DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER
[Starting
with THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1891.]
VOL.
1, NO. 4.
THURSDAY,
OCT. 1, 1891.
DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER
Ira P. Russell went to Wichita this
morning on business.
Mrs. Harry Tuller is in Wichita this week
attending the fair.
Albert Million, petit juror from Dexter,
has been excused for the balance of this term of court. He goes home to take charge of the hardware
store of Bryan & Riggs, during the absence of Mr. Bryan, who will take in the
St. Louis Exposition.
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We congratulate W. F. Rutherford on the
display made in his window of violins, mandolins, guitars, ganjos, accordians,
and other small goods. He is becoming as
much of a music man as he is a "New Home" machine man, for you can't
hardly get in his office for machines, organs, pianos, and bycicles [WAY THEY
SPELLED THE LAST WORD].
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The Courier is making a terrible
howl about the "poor deluded fellows" listening to the
"abominable nonsense" of the advocates of Calamity Jane. Ah!
Bro. Courier, take your medicine, it's a bitter dose. Likely if you will shut yours eyes, like you
do when you gulp down the dictates of your political masters, it won't taste so
bad.
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Dave Baldwin, of Atlanta, had to be
relieved from his duties as a juror last week on account of a serious rising on
his jaw, caused from a fracture of the bone.
The swelling was in the shape of a large boil, that at one time was so
large that it rested upon his shoulder.
Mr. Baldwin has suffered to a great extent from the fracture and more
serious trouble is
apprehended.
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Andrew Edmiston, of Atlanta, was in town
this morning.
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Dixon Hale, of Dexter, was in town today
on important
business.
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Col. Loomis returned this morning from an
extended summer tour through the south and east.
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MARRIED. Fred G. Seabridge and Miss Effie E.
Devore, both of Walnut township, were married by Judge Sitton last evening.
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TO BE MARRIED.
Geo. B. Curtis, of Silverdale, and Miss Mary E. Musselman of Butler
county, secured matrimonial papers
yesterday.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER: THURSDAY, OCT. 1, 1891,
CONTINUED.]
TO BE MARRIED. George
W. McDaniel, of Fowler City, Indiana, and Miss Addie Lewis of Arkansas City,
secured a marriage license today.
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Salem Fouts and Jap Cochran returned from
Arkansas City last evening. They report
fences in splendid shape in that city.
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A big mad dog scare was occasioned one
day this week on Silver creek, south of here, and it is reported that nine dogs
were killed in one day.
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Preston Butcher, of the Otoe Agency, came
in town one day this week with two loads of wheat he was going to trade for
flour. He had just got through threshing
his crop over near Dexter.
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Have you upholstering to do, organs to
clean, sewing machines out of order, hides to tan for rugs and robes; animals
or birds to mount; broken umbrellas, furniture to varnish, etc., please let me
know at 215 east 9th avenue, south side.
All kinds of sewing machine needles at 25 cents per dozen. Respectfully,
J.
TESCH.
[HOWLER,
THURSDAY, OCT. 1, 1891.]
WHEATLAND.
Kenney Sheets is in Winfield attending
the M. E. College.
Miss Agnes Renfro left for Latham last
Saturday. She will teach near that
place. This is Miss Renfro's first
school, all wish her success.
Miss Cordie Lunceford is in Winfield
attending the Commercial College.
Mr. Newt Brookshire and Miss Alice Gorham
were in Winfield last Monday.
Miss Hattie Daniels teaches at Wheatland
this winter, Miss Bettie Lunceford at Red Bud, Mr. James Walker at Star Valley,
while Alice Gorham numbers herself among the disappointed school ma'ams of
Kansas.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Greer are celebrating
the recent arrival of a bouncing baby girl.
Several from this neighborhood were at
the picnic in Dawson's grove. Star
Valley Alliance No. 1 formed in procession one half mile north of school house,
and were the first arrivals on the ground.
KANSAS
ANNIE.
[HOWLER,
THURSDAY, OCT. 1, 1891.]
DEXTER
ITEMS.
Hurrah for the CALAMITY HOWLER.
Miss Maggie Hoozer is visiting Mrs. H. R.
Branson.
J. D. Salmon is down at Arkansas City at
this writing.
Mrs. Lou James of Waunetta is visiting
her mother here.
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Cole have returned
from a five weeks' visit to relatives in Ohio.
Grandma Asbery, of Plum creek, is
visiting the past week with J. D. Salmon and family.
Prof. Limerick returned Sunday from his
visit to Ohio and commenced his school Monday morning.
Mr. McCampbell, formerly of the Olds
House, in Winfield, has taken possession of the Commercial Hotel and will
henceforth feed the hungry in good style.
Dr. Rude and family have located in
Dexter. The Dr. and his estimable wife
were residents of Dexter years ago, and we extend to them a most hearty
welcome. And the Dr. will ever be found
ready and willing to help the sick. They
occupy the house just vacated by Jim Pierce.
There will be a rousing alliance picnic,
in the Peabody grove, north of town, next Saturday. Good speakers will be in attendance. Everyone invited to come. M.
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1891.]
F. T. Berkey is the boss real estate man
in town. He made three sales in one day
this week.
Miss Lou Pixley has accepted a position
as stenographer in the office of Shartel & Cottingham, Mrs. D. A. Johnson
having resigned.
F. T. Berkey sold a piece of Winfield
property to a Mr. Marx, of Crocker, Missouri, one day this week. Mr. Marx will make this his future home.
September was not a bad matrimonial month
in Cowley county. Judge Sitton issued 43
licenses, and out of the 43 he tied the nuptial knot for thirteen couples.
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Mr. Guy, of the Winfield House, returned
from the new country yesterday. He is
not in love with that country, although he was among the lucky ones to get a
good claim. He says he is not stuck on
the electric light sytem in Guthrie after midnight. As he left the hotel at three o'clock in the
morning, all was as dark as pitch, he fell over a pile of rocks, and got it in
the knee badly.
DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, FRIDAY, OCT. 2, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Fire.
For several days this week the stack in
the coal house in the rear of the Courier building, under the management
of the Newspaper Union, has been on fire.
Yesterday the coal house was torn down and the fire was put out, as was
thought. This morning about 4 o'clock
the engine room and stereotyping department was discovered to be on fire. The alarm was promptly given and on the
arrival of the fire company was extinguished.
The damage is considerable. The
engine, boiler, piping, and the stereotyping machinery are all more or less
damaged. At this hour the damage has not
been estimated, but will run up into several hundred dollars. The Courier building, containing the Courier
plant and Union press room sustained no damage worthy of mention.
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Bob Farnsworth is out again after a short
illness.
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Mrs. Geo. Miller, of West 9th, is very
sick at this writing.
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I have a good Jersey cow, four years old,
for sale cheap.
W.
H. BROOKS, 1113 E. 11th.
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Brock Crawford and a Mr. Hutchinson,
living south of Howard City, came in this morning with two loads of fine stock
shoats and pigs. They are selling very
reasonable.
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Go
to H. H. Constant's
Place for lunch, short orders, and fresh
oysters, 1st door north Winfield & Miller, Main street, west side, between
9th and 10th ave.
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C. W. Horner returned this morning from
Edgerton, Kansas, where he has been visiting relatives. Mrs. C. W. Horner intends to remain at
Edgerton about a month longer.
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Mr. Galusha came in last night from a
business trip down through Oklahoma in the interest of the Winfield Newspaper
Union. He says business will go right
along as ever, what the fire damaged will be replaced with new machinery at
once.
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Ed Greer came up from Guthrie last
evening, where he has been looking after his business for several days, just in
time to look over the ruins of the fire.
It is a notable fact that Ed's paper, the Courier, had a very
close call last night.
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Market
Reports.
Choice
Butter: 10 to 17 cents.
Eggs,
fresh, per dozen: 15 cents.
Turkeys,
per pound: 7 cents.
Hens,
per pound: 5 cents.
Roosters,
per pound: 5 cents.
Spring
chickens, per dozen: $1.50 to $2.00
Irish
Potatoes: 40 to 60 cents.
Sweet
Potatoes: 40 to 60 cents.
Oats: 22 cents.
Corn: 40 to 50 cents.
Wheat: 60 to 75 cents.
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A rousing People's meeting was held at
Tannehill last evening. J. C. Bradshaw
and Amos Walton were the speakers, and they handled the g. o. p. without
gloves. J. C. Bradshaw is drawing like a
mustard plaster; being one of the most entertaining speakers on the
stump. We know that when he reads this,
he will blush clear up to the root of his hair, but we can't help saying that
he is one of those young men who is bound to leave his impress upon his
generation.
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Opposed
to Competition.
Moe A. Isaacs & Co. are creating a
panic in the mercantile circles of Winfield.
Wishing to open a store there a few days ago Mr. Jacobs, one of the
firm, went and engaged a business room for that purpose. He also engaged advertising space in the Courier,
but before his ad was inserted a delegation of other clothiers waited on that
paper and informed its proprietors that
they would boycott him if he advertised for the new store. Said proprietor notified Mr. Jacobs of what
had occurred and the latter very generously annulled the contract between them,
allowing the Courier to keep its old customers. But they were not satisfied with that. Gratified with their success these jim crow
merchants corralled the city council and got that august body to pass an
ordinance imposing an occupation tax of $100 per month on the new store. The goods were already in the store and there
was nothing to do but to go ahead and sell them so the manager, Mr. Meyerhardt,
paid his $100 under protest and kept on selling. He had, however, already satisfied himself
that the ordinance was illegal as well as unjust to the buyers of clothing and
concluded to knock it out when the proper time comes.
This baby kick has created a public
feeling in favor of the new firm.
Several councilmen are opposed to the new ordinance and the mayor
himself, after signing it, denounced it as an illegal act. In the meantime the butchers of Winfield,
seeing the beauty of a protective tariff, presented a petition to have the same
protection thrown 'round them by levying a big tax on all new butchers and meat
peddlars and it is expected that the dealers in other lines will do the same.
At present Jacobs is doing plenty of
advertising besides what the other merchants and the council give him free and
is doing a rushing business. The
citizens are getting up petitions to have the ordinance repealed.
Dispatch.
We publish the above to show what other
people think of the action of our city council in passing the ordinance
referred to in our first issue. There is
no doubt but the action of the council was wrong and if they wish to place
themselves right before the world, they will repeal the ordinance.
No one will doubt for a moment that this
occupation tax, if paid by the merchant, will have to be added to the cost of
goods sold to the consumer and they are the ones who have to pay it in the end.
This nation has pursued the same kind of
a policy for thirty years, by a protective policy, and all the while the
consumers have been paying [SEVERAL LINES OBSCURED...PAPER CUT]
engaged
in importing cheap labor to do his work.
What is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander, and if the
council insists on adhering to the ordinance they should extend it to the
laboring men who come here to work.
There are a number of men at work within the corporate limits of the
city who were imported from other points to work on the elevator. This importation of laborers could be stopped
by a protective policy, and by all means let the council extend its beneficent
policy on all alike.
HOWLER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1891, PRINTED
A TIME CARD...
THIS
CARD SHOWED SCHEDULES FOR ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE,
F.
E. & W. V., SOUTHERN KANSAS, MISSOURI PACIFIC, ST. LOUIS &
SAN
FRANCISCO RAILROADS. DID NOT BOTHER TO
COPY.
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Banks Will
Close To-Morrrow at 2 O'Clock, p. m.
On account of the funeral of M. L. Read,
president of the First National Bank, and one of our oldest and most respected
citizens, our places of business will be losed promptly at 2 p.m. to-morrow and
remain closed the balance of the day.
COWLEY
CO. NAT. BANK,
FARMERS STATE BANK,
P. H. ALBRIGHT & CO.
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1891, CONTINUED.]
TERRITORY
NEWS.
Condensed
For Hurried Readers.
There was many a sooner in a schooner.
The Norman school opened with 210 pupils.
Norman has two cotton gins running in
full blast.
When the clock struck twelve, everybody
struck out.
Horses suffered more than anything else
on the 22nd.
A German farmer near El Reno has built a
$1,080 barn.
There was a worse danger in being too
late than too soon.
"All things come to him who
waits." Even lands open up.
A bottom farm near Yukon is said to have
sold for $4,000.
Now
for the first baby, first church, and the first newspaper.
The next boomer cry will be: "On to the Cherokee Strip."
The jail at Oklahoma City has fourteen
regular boarders.
Tuesday, September 22nd, is another
birthday for Oklahoma.
The statehood convention at Oklahoma City
was postponed.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands will make
five big counties.
A man does not have to be a politician to
run for the new lands.
Kingfisher needs a new depot to
accommodate its increase in business.
The new counties will have to be
named. Have you a name for them?
Oklahoma and her memorable 22nd will
occupy a distinct place in history.
As for the cotton crop in the Chicasaw
nation, the ball worm was not "in it."
The Chilocco school building came near
burning up in a fire set by the boomers.
The district convention of the W. C. T.
U. will meet at El Reno September 29 and 30.
Oklahoma is the only place that ever had
a boom that had the government stamp on it.
The passenger trains in Oklahoma this
year are as long as the freight trains here last year.
One of the Dalton boys has been captured
again. There must be an awful big family of them.
Governor Steel's acquaintance with men
who want office at this time is something appalling.
Tramsel is the name of the county seat of
Pottowatomie. Captain Baker of Salina,
is postmaster.
The ladies of 'Frisco got up
entertainments and raised enough money to buy a 300 pound church bell.
It is hard to keep cool in Oklahoma even
as late as September, when there are new lands to be opened.
The negro colonists at Langston and the
cowboys are having trouble, which may end in bloodshed.
There are no railroads in the new
country. That makes it different from
the other opening.
There is more jam on the Oklahoma streets
than there is on Oklahoma bread and butter just at present.
In a couple of weeks the Indians in the
east will begin to get some sound pointers on how to till the soil.
The Oklahoma courts have decided that the
Cherokee Indian is not "in it."
They will be sustained.
If you were "in it" before
noon, you will not be "in it" when it comes to proving up at the land
office.
John Wingler of Edmond has in good
growing condition forty thousand budded peach trees on his farm.
There are plenty of people left who think
that the only thing necessary to take into the new country is a pistol.
It will be a relief not to hear so much
about intruders. You can intrude all you
want after noon Tuesday.
People are coming to Oklahoma this fall
by the hundreds and next year will see double the population of this year.
One Sac and Fox family truned up last
week that had not been allotted. The
agent fixed them up all right, however.
Horses are scarce just now. But what's the matter with mules? It was Capt. Cahos' mule that made the big
run in 1889.
In Oklahoma corn that was planted on
wheat stubble, after the wheat war harvested, is now in roasting ears and
looking fine.
One wagon at Oklahoma City going toward
the new country contained two barrels of whiskey and a lot of gambling
paraphernalia.
Frank Greer changed the Capital into an
evening paper so that he could have the first paper in the new country after
its settlement.
It will not be sufficient for a man to
say he is an Oklahoma boomer after this.
People will ask him if he is an eighty-niner or a ninety-oner.
The Chickasaw nation will produce between
60,000 and 70,000 bales of cotton this season, over one-third of which will be
marketed at Ardmore.
A man will get land cheaper in the new
country if he rides an ox and still cheaper if he walks and starts at the same
time with the fellows on horseback.
Another twenty-second and just at the
opposite end of the year. This
administration is bound to open countries right if it has to try every day in
the year.
Last opening was on Monday--this is on
Tuesday. It would be just like the
government to open the Cheyenne and Arapahoe country on Wednesday.
Breakfast will be taken in Oklahoma
proper next Tuesday morning. But heaven
only knows if there will be any dinner eaten at all in that new country.
Oklahoma was the child of Kansas. The Indian country is now the child of
Oklahoma. This makes Kansas a
grandparent.
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[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1891, CONTINUED.]
People's Journal: The old party press throughout this section
talk like the fight is between the two old parties, whereas, the real fight is
between the people and the money power.
The money power is entrenched behind the two old parties, and in its
fight against the people it hopes to be able to win, promising, as it does,
position and gold to its workers.
People, this is the truth. The
old parties are simply tools in the hands of the plutocrats--tools to destroy
the libeties of the people--paid tools to fasten the chains of bondage upon the
toilers, are the party leaders of the old parties.
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[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, WINFIELD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1891.]
Frank Savage was down from Rock today.
Our popular townsman, J. M. Safford, has
a brother visiting him for a few days from Urbana, Illinois.
John Wilkin came in Thursday evening to
see if the boss at headquarters had heard of any new recruits to the great
moral party of Cowley county.
A meeting of the county alliance has been
called to be held at Arkansas City on Tuesday, October 13. The meeting will probably hold over the
14th. Don't forget the date.
Don't forget to attend the meeting at the
courthouse this evening, under the auspices of the People's club of Winfield.
J.
H. Ritchie of Montgomery county will address the crowd.
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Register of Deeds, A. A. Jackson,
returned Thursday evening from a trip to Princeton, Illinois, where he had been
to attend a re-union of his old regiment.
He reports a pleasant time while gone, although but twenty-six of his
old comrades answered to the call with himself.
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The funeral of M. L. Read was largely
attended yesterday. The masons were out
in a body. The services were under the
auspices of the M. E. church. The funeral
was held at 2 o'clock.
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WANTED.
A young lady boarder at corner 6th and Manning.
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Geo. Dwyer, of Cambridge, was over today
attending the People's central committee meeting.
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Charley Jones, of Burden, was in town
today attending the People's central committee meeting.
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Wm. Primrose, Dan Adams, and Geo. Barton
were down from Atlanta yesterday trading with our merchants.
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Chairman Strong returned this morning
from Wichita, where he has been all week as a witness in a case before the U.
S. grand jury.
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J. H. Ritchie came in this morning from
Independence and took the 10:30 Mo. Pac. train for Dexter, where he speaks to a
meeting of the 1st District Alliance. He
will return this evening and speak here at the courthouse tonight.
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J. F. McMullen had a little exciting
experience on road home from Van Couver, Wash.
When coming through Eagle River Pass, a few miles this side of Salida,
Colorado, the engineer noticed a mass of rock that had fallen from an
overhanging cliff onto the track. He
stopped his train within a few feet of the obstruction. There were eleven coaches loaded with
passengers and two engines pulling them.
It required several hours work with dynamite to remove the rock. The accident would have been frightful had not
the careful engineer averted it. Courier.
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Ritchie, on the sub-treasury plan at the
courthouse tonight.
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Ike Harkleroad of Silverdale, took in the
central committee meeting today.
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Ed Green was on hand as usual at the
committee meeting this afternoon.
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Wm. Primrose, Daniel Adams, and Geo.
Barton of Atlanta, were in town last evening.
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I. P. Gardner dropped in and ordered the
DAILY HOWLER sent to his address at New Salem.
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1891, CONTINUED.]
A. B. Kennedy of North Richland township
was in today today and reports the people's cause booming in his section.
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Mr. A. DeBard, who is teaching school
three miles south of Torrance, came in on the Southern Kansas this morning, and
will leave this evening on the 'Frisco for Atlanta.
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There were three killed in the rush for
homes and town lots in the new country.
One poor fellow had his horse fall on him, while in the act of sticking
his stake. He died in less than an
hour. His friends saw him fall, but went
on after a town lot. Geo. Osterhout and
one or two more stopped and lifted the man up and rendered him all the aid they
could. They went on, and on returning,
found the poor fellow dead and laid out where he fell. Such are the scenes in setting a new country.
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George Osterhout made a rush with the
rest for a corner lot in the new county seat in the Pottawatmie [WAY THEY
SPELLED IT] country, but on comning to a poor fellow whose horse had fallen on
him, he stopped to render aid and when he got through and stuck his stake, he
was six feet in the street. Geo. is not
much stuck on that counttry, and says he wouldn't live in a country where the
Indians have all the good land and are not taxable for 20 years. The whites who settle that country have to
make the country on the refused land.
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This morning early a woman came in town
from Arkansas City, half frenzied with grief over the [TWO WHOLE LINES ARE
GARBLED UP IN PAPER]
J.
E. Riley, telling him her story, and as luck would have it, Jack knew just
where the boy was. Last Wednesday as
Mike Markum's hired man was coming to town, he overtook a small boy three miles
out, and seeing the little fellow was tired, asked him to ride, which offer he
gladly accepted. He then told his story
that his father had abused him and drove him from home, he had left without
telling his mother. He was anxious to
get some place to stay and work for his board.
On coming to town and Markum hearing the lad's story, told his hired man
to take the boy home with him and they would take care of him until he could
find another home. Markum had told Riley
of the circumstance, who was prepared to enlighten the woman as to the
whereabouts of her lost boy.
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1891, CONTINUED.]
"The fact that twenty or thirty
thousand men own a large proportion of the wealth of this country is not the
only alarming fact; it is equally alarming to know that a large part of the
power of the elective franchise is in the hands of a few 'bosses' and that, so
universally that there is hardly a large city free from their domination. The hardest blow that large corporations
strike at free government is the blow with which they tend to crush independent,
self-asserting manhood."
The foregoing are the closing sentences
of an editorial in the College Advance for September. The HOWLER wishes to give the esteemed editor
of the Advance a word of caution.
You are running an educational monthly and you shouldn't meddle with
politics. What you state is perfectly
true but people who make statements, like the above, are denominated
"Calamity shriekers and howlers."
You are consorting with the disreputable elements of society, and
directly somebody will be calling you an anarchist and a socialist.
And this from a correspondent of the same
paper who signs himself "D."
"I doubt not but that it can be
truthfully said there is not a prominent nation in the world which has enough
money in its treasury to pay off its indebtedness, and many of the great powers
are notoriously burdened with debt."
Worse and worse. Gentlemen, you positively must stop. Otherwise, the great and good pension agent
of Kansas will hear of it and the voice which used to shatter the rafters in the
Methodist church of Winfield will turn its denuciatory thunder loose upon
you. The Topeka Capital will call
you an anti-prohibitionist, and the Smut Mill across from the post office will
grind out its choicest collection of epithets.
Be warned in time. Flee from the
wrath to come, ere the Courier
crowd will get their drinks ahead, and inspiration in proportion. The country must be saved. Shall not Barney Kelley keep his pension
agency and the Courier proprietor his post office?
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The Courier contained one evening
this week an article from the pen of John A. Eaton, taken from the K. C.
Times. Three years ago the Courier would
not have polluted its columns with an article written by John Eaton. It is a case now of "anything to beat
the People's party, honest reform, and prohibit the masses of earning an honest
living."
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1891, CONTINUED.]
THE
CRISIS PASSED.
There are some amusing things that take
place in this world, but they usually happen behind the scenes and the busy
world knows nothing of them, unless the newspaper reporter happens to learn of
it. The editor of the Courier has been
on an extended visit of late, and as the affairs of the Courier, as well as the
republican campaign were in a desperate shape, the fellows who have been trying
to edit the paper sent out a telegram for their chief to return immediately as
business of great importance required his presence. When the chief returned, there was a meeting
of the three liars in a private room of the Courier building in which,
substantially, the following conversation took place.
Ed:
Well, boys, how are things going?
Joe:
Bad enough, I assure you.
Business has been very dull with us, the receipts of the office not
being sufficient to furnish two men in the necessary elixer of life since you
went away. The candidates refuse to put
up any boodle and if I had my way about it I'd give them h__l, so I would.
Ed:
Oh, no, that wouldn't do; for if we do that the party would repudiate
the Courier again, and we are not able to stand more than one more repudiation
[TWO LINES ALL MESSED UP]
makes
me tired yet to think how the party sat on me.
I went to Guthrie on purpose to see Hackney and see if he couldn't make
the state committee put up, but Hackney says that the committee absolutely
refuse to give him a cent since he was deposed two years ago. But say, if you need omeny, why don't you
work some of the merchants by having an interview with some of them with whom
we stand in, and get him to blow about the great Courier as an advertising
medium?
Joe:
I did that last night [Thursday] with a certain drug store here, but I
haven't got a single new ad today and it seemed to fall on the community like a
wet blanket; and I believe that the merchants and the people are on to the
scheme, for I overheard a crowd of thos dod-gasted calamity yelpers laughing
and talking about it today. They seemed
to be making fun of it.
