ARKANSAS CITY TRAVELER

TRAVELER, JUNE 28, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

The Black Hills.

CASTLE CITY, WYOMING TERRITORY, May 31, 1876.

MY FAMILY: I write, this beautiful Sunday morn, to inform you of our safe arrival in the gold hills. Joe is up again from the measles, which makes us all well, hoping this may find you the same. There is no humbug about there being gold here, but what we find is fine, and on what is termed bars; all old miners say if we can strike bed rock, we can make our fortune.

Castle creek is nearly as large as Grouse, and runs swifter, having a fall of 55 feet to the mile. It is about 25 feet to the bed rock, and in order to go down we will have to get pumps sufficient to keep the water out. I am inclined to the belief that there is a fortune here, but it will take time and money to get it. We met 200 men going back, calling the whole thing a humbug, but the most were scared out at Indian reports. We have not seen any, only at and near Red Cloud Agency; they are in the Hills, but will attack only small parties. The most of the returning miners never turned a shovel of dirt, and a good many turned back before reaching Buffalo Gap. We saw the bones of one man, who had been killed in the Gap by Indians. He smelled so badly when first discovered that he could not be buried, so they piled rocks upon him. It was a hard sight; but such is life.

Will. has just come in with a fine specimen of quartz, which is rich and will some day make someone rich. If a man had money to live upon for one year, and set down on some of those places, his fortune would be made, but such is not the disposition of most men: they want to go forward, and those who follow will make the money. I would advise all to stay at home for awhile unless they come heeled with one year's provisions or money. Flour is worth $16 per hundred, bacon 35 cents per pound, corn meal 15 cents per pound, corn 13 cents per pound, etc.

One of the boys just killed a black tailed deer, which are plenty; also plenty of those black or brown bears, which are very large. I would like to give you a description of the Hills--it seems as though they were blown up by some terrible volcano, leaving deep gulches running in all directions, and having the finest streams of the coldest water. The mountains are covered with pitch pine and fir, with some poplar or quaking asp, which make the scenery the finest.

I have had but one letter from you, dated April 22. It costs twenty-five cents to get a letter from Cheyenne here, so when you write, write good long letters. We will probably look around before going to work. Gold is here, all over, and of the finest kind; sells for $21 per ounce.

We are going to work this morning, and will give you all particulars in a few days. Some of our men got ten cents at one pan yesterday. I was up in the mountain yesterday, and got so cold I had to come down. Plenty of snow and ice in the mountains. It is about such weather here as it is in March there, and the gooseberries are just leafing out. Direct letters to Custer City.

W. M. BERKEY.

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TRAVELER, JUNE 28, 1876.

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, June 12, 1876.

The hail and wind storm of a few days ago did considerable damage in a few instances.

There are several vacant claims in this vicinity, though they are being rapidly settled upon. There were eight vacant houses within sight of my place, last March, but they are all occupied, and new ones have gone up. Breaking and harvesting are being pushed forth rapidly. Wheat is very fine, as is also the corn.

Religious meetings held once a week, either at Grouse creek or at Newland's school house. J. A. B.

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TRAVELER, JUNE 28, 1876.

HUTCHINSON, KS., June 12, 1876.

Had a severe hail and wind storm six miles south of this place, last Saturday, which did considerable damage; about twenty buildings destroyed; no lives lost, so far as I have heard; quite a number of persons more or less injured; crops probably injured to some extent along the track of the storm.

Harvest to commence about the middle of this week. Wheat good, and other crops looking very well indeed. Health here excellent. Immigration pouring in lively.

B. C. SWARTS.

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TRAVELER, JUNE 28, 1876.

Corn in Sumner county is reported growing slowly on account of cold weather.

Rev. Mr. Platter, one of the Winfield city farmers, put his own header into his hundred acre field of fall wheat on the 12th instant.

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TRAVELER, JUNE 28, 1876.

Osages are first class horse traders.

A few Osages who have been out on a hunt recently, represent buffalo as being scarce.

The printer failed to find the copy of Gov. "Joe's" speech which was promised our readers this week.

The Osages are now more nearly united than has ever been the case since their removal to this Territory.

Agent Beede is getting material ready to repair the damage to the roof of his house, by the late hail storm.

The majority of the full blood Cherokees enlisted in the service of United States during the late war, while the majority of the mixed bloods joined the Confederate forces.

As will be seen at the head of our paper, the name of Osage Agency gives place to Pawhuska, which has been the name of the head chief of the Osage tribe for generations, and means white hair.

Seven of our Pawnee neighbors have recently visited Chetopa, the Chief Counselor of the Osage Nation, smoked the pipe of peace, and received from our distinguished incumbent a pony each in token of future friendship. Pawnees and Osages converse with each other by signs only.

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TRAVELER, JUNE 28, 1876.

The following extract is from a letter received by Judge Christian, last week, from an old acquaintance in Ireland. It was written three-fourths of a mile from the famous Giant's Causeway, on the northern coast of Antrim county, and explains itself. It shows the ingenuity of the university Yankee mind in getting up humbugs to secure an honest penny. The letter is dated Ballymoy, Antrim county, Ireland, May 31, 1876.

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TRAVELER, JUNE 28, 1876.

Wichita Eagle: A little girl, living near Eureka, while playing in a harvest field, was bitten on the ankle by a prairie rattlesnake. A young Swede, who was working in the field at the time, got some milk from a cow standing nearby, and inserted a small straw in each of the holes made by the fangs of the snake, and poured some milk into the straws, which counteracted the poison; and within an hour the child was playing around as usual. This occurrence was related to us by an eye witness.

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TRAVELER, JUNE 28, 1876.

[Special to the Leavenworth Times.]

KANSAS CITY, MO., June 23. The railroad bridge crossing the Missouri river at this place, caught fire this morning at eleven o'clock. Before the fire department could reach the spot, the seventh span on the north side fell with a loud crash. There were several hundred persons on the bridge at the time, and they scattered like sheep. No one was seriously hurt. The fire caught on the sixth span of the north end, from a spark, dropped by a passing engine. It appears as if the watchmen neglected their duty. The bridge cost one million and a quarter dollars, and is damaged to the extent of from twelve to twenty thousand dollars. Repairs have already been commenced, and trains will be run in two weeks, but it will take several weeks to repair the wood-work. Passengers and freight will be transferred by the ferry, and some roads will transfer freight by the Leavenworth bridge. Cattle will be shipped to Chicago via St. Louis.

H. W. Cook is insane from the excitement of the political contest. He is violent; and is watched at his home by four men.

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FROM THE FRONTIER.

CHEYENNE, June 23. As intimated in the last dispatch, Gen. Crook's command left camp on the morning of the 16th instant, with four days' rations. They struck the right hand branch of the Yellowstone, into Montana, following down this creek. The next morning, when about five miles down, the Snake and Crow scouts brought in word from the front that the Sioux were in force in the hills; and by half past eight o'clock the command was in position, and an extensive firing was inaugurated along the north of the creek; the enemy, who had begun the attack, showing thereby their confidence in their ability to whip the command, retiring as the soldiers and allies advanced. The Sioux were all well mounted, well armed, and at times were prodigal in the use of ammunition. The fight lasted four hours when the enemy retired out of sight at every point.

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TRAVELER, JUNE 28, 1876.

