THE WINFIELD COURIER.

[FROM THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1884, THROUGH JANUARY 31, 1884.]

D. A. MILLINGTON, EDITOR.

ED. P. GREER, LOCAL EDITOR.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

STATE NEWS.

City Marshal Brown shot and killed Newt Boyce, a gambler, at Caldwell, while attempting to arrest him.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Obituary.

DIED. Christmas eve, 1883. Gracie, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Graham, aged 2 years and 4 months. [SKIPPED POETRY.]

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

New Salem Pencilings.

[SKIPPED POETRY.]

AMerry Christmas to all the dear readers of the COURIER, and to all a happy ANew Year,@ and may we bid the old year good bye with many thanks for the many blessings showered on us during the past one, and look forward with hope to the bright days in store for us, perhaps, in the new year.

Mr. Irwin Franklin has moved to his new home.

Mr. Wm. Kims has gone to Missouri to visit his sister.

Dr. Downs= brother is a SalemiteCthink he has come to stay.

BIRTH. A nice little lady has come to stay with Mr. and Mrs. Douglass.

Mr. McMillen has empty corn fields and full cribs; has finished husking.

Messrs. Star and Edgar have given up going to Harper until after Christmas.

Mr. Lucas has returned to his family and schoolCleft his father much better.

Miss Ettie Johnson made her many friends happy by coming home to spend the holidays.

The Misses Dalgarn expect to rusticate or spend a few days pleasantly in Oxford this week.

Mr. W. P. Hoyland has his new house ready for occupancy and will move this week, nothing preventing.

Mr. James Rowe is boarding with Mr. J. W. Hoyland; was dangerously ill for several days but is himself again, and anticipates a fine time during the holidays.

Mr. S. A. Chapell lost his beautiful scarf in Winfield recently, by being absent minded and putting it in another man=s buggy in the livery stable. He knows who the man is and trusts he will be kind enough to bring it back and leave it at the livery stable.

Mr. Roberts has a vacation of two weeks and has gone to visit friends in this state. He treated his pupils to some nice candy before he left, and AOlivia@ was remembered, for a nice little package was sent to her quiet home. Many thanks for the same, Mr. Roberts.

Our Sunday school and preaching service will be moved to the new schoolhouse. So our school has not died as yet, but if it does, it will have the honor of passing away in the little Salem City, but we trust and hope all hands will pull together and make the Sunday School a grand success, and we are confident a larger attendance can be had at the station than in the old place, but we see it go with reluctance, for many pleasant hours have been spent in the old schoolhouse. May success be with all the Sunday schools in our beautiful land, and to all my dear class I bid adieu, for we are entering on a new quarter, a new year, and a new place for working. OLIVIA.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Sedan News.

We are having some weather.

There are 400 small boys and 18 bushels of fire crackers in our town and yet we live. Imagine our vitality.

Ed Roland has gone to see his ma. We heartily wish he=d stay there, not because Ed isn=t a good fellow and all that sort of thing, butCwell Ed knows.

There is a new literary society in Sedan with the following pass word, ACodfish.@ But they have concluded since tackling the ACyclone Literary@ once or twice that they have struck the wrong sardine.

Balls, parties, and festivities are the order of the day, and yet Jasper has never received a leap year bid, and finds no genuine comfort except in scoring the ACodfish@ literary, and that is rather his enjoyment, on the principle that the old farmer disliked to whale a blind mule, however contrary.

I wonder if AHoratius@ thinks he can impose on Jasper by signing his name AMark?@ We are acquainted with his clack from away back, and would rather live in the bosom of a threshing machine than to hear him sit down and begin an off hand Adissertation on the superlative excellence@ of the K. S. A. C., and its superannuated, bald headed professors, but then Mark knows me.

We have had quite a revival in our city. The Methodist pastor of this place, Rev. Brown, has proven himself a regular old time revivlaist, and although he was working in tough timber, by the slight assistance of Brother Shambaugh and Elder Cullison, he inaugurated quite a change in the church affairs in this place, and although your correspondent is not identified with any church and has no particular faith of any kind, he is happy to announce any and every movement which is calculated to promote the good order and progress of the community.

Jasper desires in this communication to suggest the propriety and advantage of establishing a regular fraternity among the COURIER correspondents, bearing as we all do in the same general direction, idewntified in principle and speaking through the same medium. Would it not be an advantage to form an association intended to further our common interests and add to the credit of the organ to which we contribute? The manner in which an association could be sustained with any benefit among those who find it impossible to be together can easily be explained, while it would be entirely practicable to meet at times on the occasion of public meetings in Winfield. I merely make this as a suggestion, and would be glad to hear from the COURIER correspondents in the matter, or to hear the Editors= opinion upon the advisability of such an enterprise. JASPER.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

From Texas.

Now that I am at home and the smoke of the battlefield has cleared away, and I have had my Christmas dinner, I take a calm and unpredjudiced view of Winfield and the people. I should take Winfield to be as healthful as any of the Western towns or cities, and more so than many of them. I did not discover any local cause for sickness. Judging from the six weeks I was there, and what I heard from some of the citizens, I should say that you have a delightful climate, except the hot winds in the summer and now and then a blizzard in the winter.

Judging from what I saw on the streets on Saturdays especially, I take it the county round about the town is being settled up with good, substantial, frugal citizens. I did not see but two men under the influence of Mr. Winslow=s maddening tonic. One man, not a woman, I thought, had recently kissed Mr. Winslow, or his breath was a little perfumed with the tonic. It certainly is bad enough to kiss a nice, decent man, or to permit yourself to be kissed by one, but to kiss old Winslow is infinitely worse than to kiss a pig pen. I did not hear but three oaths. Two of them were uttered by grown men, and the other by a little girl about four or five years old. If she is not checked pretty soon, it will prove her eternal ruin. One dark night one of your good citizens, but I don=t think he belonged to any church, made a little mistake. Stepping up behind me not far from the Post Office, he said: ASay, I=ve got a bottle of old rye; let us go in and take a little.@ At this moment the light from a lantern flashed upon the scene, and I said, AYou are mistaken in your man, sir,@ which he had now discovered, whereupon he put up a job of running that was really amusing to look upon. How far he ran and when and where took up, I cannot say.

Have never been among a people I learned to like better than the people of Winfield after I had been there about three weeks. I can truthfully say that I never had such a time to get a meeting started. The Baptists seemed ice-clad and the sinners iron-clad. But how changed the scene when we got acquainted. All the while I could not blame the people because there are so many frauds of every kind, preachers and evangelists, as well as others traveling over the country, that people are bound to protect themselves from their often well laid plans. Judging from an insulting note I received while in Winfield, some people had an idea that I was after money, and I take this occasion to say that money was never mentioned by the Pastor, Bro. Cairns, or myself during the correspondence relative to my going to Winfield, and I certainly never mentioned it myself while in the town, while there nearly six weeks. One brother handed me three dollars and a country brother sent me five dollars, and the night I left Bro. Bliss handed me $10 and said that something more, he thought, would be made up, and I learn that something more has been done, but how much I do not know. The members of the church and congregation contributed $25 to aid in building a house of worship in my town, and Miss Lucy Cairns raised $16, and Miss Sola Farringer $5, and Pleasant Cookson, V. R. Bartlett, J. S. Mann, Rev. E. P. Hickok and Mrs. S. R. Hickok contributed $5 each. Miss Edith Stone, Charlie Dever, E. T. Rogers, B. K. Stalcup, Miss Nettie Case, Josiah E. Wilson, and John W. Soward agreed to raise, or pay $5 each by the first of March for the same purpose, making in all for the church $106.

If my life and health is spared, I hope to visit Winfield some more, for I think it a good place, with a number of the best people I ever knew. I know that my Baptist brethren have had a pretty hard struggle in building their very handsome house of worship, but as soon as they get a good breath they must add at least four rooms to their parsonage.

I have told my people here that Winfield has four of the handsomest church buildings I have ever seen outside of a large city. The capital invested in drinking saloons here is worth five times as much as all the church buildings put together. I am trying to have one nice church building here, which will inspire others to do the same.

W. E. PENN.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

RECAP.Notice given to John C. Curry and Elizabeth S. Curry, his wife, that they have been sued by Thomas S. Krutz...sum $25 + interest...mortgage lien upon northwest quarter of section 12, twonship 30, range 6 east of the 6th P.M., in Cowley County. Attorney for Plaintiff, T. N. Sedgwick.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

RECAP Notice given to William Grenhow and Mary Jane Grenhow and Henry Clem, that they have been sued by Thomas S. Krutz...$50 + interest...mortgage lien on se quarter, section 15, township 30, rage 6 east, of the 6th P.M., in Cowley County. Attorney for Plaintiff, T. N. Sedgwick.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Frank W. Finch, assignee Iva L. McCommon for the beneift of his creditors, asking for a discharge from his trust as said Assignee, in court January 21, 1884.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

THE MARKETS. Wheat today (Wednesday) brings 75 cents per bushel. Corn is worth 33 cents strong. Hogs bring from $4.75 to $5.00. Eggs bring 16 cents per doz. Butter 20 cents per lb. Potatoes 60 cents per bushel. Live chickens bring 5 cents per lb. live turkeys 7 cents.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

PERSONALS.

The ARose Lisle@ Troupe is billed here for January 7th.

The Commercial Hotel is about to change hands. Some parties from Illinois will take it.

R. I. Mansfield came in from Carbondale to spend the holidays with his mother and brother here.

Mr. O=Meara, of O=Meara and Randolph, spent the holidays with friends and relatives at McComb, Illinois.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

[MORE PERSONALS.]

A Acold wave@ has been floating over Cowley for the past week; and ice has frozen to the thickness of an inch.

A series of religious meetings will be held at New Salem station during the coming week, beginning this (Wednesday) evening.

Clerk Bedilion has purchased a typewriter and now gets off his legal documents in printed form. It is a great saving of labor.

The time of the Santa Fe morning freight has been changed to 7:50 a.m. This beats getting up at three o=clock in the morning.

Mr. Heffron=s residence south of town was the scene of a social gathering Friday evening mostly of the young folks of Excelsior district.

Rev. E. P. Hickok will preach in the Walnut Valley Church next Sunday morning, and at the Star Valley schoolhouse in the afternoon.