Ed:
I was of the opinion that you fellows would be running low on the
subject of heavy editorial and so I have written out some three or four for
Friday's daily and I will read them for you.
"Fishback has a dead sure thing on
the clerk's office and Salem Fouts is getting ready to surrender.
"Wilkin will come in with both hands
down and you may mark that.
"Strother will get there and you may
mark that down.
"Nipp will be elected. Mark that down."
Ed:
What do you think of them for a bracer, Jack?
Jack:
Those are regular heavy weight corkers, and I am afraid if it gets out
who wrote them, my reputation will suffer for in my happiest vein I could never
get off such whoppers as that.
Ed:
Now, Joe. I want you to charge up
these editorials to each of the candidates at the rate of $50 each, and we can
pass it in as assets when we fail, as it seems we are bound to do soon. Also announce this evening that we will get
out a lot of extra papers for Saturday evening, and that the matter of editorials
will be kept up to the usual standard and say also, that the Courier is the
only daily paper in town and if you think best you might say it is the only one
in the county and state. Our readers are
of a peculiar build and will not know any better, so make it strong. Be on the alert for the main chance and I
tthink we will be able to tide thro'.
Good night, boys, and be sure to keep up your lick. Be sure and clip all the democratic stuff
that you see lying around loose, especially when you know it will reach our
readers.
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1891, CONTINUED.]
MEASURES
AND VALUES.
Don't read this until you have read P. H.
Albright's address delivered at Manning's hall Friday evening September 18,
1891.
In his address Mr. Albright declares that
the value of a dollar must be as definite and unchangeable as the length of the
yard-stick, the weight of the pound, the duration of the hour, or the volume of
a bushel.
Mr. Albright seems to be unable to
understand the difference between "a measure of value" and the value
itself.
Let us consider the consistency or
inconsistency of his foolishness.
In one place he says, "After a while
the various sovereigns and legislatures all over the world got to adopting a
standard for weights of gold and silver, and finally we adopt, in the colonial
times, that twenty-five and four-fifths grains of gold should constitute a
dollar. Then they had a measure of
silver for about 420 grains to the dollar." Further, he says: "Those measures of value have been
definite and certain ever since, and they must always continue to be definite
and certain."
Whether Mr. Albright is ignorant or not
is unanswerable, but it is a fact that the silver dollar of to-day is only 9
parts pure and only contains 412-1/2 grains.
Is it true then that measures have always been definite and certain?
Mr. Albright further says that at one
time in his business fife gold commanded as high as one dollar and seventy-five
cents in paper money. The gold he
referred to was used for plating.
Now let us ask again was that measure of
value definite and certain?
Wherein lay the value of that gold? In its money properties or in its commercial
properties? The fact is that the gold
was not a measure of value but actually possessed the value within itself.
His argument is lame in another
particular. It is lame in the fact that
debts which had been contracted were payable in currency and commanded no more
dollars of paper money than their face called for.
It is true that creditors were willing to
accept a less number of dollars in gold, but that was altogether for speculative
purposes.
And why under existing circumstances
should they not be anxious to get possession of the gold, it being the basis.
Mr. Albright has left us in the dark as
to the time of his business referred to in his speech, but it must have been
just before the rebellion, or during its progress, or shortly after its close.
If it was before or during the war, the
situation may be easily explained. The
people's party claim that the money should be based on the credit and STABILITY
of the government.
Now at that time the nation was
threatened with division. It seemed as
if there would be two governments instead of one.
Gold having value of itself and also
being the basis of money (or the supposed basis), it was acceptable in either
country, simply because the people erroneously believed and accepted the silly
theory that money must have a metallic basis.
If the time referred to was shortly after
the war, the situation is more easily explained than ever.
It was at this time that the nefarious
legislation of congress began with reference to financial affairs, first making
the interest on the bonds, and afterwards making the bonds themselves payable
in coin, and still later making them payable in gold. Why shouldn't gold raise in value, and yet
Mr. Albright says these measures of value are definite and certain.
Here is one of Mr. Albright's illustration.
"I will go to a farmer, and I will
say I want to buy your 1,000 bushels of wheat.
"Well, what are you going to give
for it? Legal tender paper money made by
act of congress with nothing behind it?
How many head of cattle will that buy, and how much cloth?"
Oh, these are profound questions, but
they may be answered. In the first place
there is a great deal behind that legal tender paper money besides the fist of
congress. There lies behind it millions
of acres of wheat and corn, hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton, mountains
of iron and mines of gold, silver, and coal, and millions of cattle, hogs,
horses, and sheep, and more than that there lies behind it the manhood, the
womanhood, and the patriotism of every American citizen. In answer to the second question, we will say
that at $1 per bushel and eight years ago about 25 head of good milk cows might
have been bought for that legal tender money.
At the same price now at least 50 head of equally good cows may be
bought.
Now a wise thing for us to do if we can
is to determine which of these things is the measure of value and which
is the real value.
Certainly no one will assert that the
cows are the measure of value, it is evident that the paper is not the measure
of value, and as gold and silver and paper are all at par, the same argument
holds good with either of the other monies, and as the amount of the material
in the coin is the same as it was 8 years ago and the buying power twice as
great, we can but conclude that these articles have but a relative value. Now what is it that regulates or determines
the relative value of a dollar.
One of the things undoubtedly, is the
number of dollars in circulation in proportion to the bulk of materials to be
exchanged.
If Mr. Albright is a student of political
economy, he doubtless remembers that all political economists agree in saying
that a contraction of the currency decreases the price of all articles of
exchange in proportion to the contraction, and that an inflation of the
currency increases the price in proportion to the inflation.
They also agree in saying that the best
times are experienced during the period of inflation.
To illustrate, let us suppose that a
reasonably good horse sells for $150 (as was the case 8 or 9 years ago). By contracting the currency one half, you
make it impossible for that horse to sell for more than $75.
By inflating the currency to double the
amount, the horse represented $300.
The illusttration bears within itself no
argument for or against contraction or inflation, for it makes absolutely no
difference whether the horse sells for $75 or $150 or $300 except to the man
who is in debt. To him it makes a
wonderful difference.
The law of political economy set fourth
above is absolutely undeniable.
Let us imagine a man to contract a debt
of $150 under circumstances when one real good horse will pay it, suppose also
that he pays no interest. The currency
shall now be contracted one-half, rendering his horse worth but $75. He must now sacrifice a team of equally good
horses to satisfy his creditor.
The same argument holds good with
reference to all other articles of exchange.
And yet our financial statesman declares that the masure of value
remains definite and certain.
Shame on such nonsense, such
foolishness. A person who advocates such
stuff is either prejudiced, ignorant, or "has an ax to grind"--or all
three. In any case it should fail to
catch with an intelligent thinking people, as we have in Cowley County.
E.
B. SANDFORT.
Atlanta,
Kansas.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1891.]
W. K. McComas, of Burden, was in town
this morning on
business.
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This office printed Sale Bills this week
for A. B. Tuggle.
Public
Sale.
I will offer for sale at my residence,
three miles east and two and one-half miles south of Rock on
SATURDAY,
OCT. 17th, 1891,
The following property to-wit: 50 head of cattle, consisting of 12 yearling
steers, 12 spring calves, remainder cows and heifers.
TERMS OF SALE: Nine months' time on all sums over $10. All sums of $10 and under, cash in hand. Bankable security will be required on all
notes.
A.
B. TUGGLE.
J. W. DOUGLASS, Auct.
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Judge Troup and stenographer Raymond took
the Sunday evening train for Howard to open county court today.
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J. A. Kirkland, of Hillsdale, Miama [WAY
THEY SPELLED IT] county, in company with A. B. Tuggle of Rock, made this office
a call Saturday last.
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For
Sale.
Two tickets to Chicago, good until Oct.
29th. Will sell cheap. Call at room 10, Hackney Block.
[HOWLER,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Misses Nora Schmidt and Lettie Reed
returned last night from Wichita where they have been for the past week
visiting friends and attending the fair.
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Where your treasure is, there will your
heart be also. This is why Wall street
and the entire National bank system is fighting the sub-treasury plan and the
people. Do you catch on?
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The alliance is not a partisan political
party, but a political educator of economic questions. The People's party is an organization to put
into operation the demands of the
alliance.
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Township
Ticket.
A meeting will be held in Pleasant Valley
township Thursday evening, Oct. 15, at Odessa school house for the purpose of
nominating a People's township ticket.
W.
J. CANN, Com.
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Mrs. H. Tuller left for Kansas City this
morning.
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Geo. Corwin left this morning for Kansas
City on a business trip.
---
The union meeting held at the First
Baptist church last evening was well attended.
---
Mrs. J. M. Armstrong and Miss Anna Eden
of Atlanta were in town today trading with our merchants.
---
Misses Ona Arnspiger and Mollie Ryman and
Mrs. Robertson, of Portland, Kansas, made this office a pleasant call
today. Mrs. Robertson and Miss Arnspiger
will leave for Kansas City this
evening.
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The "Old Roman" at Arkansas
City says the democrats in Vernon and Ninnescah townships have all gone back to
their first love. This seems strange
when only three men in Vernon township can be found that will vote the democrat
ticket, and one of them is the democratic candidate for county treasurer. The Old Roman should tell another and then
catch a breath.
[HOWLER,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1891, CONTINUED.]
The amount of the mortgages filed during
the week ending Saturday, Oct. 3rd, as shown by the Daily Abstract of Sadil
& Light is:
Filings $59,343.58
Releases 30,534.90
Excess of filings $28,808.78
Sadil & Light are getting to be
regular calamity howlers, and the wonder is, that the smut mill don't give them
a severe roasting. Better look out,
boys.
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Everyone who receives wages or has a
fixed salary has a right to demand that the purchasing power of his money shall
not be diminished. That is the
republican doctrine as expounded by President Harrison, Senator Sherman, and
all republican leaders.
Courier.
Will the Courier or any other republican
paper please show where this "doctrine" has ever been carried
out? Every law enacted in the last 30
years in reference to the financial system has had a tendency toward
diminishing values. And still the
g.
o. p. papers have the brazen effrontery to advocate such doctrine as the above
to an enlightened reading public.
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THE
COUNCIL.
The city council meets this evening and
there is a great deal of interest manifested by the people as to the outcome of
the meeting.
The action of the council, at a former
meeting, in laying a tax of $100 per month on a clothing merchant who
advertised to sell goods very cheap, had the effect of bringing out a petition
from the butchers to have a tax of $100 per month on all new butcher shops that
wish to come in and do business within the corporate limits of this city. Of course, a tax of this kind will easily
succeed in preventing any more shops from starting up for the present, and by
protecting the shops we already have we will soon be able to buy our meat as
cheaply as the citizens of Chicago and Kansas City or New York, there being but
a small margin of difference now.
The towns of Kansas have been having a
serious business depression of late, but there don't seem to be any of the city
councils of other towns that have studied the question or inquired into the
causes or remedies as have the "dads" of Winfield. Taking the recent ordinance passed by the
council as a basis for calculation, we evidently have too many people here and
some kind of measure had to be adopted in order to prevent an increase.
If the theory of the council is a correct
one, then no better remedy could have been suggested, and Winfield had better
act quickly in order that she may reap all the benefits possible from the
discovery before our neighboring towns catch on to the scheme and inaugurate a
boom.
There are at this time about thirty-five
or forty men engaged in building an elevator in the northern part of the city,
and their pounding and thumping is a great annoyance to that otherwise placid
and quiet neighborhood.
The council should not adjourn without
taking some action in this matter. It
looks as if, under this new regime, that these fellows should be arrested for
disturbing the peace of the community, and made to feel the cold arm of the
law. If they are permitted to go on,
they will soon have the building completed and then the company will send
parties here to manage it, and after they are once here, it will be almost
impossible to get rid of them.
Business is business, gentlemen, and
while it may require some nerve, you should not waver or hesitate as to
carrying out the policy you have outlined, and may be in the sweet bye and bye
when our population has been reduced to the happy minimum contemplated by your
policy; when the elegant council chamber that has so often resounded to the
eloquence of Councilmen Harter, Cure, Vance, et al, shall have become the abode
of bats and owls; when the antiquarian of the future shall wander through this
lonely and deserted village in search of the cause of our decline, after having
examined some of the "statoots," will be able to write our epitaph in
something after the following style:
"Here is a city whose decline began
at a time when it elected a council supposed to know straight up, but it
didn't."
[HOWLER,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1891, CONTINUED.]
The mortgage debt generally represents
values and not poverty. Courier.
We thought that was the way of it, but
were never so certain about it as now.
According to this version of the matter, the editor of the post office
must be wealthy, with an unsatisfied mortgage and judgment indebtedness of from
fourteen to twenty thousand dollars. The
only question is where are the values?
Yes--where?
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1891.]
Misses Nolan and Pixley went to Kansas
City Monday evening.
Henry Branson of Grouse was shaking hands
with his many friends today.
District court will convene again in this
county in two weeks, or as soon as the judge gets through in Elk county.
Mrs. A. E. Baird and daughter, Pauline,
went to Mound City, this state, Monday evening.
Lee Phillips was taken very sick just
after he played the last game of baseball here.
He is still very low with typhoid fever at his home.
---
Bill Allison came in last night and left
again this morning. His family is
visiting here at present. Wm. is Probate
Judge of county A in the new country just being settled.
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Co. Pres. J. A. Rupp and Dist. Pres. Wm.
Baird will be in Arkansas City next Saturday, Oct. 10, looking up the interests
of the Co. S. S. Convention which will be held in Winfield Nov. 30th and Dec.
1st.
---
The man who gave his name as F. M.
Miller, and was arrested for shooting into the train between here and Belle
Plaine, waived examination and gave bail in the sum of $600 for his appearance
at district court.
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Adelphi Lodge No. 110 A. F. & A. M.
meets tonight in Masonic hall, corner of 9th and Millington street. All members are requested to be in attendance. Visitors are cordially invited. By order of the W. M. B. W. TROUT, Secretary.
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Tom Doud, who formerly ran a shoe shop on
South Main, was arrested Sunday evening by Officers Siverd and McLain for
selling intoxicants. A half-barrel of
beer was found in Tom's bedroom at his dwelling. The trial is set for Friday before Justice
Van De Water.
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There will be a S. S. Convention held in
the Presbyterian church at Maple City on Sunday, Oct. 11th, commencing at 10
o'clock. Basket dinner. I am endeavoring to secure good speakers for
this occasion. Come everybody, and go
home filled with a determination to do better work.
J.
A. RUPP, Co. Pres.
[HOWLER,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Dr. Strong and wife, of Clayton, Indiana,
are visiting his brother, S. P. Strong, of Rock. The Dr. was here about nine years ago and was
somewhat surprised at the substantial improvements in Winfield since his
former visit. He says Winfield presents
the most attractive appearance of any town he has seen in his travels. The doctor is an old-time republican, but S.
P. is of the opinion that after staying awhile in Kansas, that he will imbibe a
sufficient amount of calamity doctrine to make a good howler in 1892. Nevertheless, Mr. Strong is one of those genial,
whole-souled men that it does noe good to meet with, and we trust that his
visit in Kansas will be an enjoyable one.
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The county commissioners convened their
court Monday.
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D. C. Lynn is here at present from
Texas. Charley is well known in these
parts.
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G. D. Akers, one of Udall's most
enterprising merchants, was on our streets Tuesday.
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Ed McMullen and wife left Monday for a
visit to St. Louis. They will take in
the fair while gone.
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Capt. Myers returned Monday morning from
Colorado. He says a heavy snow fell at
Colorado Springs while he was there.
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J. E. Conklin and wife left Monday
evening for Kansas City where they will visit for several days and take in the
Priests of Pallas parade.
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John Keck left Monday morning last for
Kansas City to meet his wife, who has been east on a visit for some time. They will take in the sights in K. C. this
week.
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Cal Ferguson returned from his business
trip to New Mexico Sunday evening. He
reports a very interesting time while gone.
He was in Old Mexico and saw a fine country.
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Will Ferguson went to Chanute Sunday
evening to take a position in a large clothing establishment. Will is an accommodating young man and will
not fail to give satisfaction to both employers and customers.
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Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 5th were:
Releases . . . $7,697.00
Filings . . .
3,667.27
Excess of Filings . .
$4,029.73
[HOWLER,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Notice
to Committeemen.
Owing to fact that the County Alliance
and Southwestern Soldiers' Reunion hold meetings at Arkansas City on the 13,
14, 15 of Oct., the meetings in Maple, Rock, and South Richland township will
be cancelled for the present and a later date will be substituted.
S.
P. STRONG, Chairman Com.
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Guy Sparks has resigned his position as
deputy register of deeds under A. A. Jackson, and will soon move his family and
effects to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he has accepted a position as bookkeeper
for a manufacturing establishment. Guy
has been deputy register for nearly two years and has given entire satisfaction
to Mr. Jackson and to the public in general.
While Winfield loses one of her best citizens and family, that loss will
be a gain to Indianapolis. Success to
Guy, may his future be a bright and lucrative one is the wish of this office.
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One of the Courier's "prosperity
yawpers" from North Richland township was in town this week and gave that
paper some figures that will do to display before his friends from the east,
but any sensible man in Kansas knows they are rather "fishy." The gentleman, Mr. Sam Tull, told "the
thing over the way" that he had a farm of 160 acres which he rented this
year and received $1,200 for his rent and his renter got $2,400 for his
labor. This makes $3,600 mde this year
from 160 acres, not including the fruit which Mr. Tull says if he could have
saved was worth $500. Here $4,100 of
grain and fruit is raised on 160 acres in one year. This is a little over $25 to the acre. What could this renter raise to have brought
so much at present prices? Any farmer in
Richland township knows these figures won't work. Mr. Tull says his neighbors clear $10 and $11
per acre. Nothing short of a few
affidavits from these "prosperity" farmers will settle this
matter. We give those figures to show to
the balance of Richland township that Mr. Tull and his neighbors are
"extra good farmers."
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The A. C. Traveler has a writer that
signs himself "Truth and Justice" and tries to create a breeze by
attacking clerk Fouts' salary record.
Will Truth and Justice come to time?
If so, he can get that $500.
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Township
Ticket.
A meeting will be held in Pleasant Valley
township Thursday evening, Oct. 15, at Odessa school house for the purpose of
nominating a People's township ticket.
W.
J. CANN, com.
[HOWLER,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Council
Proceedings.
The city council met last evening with
Mayor Graham in the chair. Present
Councilmen Evans, Harter, Hickok, Myton, Reed, Vance, and Whiting.
Bills to the amount of $156.85 were read
and allowed.
Petition of about 200 citizens of
Winfield and vicinity, requesting that the ordinance requiring Moe Isaacs &
Co., to pay a tax of $100 per month be reduced, was referred to finance
committee.
The ordinance in reference to occupation
tax of $100 per month on new butcher shops was postponed until next meeting.
Report of police judge for September was
referred to city attorney.
An ordinance providing for a sidewalk on
East 5th to connect with sidewalk leading to college was passed.
Sidewalk on South Fuller was ordered
completed.
A crossing was ordered in on corner 16th
and Fuller.
Committee on deed of Island Park and
survey of same granted further time in which to report.
Committee appointed to confer with a
committee from the assembly were also given further time to report.
Crossings on West 9th and East 7th were
ordered repaired.
Street on East 7th ordered repaired.
On motion council adjourned to meet next
Friday evening.
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Board
of Education.
The Board of Education met last evening
in regular session. Present--Fink,
Albright, Cheek, Smith, Wood, Crawford, Pate, Sydal, and Supt. Spiudler
[?]. NOTE: MUCH OF THIS WAS MESSED UP IN PAPER...ONLY
GIVING A FEW ITEMS.
On motion the salary of Miss Gibson,
principal of 5th ward school, was raised from $52.50 to $55.
On motion superintendent was instructed
to purchase primary text books upon the subject of hygiene and narcotics for
use of teachers below B, Grammar grade, and that teachers be required to give
oral lessons daily to their pupils upon these subjects.
On motion board adjourned fr one month.
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WALNUT
VALLEY.
Moving is the order of the day in this
locality.
B. F. Walker is about to trade his farm
here for one in Missouri.
The Y. M. C. A.'s of the Winfield College
held gospel meeting at Walnut Valley school house last Sunday evening. They will also conduct meeting at same place
next Sunday evening.
We would advise the little boys who have
been meddling with property around vacant houses to read the law posted in our
school house.
"Bige" Gaily has returned from
the new land. He wasn't as successful in
securing a laim as his cousin, E. Walker.
The apple paring at Mr. Walker's last
Tuesday was well attended, and those who were present report a good time.
BELLE.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1891.]
Wm. Linke is here looking after the
interests of Geo. W. Moore & Co., of Hartford, Conn.
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Charley Roberts, of Union Hill, started
for Oskaloosa, Iowa, Monday morning on business.
---
Jas. Walch will fill Jim McLain's place
as deputy marshal during Jim's absence in Kansas City.
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TO MARRY.
Otto Williams, of Cambridge, procured license last Saturday to marry
Miss Amelia Hayne, of Eaton.
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Frank Pierce, of Dexter, was in the city
yesterday. Frank says that the
republican party of Dexter is on the wane.
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Fred Wilber came up from Guthrie, shook
hands with his many friends, and started for Kansas City Tuesday evening to
take in the fair.
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John R. Sumpter, of this city, has been
recommended by the Winfield Board of Trade to be appointed deputy state grain
inspector.
---
Sol Burkhalter has some friends visiting
him from Dayton, Indiana. Sol and his
friends will take a trip down thro' the territory in a few days.
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The heavy frost last night has caused
vegetation to wilt and the leaves on the trees to drop. Ice one-fourth of an inch thick was
discovered this morning.
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Cap Whiting returned from the promised
land this week. He is the possessor of
what will be in the near future, valuable property in the new town of Chandler.
[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1891, CONTINUED.]
There will be a musical soiree at
Manning's Hall tomorrow evening under the efficient management of Miss Myrta
Lamport. This will be a musical treat
worth hearing.
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Quite a number have gone to Kansas City
this week to attend the fair and witness the Priests of Pallas parade. Among those that went are Arthur Bangs and
wife, Jim McLain, John Keck, J. R. Cottingham, and Geo. Osterhout and family.
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The familiar visage of Berry Scroggins is
visible on our streets again. He is not
overburdened with massive real estate possessions in the new country. The squaw that had a prior claim on the land
Berry coveted did not exactly suit his taste so he
vamoosed.
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The A. C. Democrat still keeps
telling its readers something about Amos Walton's record. So far Bro. McIntyre has shown the successor
of Amos which was McIntyre himself, to be the rascal. If Amos Walton was a candidate on the
democrat or republican ticket, he would be a gentleman.
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MARRIED.
On Sunday, Oct. 4th, at the bride's home in Omnia township, Mr. A.
DeBard to Miss Myrtle Haworth. The young
couple are well and favorably known by a large circle of friends, who join with
this office in wishing them a long and happy life. The groon is conducting a school two miles
south of Torrance.
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L. J. Davidson, of Eaton, will move his
family and effects the first of next week to Leoti, in the northwest part of the
state. This is a move that the many
friends of L. J. will dislike to hear.
Mr. Davidson is one among the early settlers and is recognized as one
among the best men in his locality. He
was elected last fall as representative of his district by the People's party,
and conducted himself at the session last winter in a manner that his
constituents all feel proud of his record.
He is a man of sterling integrity, morally a chirstian, politically a
true reformer, conscientious in his beliefs, and honorable in his
dealings. Such is L. J. Davidson, whose
many friends wish him and his family a long and prosperous life in their new
home.
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The engine room of The Newspaper Union is
being rapidly
rebuilt.
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TO BE MARRIED. C. Hahn, of Oxford, and Miss Nellie A. Howell
of Kellogg, secured the necessary matrimonal document yesterday.
[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Squire Turner of Otter township was in
town this week. Mr. Turner is one of the
oldest settlers in the east part of the county.