NW 1/4 of SE 1/4 8 35 5E 120 J. C. McMULLEN

NE 1/4 of NW 1/4 11 35 5E 80 JOHN B. SOUTHARD

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LAND OFFICE, WICHITA, KANSAS, June 21, 1876.

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TRAVELER, JUNE 28, 1876.

On the Trail.

[Special Correspondence of the Price Current.]

RED FORK, INDIAN TERRITORY, June 16, 1876.

The following herds have passed since my last.

June 5. R. R. Savage, 950 mixed, for Ellis.

June 6. Houston & Dismuke, 1,950 mixed, for Ellis. Kingsbery & Holmsley, 1,400 mixed, for Bluff Creek.

June 7. Burk & Smith, 3,400 mixed, for Ellis.

June 8. D. H. Snyder, 1,800 mixed, for Ellis.

June 9. W. C. Osburn, 1,200 mixed, for Ellis. Capt. Kennedy (two herds), 8,000 mixed, for Ellis.

June 10. Oge & Woodard, 2,900 mixed, for Bluff Creek.

June 12. Halstein & Murry, 1,400 mixed, for Colorado.

June 13. L. M. T. Pope, 800 mixed, for Medicine Creek.

June 14. L. M. T. Pope, 1,460 mixed, for Medicine Creek.

June 15. W. B. Grimes, 2,000 mixed, for Bluff Creek.

A. CONKLE.

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TRAVELER, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1876.

The 4th of July comes on Tuesday.

JOHN P. WOODYARD returned last week from Wichita.

MR. HINKLEY of Grouse Creek had a horse stolen lately.

It has been decided not to have any picnic at this place on the 4th, as talked of.

A boy on Grouse creek picked the lock of a bureau and ran off with a small sum of money.

MR. BIRD has apples seven inches in circumference. S. P. Channell also has some apples on his trees.

PROF. KELLOGG is to deliver the oration at the 4th of July Celebration at Emporia. They appreciate a man up there.

TIMOTHY. Capt. Chenoweth showed us a head of timothy measuring 10-3/4 inches. It was sown during the dry weather two years ago.

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The Oxford applicant for the school at this place acted wisely. After seeing the result of one of our quiet gatherings, he withdrew his application and started for home, congratulating himself that his scalp remained.

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RUNAWAY. A little more than a week ago, Will Howe, formerly of Maple City, borrowed his father-in-law's team (Mr. Adams) and went to Labette county and did not return. An officer was finally sent, and brought the team back.

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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS meet Monday, July 34d. It is a regular meeting, and will probably last several days, as they will have considerable to attend to. The Commissioners are R. F. Burden, near Lazette; Robert White, of Rock Creek; and William Sleeth, of Arkansas City.

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A man across the Walnut saw the box of a header machine, near the Arkansas river, and thinking it was a steamboat, left his plow and ran a hundred yards toward it, when he thought there was no smoke, and taking a closer view saw his mistake. He is a Granger too.

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In this delightful country, flowing with milk and honey (the milk in jars and the honey in cans) it costs $2 per acre to cut and stack wheat from a header; when cut by a Marsh harvester, $2.25; by a dropper, $2.25 to $2.50. A header will cut on good ground thirty acres per day; a Marsh harvester, about ten acres; a dropper nearly the same. The threshing costs five cents per bushel for wheat; and three cents for oats. The prices paid harvest hands will average about $2 per day; some have paid $2.50. A steam thresher can thresh 1,000 bushels per day; an ordinary thresher, of ten horse power, about 600 bushels. About eight men go with the thresher.

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The following agricultural implements have been sold at this place during the year 1876.

30 Harvesters.

24 Headers.

4 Threshing Machines.

1 Steam Thresher.

9 Combined Reapers and Mowers.

1 Self-Binder.

87 Breakers.

52 Cultivators.

16 Gang and Sulky Plows.

53 Stirring Plows.

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You're right. If C. R. Mitchell had not positively and continually declined, he would have been spending his winters in Topeka, in behalf of Cowley county.

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At a school meeting held at Winfield, last Wednesday, it was unanimously decided to employ Prof. Hulse to teach the public school at that place for $810 per year. We congratulate Prof. Hulse on his success, and the people of our sister town on securing one of the best educators in the Southwest.

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SUICIDED. Geo. Easton, a young man of about 23 years of age, of Douglass, Butler Co., yesterday morning, shot himself while in bed, just below the heart. All the reason he gave was that he was tired of life. The affair created considerable excitement in Douglass.

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WALTER A. VANDORN, a former resident of this place, dropped in suddennly and unexpectedly, yesterday. He hails from Daytona, Florida, where he is engaged in farming and gardening. He was an early resident of this place and will be remembered by many.

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JOHN ALLEN, of this city, is spoken of as the possible nominee on the Republican ticket for County Attorney. We know of but one man who would make a stronger candidate for the party, and that man is C. R. Mitchell, of Arkansas City. Telegram.

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NOTE: SCOTT COVER THE ABOVE TWO ITEMS EARLIER...BUT HE LEFT

OUT SOME PORTIONS...IGNORE FIRST ENTRIES!

TRAVELER, JUNE 28, 1876.

WM. FOWLER, we learn is making a trip to Little Rock, Ark., in a canoe. He started this week.

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WANTED. A No. 1 Miller, and a man with team to haul logs, at Steam Flouring Mill, Arknsas City. W. H. SPEERS.

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I will be absent until August 15. In the meantime, Pryorr, Kager & Pryor, at Winfield, or T. McIntire, Arkansas City, will attend to my business. E. B. KAGER.

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TRAVELER, JUNE 28, 1876.

A Business Corner.

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TRAVELER, JUNE 28, 1876.

A bill has been introduced in Congress by Hon. John R. Boodin, to so change the boundry between Missouri and Kansas as to place Kansas City on our side of the line.

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TRAVELER, JULY 5, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

Kansas Constructs Own Building at Centennial.

Kansas, failing to command sufficient space in any of the main buildings to group her collections together, decided to erect a building of her own, which furnishes ample space for the exhibition of her varied products, and does credit to the State. The building is in the shape of a Creek cross; the center with the four wings is devoted to the exhibition. In the center, beneath the dome, is suspended a curious and ingeniously constructed bell, made by Professor Henry Worrall. It consists of grains in the stock, grasses and broom corn brush woven together in the shape of the old bell that rang out on Independence day.

The tongue is composed of one of our elongated club gourds with a common bell shaped gourd attached as hammer. It is just the size of the old revolutionary bell, being eight feet nine inches across the bottom and eight feet six inches high.

There is a break made in the material, to represent the crack in the old bell, and it bears the same inscription: "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land and to all the inhabitants thereof. By Order of the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania for the Statehouse in Philadelphia." Colorado, not demanding the space of an entire building for her exhibit, occupies the west wing of our building. She makes a very fine showing of her vast mineral wealth, and presents a most picturesque group of stuffed animals, from the buffalo and bear to the wild cat and prairie dog. The balance of the building, except a very small portion occupied by the A., T. & S. F. R. R. for the exhibition of products along their line of road, is occupied by Kansas.

A short extract is taken from the copy of the Harper Weekly of June 17, 1876, which has an excellent description of the contents.

