THE WINFIELD COURIER.

[FROM THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1884, THROUGH APRIL 24, 1884.]

D. A. MILLINGTON, EDITOR.

ED. P. GREER, LOCAL EDITOR.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

CONSTANT ITEMS.

Pat. Denning is now a resident of Silver Creek section.

From present indications Sam Watt will be surprised with a good crop of wheat this season.

The Constant United Brethren Church is fast assuming shape. The belfry tour looms up majestically.

Messrs. Chapin and Myers this week steps down and out of their schoolrooms in district 93 and 10 respectively.

Grand illuminations in the shape of prairie fires, are a nightly occurrence, presenting a beautiful, picturesque panorama.

Certainly, my dear AJasper,@ I will shake with you as soon as I pull on my gloves and can find a pole of convenient length. It is mete friends to be sociable.

Bob Victor now occupies the S. D. Klingman farm. He is one of Kentucky=s wide awake intelligent farmers. S. D. Klingman has taken up his abode on the borders of the noble red man=s domain.

Ranchmen from the Territory report numerous death among the cattle herds. They are seriously afflicted with the mouth diseaseCthe want of some nourishing substance to masticate.

Elihu Anderson is expected home next week from his studies at the State College at Manhattan. He will then have an opportunity to ventilate his classical verbacular between the plow handles.

God bless the dear old COURIER. The bonds might have been defeated but for its timely and graceful flop. It is the quintessence of wisdom, notwithstanding the fact that Deacon Eastman has ceased to swear by it.

Samule and Richard Clough, whilom boyhood companions of the writer, from the old Hawkeye state, surprised him with a brief visit last week. They are traveling in the interest of Cram=s mammoth publishing house of Chicago.

County Supt. A. H. Limerick last week visited two of our schools, numbers 4 and 116. Between the pedagogue and the pedagoness, the Superintendent was slighted in regard to dinner. Drop in upon Mark next time, A. H., and have the wants of the inner man supplied. There is always a warm place in his anatomy for the earnest advocator.

The writer acknowledges the receipt of two new books entitled AWebster Brenneal,@ and ACampaigns of the Rebellion,@ for which he is placed under many obligations to the Supt. of the printing department of the State Agricultural College of Manhattan. They are exclusively the productions of the college and the excellent workmanship speaks volumes for the progress of the institution. MARK.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

A AKICK.@

In your issue of March 20th, we find the following.

AThe past winter has been a very effective one in our public schools, and the many terms which are now closing show most satisfactory results. County Superintendent Limerick was on the go all winter and every school in the county was visited often by him. The Professor is an indefatigable worker, and to him much of this success in educational matters is due.@

Now we of District No. 28 have felt slighted, but concluded, perhaps wisely, to bear it in silence, until we read the above, which so rubbed in the slight that silence ceased to be a virtue, or to give honor to whom honor is due. The facts are, we have had a more than average successful term of school taught by Miss Lizzie Wilson of Arkansas City, an enrollment of fifty-five, an average attendance of thirty-five, and in deportment and scholarship are not ashamed to compare with any district in the county; yet in our two years= residence here, the County Superintendent has never visited the school. He called on us and others in the district before the primary, when he wanted votes, but never once since, and in the face of all these facts to have the leading paper in the county say that the Superintendent visited every school in the county, and not only visited them but visited them often and attribute their success to him; and still more, this same article copied and thereby endorsed by an Arkansas City paper, one of whose editors was formerly an instructor of our teacher, we think, is taking the honor from our teacher, where it justly belongs; and in the face of all these facts, =tis more than human nature ought to be called upon to bear without a kick. Hence, our kick. IRVIN.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

NEW SALEM A. O. U. W. SUPPER.

The A. O. U. W. supper at New Salem recently, in the commodious hall of the new schoolhouse, was a decided success. The brothers of Burden Lodge with their wives and daughters came down in force and thus exemplified the true idea of fraternity. Burden=s Brass Band, with seventeen pieces, organized a few weeks since, was there. This band has a very competent leader, who has accomplished fine results in the short time he has been at work with his new pupils. Winfield will soon have to look out for its laurels in the way of Brass Bands.

The following items will interest our New Salem and Burden readers.

A splendid cake was voted to Miss Esther Gilmore as the best looking lady.

The respective friends of C. C. Krow and Sim S. Moore ran them as opposing candidates for the honors (I. e., a cake) of the Augliest man.@ The contest waged Afurious and fast,@ but ASim@ at the close bore aloft the Asaccharine pleasantness,@ as victor by a handsome majority, while the treasurer smilingly scooped in the dimes.

J. F. McMullen, of Winfield, also delivered a short address on the benefits of the Order, which was listened to attentively.

Total receipts, $91, of which $55 was left as net profits after paying all expenses. This sum will be expended by the Lodge in fixing up their hall. JONATHAN.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

AN ASSESSOR=S VIEWS.

I have read your articles on the annual assessment of the county with a degree of pleasure that I can poorly express, and now I wish to have my say added to your wholesome words. I express myself for a two-fold reason: First, that there might be another meeting of the assessors; and second, that there might be a just and equitable assessment of the whole county. I would like to see men fare alike, whether their property is in real estate or other property. I shall call your attention and that of the public to a few stubborn facts in the case.

1. We have a just and unambiguous law in reference to the assessment of property in Kansas.

2. Under this law, the assessors doing their duty, no reasonable minded person should complain.

3. The State requires a certain amount, and the county requires a certain amount, to meet their several expenses. What is so required must be raised by a tax on property in said State and county.

4. No honorable people should submit to fraudulent discriminations of either persons or property on the assessment roll.

Now, Mr. Editor, while your readers look these four facts square in the face, I will figure a little on the subject. And remember, it is an old and trite saying that AFigures won=t lie!@

1st. Here is Mr. A, who has fifteen acres adjoining town and he would not look at one thousand dollars for the same and he is assessed the modest sum of forty-one dollars for it!

2. Mr. B, who has a quarter also adjoining town and for which he would not look at five thousand, is assessed four hundred and seventy-nine dollars.

3. Mr. C, who has an eighty, also adjoining town, is assessed two hundred and forty-six dollars.

All three of these bodies of land are so close to the center of our flourishing Aburg,@ that they are solicited for town lots and would bring very much more than farms a mile or more in the country. The assessment is far below one-tenth of the real cash value. Now while the assessors do thus with real estate, how do they treat the merchant in town in valuing his stock of goods?

Why, they put on the last mill the law will allow. Is not this fraud? Is it not discrimination? Or is it official ability and downright patriotism? Judge ye.

4. There are farms out a mile or more that would bring from four to five thousand dollars and they are assessed at from four hundred to five hundred. Such is a fair statement of the assessment of real estate hereabout. And it compares favorably with the discrimination in livestock. Mr. D has a horse he bought a few weeks ago at one hundred and twenty dollars, assess him at eighty; while his neighbor has an extra horse worth three hundredCbut no matter, assess him at eighty!

5. A few words on Implements. According to the proposed rule, they are to be assessed at from thirty-nine to fifty percent, off first cost. Well, here is a man who has good new machinery, and give him fifty percent off, which is just one-half. But his neighbor has machinery worn by use and baked in the sun, and give him the same, fifty percent off. We are the representatives of pure municipal government and just institutions, so give the poor fellow with his machinery worth about one-fourth of that of his neighbor, a chance to pay the same tax and thus prove his loyalty! Shame on the thick skulled, or rotten hearted, or bulldozed petty official who cannot or will not see the injustice and wretched discrimination of such flimsy principles, or rather lack of all true principle, and such a namby pamby way of serving the dear people.

