THE WINFIELD COURER.

[FROM SEPTEMBER 27, 1883, THROUGH OCTOBER 18, 1883.]

D. A. MILLINGTON, EDITOR.

ED. P. GREER, LOCAL EDITOR.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

AD. DINNA= YE HEAR THE SLOGAN?

Beware the Avalanche of Prices!

AN UNPARALLELED DISPLAY!!

ELEGANT DISPLAY OF CHINA SETS.

The beautiful and unique Majolica Ware, glittering Vases and Toy Sets for the children.

Pure White Granite and Decorated Ware of every description.

The finest quality of Silver and Steel Cutlery, Silver Casters, and Butter Dishes. A full and beautiful selection of Rockingham and Yellow Ware.

Lamps of every style and descriptionClibrary, stand, and hanging.

Glassware Prices Absolutely and Emphatically Slaughtered!

The whole realm of Glass and Queensware invaded, and selections carefully made.

To See is to Admire!

This is not wind, but steel-cold truth.

Do not doubt it! Come and see!

A. T. SPOTSWOOD & CO.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Trial Docket, October Term, 1883.

Cowley County District Court, to be held on and from October 21.

CRIMINAL DOCKETCFIRST DAY.

State v. Frank Manny.

State v. Jacob Case.

State v. Charles A. Cooper et al.

Satate v. John Askens.

State v. N. B. Lagle. [Lagle...?? New name to me...think they made a mistake!]

State v. Grant Dover et al.

[SKIPPED THE REST SHOWING COURT TO BE IN SESSION FOR SIX DAYS.

CIVIL DOCKET STARTED SECOND DAY...89 CASES LISTED.]

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

NOTES OF TRAVEL.

The editor and his family have returned from a trip east, having taken in as many of the sights as was possible in the short period of fifteen days. As we did our traveling mostly in the night, in sleeping cars, we got in at least eleven full days for sight seeing, spending a day and a half in St. Louis, one day in Cincinnati, three and a half days in and about Washington, one day in Baltimore, one day in Philadelphia, and three days in and about New York. In the other two days we saw either going or coming, the to us most interesting part of the route, that from Philadelphia to Chillicothe, Ohio, all the way, including the picturesque mountain scenery of West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia; the Cumberlands, Alleganies, and Blue Ridge; and scenes of historic interest including Harpers Ferry.

On the whole we think we put in our time well and got all the fun out of it that was possible, including the fun of physical exhaustion every night after going as long as we could stand it during the day. But we return much refreshed, having got rid of a certain lassitude, mental weariness, and a painful soreness and weakness in our eyes, caused by too constant reading and writing.

We do not propose to describe what we saw, heard, admired, and enjoyed seriatim, but will content ourself with a few notes of things that we presume may interest our readers.

ST. LOUIS.

This city has improved much in the last ten years. The business which was mainly along the river extending west scarcely beyond 4th street, is now extended beyond 12th, and 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th may be considered the business center. The fine residences along Olive and parallel streets have given place to magnificent business structures, and the grand govern-ment building is approaching completion on Olive between 8th and 9th streets. The residence portion of the city is extended west a couple of miles, and what were then farms are now occupied by palatial residences. We found the three story brick residence on Olive between 12th and 13th, where we used to live, now occupied as a wholesale sewing machine house.

SHAW=S GARDEN.

We made two attempts to visit Shaw=s Garden, but failed each time. The street cars for a number of streets were each blazoned with the legend, ATower Grove and Lafayette Parks, Shaw=s Garden.@ It was reasonable to suppose that the legends did not lie and that these roads during the last ten years had been extended to Shaw=s Garden. So we went first to Lafayette Park and found it much improved and extremely charming and beautiful. We then took the Lafayette Avenue street railroad for Shaw=s Garden and found the end of the road at Grand Avenue where it used to be, and we waited a long time for the Abus@ to come and carry us the mile or two still intervening to the garden, but it did not come until we concluded that we had not time enough left to visit the garden and reach our train for Cincinnati in time. So we abandoned the project until we returned from the east. Then we had another half day in which to visit the garden, and took another street car line which we found did carry us near to Tower Grove, but ended as far from Shaw=s Garden as did the other road; and then we found out that there was not a railroad within a mile and a half of the garden. The Abus@ was not in sight, so we strolled along leisurely through the Tower Grove Park in the general direction of the garden and near the carriage road on which the regular bus would pass. We probably spent two hours in the park and had nearly reached the garden when the Abus@ overtook us and we got in, but so much of our time had been exhausted that we concluded it was not safe to take any more time for we had a train west to reach on time. So we gave it up. The two morals we are after are:

1st. If you want to visit Shaw=s garden, take all day for it.

2nd. If any parties in or about St. Louis want people to visit that garden, they had better build one or two street railroads to it. It is strange that St. Louis has so little enterprise with so much wealth and population.

CINCINNATI.

The day we spent in Cincinnati was Achuck full@ of pleasure. A fair was in progress at the Music Hall and Industrial Exposition buildings, which was very extensive, grand, and beautiful. It contained almost everything in agriculture, floriculture, mechanics, arts, science, and nature which one could think of, diplayed in the most charming manner. The building itself is a marvel of beauty and art. There are many structures of beauty and note in this city among which we mention the new custom house and post office, the grand opera house, the Masonic temple, St. Peter=s cathedral, the Jewish temple, the City hospital, the courthouse, the work house, etc. The great suspension bridge over the Ohio to Covington, Kentucky, is a grand affair. Eden Park and Spring Grove Cemetery are full of beauties. We met with a little surprise in going by street rail to Highland House and Eden Park, which are situated on the heights east of the city. The street car ran directly to the foot of the almost perpendicular mountain and stopped on the track. Next we found that we were rising in the airCcar, team, track, and all. In a few moments were up at the top of the mountain and the section of track which went up with us was matched to a continued track on which we rode off. We went over to Covington to view the city from that side of the river.

THE OHIO RIVER.

The river was at a rather low stage of water, and after viewing so recently the broad flats of the Missouri and Mississippi, the deep trough of the Ohio looked rather small to us. Early one morning as we were approaching Cincinnati, we got out of our berth and looking out we saw a creek by the side of our train. AWhat creek is this?@ we asked of an Ohio gentleman. ACreek?@ said he in tones of disgust. ACreek?@ Why man, that is the great Ohio River.@ We wilted.

WASHINGTON.

This city is, we have no doubt, the most beautiful city in the world. Everything is clean and neat; rich, magnificent, tasteful, beautiful. It has been called the ACity of magnificent distances,@ but these distances have been largely filled up with magnificent residences and public buildings, gorgeous and beautiful parks and gardens. It would now be much more appropriate to term it the city of parks and gardens. With less than 173,000 inhabitants, it is not a large city as compared to some forty cities in the world having each twice to twenty-two times its population, but we believe that no city in the world can excel Washington in the attractions of parks and gardens. It has these by the hundred, aye, by the thousand. That part of the city which, including the wide capitol grounds, stretches west to the river, a parallelogram 100 rods wide by 560 rods long with an ell turned north of its west end 100 by 150 rods, altogether containing Lafayette Park, the White House grounds, the treasury, state, war, and navy departments; the Washington monument, the Agricultural department, the Smithsonian Institute, the National Museum, and the botanical gardens, is the grand system of public parks and gardens containing more exquisite beauty than can probably be found in similar limits anywhere else. Then while the city is laid off in regular rectangular blocks and streets, yet diagonal to these run fifteen avenues bearing the names of states. These cut the blocks into numberless gores, and each of these goreals a park or garden of flowers and plants. Surrounding the Patent office, the General Post Office, and each of the other public buildings is a large park and garden. The private residences are by the hundred surrounded by the same luxurience and beauty. Around the city on the hills are many large parks and cemeteries all beautified in a similar manner. Connected with these parks is such a wide variety of grandeur and beauty that there is no sense of sameness. Fountains, water jets, lakes, ponds, cataracts, statuary, grottoes, hills, bridges, trees, flowers, and plants of every size and style, country and species, are some of their features.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

While Washington to us seemed one vast and varied park and garden, yet we found time to go through many of the public buildings. Of course, we took the Capitol in first. It is an immense structure and to go through it, glance at its statuary, paintings, bronze, and other art works, and climb to the top of the rotunda and Aview the landscape o=er,@ took a full half day. Of course, we are not going to describe it, nor many other things we inspected, for two reasons: first, many of our readers can do it better than we, having examined more minutely; and, second, we cannot do the subject justice.

The new department building west of the White House, containing the State, War, and Navy departments is considered the best and grandest structure in the world. Such immense buildings are too much for one to take in at once. We need to stand and look one over for an hour, then return daily and repeat it for a few days. It will grow upon the observer, for the mind cannot take in all its greatness and beauty at once. It will look twice as large and twice as exquisite the fourth day as it did the first. It would take too much space to notice all the buildings we visited and must pass most of them, at least for the present.

COL. E. C. MANNING.

We found at Washington, Col. E. C. Manning and his family, and we believe our readers will feel very much less interest in the art and architecture of the capital than in the man who more than any other, made Winfield; the man to whom Winfield and Cowley County owes more than to any other for what we have and what we enjoy in the line of public advantages, secured by energy, foresight, skill, and knowledge. We never saw Col. Manning looking so well, healthy and happy. He is heavier than he used to be, clearer complexioned, handsomer, and exhibits more than his old time brightness and wit. If he is not a prohibitionist, he is a teetotaler, and has been ever since he went to Washington. He is living in his own home, 701 East Capitol Street, a roomy, cozy house with all the modern conveniences and improve-ments; well and tastefully furnished, where he is enjoying life with his wife and with his three children, Ben, May, and Fred, who are happy, contented and studious, attending school, doing well, and becoming gentlemanly and ladylike. Mrs. Manning impressed us as a real lady, intelligent, fair, kind, and sensible. That she has a wonderful influence for good over the family group whom she has gathered together under her care, was sufficiently apparent. They all respect and love her, and her quiet request is law. Out of the turbulent spirits, schooled in the rougher parts of the West, she has made a pleasant and gentle family, and surrounded them with taste and culture. To Mr. and Mrs. Manning we are indebted for many kind attentions during our stay in Washington. He likes life in Washington and says he Awould rather be a lamp post in Washington than a governor in Colorado.@

MT. VERNON.

