Friday.

Sunday school was organized at the Excelsior schoolhouse last Sabbath.

Mr. Cann is greatly improving the appearance of his farm by erecting a neat residence.

House cleaning is the order of the day.

Our people are all busy. The farmers are plowing and planting corn.

Misses Lida Williams, Mary Alexander, Belle McCullough, Olive Myer, Maggie and Lulu Teter spent last Wednesday with Miss Copeland.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Baptists have a recognition meeting at the church here on the 11th.

A. A. Thompson and family start for Chicago today, the 5th. We are sorry to lose Mr. Thompson and family, but sincerely trust that prosperity and happiness will follow them to their new home.

The G. A. R. Post, at this place, will produce the play "The Spy of Atlanta," three nights: the 14th, 15th, and 16th, under the management of L. D. Dobbs, of Leavenworth. Turn out if you want to see something rich and be well paid for your trouble.

Five dollars and costs, gentlemen, is the verdict of this court, was the words your correspondent heard Judge Werden say as he entered his office where he discovered two of our most estimable citizens arrayed on the charge of disturbing the peace and dignity of the city.

Move your scales from off 1st street or pay $25 fine within the next ten days, says our City Council, but keep those hog pens, manure piles, and duck ponds in the center of the city, as they are conducive to public health and happiness, while scales on the street are detrimental to the same.

Bro. Higgins, of the Sentinel, got it square in the neck from some of our unknown ladies last week. Bro. Higgins has been publishing a column of locals headed "Whispers," to which the aforesaid ladies took exception and laid the law down to Bro. Higgins. As a consequence, the aforesaid column disappears. "Thus we don't boom."

Quite a sensation was occasioned on Monday evening of the 4th, by one of our most prominent citizens, who came rushing into the City Hotel about 11 p.m., hatless and breathless, but not bootless, flourishing a long navy revolver in his right hand, while with his left he grasped by the collar a small specimen apparently of the masculine gender, who was begging most piteously to be spared. "I've captured the thief," he wildly shouted. "I've got him, we can all rest in peace now," and several other wild, incoherent speeches. Soon gathered a crowd around him, when our would be avenger of the law discovered the humiliating fact that his August prisoner was no more or less than one of our ladies who live in the north part of town, dressed in men's clothes for the purpose of a quiet stroll and a friendly call on the neighbors. We understand that an action in the Justice's Court will be in order as soon as His Honor, Judge Werden, returns. Comments are unnecessary, for the way of the transgressor is hard.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

What has become of the Tisdale Growler?

Many thanks to Mrs. R. D. Jacobus for the poetry.

Mrs. S. A. Smith is suffering with a pet on her right hand.

Miss Mell Wells has gone to Wyandotte to reside this summer.

Hardwick & Peabody shipped several car loads of fat cattle last week from this vicinity.

A Mr. Dover is teaching a subscription school in Dexter this summer. We wish him success.

Wheat is greatly damaged; but still, from the present outlook, we can expect a full half crop.

We learn that Miss Minnie Secrist has returned from Kansas City, where she has been attending school.

Rev. Rankin, our new Presbyterian minister, will reside in Dexter this summer. His sermons are very interesting.

R. C. Maurer has purchased the farm belonging to Jim Pierce, and Jim has gone west to grow up with the country.

Mr. Tilford Spurgeon is running the Bullington Mill now, and will ever be found ready to wait on his many customers.

Everybody is pushing spring work forward with unusual energy, and from the present prospects 1885 will be a prosperous year with us.

Mr. and Mrs. Underwood gave a party last Saturday evening to the young folks of the neighborhood. Oysters were served at the usual hour. Those present report a good time.

No sickness in this community at this writing. Mr. L. Bullington, who for some time past was unable to be out from the effects of a wounded hand, is now able to go out riding.

Fishing parties are all the rage now. Grouse creek is the place to get the fish. It is refreshing to wander along the streams, where the birds sing so sweetly and all nature seems to smile. Who says that spring is not the most pleasant of all the seasons?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Col. Reynolds is lying very sick with lung fever.

Miss Mattie Rittenhouse closed her school Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Higbee spent Sunday in Burden.

On account of the rain Sunday night there was no preaching.

Mr. Harden shipped four car loads of cattle from here Tuesday.

The mite met at Capital Hill last Saturday night and all had a jolly time.

Miss Laura Elliott has gone into the cattle business. I think she intends taking in a partner sometime soon.

The May party given by Miss Eva and her school last Friday was quite a success. They ate dinner at the schoolhouse, and just had everything good to eat. After dinner Mr. I H. Phenis took them all down to the creek, where they spent the afternoon fishing. Miss Eva was presented with a nice cake by the school.

There was a crowd of young people from Burden passed through our city Saturday. They were out for a picnic and I think they had it. Just as they were going around the hill south of Mr. Jackson's, the hack upset. I should think Fred would have felt hungry--i.e., by the time they got the hack up and home.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The following are the real estate transfers for yesterday as taken from the Records of the Register's office.

Thomas W. Sloan to James D. Wiatt, n hf ne qr, 35-30-3 e, 80 acres, quit claim: $100.

Leander Butler et ux to Harry Gillespie, lot 14, 18-32-8 e and e hf of se qr, 13-32-7 e 133: $1,000.

Burden Town Company to J. M. Hooker, lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, blk 30, Burden: $150.

Highland Park Town Company to G. H. Schuler, lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, blk 4, H P ad to Winfield: $465.

Robert Haney et ux to Isaiah R. Shugart, e hf of ne qr sec 20 and w hf of nw qr 21-34-5 e, 100 acres: $100.

Henry E. Spurns [?] et ux to Wm O. Spruens, sw hf 10-33-3 e, ex 1 acre out of sw cor: $3,000.

Asa Bur to David R. Beatty, lots 6, 7, 8 and 9, blk 109, Arkansas City: $600.

M. B. Smedley to Harriet E. Smedley, lots 27 and 28, blk 105, Arkansas City: $150.

Samuel D. Klingman et ux to Emily Keller: lots 3 and 4 and n hf of se qr 13-35-4e, and lots 3 and 4 18-35-5e, 217 acres: $9,000.

John C. Dunkin to Chas. A. Baker, lots 1 and 14, Duncan's ad to Arkansas City: $725.

Joseph F. Bowdle et ux to John F. Hoffman, lots 13 and 14, blk 97, Arkansas City: $1.00

C. M. Scott et ux to Simon N. Bone, lot 21, blk 117, Arkansas City: $45.

C. M. Scott et ux to Dr. E. Orndoff, lot 20 and portion of lot 21, blk 117, Arkansas City: $45.

John F. Hoffman et ux to Sarah W. Bowdle, lots 13 and 14, blk 97, Arkansas City, quit claim: $1.00

Lafayette McLaughlin et ux, to J. H. Ashworth, lot 20, block 37, Arkansas City: $40.

A. B. Newman et ux to Mary E. Putury, lots 19 and 30, block 158, Arkansas City: $60.

George Burger et ux to Louisa A. Burger, lots 1, 2 and 3, block 4, New Salem: $680.

Highland Park Town Company to W. H. Lynn, lots 1, 2, 9 and 10, blk 17, H P add to Winfield: $215.

Highland Park Town Company to A. B. Taylor, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, blk 18, H Padd to Winfield: $520.

M. J. Bell to C. J. Tingling, e ½ of n e ¼ 28-30-6 e: $600.

M. E. Ponse et ux to Evaline Overman, n ½ of se ¼ 7-34-7 e: $450.

Prettyman Knowles and wife to Wm. J. Cann, 80 acres of w side of nw frl qr of 7-33-4e: $2,500.

S. M. Jarvis and wife to Wm. Brockman, ne qr 19-30-6 and sw qr 10-30-5 e, 320 acres: $3,500.

Fannie E. Lewis to E. A. Norris, n hf of sw qr 12-33-7 e: $100.

Wm. M. Allison and wife to Charles Roupe, pt of sw hf 27-32-4 e, 1 acre: $1,100.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Mrs. Emma Rowland, wife of Henry Rowland, long residents of Winfield, passed to the world beyond Saturday evening at her home in Burden. The remains were brought to this city and Monday followed by her weeping relatives and sympathizing friends to their last resting place in Union Cemetery. Thus drops off another life of promise. She was only in her twenty-fifty year: just stepping out into the radiance of womanhood. But a two years' siege of that dreaded lingering disease, consumption, blighted all--and it must in the mysterious rulings of a Divine Providence, be for the best. She was a diligent member of the Baptist church, from where the funeral took place, conducted by Rev. Reider. The deceased was well known and highly esteemed here, and her death causes deep regret.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The pesky house breaker was out on another forage Friday, this time seeking Mr. J. W. Hall, 1227 South Main street, as the victim. About 12 o'clock Mr. Hall was aroused by a suspicious noise at the kitchen door, and in the ghostly habiliments of the stilly night he proceeded to investigate just in time to see the burglar hurriedly get his frame off the back porch. At 3 o'clock he was again awakened by the same nefarious noise at the north window of the kitchen, and gain scared off the man with the jimmy. These trials at house-breaking are getting numerous enough to warn people to keep a wicked gun in by their bedside and let cold lead fly through the first door or window that is disturbed at unusual hours.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Rev. Kelly seems to agree with THE COURIER correspondent of Saturday, who said the Democratic party was worth saving. He prayed very fervently for the success of the administration Sunday. We hope our Democratic correspondent is satisfied now, and will attend church regularly and contribute liberally.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

We will have our first circus for this year on the 22nd--the second day of our spring races at the Fair Grounds. Barrett, a branch from Sells Bros., will furnish the aggregation of living wonders and world-renowned queens and kings of the ring.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Lost. A red cow with white face, six years old. A liberal reward will be paid for information where she may be found. S. E. BURGER.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Four victims who had run against the cold arms of the law, and been languishing in durance vile in our bastille, were arraigned before Judge Torrance yesterday afternoon and sentenced to the "pen." All plead guilty. Charley Lewis, who was in the tolls, charged with burglarizing Smith & Zook's safe last winter, was given two years for jail breaking. The burglary case against him was dismissed for want of evidence. Had Lewis quietly reveled in the luxuries of the bastille without so cruelly tearing up the floor and ground in trying to tunnel out, he would now be enjoying sweet liberty. His love of freedom put on the iron bands. He is a gentlemanly looking fellow of about thirty--but undoubtedly too familiar with the modes of jail breaking. F. M. Moreland and G. W. Estus, who, with an audacity and cruelty horrible to behold, stole two horses from the poor, forlorn boomers, at Arkansas City a month ago, were given three years each. They were captured near Medicine Lodge. Both of them were at one time in the employ of Cal Ferguson, one at the stable here and the other on the Territory stage line. This was their first trial at horse stealing. They are 24 and 28 years old. Thos. Corbin was sent up for one year for appropriating the proceeds from two loads of wheat, $46. He took the wheat to Arkansas City for another man, sold it, shoved the money into his own trousers, and decamped. But he only got to Grouse creek. One year for silent, awful remorse. He is a good-looking, genteel appearing young man of twenty-two. All took their sentence more like a huge joke than the stern, terrible reality it will prove to be. Sheriff McIntire left this afternoon for the "pen" with the victims.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A wave of Winfield's youth and beauty captured Arkansas City Sunday. The sensation was extreme. The girls of the Terminus made comparisons amid profound tears, while the brave boys looked on perfectly awestricken. Such a sudden burst of beauty and style was too much for their delicate nerves. Winfield always establishes her reputation as a city of pretty women and handsome men. Among those who enjoyed this drive yesterday were: Misses Hattie Stolp, Nellie Cole, Minnie Taylor, Gertrude McMullen, Anna Hunt, Leota Gary, Mary Randall, Lena Walrath, Cora Dousman, Anna Hyde, and Nina and Carrie Anderson; and Messrs. Ben W. Matlack, John R. Atkins, H. E. Kibby, Frank F. Leland, James Lorton, Ed. J. McMullen, Will R. Gray, Mat. H. Ewart, D. H. Sickafoose, Geo. H. Schuler, Tom Eaton, and THE COURIER scribe. The morning shower, followed by such glorious sunshine, made the air soft and balmy, and all nature fairly sparkled with radiance. The drive was charming. A number took along baskets filled with culinary delicacies and dinnered on the shores of the placid Walnut, just east of the city, amid the warblings of the feathered songsters, the bursting of the buds, and under the sturdy oaks, where the roasted fowl, the animated pickle, and other charms held seances with the ferocious mosquito, the entertaining chigger, and other inhabitants of the forest. The day's tranquility was ended in damp romance, the storm giving a number of the party a ducking. The trip was exhilarating and highly enjoyable throughout--if it was more extensive to some than was anticipated; even unto Monday morning.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The City Council met last night in adjourned session, the Mayor and all members present. The petition for the calling of an election to vote $20,000 aid to the D., M. & A. railroad was considered and an election called for June 10th. The company had failed to get in its guarantee to pay all expenses of election in case the road was not built as agreed. Mr. M. L. Robinson exhibited his confidence in the road and general enterprise by personally entering into a bond securing the costs if the agreement of the company is not specifically carried out. The bonds of Street Commissioner Cochran and Assistant Marshal Glandon were approved. The petition of A. Herpich and fifteen others for sidewalk on west side of blocks 191, 192, and 193 was granted.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Retail dealers throughout Cowley and adjoining counties will be glad to learn that J. P. Baden's Wholesale Grocery department is now ready to fill orders at Kansas City prices, for all kinds of groceries in job lots. Send in your orders at once or come in person. No delays. No mistakes, and goods in first-class order and way down.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

We will offer a large assortment of handsome plaid dress goods at the low price of twenty-five cents a yard. M. Hahn & Co.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

We will sell a strictly all wool Jersey for one dollar. M. Hahn & Co.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Lizzie Sloan has removed her dress making shop from rooms over Spotswood's store to rooms over Kleeman's store, where her patrons will hereafter find her.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

I have a car load of cider; will be here in a few days. Will sell to dealers at Kansas City prices. Wait for it. J. P. BADEN.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

"Atholophoras," sure cure for rheumatism and neuralgia, at L. M. Williams' drug store.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Largest stock of wall paper in the city at Cole's drug store.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

FOR SALE. Two Hundred Bushels of seed pea nuts at V. A. Baird's Fruit House.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

12 short horn bulls for sale, all of the most fashionable families. For prices and particulars, address Josiah Johnson, Maple City.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

August Kadau has just received a fine large stock of eastern made boots and shoes, which he will sell at greatly reduced prices. Shop made goods to order--fit guaranteed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Removal. J. E. Mansfield at her old stand, 2nd door north of Whiting Bros., after May 10th. Spring Millinery at cost until that time, to save moving. J. E. Mansfield, west side Main street, with D. F. Best.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

T. L. Jones has purchased a fine lot of Missouri work and driving horses, which he will sell to the farmers and drivers of this section at a bargain. He purchased his fine horses from the farmers of Arkansas, and got them at his own prices, thus he can give better bargains than any stock dealer in this county.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Our meats are always pure and fresh and taken from the best selected beeves. We keep everything in our line full and complete. Our prices are always reasonable and weights full. We satisfy our customers, run no peddling wagon, and do business strictly on the square.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Horsemen all understand that to get the best results out of horse, no matter for what purpose he is used, it is indispensable that the animal be properly shod. Recognizing this fact,

whose shop is second door East of the Telegram office, have secured the services of one of the most expert horse-shoers that money could get. Specimens of Shoes used by this firm may be seen at John Keck's livery barn. Also do a General Blacksmithing Business.

OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO FARMERS: J. J. Merrill, of this firm, has had 30 years experience in the manufacture of Plows, and is prepared to "lay and point" Plows--something of great advantage to farmers, and work that has never before been attempted in Winfield. Don't throw away your plowshares, but take them to Merrill & Merrill, and thereby save from $2.30 to $3.00 on each share.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Next to the alley, for a nice, clean, well-cooked lunch. The best coffee in town. Cheap and substantial. Neat and tidy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

General Grant on the 28th was reported as daily growing stronger.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Lindell Hotel, St. Louis, was on fire on the 28th. Loss about $50,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

An epidemic of measles was prevailing in New York, causing many deaths.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Prince and Princess of Wales returned to London from Ireland on the 28th.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The police were called upon to suppress a riot of Chicago Socialists on the evening of the 28th.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Ex-Governor Conrad Baker, of Indiana, died in Indianapolis recently of congestion of the lungs after an illness of several months.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

S. A. Denham & Co., cotton factors of Charleston, S. C., made an assignment recently. Their estimated liabilities were $125,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A three-mile boat race at San Francisco, between N. L. Lahyberger, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Austin Stevenson, of Vallejo, Cal., was won by Stevenson, by thirteen lengths.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The typhoid pestilence at Plymouth, Pa., was raging more extensively in the lower part of the town, where nearly all the houses were occupied by Hungarians and Poles.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The stone masons on a strike at Dayton, Ohio, for an increase of wages marched to S. D. Platt's new residence recently, badly beat the men at work, and compelled them to quit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Nearly a dozen business houses of Chillicothe, Mo., were either entirely burned or badly damaged early the other morning. The loss was between $15,000 and $20,000, nearly covered by insurance.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Secretary Bayard told a reporter recently that A. M. Kelley had declined the Italian mission. Mr. Bayard would not, however, say whether or not Kelley had asked to go to Russia in place of General Lawton.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Seventy-five employees of the Westinghouse Machine Company, at Pittsburgh, Pa., have been suspended on account of lack of orders. The men who had been working half time most of the winter were very despondent over the suspension.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

For some time past there has been trouble on the line of the extension of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad between Baltimore and Philadelphia. Several contractors, it was charged, had swindled the operatives. At Chase's station three hundred armed workmen threatened a riot.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The town of Everest, Brown County, Kan., was swept by a $50,000 blaze early Tuesday morning. It caught in the drug store of Dr. Carter, and is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. Besides Dr. Carter's store a number of houses adjoining were destroyed; insurance light.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Secretary Whitney has commended Admiral Jonett for his conduct at Panama.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

General Grant has recommenced writing his "History of the War of the Rebellion."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The commission of C. N. Jordan as United States Treasurer was signed on the 30th and his bond of $150,000 approved.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

In the House of Commons the bill relating to industrial schools in Ireland passed its third reading.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Royal mail steamship "Humbert," which left New York April 15, has not been heard from and it is believed to be lost.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The large jeans mill of Broughan & Lamb, in Chester, Pa., was destroyed by fire the other morning. Loss $35,000, covered by insurance.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Secretary Manning has directed the suspension of Merritt Wickham, William H. Gregg, and Ward S. Fowler, Assistant Customs Appraisers at New York.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

During the month of April, Postmaster General Vilas appointed 600 Postmasters at fourth-class offices. The majority of the appointments were made to fill vacancies.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A Joliet, Ill., special stated recently that the striking quarrymen were again creating trouble. A large force of them were reported to be on the way from Lamont to invade the Joliet quarries.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A dispatch from San Francisco says: General Irwin McDowell has been suffering seriously for some time with an affection of the principal digestive organs, which prevents him retaining anything on his stomach.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Angus W. Cannon, a brother of Congressman Delegate George Q. Cannon, was recently convicted of unlawful cohabitation in Salt Lake City. Bishop James C. Hamilton has also been arrested on the charge of polygamy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

An Irwin, Pa., special says the Pennsylvania Gas Coal Company's miners resumed work in No. 4 mine at the reduction, after a strike of nine weeks. Fifteen hundred miners also resumed work at the Scott Haven mines.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A strike of workmen on the Grand Trunk Railroad took place recently at Montreal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Figaro says the French Government will expel the Orleans and Bonapartist Princes from France.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Colonel Switzler, of the Columbia (No.) Statesman, has been appointed Secretary of the Bureau of Statistics.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Sixty barrels of liquor were seized in Muscatine, Iowa, recently under the search and seizure clause of the prohibitory law.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The entire force of the construction department of the Brooklyn Navy Yard was discharged recently because of the lack of money.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Ohio Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the dealing in margins outside of Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A large number of moulders stopped worked at Rochester, N. Y., on account of a twelve and a half percent reduction. Four foundries were idle.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Secretary of the Treasury has received from a Western bank two $1,000 notes of 1885 which were believed by the department to be counterfeits.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Italian financial centers were greatly agitated in consequence of the commission of the many serious frauds which had been brought to light. The authors of the frauds absconded.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

The Postmaster-General has forbidden the delivery of registered letters and money orders to F. Ridd & Co., of Dubuque, Iowa, on evidence that they were conducting a fraudulent business through the mails.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A passenger grain on the Reading & Columbia Railway was thrown from the track recently near Columbia, Pa., by a defective frog, and John Houck, fireman, was crushed to death. Another employee was fatally injured.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

A bill has been passed by the Illinois House to regulate the charges of the Chicago stock yards for yardage, freight, grain, hay, and other articles furnished, and to prevent extortion and unjust discrimination.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.

Secretary Manning has ordered the removal of Special Agent S. E. Chamberlain. One of the reasons alleged for his removal is that he was born in Vermont, was appointed from Virginia, and voted in Maryland.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

We admire and honor a frank, fair and open rival or opponent, one who is too noble to attempt to accomplish his ends by disguise, secrecy or treachery; and there is no one except a treacherous fiend, whom we so utterly despise and loathe, as an opponent who resorts to low, mean, underhanded and sneaking secrecy to accomplish his ends. Yet there seems to be men in each community who think the only way to oppose or rival another--the only way to succeed politically or in business, is, to do something mean and contemptible in a secret manner. They seem to think that this is smart strategy, and if it should succeed, are more likely to boast of it as smartness than to conceal their shame and dishonor. If the rival is a candidate running for some office, they concoct lies and slanders against him; and circulate them secretly, and do not hesitate to stimulate the base and ignorant to meanness, and even crime to accomplish his defeat. They stimulate such to perjure themselves by polling illegal votes, changing votes in the count, making false returns, stealing ballot boxes, and many other crimes. If these crimes are detected they have managed to keep their part in the transaction so concealed that the punishment falls only on their dupes; but if the crime that succeeds is one for which the laws provide no punishment, they seem to glory in their shame.

But there is a bright side to this picture. We sometimes hear of a man pronounced to have been elected, who declines to accept the office on the ground that he does not believe he was honestly and fairly elected. We sometimes hear of a candidate vehemently, and in good faith, defending his opponent against contemptible slanders. We sometimes hear a businessman denouncing a story derogatory to the integrity of a rival in business. We sometimes hear of one going to a rival or opponent and telling him of a charge which is preferred against him, with a view of getting the facts to use in refuting them, and in making the contest a fair and open one. We frequently meet with a man who will not accept of success unless it is accomplished by fair, open and honorable means. The world is not altogether bad, mean and treacherous. The march of civilization tends toward placing these smart strategists in the same roll with horse thieves and sneaks. When society shall become fully awake to the baseness of such characters, they will be treated as foul, contagious diseases in the community and quarantined against. Then will society and politics become nobler, purer, and of the highest value and enjoyment to each and all.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The amendments submitted to the people of Ohio looking to the abolition of the October election are in such a bungling form that some curious complications are possible. There are three separate amendments, one shifting the date of the election of senators and representatives, another that of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer and attorney general, and the third that of county officers. Unless the voters are intelligent and alert enough to vote in favor of all three amendments, it might happen that some election might be left untransferred from the October date. And again, it might happen that in specifying the different offices to be filled in November instead of October, as formerly, they may have omitted to name some one office, and that would still have to be filled in October.

This is on a part with the submission of the prohibitory amendment in that state two years ago. The question pretended to be submitted was prohibition, but in order to ensure the defeat of prohibition, they submitted at the same time, a license amendment, which would be likely to catch votes enough from the prohibition strength to defeat prohibition. This kind of mean, underhanded double dealing seems to be the "Ohio idea."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

A leading wholesale dry goods merchant of this city yesterday made a strong and curious illustration of the shrinkage in dry goods values within the past twenty years. He said that while examining some old papers he found a miscellaneous dry goods bill, which his firm had sold to a country merchant in 1868. It amounted to $1,790. He called one of his clerks and told him to make out a bill for precisely the same quantity and quality of goods at present prices. This was done. The items were carefully checked off, and the amounts footed up. The total was $380. "Now!" said the merchant, "this is not the greatest difference that could be shown. If the same bill of goods had been bought a year earlier than 1868, it would have footed up $2,300 instead of $1,780, because prints and several other articles were much higher during the war than in 1866. In the middle of 1864, or the beginning of 18675, the bill would have been at least $2,300 for what we sell today for $380. You can imagine, therefore, that a firm has to handle a great many times more goods to sell $20,000 a day now than it did twenty years ago." Globe-Democrat.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

It is passing strange how much bitter feeling can be worked up among men generally sensible about a matter of no public consequence whatever. The Imbecile Institution is to be located within two miles of Winfield, the State Board of Charities have visited the various sites offered and will select one of them in due time, the building will be built and the Institution will be near enough to us and to operation within a year. This is all that interests or concerns the citizens of Winfield. Any action of the City Council or members thereof is only an expression of individual preferences, and will doubtless be so regarded by the State Board. Any special efforts to influence the Board in their decision would naturally be attributed by them to motives of personal gain. Nothing can now be done in the matter of the location of any use, and why should the subject be agitated at all? Why should animosities be stirred up and energies expended, which properly directed would be of great benefit to our city and county.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

An old almanac, published at Montpelier, Vermont, gives this advice to the farmers of that region concerning their work for May.

"By the tenth plant potatoes; by the fifteenth your corn.

And see that your sheep in good season are shorn."

That advice was good, as a general rule, in that sub-arctic region; but there were some exceptions. We recollect in that state, some fifty years ago, one sixteenth day of May, snow fell nearly two feet deep. Here, this morning, there was a considerable snow mixed with the rain, whitening the ground in some places, and it seems that the old Vermont advice would be plenty fast enough for Southern Kansas this year. Ordinarily that advice, so far as planting is concerned, would be good here for the month of March.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Perhaps in view of the fact that the Kansas State Asylum for idiotic and imbecile youth is located at Winfield, a brief history of efforts for the instruction of this unfortunate class may be interesting to at least some of your readers. In this sketch I shall only glance at the record of the different establishments in this country, reserving for another paper an account of some of the methods pursued and their results, should you desire such statement. Idiocy, which may be defined as an arrest of development of various degrees of completeness, produced by deficiency of nutrition--has existed in all ages and every country. Until very recently, however, an idiot was regarded only with aversion, and no effort was made to instruct--very little to care for him. The progress in the education of the deaf mutes and blind, and in the amelioration of the condition of the insane, which distinguished the first part of this century, led to endeavors to provide for the improvement of this--the most deplorably miserable of all the dependent classes. Dr. Edward Seguin, of Paris, organized the first school for this purpose in 1838. His enthusiasm and skill, together with a happy faculty of presenting his principles and methods, speedily introduced his work to favorable notice. From this humble beginning the policy of education for the idiot has progressed so remarkably in Europe that in Great Britain alone, there are twelve large institutions, besides several custodial establishments for profound cases. In the United States there are fourteen institutions, which I shall mention in order of organization. Besides these, provisions were made last winter for organizing asylums in California and Nebraska. There is also an asylum in the Province of Ontario. The oldest establishment in this country is at Barre, Massachusetts, founded in 1848. It is a private institution, located amid beautiful scenery, and every convenience and comfort is provided for its inmates. There are five schools, averaging nine pupi8ls each, besides special classes. Instructions from the most rudimentary up to algebra and languages. In the same year, 1848, Dr. S. G. Howe, well known as a successful trainer of the blind, and who deserves special remembrance as the teacher of Laura Bridgman, established a school for idiots at South Boston, which is now a state establishment. There are now 144 pupils. Expenditures for the first year: $24,604.08. In 1851 the New York legislature, impressed by the success of Dr. Howe, established an institution at Albany, afterwards removed to Syracuse. For years, under the able superintendency of Dr. H. B. Wilbur, it stood at the head of establishments of this kind in the country. It has now 318 pupils. Disbursements during the last year: $62,882.72. There are work shops and a farm connected with the asylum. Elwin, Pennsylvania, thirteen miles from Philadelphia, in the heart of picturesque Delaware County, is the seat of one of the most delightfully home-like institutions to be found anywhere. It is presided over by Dr. I. N. Kerlin, who is now the recognized head of the workers in this field. Founded in 1853, it maintains in all its varied departments, which form quite a village, 443 pupils, in addition to 225 who are inmates, not recognized as belonging to the schools and shops, but who are granted appropriate training in their own quarters. The current expenses of last year were $79,084.52. Within a short distance of the city of Columbus, stands the capacious buildings of the Ohio state institution for feeble-minded youth, upon ample grounds cultivated and ornamented to the utmost limit of beauty and profit. In all its appointments this institution leads all others in this work in this country and most in the world. It is under the superintendency of Dr. G. A. Doran, whose practical acquaintance with all matters involving the building, maintenance, and successful management of an institution, renders his services invaluable and indispensable. It has 548 pupils, 22 teachers, and 93 other employees. Current expenses: $105,232.82. Perhaps I shall hereafter speak of the employment of the pupils at this asylum as well as at others, and demonstrate that this class are capable, under proper conditions, of rendering valuable return for expenditures in their behalf. The institution was organized in 1857. In 1858 the late Dr. H. M. Knight established an asylum at Lakeville, Connecticut, under state patronage, which has at this time 92 inmates and is efficiently managed by Dr. Robert P. Knight, son of the previous superintendent. The expenditures of the year are $16,535.53. Overlooking the city of Frankfort, Kentucky, are the fine buildings and grounds of the feeble-minded asylum of that state, under the charge of Dr. J. Q. A. Stewart. It was opened in 1869, has 143 pupils, and expended last year $32,756.12. The grade of this institution is high and the progress in mechanical arts very marked. Of this I shall speak again. In 1869, Dr. C. T. Wilbur, brother of the renowned and recently deceased Dr. H. B. Wilbur, founded an asylum for feeble-minded at Jacksonville, Ill. In 1877 a removal was made to Lincoln, where it has since remained. The number of pupils is 317. Expenditures last year, $72,166.98. Dr. B. W. Fish is now the able superintendent. The Iowa Institution is located at Glenwood; organized in 1876. Recent appropriations have much improved and enlarged its buildings and grounds. There are 239 pupils. The expenditures of the last biennial period were $123,557.36. Dr. E. N. Powell is now in charge, and is "the right man in the right place." The Indiana Asylum for feeble-minded has never been fairly tested. Associated until recent action dissevered the partnership with the soldier's orphan home, it has never received the attention which it deserved. The management has also been subject to political influence, and a number of changes have occurred on this account. It was organized in 1880 at Knightstown, its present location. The last report of Dr. J. W. White, superintendent, showed 86 pupils, and an expense account of $20,282.00 for the last year.

At Faribault, Minn., are located the asylum for the deaf and dumb, the blind and the feeble-minded, under one management. Dr. Geo. H. Knight, son of the lamented Connecticut Superintendent, supervises the latter department. He has sixty pupils, and the annual cost is $27,000. Organized in 1880.

The Kansas institution was temporarily located at Lawrence in 1881, opening in September of that year. There are in attendance 30 pupils, and 58 applicants await entrance whenever sufficient accommodations are provided. Expenditures, $7,500 per annum, which includes payment of many improvements and repairs, and all needed articles of furniture. It will be removed to Winfield so soon as a building is erected. It is altogether probable that an appropriation of from $25,000 to $40,000 will be required from the next legislature to furnish sufficient room for the largely increasing demands for admittance.

The institution at Orillia, Ontario, is crowded, and apparently not well sustained. Two hundred and thirty-five inmates are present, and 151 applicants await room. No provision has been made for the employment of those able to work, and just complaint is made of this false economy. The expenditures for the year are $29,030.99.

Nebraska has voted $50,000 for the establishment of an institution at Beatrice, and California has begun to found one also. Dr. C. T. Wilbur has established a private institution on a beautiful place near Kalamazoo, Mich. There are also other private institutions in the country. Among them must not be forgotten the school in New York, maintained by Mrs. E. G. Seguin, the widow of the son of the great specialist who originated the work of education of the idiot.

Beginning with experiments prompted alike by keen philosophical insight and lofty humanitarian principles, the work has progress so as to embrace all who in the language of the act creating our own institution, "are incapable of receiving instructions in the common schools," and thus restores to the state a large percentage of material, which, but for these institutions, would be despised as worthless and continue to be trodden under foot of men. What has been done, and what may reasonably be expected as capable of attainment, may form the subject of another communication.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

MY GRIEVING, AFFLICTED BROTHER: I read your communication to THE COURIER of Saturday for the pastors of Winfield. I am grieved for you--deeply grieved. The case is sad--truly sad. Yes, O, my friend, it has been a long, long time since you have "heard a preacher pray for a Democratic president or the success of a Democratic president or the success of a Democratic administration." So very long! But did it not occur to you that there might be just a bare possibility of some other reason therefor, than the fact that most of the preachers are Republicans? Just reflect, O, my beloved: it is twenty-four years since there has been a Democratic president or administration to pray for! The only chance the preachers had to pray in that direction was to pray the Lord to give us a Democratic president and administration; and you know, beloved, that would be bringing politics into the church--a thing which no good and faithful Democrat could allow! No, my brother, there has been no chance to pray for "Democratic presidents," and "for the success of Democratic administrations," by the pastors of Winfield, until this spring. So you--really now, don't you see, you know that you ought to hold them excused? How could they pray for what did not exist?

But now we have a "Democratic president" and a "Democratic administration" since the 4th of March--just two months today. And where have you been attending church, beloved, since that time? Or does that seem to long a time to you? Are your sorrows like our dear Bro. Nasby's, that the days seem like years, so heavy is their flight? I don't know. I only know you are grieved, sorrowful. Let me administer a little balm to your wounded spirit. I know of one church in Winfield in which the Divine blessing is invoked on the Democratic president and administration, just as of old on the Republican. Perhaps, though, that church may not be the one of your choice. I know its congregation is "blue." I know the people of it believe in law and righteousness as fully as they believe in mercy and love. I know their idea of love itself is that it is half wrath. It might not suit you. I don't know that it would; but I do know that, in it, prayer is made for the Democratic president, not because he is a Democrat, but because he is the president, just as formerly prayer was made for a Republican president. Don't forget that, beloved!

Again, you want the preachers to look after the Democratic masses. Good, my beloved! Excellent! But where, O, where, have you been living, that you do not know that in the same church referred to above, there is a large proportion of Democrats? How is it that you are not aware that its doors are open to Democratic sinners? How is it that you do not know that the Democratic brethren are held as welcome in the church, in her worship, her work, her christian and social life--that they are as faithful, as square and true, as any--that no distinction is made in that church on the ground of political relationships? Come, now, my beloved, S. P., have you not been doing the "Rip Van Winkle" act? You think the "Democratic party is worth saving." Well, do you mean the party as a party--a political organization? If so, I don't know about that. That is a political question with which, on Democratic principles, the church has nothing to do. If you mean the masses of people who hold the political faith of the Democratic party are worth saving, then I am with you. We'll "shake" on that.

And now, my beloved, as I have shown that you were mistaken in your judgment concerning these matters, will you not let me call your attention to the practice of charity in judgment? You surely do not mean to imply, when you ask the preachers to reach out after the Democratic masses, that these masses are sincere above all other men in your judgement? Now, do you? That would hardly be charitable! Don't you then mean that the preachers don't try to reach the Democrats? In view of the facts named above as to one of the churches in Winfield, you must confess yourself mistaken; and, therefore, such judgment of the men who have been preaching in that church can hardly be called charitable. O, my beloved, remember

"Charity vaunteth not herself," "thinketh no evil." Remember also the words of poor Bobby Burns:

"O wad some power the giftie gie us.

To see ourselves as others see us,

It wad frae mony a blunder free us,

An' foolish notice."

And remember, O, my beloved, that the doors of one church are open to the weary, forlorn, disappointed Democrat; just as freely and cordially as they are to the forlorn and woe-wasted Republican. Why, even the senior of THE COURIER is extending his charity to the Telegram man, and recommending him to come in, and I assure you that the doors are open for both THE COURIER and Telegram men as well as yourself. Yours ever, INDIGO.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Died, in her late home in Burden, Kansas, on the 2nd inst., sister Emma A. Rowland, daughter of Rev. Solomon and Cynthia Ferguson, the latter of whom departed this life January, 1884. Two months later a daughter, Mrs. Savannah Frazier, was called to her long home. Sister Rowland is the third member of Bro. Ferguson's family who has been called by death to leave him within the past 14 months. The deceased leaves her husband, brother Henry Rowland, with whom she was united in marriage Feb. 10th, 1880. Their union was one of love and true harmony of souls. Sister Rowland was young in life, having scarcely reached her 25th year. Having been brought up under christian influences, she early in life gave her heart to the Savior, and united with the Baptist church when but a mere child. She was warmly attached to the church of her choice and the Sabbath school in which she took great pleasure in teaching. When she removed from Winfield to Burden, she was obliged to give up her class: it was to her a great trial. Of her Sabbath school class she often spoke with great interest. She was a filling worker in the Sabbath school as long as health would permit. She was a faithful, loving daughter, an affectionate, true wife, an earnest christian, and to know her was to love her. Though during her last days she was called upon to suffer much, yet she was perfectly resigned to the will of her heavenly Father. The church of which she was a member, the society in which she moved, and the family to which she belonged have been great losers in her death. [Skipped poetry that followed.]