6. Once More: There is a school here of nearly one hundred pupils and two teachers are employed. Well, after the school meeting last August, voting the highest tax allowed by the law for teachers= fund, they have only been able to pay one and a half month=s salary up to this time! All the rest of the orders for the six months taught are on interest, being unpaid. And why this embarrassment? Because the assessment of the real estate in this district is so shamefully low that one percent on it would hardly bury a Akill deer,@ who had lately shuffled off this mortal coil for want of heathful sustenance! Now what can be done to guard against unjust discriminations, and to adjust these difficulties and make it fair to all? I answer: Let the assessors agree upon a regular procedure and assess everything on the same basis of cash value. If it is two-fifths, one-third, or one-half, let it be the same on all livestock, implements, real estate, merchandise, or any other species of property. That would probably double the valuation of Cowley County, but would not increase the county tax a single mill. The State tax might be a trifle more, but even if it was increased a dime or two upon each citizen, what of it in such a modern Eden as Cowley County? Every man knows that the county expenses must be met, and every man ought to know that low valuation of property will not make said expenses less. If it takes $50,000 to run Cowley County when land is put in at one-tenth its real value, it will cost the same $50,000 when it is put in at full value. And further: The list already made out, I think, values horses, cows, oxen, etc., at about two-fifths their real value; why not, therefore, say the same on every other species of property, and thus equalize the burden upon the shoulders of all who hold property. Can our assessors rise and explain and vindicate the basis they have laid down giving real estate such an unreasonable advantage? We shall see what we can scent on this rather cold fox track.

A. J. WERDEN, Assessor of Ninnescah Township.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

THE SADIE RAIGH FUND.

The subject of this sketch, poor Sadie Raigh, is only a poor, lonely hired girl without money and without friends, whom a gentleman (?) tried to ruin. Because the tormented woman valued her virtue more than life, she shot the libertine, for which crime, if crime it is, she awaits trial in the jail at Chicago.

In this case we have felt intensely interested from the first, as there are many points of interest to all womankind in the girl=s trial. That she was perfectly justifiable in shooting her traducer none can deny who have read the circumstances. If she is Acondemned according to law,@ it will be to encourage libertines in pursuing poor and dependent girls. When we realize what a woman with social standing, a kind husband, and multitudes of friends, with ample means at her command, must endure to receive decent and fair treatment at the hands of a court, we tremble for poor Sadie Raigh.

We have taken considerable pains to have this young woman visited, and a prominent lady of Chicago writes the following in her behalf.

AMr. and Mrs. Upham (proprietor of the Briggs House) speak most kindly of Sadie Raigh, who was in their employe eighteen monthsCshe being noted during that ttime for her quiet, modest demeanor. Mrs. Upham remarked: >I never had to reprimand her while she was in the house!= High praise under the circumstances. An attempt has been made by someone to raise money for her defense. Mr. Upham subscribed $25 to the fund; but we understand that but little has come yet of this effort. . . .

AYour proposition to start a fund is a noble one. I shall attend the trial (do not yet know when it comes off) and induce others to go also.@

AOur Herald desires contributions to this fund at once. There is no time to be lost. Every dollar forwarded will be noted in these columns, and be placed in the hands of reliable ladies in Chicago, who will take a personal interest in attending to Miss Raigh=s case.

ALet every mother who would see her daughters safe, let every man and every woman who would have virtue triumph over lust, show their faith by their works and contribute to the Sadie Raigh fund.@

Any who feel sufficiently interested in the case to assist by a remittance in defending the girl will leave the same at the Kindergarten room of Mrs. E. D. Garlick.

By order of the committee. Mrs. Caton, Secretary.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

REPUBLICAN JUDICIAL CONVENTION.

13th Judicial District.

A Republican Convention for the 13th Judicial District of the State of Kansas will be held at Winfield, Cowley County, Tuesday, May 20th, 1884, at 2 o=clock p.m., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the office of Judge of said Judicial district. The basis of representation in said convention will be as follows:

Elk: 3.

Cowley: 6.

Chautauqua: 3.

Sumner: 5.

By order of the Republican Judicial District Central Committee.

M. B. LIGHT, Chairman.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

WILL GET THE PERSIMMONS.

Senator John C. Long, of Chautauqua County, is suggested as the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor. El Dorado Republican.

Of Cowley County, if you please. And let it here be recorded that a Cowley County pole most generally reaches the persimmons.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

GOOD FOR MRS. SEELYE.

The House has passed a bill pensioning Mrs. Sarah E. E. Seelye of Fort Scott at the rate of $50 per month. She is the lady whose biography we copied from the Monitor a few weeks since, who served as a soldier for three years during the war under the name of Frank Thompson, and when sick and about to be sent to the hospital, deserted to escape detection of her sex. She is well entitled to a larger pension.

[STORY APPEARED IN THE JANUARY 24, 1884, ISSUE.]

A REMARKABLE CAREER.

The Story of a Remarkable Woman, Who Served Over Two Years

In the Army, Doing Valuable Service For the Country.

She is now a Happy Wife and Mother, and Resides in Fort Scott.

[Fort Scott Monitor.]

That truth is stranger than fiction is again exemplified in the life story of Mrs. J. E. Seeyle, who resides with her husband, Mr. L. H. Seeyle, a respected gentleman of many years residence in this city. A Monitor reporter learned the principal points in her romantic career, which embody briefly all the vicissitudes of a two years= service in the war of the rebellion as a member of the Second Michigan Infantry, several months ago, but has not been at liberty to use them until now.

Mrs. Seelye is the wife of Mr. L. H. Seelye, a successful and first-class carpenter, who resides now in Southeast Fort Scott. The couple have resided in this city several years and are universally respected and esteemed by all who know them.

Mrs. Seelye=s story is told best by herself, as related to a Monitor reporter, beginning back at the events which led up to the remarkable career which has linked her name indissolubly with the greatest of modern wars.

Mrs. S. E. Seelye, formerly Miss Sarah Edmonds, alias Frank Thompson, is a woman between forty and fifty years of age. She has black hair and eyes, a quick, intelligent expression, and a general appearance suggesting the idea that she might have made her toilette with scrupulous care, as to neatness, but possibily without a mirror. Her manner is direct, honest, and free from any traces of self-consciousness. With the exception of an occasional phrase, more current in the church of which she is still an active member, than elsewhere, her diction is as clear and graphic as her manner is unpretentious. She spoke freely of the past and when the reporter expressed a desire to learn something of her early life and of the causes which led her into such exceptional circumstances, she gave an account of her girlhood which is reproduced as nearly as possible in her own words.

AYou have expressed a desire to know what led me to assume male attire. I will try to tell you. I think I was born into this world with some dormant antagonism toward man. I hope I have outgrown it measurably, but my infant soul was impressed with a sense of my mother=s wrongs before I ever saw the light, and I probably drew from her breast with my daily food my love of independence and hatred of male tyranny.

AYouth generalizes. In our family the women were not sheltered but enslaved; hence I naturally grew up to think of man as the implacable for my sex. I had not an atom of faith in any one of them. If occasionally I met one who seemed a little better than others, I set him down in my mind as a wolf in sheep=s clothing, and probably less worthy of trust than the rest.

AMy father was a New Brunswick farmer; a descent, or mixture of Scotch and Irish; my mother was Frency.

AVery early in life I was forced to the conclusion, from close observation and bitter experience, that matrimony was not a safe investment for me. Although I was favored with more than one touching declaration of undying love, I greatly preferred the privilege of earning my own bread and butter. When I was thirteen years old, one of those peculiar little incidents occurred which seems like God=s own finger pointing out the way to a struggling soul.

ALate one evening an old peddler came along, weary with his burden. My mother invited him in, gave him supper, and made him comfortable for the night. She never let an opportunity escape of doing a kindness to a stranger, or, in fact, to any of God=s creatures who were weak or weary.

ANext morning the old man seemed very grateful, and by way of appreciation of the kindness received, he presented me with a book entitled AFanny Campbell, the Female Sailor.@ It was the first novel I had ever seen.

AThere were four sisters of us, and I was the youngestCa mere child. Why should that man have selected me as the recipient of such a gift?

AThat day my sister and I were sent to the field to plant potatoes. It was a new piece of land, far from the house, and we tookCas well as the potatoesCthe book and a luncheon and spent the day there. If I remember correctly, the potatoes were not all planted.

AThat was the most wonderful day in all my life. The battle of Bull Run was not a circustance to it. Surely I must have been inspired! I felt as if an angel had touched me with a live coal from off the altar. All the latent energy of my nature was aroused, and each exploit of the heroine thrilled me to my finger tips. I went home that night with the problem of my life solved. I felt equal to any emergency. I was emancipated! And I could never again be a slave.