While in Washington for two days it rained constantly, but we could not afford to be idle on account of the rain. The first day, escorted by Hon. D. J. Evans, who was supervisor of the census for this district in 1880, we went through the departments of State, War, Navy, and Treasury, and the Corcoran Art Gallery. The next we took a steamboat trip down the river 18 miles to visit Mt. Vernon. It is a lovely place, and under the care of the ladies assoication, it is kept up in so good style that we imagine that the immortal George Washington never saw his grounds looking so well as they do now. Notwithstanding the rain a considerable number of visitors, mostly from the west, were present and tramped through the rooms and over the grounds expressing a subdued delight in whatever they saw. There is a great deal of room in the quaint old mansion and there are a great many out houses. The old fire places deep and large enough to take in near a half cord of wood, and a great many other peculiarities, reminded us of our boyhood days. The furniture had been of a costly nature in the days when it was new. Everything was quaint and interesting, yet difficult of description. Mt. Vernon is a high hill rather than bluff, rising rather abruptly from the river, but beautifully rounded toward the top, surrounded by fine old forests or groves through which the road winds from the landing up to the summit where rest the plantation buildings and mansion. Beside this road on the slope nearly half way down is the tomb of Washington. The door of the tomb is nothing but wrought iron grating through which you observe not more than four feet from the door, two sarcophagi, the one containing the remains of the father of his country and the other those of his wife. But we do not propose to describe the place or what we saw. Stormy as the day was, our enjoyment, though of a subdued kind, was not exceeded by that of any other day of our trip.

BALTIMORE.

What we have to say of the Oriole festivities appears in another place, but outside of these we enjoyed a pleasant day in Baltimore. There are very many fine buildings, parks, and monuments in and around Baltimore, and many fine streets and grand residences well worth seeing. What pleased us more than anything else was Druid Hill Park. Its very high position overlooking the city, its one large fine lake serving as a reservoir for the city water supply, clear and fine, from which spouts a large water jet more than a hundred feet into the air, its several smaller lakes, its various rounded hills and fine groves of various kinds of trees; its fine curving drives, its grazing deer, its banks of flowered and colored leaf plants, with its many other attractions, render Druid Hill Park one of the most charming parks we have ever seen. The most lovely avenue lined with residences, the homes of the opulent, we saw in the city was Eutaw Place. It is a very wide avenue, and for near a mile the middle of the street was a series of garden parks separated from each other by the cross streets. Along some of the business streets are many costly and magnificent business blocks, but these streets are too narrow to be pleasant, and are frequently blocked up by the street cars, drays, and other vechicles, while the too narrow sidewalks are crowded by a rushing, surging throng.

If we have space to spare at another time, we shall speak of Philadelphia and New York.

Charles F. Bahntge appeared to us soon after we reached Baltimore, and again in New York, where he was with us for two days, and added much to the pleasure of our excursions about that city.

S. M. Jarvis appeared to us in New York and again in Kansas City, having arrived just before we left the latter city.

We met R. R. Conklin at Kansas City. He had lately returned from an extended trip to California and other states and territories of the West.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

NEW ROAD.

The Missouri, Winfield & Southwestern is the name given to the proposed new road to be built from Eureka to Winfield. Petitions have been circulated in the townships of Hickory and Union, and are largely signed, asking the county commissioners to submit propositions in the townships named to subscribe to the capital stock of the new road. It will be a Adaisy@ line and one of inestimable value to the people of Southeast Butler. To secure it means an increase of at least twenty-five percent value on real estate in that region. The line will be the shortest by many miles into Kansas City, which will for all time be the market for Kansas.

The new road, like our ASunflower,@ will be simply a part of the great Missouri Pacific (Gould) system, and in this is its great value. Southeast Butler already has fair railway facilities, but she will be surprised at the increased value of her products with a nearer market and competing roads.

Go ahead with the railroad building. Butler County=s one hundred and twenty miles of railway yet stands in length unmatched in the State, and never in her history has she been more prosperous. The more railroads the more prosperity. Give us the roads.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

From the Traveler.

The new Cowley County Bank, now in course of erection, will, when completed, be the finest brick building in the county, and Arkansas City will be proud of it accordingly.

Creswell Township has a population of 2,613, an actual valuation of $1,150,000, an assessed valuation of $383,395, and an indebtedness of $12,500. Cowley County has a populatioon of 25,516, an actual valuation of $16,000,000, an assessed valuation of $3,518,145, and an indebtedness of $178,500.

[NOTE: SOME FIGURES ABOVE MAY BE WRONG...VERY HARD TO READ!]

Professor Ed. C. Farringer, of Winfield, is meeting with quite flattering success in our city as a music teacher, having a sufficient number of pupils for the piano and organ to necessitate his spending four days of each week in the city. The profesor is a first-class musician, and we are pleased to chronicle his success.

The boss piece of wheat, so far as yield goes, is reported from Bolton Township, by our old friend and subscriber, Judge Linton, Judge Linton raised 15-1/2 acres of wheat, which yielded 733 bushels or 47-1/2 bushels per acre, which is just 1-1/2 bushels more than the best yield reported by the State Agricultural Report for August last.

The wheat crop in this State is threshing out much heavier than was expected, and the State Board of Agriculture has revised its former estimate of this crop, and it will now aggregate fully 35,000,000 bushels. The corn crop of Kansas is estimated, and will reach fully 200,000,000 bushels, and will be the largest ever produced in the State.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Scraps from Akron.

Birthday parties all the rage.

Jack Frost made his mark last Thursday night.

N. E. Darling has got lumber hauled ready to build a store-house immediately.

Miss Ella Hitttle, of Barbour County, Kansas, is visiting relatives here.

An illustrated lecture entertained the people at Akron last Saturday evening.

Steps have been taken by the way of organizing a singing school, with Mr. Hittle as teacher. A good institution.

The school board of Valley Center has improved the looks of the schoolhouse in the way of a new porch.

Last Tuesday evening was a time long to be remembered by the young folks of this vicinity. At an early hour they gatheread at the residence of Mr. Savage, in honor of Mr. Albert Savage=s nineteenth birthday, and every person present pronounced it the most enjoyable affair of the season. Miss Ellen Hittle furnished the party, during the evening, with some excellent music, both vocal and instrumental, and at the usual hour supper was announced. The table was handsomely decorated with flowers, and, above all things with an exceedingly large part of the luxuries of life, which every person took part in to an alarming extent. Supper over, the party passed the rest of the evening out in the silvery moonlight, in the various plays adapted to young folks till a very late hour. The party departed to their respective homes, leaving behind them their best wishes; and, as a token of respect, quite a number of valuable presents.

The following is a list of presents received, and from whom.

N. E. Darling and wife, a book.

Mrs. Savage, a pocketbook.

Miss Dillie Wilson, autograph album.

Emery and Sumery Savage, gloves.

George Burt, French harp and penknife.

Miss Ellen Hittle, card-case.

Miss Glendora McCollins and Iola Shock, scenery.

Mrs. Sarah Cain, tin cup.

Perry Moore, cuff-buttons.

May Butler, handkerchief.

Alvin Butler, sleeve-holder.

William Noll, pocketbook.

Erwin Schofield, penknife.

Maggie McCollins, album.

Jane Wimer, picture-holder.

Miss Katie Wimer, inkstand and birthday card.

Eida [?Elda?] Shock, bottle of perfumery.

Carrie Tribley, indelible pencil.

Mrs. Tena Rogers, cuff-buttons.

Miss Lulu Rogers and Miss Emma Darling, mustache cup and saucer.

N. J. Hanlon, silk scarf.

E. L. Wilson, inkstand. ZEBIDEE.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

RECAP: Mary Griesgraber, Plaintiff, vs. John Sapper, Hattie, Scott, and A. M. J. Hines, Defendants. Suit filed September 22, 1883 to be answered by November 12, 1883, re real estate. Will T. Madden, Attorney for Plaintiff. Witnessed by E. S. Bedilion, District Clerk.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

RECAP: Probate Court...estate of Edgar Benson Chenoweth, Bernard Griffith Chenoweth, Barton Bates Chenoweth, Allan Chenoweth, and Henry Hatcher Chenoweth, minors....and Emma Chenoweth, widow, and any and all other heirs of W. E. Chenoweth, late of said Cowley County, deceased...James Hill, Guardian of the Estate of Minors. petition to be heard re real estate October 11, 1883.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

PERSONALS.

A. A. Jackson was down from the hamlet of Seeley Monday.

A large assortment of Plumes and Tips at Taylor & Taylor=s.

Henry E. Asp was up to Wichita last week, attending a contest case.

Miss M. Page spent last week visiting friends in Spring Creek Township.

The Presbyterians have their regular monthly social on next Friday evening.

The Misses Hooker, of Polo, this county, are attending the Winfield High School.

Winfield supports more nobby rigs for her population than any town in Kansas.

Mr. Copeland, chief clerk at the Bee Hive, is erecting a nest residence on east 9th Avenue.

W. H. Strahan returned Saturday from a three weeks= purchasing tour in the New York markets.

Mr. Geo. Gardner, of Cleveland, Ohio, is spending a few weeks in our county with his sister, Mrs. J. O. Taylor.

C. C. Harris started this week for Georgia, where he will enjoy the balmy Southern breezes during a month=s visit.

Miss Taylor, of the firm of Taylor & Taylor, starts to Chicago on Thursday for a winter stock. Ladies don=t fail to call.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

[MORE PERSONALS.]

Mr. H. S. Silvers is again able to be at his place of business, after an illness of nearly two months, though still looking badly.

Mr. F. W. Gano and wife, of Michigan, are spending a few weeks in this city with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Stoddard.

Mrs. A. Burgaur has been enjoying for some time a visit from her sister, Miss Minnie Greenebaum, from Junction City, this State.

The excavation for the cellars of the new store buildings of Mrs. Shenneman and Dr. Mendenhall on East 9th Avenue has been commenced.

Mr. S. E. Christalear, of Fairview Township, presents us with late peaches of the very largest variety, raised on his place north of town.

Mrs. J. F. McMullen and Mrs. Colegate [?Colgate?] spent part of last week with Mrs. Kinne in Kansas City and enjoyed the great Fair at that place.

The New York store is adding to its salesmen as the fall trade approaches. The latest acquisition is Mr. D. Swift, brother-in-law of Mr. Bard.

Mr. Perry Simcox, of Vernon Township, called Saturday. He informs us that some of his wheat, this year, made forty-three bushels per acre.

Miss Sarah Hoyt returned to her hom in Fort Scott on last Friday morning, after a two weeks= visit in this city with Miss Lola Silliman.

Mr. T. K. Williams, of Indiana, has rented a part of the John Tyner storeroom and is opening out a fine stock of ladies and gents furnishing goods.

BIRTH. Mr. J. S. McIntire, the photographer, is feeling very happy in the possession of a nine pound boy, which made an appearance at his house on Wednesday night of last week.

DIED. Mr. A. B. Arment informs us of the loss of N. G. and L. M. Davis, of this city, of their eight year old son on the 21st inst. Also of the death of Winfield J, the 13 months old son of Frank and Mary Higgle, on Sunday last.

Allen Johnson is again in our city after an absence of some time in Kansas City, where he has been dealing in grain. The grain markets here will receive his personal attention once more.

Mr. A. H. Jennings, a brother of S. H. and County Attorney Jennings, recently from Delaware, Ohio, is helping J. S. Mann through the rush of fair week and may remain with him for some time. He has many years experience in the clothing business.