The funeral services were held in the Baptist church on the 4th inst., conducted by J. H. Reider, assisted by Rev. J. E. Leakey. R.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Cowley County seems to be in a stew over the railroad situation. Arkansas City wants the Beaumont and Winfield road while Winfield don't exactly hanker after it; but Winfield does want the S., M. & A. or Puget Sound & Sims Hole Narrow Gauge, and to further complicate matters Wellington has organized for the Fort Smith, Arkansas City & Pike's Peak Air Line, while Wichita is trying to get the Belle Plaine & Kingman paper project. Winfield should come up to El Dorado and get a branch of the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita line. This will make her happy. El Dorado Republican.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Such a day as last Sunday thrills the soul with gleeful gladness. Imbues one with the hope that summer is at last about to dawn upon us, with all its magnificence of bright and lovely days. Summer comes but once a year. Happy summer, when the delightful robins and whippoorwill carol their thrilling tunes, and sedate and wise little frogs perch upon the banks of green ponds and pipe their tuneful lays in ecstatic anticipation of the coming fly time, and the festive bed-bug comes from its winter quarters and spots its unsuspecting victim. Yes, summer is almost here, and soon the melodious strains of the pensive Thomas cat will be heard in the land as he sits on the garden fence, surrounded by midnight gloom, and sings his soul away in mournful cadence for his missing mate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Strangers frequently express surprise at the fine horses and good teams seen upon our streets. It is well worthy of remark that for good stock of all kinds our county and city stand at the head, but those who have been here a couple of years can fully appreciate the great improvement that has been made in horses. Then but few really good teams were to be seen anywhere, the pony being universal. But car load after car load of good farm horses and mules have been brought in while the emigrants have as a rule brought good grades and fanciers have made Winfield headquarters for high grade and thoroughbred stock till, today, no town in the State can show a greater percent of good and fine horses than Winfield.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

All sons of veterans are earnestly requested to meet Saturday evening next at the Odd Fellows hall to complete the camp's organization. By order of J. E. Snow.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Winfield is fast coming to be known as one of the most beautiful, substantial, and desirable cities in the State. All tourists and traveling men remark it, while investors manifest it by putting their money into property here and hereabout. She's a daisy--gloriously so in the velvety verdure and lovely fragrance of balmy May.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The case of Easton against Swarts, case to replevin certain gunsmith tools, was up before Justice Snow again today. The jury, in a trial a few weeks ago, disagreed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The first full month of business under the new prohibitory law ended on May first. Owing to the enormity of the task in figuring up these returns, THE COURIER is late in presenting them. When and as presented they furnish much food for reflection on the part of persons who care to observe the effects of whiskey on prohibition or prohibition on whiskey. The first bunch of statements tackled was that filled by S. E. Steinberger. It was a very extensive job. He filed five hundred and seventy-five statements, covering 407 pints of whiskey and 159 bottles of beer. Fifty gallons of whiskey in thirty days. This is a rattling good business. Many flourishing saloons would be proud of such a trade. The Chicago market report published in our news columns quotes whiskey as "firm at $1.15." This is about the kind of whiskey Mr. Steinberger probably sells at never less than seventy-five cents per pint or six dollars a gallon. If it costs him two dollars a gallon, he has cleared at least two hundred dollars on his whiskey and twenty-five on his beer--a nice thing. The most probable thing is that his net profit on his beer and whiskey business was over three hundred dollars for the month. Steinberger this month as last heads the list. The sales at Arkansas City are as follows.

Steinberger, 575 sales, 407 pints whiskey, 150 bottles beer.

Grimes & Son, 438 sales, 172 pints whiskey, 120 bottles beer.

Butterfield, 226 sales, 156 pints whiskey, 8 bottles beer.

Fairclo, 206 sales, 100 pints whiskey, 76 bottles beer.

Mowry & S., 241 sales, 161 pints whiskey, no beer.

Kellogg & Co., 237 sales, 245 pints whiskey, no beer.

Total sales: 2,007. Total pints whiskey: 1,315. Total bottles beer: 581.

Thus it seems to take four barrels of whiskey and nearly six hundred bottles of beer to keep the city of Canals, boomers, and ineligible councilmen in good health for thirty days. The Winfield record for the same period is as follows.

Harter, 175 sales, 175 pints whiskey, no beer.

Williams, 182 sales, 171 pints whiskey, no beer.

Brown & Son, 197 sales, 136 pints whiskey, 215 bottles beer.

Glass, 108 sales, 138 pints whiskey, 24 bottles beer.

Total sales: 662. Total pints whiskey: 618. Total bottles beer: 239.

Mr. E. W. Woolsey, of Burden, files 226 statements for 191 pints of whiskey and 43 bottles of beer. This makes the record for the whole county stand: 2,755 sales, being 2,221 pints of whiskey and 863 bottles of beer. Of the whole, Arkansas City sells over half and double that of Winfield. There is something rotten down there. An examination of the statements will convince anyone of this. Steinberger has sold three times the whiskey of any Winfield druggist, and twice as much as his competitors. If he is doing a square business, then Winfield druggists must not be making a living. It is the duty of our officers to look after Mr. Steinberger without further delay. The most salutary thing that can be done is for Judge Gans to revoke his permit. Chop his head off smack smooth, and let County Attorney Asp wrestle with him afterwards.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885. Front Page.

The writer located in Winfield some few months past, and has come to stay. There is no subject before the public mind dealing with the future of this city which more deeply impresses nor should receive the serious attention of the people so much as the matter of establishing an Educational Institution in our midst at this time. While it is true that most of the citizens of this country have not located here for their health entirely, but have come for the purpose of satisfying their natural and legitimate desires for wealth and competence, yet the man who lives for the mere accumulation of "precious bane," or the community which irrationally worships at the shrine of gold, will ultimately suffer the moral doom of the most despicable thing on earth--the miser. Our object in writing this article is to fan and encourage the idea of planting a college here which we think will prove of more permanent value to our county, which will shed more lustre over our community and enwreathe it with brighter laurels than all the railroads or spasmodic and financial schemes the most sagacious speculator can set forth; schemes which by reason of their uncertainty and the necessary evils they carry with them make their event doubtful, and sometimes very undesirable. A college in the city of Winfield, well endowed, sustained by a healthy growth, and as our wealthy men grow more wealthy, supported by their liberal contributions, would be a memorial worthy of this generation aside from the constant financial benefit which would accrue to our merchants, tailors, liverymen, grocers, and those engaged in all other lines of business. We want a college for the object of a college, viz: to develop the brain of this county and to keep apace with the spirit of the age, not to be dragged by it, but to guide. The object of education is the full and symmetrical development of all our faculties. That is the best education which approaches the nearest to this. The college course gives this training. It not only furnishes knowledge but it does something better: it brings out, it develops, it trains, it educates the man himself. It not only gives facts but shows how to reason upon these facts, and how to use them. A man's mind, it has been well said, is a logic-engine. Education teaches how to run this engine--knowledge furnishes the material. The great aim of mechanics is to obtain the greatest power with the least expenditure of force, and so the aim of education is to do the hardest and best thinking with the least exertion. A college course affords this training, therefore we want the college. A second reason why we desire such an institution is because it gives culture. A college is not the place to get a merely practical education--a bread and butter education. He who estimates the value of his college course by the number of dollars and cents he makes from it had better stay at home. Education is culture. It recognizes a higher aim than money. If money is all that is desired, the common school is the best possible. The three "R's" are of more importance to the businessman than the whole Latin or Greek language or all the scientific principles known. The studies of a college course are chiefly of two kinds, classical and scientific, and the particular advantage which these afford in the matter of culture cannot be overlooked by a discreet people. In this age and country there is a good deal of human nature in the rough. Classical studies refine and polish. They inspire a love for literature and that which is best among men, exhibiting incomparable models of style and at the same time calling into play and improvement memory, judgment, reflection, patience, taste, and imagination. The analytic and synthetic faculties, too, are constantly exercised and strengthened by the studies of the ancient languages. Scientific education is also one of great value. The scientist of today is one of the great benefactors of the human race. Our knowledge is so intimately connected with the universe that knowledge of the latter implies happiness in the former. A knowledge of natural forces is the foundation of invention, and the inventor is the true benefactor. A thousand years ago Latin was the language of business and science, but now men no longer dive for knowledge in the misty records of the past. They shy into the future. The old motto, "Recovery," has been replaced by the "Discovery." Therefore give us a college. If we are to have an imbecile asylum, for the sake of humanity give us something to counteract and parry off its grosh upon any of our citizens. Unite the two courses of training and the deficiencies of the one, which some men complain of and object to, will be supplied by the excellences of the other, and then we shall have greater strength, more refinement, broader comprehension in the intellectual faculties, and as a people prudent and powerful in all the relations and offices of life. Upon the education of your youth depends much. Let it be hoped that our citizens will work upon the true principle that they will plant and foster an institution of learning which, though it may not prove a successful financial speculation, will yet redound to the honor of this city. Give your children something which will nourish their youth, delight their old age, adorn their fortunes, and elevate their society; and you will do an act which will fall in blessings from the lips of a high-hearted and generous people and bloom in the memory of your children for many years. P. S. H.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Winfield has been infested for some time past with some lazy whelps who make their living by nocturnal visits to residences and business houses, without invitation, appropriating anything they could get. Our officials have tried every way to locate them, but failed until last night. Marshal McFadden had been shadowing two heavily built, burly and poorly dressed individuals for several days as they perambulated our famous sidewalks with an I-wonder-who-we'll-tackle-next expression, and determined that they had taken rooms for the night in the First Ward school building, the lock of one window of which was broken. Sheriff McIntire and Marshal McFadden therefore shortened the idea castle about nine o'clock. The Sheriff entered the hall while the Marshal watched the eight windows of the north wing. But the Sheriff had no light and a "grope in the dark" was not very rapid. The festive burglars tried to exit through a window, but the Marshal stood them off with his gun. Dr. Park happened along, and, taking him to be one of the gang, the Marshal pulled down on him. The Doctor at once confessed his identity and was dispatched to the jail to get a little light to throw on the subject. The flash of a lantern in the building made the burglars desperate, and, watching an opportunity, piled headlong out of a window in the darkness. The Marshal immediately opened fire on them. The first shot brought one of the fellows to the earth, but he got to his feet and then ensued a race for life. The Marshal emptied his "gun"--six shots--but the darkness was too much of a shield, and the fleet burglar got away. Tom Harrod was all this time following up the other disciple of the jimmy. Starting a considerable distance behind, his two shots were ineffective. One of them went so "wild" as to go through the wall of Alex. Graham's house, corner of Eighth avenue and Platter street, passed within a foot of Alex.'s head, and lodged in the stove. The chase had to be given up fruitlessly. But a very bloody trace was found this morning near M. L. Robinson's residence, proving that some of Marshal McFadden's shots hit the mark. The sidewalk was sprinkled with blood all along, and our officials are certain of yet running in the victims.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

While a Beacon ambassador was coming up from Caldwell yesterday, he made the acquaintance of Mr. Jas. Hill, of Arkansas City. Mr. Hill is one of the company which is now building the railroad from Beaumont to Arkansas City. The company expects to have the road in running order about November 1st. The road is graded four or five miles west of Beaumont and rails will be laid this week. Mr. Hill says Arkansas City is very lively, and that the Arkansas River Navigation Company have already one boat built and launched in St. Louis, and will make her first trip about June 1st, and as soon as they get started nicely, they expect to put on fifteen or more boats, so as to have a boat leave Arkansas City every other day. The boats are built of steel plate, will be fifteen feet wide and seventy-five feet long, and notwithstanding their weight, will only draw one foot of water. Wichita Beacon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Money is becoming much more plentiful in the East; that is, for those who are able to put up good collateral.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The widow of the late Commodore Vanderbilt died at her residence in New York, on Monday, May 4th, of pneumonia.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Russia feels so much elated at the results of her boundary contest in Afghanistan that she has just started another similar row with China.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Rev. N. L. Rigby, formerly of Winfield, and builder of the stone "chateau," which Bill Hackney captured the other day, is located on a ranch six miles from Los Angeles, California.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

A St. Louis paper remarks that the Lindell hotel, in that city, will soon be repaired from the effects of the late fire, whereupon the Chicago Tribune remarks: "There is no need of it, for there is another tavern in that village."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Some of the saloon supporting newspapers are very sorry about the assaults on Dr. Krohn, and the breaking up of a temperance meeting by a saloon mob in Leavenworth because, as they say, "It will make five hundred prohibition votes."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

President Cleveland has appointed S. Corning Judd, postmaster of Chicago, vice Frank W. Palmer, suspended, because of "offensive partisanship." He was charged with being one of the most active and offensive Republican campaigners in Chicago last year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Niagara Falls is to be preserved as a public park. The governor of New York signed a bill to that effect the other day. This secures that sublime scenery for public enjoyment, and the Empire state deserves much gratitude for its liberal appropriation of $1,250,000 for this purpose.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Henry Keating, a burglar, was charged in the criminal court in Chicago, the other day, with having committed twenty-seven burglaries. Mr. Keating must have been a great favorite of the police to have been able to commit so many burglaries before being blundered upon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Noble L. Prentis has a new lecture entitled "The temptations of Smith," which is eliciting high encomiums. Everything from Prentis is good, instructive, and amusing, and we don't think the great Smith family of Cowley County would take offense if we should be able to get him to deliver this lecture at Manning's Opera House some fine evening.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The capitol of West Virginia was moved on the 1st inst. from Wheeling to Charleston. The matter of the removal was decided by the vote of the people in 1879, it being provided that the capitol should remain in Wheeling until 1885. Meanwhile a capitol has been erected at Charleston, and the state officials go into elegant and commodious quarters for the transaction of public business.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The Spanish doctors are applying a new antidote for cholera. A Madrid dispatch says that a number of people of Valencia are being inoculated with cholera virus, which produces tremors and prostration for twenty-four hours, but at the end of forty-eight hours, the patient is well. All the provinces of Spain have sent doctors to study the system which it is believed is a great success.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The cold storm of last Tuesday morning extended far to the north and was very severe. At Des Moines, Iowa, ice froze three-fourths of an inch thick and damaged the fruit prospects very much. At St. Paul there was a considerable snow fall, water pipes froze up, and the thermometer was far below the freezing point. At Janesville, Wis., the mercury stood 20 degrees and ice froze a quarter of an inch.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The debt of Russia, as stated in the "Year Book" for 1885, is as follows.

Foreign loans, interest from to 5½ percent: $1,014,950,000

Domestic loans: $1,332,550,000

Forced loans, or paper currency: $578,600,000

Railway debt: $750,000,000

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The Governor has issued a proclamation organizing Clark County. The following officers were appointed: G. W. Epperby, Daniel Burkett, A. F. Harner, County Commissioners; J. S. Myers, County Clerk. Clark County claims 2,032 inhabitants and 854 voters, 481 children of school age, 4,319 acres of land under cultivation. The town of Ashland is named as the temporary county seat, agreeable to the expression of the voters of the county, having received 568 votes; Englewood received 13 votes, scattering 9.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

English foresight in constructing the Canadian Pacific railway is shown by the statement of general manager Van Horne, that the road will be completed by May 15th, so that troops can be transported from Halifax to Vancouver, British Columbia, in eleven days. The work of construction is being rapidly rushed in view of the possible rupture between Great Britain and Russia, in which event, should the Suez canal be closed, British troops can be sent to India by crossing the North American continent, then by Pacific ocean steamer to Calcutta.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The highways in Kansas, as well as the railways, are filled with people looking for homes. It is estimated that the population of the state will be increased by immigration this year, many thousands more than for several years, or rather since the early rush was made to Kansas, just after the war. The wonderful crops Kansas has produced for several successive years invites immigration, and there being much unoccupied land in the state, there is no reason why all seeking homes may not find happy and remunerative ones in Kansas, the great agricultural state of the West.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Arkansas City had a circus last week--a sort of one-horse affair. The "soap men" and "wheel of fortune" men were there also. The Democrat tells of a Mr. Sifferd who was done up by two confidence men for an even $500. By some means they had learned that the old gentleman was pretty well healed, and managed to get him off into a side tent, where one of the fellows pulled out a roll of bills and said he would bet that he had more ready cash than any man in town and if anyone would show up as much he would give him $100. Mr. Sifferd said, "I can." The fellow said, "Show up then, and you shall have your $100." The old gentleman asked permission to go to the bank, which was agreed to, and soon returned with five hundred dollars, which he handed to one of the fellows to count. After counting the money over carefully, he said, "Yes sir, that's correct," and placed the roll of bills in his pocket and disappeared under the canvas, leaving Mr. Sifferd to "hold the bag." Mr. Sifferd immediately notified the officers of his loss, but they were unable to capture the chaps who did the old gentleman up. Let every citizen treasure this up in his mind and when our circus day comes, don't put your money on another man's game.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Probate Judge Locker, yesterday morning, revoked the druggist's permit of T. J. Hume and C. R. Stevenson, issued sometime in March. Hume is the principle, and Stevenson the alleged pharmacist. The place developed into a saloon at the old stand as soon as it was opened and Judge Locker, having received knowledge that the establishment was violating the law, promptly revoked the permit. He states that he will supplement this order by a prosecution under the law if the firm continues the sale of liquor. Judge Locker also revoked the permit of J. Kirkpatrick, of Arrington, who disappointed him in his line of business.

Atchison Champion.

The Champion says editorially of these cases: "The revocation by Probate Judge Locker of a couple of permits issued to alleged "druggists" in this city and county foreshadows the coming of the time when the prediction of the Champion will be fulfilled, and it will be discovered that the "drug store" dodge will not pay. Few people are real fond of a sneak, and a saloon-keeper who boldly defies the law, keeps a square out saloon, and takes the chances, stands higher in public estimation than the man who tries to crawl against the intent of the law and calls it keeping a drug store. The honor, too, of calling oneself "John Smith" and affixing a false signature to a lie to get a drink, will cease to appear in a short time. Altogether the Champion still believes that the will of the majority of the people of Kansas is not a safe thing to fool with."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

James A. Irwin, of the board of county commissioners, is one of the tried and true men of this county, and his judgment is always clear and intelligent. In the matter of advertising the township railroad elections, he saw at once the propriety and justice of placing the proposition for each township in the local paper published in such township, because it was in no sense a county matter paid by the county and there is no reason that it should be published in the official paper of the county as urged, and because the local paper only pays township taxes and works especially for the benefit of the particular township, and is entitled to the benefit of the patronage paid for by his township. In pursuance of this principle, he promptly voted to place the proclamation for Ninnescah township in the Udall Sentinel, but in the first instance he was in a minority of one, then

saw the injustice of the thing and immediately changed his vote to the Sentinel, which gave it the job. We have had many differences of opinion with Mr. Walton on personal, local, and political matters, but these have not so prejudiced us against him that we fail to see his sterling qualities, his wide intelligence, his sagacity, energy, and love of justice. We specially commend him in this act in favor of the Sentinel.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday by the Gossard Investment Company, composed of A. H. Gossard, Thomas R. Bryan, and Wm. Gossard, all of Kansas City, Mo. The capital stock of the company is $100,000, divided into 1,000 shares, which are held as follows: Alvia H. Gossard, 750 shares; Thos. R. Bryan, 200 shares; William P. Gossard, 50 shares. The corporation is to continue fifty years, and will deal in real estate commercial paper. Kansas City Journal.

The people of this city and county will recognize in the above notice the name of a well known, respected, and talented gentleman formerly of Dexter, Cowley County, and later of Winfield, and will cordially wish him abundant success in his present enterprise. T. R. is worthy of it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

A certain woman, whose name will not be mentioned at present, as she has left town, came to Topeka from Emporia several months ago, and has done a land office business, blackmailing married men. The reporter has caught on to several instances where the poor innocent men have been worked, detailed circumstances of which would make rich reading. One man, formerly a prominent physician of Atchison, claims to have been done for $1,000 in good, hard cash. He left Topeka several months ago for St. Louis. In spite of all her good fortune, when the woman left town she neglected to remunerate for her last six weeks' board. She was not living at a hotel. Commonwealth.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Whereas on the 12th day of May, A. D. 1885, the Board of County Commissioners of Cowley County, in the State of Kansas, duly made, and caused to be entered of record in the office of the County Clerk of said county, the following order, to-wit:

Now on the 12th day of May, S. D. 1885, at a special meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of the county of Cowley, in the State of Kansas, duly convened, present, S. C. Smith, chairman; J. A. Irwin and Amos Walton, commissioners, comes W. H. Gillard, a legal voter and resident taxpayer of Omnia township, in the county of Cowley, State of Kansas, and with him comes fifty-one other legal voters and resident taxpayers of said township, and presented their petition in writing to the Board of County Commissioners of said county of Cowley, praying that a special election be called for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters of said township a proposition for said township to subscribe to the capital stock of the Kansas City and South-western Rail Road Company to the amount of seven thousand dollars ($7,000), and to issue bonds of said Omnia township to the amount of seven thousand dollars ($7,000) in payment for said stock, upon the terms and conditions in said petition mentioned and described, and said Board of County Commissioners having duly heard, examined, and considered said petition, and the evidence of witnesses introduced in support thereof, doth find that said petition is in writing, and that said petition is signed by more than two-fifths (2-5) of the resident taxpayers of said Omnia township, and by a majority of the legal voters of said township, and is in all respects in conformity with the law. The following being a copy of said petition:

To the Honorable Board of County Commissioners of Cowley County, in the State of Kansas:

The undersigned legal voters and resident taxpayers of Omnia township, in the county of Cowley, State of Kansas, respectfully petition your honorable body to submit to the qualified voters of said township, at a special election to be called for that purpose, a proposition for said township to subscribe seven thousand dollars ($7,000) to the capital stock of, and to take seven thousand dollars in the capital stock of the Kansas City and South-western Railroad Company, and to issue the bonds of said Omnia township, to the amount of seven thousand dollars in payment for said stock so taken, to the said Kansas City and South-western Rail Road Company, to aid in securing the construction of the line of railroad which said railroad company proposes to construct from Kansas City, in the State of Missouri, through said township, and to the South line of the State of Kansas, the said railroad company proposing to first construct its said line of railroad from the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad North or North-east from said Cowley county through said Omnia township. The terms and conditions of said proposition, the subscription to, the taking of said stock, and the issuance of said bonds, are as follows, to-wit: The amount of aid intended to be hereby voted by said Omnia township to said railroad company, and the amount proposed to be subscribed to and taken in the capital stock of said railroad company by said township, and the amount hereby petitioned and asked for is the sum of seven thousand dollars. The bonds of said township to be issued under the authority hereof to be of the denomination of one thousand dollars each, to run Thirty (30) years (redeemable after ten years at the will of the township,) from the date of their issuance, to bear interest at the rate of six percent per annum, the interest to be payable semi-annually and the principal and interest to be paid at the fiscal agency of the State of Kansas in the city of New York. The said railroad when, and as so built, shall enter said township on the north or east side thereof and extend through said township in a southwesterly direction as near as practicable, and with a suitable freight and passenger depot, to be constructed, sufficient to do the business of the station, with sufficient side tracks and stock yards, to be located within one mile from the geographical center of said township. The said railroad to be of standard gauge and to be a first-class road, and is to be built and completed and have cars running thereon for the transaction of business on or before four months from the date of the election herein prayed for, and in case the said railroad company shall fail to comply herewith, it shall forfeit its right to the bonds herein provided for, and the subscription of stock made in pursuance of the election herein prayed for, shall be and become void and, provided further, that no bonds shall be delivered to said Railroad Company by virtue hereof until the said Railroad Company shall have paid the costs of the election incurred by said township on the 23rd day of June, A. D. 1884, and in case this proposition shall be carried, said Railroad Company shall forfeit its right to the bonds voted at that date. When and immediately after the subscription of stock and issuance of bonds have been voted, and authorized to be made and issued as herein prayed for, according to the terms and conditions provided for herein, then the Board of County Commissioners of said Cowley County, for and on behalf of said Omnia township, shall order and direct the County Clerk of said county in the name of and for the benefit of said Omnia township, to make such subscription of stock, to the amount of seven thousand dollars to the capital stock of said Railroad Company according to the terms and conditions provided for herein, and the said County Clerk shall make such subscription of stock immediately hereafter. . . .

[Proclamation continues on in the same fashion as so many others re railroads.]

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Mr. Brown, a tenant of Dr. W. O. Wright, gave his landlord a wicked looking eye Tuesday. It grew out of a difference of opinion regarding some well work. The tenant did all the knocking. He was, in consequence, a profitable guest of Justice Buckman's court. He got $25 and costs.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Spring has come at last and the public, as usual, are coming to the Headquarters for Clothing, as we are selling at prices to suit the times.

to attract patrons. Our representations are uniformly reliable; as we hold the confidence of the public, our word is a sufficient guarantee. Old customers ask nothing else. We conduct our business on a broad gauge plan. Our prices are beyond compare with any other house.

You should see these suits to appreciate the prices. Special drives in Child's Suits. Our single pant stock is very complete. Nice goods at prices that will please you. In fact everything in our house at fully 20 percent less than any other can or will sell you same quality of goods. Our $2.75 fine Dress Boot still keeps the lead. Solid sole leather counter and insole you know. Full line of Men's, Boys' and Children's

Wedding and fine dress suits a specialty. You are invited to inspect our new stock in the best arranged and best lighted clothing store in the State. Call for any articles named in this ad. and you will be shown them. Thanking the public for the liberal patronage of the past, I remain

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Same blood and age. These Cattle were all raised in Cowley County, Kansas, and are an unusually fine lot. They are by a pure and very highly bred Galloway bull and out of high grade and thoroughbred Shorthorn cows. Sales will be held in the forenoon of each day. Terms, cash or bankable notes.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Mark Twain said he once knew of a man taking a trip all over the country to collect specimens of weather, and that if that man had come to New England one month he could have fitted him out with every variety of weather. Surely the frisky Mark never could have heard of Kansas or Cowley County weather. Why, we can take one little township in Kansas and in two weeks' time show weather of every conceivable form and texture--weather of which no other place on the globe ever dreamed--hot weather, cold weather, wet weather, green weather, weather in the mild form and double concentrated weather in old school doses. Old Probabilities seems to have established his headquarters and principal factory in Kansas, and when the trade is overstocked, he runs off the surplus and odds and ends in slaughter sales and free gift enterprises on his home customers. While the full capacity of the factories is being used to supply the foreign trade, the home market is supplied with remnants. During the past two weeks we have had scraps of all kinds of weather, from hot and dry on down to wet, cool, cold, sleet, and snow. Last Thursday we got the last winter pattern in stock, for this season:

"Oh! The snow, the beautiful snow!

Filling the sky and the earth below,

Over the house tops, over the street,

Over the heads of the people you meet,

Dancing,

Flirting,

Skimming along."

And the soft, velvety verdure, the fragrant rose and all nature smiled in its buoyancy as it accepted the kisses of the coquettish flakes in the balmy month of May.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Another burglar was out Thursday seeking what he might devour. He was evidently very hungry. He pried open the front door of W. E. Poindexter's grocery, east 9th avenue, with an inch chisel, entered, and deliberately appropriated to his own use numerous boxes, cans of fruit, cheese, and cigars, amounting to a considerable sum, and decamped. There wasn't any money around. It begins to look as though the City Fathers will yet be compelled to put on an extra police force to run in these rascally house breakers. Their hauls so far have all been petty, but they evidently aspire to greater things, and must feel the cold fist of the law. It is also well for everybody to carefully lock their premises when retiring, sleep with one eye open, their revolver in hand, and let a little daylight reflect through the carcass of any individual who gives forth uncertain sounds. The burglars must be squelched. They are too promiscuous. They also got in their work at Charlie Sweet's lunch counter, on the avenue. They put a jimmy under the door, raised the bolt out of the socket, and pushed the door in. Mr. and Mrs. Sweet were sleeping in the back room and were awakened by the noise. Charlie came out, lit a match, and saw the festive burglar vanish out the door. This double dose every night is getting monotonous.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Burden voted $2,000 last Thursday for additions to their already commodious school buildings.

Normal opens this year on the first Monday in July, the 6th, Prof. Wilkinson, of the State Normal, conducting.

District 80, "Springside," in Bolton township, have voted bonds for a new and substantial schoolhouse; also district 97, "Crooked Elm," Tisdale township.

At the last Teachers' Examination, the first under the new law formulating the questions in the State Board of Education, out of the seventeen applicants, eight failed. At the last county examination, out of twenty-two, but four succeeded. It is not as easy to get a certificate as in days of yore. As our State and county grow older, we must have better educators. While the questions of the State Board are rigid, they are entirely within the bounds of reason and will have a strong tendency to raise our educational standard. County Superintendent Limerick is in receipt of many inquiries regarding the new mode of examination, some of which, when occasion requires, he will publicly answer through THE COURIER. The criticism made on the questions of the State Board in THE COURIER a week ago, will be answered by the State Superintendent in the Western School Journal, official organ of the State.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The Board of Commissioners made an order directing the trustee of each township to cause to be decently interred the body of any honorably discharged Ex-Union soldier, sailor, or marine who served in the army of the United States during the late war, who may die without leaving sufficient means to defray funeral expenses. The county pays the expense, and furnishes a headstone for the grave. This is in pursuance of a law passed at the last session of the legislature. One of the most touching and beautiful oral tributes we have ever heard was made on the passage of this bill in the House, by Hon. David Overmyer. It passed without a dissenting vote. Thus Kansas, through her representatives, decrees that the old soldier shall, after his weary walks of life are over, be provided with a last resting place and his grave appropriately marked and kept ever green by the willing hands of the people whom his valor and patriotism saved.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The Telegram Hose Company held its annual election of officers Wednesday, resulting as follows: Frank Holbrook, captain; J. M. Connor, foreman; Charles Andrews, secretary; L. E. Back, financial secretary; Al McNeil, treasurer. A resolution was passed requesting the City Council to amend the Fire ordinance creating the office of Assistant Chief. At present the captain of Number One is assistant chief, but the companies think it expedient to have an assistant separate from either company, to be elected by the Department outside of their membership, and that the pay of said assistant be $2.50 for each alarm. For the foremanship, Jim Connor and George Jackman were a tie, and had to flip nickles to decide, Jim coming up "heads." The new Chief Fire Marshal, W. H. Clark, was duly installed, and a vote of appreciation extended to ex-Chief, D. L. Kretsinger.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

"Fuller'n a biled owl" was illustrated Wednesday. Phelps and Newman have a large prairie owl in their store, which wandered into the ware room, and dipped its beak into a graduate sitting under the leaky faucet of a barrel of Sp. I am, B. It doubtless tried the experiment for scientific purposes. The poor bird got so full that it could see just as well in day time as at night, and just as well with its eyes closed as open. We have never seen anything look so foolish as a drunken owl except a drunken man. Burden Eagle.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

McGuire Brothers closing sale on clothing is proving a big thing for purchasers. They are selling fine suits for men and boys at less than the cloth can be bought for. One man who hadn't more than money enough to buy a vest at the clothing stores, was fitted out with a whole neat, nobby, durable suit from their stock and went away happy. They mean business and propose to "close-out" their stock of clothing.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

James N. Young, president of the K. C. & S., arrived Thursday from Chicago with his family, who will reside here until the road is completed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

M. Hahn & Co. are offering a big bargain in children's suits.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Hackney & Asp are fixing up the room formerly used by Justice Snow as a law office.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The Governor has appointed Jacob K. Kerr Justice of the Peace of Harvey township, in this county.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Capt. M. N. Sinnott and wife and Sheriff McIntire and wife Sundayed with their Canal City friends.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Before borrowing money on real estate, call at the Farmers' Bank and get rates. No delay in closing loans.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

We have a number of Children's odd suits from 4 to 8 years at nearly half price. M. Hahn & Co.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Mrs. Jno. C. Rowland returned home today after a month with relatives in Bolton township, and the handsome John rejoiceth.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Hon. Nelson F. Acers has been appointed collector of internal revenue for Kansas, in place of John C. Carpenter, who is removed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Frank Hall is in from Ashland, very jubilant over the permanent organization of Clark County, with Ashland as the County Seat.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Sarah Wade, of Arkansas City, was adjudged insane in the Probate Court Tuesday. An application was sent for her admission to the asylum.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Mrs. James Rothrock and children left on the Southern Kansas Tuesday for Troy, Penn., to be gone all summer, and Jimmie will be a "widdy."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Wm. Heisinger, of Tisdale, died Saturday morning. He is a brother-in-law of Geo. Lierman. George's shop was closed Saturday afternoon in consequence.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

P. S. Hills has hung his law shingle out to the breeze. He will office with P. H. Albright. Mr. Hills is a young man of sterling worth and will make it win.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

W. M. Riggs, who has been prospecting and investing in this section for some months, left this morning for his home, Moundsville, W. Va., to remain till fall.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Bob Pratt and Claude Rinker are in from Clark County, having proved up their "claims" around their 160-acre paradises. Bob is a great sunshine radiator.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Prof. R. B. Moore is home from the west. He has planted his cabin on a quarter of Uncle Sam's domain, six miles from Ashland, and will return in a few weeks.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Hon. S. J. Kirkwood, who is visiting his nephew, the Doctor, is accompanied by his wife and niece. This is their first trip to this section and they are highly delighted.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Gen. Hatch's dusky troops--four hundred--passed through the city Tuesday on their way to Dakota. The festive boomer will be under the vigilance of another general and command.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Father Kelly has just returned from Independence, Kas., where he assisted in a confirmation, given by Rt. Rev. L. M. Fink, O. S. B. One hundred and four children were confirmed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

W. C. Douglass, formerly of New Salem, but now living in Barbour County, was here Friday. He returns to the "wild west" tomorrow, where he has a good claim and is doing well.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Dr. Hornaday and Gene Wilbur from Rock, are in the city. The Doctor is on his way back from Wichita, where he has been attending the Medical Association. He reports a good time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

John Andrews was over from Otter Friday. He is looking up the wool and fat sheep market. He says the COURIER was in error in stating that he had lost a hundred sheep by a freshet. He has lost none.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Mrs. Lou Harris, nee Miss Mattie Minnihan, came in Monday from Kansas City. Her husband, formerly on the Southern Kansas, is now on the K. C. & S., and they will likely again take up their residence here.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Rev. J. H. Snyder preached the funeral of Mrs. Ed. A. Allen Sunday p.m. at schoolhouse 106, from the text, "Now they desire a better country." Heb. 11:16. A large congregation was present, some being unable to get in the house.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

P. H. Albright & Co., now personally control $600,000, and are the parties to borrow of when you want a loan on real estate security. So far in business life they have refrained from robbing the widow and the fatherless.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Mr. J. M. Stafford has been sworn in as Deputy City Assessor, to finish up the personal property assessment. Capt. T. B. Myers is numerously laid up with Job's comforters--on his neck, nose, and other places too numerous to mention.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Mr. Chas. Rempe, wife, and eight children arrived Friday from Noble County, Ohio. They have purchased the Allison property, southeast Winfield, and will locate permanently. Mr. Rempe is a man of means and will invest largely here.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Mr. L. M. Williams, our enterprising druggist, is continually looking for novelties in his line. His latest is genuine spruce gum, right from old New Hampshire, put up in elegant miniature barrels. Girls, if you must chew gum, chew this.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Frank K. Raymond sends us word from Wellington that the case of the State of Kansas vs. W. T. Edwards, the defendant being charged with the murder of John Wilson at Wellington last fall, has been transferred to Cowley County on change of venue.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Jessie James, Jr., alias Tommie Gill, has returned from his little furlough. He went to his sister's, Quinton, Missouri, but she refused to shield him from his twelve-year-old deviltry, and ticketed him for home. He will be sent to the Reform School.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

James Hill was here Saturday night from Beaumont, where he is superintending the grading for the K. C. & S., on his way to spend Sunday with his folks at Arkansas City. He reports work progressing finely. All the teams and men that can be secured are at work.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Hendricks & Wilson have furnished the editor with the cutest little telescope extension pocket scissors that one could imagine. What Hendricks & Wilson cannot furnish in the fine cutlery line is not worth having. With this instrument we expect to write bright, original editorial paragraphs.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Messrs. A. Lindhelm and A. M. Grunsfield are at the Brettun from New York City, and will probably go into the dry goods business here. They are of life-long experience in the business, plenty of means, and pleasant gentlemen. They think Winfield by far the prettiest city they have seen in the west.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Hon. Samuel J. Kirkwood, wife, and niece left Tuesday afternoon, after a few delightful days here. Though seventy-one years of age, the Governor exhibits a suppleness and general vivacity that would be cherished by many a younger man. He will visit numerous other places before returning to his home, Iowa City, Iowa.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The serenaders were again out with their charming guitar and vocal music Saturday night. As the low, sweet strains floated out from under ye scribe's window, his soul was engulfed in a heavenly calm whose appreciation was unutterable. Such music would swell the calloused heart of even a confirmed stoic. These serenaders (Will Ferguson, Quincy Robertson, Fred Bates, and Ed Donnell) are winning golden laurels.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

A report comes of the murder of the Mayberry family, who once lived on the James Harden place, near Dexter. They have been residing in New Mexico. A doctor was boarding with them. A burglar broke into the house, killed the doctor, then killed Mr. and Mrs. Mayberry and three children, a neighbor, and one of a pursuing party. He was finally killed. Our informant gathered his information from hearsay and we have not the particulars at hand. It seems strange that such a riot should not have appeared in the dispatches.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Capt. J. S. Hunt and lady entertained Nella F. Brown during her stay in our city. Her presence anywhere is a "feast of reason and a flow of wit." Winfield captivated Nella as much as she captivated it. She was driven over our city by Judge T. H. Soward, and determined to buy property here--even went so far as to say that she never saw a more beautiful city and was imbued with a desire to make this her home. Perhaps this is due to the wonderful persuasiveness of the Judge. Winfield people certainly gave her a rousing reception, and would be still more enthusiastic in welcoming her as a resident.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Tom H. Harrod objects to our making him the wild shootist in last Friday night's pistol serenade. He says the ball that went through Alex. Graham's house wasn't shot by him: the direction and size indicating that it came from Marshal McFadden's "gun." The Marshal also declares that it wasn't him, and other officials say it couldn't have been them, for they were clear out of range. The only man left seems to be the burglar. As soon as our reporter can gain an interview with the disciple of the jimmy, THE DAILY COURIER will accurately and speedily inform its readers whose "gun" committed the bold break. Until then, be "azy."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The libelous punster of the Telegram thus entails feminine vengeance: "A COURIER man took a trip to Arkansas City Sunday and writes up the trip under the head of 'Away from the din and bustle.' He proceeds to give the names of ladies and gentlemen, in an equal number, who also took the trip. By quite a stretch of the imagination we think we can understand that they got away from the din--but we find it impossible to accept Frank's statement that they got away from the bustle. No well-regulated young lady will leave home, especially on an expedition like the one referred to, without her bustle. It wouldn't be the proper thing to do. We think our young friend must have been imposed upon by some of his fair companions, for we are loath to believe such a thing--and then if they did, we don't think Frank did right in making a public matter of it. He owes our girls an apology and we hope he will make it. Our columns are open to him."