AWhen I read where >Fanny= cut off her brown curls, and donned the blue jacket, and stepped into the freedom and glorious independence of masculinity, I threw up my old straw hat and shouted, as I have since heard McClellan=s soldiers do when he rode past the tropps on a marchConly one small throat could not make so much noise.

AThe only drawback in my mind in regard to the book, was this: The heroine went to rescue an imprisoned lover, and I pitied her that she was only a poor love-sick girl, after all, like to many I had known, and I regretted that she had no higher ambition than running after a man. Perhaps later on in life, I had more charity, and gave her a credit mark, for rescuing anybodyCeven a lover. From that time forth I never ceased planning escape, although it was years before I accomplished it.

AA few weeks before I left home, my father took it into his head to marry me off, and get rid of me. In obedience to orders, I became engaged, but while the preparations were going on for the wedding, one starless night, I most unceremoniously left for parts unknown.

ABut before going over to the enemy, I had procured the address of a publishing house in Hartford, Connecticut, and an outfit for canvassing for a family Bible. The next thing was to test the experiment of canvassing. I could not prevail upon myself to go into a house, until I became so hungry that necessity drove me to do so. I traveled all night and hid in the woods all day, until I became accustomed to my new costume, and, finally, when I did venture out, it was in the evening twilight, and I was received with so much respect and kindness that I concluded I must be quite a gentleman. As soon as I got far enough away from home to make it safe, I went to work in good earnest, and such success as I met with deserves to be recorded in history.

AI soon became a famous bookseller. The publishing company told me that they had employed agents for thirty years, and they never had employed one that could outsell me. I made money, dressed well, owned and drove a fine horse and buggyCsilver mounted harness and all the paraphernalia of a nice turnoutCtook my lady friends out riding occasionally, and had a nice time generally.

AAfter a year=s absence, I went home to see my mother; I could not stand it any longer, even at the risk of detection and imprisonmentCno doubt you are aware that the British l;aws, as well as the laws of this free (?) and happy country, punish with imprisonment so great a crime as any infringement on the rights and privileges of the >lords of creation,= even in so small a matter as the fashion of their most lordly garments. This is what I call masculine law and masculine justice meted out with a vengeance.

ABut to return, I went to my mother=s house and introduced myself as Frank Thompson. My moter was very kind and invited me to stay to dinner, which I did. While my sister was preparing dinner, my mother entertained me with a brief history of her lost daughter. I sat there and listened and talked for an hour to the mother that bore me, and she never knew that I was her child. Was not that a complete disguise? My father was not at home. My brother soon came in from the farm, and was introduced to Mr. Thompson. I told him I wanted to buy a good saddle horse, and inquired if he had one to sell. He thought he could suit me, and we went to the stables to look at the horses. My pets in the barnyard knew me better than my human friends, and came crowding around me. Under pretense of examining the horses= mouths, I put my arm around their necks and hugged their dear old heads, and they rubbed their noses against me in recognition. The sheep, too, knew me, and flocked around, licking my hands and nibbling at my clothing, and refused to be driven away. The loving remembrance of those dear dumb creatures made me cry, and I turned aside to hide my tears.

AAfter looking at the horses, I decided that I did not want any of them, and we returned to the house. Dinner was announced, and we sat down and chatted for an hour, but to me it was the hardest dinner to swallow of any I ever ate; finally I stopped trying to eat, and sat with folded arms looking at them. My mother, looking up through a mist of tears, asked my sister, >Fanny, don=t you think this young man looks like your poor sister?=

AThat was the straw that broke the camel=s back. I burst into tears and went and knelt beside her, and said: >Mother, dear, don=t you know me?=

ABut she declared it simply impossible for her to believe that I was her daughter.

ALike Mr. Stuart, she required proof before believing anything so absurd. Her heart was convinced, but her eyes and her intellect refused to admit the fact. While I knelt by her side, her hand rested or wandered lovingly over my short curls, but suddenly rising she drew me to the window and scanned my face closely, and then said with emphasis, >No, you are not my child. My daughter had a mole on her left cheek, but there is none here,= touching my cheek softly with her hand.

AMother,@ I said, Aget your glasses and you will see the scar. I had the mole removed for fear I might be detected by it.@ But before she could attempt to get them, I ran to her room and brought her glasses from the little shelf where she used to keep them, and placed them on her dear face just as I used to do. Then she saw that the mole had really been removed, and was convinced. She cried and laughed both at once, and I caught her up in my strong arms as if she were a baby, and carried her round the room and held her and kissed her until she forgave me for running away from her. Oh! I tell you, we had a grand time there for an hour or two, and the big >elder= brother did not refuse to come in and rejoice over the prodigal=s return.

AI never say anybody look so completely outdone as my brother when I told him who I was. He didn=t say a word for somte time; then said, >Well, I thought it was mighty strange that the stock made such a ______ fuss about the fellow.=

AAfter the first excitement was over, I found myself frequently glancing towards the door, fearing that I might unexpectedly find myself fact to face with the stern master of ceremonies of that demoralized household, but no such happy event transpired.

AThat same afternoon I bade them all good bye, and returned to my self-imposed duties. I walked almost all night to reach my destination, the distance I think was nineteen miles, but only a portion of it was an open, well defined road, the other part only a narrow path through the woods.

ASoon after that, by a strange catastrophe, I lost every dollar that I owned and all my books except a BibleCmy sampleCand my valise. I sold the Bible for five dolalrs, and with that in my pocket, I started for the United States, in mid winter, snow three feet deep in New Brunswick. In that way I performed the journey from Fredericton, New Brunswick, with the exceptions of a few miles= ride occasionally.

AOh! I could tell you a tale of suffering and hardships and weariness endured on that journey that no experience of mine in the army ever equaled. I reached Hartford in a most forlorn condition. A stranger in a strange countryCa fit subject for a hospitalCwithout money and without friends.

AI went to a hotel just as if I had plenty of money, and rested several days before presenting myself to the publishers. My feet were badly frost-bitten and my boots literally worn out, and my last suit of clothes were rather the worse for wear, and my linenCwell, it is hardly worth speaking of. But I had a good watch and chain, which I pawned for a sum sufficient to enable me to make a more respectable appearance.

AThen, with as gentlemanly address as I could get up, I introduced myself to the publishers, and almost in the same breath I asked them if they had any use for a boy who had neither money nor friends, but who was hard to beat on selling books. They laughed a good, hearty, manly laugh, and replied: >Yes, you are just the boy we want if you are hard to beat on selling books. We will be both money and friends to you.=

AI told them they would have to take me on trial, as I had no security to give them. One of the firm named Scranton, said: >We=ll take your face for it.= Another of the firm, Mr. HurbertCwho afterwards published my bookCtook me home to his house and introduced me to his family as >a boy who was hard to beat on selling books.= I dined there that day, and after dinner, was invited to go with them in their carriage for a drive around the city. The kindness I received that day was worth a thousand dollars to me. I have never forgotten it, and I hope they have never had reason to regret it. The next day they employed me as their agent, and gave money and books sufficient for a successful campaign in Nova ScotiaCI think it required over fifty dollars cash to pay my way there and my expenses after I got there until I had sold and delivered my first lot of books. Oh, how manly I felt; and what pride I took in proving to them that their confidence in me was not misplaced.

AI went to Nova Scotia in February and returned in November of the same year, and in that time I cleared nine hundred dollars. I stopped at first-class houses, lived well, dressed well, gave away more money to benevolent societies, etc., than in all the rest of my life, and came near marrying a pretty little girl who was bound I should not leave Nova Scotia without her.

AThe next trip I made was out west, according to Horace Greeley=s advice to young men >to go west and grow up with the country.= But before I had time to grow up much, the war broke out and I became a soldier. So, you see, =tis true that

AThe best laid plans o= mice and men, gang aft agley.@

AWhen the rebellion broke out, I was in the vicinity of Flint, Michigan, and was present when the first troops bade farewell to their home and friends and marched to their place of rendezvous at Detroit, Michigan. It was while witnesssing the anguish of that first parting that I became convinced that I, too, had a duty to perform in the sacred cause of Truth and Freedom.