Rev. E. Manford Clark, of Illinois, a Universalist clergyman of fine presence, is visiting this county and looking up some of the adherents of his faith. He will preach in Winfield once or twice as soon as arrangements can be made.

Last Friday evening one of Mr. G. N. Searcy=s shocks of fodder was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, leavig a strong gunpowder smell about the place. We mention this circumstance for its curiosity and not for any particular damage it did.

Ezra Nixon returned on Saturday night from his eastern excursion. He took in the Kansas City Fair, the Chicago exposition, and spent some time around the old familiar haunts of his boyhood near Davenport, Iowa. His three weeks vacation brought much enjoyment.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Henry Phenix brought us in a lot of the finest beans we have seen, Saturday, which he raised from seed grown this year. The first planting, early in the spring, ripened, and he put in a second crop from the harvested seed; the results proving as satisfactory as the first planting. This splendid season is developing Cowley=s productiveness in many ways.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

MARRIED. We learn of the marriage, at her home in Mound City, on the 16th inst., of Miss Lena Curry to Mr. J. H. Madden. Miss Curry was, not long since, a saleslady in the New York Store of this city, and is a sister of Mrs. A. E. Baird. During her residence here she made many warm friends, whom we know will enjoy the following notice of her marriage, taken from the Mound City Clarion.

AA very quiet but elegant wedding took place last Sunday at the residence of J. T. Curry. About thirty guests were assembled to witness the marriage of Miss Lena Curry to John H. Madden. About 6:30 p.m., the simple, impressive marriage ceremony was performed by thhe Rev. W. B. Poinsett. Following this came a bountiful supper, the bridal party leaving soon after for Pleasanton, where they took the train for Kansas City and the east. They will be absent a few days, visiting Chicago, St. Louis, and other cities. Miss Lena Curry, both in her vocation as teacher and in social life, is much loved for her many graces of mind and person. John H. Madden is the County Clerk of Lynn County, and in both public and private live is highly esteemed and respected wherever known. The best wishes of a host of friends, to whom they have endeared themselves, go with them in their new life. Many handsome presents were bestowed upon the happy couple.@

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

MARRIED. A Jewell has gone to Bliss. It occurred at Topeka on last Thursday, and the transformation was caused by the joining together of Mr. C. A. Bliss and Mrs. M. L. Jewell, in the matrimonial bond, by Rev. N. L. Rigby. This was a little surprising to the many friends of the bride and groom, but the surprise was not sufficient to interfere with congratulations. The groom is one of our early residents and most prominent businessmen, while the bride has resided in our city for the last four years, and has taken an active part in the musical and social circles; therefore, they start on their new voyage with the well wishes of a large number of friends. The groom has certainly secured a rare Jewell, and there is no doubt that the bride has chosen the royal road to Bliss. Our wish is that the Jewell may prove a blessing, the possession of which will bring much hpappiness, and that the Bliss of the new domestic firm may ever be unalloyed. Mr. and Mrs. Bliss will go to housekeeping in a few days.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

The temperance lecture of Judge O. L. Ray, of Michigan, at the Methodist Church on last Sunday evening, was a splendid moral lesson. His remarks were especially directed to the young, and while his delivery was not the best, showed deep thought. He pointed out the flattering prospects before every young man just starting out in the world for himself, and how he is the architect of his own futureCfree to walk in the high places of earth or lie in the gutter. He charged youn men against the forming of evil habits, against mingling with bad company, and illustrated the hardships of a reformation after the corrupt had gained the ascendency. The young men who heard this lecture carried away a lesson which, if followed, would have an elevating tendency and make a successful life.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Last week Nick Williams, Wm. Welch, Owen and Steve McCollom, of Pleasant Valley, were brought before Justice Soward on the charge of disturbing the peace of the Odessa neighborhood at night by shooting and using obscene language on the highway. The case was continued to this week, and after a day and a half=s arbitration, the jury found them guilty, and a fine of five dollars and the costs, about two hundred dollars, was assessed against them.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

It will be recollected that Charles Provine came from Kosciusko County, Indiana, last April, and settled in this county, with nine of his family. Last Saturday seven more, the balance of his family, arrived. They are all prohibitionists, sons, daughters, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law included, and will make a large addition to the moral and industrial forces of this county. Mr. Provine lives in this town and his several farms are near by in the surrounding country.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

MARRIED. Mr. John Willis, now of Arkansas City, and Miss Ida Beck, were married in this city on last Saturday at the home of Judge H. Beck, father of the bride. This event has been looked for by their friends for some time, though it was not expected that the preliminaries were so nearly ended. The happy couple will take up their abode at the ATerminus,@ where the groom is engaged in business. They have the good wishes and congratulations of many friends.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

The Williams Dramatic Company opened out in the Opera House, Tuesday evening, in AThe Little Duchess,@ with a good house. The company is a strong one, and Miss Mattie Williams, the star, especially elicited much favorable comment. They play some of the latest and best dramas, and our people will receive much pleasure from their entertainments during this week. Their band and orchestra discourse splendid music.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Mrs. Emma Smith, delegate of the W. C. T. U. of this city, to the annual convention in Topeka last week of the State Temperance Union, reports three hundred and fifty delegates present and a very profitable meeting. Rousing speeches were made by ex-Gov. St. John and other temperance workers and important steps were taken for the forwarding of the cause.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Joe Kensil, at Billy Hand=s livery barn, has a number of the best horses in the city under his care and training. Joe has few equals as a horseman, and all he needs to make an animal Agit up and git,@ in a few weeks= training, is the necessary symmetry of form and tendency to fleetness.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

BIRTH. Ed. Goodrich was rushing around over town on last Saturday morning with a box of cigars under his arm and a broad smile on his countenance. This excitement and Aset =em up A to the boys was all caused by the arrival at his home on the night before of a fine new girl.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Miss Etta Stout, recently from Missouri, has taken a position as saleslady at the Bee Hive Store. Lady clerks are becoming popular with our merchants. Almost every dry goods store in the city now has one or two.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

The Baptist State Convention meets in this city on November 2nd, at which time our city will be visited by all the Baptist ministers of the State and many special delegates.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Mr. James Rothrock has sold out his stock of merchandise at Seeley, moved to Winfield, and is at present assisting in the grocery establishment of A. T. Spotswood. The Seeley post office is the graduating school for Spotswood=s clerks.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Charlie Beck came down from Wichita Monday and will spend a week with his parents. He informs us that Frank Williams has gone into the real estate business since disposing of the Occidental.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

The Torrance-Fuller buildings are nearly ready for the roof and are expected to be furnished in a few weeks. J. S. Mann talks of occupying one of them with his clothing establishment.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

DIED. From Johnson & Hill, undertakers, we learn of the death of John Carpenter, near Udall, on Monday last, and of the loss in this city, by Mrs. Mary Kinne, of her little two-year-old daughter.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

The ladies of the Christian Church are out in full force on the fair ground and are doing splendidly with their dining hall. They took in over forty dollars for dinner Wednesday.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Saturday was a big day in the wheat market. Over a hundred loads were disposed of to our buyers, the ruling price being seventy-eight cents per bushel.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Lost. Between Doane=s coal office and Spotswood=s store, a fountain pen in a tin case. If the finder will leave at this office, a reward will be paid.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Friend=s Millinery House Grand opening, Thursday and Friday, October 4-5. You are cordially invited. Three doors north of Lynn=s. No cards.

AD. FRIEND=S MILLINERY HOUSE Is now receiving an immense stock of HATS, MILLINERY, AND TRIMMINGS, Selected in the principal cities, and can suit you in STYLE AND PRICES. Three doors North of Lynn=s.

Also Pianos, Organs, and Sewing Machines, in a large variety of makes, wholesale or retail, cash or time.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

COWLEY=S FAIR.

Magnificent Displays in Every Department and all Expectations Fully Realized.

The first annual exhibition of the Cowley County Fair and Driving Park Association opened Tuesday morning last with extensive preparations and a clear sky. Early in the morning the streets began to look active, and by ten o=clock large numbers of persons were accepting of the many facilities for transportation to the beautiful Fair Grounds, and the thoroughfare has been continually thronged since. Those who have no conveyances of their own find ample accommodation in the numerous omnibuses, express wagons, and common vehicles manned by lusty Arustlers,@ fare twenty-five cents; and then there are AWalker=s Line@ and AShank=s Mare,@ fare nothing; but we notice few who embrace the latter mode of transportationCthese flush times make it unnecessary. Every large exhibition lasting through several days has its time of preparation, and on Tuesday and part of Wednesday, Cowley=s Fair was passing through this period. The superintendents and exhibitors were busy arranging the displays, and wer not in shape to give details, but we gained enough information to make a synopsis of the great Ashow@ in this issue, leaving the bulk of details for next week, when everything will be over and full report can be given.

The first place visited as nearest the entrance, was the general exhibition hall. On the right of the entrance are the Household fabrics, Kansas manufacture, in charge of Mr.

W. R. McDonald. Every conceivable kind of Aspread,@ some of them elaborate, splendid rag carpets, and almost everything made in this line by the energy, taste, and deftness of Cowley=s ladies, are there to be seen. The different novelties here, as elsewhere, are deserving of special mention, but under the arrangement it was impossible to get the name of each exhibitor. The next thing encountered was the Flowers and Shrubs, presided over by Mrs. J. L. Horning. The display is very tastefully arranged, contains a good variety, and taken all in all, does Lady Flora full justice. Next to this is the Fine Art department, conducted by Miss Kate Millington, the most prominent among which are specimens of photography from the galleries of Winfield=s artists, Messrs. Rodocker, McIntire, and Beck Bros., and a finer display we challenge the state to produce.

You pass from this to the exhibit under Mrs. D. L. Kretsinger, of Fancy Work, and here is where the skill and taste of Cowley=s ladies are shown in all their reality. A man is seized with a renewed admiration of the gentler sex as he stands and beholds these marvelous specimens of her handiwork. This is a very unique feature of the Fair.

On the west side of this hall is the array of our dealers in musical instrumentsCand sewing machines, Messrs. Friend, Stimson, Best, Roberts, and Fitch & Barron. The exhibitors of musical instruments have an attraction in good vocal and instrumental music, while the sewing machine gentlemen have to depend entirely on the oiliness of their tongues.

The next building in the row contains S. H. Myton=s elegant display of eighteen buggies, spring wagons, and carriages, all beautifully finished and of Eastern manufacture.