Oh, no! Not us, George. When the wicked ends of a dozen brooms play frantically over your cranium, you will understand from whom an apology is expected. Do you think that because you are out of the market that you can libel our girls like that? Do you think our girls are all artificial? Do you think they have to be all patched up before every appearance in the social arena? Mistake most terrible! What is a girl fit for whose principal composition is paper, cotton, crinoline, and rose? Nothing, sir; nothing! Think of the perfectly developed rose, Dear George, as it casts its beauty and radiance all around--captivating the aesthetic and exhibiting the most perfect handiwork of heaven! This is a worthy comparison with the girls at whom you so libelously throw the horrid bustle.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The above named monster confederation of Mammoth Railroad Shows will exhibit at Winfield on Friday, May 22nd, in all its gigantic completeness and immensity, and with two hundred first-class, all superior stars, led by Mr. James Robinson, the world's champion bareback rider, who leaves retirement, wealth, and luxury for a farewell season with fame equal to a Caesar's. We are pleased to be able to state that this is the acknowledged-by-all big show of the world today: the very largest, the very choicest, and the very best. It is also the newest, the brightest, and the most original, and has a greater collection of animate and inanimate wonders beneath its canvas than any other ten shows traveling. Every zone--yes, every continent--has contributed to its wonderful collection. It has a Menagerie unexcelled in general and wonder features. "Xerxes," whose weight is over ten tons; the only living giant hippopotamus in the world; the only living pair of black tigers; the only living two-horned white rhinoceros, and a thousand glittering generalities as yet beyond our ken, but surely to be seen by us. It has 200 first-class star performers, in their wonderful arenic exhibitions, a great elevated stage, and wonderful racing carnival, and--well, in a word, it has a thousand new features, which from their strange and startling nature, justly entitles it to the euphonious cognomen of "The Greatest Show on Earth." It has been here before, and we know whereat we speak.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Marshal McFadden, now that the lenience of the mayor's "clean up" proclamation has expired, is preparing to make war on the owners of filthy premises. The high and low, the rich and poor, who don't come up to the rack will be served alike--taken before Judge Turner for an assessment. But don't give the marshal a chance to do this. Grab time by the top-knot and disinfect the privy vaults, haul off the dead cats, pigs, etc. The time of year for cholera, "fever-nager," summer complaint, hay fever and spring fever is nearly upon us and our houses not in order. Clean up, burn the trash, make your back yards as clean as your front. Clean out your wells and air up your cellar, or your days will be few in the land and tax-paying time will find you dead or disabled.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

A very tony tourist who recently spent a week at one of our hotels went out for a brief business trip, leaving a trunk for the safety of which he was particularly solicitous, as security for his bill. Not returning as per agreement, an investigation developed the fact that the valuable package was lined with newspapers, and well filled with wheat bran, with a few moderate sized boulders thrown in to add weight to the outward indications of hidden wealth which it contained.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

"You newspaper men," said a cruel fellow to our reporter the other day, "must have queer views of things. You are always looking on and never taking a part. I suppose now your idea of the day of judgment is that you will have a table off at one side and report the proceedings to THE DAILY COURIER."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The case of W. A. Lee vs. Wm. Seitz, a case to recover price of windmill, was decided in favor of the defendant after a week's siege in the District Court. Mr. Lee loses thereby the worth of the mill--$300 and the costs, $200. It was a very knotty case. Seitz lives in Ninnescah township.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Never go into a store where you are not wanted. If a man wants you to go into his room, he will invite you to do so, and if a merchant wants you to visit his place of business, he will invite you through the columns of your local newspaper. It is wrong to intrude upon privacy: don't do it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The raising of the awnings has vastly improved the beauty of our streets. J. P. Short says he is going to raise the rent on his buildings, as a renter can now stand in the door and see a dog fight at the other end of town--a convenience he did not enjoy under the old low awning reign.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

An election was held in Cass County, Ill., Thursday, to elect a successor to the Democratic member of the Legislature, who died some time ago. Weaver, Republican, was elected. This gives the Republicans 103 on joint ballot, and will probably settle the election of John A. Logan.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Our "Want" column continues to grow in popularity and benefit to the advertisers and those looking for purchases, lost articles, rents, sales, and trades of all character. Everyone reads it, and every day buyers and sellers are brought together through it. Only twenty-five cents.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The Board on the location of the Methodist College met at Wichita last evening, and after consulting, decided to visit the different towns, get their propositions in writing, and meet again at Wichita on June 9th. We will publish their proceedings in full tomorrow.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The County Commissioners met in special session Tuesday afternoon and called bond elections in Richland, $5,000, and Omnia, $7,000, in stock in the Kansas City and Southwestern railroad, the proclamations to be published in THE COURIER.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

And now comes the El Dorado evening Republican, a new daily started by T. B. Murdock. It is a counterpart in beauty to Bent's weekly--a regular daisy, typographically, editorially, and otherwise. Long and successfully may it wave.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

A couple of colored soldiers were in town Thursday. They had deserted from the troops near Arkansas City. An orderly was sent up after them several days ago; but instead of capturing them, is said to have given them money to get away on.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The nocturnal visitor that smashed Mrs. F. M. Sparks' garden in order to get in the back way to Mr. Tid's coal box, is known, and if he don't want to smell gun powder, he had better not try it again.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The circulation of THE DAILY COURIER is growing more rapidly than ever during the last few days. Its reception shows an appreciation on the part of our citizens which is most gratifying to the publishers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

A car load of eastern buggies and carriages just received. If you need a vehicle, call and see me, at the new frame building next to Oliver's lumber yard. W. E. Nation, Agent.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The new Street Commissioner is getting in his work on east Tenth avenue, and is doing an excellent job. Jap is a rustler and will make our streets loom up in excellent shape.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

A. H. McMaster & Co. keep constantly on hand a full stock of oak, poplar, and pine lumber, sash, doors and blinds, lime, cement, plaster etc. Lowest prices.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Our four dollar embroidered robes can't be matched. Come in and look at them. M. Hahn & Co.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Don't forget to call on August Kadau for fine and heavy boots and shoes, either shop or eastern made.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

This is a famous spring for tame grasses. Those who seeded their grounds are fortunate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Winfield has never been more highly entertained, and never had a visitor whose return will be more cordially welcomed than Miss Brown. Her entertainment last Thursday evening in the Opera House was thoroughly enjoyed by a large audience. Her selections abounded with humor and pathos, and her audience held captive from the start, encored her to the echo, and when the entertainment closed all over the hall rose the murmur, "Why did she quit?" Saturday night she again gave us an entertainment that her auditors will always remember. "Tom's Little Star or Art and the Woman," was a masterpiece of elocution, and whether as "Mary Stuart," "Queen Katherine," or convulsing an audience by making Bob Burdette's humor more humorous still, we have never seen her equal. Miss Brown sealed her triumph in Winfield Sunday night when unexpectedly to herself, she was requested to give a recitation after Rev. Reider's temperance lecture in the Baptist church. Costume, diamonds, foot-fights, and stage tapestry were gone, and in a simple traveling dress with spring bonnet, stood one of the most beautiful of women. Her rich, gentle voice captivated her audience at once, and ere she had told half of "Little Jessie's Death," her auditors were in tears. On the stage, a star without a rival, as an elocutionist; in the church, "Our Ideal Woman," is our opinion of Nella F. Brown.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Again has death taken away an old pioneer of Kansas and Cowley County. Mr. James H. Finch, after a long illness following a paralytic stroke, died Sunday morning, last. He had just turned his fifty-second year. He was born in Philadelphia. In 1854 he was married to Martha J. Woodward, who, with seven children, Frank W., William A., Cora B., James H., George, Mrs. Mary Laucke, and Mrs. Hattie F. Barr, survive him, all but the two last named residing here. The deceased came to Kansas in 1856 and settled in Riley County. In 1871 the family came to Cowley County and preempted a home on Silver creek, near Burden. In 1873 they moved to Winfield. At the beginning of the war he enlisted at Atchison in the 13th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, under Colonel Bowen, late senator from Colorado, and served through that conflict. He was a member of the G. A. R., and at the time of his death was Senior Vice-Commander of Winfield Post. The funeral took place from the Methodist church with Grand Army honors. Revs. Ford, of Independence, and Kelly of this city, delivered touching and appropriate sermons. The attendance was very large. The remains were laid to rest in Union Cemetery.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Hon. S. J. Kirkwood, Iowa's "old war Governor," who, with his wife and niece, is visiting his nephew, Dr. W. R. Kirkwood, delivered a lecture at the Opera House Monday evening, in response to the request of a number of old Iowa soldiers. The audience was one of the largest that has yet assembled in the Opera House. The Governor's lecture was very interesting and often applauded. He gave many new and bristling points about the rebellion. The Governor is one of our historical characters. He was governor of Iowa during the entire war, two terms, and after two years intermission was again re-elected for the third term. As a war governor, his ability and popularity were unequaled. He was twice U. S. Senator of Iowa, and was Secretary of the Interior under Garfield. He is a sturdy, plain and brainy Scotchman--one whose geniality and sound sense constantly radiate. He expresses himself as highly pleased with his Winfield visit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Miss Jessie Millington gave a very enjoyable progressive euchre party Saturday evening. There were four tables, and of course some exhibitions of skill--and ill luck. Miss Emma C. Strong and Mr. Byron Rudolf were the most profusely adorned with blue medals and were awarded appropriate prizes as the best players, while for red ribbon adornment, and unlucky playing, Miss Cora M. Dousman and Mr. Thomas Eaton received the prizes. Miss Dousman was also up to the champion lady player in blue medals, but the test "cut" her out. There were present, besides those named, Misses Sadie French, Anna Hunt, Lizzie and Margie Wallis, and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wilson; and Messrs. M. J. O'Meara, M. H. Ewert, Everett Schuler, E. H. Nixon, and Frank H. Greer. Progressive euchre for the entertainment of a small party is unexcelled. The game is simple, novel, and fascinating. As a society game it is becoming justly popular.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Sheriff Tuttle came in Monday from Danville, Illinois, with a requisition for Ed. Peebles, who was arrested last week by Deputy Sheriff Tom H. Harrod. Peebles was charged with incendiarism four years ago, in Danville. He was the engineer of the Fire Company. Four of the company were guilty of firing valuable buildings to get a "run." Three of them were sent to the "pen," but Peebles skipped his bail and has since been at large in the wild west. Through ways best known to himself, Deputy Sheriff Harrod caught on to his whereabouts and took him in for safe keeping, and telegraphed Tuttle. Peebles has been engineer at Conklin's stone quarry for some months, and has every appearance of an honorable, intelligent man, neat and good looking. He had joined the Methodist church, and seemed to have been leading a straight, reliable life. But the scent of by-gone days was too strong, and reparation breaks the tranquility of his days.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The Governor on Tuesday issued a proclamation organizing Clark County. The following officers were appointed: G. W. Epperby, Daniel Burkett, A. F. Horner, county commissioners; J. S. Myers, County Clerk. Clark County has 2,042 inhabitants and 854 voters, 481 children of school age, 4,319 acres of land under cultivation. The town of Ashland is named as the temporary county seat, agreeable to the voters of the county.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

We took a short trip to the county seat Monday and found everything in ship shape order in that metropolis. The businessmen were all working for dear life on the D. M. & A. petition, and seemed confident that Udall will get the road if Ninnescah township votes the bonds. We called at the COURIER office. The enterprising gentlemen connected with that paper are making a wonderful success with their daily. They inform us that they will enlarge it in a few days. Such is the result of perseverance, ability, and grit. Udall Sentinel.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The Arkansas City Democrat says: "The largest egg we ever saw was brought into market last Saturday by Mr. J. P. Stover, of Pleasant Valley township. It measured nearly nine inches in circumference the long way, and five and a half the other. Hens know that eggs are cheap, and are evidently determined to close out the stock on hand." That sounds like a mighty big eggs-ageration, but as Charley never even heard of Munchausen, we chew it right down, without boiling.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Winfield continues to build and increase in population with a rapidity that surprises the oldest inhabitant. The trains are crowded daily with men seeking homes and business investments and while many pass on to the west Winfield secures the moneyed men. The Harper Daily Graphic will please take notice that its scissor fiend is stumped--the above is copyrighted; all rights positively reserved.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The careful housewife now roams the earth seeking whom she may to clean house, and having found a treasure in the cleaning line when the work is finished straightway, doeth it all over herself, declaring all help is grass and wisheth that she was a wild Indian and lived in a wigwam where spring work troubleth not and spring clothes are unknown.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

We are in receipt of cards announcing the marriage of Rev. J. O. Campbell and Miss Grace E. Medbury, at Stafford Springs, Ct., on May 6th. Rev. Campbell is Arkansas City's U. P. minister, and one of the brightest young men in the state. The newly wedded pair will be "at home" in the Terminus after the 15th inst.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Soon, very soon, the festive, seductive cucumber will appear--and how innocent it looks as it is sliced up in vinegar. But beware, for verily that same cucumber will double you up and tie you in a knot that nothing short of a mustard plaster of twenty horse power can give relief to.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

George Corwin's house caught fire two weeks ago and was slightly damaged. It was insured in the Fireman's Fund, San Francisco. The agent, W. J. Wilson, was informed of the loss, but no claim was put in. Monday George was made happy by a check for the damage.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Prospects are very flattering for the big races next week. Mr. Kretsinger, General Manager, tells us he is receiving entries from every direction, and that every race on the program will fill and go. Don't forget the dates, 21, 22, and 23 of May.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

If you want to insure against fire, lightning, or tornadoes, call on W. J. Wilson, over the postoffice, who will give you the lowest rates, on the cash or instalment plan. None but the best companies represented.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Nothing but a spell of bad weather can spoil the big races for next week. The horses will be here by the hundred, and among them the fastest in the State. Get yourselves in shape to see the fast flyers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

We have about two dozen very handsome Shetland shawls that we are offering at about half value. M. Hahn & Co.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Miss Belle Page goes to "Darien," Rock township, Thursday, for a two months' summer school.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Some weeks ago we received a communication attacking "Mark," with an order to send THE COURIER to its writer. The paper was sent to the writer, but the article was sent to the wastebasket. Last week the gentleman, not seeing his article, stopped his paper. The article was printed in another paper. This week "Mark" sends us a reply. It is the keenest, most concise, and cutting piece of pencil work we have ever seen. We have it in type and feel half inclined to publish it, notwithstanding the settled policy of THE COURIER to keep matters of personal controversy on the part of correspondents out of its columns. It is too fine a piece of work to suppress, and most too warm to publish.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

It is darkly hinted that James Jordan will soon depart from the rugged path of single blessedness. Can it be that some gentle lady has at last broken Jim's heretofore cast-iron heart? So mote it be. Our faber dances in ecstacy at the thought of chiming in with the wedding bells of the happy event.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The Methodist folks are preparing to go right ahead with the tower for their church and reseating it. Those who have subscribed to the fund for this purpose, and haven't yet paid in, are requested by the church board to hand the amount to the treasurer, W. C. Robinson, at once.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Arkansas City is all stirred up over water and gas ordinance. Three of the council have resigned on account of not being eligible under the laws requiring them to be property owners. There are two factions and the war between them waxeth warm.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Capt. Rooker has offered ninety dollars reward for the apprehension of the two-colored soldiers who deserted his regiment the other day. They were here Friday, but slid out before our officials got a chance at them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The D., M. & A. election in Conway, Eden, and Sumner townships, held Saturday, resulted in carrying the bonds by big majorities. This gives the road $4,100 per mile from Kingman to Belle Plaine.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The legal mill has ceased to grind, awaiting the return of Judge Torrance. There are only a few minor cases remaining. The Judge has gone eastward for several days.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

We are in receipt of a handsome circular announcing an excursion on the 12th and 13th, over the St. Louis, Ft. Scott and Wichita railroad, from Fort Scott to Anthony, in celebration of the completion of the "Sunflower Route" to the latter place. The citizens of Anthony have arranged for a grand jubilee on that occasion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

We are informed by Mr. Kretsinger, secretary and general manager, that all details and complete arrangements are perfected for the spring meeting at Winfield. Entries are coming in from every direction. The best and fastest horses from Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska will be entered for the races. The people of Cowley and surrounding counties will have the pleasure of seeing the fast flyers with records down in the "twenties," and should not forget the dates, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 21, 22, and 23. The fair grounds are in excellent condition for the accommodation of all visitors, with big attractions every day.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The following are the real estate transfers filed in the office of Register of Deeds yesterday.

E. H. Long and wife to Viola G. Crabtree, s ½ of s e ¼ and s ½ of sw ¼ 9-33-7 e 160 acres: $1,500

Cowley County to Chas. C. Black, lot 8 in block 165, tax deed: $1.40

Arthur H. Unger to Chas. J. Singling, w ½ of n e ¼ 28-30-6 e, 80 acres, deed and dower: $500

Byron A. Wagner to A. H. McConahie, lot 22 and 23 in block 101, Arkansas City: $500

O. Clark to James B. Clark, pt of lot 5 of s w ¼ 31-33-3 e, 29 acres: $240

O. M. G. Hoyt to C. G. Hoyt, part of s w ¼ 1-43-6 e, 60 acres: $240

Marie and W. W. Andrews to Sarah Spencer, lot 6 in block 143, village of Northfield: $160

Frances M. Barker and husband to W. H. Lycan, lot 14 blk 48, Manning's add to Winfield: $275

Mary A. Crayne to Herman Trafflick, lots 21, 22 and 23, blk 120, Arkansas City: $850

A. M. G. Hoyt to Jonathan and Anna Hoyt, pt of s ½ of s w ¼ 1-33-6 e, 20 acres: $50

Abraham L. Baer and wife to M. L. Robinson, e ½ of n e ¼ and s w ¼ of n e ¼ and lot 16 all in 31-31-8 e, 160 acres: $750

S. D. Pack and wife to R. H. Moore, s ½ and n e ¼ 12-32-6 e: $5.00

S. D. Pack and wife to R. H. Moore, s ½ of n e ¼ and s ½ of n w ¼ sec 10 and s w ¼ 10-32-6, 320 acres, quit claim: $5.00

L. E. White and J. E. Powell, w ¼ 2-31-6 e, 160 acres: $1,500

Silas Kennedy and wife to Z. Carlile: $300

R. and Elizabeth Pitts to C. M. Scott, lots 13 and 14, blk 60, Arkansas City: $200

R. J. Pond to C. M. Scott, lots 23 and 24, blk 148, Arkansas City, quit claim: $5.00

C. M. Scott and wife to L. S. Cary, lot 9, blk 13, Arkansas City: $25.00

C. M. Scott and wife to L. S. Cary, lots 10, 23 and 24, blk 13, and lots 17 and 18, blk 10, and lot 28, block 96, ex pt of lot 28 block 96, Arkansas City: $325

A. H. McConahie and wife to B. A. Wagner, s e ¼ 1-35-3 e, 160 acres: $5,000

R. Mitchell and wife to E. N. Brown, n w ¼ of nw ¼ of s e ¼ 24-34-3 e, 10 acres: $600

Fannie Lewis to C. R. Mitchell, n w ¼ of n w ¼ of s e ¼ 24-34-3 e: $58.26

Mrs. Elizabeth Brown to John Andrews, part of s w ¼ of s e ¼ 3-32-5 e, 10 acres: $150

Sidney Curtis and wife to Edward L. Barnes, e ½ of se ¼ 4-31-8 e, Cowley Co., and w ½ of sw ¼ 4-31-8 e, 160 acres, Elk Co.: $600

W. J. Wilson and wife to Albert McNeil, lot 15, blk 113, Winfield: $125

Wm. L. Krebs and wife to Arthur Fitch and Edward Barron, pt of 1-35-3 e, 32 acres: $750

Chas. E. Fuller and wife to Wm. L. Krebs, lot 4 and 3 1-35-3 e: $85.00

H. P. Farrar and wife to Wm. L. Krebs, lots 4, 5 and 6, 1-35-3 e, quit claim: $50

C. M. Scott and wife to Wm. L. Krebs, 10 acres off a side of lots 5 and 6, 1-35-3 e: quit claim: $50.00

Foster J. Burnette, special master in chancery to H. E. Ball, s w ¼ 8-30-6 e: $500

Harry P. Farrar and wife to F. J. G. and C. H. Danks, lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, blk 127, Arkansas City: $600

George N. Bixler and wife to Mary A. Donnelly, lot 12, blk 155, Arkansas City: $40.00

Alfred Greedland and wife to David Staller, lot 9, block 28, Fitzsimmons' ad to Udall: $30

W. H. Simms and wife to David Staller, lot 10, blk 28, Fitzsimmons' ad to Udall: $125

Miles S. Williams to B. L. Gardener, lot 1 and 2, blk 50, Williams' ad to Udall: $90

Miles S. Williams to R. L. Gardener, lot 5, blk 50, Williams' ad to Udall: $100

Burden Town Company to Wm. Agio, lot 4, block 29, Burden: $25

Henry Denning and wife to Sylvester F. Beck, e ½ of sw ¼, 16-33-5 e, 80 acres: $1,000

Thos. Dyer and wife to Samuel A. Brooks, lot 22, block 34, Burden: $700

Burden Town Company, lot 36, block 39, Burden: $700

Burden Town Company to W. H. Tredway and wife, lots 27 and 38, block 49, Burden: $150

Lyman M. Brown and wife to Geo. L. Brown, w ½ of ne ¼, 17-31-4e: $428

Burden Town Company to J. F. McIntosh, lot 33, block 39, Burden: $150

John W. Dodson and wife to David McIntosh, pt of nw ¼, 35-31-6e, ½ acre: $50

William Devore to William Conrad, se ¼ of se ¼ 23-32-e, 40 acres: $175

William A. Gibson to Curns & Manser, lots 10, 11 and 12, block, Citizens ad to Winfield: $500

M. L. Robinson and wife to J. W. Kirkpatrick, lot 2, block 12, Grand Summit: $50

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Post commander and comrades of Winfield Post No. 85, G. A. R.: Your committee appointed to report to the Post a program for memorial and decoration services submit the following as their report.

1st. The committee recommend the following as the order of services for Memorial Day, Sunday, May 24th, 1885.

That there be memorial services held in the 1st Baptist church of the city of Winfield on Sunday morning, May 24, at 11 a.m., and that this Post, with visiting comrades and all old soldiers, with their families, be requested to attend said services and that Dr. Kirkwood, of the Presbyterian church, be requested to deliver the address or sermon at said time and place, and that memorial services be held in the Methodist Episcopal church in the evening of said day, the address to be delivered by Rev. J. H. Reider, and that the Post march in column from their hall to each service.

The following committees are suggested to carry the above recommendations into effect.

Committee of 3 on procuring churches.

Committee of 3 on procuring speakers.

Committee of 3 on decorating churches.

Committee of 3 on seating and ushering.

Decoration services May 30th, 1885.

The Post to meet at their hall at 9½ o'clock a.m., and immediately thereafter to send committee of three to Vernon township to assist the citizens in decoration of soldiers' graves at Vernon Center cemetery. A committee of five to decorate the graves in the Catholic cemetery; also a committee of five to decorate the soldiers' graves in the cemetery south of the city. These committees to perform their duty and immediately thereafter to report themselves to the Post commander.

At one o'clock p.m., an address in the Opera House by Rev. H. Kelly, with appropriate music.

At 2 p.m., the parade will form on Main street facing west, the right resting on 10th avenue.

1st, twelve little girls dressed in white and twelve little boys with blue jackets and caps with flowers in the van.

2nd, Winfield Courier band.

3rd, Visiting Posts, Winfield Post, old soldiers not members of Post, ambulances with disabled soldiers and Woman's Relief Corps and wagons with flowers, in the order named.

2nd division, Winfield Union Cornet band, Company C, State Guards, 1st Light Artillery, Kansas National Guards, Winfield Fire Department.

3rd division, Adelphia Lodge, Winfield Chapter, Winfield Commanders, Winfield Council, Winfield Lodge, K. of H., Winfield Council, No. 5, N. U., Winfield Lodge, No. 18, A. O. U. W., Winfield Lodge, No. 16, S. K., Winfield Lodge No. 101, I. O. O. F., Chevalier Dodge, No. 70, K. of P., Winfield Lodge No. 20, I. O. G. T., and W. C. T. U.

4th division, Winfield Juvenile Cornet Band, Mayor and city authorities and citizens.

Line of march, north on Main street to Eighth avenue; east on Eighth avenue to Harter street; north on Harter street to Fifth avenue; east on Fifth avenue to Michigan Avenue, in Highland Park, and thence north to cemetery. The services in the cemetery to be held on the mound in the center of the cemetery. The officers conducting the manual services of the G. A. R. and Miss Campbell, who will recite the original poem to be on said mound; the comrades and soldiers to be formed in double rank around the drive-way next to said mound. After the poem and manual services by the G. A. R., the twelve little girls and boys and a detail of twelve veterans with baskets of flowers will follow by the column and proceed to first decorate the soldiers graves in the southwest portion of the cemetery, then in the northwest portion, then in the northeast, and then in the southeast.

The committee recommend that the Post Commander command the column and appoint such assistant commanders and aid de camps as he may desire.

We recommend that the committee on securing tombstones from the national government be appointed a committee and be ordered to secure small, white headboards, and have the name of the dead soldiers in our cemeteries, with company and regiment printed thereon, and placed at each grave not so marked, first obtaining the consent of the family of the deceased soldier, and to also mark each grave with a flag of the United States.

The committee would further recommend that the Post Commander appoint an executive committee of five, who shall have the power to appoint all sub-committees to carry this of the programme that may be adopted into effect.

The committee suggest the following committees for Decoration Day:

Committee of three on Invitation.

Committee of three on Music.

Committee of three on Procuring Children.

Committee of ten on Flowers.

The committee would further recommend that the Woman's Relief Corps be most cordially invited to cooperate with us, and that they be requested to act with us on our committees.

Your committee further recommends that the Mayor of the city be asked to request, by proclamation, our businessmen to close their places of business from 1 to 3:30 P. M., on Saturday, May 30th, and participate in decoration services.

Committee on Invitation: J. S. Hunt, chairman, J. B. Nipp, J. C. Long.

On churches: E. S. Wilson, chairman, T. H. Elder, D. S. Sherrard.

On speakers: S. C. Smith, chairman, F. S. Pickens, W. E. Tansey, J. M. Fahnestock.

On decorations: A. B. Arment, chairman, B. J. States, W. H. Cayton.

On music: Geo. H. Crippin, chairman, F. E. Blair, J. E. Snow.

Seating and ushering: H. H. Siverd, chairman, John Flint, J. N. Fleharty.

Committee on girls and boys: F. H. Bull, chairman, J. A. McGuire, E. A. Baird.

On marking graves: Samuel Parkhurst, chairman, Wm. Sanders, B. B. Wells.

On Flowers: D. L. Kretsinger, chairman, W. W. Painter, J. W. Millspaugh, F. M. Lacy, J. C. Roberts, Adam Stuber, M. S. Scott, J. W. Fenway, H. H. Harbaugh, Farnsworth, D. L. McRoberts.

Decoration of Catholic Cemetery: T. J. Harris, S. Parkhurst, Ed. Haight, Jno. Gill.

Decoration of Vernon Center Cemetery: H. H. Siverd, W. W. Painter, J. W. Millspaugh, Thos. Thompson, J. M. Householder.

By order of T. H. SOWARD, J. J. CARSON, H. H. SIVERD, A. H. LIMERICK. T. A. BLANCHARD, Executive Com.

The Chairman of each subordinate committee is requested to report to the Chairman of the Executive Committee, at the Court House, for instructions, not later than Thursday next, and any comrade on the committees who cannot serve will please report to the Executive Committee at once. T. T. SOWARD, Chairman. H. H. SIVERD, Secretary.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Notice is hereby given: That the Board of Commissioners of Cowley County, Kansas, will meet as a BOARD OF EQUALIZATION at the office of the County Clerk, on Monday, June 1st, A. D. 1885, to equalize the assessment of PERSONAL PROPERTY of the county for said year. All persons feeling themselves aggrieved in their assessment will be present at said meeting, on said day, and make their grievance known, or forever hold their peace.

By order of the Board of Commissioners of Cowley County, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Miss Jane Winer has been taking music lessons of Miss Wick.

Mr. Taylor, of Elk City, is putting up a fine stone-business house.

Mr. Howard Wick has returned from a visit to his parents in Missouri.

Our town is improving; it has twenty-one buildings, still more going up.

The spelling school last Tuesday night was a failure on account of its raining.

Our school is being conducted by Miss Allie Wheeler, one of Cowley's prominent young teachers.

More rain; good on green things. Farmers are planting corn between showers, and they seem to be in very good spirits.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Farmers are being delayed in seeding the ground by the heavy rains.

Miss Lilley Froelich, of your city, visited in our town a few days this week.

Mrs. B. H. Clover has returned from her eastern visit. She reports her father as rapidly recovering.

Mrs. McDaniels, who we reported two weeks ago as being very ill, is improving slowly, and it is thought that with good care she may recover.

Every day for nearly a week our streets have been flooded with water, doing no more damage than carrying the filth from the north part of town to the railroad.

Miss Allie Harden started Monday evening for New Orleans. She will take in the sights at the exposition for a few days, and will then return via Kansas City and Lawrence, at which places she will visit until the middle of June.

A series of meetings will begin at the schoolhouse next Saturday evening, conducted under the auspices of the Christian denomination. We trust that this will be as great an outpouring of the Holy Spirit as there has been of rain during the past week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

C. W. Roseberry, as superintendent of the Methodist Sunday school, is a success. The attendance last Sabbath was unusually large, nearly filling the church.

Arrangements are being made for a union Sunday school picnic by the Irwin chapel and Pleasant Valley M. E. church schools. It will probably take place the last Thursday of May.

Rev. Brink, who resides at Geuda Springs, filled his regular appointment at the M. E. church last Sunday. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for--the evidence of things unseen." The text was illustrated by a boy emerging into manhood, when he instinctively feels for and twirls at his imperceptible moustache. It was no reflection on the COURIER's brilliant local editor.

Prof. Craddock closed a successful term of school at Tannehill last Friday. "Mark" happened to be sauntering by and dropped in just in time to witness the closing exercise and catch on to the candy treat. The professor had provided a generous supply of stick candy and the scholars, patrons, and spectators enjoyed a toothsome feast. Prof. Craddock is an intelligent young man. He has made teaching his life work and will open a normal school at Geuda Springs shortly.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

To all persons owning lands on the line of the Kansas City and Southwestern Railroad Company, as the same is now or may be located through the County of Cowley, in the State of Kansas.

You and each of you are, are hereby notified that the undersigned Board of County Commissioners of Cowley County, in the state of Kansas, will on the 8th of June, A. D. 1885, on the north line of section number six (6) in township number (30) south of range number seven (7) east in Cowley County, Kansas, where the line of said railroad enters said section, commence and from day to day (Sundays excepted), proceed southwesterly along the line of said road, through the townships of Harvey, Omnia, Richland, Fairview and Walnut in said county to the city of Winfield in said county and thence to the city of Arkansas City in said county, and thence in a southwesterly direction to the south line of said county, and lay off a route for said railroad, and appraise the value of the land taken from each quarter section or lot of land through and over which said line of railroad is now or may be located in said county, and assess and adjudge the damages to each quarter section or lot of land through and over which said line of railroad is nor or may be located in said count.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

If you are going to have any papering or ceiling decorating done this season, it will pay you to look at Cole's stock and get prices before buying.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

12 short horn bulls for sale, all of the most fashionable families. For prices and particulars, address Josiah Johnson, Maple City.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

STOCK MEN ATTENTION. A first class stock and grain farm 2,000 acres can be rented for season 1885 if applied for at once at First National Bank, Winfield, Kansas. Plenty of good land for farming, good mow land, and balance good grazing lands with a stream of never failing water running through premises. Terms reasonable to good party. M. L. Read and M. L. Robinson.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

May 12, 1885, special meeting, Board of County Commissioners. Lewis Stevens, a resident taxpayer and a legal voter of Richland township along with 174 other resident taxpayers presented petition for $5,000 in capital stock for the Kansas City and Southwestern Railroad Company Election to take place Tuesday, June 16, 1885. (Similar to previous petitions for other townships.)

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

May 5, 1885, meeting of Board of County Commissioners. J. Wade McDonald, attorney for the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic railway, presented to the said Board the petition of J. M. Barrick and 78 other resident taxpayers of Fairview for $10,000 in capital stock for D., M. & A. railway. Election to take place June 10, 1885. (Similar to previous petitions for other townships.]

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

And is thoroughly identified with the interests and progress of the State of Kansas and its people, and affords its patrons facilities unequaled by any line in Eastern and Southern Kansas, running

THROUGH EXPRESS trains daily between Kansas City and Olathe, Ottawa, Garnett, Lola, Humboldt, Chanute, Cherryvale, Independence, Winfield, Wellington, Harper, Attica, and intermediate points.

THROUGH MAIL trains daily, except Sunday between Kansas City and Wellington, and intermediate stations, making close connection at Ottawa, Chanute and Cherryvale with our trains for Emporia, Burlington, Girard, Walnut and Coffeyville.

ACCOMMODATION TRAINS daily except Sunday, between Kansas City and Olathe and Ottawa.

REMEMBER that by purchasing tickets via this line connection is made in the Union Depot at Kansas City with through trains to all points, avoiding transfers and changes at way stations.

THROUGH TICKETS can be purchased via this line at any of the regular Coupon stations, and your baggage checked through to destination, East, West, North, or South.

PULLMAN SLEEPERS on all night trains.

For further information, see maps and folders, or call on or address

Or O. Branham, Agent.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Madame Barrios, widow of the late President Barrios of Guatemala, arrived in New York on the 7th. She will reside in that city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Nelson Acers has been appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Kansas, vice John C. Carpenter, suspended.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Joseph W. Drexel, Oswald Ottendorfer, Felix Adler, and other noted New Yorkers have formed a tenement house building company.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Pleuro-pneumonia has again broken out on the ranch of Tusbie & Lake, Cynthiana, Ky., the disease attacking "Hannibal Duke," a very valuable bull.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

S. E. Hamberling, one of the Special Agents of the Treasury Department, recently relived by Secretary Manning, has been appointed Special Inspector of Customs.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

It was rumored that $1,000 has been offered for the capture of Abe B. Buzzard. A party was being organized to raid the Welsh mountain in Pennsylvania, where Abe was known to be.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

A fire at Hampton Beach, N. H., recently burned the Sea View House, the Atlantic House, and the Ocean House, and is reported to have swept the beach, destroying the cottages. Loss, $100,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Joseph Smith, the informer who testified against the men who were hanged for the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin, died in London recently from intemperance.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

At a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture held at Chicago on the 7th, the action of Governor Oglesby in establishing quarantine boundaries against cattle infected with pleuro-pneumonia was unanimously endorsed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The jury in the case against Prof. H. Galmass, charged with having slapped the ears of David M. Lovey, a pupil at the West Hampton, Long Island, school, in 1883, and thereby caused the boy's deafness, brought in a verdict for $4,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The election for Senator in the thirty-fourth Illinois district resulted in the return of Weaver, Republican. The district formerly had been Democratic, and it was thought the election would give the Legislature to the Republicans on joint ballot.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Advices from St. Vincent report that while the steamer Ville de Marseilles was on her way to Buenos Ayres from France the emigrants on board mutinied, owing to the bad food furnished. They were finally overpowered after a desperate fight in which the captain and several of the crew were badly wounded. Ten of the passengers were killed or wounded.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Dr. Gustavus Nachtigal, the well-known German traveler, is dead.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The Czar has issued a decree creating two trans-Caspian reserve battalions.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Hon. E. J. Phelps, United States Minister to England, sailed for Europe on the 6th.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Henry Branham, at New York recently, obtained a divorce from his wife, the actress known as Lillian Russell.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The inhabitants of British Columbia are demanding from the Dominion Government legislation which shall keep out the Chinese.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Commissioner Colman has called a convention of representatives of the different agricultural colleges of the country, to be held in Washington.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

A Chinese ferry steamer was sunk by a collision with the steamer Orestes near Shanghai recently. About thirty-two passengers and seven of the crew perished.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

General Graham attacked the Arabs at Taichol, near Suakim, surprising them at midnight. A great number were killed, their cattle captured, and the village burned.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Secretary Whitney and John Roach have agreed that the Dolphin shall have another trial trip before her final acceptance by the Government. The trial will take place in the sound and will be a six hours' run.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The sea encroached upon the Nile as far up as Rosetta, whose inhabitants are in great distress. Cattle were dying by hundreds from drinking salt water and all fresh water had to be brought to the city many miles by rail.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

As a result of the municipal election, in Madrid, Senor Romero, Minister of the Interior, wished to resign, but the Premier objected, saying if he insisted on doing so, the whole cabinet must resign. Romero then withdrew his resignation.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The State Department has not received any protest from the Austrian Government concerning the appointment of Minister Keiley to Vienna. The cabled rumor that objection will be made against him because his wife is a Jewess, find no credence in administration circles.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The Governor of Georgia has entered into a contract with Charles W. Rogers and Fred Wolf, of New York, for the sale of the pending issue of Georgia bonds amounting to $3,455,000. The bonds bear 4½ percent interest and run for thirty years. The price paid was 5-16 percent above par.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

It was stated at the Post-office Department in Washington that Postmaster Palmer of Chicago was removed for "offensive partisanship." The Postmaster General said Palmer was an active worker in the recent campaign and one of those Republicans whose continuance was not deemed advisable by the administration.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Islands, died on April 25.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The freight sheds of the Inman Line docks, Liverpool, Eng., burned the other day.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

One of the jurors in the recent trial of Richard Short in New York has been arrested for corruption and perjury.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

A dispatch from Panama, of the 5th, stated that 460 officers and men of the United States force had left for New York.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

John Pollock, who received a bayonet wound in the abdomen during the skirmish at Lemont, Ill., recently, has died, making three deaths from the affair.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Blanche K. Bruce, Register of the Treasury, has tendered his resignation, by request. It is believed that the other colored men now in office will also resign.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The court of inquiry into the conduct of Commander Kane at Colon reported that he acted with judgment and discretion and as well as he could under the circumstances.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The Governor of Eastern Siberia reports that bands of armed Chinese have crossed the Russian frontier and surprised many Cossack villages. The extent of the depredations was not stated.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

A coroner's jury declared that the floors of the building at Nos. 161 and 163 South Water Street, Chicago, where two firemen were killed, would not have fallen had the structure been properly put together.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The business failures for the week ended May 7 were--for the United States, 225; Canada, 23; a total of 248, as compared with 208 the week previous. The failures in the Southern and Pacific States were unusually heavy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

The President declined the invitation of a Georgia delegation to visit Atlanta during the session of the commercial convention, the latter part of May. The President's official duties would not permit him to leave Washington.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

At a meeting of the general fire insurance companies at Chicago to consider the situation growing out of the recent Ohio enactment dissolving local boards of agents in that State, the opinion, was general that it was impossible for companies to continue business in Ohio with any profit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

A sensation was created in Buffalo, N. Y., recently, by the action brought about by Peter Weller and wife against Adam and Louis Weller, their sons. The parents claimed that their sons presented documents to them, which they signed, not knowing what they were, but which proved to be papers transferring an estate worth $175,000 to the sons.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

M. L. READ, Pres't. CHAS. F. BAHNTGE, TELLER W. C. ROBINSON, Cash.

M. L. ROBINSON, Vice Pres't. GEO. W. ROBINSON, Ass't Cash.

Stockholders: M. L. Read, M. L. Robinson, W. C. Robinson, George W. Robinson, and

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I have opened a new Hair Dressing establishment over Lynn's store. Hair dressed and arranged in all the latest styles. The ladies of the city are invited to call and examine work and prices. MRS. A. C. BERRY.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Such as Engines, Separators and Mowers, Reapers, Etc. Make DRAWINGS, SPECIFICATIONS, and Patent Office MODELS.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 14, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885. Front Page.