"There are forty-two flag staffs on the building, the flags for forty-one of which have been generously contributed by the Ladies of Leavenworth. They consist of the national colors of the United States and those of each of the foreign governments exhibiting, the same to be added at the close of the exhibition to the Centennial collection, and returned to the State House at Topeka for preservation in the museum of the State Board of Agriculture--there to remain a sourvenir of the kindly cooperation of the Ladies of Leavenworth. At the north end, twenty-four feet from the floor is a transparence--'The Great Seal of the State of Kansas'--from which rays of golden grain radiate, alternated with a background of cotton: an important staple in Southern Kansas. Immediately under this there is an attractive collection of vegetable casts resting on a projection; suspended from this projection is a well drawn map, in colors, 24 x 13 feet. From the floor to the map is a receding grain stand with ten shelves, supporting over 1,000 sample glass grain jars, which contain an exhaustive display of wheat, rye, corn, barley, oats, buckwheat, sorghum, castor beans, and the oil manufactured from the same; tobacco, the seed of hemp, flax, broom corn, millet, Hungarian, timothy, and red clover; hazel, pecan, and peanuts; soils, fire clay, yellow and red ochre, mineral paints, plaster of Paris, potter's clay, hydraulic cement, salt, etc. Labels on these jars give name of contents, where and by whom grown and collected. By reference to the large map, the locality is easily determined. A space of about fourteen feet on either side of the map, and between it and the two sides, is devoted to a forest of corn of wonderful growth. The stalks are from 15 to 18 feet in height, containing from one to three ears of corn from ten to fourteen inches long.

"Upon the walls on either side, and in glass cases, is an attractive and interesting display of wild and cultivated grasses and grains in the stalk; wheat from four feet to five feet six inches high, from fields yielding from 40 to 64 bushels per acre; corn from 40 to 100; oats from 50 to 75, timothy, 2-1/2 tons to the acre; clover and millet, 4 tons; blue grass, from two feet to three feet four inches high; fourteen varieties of wild grasses, ranging in height from six to ten feet.

"One case contains a display of silk ribbons and silk cocoons, the latter showing the size of the cocoons raised from eggs imported from Japan, and the noticeable increase in size of succeeding generations raised in Kansas. Silk culture in this young State of diversied industries is no longer problematical. "The rest of the display consists of a formidable array of valuable building stones from nearly every county in the State; between 40 and 50 different kinds of timer; a collection of stuffed birds of about 300 species; a large entomological collection, including the veritable Rocky Mountain locust; an extensive collection of fossils; lead, ore; coal, etc."

This description by Harper is so correct that I take the liberty of giving it in his words, as I could not improve it, and would have written substantially the same. On the whole, Kansas has done her part nobly, and we feel proud that we have such a representation at the Centennial. S. B. F.

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TRAVELER, JULY 5, 1876.

STEAMBOAT! The steamboat, "Gen. Wiles," passed Cincinnati on the 23rd ult., making seventy miles per day. Everything is in working order, and progress will be made without further delay if no accidents occur.

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The earnest and successful working of Hon. W. R. Brown, Representative in Congress for the Third District of Kansas, in behalf of the settlers on the Cherokee Strip Lands, should commend him to the hearts of every resident of the county. There are probably one thousand people on the Strip, who have taken claims, built small houses, and already made considerable improvement on the land selected as their future homes, who are anxiously looking forward to a definite settlement of their titles.

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TRAVELER, JULY 5, 1876.

By the following letter from Hon. W. R. Brown, it will be seen that the Cherokee Strip Lands are to be brought into market to actual settlers, at the same price and under the same ruling as before.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 27, 1876.

We have today passed through the House the Cherokee Strip bill. I will see Senator Ingalls today, and request him to attend to it in the Senate. I shall urge his attention, and as he is on the Indian Committee, he can put it through.

W. R. BROWN.

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TRAVELER, JULY 5, 1876.

Washington, June 25. The failure of the Committee of Conference to agree on the controverted amendments to the Legislature, Judicial, and Executive, the Consular and Diplomatic, and the Post Office Appropriation bills, will, it is supposed prevent Congress from adjourning as soon as was anticipated, namely, about the 10th of July.

Two or three only of the general appropriation bills have become laws, and much other business remains to be transacted. It is not at all probable that the Tariff bill will be again

considered.

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TRAVELER, JULY 5, 1876.

MARE. Taken up by Mark K. Hull, Dexter Township, on the 22nd of May, 1876, one bay mare colt about two years old, branded J. C. on right side of neck under the mane. Valued at $20.

Also, one sorrel mare colt, with a white face and three white feet, about one year old, no brands. Valued at $10.

SOW. Taken up by Branard Goff, Creswell Township, one black and white spotted sow and seven pigs. Valued at $31.00.

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TRAVELER, JULY 5, 1876.

A. N. and W. P. Johnston returned from the Black Hills last Wednesday. These gentlemen, together with Harry Flood, M. Curry, and Chas. Tarry left this place on the 7th of last Frebruary, with one wagon. They arrived in Custer City on the 2nd of March, and on the 8th of last May started from that place with sixty others on their return from the land of gold. They were in the Hills upwards of two months, were so far north as Deadwood, eight miles from Custer, and prospecting in various directions around the latter place. They report but ten claims in the Hills that are paying wages and these, only when provisions are low. Outside of these, nothing has been discovered so far that will yield living wages. They are convinced of this from their own observations of numbers of old miners from Colorado, Nevada, and California, who, after prospecting so far as they could with safety, left the country.

From seven to ten thousand adventurers have gone into the Hills up to date, every man of whom, except the merchants and speculators, who could get back, has left; cursing his own folly, and the men and newspapers, who, by misrepresentations and wholesale lying, have led so many to destruction.

When the Messrs. Johnstons left, the population of Custer City numbered seven to eight hundred people, including thirty to forty families of women and children, and with few exceptions, all were in a destitute condition; and unless quickly relieved, would be in a starving condition. On the day of their departure, there were but four sacks of flour in the town, and this was held at sixty dollars a sack.

Town property is utterly worthless; houses that cost from seventy-five dollars to one hundred and seventy-five dollars, together with the corner lots, were traded for two or three meals of victuals, to keep their owners from starving to death.

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WOW! WHAT IN THE WORLD GOES ON? THIS DOES NOT AGREE WITH THE CORRESPONDENCE EDITOR SCOTT, TRAVELER, HAS BEEN RECEIVING! I TOOK THE LIBERTY OF CHANGING "Custar" to CUSTER...SOONER OR LATER I MAY FIND OUT WHICH IS CORRECT: CUSTAR OR CUSTER!

TRAVELER, JULY 5, 1876.

Captain Smith's freight train, from Fort Reno, Cheyenne Agency, arrived in Wichita last Friday week. There were fifteen wagons, five of which were loaded with hides and ten with buffalo robes of Arapahoe and Cheyenne tanning.

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TRAVELER, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1876.

We ate new corn last Saturday.

REMEMBER the blackberry festival next week.

The Band Boys left for Wellington Monday.

School closed last Friday until next September.

THREE barrels of lemonade were sold by one stand at Winfield yesterday.

The late heavy rains have done great damage to the wheat crop of Cowley.

Col. McMullen and Prof. Hulse, accompanied by their wives, left for the North and East this week.

If Prof. Hulse had given to each pupil a lock of his hair who asked for one, he would have been bald-headed.