---
Sam Hartsell, of Sumner county, made us a
call this week. He says the people are
on top in Sumner county, notwithstanding there are two more tickets in the
field.
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TO BE MARRIED.
Mr. Ithamer Saunders and Mrs. Miranda Rhoads, both of Winfield, have
taken license to wed, and the ceremony will be performed this evening his his
honor, Judge Sitton.
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F. Baker, of Dexter, was in town this
week and got a check cashed on the first installment of his pension, of which
he has just been granted $8.00 per month, dating back from September, 1890.
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L. P. King dropped in to see us Tuesday
evening. He was on his way to Kansas
City. He has been around over the state
some in the last ten days and finds the reform movement gaining in popularity
wherever he goes.
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MARRIED.
Marriage today
(Wednesday) between S. G. Babcock of Wichita and Louise S. Gregg of
Winfield. Mr. Babcock is a traveling
salesman for a large wholesale hardware firm and Miss Gregg is a teacher in the
Winfield high schools.
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An engine set fire to a stack of wheat
while threshing at W. E. Stenhour's in Vernon township last Monday. The stack was entirely consumed. The tank was at a neighbors being filled and
the fire could not be checked at once.
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We are requested by the managers of the
Cowley county fair that they have been able to pay all their premiums in full
this year. This is a splendid showing
for the association and will encourage those who were patrons and competitors
this year to take renewed interest, and make it a greater success next year.
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Capt. P. A. Huffman returned this week
from a business trip to Velasco, Texas.
While gone he accepted a position as business manager of a large real
estate firm at Velasco. He has gone to
Chicago and other eastern points. He
will go to Texas as soon as he returns from the east. This is a good hit for the Captain, who will
give satisfaction to his employers.
[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 6th were:
Filings ....... $14,263.72
Releases ...... 4,309.20
Excess
of Filings. $ 9,954.52
In the article taken from Sadil &
Light's abstract, in yeserday's Daily, a mistake was made in putting the word
"filings" in the place of "releases." It should have read: Excess of releases $4,029.73. The mistake was made by the compositor and
escaped the vigilant eye of the ornamental proof reader.
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S.
S. Convention.
The Vernon township Sunday school
convention was a success in spite of the rain.
Devotional exercises were conducted by
Rev. P. B. Lee, of Winfield. Worley
O'Neal at the organ. Basket dinner, and
plenty of it.
The afternoon session opened with an
excellent song service, followed by a class drill by Mrs. R. V. Rupp. This lady had prepared a paper on Sunday
school teaching, telling of her method, etc., after which her class arose, and
without books sang "Sing, Sing His Praise." Then in concert repeated the 23rd Psalm. Then in concert repeated the Lord's
prayer. They were again seated, and
without any help, whatever, never once disappointed their teacher as she
questioned them over the lessons of three years ago. The baby of the class, Marshall Land's tiny
little girl, passed the hat around the class, taking up its weekly collection
and giving the same to the county president.
Next followed the Seely class, Miss Cora
Bruington, Teacher. This is a fortunate
class, having a room by themselves during Sunday school. Their drill covered the 3rd quarter. They used colored charts and colored cards.
Mrs. Emma Smith, of Winfield, was next
introduced. Shje gave us one of the best
temperance talks we have heard in the State.
Rev. Viele, of Oxford, was the next
speaker.
District President Wm. Baird, of
Wellington, addessed us for a short time.
The newly elected township officers,
viz: Rev. B. McBride, President; Miss
Lottie E. Soule, Secretary, Charles Tharp, Vice President, and Grace Steinhour,
Treasurer.
President Baird and Mr. C. Farguhar
remained to address the young folks at night. SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKER.
[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1891, CONTINUED.]
J.
D. SALMON.
J. D. SALMON, People's nominee for
Register of Deeds, was born in Henry county, Virginia, December 5th, 1837. He left that state in the year 1859, about
one week prior to the hanging of John Brown, and settled in what was then known
as Barren, now Metcalfe county, Kentucky.
On the 4th of July, 1861, he enlisted as a private soldier in the 3rd
Kentucky Volunteer Infantry; served in every non-commissioned office in his
company, and was promoted for gallantry to the office of second lieutenant.
He participated in the terrible battles
of Perryville, Stone River or Murfreesborough, Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka,
Chattanooga, and Chicamaugua. At the
latter place he was struck by three balls, one of which caused the loss of his
right arm. He was left on the
battlefield for dead and was taken prisoner by the enemy, subsequently paroled,
and sent to Columbus, Ohio, to recuperate, where he was discharged in 1864.
He came to Kansas in 1883 and settled at
Dexter, this county. Mr. Salmon enjoys
the confidence and respect of those who know him wihout regard to party or
political belief. He has been a
republican since the closing of the war, until two years ago, when he espoused
the cause of the reform movement, believing with thousands of others, that
through the medium of the People's party, our politics can be purified more
speedily than through any other. His
unanimous endorsement by the convention attests his popularity as a citizen,
and should he be elected, he will make an officer of whom all classes of
citizens will be proud.
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DEXTER
ITEMS.
Sleeman Kaster has returned from the new
country.
Mrs. W. P. Hardwick started Monday to
visit her mother and other relatives in Missouri.
Mr. Bryan, our hardware merchant,
accompanied by his wife, went to St. Louis to attend the fair.
DIED.
Mr. Sparkman, residing below Dexter, died Sunday and was buried
Monday. He was a member of the Masonic
Fraternity and was buried by the rites of the order.
The howlers and howleresses will meet in
Dexter next Saturday evening for the purpose of organizing a People's
Club. Everybody invited to come. The people are enthusiastic over this way.
The following gentlemen visited at the
residence of L. B. Bullinton last Saturday:
Salem Fouts, Amos Walton, Ham Hawkins, and Jap Cochran. It is wise to say they are all candidates on
the people's ticket, and will of course be elected in November.
[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1891, CONTINUED.]
MARRIED.
Married at the M. E. Parsonage Thursday evening, Oct. 1st, by Rev. Lahr,
Mr. Dix Hale and Miss Clara Wagner. The
bride is the eldest daughter of Dr. Wagner of this place and is well known and
highly respected while the groom has been a resident of our town about four
years, and is an energetic young man and has many friends. May they have a long, happy and prosperous
life is the wish of their friends.
M.
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HACKNEY
ITEMS.
Cool days now with some frost in the
mornings.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown attended church
at Arkansas City Sunday.
Miss Celina Bliss of Winfield, is
visiting Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Chapin.
Mr. and Mrs. Cal Snyder, S. D. Fisher,
and Ed Chapin attended the fair at Wichita last week.
Mr. J. M. Midkiff is preparing to build a
new house in the fine grove on his farm near Hackney.
The district alliance will be held in the
Mercer school house in West Bolton on Saturday, Oct. 10.
Miss Ella Shaw is back from the Hoosier
State and her pleasant face is a welcome sight around Hackney.
Mrs. O. B. Mason received a telegram
calling her to Iowa on account of the serious illness of her mother, Mrs.
Smock.
Jimmey O'Conner, the station agent at
Hackney, is sick with fever at his boarding place. The station is closed for the present.
The union review at the M. E. Church was
a failure as to attendance from Irwin Chapel, no one being on hand but the
superintendent.
The store building at Hackney is being
enlarged and the co-operative association propose building a large hall over
the store for the use of the Grange and as a town hall.
Rev. O. B. Lee preached to a good
congregation at the Chapel Sunday at 11 o'clock, and he and his wife and little
daughter were entertained by R. W. Anderson's until the evening meeting.
MARRIED.
Married, at the home of the bride, Mr. Jesse Mumaw and Miss Addie
Compton. The young people are of the
best and most respected families in the valley, and have numberless good wishes
from all.
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A
Literary Day.
At R. W. Anderson's on Saturday, Oct.
3rd, in response to notice given by the hostess, a number of friends assembled
to enjoy and give enjoyment by an interchange of thoughts and sympathy.
The meeting was opened by scripture
reading by Mrs. Mary Ann Roseberry.
Prayer by Mrs. Greer of Winfield.
Paper by Mrs. Clara Mason, which was discussed by Mrs. Greer, Mrs.
McGlashin, Mrs. Hannah Brown, Mrs. Amy Chapin, and others.
Dinner was served to all, and a social
time enjoyed for two hours when the work of the day was resumed by singing
"While the Years are going by."
Recitation by Miss Nettie Anderson; then
Miss Bliss of Winfield, being called on to sing or play, replied by a short
quotation from a poem by P. P. Bliss, written in his early days, which was so
well received that Miss Celina was persuaded to recite the whole poem.
Then followed other recitations by Miss
Muriel Chapin, an original poem by Mrs. Amy Chapin, Atha Muret, Mary Beaver,
Cora Wooley, Mrs. Hannah Brown, Mrs. John Bower of Vernon, and Mrs. C. G.
Bradbury of Vernon. A GUEST.
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[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Republican
Club Meeting.
The republican club attempted to have
another meeting last night but gave it up, there not being a quorum
present. This club ws organized about
two weeks ago with a great blast of trumpets as to what they were going to
do. They began business by excluding all
who were not members of the club, thus committing the party to the principle
of secret political organization in the face of all that has been said by the
Pariseical republican organs upon the iniquitous plan of holding secret
caucuses. The Knights of Reciprocity and
the republican club of Winfield are surely not orthodox republicans.
About 20 percent of the audience last
night was from the post office department of this city. The meeting was advertised in the Courier
last evening, and as a consequence it was supposed that the fact that there
would be a meeting hadn't got noised around very much, and the members of the
club who did go were somewhat surprised to find that an enemy in the shape of a
People's party man had learned of the meeting and had come to take in the
show. After having opposed the idea of
secret political gatherings, they disliked to request him to withdraw and so
they finally decided to adjourn and not carry out the program advertised. The club will probably make another to meet
in the future.
[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Felix Calonder brought a load of wheat to
market last Wednesday, and sold it to Kirk & Alexander's buyer. Mr. Calonder had run 4 or 5 bushels through
the fanning mill, that had a little oats in, he then drove to his granery and
finished his load. He weighed on the
city scales before he sold, and had 47 bushels and 30 pounds. He sold his load for 69 cents per bushel,
weighed his load on the mill scales and had 46 bushels and 30 pounds. The buyer agreed to pay 69 cents per bushel
but on account of a little oats, the mill docked the load 9 cents on the
bushel. Mr. Calonder feels as though he
was cheated out of one bushel of grain in weight, besides the 9 cents on the
bushel.
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[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1891.]
Mrs. Latham, of Udall, is in the city
today.
Sam Pryor's mother came in from the east
this morning.
Sheriff Gibson started this morning for
the Oklahoma country on business.
Geo. Frazier, one of Udall's prominent
merchants, was in town today on business.
S. H. Carr returned from the territory
last evening, where he has been during the summer.
Frank Gilliland, of Sheridan township,
was in the city today. He is one of
those reformers that wants no fusion from any source.
County Attorney McGinnis, of Butler
county, was in the city today on business with our county commissioners. He is one of those persistent calamity
howlers, that was elected last fall by the people.
Geo. Wagner, of the A. C. Dispatch, ws
here and stayed over night. This morning
the south bound Santa Fe was about an hour late, aned George "fessed
up" that he was getting "most all fired thirsty" before he left.
---
Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 6th were:
Releases ...... $2,392.50
Filings ....... 1,859.68
Excess of releases ...... $ 942.82
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The Courier has made some additions to
its staff for the campaign. They now
have a new patent, self-adjusting, double-back-acting, excelsior, cog-wheeled
liar that can grind them out to order.
Stereotyped plates will be furnished republican papers for the campaign
at reduced rates.
[HOWLER,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1891, CONTINUED.]
An interesting little squabble over that
half barrel of beer that was captured in Doud's bedroom the other day is going
on between the officers and M. T. Britton, Joe Metchler, and L.
Holzderber. They have replevined eight
bottles each. It is feared now that if a
few more claimants come in, the officers will have none left for themselves.
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The people's club held a meeting at the
city building last evening. W. P.
Hardwick, commissioner from eastern Cowley, made the speech of the evening. Mr. Hardwick said that while he had always
been a democrat, he was opposed to 82,000 republican majority, with its
attendant evils, and believed that it was his duty to use the only means
presented, that of voting the people's ticket to rebuke the republican party
for its subserviency to corporation and ring rule. He spoke of the high character of the
candidates on the people's ticket, and closed with an exhortation to all true
democrats to repel the seductive smiles of republicans and vote for their interest. He was frequently applauded during the course
of his remarks. The president, Mr. Q. A.
Glass, gave the club a recitation upon the subject of tariff, which brought
down the house. Short speeches were made
by O. P. Fuller, Ira P. Russell, and others.
After which the club adjourned to meet on next Wednesday evening, at
Manning's Hall. James Buchanan will be
present at that time and will deliver a talk on the subject of money. This is a subject of importance to everybody
and all should avail themselves of the opportunity to hear this lecture. A special invitation is extended to ministers
and bankers to be present.
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Commissioners'
Court.
The following business has been
transacted and a few additional allowances to paupers:
Sealed proposals for the construction of
a bridge across Dutch creek in Fairview township was received. The superstructure was awarded to the
Wrought Iron Bridge Co., of Canton, Ohio, for $584. The substructure was awarded to Roberts and
Webber for $430.
The report of the viewers in the Wm.
Stout county road was adopted.
The following viewers in the James
Bruington road were appointed: Leonard
Stout, S. C. Smith, and R. L. Glover.
The same were appointed in the Wm. Frelinger road.
In the matter of the John Sargeant road,
E. Harned, Steve Elkins, and J. R. Ferguson were appointed.
[HOWLER,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1891, CONTINUED.]
It has leaked out that the democratic
central committee are fitting Andy Thompson for joint discussions with
republicans and people's party speakers.
No better choice could have been made.
Andy possesses superior advantages as a debater, chief of which is that
he never hears what an opponent says, usually considering it unworthy of
notice.
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NOTE:
I SKIPPED ALL THE JAZZ ABOUT A CHALLENGE TO DISCUSS POLITICAL ISSUES OF
THE PRESENT CAMPAIGN BY DEMOCRATS...AND THE COWLEY COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
AS OUTLINED IN THE PAPER.
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HEADQUARTERS SOUTHWESTERN
SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION,
ARKANSAS
CITY, Kas., Oct. 1, 1891.
CIRCULAR
LETTER, No. 3.
The membership of this association being
scattered all over the southwest, and it being impossible to reach all by
letter, this circular is issued for the benefit of all concerned.
(1) The annual reunion and encampment of
the association will be held in this city Oct. 14, 15, 16, at which time it is
expected that every member will be present, if possible, with his family.
(2) A general invitation is hereby
extended to all ex-soldiers to attend with their families. Ample quarters have been provided in tents
which with fuel and straw for bedding will be free to all veterans.
(3) Department Commander Tim McCarty and
Staff, Capt. Bernard Kelly, Senator Plumb, Hon. A. R. Green, Hon. Joe Watters,
Gov. G. W. Steele, and other prominent speakers will address the Association. "Camp Fires" will burn every night.
(4) Battery "A," K.F.G.,
"C" Company 2nd Infantry K.N.G., 3rd Regiment Knights of Pythias,
"A" and "B" Companies Arkansas City Cadets, will go into
camp with the Veterans. The Day Parade
of the Association will occur Oct. 15, and a Night Parade lighted by
"Greek Fire" will be given on the same or succeeding evening.
(5) Round trip tickets, at the price of
one fare, will be on sale at all railroad stations within 150 miles of Arkansas
City, Oct. 13 to 16, good to return up to and including Oct. 17.
By
order of B. F. CHILDS, President.
OFFICIAL,
ORTON INGERSOLL, Sec.
[AN
UNUSUAL STORY...
NOTHING TO DO WITH COWLEY COUNTY HISTORY!]
[HOWLER,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1891, CONTINUED.]
"HOME,
SWEET HOME."
An Occasion
When John Howard Payne
Sang
the Song under Compulsion.
I was once acquainted with a Swede who
had been adopted by the Osage Indians, says a writer in the Detroit Free Press.
He was a friend of John Ross, the celebrated chief of the Cherokees, and gave his
name in the Cherokee languageit was written J. Q. & J. Q., pronounced
Koh-weh-s-koh-weh, and means swamp sparrow. His brother, Lewis Ross, was named
To-tah-te, which means spoon.
My informant was himself called by the
Cherokees T-kaw-wha-lees-ky, which signifies "The man who writes orders
for flour."
John Howard Payne, the author of
"Home, Sweet Home," was a warm, personal friend of John Ross. At the
time the Cherokees were removed from their homes in Georgia to their present
home west of the Mississippi river, Payne was spending a few weeks in Georgia
with Ross, who was occupying a miserable cabin, having been forcibly ejected
from his former home. A number of prominent Cherokees were in prison, and that
portion of Georgia in which the tribe was located was scoured by armed squads
of the Georia militia, who had orders to arrest all who refused to leave the
country.
While Ross and Payne were seated before
the fire in the hut, the door was suddenly burst open and six or eight militia
men sprang into the room. Ross' wife was
seated on a trunk containing many valuable papers and a small amount of money,
and at the unexpected intrusion she sprang up and screamed wildly. Ross spoke
to her in the Cherokee language, telling her to be seated, as she would save
the contents of the trunk. She sat down
again and the intruders told Ross that he and Payne were under arrest and must
prepare to accompany the squad to Milledgeville, where they were to be
imprisoned. The soldiers lost no time in taking their prisoners away. Ross was
permitted to ride his own horse, while Payne was mounted on one led by a
soldier. As the little party left the hovel, rain began falling and continued
until every man was drenched thoroughly.
Towards midnight Payne's escort, in order
to keep himself awake, began humming "Home, home, sweet, sweet home,"
when Payne remarked, "Little did I expect to hear that song under such
circumstances and at such a time. Do you know the author?"
"No," said the soldier,
"do you?"
"Yes," answered Payne, "I
composed it."
"The devil you did! You can tell that to some other fellow but
not to me. Look here, you made that song, you say; if you didand I know you
didn'tyou can say it all without stopping. It has something about pleasures
and palaces. Now pitch in, and reel it off, and if you can't, I'll bounce you
from your horse and lead you instead of it."
The threat was answered by Payne in a
subdued tone, and then he sang it, making the old woods ring with the tender
melody and pathos of the words. It touched the heart of the rough soldier, who
was not only captivated but convinced, and who said that the composer of such a
song should never go to prison if he could help it.
And when the party reached Milledgeville,
they were, after a preliminary examination, discharged, much to their surprise.
Payne insisted that it was because the leader of the squad had been under the
magnetic influence of Ross' conversation, and Ross insisted that they had been
saved from insult and imprisonment by the power of "Home, Sweet
Home," sung as only those who can feel can sing it.
The friendship existed between Ross and
Payne until the grave closed over the mortal remains of the latter.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1891.]
John Mann, of the sheriff's force, has a
cousin visiting him from Missouri.
Geo. Hargis, of Arkansas City, was up
today. He is one of the prominent
attorneys of that city.
The ladies of the Christian church will
give a dinner and supper on election day, Nov. 3.
The Spirit of the West, of Burden, found
its way to this office this morning, marked X.
We accept.
George Corwin returned this morning from
Kansas City, where he has been on business and attending the fair.
A. Kinley, of Atlanta, was in town today,
and will keep posted from now until election day through our columns.
Congressman B. H. Clover was in town
today. He has been in Oklahoma for some
time, but has been home for two weeks sick.
MARRIAGE LICENSES. Marriage licenses for yesterday: C. C. Tubbe to Miss Maggie Gage, both of
Arkansas City. Arthur Baldwin to Miss
Maggie Carson, both of Winfield.
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Guy Sparks' father returned from New
Mexico this week. Guy has been waiting
for his father's return before he started to his new home in Indianapolis. He will likely go now in a very short time.
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Mrs. Marian Todd, of Michigan, has been
secured by the people's committee for three speeches in Cowley this campaign.
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Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 8th, were:
Filings ..... $4,336
Releases .... 2,337
Excess of filings .. $1,999
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See Geo. Neff's new delivery wagon. It is a daisy. George will have no time to rock the baby now
on account of the increase of trade. In fact,
there are no flies on George (especially these frosty mornings). When he undertakes to accommodate his
customers, he does it.
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A good old, gray-haired brother undertook
to enlighten J. C. Bradshaw in his speech last night in Sheridan township on
the events of the late Kansas legislature.
But as the g. o. p. party now quoting by guess, he was confronted by the
Senate Journal and the good old man ws left in the soup.
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Jasper
Cochran.
Jasper Cochran, or "Jap," as he
is familiarly called, nominee for sheriff on the People's ticket, was born in
Scott county, Indiana, March 17, 1851.
In 1854 his parents moved to Mashaskie county, Iowa, where he lived
until 1870, when he came to Kansas and settled in Winfield, Oct. 15, of that
year, lacking but six days of having lived in Cowley county twenty-one years at
this writing.
He has been engaged in various pursuits,
but wherever found he has distinguished himself for industry and executive
ability, coupled with the strictest integrity and uprightness of life and
conduct. For several years past he has
been engged in farming and fruit growing.
His nomination by the convention came unasked and unsolicited by him,
and was a sort of a paralyzer to the opposition; because of his spotless record
as a citizen and man among men.
That he will be elected to the office of
sheriff is conceded by all and that he will perform the duties of the office to
the best of his ability, no one doubts for a minute.
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1891, CONTINUED.]
H.
C. Hawkins.
H. C. Hawkins, nominee on the People's
ticket for county treasurer, is a native of Indiana. When but four years of age his parents moved
to the state of Iowa, where he grew to manhood.
In 1871, he came to Cowley county and settled in Vernon township, where
he has lived ever since.
Politically Mr. Hawkins has been a
republican with a sufficiency of independence in his make up to straigghten
his ticket when the ringsters placed thereon men whom he though unfit for the
positions. For the past two years he has
affiliated with the People's movement.
Wherever Mr. Hawkins is known, his name
is a synonym for honor and integrity and the people need have no fears with
regard to placing the county funds in his keeping. He is an old and tried citizen and taxpayer
that has helped to make Cowley county what it is today.
He is making friends wherever he goes,
and there is now no doubt that he will be elected by the largest majority yet
given the People's ticket.
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The Courier of last night boiled over
with a lot of sympathetic heart rending gush.
It started out as usual to show to its readers the stereotyped story
that our mortgages was evi-dences of our wealth and prosperity. It says nine out of every ten mortgaged as an
alternative to have a home. No one
doubts this for a moment, but when these Cowley county farmers mortgaged their
farms from six to ten years ago, they had confidence in the administration who
was supposed to be running this government in the interest of the people. They did not expect a government to be run on
the principle of a reduction of values, in order to make the rich richer and
the poor poorer, but such is the fact, and the Courier dare not tackle this
question to the contrary. The Courier drops on to the chattle mortgage
question, and intimates the great majority of chattle mortgages is caused by
our farmers buying machinery. This is to
a great extent true, but why do those farmers put chattle mortgages on their
stock, from the simple fact, they have grown the grain, and it takes the
necessary machinery to take care of it, and values on everything has been
depreciated to such an extent that they have no ready money to buy with. The grain they raise has not paid the true
cost of production for the last eight years on account of depreciating values
and gambling in the products of what the farmer produces. This great promulgator of law and morality
after showing that mortgages was a benefit, and a necessity, then gives L. P.
King a round up on what they call his misrepresentation of the railroad bonds
in Cowley county, which no doubt is a snag the Courier and its "prosperity
yawpers" do not like to run against.
Another stumper the Courier ran against
was the fact that our County Surveyor has been allowed $156, instead of
$52. This extravagance is all laid at
the door of the last legislature, which passed a law to the effect that the
county surveyor "must keep his office open one day in the week, or that he
may keep his office open six days and receive $4.00 per day." Mr. Carnes should be given credit for being a
conscientious reformer, as he only made out a bill for $162, while the law
would have given him $304. The Courier
man sees in this law a rare chance for boodle, and is striving to place a man
in the office, who will put in a bill of $304 each quarter instead of
$152. This $152 boodle that the Courier
looks at will go a long ways to help keep up a corrupt newspaper for a corrupt
political ring. With a reform county
surveyor in office, the county saves $608 a year, which if in the hands of the
prosperity yawping party, would be used for political boodle.