AI spent days and nights in anxious thought in deciding in what capacity I should try to serve the Union cause; and during all my deliberations this fact was borne in upon me, viz: That I could best the interest of the Union cause in male attireCcould better perform the necessary duties for sick and wonded men, and with less embarrassment to them and to myself as a man than as a woman.

AI enlisted under the name of Frankling Thompson, as a private soldier, in Co. F., 2nd Michigan Infantry Volunteers, one or about the 25th of May, 1861, and was mustered into the service by Lt. Col. J. R. Smith, U. S. A., Wm. R. Morse, Capt. Co. F, Col. Israel B. Richardson commanding Regiment.

AI had no other motive in enlisting than love to God, and love for suffering humanity. I felt called to go and do what I could for the defense of the rightCif I could not fight, I could take the place of someone who could and thus add one more soldier to the ranks.

AI at first enlisted for three months; and afterwards re-enlisted for three years or during the war. I had no desire to be promoted to any office. I went with no other ambition than to nurse the sick and care for the wounded. I had inherited from my mother a rare gift of nursing, and when not too weary or exhausted, there was a magnetic power in my hands to soothe the delirium.

AI went to Fort Wayne, Detroit, Michigan, and drilled, did fatigue duties, and performed all the necessary duties of a soldier in camp, and when off duty I assisted in caring for the sick. I went to Washington with the above named company and regiment, stood guard and picket duty, and drilled with Co. F, 2nd Michitan, until the regimental hospital became filled from sunstroke and other causes, then I was detailed to hospital dutyCDr. A. B. Palmer, surgeon in charge. Then the sick were sent to city hospitals and preparations made to march to Bull Run.

AWhen the Union army retreated to Centreville Heights, stacked arms, and threw themselves on the ground, as I supposed for the night, I went into the stone church, which was used as a hospital at Centreville, and became so much engaged in doing what I could for the wounded and dying that I forget everything outside the hospital, and before I knew it the whole army had retreated to Washington; but I escaped under cover of darkness and made my way alone to Washington, not arriving there until 24 hours after the troops had reached their old camp.

AThe defeat at Bull Run filled the hospitals and I was again detailed on hospital duty. Some months after thisCI cannot remember the dateCI became mail carrier for the 2nd Michigan Infantry, and subsequently postmaster and mail carrier for the brigade to which the Second Michigan Infantry belonged, Berry=s, I think. In this capacity I went to the peninsula with General McClellan=s army, and remained there as postmaster and mail carrier all through the peninsula campaign.

During the siege of Yorktown, I carried the mail on horseback for the brigade, from Fortress Monroe to the troops in front of YorktownCletters, papers, and packages, averaging, I think, from two to three bushels each tripCthe distance, about 25 or 30 miles. Owing to the condition of the roads, I was often compelled to spend the nights alone by the roadside. It was reported that the bushwhackers had murdered a mail carrier on that road and robbed the mail, and there seemed to be evidence in the fact, for in the most lonely spot of all the road, the ground was still strewn with gragments of letters and papers, over which I often passed when it was so dark that I only knew it by the rustle of the letters under my horse=s feet.

AI was at the battle of Williamsburg, where many of the brave Second Michigan Infantry were killed and wounded, and among the wounded was Wm. R. Morse, Captain Co. F., Michigan Infantry, whom I assistedz in removing to the transport which took the wounded to Fortress Monroe.

AWhen the battle of Fair Oaks occurred, I was sick with chills and fever, but worked among the wounded till they were sent away, and then tried to assist in identifying and burying the dead, E. J. Bonnie, surgeon in charge of Second Michigan.

AWhile the Union troops lay in front of Richmond, the floods frequently carried away the Chickahominy bridges, and I was more than once obliged to swim my horse across the swift running stream in going back and forth with the mail. Those cold baths in the Chickahominy river fastened the chills and fever upon me, which eventually drove me from the army; setting drenched in the saddle for hours, sometimes all night, shivering by the roadside watching for daylight to pick my way through the dangerous mud holes through which mule teams had wallowed.

AI was also in the seven days fight crossing the peninsula to the James river, and more than once I narrowly escaped with my life. I cannot, at this time, after a lapse of twenty years, remember by whose order or suggestion I went to a farm house which stood some distance from our line to secure some stores for our famishing men. I went, however, and while there the enemy opened fire upon our troops at that point, and before I could return I found myself between two fires, our men having responded; but I secured the provisions and returned unhurt.

AAfter the army went into camp at Harrison=s Landing, I resumed my duties as postmaster, and when General McClellan=s army was ordered from the peninsula, I returned to Alexandria with Company F., Second Michigan Infantry. Upon the arrival of the troops at Alexandria, they were sent forward to re-enforce General Pope in the Shenandoah Valley, and I did not join them again until at the battle of second Bull Run.

AI was at the battle of Fredericksburgh, and by my own request, acted as Orderly for General O. M. Poe during the battle, Burnside commanding.

AI went to Kentucky on or about the 20th [?NOT SURE OF DATE?] of March, 1863, with Company F., Second Michigan Infantry. About this time the Second Michigan was transferred from Ferry=s brigade, Birney=s division, third corps, to first brigade, Burns= division, ninth corps, Col. Wm. Humphrey, commanding regiment. I remained with Co. F., Second division, at Bardstown, and Lebanon, Kentucky, until I became debilitated by chills and fever contracted on the peninsula. I had, previous to this, applied for a leave of absence, but was refused, my papers having been returned Adisapproved.@ I now became discouraged, and feared that if I remained longer, my sex might be discovered.

AI left the army some time in April, 1863, and proceeded to Oberlin, Ohio, where I remained four weeks in the same costume in which I had served as mail carrier. Then I changed my apparel, and resumed my own proper dress, and have never worn any disguises since, except when sitting for pictures.

AI went to Hartford, Connecticut, and made arrangements with Hulbert, Williams & Co., to publish a book entitled AThe Nurse and Spy,@ which I wrote for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers, to whom it was dedicated. The book was accordingly published by said company, which proved a success, and furnished remunerative employment to many disabled soldiers and war widows in selling it by subscription.

AKnowing the publishers of this book to be faithful men, and true to the interests of Union soldiers, I left it in their hands to superintende and pay over to different organiza-tionsCSantaCmy Commission, Christian Commission, and Soldiers= Aid SocietiesCall the proceeds of the book which belonged to me, and I returned to hospital duty once more, under the auspices of the Christian Commission, at Harper=s Ferry, Rev. J. R. Miller, agent for the Department of the Cumberland. I remained in that department nursing the sick and wounded, visiting different hospitals from Harper=s Ferry to Clarksburgh, West Virginia, distributing the delicacies and more substantial comforts furnished through the agencies of the ANurse and Spy,@ until the close of the war. Then, when finally victory perched upon the national banner, and the dear old stars and stripes once more floated over every city, town, and hamlet of the South, as in the North, I went to Oberlin, Ohio, where I studied for a time but found it too monotonous, after so much excitement.

AIn 1886 I went home to visit my people in New Brunswick, and returned to Ohio the same year. In 1867 I was married to L. H. Seelye, of Saint John, New Brunswick, whose love and tender care still bless my declining years.

AI make no statement of any secret service. In my mind there is almost as much odium attached to the word ASpy,@ as there is to the word Adeserter.@ There is so much mean deception necessarily practiced by a spy, that I would much prefer everyone should believe that I never was beyond the enemy=s lines, rather than fasten upon me by oath a thing that I despise so much. It may do in war time; but it is not pleasant to think upon in time of peace. I never was wounded in battle, nor taken prisoner, but I was disabled by accident on three different occasions while on duty, from the effects of which, I think, I have never fully recovered.