DIED. Elizabeth, wife of Solomon Smith, of Silver Creek, on June 27th; aged 50 years. Cause: scrofula.

DIED. At Salt City, Monday morning, June 3rd, of whooping cough, Mary, daughter of Dr. Paxton, aged one year.

The County Commissioners met last Monday, and after disposing of two or three road petitions, adjourned to meet next Tuesday.

BORN. To Mr. and Mrs. Porter Wilson, of Maple township, on the 13th inst., a son. Also, to Captain Siverd and lady, on the 20th inst., a son.

R. J. POND, formerly a sharer of corn bread and molasses in an early day here, is now engaged in a picture and fancy store at Coruna, Michigan.

FOOT RACE. Thos. Parvin and Jasper Coryell ran a foot race of 55 yards, last Saturday, for the fun of the thing. Both parties ran well, but Parvin was too slow to win.

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W. T. KIRTLY lost one off his horses last week, and is now without a team, which to a farmer in this county is next thing to being destitute. His friends will buy one for him soon.

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A blackberry festival will be given by the ladies of the Presbyterian Society at the Central Avenue Hotel on Wednesday night, the 12th, one week from tonight. Admission: 15 cents; blackberries, including cake, 10 cents.

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HORSES STOLEN. Thursday, June 22nd, Mr. Ela hired a boy by the name of Willett, whose parents live on Little Dutch, and set him to work in a cornfield. When night came the boy did not come in, and as Mr. Ela was absent from home, nothing was thought of it. On coming home, Mr. Ela started in search of the boy, and at Winfield found his team in the livery stable, but the boy was gone. He is sixteen years of age, and has not been living at home for sometime.

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DIED. On Friday, the 16th inst., at her residence in Maple township, this county, of catarrhal fever, Mrs. Jeannette Butler, aged 41 years, wife of Sumner Butler, formerly of Steele county, Minnesota. She has left a large family to mourn her loss.

Also, on the 26th inst., suddenly, cause unknown, Mrs. David Lloyd, formerly of Doniphan, died. She leaves five children to mourn her loss.

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TRAVELER, JULY 5, 1870.

One of the most startling occurrences that ever took place in this city was made known last Saturday.

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TAKEN IN. A few of the sports went from this place to Winfield last Friday and inveigled the boys into betting on a foot race between Frank Speers and William Koons, of Mattoon, Illinois. Someone recognized Koons as being the renowned "California Plow Boy," and the stakes were generally on him, although Frank Speers had many friends. After getting bets to the amount of about $50, the race was prepared for; both parties stripped, and a run of 55 yards made, Speers gaining the race by about two feet. The Arkansas City boys knew which party to bet on, and came home happy, with about $30 ahead. One man in Winfield did the main betting, and is now consoling himself by declaring he will "never bet on another foot race." Koons is the man that got away with the youth of Cedar Vale, about two years ago, and has a practice of getting away with everything he runs across, while Frank Speers has a reputation for beating everything that comes along.

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The closing exercises of the Arkansas City public school took place last Friday, when the pupils bid their teacher goodbye, and as a token of their gratitude and respected, presented him with a beautiful book of poems, entitled "Farm Legends." The number of students attending the last term was 155, twenty-two of whom were paying a tuition of about $2 each. The enrollment for the spring term was 72. Several of the students passed creditable examinations during the last week of the term, and received teachers' certificates. There has always existed the most friendly feeling between the students and Principal.

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Many farmers could have had their wheat in the shock if they had not gone to work in the corn fields.

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NOBLE WINTIN returned from Colorado, last week, where he has been for about three months.

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TRAVELER, JULY 5, 1876.

STRAYED. A dark bay mare pony, four years old, no brand, from C. Glenn, Arkansas City.

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STRAYED. A small pony mare, dark brown color, no brand, from Frank Lorry.

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ARKANSAS CITY CHEESE.

Mr. C. Mummert, proprietor, has always on hand a good supply of old and new cheese. Will take wheat, corn, eggs, and butter in exchange.

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FOR RENT. About 100 acres to put in wheat. For particulars enquire of J. H. Mettler, 3-1/2 miles southwest of Salt City, Sumner County, Kansas.

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40 Head of two-year-old cattle for sale by Houghton & McLaughlin.

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150,000 No. 1 brick for sale on reasonable terms. Enquire at the brick yard.

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TRAVELER, JULY 12, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

[The following sketch of Cowley county, is taken from the Carlisle, Nicholas county, Kentucky, Mercury, and will be found of interest both to readers at home and abroad. ED.]

ARKANSAS CITY, June 10, 1876.

As an old resident of Carlisle at a period long anterior to the advance of the Mercury, I still feel a deep interest in the welfare of your people, and read with such pleasure in the Mercury of the sayings and doings of that locality. In your paper of the 1st inst., I read a faithful description of Coffey county, in this State, by your correspondent, J. H. Hughes; who I suppose is one of the Nicholas Co. Hughes of the days of yore, and I was forcibly struck by his comparison of that section of Kansas as compared with the Arkansas Valley as Fleming to Bourbon. I can corrobate the statement in full; his picture is not overdrawn. This is certainly the best and richest body of land in America.

Much has been said and written of the great Arkansas Valley, and yet no one has overstated the truth. Cowley county, from where I am now writing, is on the Arkansas river. The last twenty seven miles of this river, before it enters the Indian country, runs through this county in a south-easterly direction, meeting the waters of the Walnut river, that runs south through the county at this (Arkansas) City. The Grouse, another large stream, comes in from the north-east. All three meet near this place, thence united, enter the Indian nation, making this the best-watered, best-timbered, and most highly favored county on the river in the great Arkansas Valley.

As indicated, we are on the south line of the State, on the thirty-seventh parallel of latitude near the line that divides Kentuck and Tennessee, considerably south of Carlisle.

A visit to this county at this time would convince the most skeptical that no picture of the fruitfulness of this county can be overdrawn. We are now in the midst of the wheat and barley harvest. This week and last has been a busy time with the farmers, and next week will be busier still. Between twenty-five and thirty harvesters and headers have been sold in this town the past week, to be used in this and Bolton townships.

There are twenty-two townships in this county, and to give you an idea of the extent of wheat and other crops raised in this county, I will give the result of this (Creswell) township, which is about an average of the others. There are in this township 30,000 acres of land, 6,000 of these are in cultivation--one-fifth of all; 3,000 of these are in wheat--one-half of all. There are 740 inhabitants in this township, 624 head of cattle; 311 of which are milch cows; 397 horses; 57 mules; 509 hogs; 29,000 fruit trees set out and growing but not yet fruiting; 13,550 pounds of butter made in the family last year.

How does this look for a five year old county. Six years ago this country was an "Indian reserve," a howling wilderness; now it is a home of plenty. There are thousands of acres of Government land in this county yet which can be bought at the entrance price, $200 for 160 acres; but will be sold to none but pre-emptors, to keep out speculators. We have a herd law in this county, so that there is no fencing required. Of the 6,000 acres in cultivation, not 100 acres are enclosed. Whole quarter sections are in wheat without a sign of a fence. Our wheat this year will average over twenty-five bushels to the acre.

JAS. CHRISTIAN.

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TRAVELER, JULY 12, 1876.

Flood at Kaw Agency--Fourth of July With the Indians.