The notion stores looked very sick after the holiday raid. There has been an immense amount of money put into trinkets and nick-nacks this year.

J. P. Baden lost a bunch of six safe keys, a door key, a post office key, and a button hook, Monday. The finder will be rewarded ty returning them to him.

Dr. T. B. Taylor makes professional visits to Arkansas City frequently. He reports that place keeping up with the general prosperity of the county.

We acknowledge receipt of a handsome map and time table from the passenger department of the A. T. & S. F. railroad. It is first class and complete.

It is said that Arkansas City town lots are going off rapidly. They have been coming toward Winfield on the wings of the wind for the past few years.

The local newspaper of Colony calls loudly for the marshal to disarm every man, woman, or child even suspected of having fire arms. His paper is evidently democratic.

Sheriff Elect McIntire has been in the city house-hunting during the past week, but without success up to date. Empty houses in Winfield are as rare as angels= visits.

Arthur Bangs= new bus is a very attractive wagon. The painting is superb. The outsides are illuminated with oil paintings, red and gold. It cost a thousand dollars.

The man who was arrested last week on suspicion of stealing some horses which he had in his possession was discharged on a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Torrance Wednesday.

Dr. Fleming was arrested Wednesday morning charged with violation of the prohibitory law. He is arrested on ten counts. The case comes before the District Court at its present session.

The ARose Lisle@ troupe appears here next Monday evening in AReddy=s Luck.@ Miss Lisle carries flattering testimonials from the English and American press, and is quite a star.

Tueday nights passenger on the Southern Kansas did not get in until Wednesday morning: twelve hours late. It stuck in a snow bank near Colony, in the east part of the state.

Mr. S. Nawman=s fine new residence on his farm two miles south of town was dedicated by the young folks on last Monday evening with a social hop. A number from town were out and report a splendid time and a good crowd. Mr. and Mrs. Nawman are unexcelled as entertainers.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

The following MARRIAGE LICENSES have been issued since our last.

William H. Hopkins and Glendora McCollum.

G. S. Bruce to Libbie J. Hudson.

Owen Brown to Cassie McGinnis.

Dietrick Shultz to Margaret A. Doughty.

John E. Everett to Mary E. Shrubshell.

E. V. Elliott to Sarah E. Burrell.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Miss Elma Crippen resigned her position last week as teacher in our city schools and started Monday afternoon for Oswego, New York, to remain. She has made many warm friennds during her several years= residence here, who will very much regret her departure, and who wish her much happiness and prosperity wherever she may be.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Leap year parties are now all the rage throughout the city and country. One was given on New Years night at the residence of Mr. Albert Hawkins, in Vernon Township, which, notwithstanding the extreme frigidity, was attended by a number from Winfield and a large crowd of Vernon people. The usual mishap, the result of woman=s (?) engineering, was present, and came to the city folks, compelling them to leave a crippled carriage on the prairie about four miles from the city. Luckily, the party were in easy access of the home of that genial farmer, Mr. Charles McClung, who warmed them up, rolled out his spring wagon, and sent the party on their way rejoicing. The kindness of Mr. McClung placed the party under many and lasting obligations to him. If the remaining leap year parties prove as jolly and interesting in every particular as this, a good amount of real, old-fashioned fun is in store for the participants. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have a pleasant home, and were assiduous in attentions to guests. The company were treated to an array of good things from the culinary department, the like of which can only be had at a country home.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

The third series of the stock of the Winfield Building & Loan Association is now open for subscriptions. This Association has just finished the second year of its business successfully. We do not know a better, safer, or more profitable place in which to lay up your savings. The money is all invested on real estate security at 12 percent, per annum, interest payable monthly, and it is surprising to find how soon a small investment will double itself up in profits. Our citizens who have belonged to these associations in other states, are the first to take stock here. They have had knowledge of the workings and need no explanations. There is no speculation, and no risk, in this investment, and the money is not permanently tied up, for the stock can be drawn out on 30 days notice at any time with the same interest given by a Savings Bank. For further information and for taking stock, apply to J. F. McMullen, Secretary, on 9th Avenue.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

We have received a copy of the 1884 ASt. Jacobs Oil Family Calendar and Book of Health and Humor for the Millieu.@ It boasts of the best, special efforts of America=s great, funny men and delineators of comic art. Its contents are pure in word and suggestion, and the sketches contain nothing of an advertising nature. In style and form this publication is entirely original, having been specially designed by Mr. H. D. Umbstaetter, who is himself a contributor to its pages, and exercises a personal supervision over its annual production. This mammoth printing department, with machinery unsurpassed anywhere, employing over 100 hands and ten huge power-presses, and as many steam binding and trimming machines, have been for months running day and night on the American edition of this book of eleven million copies.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Pleasant Valley is all torn up over the contest for the prize cake which took place at the Odessa festival two weeks ago. Several of the boys went down from Excelsior district with a candidate for the honors in the person of Miss Nettie Crawford. The young gallants of Odessa were determined that their favorite, Miss Lucy Henderson, should have the prize. Each faction supported their candidate manfully and finally decided upon a time at which the voting should close. At the time appointed Miss Crawfford was ahead, but shortly after the supporters of Miss Henderson deposited forty votes to her credit. The supporters of Miss Crawford insisted, however, that they had complied with the rules and were entitlted to the prize, which was finally conceded. The boys of Odessa will give it to the Excelsior fellows next time.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

The Baptist Church held its annual business meeting on Monday evening. The reports of the various affairs and societies, including the Sunday school, show that the year has been a prosperous one in most respects. There were 102 persons baptized during the year and quite a number received by letter, the total membership at present being 301. The following officers were elected for the next year: Church clerk, A. P. Johnson; church treasurer, C. A. Bliss; trustees, B. F. Wood, C. A. Bliss, L. B. Stone, H. E. Silliman, and John Tyner. Officers of the Sunday school: superintendent, John M. Prince; assistant superintendent, B. N. Wood; secretary, James McDermott; treasurer, John Tyner.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

John S. Emery is out with a proposition to the wool growers of Kansas and Colorado. He asked their cooperation or encouragement in the erection of a warehouse with a capacity of two million pounds of sacked wool and a scouring mill of 25,000 pounds capacity per day. The idea it seems is to clean, sort, grade, and market the wool, including 4 months storage if necessary, for 2 cents per pound. The executive committee of the Wool Growers= Association at the state fair held in Topeka, after discussing the proposition heartily approved of the plan as being the best possible scheme for the large as well as the small wool growers. It is our judgment that such an investment made in Winfield would pay both growers and cleaners from the start.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

MARRIED. Married at the residence of the bride=s father, D. J. Reber, in Pleasant Township, Butler County Kansas, December 25, 1883, by Rev. J. Cairns, Mr. E. Whitehead (formerly of Winfield) of Augusta, and Miss Theresa Reber. It was a pleasant occasion and there were present three generations, all likely to live and enjoy life for many years to come. The parents will reach their silver wedding on the 26th of January, and the Grandparents are within five years of their golden wedding.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

The narrow gauge project seems to be resting. If the road can make the east or west connection proposed and will not insist on exhorbitant aid, it is the road we want. Until it can give reasonable assurance on these points, however, we do not think popular enthusiasm will become very much aroused in favor of the enterprise. A narrow gauge road needs a beginning or an end. Without either its benefits are little better than a buckboard line.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

The west bridge is now thoroughly repaired and was thrown open for travel last week. The repairs are first-class, Trustee Martin having seen that every stone and piece of timber was put in just right. It has cost upwards of five hundred dollars, about half of which was furnished by the businessmen of Winfield and the balance by Vernon Township.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Oscar Wooley took in the hub Saturday and laid his number tens under our table long enough to tell us that Vernon still leads the van. Oscar is a proud scion of old Vernon and will never admit that any township in the county has finer farms, bigger crops, handsomer ladies, or more babies.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

The entertainment given by the Woman=s Foreign Missionary Society at the M. E. Church Sunday evening was unusually interesting and gave general satisfaction.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

We publish in another column a letter from Rev. Penn, the evangelist who held such successful meetings here. It will be of much interest to his Baptist brethren and many friends of all denominations here.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

New Years day passed off without a single drunk or a breach of the peace of any kind. This is a remarkable record for of all days of the year, the first is in most general favor as the one to get drunk on.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

The AK. O. C. C.,@ which stands for the Kansas Organ Comedy Company, shows here this evening. It is a new kind of show with a very queer cognomen, but our exchanges speak well of it, and we suppose correctly.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

The Ladies= Library Association holds its next regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, January 8th, at 3 p.m. There will be a meeting for the election of officers for the ensuing year on Tuesday, January 29th, at 3 p.m. Secretary.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Supt. Limerick, Prof. Gridley, and Miss Allie Klingman attended the meeting of the State Teachers Association at Topeka last week. Supt. Limerick was honored with a place on the board of directors of the association.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

L. M. Dalgarn and Willie Files, of Richland Townships, started Monday for Manhattan, where they will attend the State Agricultural College this winter. There are a goodly number of Cowley=s youths under instructions there.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Ed. Goodrich left Saturday for Kansas City, and will enter at once upon his duties on the road, in the employ of the Corie cracker and confectionary company. Ed. is a good salesman and will no doubt be successful in his new labors.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Mr. W. C. Muzzy was up from Spring Creek Saturday and informs us that everything is progressing finely in that locality. If there is a locality in Cowley where her people are not prosperous and happy, we would like to hear of it.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

McGuire Bros. have a beautiful doll which will be given away. Anyone purchasing one dollar=s worth of notions, clothing, hats, etc., will be entitled to a ticket on the doll. Drawing will take place at McGuire Bros. sometime in January.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Frank W. Finch and his bride retuned home Friday and on Friday afternoon Frank was industriously engaged in distributing cigars and receiving the compliments of his many friends. We wish the young couple much joy in their new life.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

BIRTH. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Smith had a New Years caller Tuesday, although they didn=t keep Aopen house@ or in any special way invite intrusion. Sill the caller came and exhibits every intention of staying. He is a lusty little fellow and weighs ten pounds.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

The Telegram heads an article on the waterworks reservoir, AMr. Conner Talks.@ Ten feet of water in the reservoir will talk more in a minute than Mr. Conner can in a month. The actual experiment will interest the taxpayers more than anybody=s Atalk.@