The Courier finally winds up on "the
old soldier racket," and says the people's party, in order to catch votes,
put up by a one armed soldier (J. D. Salmons for register of deeds) against R.
S. Strother, "as brave a soldier as ever faced the privations of
war."
Could our readers peruse the article on
the "old soldier racket," in last night's Courier and then read some
of the pathetic slobbering of this same paper of a few years back, they could
see at a glance, that this "old soldier racket" has about lost power
with the Courier and its party.
The pension that Mr. Salmons receives,
that is such a bugaboo in the eyes of the Courier, does not pay him for the
loss of a strong right arm and the suffering he underwent for many months
caused from the loss of his arm. This
little fusilade being fired at Mr. Salmons emanates from the brain of one who
should forever hold his tongue about the "old soldier racket," when the
position he now occupies and under the circumstances he occupies it, is so well
knoown to every citizen almost in this county.
He should take a back seat on the "old soldier" question. A man who has no use for an old soldier, only
to get his vote to keep his party in pwoer and then occupy a position the
"old soldier" is entitled to, is not much on "consistency."
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Ritchie's sub-treasury pamphlet should be
in the hands of every alliance man. Send
for it.
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A
Good Citizen Gone.
DIED.
Chas. Geiser, of Beaver township, died Thursday morning, Oct. 8th, at 5
o'clock. The deceased had been suffering
for some time with a cancer of the stomach.
He was 45 years old and leaves a wife and one son in comfortable
circumstances. Mr. Geiser was a man held
in high esteem by a large circle of friends, who extend their sympathies to a
sorrowing widow and son. The remains
were interred in the Beaver township cemetery.
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[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1891.]
R. B. Overman of Otto was in town today.
W. M. Taylor of Udall made this office a
call today. He is a conscientious
reformer.
Mrs. T. H. Harrod is enjoying a visit at
present from a sister from Council Bluff, Iowa.
MARRIAGE LICENSE. P. W. Hollenbeck and Lina C. Willmer of
Arkansas City were granted marriage license yesterday.
Grant Wilkins, teaching in district No.
95, was in town today on business with the County Superintendent.
T. G. Yarbrough of Box City was in town
today with a load of sweet potatoes. He
reports the reform sentiment in Harvey township stronger than ever.
Chairman Strong returned to his post this
morning. He says the people must excuse
him as he has been at home feasting, visiting, and threshing his crop of wheat.
T. S. Powers of Richland township will
hereafter be found standing guard at the front door of the g. o. p.
headquarters in this city, John R. Sumpter having thrown up the sponge.
MARRIED.
Married by Judge Sitton in his office today at 20 minutes past ten,
Arthur Baldwin to Maggie Carson, both of Winfield. The Howler extends its best wishes.
Lafe Devore called on the "Calamity
Howlers" in their den yesterday, and said the peoples' partty is far ahead
in Pleasant Valley township.
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Capt. White, having received the
necessary wherewithal to pay the expenses of his company from the state, he
will go into camp with his militia next Tuesday at Arkansas City, and eat pork
and beans during the reunion. About
thirty will go and it is to be hoped they will have a splendid time.
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1891, CONTINUED.]
David Edwards, living six miles east of
Guthrie, Oklahoma, a nephew of H. L. Edwards of this city, took the first bale
of cotton to the Guthrie market. A
premium was offered for the first bale, which will give Mr. Edwards over $122
for getting ahead of his neighbors.
Young Edwards had in 65 acres of cotton this year.
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A correspondent to the Courier let the
cat out of the bag yesterday, when it said, "T. J. Lowe was a member of
the democrat central committee and president of a peoples' party club. We can inform the Courier correspondent that
this is nothing new, for what was once a democrat to be found at the head of a
peoples' party club, but a rare thing to find a democrat central
committeemen.
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ITEM NOT UNDERSTOOD!
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Jackson Snyder, of Dexter, was trading
with our businessmen today.
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Art Holland, of Guthrie, is in town
today. He says when he wants to loaf, he
comes up to Cowley county as it is so very quiet here.
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John R. Sumpter has resigned his position
as sentry at the republican headquarters.
It became too monotonous, he couldn't stand it.
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D. M. Sidel returned Thursday evening
from a months visit at his old home in Ohio.
He says the condition of the weather has been very seasonable and
politics are hot.
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J. W. Browning and Louis P. King of
Tannehill, were in town today.
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Judge Troup returned this morning from
Elk county. He says he found rather a
peculiar docket over there. Out of a
hundred civil cases not a contest. There
is but little war over law points in Elk county.
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Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estte, filed and released Oct. 9th were:
Filings .... . $8,326.25
Releases .... 3,449.50
Excess of filings ... $4,876.75
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1891, CONTINUED.]
A people's club will be organized at
Dexter tonight. Count on a big majority
for the people's ticket in the old republican stronghold of Dexter.
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Attorney General Ives has appointed Ben
S. Henderson as assistant attorney general for Cowley county. The reasons for the appointment arise from
the complaints that have been coming into that office with regard to the loose
manner in which the county attorney, C. T. Atkinson, has been enforcing the law
of this locality. A reporter had an
interview with Mr. Henderson in which he declared it his intention to do his
whole duty. This sentiment will be
heartily endorsed by the People's party, and while Mr. Atkinson was elected by
the People's party, the party does not endorse his method of dealing with law
breakers, if reports be true. An
official investigation of his records in that office will probably reveal
matters as they exist, and we withhold comment for further developments.
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For
Murder.
Sheriff Gibson returned today from
Oklahoma City, where he arrested one Henry Pruitt, charged with the murder of
Louis Tournier, an old Frenchman who was found murdered on an island in the
Arkansas River, south of and east of Arkansas City. The killing occurred something over two years
ago and has been shrouded in mystery ever since. The prosecuting witness, a colored man who
had been in the employ of Tournier, claims to have been an eye witness to the
killing, but did not dare to reveal it for fear of losing his life.
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Agreeably
Surprised.
Tuesday, October 6th, was the 57th birthday
of S. P. Strong of Rock. The following
neighbors had been invited to help celebrate the occasion: A. P. Carman and wife, J. R. Richards and
wife, Golden Kestler and wife, Albert Abbott and wife, Dr. A. M. Strong and
wife of Clayton, Indiana.
A. P. Carman was chosen to present a neat
speech and a fine gold watch in behalf of the donors, the children of the
recipient. The ladies then presented
their host a beautiful nickel plated reading lamp.
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I SKIPPED A LONG ARTICLE ABOUT
COMMISSIONER GUTHRIE AND THE COUNTY PRINTING...MENTIONS PRICES/PAPERS WHO GOT
PRINTING FOR DIFFERENT PERIODS OF TIME....OCT. 10 ISSUE.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1891.]
Prof. E. O. Jones, of Burden, was in the
city Saturday.
Miss Edith Nichols returned to her home
in Sedalia, Mo., Saturday night.
Judge Sitton Sundayed at his farm near
Burden, returning to duty this morning.
Marshall Sanderson ran in five tramps
Saturday night for breaking into a car of flour near the Santa Fe depot. Six others escaped.
The college Y. M. C. A. have a
"gospel wagon" that goes out to the school houses around the city
every Sunday evening.
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There will be an examination of
applicants for teachers' certificates held at the High School building in
Winfield on Saturday, October 31st, beginning at 8 o'clock a.m.
MRS.
LIDA S. BRADY, Co. Supt.
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Marshal McClain arrested a young man on
Saturday evening for being drunk and disorderly. He seemed to be of the impression that he was
the owner of the corporation and went about brandishing a knife, and using
abusive language. He is more like
himself at the present time.
---
Maj. and Mrs. Sulley will conduct the
meetings of the Salvation Army Wednesday and Thursday nights. They are famous workers and all will be well
repaid for attending.
---
Hon. James Buchanan will speak at the
opera house at Winfield next Wednesday evening, the 14th.
---
Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 10th were:
Filings ..... $35,851.79
Releases .... 23,785.73
Excess of filings .. $12,066.06
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The safe in the depot at Udall was blown
open last Friday night. The thieves
broke into John Lindstrom's blacksmith shop and took a brace and sledge by
means of which they effected an entrance into the depot. The door of the safe was blown to pieces, the
handle going through the wall into the baggage room. The burglars got a little over ten dollars in
money and some important papers. There
have been no arrests at this date, but the officers are satisfied that they are
on the track of the right fellows.
[HOWLER,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1891, CONTINUED.]
C.
T. Atkinson Arrested.
Papers were placed in the hands of
Sheriff Gibson this morning with instructions to arrest C. T. Atkinson, present
county attorney, at once. The information
filed with the clerk of the court alleges that C. T. Atkinson as county
attorney of Cowley county has knowingly permitted divers persons, named in the
information, to engage in the business of selling intoxicating liquors
contrary to the statues made and provided in such cases. The sheriff proceeded at once to Arkansas
City, and at this writing we are unable to sate whether he has served the
papers or not.
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STAR
VALLEY.
Our school is flourishing.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sims went to Winfield
last Sunday.
Will the correspondent of Wheatland
explain why some of the pupils from this district prefer attending school at
Star Valley?
Mr. Graham, our pastor, did not
materialize last Sunday. Perhaps his
absence was caused by the effects of over-eating at the donation party, given
him by his New Salem friends.
Ed Buch was among the lucky few to secure
farms in the newly opened lands. Mr.
John Willis also secured a farm, but he said he did not care for one of which
he must farm both sides to obtain sustenance on this earthly sphere, and so he
left it to the howling coyotes.
OLD
BACHELOR.
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WHEATLAND.
Miss Bettie Lunceford will begin school
at Red Bud next Monday.
There was a party at the residence of Mr.
A. Leach, given in honor of Ab's birthday.
Messrs. F. Greer and E. A. Houser are
entertaining the threshers at their respective homes.
Mr. Ike Johndrow expects to leave sunny
Kansas for the fairer and more fruitful (?) state of Missouri.
Miss Agnes Renfro recently visited her
home and reports herself fascinated with the life of a pedagogue.
Mr. Melvid Sheets finished making sorghum
last week. George and Carrie do not
think themselves as sweet as they used to be.
Mr. James Lunceford was in Winfield two
days last week. He took a chair to Miss
Cordle. She now wishes us to announce
that her visitors do not have to stand up now.
Miss Alice Gorham has been staying at Mr.
Greer's this week, serving in the capacity of chief cook and kitchen maid.
KANSAS
ANNIE.
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[HOWLER,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1891, CONTINUED.]
WANTED.
40 acres of ground plowed. Apply
to S. E. Burger, 2 miles north of town.
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Gordon's hog and chicken liquid, if
introduced into the system of the animal, will destroy the germs of cholera
without injury to the living tissues.
For sale by Quincy A. Glass, the druggist.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1891.]
Hon. B. H. Clover was in the city today.
The Dress Cutting School is offering
premiums to those organizing classes.
Capt. White, of Co. C, is a modern
Diogones. He was seen on the street
today at noon with a lighted lantern. He
failed "to find a man" here and went on to Arkansas City.
S. P. Strong, P. W. Craig, A. P. Carmine
and others are attending the county alliance in session at Arkansas City today
and tomorrow.
Co. "C" goes to Arkansas City
this evening to attend the reunion of the Southwestern Soldiers'
Association. They took their tents,
blankets, and commissary and are prepared for a warlike good time.
The Athenian literary society is
preparing a course of lectures and concerts for the coming season. They expect to have a few such lecturers as
Geo. R. Wendling and some of the best singers in America.
---
There was a large and enthusiastic
meeting at Udall last night. King and
Bradshaw were the speakers and two glee clubs furnished music for a crowded
house. Mark down gains for the People's
ticket from Ninnescah.
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At the next county meeting of the Woman's
Mutual Improvement Society, members will please come prepared to answer to the
roll call, by repeating a verse of scripture relative to the christian
hope. B. HENDRIX.
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For the annual convention of the Y. M. C.
A., the Santa Fe will sell excursion tickets to Parsons, Kansas, and return at
$2.50. Tickets sold Oct. 20th to
24th. Limited for return until Oct.
27th. W. J. NEVINS, Agent.
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L. M. Toland, the popular Pacific Express
driver, has entered the Business College, where he will complete a course. He does this with the advice and consent of
his employers, and will no doubt be given a good position when through.
[HOWLER,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1891, CONTINUED.]
MARRIAGE LICENSE SECURED. R. L. Halley, of Ponca, Indian Territory, and
Miss Lida Park, of Clemence, Kansas, secured marriage license last
evening. E. P. Reynolds and Miss Nettie
Perry, of Arkansas City; Wm. H. Moore, of Atlanta, Georgia, and Miss Emma S.
Howland, of Winfield, were the latest victims of cupid as shown by the records
of the probate court.
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Miss M. M. Hammond, of Leavenworth, is in
the city soliciting funds for the Home of the Friendless of that city. The writer has a personal acquaintance with
Miss Hammond, extending through a number of years, and can heartily recommend
her to the people of Winfield as a lady of high Christian character and well
worthy of confidence and respect.
---
Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 13th were:
Filings ...... $4,790.00
Releases ..... 3,554.00
Excess of filings .... $1,246.00
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Attention!
There will be a special communication of
Adelphi Lodge No. 110, A. F. & A. M. this evening for the purpose of work
in the Master Mason's degree. Visiting
members cordially invited.
By order of the Worshipful Master.
B.
W. TROUT, Sec.
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[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1891.]
James Buchanan tonight.
Workmen were digging today for the
foundation of the Morgan monument.
Mr. Childers, of El Dorado, called at the
Sheriff's office this morning. He is a
boyhood friend of Mr. Gibson's.
---
Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 13th were:
Filings ....... $561.58
Releases ..... 400.00
Excess of filings .... $161.58
[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Henry Ireton, of Seeley, was in town
today. Henry says that we might say for
him that he had not left the People's party by a good deal, and had no
intention of doing so, as was stated by the Courier some time since. He says that he does not believe in the
sub-treasury plan but that does not prevent him from supporting the ticket
placed in nomination by the convention in this county. The smut mill would have people believe that
Mr. Ireton was a full fledged republican, which he never was, but that is about
as near the truth as that sheet ever gets.
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Ira P. Russell and glee club will furnish
music at Manning's hall tonight.
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Mrs. L. W. Swan has just received new
millinery and a stock of notions. Call
and inspect them.
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There was a large amount of wheat on the
street today, and the price was a few cents higher than usual.
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MARRIAGE LICENSE. Judge Sitton issued marriage license to W. J.
Ward and Miss Adaline Logan, both of Arkansas City.
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Rev. Miller returned Tuesday morning from
the fall meetings of the Presbytery of Emporia held at Osage, Kansas, and the
Synod of Kansas held at Kansas City, Kansas.
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30 head of cattle to be sold on Saturday,
October 17th, at 1 o'clock on the Corner of Main and 9th avenue. Regardless of price. D. J. DIX, City Auctioneer.
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One S. B. Littell occupies over two
columnns of space in the Courier last evening in "doing" Quincy A.
Glass, president of the People's club of this city. After Quincy gets through with him, he will
not only be awfully tired, but he will have learned the lesson so often learned
by the fellow who fools with a gun when he didn't know it was loaded.
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Married.
MARRIED.
Miss Emma Howland, of this city, was married to Mr. Wm. Moor, of
Atlanta, Georgia, at the Presbyterian church Tuesday morning. Rev. J. C. Miller officiating. The bride is well-known here and is one of
the first ladies of Winfield. The groom
is a young man of excellent character and is traveling in the interest of an
Atlanta commercial house. The happy pair
left on the 10:04 Frisco train for St. Louis, where they will visit a few days
and then go home by way of Mammoth Cave and Chattanooga. The best wishes of a host of friends
accompany them.
[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1891, CONTINUED.]
The
Morgan Monument.
The unveiling of the Morgan monument will
take place at the Central school grounds in this city on Sunday, Oct. 18th,
exercises to begin promptly at 2 o'clock p.m.
The money to pay for same has all been
raised and is in the hands of the treasurer:
amount $675. The monument will be
in place by Saturday evening ready for unveiling Sunday. There are no special invitations out, but a
cordial invitation is extended to attend the exercises.
The following is the program.
Music ........................ Union
Choir.
Opening prayer ............... Rev.
Ebright.
Unveiling Address ............ P. H.
Albright.
Address of Acceptance ........ S. E.
Fink.
Music ........................ Union
Choir.
Oration ...................... Hon. John
A. Eaton.
Music ........................ Union
Choir.
Benediction .................. Rev.
Payne.
H. H.
Siverd Master of Ceremonies.
The choir will be composed of singers
from the different church choirs of the city.
If the weather proves unfavorable, the services will be held in the
Baptist church.
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Senator Plumb is in town today. He is enroute to Arkansas City to attend the
reunion.
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There are a great many strangers in town
today. Most of them are enroute for the
reunion.
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WILMOT.
Hattie Copeland is spending the week in
Butler county.
Several of our young folks attended
church at Floral Sunday evening.
The Wilmot alliance will attend the
lecture at New Salem Friday night.
Miss Iona Carter, of Winfield, visited
her cousin, Leonora Furthy, Sunday.
R. H. Copeland, one of the College
students at Winfield, spent Sunday at home.
I. B. Holmes, of Rock, was over last
Sunday looking after his claim west of Wilmot.
Misses Dottie Pontius and Laura Harman
are in Winfield learning the dress-making trade.
PANSY.
[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1891, CONTINUED.]
DRESS
CUTTING SCHOOL.
This is organized for the purpose of
teaching the Merchant Tailor System of Dress Cutting. It is a square of inches combined with all
the curves of the compass. With it you
can cut any garment to fit any form without altering one stitch. Sewing girls, now earning from 50 cts. to 75
cts. a day, can, after learning this system, easily command from $1.00 to $1.50
a day.
Notwithstanding the wonderful merits of
this sytem, the following inducements will be offered: Any one brining us five pupils to the school
will be presented with a life-sized crayon either of themselves or any
relative. For a class of 7 pupils, one
term of music lessons will be given, free, on piano or organ.
For terms and further information call on
or address
Mrs.
Kate Sickels & Co.,
Room 10,
Hackney Block, Winfield, Kas.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1891.]
J. E. Conklin went to Newton last night.
Barney Esch, of Grouse, was in the city
today.
Jim Taylor and wife, of Dexter, were in
town today.
J. G. McGregor and family went to the
reunion in the carriage today.
Misses Alice Sayles and Belle Holland
went to the City yesterday.
Misses Sarah Hawkins and Minnie Holland
are taking in the reunion.
Clem Bradshaw came in from Arkansas City
to hear Buchanan speak last night.
Mr. M. S. Foster of Atlanta was in town
today. Mr. Foster was on his way home
from a visit in Iowa.
The K. of P. went down en masse to attend
the reunion today. They make a fine
appearance when marching through the street and their maneuverings are good.
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The Courier has bolted the republican
nominee for county clerk--at least the editor of that sheet is fighting Mr.
Fouts--which fact insures Mr. Fouts' election by an increased majority. What has poor Fishback done to deserve such a
fate?
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The College Athenian Literary Society
will debate a political question next Friday night. They are to discuss the merits of the
People's party Platform as against those of the Democratic and Republican
parties. We will report the decision.
[HOWLER,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1891, CONTINUED.]
WINFIELD,
KANSAS, Oct. 15, 1891.
ED. HOWLER. SIR:
Mr. S. B. Littell, in the Courier of Oct 14th says that I am
"inexcusably bewildered on the question of protection to American
industries." Mr. Littell has an
indisputable right to exercise his private judgment in the matter and I have
the same. Mr. Littell evidently worships
this republican fetich of protection, and when anyone shows a disposition to
disturb it, the effect on him is similar to that of displaying a red cloth
before a bull. Now that Mr. Littell is
prancing around with a chip on his shoulder and spoiling for a fight; now that
it is a current assertion on the part of republicans that members of the
People's party dare not read both sides and dare not discuss the issues, I
offer Mr. Littell the following proposition:
I will discuss the tariff question with him in ten weekly issues of the
FREE PRESS, COURIER, AND HOWLER, EACH, FOR TEN WEEKS, Mr. S. A. Smith to
represent me in arranging details and Mr. Littell may choose whom he pleases to
represent him.
Q.
A. GLASS.
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General
Invitation.
The unveiling exercises of the Morgan
monument will take place Sunday, Oct. 18th at 2 o'clock, p.m., on the Central
school grounds of this city. If the
weather is unfaborable, the exercises will take place at the Baptist
church. A general invitation is
extended to all the people of Cowley county to be present on this occasion.
COMMITTEE:
J. E. JARVIS,
P. H. ALBRIGHT,
A. B. ARMENT,
A. SNOWHILL,
J. P. WINTON.
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Hon.
James Buchanan.
A large audience greeted Mr. Buchanan
last evening at Manning's hall. It would
be impossible to give the address, but wish to say that it was among the best
efforts ever delivered in this city. His
statement of facts and the logical conclusion derivable therefrom are simply
unanswerable. His delineation of the
wonderful power of money to accumulate under the system of insury [? WHAT THEY
HAD ?] now in vogue, was a revelation to many, showing tht money at seven
percent would accumulate more than four times as much as a man who earns $800
per year, above his wants, through a period of 40 years. Mr. Buchanan is not a fluent speaker, but he
has the faculty of dealing out facts in solid chunks, placing thereon, a
proper label, and laying them out where his auditors cannot help seeing them.
The order [?] was probably the best ever
witnessed in Manning's Hall, disturbed only by an occasional Republican
slipping out when he had got his little cup full. The Glee Club furnished some excellent music
at the close of the speaking.
[HOWLER,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Harry Parks, of Wichita, had both hands
blown off at Arkansas City Wednesday about 2 o'clock by the premature
discharge of a cannon while loading it at the reunion grounds.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1891 - FRONT PAGE.]
OKLAHOMA'S
DESIRES.
Governor
Steele Pleads for School Aid
and
Opening of New Lands.
GUTHRIE, OK, Oct. 16. Governor Steele's first report to the
secretary of the interior has been prepared and forwarded to Washington.
The school problem in the new counties is
treated as follows: "I am very
sorry indeed that provision was not made by congress for helping the settlers
support the common schools in the Sac and Fox, Iowa, Pottawatomie, and absentee
Shawnee lands recently thrown open to settlement, for those settlers are not
only poor as were those who came into this part of the territory; but they will
have the additional burden of caring for the Indian children in great numbers
who may attend the common schools, notwithstanding the fact that the lands or
personal property of these Indians may not be taxed to help support the
schools. This will be true with
reference to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe and Kickapoo counttry, which itt is
hoped will be thrown open to settlement early next spring. It seems to me there is more reason for
helping the settlers support the schools in these lands than there was in
Oklahoma proper."
Concerning the opening of the Cherokee
strip, this is said.
"Nothing I think of would be more
gratifying to the people of not only Oklahoma but those of Arkansas, Missouri,
Texas, Kansas, and other states who are anxious for homes than would be the
opening of the Cherokee outlet. There is
every reason why it should be thrown open to settlement and none that I know of
why it should not be."
The governor speaks of the opening of the
lands on the western border as follows:
"On account of a great many of the Indians refusing to take their
allotments, much delay has been caused in the alloting of lands to the
Cheyennes and Arapahoes, and I am informed that the appropriation for making
these allotments is practically exhausted.
Unless it is possible to make other
arrangements to throw these lands open to settlement early next spring so that
settlers may raise a crop next year, it will mean hardship, destitution,
sickness and death among the hundreds of settlers who have been along its
borders for weeks, and in many instances for months, waiting for homes."
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Ben S. Henderson returned from the
reunion today.
Wm. Smith and wife of Eaton were in the
city yesterday.
J. O. Hawley was on the streets last
night talking politics.
The glee club will attend the People's
meeting at Akron tonight.
J. D. Salmon was in the city today. He will go to Akron tonight.
DIED.