AI have never received any bounty or back pay from State or Government. I do not remember the date to which I was paid in the army.@

The book, The Nurse and Spy, mentioned by Mrs. Seelye was written by her about the first of the third year of the war under the auspices of the Sanitary Commission, and was published and sold for the benefit of the wounded and sick soldiers of the war. An idea of her services in that direction and the sterling quality of her character may be gathered from the following letter bearing upon the subject.

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, March 8, 1882.

Mrs. E. E. Seelye.

MADAM: Your letter of the 23rd of February is received and contents noted. I am willing to state all I know in regard to your services in the Army and among the sick soldiers. I suppose you did enlist in a Michigan regiment as Frank Thompson; heard nothing from you until you left the army. When you returned you wrote a book called ANurse and Spy,@ which gave an account of your doings in the war, which had a large sale, I think 175,000 copies. We, as publishers, gave the sanitary commission and other causes hundreds of dollars from the profits of the book; also gave you, I think, two $500 bonds, 1,000 of which you sued among the sick and wounded soldiers at Harper=s Ferry. I understood at the time you had appropriated the amount in that way. You spent some months, I think at Harper=s Ferry; often heard of you by the way of chaplains of my acquaintance who had met you thee. You ask me if S. Eursua E. Edmunds and Frank Thompson are one and the same. I answer, yest. I know they are same person; I knew of Frank Thompson in Nova Scotia and knew of Miss S. E. Emma Edmunds here; can state that she was a good Christian lady, honest and true as far as my knowledge extends. When Frank Thompson left for the army in Michigan, he returned the books and wrote us that he had enlisted. It was his duty to do so, if he knew he would be killed. You, Mrs. Seelye, have done everything in your power for the sick and wounded soldier and for the Union cause. You deserve a pension from the government.

Yours truly,

A. M. HULBERT.

[Note: Some confusion with last name...article calls him Hurlbert...affidavit is signed by Hulbert...believe that the affidavit is correct and newspaper reporter got name wrong!]

If Mrs. Seelye needed further authentification, which it does not, the following makes it complete.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, COUNTY OF GENESEE ) ss.

Damon Stewart by me duly sworn, deposes and says that he is a resident of the City of Flint, County of Genesee, and State of Michigan, and that he was enlisted as a private in Company AF.@, Second Regiment, Michigan Infantry Volunteers at Flint, Michigan, on or about the eighteenth day of April, A. D., 1861; and that he was subsequently promoted to Corporal and Sergeant of said company respectively. And deponent further says that Emma E. Seeyle is the identical person who enlisted under the name of Franklin Thompson, as a private in said Company AF.@, Second Regiment, Michigan Infantry, Volunteers at Detroit, Michigan, on or about the first day of May, A. D. 1861. And deponent further says that the said deponent remained with said company and regiment until May 5th, 1862, when he was wounded and left said company and regiment. And the deponent further says, that during said time from on or about April 18th, 1861, until May 5th, 1862, when the said deponent was with said complany and regiment, said Franklin Thompson (S. Emma E. Seelye) remained with said company and regiment, and performed cheerfully and fully and at all times any duty which was assigned her, and this deponent further says, that so far as he can remember, said duty consisted chiefly of either acting as nurse or carrying mail. And deponent further says, that during all of said time, said Franklin Thompson (S. Emma E. Seelye), bore a good reputation, always behaved as a person of good moral character and a consistent Christian, and was always ready for duty. And deponent further says, that he makes this statement from personal knowledge, having known said Franklin Thompson as aforesaid, and that he knows that said S. Emma E. Seelye is the identical Franklin Thompson as aforesaid. And the deponent further says, that on or about the fifth day of August, A. D. 1882, he was mustered in as First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Twenty-Third Michigan Infantry Volunteers by Lieutenant Col. J. R. Smith, U. S. A., at Detroit, Michigan, and was mustered in as Captain of Company AK@ in said regiment on September 12th, 1882, and futher saith not.

DAMON STEWART,

Late Captain Co. K. 23rd Regiment, Mich. Inf. Vol=s.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 8th day of March, A. D., 1882. Deponent is the person he represents himself to be and a creditable person.

JOHN J. CARTER, Clerk of the Circuit Court,

Genesee County, Michigan.

FLINT, MICHIGAN, March 31, 1882.

This is to certify, that in the month of May, 1861, I enlisted in Company AF,@ Second Regiment, Michigan Volunteers Infantry, and that during the same month, one Franklin Thompson, enlisted as a private soldier in the same company. He proceeded with the regiment to Washington and was present at the first battle of Bull Run, and in the several engagements on the peninsula, Virginia. He was for some time Regimental Mail Carrier, and was especially attentive to the sick in hospital. A few days since I met this same Frank Thompson (whom I immediately recognized) in the person of Mrs. S. Emma E. Seelye, now a resident of Kansas.

WM. B. McCREERY.

Late Col. 21st Mich. Vol=s Inft.

Besides these, Mrs. Seelye has in her possession a large number of similar affidavits and statements taken at about the same time, which, was the first intimation that the members of the Second Michigan had that their former comrade was a woman and fixing her identity.

From AMichigan in the War,@ a historical sketch of all of the Michigan regiments which served in the war, carefully compiled by John Robertson, Adjutant General, the following allusion to Frank Thompson appears.

In Company F, 2nd Michita, there enlised at Flint, Franklin Thompson (or Frank, as usually called), aged twenty, ascertained afterwards and about the time he left the regiment to have been a female, and a good looking one at that. She succeeded in concealing her sex most admirably, serving in various campaigns and battles of the regiment as a soldier; often employed as spy, going within the enemy=s lines, sometimes absent for weeks, and is said to have furnished much valuable information. She remained with the regiment until April, 1868, when it is supposed she apprehended a discloser of her sex and deserted at Lebanon, Kentucky, but where she went remained a mystery.

HEADQUARTERS 1st BRIGADE, BURN=S DIVISION.

Opposite Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 5, 1862.

SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 19. )

11. Private Frank Tompson, Company F, 2d Michigan Volunteers, is detailed on special duty at these headquarters as postmaster and mail carrier for the brigade.

Signed, O. M. POE, Colonel Camd=g Brigade.

Official: JAMES REID.

Lieut. and A. A. A. G.

In closing this interesting and dramatic sketch, tthe reporter feels constrained to remark that Mrs. Seelye said well, when she declared her belief in early life that:

AHonor nor shame from condition rise,

Act well your part there all the honor lies.@

In all of the struggles and vicissitudes of her eventful career she acted her part nobly and courageously, and now as a respected wife and mother, she acts well the duties assigned to her by the cares and responsibility of husband and children.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

SOMETHING OF INTEREST.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U. S., WASHINGTON, D. C., March 27, 1884.

I have seen Hon. John M. Gregory of the Civil Service Commission, and he has consented to go to Kansas late in May, for the purpose of holding examinations for applicants who desire positions here in Washington.

He will visit Topeka, and perhaps two or three other places in the state, depending upon number of applicants for clerkships. Persons desiring an examination for such position, should send to the Commission here in Washington the applications, and, they will have returned to them all needful blanks, and copies of the rules and regulations, which will inform them how to proceed.

The examinations in Kansas will be under the personal supervision of Dr. Gregory, and will be of a practical character; and I hope that such of our friends in southeastern Kansas as desire clerkships in Washington, will avail themselves of this opportunity, and send in applications to the Civil Service Commission at once. Notice will at once be given of the places that Dr. Gregory will visit for the purpose of holding examinations when he visits our state.

I wish the papers in the 3rd Congressional District would copy this notice as generally as they can, as its object is to give publicity to all.

I am truly yours,

B. W. PERKINS.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

THE FINANCIAL POLICY.

The result of the city election is generally satisfactory. The contest was not very spirited, the issue being merely a personal choice between candidates, neit her of whom seemed very anxious to succeed. There was a general sentiment that too much taxes have already been placed on the city by the inauguration of water works, gas works, and fire department, and against any extensions of mains this year to add to the city taxes; and that was the only issue talked of. As all the candidates for councilmen were pledged against extensions, both by the actions of the caucuses which nominated them and by their own declarations, this issue was one sided.