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Ben Clover was over from Windsor, Monday. Ben=s wrestle with Dr. Wilkins= Christmas dinner has not seriously impaired his activity. It will take years of economy in Mr. Wilkins= family to repair his larger, after Gans, Clover, Fall, and Tull got through with it.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Spence Miner, of McDonald & Miner, made a contract Saturday with the Vermilye boys to furnish the new mansion on Magnolia farm with carpets and window hangings. The carpets will be made for the rooms and of the best material. The carpet bill amounts to $400.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Thirty or forty of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Francisco, of Creswell Township, assembled at their home on Christmas day and enjoyed an old fashioned Christmas dinner. It was a most happy gathering and all present unite in best wishes for the future of the hospitable couple.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

A number of the Methodist ladies surprised Rev. Jones at the parsonage New Years eve and presented him with a beautiful chair and other substantial tokens of their esteem and respect. It was a very happy event and was highly appreciated by the pastor.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

The Mt. Zion racket on Christmas night was culminated Friday by the arrest of Geo. Pierce, Ranson Clark, and John Coulter. They were brought in and assessed $27 each. The boys= little fun in Vernon has cost them about a hundred dollars. The Vernon folks won=t stand any foolishness.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

An anti-hash club has been formed by certain young men in this city. One of their preambles recites that hash is a concoction of the devil, a foe to humanity, and a fit subject for prohibitive legislation. The next thing in order will be the organization of a AWoman=s Anti-hash Association.@ That ought to paralyze the hash power.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Mr. S. W. Talmadge=s statistics of the corn crop of the United States for the year 1883 places Kansas third in the list with 182,000,000 bushels. Missouri is first with 190,000,000 bushels, and Illinois second with 187,000,000. But much of the Illinois and Missouri corn is soft and almost worthless, which leaves Kansas the leading corn state in the Union.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

DIED. Mr. D. S. Burgauer, of McPherson, a cousin of Mr. Burgauer of M. Hahn & Co., died at the residence of Mr. Burgauer in this city last Wednesday. He was a very estimable young businessman and his early death is sadly mourned by many relatives and friends. The remains were escorted to the train by a large delegation of the Masonic fraternity, of which order he was a member, and were taken for burial to his eastern home.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

DIED. Mrs. Ferguson, one of the oldest settlers in the county, and the mother of a very large family, died Monday. She has been a resident of Walnut Township since the organization of the county.

[Kay...early settler???]

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Sheriff-elect McIntire captured the fellow who robbed a jewelry store at Arkansas City last week. He got him at Grenola.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

MARRIED. Married at the Residence of Mr. Anderson January 1st, by Rev. P. F. Jones, Mr. Detrick Shultz and Miss Margaret Doughty.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

John Hyden came in from Ft. Scott last week and is spending a few weeks among his Winfield friends.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Senator Hackney went up to Topeka Wednesday to argue the Colgate case before the Supreme Court.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Lumber Prices.

Burlington, Coffey County, and Hartford, Lyon County, are each moving in the matter of getting lumber at cheaper rates than are charged by the yards doing business at the points named. At Burlington a stock company is being organized; at Hartford, a large meeting of farmers and businessmen was held, at which resolutions were adopted condemning the exhorbitant prices charged for lumber by the only yard there, and pledging a united support to a yard that will locate there and sell at reasonable profits. This looks like a rebellion against the established order of things, and a rebellion that we hope will be catching. One of the worst things our city has to contend with is the lumber pools. Lumber is a staple article, and while dealers should receive a fair profit on their business, there can be no excuse offered for the present high prices. A person who purchases in car-load lots can get the lumber in Chicago and lay it down in Winfield from ten to twenty percent less than he can purchase here, while in qualtiy he saves much more. It seems to us that our dealers would make up in increased sales, at less profits, what they lose by maintaining the present exhorbitant rates. As a result of the pool, much of the lumber used here is being shipped from Chicago direct to the consumer. The yards ought to have all the business, but they must make rates at which people can afford to purchase of them before they can hope to get it. The lumber pool is injuring Winfield and the county. It ought to be broken up.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Newspaper Enterprise.

The wonderful New Years edition of the Emporia Republican almost took ourr breath away. As we unfolded page after page of elegantly printed paper, filled with choice matter, every line of which was worth reading, we were forcibly reminded that the days of newspaper wonders had not ceased. It contains absolutely everything that ever occurred in Lyon County, and racy description of her growth, improvement, and institutions. It covered sixteen large pages, eight columns to the page, and two feet to the column, making two hundred and fifty-six feet of matter. It is the largest single paper ever published in Kansas, and by far the handsomest and brightest. Gov. Eskridge has done himself, his city, and his paper proud by such an issue.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Eighteen Eighty Four.

The new year came in with a grand flourish. The winds came down from the north and the thermometer went down below zero for the first time this winter. The biting cold however only stimulated the spirits of the fellows who always like to send the old year off with a whiz. They were abroad everywhere and the ladies who kept AOpen House,@ were kept busy entertaining callers and keeping the front door shut. Everyone seemed to be in the best of spirits and altogether it was the jolliest new year Winfield has ever enjoyed. In the evening a large company assembled at the Brettun parlor and the greater part of the night was passed in dancing and social intercourse.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

District Court.

Court convened Monday. On Tuesday the judge set the cases on the docket and discharged the jury until next Monday. The docket will probably be entirely cleared this term, for the first time in many years.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Manning=s Opera House.

On next Tuesday night, January 8th, The Peerless and bewitching little Soubrette, Lizzie Evans, appears at the Opera House in Callahan=s romantic picturesque comedy-drama, AFoggs Ferry,@ the fashionable and acknowledged success and sensation of the season.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Proceedings of the Meeting of the Central Division of the Cowley Teachers= Association.

WINFIELD, Dec. 29th, 1883.

Meeting called to order by vice president J. B. Norton, president Gridley having gone to Topeka to attend the State Teachers= Association. The topics spoken on were as follows: AMethods of Teaching Penmanship,@ by Wm. Gridley, of New Salem. The gentleman handled his subject ably, in the course of his remarks offering many valuable suggestions. The discussion of this topic was somewhat protracted, though spirited, most of the teachers taking part.

ACauses and Results of the War of 1882,@ by Mr. Ford. He briefly gave his ideas in regard to the topic. The discussion of this subject happily took the course of methods of teaching history. It was lively in the extreme, all of the teachers taking an active part.

By motion of Mr. Lucas, the meeting adjourned to meet on the evening of January 25. All teachers are respectfully invited to attend.

The city teachers have kindly offered entertainment to all teachers who will come. Mr. J. B. Norton of Winfield is chairman of the committee on entertainment. By letting him know, parties wishing to attend the association will be provided for. Teachers, come one and all and bring your friends. F. P. VAUGHAN, Secretary.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

Good Enough!

TOPEKA, KANSAS, DECEMBER 31, 1883.

EDS. COURIER: The pean sung by the angelic choir, which ushered into our world the Saviour of the race, is the sentiment of all lovers of good law and morality I this city. The election of Mr. Miller as mayor of the city was taken as a hint by the saloon keepers that their business would not hereafter prove lucrative, hence the sun rose Christmas morn upon this beautiful city to find but three saloons of the thirty-five which had been defiantly dealing out the infernal liquid. Those which are now open Aat the rear door@ will be compelled to close in a few days. On a door whhere has been a saloon is a placard with these words, AProhibition does prohibit. Closed.@ X. X.

Winfield Courier, January 3, 1884.

For Sale. Or would exchange the building and lot known as the Red Front, on Main street, one of the best locations in Winfield for business, together with the stock and fixtures, for a suitable cattle ranch, and pay the difference, if any, in cash. This is a good opportunity, as the business is well established. Apply to James Strahan, Jr., Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

[SKIPPED A LONG ARTICLE ON FR0NT PAGE BY J. F. MARTIN, REPORTING ON THE HORTICULTURAL MEETING OF STATE SOCIETY AT OTTAWA DEC. 5-7, 1883.

He covered items from apples, codlin moth, canker worm, tree agents, English sparrow, and forest trees.]

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Millington had a long article on editorial page re railroads.

AMessrs. Humphrey and Turner, state railroad commissioners, have issued a very elaborate and most important decision in adjudicating the complaints of the cities of Osage City, Newton, and Great Bend against the A. T. & S. F. railroad for exorbitant charges on freights. The commissioners ffixed maximum rates of freight between the Missouri River termini of the Santa Fe road and each of the trhee cities above mentioned, called local rates, made a very extensive and elaborate table of maximum distance rates between all intermediate stations for all distances of from five miles up, and as we understand, it applied the general principles of the whole scheme to the whole Santa Fe system within the state.@

Article continues in this vein. Millington tries to show by statistical figures how Winfield would be with reduced freight rates.

Editorial...involves M. L. Robinson and Millington.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

THE NARROW GAUGE.

Maj. Hanson and Col. Doniphan were in town Saturday on the narrow gauge business and flattered us by calling on us to argue us into abandoning our position on the conditions which should be included in the proposition to make it worthy of support. They are able men, but even abler men have called us the past week on the same errand and in every instance we thought we came nearer to convincing the missionary than he us.

Probably the best way to convince us is the course that Mart Robinson has taken for the last three weeks, that is to rent a few columns in the Telegram and fill them with not very flattering eulogisms on the editor of the COURIER, attributing to him many awful things. Feeling as Clark did that it was better to be abused than not to be noticed at all, we have found nothing which we cared to reply to, and we are much obliged to him for spending so much of his valuable time both in writing and talking to everybody he meets in advertising us and soliciting his supposed friends to sit down on us. When he really gets down to business and says something worth noticing, we may unbend and give him another racket, but not now, for we have more important matters in hand. We will merely remark in reply to his statement to the effect that we were waiting to be subsidized, to be bought up, before supporrting the narrow gauge proposition that he is one of the men who knew from certain experience in that direction that it is, sometimes, at least impossible to buy us up. We do not apprehend that the great numbers of our friends who think about as we do of the present proposition will fear that we are going to sell out and abandon them. They will not be disappointed who expect us to adhere substantially to the position we have taken and stay with them.