The infant son of Mrs. Bazen, living on Manning street, was buried
yesterday.
Mesdames J. J. Rudd and S. Stout, of
Udall, are down today on a shopping expedition.
Mr. M. C. Harris of Atlanta was in town
today. Mr. Harris keeps posted by
reading the HOWLER.
Chas. Smith, a brother to the editor,
returned last night from two years' wandering in the Rocky Mountains.
Elder Frazee will preach tonight at the
frame church on East 7th Avenue. Services
begin at 7:30 o'clock. A cordial invitation
is extended to all.
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There are a few chronic kickers who would
like to know why Mayor Graham wasn't invited to take part in the exercises of
unveiling the Morgan monument.
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Mrs. W. E. Gilbert and family leave this
evening for their home at Mound City.
They have been visiting Mrs. Gilbert's father, H. H. Horner, near Udall,
for the past two months.
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Senator King and J. C. Bradshaw go to
Akron tonight to hold a political meeting.
Ira P. Russell will accompany them with his organ and will mingle
enchanting strains of music with political truisms.
---
The Traveler calls the editor of this
paper mean names because he said that J. R. Sumpter had retired from
politics. The HOWLER got its information
direct from Sumpter and knew whereof it spoke and the Traveler didn't. That's the difference.
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 15th were:
Filings ......... $1,541.50
Releases ........ 757.21
Excess of filings ...... $ 784.29
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It is said that "Buck"
Hollingsworth, formerly of this place, but who was detected running a joint in
Arkansas City, ran over one man and caused several others to think a cyclone
had struck them when Buck got a glimpse of the officers coming to arrest
him. He made good his escape.
---
Salmon P. Chase, the originator of the
present National Banking system, afterward said: "My agency in procuring the passage of
the National Banking Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly that affects every
interest on the country. It should be
repealed. But before this can be
accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the
other, in a contest such as we have never seen in this country."
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The
Campaign.
The Courier last evening contained a long
article of abuse of the People's party in general and the candidates and
officers of the party in particular.
Among other things we notice particularly that, while they concede that
Judge Sitton is an honest and honorable man against whom naught can be said,
yet for divers reasons, he should not be permitted to hold an office to which
he has been elected by the people, presumably because the great and only
Courier didn't endorse his candidacy. Ye
gods! How it does harrow the soul of
that outfit to think of "an honest and honorable man" being elected
to office over their protest. They will
insist on telling the people that they were a set of fools for not doing as the
Courier told them to do. The Courier has
been supreme dictator of the political situation in Cowley county for about
fifteen years and all the time have been eating at the crib. They were choked off some two years ago, and
are getting somewhat hungry, hence these tears.
Lieing is the medium through which they
expect to gain their point, and it matters not upon which side the lie is used.
Here is a sample from last evening's
issue:
"Never did the republican party
select candidates for office, regardless of qualifications. Efficiency was always a desideratum sought
and the record of the republican administration of county affairs is a matter
of pride."
Just so.
If efficiency in public office consists in falsifying public records,
defaulting in public funds, evading honest debts, engaging in unlawful
business, and leaving the work of the office to be done by deputies, then your
position is correct--otherwise, it is not.
The position may be correct so far as your measly outfit is concerned,
but there are a large majority of the people of Cowley county who use a
different standard and since you have thrown down the gauntlet, to fight this
campaign upon the personnel of the ticket, we say with the poet, "Lay on
McDuff, and d____d be he, who first cries hold--enough." It was not the intention of the HOWLER to
make the campaign upon personalities, but as the opposition have no principles
to advocate and as the organ of the party would not know how to advocate them
if they had, and as they have dropped onto their only stock in trade, that of
mud slinging, we accept the situation and promise that we have records
sufficient to bury the republican party of this county, in that oblivion it so
justly deserves.
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1891, CONTINUED.]
A
Serious Accident.
This morning Mr. Wm. Moon, the foreman of
the iron work on the new elevator, while climbing with his tools to the top of
the building, lost his hold and fell into one of the grain chutes, a distance
of about forty nine feet. Dr. Evans was
immediately summoned and afterward Dr. Emerson.
They found him unconscious and with some severe fractures and bruises,
but he was removed to a private residence nearby, and his wounds skillfully
dressed. His right wrist ws badly smashed,
and his right eye horribly bruised. At
this writing he is still unconscious.
While his recovery is possible, it is yet very doubtful. It is impossible at present to tell the
extent of his internal injuries. Mr.
Moon came yesterday from Dassle, Minnesota.
His wife has been telegraphed and is expected in a few days.
-0-
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1891.]
Baled hay and feed at L. Weimer's, east
7th.
Biglow Mulford, of Burden, was in town
this morning.
Mr. Elliott, of Wilmot, was in the city
this morning.
Mr. Elliott, principal of the Udall
schools, was in town today.
Miss Fannie McComas, of Burden, was in
the city today shopping.
Mrs. Amy Chapin and daughter, Muriel, of
Constant, called at this office today.
HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Mr. Hogue has sold his grocery in the
eastern part of the city to F. M. Freeland.
Mr. John Walton, of Beaver township, is
spending a few days with his mother on east 7th.
Mrs. J. S. Denney, of Anthony, was in the
city today visiting her brother, Mr. Chas. Hooker.
---
Mr. Moon, the man who was so badly hurt
at the elevator yesterday, is reported better today.
---
L. Weimer, east 7th ave., has a full line
of general groceries, baled hay, and feed.
He gets fresh vegetables and butter direct from the country every day.
---
J. R. Sumpter is in Kansas City
brightening up on wheat inspection. He
has been appointed grain inspector for this place and will soon enter upon his
duties.
---
The little son of G. Brown, of Bethel neighborhood,
had his hand badly mashed in a cider mill this morning. Dr. Wright was called and at this writing has
not returned.
---
A. H. Limerick is over from Dexter, in
the interest of his paper, the Western Reveille. Mr. Limerick is principal of the Dexter
schools and reports the work in good condition.
---
Someone has suggested that the picture of
Si Plunkard displayed upon the billboards of the city and labeled
"Gosh! I'm here," is a correct
delineation of R. S. Strothers' appearance when he reaches the upper water of
Salt river.
---
Bob Farnsworth had an interested crowd
around him last night listening to his reunion stories. Bob enjoyed the reunion hugely and says we
might have had it here next year if someone had gone to Arkansas City authorized
to represent Winfield in the matter.
---
Ben Henderson and the officers are doing
a noble work closing out joints at Arkansas City. He will probbly institute a like work here
soon, and we trust every citizen of Winfield will be prepared to do his part in
the way of furnishing information and lending his influence and
encouragement. Remember every joint
closed will save dozens of young men from ruin.
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCT. 17, 1891, CONTINUED.]
The Cowley County Teachers' Association
met at the Central school building today.
An excellent program was rendered, which we have not space to
publish. The discussions were specially
good and were conducted in a way that shows a lively and intelligent interest
in progressive education. Mr. Brady
conducted an able recitation on Page's Theory & Practice.
---
L. B. Bullington, of Dexter, was in the
city today.
R. S. Strother, of Atlanta, was in the
city today.
Ruben Correll, of Torrance, was in
Winfield today.
Mr. and Mrs. A. DeBard, of Torrance, were
here today.
H. T. Alberts was in the city today,
attending to teachers' association.
Miss Bell Holland has returned from
Arkansas City, and Will Beck smiles again.
Mrs. J. C. Phelps and Miss Anna Enright,
of Dexter, came over to Winfield today.
Mrs. Geo. Leffer [?] and Miss Hattie
Taplin, of Dexter, came over to Winfield today to shop.
The Misses Minnie Holland and Sarah
Hawkins returned from Arkansas City yesterday.
They report a nice time.
---
The entertainment at the M. E. Church
last night was a success in every respect.
The proceeds were about $80.
---
P. W. Craig left last evening on the
Southern Kansas train for Moline, where he will visit among friends for a few
days.
---
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Linn, who have been
here several days visiting Mrs. Linn's brother, Mr. Chas. Hooker, will go to
Arkansas City this evening.
---
MARRIAGE LICENSES. Judge Sitton had a lively time of it
today. He issued five marriage licenses
and performed the ceremony for two of them.
The judge is building up an enviable reputation as a dispenser of
matrimonial documents calculated to make the recipients happy and prosperous
through life. At present he has a large
supply of elegant licenses which he is willing to dispose of at lowest market
prices, either singly or in blocks of five.
[NOTE: NAMES NOT GIVEN!]
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WINFIELD,
KANSAS, Oct. 16, 1891.
MR. EDITOR: Now we've done it! Do you see how the brother lashes the yeasty
waves into a lathery foam? He comes at
us like a bald faced hornet all doubled up in a lump, and seems to tumble about
and perform as many gyrations as a little doggy with a flea nibbling at the
upper crust of his spine.
He says I am prancing around with a chip
on my shoulder, etc. I deny the charge
in each and every particular and calmly over that I never, and that he, like a
thoroughbred free trader, has drawn on his prolific imagination entirely for
his facts. He says I worship the
republican "fetich," vat ish dot?
If it be anything like a whale, he had better not "show a
disposition to disturb it." Now, in
candor, nothing would give me greater pleasure than to discuss the tariff
question with Mr. Glass; but have made arrangements to make a trip of a few
days. When I return we will try to
arrange for it. I hope the friend will
not be offended by anything that has been said and that in our future
discussion we may pursue our investigation in the spirit of candor and inoffensiveness. It was by accident that I saw the challenge
as I do not take the paper in which he published it. Truly hi'sn,
S.
B. LITTELL.
[ABOVE SOMEWHAT GARBLED! MUST BE DUE TO TYPESETTER!]
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Marriage
Licenses.
N. E. Wallace and Naoma L. France, both
of Guthrie.
W. H. Spencer, of Elgin, Kan., and Grace
M. Bowman, of Arkansas City.
Jos. Barracklaw, of Winfield, and H. A.
Walderoupe, of Silver Dale.
S. R. Grout, of Memphis, Mo., and Jennie
S. Renner, of Rock, Kan.
John M. Phillips and Laura C. Ross, both
of Arkansas City.
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PARTICIPANTS IN DISTRICT ALLIANCE MEETING
AT SOUTH VERNON SCHOOL HOUSE, THREE AND ONE-HALF MILES FROM WINFIELD, NOV.
1891.
H. C. Hawkins.
J. E. Coulter, of Bolton.
Mrs. Amy Chapin, of Summitt.
Mr. Taft, of Bolton.
Miss Lottie Soule, of Vernon.
Z. T. Myres, of Pleasant Valley.
R. M. Turner, Sec. pro tem.
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DEXTER
ITEMS.
Mr. Johnson lost a valuable horse last
Sunday.
Frank Pierce is out west looking after
his cattle interest.
Henry Branson was in Kansas City last
week on business.
Mrs. Hargis, mother of Mrs. W. P.
Hardwick, has come to spend the winter with her daughter.
Prof. Limerick dismissed school last
Thursday, so that all who wished might attend the reunion at Arkansas City.
MARRIED.
Married at the home of the bride's parents Thursday, Oct. 15, 1891, by
Rev. Lahr, Mr. Charles Sheridan and Miss Clara Church.
The young people of this place spent a
very pleasant evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Phelps last Friday evening.
Mrs. Pyne, a niece of Geo. Drury, left
for her home in Ashland, Kansas, last Thursday evening. She has been visiting her uncle and family
for several weeks.
Mr. Clint Hargis arrived from Marysville,
Missouri, last week with his young bride.
We congratulate Clint on his choice of a wife and extend to them a warm
welcome in Dexter society.
The People's rally held in the school
house last Saturday night was quite a success:
over 60 members at this writing.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1891.]
J. R. Sumpter returned from a few days
stay in Kansas City.
Mr. John Cogdal and wife, of Arkansas
City, spent Sunday in this city.
Geo. Wagnew, of the Dispatch, was a
spectator at the monument exercises yesterday.
[Wagnew ???]
J. C. Bradshaw delivered a temperance
lecture to a large audience yesterday at Floral.
Mrs. S. H. Carr returned this morning
from Missouri, where she has been visiting relatives.
---
The man who was hurt at the elevator last
week is reported much better, and his recovery now seems certain.
---
Mr. B. F. Wood preached to the people of
Pleasant Valley, in Beaver township, yesterday in the absence of Rev. Wright,
of this city.
---
Mr. E. I. Johnson, of Eaton, was in the
city today. He had a good overcoat
stolen from his carriage while in a store attending to some business.
---
Horace Morgan came in yesterday morning
from Monette, Missouri, to attend the unveiling of his brother's monument. He returned to Missouri this morning.
---
Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 17th were:
Filings ......... $21,720.36
Releases ........ 4,304.50
Excess of filings....... $17,415.86
[HOWLER,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Quite a sensation was created on the
street this morning by the team running away with the Consolidated Tank Line's
oil wagon. The driver was measuring out
oil at the Hackney block when they became frightened and started off at a brisk
run. They ran up 9th ave. to Main
street, then south on Main through the crowds of men that ran into the street
to check them. At Riverside they again
turned, going west, and had almost reached home when caught by someone on the
street. They were turned over to the
owner, Mr. Hepler, and brought back uptown in as good trim as when they started
having done no damage to anything in all their long run.
---
ED. HOWLER: Mr. Littell desires to know what is a
fetich. Webster defines a fetich as a
material thing worshipped among certain African tribes and fetichism as the low
idolatry of Western Africa. I supposed
Mr. Littell to be the owner of a dictionary, but presume he has lost his by
swallowing it. Mr. Littell must excuse
me for saying that fetichism seems to be exactly what ails him. I trust he will return from his trip soon
with a copy of the McKinley bill properly revised and corrected in the New York
Tribune office and a complete file of congressman Horrs' letters to
farmers. He will likely need both.
QUINCY
A. GLASS.
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THE MORGAN
MONUMENT UNVEILED.
The Ceremony
Takes Places in the Presence of a
Large
and Interested Assembly.
As was previously announced the unveiling
ceremonies of the Morgan monument took place at 2 p.m. on the Central school
grounds Sunday. The day being warm and
clear, the crowd was larger than expected.
Just as the clock struck the hour of two,
Captain Siverd stepped upon the platform and made the opening speech in an
earnest and impressive manner. He spoke
in a way that touched every responsive heart, of the death of our young hero
and the noble sacrifice of his life for a friend.
At the close of Mr. Siverd's speech the
union choir, composed of the best singers of the city, under the direction of
Profs. Gordon and Snyder sang "A Few More Years Shall Roll." Rev. Ebright then offered a short, earnest
prayer after which P. H. Albright was introduced and delivered the unveiling
address in behalf of the monument committee.
He presented the monument to the school board in a touching and solemn
oration that was well suited to the occasion.
S. E. Fink, President of the Board of
Education, accepted the tribute in behalf of the Board in a well-worded speech
that did credit even to our eloquent Fink.
Next was a duet, "Morning
Land," by Mrs. C. B. Snyder and Mr. Dudley Eaton.
Hon. John Eaton was on the program at
this point for an oration, but being absent, his place was filled by James
McDermott, who compared Thomas Morgan's heroism to that of the men who laid
their lives on the altar of the nation and died that posterity might enjoy the
blessings of free institutions.
Next, "Heroes Sweetly Sleep,"
was sung by the union choir, which was immediately followed by the benediction
of Rev. Payne.
The exercises throughout had a solemn
grandeur that did credit to the committees who had them in charge.
The monument stands fourteen feet, five
inches high, and cost $675. It is
composed of a shaft of American granite and a figure, representing the crowning
of a hero, of Italian marble. The design
is good, the execution is good, and the impulses that erected it were noble.
This is the first event of the kind in
the history of Winfield and no more fitting occasion could have been
selected. May those who admire and emulate
the heroism of Tom Morgan ever live in our midst.
---
J. B. Nipp is said to be almost
invincible as a campaigner and a diligent study of his methods is recommended
to all aspirants for political honors.
It has leaked out that he has promised the salvation army of this city,
that in case he is elected Sheriff, he will either guard the salvation barrack
from the encroachments of toughs himself, or furnish a deputy for that
purpose. The spectacle of Capt. Nipp standing
guard over the salvation army is one that will cause people who are acquainted
with Cap. to smole a smile. It is quite
the rage for parties who have been guilty of crime, to join the army and the
Captain seems to be drifting that way.
When the devil is sick,
The devil a saint would be;
But when the devil is well,
The devil a saint is he.
---
The Traveler raises a great wail
because the county clerk didn't let the contract for doing certain printing to
the Winfield Courier, because of that office being a home institution. Now Mr. Traveler, you betray a
wonderful amount of ignorance where you intimate that the class of work
referred to could be done by the Courier, for nothing is further from
the truth, as that kind of work is always sent to Guthrie, Indian Territory,
and is never attempted by the Courier office.
In addition to this fact, the county
clerk is acting as the agent of the board of county commissioners in the matter
of ordering supplies, and could not act without their order. He received his orders from the chairman of
the board, J. B. Guthrie, who ordered the clerk not to have any county work of
any description done at the Courier office and the clerk simply did as
ordered in the matter.
The Traveler man lays awake nights
in order that he may invent new and improved methods for having the Courier
outfit, and as he seems to own Guthrie, the natural inference is that Guthrie
got his orders from the Traveler office.
[HOWLER,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1891, CONTINUED.]
College
Cullings.
The President is after the loafers with a
vengeance.
Misses Gilmer and Plumb, of Arkansas
City, were visitors at the college Saturday.
Several of the sturdy yeomanry are at
home this week, helping get in the wheat crop.
The Cadmians wrestled with the Delaware
whipping post in their debate Saturday night.
Some of the boys have been attending the
reunion at Arkansas City and laying in a supply of patriotism.
The Athenians had a spirited discussion
of the Behring Sea question Friday night.
The society decided to let England or any other nation have the freedom
of the Sea. No report has come yet as to
how the news was received in Washington and London. It is to be feared that Blaine, in his
present state of health, will suffer a relapse on hearing that such a great
force has been brought to bear against him.
The Cadmus-Athenian Lecture Bureau of the
Southwest [WORD MISSING...GARBLED] College was organized Thursday and consists
of one member from each of the societies, and a member of the county [?]. E. T. Hackney is the Athenian member and E.
O. Creighton the Cadmus. This Bureau
proposes to put on an excellent series of lectures and concerts for the coming
year; one that the public should have no hesitancy in supporting. Geo. R. Wendling will be the first to appear.
[LAST PARAGRAPH: MAY HAVE GOOFED UP SOME WORDS...VERY HARD TO
READ!]
[HOWLER,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1891, CONTINUED.]
PLEASANT
VALLEY.
Wheat sowing is the ordr of the day in
this vicinity.
Wonder who Lewis took to the supper? Annie or a sack of cabbage.
Mr. Miller and Mr. Calvin furnished splendid
music at the oyster supper.
Wm. Perry, Gliss Perry, Lewis Clift, and
Frank Huffman intend to start to business college in the near future.
The Alliance oyster supper at Bro.
McCollum's was well attended. All had a
good time and all the big, fat oysters they could eat. SAL.
---
For
Sale.
I have a good four year old horse for
sale cheap.
IRA P. RUSSELL, Room 10, Hackney
Block.
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MORE
LANDS VERY SOON.
Cherokee
Commissioners Resume Negotiations
With
Territory Indians.
PONCA, INDIAN TERRITORY, Oct. 19.
The Cherokee commissioners arrived here
Saturday evening and were met by Captain Woodson and troop K, Fifth cavalry as
escort.
The commissioners have encamped near the
agency. Saturday night Indian Agent Wood
sent a messenger to the Tonkawas, informing them that the commission would
meet them today at the agency. There are
seventy-eight members of this tribe, and they occupy the reservation set apart
for the Nez Perces, having been moved there when the latter tribe was returned
to Idaho.
The reservation embraces 93,700 acres, of
which 7,000 will be required for allotments.
The remainder will then be available for homesteads.
The commission will then negotiate with
the Ponca, Otoes, and Pawnees, and will go to Tahlequah about the middle of
November to resume negotiations for the outlet.
The last agreement entered into by the
commissioners was with the Kickapoos. A
delegation of that tribe, with authority to act for their people, met the
commission at Washington in September and accepted practically the proposition
made by the commissioners when they visited the Kickapoos in June last. By this agreement the Kickapoos receive
eighty acres of land and about $276, each leaving 180,000 acres for
homesteads. This reservation is entirely
within Oklahoma, as the territory is now constituted, and the final action of
these Indians is a source of much satisfaction, not only to the citizens of
Oklahoma but to the commission as well.
[HOWLER,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1891, CONTINUED.]
GOVERNOR
STEELE OUT.
Oklahoma's Chief
Magistrate's Resignation Accepted.
GUTHRIE, OK., Oct. 19. Governor Steele's resignation was forwarded
to President Harrison a week ago and has been accepted. Why Governor Steele resigned is a state
secret, and Acting Governor Martin will not say a word, but the impression is
that he has business interests in the East that require his attention.
KINGFISHER, OK., Oct. 19. Since the resignation of Governor Steele as
governor of Oklahoma, the people in many sections have united as his successor
on Judge A. J. Seay.
Private dispatches from Oklahoma City,
Edmond, Norman, Guthrie, Hennessey, and Elreno say the people of those places
will join with Kingfisher in the request of the appointment of Judge Seay.
WICHITA, Kan., Oct. 12. Colonel James Mitchell, a prominent Oklahoma
politician, said tonight that the retirement of Gov. Steele meant an immediate
re-opening of the capital city fight, as none of the prominent towns in the territory
would be willing to see any other have so strong a pull for the prize as would
be the possession of a governor whose personal interests would naturally lead
him to favor the town in which he belonged.
Kingfisher has brought out Judge A. Seay
and will get a large part of Western Oklahoma to endorse him. Guthrie's champion is John Diele, with W. P.
Hackney also in the race, and Oklahoma City is urging the claims of Judge D.
Green.
QUESTION:
W. P. HACKNEY....IS THIS OUR HACKNEY? IT IS!
[CALAMITY
JANE HOWLER, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1891.]
Irving Cole, of Dexter, was in town
today.
Charles Jones, of Burden, was in the city
today.
A. E. Vermylia, of Burden, was in
Winfield on business today.
S. D. Pryor is nursing a well developed
boil on the back of his neck.
Fresh Oysters and fresh Fish at Hague
& Seybolds, East 9th avenue, meat market.
Mr. D. N. Wolf, of Odessa neighborhood,
started for Avon, Penn., on a visit to his old home today.
We present today the record as taken from
the books in the district clerk's office of the case of Winklemey vs. J. B.
Nipp. We refrain from any comment at
this time.
---
Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 19th were:
Releases ....... $5,563.83
Filings ........ 4,134.85
Excess of releases ..... $1,428.08
[HOWLER,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1891, CONTINUED.]
A number of the friends of Wm. J.
Carpenter, of Richland township, gave him a pleasant surprise on last Saturday,
Oct. 17, the occasion of his 42nd birthday.
A good dinner was served by Mrs. Carpenter and Mrs. Bradshaw, and the
friends and relatives presented Mr. Carpenter a handsome rocking chair as a
momento of affection and remembrance.
---
J.
B. NIPP.
THE PLAINTIFF'S PETITION IN
THE FAMOUS BEER CASE.
HE
SUES ON THE ACCOUNT,
And Alleges that
Nipp is a Partner of the Jointest,
J.
H. Saunders, A Stem-Winder.
When the Dispatch first made a
note of the suit pending against J. B. Nipp, and stated some of the allegations
contained in the petition, it was a great surprise to the county. Yet there were a great many of the Captain's
faithful friends who stood up on their hind legs and said the whole thing was a
fraud and a blackmailing scheme. Such
assertions have become more and more numerous until it is tiresome to hear some
of the foolish talk that is offered as defense for the doughty candidate.
The plaintiffs petition is given in full
below and so far as we know remains unanswered.
If the allegations which the Dispatch published in an off-hand
manner had not been denied, there would have been no cause to print the
petition in full, but under the circumstances, it is unavoidable. If all the allegations cannot be sustained,
Mr. Nipp will have excellent grounds upon which to sue a wealthy company for
libel.