The policy of the city council this year will be to keep down expenses to the lowest possible limit and raise all the revenue practicable from other sources than direct taxation so as, if possible, to pay all the water and gas rents from these sources and leave only the ordinary expenses of the city to raise by direct taxation.

It is certainly time we called a halt and looked about us to see what we are coming to.

In the first ward, Mr. R. S. Wilson would certainly have been re-elected to the Council if he had consented to serve another term, for he has been the strongest opponent to heavy taxation, and advocate of economy, and his services have earned the thanks of the taxpayers of this city.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

JUDICIAL NOMINATION.

We hear from prominent attorneys in this and adjoining judicial districts a demand for a member of the Supreme Court of this state from this section of the state and in this connection the name of Judge E. S. Torrance is becoming prominent. The three judges of that court have always been of the northeast corner. Judges Horton and Valentine are good men for the place and will probably continue to be nominated and elected to succed themselves as long as they desire the office. They both live in the northeast corner. There are just as good men for the place in the balance of the state as in that corner and this more western and southern portion of the state should have the preference. Judge Torrance is the peer of any of them in all qualities that would grace the Supreme bench, his location is best, and the Republican State convention should nominate him. If he should consent to become a candidate, he will get the warmest support from the COURIER.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

A BEAUTIFUL GIFT.

Hon. J. W. Weimer is down home from the Yellowstone National Park on a vacation of a couple of weeks. He presented the Editor with a most beautiful specimen of the ornamental work turned out at nature=s great work shop in that park. It is a large cavalry hoseshoe with all the nails in and bent over in the shape when clinched on, and all is finely coated with a thick coat of snow like mineral matter deposited evenly all over the whole by the mineral waters of the geysers. Mr. Weimer has our cordial thanks for this exquisite specimen as well as for the excellent articles which gave description of the park that appeared in the COURIER.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

A WORD FOR THE SOUTHWEST.

It is supposed that Gov. Glick will appoint a Democrat to fill the vacancy on the Supreme bench of this state and some suppose it will be his late law partner, Judge Otis of Atchison. Several prominent Democrats have been mentioned, among whom is J. Wade McDonald of this City. It would be a graceful thing and an appointment which would reflect credit upon the governor if he could extend his vision beyond the limits of the northeast corner of the state and appoint so accomplished a jurist as J. Wade McDonald.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

HORSES.

We have seen the record of the Percheron Norman Horses now in charge of Mr. Eslinger and believe them to be the best breed of any that ever came to this country.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

ADDITIONAL LOCAL. [PRINTED ON EDITORIAL PAGE.]

County Attorney Jennings is encased in a cave of gloom. His prize calf died with the black-leg. His affections were wrapped up in that calf. He had fed it skimmed milk with a spoon, and watched its youthful development with tenderest solicitude, only in the end to see it die with such a vulgar complaint as the black-leg. What matters it if the calf was mangy, carried an abbreviated tail, and had lost an ear in a sanguinary encounter with a town curCit was a good calf and ought to have lived a long, useful, and prosperous life. Frank has our sympathy and, if he will accept it, fifty cents to buy him a new calf.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Rev. B. Kelley, the new Methodist minister, preached his first sermon here last Sunday. He is one of the best ministers of the church in Kansas, is an eloquent and forcible speaker, and best of all, is noted for his firm and aggressive stand in favor of everything that tends to elevate the moral tone of the community. The saloon keepers and law-breakers of Wichita found in him a determined, never-ceasing enemy. Winfield has a warm welcome for all such men. [Kelly? Kelley?]

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

DIED. Mr. James Carnine died Tuesday evening at his residence in the east part of the city. He had for many months been suffering with consumption. The funeral takes place from his residence today (Thursday) at nine o=clock. He will be buried with the Grand Army of the Republic honors by the Winfield Post.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Certificates of wedded bliss have been issued by Judge Gans. [MARRIAGE LICENSES]

L. W. Burnett to Carolina Donelly.

August Kadau to Katie Schwantes.

Geo. E. Reynolds to Mattie J. Reynolds.

C. L. Jones to Ellie Codle.

Frank Fawsett [?Fawcett?] to Hanna L. Gilbert.

Edgar A. Lee to Nannie Chapell.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

The Wichita M. E. Church paid their pastor, Rev. B. Kelly, his salary of $1,300 promptly, and then added $100 for good measure, when he came to Winfield.

[Again: Kelly? Kelley?]

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

From Emporia.

It is of course no news to any of your readers that the recent decision of the Supreme Court ends forever the further prosecution of Wm. H. Colgate for that arson. I read the opinion with some interest, having studied with care the brief prepared by Joseph F. McMullen, whom I have long known as an able, conscientious, and hard working lawyer. That brief was carefully prepared after dilligent research; and a verification of the authorities therein cited was certain prophecy of what the opinion would be. Mr. McMullen deserves from his client life-long gratitude, and from the profession liberal praise. J. JAY BUCK.

[THIS IMPLIES McMULLEN GOT COLGATE OFF...COURIER GAVE CREDIT FOR THIS TO HACKNEY. COULD BE THIS ARTICLE SETTLES ONCE AND FOR ALL THAT THE NAME IS ACOLGATE@...NOT COLGATE.]

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Resolutions of Respect.

At a regular meeting of Winfield Lodge No. 20 I. O. G. T. held on Friday evening, March 28th, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted.

WHEREAS, It has pleased our Heavenly Father, in his Divine wisdom, to remove from our midst sister J. M. Fahnestock, therefore be it

Resolved, 1. That we tender to the bereaved family our sympathy in this their hour of affliction.

2. That in the death of our sister the cause of temperance has lost a friend and supporter.

3. That as a mark of respect due our late sister, our charter be draped in mourning for thirty days.

4. That these resolutions be entered upon our records and that the secretary be directed to transmit a copy to the bereaved family.

ALICE G. LIMERICK,

E. D. GARLICK, Committee.

H. G. NORTON.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

MARRIED. August Kadau, Winfield=s Aboss@ boot and shoe manufacturer, and Miss Katie Schwantes will be married this (Wednesday) evening at the residence of the bride=s parents, four miles up the Walnut. B. W. Shields, Billy Dawson, Geo. Headrick, and others will be present to witness the ceremony and enjoy the festivities of the occasion. August is receiving a prize well worthy such a genial, substantial, and popular young man, and we wish himself and fair bride all the happiness and blessings obtainable in this world. The necessary perquisites for housekeeping have already been purchased and the happy couple will settle down in the Alittle brown front@ immediately.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Our readers will remember the sad accident mentioned in the COURIER a few weeks ago wherein Charles Hickenlooper, a young man in the employ of Mr. H. C. Reynolds was struck on the head by a well drill crank and died in a few hours. He was a moneyless stranger in a strange land and in recognition of the kindly care given the body, the following card of thanks has been sent us for publication by the young man=s parents at Albia, Iowa.

ATo the many friends, though strangers to us, at Winfield we return our unfeigned thanks for their true Samaritan benevolence, Christian manners, humane services, and evidence of respect toward us, the parents, and our unfortunate one, in this dire calamity. Especially to H. C. Reynolds and brother, Mr. Emmet Noble and lady, Rev. Cairns, the editors of Winfield for kind notice, and to all others sympathising. Charles Hickenlooper, Mary Hickenlooper.@

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Miss Emma Bristol, of Bristol Sisters, Florists, Topeka, will be in Winfield from Tuesday noon, April 8th, until Thursday noon, April 10th, with a choice collection of house and bedding plants, bulbs, flower seeds, etc., for sale. This will give our people a splendid opportunity to make personal selections of plants, seeds, and bulbs. We bespeak for her a cordial reception and have no hesitation in assuring our citizens that they will be fully repaid by calling on her at the time and place mentioned. At Friend=s music and millinery store, Tuesday noon to Thursday noon, April 8th to 10th.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Dr. Taylor has associated with him in practice, Dr. Horace H. Sprith, who has the reputation of being a good doctor and one of the most successful magnetic manipulators in the west. This combination promises extraordinary advantages for the sick in both acute and chronic diseases. Let the sick test the merits of these physicians. Dr. Taylor=s success is well known. He has practiced in a hundred and seven families in this and adjoining counties and up-to-date reports the loss of not a single patient.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

At a regular session of the New Salem lodge of A. O. U. W. held March 21st, the following resolution was adopted.