THE MEETING.

Well, a narrow gauge railroad meeting was held at the Brettun House, Saturday morning, and quite a crowd of Winfield men attended. To spike our gun, we suppose, we were chosen chairman, and C. C. Black was made secretary. Maj. Hanson and Col. Doniphan made excellent speeches showing advantages of narrow gauges and this projected one in particular. M. G. Troup made a bright short speech, the only point of which was that we were captions, but M. L. Robinson was the orator of the day and occupied most of the time. The chairman=s views being asked for, he asked the reading of the petition to be circulated or in circulation and then pointed out a great many amendments that should be made to render it worthy of the support of the voters of this county. The parties objected to making any of the changes asked for, stated that they intended and expected to do many of the things asked for, but objected to putting their part of the contract in writing by the side of the part of the county.

The meeting passed the following resolution offered by M. L. Robinson and then adjourned.

Resolved, That, whereas the great needs of Cowley County and Southern Kansas are coal, lumber, wood, posts, lower rates for transportation, and new markets, and believing that the early building of a railroad connecting the systems of a narrow gauge railroad of the south and east with those of Colorado, Utah, and the west, would be of incalcuable benefit to this whole country and to Cowley County in particular putting us at an early day on a through line across the continent. It is therefore the sense of this meeting that it would be for the best interest of Cowley County to aid such an enterprise by voting aid thereto in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars under the laws of the state: one half of said aid to be delivered to said enterprise when the railroad is completed and cars running thereon to Winfield, and balance of such aid to be delivered when the line is completed and the cars running across the county. And we hereby pledge ourselves to support such propositions with our best efforts and that this resolution be published in our city papers and such papers be invited to use their best influence to carry such proposition.

When we entered the meeting we did not know that there was a single man present who sympathized with our views on this question, but Hon. J. McDermott supported us by a short pointed speech and there were about seven or eight noes in the vote on the resolution. After the adjournment some of the most intelligent men in the meeting, men who had been supporting the proposition heartily as it is, came to us and told us our position was right, said they would be with us, and would oppose the bonds unless substantially the amendments we demanded were made. We are satisfied from what we have heard through the county that in its present cut-throat form, the proposition would be snowed under by an overwhelming majority; but that if placed in the form we recommended, it would be carried.

Mind we do not consider the COURIER the leader in this matter. It is the mouthpiece of the sentiments of the people generally as we believe and as expressed to us by many. We give them such facts as we have learned by rubbing against railroad builders. They draw the conclusions and any sensible man should know what they will be.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

THE RAILROAD ISSUE.

The Kansas City Journal takes issue with the Kansas State Railroad Commissioners in their expressed opinions that the railroads should not be allowed to charge so high rates of freight as to be able to raise a surplus over all expenses, repairs, rents of leased lines, interest on indebtedness, and six percent dividends on capital stock, to expend in building new roads and extensions and asks if the people of Kansas have all the railroads they want and why such surplus should not be applied in that way?

We answer that no railroad company is going to build a new railroad or extension unless it is believed that it will be a good investment whether using new capital or the surplus earnings of some older road and in case it promises to be a good investment, the means can be raised in the usual way just as well. The using surplus earnings to build extensions is adding to the property held by the stockholders and is equivalent to a dividend on the stock. The company might just as well do as they would otherwise do, declare larger cash dividends on the stock, thus raising the dividends from six up to ten, twenty, or thirty percent as the case may be.

On the other hand we take issue with the commissioners in their apparent admission that a road ought to be allowed to charge high enough rates to pay all expenses, repairs, wear and tear, new rolling stock, rents of leased roads, interest on all indebtedness however great, and six percent dividends on all stock though five-sixths of it may be water. We should say that the rates of freight and fares should be limited to figures only sufficient to pay running expenses, such repairs and additions as will keep up the value of the property, and an amount to pay interest on bonds and dividends on stock which together would make a fair dividend on the actual cost of the road. But a road that cost only thirty millions of bonds and in addition pays six percent dividend on sixty millions of stock, for this would be paying 18 percent interest or dividend on the cost of the road.

According to the figures given the commissioners by the Santa Fe road company, it appears that that road had last year a surplus of two or three millions after paying interest on some thirty millions of debt and six percent dividends on fifty-six millions of stock. A part of this surplus was expended in building extensions. The commissioners decide that this surplus should be given to the patrons of the road by a reduction in the rates of freight which is correct as far as it goes.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

HOW THEY BUILT A RAILROAD.

Twenty years ago C. P. Huntington and Mark Hopkins were partners in the hardware business in Sacramento, California. In the same city Leland Stanford was an oil merchant, Charles Crocker was a noted dry goods dealer, and Judge Crocker was a lawyer of small means. In 1861, these five men, with fifteen or sixteen others, formed a corporation for the purpose of building the Central Pacific railroad. The united fortunes of the incorporators at that time did not amount to more than $120,800. These men, with others, formed a railroad company and got certain subsidy bills through congress. No subsidy could be obtained till twenty miles of the road had been built. The state of California was induced to guarantee the bonds of the company; these bonds were sold, and the money used to build the twenty miles. When this was done the five men froze or bought out the other stockholders. The five men then, as directors of the Central Pacific, made a contract with themselves, as the credit and finance company, to build the Central Pacific road, giving therefor $27,000,000 of government bonds (which they reserved as a subsidy); $27,000,000 of the company=s first mortgage bonds; and about $8,000,000 of land bonds, which they issued on their grants. This, of course, came piecemeal as the work was done, but the above sum, together with about $27,000,000 more of bonds on unsubsidized roads which the company bought, were paid to the credit and finance company for building the road. Lest some trouble should arise because of this scheme, the stockholders held a meeting, and fully endorsed the action of the directors; that is, the five men named met and endorsed their own action in making a contract with themselves.

Out of the surplus which they made, after declaring 8 percent dividend on $54,000,000 of stock, these men bought all other railroads in California, all the river and bay steamers, and the horse car lines in San Francisco, established a mail line to China, built the Southern Pacific railroad, which they stocked and bonded for $96,000 a mile, although it did not cost, at the outside, more than $30,000 a mile, and built palaces in city and country, which did not cost, for all of them, less than $10,000,000. The earnings of their road last year were about $25,000,000. The assets of these men, as stated in their annual report, exceed $200,000,000. The original investment, twenty-two years ago, was $11,500. Atchison Champion.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Lost. An order book containing several orders, in Winfield or on the road to Oxford. The finder will please leave the same at the COURIER office, where any charges will be paid. Hogue & Mentch.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

New Salem Pencilings.

Mr. Chapell is still suffering with rheumatism.

Mr. J. A. Shields has gone to Mount Valley on business.

Dr. Downs and his brother have a full supply of drugs.

Revs. Graham and Armstrong are holding protracted services at Salem.

Miss Wilkinson has gone to Independence, Kansas, to spend the winter.

Miss Etta Johnson has returned to school, and will be sadly missed by friends.

The lady station agent at Salem has resigned. The position is only filled temporarily.

Mr. Wells has bought part of the old May farm, so henow has quite a nice little farm.

Corn shelling is going off lively as Messrs. Funk and Johnson are both running their shellers.

Doctor Irwin has quite a full little store now, and the Post Office is fixed up in quite an artistic manner.

Winter has come, and the bright, warm fire seems welcome. Some days, though, seem to have brought their breezes from the cold regions of the far north.

Mr. Christopher has sold his farm and intends to leave us ere many months. We are sorry indeed to lose such good friends from our midst, but hope fortune will smile upon them wherever they may go.

Mr. John Davis, of Wichita, has been a Salem guest for several days. He is only lately from Mexico and Texas and seems to think Kansas is fearful cold; and it is with the thermometer at 10 degrees below zero.

On the 2nd our friend, Mr. Mc. Dalgarn, started for school at Manhattan. Mr. Dalgarn will be missed in Sabbath school and by his many friends. We wish for him a pleasant time and bright laurels when he returns to his home.

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hoyland are spending a couple of months in Wisconsin with relatives and friends. We predict for them a very pleasant time. Their Aorphans@ at home are getting along finely, and bid the parents stay until their visit is at an end.

The holidays are with the past. Mr. and Mrs. McMillen again entertained some of their friends on New Years day, and Olivia and household were among the number, and fared sumptuously, as Mr. and Mrs. McMillen are generous hos and hostess, and their festal board fairly groaned beneath its weight of substantials and delicacies, fit to tempt the modern epicure. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hoyland invited friends and relatives to partake of the delicious bivalves, turkey, and other goodies on New Years evening. I was bidden, but the inclemency of the weather prevented my attending. Those that were there report an excellent time. Mrs. Bovee had a family reunion and quite a number of intimate friends: an excellent time. The Misses Johnson entertained quite a number of the numerous friends on New Years evening. A good time and an excellent supper were on the program. Others entertained friends also.

OLIVIA.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Southern Kansas Railway.

This Company is now offering unequalled advantages to the Land Seeker, and in addition to the other privileges, give patrons facilities for examining the well improved Lands of Southern and Southeastern Kansas, heretofore unequalled. They have placed a ticket in the Kansas City office (opposite Union Depot) to be known as the AGrand Circuit Ticket.@

Holders of Land Explorers Tickets, reading via our line to Independence or Harper and return can exchange them at our Kansas City office for the Grand Circuit Ticket on payment of $5.00 additional.

These tickets will take passengers to Winfield or Wellington via our line and return via Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., passing through the finest portion of Kansas for Fruit, Grain, and Stock Raising, with privilege of stopping off at almost any station on our line on the Santa Fe, on margin of the ticket (see second page of this circular).

Yours truly, S. B. HYNES, General Passenger Agent.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Pure Canada Maple Syrup by the gallon at Wallis & Wallis.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

RECAP NOTICE TO RUE B. MITCHELL that he has been sued by Thomas S. Krutz. Petition named Rue B. Mitchell and W. McEwen, defendants. Petition to be answered by March 1, 1884..$40 + interest...mortgage lien on east half of the southwest quarter and west half of southeast quarter of section 17, township 30, range six east, of the 6th P.M. in Cowley County...T. N. Sedgwick, Attorney for Plaintiff.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

THE MARKETS. Corn brings today (Wednesday) 33 cents. Wheat 75 cents. Hogs have been going pretty high, reaching $5.30 on Tuesday, but the average price is about $5.10 to $5.20.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

PERSONALS.