In the District Court of Cowley County:
Petition.
The Julius Winkelmeyer Brewing
Association, Plaintiff,
vs.
J.
B. Nipp, Defendant.
The plaintiff, for its cause of action
against the defendant, says: That it
is, and was at the time and times hereafter mentioned, a corporation duly
organized and existing under the laws of the state of Missouri. That on or about the 9th day of May, 1888,
plaintiff and one J. H. Saunders entered into a contract in writing of that
date wherein the said plaintiff agreed to furnish to the said J. H. Saunders
keg and bottled beer and Young's Extract of Malt in original packages and
carload lots at prices therein stipulated; and the said J. H. Saunders agreed
to pay for the same within sixty days after shipment.
Said contract contained at the bottom
thereof and as a part thereof the following guaranty, viz:
We and each of us hereby guarantee that
said vender will strictly and promptly perform all of the conditions and obligations
of the above contract.
[Signed] J. B. NIPP.
May
9th, 1888.
A copy of said contract with the guaranty
thereon is hereby attached, marked Exhibit "A" and is made a part of
this petition. Plaintiff says that
pursuant to the terms of said contract and under the same and relying on said
guaranty, it sold and shipped to said J. H. Saunders six car loads of beer and
extract of malt in original packages between the said 9th day of May, 1888, and
the first day of October, 1817, [DATE
HAS TO BE WRONG...THIS IS WHAT PAPER PRINTED] aggregating in value the sum
of five thousand, five hundred and forty-seven and 72-100ths dollars
[$5,547.72] and received on account of said sale and shipment of bottles,
boxes, and kegs returned and in cash the aggregate sum or amount of three
thousand, nine hundred and fifty-seven and 79-100ths dollars [$3,957.79],
leaving a balance due and unpaid of fifteen hundred and eighty-nine and
93-100ths dollars [$1,589.93], which sum has ever since remained and still is
due, owing and unpaid from the said J. H. Saunders to this plaintiff, together
with interests thereon at the rate of 7 percent from the 20th day of July,
1888.
(Here follows a copy of the account
marked Exhibit "B.")
That by reason of the failure to pay the
said sum of $1,589.93 and interest as aforesaid, the conditions of said
contract have been broken, the conditions and obligations of the same have not
been strictly and promptly performed, and the said defendant, J. B. Nipp, has
become liable to this plaintiff on said contract in the sum of $1,589.93 and
interest from July 20, 1881, at the rate of 7 percent per annum.
That said J. H. Saunders, whose name is
signed to said contract as a party thereto and as vendee, is insolvent, and
that the said Saunders has no property from which the said debt nor any part
thereof can be made and that plaintiff, after the exercise of due diligence has
been and is unable to recover the said debt or any part thereof from him, the
said Saunders.
That the said J. B. Nipp, defendant, was
duly notified and advised of the insolvency of the said J. H. Saunders and of
his failure to comply with the conditions of said contract and payment of said
claim was demanded of him.
And for a second cause of action against
the said defendant, J. B. Nipp, this plaintiff, incorporating all the
allegations and averments of the first count of this petition and making the
same a part thereof, alleges:
That at the time of executing said
contract as guarantor and for a long period prior thereto and for some time
after the last sale of liquors mentioned in Exhibit "B" aforesaid,
the said defendant, J. B. Nipp, was a silent partner of the said J. H. Saunders
and was a participant in the profits in the sale of said beer and malt extract;
that said partnership has since been dissolved and there is no partnership
property on which to levy and the other partner, J. H. Saunders, is insolvent
and a non-resident of the state of Kansas, by reason whereof the said defendant
is indebted to plaintiff for the aforesaid sum of $1,589.93 and interest from
July 20, 188, at the rate of seven percent per annum.
EXHIBIT
"A."
This agreement made and entered into this
9th day of May, 1888, between the Julius Winkelmeyer Brewing Association of St.
Louis, state of Missouri, vender, and J. H. Saunders doing business under the
firm name and style of J. H. Saunders, of the city of Wichita, state of Kansas,
herein called vendee;
Witnesseth,
that said parties have agreed and hereby do agree as follows:
1st.
Said brewing association is to sell to said vendee its products in car
load lots, keg and bottle beer, mixed or separate, at the following: Keg beer, at $8.40 per barrel; bottle beer at
$9.90 per cask of six dozen quarts, and $10 per cask of ten dozen pints; $3.90
per case of two dozen quarts; Young's extract of malt, at $10.47 per cask of
six dozen quart or ten dozen pints; allowing for empty bottles returned 40
cents per dozen for quarts, and 20 cents per dozen for pints, and for empty
bottled beer cases 70 cents each; all free on board at Wichita, Kansas, and
said vendee shall be credited with such a number of empies as said brewing
association may receive at St. Louis, in sound condition.
2nd.
All freight charges on beer and malt extract are to be paid to the
carriers by said vendee and are then, if they do not exceed the present rates
of freight to be by said vendee charged to said brewing association. Should the present rates of freight be
advanced, then such advance shall fall on said vendee.
3rd.
All cooperate which may be sent by said brewing association to said
vendee is to be returned by said vendee to St. Louis, to said brewing association,
as son as the same is empty, and in no envent later than _____ months after its
shipment to said vendee and if not so returned within said time, then and in
that event, said brewing association may at its option, declare the value
thereof, a debt against said vendee at the following prices: $1.25 for each quarter, eight, or half
barrel. The freight on all such empty
cooperage as may be returned, is to be paid by said brewing association.
4th.
All goods shall be paid for within sixty days after shipment, and should
more than three cars be shipped within said time, then and in that event, said
vendee shall pay for the first car load when ordering said fourth car load, and
so on throughout the duration of this contract.
This paragraph is to be so construed as not to allow said vendee
organizing [?] arrears in payments beyond the price of three car loads of good
at any one time. [PAPER MANGLED...HARD TO READ PARAGRAPH.]
5th.
This contract to be in force for one year from date during which time
said vendee agrees to sell no other beer than that manufactured by said brewing
association and said brewing association agrees during said period, to sell no
beer at all in the following territory:
(none stipulated).
6th.
All wagons and other property not expressly sold and which may be
furnished by said brewing association to said vendee, shall remain its property
and the same is to be returned to it at the expiration of this agreement, in
the same condition in which said property was received, usual wear and tear
excepted.
7th.
Any failure on the part of said vendee to strictly adhere to and comply
with the terms and conditions of this agreement shall at the option of said
brewing association, work a forfeiture of the expired portion of this contract.
Witness our hands in duplicate, this 9th
day of May, 1888,
[Signed:]
JULIUS WINKELMEYER BREWING ASSOCIATION, per
John
Gecks, traveling agent.
[Signed:]
J. H. SAUNDERS.
We and each of us hereby guarantee that
said vendee will strictly and promptly perform all the conditions and
obligations of the above contract.
May 9th, 188.
[Signed:]
J. B. NIPP.
Plaintiff says that on or about the 1st
day of January, 1890, it sent the original contract with guaranty attached
signed by said J. H. Saunders and the defendant J. B. Nipp to one W. D.
Halfhill, an attorney of Winfield in said county of Cowley in the state
aforesaid; that the same was duly reacknowledged by the said Halfhill, who duly
presented the said claim to the said defendant, J. B. Nipp, and demanded
payment thereof which was refused. That
said Halfhill duly notified said Nipp of the insolvency of said Saunders and of
his failure to pay plaintiff's claim and that plaintiff looked to the defendant
for the payment thereof; that no other or further steps were taken by the said
Halfhill, as plaintiff is informed and believes, toward the collection of the
same while in his hands and that when plaintiff demanded a return of said
papers the same was, by the said Halfhill, reported lost and plaintiff has ever
since said date been unable to recover the same from the said Halfhill, who now
appears to be and represents himself as the attorney of the said defendant, J.
B. Nipp.
Plaintiff says that the said copy of
contract attached hereto as Exhibit "A" is a correct copy of the
original, lost as aforesaid. Therefore,
plaintiff prays a judgment against the said defendant, J. B. Nipp, for the said
sum of $1,589.93, with interest at the rate of 7 percent from the 20th day of
July, 1888, and the cost of this action.
BEACH
& TORRANCE,
Attorneys for
Plaintiff.
(Filed in district
court Cowley county, August 15, 1891.)
[HOWLER,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1891, CONTINUED.]
SOUTH
VERNON CHIPS.
Well, it's getting quite cool o'nights.
Mr. Geo. Oldham made a trip to Milan last
Friday and returned on Sunday.
Health is improving in this
neighborhood. The sick people have all
got up again.
Charlie Staggers is home again, and there
is a smile on a certain young lady's face like unto a poor man's lease.
This week will about finish up the wheat
sowing business in South Vernon. There
is a small acreage being sown.
Mr. Amos Becker has moved with his family
to Arkansas City. Gordia Spraker will
move into the house that Mr. Becker vacated.
Miss Villa Combs has gone out to Clark
county, where she will instruct the young Americans in western Kansas in the
way they should go.
Some ornery scalawag took the liberty to
go into the school house and take out the water bucket and the cover to the
organ.
Mr. and Mrs. Gwyspringer, of Oklahoma,
were visiting Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hawkins last week. It was quite a treat to the old people, as
they were school mates together and had not met since their young years.
On last Saturday evening a number of
invited young people from the neighborhood of Winfield assembled at Mr. and
Mrs. Gessler's and spent the time very pleasantly for a few hours.
[HOWLER,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Go to Mrs. L. W. Swan's, near Brown's
drug store, for millinery and notions.
She has as fine a display as you can find in the city.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1891.]
PEFFER AND BURTON INITIATE
THEIR JOINT DEBATES.
Topeka, Kan., Oct. 21. The first of the series of joint debates
between Senator Peffer, the People's party champion, and J. R. Burton, the
Republican orator, took place here last night.
The crowd which filled the Grand opera house was about evenly divided
politically. According to the arrangements
each party had a chairman, James A. Troutman representing the Republicans, and
W. H. Bennington the People's party. An
hour and a half was given to each speaker.
In his opening speech, Burton said: "Last summer there was organized in this
country a secret political party. Its
hot bed was in Kansas and it had small gains in the older settled country. In Georgia it was considered an adjunct of
the Democratic party. The cause which
led to this organization was hard times.
It is claimed that the volume of currency had been contracted since the
war until there was not enough money in circulation to do the business of the
country. This we deny. There is more money today in circulation than
there has been at any time in the history of the country, and every dollar is
worth 100 cents, not only in America, but in every country in the world."
Senator Peffer opened: "The People's party is not a secret
political organization--there is nothing secret about it. It was organized in the very center of
population. I am aware that it had no
distinguished orators or statesmen and I have been glad since that there was
not a politician in all that great company.
Our creed has been published to the world; and everyone of us who mounts
a platform is called a 'calamity howler."
It is alleged that there is more money now than there ever was. Now of course I deny that."
The speaker then for half an hour read
from the reports of the secretary of the treasury to prove his statement
showing that there was now $10,000,000 in circulation or about $10 per capita,
while there was more money in circulation at the close of the war than
now. The circulation was being decreased
at the rate of $2,000,000 a year, and the banks increased at the rate of
$159,900 [? FIGURE OBSCURED... ?] a year.
The railroads in Kansas were in debt eight times as much as they were
worth.
"Am I in favor of the sub-treasury
plan?" the speaker went on.
"What does it matter whether I am or not? I am in favor of the principle underlying the
plan. Am I in favor of a tariff for
revenue only or for protection? Yes, I
am in favor of a tariff, for revenue and for protection."
Peffer said, "We want to change
things in this country so the farmer will have as good a show as anybody. We agree as to the condition of the
country. Now show us a plan to relieve
us. When Wall street wants money, they
call on the secretary of the treasury and get it. When we want money, we are told to work for
it. We will change it around."
[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1891, CONTINUED.]
MARRIAGE LICENSE. A marriage license was issued today to Thos. M.
Noel of Arkansas City and Carrie Ralff, of Winfield.
Miss Minnie Strother, of Atlanta, spent
Wednesday and Thursday in Winfield visiting friends.
L. P. King will address the voters at
Tannehill on Friday evening, Oct. 23, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Mr. Axtell, secretary of the Y. M. C. A.,
and twelve of the members went to the convention at Parsons yesterday.
There is a natural curiosity being shown
on west 9th avenue. It is a calf with
two well developed heads and seven feet.
It is worth seeing.
Charles Beck, ticket agent at the Santa
Fe depot, left Tuesday evening for Charles City, Iowa, where he will visit his
parents two or three weeks.
S. J. Pugh, an attorney of Vanceburg,
Kentucky, has been visiting his brother, Dr. C. E. Ferguson, for a few
days. He leavves this evening for
Ashland to visit another brother.
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A gentleman of this city received a
letter from one H. G. Norton, a former resident of Winfield, and deputy sheriff
under McIntire, stating that he had heard that J. B. Nipp was likely to be
elected to the office of sheriff, and asking that the recipient of the letter
use his influence in getting Norton appointed as deputy sheriff in case Nipp
was elected. Norton will be remembered
as an individual who figured in the justice's court of this city for certain
disreputable actions, while acting as under sheriff. His performances while acting as under
sheriff is a part of the republican record of which the Courier is so
proud. It seems that in order for the
republican party to be proud of its members, they must have been guilty of some
unlawful act. One of the contingencies
that may be confidently looked for, in the event of Nipp's election, is to find
H. G. Norton appointed to his old position because of the fact that he
possesses a reputation for promiscuous cussedness that is the envy of all good
republicans and one that required years of diligence and zeal, and strict
attention to the business in hand to build up.
Are you ready for the program?
---
Total amount of mortgages, chattel and real
estate, filed and released Oct. 20th were:
Filings ........ $9,310.20
Releases ....... 6,254.30
Excess of releases ... $3,055.90
[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1891, CONTINUED.]
M. H. Markham, Reece Stephens, Salem
Fouts, and J. D. Salmon returned today from a series of meetings in Omnia and
Harvey townships. A large and
enthusiastic meeting was held at Atlanta and Box City and many converts were
made to the people's cause.
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W.
M. I. S.
The next meeting of the W. M. I. S. will
be held in Winfield, November 11, 1891, at 1:30 o'clock p.m. All ladies interested in the work of this
society are cordially invited to attend.
LUELLA
R. KAYBILL, Vice-President.
[WOMAN'S MUTUAL
IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY]
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A
Great Convention.
The republican township convention of
Omnia township has gone into history. It
was a remarkable meeting. The chairman
or committeemen failed to appear.
After discussing matters for awhile on
the salt barrels and boxes, the meeting proceeded to Nic Clous' blacksmith shop
to deliberate on the advisability of nominating a township ticket.
Mr. Tom Robertson, our hardware man, was
spoken of as a candidate; he is a Simon pure democrat; then again Mr. Clous,
our blacksmith, was suggested as a very proper man for justice of the
peace. He is also a very pure democrat.
Tom Jackson was given the bounce, but why
we can hardly tell, unless it is because his democratic propensities are not so
thoroughly developed as the above named gentlemen.
Mr. Jackson has at times split his
ticket, voting for good republicans instead of bad democrats. As no more democrats could be found, the
meeting adjourned without a ticket, so far as can be learned.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1891.]
Mrs. C. W. Roseberry and daughter, Emma,
left yesterday for a week's visit at Conway Springs.
A new boot and shoe store has been opened
on E. 9th, by H. Billingsly. Farmers,
call there and see his goods.
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MARRIAGE LICENSE. F. B. Gray, of Peabody, Kansas, and Lizzie M.
Kennedy, of Winfield, secured a marriage license today from Judge Lafferty.
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It is reported that the democrats and
republicans have chipped in to hire the opera house at Arkansas City in which
to hold a political meeting. What do you
think of that for a poser?
[HOWLER,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 21st were:
Releases ......... $12,124.96
Filings .......... 5,595.59
Excess of releases ....... $ 6,529.37
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Political
Debate.
A discussion of the merits of the
Republican and People's parties will be held at the College next Tuesday
evening, Oct. 27, under the auspices of the Athenian literary society. The Republican party to be represented by U.
S. Sartin and Geo. Smith; the People's party by R. H. Copeland and S. E.
Boys. Interspersed with appropriate
music. All are cordially
invited.
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J. E. Snow, a former resident of
Winfield, came in this morning from Washington, D. C. His associations with the "uppa
crusts" while acting as door-keeper at the White House, seems to have
given him some advanced ideas of life.
He left the impression on his hearers this morning that his nervous
system had undergone a severe shock, while listening to a statement of Jerry
Simpson, in a speech he made at Washington to the effect that the members of
the convention which nominated Jerry all wore colored shirts. Major Snow took it that that was sufficient
evidence there were no brains in that convention. It will be observed that Major Snow has made
some great strides intellectually since going to Washington, as he now wears a
white shirt. He seems to be of the
opinion that Mr. Simpson brought a great deal of discredit upon Kansas by such
a disgraceful statement. Someone ought
to see Mr. Simpson and when he goes bck to Washington to make a speech, have
him tone down his remarks to suit the elite door-keepers and
spittoon-cleaners of Washington society.
The Major told some of the boys confidentially that he had been sent
down here by the department to carry the election. "Now, in the names of all the gods at
once, upon what meat doth this, our Major feed, that he has grown so
great?" Since he returned he seems
to "bestride this narrow world like a huge Colossus," in
imagination. A committee will probably
be appointed to look after this dapper little fellow to prevent his falling by
the wayside as did Lewis Hanback when compelled to change drinks for a season.
[HOWLER,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1891, CONTINUED.]
[MORE
ITEMS ABOUT J. B. NIPP.]
Our great moral prohibition morning
contemporary is so busy lying about the county clerk that it cannot take time
to explain how J. B. Nipp happened to be in the joint business or why he failed
to pay for the beer. Dispatch.
---
The "great prohibition," and
you might add, religious daily, characterized the whole thing as a political
canard of the rottenest kind several weeks ago and that is all there is to it,
exccept that a brewer would like to bleed Captain Nipp for a few hundred
dollars while he is running for sheriff.
If our poo poo patriots will take the trouble to look at the petition or
affidavit which they published a few days ago, they will readily see that some
vigorous lying was done by the parties who prepared and signed that
document. If, as they say, they exhausted
every means in trying to get the money out of Saunders, and having failed now
come on to Nipp whom they allege was a partner, it shows they were either great
fools or liars, because if Nipp was a partner of Saunders, they would certainly
have brought suit against him and Saunders jointly. The alleged bill is now nearly four years
old. During all of that time Captain
Nipp has been a resident of this county and within easy reach of Mr.
Wilkenmeyer, or his agents. The fact is,
it is a damnable scheme, hatched up to assist old Calamity Jane in securing a
position for Cochran, the wrecker of the alliance store. Traveler.
---
We had an idea all along that the ool Traveler
man would undertake to lie out of in that way and were prepared for him. Please read the following and see if the
thing was a trumped up affair to bleed the great-and-only-goody-good J. B.
Nipp, just on the eve of election.
I, T. G. Risley, Clerk District Court,
Logan county, Oklahoma Territory, do hereby certify that the suit of Julius
Winkelmeyer vs. J. H. Saunders & J. B. Nipp was filed in my office in the
city of Guthrie, on the 28th day of August, 1890, and was dismissed by
plaintiff's attorney on the 5th day of October, 1891, and that all pleadings in
said case were withdrawn by plaintiff by permission of court and are no longer
on file in this office.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court this 21st day of Oct., 1891.
[SEAL] T. G.
RISLEY,
by S.
K. VAN VOORHEES, Deputy.
This shows that it was filed more than a
year ago and was finally brought here in order to get service on defendant, J.
B. Nipp.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1891 - FRONT PAGE.]
MORE
SOLDIERS NEEDED.
Gen. Schofield
Speaks of the Indian Troubles.
Recommendations
Made.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. Major General Schofield, commanding the army,
has made his annual report upon the operations of the army to the secretary of
war. He reviews the Indian disturbance
of last winter, recalls that nearly one-half of the infantry and cavalry of the
army was concentrated at the scene of the disturbance, and then says that this
campaign teaches the lesson that the entire military force of the United States
would be wholly inadequate to prevent great loss of life and damage to property
if a general Indian outbreak should occur.
However, he believes that no considerable number of the Sioux intended
hostilities against the United States unless driven to it by hardship. He says:
"There is hence a well grounded belief that, by the constant
exercise of discretion in the management of Indians, coupled with justice in
all dealings of the government with them and the presence of a sufficient
military force to overawe the turbulent minority among them, there need be no
serious apprehension of an extended uprising of the Sioux, and, probably, not
of any other Indian tribe. It is also
well worthy of the most serious consideration that by the addition of a few
thousand men to the enlisted strength of the army, whereby a sufficient force
might at all times be stationed in the vicinity of the great reservations, the
danger of an uprising and resulting destruction of frontier settlements would
be entirely removed, and the great expense of transportation of troops from
distant parts of the country entirely avoided."
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[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1891, CONTINUED.]
The best wheat went as high as 80 cents
today.
R. S. Strother, of Atlanta, was in town
today on business.
P. L. Edwards, of Atlanta, was in town
today on business.
When you are tired and want to be
"pulled," go to W. S. Augustine's for a shave.
Bradshaw, Cochran, and Hawkins will go to
Eaton tonight to discuss political issues.
Mrs. Sid Klingle of South Manning street,
has a very sick boy. He has the
eryipelas on his face.
The Midland elevator is nearing
completion. It is one of the best
buildings of the kind in the southwest.
---
J. C. Monfort is erecting a business
house in Chandler, Oklahoma, and will remove there soon and go into the general
merchandise business.
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1891, CONTINUED.]
At the next county meeting of the Woman's
Mutual Improvement Society, members will please come prepared to answer to the
roll call, by repeating a verse of scripture relative to the christian
hope. B. HENDRIX.
---
Newton Julien, of Eaton, was in town
today. He got into quite a spirited
discussion on politics but stood firm on the People's platform and held his
own. Newt knows a thing or two iff he is
young in the cause.
---
Rev. J. A. Rupp, county president of the
Sunday School Association, held a Sunday school convention at Lone Star school
house a week ago last Saturday and Sunday.
He reports a good attendance and a lively interest. Mr. Rupp deserves credit for his tireless
energy as a Sunday school worker.
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Remember that the registration books will
positively close at 9 o'clock tonight.
If you expect to vote at this election, you must attend to the matter
tonight.
---
These cool days you can have a warm room
to bathe in at
W.
S. Augustine's under the Winfield National Bank. Hot and cold baths. When you want a shave, hair cut, or bath, or
in fact anything in the barber's line, see W. S. Augustine.
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For the next 60 days I will hang wall
paper for 15 cents per double roll.
Leave your orders at Cole's drug store.
G.
W. CRAWFORD.
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Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 22nd, were:
Releases ........... $6,588.00
Filings ............ 2,688.95
Excess of releases .........$3,899.95
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Frank Robinson has leased the Weimer
butcher shop on East 7th, not only for one month but for five years. He has all young stock and will sell nothing
but first-class meat. Will handle also
chickens, turkeys, and butter, and game in season. Mr. Allen, a well known butcher, will assist
him. Give him a call.
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Dissolution
of Partnership.
The public will take notice that the
partnership heretofore existing between Drs. Ford & Fayette is now
dissolved and the patients under treatment by Dr. Ford will receive the same
attention as in the past. He will be
found at his office, Room 13 in Thompson building, and at his residence ready
to answer all calls day or night, in acute or chronic diseases.
---
At the meeting of the republican club of
this city on last Tuesday evening, a great deal of anxiety was manifested by
the members in regard to the successful campaign being made by the People's
party. The president of the club thought
that someone should be put out to counteract the influence of J. C. Bradshaw,
and intimated that he would be the proper personage to camp on Mr. Bradshaw's
trail. The club seemed to take a
different view of the matter. They
seemed to remember the president of the club had done some camping on trails
last fall, and the returns showed a gain for the People's ticket over the
previous year; and as a consequence, the matter was permitted to go by. One member thought that something ought to be
done to counteract the effect of James Buchanan's speech. He thought what Mr. Buchanan had said was
working a great injury to the republican party, and should be refuted. Another innocent kind of a member mildly
suggested that that would be hard to do, but others said that there should be
an effort made to refute his statements without regard to methods of so doing
it, so long as something was done in that line.