As you pass on and step into the Agricultural Hall, you are struck with wonderment at the magnificence of the display. Enormous squashes, corpulent pumpkins, and obese melons, and, arranged in various ways, about one hundred and twenty different varieties of vegetables greet the eye. Stowed in one corner are the fifty bushels of corn entered for P. H. Albright=s special premium, some of the ears as large as sticks of stove wood, and there is a glorious company of potatoes and onions. Prominent in this hall are the collections of grains and grasses exhibited by Jas. F. Martin and ______, both of Vernon Township, in competition for the special premium of M. L. Read=s Bank, the former containing forty-two different varieties and both being very nicely arranged. Down at the farther end of this hall is a Alayout@ of every variety of apple and peach that ever grew on a tree, and such fruit as it is! One is instantly imbued, on seeing this array, with the reality of Cowley=s fruit productiveness. It is splendid evidence that this county is destined to rank with any county in the State for fruit. In one corner of this building is the Farm and Household display, embracing the bread, butter, cakes, jellies, etc., under the superintendency of Mrs. J. F. Martin. Jacob Nixon and J. W. Millspaugh seem to be the Ahosts@ in this hall, and after being shown around among the agricultural wonders, you leave with an exalted opinion of Cowley=s mammoth productiveness.

The next attraction for the visitor is the fine horses. There are horses in profusion, some of them big Clydesdales, Norman, and Canadian, and any number of trotting and running horses, together with some of as fine brooders and yearlings as any county can show. Conspicuous among the blooded horses are the two Norman and one Clydesdale stallions of R. B. Noble, of Dexter, one of the former being the largest in the county, weighing 1970 pounds; also the stallions of N. L. Yarbrough, of Floral; the two year old Clydesdale of

R. F. Burden, and the mammoth two year old Clydesdale stallion and four year old mare of Messrs.Tweedle and Purvoi, recently from Scotland. This mare undoubtedly excels anything ever brought into our county. The exhibition of horses of all kinds is exceedingly large and astonishes every beholder.

In blooded cattle the showing is equally as good. About thirty short horn bulls are on exhibition, among the best being those of J. O. Taylor, S. H. Jennings, Mr. Bain, and J. S. Baker. Mr. Taylor shows a herd of short horn cows and calves, three of them the celebrated Jerseys. Mrs. M. J. Gilkey of Maple City, Mr. Thompson of Rock, S. H. Jennings of Winfield, and Mr. Bain, recently from Kentucky, also show very fine specimens of short horn cows and calvesCsome of them exceptionally good. That Cowley has made wonderful strides in the improvement of her cattle and horses, our fair readily shows. For the convenience of those who, like the writer, for instance, can=t tell a short horn cow from any other, if both cows had their heads in a barrel, Mr. Taylor is stationed at the corrals and takes great pleasure in showing the visitors around.

There is an immense array of hog pens, filled with Poland Chinas, Berkshires, Chester Whites, and other breeds. The hog show is magnificent, some of them being as fine as can be produced, and is evidence that Cowley can hold her own on hogs against all comers. The sheep exhibit is also good, showing many different kinds. There being no one who seemed capable of giving the information, we did not learn the names of any of the exhibitors. Next comes the poultry, and of the feathered friends of man there is a fine show, the most attractive being the three coops of Plymouth Rock=s, exhibited by Mr. Samuel Lowe, of this city. There are many different kinds, but the Aboss@ of this department being absent, we hurriedly passed it by. There is an elegant exhibit of nursery stock by Hogue and Mentch, a good array of tombstones by Wm. Dawson, and agricultural implements by Brotherton and Silver and S. H. Myton. The ground was hurriedly gone over and there may be some important omissions of special departments, but we will make all amends next week.

Many fine race horses are on the ground and some splendid tallies of speed are being made. The person who visits the Fair today will see it at its Agolden mean,@ as the displays can be seen in their entirety, and many of the premiums will have been awarded. The grounds were thronged yesterday, many being present from other counties. Taken as a whole, the Fair so far is a grand success, and covers Cowley all over with glory. The advertisement the county will receive from this magnificent showing will be of incalculable benefit. For true enterprise, energy, intelligence, and pluck, Cowley=s people can=t be beaten, of which fact our Fair is positive proof.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

A Group of Performing Arabs.

W. W. Cole, proprietor of the largest canvass show in the world, has introduced many odd novelties this year, but one of the oddest and nost thrilling episodes of his bewildering entertainments is that introduced by a group of Bedouin Arabs, who are pronounced Athe marvels of a nation noted for its muscular men.@ Their leaps and acrobatic evolutions are said to beggar description, so thrilling, sensational, swift, and danger freighted are they. These wonderful representatives of a wonderful, weird, and peculiar race are to be seen in no other show on earty. W. W. Cole is the only man with courage, foresight, and enterprise enough to find them out and secure their exclusive services.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

COWLEY COUNTY FAIR.

The population of Cowley County is over 23,000. That of Winfield is 4,000. The area of the county is 1,140 square miles. It raised this year 1,000,000 bushels of wheat, on 40,000 acres; 7,000,000 bushels of corn on 117,000.

2,000 carloads of wheat.

17,500 carloads of corn.

1,600 carloads of oats.

500 carloads of rye.

500 carloads of potatoes.

500 carloads of fruit.

2,000 carloads, miscellaneous.

TOTAL: 25,100 carloads.

1,000 trains of 25 cars each. Samples to be seen at the fair ground.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Teachers Association. The Northwestern division of the Cowley County Teachers association holds its first meeting Oct. 6th, at the Rock schoolhouse. Let the teachers of this division be in attendance and make their first association a success.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

The Teter Family.

The following is a list of the names of the family of Mr. Philip Teter of Beaver Township in Cowley County, Kansas, all living within a radius of two and a half miles. They are all of well to do, money making, farmer families, intelligent and highly esteemed citizens, all Re-publicans and prohibitionists. We enter this family for competition for the COURIER prize.

Philip Teter.

Margaret Teter, his wife.

Philip M. Teter, son of the above.

George H. Teter, son of the above.

Moses S. Teter, son of the above.

Wm. H. H. Teter, son of the above.

Mrs. Mary A. Browning, daughter of the above.

Mrs. Phebe J. Vandeveer, daughter of the above.

Mrs. Martha J. Teter, wife of Geo. H.

Maggie Teter.

Alma Teter.

Ollie Teter.

Otho Teter.

Ada Teter.

Walter Teter.

Frank Teter.

Clara Browning.

Jessie Browning.

Robert W. Broning.

Mollie Browning.

Jennie Browning.

Joan Omer Browning.

Philip Sheridan Teter.

Luelia Teter.

Mollie Teter.

James W. Teter.

William A. Teter.

Geo. M. Teter.

Carrie Teter.

John P. Teter.

Evart Teter.

Joseph R. Teter.

Philip C. Vandeveer.

Maud Ella Vandeveer.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Orator and Lecturer.

Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, of Lafayette, Indiana, the celebrated lecturer and orator, will be in Winfield and lecture at the Baptist Church on Thursday and Friday evenings, Oct. 18th and 19th. Subject of the first lecture, AWoman=s suffrage a national necessity.@ Second lecture, AHigh license ffrom a woman=s standpoint.@ Mrs. Gougar is considered the finest lecturer of her sex and it is a rare fortune that our citizens will have an opportunity to hear her.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

$17, Round Trip to St. Louis.

Branson, the agent of the K. C. L. & S. K. railroad, will sell at the north depot, Winfield, round trip tickets to the St. Louis Fair for $17. This is only but little more than half rates. The fair commences at St. Louis Oct. 10th and continues all the week. It will be the grandest of all her grand fairs and the magic and spectacular processions of evenings are exepected to beat the New Orleans AMardi Gras@ and the Baltimore AOriole.@

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Winfield Markets Wholesale.

The following prices are realized in our streets by producers this Wednesday, Sept. 26th.

EGGS: Fresh, per dozen, 15 cents.

BUTTER: Country, per lb., 20 cents; Creamery, per lb., 25 cents.

POTATOES: per bushel, IrishC50 cents & 60 cents.

POTATOES: per bushel, SweetC60 cents & 75 cents.

ONIONS: per bushel, 50 cents.

CABBAGE: per lb., 2 cents.

HAMS: Country, per lb., 16 cents.

CHICKENS: per dozen, springC$1.75 @ $2.00.

CHICKENS: per lb., oldC6-1/2 cents.

LARD: per lb., 12-1/2 cents.

SORGHUM: per gallon, 40 cents.

WHEAT: per bushel, 75 cents & 80 cents.

CORN: per bushel, 25 cents.

FLOUR: per 100 lbs., $2.25, & $2.50, $2.80.

CORN MEAL: 80 cents.

OATS: per bushel, 20 cents.

HOGS: per 100 lbs., $4.12-1/2.

CATTLE: 2 & 2-3/4

STEERS: 3 & 3-1/2.

HAY: In bulk, $4.00.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wagner, of Walnut Township, started Tuesday for a few weeks visit in Indiana.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

CHEAP MONEY.

McDonald, Jarvis & Co., have $1,000,000 of Eastern money to loan on improved farms in Cowley, Butler, Sedgwick, and Sumner counties at SIX PERCENT, per annum. Loans will be made at my office in Winfield, and the interest can be paid to me as it matures, and the borrower will receive the coupons at the time he makes his payments, and thus all mistakes and trouble be avoided. All loans will be made on five years time with the privilege to the borrower to pay it off at any time after one year. We mean business and can and will loan money cheaper than any other person or firm in Kansas. Come and see us before borrowing elsewhere.

J. WADE McDONALD, Attorney and General Manager.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

STREAKS OF SUNSHINE [ADS.]

I have a lot of large brood Mares for sale at my ranch near Silverdale P. O.

Jno. Andrews.

For Sale Cheap. A good mule team, harness, and two wagons. Cash or time. N. C. Myers.

Public Sale. Peter Harpole will have an auction sale of live stock and farming implements, in Cedar Township on Wednesday, October 10th, 1883.

All parties indebted to James Rothrock, the former merchant of Seeley, will please call on Wm. Simpson of that place and settle as soon as possible.

Public Sale. On Wednesday, October 10th, we will sell at public auction at our place 3-2 miles North East of New Salem, commencing at 10 o=clock, a.m., 21 cows and heifers, 20 calves, 1 horse, 2 brood mares, 3 brood sows and pigs, and an assortment of farming implements. Terms Cash; sums of $10 and over may run 9 month at 8 percent with approved security. J. W. HOYLAND & SONS.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

DEXTER ITEMS.

Owen Shriver lost a valuable horse last week, by sickness.

L. K. Hoyt had a horse badly hurt in the barn by kicking, lately.

Mr. Barnes of Upper Grouse is moging to his valuable farm near Dester.

Levi Bullington and family are back from the mountains, and not much benefitted in health.

Land buyers are plenty, but farmers in Grouse Valley think too much of their farms to sell for a song.

Our town was uncommonly full of people and teams on Saturday last. Business is lively, of course.

Miss Waldsmith is soon to leave us for a seminary in Missouri. She goes to finish her education and will be much missed in our small town.

A festival was held at Fairview schoolhouse on Saturday evening. The night was lovely, everybody brought a basketfull of eatables, and all was joy.

A pleasant party was held at the residence of Henry Branson on Friday. Just the right number were out. The young folks vote it the best dance of the season.

We are going over to the Fair in force. Look out for premium corn, potatoes, pumpkins, etc., from the Grouse Valley. We will also bring the fatted calf and prodigal son.