Skipped. This was a repeat of election proclamation given previously. Special election called to subscribe $5,000 to Kansas City and Southwestern Railroad on June 16, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885. Front Page.

Recap: Omnia voters petitioned for $7,000 to the capital stock of the Kansas City and Southwestern Railroad. Election to take place June 16, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Earl F. Brial, a young man twenty-four years old, residing near Wellington, accidently shot himself through the heart, Thursday last, while polishing up an old pistol. He didn't know it was loaded.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

County Treasurer Nipp is so continually bombarded with questions regarding tax paying and tax collecting that patience has ceased to be a virtue, and has taken the bovine by the horns in posting on the walls of his office in large letters full answers to all questions relating to this subject.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Fred Davey and Anna Mentch; R. B. Hunter and Susan Thayer; Watson Titus and Emma Potter; R. M. Moore and Ada E. Lane were granted matrimonial certificates by the Probate Judge--a streak of sunshine amid a large amount of clouds.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mr. S. H. Bowman, wife and three children, arrived Thursday from Jerseyville, Illinois. Mr. Bowman is an old friend and schoolmate of Mr. J. B. Lynn. He is an experienced banker of large means and looks for a western location. He will remain here for some time, and probably make Winfield his home.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885. Front Page.

A boy being asked by his teacher why he was absent from school on Monday said because he was sick. "Why did you not come 'Tuesday?' asked the teacher. "I was taking medicine," said the boy. Teacher: "What were you doing Wednesday?" "Waiting for it to operate," answered the boy. "But why did you not come Thursday?" asked the teacher. "I was sicker than I was on Monday," said the boy. Teacher: "Next time take St. Patrick's pills. They will make you well instead of sick and are the best there is, either for the liver or as a cathartic."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The contest over the Illinois senatorship will be renewed at Springfield in less than a week. Meanwhile the struggle is transferred to Washington. Morrison is laying his wires to get the legislature well in hand on the renewal of its efforts to fill Senator Logan's seat. Two groups of Illinois statesmen were assembled at Willards today. Mr. Morrison was the center of one group, and was earnestly presenting his case. The other was made up of men who think the great tariff reducers should get out of the way and give someone else a chance. Among the latter was Thomas Mulhern, the Democratic member of the legislature who will not vote for Morrison. Mr. Mulhern said that if Morrison withdrew Black, Oberly would stand a good chance of election. Oberly, he thought, would be a very strong man. Inasmuch as Mulhern's vote is the one that stands in Morrison's way, this seems to settle the question as far as Morrison is concerned. The anti-Morrison men, several of whom came in today, are understood to be here to checkmate him, and a very pretty little game of political chess is going on in the lobby at Willards. The feeling is that matters can't stay long as they now are and that the legislature will either elect promptly or adjourn without electing.

I am told there is a little sentiment connected with Miss Cleveland's selection of Dr. Sunderland's Presbyterian church as the president's place of worship in Washington. While it may be diplomatic in the president to win the good will of the minister who was so pronounced in his ill will, the real secret is the following story.

Just before the inauguration some friends in New York state wrote to Mrs. Sunderland expressing the desire to come to Washington to witness the inaugural ceremonies. Mrs. Sunderland wished to write back an invitation for them to be her guests. But they were warm friends of Mr. Cleveland, and her husband had been so bitter against him that she said to her daughter: "Your father will be sure to say something to hurt their feelings." She decided after much trouble of mind to gently hint this to the friends and relieve herself of apparent inhospitality. To her surprise, they replied that they should not "mind anything he said, or feel hurt in the least." They came, and the united efforts of Mrs. Sunderland and her daughter kept the Doctor pretty well behaved. But after the inauguration the friends wished to go to the white house. Mrs. Sunderland thought it only courteous to accompany her guests, and wanted her husband to go with them. He flatly and firmly refused. His wife was much distressed, but went with the friends to Miss Cleveland's first Saturday reception. When the ladies were introduced to Mrs. Hoyt, the president's sister, the latter held her hand and said, "Tell me if you are the wife of the Rev. Dr. Sunderland, once my dear mother's pastor? Did your husband ever preach at Batavia, N. Y." "Yes, when a very young man, before he had a call to Washington," replied Mrs. Sunderland, a little embarrassed, as she thought of her husband's feelings toward the president. "Oh, I am so delighted to meet you, and I want to see your husband. My brother will be so glad to meet him, too. I hope you will come again and bring Dr. Sunderland," said Mrs. Hoyt. When Mrs. Sunderland told her husband, he slowly said, "Well, I won't retract what I've said, but I may go some time. A few days after, the family at the white house talked over their mother's young pastor, and decided that he should be their own. The most surprised person in town was Dr. Sunderland himself. If the president is heaping "coals of fire" on his head, and returning good for the evil of the minister's denunciation of him during the campaign, Dr. Sunderland doubtless offsets it by singing the lines of that good old hymn, "While the lamp of life holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may return."

The count of the money in the Treasury is now in progress, and your correspondent was conducted through the great silver vault the other day while the work was going on. The vault is as big as a house, and will hold about fifty million silver dollars. Squatted down in the aisle of the vault, with a light and a pair of scales between them, were the committee, with their heads together like traditional misers counting their money. One man stood in a cell on one side of them, passing out the bags of silver (a thousand dollars in a bag), which were weighed and numbered and then passed to the next man, who stowed it away in the next cell. There are about ten million silver dollars thus counted--or, rather, weighed--and it will take about ten days to get through with it. L.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Dr. F. M. Pickens informs us that the charges against Ed Peebles, who was arrested here the other day and taken back to Danville, Ill., on a requisition, were not as represented. He thinks our informant, the Sheriff from Danville, was too anxious to make something out of nothing. Dr. Pickens is an old resident of Danville and has known Peebles for years. He says Peebles did not skip his bond when in the toils for arson. He stood his trial with the other members of the fire company. He came clear amid the loudest applause of his friends. The three who were sent to the "pen" have just got out, after four years, and are trying to visit an old spite in this new indictment. The Doctor is confident that nothing whatever will come of it, except chagrin and loss of time to the victim. Peebles has an accomplished wife and bright little child, and as foreman of Mr. Conklin's stone quarry, was living a peaceful and happy life.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Six companies of U. S. colored cavalry, in charge of Capt. Rooker, were in camp Tuesday and Wednesday nights on the South Main street commons, on the march from their winter camp below Arkansas City, to Ft. Riley, Kansas, from where they make a twelve hundred mile march to Wyoming. They were the advance troops of Gen. Hatch's command, which has been supplanted, as Oklahoma guardians, by another. Three more companies reached here today. Capt. Rooker expressed the opinion to our reporter that the whole Oklahoma onslaught had fallen flat--too flat to be resurrected until the Government makes that country open for pre-emption. But the Government will likely keep the soldiers on guard for some months yet. Couch changed camp from Arkansas City to Caldwell last week with but thirty forlorn, disappointed followers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The following appeal to girls was written by Elizabeth Cleveland, the present mistress of the White House, and was published in the Youth's Temperance Banner, February 18, 1882.

J. G. Holland write in Mrs. Hayes' album these words: "Women only can make wine drinking unfashionable and heal the nation of this curse! You and I need to know this first, because if only we women can do this thing, why, it is an awful responsibility upon us, each one of us. And if somebody else can do it, we, like all the others, would like to give that somebody else the job. Five years ago, at Washington, Mrs. Hayes became mistress of the White House, and it was for her and nobody else, to say what the atmosphere should be which surrounded her guests, and how they should be entertained at her house. Well, she did an unheard-of thing. She banished wine from all her entertainments, with just one exception. Secretary Evarts made a fuss. He was mortified. He could not endure to have lord and lady English, count and countess French, baron and baroness German come to the White House dinners and have nothing fit for them to drink--not a drop of poison! It was utterly queer! So Mrs. Hayes made one exception in favor of these great foreign highnesses, and allowed wine upon her table in their presence. But only for once. Her conscience, high-souled woman that she is--smote her for that one little cowardly compromise with wrong. She could better endure to have Secretary Evarts and the Smiths ashamed of her than to be ashamed of herself. So she quietly and forever afterward prohibited wine from her table, and cheerfully endured the lifted eyebrows and shrugged shoulders of the diplomatics, British, French, Russian--all, and the little short lived hiss of "fashionable" society until that hiss turned to a cheer, and fashionable society turned around, like the spaniel it is, and trotted on behind its mistress. It became unfashionable to serve wine and to offer wine in fashionable society while Mrs. Hayes was in the White House.

What Mrs. Hayes did in the White House every woman can do in her own home if she will. If the girls who read these words will each of them, all together, use their influence on the side of temperance, they can make temperance fashionable where they are. Will you do it?

Gen. Grant does a manly thing in refusing to drink wine everywhere and in all society. It is only a strong man who can keep his wine glass upside down--in this case right side up, too--while all the grand people around him are sipping champagne and toasting each other in sparkling drinks. No one can tell how "far this little candle sheds its light." But no man can do for a fashion in society what a woman can. It is women only, as Dr. Holland said.

I wish some strong, bright angel stood before you just now, while you read, girls, to flash before you, as no words of mine can, the power you possess to help or to hinder the cause of temperance, to make you feel your responsibility, because you are girls, in the matter; go shudder at its weight, and to never cease trying to fulfill it! Doubtless you have heard a great deal about the value of your smiles; but do you know the value of your frowns? I wish I could make you feel the value of your frowns and the importance of knowing just what to frown upon. What a man must do by a flow, a woman can do by a frown. When the time comes that the young man who now shares his time in your society and the saloon, who jokes about temperance in your presence, and takes a glass socially now and then, is made to feel that these things cannot be if you are to be his companion at a party, ride, or church; that good society cannot tolerate these things in its members; in short, that this kind of man is unfashionable and unpopular--then alcohol will tremble on its throne, and the liquor traffic will hide its cancerous face.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The board of conference college location of the Southwest Kansas Conference met yesterday in the new Methodist church. About fifty visiting ministers and leading laymen were present. The following were the members present belonging to the board: D. D. Akin, N. Asher, N. S. Buckner, W. H. Cline, A. P. George, and H. Waitt. The meeting was called to order by N. S. Buckner, who was elected permanent chairman. A. P. George was chosen secretary. After a friendly interchange of opinion in regard to the subject before the board, the following resolutions were adopted.

Resolved, That any locality preparing to make a responsible bid, in harmony with the resolutions of the annual conference by which this committee is appointed, (not less than twenty acres of land and $15,000 in money) will be visited by this committee for the purpose of examining sites and hearing representations; Provided, that the expenses of the committee be paid by the visited community.

Resolved, That this committee will meet at Wichita, Kansas, on June 9, 1885, to receive and open bids and to decide on the place of location of the Southwest Kansas college.

Resolved, That each bid shall state the number of acres of land and the amount of money, notes, and securities to be subscribed; and to be accompanied by sufficient guarantee of payment and that the money shall be available to the trustees of said college as follows: One- third sixty days after location; one-third when the building is enclosed, and one-third when the building is completed or one year from the date of location.

Resolved, That the committee will commence its tour of visitation on Tuesday next, and all communities desiring visitations shall notify the secretary at once.

Invitations were received from El Dorado, by Judge Redden; Newton, by Judge Peters; Winfield, by M. L. Robinson; Wichita, by J. C. Rutan; Harper, by L. J. Van Landingham; Peabody, by Dr. Buck.

Rev. A. P. George, the secretary of the committee on college location, may be addressed by any one interested at Nickerson, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Let anyone who is willing to examine this railroad question in its proper light take Dexter township as an example. The D. M. & A. will have about 13 miles of road in the township. This road must pay taxes on an assessed valuation of $7,000 a mile at least, and probably $8,000. The tax rate this year is about 4 percent. Anyone can ascertain the amount of taxes the road would pay in a year. Then compute the interest on $23,500 for one year at six percent, the amount the road would have asked had the compromise not been affected, and upon the assumption that township bonds would increase the taxation. It can readily be seen by the result thus adduced, that when township bonds to that amount would have been a safe investment--that the taxes paid by the road would pay more than double the amount of interest. This rule is applicable to the county as well. Take the number of miles of road the K. C. and the D. M. & A. will have in the county. Compute the taxation at the same rate per mile. Then compute the interest on this county and township bonds and it will be seen that the taxation of the roads will more than equal the interest on the bonds. This is a problem that can easily be solved by any of our readers. Figures cannot lie and the theory that railroad bonds entail a grievous burden upon the taxpayers is sheerest nonsense. Dexter Eye.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. Mr. J. Holmus, Vice-President of the City Brewery, was brought home in a wagon, carried upstairs and laid on the bed. He was suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism contracted in the ice vaults of the brewery. He refused to have a doctor, but dispatched a servant for a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, with the result that in one week he was entirely cured and able to return to his desk.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

In winter have a good warm, dry place for your cans. Feed ground corn, oats, and barley mixed with equal portions of each to produce the best quality and the largest quantity of milk. Never feed oil cake nor turnips, but give the cow plenty of sweet hay and pure water. The milk pails and pans should be thoroughly scalded and cleansed before using. A pan that can be set in a water vat is best. Use nothing but the pails for milking. If you have nothing but a cellar, use that for keeping the milk in and see that it is properly ventilated, and keep nothing but the milk in the cellar. The cellar should also be white washed and thoroughly cleaned every season and kept neat and clean. In warm weather you should have water vats containing enough cold water to come up around the pans as deep at the milk in them. A temperature of 62 to 65 degrees will keep the milk sweet, thirty-six hours. Skimming should be attended to in its proper season if everything else is neglected. The neglect to take off the cream at the proper time spoils more butter than anything else connected with its manufacture. You must watch your milk in warm weather and not let it thicken before the cream is taken off. Ordinarily the cream should be taken off in 36 hours after settling of the milk. It should never stand more than 48 hours, and it is often necessary to remove it in 24 hours. If it stands over 48 hours, it makes bitter butter. Milk should never set in cold weather where it will chill; it injures the milk as much to chill it as to keep it at too high a temperature in warm weather. Churn every day if possible. Cream should not be kept longer than 48 hours at most. Have the cream at a temperature of 58 to 60 degrees in summer and 64 to 65 degrees in winter. Do not churn too quickly; 20 to 30 minutes being quick enough. Stop churning when the butter forms before it becomes a mass, draw off the milk, and wash the butter with clear, cold water, or, what is better, cold brine, until the water runs off clear. Then it is ready for salting. Work the salt thoroughly through the butter, about one ounce to the pound. Then set the butter in a cool place for 24 hours, then work all the milk out and occasionally dash cold water over the butter as you work and do not work it too much. Never pack in jars, but get the best tubs you can find, soak them in brine or fresh water for six or eight hours before packing. Sprinkle a little salt about the inside of the tub, then pack the butter closely to the bottom and sides until level full, put a clean bleached muslin cloth on top after first saturating it in brine. Sprinkle this with salt, put on the cover, and fasten with three tin straps and your butter is ready for market, and will bring from five to fifteen cents more per pound than that made after the usual slip-shod way. The time has come when we must either make the butter or quit the business. Oleomargarine is now selling higher than our medium and low grade butter, and has practically taken its place, and as it can be made cheaper than we can afford to make butter, we cannot compete with it unless we make something finer than this manufactured butter. Do not hold your butter. Market it while it has its fresh flavor. Fresh flavored oleomargarine is preferred in the fall and winter to old flavored summer packed butter. C. H. HATTERY.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The "proud bird of freedom" may just as well begin to get ready for some fond screaming and high flying on Independence day, 1885. Winfield has had lots and lots of celebrations of the glorious Fourth which eclipsed any efforts of sister towns in this portion of the Sunflower State, but let us make the one this year truly the biggest and best of all. Let us grab Old Time by the top knot and yank him clear into the middle of unparalleled successes. The earlier we commence the better. As appears in another column, the rank and file of our Hose Companies are arranging to go to Newton. Can we afford to have them leave home? In order to complete a perfect procession, our fire companies will be necessary. Can't we show them as much encouragement as foreign places? Let us try. The boys are for home first, last, and all the time; but think, and properly too, that our people don't exhibit the appreciation they should. Get out your Fourth of July tongue and talk up the matter of a big celebration. Don't be afraid of being too previous. We have but a little over a month in which to work it up--just time to reach the goal and capture the prize. With the usual enterprise and pluck of our citizens, we can do it. And we will, you bet.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

We have already answered the objection to voting the proposed railroad bonds on the county on the ground of taxation by proving conclusively that it will reduce the rate of taxation.

Another objection some urge is, that the roads are asking too much, and would build through the county for less, should we refuse to give them what the ask, and they cite as an example the Southern Kansas railroad, which built through the county for only $69,000 in county bonds.

We have never taken a proposition of a railroad company as an ultimatum coming from an autocrat to whom we must yield at once or suffer untold evils, but have always taken such propositions as coming from men like ourselves, who are expected to try to make as good a bargain for themselves as they can, but will take what they can get, if that sum is sufficient to make it an inducement for them. It will be remembered that when we had no railroad in this county, and were almost insane in our anxious desire to get one, the Santa Fe corporation proposed to build through this county for $190,000 in county bonds, and our best businessmen and farmers insisted that the proposition should be accepted at once, without cavil, and the amount promptly voted, and that THE COURIER strenuously opposed it, insisting that $120,000 was as much as the county should vote to any road, and that voting $180,000 to one road would so nearly exhaust the ability of the county as to prevent the building of any other road. Assisted by Col. E. C. Manning, J. C. Fuller, and C. M. Wood, we finally succeeded in beating down the amount to be voted to a limit of $144,000, and then only supported the proposition as the best we could do, and as what then appeared the only chance to get a road. Since then we have had many propositions before us, but have never supported one which called for more than $100,000 of county bonds.

The Southern Kansas built through this county for $68,000, which was all they could get; not because it was enough, but because they had other inducements to build, in order to secure the trade of the country west of here, and the aggregate aid they got on the whole line was sufficient to induce them to build.

Now the case is different. Since the Southern Kansas has fallen under Santa Fe control, another and competing road has been a deeply felt want, and has been regarded as a necessity, therefore our people have spent time and money and eloquence, and made extraordinary offers to induce the Gould system and other able and established companies who are able to build, even without subsidies, to build through our county. All these expensive and strenuous efforts on the part of our citizens have failed, and we are compelled to resort to new companies which are not so able to build for us in order to obtain the necessary competition. Last year we voted two of these companies bonds, but in these trying times on railroad building, the subsidies voted proved insufficient and the roads could not be built. But during the past year these companies have been at work, been in the markets, and in communication with the capitalists of this country and Europe and have learned much. They have found out what is the matter, and they now come before us, knowing what they can do, and how much local aid they must get in order to enable them to build. For instance, the men in the Kansas City and Southwestern company have a million to invest, but that will not build 250 miles of road, scarcely more than 50 miles, and so short a road would necessarily be a very bad investment. Of course they will not invest unless they are sure of the ways and means to raise about five millions of dollars to build a road long enough to pay a good dividend over running expenses.

All this money has got to be raised from the sales of stock and mortgage bonds. They can take a million of these securities, but they must have market for four millions more to make it an object to invest their one million. Could they sell a million of stock to the counties and townships along the road, they could then raise the balance by the sale of mortgage bonds to other capitalists, the two millions serving as a basis of security. They ask for the voting of these bonds because it is necessary to find market for that amount of stock in order to make them feel reasonably secure in the investment of their own money, and it is pretty certain that they cannot, and will not, build unless the counties and townships subscribe for this stock. They believe it will be done, and on the strength of that belief, are expending large sums in brining rails, iron, and ties onto the ground, and in engineering and grading. They expect, of course, to save much of this money by building through another county if we "go back on them," but do not expect it. The voters of this county are in urgent need of the new Imbecile Asylum for themselves, if they do not vote for the stock and bonds.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

T. P. Fulton, editor of the Democrat, brought suit against A. Shelton, editor of the Times, at the present term of court for criminal libel. The case was on trial for nearly two days before Judge Sluss. The jury, which was out about an hour, brought in a verdict of guilty. Sheldon, it appears, published that Fulton was a tramp from Missouri and a bankrupt in character and pocket-book. These words were held by the jury to be libelous. The court has not pronounced judgement. El Dorado Republican.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The Edmonds anti-polygamy law is proving so efficacious in its working in Utah that the Mormons are filled with alarm and dismay, and are loud in their protests and lamentations! The Senator from Vermont has a right to congratulate himself on his measure, after so many of a like intent had failed. With believers of polygamy excluded from juries, the conviction and punishment of the violators of the marriage laws are no longer impossible. The Mormon leaders, in consequence, are finding either their plural wives must go, or they must go, seek a clime more congenial to the criminal relations they have sustained with many women, than Utah is at the present time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Secretary Manning made a great flourish, a short time ago, ordered a count of the money in the treasury to be made, and an overhauling of the books as well. The work has been finished, and a discrepancy of two cents has been found. The great question in Democratic circles in Washington is, who is the rascal who took the two cents, so he may be turned out.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Attorney-General Bradford does not intend to sit quietly by and see the laws of the state trampled upon by John Walruff, the Lawrence brewer, or any other man, without doing his duty in the premises. He has written to Lawrence for a complete description of the brewery property, and will at one commence proceedings to enjoin before Judge A. W. Benson of the district court.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The Alabama legislature, recognizing the fact that while drunkenness is a crime, a man is entitled to great domestic privileges, has passed a law fining a man $100 for getting drunk out of his own house.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

In a former article we proved conclusively that on the ground of county taxation the projected railroads, at the expense of $100,000 county bonds to each, would benefit every taxpayer in the county, and that there is no good reason why any taxpayer in the county should vote against them. We now propose to examine some of the benefits which every taxpayer in the county will derive from the construction of these roads, or either of them.

At present we have two roads, but under the control of one corporation, and the competition is not in prices of transportation but only in getting the business. This is some competition, but it is nothing to be compared with the competition of an independent road, which will compete in rates. So, now, places like Emporia, Wichita, and Cherryvale, where there is this kind of competition, get their freights at much less rates than other places notwithstanding all kinds of rate contracts and pools between the roads.

We may talk of legislation and maximum rates as the panacea for all the evils of the enormous discrimination in favor of places which have competing roads; but at best all we might obtain in this way is no compensation for the absence of real competition in rates. In the first place, we have no maximum rate law, or any law which regulates prices, or prevents discrimination, and it is not at all certain that we ever shall have. In the second place, it is impossible to effect as much by legislative enactments as competition will effect for a people where it exists. The more competition we have, the lower will be our freight rates, whatever may be effected by legislation. Take, for instance, our rates of transportation on wheat from this county to Kansas City. We pay 20 cents per 100 pounds, while for similar distance from places where there is competition, wheat is carried for 10 cents. Thus we pay six cents a bushel extra because we do not have this competition. This is six dollars per 100 bushels, $60 per 1,000 bushels, and $30,000 on the half million of bushels which we shall have for sale, on a yearly average. Then similar savings would be made on corn, pork, cattle, and everything our farmers have to sell, and also on lumber, coal, hardware, salt, and everything else which we have to buy. The aggregate of these savings would be immense and would benefit every part and corner of the county however distant from a railroad. Then the more railroads we get centered in the county, the more urban population it makes, and the people of the cities are consumers, not producers of farm products. The larger cities you have in your county for markets, the greater demand you will have for all the butter, eggs, chickens, turkeys, potatoes, and all other vegetables you can raise, and the higher will be the prices you will get for them. This is what makes farms so very profitable and valuable within a day's drive of large cities, and raises the amount they will sell for from tens to hundreds, and even thousands of dollars per acre. Railroads bring factories and all sorts of manufacturing, with their workmen, operatives, and their families, who all have to depend upon the surrounding country for their sustenance, and were there no competition or reduction of freights attending it, the new demand for produce alone would be a great advantage to the taxpayers and producers all over the country. It is safe to estimate the building of the projected roads will raise the price of all the farmer raises an average of at least ten percent, and will reduce the cost of what he buys five percent. Thus, the farmer who now expends in purchases all he receives for his produce, and is not getting ahead at all, nor laying by anything for the future, can, without changing the amount either of his sales or his purchases, save fifteen dollars on every hundred dollars of sales, and this multiplied by years makes all the difference between poverty and wealth, all the difference between want and abundance, all the difference between grinding toil with bare surroundings, and ease surrounded with the adjuncts of pleasure, culture, refinement, and even luxury.

This fifteen percent will pay off mortgages, draw interest, plant trees, build beautiful and convenient dwellings and barns, buy books and works of art, educate children, and add in every way to the comfort, happiness, and nobility of the people of this whole county. And there is no part of the county, however distant from the projected roads, that will not partake of these benefits; there is no man, woman, or child, whose home is to be in this county, who will have no part in these benefits.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Our two former articles on the railroad propositions were devoted to the effects which the building of either or both of the projected railroads would have on the whole county for all time to come, but there are some immediate effects which should extend to the whole county, which should be noticed. During the process of constructing these roads, more than half a million dollars in cash will be expended by the two companies in this county for labor, teamwork, grading, masonry, corn, feed, vegetables, eggs, butter, provisions, etc. This will create an extra demand for all these things, and enhance the prices. Much of this labor and team work would be unemployed, and therefore unproductive, were it not for this work. Much of this produce would not be marketed, and would bring no income, were it not for this new home demand. So this half million of dollars is about half net gain to the county, giving to its citizens about a quarter of a million which it would get in no other way, and is a clear net gain to them. And this gain, in its effects, is alike beneficial all over the county, and the money will, in one form or another, reach every producer and laborer in the county, whether he sells labor or produce directly to the railroad companies or not. It is as good as donating fifty to one hundred dollars each to every farmer, teamster, and laborer in the county for it gives them some half a million of dollars for which they would otherwise get scarcely half as much, and the men who do not sell, work, or produce directly to the railroad are equally benefitted by the removal of those who do from competition in other markets and creating a demand equal to or greater than the supply.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The Medicine Lodge water works company has filed its charter. The directors for the first year: Chas. H. Eldred, David Still, Eli Smith, Thos. L. O'Bryan, Miles W. Brand. The capital stock is $25,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Notice is hereby given that during decoration services on May 30th, 1885, no teams will be allowed on the grounds of the Winfield Cemetery Association except the ambulance wagon, and the public are respectfully requested to keep off the mound in the center of the grounds and the lots of private individuals.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mr. Benj. W. Aldrich, Mayor of Wichita, is here. He is a very genial, intelligent gentleman. The change from a village like Wichita to a full-fledged, booming city like Winfield, was, of course, a severe shock to his nerves, but he has recovered sufficiently to drink in the rare beauty and magnificence that everywhere greets his eye.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The last will and testament of Levi S. Brown, who died in Silver Creek township last May, has been filed with the Probate Judge, bequeathing the farm and personal property to his wife. The chosen executor, Harvey Smith, has resigned.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Geo. L. Gale started out today on a wool-buying tour. He will take in Newton, Larned, Sterling, Peabody, and other points. He will be gone about two weeks.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

It is objected to voting for the pending railroad propositions by some, that we have no security that the Kansas City and Southwestern will not sell out to the Santa Fe, and unfortunately this objection is not so easy to refute. This case is like all others in the fact that no way has ever been discovered in law or in equity to prevent a man or corporation from selling his railroad stock to some other man, company, or corporation if he wants to and can find a purchaser. Cowley County had stock in the Southern Kansas railroad, but she sold it to a firm which only wanted it to sell or turn over to the Santa Fe, and enough other counties, townships, and persons also sold their stock in like manner to give the Santa Fe managers a kind of control of the S. K. road. Nearly half of that stock is yet in the hands of the original holders whose interest is still in competition with the Santa Fe, and it is the fault of our county and other counties and townships who sold their stock against their own interests that the Santa Fe got the degree of control of the S. K. which it has attained. All we can do is to refuse to sell Cowley County's stock to the Santa Fe, or to anyone who would be likely to sell it to the Santa Fe.

If the Gould, or any other interest, in competition with the Santa Fe should offer to buy our stock, no one would object to the sale, but even then the Gould system, in negotiating with the Santa Fe for a division of territory might sell this road out to the Santa Fe in exchange for some of their property in what they call a Gould district. In short, we can see no more likelihood of the stockholders of the S. K. & S. W. selling their stock out to the Santa Fe or its stockholders than of a Gould company selling to the Santa Fe a road which they had built. The parties who are to build this road and will have most stock in it, and most influence and power, want the road as a feeder and aid to other enterprises in which they are engaged, and which would be defeated by selling out to anyone, and especially to the Santa Fe unless the latter company should buy of them at the same time their immense meat refrigerator business at Chicago and Hammond at the same time and absorb also the C. B. & Q. railroad system to which the K. C. & S. W. will be a feeder. The parties in this county who have spent time and money in working up this road will have a strong influence in its management, and that influence will go to make it a competitor of the existing roads.

Then the Santa Fe cannot buy out everything if it was offered to them at low rates, even should it desire to buy competing roads. If it does desire it, why does it not buy out the Fort Scott and Wichita road which competes with it at several very important points, one of which is more important than Winfield? Why does it not buy the branch of the Missouri Pacific which competes with it at Burlington and Emporia? Why does it not buy the branch road from Cherokee to Cherryvale, the Burlingame branch, the branch from McPherson north and several other short roads which compete at several important places? We think that the Santa Fe is not in the market for any more roads, and whoever wants to sell K. C. & S. W. stock will have to look elsewhere for a customer.

Are we going to oppose all railroad building just because it is possible that a majority of the stock of any road built might sometime get into hands that would decrease its value to us? We might as well refuse to own cattle because some cattle have strayed and others might do so.

We had better get our cattle and our railroads when we can, and then guard them from straying as much as we can. This is the only sensible way to go, and no one ever succeeds in business or anything else who does not work on this principle.

We might here remark that the Southern Kansas road, notwithstanding the Santa Fe interest, has been and is being worth five times as much to this county as the road has cost us.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The following are the real estate transfers filed in the office of Register of Deeds yesterday.

B. W. Matlack to A. C. Daisy, et al, lots 13-14, blk 147, lots 23, 24, 25, and 26, blk 107 and lots 3 and 4, Arkansas City, quit claim: $1.00

M. L. Read and wife and M. L. Robinson and wife to J. P. Baden, lots 7, 8, and 9, blk 36, Robinson's ad to Winfield: $150

Highland Park Company to H. D. Gans, lots 2 and 3, blk 6, H P ad to Winfield: $650

B. W. Matlack to A. C. Daisy et al, lot 13 blk 53, lots 27 and 28 blk 37, 7 in 662, 384 in 673, 34 and 35 in blk 101, 1 and 2 blk "e," 196 194, 7 and 8 blk 117, 7 blk 116, 4 blk 126, 11 and 12 blk 124, 11 blk 125, 18, 21, and 22 blk 146, 5 blk 122, 17, 18, 23 and 24 blk 1, all in Arkansas City: $850

A. J. Chapel and wife to P. V. Healy, et al, lot 3 block 78, Arkansas City: $550

The State to John Newman, w ½ of se ¼ of 36-34-s-4e, school land patent: $240

The State to Mary Newman, ne ½ of sw ¼ of 36-34-s-4e, school land patent: $240

Albert A. Newman and wife and T. H. McLaughlin and wife to Mary A. Donnelly, lots 10 and 11 blk 155, Arkansas City: $100

C. M. Scott and wife to A. P. Houghton, lot 25 blk 63, Arkansas City: $75

Jamison Vawter and wife to Elizabeth P. Nelson, lots 31 and 32 blk 61, Arkansas City: $150

Highland Park Town Company to Alice A. Merrill, lots 1 and 2 blk 12, H P ad to Winfield: $150

Highland Park Town Company to Sylvester H. Crawford, lots 11 and 12, blk 10, H P ad to Winfield: $195

Highland Park Town Company to Frank L. Holbrook, lots 9 and 10 blk 10, H P ad to Winfield: $160

M. L. Read and M. L. Robinson to D. W. Salmons, lots 11 and 12 block 80, Winfield: $1,500

Burden Town Company to Darius H. Williams, lots 5 and 6, blk 29, Burden: $50

A. A. Jones and wife to James B. Foster and Frank C. Sands, lots 3 and 14, 19-11-s-e, 80 acres: $1,200

Samuel S. Hord and wife to A. A. Jones, lots 3 and 14 19-31-s-se 80 acres: $1,200

E. D. Franklin to Mary B. Hoyland, nw ½ of se ¼ and n ½ sw ¼ 14-31-s-5e, 121 acres: $950

Jane Barnes to Will C. Barnes, pt of nw ¼ 27-32-4e, $1.00

J. W. Ross and wife to H. G. Fuller, nw ¼ 15-30-s-6e, 160 acres: $800

Highland Park Town Company to E. A. Bourdette, lots 3, block 11, H P ad to Winfield: $75

Susan Waugh and husband to Susan A. Corwin, pt of ne ¼ 27-32-d-4e: $250

Thomas B. Ware and wife to Tabitha Shultz, ne ¼ 21-32-s-3e, ex-right of way of S K R R, $8,000

H. F. Friend and wife and N. E. Ashburn and wife to Grant Hatfield, lot 3 block 118, lots 15 and 16 blk 123, lot 12 block 125, and lot 3 block 126, Arkansas City: $600

Henry Endicott and wife to Directors of Arkansas City Fraternity Association: H. D. Kellogg, et al, lot 5, block 67, Arkansas City: $1,200

J. C. Poor and wife to Abraham Beeman, sw ¼ of sw ¼ 33-31-s, 40 acres: $966

Kate Wilson and husband to H. C. Weaver, lot 14 block 143, Winfield: $125

John McHaley to Charles McIlwain, s ½ of se ¼ and n ½ of se ¼ 12-34-s-6e, 160 acres: $450

James C. Fuller and wife to George Kuhn, fractional lot 13 block 275, Fuller's ad to Winfield: $70

Mather Anderson and wife to Chas. F. Bahntge, lots 1-2 and s ½ of ne ¼ 1-31-4e: $3,000

H. P. Farrar and wife to Robt. Hubbard, lot 17, block 34, Arkansas City, quit claim: $1.00

Alexander Harvey and wife to W. W. Irons, lot 5 sec 4, also lot 8 and pt of lot 7, 4-35-s-e; also pt of lot 1 sec 5 and lot 2, 5-35-s-5e; also w ½ of se ¼ 32-34-s-5, 24 acres: $5,000

W. M. Mahin and wife to A. P. Houghton, lot 24, block 63, Arkansas City, quit claim: $20

Allen Mowery to School District 89, portion of se ¼ 12-33-s-3e: $70.00

Grant Hatfield to Robert Hatfield, lots 2-3 block 116, and 12 block 125, lots 15-16 block 123 and lot 3 block 126, Arkansas City: $800

Jacob Walker and wife to J. W. Ross, nw ¼ 15-30-s-6e, 160 acres: $600

Grant Hatfield and wife to Rudolph Hatfield, lots 2-3 block [?], Arkansas City, quit claim: $1.00

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Miss Lola Silliman arrived home on the noon Santa Fe, via the Frisco line. She was caught at Independence by the flood. She reports sad havoc on the Elk river. The bridge between Independence and Cherryvale is not down. The passengers were put into a caboose and backed over the river, then they had to get out and walk for quite a distance through mud on the road bed, as rails and ties were gone; then they were taken into a skiff and ferried over a bayou and taken into the rear end of a freight car that was backed as far into the water as they could go. Five persons were buried at Independence while she was there. They were drowned by the overturning of a skiff as they were returning from rescuing some of the party from a submerged house. Many things floated by on the mad current--houses, sheds, stock, etc. A rescuing party towed an old stump ashore that carried a young chicken, a rat, and two pigs. The passengers were well cared for, and courteously treated by the hotels and citizens of Independence. Miss Lola says she has always had an idea that commercial drummers, book agents, etc., were rather a hard set, but their many courtesies on this occasion relieved them in her mind of any such reputation.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Some wicked sinner who wanted to see our ire up showed us a piece Friday evening in his old eastern home paper, remarking, "that if Kansas could regulate the rainfall so as to not suffer with the drouth every summer, the State could depend on good crops." If we had that editor here about thirty minutes, we would have tied him to a fence and let the drouth pour down his collar, fill up his boots, and saturate his shirt front until it would look tired. When we had allowed the drouth to pour on him for that period, we would have taken him kindly by the caboose of his trousers and chucked him in some handy lake, and each time we pulled him out we would ask him if he liked the drouth bath. Oh, we would gloat over him in our joyous moments, and--chuck him in again.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

WICHITA, May 13. A special dispatch to the daily Eagle from the Cheyenne agency, Indian Territory, says: Twenty-seven boomer wagons, each partially loaded with Indian supplies, from Arkansas City, have gone into the Territory, delivered their goods, and then moved on into the Oklahoma district, where they have located claims and commenced farming operations. The report reaches Cheyenne today that the boomers are exuberant, and have sent word to the campers in the vicinity of Caldwell that the coast is again clear for another raid. To the Eagle representative some of their number openly boasted that they had outwitted the authorities. Each of the wagons contained from two to three men each. They went from the Cheyenne agency directly down the Cimmaron river by Camp Russell, which had just been vacated by the troops, which had been ordered to the northwest. It is the judgment of the authorities at the agency that all the boomers left on the border will again flock into Oklahoma, although the Fifth cavalry under command of Gen. Wesley Merritt, are now under marching orders to take the place of the Ninth just removed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

"Winfield figures up a population of 6,000, and there is both rejoicing and boasting among the inhabitants," faberizes the Arkansas City Republican. "This takes in some portions of adjacent townships. Inside of corporate limits, there are 5,101." And when our city assessor completes his census, we will beat that, Mr. Republican--reach over six thousand inhabitants in our legal corporate limits. Add to this our legitimate population that goes to swell the census of Walnut and Vernon townships, and the correct population of the Queen City of Southern Kansas will be fully seven thousand. Paste that in your hat; get out your paste pot and put these figures in every conspicuous spot. An increase of two thousand in population in one year is worth all the heraldry we can give it. Whoa!