The One Priced Cash Store. A. T. Spotswood & Co.

No. 320 was the lucky No. that drew the prize doll at McGuire Bros.

Mr. C. D. Murdock left Tuesday for a three weeks visit at his old home, Packston, Illinois.

Flour at wholesale prices, best $2.25; good, $2.10 per hundred. East of the Brettun.

Jennings & Crippen.

Mrs. Kretsinger returned Saturday morning from Lecompton where she attended the wedding of her sister, Miss Sallie Brass.

DIED. An obituary notice on the death of Mrs. Rev. Solomon Ferguson has been received too late for publication. It will appear next week.

Found. Spence Miner has left a handsome scarf which he found, at this office. The owner can g et it by calling and paying for this notice.

DIED. Miss Mary Hammond, of Beaver, died last Thursday evening with a congestive chill. She was a daughter of J. D. Hammond, who died about a week ago.

Miss Nellie Cole started this week for Florida. She will be joined at St. Louis by her mother and together they will spend several months in that state.

Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Graham wish to express their thanks to all who rendered assistance in their sorrow, among whom the singers are especially remembered.

We have just received the first copy of the Hopkins Herald, Judge Tipton=s newspaper. It is a neat six column folio and looks well typographically and editorially.

Mr. C. A. Garlick returned last week from an eight months expedition with the U. S. geological and topographical surveying company in New Mexico and Arizona.

Friday morning last was a very bad day for school children. Six children had their toes or ears frosted while going to the Red Valley school, in Liberty, on that morning.

The Probate Judge has issued the following MARRIAGE LICENSES during the week.

F. Beeks and Ella Kirkpatrick.

J. M. Rogers and Anna Calvin.

Lewis Funk and Violeta Hendricks.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Dr. Emerson=s colt put one of its hind feet into the phaeton Tuesday, while driving along Main street. It was ratheer an unusual performance for the Mayor=s horse to indulge in.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

The past week has been a trying one for the patient housewife who is prone to cherish a bay-window flower garden. In nine cases out of ten these verdant and blooming objects of her affection have gone up the flume.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

The new county officers step in next Monday. Register Soward will proabably find a very efficient assistant in our present Deputy Cheriff, A. B. Taylor, while the position of Under-Sheriff will be filled by Frank W. Finch.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Register Nixon=s record of temperature shows on Friday last 2 degrees below zero, and Saturday morning at half past seven, fourteen and a half degrees below. The coldest days last year were the 19th and 20th of January, ten degrees below.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

The Good Templars gave another of their pleasant literary socials on Tuesday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Powell, one mile southeast of the city. Carriages were driven around for the members, and, with such a delightful evening, the drive was most exhilarating. Mr. and Mrs. Powell entertained the company in that free and easy manner which banishes all restraint and makes all feel at home. With the good literary program and games and social intercourse, all enjoyed the occasion immensely.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

A petition. signed by about 700 manufacturers of, and wholesale dealers in whiskey, asking for a two years= postponement of the payment of whiskey tax due and to become due this year, is being distributed among congressmen and newspaper correspondents in Washington. It makes a volume of nearly thirty pages, and represents men worth $100,000,000. Congress ought too drop everything and rush at once to the relief of these poor millionaire whiskey dealers. If they are forced to pay their tax, it will tend to cripple this splendid industry. Make the widow who owns one more cow than the exemption laws allow her, pay her taxes, but let these enterprising whiskey butchers along. Give =em all the time they want.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

A man by the name of John Hensel attempted to commit suicide at Cherryvale a week ago Sunday evening. He was on the way from Houston, Texas, to Winfield, where he claimed to have relatives. He was seized with a fit of insanity while waiting at the depot; tore up a large amount of money and slashed his throat with a pen knife. He requested by-standers to write to Jennie A. Buck, at Lansing, Michigan. He will recover. The man was very violent and tore up the depot furniture. He is about 5 feet, 7 2 inches high, spare built, dark hair, brown eyes, heavy dark mustache, weighs about 140 pounds, and very gentlemanly in appearance.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

We had a pleasant call yesterday from Geo. L. McDonaugh, traveling agent of the Southern Kansas Railway. By the way, the Southern Kansas R. R. Co. is dong more to induce immigration to this part of the State, by the publication of the Southern Kansan, than any other agency in the west. Mr. McDonaugh=s objecxt in visiting here was to secure cuts of our church and school buildings for insertion in the next issue of their paper. It is a shame that each of our churches do not procure, for the use of both home and foreign publications, cuts of their buildings. The School Board should also get several cuts of the school buildings.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

From the Traveler we learn that the Fuller Ranch of 3,000 acres of land on Rock Creek, south of Maple City, was sold last week to Messrs. Taylor, Wilkie, Martin, and others, of Cambridge, Ohio, for $21,000. The same gentleman got Messrs. Libby and Moody to Aset a price@ on their farm of 800 acres, which was Aset@ at $10,000. They purchased that also. Also a ranch in Greenwood County. The tentlemen are friends of Maj. Sleeth, C. M. Scott, and others there and are good, substantial men. This is the old Hackney & McDonald tract, which they sold some two years ago to Mr. Fuller for $8,000.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Not wishing to be outdone by the gentlemen, who on New Years eve presented Rev. Jones with an elegant chair, the ladies of the M. E. Church took the occasion of Mrs. Jones= birthday, last Thursday evening, to assemble at her home and present her with tokens of their warm friendship, and the number of Apound@ packages and bundles she received far exceeded the number of years of her life. A most delightful evening was spent in social intercourse, and the occasion was highly enjoyed by all present.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Gen. A. H. Green has since he came back, been greeted by hosts of friends who were his friends and patrons and who would be happy to see him conducting his old business with his former success; but his health is not good enough to warrant him in attending strictly to business. He has been one of the most active businessmen in this whole section of the country and has done much for the advantage of his county. It is hoped that his health will ere long permit him to resume his work in the field he is so well fitted to occupy.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

AJasper,@ our most excellent correspondent from Sedan, suggests that the corps of COURIER correspondents try to arrange for a mutual meeting at Winfield on some public occasion to Aget acquainted@ and Aorganize.@ Among our list of correspondents are many live, energetic, bright young men and ladies who are a power politically and socially in the neighborhoods in which they live. The COURIER would like to see them all together once. Let us hear from others on the subject.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

The Sheridan correspondent of the Burden Enterprise remarks that Asome of our farmers are hauling corn to Winfield and selling it at an advance of 4 cents to 6 cents per bushel on the Burden market, and bringing home coal at $1 per ton less than at Burden, theresby making a good profit on their corn and work.@ Winfield is this winter the best corn market in Southern Kansas. The competition is very lively and the price keeps very close to Kansas City.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

There is this week school holding in every schoolhouse in Cowley County but one. The school in 110 closed two weeks ago. The number of teachers now at work in the county is 135. The services of these teachers costs the county about five thousand dollars per month. Cowley probably spends during each winter month for her schools, eight thousand dollars, counting all expenses. This is a grand record.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Jas. F. Martin left for Topeka Monday to attend the annual meeting of the State Board of Agriculture of which he is a director. He will bring several matters before the Board of much interest to the agricultural community of this county. Mr. Martin is one of our soundest, most practical farmers and has clear ideas on all matters pertaining to agriculture.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Mr. Saunders Wilson, father of Deputy Treasurer Wilson, came in Saturday evening from New York, and will spend some time visiting here. He is heartily pleased with the improvement our city has made. When he left two years ago, the house he built in the east part of the city was way out. It is now near the center of the residence portion of the city.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Three townships in Sumner County are the only ones that have yet been called upon to vote on the narrow gauge proposition. Two townships carried and one township defeated the bonds. One of the townships, Belle Plaine, is the home of C. C. Burns, the promoter of the scheme. It carried the bonds. The road has one township behind it, any way.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

The ice men were reaping their harvest Saturday and Sunday. The ice was about eight inches thick, clear, and solid. The water-works reservoir was frozen twelve inches, and a man was kept there to keep the ice open and relieve the strain upon the walls. Saturday morning the thermometer registered ten degrees below zero.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

H. P. Standley, of the Traveler, has issued a beautiful annual, embellished with splendid engravings and very much useful information. It is a very commendable piece of enterprise and does Arkansas City and the Traveler proud. The businessmen have patronized the venture liberally.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Council Meeting.

Council met in regular session Monday evening with all the members present. Petition for sidewalk on west side of blocks 329, 330, 331 was referred to the street and alley committee.

The pauper bill of O. B. Rodman was disallowed.

The City Attorney was instructed to report an ordinance for consideration at the next meeting repealing all fire limit ordinances, and allowing any citizen to build any kind of building his fancy or purse may dictate, on Main street. The argument in favor of this action was that the side streets were building up with frame structures at the expense of Main street. We think it would be better for the permanent improvement of the city to extend the fire limits over these side streets, rather than remove the obstruction to frame buildings on Main street.

The committee appointed for that purpose, reported a lease from J. C. Fuller for a room in his new brick building for five years at $120.00 a year. It was accepted, providing privilege was allowed the city to sub-let.

An ordinance providing that no cross street be graded nearer than six feet to any sidewalk, was passed. This will leave on all streets six feet between the sidewalk and gutters, for trees, which is a most excellent provision.

The matter of the water works was passed over until next meeting, at which time the committee appointed to conduct the test were asked to meet with the council and discuss the same.

$105.00 was paid out for officers= salaries, rent, and labor.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Droughty Wichita.

We clip the following dispatch from the Emporia Republican. It explains itself.

WICHITA, KANSAS, JANUARY 8, 1884.

In pursuance of a meeting or other concerted action, all of the saloons of this city, thirty odd in number, were closed today. It is said the proprietors are tired of the uncertainty of the business and of the impending penalties, and that the action is for good. Several of the late places of business are advertised for rent.