MARRIED. Miss Ada Strickland surprised all who knew her by her marriage and sudden departure to Chautauqua County. She is missed at the dances and the boys should waylay Rrife Parsons.

DIED. In the record of passing events we must often chronicle the sad events, such as the death of an infant child of Mr. John Bilby. It had suffered all its short life. It was buried on the 6th.

The pupils and people of Dexter welcome Miss Vaught back to the school room. She will be assisted by Miss Davis of Tisdale. Both are experienced teachers and we feel assured of a good school.

MARRIED. One of the Dexter band boys has deserted his comrades and settled down as a married man. Mr. John Sowers and bride were serenaded by the band. Another member will dessert soon if he is not watched.

Farmers feel that they can afford to loaf around town a good deal after raising such good crops. I often wonder if they hadn=t better be at home mowing down the weeds that hide their homes, and trimming hedges and Asich like work.@ A living is made too easily in KansasCpeople become indolent and careless.

A horse was stolen from the residence of Mr. Sol Osborne on Tuesday night during a party by two youthful Asmarties@ of Plum Creek. The horse was found at New Salem, and the boys at Arkansas City. The boys were taken to jail, but promptly bailed out by their parents. I hope they were in jail long enough to do some solid thinking over the error of such ways, and resolve on a better life in future. GRANGER.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

FROM OTTER.

Candidates are putting on their overalls again, and stacking theeir empty cigar boxes away under the edge of the autumn hay rick for winter kindling.

Isn=t it rather severe that a hard-working citizen can=t shoot a farmer, marry his wife, and fall heir to his farm without getting the pestiferous State down on the back of his neck?

As little as it is known, Otter Township produced the present fall as fine a lot of corn, stock, fruit, watermelons, and girls as ever graced a Cowley County Fair. I hope the girls will excuse me for mentioning them after the stock and vegetables.

The I. O. O. F. celebration at Elm Park below Cedarvale last Wednesday was a perfect success in every respect. Among the notables present were Father Josiah Davis, W. W. Jones, Ben Henderson, J. D. McBrian, Bert Hilligoss, and Father Buckles, with a reasonable attendance. There was the best feeling, and some enthusiasm.

The preliminary trial of Wirt Bacon, charged with the killing of Milton Tompkins, has been continued to the 26th. Milton Bacon, brother of the accused, arrived here from Colorado recently. The evidence against the accused appears very strong, while his parents and relatives who have always borne the reputation of clever and worthy people, have the earnest sympathy of the community.

Jasper finds lots of new darlings down here after several months absence. Some of the aforesaid darlings are plotting against the boys and the preacher. The boys have given in already. Ordinary Achilluns@ like your correspondent are not supposed to stand up against the combined influence of frizzes, sun flowers, and bangs. I claim to have lots of indepen-dence, but I can=t help falling in under the irresistible pressure of hairpins and marble dust. Don=t get mad, girls, but we boys with our green ways get Aplum pulverized@ sometimes (as the Sedan girl expresses it), and we aren=t entirely responsible for the way in which our yearning hearts reach out. We can=t help getting broke up on you. It=s just our tender, clinging natures that do it. We haven=t the presumption to ask you to reciprocate our regard; we only ask you to have charity in view of our unfortunate dispositions. With mustache scented with citronella, I am very truly yours, JASPER.

Winfield Courier, September 27, 1883.

FROM COLORADO.

HOWARDS, Colorado.

EDITOR COURIERCDear Sir: You will see, by the heading of this, that I have wandered away from the haunts of vice and am now whiling away a short period in the virtuous State of ColoradoCblessed Colorado, beautiful Colorado. God forgive me if I lie, for if I do, it is done meaningly, and through pure cussedness. We are now located in a little valley in Fremont County, called Pleasant Valley. God forgive the author of that name. This Pleasant Valley is about twelve miles long by from twenty feet to a quarter of a mile wide, made up of rocks and a little, very little, farming land; and oh, such farming land! Why, if a man should be caught on such a piece of land in Cowley County, he would be arrested, taken before Judge Gans, tried for a lunatic, convicted, and put into the hands of By Garey to be taken to the insane asylum. But when I think of it, there is no danger of such a thing happening, for I do not believe there is as poor a piece of land in the whole State of Kansas as this valley contains. Nothing is raised here, only by irrigation. Now, the middle of Sep-tember, we sit down to table to eat green peas, corn, cucumbers, and all other vegetables, except tomatoesCthese are not ripe yet. The town of Howards consists of a depot, one store, and two housesCyes, and eight coal pits. The inhabitants consist of about a dozen young men who call themselves pine pushers; that means they chop and haul pine wood for the coal pits, and, by the way, there is one more important personage here, who calls himself a prospector. No one ever knew him to find anything until the other day, when he says he struck it rich. He has good naturedly shown me some of his specimens, and offered to sell me one-half interest in the mine for $1,000. I came mighty near buying it. I did not grumble at the price. I offered him his price, and offered to pay him $1.00 down, and give my note for the balance, but he could not see it that way; but did offer to take $100 down, and wait for the balance until I made it out of the mine, which he assured me was very rich. But I only had my little old dollar, and therefore I lost a fortune. By gravy, I told him, if he would wait until I could send for Geo. Miller, Dave Long, Mart Robinson, Joe Likowski, and Tom Soward, we would take the whole mine. I told him I knew Tom Soward would invest, for he was just about to be elected register of deeds of our county, and he was bound to have more money than he could invest in Kansas. That last seemed to strike the fellow, and he agreed to let me know day after tomorrow, providing I would spend the dollar for cider, which I agreed to do, feeling sure my partners would refund it to me. Now, Ed., if you should see any of them (my partners, I mean), tell them not to whisper it to anyone, for I know, if it should get out, we will be pestered to death with applications to join our company.

And now I must tell you that, while I am sitting writing his, with the doors and windows open, I can look out onto the mountains that do not look to be more than a mile off, but which are really fifteen miles off, and see them covered with snow, and still snowing; and I want still further to say to you that I am not to blame for being caught out in this beautiful State; but I came to nurse young By Gravy, who has been very sick with typhoid fever. But, thank the Lord, with His help, and the nursing of his mother, he is getting better, and will soon be able to come back to glorious old Kansas. BY GRAVY, alias J. H. FINCH.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

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THE ORIOLE CARNIVAL

At Baltimore.

We were at Baltimore during the Oriole Carnival and saw a part at least of the pageant and festivities, but it will be impossible to describe them so as to give any idea of the spectacular effects. The display evenings were orginally set for Tuesday to Thursday, September 11th to 13th, but the steady rains of Tuesday and Wednesday caused the first parade to be adjourned to Thursday evening and the final pageant to Friday evening.

The show Thursday evening was a procession of Lord Baltimore on a float, our Pangdorn on another, and other noted characters surrounded by gorgeous Atrappings@ and scenic displays; various companies of military, foot and horse in uniform; social clubs and secret orders in uniform; a dozen or more fire companies, each with engine, hose cart, hook and ladder, and other paraphernalia; the various trades represented on floats; and interspersed at intervals by bands of musicCsome fifteen in all.

The streets through which the procession passed, Baltimore Street in particular, were so crowded with spectators that it was with extreme difficulty that room was made for the pageant to pass. Raised inclined platforms were constructed beforehand over the sidewalks, over cross streets and over every notch not occupied by a high building, and these platforms were filled with chairs to rent at fifty cents each. We occupied chairs over Charles Street on the south side of Baltimore Street, directly opposite the splendid building of the B. & O. railroad general offices.

We cannot estimate the numbers of spectators occupying these platforms, and crowding the sidewalks and the streets for more than three miles of streets, but the Baltimoreans estimated them at hundreds of thousands.

The pageant of Friday evening merits a more elaborate attempt at description, but the effect must be left wholly to the imagination of our readers. To get an inkling of it, one must imagine the most gorgeous scenic devices ever employed by the spectacular drama, built up with sufficient elaboration to bear inspection from any point of view, and with solidity enough to bear transit through the streets.

The historic accuracy of the tableaux, while much flaunted in official programmes, is not allowed to stand in the way of fanciful embellishment: the show=s the thing. It is, in fact, a huge street spectacle. The titles of the floats were:

FIRST DIVISION.

Float A: Lord Baltimore. Float B: Title Car, AThe Lost Continent.@ Floats C. D, and E: The royal chariots of the King of Atlantis. Float F: Represents Poseidon or Neptune drawn in a chariot. Float G: Queen Cleito. Float H: AThe Sacrifice,@ Float J: Heaven. Float K: Sport. Float L: War. Float M: Knighthood. Float N: Marriage. Float O: Feast. Float P: Theatre. Float Q: The Hunt. Float R: Agriculture. Float S: Market. Float T: Home. Float U: Worship. Float V: Justice. Float W: Death. Float X: The Deluge.

SECOND DIVISION.

No. 1: The title car. The Lost Kingdom. No. 2: Florida. No. 3: Mystic Tower. No. 4: The Betrayal. No. 5: Taric=s. No. 6: Roderick=s Fall. No. 7: The Rape of the Crowns. No. 8: The Seven Silver Statues. No. 9: The Rival Chieftains. No. 10: Pelayo=s Defiance. No. 11: Spain=s First Caliph. No. 12: Alfonso=s Avowal. No. 13: The Blessed Santiago. No. 14: De Vera=s Command. No. 15: The Alhambra. No. 16. Ferdinand=s Decision. No. 17: Zagal=s Reward. No. 18: Farewell to Grenada.

THE START.

As soon as it was dusk, a red glow in the direction of Boundary Avenue told that the egg was chipped and the nestling had emerged in a flood of light and was preparing to come down to the city to the thousands who awaited it. The ANest@ near the Park gate and the ADen@ on Robert Street and Linden Avenue had to be broken like egg-shells to let the floats out. The Den was dismantled in the morning and the floats which it contained being a part of the Lost Continent, stood out all on the street through the day. The start, Capt. Pangdorn

had sworn by his balidom, should be at 8 o=clock, and he was true to his wordCto a certain extent. Eutaw Place was converted from a placid, genteel neighborhood into a bedlam, filled with people, horses, torches borne by queer-looking colored men and everything else, all mixed up together. The windows of the houses were crowded with heads, and a number of the houses had stands erected over the front porches or verandas. The sidewalks were lined, although the light was not good enough to make the spot advantageous as a place of observation. The floats, as they were mounted, moved down the east side of Eutaw Square to Lanvale Street. As early as a quarter after seven nearly all the ALost Continent@ was upon the street. It was between half-past eight and a quarter of nine, however, before regular marching order was begun with the counter-march around the square, where, indeed, the entire neighborhood was bathed in red light.

SCENES ALONG THE ROUTE.