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The executive committee, "Grand Army of the Republic," have appointed the undersigned committee to decorate the graves of soldiers buried at Vernon cemetery, May 30, 1885: H. H. Siverd, W. W. Painter, J. W. Millspaugh; J. M. Householder, and Thomas Thompson. Comrade W. W. Painter will receive flowers and make all necessary arrangements, and friends are requested to furnish him the names, rank, and regiment of deceased soldiers. The public are invited to meet the committee at the above named cemetery not later than 9 o'clock a.m., May 30. H. H. Siverd, Chairman.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The Council got in some splendid work Monday: passed ordinances which, if enforced, will place Winfield several rounds up the ladder of desirability and good name. The window shields of billiard men and others who are ashamed of their business were banished; a foundation laid for the successful banishment of houses of ill-fame; property owners forced to number their buildings, and numerous other good acts. And we have officers who will enforce the municipal laws. The individual who runs against the cold arm of the law, in this city, will get a dose quick and sure.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

A new mode of horse stealing has been introduced at Ottawa, Kansas. The parties working the racket are partners and engaged in the horse business, and recently they met a farmer from the country, and asked him to trade horses. After some conversation one of the graders got on the farmer's horse to try it, rode it away, and failed to return. This game is being played quite extensively in eastern Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

But few of our citizens are probably aware that the Southern Kansas railroad company are assessed a regular tax on their road bed, rolling stock, etc., through the various townships which it runs, from one end of the line to the other. The different road districts through which this road runs get the benefit of this tax, and the amount is worked out by contract in such districts. Oxford Register.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

McGuire Brothers closing sale on clothing is proving a big thing for purchasers. They are selling fine suits for men and boys at less than the cloth can be bought for. One man who hadn't more than money enough to buy a vest at the clothing stores was fitted out with a whole neat, nobby, durable suit from their stock and went away happy. The mean business and propose to "close out" their stock of clothing.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

El Dorado has invited Senator John A. Logan, of Illinois, to spend the 4th of July with them. Would it not be well for Winfield to arrange committees and extend invitations to some big guns at once. We must have a notable foreign speaker, and the sooner we get in our bid the better.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The case of the State against Simeon Baughn, for the killing of David Hahn last fall at the Oxford bridge, has been ordered to Cowley on a change of venue from Sumner. Baughn is charged with murder in the first degree. Senator Hackney is attorney for the defendant.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mr. A. T. Spotswood's $5,000 Red Irish Setter, after only a year's basking in the prolific atmosphere of sunny Kansas, exhibited astonishing financial tact yesterday. Mr. Spotswood now has eleven Setters--ten of them very young. $50,000 a day is not so bad.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The city is now undergoing the Boil epidemic. We have met some score of unhappy looking individuals in the past few days with their noses, cheeks, etc., plastered up. They failed to drink sassafras in the early spring.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The Harper Graphic says there is to be a government pike built from New Kiowa to Camp Supply, in the Indian Territory. This will be a big card for Kiowa, as it will draw nearly the entire trade of the Territory from Caldwell.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Wichita businessmen, it seems, refuse to be taxed for a canning factory. The projectors of the scheme asked $20,000 as a bonus. Wichita offers a site and will pay freight on the machinery to be shipped from the east.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mr. H. H. Hosmer and wife have located here, from Nashville, Ill. Mr. Hosmer is an attorney at law and has taken rooms in Curns & Manser's building. He is a young man of ability and energy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

City Assessor Benedict reports 3,400 people in the corporate limits of Arkansas City so far. He is not through up to our time of going to press. He does not think that the number will reach 4,000. Republican.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The damage to the Southern Kansas by the floods will kill a large share of the road's profits this year. Thousands of dollars will be required in repairs, besides heavy loss in stoppage of trains.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

J. E. Snow has received his commission as Aid de Camp on the staff of the Commander in Chief of the G. A. R. Mr. Snow is zealous in the cause and is an excellent choice.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

An Independence druggist filed 650 whiskey applicants in one month. It does seem that Arkansas City's rustling "medicine" man is compelled to deliver the confectionery.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. Major Sleeth, of Arkansas City, lost their only child Sunday, a bright eight-year-old daughter. Capt. M. N. Sinnott attended the funeral Monday, from here.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

G. W. Batchler, Albany, Texas, is at the Central. He left Texas last Tuesday. Corn was waist high and wheat nearly ready to cut--even ahead of "Sunny Kansas."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The sidewalk on the south side of 9th avenue, from the Court House square to Main street, will not sustain our reputation as a "city of sidewalks." Let us have it fixed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The voting precinct in Vernon township will be at Clark & Halleck's store, at Kellogg. J. H. Martin, trustee; H. A. Earhart, J. P.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Forty doctors, green apples, and ice cream will make the undertakers business lively this summer.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

W. B. Pixley is enjoying a visit from his mother, from Iowa. She will remain some time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

James Weil and W. F. Dean are here seeking investment in real estate, from Montpelier, Ohio.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mrs. Dick Walker came in from Wichita Saturday for a visit with her brother, Mr. Lovell H. Webb.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Capt. P. A. Huffman returned from Indiana Friday. He has on the road a lot of fine Jersey cattle.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

James N. Young, President of the K. C. & S., has fitted up an office over the Winfield Bank, where all the business of the company will be transacted.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mr. D. Bovee has returned his assessment rolls of Tisdale township. He shows 576 inhabitants, 118 families, 111 dwellings, and $43,808 in personal property.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

H. L. Black, representing the Hapgood Plow Company, came in last evening, leaving this morning. He is brother of the genial George, accountant for W. A. Lee.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Judge McDonald has put a telephone in the Secretary's office at the Fair Grounds, through which to hello to his horsemen, caring for his fine lay out of blooded stock.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

E. A. Maybee returned today from "God's country," Kentucky. Mr. Maybee went there to look at some land he traded for. He is very well satisfied with the bargain.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mr. E. V. Higgins, of Kingston, Missouri, is visiting his brother, Will C., of the Udall Sentinel. He is an attorney and was looking over the county seat today with a business eye.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

James Killeen and Mary Christie and Samuel DeBolt and Fannie Himelic were given authority by Judge Gans to enter the bonds that can only be torn asunder by a divorce court Tuesday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Dr. John Evans and family from Middletown, Ohio, reached our city Thursday morning. The Dr. and family come highly recommended. Mr. Evans is represented as being a first-class physician.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

C. H. Hattery, J. P. Baden's butter manipulator, presents an article on how to make good butter, in this issue, that will prove beneficial and instructive to everybody: consumers as well as makers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Robert Hudson is putting in a new floor in the office of the Lindell Hotel. The present one has been in near 14 years. When put down it was one inch one-quarter inches thick. It was worn down to one-quarter of an inch.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mrs. Sarah E. Wade, of Creswell township, adjudged insane in the Probate Court last week, was taken to the Topeka Asylum by Sheriff McIntire Friday. Judge Gans received the papers of admittance yesterday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Rev. Brady returned from the submerged regions of the East today. He says that he as a Baptist was not wholly responsible for the water in that region during his stay. It was rather Methodist weather--both sprinkling and pouring.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mrs. Alice Bishop, local telephone manager, is with her sister in Ashland, and will spend the summer with her brother, Frank Berkey, at Greensburg, Kansas. Miss Mary Berkey has charge of our telephone exchange in her sister's absence.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mrs. E. G. Cole lost a valuable gold bracelet Monday evening. She advertised it in THE DAILY COURIER and was yesterday made happy in its return. Dr. F. M. Pickens found it, and seeing the "Lost" promptly brought it around. Do you catch the moral?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

D. W. Holcomb, one of South Bend's brightest and most substantial young men, was up last evening, having just come through a three weeks mumpish siege, looking much the worse. He reports much damage to crops along the Walnut, in his neighborhood.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Judge T. H. Soward, being at Wichita Wednesday, boarded the "Sunflower" Excursion to Anthony. The citizens of that place entertained the excursionists grandly. Anthony is wonderfully jubilant over the completion to that place of the Ft. Scott, Wichita & Western.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mr. Monroe Marsh arrived Wednesday from Ashley, Ohio, with two as fine brood mares as ever set foot on our soil, of Norman stock. One weighs 1,900 pounds and is valued at $1,000. They are at Sol Smith's stable. Cowley is making wonderful strides in blooded stock.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Taylor Fitzgerald, a resident of Winfield some years ago, dropped into our sanctum this morning. He owns and has been occupying with his family an eight hundred acre cattle ranch in Omnia township, this county, since last July, and is getting well fixed. His health necessitated rural pursuits.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Kile McClung struck a bonanza field for the fisherman's delight the other day. On his place is a lake, into which the water backed up from the Walnut during the flood. The fish passed over the riffle leading to it by the hundred, and Kile stood in the water and gigged them by the dozen. He brought in twenty-two fine buffalo perch at one time, weighing from eight to twenty pounds.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mr. Fred Davey and Miss Anna Mentch were married Sunday afternoon by Rev. B. Kelly at the home of the bride's father, Mr. John Mentch, just north of the city. A large number of relatives and friends witnessed the ceremony and participated in the elegant repast. Both are young people of excellent qualities and their union one of much promise.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

L. C. Rice and a woman named V. A. Burt were tried and convicted of adultery in Arkansas City's Police Court last week. Rice was fined one hundred dollars and costs. Not having the money to liquidate, he is now a guest of the Hotel de Finch. The woman was fined twenty dollars, which she paid. The Rice family are gaining considerable notoriety in our Courts.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Judge Torrance returned from his Southern trip Monday noon, and convened Court at 3 o'clock. In the case of Teters and McKinley against R. B. Waite, a motion for a new trial was overruled. Mr. Waite will take the case to the Supreme Court. Court adjourned till Friday the 5th day of June, when several important motions will be heard.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Prof. Gridley desires us to state for parental information that the city schools do not close on Thursday, as is supposed by some. They close Friday afternoon. The commencement exercises take place at the Opera House in the evening. A class of six birls and one boy will "commence." How lonely the young gentleman must feel! But t'was ever thus--the young ladies are always excelling.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Frank K. Raymond has been appointed official stenographer of the Nineteenth Judicial District and is now reporting in the Sumner County court at Wellington. While he is engaged in the courts of our district, his duties in that district if coming at the same time, will be performed by a special reporter. Frank is recognized as one of the most expert and accurate stenographers in the west, and receives honors accordingly.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The case of Mrs. Eliza Rich against Joseph Likowski, an action to recover half interest in the lot and building next to Curns & Manser's real estate office, has been decided in the supreme court in favor of the defendant, giving him one-half of the real estate and half the rents accruing from the premises since the controversy began, in 1877, about nine hundred dollars, which stand a lien against the property. The property is worth $3,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

In glancing over the telegraphic columns of THE DAILY COURIER Wednesday, Mr. A. B. Taylor, Deputy Register of Deeds, found an item of grave personal interest. It was the account of the horribly fatal burning of William Hess and daughters, Annie and Lizzie, while fighting a forest fire on their farm near Huntingdon, Pa. The victims were an uncle and cousins of Mr. Taylor. He hadn't seen or heard from them for over six years.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Will C. Higgins, of the Udall Sentinel, dropped into the COURIER den Monday. He told us of a little sensation. Sunday afternoon Chas. W. Martin, of the drug firm of Martin & Gardener, Udall, was taken with terrible convulsions. They continued until late that night, and at times eight men were required to hold him. Martin had been sleeping in the drug store, and examination seemed to prove that the damp atmosphere mixed with the perfume from the drugs, poisoned him. He was unconscious from the first, and life yet hangs on a very brittle thread.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

"Capt. M. N. Sinnott was down Saturday looking with longing eyes at the post-office," says the Arkansas City Republican. "The race has almost narrowed down to Judge McIntire and Mr. Sinnott. Judge is well satisfied with Cleveland's reign and Capt. Sinnott has to be. The Judge is satisfied with 'Boss' Cleveland's slow process of 'turning the rascals' out." He has hopes, but we believe Sinnott has the best foundation of hopes. He can read and write. Sinnott will observe the civil service act while Judge would be an "offensive partisan." We have always thought there was something peculiar about the Democracy of our genial deputy County Clerk--a kind of an elevation above the proverbial "Dem." But the Captain denies the charge that he hankers after the A. C. "post-office." He would, though, make a tip-top postmaster.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Never in the history of Southern Kansas has she had such a universal and disastrous flood as the one initiated Friday last. Mr. P. H. Albright came in Monday from Sedan, where he had been water bound since the storm. He says that every bottom in Chautauqua is inundated, property amounting to thousands of dollars--horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, and everything else, fell victims to the mad waves. Little Cana, where bottoms are flanked by large bluffs, was full from bank to bank, fifteen feet higher than ever before known, and North Cana was on an equal tare. On Friday seven inches of water fell on the level in three hours, and a pelting rain was almost incessant for twenty-four hours. So sudden was the rise of the streams that few in the bottoms could escape--everything was deluged. Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt undertook to escape with their children and got tangled in a barbed wire fence. The father escaped, the children were both torn from the mother's arms and drowned, while she clung to some floating drift and was carried miles down the stream before being rescued. Their home and all was destroyed. An old gentleman named Green was also drowned near them. Other families, whose names it was impossible to ascertain, also fell victims in the same neighborhood, while four men undertaking to raft it on a corn crib, on the Big Cana, below Cedarvale, lost their lives together. Mrs. Ben Adams and family, residing on Little Cana just below Sedan, had a terrible experience. The house was on a knoll, surrounded by bayous. The husband was away. As night came on escape was entirely cut off. The house and everything on the premises swept away, and the mother and children were compelled to climb trees and remain there amid the pelting rain during the long weary hours of the night. Mr. Albright says that eleven bodies had been found before he left, and he is confident, being familiar with the lay of the valleys, that at least fifteen or twenty more will be found. He headed off streams and kept the high land between Big and Little Cana and reached Moline, where he left his team and came home by rail. He thinks the loss in property in Chautauqua will exceed a quarter of a million dollars, besides crops, buildings, and stock. The soil was all swept from whole farms, leaving them perfectly bare and sterile.

Rev. F. A. Brady has just returned from Cedarvale and reports great damage to property and lives in Chautauqua County on Big Cana and Elk rivers. Twenty lives are supposed to have been lost. The mill at Sedan has been swept away and the mill at Cherryvale was submerged, but not swept away. A farmer by the name of Murphy, near Cloverdale, lost one hundred head of hogs and several head of cattle. There has been other great damage along the streams. Miles of wire fence is washed out and strung along the creeks.

James McLain was another victim of the flood, who was caught at Moline and Grenola. The engine was detached from the train between Grenola and Moline to reconnoiter ahead. It had got scarcely a mile when a portion of the track it had gone over left for a fairer clime, leaving the train in the prairie for twelve hours, far from house and shelter. It stayed there for twelve hours, a regular passenger fort. Five of the principal bridges between Moline and Independence, with numerous small ones, are gone. Elk City, in a low valley, is almost completely inundated--everybody driven out. Mr. McLain says all along the Southern Kansas is terrible destruction to crops, buildings, and stock. Near Grenola, at the head of Big Cana, people had to climb trees, as in the flood of old, and be rescued on rafts, floating logs, and any way possible, and many lives lost.

Cowley County has great reason to congratulate herself on her escape of the terrible disaster which overtook counties east of her. Though the rains here stand paralleled only by the great flood 1877, yet the damage is comparatively light. H. E. Silliman is in receipt of a letter from his partner in the stock business on Grouse, Norman Hill, stating that a number of their cattle and hogs perished. Mr. C. A. Peabody lost 120 head of hogs, and J. D. Maurer was driven from home and much of his property destroyed. Crops all along the Grouse valley are completely destroyed. Excepting the railroad bridges across Silver and Grouse, this is the only very serious damage done in this county.

The Walnut river was within a few feet as high as in the famous flood of 1877, rushing through the lower floors of Bliss & Wood's mill and entirely submerging Riverside Park. Hundreds of people visited the river yesterday to witness its angry waves. A number residing in the low ground just east of the S. K. depot were driven out of their homes Friday night. The S. K. culverts were too small, backing the water up into the houses. These culverts should be enlarged at once.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mr. C. W. Rodgers, general manager of the St. Louis & San Francisco road, says, notwithstanding the hard times, the parties in control have secured money enough to build that portion of the Kansas City & Southwestern which lies between Beaumont and Winfield at once. Mr. Rodgers [this time they had "Rogers,"] says he can't imagine (?) how they got the money but they seem to have enough for this particular purpose. We don't profess to know anything about it, but would beg leave to be permitted to make a suggestion: The Santa Fe no longer owns a half interest in the St. Louis & San Francisco road. Under these circumstances would it not be a sensible thing for the St. Louis & San Francisco company to build a branch line from Beaumont to Winfield? We think so; and also have reason to believe that the Captain C. W. Rodger company is doing this very thing. See if our diagnosis of the case does not prove to be the correct one. El Dorado Democrat.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

James N. Young, superintendent of the Beaumont & Winfield road, has taken up his residence in the last named place. Mr. Young was the proprietor of the old Emporia & Eureka narrow gauge line some years ago. Township elections have been called in Omnia and Richland townships, in Cowley County, to vote on the K. C. & S. W. R. R. proposition. Richland will vote $5,000 and Omnia $7,000. These townships voted $12,000 and $15,000 in bonds to this road last year, but the company has released them, and submitted propositions for the lesser amounts. These townships are now enthusiastic for the road, the petitions being largely signed. The construction engine for this road is at Neodesha and will be at Beaumont the coming week. El Dorado Republican.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

In pursuance of a law made by the last Legislature, County Clerk Hunt is running over the musty records from 1871 to 1877, ferreting out a balance for the $2,888.25 delinquent taxes held against this county by the State. The debt was incurred through neglect of the Clerks during those years to require the proper credits for non-collectable State tax. Clerk Hunt thinks he can find enough in the old records to balance the account. If not returned by June 15th, 1885, the new law requires a special tax-levy to cover the same. The captain has a mammoth job on his hands--the condition of Cowley's only Democratic records, in very early days, would bring a tear to the eye of a stoic.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

James McLain's pocket is adorned with some curious heirlooms--a colonial half-penny in which is engraved on one side, "speed the plow;" on the other, "no labor, no bread." It is about the size of a silver quarter. Another is a French 10 cent piece of 1828--as heavy and about the size of our silver dollar. Another, a three dollar 8 karat gold piece of 1791, nationality unknown. One piece is so worn as to be perfectly indistinguishable--a very crude piece indeed. A Canada half-penny--Bank of Montreal, tails off Jim's curiosity shop.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Capt. N. A. Haight has left us delicious samples of his mammoth Charles Downing strawberries. Our palate fairly jumped with ecstasy as it reached for them. They were perfect beauties. The Captain has a splendid bed of them in the grounds of his residence, and will gather a hundred quarts. They are just getting ripe.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

FITS! FITS!! FITS!!! I guarantee perfect fits. Having engaged the services of Mrs. Brooks, late the leading dress maker of a large city, I am prepared to cut and fit and make up dresses in the best and most fashionable styles on short notice. Ladies, misses, and children's wear made and satisfaction guaranteed. Lizzie Sloan, over Kleeman's store.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Through the courtesy of Dr. S. R. Marsh, our scribe crawled out of his den and took a spin around the city Tuesday evening--an eye opener as to the present beauty and improvement of the Queen City of Southern Kansas. A drive along our principal boulevards, flanked on either side by leafy verdure, lovely lawns, pretty fences, handsome residences, and a general air of thrift and enterprise, thrills the soul with renewed admiration. Even a prejudiced stranger could not take such a drive without pronouncing Winfield without a peer, for beauty, in all the fair west. The faber is too feeble to describe the view presented, at this season, from the mound at the head of east Ninth avenue. A lovely valley stretches before you, clothed in velvety luxuriance, skirted by the meandering forestry of Timber creek and the Walnut river, and dotted with beautiful homes, lovely drives, and suggestive church spires, as charming as the "Garden of the Gods." Stop for an hour, fellow citizen, in your race for the almighty dollar, get your frame into a vehicle and realize the attractions of the city of your adoption--feast the eyes, exhilarate the soul--feed the aesthetic in your nature. Selah!

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Under a law passed by the late Legislature, anyone who knows or suspects that any domestic animal is effected with any contagious or infections disease, is required to immediately report to the Sheriff and County Clerk of the county in which the animal is located. It is then the duty of the Sheriff to at once examine such animal and report the case to the livestock sanitary commission and prescribe such temporary quarantine as seems necessary. Daniel Bonnell, of Silverdale township, has sent to this to the County Clerk: "I have to report that I have on my farm in this county, a mare diseased with the Farcy or Glanders, as I believe." Sheriff McIntire will look into the matter at once.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

A lady living near this city, a former resident of Kentucky, received word the other day from her sister, Mrs. Drone, living at Salina, Tennessee, stating that a letter that the latter had written to her brother, Samuel Henry, at Glasgow, Kentucky, fourteen years ago had just been delivered. It had never been to the dead letter office, and though the distance it had to be carried was only forty miles, it had been fourteen years on the way, traveling at the rate of about a quarter of a mile a year. This story seems a little incredible. We should not doubt the truth of the above had it occurred in Wichita. Wellington Press.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The case of the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company against Peter Thompson and wife, which was taken up some time ago upon error, has been reversed by the Supreme Court and remanded for new trial. This case is rather peculiar. It was commenced in January, 1880, tried twice before Justice Kelly, three times in the District Court, and twice in the Supreme Court, and now it will go through the mill again. Let the good work go on, and cursed be he who first cries enough. S. D. Pryor is the attorney for the plaintiff and McDermott & Johnson for the defendant.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

A sensational divorce case is on the tapis growing out of too much hired man. A newly married man living near Winfield interviewed a well known lawyer in this city as to the best course to get rid of his offensive hired man. The lawyer recommended the shot gun policy. The young man went directly home, loaded the gun, gave the hired man ten minutes in which to pack up and leave, otherwise he would perforate him. The man went, but the husband is made, the wife is mad, the hired man is mad, and the courts are likely to be appealed to soon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

To all old soldiers and friends of soldiers in Pleasant Valley township: You are respectfully invited to be present at the South Cemetery on May 30, at 9:30 sharp, to take part in the decoration service to be held at that place. All that can are requested to furnish flowers and wreaths for the occasion. Any flowers from Pleasant Valley prior to decoration will be thankfully received at Harris & Clark's office.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

W. W. Cook, one of the County Commissioners of Barber County, was in the city yesterday. He came to the metropolis to see about contracting for galvanized iron cornice for a large brick business block to be built in Medicine Lodge this summer. Mr. Cook intended to try this city for cornice, Winfield for stone, and Kansas City for heavy castings, and will visit those places as he intended. Still the live builders and mechanics of this city surprised him by entering the lists for the supply of all the material mentioned against Winfield and Kansas City. Mr. Cook found no "pent up Utica here," so if either opponent gets her work in she will have to come down to business when Wichita is in the field." Wichita Eagle.

Not so fast, Mr. Eagle. Mr. Cook is here today and finds our stone to exceed his fondest anticipations, and will close a contract with our quarrymen.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

M. C. Cavenaugh, for months past telegraph operator at the Southern Kansas depot, left Sunday for Moline, where he takes the agency of the S. K.'s business at that place. Moline is an important station, and "Mike's" promotion shows the esteem in which he is held by the company. Genial, reliable, and ambitious, he has made a host of friends whose best wishes accompany him. Mr. D. Harris, from Moline, will take Mike's place here for the present.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Tine Jones, the man after whom the town of Jonesburg, Kansas, was named, was here today. He settled in Chautauqua in the years when the festive Redskin and nocturnal coyote held almost undisputed sway. He can knock the chip from any sea captain's shoulder for ear-splitting stories. He is now an agent at one of the Territory agencies.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Rev. P. B. Lee sends us papers containing preliminary reports of the doings of the General Conference of the United Brethren church, at Fostoria, Ohio. The attendance was very large. The sessions were most profitable and interesting. Rev. J. H. Snyder, of this city, was elected permanent secretary of the conference.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The committee on decorating churches for memorial services, Sunday, May 24, request all who have cedar or arborvitae trees or hedges, and who can contribute cuttings, to deliver them at Arment's furniture store, or at the Methodist or Baptist church, Saturday, by 2 o'clock. A. B. Arment, Chairman.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

We had the pleasure of looking through the new and elegant house of N. B. Powers, Thursday. It is finely finished; the rooms large and well planned. Mr. Asp has a suit of rooms, elegantly furnished, above. The lower part will be occupied by Mr. Powers and family in a short time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The Woman's Relief Corps held an interesting meeting at their hall Wednesday afternoon, and made appropriate preparations for assistance in the ceremonies of Decoration and Memorial ceremonies. These days promise this year to be among the most notable Winfield has ever had.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Wm. Norton and Mary Newlin, of Liberty township, and George M. Aul and Maggie Weddle, of Silverdale township, were united in wedlock by Judge Gans' most approved method, the former couple yesterday evening and the latter this morning: the first victims for some time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The Episcopal ladies are famous for their festival-giving qualities. The one at the Opera House tomorrow evening will be fully up to the past standard. Of course, you'll be there.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The ladies of the Episcopal church are making much preparations for a most enjoyable time at the festival at the Opera House tomorrow evening. Everybody will go.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Horner, from Nashville, Illinois, are at the Brettun. Mr. Horner is an attorney and an old college-mate of Frank F. Leland. [? Paper had Leeland] He comes to locate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Chas. E. Fuller and E. A. Henthorn went Wichitaward this afternoon, on "biz." We sincerely hope the Wichita folks will not take advantage of innocence abroad.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Dodge City had a cyclone Friday evening, coming from the south. P. D. Lovelace, a carpenter, was injured; also John Stewart, a single man.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The M. E. people of New Salem have a festival on Saturday evening, May 27th. Ice cream, strawberries, and embellishments will be in order.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Pursuant to call the citizens met in mass meeting at the Court House Tuesday evening, with J. C. Long presiding and Ed. P. Greer as secretary, for the purpose of considering the question of securing the Methodist College. Senator Hackney, of the visiting committee, explained the situation. M. L. Robinson then proposed a plan whereby the twenty acres and fifteen thousand dollars necessary might be raised. He proposed to be one of eight to organize the College Hill Addition Company, secure land in some available location, set aside twenty acres thereof for the college site and guarantee ten thousand dollars to the fund. This suggestion was immediately adopted, and the following gentlemen subscribed to the shares at once: M. L. Robinson, W. P. Hackney, Chas. F. Bahntge, John W. Curns, W. R. McDonald, T. H. Soward, A. J. Thompson, and S. H. Myton. After some further discussion on the matter by Judge Gans, Mayor Graham, J. E. Conklin, and others, the meeting adjourned to meet again this evening. Messrs. Baden, Millington, Spotswood, Wallis, Conklin, F. S. Jennings, Bedilion, and Whiting were appointed as a committee to confer with the members of the College Hill and Highland Park Association and report proceedings. Mayor Graham, H. B. Schuler, and Senator Hackney were appointed to attend to the reception and entertainment of the College Commission. The railroad questions was also discussed at some length, and a committee of seven consisting of Messrs. Farnsworth, Bowen, M. M. Scott, Siverd, Chas. Schmidt, and J. E. Conklin were appointed to see that the registration was fully made. An assessment of $1.00 was levied upon the members of the Enterprise Association to defray the expenses of the railroad canvass. The solution of the college problem seems to be at hand. If this association furnishes the twenty acres and ten thousand dollars, certainly our citizens will furnish the other five thousand. Now is the time to act in this matter, and when the committee calls, be ready to put down liberally.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The surveying corps of the K. C. & S. railroad came in Friday and are awaiting good weather to complete the survey to the Territory line. They are in camp on the Walnut west of town. Ten miles of grading is completed this side of Beaumont, and track laying will commence immediately. The construction train and material are now on the ground. The Company means business right from the shoulder and arm pushing the work as rapidly as the right of way can be obtained.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

During the heavy rain and thunder storm Friday, the barn of Mr. Powell, living three miles west of town, was struck by lightning and his mare and colt were killed. There were three men in the barn at the time. One man was knocked down and it was thought for a time that he was killed. The other two escaped unhurt.

LATER. Since writing the above, we find that the man injured was only stunned, and is getting along as well as might be expected.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Retail dealers throughout Cowley and adjoining counties will be glad to learn that J. P. Baden's Wholesale Grocery department is now ready to fill orders at Kansas City prices, for all kinds of groceries in job lots. Send in your orders at once or come in person. No delays. No mistakes, and goods in first-class order and way down.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

One hundred monuments and headstones of marble and granite in stock. Prices to suit the times. W. H. Dawson, South Main street.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

We are in receipt of letters daily from parties at a distance asking about the nature of this country, its future prospects, if there are openings for mechanics, farmers, professional men, etc. We wish to answer all in a nut shell. This is the finest country on the continent. It is rich enough to support a vast population. It is filling up marvelously, but those who expect to win may expect to work. There are no easy places. Many may be disappointed, but the fittest will survive and prove winners.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

"Tell the Truth," is the very suggestive headline over an advertisement in a Wichita daily. It is our firm belief that Wichita, the place of drug, plug, thug, and mugwumps, etc., is about the only place on earth where an advertiser would have the nerve to make such a bold assertion, especially if it is applied to anything like real estate or the newspaper business. Wichita editors, however, will not take the matter seriously to heart.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Probably at no time in its history has the press of Cowley County been as near a unit on any question as on the present railroad propositions. The two Burden papers are probably the only ones who will stand aloof and we confidently expect to welcome them to the fold ere many days. Dexter Eye.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The merchants of the city take very favorably to the suggestions of THE DAILY COURIER that all the stores close during the hot summer evenings at 7:30. Nearly all of them will heartily concur. A petition will be circulated and the matter inaugurated by June 1st.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Dr. Sutton's "Amazonian Specific," the unfailing remedy for every complaint caused by malaria. For sale by L. M. Williams, druggist.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

No old stock of wall paper or ceiling decorations at Cole's drug store. Everything new and of the prettiest patterns, and more of it for a dollar than at any other house in the city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

There is a person in this county representing himself as agent for the Plano Binder. He says, "You know I would not lie to you for ten binders." This man is an imposter and is making this talk to enable him to sell another binder. I am the agent for the Plano for Cowley County, Kansas. W. A. Lee.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

A welcome visitor, THE COURIER.

Mr. Wymer has traded his horses for a span of mules.

Mrs. D. Robertson is suffering from a severe attack of sore eyes.

Al Norris and G. W. Prater have gone to the Territory for a few days.

Mr. Bowman has painted his house, which adds much to its looks. Mr. Tonkinson has done likewise.

Sunday school was organized at the Grove on Sunday last. Alex Frazier as superintendent and Mr. Collins, assistant.

Mr. Myers and son, from Indiana, are visiting Mr. Burr this week. He intends to remove the rest of his family in about a week. [Not certain: either Burr or Barr??]

On Saturday last two horses were drowned on Cedar creek, belonging to the man who is building stone fence for Mr. Tonkinson.

Mr. Fuller, Mr. Wymer, Mr. S. E. Robertson, and Ellis Orr sent for millet seed to Kingman County, where they get it for 50 cents per bushel.

Recent rains have washed out a great deal of corn. Mr. Sumpter is re-listing all of his. Robt. Bush has listed his twice already and will list again. J. C. Roberts is not done planting yet.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mr. Maddux has ditched his cornfield. Good scheme.

Mr. Starling is plowing corn--the first in the bottom.

Very little corn planted, and that which is planted and up, looks very sickly.

Miss Sarah Johnson and her uncle, Leander, of Winfield, were perambulating in this vicinity last Sunday.

Jim Woner was on this side Sunday looking at his wheat. He reports it badly damaged by water standing on it.

Old Mother Hubbard, or some other lady, spilled a lot of her feathers last Thursday morning. Maybe the tick had a hole in it.

We are obliged to omit an item this week by not knowing all the particulars. There was a letter and a widow mixed up in it some way.

Robert Hammond, the late pedagogue of Darien, started Monday for Montana, where his father and brother are engaged in the mining business.

Any man that can't go to church and sit an hour or so without chewing tobacco and spitting all over the floor should hire somebody to gently remind him of it.

Finding it inconvenient, as well as a waste of time, in writing the name "Bobby Duffy," we will behead the old man and ever hereafter be known by the simple cognomen of "Duffy."

Jack Justice, whose pony was stolen or strayed away about six weeks ago, succeeded in finding it at Hunnewell last Friday, but for some cause unknown to the writer failed to get possession of the animal.

Adrian Williamson, one of Cowley's old settlers, but who for two years past has resided in Lyon County, has been spending a quiet month among his friends and relatives of this place. He will start for Colorado about the 15th.

Rev. Bicknell preached a good sermon at Star last Sunday, from the text, "For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." II, Cor. iv:6.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The weekly prayer meeting was postponed last Friday evening on account of the social.

Prof. Shelton has turned the college herd of cattle out to graze on the beautiful green meadow.

Mr. Melvin Platt, a farmer student, has returned home from Oberlin, Ohio, where he has been attending college the past year.

Messrs. B. Buehll [Buell?] and W. H. Sikes, college graduates, were visiting their alma mater the past week. Their old student friends and class-mates were happy to meet them.

This is the time of the year when May baskets are all the rage. Boys and girls equally enjoy the beautiful moonlight nights in suspending tokens of remembrance on the doors of their friends. Suddenly there came a tapping, tapping at my parlor door; on opening it I found a May basket, only this and nothing more.

Several of our students are anxiously inquiring for the author of these notes. Keep "mum," Mr. Editor, for your reporter is of a timid nature, and publicity might break the charm of correspondence. THE COURIER is a welcome visitor to our college library and regularly placed on file with many other periodicals, for the benefits of the students.

The chapel exercises last Friday afternoon consisted of declamations delivered by the first division of the third year class as follows: "The claim of individual mankind," A. E. Allen; "The rascals of Wall street," E. B. Bacheller; "Opportunities for work," L. Brouse; "Characters and marks," A. E. Creswell; "Science and Literature," P. R. Elliott; "Martyrs to science," P. Fairchild; "Pyramids," A. M. Green; "The abilities of our government," J. G. Harbard; "What we have carried," Maria Happer; "Process of growth," Ada Little.

Another college social took place Friday evening of last week. The large assemblage of students and visiting friends were entertained with excellent music by the college orchestra, a recitation by J. D. Working, and anthem by the college singing class, an oration by J. B. Brown, followed by piano solos by Misses Lee and Willard. The exercises closed with the play entitled, "Mother Goose." The remainder of the evening until the electrical bells chimed the signal to disperse, was spent in pleasant greeting of old friends and forming new acquaintances and social promenades through the spacious hall and cheerful recitation rooms. All went home declaring that it was the pleasantest social they ever attended.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Nathan Morain smiles upon a few pounds of his own progeny: a girl.

S. S. picnic at Joe Hill's grove, Thursday, May 28th. Let all attend.

Chas. McClung came down from Vernon one day last week. He reports corn planting as unfinished up there.

Will Hudson and Harry Snow have gone to join the K. C. & S. W. graders. We may now expect a railroad soon.

John DeVore returned from Colorado one day last week. He will depart with many tears and much stock soon again.

Several good citizens chew their "Climax" nervously as they look upon the deluged cornfields and think of replanting.

Vermilye Bros. have built a beautiful yard fence around Magnolia mansion. Other improvements have been added also.

Mrs. Gabbert is visiting Mrs. Greaves. After a brief visit here, she will go to Edwards County, where her husband has taken a claim.

The present fruit prospect is very favorable. 'Squire Broadwell has upon his farm an orchard that would show favorably of his energy in that line.

One night last week Kyle McClung lost a purse as he returned from Winfield, but owing to the honesty of the finder it was returned at full value, $16.

"G. V." has worn a severe case of mumps out, but is able once again to stand four rounds before "Mark" or "Country Jake." Would like to hear from Jim Albert and his lightning-made tooth-picks, also.

George Hunt has "come back to my arms, Biddy darling," from Colorado. He attributes his return to the stern fact that his parents are getting "aged and gray, Maggie," and need his assistance. How noble and kind was George to grant his parents this little boon.

South Bend will boom "smack up" for the railroad that is fortunate enough to pass through our midst. Some have already spoken of a town company "about to be organized" in this region. We S. Bendites generally digest business matters on short notice, but what to name our new S. B. side-track town is a conundrum.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Rufus Hon sports a new sign, the handiwork of Walter Campf. It is a daisy, too.

Mrs. D. C. Green and family left for Halstead on Friday, to be gone two or three weeks.

Mrs. J. T. Dale returned from a three week's visit at Topeka. Jim feels like a new man since.

Dr. Mudgett purchased the S. S. Thompson property last week. The Dr. is becoming quite a landed proprietor, hence he recognizes a good bargain at all times.

Howard & Baker have sold out their interest in the City Hotel and will go to Texas in a few days. Sorry to lose them as they were good citizens and labored for the interest of the city.

J. R. Staton believes in the old adage "beautify your place of business if you would draw trade." Therefore a general cleaning and painting improves and adorns his neat and tasty grocery store.

Capt. Dobbs, J. N. Johnson and S. V. Devendorf arrived here on Sunday last from Douglass for the purpose of managing the great War Drama for the benefit of the G. A. R. Post at that place. Don't forget the date: the 14th, 15th, and 16th.