KAW AGENCY, July 4, 1876.

I came home from your city on the afternoon of the 28th of June, through a terrific rain, which continued in unceasing torrents until noon the next day. Beaver creek was at high water mark at sunrise on the morning of the 29th, and by noon it was ten feet above anything ever known, sweeping fences, pig styes, chicken houses, and crops; corn five and six feet high entirely submerged. Indians and half breeds had to flee their tents and houses, the water being four feet deep on the first floors. The engine at the mill was entirely submerged, and a pig was found lodged in the forks of a tree, some ten or twelve feet from the ground, the next day after the waters had subsided, and rescued, still alive, by an Indian.

We have made no estimate of the loss to the Mission and Agency farms, nor to the loss of our Indians; neither do I suppose that your readers would be interested in such an estimate--knowing, as they generally do, the Indian's capability of making up by traffic and begging any loss he may suffer. Furthermore, it is not my object to give you a doleful picture of the damage done by the flood, so much as to inform you of the great Centennial celebration held at this place today.

In order to revive the drooping spirits of our red brethren, occasioned by their recent losses, the managers of affairs decided that we would give an issue of beef, flour, sugar, and coffee, and have a grand barbecue and feast. Accordingly, we sent out word yesterday for all to come in and celebrate the Centennial anniversary of American independence, and they came en masse--Indians, squaws, papooses, dogs, and cats--with the stars and stripes fluttering in the breeze. Now I do not pretend to say that it was altogether an outburst of patriotism, on the part of our red brethren, to thus assemble with such enthusiasm, for it may possible be that longing appetite for roast beef had something to do with it. Be that as it may, they barbecued, roasted their beef, fried their cakes in the tallow thereof, made their coffee in a fifteen-gallon kettle, and ate to their heart's content, smoked, and ate again. Of course, ice cream, lemonade, and Epicurean delicacies, were not in the bill, but the real substantials of life were in abundance. Doubtless the citizens of Philadelphia and other great cities of the States enjoyed themselves on this day, but none more so than did the Kaw

Indians.

Orations were delivered by Superintendent Spray and the writer of this article, and the Kaws went home happy and contented. They were so favorably impressed with the importance of Centennial celebrations they would be perfectly willing to sacrifice whatever time and labor it might cost them to hold one every week, provided two or three good beeves, etc., could be furnished.

WM. HUNT.

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TRAVELER, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1876.

EXPLANATORY. During our absence the paper will be left in charge of Hon. C. R. Mitchell, with the assistance of others, who will be responsible for its course during the next five weeks. Any matter pertaining to work in the office will be attended to by Ed. G. Gray, who will also have control of the local columns. While in Philadelphia and elsewhere, we shall occasionally send an item. C. M. SCOTT.

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L. J. WEBB, Past Master of Adelphi Lodge at Winfield, delivered the Anniversary address on St. John the Baptist, at Wellington, on the 24th of June, to a large audience. A few years ago public addresses by Masons was almost unknown, and the workings of the Order rarely alluded to outside the Lodge; but this is an age of progress, and the desire for more light is increasing wonderfully.

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NOTE: SOURCE OF ABOVE ITEM NOT GIVEN BY TRAVELER!

FINALLY: WE GET THE FIRST STORY ON CUSTER MASSACRE!

TRAVELER, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1876.

The Indian Battle on the Little Horn River.

The special correspondent of the Helena, Montana, Herald, writing from Stillwater, Montana, July 2, says: Custer found a camp of about 2,000 lodges on the Little Horn, and immediately attacked it. Custer took five companies and charged the thickest portion of the camp. Nothing is known of the operation of this detachment, only as traced by the dead. Major Reno commanded the other seven companies, and attacked the lower portion of the camp. The Indians poured in a murderous fire from all directions, beside the greater portion fought on horseback. Custer, his two brothers, nephew, and brother-in-law, were all killed, and not one of his detachment escaped. Two hundred and seven men were buried in one place, and the killed were estimated at 300, with only thirty-one wounded. The Indians surrounded Reno's command and held them one day in the hills, cut off from water, until Gibbons' command came in sight, when they broke camp in the night and left. The Seventh fought like tigers and were overcome by mere brute force. The Indian loss cannot be estimated, as they bore off and sacked most of their killed. The remnant of the Seventh Cavalry and Gibbons' command are turning to the mouth of Little Horn, where a steamboat lies. The Indians got all the arms of the killed soldiers. There were seventeen commissioned officers killed. The whole Custer family died at the head of their column. The exact loss cannot be known, as both adjutants and sergeants majors were killed. The Indian camp was from three to four miles long, and was twenty miles up the Little Horn from its mouth. The Indians actually pulled the men off their horses in some instances."

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CONFIRMATION OF THE REPORTED BATTLE.

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TRAVELER, JULY 12, 1876.

The Bounty Bill.

The new bounty bill has passed both Houses and become a law. It allows all enlisted men, soldiers, sailors, and mariners, including slaves and Indians, $8.25 per month, for their services between the 12th day of April 1861, and the 9th day of May 1865, deducting from the amount all bounties received either from the State or United States. This law will greatly relieve the Kansas soldiers.

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TRAVELER, JULY 12, 1876.

HENRY WORK is in Colorado.

And now come the cucumbers.

A number of children have the whooping cough.

RUST is spoiling the oat crop in some sections of this county.

GRAPES are rotting considerably from the effects of wet weather.

MISS GUSSIE SLOCUM delivered the centennial poem at Emporia, last week.

The Arkansas is 26 feet high at Little Rock, and full to the top of the bank here.

The County Commissioners are in regular session today, and probably will be until Saturday.

The ladies of the M. E. Society will meet at the residence of Mrs. Grimes on Thursday afternoon.

REV. FLEMING preached his sermon on the political history of our country during the past century to a full house last Sunday.

MR. JENNINGS, a young lawyer lately located at Winfield, and J. D. Pryor of the firm of Pryor, Kager & Pryor, made us a short call yesterday.

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BLACKBERRIES are healthy fruit to eat. You'd have thought so to have seen a gallon disappear from the sight of our office boys, the other day, when Sherb. Hunt treated.

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CENTENNIAL. The editor remained long enough to do most of the writing for this week's paper, and yesterday morning hied himself away to the Philadelphia show, with his pockets full of TRAVELERS, circulars of Arkansas City and Cowley county, toothpicks, etc. Before returning he will vist Lower Canada, Niagara Falls, and see his dad and mam.

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We learn that the band boys gave entire satisfaction at Wellington, and that more than 8,000 people were assembled. If it had not been in the midst of harvest, tthey would have had fully one-half more in attendance. The boys say they were entertained in the very best manner, and came home feeling that the people of Wellington were among the best they ever met.

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MARRIED. At Winfield, July 4th, by Judge Gans. Mr. T. N. Parker and Miss Ella Herbert, both of this county. That was a grand way to celebrate the Fourth on this Centennial year. Instead of remaining at Winfield to see the fireworks, they went home.

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TRAVELER, JULY 12, 1876.

Mr. S. Tarrant has returned from the Centennial.

We hear of quite a number of deaths from the flux, which occurred during the last two weeks.

Several children have died, in this county, during the past three months with the whooping cough. Mr. Sam. Eckles lost two.

When the fireworks of the Fourth arrive, the people will be notifed of the evening on which they will be burned--so that all may come in and see them.