The club was certainly working on the right line, but they have a
prodigious job on hand when they undertake to refute those statements.
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A
Happy Anniversary.
Wednesday, October 14th, was the scene of
a pleasant gathering of friends out in the east part of town, at the home of
Rev. G. S. Lake, presiding Elder in the U. B. Church.
Mrs. Lake, remembering that the 10th
anniversary of their marriage was drawing near, decided to invite all the
ministers and their wifes in the district over which her husband presides to
come and dine with their Elder upon the above mentioned date.
Participants: Rev. Kettering, pastor of the U. B. Church in
Winfield, with wife and little son; Rev. P. B. Lee, wife, and little daughter;
Rev. Osbun and wife of Eaton; Rev. Watkins and wife of Geuda Springs; Rev. J.
A. Rupp, wife and little Thayer; Rev. J. Barriclaw and others.
The hostess entertained on her lovely
piano, after which Rev. P. B. Lee presented Mrs. Lake with over 80 pieces of
glassware and white stone china; also a gift of cash to Elder Lake, requesting
him to purchase a Bible with it.
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1891, CONTINUED.]
WHEATLAND.
Gov. Williams is having a new barn built.
Little Grace Cooley is slowly recovering
from her recent illness.
Newt Brookshire spent two days of last
week in Arkansas City.
Will Cooley has been on the sick list for
about a week.
Miss Bettie Lunceford and Mrs. Agnes
Allen visited in Winfield Saturday and Sunday.
Quite a number of young folks were at the
party Saturday evening given at the residence of Mr. Alvah Bailey, of Rock.
There was a law suit before Justice of
the Peace Gorham last Saturday. The jury
failed to agree and the matter was finally compromised.
The People's meeting at Rock was a grand
one. Prof. Russell and his glee club
were there. Senator King addressed the
audience upon the subjeect of the session of the Kansas legislature. A talk was given by Mr. Cochran.
KANSAS
ANNIE.
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[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1891, CONTINUED.]
A
GOOD SPEECH.
The speech made by Hon. James Buchanan at
Highland hall last evening should have been heard by every thoughtful person in
this city. It was a speech that appealed
to reason and not to passion and prejudice and was on a subject in which all of
us are interested. It pointed out the
cause which produced the present depressed conditions and showed what will be
our condition in the future if those causes are not removed. In short, it was a clear and logical discussion
of the problem of civilization, and described the process by which that problem
is to be solved.
THINK I COVERED THIS ALREADY!
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1891 - FRONT PAGE.]
To
Push the Outlet Opening.
ARKANSAS CITY, Kan., Oct. 24. Arrangements are being made by prominent men
of the Southwest to hold a mass convention in this city about the middle of
next month for the purpose of giving expression to the sentiment of the people
in relation to the immediate opening of the Cherokee outlet to settlement. The exact date and the names of the various
committees will be announced in a few days.
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Mrs. Baker, of Udall, is in town today
shopping.
Tom Clover, of Cambridge, was in Winfield
today.
Frank Hoverstock, of Eaton, was in
Winfield on business today.
Mrs. Darts and daughter, Miss Bertha, of
Dexter, were in town today.
Mrs. Longshore and daughter, Miss Myrtle,
of Eaton, were in the city today.
The Imbecile asylum has 103 inmates and
Dr. Wiles says they could have twice that number if they had roomj. The capacity of the building is about eighty.
Martin Kentner was arraigned in Justice
Ingman's court last evening for assault and battery. He was fined one dollar and costs.
Our officers are getting after the
gamblers. One, W. H. Chambers, was
arrested yesterday and fined ten dollars in Justice Ingman's court for betting
on a game of cards.
B. H. Clover will sell on Saturday, Oct.
31, at auction, about 30 head of horses and colts ranging in age from two to
eight years. The sale will be at Gregg's
stable on 9th avenue in Winfield.
MARRIAGE LICENSE. John Hubbard, Iowa, and Minnie L. Walker, of
Udall; R. J. Tomlin and Carrie Freeman of Atlanta, secured matrimonial
documents of Judge Lafferty today.
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Ror the next 60 days I will furnish and
hang wall paper at the following prices:
Brown back, per double roll .... 25c
White backs .................... 30c
Gilts .......................... 35c
G.
W. CRAWFORD.
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Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 23rd were:
Filings ........... $3,495.50
Releases .......... 2,865.00
Excess of filings ......... $ 630.50
---
Mrs. Lida Brady came in last evening from
the eastern part of the county, having visited every school in Cedar, Grant,
Otter, and Dexter townships. Mrs. Brady
is making thorough work in school visiting, and very few schools will be missed
this year.
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1891, CONTINUED.]
C. W. Frith, of Eaton, was telling on the
street today that there were about as many republicans at the Eaton meeting
last night as there were People's men.
The surprising thing about the matter is that anyone can be found who
would repeat the story after such a man as Frith. He has never been accused by any of his
neighbors of telling the truth.
---
E. L. Johnson, of Eaton, and his cousin,
Mr. Williams, of Illinois, were in town today.
Mr. Williams is on his way to San Diego, California.
---
The Traveler and Courier have been doing
all in their power to down Salem Fouts, presumably at the instigation of I. B.
Fishback, who pretends that he is making a clean canvass. Let's see:
Mr. Fishback has something of a record himself. He seems to have been a member of the council
of Guthrie in the palmy days of boodleism in that city, and records and rumors
of records permeate the air of that wonderful city. More anon.
---
The Athenian and Cadmus societies have
engaged the following course of entertainments for the coming year: Redpath Star Concert Co., Areal Thomas
Combination, The Swedish Lady Singers,
W.
M. R. French, the noted chalk lecturer, and Geo. R. Wendling, the prince of
orators. They will furnish course
tickets for the above for $2.50. You
cannot afford to miss this rare treat of platform talent. Persons desiring reserved course tickets
should drop a card to E. T. Hackney, secretary, "College Store."
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1891 - FRONT PAGE.]
INDIANS
AND POLICE FIGHT.
Three Men Killed and Many
Wounded in Southern Manitoba.
ASSINIBOINE, Mont., Oct. 26. Word has been received here of a battle which
took place Thursday between a band of Blood Indians and a force of Canadian
mounted police, just across the international boundary line, not over fifty
miles from this place.
The Blood Indians, who are old time
enemies of the police, made a raid on a band of horses belonging to the latter
a few days ago and ran off nearly all of them.
Then of the police started in pursuit, and coming upon the Indians
suddenly yesterday, both sides commenced firing.
At the first fire, one policeman and two
Indians were killed and several were wounded on both sides.
The news was brought in by a Blackfoot,
who witnessed the fight, which was still in progress when he left.
Colonel Bates, commander of Fort
Assiniboine, has ordered a troop of cavalry to take station at the Blackfoot
[?] agency to restrain the Indians at that agency from attempting to take any
part in the disturbance.
[HOWLER,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1891, CONTINUED.]
H. R. Branson, of Dexter, is in town.
D. Mumaw, of Hackney, is attending court.
Court convened today for a two weeks'
term.
Kensington crochet twist all colors at
Mrs. L. W. Swan's.
Miss Mable Sumpter was visiting in the
country yesterday.
Jasper Roseberry, of Neosho county, is
visiting his uncle, Milton Roseberry, of Pleasant Valley township.
Parties desiring to have all kinds of
second-hand furniture repaired will do well to call on D. Berkey, W. 9th
avenue.
Miss Sadie Horner, of this office, spent
Sunday at Udall. Her sister, Mrs.
Boomershine, is quite sick with the fever.
Bert Frizzell, a college student, lost a
twenty dollar gold piece one day last week.
He thinks he gave it to a car driver by mistake for a dollar.
---
Taken up by the undersigned, corner
Andrew and 4th ave., two white goats.
Owner can have them by proving property and paying for this notice. ROY TOUCHTONE.
---
B. H. Clover will sell on Saturday, Oct.
31, at auction, about 30 head of horses and colts ranging in age from two to
eight years. The sale will be at Gregg's
stable on 9th avenue in Winfield.
---
Mr. Chase Johnson and family will start
for New Mexico in a short time. They go
on account of Mrs. Johnson's health. She
is suffering with lung trouble.
---
Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 24th were:
Filings ........... $5,531.00
Releases .......... 862.50
Excess of filings ........ $5,658.50
---
This office acknowledges the receipt of a
fine photograph of the Morgan monument.
The picture is very fine and correct, giving a view of the monument from
the southwest, showing up the Central school building to a good advantage. The artist, C. H. Fisk, is to be
congratulated upon the correctness of the picture.
[HOWLER,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1891.]
DIED.
Mr. John Jones, of Akron, died yesterday at Guy's hotel in this city of
abscess of the brain. He will be buried
at Akron tomorrow at 2 p.m.
Mr. Jones was one of the first settlers
of Cowley county and is well known. For
months he has been a sufferer from the malady that endered his life and has
taken treatment from the best physicians in the county. He came to Dr. Smith last week, but was then
beyond medical aid.
---
An evening Sunday School convention was
held at Center Point church in Liberty township Saturday, 24th. Very soul-stirring speeches were made by
President J. A. Rupp, Bro. Joe Barridaw, Revs. Osbourne and Summers, and
others. Officers elected were: Pres. M. B. Rowe; vice pres., J. A. Smith;
sec., Ettie Race; treas., D. R. Grouse.
---
An all day convention was held at Eaton
Sunday, 25th. Sunday School workers were
there from a distance. Officers elected
were: Pres., W. Watkins, vice pres.,
Alden Mackey; sec., E. I. Johnson; treas., R. B. Hanna. The following officers were also appointed
for Dexter township: Pres. W. Drury;
vice pres., H. H. Haven; sec., Gusta Bibler; treas., John Reynolds.
J.
A. RUPP.
---
A
LETTER.
A gentleman of this city, who has always
stood high in republican circles, has written out a statement, or a sort of
confession as it were, of the methods employed by politicians in carrying out
their designs. He says that the matter
of both old parties putting a full ticket in the field for the present campaign
in Cowley county, was discussed in a joint caucus composed of leading democrats
and republicans as early as February, 1891.
That at this caucus a democratic politician lawyer and banker was
present and made the following remarkable statement.
"We have got to do something to
break the necks of these d____d People's party fellows; and I, as a democrat,
would rather see the republicans win than to see the People's party get a
smell. I dislike the republicans but I
dislike the People's party more than I do the republicans."
In March following, another joint caucus
was held and a ticket agreed upon, except in the matter of small details. In the matter of the republican ticket, the
democratic contingent was consulted and a satisfactory agreement arrived at.
The letter goes on to state that a
certain bank of this city was instrumental in bringing out J. B. Nipp as a
candidate for sheriff for the same reason that it championed the cause of J. S.
Hunt and S. J. Smock in former years, namely--that these individuals had all
been largely indebted to said bank and they used this method to get their
money. The writer further states that
the bank in question never openly advocates the casue of their candidate, but
leaves the work to paid emissaries who stand high in republican councils.
This is the substance of the statement
and we give it for what it is worth. It
may furnish a few pointers for such fellows as Swain, Maurer, Castor, and
others who were before the convention and to show how impossible it is to
receive a nomination when there is a power behind the throne to work the
wires. The letter is in the possession
of the recipient and can be seen by doubting Thomases.
[HOWLER,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1891, CONTINUED.]
School
Report.
Monthly Report of School District 103,
for month ending October 16, 1891. Number
enrolled 35; average daily attendance 24.
The following are those making highest average in examination given at
close of month.
GRAMMAR
GRADE: Otto Griffin 96; Naomi Young 90;
Allie Morgan 92; James Tharp 96; Mary Stickel 86; Effie Tomlin 86.
INTERMEDIATE: Ralph Griffin 98; Clara Parker 94; Edith
Young 97; Vilura Tomil 92; James Stickle.
PRIMARY: Dessie Morgan 90; Lula Stickle 91; Jessie
Morrison 85.
CLARA
HARRIS, Teacher.
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Public
Sale.
I will offer at public sale, in Winfield
on
SATURDAY,
Oct. 21st, 1891.
Commencing at 1 o'clock p.m., the
following described property, to-wit: 10
head of two-year-old mares and horses; 12 head of mares, ranging from four to
eight years old, and four four-year-old horses.
TERMS OF SALE: A credit of six months will be given, with
approved security, without interest.
Eight percent off for cash.
B.
H. CLOVER.
Walter Denning, Auct.
---
Mr. H. N. Rogers, living two miles
northeast of Akron, has advertised a stock sale for November 12. He has a fine lot and a large variety for
sale.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1891 - FRONT PAGE.]
ONLY
ONE BOOMER FOUND.
The Strip
Practically Clear According to the Soldiers.
Ponca
Negotiations.
PONCA, INDIAN TERRITORY, Oct. 27. The Cherokee commission opened negotiations
with the Ponca Indians immediately upon concluding a contract with the
Tonkawas. The Poncas are intelligent
and industrious and fully understand their relations to the reservation they
occupy--that it was bought and paid for out of the money realized from the sale
of their lands in Dakota.
On account of several deaths in the
tribe, but two councils have been held and at these the Indian policy of the
government and the status of the Ponca tribe have been discussed. Tomorrow, however, the commission will make a
definite proposition, stating how much land each Indian may take in allotment
and the amount of money the government is willing to pay for the residue. The reservation embraces about 91,000 [?] acres.
On account of the frequent rumors that
boomers are settling on the outlet and making improvements, Captain Woodson, in
command of the escort, has sent out detachments to scout the surrounding
country. One party returned today and
reports that after scouting the country to the Oklahoma line, and especially
along Black Bear creek, where boomers were reported to be located, but one
family was found. The head of the family
is an old offender and was expelled from the same locality last March. At that time he was allowed fifteen days to
move out with his effects, but on this occasion he was summarily ejected and
his improvements destroyed. With this
exception, the outlet is free from boomers, all reports to the contrary
notwithstanding.
[HOWLER,
TUESDAY, OCT. 27, 1891, CONTINUED.]
A fine line of zephyrs and Saxony yarn at
L. W. Swann's.
Mrs. C. W. Roseberry and daughter
returned last night from a week's visit at Conway Springs.
250 second hand cook stoves, 125 gasoline
stoves, and 95 heating stoves wanted at once at D. Berkey's, West 9th ave.
---
Lee West, of Arkansas City, was on trial
Monday in district court for complicity in drugging and robbing a man in
Arkansas City. His bondsmen had given
him over and they had been discharged.
Lee concluded that that was a good time to take an airing and walked out
of the courtroom, went to a barn, procured a rig, and coolly rode off. Up to this writing he is still at large. This surely shows a little carelessness in
the presiding court officials.
[HOWLER,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Rain! Rain!
All those interested in having a rain in
Cowley county will please meet at the courthouse Thursday evening at 7:30
o'clock for the purpose of devising means to employ the rain-makers to come and
experiment.
A.
F. Dauber
J.
N. Harter
G.
W. Sanderson
H.
L. Edwards
J.
F. Balliet
W.
C. Robinson
S.
E. Burger
J.
H. Anderson
J.
B. Lynn
J.
O. Hawley
F.
J. Sydal
P.
H. Albright
---
Monday night at the Salvation Army
barracks a stranger got up in the crowd and seemed to be laboring under the
influence of something that caused him to think he was a physical giant. He talked a little and said he weighed 150
pounds, and when he got mad, he weighed 5 pounds more than any other man in
town; this called up an argument, and a man in the rear of the house said he
was just a little the heaviest and if the Herculean stranger wanted anything he
could be accommodated at once. Quiet was
at last restored and salvation dispensed as usual in unbroken doses. We have heard quite a number ask where
Nipp was, as he had pledged to keep order at the barracks if the good people of
that institution will support him for sheriff.
---
Baled hay and feed at L. Weimer's, east
7th.
MARRIAGE LICENSE. Fred Brown and Esther M. Walters, of Arkansas
City, secured a marriage license today.
---
Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 26th were:
Filings ........ $ 779.90
Releases ....... 1,145.00
Excess of releases .... $ 365.10
---
SILVERDALE.
The wheat is needing rain badly.
The Coburn school is mounting toward the
zenith of intellectual worth under the management of Mrs. Kephart.
Several carloads of cattle were shipped
from this place this week. Silverdale is
fast coming to the front as a shipping point.
Miss Della Rinehart has gone to reside
with her sister near Arkansas City. [? Rinehart ... they had Rinehyrt ?]
B.
N.
[HOWLER,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Senator Peffer spoke at Riverside part at
Arkansas City yesterday at 2 o'clock p.m.
Owing to a lack of proper advertising, the crowd was not large, but
close attention was given throughout. He
spoke for over two hours. He said that
Census Superintendent Foster had stated to him that his record showed that nine
millions of homes in the United States were mortgatged and that the real estate
mortgages of Kansas, exclusive of lands belonging to railroads, amounted to
more than $235,000,00. For making this
statement in some speeches he had made, he was branded by republican papers as
a falsifier, who was unworthy of the people he represented. The speaker read from official documents to
prove that the eastern states were adding to their assessed valuation in a much
greater ratio than other parts of the country--four of the eastern states having
increased more in the past ten years than all the rest put together. This was done principally through the medium
of interest on their loans.
Mrs. Todd spoke at Highland hall in the
evening, to a crowded house, but as she will be present in Winfield tomorrow
afternoon, we will not undertake to give any extracts, choosing rather that our
readers may go and hear her for themselves.
There is no doubt that her speech at
Arkansas City last evening made a large breech in the g. o. p. ranks, which
Mitchell, Crouse, Tom, and Jim, can never heal.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1891.]
Clint Hargis and wife, of Dexter, were in
town Tuesday.
Jake Swartz was arrested this week for
keeping a gambling house. Noah Aiken
filed the complaint.
Our city solicitor, J. H. Singleton, made
a trip to Dexter Tuesday on the hunt of his horse that had strayed away.
Several "wine merchants" in
this city were arrested this week for dealing in the ardent contrary to
law. Among the number we see the names
of W. D. Buchanan and Frank Manny.
Bob Farnsworth has not only had the
chills, but has a large plaster on top of his nose. He has been too saucy or "didn't see the
post" in time to go round it.
[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Capt. W. E. White and U. S. Sartin talked
pure republican politics at Akron Saturday night.
James Day, of Eaton, is attending court.
---
I have a Halliday geared wind mill and
tower for sale at two-thirds of its value.
W. A. LEE.
---
F. M. Freeland has bought Hogue's grocery
in the east part of the city.
---
MARRIAGE LICENSE. A marriage license was granted today to C. L.
Newton, of Dallas, Texas, and Hatttie L. Sipes, of Arkansas City.
---
The case of the state against Ross for
the robbery of J. D. Bright was tried today.
The jury brought in a verdict of guilty after remaining out only a few
minutes.
---
Total amount of mortgages, chattel and
real estate, filed and released Oct. 26th were:
Filings ........ $ 779.90
Releases ....... 1,145.00
Excess of releases .... $ 365.10
---
The Courier says Senator King
voted against the uniformity of school books.
No one who knows the facts will deny it, but Senate Bill No. 264 was to
create a county uniformity of school books.
King wanted a state uniformity of text books. The Courier thinks it is a little cute
at times, but others can read as well as those educated yawpers over the
way. No sensible man will blame Senator
King for voting against the bill as it was, and the House did just right in
killing it outright. Now, Mr.
Courier, next time you undertake to misrepresent our honorable senator, you
had better cover up your tracks.
---
W. E. Tansey spoke at Dexter last night
to an audience consisting of twelve republicans and thirteen People's men. When he began he had this number, but when he
closed, there were less republicans.
Sick 'em, Tansy.
[HOWLER,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Slightly
Mixed.
R. S. Strother and J. B. Nipp were in
Harvey township last week trading for votes.
They proposed to the democrats that if the democrats would put out a
township ticket, the republicans would support it if the democrats would
support the republican county ticket.
They interviewed Jas. Near, Geo. Savage, and Henry McCrabb. McCrabb
tried to get Mr. Moor, the democratic committeeman, to call a township
convention, but he refused. Now,
gentlemen, this is the aim of these men to ride into office, not on their good
looks but by trickery. I ask all who
read this to consider that at one time democrats were rebels and a sworn enemy
of the g. o. p. party. Today anything
will do to beat the People's party. Vote
for reformation, which means for your homes and your families. A VOTER.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1891.]
John Mattox is the champion bycicle rider
of the city.
Another man has been in and explained to
the Courier just
how to borrow money on land and clear the amount he borrowed the first
year. This time the victim is Martin V.
Casaday of Beaver. The whole thing is so
foreign from facts that it must be counted in with Sam Tull's exploits near New
Salem, whose neighbors say was a preposterous stretch on facts. We notice Mr. Casaday don't figure what it
cost to board teams and hands, and wear and tear and interest on machinery.
---
The Courier man can't help showing
its love for the old soldier. It is
considerably grieved over the fact that J. D. Salmon gets a pension of $45 per
month and never misses an opportunity to remind its readers of that fact, but
it never says anything of the fact that J. B. Nipp with all his members perfect,
a very picture of health and strength, draws $36 per month pension, and R. S.
Strother, another robust, clean limbed fellow draws $12 per month. Now if these men, who have no visible
disability, draw such pensions, how much should a man receive who has a visible
physical disability such as Salmon? The Courier
man weeps some more big weeps because a soldier's daughter and widow is not at
work in the county clerk's office. Do
you remember, Mr. Courier, that this same soldier's daughter and widow
was an applicant for the Winfield post office along with yourself and that the
signers to her petition were as to yours as two hundred is to one? This soldier's daughter had a father who once
was a candidate for probate judge and the Courier man did all in his power to defeat
him.
An old soldier was an applicant for the
position of post master of Winfield, with about seventeen hundred names signed
to his petition, but the Courier man, backed by the great and only B. W.
Perkins secured the prize. Mr. Courier,
ring off on your hypocritical pretensions of love for the old soldier. It's getting most all fired thin.
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[HOWLER,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1891, CONTINUED.]
HARMONY.
Husking corn and sowing wheat are the
order of the day.
The young people of this place are taking
quite an interest in the Tisdale literary, as the champion speakers were
selected from among them for next Friday evening.
Ed Condit bought 100 bushels of corn from
W. F. Curtis, for which he paid 92 cents per bushel.
George Thomas is engaged in hauling hay
to Winfield this week.
Charlie Munnemaker has been in a very
critical condition for the past week with the fever.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Curtis visited Mr. and
Mrs. J. Chase Sunday.
Our school is progressing nicely under
the management of C. G. Crawford.
Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Condit went to the
city Saturday to shop.
Mrs. Lowe has been in very poor health
for the past month.
Lee Condit returned from his visit to
Oklahoma last week.
NIMROD.
---
I SKIPPED THE PEOPLE'S RALLY COVERAGE...MRS.
MARIAN TODD.
---
TERRITORIAL
NOTES.
Oklahoma
and Its Prosperous People.
The great tidal wave of settlement has
swept over Oklahoma, swept like a rolling wave over hills, valleys, and plains,
and many flourishing towns have taken their positions as the trade centers of
the Indian country. Business has arisen
from a stagnant pond, during the ages before the opening, to a mighty wve. Merchants in the towns are jubilant and
having a good, brisk trade. Now that the
crops have been harvested and are being pushed upon the market, money is
becoming plentiful again. The farmer is
jubilant over his crop and the fair average price he receives for his produce.
The cities and county presents an
appearance of activity that is an astonishment to the oldest residents of the
Indian territory who were accustomed only to the solitude of the forest and the
peaceful murmur of the little river, and to them the hustle and noise of a
growing town, the smoke of hundreds of settlers' campfires in the magically
settled county, comes to them like a rude awakening from a life-time
dream. The Indian who has been
accustomed to hunt at his will and where he chose, now finds himself penned up
on a 160 acre tract of land, and to get off this tract will be to tread on the
paleface's possessions.