Robert Norman mourns the loss of over 300 eggs and a fine incubator, caused, as he supposes, by one of the lamps exploding. The fire, fortunately, occurred right after one of our late rains; otherwise, the loss might have been more severe.

Will Higgins is in a bad row of stumps. He purchased a fine carriage for the purpose of enjoying life and a buggy ride, and now awakes to the fact that his fiery untamed steed is yet unbroken and is afraid to hitch him up for fear he will break--that is the buggy. Come over Will, we will lend you our cow for a trial trip.

Mrs. M. Mudgett, the mother of our esteemed Doctor Mudgett, and his sister, Mrs. Frank Sears, of Buffalo, New York, arrived here last week. This is their first visit to the land of corn and swine, and they are free to confess they are very agreeably surprised at the general thrift and prosperity of the State, and especially of Udall.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mr. J. J. Johnson has a very lame finger.

Items of interest are scarce in this vicinity at the present.

Salem has had shows, concerts, etc., of late, more than I have kept track of.

If present indications for fruit are any criteria to go by, we will be bountifully supplied.

Dr. Downs finds "the longest way round the surest way home," since the heavy rains.

Is the rain all coming at once? We have plenty of it at least, but presume it is for the best.

A young Lawson got badly cut on a barb wire fence when going home from Salem on Saturday night.

Mrs. Ford has been visiting friends in Winfield. Mrs. Eli Reid also spent last Sabbath (the 10th) in the city, the guest of Miss Ballard.

What an excellent Sunday school we have. By missing so many Sundays I can fully appreciate it now. Attendance and interest is all that can be desired.

Rev. Bicknell could not get to his appointment at Walnut Valley on Sunday afternoon and evening, so he preached to the Salemites, both in the morning and evening.

The bright, smiling face of Miss Esther Gilmore is missed from the Salem circle, as she boarded the western train not long since, intending to spend a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. W. C. Douglass.

A pleasant week was spent with loving kindred in the vicinity of Burden not long ago. How the dear ones try to shield "Olivia" from the storms of life and gladden the heart that might otherwise be sad.

Mr. Joe Martin now comes out to Sunday school a smiling "widdy man." His better half is visiting in Iowa. May she have a pleasant time and come back to Salem friends with new roses of health in her cheeks.

Mr. and Mrs. Nelson are happy over the arrival of a sweet little girl in their home, and the boys think no one is so nice as their only sister. Mr. and Mrs. Almon Doolittle are also entertaining a little lady in their home.

Will you let me once again into THE COURIER circle for a little chat. Weeks have passed since I last greeted you--April, with its "tears and smiles" is with the past, and that month means much to me, happiness and sorrow have mingled in my April tears, and the 30th tells that another year of my life is gone, another birthday less. How many of us can sing truthfully, "Darling, I am growing old, Silver threads among the gold." Beautiful tokens came, telling me I was kindly remembered, and oh how thankfully they were received you can never know, dear friends.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Tom Jones has gone to Holden, Mo., to visit his mother.

Miss Maud Leedy is visiting with her brother at Burden.

John Johnson, of Moline, is in town visiting his father-in-law.

Joe McCoy, who went west with Mr. Herron, came in Wednesday.

School closed Friday. Mr. Alberts has given general satisfaction the past term.

Mrs. L. H. Smith, of Howard, is in town visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Rule.

Mrs. W. L. Koons has returned from Argonia, where she has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Henry Dyer.

Mrs. Lucy Cooper has been quite sick. She is under the care of Dr. Long, and at present writing is convalescent.

Mrs. Evan James will leave Tuesday for her new home near Ottawa. We are sorry to lose such an estimable family from our community.

Charley Reidell, who has been in Colorado visiting his sister, returned home last week. One by one the prodigals are returning to their father's house.

Mrs. Joe Leedy, of Burden, passed through town Friday on her way home from Cedarvale, where she had been to have Dr. Pleasant amputate one of her fingers which has been sore two or three years.

Lyken Bros. have commenced the erection of a commodious blacksmith and wagon shop on the corner lot south of the postoffice block. John and Henry are enterprising men, as well as good workmen.

Quite an improvement is being made in our town in the way of sidewalks. They are to be laid from the depot to the schoolhouse on the east side of Main street, and from Geo. Watts restaurant to Harden's store on the west side. Two crossings will be put in, one from the restaurant to the hotel, the other from Harden's store to Rules drug store. This will afford quite an accommodation to pedestrians in muddy weather. The improvements speak well for the enterprise of our town company.

S. M. Debert got the g. b. Thursday, Mr. Powers, of Oxford, has charge of the sation at present. Rumors are that Sam's bounce is a lay off to give him time to take unto himself a wife and a wedding tour east. We would be sorry to lose him for good, as he attends to business strictly, and is kind and obliging, a characteristic not common with depot agents.

The Band of Hope has resumed work with flattering prospects for interesting meetings. At the last meeting there were ten new recruits. Miss Minnie Leedy has been appointed Superintendent of the Band for the present year; Miss Ola Harden, assistant Supt.; Miss King, Secretary, and Miss Emma Freeborn, Treasurer. They are young ladies of sterling worth, and with a little encouragement, will do good work for the children during the coming season.

The recent rains raised Cedar creek so high that fears that the south part of town would be overflowed were entertained. All danger is passed now, unless the threatening clouds let down another little shower. A good deal of damage along the creek is reported. Mr. Combs, who lives on the Watts farm east of town says that his fields are washed out as deep as they were plowed and that his plowing and planting will all have to be done again.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

C. M. Aley is again at home visiting his numerous friends. He is talking of going to southern California.

A deputy county surveyor has been among us and has charged three or four prices for his work. Mr. Haight is responsible for his agents. We want this matter made right by him.

Most everybody favors the D. M. & A. but fear that Arkansas City will not vote for our road after their bonds have carried. They demand of Winfield some pledge of good faith and Winfield should have made a like demand.

Winfield did make a like demand and they responded by sending up over six hundred names on the D. M. & A. petition and furnishing assurances which are undoubted, that Arkansas City will see the D. M. & A. through if the people of eastern Cowley support the K. C. & S. W. Everything is harmonious, both propositions will carry, and all parts of the county will be profited thereby. ED. COURIER.

Have had Noah's flood No. 2 in and around this section. Cedar creek, Rock creek, Otter creek, Big Cana, and Grant creek were all the highest ever known since this country has been settled. On Otter and Big Cana all the loose soil has been washed off and farmers will have to stir their ground again. Farmers on Cana say that their farms are damaged one-half or more to say nothing of houses, fences, corn, stock, etc. Nine persons have been known to be drowned, up to date, but all the bodies have not been recovered. This loss of life was all east and southeast of Cedarvale, in Chautauqua County. Big Cana was 25 feet above low water mark. Joe. Dale's house and Hart's mill, with several other buildings, went down the stream. Dr. O'Connor, on the head of Otter, lost over 100 head of fat hogs.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Recap. Fairview Township petitioned for $10,000 to build the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic Railway through their township. Petition was signed by J. M. Barrick and 78 other resident taxpayers. Election took place June 10, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The Superintendents of the mints have been authorized to purchase mutilated and uncurrent silver coin at the rate of ninety-eight cents per ounce.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The Sultan of Zanzibar has protested against German encroachments upon his territory and has appealed to the treaty powers in regard to the matter.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Henry Jones, of Georgia, has been appointed General Agent of the Bureau of Labor, and S. H. Graves, of Delaware, has been assigned to Delaware and New Jersey.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

A sample of 2,000 sacks of Russian flour, quality very fine, was offered recently on the Produce Exchange, New York, at sixty dollars per barrel. The grade was nearly, if not quite as good, as the very best American patent extras.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Mrs. Hiram Pfantz, residing near Bunkley's mill, near Reading, Pa., took her five children to a mill pond recently and threw them all into the stream and then jumped in herself. She was drowned together with two of the youngest children.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Colonel Francis DeWinton has been appointed Governor of the Congo State, and not Henry M. Stanley, as previously stated. Colonel DeWinton will return to Europe in 1886, when Jansen will become the resident Governor of the Congo State.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The latest advices from Iceland show the first reports of the April avalanche were not exaggerated. Fifteen dwellings with their inhabitants were swept into the sea, and twenty-four persons were thus drowned. The avalanche destroyed fifty fishing boats.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Judge Brewer, of the United States Circuit Court at Des Moines, Iowa, in the barb wire cases of Washburn & Moen against the Farmers Protective Association and W. and J. E. Rhodes, sustained the Glidden wire patent as valid and held that it was infringed by the wire manufactured by the defendants. The Glidden is the one in almost universal use.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Fifty men laying pipes for the water works at Eau Claire, Wis., were overpowered by a crowd of two hundred laborers and forced to quit work recently. A crowd of three hundred men also marched to the Pioneer and the Sherman saw-mills and forced them to shut down. Eau Claire was reported under the rule of the strikers and some violence was shown.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The suit brought by the Musical Mutual Protective Union against the North German Lloyd Steamship Company to show cause why an injunction should not be granted to restrain the steamship company from landing in this country a band of forty musicians was heard in New York recently. It was a test case, but as the musicians had left for Philadelphia, the case was dismissed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The business portion of the village of St. Charles, Minn., burned recently. Losses: $25,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The municipal authorities of Paris were urging the Government to grant amnesty to political prisoners.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The President on being invited recently to visit Boston replied that public business would not permit him at present to fix the date.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The revised edition of the Old Testament was issued on the 15th. The Archbishop of Canterbury was the first person to receive a copy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Father Moulin, parish priest, was asked as to the loss of the rebels in the fighting at Batouche. He gave them as fifty-one killed and 175 wounded.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The appropriation for the payment of bounty to volunteers, their widows, and legal heirs, and for the pay of two and three year volunteers has been exhausted.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The British steamer Numidia was in collision off Burleston Head, Eng., recently with the steamer Messina. Ten of the latter's crew were drowned. The Numidia's bows were stove in.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The committee appointed to count the cash in the Treasury completed their work on the 15th. The finished and unfinished notes in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving correspond with the Treasury books.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

A dispatch from Shanghai says: "Native officials here received news from Pekin that negotiations between France and China for a treaty of peace have come to a deadlock, France having made demands which China is unable to concede."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Wilhelm Huff, an anarchist, recently wrote to the Swiss Government, threatening to blow up the Federal palace at Geneva. He was arrested, and refusing to answer questions, was conveyed to prison, where he hanged himself.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

John Middleton, chief of the notorious Middleton gang, who has been missing for ten days, was found drowned in the Poteau river, twenty miles from Fort Smith, Ark. It was thought he lost his life while attempting to swim the river on horseback.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

A strange report came from the home of Frelinghuysen regarding his sickness. It was that during last February he drank corrosive sublimate out of a mineral water bottle. The bottle contained the poison when it was filled with the mineral water.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The President has appointed Thomas B. Simms, Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Arkansas, vice Henry M. Cooper, suspended; also Charles B. Staples, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Twelfth District of Pennsylvania, vice Edward H. Chase, suspended.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Hon. George H. Pendleton, the new United States minister to Germany, arrived in Berlin on the 13th.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The Department of Agriculture has distributed during the past year 5,000 pounds of beet sugar seed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

All the striking quarrymen at Lemont, Ill, went to work on the 13th and the trouble was believed to be ended.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

During a fire at Lawrenceville, Pa., the other day, Mrs. Binder jumped from a second story window and was killed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

By the explosion of a boiler of the Dunkert Stave Company, at Grayson, Ky., George James and Theodore Bantz were killed and George and Robert Lee badly hurt.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

A deputation of Mormon officials visited the President at Washington on the 13th and presented an address asking for fair treatment at the hands of the Executive.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

A reduced copy of the Bartholdi statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, was formally presented by American residents of the French capital to the municipality of Paris on the 13th.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The first train over the Minnesota & Northwestern road reached West St. Paul on the 13th. The Minneapolis & St. Louis road will come into St. Paul over this new line after June 1.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

A dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pa., of the 13th, stated that an extensive strike was imminent in the iron trade, the Amalgamated Association not being able to make terms with the employers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Statim Bey, who, it was generally believed, was killed with Gordon in Khartoum, is, according to statements contained in letters received by some of his relatives at Vienna, still alive and a present a prisoner of El Mahdi.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

A riot occurred at Trafalgar Square, London, between the police and a mob assembled for the purpose of protesting against the increased duties on beer and spirts. The mob drove the police off, but the latter returned with reinforcements and made many arrests.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The other day Constable Levi and a posse went to Noble's Lake, near Pine Bluff, Ark., to arrest Henry and James Nelson, fugitives from Mississippi charged with murder. The men fired on the posse from a log hut, wounding one of the posse, and the posse were compelled to leave for reinforcements.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

The grand stand, reporters' stand, and judges' stand of the Prospect Park fair grounds, New York, burned recently; insured.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 21, 1885.

Signor Mancini, of Italy, has resigned his office as Foreign Minister and his portfolio has been taken by the Premier, Signor A. Depretis.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885. Front Page.

Paper repeated again Sheriff's Election Proclamation for Richland Township. Lewis Stevens, and 174 other residents petitioned for election to subscribe $5,000 to the Kansas City and Southwestern Railroad Company. Election to be held June 16, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Paper repeated again Sheriff's Election Proclamation for Omnia Township. W. H. Gillard and 51 other legal voters petitioned for election to subscribe $7,000 to the Kansas City and Southwestern Railroad Company. Election to be held June 16, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885. Back Page.

Paper repeated again Sheriff's Election Proclamation for Fairview Township. J. Wade McDonald, attorney for the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic railway, presented to Cowley County Board of Commissioners a petition from J. M. Barrick and 78 other resident taxpayers for election to subscribe for twenty shares of $500 each ($10,000) for stock in the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic Railway. Election to be held June 10, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The elections for voting county bonds for the two proposed railroads are drawing nigh. THE COURIER, of course, will be fair enough to indulge a citizen with a few remarks on this subject. It would seem at first sight that the facts and figures produced by THE COURIER's statistical editor should be sufficient to convince the most skeptical that the voting of bonds for the building of railroads is a most profitable policy. He has solved the problem and proven by paper evidence that the taxes paid by the roads to the county, annually, would be sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds and have a surplus for a sinking fund that would liquidate the principal on the maturity of the bonds.

By this course of reasoning, he naturally concludes that the voting of aid by the county for the building of the K. C. & S. W. and D., M. & A. railroads would not practically cost the county a dollar. Now, this looks very pretty on paper, and viewed from this standpoint it would seem that the voting of bonds for the building of railroads is a highly legitimate business.

The soundness of his logic could not be questioned were it not for the fact that there is another side to the subject that needs ventilation. I insist that the county pays every dollar--in hard cash--of the expense of every mile of roadbed constructed within her boundaries. Not only this, but also bears the operating expense of theses roads when built, and pays a healthy dividend on the actual capital invested by the company. And I further claim that the bulk of the whole burden of debt caused by the voting of bonds falls upon the farmers and producers of the county. This may look like a startling proposition. But the position taken, although right to the contrary of THE COURIER, is, nevertheless, impregnable. While the county may not directly pay the interest and principal of these bonds in taxes especially assessed for that particular purpose, it does indirectly pay a hundred cents on every dollar of bonds in the shape of freight tariffs on products exported and commodities imported.

The gentlemen who compose railroad companies are not dupes, but on the contrary are among the sharpest financiers in the country. If they cannot make the capital invested in a road produce them a profitable income, they will tear up the track, as they have been known to do in a number of instances.

Every bushel of grain and head of stock raised in the county and takes to the railroad for transportation to market pays its proportionate tribute to the cost of construction and expense of operating said particular road. The same is true of every article of merchandise shipped by rail into the county. The railroad company enjoys the very lucrative position of banker to the county. And, it may hand over to the county treasurer the county's interest on their bonds in the shape of tax on the company' roadbed and rolling stock. But the farmers of the county furnish them the money by which this transaction is performed.

It might be argued that our merchants share proportionately in the liquidation of railroad debts. This proposition, however, would be unsupportable. The merchant sells his wares at a profit over and above t he original cost price; plus transportation, storage, and clerk hire. So the purchasers of the county foot the bills in this respect. The soil being the great reservoir of all wealth, it is by this source only that all debts and obligations can be canceled. Cripple the resources of the farm and commercial business soon stagnates.

The advantages of having several railroads running through our county and the advisability of voting bonds in aid of their construction, it is not the province of this article to discuss. I can imagine the immense benefit competing lines of roads might be to our county. The impetus our home consumptive market might receive by the addition of an increased population in our cities. The advantage of shorter routes and quicker transportation to leading trade centers. The advance in valuation of real estate and its productions, are all worthy of consideration. But the erroneous impression should not be forced upon the farmers of our county that other parties instead of themselves will pay for these privileges which they may enjoy. Our county will have to pay for whatever honors may fall to her from enterprises of this character, and don't you forget it. M. H. MARKUM, Constant, Kansas.

Well, admitting that all our correspondent says above, is true, is it not of great moment to the farmers whether they pay these railroads present rates or half present rates? Whether they pay for railroads big dividends or small ones? Whether they have to depend upon distant markets for all they sell or have large home markets which demand a large part of that they can raise and at much higher prices? Of course, railroads will take from our farmers all they can get. We want competition to prevent them from getting half as much as they get now.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The following appeared in the New York Tribune, on May 10th, among a column of paragraph interviews.

The great West is still growing and blossoming in the night. I met Judge D. D. Hoag, of Wyandotte, Kansas, at the Glenham Hotel on Thursday. He was brimful of exultation over the victories of Kansas at the New Orleans Exposition. Said he: "We carried off sixty-five miscellaneous first and second premiums. We swept the deck on white and yellow corn, red winter wheat, flour of both patent and roller process, on sorghum sugar and on shorthorn cattle. The mill that made the patent process flour is way off in one corner of the State in a small village. The sorghum sugar industry is a growing one with us, and this premium will encourage it. We got a gold medal for the best corn in the world. All this, too, in the face of discouragements. Our Legislature appropriated only $7,000 for the exhibit, while States all around us, Nebraska, Dakota, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, appropriated from $20,000 to $30,000, and New York, California, and Texas appropriated $30,000. We beat them all. There were never so many people going into Kansas as now, but I presume our success at New Orleans will swell the tide."

We want to inform that Wyandotte Hoag (is the "a" silent?) that Bliss & Wood's mill which "made the patent process flour" is not "way off in one corner of the State in a small village," but in the great city of Winfield, the liveliest city in the State.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

P. H. Albright, of Winfield, spent part of Friday and Saturday in Sedan last week. We noticed him wading around in the mud Saturday morning, taking in the flood. Albright says that Winfield is a nice, quiet place to live; but when he wants to commune with nature, wild and untamed, he always has to come back to old Chautauqua. Sedan Graphic.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

All minds of the reading people are at the present occupied with the Russo-Anglo difficulties. Perhaps it would not be out of the way to say a few words about the Russians, and especially their slaves, who, to the present time, constitute the main military body, though today no longer slaves. Slavery existed as long as history can trace us back. Beyond the time of Greek colonies dwelt a whole world of tribes, whom the Greeks designated by the common name of Teythians. The Goths founded a vast empire in eastern Teythia. The pluns overthrew the Gothic dominion, and a cloud of Finnish people and Bulgarians hurried swiftly on the traces of the pluns. In the midst of this strife and medley of peoples, the slaves came to the front with their own marked character. But the Finnish races even more than the Slaves are the Aborigines of Russia. The Voriogi came from Scandinavia and gave the name of Russia to the slave countries. With the Voriogi the Russian name became famous in Eastern Europe. It was the epoch of brilliant and adventurous expeditions; it was the heroic age of Russia. (It was the 1000 anniversary of this event that was commemorated at Novzorod 1882.) But I wish to tell you how the Russian peasant became a slave. The Russian peasant was in fact subjected to the will of his mater, but in law he remained a free man, as he was allowed to pass from the service of one proprietor to that of another. This right brought with it an abuse. The large proprietors, who, being the richest, could also be the most generous, tried to attract to their lands the peasants of the smaller land owners, by insuring them privileges and immunities. We must remember that at this epoch (800) the population was very scanty, and land had of itself no value. It was precious according to the number of laborers who could be induced to settle on it. Thus the lands of the smaller proprietors ran the risk of being depopulated for the benefit of the great lords. (Another thousand years and the poor will still have to suffer from the rich, even in a Republic.) If they lost their laborers, the value of the land became proportionately depreciated. But the class of small land owners were, at this period, almost the only military class of Russia. The national cavalry was recruited almost entirely from it alone. If the source of their revenues were cut off, where would they get the money to equip themselves to answer to the call of the almighty Tsar, according to the text of the ordinances, "mounted, armed, and accompanied?" Their interest thus became confounded with that of the empire, which would soon become unable to support its armies. Boris Godunoff found a way of saving the rights of the State, and at the same time gaining the gratitude of a numerous and powerful class. An edict of Feodor, (the Tsar) forbade the peasants henceforth to go from one State to another. The free Russian peasant was now attached to the globe like the western serf. In the name of the interest of the State and that of the military nobles, an immemorial right was extinguished. We must not think that these silent masses were insensible. The Russian peasant never passively allowed the proscription of this new form of slavery to be established in one way or another he has constantly resisted it. The gallant Alexander I, who reformed the whole government, overthrew the slave law, and made the serf a free man again (1884) had to be sacrificed, for loving his people, in the most horrible, shocking manner, an event still well remembered by the reading people.--JOAN.

And How It is Not Done Where the Truly American Right of Self-Choice is Permitted.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

There has been a good deal said of late about "the fastest trains in the world," and some interest would have it appear that all the glory in this respect effulged upon a single road; indeed, that one line absorbing everything there was in railroad life worth living for, and all the others simply hanging upon a verge of despair as precarious as pitiable. Thus the situation, and because of it from the monopolistic standpoint, the full justification of a doubling of rates and extra charges generally anything but conducive to popular hilarity these days, when not only dollars but nickles count. In accordance with its characteristically American way of doing things, the Baltimore and Ohio long since established as an avoidable principle the system of an entire absence of exacting extras upon any of the trains, limited or otherwise. The B. & O. does not believe in privileged classes, has never been accused of aping exclusiveness, or in any manner whatever made it appear that there could be good and sufficient grounds for doing its best in the matter of time and equipment when paid at double rates therefor. It is thoroughly well satisfied to run truly representative American trains, accepting for passage thereon regular tickets at the regular rates and maintaining a time schedule absolutely without parallel. A strong statement in the face of the loud boasts of competing lines of running "the fastest trains in the world," but a comparison of schedules from and to Washington proves it beyond cavil. The Chicago Limited leaving at 10 a.m., reaches destination next morning at 8:55, quicker than any limited upon any other road. The Cincinnati Limited leaving at 3:30 p.m., runs through in the wonderful time of sixteen hours, arriving 7:45 the succeeding morning, four hours ahead of any other limited. The St. Louis Limited is over an hour faster than any other limited to that city, as is also the Pittsburg Limited. East-bound from all the cities named, the B. & O. Limited trains are equally advantageously run in every instance, making time unequaled by the limited train service of rival lines, and upon which the practice of making extra charges and doubling rates is as rigidly adhered to as it is not on Picturesque B. & O. The equipment of the latter line is in every way of the finest, trains running through solid and composed of magnificent new Buffet, Family-room, Sleeping, Parlor, and Dining cars, and elegant day coaches. On all the B. & O. Limited trains passengers go as they please, pay their money, and take their choice, and not as upon other roads running limited trains, compelled whether or no to take and pay for what may be provided by those who know more what the passenger wants than he does himself.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Notwithstanding the fact that Chautauqua County is largely washed away, the people yet believe there is a God in Israel. The Sedan Graphic says: "We are glad to see the best farmers of the county taking hold again, with a determination to do something yet, this season, in the way of raising crops. We have interviewed several of the most prominent farmers in this part of the county and while they feel that they have sustained severe losses, they are determined to make the best of it, and are going to work in earnest. If all our people will act in the same manner, we will not know that we ever had any serious storms by fall. We are confident that many of them can still raise good crops, and will if they go to work with a determination to do so."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Says the Wellingtonian, "The pressing need of some system of lighting the streets of our city is fully realized, when one is compelled to travel them these dark nights, when the mud is as slick as a banana peel and as treacherous as to depth as an old fashioned quagmire." How funny that sounds to one used to metropolitan things. Winfield forgot such troubles in the dim past. Our citizens trip along on our magnificent sidewalks "under the gas lights," from sixty or more posts, with angelic glee.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

A divorced man or woman, under the Kansas laws, cannot take a new partner to divide their sorrows and double their joys, for six months from the date the divorce was granted. This we publish for the benefit of any of those parties divorced yesterday in the District Court, who may contemplate immediate marriage. Wellingtonian.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The annual Convention of County Superintendents of the State meets at Emporia on June 9th, 10th, and 11th. Superintendent Limerick is programmed for an address, "Suggestions in regard to the new examination law." The meeting promises much for educational advancement.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Edward Prather, residing at Grand Summit, passed through on the S. K. last night from the west with a terribly mutilated hand. His gun had got in its work, blowing one finger entirely off and spoiling others. He didn't know it was loaded.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

L. G. Archer, from Marshal, Ill., is now custom collector at the Central. He is a brother of W. L. Jarvis, Conklin & Co.'s traveling agent, whose headquarters have been here for some time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The first mosquito of the season dropped on our desk last night. One of the redeeming features of Southern Kansas is the fact that these little pests, except in the very rainiest seasons, are strangers. If there is any created thing that we loath and despise, that thing is the buzzing mosquito. The affectionate little imps make life miserable, and death almost a welcome relief.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

THE COURIER man, in as intelligent, enterprising, and wide-awake city as Winfield, occasionally runs across a businessman who imagines trade is too dull to warrant advertising. The fallacy of the argument is as clear as the sun. The prime, first, last, and all the time object of an advertisement is to draw custom. It is not, was not, and never will be designed for any other human purpose. So the merchant waits till the busy season comes and his store is so full of customers he can't get his hat off, and then he rushes to the COURIER and puts in his advertisement. When the dull season gets along and there is no trade, and he wants to sell his goods so bad he can't pay his rent, he takes out his advertisement. That is some of them do. Level-headed merchants put in bigger ones and scoop in all the business, while their neighbors are making mortgages to pay their bills. There are times when you couldn't stop people from buying everything in the store if you planted a cannon behind the door, and that's the time the advertisement is sent out on its holy mission. It makes it light work for the advertisement, for a chalk sign on the sidewalk could do all that was needed and have a half holiday six days in a week; but who wants to favor an advertisement? They are built to do hard work, and should be out in the dull days when a customer has to be knocked down with hard facts and kicked insensible with bankrupt reductions and dragged-in with irresistible slaughter of prices before he will spend a cent. That's the main end of an advertisement. Don't try to get people to come when they are already sticking out of the windows, but give them your advertisement right between the eyes in the dull season, and you will wax rich and own a fast horse, and perhaps be able to smoke a good cigar once or twice a year. Write this down where you'll fall over it every day. The time to draw business is when you want business, and not when you have more business than you can attend to already.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The author of the following pen picture, whose name, in its various newspaper meanderings, has dropped into the great unknown, certainly deserves a perch on the top round of the ladder of fame. It's a gem of entrancing brilliancy.

"The State of Kansas is a slice from the juiciest side of the earth. A few years ago it was a wilderness. Today it is the garden of the world redolent with the fragrance of the orchard and the vintage, teeming with the homes of thrifty people with the vim and vigor of progress, and mellow with the bloom of an almost perennial harvest. Last year Kansas sent to the east from her overflowing storehouses a golden stream of grain, filled hundreds of their empty trains with the choicest herds and flocks, and, standing on the threshold of this year's bounty, she sends greeting to half a million of their sons who would try their fortunes on her unbroken prairies. What Kansas will be fifty years hence is beyond the comprehension of people now living. Kansas is speedily gaining a reputation as the leading State of the west, and the soft breezes, as they are wafted gently o'er her broad and beautiful rolling prairies, sing naught of her but praise. The humming of her mills and the sound of the hammer and saw as the houses materialize with great rapidity, remind us of the busy bee, and gently whisper to us of the great strides of this sunny country in the path of progression. Long may it wave."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

In our efforts to secure the college and the two railroads, we must not forget that Cowley County is almost without a jail. It was condemned by the Grand Jury as insecure and unhealthy, and in fact as a jail is a disgrace to the county. A petition signed by about four hundred of our taxpayers, asking that a special election be called to vote bonds to build a jail was presented to the Commissioners. Acting upon this petition, they have called an election on the 2nd day of June. We believe that every wise thinking man will vote for this proposition. If the voter is not convinced that we need a jail, let him call upon Jailor Finch and he will show him through, and tell you how he is compelled to confine men, women, and children all together in a place that would hardly make a good chicken coop. In the name of humanity, we ask you to think before you vote against this proposition.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Word comes to us that Burden has raised money and is printing for circulation a large amount of literature for the purpose of defeating the railroad bonds next Monday. Burden's interest in this matter is purely selfish. If she could get the road, her people would be a unit in favor of it. As she cannot, she is attempting to have others take up her grievances and help defeat the road. The people of Burden seem to be panic-stricken over this matter, and to believe that the fact of the road coming down east and north of them will ruin their town. This idea is far-fetched, but it is worse than useless to attempt to argue it to them. Citizens of Cowley, you have much at stake in Monday's election. The carrying of one proposition means the carrying of both--the defeat of one means the defeat of both. It is a crisis in the history of our county. If we are enterprising enough to meet it, our prosperity is assured. If we allow local jealousies to govern, we are lost. Let every citizen see that his vote and all the votes he can influence are cast for enterprise, progress, and wealth.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

We hear that there is to be a big fight made on the railroad bonds in certain quarters. Many persons are found who say they are opposed from principle to voting bonds and taking stock in any railroad. These same persons who howl loudest against voting any bonds whatever when there is a scheme on foot to build a railroad that does not pass their doors are the persons who are the loudest in favor of voting bonds, and any amount of them, when the railroad is to be built exactly where they want it. There is no doubt that if the K. C. & S. K. road was to be built through Burden, that town would vote practically solid for the bonds, were the sum twice as great as that proposed to be voted by the county to that road. Now it is to be expected that the electors having property nearest to the line of the road will be enthusiastic and unanimous for it. It takes no argument to show them the great advantages they will derive from it. They see it at once and fall into line with alacrity. Knowing this fact, we have spent no time with the cranks along the line who would vote against the bonds, if there be any such. We have devoted our attention solely to those who do not live or own property along the line of the road, and have no special interest only the general good of the county in which they will partake.

To these we have shown that the various objections which have been raised to voting these bonds are unsound; that the fear that the K. C. & S. W. will only be a branch of the "Frisco" is unfounded and if realized, it would yet attain the main object of voting the bonds, that of securing a Gould competition to the Santa Fe. We have shown that while there is no way to prevent any stockholder selling out his stock in any road to any purchaser who offers him his price, there is no more danger or probability of the Santa Fe interest buying a majority of the stock of the K. C. & S. W. than there is in the stock of any Gould road being bought by the Santa Fe interest. We have shown that Cowley County itself contributed to give the controlling interest in the Southern Kansas to the Santa Fe and that the counties and townships along the S. K. could have prevented the Santa Fe control, and have kept the S. K. as a competing road. We have shown that the voting of these bonds will not increase our rate of taxation, but will reduce it, and this we have proved by figures that are fair and incontrovertible. We have shown that the voting of the proposed bonds and the building of these roads will be of immense benefit to every farmer and every permanent resident of the county, however distant he may live from the line of either road, that it will bring half a million of dollars to be expended in this county for labor, for team work, for corn, wheat, flour, vegetables, beef cattle, butter, eggs, chickens, and everything the farmers produce, and this will benefit every one in the county largely, either directly or indirectly, and we have shown that it will make a permanent competition that will reduce the rates of railroad freights very largely, which will be a great advantage to all our farmers, giving them higher prices for what they have for sale, and lower prices for what they have to buy, and that this difference is to our people the difference between unremitting toil and comparative ease, between medium circumstances and wealth, between bare surroundings and the appliances of refinement and even luxury.

Now really there are but two ways to account for any voting against these bonds; the one is a stubbornness which refuses to accept of a good thing because it is a better thing to someone else, the other is ignorance and a neglect to read and find out the facts of the case. If every man in this county was thoroughly well informed and was willing to accept of a positive good to himself even though it was a greater good to some others, there would not be a vote against the bonds.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

ST. LOUIS, May 13. The annual election of directors of the St. Louis & San Francisco road was held today, and elected Edward F. Winslow, Jesse Seligman, L. Stanford, W. F. Buckley, Jay Gould, W. L. Frost, Horace Porter, C. P. Huntington, Price Gray, Russell Sage, A. T. Hatch, C. W. Rogers, and R. S. Hayes. The annual report was read and showed a good result for the last year. The party leaves on a special train for a trip over the road this afternoon. The American Ticket Broker's Association's annual convention was held at the Planter's house today. There was a full attendance. The report of the executive committee was read and approved. They banquet tomorrow night. Press Dispatches.

The above list of directors does not contain a single Santa Fe man. All are Gould men except Jesse Seligman, who represents himself but is in combination with the Gould interest. We have heard it stated frequently that the Santa Fe men had sold out their minority interest in the road, and that it would hereafter be run in full competition with the Santa Fe. This list of directors is pretty good evidence that there is truth in the reports. In fact, we have not heard of their being denied.

Some persons who have been clamoring for a railroad connection with the Fort Scott & Wichita, the Missouri Pacific or some other Gould road, have been afraid to vote bonds to the Kansas City and Southwestern for fear we should only get a connection with the "Frisco" at Beaumont. These men will, of course, be satisfied with such connection if we get nothing more. It should be remembered that it was this same Frisco road which gave Wichita her biggest boom, and it will give us just as big a boom if we get that connection. But if we get this connection, we shall get much more. We shall connect with the Fort Scott & Wichita soon thereafter, a little later with the Missouri Pacific, and finally with the C. B. & Q., and other eastern roads of Kansas City.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Winfield celebrated Memorial Day in a truly memorable manner. It was a perfect May day, cool, calm and bright, and all nature was at her loveliest. And the exercises, inaugurated and conducted by the Grand Army and Woman's Relief Corps, in honor of the country's dead heroes, were as perfect and enchanting as the day itself.

Long before the hour of morning services, standing room was unattainable in the Baptist church. The G. A. R. and Woman's Relief Corps met at their hall and marched to the church, over a hundred strong, where seats had been reserved for them. The floral decorations were lovely. Over the pulpit, embowered in evergreens, were the portraits of Lincoln, Garfield, and Lyon, embellished with stars and the words, "Im Memory of our Dead Heroes." On either side hung the stars and stripes, while at the left of the pulpit stood a marble monument, festooned with crape and wreathed with flowers. The front of the pulpit was a perfect sea of beautiful flowers and plants; all the decorations exhibiting the taste and energy of the ladies of the Woman's Relief Corps. The music, vocal and instrumental, was sublime. The national airs by the cornet orchestra, Messrs. Crippen, Roberts, Bates and Shaw, with Miss Lola Silliman, organ accompanist, thrilled the audience and elicited the highest praises. "There is one vacant chair" and "Lincoln's Funeral March" were especially fine. The music to the latter was rearranged for the orchestra by Mr. Crippen and as rendered by them stands absolutely unexcelled. The strains were as low, sweet, and perfect as though wafted from fairy land. The selections of the choir, Mrs. J. S. Mann, Miss Lena Walrath, and Messrs. Buckman and Silliman, with Miss Silliman at the organ, also exhibited unique musical taste and ability. "Rest, Soldier, Rest," by Sargeant, and "Cover them over with Beautiful Flowers," one of Will Carleton's most beautiful poetic productions, were rendered entrancingly. Rev. B. Kelly and Rev. J. H. Reider assisted in the pulpit exercises.

The Memorial address was delivered by Dr. W. R. Kirkwood. For depth of thought, pathos, polish, and practical application, it shines as a diamond. With much pleasure THE COURIER presents it in full.

And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordon, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. And he spake unto the Children of Israel, saying, "When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, what mean these stones?

"Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordon as dry land. For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordon before you, until ye passed over, as the Lord your God from before us, until we were gone over: that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty; that ye might fear the Lord your God forever." Joshua iv:20-24.

In the sermon I am called to preach today it is necessary to revert to matters which, of necessity, are painful to many--may I not say to all? Yet more painful to some than to others.

I trust you will remember I am to deal with historical facts, and the lessons they teach; that the facts stand out in bold relief and cannot be changed; that the lessons follow necessarily, and are of the gravest importance for all, now and hereafter. I trust you will be candid enough to believe that I do the work before me in no spirit of bitterness, but only in the spirit of reverence for the truth, regard for the best interests of posterity, and kindliness to all.

It is always becoming to erect memorials of past deliverance. They serve to keep the memory green in the hearts of posterity, and awaken gratitude to the God of providence and grace. With the deliverance of Israel from the bondage of Egypt, and their safe conduct to their own land, you are all tolerably familiar. That the memory of this deliverance was devoutly cherished, you know. That they set up memorials thereof, you know.

It seems to me, under the present circumstances that this instance of their building a memorial pillar furnishes a good foundation for the lessons I wish to teach today. We, as a people, have passed through a great and bitter trial and it is fitting that our deliverance should be properly remembered. Of this, what memorials are set among us?

1. The cemeteries owned by the general government, where sleep the long lines of soldiers who died in behalf of the great republic.

2. The cemeteries in which are graves marked by the stones bearing the insignia of war, and the dates of service rendered by the men who sleep beneath the sod.

3. The day, annually observed as Decoration day, wherein the people gather in companies to wreath the graves of the dead heroes with flowers and evergreens.

4. The Grand Army of the Republic, composed of the men who survived the tremendous strife, but whose members are fast diminishing, and of whom the last will soon be gone.

5. The legislation growing out of that long struggle and its results.

6. The written histories which tell the story of the strife as it was seen and felt in the hour of the nation's agony.

Of these, there comes before us today, more especially, the cemeteries, the Grand Army, and Decoration day.

Of what are these memorials significant to us who yet do our work in the world, and to the posterity, which is rising to take our places?

Do they mean no more than to remind us of the strife of brute force, and victory won by those who could stand the struggle longest without breaking down? Is that all? Then, they are nothing worth maintaining. If that be all, they simply point to the apotheosis of physical courage and prowess.