Resolved, That we extend to the brotherhood of Burden, to the Burden band, to J. F. McMullen, of Winfield, and to the ladies of New Salem a vote of thanks of the lodge for their assistance at our festival March 20th. W. H. LUCAS, Rec=d.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Miss Nettie R. McCoy and class, assisted by the Courier Band, will give a concert at the Opera House on Tuesday evening, April 8th. Miss McCoy is one of our best musical instructors and her concerts in the past have been such as to insure a large audience on this occasion.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Singing Class.

Organized by Mr. Marsh. Commence term 12 lessons Friday evening, Baptist lecture room. Necessary that all wishing to attend be present.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

John Cairns and lady came down from Polo last week and spent a few days with relatives. John is manipulating Col. McMullen=s 11,000 acre farm and doing it in a manner most creditable.

[Kay...they had 11000...11,000 acres??? Should it be 1,100 acres???]

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Blind Boone, the musical prodigy who entertained a Winfield audience some time ago, comes again on the 12th inst., under auspices of the Juvenile Band.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

The pedigree short horrn bull, Tom Marshall, purchased at a Kansas City sale by John R. Smith some time ago, was bought by Sid Cure Saturday for $125.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Millions of new buttons at M. Hahn & Co.=s.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

City Election.

The election for city officers Tuesday passed off quietly, only about 550 votes being polled. The following is t he result.

FIRST WARD.

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: G. H. Buckman, 270; J. E. Snow, 168; L. L. Beck, 137.

CONSTABLES: H. H. Siverd, 218; T. H. Herrod, 217; Jas. McClain, 130.

COUNCILMEN: W. R. McDonald, 160; Marshall Howard, 147.

MEMBERS SCHOOL BOARD: Geo. Ordway, 158; E. S. Bedilion, 153.

SECOND WARD.

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: G. H. Buckman, 205; J. E. Snow, 131; L. L. Beck, 96.

CONSTABLES: H. H. Siverd, 146; T. H. Herrod, 128; Jas. McLain, 121.

COUNCILMEN: W. J. Hodges, 120; S. J. Hepler, 97.

MEMBERS SCHOOL BOARD: W. C. Robinson, long term, 118; B. F. Wood, long term, 105; Jas. H. Bullene, short term, 122; W. H. Smith, short term, 103.

[Paper did not break down to show who won....

It appears that Buckman became Justice of the Peace.

It appears that H. H. Siverd became Constable.

It appears that W. R. McDonald became councilman in the first ward.

It appears that W. J. Hodges became councilman in the second ward.

It appears that Geo. Ordway became member of school board in first ward.

It appears that W. C. Robinson became long-term member, school board, in 2nd ward.

It appears that Jas. H. Bullene became short-term member, school board, in 2nd ward.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Donavin=s AOriginal Tennesseeans@ are Coming.

Donavan=s Original Tennesseeans, the celebrated troupe of Colored Vocalits, which assisted in building the Central Tennessee College at Nashville, and the same company that visited this place two years ago, will visit Winfield again about April 17th, and present their new and varied program. They desire particularly not to be confounded with Jubilee singers, for the reason that they are really cultured vocalists, and present a strictly first-class concert. We have before us the most favorable press notices, which guarantee us in promising one of the best of entertainments.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Type for Sale.

Three hundred pounds of the Brevier type used on this paper for sale at 25 cents per pound. Also, a large lot of job and advertising type.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Mr. L. F. Johnson of Beaver Township lost his splendid Hereford bull last week with black-leg. He purchased it and two heifers at the Garth & Co. sale some weeks ago. The bull cost him $325 and was one of the highest bred animals in the county.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Mr. Joe Yoeman, of Vernon, was gored by a vicious bull last Thursday. The injuries were quite severe, but not serious. He was crossing the lot where the animal was confined, when it made at him, running a horn through his thigh.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Six refrigerator cars came in last week on the Southern Kansas for J. P. Baden. He will load them with eggs for shipment east this week. With the present hen activity in the county, Baden will do a rattling egg business.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Real estate reached its highest point last ThursdayCabout a mile. There were clouds of it, surging up and down and lapping over. It was decidedly the worst day we have ever seen in Kansas.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Mrs. P. F. Wright has leased the store formerly occupied by Mrs. Stump, south of the Tower Grocery, and will soon open a fine assortment of Millinery and Ladies= furnishing goods.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Mrs. Judge E. S. Torrance, of this city, wants a good girl to do household work. Good wages and a permanent situation offered. Applications may be made by letter or in person.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Max Shoeb was over from Oxford Monday. He says it does him good to visit the metropolis of the Southwest occasionally and view the scenes of his pioneer days.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Mr. A. N. Denning and lady passed through the city Saturday on their way to Arkansas City for a visit. They will return and spend a few days with friends here.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Frank Howland made a flying visit to Winfield. Frank has been a salesman with Fitch and Barron at Arkansas City for some months past.

[Believe it is Barron...but not 100% sure. Courier had ABrorn.@]

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Frank Dorley came in from Harper Wednesday morning. He has his carriage factory buildings up and started ten men to work Tuesday.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

J. Q. Benbrook, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, an old acquaintance of Messrs. S. Bard and A. P. Johnson, came in Friday and will locate permanently.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

A sixteen year old girl, hailing from Parsons, dressed in man=s attire, arrived last week and will probably locate with us.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Judge Bard has returned from a visit of some weeks in Texas, as jolly and corpulent as ever.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Ben Cox returned Wednesday morning from a prospecting tour in Harper County.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

New stock Hats at Hoosier Furnishing Goods Store.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Satin and silk dolmans for spring wear at M. Hahn & Co.=s.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

A fine selection of wall paper at Henry Goldsmith=s.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

For California Cabbage, go to J. C. Long=s.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Men=s embroidered toilet slippers, Smith & Zook.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Old Government Java Coffee, at Long=s Grocery.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

RECAP: In District Court...Edgar Smith, plaintiff, versus Thomas A. Wilkinson and Anna C. Wilkinson, Hampton S. Story and ____ Story, his wife, whose real name is unknown, Isaac A. Camp and _____ Camp, his wife, whose real name is unknown, Gibbs, Sterret & Co., Gibbs Sterret Manufacturing Company, G. and C. Merriam, A. P. Dickey, James A. Loomis, M. G. Troup. John W. Curns, Nannie J. Platter, Administratrix of the estate of James E. Platter, deceased, Nannie J. Platter, Houston Platter, Bell T. Platter, Margarett M. Platter, Robert I. Platter, and Jane E. Platter, heirs at law of James E. Platter, deceased, and M. T. Green, E. T. Williamson, and George S. Pratt, partners doing business under the firm name and style of the Chicago Lumber Company, defendants.

Notice that defendants are being sued by plaintiff April 2, 1884. Petition names defendant Wilkinson for the sum of $418 with 12 percent interest thereon from May 1, 1880, on a certain promissory note executed and delivered by said defendant Wilkinson to secure the payment of said sum of money on real estate.

Location of real estate: southwest quarter of section 28, township thirty, south of range No. six east.

If judgment, interest, and costs not paid in six months, mortgaged premises to be sold according to law without appraisement, and the proceeds arising from such sale to be applied to the payment of said judgment, interest, and costs. And same applied to the other defendants named...adjudging and decreeing their estate, title, and interest in and to said mortgaged premises to be junior and inferior to the mortgage lien of the plaintiff, and that uupon the completion of said dale that the defendants and each, all, and every of them and all persons claiming by, through, or under them, be forever barred and foreclosed of all rights, title, and interest in and to said mortgaged premises or any part thereof.

HENRY E. ASP, Attorney for Plaintiff.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

AD. O=MEARA & RANDOLPH

Have the agency for the following goods.

Stacy, Adams & Co.=s Men=s Fine Shoes.

Hunt & Holbrook=s, Hartford Ct., Men=s Kip Boots.

Mosby & Fink, St. Jo, Heavy Calf Boots.