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TRAVELER, JULY 12, 1876.

Married. On Sunday, July 2nd, 1876, by Rev. N. L. Rigby, at his residence in Winfield, Mr. Wm. Jasper Cochran and Miss Isabel Stark, both of this city.

Married. On Tuesday, July 4th, 1876, at the residence of E. R. Weitzell, in Beaver township, by W. V. Sitton, J. P., Mr. Job. Froggath, of Sumner county, and Miss Mahilda Hugals, of this county.

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TRAVELER, JULY 12, 1876.

Washington, July 5. The President signed the bill to extend the time for filing claims for additional bounty under the act of July 28th, 1866, which expired by limitation on January 30, 1875, until July 1, 1880.

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TRAVELER, JULY 12, 1876.

Animated by that spirit of independence which characterized our patriot sires of old, a small party of Arkansas City Fourth of July-ers turned their backs upon the great show at Winfield, and started for the Territory; where upon the broad prairies, by the sparkling waters of the Shilocco, we might have room to "spread" ourselves, and liberty to partake of the Legislature's forbidden fruit for which we all had an "orful hankerin'." Our objective point was the spring--everybody knows where that is. We left town at 8:30, with banners flying, and at 9:15 passed the State line and beyond the limits of the game law. And right here I would like to call the attention of the authorities to a system of lawlessness that exists along the border, which if persisted in will disgrace us as a community, and cause great annoyance to the Government.

I allude to the disgraceful conduct of Polk Stevens et al., in cutting up the State line and using the pieces for well ropes, lariats, etc.

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TRAVELER, JULY 12, 1876.

The following, from the Cowley County Telegram, gives an unbiased expression and feeling of gratitude in behalf of the farmers, and general progress of all.

STEAMBOAT.

It gives us pleasure from time to time, to give all the information in regard to the Arkansas City steamboat that we can glean from the "TRAVELER." We look upon this experiment as one in which the whole of Cowley county is deeply interested--and for the success of which each and everyone of her citizens should pray. The successful navigation of the Arkansas river as far north as Cowley county is the next best thing to a railroad--in fact, we believe that it would be much better for the county as it would present a much cheaper outlet for surplus produce than we could possibly get through the medium of any road. And the arrival of the boat now coming should be the signal for a general rejoicing throughout the entire county. We suggest that when our neighbors can have the exact day of its arrival that they notify the county so that the farmers may be there en masse to send up a shout of joy when the smoke stack first rises in view, and send up cheer after cheer in answers to the tones of its whistle and peal of its bell. What say you, Scott? Can't you make that a "big day" for the little city?

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TRAVELER, JULY 12, 1876.

FOUND. On Sunday last, a child's sack coat. Inquire here.

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FOR SALE. Two spans of mules, two sets of work harness, and two lumber wagons. Enquire at the Arkansas City Bank.

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The sod disk or rolling cutter harrow, for preparing newly broken ground for wheat, for sale by BENEDICT & BRO.

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WANTED. A girl to do house work at El Paso; enquire of William Marshall, the stage driver, or James Christian, at the Express office, Arkansas City.

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STRAYED. A dark bay mare pony, four years old, no brand, from C. Glenn, Arkansas City.

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STRAYED. A small pony mare, dark brown color, no brand, from Frank Lorry.

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TRAVELER, JULY 12, 1876.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune, speaking of the bill to transfer the Indian Bureau to the war department, says:

There was quite a heated passage between Senator Ingalls, who is the chief advocate of the transfer, and Mr. Morrill, of Maine, who, at the time he spoke, had not been confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Ingalls insisted that the War Department is not a slaughter house and the officers are not all butchers; that the continued tirade against the bad faith of the Anglo-Saxon with the Indians is unjustifiable, and that the American continent is not designed for the exclusive use of a few millions of savages. The Black Hills war, he said, is exclu-sively brought about by a peace policy, and the Indian never had been and never would be civilized; when he becomes so, he is no longer an Indian. Mr. Ingalls said that sentiment is a simple thing for those who have no Indians in their States.

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TRAVELER, JULY 19, 1876.

Omaha, Neb., July 13. Recent dispatches from the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies state that the affairs are very uncertain. Owing to the recent news of Custer's defeat, the Interior Department are issuing nothing but corn and flour, having failed on beef entirely.

Scouting parties have been withdrawn from the Agency at the bridge on the Sidney route. There is still one company of troops at the bridge.

It is not probable that the Indians will make trouble at the agencies, as they are their only refuge in case they are overpowered.

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TRAVELER, JULY 19, 1876.

[From the Chicago Tribune.]

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TRAVELER, JULY 19, 1876.

HAY harvest has commenced.

T. H. HENDERSON was in town last week.

SEE the card of Dr. H. D. Kellogg in this issue.

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AD: H. D. KELLOGG, M.D., PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,

Arkansas City, Kansas.

Offfice at the Drug Store.

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WILL MOWRY is agent for the Loring & Blakely organs.

HOUGHTON & McLAUGHLIN intend putting 335 acres in wheat this fall.

O. P. HOUGHTON is building a granary, 20 x 30 feet, with a capacity for over 3,000 bushels of wheat.

MR. ROBINSON, of Illinois, was in town last Friday. We understand he was one of the applicants for the school at this place.

FRANK RANDALL, ex-fiend of the TRAVELER office, has left the ars artium omnium conservatix, and is now spreading himself on a tinner's stoll in Colorado.

JOHN NICHOLS' team made a sickly attempt to run off, last Saturday, but only succeeded in straddling H. & Mc.'s Fairbanks and breaking the neck-yoke.

FRANK GALLOTTI, of the firm of Boyer & Gallotti, of Winfield, called upon us Friday last. Frank is one of the old-time b'hoys, and a jolly good fellow.

WYARD GOOCH and brothers are said to have the best wheat stacks in the surrounding country.

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We would call attention to Judge Christian's call to the farmers, and hope they will respond liberally, as it is for the general good of our county that this grain is to be forwarded. Bring in your samples.

NOTICE:

To the farmers of Creswell and adjoining townships.

GENTLEMEN: I want to get a few samples of this year's crop of wheat threshed from the stack--say about a pound each--to be sent to New York, at the request of a prominent gentleman of that city, for inspection. Please send me your name, the number of acres raised, the quarter section, township, and range where raised, and greatly oblige yours,

JAMES CHRISTIAN,

At the Express Office, Arkansas City.

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THE COWLEY COUNTY NORMAL SCHOOL is postponed until August 21, in consequence of the failure to secure accommodations for teachers. Prof. Lemmon is doing his utmost to make it comfortable for the teachers during the term.

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We regret to announce the death of Bob Sheather, at his home in New York, July 4, of typhoid fever. He was for some time Deputy Treasurer of this county under E. B. Kager, and will be remembered by many of this place and Winfield.

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A. N. DEMING, of Wichita, and Mr. Stedman, of Potsdam, N. Y., dropped in on us last Thursday evening. Mr. Deming is at present engaged in buying grain with H. O. Meigs, they shipping it east and west from Wichita. Mr. Stedman is looking at the country with a view to finding a desirable location for his brother, and thinks Cowley county and the Walnut valley are just a little ahead of anything he ever saw.