From Eutaw Place the pageant turned into Bloom Street, and thence into Madison Avenue. Leaning out the windows were ladies and gentlemen in evening dress. On the pavements were strangers and others, who had wisely left the packed thoroughfares behind them. There were just enough persons on the avenue to let everybody have an unobstructed view. Many of the private residences were neatly and prettily decorated, and the lights in the parlors and other front rooms were lowered so that the lighting of the pageant would show all the more brilliantly. Down Madison Avenue the pageant passed and then into Eutaw Street. It moved slowly, so that the full beauty of the tableaux could be seen.

The pageant wheeled from Eutaw into Baltimore, passing in review of Rex and his followers, who were seated on the stand facing Eutaw Street. Some of the New Orleans gentlemen were accompanied by ladies. They were all in evening dress. It was a trying ordeal for the Orioles. The sharp turn across the car tracks jolted the figurantes so much that it was difficult for them to keep from falling off. But they not only held their positions, but also sustained their parts well. The New Orleans people were delighted. The gentlemen clapped their hands; the ladies waved their handkerchiefsCand they all joined together in cheering. They had a clear view from Eutaw as well as Baltimore Street. The crowds below them were roped in by policemen so that the turning point at the corner was kept open, allowing the tableaux ample space for display. Half way between Baltimore and Fayette Streets, red fire was burned constantly, illuminating the rear of each tableaux as it passed.

FEATURES OF THE PAGEANT.

The huge bell heralded the approach of the pageant. Then came the gallant Capt. Pangborn galloping briskly and saluting Rex. The famous Marine Band of Washington, which followed, was the escort of Lord Baltimore. He was seated in a scallop shell, drawn through the water by mammoth snow-white swans garlanded with flowers. Grotesque terrapins, canvas-back duck, and the products of the Chesapeake swam round about him. Flanking him were two elongated open-mouthed oysters, in which were ensconced two young maids dressed in white. All the creatures on the float wiggled and wobbled. Lord Baltimore himself smiled and bowed and stroked his bushy whiskers.

The titled car of AThe Lost Continent@ was the introductory chapter in the illustrated narrative of the habits and customs of the Atlanteans. Three chariots drove by with warriors ready for combat. Each chariot was hauled by four horses abreast. King Poseidon and Queen Cleito came next, each on an elevated throne surrounded with attendants and gorgeous with flowers, gems, and velvets. Priests sacrificing a white horse preceded the tableau representing the Atlantean=s conception of Heaven. In the centre of the float was a fountain under the spray of which three nymphs were gamboling; while circling it were beautiful butterflies. Humming birds, parrots, birds of Paradise, and other birds, all suggesting richenss of color, were perched on the branches of trees and flowers of all luxuriant varieties. This was one of the features of the pageant, and it was greeted everywhere with prolonged Ahs! from the women and children. A prehistoric bull fight prepared the spectators for the bloody war scene in mid-ocean between the Atlantean forces and the troops of a rebellious colony. The figurantes were splendidly drilled. They crossed and clashed weapons, and assumed attitudes in faithful keeping with the picture they were illustrating. One of the successful warriors is knighted in the next tableau, and in the next he is married. Both of those floats were marvels of beauty. A bounteous feast and an antedeluvian theatre were succeeded by a hunting scene, in which two horsemen are shown dashing headlong down a steep rocky hill. In front ot them were dogs having monster beasts at bay. It was a wonder how the riders managed to keep their seats. People gazed at the tableau wondering, and then cheered and applauded it. In the agricultural tableau, where the King was encouraging the people by pushing the plow himself, the Queen sat aloft on an elephant=s back and kissed her hand at good-looking fellows in the streets. The market tableau was a very fine float. It was just ahead of the loveliest floats in the procession. It was called AHome.@ The most conspicuous object was a huge, burnished, irridescent, gorgeous peacock. The last float presented a startling mechanical device. Atlantis is engulfed in the ocean depths in some mighty volcanic throe of nature like that which recently submerged islands and cities in the Strait of Sunda, and the floats fire spouts from the topmost peak, rising above the whirl of the deluge.

The second division representing events in the history of the Moors in Spain, afforded a rich field for scenic display. The highly ornate architecture of the Moorish and Spanish buildings, the spectacle of Mahomet and the Blessed Santiago in the clouds, the tableau of the Seven Silver Statues, and the farewell of the Moors to Granada were the striking pictures. The last tableau was the largest ever seen in a street display. It in fact attempted the representation of a city, with the last Moor gazing back at it and breathing a regretful sigh.

Better acting was required of the figurantes of the second division than of the first, because the latter could let their fancy have full sway, while the former were restricted to legendary details. This point was appreciated by the New Orleans people, and made known to the figurantes by stormy applause.

The pageant moved down Baltimore Street to Gay, to Fayette, to Holliday, and thence to the City Hall.

There was the same immense crowd in the vicinity of the City Hall as on the night previous, even more dense. The streets were packed, and ropes were stretched to keep the people form intruding upon the pageant. Mayor Whyte reviewed the pageant from the Holliday Street portico.

The pageant reached the City Hall about 10 o=clock, and it was over an hour in passing, including the frequent stops.

The route after leaving the City Hall had to be changed on account of obstructions on Fayette Street, between North and Calvert Streets. The pageant therefore wheeled into Lexington from Holliday, and then came along North Street to Baltimore. When Lord Baltimore=s float reached the Sun office going westward toward Calvert Street, the tableau of AAlphonso=s Avowal,@ in the second division, was just passing on its way eastward. A double line of tableaux then passed on Baltimore Street, from North to Calvert, presenting the most picturesque and beautiful sight of the evening. The rest of the route was from Calvert to Centre, to Howard, and thence to Franklin and the rear entrance of the Academy of Music.

There were 40 floats in the two divisions and 236 figurantes. Some of the figurantes impersonated females, and would have succeeded in deceiving many of the lookers-on, had it not been for their robust ankles, for in other respects they looked well. Six horses were attached to many of the floats, and the rest were drawn by four Orioles in costume, who rode in front of each tableau and superintended its movements. Bands of music were interspersed between the floats and were surrounded by colored torch-bearers carrying fence lights. The horses and torch-bearers wore Oriole colors. In the first portion of the route the lighting of the floats was all that could be desired, but towards the last many of the lights gave out.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

ANCIENT RUINS IN SONORA, MEXICO.

Ancient ruins have been discovered in Sonora, which, if reports are true, surpass anything of the kind yet found on this continent. The ruins are said to be about four leagues southeast of Magdalena. There is one pyramid which has a base of 1,350 feet, and rises to the height of 750 feet; there is a winding roadway from the bottom leading up on an easy grade to the top, wide enough for carriages to pass over, said to be twenty-three miles in length; the other walls of the roadway are laid in solid masonry, huge blocks of granite in rubble work, and the circles are as uniform and the grade as regular as they could be made at this date by our best engineers. The wall is only occasionally exposed, being covered over with debris and earth, and in many places the sahuaro and other indigenous plants and trees have grown up, giving the pyramid the appearance of a mountain.

To the east of the pyramid, a short distance, is a small mountain, about the same size, which rises about the same height, and, if reports are true, will prove more interesting to the archaeologist than the pyramid.

There seems to be a heavy layer of a species of gypsum about half way up the mountain, which is as white as snow, and may be cut into any conceivable shape, after being cut. In this layer of stone a people of an unknown age have cut hundreds upon hundreds of rooms from 6 by 10 to 16 by 18 feet square. These rooms are cut out of the solid stone, and so even and true are the walls, floor, and ceilings to plumb and level as to defy variation. There are no windows in the rooms and but one entrance, which is always from the top. The rooms are about eight feet high from floor to ceiling; the stone is so white that it seems almost trans-parent, and the rooms are not at all dark.

On the walls of these rooms are numerous hieroglypics and representations of human forms with hands and feet of human beings cut in the stone in different places. But, strange to say, all the hands have five fingers and thumb, and the feet have six toes. Charcoal is found on the floors of many of the rooms, which would indicate that they built fires in their houses. Stone implements of every description are to be found in and about the rooms. The houses or rooms are one above the other to three or more stories high; but between each story there is a jog or recess the full width of the room below, so that they present the appearance of large steps leading up the mountain.

Who these people were, what age they lived in, must be answered, and if answered at all, Aby the wise men of the East.@ Some say that they were ancestors of the Mayas, a race of Indians who still inhabit Southern Sonora, who have blue eyes, fair skin, and light hair, and are said to be a moral, industrious, and frugal race of people, who have a written language and know something of mathematics.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

FRANK W. FRYE.

We notice that our former compositor, Frank W. Frye, is the Democratic candidate for County Clerk of Labette County. Frank is capable and a good boy generally. His only failing is his Democratic proclivity.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

WICHITA.

The preliminary examination of Dave L. Payne and others charged with violating U. S. laws by invading the territory was concluded last week morning and the accused were held for trial on their own recognizances. The defendants are lavish in their praises of Commissioner Sherman before whom the examination was held.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

HE FAVORS INGALLS.

The Manhattan Nationalist thinks that in the Topeka interview when Senator Hackney said, AThe man who beat St. John will hear something drop,@ or words to that effect, meant John J. Ingalls. Hackney did not say Aman,@ but Amen@; and he did not mean Ingalls at all. If the Nationalist will insert J. A. Anderson in his place for one of the men, Hackney will not take the trouble to deny. He favors Ingalls.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

McINTIRE FOR SHERIFF.

We see by the Winfield COURIER that Geo. H. McIntire has been nominated for Sheriff by the Republicans of Cowley County. George was a faithful soldier during the rebellion, serving in Company C, Eleventh Kansas Cavalry; and though his father and brothers turned into and followed the dark ruts of Democracy, George continued to Avote as he shot.@ He lived in Lynn County years ago, and we vividly and pleasantly remember him as a fellow participant in the struggles of the rural lyceums and Aspellin= skules@ at the Rinker school-house. Mr. McIntire was an energetic, vigilant, and efficient deputy of the brave and lamented Shenneman, and he will be elected and prove a popular and successful sheriff for the big and growing county of Cowley. Fredonia Citizen.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE MEETING.

The Republican Central Committee of Cowley County met Sept. 27th at 1:30 p.m., at the COURIER office, Winfield, and organized by the election of D. A. Millington, chairman; J. R. Sumpter of Beaver, secretary, and A. W. Carr of Maple, treasurer.

An executive committee of five was elected, consisting of the chairman, secretary, treasurer, L. J. Darnell of Silverdale, and S. B. Sherman of Windsor, whose duty was made to plan and carry out the campaign now to be inaugurated. Each member of the committee to have supervision in his own township. It was agreed that two sets of speakers shall be put into the field as soon as possible and two meetings be held in each township before the election if practicable. [SKIPPED THE REST SHOWING PLACES RECOMMENDED FOR HOLDING MEETINGS IN THE VARIOUS TOWNSHIPS.]

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

PUSHING AHEAD.