A better explanation of the above will probably be found in the fact that Hon. H. C. Sluss is about to take his seat on the bench of that district. No man will dare to sit on the witness stand before Henry C. Sluss and utter as evidence words which the Court knows to be false; nor will he stop to Asplit hairs@ on technicality, when justice weighs in the balance. It is well for the saloons that they have closed.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Our people would do well to remember when insuring their homes or other property, that if there be any mortgage, or even a temporary loan upon the property insured, that such must be specified in the insurance policy, or the policy is useless, and your money is lost. The Democrat need hardly remind its readers that every insurance company designedly draw their policies to avoid payments wherever possible, and must, therefore, be carefully dealt with. Insurance companies have no anxiety in the matter, and they will take all the fees without hesitation until the time comes to pay the loss. So if any of the readers of the Democrat have any property insured upon which there is a mortgage, lien, or even a temporary loan, whether made before or after the insurance, do not rest until you give notice to the company, and the insurance agent enters it upon your policy. A. C. Democrat.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

James Jordon exhibited a natural curiosity, the result of the cold weather, Monday. Jim has been drinking water for some weeks for his health. This he kept in a bottle in his room. Frost went for his bottle, tightly corked, froze it up solid, and sent a column of ice, capped by the cork, up out of the bottle to a height of twelve inches. It was a very peculiar formation and looked like the candle and candlestick, which the colored individual in the Afarce@ holds under the Astar=s@ letter. Jim says he didn=t know water would act that way.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Mrs. Rosa Provines, a young woman who came here with her husband from Warsaw, Indiana, some three months ago, eloped last week with a fruit tree man by the name of Brown. She had been working at the Lindell, where Brown was staying. They boarded the train at Seeley, and since then have not been heard of. The deserted husband is a worthy young man and gave the woman no cause for complaint. She has not likely captured a nest of roses, as time always deals harshly with such cases.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Rev. F. M. Rains of the Christian Church will preach in the Opera House Sunday morning and evening. Rev. Rains is one of the brightest and best ministers who have been stationed here. His discourses are sound, logical, and eloquent. All are invited to attend, and those who do will not be disappointed.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

ACarry the news to Hannah,@ that Spotswood & Co., under their cash system are giving more goods for less money than was ever given in Winfield before. Come and see and satisfy yourselves.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Major Thompson left for Pueblo, Colorado, on one of his migratory tours, Tuesday. Major has as much fun to the square inch as any of the boys and he will be a sad loss to the Acorners.@

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Senator Hackney returned from Topeka Saturday, where he argued the Colgate case before the Supreme Court. The decision has not yet been rendered.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Webb returned Tuesday and are now probably engaged in discussing the perplexing question of Agoing to housekeeping.@

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Court convened Monday. The first case up was the old sewing machine business in which Peter Thompson is defendant. It is still going on.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

The County Board of Commissioners convened Monday, and have been actively at work since examining bills and reading tax cases.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Dick Chase, of Tisdale, was caught on the jury this term.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Teachers of Cowley County.

We present below a list of the teachers of Cowley, their post office addresses, and the amount they are receiving per month for their services. This list will be valuable to teachers, school officers, and the public generally. It is taken from the records, through the courtesy of Supt. Limerick.

WINFIELD.

District Teacher Amount

1 Emma Robins $ 35.00

9 H. G. Norton 40.00

12 Anna Marks 40.00

21 Mary L. Randall 40.00

25 Leota Gary 35.00

37 Maggie Kinnie 30.00

40 L. C. Brown 40.00

41 W. P. Beaumont 50.00

43 Lida Howard 32.50

45 O. P. Fuller 40.00

48 Jas. E. Ford 40.00

49 Clara V. Pierce 35.00

50 Jas. H. Hutchison 40.00

51 M. Estelle Cronk 37.50

64 Emma Rhodes 32.50

68 S. L. Herriott 50.00

75 Laura Elliott 40.00

77 Mary B. Burkey 30.00

97 Mary J. Rief 30.00

99 Haidie Trezise 33.00

115 Celina Bliss 45.00

116 Anna Rubertson 30.00

127 Claud Rinker 40.00

ARKANSAS CITY.

2 Prof. C. T. Atkinson 80.00

Anna L. Morton 40.00

Virginia Walton 35.00

Albertine Maxwell 35.00

Mary A. Johnson 35.00

Mary Theaker 35.00

Anna Hunt 35.00

6 Ella King -------

28 Lizzie Wilson 35.00

32 R. P. Henderson -------

33 Hannah Gilbert 30.00

34 S. G. Philips 40.00

35 Lousetta Pyburn 35.00

36 Elsie McLaughlin 38.00

42 Jennie Pollock 30.00

53 C. F. Cunningham 55.00

62 J. R. Smith 40.00

69 C. W. Crank 45.00

80 Cyrus Perkins 38.00

89 Chas. Wing 40.00

96 H. D. Walker 40.00

131 Hannah Ramage 35.00

DEXTER.

5 Anna Vaught 45.00

Sadie Davis 40.00

7 Wm. Carrens 35.00

54 S. A. Smith 40.00

56 Kate L. Ward 35.00

82 A. P. Cochran 35.00

111 J. C. Weaver -------

123 Mary Miller 30.00

124

138 Gertrude McKinlay 30.00

BURDEN.

30 Peter L. Alderson 40.00

78 H. F. Albert 60.00

78 Lizzie Burden 33.00

78 R. O. Stearns 35.00

88 Minnie A. Crumb 35.00

90 T. J. Rude 40.00

92 May Christopher 35.00

113 Mrs. F. E. Craven 40.00

119 Harry C. Shaw 30.00

103 E. W. Woolsey 40.00

TANNEHILL.

4 L. P. King 45.00

44 W. E. Tapping 45.00

65 T. L. Schaffer 45.00

106 Minnie Sumpter 30.00

CAMBRIDGE.

15 W. C. Barnes 55.00

15 Lizzie Palmer 33.00

16 M. P. McName 40.00

95 Grant Wilkins 40.00

104 Emma Coil 40.00

112 Hattie Utley 30.00

117 Maggie Seabridge 35.00

118 Allie Wheeler -------

CONSTANT.

10 B. F. Myers 40.00

59 Amy Chapin -------

SEELEY.

13 Fannie Gammon 35.00

27 Fannie McKinlay 35.00

72 Lincoln McKinlay 40.00

133 Anna Kuhn 35.00

UDALL.

11 Carrie Cronk 30.00

71 J. W. Campf 50.00

71 Jennie Knickerbocker 35.00

114 Hattie Andrews 32.00

ROCK.

23 Lou Strong 33.00

24 Parker Ellis 40.00

25 Leota Gary 35.00

29 J. C. Martindale 40.00

73 C. H. Eagin 40.00

74 S. M. Kirkwood 58.00

108 J. C. Bradshaw 65.00

128 W. L. Holcomb 35.00

81 Lida Strong 40.00

122 Fannie Bush 35.00

AKRON.

26 J. W. Warren 40.00

125 Anna F. Barnes 38.00

BALTIMORE.

18 Ella Kempton 31.00

76 Chas. Messenger 40.00

100 Alice Johnson 35.00

BOX.

17 Emma Briles -------

94 Elsie A. Taylor 40.00

GRAND SUMMIT.

57 O. M. Akers 40.00

101 Ida Hemmenway 30.00

OTTO.

84 R. B. Overman 40.00

102 S. F. Overman 38.00

107 Belle Bartgis 33.00

110 Laura Phelps 30.00

POLO.

60 Zoe Kephart 35.00

121 Cora B. Beach 35.00

MAPLE CITY.

58 W. E. Ketchum 40.00

84 Cora Robins 40.00

98 R. A. Robinson 35.00

CEDARVALE.

63 J. P. Hosmer 35.00

60 J. H. Bartgis 40.00

83 Clara Forbs 33.00

81 J. R. March 45.00

CLOVERDALE.

70 Emma Howland 35.00

120 James Stockdale 30.00

NEW SALEM.

39 D. W. Ramage 40.00

52 Ed. G. Roberts 35.00

55 W. H. Lucas 45.00

Clara Davenport 39.00 [District No. not given.]

TISDALE.

46 F. P. Vaughan 50.00

47 M. E. Johnson 40.00

WILMOT.

22 A. D. Stuber 40.00

105 Carrie Plunkett -------

FLORAL.

19 H. S. Wallace 40.00

20 S. W. Norton 40.00

20 Ora Irvin 30.00

RED BUD.

3 Dido M. Carlisle 40.00

91 Hattie Daniels 30.00

OXFORD.

8 Milton Stiles 40.00

31 Anna Martin 38.00

61 C. M. Harrison 38.00

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Sad Accident.

An accident of the most distressing nature befell Mr. and Mrs. Leach, of West Bolton, as they were crossing the Arkansas bridge west of town, last week. It would appear that Mr. Leach=s team became scared at the foam blown by the wind below the bridge, and while attempting to pass a buggy, in which were seated Messrs. Chas. Howard and Sam Burriss, commenced to back, breaking the railing and falling backwards into the water. The wagon fell upon Mrs. Leach, and had it not been for Mr. Burriss, who immediately jumped to the rescue, and Mr. Leach, the lady would have drowned. As it was, she remained insensible until she arrived in the city, when she was placed under the care of Dr. Reed, who, upon examination, found one of her legs was broken above the ankle, the ankle being badly bruised, the left arm was broken, also a rib, and the skull badly bruised. At this writing the unfortunate lady is doing as well as could be expected, and we hope may speedily recover from her injuries. The railing of the bridge should be strengthened in some way for as it now stands, it is no protection at all. Arkansas City Traveler.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

To Whom It May Concern.

All those knowing themselves indebted to us, are hereby notified that they must settle their accounts. We are needing all the money due us and must have it. We trust any further notice will not become necessary. A. T. Spotswood & Co.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Regular Meeting of Cowley County Horticultural Society, Jan. 5, 1884.