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WIRT W. WALTON, of the Winfield Courier, will be a candidate for Chief Clerk of the next House of Representatives. He will make an excellent Chief Clerk. Sumner Co. Press. There is one thing against Wirt--he allowed a woman to wallow him in the snow last winter. Topeka Blade.

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The handsomest piece of mechanism we ever saw is a chronometer safe lock, shown us last Sunday by Mr. Brolley, the company's agent. It is complicated, complete, and most effectual in securing safes against burglars--so effectual, in fact, the cashier himself cannot open it before the hour set, when it will open of its own accord.

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DR. HOUSTON and "his son John" are worse than Arabs. They took up their tents, packed off to Leavenworth, stayed two weeks--and all done so silently no one knew anything about it until the doctor waltzed up to Eddy's drug store, last week, and told it.

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TRAVELER, JULY 19, 1876.

SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, July 13, 1876.

Arrived here this noon after an uncomfortably warm ride of two days and a half. The stage arrived at Wichita about seven in the evening, and I had time enough to see the monopoly town of the Southwest and retire at a reasonable hour.

At 4:45 the train left for the north. We breakfasted at Newton for 75 cents each, took dinner at Topeka, and supper at Cameron Junction, and arrived at Quincy, Illinois, by 2 a.m.; and where we waited until 4:45 to take the Toledo and Wabash to this place.

At Cameron, I met and had a long conversation with Dr. Gray, formerly of Arkansas City. He is conductor of the Pullman sleeping car from St. Joseph to Cleveland, Ohio, and makes his home at Peoria, Illinois, where his wife and family are.

Crops along the entire line were good, except the corn in Illinois, where it is on low land and has been drowned out. The Mississippi was at one time seven miles wide this spring, at Quincy, and much of the country is yet under water. Residents tell me it has been raining for nearly a month, and as I write, it continues. Wheat is standing in the shock. Oats are not ripe yet.

Green apples, ten cents per dozen, were the first luxuries we encountered. Travel on the road is good, and about one third of the travelers are bound for Philadelphia.

C. M.

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TRAVELER, JULY 19, 1876.

BLACK HILLS.

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TRAVELER, JULY 19, 1876.

Washington, July 15. Upon voting a pension to the widow of Gen. Custer, Mr. Williams, of Michigan, asked leave also to introduce a bill granting a pension of $80.00 per month to the father and mother of Generals Custer, Rusk, and Ainsworth. Objected to on the ground of its irregular way of coming before the house.

Mr. Cannon suggested that the committee on invalid pensions should at an early day report a bill granting pensions to the children of the men who fell under the lead of Custer.

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TRAVELER, JULY 19, 1876.

New York, July 15. Gen. Custer had a life insurance policy for $5,000; Capt. Yates, $5,000; Keogh, $10,000; Lieut. Calhoun, $5,000; Crittenden, $10,000; Porter, $5,000.

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TRAVELER, JULY 19, 1876.

Hermann Godehard's new Locals.

Just received:

Mason's Self-Sealing Fruit Jars,

Air-Tight Jelly Glasses--A New Patent.

Common, Old Style Jelly Glasses.

A new lot of Queensware and Glassware.

--Ripe Apples Just in!--

Groceries of all kinds constantly on hand,

and of the best quality.

Economy Baking Power--The Best in Use.

Coffee a Specialty.

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FOR SALE. My entire billiard outfit, consisting of four billiard tables, cue racks, pool boards, etc.; over 25 ivory and composition billiard balls. My outfit is complete for running all branches of the business. For sale cheap for cash, or will trade for young cattle.

L. W. CURRIER.

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FOR RENT. 100 acres of wheat land; seed and drill furnished. J. W. BROWN, 2 miles west of Arkansas City.

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ALL PERSONS knowing themselves indebted to the old firm of Page & Godehard will please call and make settlement.

H. GODEHARD.

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Taken up, on the 15th of July, a red cow; on the left ear she has an under-bit; on the right ear a nick; good domestic stock. Owner can have the same by calling on P. B. Andrews, and paying charges.

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TRAVELER, JULY 19, 1876.

Mrs. Elizabeth J. Smith, consort of Solomon Smith, died on June 27, 1876, at 2:40 a.m., at the residence of her husband on Silvercreek, ten miles east of Winfield and two miles east of Tisdale, in Sheridan township, Cowley county, Kansas; aged 49 years, 11 months, and 28 days.

The subject of this notice was born in Washington county, Kentucky, July 9, 1826. She joined with the church at the early age of fifteen, and through the remainder of her life was a consistent, thorough, and useful Christian. She is mourned by a large circle of friends.

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TRAVELER, JULY 19, 1876.

[This letter was received last week too late for publication. ED.]

PLEASANT VALLEY, July 10, 1876.

Our farmers, having been engaged during the past month in reaping the golden grain of a bountiful harvest, are now rejoiced to say that they are well "heeled" for one year's grub. As the wheat harvest is just over, and the farmers anxious to market their grains, several of them have already threshed. The average yield so far as heard from, is about 25 bushels per acre.

Mr. Harbaugh and Mr. Klingman have threshed and sold to Mr. Bartlet one car load of wheat. Bartlet paid them 75 cents per bushel at the machine.

A. C. Holland and H. Holtby tested the merits of their new Vibrator on the 2nd inst., by threshing West Holland's wheat. The machine gives entire satisfaction, and threshes at the rate of 400 bushels per day. Messrs. Frederick, Lewis, and Retherford are also running a threshing machine in this vicinity, which does good work.

Mr. Will. Timmerman, of Adams county, Iowa, arrived and settled among us last week. He has a mother and some brothers-in-law who have been here some time.

Master A. W. Holland, of Beaver township, contemplates going to Chicago to attend a course of medical lectures during the coming winter. Having been engaged in the study of physiology and anatomy, Alex. will make a successful pill peddler.

Rev. Annis, of Sumner county, delivered a short but interesting sermon at the Holland school house last Sabbath, which caused many of our worldly church goers to bow their heads in deep and solemn reflection.

There will be a Sabbath school picnic held in the grove near the mouth of Posey creek, on the 29th of this month.

C. C. H.

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TRAVELER, JULY 26, 1876 - FRONT PAGE.

KAW AGENCY, July 17, 1876.

It was on the occasion of the Kaw pensioners receiving their pay at Hiatt's store, a few days since, that a young squaw pensioner and her husband were at the counter, trading out her pension money. Two other squaws, the wives of another Indian (we will designate them as No. 1 and No. 2), claimed that pensioner owed them, and demanded their pay, which was disregarded. Thereupon squaw No. 1 picked up a brass kettle that pensioner had bought, and walked away with it, saying she would take that for her pay; but the husband of pensioner followed, and taking hold of the kettle, a tussel ensued, during which he wrenched it from her, and she set up a yell. This created an excitement, as there were several Indians in the room, and pensioner and husband started out, she following close behind him. As he stepped out the door, squaw No. 1, with a wild scream, assaulted pensioner, catching her by the hair, and throwing her down, her head striking a block of wood. At the same time squaw No. 2 kicked her in the face. The husband turned around, and helping his wife on her feet, told her to go for them, which she did with a vengeance, grasping a stick of stove wood and at the second or third blow felling No. 1 to the floor.