The A. T. & S. F. railroad company is building its new bridge across the river at Wichita and has graded its road west to the county line. Track laying will commence at Wichita as soon as the bridge is completed.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

A BAND OF COWBOYS

Attempt to Rob a Train, Kill the Engineer and Fireman, but are Driven Off.

DODGE CITY, Sept. 29. The Cannonball on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe was attacked at Coolidge by a gang of cowboysand the engineer killed and the fireman so badly injured that he will die. The conductor was shot at several times but escaped injury. The express car was attacked, but the messenger repulsed them. A posse of men are in hot pursuit of the robbers and a desperate battle will no doubt ensue when they are overhauled.

The body of John Hilton, the engineer killed in the attempted robbing at Coolidge, was brought here this morning and the coroner=s inquest is now being held. Hilton leaves a wife and four children, who reside here. The wife is unconscious as a result of the terrible affair.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

The facts concerning the attempted train robbery at Coolidge this morning as obtained from passengers and officials of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe road, are as follows.

The train arrived on time and remained ten minutes at Coolidge. When Conductor Greeley stepped foward to give the signal to go ahead, he saw two men ahead of him, one of whom jumped on the platform between the cars. The other sprang into the side door of the express car, landing on his hands and knees. Greeley stood asking what he was doing there, when the robber half arose and pulled a revolver and shot in his face, so close that the powder burnt it, but did not hit him. The robber then turned and fired at S. S. Peterson, the express messenger, who returned the fire and then built a barricade around him, and the passengers say he continued a lively fusilade, though Peterson says he fired only once. The fellow ran out of the baggage car and escaped, probably with the one who took to the platform. Conductor Greeley then went to the engine and found engineer John Hilton deadf with a bullet through his head under the eye, and Fireman Fadle fatally shot in the breast. Fadle stated that a man jumped on the engine and ordered Engineer Hilton to pull out. Hilton answered that he would when he received orders, and the robber then shot him down and then fired at Fadle, with the result above stated. The plan was preconcerted, the wires having been crossed east of Coolidge since September 23.

At half past 5 o=clock this evening it was announced the arret of two men have been made, one of whom is supposed to have fired at Peterson. The robber is about 5 feet 10 inches in height, stoop-shouldered, and has a long, thin nose. It is believed he can be identified. The remains of Hilton will be taken to Milwaukee tomorrow for interment. He lived at Dodge, where he had a wife and four children. His wife is unconscious. Fifteen hundred dollars reward is offered for the arrest of the parties.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

PERSONALS.

John Mentch is building a new house, on his farm north of town.

Ramsey, the Jeweler, will do good work for you and warrant it.

Wm. Overly is erecting a good frame residence on his farm in Vernon Township.

Mrs. A. J. Thomson left Tuesday for a months visit among friends in Ohio.

Mr. J. F. Fulton, from near Springfield, Illinois, is visiting in our city with Judge Gans.

Mr. Geo. Whitson brings us a sample of honey of his manufacture. It beats the bees all out.

Col. J. C. McMullen will erect soon a two story frame house on his stock farm near Polo.

Frank Barkley, Sr., is putting a steam heating apparatus for parties in Seneca this week.

The United Brethern of Pleasant Valley have just erected a neat church building at Constant.

School district 98, in Maple Township, is building a substantial new schoolhouse, 22 x 28 feet in size.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

[MORE PERSONALS.]

Bard & Harris have erected over their office on Ninth Avenue a large and handsome gilt sign.

Mrs. S. W. Greer returned Saturday from a month=s visit with relatives in Missouri and Nebraska.

Dr. R. W. Wilson came down from Ottawa this week and spent a few days among friends in the city.

Miss Cloyd Brass, of Lawrence, is in the city and will spend the winter wiith her sister, Mrs. D. L. Kretsinger.

Mrs. F. W. Doane, wife of Frank W. Doane, came in Tuesday and will spend several weeks visiting friends here.

DIED. Mr. and Mrs. F. Kebe, of this city, had the misfortune to lose their little four months= old baby boy last week.

Jesse King of Walnut Township, is adding to the appearance of his farm this fall by putting up a new reisdence.

J. M. Householder, of Vernon Township, is putting some of the proceeds of his large crops this year into a new two story frame residence.

Just received. 200 gal. best mixed Paint; every gallon guaranteed. Best $1.25 per gal. Iron Paint $1.00 per gal. At Harter=s Drug Store.

Charlie Beck returned to his labors as clerk in the Occidental Hotel at Wichita, Tuesday, after spending a week in this city with his parents.

A. A. Knox, of Vernon Township, finished sowing one hundred and sixty acres of wheat last week. The ground was all plowed by his son, Will, with a five horse gang plow.

The Winfield base ball club were again beaten by the AActives@ of Arkansas City at the Fair last week. It seems that they have a pretty active club at the Terminus after all.

The best apple we have seen this year was presented to us by Mr. S. P. Case of Vernon Township and raised on his farm. It measures 13-1/2 inches, weighs a pound, and is a beauty.

A. B. Myers of Beaver Township, is erecting this fall a large and substantial new residence. Z. B. will soon have one of the best improved, as well as one of the richest, farms in the county.

Mr. A. DeTurk of Pleasant Valley, brought us last Monday twelve Bartlett pears, weighing ten pounds. They beat anything that was exhibited at the fair and were the best in quality we ever saw.

The Prairie Home Sabbath School thought best to postpone their picnic for the present, as some of the chief committes failed to act in the matter. Therefore, all invitations re respectfully withdrawn.

Chas. McClung, of Vernon, is putting up a large frame house on his farm this fall. Vernon farmers are putting on lots of style, and judging from the immense crop reports from that township, they can afford it.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

[MORE PERSONALS.]

W. H. Whitney, of the hardware firm of Horning & Whitney, is spending this week in the East buying goods. Will has been sticking very closely to business for some time past, and this trip will be a benefit in the way of recreation as well as pecuniarily.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

The Williams Dramatic Complany closed a very satisfactory engagement in this city on last Saturday night. The Opera House was crowded nearly every evening, and the plays gave general satisfaction. They went to Arkansas City from here for three nights and from there to Caldwell. [Source not fiven.]

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

P. H. Albright has his premium corn on exhibition at the Farmers Bank and it attracts much attention. There is about fifty bushels, and P. H. is sending some of it to different parts of the east to show them what kind of corn we raise in Cowley. It makes just forty-seven ears of it to make a bushel.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Buckman returned last week from Delevan, Illinois, where they had been attending a family reunion at the home of Mr. Buckman=s parents. Four married sons, two married daughters, and their families, twenty-five in all, were present and enjoyed a glorious time under the hospitality of Athe old folks at home.@

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

The District Court opened Tuesday morning last. The case of the State vs. Frank Manny was continued, and the Stte vs. Ed. B. Lagle, charged with stealing a horse in this county on July 12th from a Mr. Richards, was taken up and is still in progress. An order was issued Tuesday for the drawing of fifteen additional jurymen.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

Mr. F. C. Nomsen has sold his interest in the Brettun tonsorial rooms to his partner, Capt. C. Stueven, and will go to Colorado. Mr. Nomsen has been in poor health for some time past and this change is made in hopes of improvement. He has become very popular as a man and barber during his long residence here and his departure will cause much regret.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

On last Saturday morning a baby about two weeks old was found in a basket on the front steps of the Brettun House. With it was the following note, written in a neat feminine hand, without address or signature. AI leave the little babe with you because I think you will select someone that will be kind to it and raise it. I was married and deserted. He was a fine looking and talented man. I don=t know where he is and I=m too poor to care for it, unless I had a home. It breaks my poor heart to give it up. Keep a record of it in the clerk=s office, and if I get work, I will reclaim it, unless someone takes it to raise as their own. Its name is James Garfield, after our lamented President. I have some property coming to me eventually, but my people know nothing of my sad fate. They tried to keep me from marrying, and that is why I will not appeal to them. May the good Lord forgive me and watch over my darling child and bless those that give it sympathy.@

Mrs. Chas. Harter took the little one in and cared for it until Sunday morning, when Mr. and Mrs. Addison Thompson, from near Seeley, a childless couple, heard of it and asked permission to take the babe, care for and raise it, which they were allowed to do.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

The County Commissioners have been in session since Monday morning. The first day was taken up in the examination and allowing of claims against the county, and Tuesday was devoted to general business. The assessment of cattle and hogs in Dexter Township against Wm. Martindale, of Greenwood County, amounting to $3,320, was declared erroneous and ordered to be stricken from the assessment rolls. Viewer=s report on the B. F. Ayers county road was adopted, and damages allowed R. L. Adams, $30, and C. Elam, $20; on the F. A. Fussleman road, and damages of $10 allowed E. Howland; also on the N. Banks county road, no damages claimed or allowed. The petition of J. C. Fuller to vacate the alley running through block 190, in the city of Winfield, was granted. The city appealed from the action of the Board. The petition of Burden Township to vacate a portion of the original townsite of Burden was also granted.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

The early settler who wandered arouund among the grand displays at the Fair last week could not fail to be impressed with the wonderful strides Cowley County has made since thirteen years ago. At that time this county was but little more than a desert, inhabited principally by the howling coyote; today we have a thickly settled and well improved county, large numbers of blooded stock of all kinds, handsome and costly homes, everyone surrounded with the comforts of life, good citizens, and soil whose productiveness fills every granary to overflowing and makes one of the largest and best agricultural exhibits ever shown in any county. Under the present circumstances if there are any people in Cowley County who are not happy and contented, it is evidently their own fault.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

A congregational meeting was held in the Presbyterian Church on Tuesday evening last at which a unanimous call was extended Rev. W. R. Kirkwood, of Wooster, Ohio, to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Winfield. Mr. Kirkwood will accept and enter immediately upon the discharge of such official duties. He is a gentleman of long experience in the ministry, of wide learning and fine address, and is eminently fitted to take up the mantle of the late Rev. J. E. Platter. During the five weeks he has filled the Presbyterian pulpit in this city, he has won the respect of all who have heard him, and we feel satisfied that neither minister or congregation will ever regret this step, and that many good results will be the sequel.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

One of the most interesting features of our successful and attractive Fair, was the stable of thoroughbred Hambletonians exhibited by Dr. Baird and Son of Howard, Kansas. Blackwood and his three sons, for style, action, and movement won the plaudit of the vast crowd and bore away the prize in every ring in which they were shown. Cowley County is interested in fine horses as shown by the exhibition of her blood stock, and we hope Dr. Baird will find it to his interest to remove his Kentucky thoroughbreds to this city.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

Shortly before the matinee of the Williams Dramatic Company at the Opera House last Saturday afternoon, the proprietor, W. M. Williams, and the business manager, Ed. Gray, were arrested by a U. S. Marshal on a warrant sworn out at Eureka for refusing to sell a colored man a ticket at that place. Mr. Williams left for Eureka on the Santa Fe train to give bond for their appearance. The case is brought under the civil rights law.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