Society called to order by the President. Minutes of Dec. meeting read an approved. Treas. reported 77 member on roll, with 11 paying members, as per notice. Motion made by G. W. Robertson to make annual dues $1 per year in our constitutionCcarried by two-thirds vote of members present. Mr. Geo. Ordway of the city enrolled as a member. Interesting remarks by Pres. Martin and Elder Cairns on Horticultural work and reports. Circular No. 6 report to State Secretary referred by Society to R. I. Hogue and Nixon, Secretary. On motion the following officers were elected for 1884: J. F. Martin, President; Dr. Marsh, Vice President; Jacob Nixon, Secretary; G. W. Robertson, Treasurer. On motion R. I. Hogue elected Vice President of this society as member of the State Board for 1884. On motion Elder Jas. Cairns was elected an honorary member of this Society. Elder Cairns returned his thanks to the Society for the honor conferred and pledged his continued cooperation and assistance in horticultural work in our beautiful country. General discussion on the Red Cedar, and the suggestion to make arrangements to secure cooperation in securing Red Cedar seedlings. On motion Treasurer instructed to pay $6.25 as one-half of delegate=s expenses at Ottawa Dec. 6 and 7. On motion adjourned to meet first Saturday in February.

JACOB NIXON, Secretary. J. F. MARTIN, President.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

A special from Peabody, Kansas, bearing date of Jan. 8th, says that a fire broke out at 10 p.m. of that day, had destroyed 9 business houses, and that half the town was then in flames, most of the buildings being a total loss.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

We resume this week the publication of the secret society directory. Any errors in the list of officers will be corrected on someone apprising us of the same.

[WAS GREER BEING FUNNY???]

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

Notice. The public is hereby notified that my wife, Rosa Provines, has left my bed and board, and I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by her.

WILLIS A. PROVINES.

Winfield, Kansas, January 9th, 1884.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

AD. MANNING=S OPERA HOUSE. ONE NIGHT ONLY. TUESDAY, JAN. 15.

LARGEST IN THE COUNTRY. Smith=s Origial Mammoth Double UNCLE TOM=S CABIN. Realistic Representation. GREAT COMPANY.

25 CELEBRATED PERFORMERS. 8 COLORED PLANTATION SINGERS.

2 TOPSY=S IN SONG AND DANCE. 2 MARKS THE LAWYERS.

2 LAUGHABLE TRICK DONKEYS. 6 MAMMOTH BLOODHOUNDS.

THE JOLLY COON QUARTETTE.

Old time Southern plantation scenes. Happy days in the South. AWe=ll dance and sing the =lib long day!@ Magnificent allegory and transformation scene; street parade by the

NOVELTY DRUM CORPS.

Reserved Seats now on sale at Post Office.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

WYOMING LETTERCOUR VISIT CONTINUES.

More time has now elapsed than we expected since you last heard from us on the mountain side with our entire outfit spread promiscuously over the ground and our pack pony entangled in the lash ropes, and myself firmly planted with my right knee on my neck and his left foot drawn firmly to his breast, animately prescribing terms of an unconditional surrender. And no time was lost by the high joint committee that convened around the prostrate form of our ignoble captive, the bucking Indian bronko.

We soon persuaded his royal horseship to acknowledge superiors, feel the unpleasant-ness of his condition, and promise to cater to the clever wants of our sight-seeing company. His inherent rights, the free use of his very natural, quadruplicated basis, he claimed were allowed him by the constitution of his country, to which we consented and forthwith disentangled the lash ropes. Of course, the treaty was verbal and the convention adjourned informally to meet again under similar circumstances.

The character of this horse will be better understood if the reader knows he is a stray picked up after Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces Indians when they were making their masterly retreat in advance of Gen. Howard=s army, who were driving them through these mountains from the west a few years ago, and appropriated to park purposesClike his first owners, good under unavoidable circumstances.

Packing is an art, and in the Rocky Mountains is a trade peculiar to itself, requiring no little skill, and commands double the wages of common labor. But our task was completed by our inexperienced hands in about double the necessary time required, and here we leave the reader to judge of the riciculous burlesque attempt at imitation.

As we moved down toward the beautiful valley in the near advance, looking like time-worn pilgrims, and like them rejoicing that things were as well with us as they really were, the bundles on our quadruped servant reeled from one side to the other sufficient to torture the poor dumb brute into a repetition of his bucking propensities. But the uncouth appearance of our work attracted the attention of the first man we met, who by the way was an expert in the art, and kindly offered us the benefit of his skill by way of a lesson if allowed to undo the whole business, in which we gladly consented, and by this time were interested enough to notice every loop and knot applied in the transaction. So great was the change in our appearance, that we sometimes thought the gentleman had stopped the wrong party, and our servant of burden moved off with ease and pride as though he had been promoted from President Arthur=s train to ours.

After this all was regular and pleasant and our whole attention was given to what we could hear and see within the range of ears and eyes. After leaving Terris Mountain, where the bucking racket took place, it is only about two miles to Swan Lake in the valley of the Gardner. It covers several acres, is very shallow, and its waters, like all others, very clear; named from the feathered game that frequent the place in great numbers. From this to the east is Sheepeater mountain, 9,000 feet high, named from the tribe of Indians that lived at its foot and subsisted on the sheep that made their home in its rugged sides. Further on in the same direction is Mt. Stevens, while in the northwest a few miles away are the iron rust colored rocks of Electric Peak towering giant-like to the height of over 11,000 feet and bidding the mammoth hills at its foot to hide in its shadow. Then a little to the west and south are Pyramid Peaks of Madison ranges with their northern sides wrapped in perpetual snow, as old, perhaps, as the adamantine rocks themselves.

These with many minor objects of attraction, as brooks, springs, and miniature parks shaded by evergreen trees, make up the sublime scenery by which we are now surrounded as we hasten on for Willow Park, to camp for the night. This camping place is one of the finest in the park, and I describe it as being all that man or beast could wish. Two miles further on is Obsidian, Cliff, and Beaver Lake. Here for the first time in life had we the opportunity to see the work of these industrious rodents. Their dental operations among the trees are fresh, and their skill for river damming is here fully displayed. The lake mentioned above is the result of their work in damming Willow Creek.

At the foot of this semi-artificial lake, on the east is Obsidian Cliff, the composition of which is pure glass of a clear black color, making it semi-transparent, with now and then red streaks promiscuously intermixed. Manufactured as it is in nature=s own laboratory, and by volcanic agency raised in basaltic columns to the height of 200 or 300 ft. The road runs along close to its base and is graded with this same material, and for a half mile you can ride over a bed of pure glass.

Here the scene changes. After passing the head of the lake, you begin to climb a hill on the east side of the valley, and the road, which is a dug-way, is composed of a substance of a geyser formation. It is nearly as white as snow, more like slacked lime than anything else, and from the bed of the stream below you are regaled with the fumes of hot suplhurous gas and of other mineral substances, adding to the already revolting odorCan element that makes you instinctively call the place by its right name, AThe Stink Hole.@ The formation is evidently the result of an extinct geyser or great hot spring at no great distance in the past. Now the hill becomes quite steep and the timber very dense, and on the top, nestled away in this almost dark forest, is the Lake of the Woods; and the tourist longs to stop, if for no other purpose than to see how easily twenty-four hours of time could be killed.

Five miles down the valley of the Gibbon brings us to the Norris Geyser basin. Here the rivaling curiosities of all nature begin. And having stopped here but a short time, will not attempt anything like an adequate description of the place. This basin is a group of many hot springs, small geysers, and gas holes, evidently the safety valves for the internal machinery of the infernal regions directly beneath our unhallowed feet. To see at one glance about 100 acres covered with boiling caldrons, splashing mud, spouting jets of hot water, hissing pans, and orifices blowing brimstone fumes all round you, you imagine that this is not a very good place to tarry and that you had better all unite in prayer. But as you advance your fears gradually vanish and the disagreeable odor is forgotten, while your growing curiosity leads you to examine more closely the different items of curiosity until at one place naturally in the course of the inquirer, you are standing upon a rock admiring a boiling pool of emerald water directly at your feet, and then walk round a few steps to witness it more closely, and to your astonishment you see that this rock is only the thickness of your hand and is positioned over the very center of a bottomless pit of boiling water; then how very soon the charm disappears and an expedition of further inquiries is the order for this place. The geysers at this place are here considered insignificant on account of the anticipation of what is yet to come, but at Winfield would no doubt attract some attention.

I see, Mr. Editor, that this letter has become quite too long, though I have abridged it almost to nothing, and if you can glean a faint idea of the trip, my end is accomplished, and we go back to the elevated road on the gallop off to Gibon canon and Elk Park to camp again in this real paradise of a place.

To be continued.

December 24, 1883. Snow from 2 ft. to 5 ft. deep. Ice 10 inches. Elk and mountain sheep quite numerous.

Respectfully,

J. W. WEIMER.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

AD. NO! STOPCTHE BOTTOM FALLEN OUT!

GOODS WAY DOWN

-AT-

N. E. DARLING=S GENERAL STORE,

Akron, 2 miles East of Dunkard Mills.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

AD. JOHN EASTON, THE OLD RELIABLE GUNSMITH,

is now ready to do all kinds of work. Bring your breech-loaders and get them choked bored. Call and see the new

DAVIS BREECH-LOADER.

Guns, Pistols, Shells, and Ammunition constantly on hand.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

AD. H. G. FULLER BUYS AND SELLS REAL ESTTE on his own account and on commission.

LOANS MONEY ON REAL ESTATE, PERSONAL, AND CHATTEL SECURITY.

Writes Life, Fire, and Tornado Insurance, and has some good bargains to offer in

CITY PROPERTY.

Winfield Courier, January 10, 1884.

AD. QUINCY A. GLASS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN DRUGS, BOOKS, STATIONERY, ETC.

HEADQUARTERS FOR WALL PAPER.

South Main Street, Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, January 17, 1884.

WYOMING TERRITORY LETTER.

At Gibbon Canyon in Elk Park is where we bid adieu to the reader and drew rein for another rest in camp. This place is 25 miles from government headquarters and the last camping place for the next 17 miles to come and therefore necessitated an early halt.

Here by a joint vote, our scout, Mr. Fish, and senior member, Mr. Sawyer, decided to go on through to the Firehole basin, the seventeen miles referred to above, while myself and partner decided ourselves a majority and tarried by the way to see the Paint Pots, which are a half mile to the right of the road.