SKIPPED THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE.
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[HOWLER,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Briefs.
Tahlequah is to have a big cotton gin.
The Santa Fe is going to build a depot at
Wharton.
The report that Secretary Martin will
resign is false.
Chandler goes Rome one better. She has eight hills.
Oklahoma claims to raise the biggest
sugar beets on record.
All lots at Chandler will be deeded
before April 1 next year.
Senators Dawes and Platt are booked for
Oklahoma this fall.
Oklahoma City voted bonds to liquidate
her $25,000 indebtedness.
The businessmen of Ardmore paid $14,300
for cotton last Tuesday.
The bridge over the Cimarron near Guthrie
has been completed.
They are now talking of opening the
Cheyenne country on December 1st.
The Episcopal church in Oklahoma has an
organ--The Oklahoma Churchman.
Beaver county was the only place in
Oklahoma that came forward with a fair this year.
The animosity to the Sooner law is
approaching the size of an organized movement now.
The Nez Perces movement is a little queer
and looks like it had more in it than appears on the surface.
MUCH MORE...BUT I SKIPPED.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1891.]
Fred Wahlenmaier, of Arkansas City,
called to see us today.
Rev. Lahr and family, of Dexter, are
visiting relatives in the city.
Fred Rice, wife, and two little sons, of
Atlanta, are trading in our city today.
T. A. Venable and son, Frank, of
Cambridge, were over on business today.
Sam Nicholson, of Dexter, was prominent
around the Republican headquarters today.
MARRIAGE LICENSE.
John Howell and Miss Alma Ames of Arkansas City, took out matrimonial
papers yesterday.
Fred Kropp went to Burden today after his
team and fixutres to move a building in this city.
---
LEE
WEST.
Captured by
Under Sheriff Trout, Kitchen, and
Deputy
Sheriff John Mann.
West
Attempts to Shoot but Gets Shot.
Last evening at about 8 o'clock Under
Sheriff Kitchen and Deputy Sheriff Mann came into the city and reported that
they had captured Lee West, but had to shoot him to get him. Last Monday, West, while under trial, skipped
the town and has been in hiding since.
The officers have kept a sharp lookout, but were unable to locate their
man. Yesterday morning Under Sheriff
Kitchen received word from West that he would kill him on sight. Kitchen was also told that West was coming
into the city last night and which way.
Accordingly yesterday afternoon Kitchen, accompanied by John Mann, went
out to watch the road by which West would come into the city. Kitchen was armed with a Winchester, and Mann
with a shot gun loaded with buckshot.
They stationed themselves five miles east of the city near Will Martin's
farm at a bridge which West would have to cross to get into the city. They watched there all afternoon and just
before 6 o'clock they put Will Martin on guard and went into the house to eat
supper. While eating they heard a horse
walking across the bridge and they felt that their man had arrived. Jumping up from the table they ran outside
and secured thewir guns and rushed out to the road. West did not see them as they walked into the
road as he was ahead of them a short distance.
Mann shouted, "Halt and throw up!" West never said a word, but rising in his
saddle, turned, and fired, and almost at the same moment Kitchen discharged
his Winchester. West fell from his horse
at the side of the road and lay there.
Will Martin, the farmer, went up to him
and found him still clasping his Winchester as if he was ready to shoot. The gun was removed from his grasp and West was
taken to Martin's house. It was found
that the load of buck shot had taken effect in the side and back and was a
severe wound. The injured man never said
a word after he was shot, although he was perfectly conscious. Martin was left to guard the wounded man
while Kitchen and Mann came to the city after a physician. The officers brought with them West's
Winchester.
Dr. Morris went out to attend West and at
a late hour returned. He reported that
West was in a bad condition. He had
received thirteen No. 4 shot. This is a
size nearly as large as buckshot and made several ugly wounds, two in
particular being painful, having struck him near the kidney. The physicians think there is little prospect
of West recovering.
Traveler.
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1891, CONTINUED.]
The case of Joseph Mitchler vs. Siverd
and McLain was tried in Judge Ingman's court last night. Mitchler sued the constables for the recovery
of some beer taken from Tom Dodd's residence, but the court found that the beer
had been taken by due process of law under the section of the prohibitory
amendment which makes it a felony for persons to "club together," for
the purpose of buying and using intoxicants.
Mitchler had to pay costs to the amount of $23.
---
A
Joint Discussion.
A reporter visited the village of Kellogg
last evening for the purpose of listening to a joint discussion between Capt.
Tansey of Winfield and J. B. Evans, a farmer of Vernon township.
The discussion was opened by Capt.
Tansey, who failed to present anything new in the way of argument, in favor of
republican doctrine. His speech was the
same one that the republicans had stereotyped about 15 years ago and has been
hawked about the country by would be republican speakers ever since.
The speech in question has a peculiar
history. The author is supposed to be
John A. Logan, but there have been some innovations on the original. It is generally accepted as a fact that the
comparison in which the mule is likened to the people's party, used by
Hallowell at Manning's hall on Tuesday evening and by Tansey last night,
originated sometime during the palmy days of the Babylonian empire. Some antiquarians think it must have started
at about the time that Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden; but be that as it
may, Bob Ingersoll, in searching through some "quaint and curious volumes
of forgotten lore," ran on to the idea and trotted it out for campaign use
during the greenback craze that swept over the country several years ago.
The story about the "shitepoke"
as told by Perkins in his campaign last year and in all his campaigns, and
repeated by Tansey last night, is very ancient, and its author is somewhat
obscured because of the fact that the historian neglected to make mention of
the fact. Some searches after antiquities
seem to think that Job originated the story during the days of his
affliction. The clause in regard to
every man in this country being a king and every woman a queen, which had its
origin during the revolutionary struggle, was rendered in accordance with the
original, stereotyped article.
Coming down to more recent date, the
speaker gave the bloody shirt a few twirls and clinched the point aimed at by
exhibiting a card with a facsimile of the stars and bars thereon. The clause in the landation of the national
banking system was rendered in all the primitive purity of the original
document. There were no innovations on
the old time speech until Mr. Evans came on for rebuttal. Mr. Evans, being familiar with ancient
history, had no difficulty in exploding the fallacies of that old chestnut of a
speech, and so forcible was his logic that when he began on the tariff question
and said that he was prepared to prove that the tariff was a tax, the Capt. was
in a proper frame of mind to admit that the tariff was a tax, and no mistake;
in fact, he so far forgot himself and his speech that he offered to bet Mr.
Evans ten dollars that the republican party had always asserted that the tariff
was a tax. This admission called
out prolonged and loud applause; and as it was a victory for Mr. Evans, the
chairman, who is a republican, felt called upon to threaten to adjourn the
meeting if it was not stopped.
It is supposed that the exhibition of the
stars and bars had acted upon the chairman much the same as haking a red rag at
a bull. He slopped over, as it were, and
was excused therefor by one of his neighbors, who said the fellow "didn't
know no better." Be that as it
may, there is probably not a republican in Vernon township but has his tariff
creed modified today, to conform to the new doctrine on tariff as expounded by
the judge, and they are all ready to bet ten dollars, to begin with, that the
tariff is and always was a tax.
Mr. Evans was warmly applauded throughout
his speech and is to be congratulated on the victory he gained. Tansey closed the discussion in a short talk
in which he said he had bushels of documents upon the actions of the alliance
House of representatives, which would take him two weeks to read, but he would
not take up the time to do so. Calls of
"read, read" came up from all over the room, but the Judge didn't
read. In fact, he seemed to have lost
his reckoning as he closed his remarks by asking the question: "Who in the h__l am I?"
[HOWLER,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Mr. Elliott, of Wilmot, is attending
court.
Curt Schooling was down from Atlanta
today.
Mr. Geo. Bussert of Liberty township was
in the city today.
G. L. Hayes, a college student, returned
last night from a few days visit with his father in Butler county.
---
The
Rain Question.
A meeting was held at the courthouse last
night for the purpose of devising means to secure rain or rain makers. An organization was perfecxted with S. Berger
as chairman.
Melbourne was telegraphed at Oklahoma
City, but information was returned that he had left last night for Dallas,
Texas. Another message was sent at once
and a return is expected by 6 p.m.
Another meeting has been called for 7:30 this evening at the
courthouse. Come out and help make it
rain.
---
[Reply to Hon. John Bobbitt's letter in
the Tribune, Oct. 11th, 1891. We
are fully vindicated.]
CONSTANT, Kansas, Oct. 27th, 1891.
HON. JOHN BOBBITT, My Dear Sir: I take the plesure through the press of
thanking you for publishing my private letter that I hhad written to you an
answer to yours of Sept. 28th, 1891. You
say I am disgusted with the democrats, and so I am, and why souldn't I be, when
the leaders go bck on their platform and the democratic principles. You say there are some democrats who are
proud to be called democrats, and you name a few, and in the list of names I
noticed that of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Thomas A. Hendricks, and
Thomas Benton. Now how do you know they
would be proud to be called democrats today?
If I read history correctly, they have been ded lo these many
years. Were either of the gentlemen
named in favor of national banks such as we have today? I think not.
Were they opposed to the free coinage of silver and did they call the
silver dollar a bastard and wasn't good for anything and say it was a fraud,
like some of the would-be leaders of the day?
No, Mr. Bobbitt, they were men of principals, they never went back on
the platform of principals, or the party of the people. Never, no, never. Now I assure you I have never gone back on
the principles, but the party has gone back on me and you remember the old
proverb, "That a wise man changes his mind, but a fool never does."
Now if you didn't know I was a democrat,
why use my name for committeeman. How
did the mistake come? Now if you are a
democrat, be honest; if you are a republican, I can excuse you. You are measley, Eh? Pray tell us how many measley fellows you
have in Cowley and who said you were measley.
Now Mr. Secretary of the D. C. of Cowley
county, let me give you a little advice.
Don't you think you could serve the dear people a little better and more
honorable and not betray confidence by telling of the great wrong the
Republicans are doing to the dear people of this state by putting sugar on the
free list to make it cheap, tariff on tin to make it cheap, tariff on wool and
woolen goods to make them cheap, dragons blood on the free list to make it
cheap, Balm of Gillead on the free list to make it cheap, tariff on plows,
wagons, machines, knives, cotton, cotton goods to make them cheap--and many
others I could mention, but this is sufficient, and so far as I am concerned,
it will close our correspondence. Now,
Mr. Bobbitt, if you will excuse me, I will close. Respectfully,
J.
T. LOWE.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1891.]
H. H. Hornor, of Udall, was in town
today.
Norman Hall, of Eaton, was in town today.
R. B. Eaton of Cambridge was in town
today.
Mrs. Underwood, of Grouse Creek, is in
the city.
G. W. Dunlap and wife, of Dexter, were in
town yesterday.
The Y. M. C. A. Gospel wagon went to
Arkansas City today.
John McIlwain, of Dexter, was in town
today on business.
J. M. Armstrong and wife, of Atlanta,
were in town today.
Miss Minnie Edmiston, of Burden, attended
the teachers' examination here today.
Miss Rose McIlwain, of Dexter, was over
today attending the teachers' examination.
Jas. Greenshields was in the city
today. He is teaching a successful
school in Richland township.
Irvin Sanders, of Udall, is in the city
visiting his
brother,
John. He leaves tomorrow night for Iowa.
Corn was selling on the street today at
35 to 37 cents. The amount on the market
was unusually large.
J. H. Kennedy of Otter creek, called on
us today.
Mrs. J. G. Edwards and daughter, Louisa,
of Cedar Vale, are up visiting their relations, Mr. H. L. Edwards and family.
MARRIAGE LICENSE. Wallace Abott and Miss Anna Eden, of Atlanta,
secured a marriage license last evening and will be married tomorrow.
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1891, CONTINUED.]
A. Kinsley, of Atlanta, called and paid
for the HOWLER. He says Omnia township
is all right for the people's ticket by a good majority.
---
It is the intention to vote 40 illegal
votes in Walnut township. The voters are
to be sent from the first, second, and fifth wards. This is a g. o. p. trick.
---
There will be a Y. M. C. A. meeting at
the U. B. Church this evening. Mr.
Clark, the state evangelist of the association, will conduct the meeting. You will be well repaid for going.
---
Three or four loads of solid republicans
drove to Eaton last night. Tansey,
Madden, Webb & Co. were going to tell how the
g.
o. p. had fulfilled their pledges. The
meeting was poorly attended. The
majority of the republicans went from town.
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The
Tariff is a Tax.
He
sat by his door at noonday, lonely and gloomy and sad.
Brooding
over the price of his corn crop and figuring how much he had.
He
had worked from early springtime, early and late and hard.
And
he was counting his assets and figuring out his reward.
He
figured that it took two acres to buy his two boys new boots.
And
ten acres more on top of this to fit them with new suits.
To
buy his wife a protected dress took a hundred bushels more.
While
five acres went in a solid lump for the carpet on the floor.
His
taxes and his grocery bill absorbed his crop of oats.
While
the interest on his farm mortgage took all his fattened shoats.
The
shingles on his cowshed and the lumber for his barn.
Had
eaten up his beef steers and the balance of his corn.
So
he sat in his floor at noonday, lonely and gloomy and sore.
As
he figured up his wealth, a little less than it was a year before.
Then was when we were making these
appropriations; the farmers were rich then.
By
gum, they say I'm protected, but I know there's something wrong;
I've
been deceived and gulled and hoodwinked by this high-protection song.
They
told of rebellious traitors, and held up the bloody rag.
And
I followed along like a bumpkin, and now I am holding the rag.
But
from this time on I'll investigate and get to the bottom of the facts.
And
I'll bet four dollars, to begin with, that the tariff is a tax.
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Barney Esch and Miss Rose Sartin, of
Grouse creek, were in town today.
---
There are at least 100 illegal names
registered in the first, second, and fifth wards. These fellows should be watched with a keen
eye and all made to swear in their votes.
---
The rain meeting last night was a
failure. Only three or four were present
and no word was had from the rain maker.
Nothing is left now but to await the pleasure of Providence.
---
A full house greeted the Athenian
debaters last evening to hear the discussion on the question "How shall we
vote." The merits of both the
Republican and People's parties were ably set forth. Everyone left well pleased with the evening's
entertainment.
---
Union meeting of the Y. M. C. A. at the
First M. E. Church at 4:15 p.m., tomorrow, will be led by Henry Clark of the Y.
M. C. A. Gospel Wagon Band. All are
cordially invited. Also Junior meeting
at Y. M. C. A. at 2:15 p.m. All juniors
are earnestly requested to be present.
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How can a minister of the gospel who
preaches prohibition and total abstinance from the pulpit vote for a man on the
head of a ticket that has been a willing partner in breaking the prohibition
law. Christians, ministers, and
prohibitionists in general, look before you vote, to the principle you
advocate. Vote for men and principle,
before party.
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1891, CONTINUED.]
The board for the Cadmus-Athenian course
of entertainments will be opened at Steinhilber's drug store at 9 a.m., Monday,
November 9. Course tickets will be sold
during all next week, and the tickets already subscribed for will be delivered
to subscribers. The seats taken now will
be the property of the ticket holder for the entire course unless he should
choose to make a change.
---
The
Santa Fe Scheme.
The Santa Fe rally at Arkansas City on
Thursday evening, in the interest of the republican party, was a failure so far
as the objects aimed at were concerned.
Mitchell and Crouse were there to talk all kinds of stuff to the
railroad boys of that place. Mitchell,
the man who was appointed railroad commissioner at the instigation of the Santa
Fe company as a democrat, was down and advised the boys to vote the democratic
ticket; but if they could not do that, he advised them to vote the republican
ticket or anything else in order to beat the calamity howlers.
To most men this is evidence that the
Santa Fe Railroad Co. know which side of the bread is buttered. That company knows its friends and it never
loses an opportunity to reward a friend or punish an enemy. They recognize in the republican party a
friend, and they sent Mitchell down to help them out of the soup; but the thing
didn't work worth a cent. The boys are
on to their little scheme and are indignant over the advice given by Mitchell.
---
Died.
Died at her home near Udall, Susie A.,
wife of G. E. Boomershine, of typhoid fever, Oct. 28, 1891, aged 27 years, one
month, and 14 days. She was a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hornor, and was well-known in and around Winfield and
loved by all; a faithful and consistent member of the M. E. church, a loving
and devoted wife and mother and a good neighbor. Her loss is felt very keenly in the community
where he resided. She was married Dec.
31, 1882, to G. E. Boomershine. She left
a husband and two little boys to mourn their loss. The funeral occurred Oct. 29th, at 2 p.m. at
the residence. Rev. McCollister preached
the funeral sermon. The remains were
tenderly laid to rest in the Ninnescah cemetery by loving friends.
[HOWLER,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Democrats
Attention.
In a conversation that I had with S. G.
Gary on or about Oct. 9, 1891, he got a little warm over political matters and
made, in substance, the following statement:
"The democratic ticket was put up on purpose to beat the people's
party. They are going to do it and you
fellows can't help yourselves." I
told this to some parties and have heard since that Mr. Gary denies making the
statement. Mr. H. R. Branson was present
and heard the statement and will make affidavit to the same if necessary. So will I.
W.
F. PIERCE.
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Winter
Tourist Rates via The Santa Fe.
The Santa Fe has now on sale tourist
tickets to prominent points in Texas and New Mexico. Tickets are good for 30
days in each direction with final limit until June 1.
Austin, Tex. and return,
$22.70
Corpus
Christi, " "
" 32.95
Galveston, " "
" 26.45
Houston, " "
"
24.45
San
Antonio, " "
"
25.95
Deming, New Mexico and return, 39.40
Las
Vegas, Hot Spring, N. M., and return,
28.35
Call at local offices for full
information regarding train services, etc.
W.
J. NEVINS, Agent.
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TAKE
CARE OF THE TICKET.
Jasper Cochran, candidate for sheriff, is
a man of the People, taken from the farm without solicitation, a careful
industrious sober man, with fine business capacity. His opponent was three months working up a
nomination under the old methods.
H. C. Hawkins, of Vernon township, candidate
for treasurer, is a pioneer in Cowley county, building his own home from native
prairie with his own hands; has never asked any favor of the public, has
first-class qualifications as an accountant, and as a good test is well
supported by his neighbors at home.
Salem Fouts, of Arkansas City, candidate
for county clerk, has served in the office for two years. We offer the conduct of his office as his
recommendation for support. His gentlemanly
and accommodating manners have made him friends all over the county.
J. D. Salmon, for register of deeds, is
from Dexter, a tried and loyal soldier, with one arm in the grave for his
country, asks that his fellow citizens give him a place which he is well able
to fill and needs no other recommendation.
Alex Cairns, of Tisdale, has served as
surveyor and his work is tested. No more
honest and capable man has ever been in the office than Alex Cairns.
For Coroner, Dr. Cunningham of Omnia, has
filled the office and filled it well.
His record is a careful administration in regard to expenses, and close
attention to his duties. The doctor has
been criticized on clothes, but clothes won't do. He is a capable physician with a good
practice and there is no more popular man at home than Dr. Cunningham.
For commissioner of the second district,
Walton has served one term, Guthrie two.
And now Guthrie asks for the third term.
The men should be tried by their record only. Walton's record is that the last year of his
administration he reduced the cost of the county printing one-half; Guthrie's
record is that the first act of his administration he raised the price to full
rates with the same bids in that did the work the year before, at one-half
rates. Let them be tried by their records.
To the People's party we say the duty of
the canvassers and newspapers is done, your duty now is for election day. See that every man is out that will vote your
ticket. See that every man is well
informed upon the facts. Your speakers
have given day and night to your service.
The duty last is yours; let no weather or business prevent you from
doing your duty.
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An
Indignant Democrat.
ED. HOWLER: For some time past several of my neighbors as
well as myself, have been receiving, through the mails, copies of so-called
democratic papers containing articles of advice to the democrats to vote the
straight democratic ticket. One thing
that aroused our suspicions was the fact that we had reason to know that they
did not come from the office of their publication. This set us to investigating and the result
of that investigation was to the effect that we discovered that the republican
central committee was thoughtful enough to send us the papers in question, and
it is no use for them to deny it as we have indisputable facts at our command
to prove our assertions and we wish to say when we have to get our democracy
through that kind of channel, we had just as soon not have it. Yours truly,
A
DEMOCRAT.
[DAILY
CALAMITY HOWLER, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1891.]
Vote for principle.
When you vote the People's ticket, you
vote for principle, home, and family.
That was a very feeble defense the Courier
made for J. B. Nipp on the beer business.
Beer and prohibition are not the men to vote for.
LOST.
A gentleman's black pocketbook, containing clippings and papers with
owner's name on and of no value to anyone except the owner. Finder please leave at this office and
receive reward.
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The only way the republicans could keep
up courage today was to get a lot of colored boys in their headquarters to sing
and dance. There is nothing like keeping
up appearances and booming up spirts.
---
The barn of a Mr. Craft, engineer on the
Mo. Pac. railroad, burned Saturday night.
Two horses, a good buggy, and a quantity of feed were consumed in the
flames. The fire is supposed to have
been started by some boys as it was Halloween.
---
The Courier had a half column of
"stuff" pertaining to J. B. Fishback, Saturday evening. To read the article one would think the
Captain ahd been doing naughty things and by a little purchased aid some
whitewashing was being done. Who ever
thought the g. o. p. would put up a man that had ever been dishonest? No one but those detestable calams the Courier
gang despises so. But it is nevertheless
true that all the g. o. p. candidates in this county are not as pure as the
"driven snow."
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The HOWLER will not make its appearance
tomorrow. The force will attend the
election.
---
Bob Farmsworth has sold his lunch room to
a gentleman from Wellington, who will continue the business at the old stand.
---
Every condemnation the Courier has
made on the People's candidates has fallen with a dull thud on the ears of
Greer and his dirty cohorts. They
reviled Salmon because he was a one-armed soldier drawing $45 per month. How about Nipp? He gets $36 per month from Uncle Sam and by
the court docket of Cowley is a partner to the crime of disobeying the mandates
of the prohibitory law. Who dare deny
this?
[HOWLER,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1891, CONTINUED.]
Strange
Things.
Ed. Dispatch:--
We see many things in life that are to
the practical, thinking, and consistent man strange and hard to reconcile with
honesty and integrity of purpose; but the strangest thing we see and the
hardest to reconcile with consistency and common honesty is the action of some
of our law and order prohibition church members.
Some of these good people have for the
last six years at every city election sent up a terrible howl for law and order
and for downing the joints and the enforcement of prohibition and today they
are foremost in the ranks of prosecution of C. T. Atkinson for not enforcing
the law against joints and at the same time that they howl with one breath
against Atkinson and the joints, they howl with next breath for Capt. Nipp and
John Wilkin, when they know that these two men have been for the last three
months the heaviest supporters and the staunchest stand-bys of these joints of
any men in the whole country. They can
be seen any evening that they are in town going in and out of these dens
followed by a train of the men that hang around these places and these howlers
whose sense of propriety and decency is so shocked at the very thought of a
joint, can't help but see and know that these things are true and what it means
when they see a candidate going into one of these dens followed by a dozen
half-drunk men. I have no disposition to
shield C. T. Atkinson in any shape or form but I do say what they charge
against him is not half so contemptible to the honest, consistent man of
principle as these hypocritical howlers.
I am glad to know that many of the law and order and prohibition folks
are honest and true to their principles and will carry them out so far as their
votes are concerned in the present campaign as they have done in the previous
ones. These folks have the confidence
and respect of all good citizens regardless of party for they are honest and
consistent.
--OBSERVER
IN Dispatch.
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THERE WERE SOME MORE ITEMS...ALL
POLITICAL...WHICH I SKIPPED. VERY
TEDIOUS AND VERY TIRING! OUTCOME OF ELECTION...WHO
KNOWS! HAVE TO READ WINFIELD COURIER, I
RECKON, TO LEARN THE OUTCOME.
THIS MARKS THE END OF THE DAILY CALAMITY
HOWLER...
[FROM SEPTEMBER 28, 1891, THROUGH
NOVEMBER 2, 1891.]