But that is not all. That is only the last, and very least, thing they are designed to commemorate. First of all, they point back to the evils of unsound principles, of false teaching. It is perhaps unavoidable that, in the present condition of humanity, false principles should be held by many, and that these should be taught by those who hold false principles and teach them and are aware always of the falsity of their principles. Beyond a doubt, many hold and teach false principles under a profound conviction of their truth. But while such conviction may, in some degree, excuse, it can never justify the person who makes the mistake. We are under obligation to know and do right, and, failing therein, we are under obligation to suffer for doing wrong.

Of the false principles to which I refer, there are three which specially deserve to be named.

1. That the slavery of the black race existed by Divine warrant, and was therefore right: a part of the constitution of nature.

2. That the government of the United States was only a federal compact, existing by the will of the sovereign states. From this, two conclusions necessarily followed, viz: (a) The individual citizen owed supreme allegiance to his state, and only a subordinate, or secondary, allegiance to the government of the United States. (b) That, when they chose, any of the states had the right to withdraw from the federal compact; peaceably, if they could; by force, if necessary.

3. That the right of the few was to rule; of the many, to be ruled. In other words, the principle of blue blood--of oligarchy, of empire.

These were the three great principles which lay at the foundation of the rebellion of 1861-1865. I am not now to argue them. The argument has been made. The case has been decided. I call them false, not only on the ground of sound logic, but because a higher logic than that of schools, senate chambers, and equity courts--the logic of events in the march of Providence, has proven these false. Yet the memorials before us today require us to look back, to remember the time when they were held by a large proportion of the American people to be true.

They were taught in our schools. The boys in many of our colleges, with their Greek Testaments in their hands, were taught that the prophets of Jehovah inculcated the doctrine of slavery as the proper condition of a large portion of the human race. "Of course," it was admitted, "there were abuses of slaves, but the principle of slavery was essentially right." This doctrine was reiterated in theological seminaries. It was advocated in church courts. It was taught in the newspaper press. It was upheld in periodicals aspiring to the dignity of Reviews. It was taught on the platform by political leaders. It was upheld in congress. It was embodied in legislation--that of the nation, and also of many of the states. It was sustained by the courts.

In the same manner the doctrine of state rights--state sovereignty--was taught though it never figured so broadly in the church courts. It was held in the North and South, in the East and West, and was earnestly advocated by a very large proportion of the people. It was the fundamental doctrine of sectionalism. In the South, especially, a citizen was, first of all, proud of his state; next, of the South; and last, and least, of the fact that he was a citizen of the great republic.

The right of the few to vote--the fundamental principle of empire--never came so clearly to the surface during the days of debate. It lay not dormant, but carefully hidden from the public eye, except in so far as it was manifested by the assumptions and conduct of those who held it. It was held as firmly, and nursed, in a quiet way, and its vitality and power were no less than those of the other principles named.

On these doctrines there was a division among the people from the first.

There was an ever-increasing number who believed the principle of slavery to be wrong. Their convictions gained in power with every passing year. And, as they saw the hold of the false principles upon the minds of many, they were filled with profound anxiety for the future of the republic.

So, too, in regard to the doctrine of state sovereignty, there was a large, and ever growing number, who denied the correctness of the principle--who believed that the general government--the United States--was supreme; that the United States was not a confederacy of nations, but a nation--ONE nation, and that therefore supreme allegiance was due from every citizen to the national government; and that there was no shadow of ground for the doctrine of the right of secession whether proposed by Massachusetts or South Carolina.

For the principle of empire, there was always an overwhelming majority against it, and it was never openly debated; and yet, for a long period, those who held it ruled the affairs of the republic. Up to 1860, "No president of any party had ever been elected who was opposed to their supremacy."

As early as 1787, the question of slavery began to emerge as a grave factor in political affairs. As the years passed debate waxed loud and warm. A temporary check was imposed by the adoption of the Missouri Compromise in 1820--a measure proposed by Senator J. B. Thomas, of Illinois, and supported by Mr. Clay. Before 1882, the doctrine of state sovereignty began to make itself heard and feared by thoughtful men. Without tracing the history, it is enough to say that, through after years, these questions grew more and more absorbing until the repeal of the Missouri Compromise on the 30th of May, 1854, when they became the burning questions, and the people of the nation rapidly arranged themselves on the one side or on the other.

At length there came a time when it was evident that debate could settle nothing: that it could not end the strife or allay the rising tide of feeling. Majorities could not do it. Both debate and majorities embittered rather than calmed the public fever.

Meanwhile, the leaders of those who held by the principles of slavery, state sovereignty, and empire, acting in accordance therewith, determined to destroy the existing United States government. To do this, they made appeal to the highest court--the court of Almighty God. The courtroom was the battlefield. The pleadings were made with the sword. It may well be doubted, if they had known the men they were to meet in that pleading, whether they would have undertaken it. Yet who can tell? Most of them were brave men, who had long been accustomed to rule, and who had never been taught to fear consequences. What might have been, we know not. What was, we know. The appeal was made. The trial was long, fearful, terrible. It was the struggle of Titans. But it ended. The court of last resort gave its decision. By that decision, slavery was wrong--is wrong; the doctrine of state sovereignty is wrong; the principle of empire is wrong. The court ruled that freedom for all men is right; that supreme allegiance is due to the nation and its government; that a "government of the people, for the people, by the people" is right. And that doctrine was sealed in blood at Appomattox, on the 9th of April, 1865.

There are men who talk of violations of the constitution by the legislation of congress touching these great principles, since the controversy was decided. But such men should remember that the Supreme Court of the Universe has passed upon these questions, and has written on the principles of slavery, state sovereignty in the Southern sense, and empire, "Mene, mene, Yekel Upharsin." They have been weighed in the scales of stainless, perfect justice, found wanting, and cast out. There is no place for them in the constitution. There is no place for them in legislation. There is no place for them in the rulings of earthly courts. They are legally dead by the judicial decision from which there is no appeal. And the man who seeks to revive them by teaching in the schools, the churches, the platform, the press, or in legislative halls, is guilty of a crime against his fellow-men so heinous that the human mind is not mighty enough to measure its enormity.

Gentlemen, on appeal of these principles by their advocates to Almighty God by wager of battle--an appeal recognized in all ages as the highest and the last--the appellants lost their cause!

The constitution of the United States has been amended on these points--and so amended that its intent can never be mistaken--by the Lord God of Hosts. And woe, woe to the men who shall seek to tamper with, or nullify the amendments.

Of these principles, their evil influence, the appeal to God, the decision rendered, and the amendment to the constitution thereby, these graves, this fragment of the Grand Army, this Decoration day, in which the graves of the men who died in the strife are strewn with flowers, are memorials.

They are memorials also of the terrible cost of the trial.

Under the circumstances, I may well be excused for omitting more than a mere mention of the pecuniary cost. Vast as it was, it is the most insignificant item in the cost of the trial. And, vast as we know it to be, I doubt if many have any conception--any definite conception--of its real vastness. We have government reports of direct expenses; but we have no authentic knowledge of the cost to the South in money and in the destruction of property. Nor can we more than estimate the cost of taking nearly four millions of men in the flower of their age, and, for four years, making them destroyers instead of producers. All these belong to the pecuniary cost of the trial.

But leaving this, we have to face an item of cost that is appalling. I mean the cost in men.

On the side of the government there were enlisted 2,850,132 men. On the confederate side, the best estimates show an aggregate of 1,100,000 men--a total of 3,950,132 men called to the battlefield.

Of these there died, during the war, on the side of the government, 304,366. The number discharged from service for disability, caused by wounds or chronic disease, was 285,545--an aggregate of killed and disabled men amounting to more than half a million. It is fair to estimate the confederate loss on the same scale, which gives that loss at more than a quarter of a million men. That is to say, the cost of this trial, which grew out of the teachings of false principles, was, in killed and wounded men alone, more than three-quarters of a million--nearly one in four of all enlisted men--a number equal to the population of this great State in 1870, twice told; nearly equal to its population in 1880. Imagine, if you can, the engine of death let loose in our State until four-fifths of our population are dead or maimed, and you may get some idea of what these frightful numbers mean.

But measure the cost in this particular, you must not stop with the fact of death. You must take into account the sufferings borne by these men. Stricken in battle, they lay where they fell, while brigades and divisions charged back and forth over their mangled forms, and the roar of cannon, the peal of musketry, the shriek of shot and shell, drowned the groans and cries of the wounded and dying. There they lay in agonies unutterable, racked with pain, burning with the fever of their wounds, parching with thirst, and no hand to help them till the battle was done. They were bearing the agonies of death, and they were fathers whose children were far from them; they were husbands whose wives were mourning in sorrowful homes; they were sons and brothers going through the gates of death in awful pain, with no mother or sister near to wipe the death damps from their brows--to moisten their burning tongues with a drop of water, to breathe a prayer for their parting souls, or press a farewell kiss upon their lips--they were dying, and oh, who would care, in the stormy days, for those they left behind?

And when the battle was done, there was the gathering of the wounded, the fresh agony of removal, the keener agony under the saws and scalpels of the surgeons, and the long suffering in the hospitals. More yet: there were the prisoners--let me leave the veil over the scenes and sufferings of that prison life. Nor can I tell the utter woe of widowed wives, of orphaned children, of childless parents made by this fearful struggle. When you take all this in, you have the framework for the picture of the sufferings which this trial of these principles, by battle, cost. Can you fill it out? Can you bring it full before your minds? Neither the pen of Dante nor of Shakespeare could write it in full. The pencil of a Raphael could not paint it. No words of mortal man could utter all its horror. Shrouded in appalling gloom, it must remain forever untold, untellable, in its awful weight of woe.

And you are never to forget this cost. It is to be remembered forever and forever, as the cost of the trial and condemnation of the false principles which produced it. You are to tell it to your children, with its causes. It is an everlasting part of the heritage you are to transmit to them. We are sometimes told that all this dreadful past is to be buried; and left in oblivion. Bury it? Leave it in oblivion? Never! Never! If you do, you are unworthy of the trust committed to you by the dead hands that lie folded in silent graves today--committed to you, rather by the immortal spirits that passed from earth in the storm on battle plains--no; rather, committed to your hands by Almighty God who, through this awful trial, passed sentence of condemnation on the wrong--sentence from which there is no appeal--sentence to be remembered forever and forever; and in doing so, committed to your hands the principles of righteousness, to be held and transmitted in perpetuity to your children.

But why remember it? Why perpetuate the memory?

Because it conveys lessons of vital importance to posterity.

1st. The first lesson is the danger of holding and teaching false principles. They always develop into practice. The founders of our Republic, though they believed slavery wrong, yet could not agree to cast it out. They incorporated it in the constitution of 1787. Out of its necessities grew the doctrine of states rights as taught by Mr. Calhoun. Out of the form of society to which it gave birth, grew the idea of empire. The dragon's teeth were again sown on the fair fields of America, as of old on those of Greece, and the men of our generation reaped the harvest of armed men and slaughter and blood on a hundred battlefields. Let it never be forgotten that evil principles beget evil conduct, and the result is proportionate suffering and sorrow; and let the memory of this great calamity stand, pointing posterity to the lesson.

2nd. Another lesson, equally important, to which it points, and for which it should be remembered, is the peril of blind adherence to party, and blind following of partisan leaders. In the south where the war began, there were not more than three hundred thousand (300,000) slave-holders, out of an entire white population of 8,000,000. Of these, only a small number were prominent as leaders. Yet, by long custom, they held the power, and, as I have already said, "up to 1860, no president had been elected from any party who was opposed to their supremacy."

But suppose the people had been readers in the true sense of the word. Suppose that instead of reading what would tend to make them only more bitter partisans, and therefore the easier dupes of partisan leaders, they had read both sides of the questions at issue, seeking to find the truth--the right. Suppose this--would the course of affairs have been the same? Could it have been the same? I do not hesitate to say that if such reading had been done by the people, north and south, the war would have been an impossibility. But instead of this, most of the people read only their own partisan papers, saw only one side, thought that side right, and never realized that there was another side, or that there was any peril until the storm broke. The southern leaders stigmatized everything contrary to their view, as incendiary, and it was shut out from southern people. The people of the north were hedged in by party lines, many of them so strongly that they could not see the other side, either of the principles involved in the war, or of the war itself. The result was "evil, only evil, and that continually." The bondage to party was unworthy of men. It was more specially unworthy of those who, as descendants of the sires of 1876, called themselves freemen.

There must be parties and party leaders, but those parties are subordinate to the country and to the people, and the party leaders don't own the people. Brethren, beware of renewed peril through this same partisan blindness. There is always danger of this. We are, under law, freemen. Let us keep our intellects, our judgment, free; and, maintaining our manhood, let us not permit any party to own us, and blind us, and use us for tools to accomplish the ends of partisan leaders. Our generation has suffered enough, both north and south, for our fathers and our own sins in this particular. Let us learn wisdom from the suffering, and teach that wisdom to our children. And let these young men who are yet but little past their majority, and these boys who are coming to it, as well, learn the lesson also.

The memory of the struggle which we recall today ought to grave in our hearts, as "with an iron pen and lead in the rock, forever," this lesson, viz: That God observes evil, makes it return to plague those who work it, or lets it return upon their children to plague them, and overthrows it in just judgment, with bitter sufferings to those who are involved in it. The history of the world exhibits this lesson on every page. But today I need not call in other history for proof. The history we remember now, is the proof. The northern states owned no slaves; but they were part and parcel of a government that embodied slavery in its constitution. The northern people had no exalted ideas of state supremacy, but many of them advocated the doctrine as a party necessity, and many of their leaders, fully believed in it. Their teachings and their votes gave increased power to both evils. And the war gnawing out of these evils, smote the north with tremendous blows, while it literally overwhelmed the south. It was the judgment of God against evil principles and the wickedness arising therefrom. We are to remember that Jehovah is king of kings and Lord of lords; and that he punishes the wickedness of the wicked through their own devices. Yes, brethren, remember it all, and remember its lessons, and teach those lessons to posterity. Do so, not in arrogant pride and bitterness against the men of the south who inaugurated the war, but as men who have "passed under the rod," who have been chastened with stripes by the Almighty for their complicity with the south in those wrongs prior to the war; and do it in charity for the people of the south, who suffered so much sorer chastisement than we of the north. Remember the agony, the lessons, solemnly, earnestly, reverently, faithfully; and teach them to coming generations in the like spirit, that good may arise from them through all time to come.

And now, at the appointed time, go to the cemeteries where the sleeping heroes lie. Let the shrilling fife and muffled drum sound the dirge; and, while it sounds, strew their graves with flowers whose fragrance is emblematic of the fragrance of their self-sacrifice upon the altar of their country. Wreathe the graves with evergreen, in token of the undying honor in which the nation, while it remains worthy of a place among the nations, must ever hold the memory of the sleepers. Plant the starry flag they loved so well, for whose preservation they died, whose folds their dead lips would yet kiss if they could--plant it on their graves, and let it wave in joy over their fame, streaming in the breeze, glittering in the sunshine; or, mourning over their loss, drooping its folds around the staff, let it weep, trickling with the tears of heaven--the summer rain. Give them all a soldier's honors, ere you turn away. They deserve all. Peace be to their slumbering dust. But, let their memory live while men shall live on earth. Let them be had the everlasting honor.

As in the morning, all other services in the city gave way to participate in the Memorial exercises at the Methodist church. The church was filled from floor to gallery--so full that a long line extended to the sidewalk. The Grand Army and Woman's Relief Corps again marched from their hall and occupied reserved seats. The floral decorations exhibited much labor and taste. At the rear of the pulpit was an arch bearing the inscription, "Fraternity, Loyalty, and Truth," skirted by the stars and stripes. At either side and in the center were the portraits of Lincoln, Garfield, and Grant. The front of the pulpit was artistically festooned with garlands. Winfield's pride in her musical culture is ticked on all occasions. The music on this occasion was of the highest order, from a quartette composed of Messrs. O. Branham, Chas. Slack, Louis Brown, and W. W. Jones. They had practiced together but very little, but their voices blended beautifully and their selections were very appropriate. Miss Mabel Kelly presided ably at the organ. The Crippen orchestra was again present to the delight of the audience, and by special request repeated "Lincoln's Funeral March," which repetition was even more highly appreciated than its first rendition. Rev. B. Kelly, Dr. Kirkwood, and Elder Myers assisted in the pulpit devotionals. Rev. J. H. Reider delivered the sermon, one bristling with scholarly, pithy points, and in the Reverend's most eloquent and forcible manner. It is worthy a place in the mind and scrap book of every loyal citizen.

At the close of the sermon, Dr. Kirkwood made a touching prayer for General Grant, that, should it be the will of heaven, his health be restored and he permitted to live many years yet in the country for whose happiness, safety, and prosperity he has done so much. But, should he be taken away, may his be a bright entrance to the pearly gates, and may the Lord be with the wife and children, pointing and encouraging them to a like eternity.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The very strong prohibition movement in Texas, Alabama, and other southern states is now assigned to the following cause rather than to any increase of temperance habits. The whites say that since the war the appetite of the negroes for strong drink has steadily increased, and that the new generation, just coming of age, is especially given to the vice of intemperance. As a result, it is asserted that the blacks are becoming thoroughly demoralized; that their labor cannot be relied upon; and that the industry and prosperity of the country is, in consequence, paralyzed. Hence they argue that prohibition is necessary to save the south from anarchy and ruin. The inference is that southern prohibition is intended not for the white but for the colored portion of the population. It is a movement exclusively on behalf of colored sobriety, which explains the anomaly of the Democratic support it receives.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Those papers which seem anxious to believe and to parade to the world their cheerful conviction that Kansas is a State full of liars and drunkards, make a great outcry over the sales of liquor made by druggists. These sales, as far as we have noted, number in a county from 1,200 to 2,500 a month. Compared to the business done by a single wide-open saloon, these sales appear small. There have been plenty of saloons in Kansas which sold over 2,500 drinks in a day. To pay the running expenses of eighty saloons, the number once possessed by Atchison, would require the sale of 8,000 drinks a day, or 240,000 drinks a month. The grog and growl newspapers also take it for granted that all the sales made are fraudulent. There is no reason for jumping at this conclusion, nor for supposing that the greater part of the sales made are not legitimate. The object of the law is to close the open saloons, and it is doing it, even though an occasional liar gets a few illegal drinks at a drug store.

Atchison Champion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The commercial commission constituted by congress to examine into the trade relations of the United States and Central and South America has now dwindled to one--Judge Solon O. Thacher, who, with a secretary, has visited Peru and is now in Chile. President Iglesias received the commission with great pomp. A band of music, a company of infantry, the state coach and four, with a squadron of cavalry, visited the hotel where the United States commissioner stopped, and escorted him to the executive palace, where the president and council held an imposing reception; warm words of international esteem were exchanged.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The president of the Kansas City & Southwestern Railway Company has ordered the board of County Commissioners, under seal of the company, to deliver the bonds of Walnut township, voted in aid of this railroad, to Trustee Roberts, should they be issued, for immediate cancellation, according to the stipulations of the proposition to be voted on next Monday. The same order has been made regarding the bonds of Richland and Omnia. Thus is knocked in the head the argument of some opposers that the company means to push its line through these townships in time to cabbage the bonds already voted by them, as well as the county bonds to be voted Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

From information received from McPherson, we learn that the people of that city are making a determined effort to secure the location at that place of the proposed Methodist college. It is a laudable ambition. Such colleges not only tend to give a more refined atmosphere and a higher scale of civilization to the place where located, but they also increase the value of property, so much so, as to make an investment to secure them, a paying one. Commonwealth.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Edmunds' anti-polygamy law seems to be fast serving the purpose for which it was passed. It is proving to the polygamists that if they insist upon this peculiar phase, or lecture of Mormon religion, that society and morals will be found to be greater than religion, as they construe it. The numerous convictions for polygamy, under the law, will soon show a very salutary effect.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

There is to be another six days' roller skating contest in New York. It ought to be encouraged, for it will be remembered that after the other contest, of the same length of time, three of the contestants died. If this kind of sport--these contests become common over the country--they will kill off the rink mania, by killing off the skaters.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Secretary of State, Bayard, will address the students of the State University at Lawrence next Monday. It is expected that Senators Ingalls and Plumb, and six ex-Governors of Kansas will be present.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Gen. Bragg, of Wisconsin, rudely calls President Cleveland "a Tycoon," and no longer loves him for the enemies he has made. There is rather too much bluster about Bragg.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

We have had twenty years experience in treating diseases of the Eye and Ear. We cure all curable cases. We measure eyes for compound spectacles, treat Catarrh and Throat affections. In our surgical department we operate on Cross-eyes, Cataracts, Lachrymal troubles, etc.; also Club-foot, Spinal and Hip diseases, Tumors, Cancers, Hemorrhoids, and all other surgical cases. Office No. 313 Douglas avenue, Wichita, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Recap. R. L. Walker, Register, Land Office, Wichita, Kansas, had notice printed that Henry S. Gardner of Winfield Kansas, was filing notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim in district court at Winfield. Witnesses: Wylie Redd, G. W. Dexter, L. Cutting, and Wm. Warren, of Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

BENJAMIN F. WOOD, Administrator, made notice of final settlement in the matter of the estate of Reuben H. Wood, deceased. To be held July 4, 1885. McDonald & Webb, Attorneys.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

I go West for a few weeks, after which I will return to Winfield. All persons wanting shrubbery and nursery stock of all descriptions should await my return, when I will deliver stock warranted true to name and in good condition. Henry Tincher, Agent Bloomington (Illinois) Nursery.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Skipped by me other than first section pertaining to "Horses."

Entries must be accompanied by pedigrees traceable to the English or American stud-book.

1 Stallion, any age (1st) $20.00; (2nd) $10.00.

2 Mare, any age (1st) $20.00; (2nd) $10.00

Entries must be accompanied by pedigrees traceable to the Percheron Norman Stud Book.

3 Stallion, any age (1st) $20.00; (2nd) $10.00.

4 Mare, any age (1st) $20.00; (2nd) $10.00.

Entries in this division must be accompanied by pedigrees traceable to the Clydesdale Stud Book.

5 Stallion, any age (1st) $20.00; (2nd) $10.00.

6 Mare, any age (1st) $20.00; (2nd) $10.00.

Includes all native and cross bloods--full bloods excluded. These animals are intended for breeding purposes, and reference should be had to points that constitute a draft horse and a breeder at the same time. Great size and weight, combined with free action, good walk, and general usefulness are important. Overgrowth will not be considered as a test merit.

7 Stallion, 4 years old and over: (1st) $10.00; (2nd) $5.00.

8 Stallion, 2 years old and under 4: (1st) $6.00; (2nd) $3.00.

9 Foal of 1885, (1st) $2.00; (2nd) $1.00.

10 Mare, 4 years old and over: (1st) $10.00; (2nd) $5.00.

11 Mare, 2 years old and under 4: (1st) $6.00; (2nd) $3.00.

12 Foal of 1885, (1st) $2.00; (2nd) $1.00.

This class is intended to embrace the farm and general-purpose horse, without distinction as to breeding; yet form, action, and general usefulness to farm, wagon, and road must be considered by the committee.

13 Stallion, 4 years old and over: (1st) $10.00; (2nd) $5.00.

14 Stallion, 3 years old and under 4: (1st) $8.00; (2nd) $4.00.

15 Stallion, 2 years old and under 3: (1st) $6.00; (2nd) $3.00.

16 Stallion, 1 year old and under 2: (1st) $4.00; (2nd) $2.00.

17 Foal, of 1885: (1st) $2.00; (2nd) $1.00.

18 Gelding, 4 years old and over: (1st) $8.00; (2nd) $4.00.

19 Gelding, 3 years old and under 4: (1st) $6.00; (2nd) $3.00.

20 Gelding, 2 years old and under 3: (1st) $4.00; (2nd) $2.00.

21 Mare, 4 years old and over: (1st) $10.00; (2nd) $5.00.

22 Mare, 3 years old and under 4: (1st) $8.00; (2nd) $4.00.

23 Mare, 2 years old and under 3: (1st) $6.00; (2nd) $3.00.

24 Mare, 1 year old and under 2: (1st) $4.00; (2nd) $2.00.

25 Foal, of 1885: (1st) $2.00; (2nd) $1.00.

In this class the show will be with regard to the best road horse: form, style, action, speed, and temper to be especially considered; test to be made in harness, except with colts.

26 Stallion, over 4 years: (1st) $10.00; (2nd) $5.00.

27 Stallion, under 4 years: (1st) $6.00; (2nd) $3.00.

28 Mare, or gelding, over 4 years: (1st) $8.00; (2nd) $4.00.

29 Mare, or gelding, under 4 years: (1st) $6.00; (2nd) $3.00.

30 Span, mares or geldings, over 4 years: (1st) $8.00; (2nd) $4.00.

31 Span, mares or geldings, under 4 years: (1st) $6.00; (2nd) $3.00.

32 Saddle, mares or geldings, any age: (1st) $6.00; (2nd) $3.00.

33 Family carriage mare or gelding, any age: (1st) $6.00; (2nd) $3.00.

34 Stallion, any age or blood: $15.00 and diploma.

35 Mare, any age or blood: $15.00 and diploma.

36 Brood mare, any age or blood, with two or more of her offspring: $15.00

37 Stallion, any age or blood, showing the best five colts under 2 years old;

premium money to be divided with owners of colts: $25.00.

38 Jack, any age: (1st) $8.00; (2nd) $4.00.

39 Jack, under 3 years: (1st) $6.00; (2nd) $3.00.

40 Span of mules, over 3 years: (1st) $8.00; (2nd) $4.00.

41 Span of mules, under 3 years: (1st) $6.00; (2nd) $3.00.

42 Foal of 1885: (1st) $6.00; (2nd) $3.00.

43 Jack, with five of his colts; premium money to be divided with owners of colts:

$15.00 and diploma.

Back to the weekly newspaper items...

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Chas. Fulse, a German teamster about forty years old, with the show, took too much morphine at Cherryvale last night, and died here Friday morning. He was in the habit of using the drug in order to quiet his nerves and get sleep. He took one dose, and failing to get sleep, took a second. He went to sleep, to awake in eternity. He started with the show on April 22nd, from Columbus, Ohio. He had no friends and no money, and his body was taken in charge by our officials. A fund from the showmen is anticipated for funeral expenses. At this writing it has not been decided whether a post-mortem is necessary or not.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Some people have said we were a little too previous when we mentioned the fact last week that Winfield would celebrate the 4th of July. Perhaps we were, but way back in the halcyon days of early youth, green apples and colic, we used to stand on the outside of the country church door and freeze our nose waiting for our girl to come out. She always came, but as a general thing she was on the arm of the fellow that had been toasting his shins by the fire all the evening. It taught us something and we are going to take time by the forelock in celebrating the day that Eli Perkins was born on.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

A young lady who gazed a long time on the long line of mail seekers, drawn up at the postoffice today, said it put her in mind of a great charm string, in which were handsome buttons and homely buttons, thick ones and lean ones, all strung one after another. She wanted to cross over from the ladies' window to the news stand to get some papers, but there was no chance to cross inside, so she had to go around, and she declared she had to go nearly down to the New York store in order to turn the left flank of the line of battle.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Last Monday forenoon Mrs. J. L. Trenton, who resides some eight miles northwest of this city on the Arkansas river placed her little daughter, about seven years of age, in a boat and attempted to row across the river to neighbors. When about midway of the stream, the boat upset and the child and mother were drowned. Up to the present writing the bodies have not been found. Mrs. Trenton was a widow lady and the little girl who perished with her was her only child or relative in this county. Arkansas City Democrat.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The picnic season approacheth like unto a monthly bill from the butchers and with the time comes Chiggers, Miss Quitoes, and red Aunts. In picnicing be amply prepared for Rattlesnake bites; use precaution (better use about a half gallon). Then the man that is expected to sit down on the raspberry pie has completed his task and takes his accustomed place against the big black oak tree while his girl goes off with another fellow to gather ferns, leaves, toothache, and wood ticks.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

It is said that the pension agency for Kansas and Missouri has been settled on this basis: Congressman Docky, of northwestern Missouri, has selected as his choice for pension agent ex-Circuit Judge James H. Burch, of Plattsburg, Missouri, and has secured the endorsement of all the Kansas senators and members, on condition that the agency be retained at Topeka, and that the present agent be not disturbed until the expiration of his term in December.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Street Commissioner is having some good work done on our street crossings, but with the old plan of allowing the streets to be filled to them, or higher, they become bout as useless as the former ones have been. That foolish gutter under the crossing of Main street, along Tenth, which had become only a reservoir of mud and a dam as should have been expected, has been abandoned and filled up.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The barge line between Geuda Springs and Arkansas City seems to be materializing. The Herald says: "Our steamboat company have gone to work in earnest now. Mr. Amos Walton, the president of the association, was over to see the members of the board at the end of the route Wednesday. Arrangements were made to go to work soon. The engine and boiler will probably be purchased inside of two weeks."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

What next will they steal? Irve Randall had two screens stolen boldly from a house on 10th avenue. The house has been vacant for several days, and during this time some vandal hied himself away with a window screen under his arm. There are certainly some people around that would not steal a red hot stove but would wait a long while for it to cool.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Brotherton & Silver and W. A. Lee complain of wicked little vandals carrying off rods to machinery, corn plow shovels, and various things. If these little rascals are caught, things will be warm for them. No use can be made by the kids of the things they appropriate. Pure cussedness is the only prompter.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The attention of the street commission is certainly expected on 10th avenue, next to Spotswood's grocery. The gutter refuses to carry off the waste water from the adjacent hydrant, and is filled with a litter of stagnant water and offal--the worst and almost only bad cesspool in the city. Get after it, Jap.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The grass on the Court House square is as fine a crop as ever grew in Kansas, notwithstanding the prediction of some that the sheep pastured there in the spring would injure it. It is now seeding. This square in time will be the finest park in the city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Harper Graphic says there is to be a government pike built from New Kiowa to Camp Supply, in the Indian Territory. This will be a big card for Kiowa, as it will draw nearly the entire trade of the Territory from Caldwell.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Wichita businessmen, it seems, refuse to be taxed for a canning factory. The projectors of the scheme asked $20,000 as a bonus. Wichita offers a site and will pay freight on the machinery to be shipped from the east.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Mr. H. H. Hosmer and wife have located here, from Nashville, Ill. Mr. Hosmer is an attorney at law and has taken rooms in Curns & Manser's building. He is a young man of ability and energy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

City Assessor Benedict reports 3,400 people in the corporate limits of Arkansas City so far. He is not through up to our time of going to press. He does not think that the number will reach 4,000. Republican.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Trustee Browning has completed the assessment of Beaver township. It shows a decrease in population of eleven. The population is 801.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The voting precinct in Vernon township will be at Clark & Hallock's store, at Kellogg. H. H. Martin, trustee, H. A. Earhart, J. P.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

J. R. Pugh returned from a visit to Clark County yesterday. He is highly pleased with the outlook.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

W. C. Barnes left Monday for Ohio, for a few weeks visit. It is darkly hinted that he will doubly return.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Mr. James Glover, lately established in the loan and real estate business at Udall, was in the city Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Judge Torrance is grinding the mill of justice in Elk County, at Howard. We have an adjourned term June 5th.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Trustee Goram, of Rock, brought in his returns Monday. They show a very satisfactory increase in population and assessed valuation.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

James Rothrock has received word that his family arrived safely in Pennsylvania. It quells his uneasiness caused by so much flood.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Mrs. Kate Richardson has filed a petition in the Probate Court for sale of personal property in the estate of Edward Richardson, deceased.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

County Clerk Hunt has received the session laws of the last Legislature for distribution to the county officials, trustees, and justices of the county.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

W. J. and Charley Hodges are erecting buildings at Ponca for the business of post trader for that reservation. Mr. Hodges takes charge next week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Mrs. M. Greene, daughter and son, Miss Minnie and Albert, mother, sister, and brother of Mrs. A. J. Burgauer, are here from McPherson for a visit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Rev. Williams, of the Sheridan charge, this county, preached a very able sermon in the United Brethren church Sunday. The Sunday school was well attended.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Capt. Lyon brought us a bunch of blue grass Thursday from his yard. It was four feet and two inches high. Still some people say this is not a blue grass country.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Mr. T. R. Bryan came in Sunday from a week's ramble in Meade and other western counties. He reports a general boom in the wild west. He will return to K. C. Thursday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Minnie Sykes, the bright eyed little girl of our foreman, graced THE COURIER office on Monday with a bouquet whose beauty is only excelled by that of the little lady who left it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Capt. P. A. Huffman has purchased of Mr. Frank Hall, one of his shares in Ashland. The Captain will take his course westward and progress his interest. There's millions in it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Powell leave the first of June to summer in Chicago. Mr. Powell owns considerable residence property there and has under contract five or six cottage tenements.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Next Sunday Father Kelly goes to Wellington to say the first High Mass ever said in that city. He will be accompanied by the organist, Miss Ballard, and choir of the Catholic church of this city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

C. E. Makin, of Creswell township, came up Thursday, and put a valuable mare in one of our stables for the night. The rope around her neck, supposedly in her efforts to lie down, cut off her wind.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Rev. Reider, Jonathan Stretch, and Rev. J. E. Leakey were appointed by the Baptist church of this place to attend the Ordination services to take place at Douglass, on Wednesday, of this week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Catholic school closed last Friday. The teacher, Miss Bransfield, leaves for Leavenworth this week. Miss Bransfield has given entire satisfaction. Under her efficient management the school has been a success.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Mr. Tom Parvin, living two miles south of Maple City, measured some blue grass in his yard on the 17th, and found it to be two feet and ten inches high. This is pretty fair for southern Cowley.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The wedding of Mr. Carl Schlesinger, of Newton, to Miss Ioa Burgauer takes place this evening at the residence of her brother, Mr. A. J. Burgauer. The ceremony will be performed by Rabbi Kranskoff, of Kansas City.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

W. E. Dockson, having almost finished the number of the buildings of this city, is arranging to number the houses of Arkansas City. He has given splendid satisfaction here, showing himself to be experienced, energetic, and reliable.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Sheriff Wilhite, from Emporia, is here. He will take back with him a violator of the prohibitory liquor law who had drifted to Cedarvale. While the sheriff has an eye to business, we think he is an admirer of fine horses; and who is not?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Rev. Geo. H. Bicknell, the new pastor of the New Salem and Walnut Valley Presbyterian churches, was in the city Thursday. He is well pleased with his circuit. He dispenses the gospel to one of the juiciest parts of Cowley.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Geo. W. Miller shipped another car load of hogs to K. C. Thursday, getting $3.85. He ships three from New Salem and one from here in the morning. He averages one car a day now, and has shipped twenty cars so far this month, averaging $555 a car.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Steven, the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, of Tisdale township, died of malarial fever on the 25th. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Quier, of the same township, were also visited by death recently, taking away their nine-year-old daughter, Georgie.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

James D. Byers, who has been drumming for W. F. Wilkinson & Co.'s cigar factory, absconded a few days since with about forty dollars of the firm's wealth. The cause of his departure is traceable to actions several months old. His folks reimbursed Wilkinson & Co.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Seamore Gaff and Augusta Finley, and Lycurgus Biggs and Maggie E. Burks, and Charles Cole and Agnes Buckingham were granted matrimonial certificates by the P. B. last week. The two first couples are of Arkansas City. Mr. Cole is of the Territory and his fair one of Lawrence.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Ostrander & Stayman, machinists, are getting their shop in fine working order. The machinery is of the latest improvement. They have just completed an upright eight-horsepower engine, 250 revolutions a minute. It is a daisy and shows this firm's ability to turn out first-class work. This engine is for their own use. They are getting all the work they can do.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The grounds of Mr. W. J. Kennedy's residence have received a highly appreciated adornment in a vase of novel and beautiful design, a token from Mr. J. E. Conklin. It is turned from the magnificent stone from Mr. Conklin's quarry near the city. Cowley County stone is becoming famous for such adornment. It can be turned from a lathe as easily and handsomely as marble.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Mr. C. A. Garlick left this afternoon to join the Topographical department of the U. S. surveying corps in New Mexico. He has spent every summer for some years in this vocation, and has become experienced and proficient. He suffers much from asthma in this climate and for several days before leaving, was unable to be out. But he anticipates hasty recuperation in the high and dry atmosphere of the western mountains.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

James A. Cairns leaves Monday to join his parents at Dayton, Washington Territory. James has long been one of Winfield's best young men and all regret his departure. Of bright intellect, genial manner, good habits, and thoroughly reliable, nothing but success can follow him. The writer knows no friend after whom he can throw his old shoe chuck full of well wishes with more vim than after James A. Cairns. Bon voyage, my boy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Gus Gentry, of Kansas City, appeared at the rink last night. He is the most expert man on wheels that has yet struck this city. He performed numerous acts of marvel. Twenty pop bottles were set on the floor less than two feet apart and he meandered all through them without one falling. Without straps or hind wheels on his skates, he skated in all shapes. He is certainly a champion and afforded splendid entertainment.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Geo. W. Miller got a curiosity in a hog purchase on the street the other day--a six-legged hog. The seller had lost his business eye, else he would have never sold that porker as common swine meat. Just above the first joint of each front leg grew out leg number two, perfect in every way. The four front feet perform the same functions--the two on each leg touching the ground in unison. The curiosity was shipped to Kansas City among a car load of "porkupines," cut out and sold to a museum. It is another proof of the fact that Cowley downs the world for productiveness. The hog weighs about two hundred pounds.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Capt. J. S. Hunt and family had a serious experience Friday. For dinner they had fresh buffalo fish from the Walnut. The Captain, Mrs. Hunt, and Mrs. Chas. Phenix ate of it quite heartily, while the rest ate very little. The three former were taken very ill. Dr. Wright was summoned and found that something had poisoned them. It could be attributed to nothing but the fish--and it seemed so perfectly fresh and good that no such result could have been dreamed of. The victims were very sick all yesterday afternoon and feel the effects perceptibly yet. They have sworn, deeply and direfully, to forever ostracize the finny tribe.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Dr. Humble, Emporia, the well known State Agent of the American Sunday School Union, is in our city looking after the interests of his work in this section. Yesterday he met the pastors of the different churches and some of our citizens most interested in Sabbath schools at the office of County Superintendent Limerick. An interchange of opinions, for some three hours, on the question of reaching the children who are not attending any Sabbath school, and of arousing the different churches to the necessity for more vigorous action, proved very interesting to those present. Dr. Humble proposes to take charge of the work and put a man for a year in the counties of Sedgwick, Cowley, and Sumner to locate and establish Sunday schools in districts where none exist and stimulate the weak schools. Of course, each denomination would be glad to occupy the ground themselves, and have the children trained in their own particular views. As this is impossible, for lack of men and means, they gladly endorse Dr. Humble's proposed plan. The Dr. will solicit subscriptions from individuals of all churches and the schools established by his agents will be Union schools. All interested in the early Christian training of our youth will not wait for the Dr. to solicit, but will hunt him out and tell him how much cash they have on hand for so good an object. The amount to be raised by the Dr.'s plan will be for Cowley County, $260. The churches or Sabbath schools will not be called on, as individual subscriptions are solicited.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Friday was a memorable day for Winfield. The races, the circus, the man giving away gold watches, the six legged calf, pretty girls and gallant young men, arm in arm, hand in hand, perambulating the streets with a far-away look. The elephant and the rhinoceros in all their glory. Our stores have been rushed, and the clerks look tired, the proprietors weary, and a six inch grin in full sight. Church deacons can be seen by the dozen holding, with a tight grasp, the little ones, on the road to the highly moral exhibition, and after getting there are seen to spank the timid little ones to make them go in; the deacons' faces all aglow with the thought of what a glorious time they will have in pointing out to the little ones the many and curious animals on exhibition. They are even seen to treat the little ones to the remnants of soda pop. Dog fights are numerous. Peanuts go off like hot cakes. Bro. Beard don't get time even to blow his whistle or wet it. May such days often come.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