The first thing to attract our attention was a small stream of red waterCaffording as it did an easy guide to the object in quest. Tracing it to its source, we found that it came from a pot of red mud called Blood Geyser. In this group are many pots or bowls varying from the size of an ordinary cooking utensil to the size of very large cisterns. The paint or rather mud in the different vessels varies much in consistency and also color. The colors are black and white, blue, and all the shades by blending these. But chief among the group is one having a diameter of about 15 feet, funnel shaped, its contents being a facsimile of putty in color and density, puffing and splashing like the boiling of hot mushConly larger in proportion to the size of the pots. No doubt this same batch of mud has been boiling for thousands of years. Here let me say if any of you ever visit this place, look a few paces east of this place in a shallow spring of clear water and you may find some of the handsomest specimens of many sharp pointed petrified substances that can be found in the park. After collecting a few of these, we hurried back to the main road, and just as we were in full headway a foot bridge of two logs across the river attracted our attention, and on the opposite side, against a tree was a hand board reading ATrail to Monument Geysers on Mt. Schurz.@ Though several miles behind the other members of our party, we decided to ford the river with our horses and make the tour. With some care we avoided scalding the feet of our horses in hot water, which was quite plentiful on the left bank of the stream where we entered. The height of this basin is 1,000 feet and quite steep. Before we had proceeded very far the practical idea of relieving ourselves of evry incumbrance, including all unnecessary wearing apparel, was resorted to. This change as well as the exalted emotions of seeing monuments at such an elevation made the task of climbing practically easy for ourselves, but our ponies saw nothing to relieve their growing reluctance. This basin has four or five of these monuments varying from six to twelve feet in height, very hard and quite smooth, each having a small opening through the center and emitting hot air or rather sulphurous gas, and are more like smoke stacks or flues in appearance; some hot springs and one hot air escapement so dry as to be unperceptible and the tourist is liable to get his eyebrows scalded in attempting to look down its thorat to see from whence comes that loud noise so loud as to drown the loudest conversation when near to it. For noise it is next to the Old Growler of Norris basin, that we forgot to mention.

If the reader now draws lightly on his imagination he can have some idea of the transformation of our exalted emotions to feelings more humble as we neared this great basin. After getting as near heaven as the height of the mountain could lift us, we come to the very threshold of a direct communication between the infernal regions and our world. Those monuments are more like mementoes of the departed but end of original sin firing up for the coming of the political reforms that vote the anti-prohibition ticket of Kansas. To the right and at the upper end of this basin is a mound, the crater of an extinct geyser from the top of which to our great satisfaction in beholding spread out before us like a sea, an undulating lawn of evergreen limited only by the reach of sight and the distant horizon. With this scene sharply drawn upon the tablet of our memory, we hastened to untie our ponies and make a rapid descent to the foot of the mountain, adjusted our little baggage, mounted, forded the stream with care, and galloped off to meet our comrades at Gibbon Falls.

The only object of interest in this rapid ride was the walls of the canyon, which at some places are 2,000 feet high and almost perpendicular. The Falls are close to the road and from the noise made by them cannot be missed. These falls are only about 80 feet and in view of what lies in the future, we simply pronounced them splendid and hurry on to the lower Fire Hole basin.

Here by mere accident we overtook the advance of our party, who had gone into camp near the roadside for the purpose of intercepting us. It was already dark and late enough to make matters interesting as they had all the provisions and bedding. While doing our part of the camp and moderately getting on the other side of a piece of elk steak and other cold grub, a weak eruption of a gaseous reprehension for our not keeping up with the party took place in the neighborhood of our senior member, but irreverently we notified his seniorship that we were out on this trip without a guardian and every man was his own sovereign dictator. Everybody feels better when they have their own way, Ayou know.@ This was the only harmonizer used during the trip. After a very short calm we all curled down under the starry blue canopy of heaven telling stories and relating incidents of the day till enchanted morpheous stole our cares away and the night passed swiftly away. Tomorrow we will visit this basin and go to Hells Half-acre.

Respectfully,

J. W. WEIMER.

Winfield Courier, January 17, 1884.

PRAIRIE HOME PRODUCTIONS.

Miss Letta Wilkinson has gone to Independence.

Miss Maggie Lawson spent the day with Miss Myrta Baker last Thursday.

Prairie Home literary has shared the fate of all other enterprises at said point.

Several persons wanted to go to Mr. McMillen=s New Years Day, but had to stay at home; it was so cold.

An oyster supper and dance was participated in by the lovers of mirth and revelry, not long since, at L. G. Brown=s.

The surprise party at Dr. Rising=s on Friday night of last week, proved a failure. Cause: thermometer too far below zero.

Mr. Ramage and family went to Winfield, week before last, and remained several days rather than face the weather home.

On the evening of December 28th, Miss May Christopher gave a social party to many of her young friends, who emphatically pronounced it the party of the season, so much did they enjoy themselves.

It is anything but pleasant trying to write with ink half frozen, fire determined not to burn without continual shaking and stirring about, thoughts congealing ere you can commit them to paper. Who would be a newspaper reporter?

Old Salem Church and Sabbath School have removed and are permanently located at the station. Preaching every alternate Sabbath at 11 o=clock, by Rev. C. P. Graham. Rev. Armstrong, Methodist, will also preach for a few weeks, or until Conference. A series of meetings were to have begun on the 2nd inst., but not having heard from there recently, am unable to report their progress.

Mr. Christopher has sold his beautiful farm and will soon take his departure from Cowley to seek a home still farther west. We are sorry to part with friends tried and true, and would not have given our consent at all, but we were not consulted in the matter, so we wish them success in their late undertaking. May they gather around them friends in their new home, as they have in their old, and be happy and prosperous to a good old age.

Mr. and Mrs. Baker report an enjoyable time at Mr. J. J. Johnson=s Christmas. Nothing that could add to comfort and enjoyment was spared. Music, both vocal and instrumental, was good, and the dinner just splendid. Would like to have been there myself, as I am very fond of turkey and cranberry sauce, but I can testify by my own experience that our Hon. Representative and lady are first-class entertainers.

DIED. We were pained to learn of the death of Mrs. Ferguson. She was a friend we will not soon forget. It was but a few weeks since we met her in Winfield, then, seemingly, in the best of health. Little did we think it was the last time we would be permitted to see her upon earth. We would not wish her back to this world of sin and suffering, but hope to meet her beyond the river, when the summons shall come to us.

I hope that all the COURIER readers have had a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. The old year has gone from usCdropped in the ocean of the past never, never to return. But not so with the good or evil we have done. It is but sealed till the day of final account, to return to us when the books are opened and secrets revealed. And as we step upon the threshold of another year, may it be with a determination to send up to heaven the fairest record of all our lives. C. HOPE.

Winfield Courier, January 17, 1884.

CONSTANT CHIMES.

Mercury has been embracing zero the past week.

Mr. Croco is completely demoralized because he has to sleep alone these cold nights. His wife has gone east to visit her mother for a few weeks.

Relatives of Mr. E. L. Williams, brother-in-law and family, have arrived this week from Texas. They intend to purchase a farm and remain in Cowley.

School at Victor, District 115, has not been in session for two weeks. Their teacher, Miss Celina Bliss, has been recreating and celebrating the holidays, but is expected to put in an appearance Monday next.

Mr. Bob Baird, of Arkansas City, has the contract for building the U. B. Church at this place. As soon as Old Boreas ceases his visits, he and a force of workmen will rush the building toward completion.

Supt. A. H. Limerick was reconnoitering in this vicinity this week. It is presumed that he was around scaring the schoolma=ams. By his energy and enthusiasm for school work, he is a potent power in the cause of education.

Chris. Holland, Esq., has returned to his Dakota headquarters, via Chicago and Minneap-olis. He reported the wells froze up in that territory when he left ten days ago. The country is chiefly populated by Finns, Norwegians, and Swedes.

Recently, while attending the State Grange Association as a representative from this county, Mr. McKerlie visited the State Agricultural College at Manhattan. He reports the institution in a flourishing condition. Elihu Anderson and Misses Amy Robertson and Maggie Stansberry expressed themselves as being well pleased with the school and progressing rapidly in their studies.

A large amount of corn is being shelled by our farmers. Billy Whitzon and Thaddeus Wright entertained the shellers the past two days. Thaddeus Wright shipped a thousand bushels to Kansas City. The fact that our farmers are shelling their corn for market, and many of them doing their own shipping, shows a progressive, economical spirit. This year there is an actual profit of four pounds per bushel in the single item of cobs. About ten pounds is the average weight of cobs in a bushel of Cowley=s corn this year. One-third less time is required to market a corn crop when shelled; besides the cobs make excellent fuel and save many dollars in coal and wood bills.

I am glad to learn that AJasper@ is convalescing. At first his friends feared that his condition was alarming. But a careful diagnosis of the symptoms of his malady only revealed an intense excitement of his phrenological bump of amativeness. It might relieve him to come over and soak his feverish organ in our city water-works reservoir. His ironical allusion to our Ala Mater and its eminently distinguished professors was ungentlemanly, to say the least. Baldness being indicative of wisdom, it is reasonable to predict that Jasper will never be derpived of his capillary covering from this cause. I will reserve, for the present, my opinion of his suggestion to organize a COURIER=s correspondents= fraternity. It is possible that Jasper may have a relapse and such an organization woud be of little benefit to him either mentally, socially, or morally. MARK.

Winfield Courier, January 17, 1884.

UDALL NOTES.

Jack Frost is here! Thermometer 10 degrees worse than nothing.

If what Rumor says is true, the young folks of this place will get introduced after six or a half dozen parties.

We hear that the Teachers= Meeting at Centennial froze out, to be revived again by the gentle breezes of next summer=s Normal.

Affairs here have floated along very smoothly since the Christmas ship came in, and especially since the new barber commenced operations.

Several Udall merchants and wifes attended an oyster supper at Mr. S. Worthington=s a few miles south of town last Saturday night.

Farmers feel truly thankful for the past blessing of a beautiful closing of 1883 for corn husking, as now they have their hands full to haul enough coal and corn cobs from Udall to keep them warm. This cold weather will probably freeze up the great ASell out at cost@ mania at Winfield. C. Z. B.

Winfield Courier, January 17, 1884.

MATCH HUNT.

A grand match hunt having been talked of for some time by the citizens of Maple Township, a meeting was held at the Canton schoolhouse December 19, 1883, for the purpose of making arrangements for the same. It was decided that the hunt should take place on Saturday, December 23, 1883, with Adam Walck and Wm. Rader as captains; the game to be counted at Adam Walck=