By this time the excitement and confusion had become so great, and the cries and blows so general, the bystanders could not give further particulars; but Mr. Gilbert, the clerk, who had been spell bound from some cause or other, regained his self-possession, and ordered the Marshal to take them out. It may be well to add that No. 1 got the worst of the affray, as she had to be carried home in a wagon, and have her wounds dressed. For a short time fears were entertained that she would not recover, and summary punishment was theatened pensioner and her husband, by the friends of No. 1, in case she should die; but fortunately her wounds proved not fatal, and she is convalescing. Peace and good will are now restored between the families, and pensioner sits and nurses her assailant.

WM. HUNT.

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TRAVELER, JULY 16, 1876.

Cherokee Strip.

WASHINGTON, July 18th.

I this day called on Representative Wm. Brown, at the capitol, for the purpose of having the Cherokee Land Bill, pushed through the Senate. I found Mr. Brown very much interested in the matter, and in company with him called on Senators Ingalls and Harvey, who both promised to do what they could. Mr. Ingalls stated that everything was in an uproar with the Committees, and but little could be done, yet before leaving he expressed himself favorable to the bill and said he would do all he could. He gave me the assurance that the settlers could go on with their improvements wihout the least fear of the land being sold to any corporation or private company. The bill has already passed the House of Congress and was referred to the Senate Committee on Indian Lands. If the latter report favorably, the bill will pass the Senate without trouble, as the Indian delegation is decidedly in favor of it. The manner in which Judge Brown has worked for the bill is very commendable. All of the Kansas representatives I have called on treated me very cordially and pleasantly. I send a copy of the bill.

AN ACT

WHEREAS, Certain lands in the State of Kansas, known as the Cherokee Strip, being a strip of land on the southern boundary of Kansas, some two or three miles wide, detached from the lands patented to the Cherokee Nation by the act known as the Kansas-Nebraska bill, in defining the boundries thereof, said lands still being, so far as unsold, the property of the Cherokee Nation; and

WHEREAS, An act was passed by the Forty-second Congress, which became a law on its acceptance by the Cherokee national authorities, and which fixed the price of the lands east of Arkansas River at two dollars per acre, and west of said river at one dollar and fifty cents per acre; and

WHEREAS, Portions of the same have been sold under said law, and portions remain unsold, the price being too high: Therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary shall offer for sale to settlers all of said tracts remaining unsold at the passage of this act, at the local land offices in the districts in which it is situated, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; and all of said lands remaining unsold after one year from the date at which they are so offered for sale at the local land offices shall be sold by the Secretary of the Interior for cash, in quantities or tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, at not less than one dollar per acre.

SEC. 2. That the proceeds of said lands shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and placed to the credit of the Cherokee Nation, and shall be paid to the treasurer of the Cherokee Nation, on the order of the legislative council of the Cherokee Nation, or a delegation thereof duly authorized.

SEC. 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from the date of its acceptance by the legislature of the Cherokee Nation, or of a delegation thereof duly authorized, who shall file certificate of such acceptance.

Passed the House of Representatives June 27, 1876.

Attest: GEO. M. ADAMS, Clerk.

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TRAVELER, JULY 26, 1876.

G. L. KENNEDY says he will pay one dollar each for four or five young mocking birds.

W. H. HARRISON left yesterday for Wellington, there to engage in the wagonmaking business.

WILL. LEONARD, Oxford's typo, and C. M. McIntire, of Winfield, visited our city last Saturday and Sunday.

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READ Charley Parker's announcement this week, and trot your equines up to his shop to have them shod.

AD: C. L. PARKER, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON SHOP.

On south end of Summit Street. The first building on

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DAN. JONES, writing from the Territory, gives the usual reports of high waters and intense heat at Ranch Red Fork.

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DIED. On Saturday morning, July 22, of consumption, Mr. Charles Coffey. The deceased was a step-son of Mr. Pruit, and was buried the following day.

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ALLEN MOWRY was welcomed back to the bosom of his family last week. We wouldn't mind going back home if we could be twisted and hugged the way Al. was.

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MISS SKINNER met with a sad accident, a few days ago, while milking a cow. The animal became enraged from some cause or other, and kicking the girl in the side, fractured one of her ribs.

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A WINFIELD man brushed around the country four days in search of a stray horse, and finally had to call on a Rackensack man to get his animal. It's no use talking: when Patterson straddles old "Leviticus," and starts for a horse or horse thief, he trots in with his game as sure as fate.

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We noticed a horse trying to play leap frog over the hitching bar in front of the post office, last Sunday. The front half of him was a success, but his hind quarters didn't go over worth a cent, and he was gently helped backward and tied to a post not quite so favorable for acrobatic feats.

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Last Saturday morning witnessed the departure of one of our most respected citizens. By stage Coony Sherburne and his son, Joe, left for their far-away home in the East. Joe is to be shipped back in the course of a few weeks, which will in a measure reconcile us to the loss of Coony.

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TRAVELER, JULY 26, 1876.

AT LAST! The Arkansas City Water Mills are now prepared to do custom grinding. All work done in short order, and satisfaction guaranteed. Bring in your grists.

A. A. NEWMAN.

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FARMERS. I have secured the services of a first-class shoer, and am now prepared to do work in that line.

CHAS. PARKER.

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TRAVELER, AUGUST 2, 1876.

OSAGE AGENCY, INDIAN TERRITORY, July 24, 1876.

While it is not my purpose to worry the readers of your columns, yet knowing that the antipathy which has so long and unjustly existed between this place and yours has been overcome by the new administration of affairs here; and that we are now ready to lay aside the "scalping knife," "bury the hatchet," and "shake hands across the bloody chasm"--I though perhaps a few items might not prove void of interest to some of them.

Affairs here are in an unsettled condition, owing to the fact of Congress having failed to make any appropriation so far, and no final action having been taken on the bill providing for the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department. This bill will no doubt be defeated--a fate which it justly deserves, and but a fitting rebuke to its originators. However, just in itself the measure may be, having once been defeated by a square vote would have satisfied anybody save an honorable (?) Democratic House of numbskulls, who in defiance of this, an established law of Congress, attached it as an amendment on the general appropriation bill--and that just on the eve of adjournment; when there are not funds on hand to meet the necessary expenses of the Government, hoping thereby to force its passage. This, however, is only characteristic of their action throughout; and if such "tomfoolery" (I do not call it legislation) is to be tolerated much longer, it would be policy to declare their seats vacant and substitute therefor full-blooded Osages, who would certainly do as much good and perhaps less harm.

Fearful hot! is the universal cry, and there is a general stampede among the inhabitants in search of a cool place, but without success, and everyone is wondering whether it is so hot elsewhere; but we think not, as we are down in the region of "china," where a breeze to reach us must come from above, a thing unheard of since the day of Pentecost. We had a good rain last night, however, and there is quite a change in the atmosphere today--cool enough to make one think of overcoats and fires. It is a timely visit to the crops, as they were suffering for want of it, and would have been cut short had it not come soon.

The flood did much damage to the Osage crops, besides sweeping away fences, etc. They would have had nearly wheat enough to have breaded them, could it have been saved, but as it is, supplies will have to be shipped in for their support, which will furnish a good market for the surplus grain not exported by the Arkansas River Navigation Company.

The past week or so has been a gala time with the Osages. They are having their medicine dance, but a scalp is an essential article in order to arouse the necessary ent