D. S. Sherrard, assessor of Pleasant Valley, returns many points of interest regarding his township. It contains 1,103 inhabitants, 602 males and 498 females; three colored males. There are 26,819 acres of land, 1,409 of it under fence. Amount paid out for labor during the year, $22,574. There were 5,500 acres sown to wheat, half of which was plowed up this spring and put in corn., 18,847 acres of corn, 1,037 acres of oats, 104 of potatoes, and 438 of tame grasses have been put in this spring. There are 605 horses, 115 mules, 620 cows. 1,458 other cattle, 1,193 sheep, and 4,250 swine, $48,857 worth of fat stock was slaughtered during the year. The township has five church organizations and 95 members. It has one church building valued at $2,200. Mr. Sherrard's returns are complete and accurate, showing much care and experience.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Southern Kansas people have decided to abandon the day passenger train on their road for the present and will hereafter run only the train leaving here in the evening, and arriving at Kansas City in the morning. This is much the most convenient train of the two, but the other train will be missed by our people. The Southern Kansas has always been alive and awake to the necessities and needs of the public along its line, and we have no doubt but that they will soon put the day train on again. The damage to their road by the floods has been very great, and as soon as it is fully repaired, they will consider the matter in another light. The S. K. train did not get through last night as announced, but came in this morning on regular time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Our reporter got a sight at the six legged wonder Friday morning. O. D. Tucker, who lives 2½ miles from Burden, is the owner. It is an ordinary white calf with the exception of the two extra legs. These legs are all "bona fide." They project from the left shoulder blade like a wing. They are about two feet long and well formed. This calf is a living curiosity and well worth seeing. He runs opposition to Barrett's museum. Hundreds of the curious deposited their dimes.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Three companies of U. S. Colored cavalry are camped east of Black Crook, two miles Southeast of the city, awaiting orders to move to Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Two companies are from Oklahoma and one from Fort Supply, I. T. They will likely be here for several days yet. They move numerously in city and leave many sheckles. Several of the officers attended the Episcopal festival last night.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Grand Army will extend an invitation to the U. S. cavalry, should the three companies remain in camp here to participate in the exercises of Decoration Day. The officers have signified their willingness to accept. This will be a splendid feature of the procession and add interest to the whole ceremonies. Decoration Day promises to be one of the most notable in the history of Winfield.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Agent for Dr. Robert King's Medicated Imperials, for the cure of all female complaints, may be found at the Olds Boarding House, Eighth avenue and Fuller streets, from 1 to 5 p.m., until June 34d. All ladies afflicted will find it to their interest to call upon her. The front rooms of the cottage belonging to the Olds house.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Howard Bishop, son of Mrs. Bishop, of the Telephone, was taking a pleasure ride in his little wagon hitched to a goat yesterday. A dog coming along made at poor "Billy," when off he started, and in his excitement ran up against a tree, smashing things up generally, knocking out several teeth for Howard besides hurting him other ways.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Frankie Morris has brought suit in our District Court against the Mutual Life Insurance Company of N. Y., for $5,000 and against the Equitable Life Assurance Company of the U. S., for $10,000, policies fully complied with, according to the complaint, by Nannie Poisett, deceased, in favor of her daughter, the plaintiff. The plaintiff's attorneys are A. A. Hurd and Hackney & Asp.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Cowley County Horticultural Society will hold the next meeting at 2 p.m., Saturday, June 6th. The meeting will be held in the rear room of Messrs. Curns & Manser's real estate office. The room will be pleasant and convenient. This will be strawberry day and it is hoped and expected to have a fine display of this delicious fruit. Everybody is invited.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Chas. Andrews and Anna Woodruff were married at the residence of Mrs. Weaver, in this city, Monday evening by Rev. Reider. They are sterling young people, of much promise. Quite a number of friends and relatives witnessed the ceremonies. They went to housekeeping immediately, on Manning street.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Master Willie Sarsen went to Washington Territory with James Cairns. He has been adopted by Prof. Trimble and lady. He has been in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Silliman, who have the thanks of Mr. S. H. Honk for their kind and watchful care over him since the death of his mother.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The El Dorado Republican says rails and other material are being laid down right along for the K. C. & S., and that grading along the line progresses rapidly, the workmen being increased from day to day. There will be eighteen or twenty miles of track in Butler County.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The "Clippers," of Burden, a crack base ball nine, will play with the Winfield "Cyclones" on Friday, the 29th. The game will be called at 1 p.m. at the circus grounds on South Main street. The ladies are invited to attend.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The last will and testament of Mrs. Linda Mickey, who committed suicide near Udall last month, has been filed in the Probate Court. It was made in Iowa in 1883 and bequeaths her property to her daughter, Mrs. Young.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The company organized to purchase the land west of town for a college site has been continued. They will lay off the land into lots and proceed to sell them at very low rates.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The public meeting Monday shows that our people are alive and awake to the interests of the city. Such a meeting speaks well for Winfield. Keep the interest up.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Clark County will vote on June 16th for a full complement of county officials and for the permanent county seat.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Topeka city council has issued a proposition for the voting of $15,000 bonds to be used boring for coal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Last Sunday evening Lou Skinner came into Arkansas City and notified the authorities that the dead body of a man had been found in the river about ten miles below the city. Sheriff McIntire was notified, and with County Attorney Asp, went down to investigate, as suspicion of foul play was strong. On arriving at the city they found that Deputy U. S. Rarick with a physician had already gone to view the body. The sheriff, after interviewing several parties, turned his keen scent to the north, boarded the train, and today returned with John Cooley in his custody. The dead body proved to be that of George Musselman. The facts in the case, so far as ascertained at this date, are these: Cooley and Musselman have been keeping company with a fair and beautiful grass widow. It seems that they kept a boat to cross the river and for fishing purposes. On last Thursday Cooley and Musselman were out fishing, and by some means the boat was upset. Both men were plunged into the angry waters and Musselman was drowned. Deputy Rarick reports today that upon examination they found that the skull was crushed in, as though struck with a club. The neck was unbroken and the body was covered with bruises. Cooley will have an examination tomorrow.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Eagle says: "As a pointer for the gentlemen composing the locating committee of the Methodist college, it might be well to take into consideration the relative growth of the competing points for the institution. They are all as old and some older than Wichita, yet this city is as large as any three of them, which fact ought to weigh, looking to the prominence and success of the college."

Yes, a great many cankerous things grow very fast. A mushroom will spring up in a barn lot in one night, but what earthly good does it do? Thistles, if given a chance, will soon hold undisputed reign over t he best field that ever adorned the world, but the effect is only loathsome and disastrous to human prosperity and that of better things. The great and good develop gradually, throwing out all the benign influences that point onward and upward to a prosperity elevating and enduring. Wichita must sit long and tearfully on the stool of repentance--get a thorough regeneration and exhibit some good fruits before it can stand any show for recognition from our Methodist brethren.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Col. J. W. Hartzell, the veteran street railway builder, has dropped down to Winfield, attracted by the splendid array of horses at our fair, perhaps, and at a glance has taken in the immense resources surrounding our little city; and anticipating a general boom, he has secured the franchise for building our street railway from Messrs. Long, Read, Hackney, and F. S. Jennings, and work will be commenced thereon within 60 days and pushed to completion at as early a day as possible. A connection will be built between the depots and to the fair ground and Riverside Park, and other extensions as the development of the city may demand. Col. Hartzell has built nearly all of the street railways in Kansas, and this fact coupled with his indomitable tact and energy is a sufficient guaranty that Winfield will have a first-class street railway, and that at an early day.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Chas. Fulse, the show teamster who died here Friday from the effects of morphine, was buried by our officials, today, in the potter's field of Union Cemetery. On his person were letters from old friends in St. Louis, showing him to be unmarried. Barrett could not be prevailed upon to contribute anything toward Fulse's burial--in fact clear through the poor unfortunate was treated worse than a brute. The showmen left him to the mercy of the public. Our officials found him, called in Dr. Park, the county physician, and gave him all the care possible. A horse belonging to the show also took its fatal sickness here, but it was of more value than a human life, and a man was detailed to stay, care for, and bury it. Fulse's home was at Chillicothe, Ohio. Sheriff McIntire sent the St. Louis friends word of the death.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

David Roderick, residing on north Millington street, has mysteriously disappeared, and his wife's uneasiness is great. Himself and wife came here from Crawford County a year ago, and had invested in city property. He left home Thursday morning, ostensibly to look at property in the suburbs, drew all his money, eleven hundred dollars, from the bank, and has not been heard of since. No trouble whatever had existed between husband and wife. He had been married three times, his first wife being deceased, and his second divorced. Mr. and Mrs. Roderick each have several grown children. The disappearance is looked upon by the wife as inexplicable. She feels certain of foul play somewhere.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

We present in another place the ordinances passed by the City Council at its last meeting. The Council exhibits business from the shoulder and energy and judgment at once appreciated. The ten ordinances passed Monday night are just what Winfield needs, and our officials have the backbone to enforce them to the letter. This done, our city will have made splendid advancement in real desirability and good order. Read these ordinances carefully and salt down their contents. They were not made to fall fruitlessly upon the desert air.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Our correspondent from South Otter, in his weekly correspondence, said: "A deputy county surveyor has been among us and has charged three or four prices for his work. Mr. Haight is responsible for his agents. We want this matter made right by him." This deputy was M. P. McCoy, whom County Surveyor Haight had up before Justice Snow and fined for the misdemeanor and made to reimburse those overcharged. Capt. Haight is not responsible for the charges of deputies, only for the proper performance of the work. But he don't propose to have any such deputies. McCoy has left for other pastures.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

O. H. Johns was arrested Thursday at Arkansas City by Constable Siverd, charged with taking away Miss Effie Cavender from her parents for the purposes of concubinage. The case was continued in Justice Buckman's Court to next month. Johns is a genteel looking young man of about twenty-three, and she a confiding girl of sixteen. His parents are prominent and wealthy residents of Terre Haute, Indiana, to whom he has appealed for assistance. He gave bail.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The committee on flowers for Decoration Day would respectfully ask all citizens of Winfield and surrounding country to bring their baskets and floral offerings to the office of A. H. Doane on Ninth avenue, on Saturday morning, the 30th, at 10 o'clock. It is earnestly hoped that all who have flowers will contribute liberally on this occasion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Henry Goldsmith has purchased the postoffice building of Col. E. C. Manning, receiving the deed today. He paid $12,100. It is the best stand in the city, especially for a business like Mr. Goldsmith's, is bound to increase in value as the city develops and is a good investment. Henry is climbing right up in business circles.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Henry E. Asp came in Friday from Beaumont and says the engine is puffing on the K. C. & S. right along. A mile of track had been laid before he left, and by this time more than two miles are down. The company are adding workmen as fast as they can be obtained and mean to bring the road through with a rush. Whoop!

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The location of the asylum has been decided upon by the Board of Charities. It is to be on the Jap. Cochran place northeast of town. Now quit your fighting and make up.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Dr. Blackstone has taken the office formerly occupied by Dr. Headrick, on Ninth Avenue.

We clip the following from the Porter County (Indiana) Daily Vidette.

"We are informed that our young friend, Dr. W. B. Blackstone, of Hebron, has permanently located in Winfield, Kansas, where in the future he will prosecute the duties of his profession. The doctor is a thorough classical scholar and a graduate of the Chicago Medical College of the year 1883. He graduated with many honors to himself and in competitive examination of all the students of the city for position he won the first prize, that of resident physician in St. Luke's hospital, which position he filled with eminent credit to himself and satisfaction of its managers until he resigned to locate in the west. The doctor is not only a fine general practitioner, but has directed his attention more especially to surgery and surgical cases, and performed important surgical operations, not only in the hospital but many in this county. He gives promise to reach an eminent place in his profession and we predict for him a bright future.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

THE COURIER received a pleasant call today from Mr. James, a full cousin of Frank and Jesse James. He is a very clever, intelligent young man, and doesn't look so very ferocious.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Arkansas City Traveler says the water backed up to the Court House in Winfield during the big flood. Not much. No one even imagined its doing so, either. It would take twice as much water to do it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Charles Bogardus, a young attorney who located here a few weeks ago, was last night arrested on complaint of Jarvis, Conklin & Co. He is charged with embezzling two hundred dollars through a branch, conducted by him, of the Kingman office of Jarvis, Conklin & Co., at Saratoga. He claims to have sent six hundred dollars, by registered letter, to the U. S. land office at Larned, entry fee on three pieces of land. The land office received but four hundred dollars of the amount. Jarvis, Conklin & Co., on getting complaint of the non-entry, sent their K. C. attorney to investigate. In the meantime Bogardus came here. The evidence pointed conclusively to embezzlement. Our officials were telegraphed to arrest, and today Mr. S. M. Jarvis, the head of the firm, arrived to look into the matter. Bogardus claims that the two hundred dollars was extracted from the letter after leaving his hands, and that he has spent three hundred dollars in trying to ferret the loss. Yet no evidence could be found by the firm's attorney showing that he had filed any complaint in the postoffice department or otherwise, or that he had told anyone of the loss. The complaint had been filed in the District Court at Kingman, and Bogardus will be held here for the Kingman authorities. He is twenty-four years old, with a wife and one child at Saratoga. His mother owns considerable property around that place. Bogardus is said to have been in the toils before for embezzlement.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

And now our wicked neighbor is atoning in part for its sins. Monday Marshal Bill Gray arrested one Mrs. L. M. Lutes, charged with keeping a house of ill-shape. For some reason she was cleared. She then got a pistol and a horse-whip, and went on dress-parade for the Marshal. She found him in front of Houghton's store, leveled her revolver on him with one hand and turned loose the horse-whip with the other. Then there was music in the atmosphere until Constable Breen came to the Marshal's relief and disarmed the woman. The Marshal is somewhat disfigured, but still in the ring. The woman is being tried at this writing with many counts against her. About twenty of the leading young men of the city are in the witness-box--and the sweat-box.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

One of the best grain and stock farms in the county, 240 acres fine bottom land, 230 acres under plow, 40 acres timber, 200 acres of upland pasture, timber, and pasture enclosed with barbed wire fence, fine running water, and several large springs, house 16 x 26 story and a half, stone barn 21 x 33, sixteen foot walls, room for ten head of horses, granary room for 3,000 bushels, necessary out-buildings, corrals, etc., peach orchard, 1½ miles to schoolhouse. This place will be sold, if sold soon, on very reasonable terms. Inquire of our address THE COURIER, Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Cowley County Cattle Company with a capital stock of $150,000, has been formed. It is composed of W. J. Hodges, of this city, W. C. Wright, of Lyon County, and Geo. Kirkpatrick, R. A. Houghton, and N. T. Snyder, of Arkansas City. W. J. Hodges is president and N. T. Snyder, secretary and general manager. The company holds the lease of 40,000 acres on the Nez Perce reservation, all under wire fence. The Charter of the corporation runs twenty years, and the lease ten years from July 1st, 1884. Geo. Kirkpatrick is treasurer. The cattle now owned by the company run way up into the thousands, and the number will be largely increased.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Are you insured against them? The tornado season is upon us; when and where the high carnival of destruction will commence, or whose house or barn will be shivered to atoms and blown away, no one can tell. However, there is relief and compensation in a policy of insurance in the Home Insurance Co. of New York, or the Connecticut of Hartford, Conn., represented by W. J. Wilson as their local agent. Call on him for terms at once, and protect yourselves against loss by this imperial monster.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Retail dealers throughout Cowley and adjoining counties will be glad to learn that J. P. Baden's Wholesale Grocery department is now ready to fill orders at Kansas City prices, for all kinds of groceries in job lots. Send in your orders at once or come in person. No delays. No mistakes, and goods in first-class order and way down.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Eighty acres of a Mixed crop of wheat, rye, and cheat; will make the best kind of hay for stock; also a second-hand string binder in good running order. Will sell cheap if sold soon, as I need to be free to attend to interests, elsewhere. Jo Mack.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

One hundred monuments and headstones of marble and granite in stock. Prices to suit the times. W. H. Dawson, South Main street.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

A high water spout bursted on Black Crook yesterday afternoon. The water was fifteen feet deep in ten minutes. A colored soldier and his horse were washed off of the bridge crossing the creek. The soldier lodged in a tree and the horse swam out. The town herd was kept out all night.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Washing dishes with a kid glove is the latest experiment. A Winfield lady used one for a dish cloth yesterday and found that it did excellent work, but was rather tough on the glove and pretty expensive. For further particulars inquire of--we are mum.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The music of the Courier Cornet Band at the Episcopal festival last evening was most highly complimented. This organization has become a matter of great pride to our citizens and an honor and credit to the city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

New stock slippers at Smith & Zook's.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Dr. Sutton's "Amazonian Specific," the unfailing remedy for every complaint caused by malaria. For sale by L. M. Williams, druggist.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

R. W. Handy, from Osborne County, this State, an old friend of A. D. Hendricks, is here to locate. His family will be here in a few days.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Gen. A. H. Green's father left today for his home in Carrollton, Mo. He stops over for a short visit at Cherryvale.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Dr. R. R. Marsh has rented the Schofield office on 10th avenue, and will move next Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

We manage to float on the top wave.

We want Ohio to send back that train load of corn this fall.

The recent deluge did not succeed in drowning us sinners.

Let up on fighting king alcohol and turn the batteries on our more tyrannical foe, water.

A committee should be appointed to investigate the mental condition of the weather clerk. He must be cranky.

From all indications it seems that the bottom to the atmospherical aqueous reservoir has fallen out or sprung a huge leak.

What a pity that we have not the facilities for storing our surplus water for future necessities. We may need a portion of it in the dusty pretty soon.

A Kentucky friend of the Whitson brothers is visiting in this community. He emphatically discredits all former reports concerning Kansas droughts.

We are willing to take back all we ever said about droughty Kansas, and consider our cogitations on this subject as ephemeral as the "baseless fabric of a dream."

A party of young men are making preparations for a fishing excursion to the Territory. They will probably start tomorrow. "Mark" will agree to eat all the fish they catch.

Our grangers are now ready to build their store as soon as the floods cease. They should take advantage of a favorable opportunity to float their old building to its new location.

The portion of the growing wheat crop that is left is heading out and will be ready for the self-binders before the ground is in a fit condition for operating a machine. Thus do our woes multiply.

A few of our farmers have not finished planting corn. Those who were so unfortunate as to have done planting are in a worse predicament. Listed corn that was up is covered with two or more inches of mud.

Some of our lister champions no longer eulogize this particular method of planting corn to the exclusion of all others. A few of the most enterprising lister champions are thinking seriously of making application to Fish Commissioner Fee for sufficient carp to stock their furrows.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Miss Dillon's select school is simply immense.

Our new J. P., Walter Shannon, bears his honors like a veteran.

A. T. Gay is getting about again. We trust he will soon be all "O. K."

The few warm days have made the corn fairly jump out of the ground.

We were much pleased with the new M. E. minister and predict success for him.

We have strong hopes for the corn crop, but have bid farewell to the greater part of our wheat.

It's time the road overseer was out again. The roads are full of bad places and ought to be repaired.

A. C. Davis and A. S. Gay have invested in Polled Angus cattle. No more horns for them hereafter.

It's hard to find anyone that attended Barrett's show last week. Wonder if they were not sold that did go?

There is some talk of an old settlers' picnic at or near Tisdale on the Fourth. It's a good scheme. Work it up.

Silver Creek seems to be partial to wire fence this spring, going a half mile in some instances to play with one.

F. P. Vaughan has gone to Harper to cultivate his cheek with a lightning rod outfit. Fred always was too modest.

John McGuire tried to drag Silver one day last week with his top buggy, resulting in broken buggy and ducking for John.

Coleman and Davis are getting too many cattle for their pastures and were obliged to take quite a number to Grouse recently.

The Methodist ladies held an ice cream festival on the 20th with financial success. Their new chapel is a credit to the projectors.

Bourdette's Hall fills a long-felt want. The boys and girls have used it on several occasions and pronounce it just "too utterly too-too."

Wet weather has been quite a draw-back on planting this spring. I understand there is considerable yet to be planted and a great deal replanted.

Don't forget the fact that A. T.'s strawberries promise a big yield this season and that his wife is boss at making shortcake. We know whereof we speak.

The Presbyterian mite society propose having an ice cream and strawberry supper in the near future. The simple announcement will insure them a crowd. They have a reputation, you know.

We had the pleasure of seeing a fine lot of silk worms at Mrs. A. C. Davis' the other day. There was something less than 40,000, said to be a superior lot, but to our inexperienced eyes they looked like the wormiest mess of worms we ever saw. Yet, 'tis said "there's millions in 'em." Mrs. Davis will make them pay if anybody can.

We are glad to know that the D. M. & A. railroad is a sure thing if they get the bonds. We can't have it too soon. Everyone that consults their interests will work for it. Just think of the cheap coal and lumber; the nice little additions we can build to our little houses; the comfortable cow stables we can have; and of those hungry fellows down South that are waiting for our corn and hogs. Vote for the bonds and make money for yourselves.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

May Myers is on the sick list.

Mrs. Maxey has been on the sick list.

Mr. Taylor's store building is progressing slowly.

S. Myers has his new dwelling house almost completed.

Mrs. Avery, of this place, is visiting relatives in Elk City.

Mr. P. Maxey has gone to Kansas City with a car load of hogs.

Miss Bertie Whice [White?], of New Salem, is visiting friends in this place.

G. G. Barber has gone to Kansas City to purchase a stock of spring goods.

Mr. Joseph Holland shipped two car loads of hogs from this place last Friday.

Messrs. P. Maxey, Oll Mathews, and Harry Allen are going into the poultry business.

Miss Jane Wimer returned from Winfield this week, where she had been visiting friends.

Mrs. Eva Wick, who has been visiting friends in this place, has returned to her home in Carthage, Missouri.

The fishing party that went out on Grouse creek last week caught only ten pounds of fish and a good ducking.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Torrance is going to have a sidewalk.

Mrs. Joe Reynolds is lying very sick.

Miss Mattie Rittenhouse spent Saturday in Burden.

Mrs. A. O. Elliott attended lodge at Dexter Saturday.

Mr. W. S. Rigden spent several days in Winfield last week.

The Mite Society met with Lizzie Higbee last Saturday night.

Mrs. McLean has been in our city the last week teaching dress-making.

Miss Laura Elliott and mother attended the lodge at Dexter last Saturday.

Miss Minnie McConahie and somebody else attended the show at Winfield, Friday.

Mr. Will Higbee and wife expect to start in a week or two on a visit to relatives and friends in Schell City, Missouri.

Fred Collins, of Burden, came down to the social last Tuesday night, and remained until Thursday morning with Mr. L. Newton.

The basket social given by the young people's Mite Society was quite a success. They cleared about twenty-two dollars, which speaks well for the young men of this community.

Mr. Swim and family, of the Torrance House, left last week for Winfield, to make that their home. We are sorry to lose them, but hope what is our loss will be Winfield's gain. The hotel is still empty, but hope it will not remain so long.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

P. H. Albright & Co., now personally control $600,000, and are the parties to borrow of when you want a loan on real estate security. So far in business life they have refrained from robbing the widow and the fatherless.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

THE WEEKLY COURIER presents this week, in a supplement form, the entire premium list of the Cowley County Fair and Driving Park Association. It is of great value to every farmer of the county, and should be carefully preserved.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Master Leamer Kretsinger left this evening for a visit with his Grandpa Brass at Lawrence. This is Leamer's first railroad trip alone, but his keen observation and confidence will carry him through all right.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The weather has been an unruly thing recently. It does about as it pleases--grows cold, wet, dry, medium, or lovely in doses greatly mixed. But the weather takes too big a job on its hands when it undertakes, in an unsettled way, to interfere with a Presbyterian social. The one given by the ladies of the Presbyterian church last night was a splendid success. The room was crowded with a jolly throng of "youth and beauty" subdued by a nice sprinkling of age and reason. The tables were beautifully spread, and the floral decorations very artistic. Creams, ices, cakes, etc., with vivacious, pretty ladies and handsome gentlemen were the very attractive attractions. As entertainers, the ladies of the Presbyterian church have no superiors, a fact attested by their every festival. The clergymen comprising the College Committee were present, forming the acquaintance of many of our people.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The following are the real estate transfers filed in the office of Register of Deeds yesterday.

U. S. to David A. Painter, nw qr of 28-31-7, 160 acres: $200

Tyler H. McLaughlin to A. Judson Chapel, lot 14 blk 69, Arkansas City: $1,800

E. S. Torrance to Harriet Picket, lot 11 Torrance ad to Winfield: $450

Chas. F. Northup to E. M. McGinley, lots 3 and 4 and e hf of sw qr of 7-30-6, 164 acres: $1,000

S. M. Jarvis and wife to J. W. Ross, e hf of ne qr 22-30-s-6e: $500

Adolphus G. Lowe to Fitch & Barron, lots 25, 26, 27 and 28 blk 115, Arkansas City: $200

Abel T. Brooks et al to Samuel A. Brooks, undivided 4-5 of ne qr of 29-31-7 and 4-5 of nw qr 28-31-7: $9,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Recap Wichita Land Office, R. L. Walker, Register. Proof of claim by settler, William S. Bousman, of Cowley County. Witnesses: P. M. Funkhouser, W. R. Watkins, M. C. Boyd, and W. A. Watkins, all of Winfield. Notary Public: E. S. Bedilion. Deadline: July 11, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Recap Dissolution Notice: Firm of J. S. Lyon & Co., plumbers and gas fitters. Business will be continued by Horning & Whitney, to whom all accounts are payable and by whom accounts will be settled. Signed by J. S. LYON, J. L. HORNING, W. R. WHITNEY. Dated Winfield, Kansas, May23, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Recap Administrator's Notice in Probate Court. Jacob T. Hackney, administrator of the estate of Frances M. Whistler, deceased. Deadline: July 6, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Three first-class spans of mules at a bargain. They must be sold. Turner & McDonald.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

A fine cigar manufactory. Has a large trade in Sumner, Harper, and other western counties, and does a large wholesale business at home and abroad. It is not for sale because it is not a paying business but because of poor health and must change business. For particulars, call on us or address Bert R. Greer, COURIER Office, Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

160 acre farm: 35 acres in cultivation, 75 acres good tillable land, 2 good houses, good barn, room for 8 head of horses, watered by good well and ever living spring. Best stock farm in Kansas, 1½ miles from P. O., ½ mile from school, good orchard and small fruit and 8 miles from railroad. Call on or address Bert R. Greer, COURIER Office.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The weather has been an unruly thing recently. It does about as it pleases--grows cold, wet, dry, medium, or lovely in doses greatly mixed. But the weather takes too big a job on its hands when it undertakes, in an unsettled way, to interfere with a Presbyterian social. The one given by the ladies of the Presbyterian church last night was a splendid success. The room was crowded with a jolly throng of "youth and beauty" subdued by a nice sprinkling of age and reason. The tables were beautifully spread, and the floral decorations very artistic. Creams, ices, cakes, etc., with vivacious, pretty ladies and handsome gentlemen were the very attractive attractions. As entertainers, the ladies of the Presbyterian church have no superiors, a fact attested by their every festival. The clergymen comprising the College Committee were present, forming the acquaintance of many of our people.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The following are the real estate transfers filed in the office of Register of Deeds yesterday.

U. S. to David A. Painter, nw qr of 28-31-7, 160 acres: $200

Tyler H. McLaughlin to A. Judson Chapel, lot 14 blk 69, Arkansas City: $1,800

E. S. Torrance to Harriet Picket, lot 11 Torrance ad to Winfield: $450

Chas. F. Northup to E. M. McGinley, lots 3 and 4 and e hf of sw qr of 7-30-6, 164 acres: $1,000

S. M. Jarvis and wife to J. W. Ross, e hf of ne qr 22-30-s-6e: $500

Adolphus G. Lowe to Fitch & Barron, lots 25, 26, 27 and 28 blk 115, Arkansas City: $200

Abel T. Brooks et al to Samuel A. Brooks, undivided 4-5 of ne qr of 29-31-7 and 4-5 of nw qr 28-31-7: $9,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Recap Wichita Land Office, R. L. Walker, Register. Proof of claim by settler, William S. Bousman, of Cowley County. Witnesses: P. M. Funkhouser, W. R. Watkins, M. C. Boyd, and W. A. Watkins, all of Winfield. Notary Public: E. S. Bedilion. Deadline: July 11, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Recap Dissolution Notice: Firm of J. S. Lyon & Co., plumbers and gas fitters. Business will be continued by Horning & Whitney, to whom all accounts are payable and by whom accounts will be settled. Signed by J. S. LYON, J. L. HORNING, W. R. WHITNEY. Dated Winfield, Kansas, May23, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Recap Administrator's Notice in Probate Court. Jacob T. Hackney, administrator of the estate of Frances M. Whistler, deceased. Deadline: July 6, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Three first-class spans of mules at a bargain. They must be sold. Turner & McDonald.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

A fine cigar manufactory. Has a large trade in Sumner, Harper, and other western counties, and does a large wholesale business at home and abroad. It is not for sale because it is not a paying business but because of poor health and must change business. For particulars, call on us or address Bert R. Greer, COURIER Office, Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

160 acre farm: 35 acres in cultivation, 75 acres good tillable land, 2 good houses, good barn, room for 8 head of horses, watered by good well and ever living spring. Best stock farm in Kansas, 1½ miles from P. O., ½ mile from school, good orchard and small fruit and 8 miles from railroad. Call on or address Bert R. Greer, COURIER Office.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Elija Kinworth, a farmer, while intoxicated walked off the bluff at Marion, Missouri, and was killed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

David Southwick, a farmer living near Buffalo, Dallas County, Missouri, shot and killed himself the other night.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

F. A. Switzler, Columbia, Missouri, has been appointed Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department, vice Joseph Nimmo, resigned by request.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Hon. S. S. Cox, in a letter addressed to Orlando B. Potter, says that he will leave for Constantinople about the middle of June.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Commissioner of Pensions has recommended for dismissal the Special Examiner of his office for falsifying his daily reports.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The third trial of Garland A. Mann for the murder of Dr. A. W. Chenowith, near Pineville, Missouri, began at Neosho, Mo., on the 20th.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The citizens of Clay County, Kansas, voted by a majority of 460 to purchase the three bridges now over the Republican River and erect two new ones.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, has vetoed the bill authorizing turnpike managers to sell or abandon those roads by the consent of the stockholders.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The report of the expert on the affairs of the Wectamoe mill at Fall River, Massachusetts, shows John Blaisdell, the absconding bookkeeper, to be a defaulter in $44,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

John M. Gebhart's residence, the Marine Railroad offices, six dwellings, and the Mosier Manufacturing Company's Works were burned recently at Cincinnati.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

On the 19th, after five hours' sanguinary fighting at the town of Armenia, in Salvador, the Salvadorian army routed the revolutionists and captured a large quantity of arms and cannons.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

At the second meeting of the creditors of James R. Osgood & Co., publishers, of Boston, their liabilities were placed by the firm at $170,000, and assets in round numbers at $100,000. The firm intimated a desire to discontinue business.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

L. J. Miles, Indian Agent at Osage Agency, Kan., has resigned. The following named receivers of public moneys have also resigned: Hiram L. Childs, at Bodie, Cal.; Jerome Knox, at Lake View, Ore.; John Ulrich, at LaCrosse, Wis.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

James Haggart, who accompanied Odlum on his mission to the fatal jump from Brooklyn bridge, was arrested on a charge of aiding Odlum to commit an act endangering his life and outraging public decency in aiding the act. The accused was held.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Secretary of the Navy was considering the advisability of appointing a board to investigate the expenditures on the repair of the United States steamer Mohican, at the Mare Island Navy Yard. The reported cost of these repairs amounted to about $700,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

In another tennis match at London on the 19th, Pettitt, the American, beat Heathcote by a score of 3 to 1.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Victor Hugo was conscious on the 19th, and spoke calmly of his approaching death, which he knew to be inevitable.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

J. M. Rambo of Company C, Second Infantry, William St. Clair, a blacksmith, and Patrick Boyle, a packer, were drowned at Spokane Falls, W. T., recently, by the ferry cable breaking.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Committees reported recently that a thorough canvass had been made in Plymouth, Pa., and that there were 560 cases of typhoid fever in the borough, including a portion of Plymouth Township.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Director General Burke, of the New Orleans Exposition, has resigned. The committee raised $95,000 by subscription for the purpose of reopening the exposition next fall.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Small pox was spreading rapidly in all sections of Montreal. The health department had broken down completely, but the Mayor with the assistance of leading medical men, were endeavoring to check the disease.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

A man named J. S. Stemmell committed suicide at the Vienna Garden, Kansas City, the other night by shooting himself through the temple. He had registered just prior to the act at the St. James Hotel as Thomas Lindsay.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

A cyclone struck the little town of Taylor, Texas, the other evening and played havoc for a few seconds. The Missouri Pacific Railroad freight house was demolished, the round house unroofed, the city hall wrecked, and more than a dozen other buildings more or less damaged.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

A circular letter has been prepared at the Treasury Department, Washington, which says: "While it is not considered the business of the department to assist in the collection of bills, the continued refusal of employees to meet their just debts will be considered a good cause for their discharge."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

During funeral services at the residence of John Hallack, at Pittsburgh, Pa., recently, a porch in front of the house gave way, precipitating sixty-five persons to the cellar ten feet below. M. Lepettzer, aged twenty years, and an old lady named Mrs. Culbertson were badly injured and it was thought would die.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

In the Illinois Senate Mr. White's telephone bill, providing that no telephone company shall charge more than three dollars per month when one telephone was used and $2.50 for more than one, and fixing the toll on messages from one town to another at ten cents, was passed almost unanimously.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Dr. Frederichen, the celebrated German physiologist and anatomist, is dead.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

A rupture was reported in the negotiations for a commercial treaty between England and Spain.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Fire at McBride, Michigan, recently, destroyed fifty-two frame houses, causing a total loss of $25,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The last gap in the Canadian Pacific Railroad has been closed and the line is now continued to the Columbia River.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Another attempt of John Roach to bring the Dolphin up to schedule resulted in a failure due to an over-heated journal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

All the schools in Kingston, Massachusetts, were closed on account of the diphtheria prevalent among the pupils. There were four deaths on the 17th.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

H. W. Terry was lynched at Liberty, Virginia, recently by a party of masked men for the murder of T. A. Jeter. Both parties belonged to the F. F. V's.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Cincinnati Wesleyans took the first steps on the 18th towards raising large endowments and making the Cincinnati Wesleyan College a university for women.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The Trades Assembly of Chicago has, by an overwhelming majority, decided not to permit the Socialists and Anarchists, as such, to participate in its annual parade.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The six year old son of Charles Crawford, of Warrensburg, Missouri, fell fifty feet from an oil derrick into a deep pool at the bottom of an abandoned stone quarry and was killed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Somerset Village, Quebec, was destroyed by fire the other night, about one hundred houses being burned, including the church (Presbyterian), foundry, and cheese factory.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

The French Chamber of Deputies has begun discussing the project to form a colonial army. General Camp, Minister of War, estimates the cost at 8,000,000 francs annually.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Samuel Seem, one of the wealthiest state operators in Northampton County, Pa., made an assignment to his son, Thomas H. Seem, of Bangor. Seem's real estate was worth $100,000. His assets will cover his liabilities.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

Fifty Chiracahua Apaches left Camp Apache, New Mexico, on the 17th on the war path. They cut the military telegraph line connecting the camp with headquarters. They are of the same band who created trouble two years ago.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

While starting up the engine at the cotton mill of the Bilt [?] Manufacturing Company, at Macon, Ga., one of the five boilers exploded, killing Frank Gibson, engineer, fracturing the skull of Wesley Johnson, who will die, and injuring three others.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

James Maxwell, president of the National Bank of West Virginia, at Wheeling, dropped dead on the street the other evening. He was aged seventy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

A colored laborer in the Treasury at Washington, named Cox, was the first employee to be discharged under the recent order for the non-payment of debt.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

In the Illinois House a resolution giving the right of the chamber to ex-Governor St. John to deliver a temperance lecture was voted down, the Republicans voting almost solidly against it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

An Austrian named Pezderkas was shockingly mutilated at Joliet, Illinois, recently. His lips and nose were cut off and his tongue cut out. It was alleged that strikers were guilty of the crime.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

A strange disease failing [?] the skill of the physicians, broke out in Paris, eighteen miles from Pittsburgh, Pa., a few days ago. Eight persons have died. The disease was spreading and all cases prove fatal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.

A dispatch of the 21st, from Guaymas, Mexico says: "General Carbo had a bloody engagement with the Yaquis yesterday. Fifty-seven Mexicans were killed and many wounded. The stronghold of the Yaquis was captured.