Among the many noticeable things at the Fair last week not the least prominent was the utter absence of disorderly conduct. We did not see a man under the influence of intoxicants sufficiently to be boistrous or troublesomeCand very few who showed such influence at all. In such large crowds as continually thronged the Fair Grounds, this is remarkable, and shows very perceptibly the effects of prohibition in Cowley County.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

The Courier Cornet Band received their new instruments last week, and after trying them thoroughly during the Fair, sent them back as not being what the ordered. They sent for the celebrated Lacompe=s best, but received inferior ones. With six hundred dollars in the treasury with which to purchase instruments, they are determined to have none but the best. When they do get them, our citizens will hear music excelled by no band in the state.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

MARRIED. John S. Chase and Lucinda Charles, of Tisdale Township, were married on Wednesday eveing of last week at the home of the bride=s parents. S. W. Chase, father of the groom, brought us in some of the wedding cake, and if the young lady is as pretty and good as was that cake, then John has certainly secured a prize of which he may well feel proud. Judge Gans officiated at the wedding.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

Mr. D. J. Coburn, of Silverdale Township, was in Winfield last week for the first time in nearly two years. His trading point is Arkansas City, and his business affairs have been such as to not admit of his visiting many other places. He hardly knew the county seat so much has it improved in that time.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

The Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church is elated over the success of their dining hall on the fair grounds. The total receipts were $674.04, the expenses $308.71, leaving them a clear profit of $365.33. Such a result is enough to gratify most anyone. However, the ladies worked hard for it.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

Mr. B. F. Miller brought in a seedling peach west of this city which measures eleven inches around each way and is as good as it is big. He says there were many others in the orchard even larger, but he selected for beauty instead of size. Mr. Miller takes the specimen to his wife in Emporia.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

Mrs. Clara T. Beach, Grand Secretary; Miss Lena Walrath, Grand Vice Templar; and Mrs. E. D. Garlick and David C. Beach, delegates, left Monday for Topeka to attend the annual session of the Grand Lodge of Good Templars of Kansas, which convened in that city on Tuesday last.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

At the Council meeting Monday evening G. W. Prater resigned the marshalship of Winfield, and B. F. Herrod was appointed to fill the vacancy. Col. Whiting filed his acceptance of the gas-works franchise, and will commence work in a few weeks.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

Mr. Ramsey wishes us to inform the public that he is a practical watchmaker and has the paper to show for it. Give him a call.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

Winfield Markets Wholesale.

The following prices are realized in our streets by producers this Wednesday Oct. 3rd.

EGGS: Fresh, per doz.: 15 cents.

BUTTER: Country, per lb., 20 cents; Creamery per lb., 25 cents.

POTATOES: per bushel, IrishC50 & 60 cents.

POTATOES: per bushel, SweetC60 & 75 cents.

ONIONS: per bushel, 50 cents.

CABBAGE: per lb., 2 cents.

HAMS: Country, per lb., 16 cents.

CHICKENS: per doz., springC$1.75 & $2.00.

CHICKENS: per lb., oldC6-1/2 cents.

LARD: per lb., 10 cents.

SORGHUM: per gallon, 40 cents.

WHEAT: per bushel, 75 & 80 cents.

CORN: per bushel, 25 cents.

FLOUR: per 100 lbs., $2.25, $2.50, $2.80.

CORN MEAL: $1.00.

OATS: per bushel, 20 cents.

HOGS: per 100 lbs., $4.00.

CATTLE: 2-1/2 & 2-3/4.

STEERS: 3 & 3-1/4.

HAY: in bulk, $3.50.

CASTOR BEANS: $1.25.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

STREAKS OF SUNSHINE [ADS.]

Sheep for Sale. I have at my farm in Vernon Township, 3 miles southwest of Winfield, about 800 head of Cotswold and Merino sheep, among them ten good bucks which I will sell cheap, lease or trade. A. A. KNOX.

Lost. ON the fair ground a little, black, two year old, gelding pony. He must hve broken a rope with which he was tied and strayed from the grounds. Whoever will give information of where he may be found or return him to Smith=s stable on 9th Avenue, Winfield, will be suitably rewarded. Address Barney Shriver, Burden.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

AD. J. J. PLANK Has just received a new and choice stock of

Guns, Gun Material, Ammunition, etc.,

which will bear the closest scrutiny, and would solicit a call from purchasers of such articles. All job work and repairing done on short notice and warranted.

Old stand, northwest corner of 9th and Millington Street.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

AD. WHY DO YOU COMPLAIN SO? If you are feeling bad, take Dr. Johnson=s Root and Herb Cordial. It will invigorate, strengthen, vitalize, and enrich your blood and give you new life. For sale by E. G. Cole, Winfield.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

AD. COLLINS AGUE CURE is a strictly vegetable remedy which never fails to cure Chills and Fever, Third Day, and Dumb Ague and every form of Intermittent or Malarial Disease. Results are produced with this remedy which are simply impossible with quinine or any other preparation. Price, 50 cents per bottle; every bottle warranted. Sold by E. G. Cole, Winfield.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

AD. WANTED. The people of Cowley County to know that I have just opened a full line of Ladies= and Gent=s Furnishing Goods, -CONSISTING OF- Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Overalls, Suspenders, Umbrellas, And all kinds of Notions and Fancy Goods. Also a full assortment of the celebrated AHoosier shirt,@ on South Main Street, West side, 3rd door North of Commercial House.

A cordial invitation is extended to the public to call and examine goods and prices.

T. K. WILLIAMS.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

New Salem Pencilings.

Uncle Wilson Peters is building a barn.

Mr. S. R. Chapell has recovered from his recent illness.

Mr. McMillen has a nice new crib.

Mr. Starr had a severe chill, from the effects of which he was unable to attend the fair.

Quite a number of the Salemites attended the fair, and myself among the rest. I enjoyed looking at the pretty articles, and admired the beautiful stock, and think Kansas certainly can raise some handsome horses and cattle; and such nice vegetables, if properly cooked would tempt the most fastidious appetite. Some of the Salemites carried off the blue ribbon. Mrs. J. J. Johnson took in one of the special premiums on butter.

Mrs. Albert Doolittle and children arrived from Illinois, this week. They were all quite sick when they first arrived. Mr. Doolittle was delighed to see them. We bid them welcome to Salem, and hope the Kansas breezes will soon restore them to good health.

Mrs. Martin and family have moved from the Mahar place to a little home of their own in Salem. A house is being built for Mrs. and Miss ____ (I forget the name) in Salem.

Mr. Allen and family are no longer with us. The section boss has moved to Winfield.

Doctor Downs now boards with Mr. Lucas and family. We hear he met with the loss of a good gum coat.

Mrs. Miller has decided to rest awhile, consequently her boarders now have to find new stopping places. Miss Davneport boards with thhe Lucas household.

Peaches still continue, but will soon be only found in cans, etc., as the trees are fast losing their burden of luscious fruit.

Quite a number want to go off for apples; but when the time will be found is a serious question.

Mrs. Joe Baker is feeling quite indisposed.

Mr. Edward Christopher attended the State Fair and was taken down sick at his grandfather=s. He was improving at last accounts. I do not know if he is home yet or not. Mr. W. M. Christopher was also sick in Iowa, and if not home yet will soon be, or as soon as he can travel. Misfortunes never come singly, it seems. That the boys may soon return to their Salem home and enjoy good health is the wish of their many friends. Their sister, Miss May, will teach the Moscow school this winter.

Mr. J. W. Hoyland and sons cannot keep all their cattle this winter, without driving too far to water, so they have decided to sell twenty young cows and heifers, also the calves and yearlings. They wlll feed the rest and keep them on the farm of J. E. Hoyland, where they can have access to plenty of water. They will sell the stock with some horses, hogs, etc., at the farm of J. W. Hoyland, three and a half miles northeast of Salem, on Wednesday, October 10th. come one and all to the public sale. Mr. Denning, of Winfield, auctioneer.

Miss Etna Dalgarn is visiting friends in Oxford.

Mr. Wilson raised seven and a half bushels of onions from a ten cent paper of seed, and had pulled and ate so many of them during the summer.

Mr. Irwin Franklin, when going out to work, was surprised to find himself getting tangled up in the tall grass, but on looking down there was a fearful big snake winding itself around his legs; and about then he tried to act the tableau of AThe cow jumped over the moon,@ as he jumped as high as he could.

Mr. Perry has a new fence around his door yard.

Miss Esther Gilmore is afflicted with the chills.

The Sunday school at the old Salem schoolhouse was not very fully attended on Sunday last; but a new corps of officers was elected, as follows: For superintendent, Mr. Wm. Starr; assistant, Mr. Shields; secretary, Miss Etna Dalgarn; treasurer, Mr. W. B. Hoyland; librarian, Miss Mary Dalgarn. Teachers will be chosen next Sunday by the classes. Let us all attend and make the Sunday school a success. OLIVIA.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

Prairie Home.

Weather pleasant during the day, with cool nights.

Everybody and his girl went to the fair.

Mr. Thomas closed his term of singing Saturday night. Mr. Thomas is a successful teacher, and his labors were highly appreciated by his class.

Mrs. Miles and wife start for the eastern part of the state Tuesday morning, to visit friends and get a load of apples. Miss Allie Baker accompanies them as far as Elk Falls, where her parents reside.

Mrs. Bechtel=s little child was badly scaled by pulling a cup of hot coffee off of the table on to its feet and lumbs. The burns were not deep, however, and are healing rapidly.

Mr. Ed. Christopher was taken suddenly and seriously ill while attending the State Fair at Topeka. He is somewhat better at this writing.

The Prairie Home Sunday School have postponed their picnic for an indefinite length of time: reasons best known to themselves. This is a strange procedure for Prairie Home; but strange things will happen.

Lat Friday, while at the Fair, Mr. Bakers= young team became quite fractious, and, while plunging and kicking, jerked the back seat from the buggy, throwing his wife and daughter between the wheels. Fortunately they were not seriously injured. CHARITY.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

Cattle and Horses for Sale.

I will sell at private sale choice short horn, grade cattle, also horses. Among the lot a span of three year old mares, weigh 2,400 pounds, and a two year old stallion. The same being a part of the cattle and horses on which I received premiums at the late fair. Call at my place 3-1/2 miles southwest of Udall. LEONARD STOUT.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

As Usual, The Mason & Hamlin Organ Takes First Premium.

I call the attention of the public to the fact that the M. & H. organ carried off the highest honors at the late fair, successfully competing with the numerous organs on exhibition there. This is no new thing. The M. & H. takes the first wherever exhibited. The prize organ will be offered to the people at reduced prices for the next ten days, cash or on time, three years time if necessary. Fully warranted by the M. & H. Company. M. J. STIMSON.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

To the Public.

We would be pleased to have the person who took by mistake, the tureen containing a 5 pound roll of butter of Mrs. J. J. Johnson=s, and that took the special premium of Wallis & Wallis, Lot 3, No. 75. Return the tureen at the grocery store of the above.

Winfield Courier, October 4, 1883.

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