Reynolds Bro.=s Ladies= Fine Shoes.

Ziegler Bro=s Ladies= Fine Shoes.

J. & T. Cousin=s Ladies= Fine Shoes.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

AD. H. G. FULLER / F. L. BRANIGER.

REAL ESTATE, LOAN -AND- INSURANCE AGENTS.

WINFIELD, KANSAS.

Buy and sell city and farm property on commission and on their own account. For description of property, call or address us, with stamp. Those wishing to invest in First Mortgage Real Estate Loans, address us. References, Winfield Bank, and Donnell, Lawson & Simpson, Brokers, New York.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

SUIT: Carrie A. Legg, plaintiff vs. Benjaman M. Legg, defendant, a non-resident of the State of Kansas.. Petition filed December 20, 1883, for divorce...asking for all real estate and personal property as alimony. McMULLEN & LELAND, Plaintiff=s Attorneys.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

THE MARKETS.

The markets stand about the same as last week, wsith but little heavy produce coming in. Wheat brings 85 cents, corn 30 cents, hogs $5.80 per cwt., hay $5.00 per ton, chickens, live, 6 cents per pound, dressed 8 cents, turkeys, live, 9 cents, dressed, 11 cents, potatoes 75 cents, butter 20 cents, and eggs 11 cents.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

PERSONALS.

A cook wanted at the Olds House.

Miss McCoy=s concert on Tuesday evening, April 8th.

Don=t fail to buy the Pivot Corset at Hoosier Store.

Children=s spring heel shoes for sale by Smith & Zook.

20 different styles of men=s shoes at O=Meara & Randolphs=.

Smith & Zook=s goat button shoe at $2.50 is unequaled by any other.

If you want a nice juicy steak, go to the Meat Market of Miller & Dawson.

Top of the market for forty bushels of good clean white oats. Ed. P. Greer.

For the latest improved patterns in gasoline stoves, go to Horning and Whitney=s.

Prather=s stock of men=s and boys= fine shoes is immense. Libby=s Patent a specialty.

Remember the concert by Miss McCoy and class on Tuesday evening next at the Opera House.

Why isn=t the clock in the McDougal tower kept running? It=s time someone was looking after it.

A good second hand top buggy for saleCside bar, Brewster spring. Cheap if sold at once. Enquire at this office.

Go to J. H. Hetherington & Son for the last and latest styles of painting and graining, paper hanging, and decorating.

The culvert between the Santa Fe depot and the west bridge has a dangerous hole in it. Somebody ought to look after it.

Mr. G. S. Manser was elected vice president of the Real Estate Agents= Society, which held a meeting at Emporia last week.

The reader will find an interesting letter on fourth page descriptive of Winfield written by Prof. C. Marsh to a New York paper.

The law allows ladies the privilege of voting for members of the school Board. There were none voted last Tuesday. They were not registered.

We call attention to notice elsewhere of the visit to our city April 8th to 10th of Bristol Sisters, Florist, Topeka, Kansas. Remember time and place, Friend=s Music Store.

Judge Torrance has sold two acres and a half out of his ten acre tract on East 12th Avenue, to J. E. Conklin, for $1,250. Mr. Conklin will build a fine residence there during the summer.

The COURIER will come out in an entire new dress next week. The type will be one size smaller than that now used. The change to smaller type is necessitated by the pressure on our advertising columns.

We missed our copy of the Dexter Eye last week, but everyone pronounces it a Aone-eyed daisy.@ Walter G. Seaver is one of the brightest young journalists in these parts. He will run a sparkling sheet as long as it lastsCwhich we hope may be forever.

Miss Nettie R. McCoy and class will give another of their interesting concerts on Tuesday evening April 8th at the Opera House. They will be assisted by the Courier Band. Tickets 10 cents, for sale at Goldsmith=s. Doors open at 7:30; concert begins promptly at 8 o=clock.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

City Scales.

Several years ago the COURIER opened up a brisk fight on the individual scale business and urged the city council to put in city scales. It did so, but instead of running them by the city, they appointed a weighmaster, put him under bonds, let him furnish his own scales, and take all the proceeds, thus firtually creating a monopoly in favor of one individual. As a result, the city weighmaster has been reaping a harvest of three thousand dollars a year from it. Our city has during the past year given herself some luxuries in the way of water works, gas works, hose and carts, houses to put them in, and various other thingsCall of which cost money. While these things are good enough, it behooves us to look out for some business-like way of providing a revenue for their payment. Would it not then be wise for the council to buy a city scales, hire a weighmaster to run it at $50 per month, and convert the two or three thousand dollars profit into the city treasury? Let them remove every scale from every street and alley in the city and throw all the business onto the city scales. The city scales should pay the water tax and the shows and street peddlers the gas tax. A little financering and good management on the part of the city dads will accomplish it. Let=s have the financering.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Mr. John G. Woods, Wellington=s leading capitalist, was in the city last Saturday. It was rumored that he was looking over the railroad situation with a view of securing the Gould extension for Wellington instead of Winfield. The Wellington people are alive to their interests and stand ready to extend every aid to enterprises tending to develop their town and county. However, they might as well hang their harps on a willow, for Winfield proposes to have this road. It is too plain a question for our people to split hairs on, and when we do pull together, something has to come.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Cowley County hens are now getting in their work in a manner highly creditable and are showing themselves to be our most beneficial institutions. Saturday was an immense egg day in Winfield, and a big day in everything else as well. We went around to every store and got the number of dozen taken in by each, and the total for that day foots up over four thousand dozenCabout two eggs for every inhabitant in the county. At 12 2 cents per dozen, these eggs brought to our farmers five hundred dollars.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Grated horse radish has been quite a trade with a traveling vender who has goods five grains of which would almost take the top of your head off at 20 cents per pint. Recently a vender of the pungent root offered Will Wilson a quart for 30 cents and Will closed the bargain at once. After the pedlar left, Mrs. Wilson ascertained that the hash was only grated turnips.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

One of the best workers in the County Temperance Convention last Friday and Saturday was Mr. N. J. Larkin, of Richland Township. In that township they have what is called the ATemperance Alliance,@ which olds monthly meetings, has a large membership, and is doing a grand work in keeping up a healthy sentiment in favor of prohibition.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Frank Millspaugh, of Ninnescah Township, lost five hogs last week from what was pronounced hog cholera. A carload of hogs was brought into that neighborhood some time ago, which have nearly all died with the disease. It is supposed that they brought it with them, and that these other cases have been transmitted by them.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Mr. C. W. Averill, of Cass County, Missouri, and Mr. S. H. Rogers, of Emporia, are in Winfield this week and called on the COURIER. Mr. Averill is looking up a location and has about concluded to invest in our city, while Mr. Rogers will soon build on his lots on east 10th Avenue and move here with his family.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Tom Richardson, the bristling young news gatherer of the Wellingtonian, spent last Saturday in Winfield and made us a pleasant call. Tom is one of the brightest young fellows in the Southwest and the local page of the Wellingtonian sparkles all over as the result of his ready faber.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

The oldest landmark in the city was moved off Main Street this week, the old Tony Boyle building, to give room for the new McDougal brick. It was the second or third building that went up in Winfield, and at that time was considered a very fine structure.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tincher, of Chanute, returned to their home Monday morning after a week=s visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Hendricks. They are relatives of Mrs. Hendricks, who accompanied them to Chanute for a short visit.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Miller & Dawson keep the finest line of meats in the city. They handle only the very choicest beeves, and everything that goes from their market is first-class at no higher price than charged elsewhere for inferior meats.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

The Farmers= Bank Company have money to loan on long or short time, personal, chattel, or real estate security any way you want it, at as low rate of interest as any firm in Southern Kansas.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

McDonald, Jarvis & Co., are helping many of our farmers to pay off their mortgages drawing a high rate, and replacing them by 6 percent loans. This firm is giving borroers the best show they have ever had in this county.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Miss Nora Roland came over from Cherryvale last Thurday and remained till Monday, the guest of Miss Leota Gary. Miss Roland=s visits are always highly appreciated by our young folks.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Mr. R. M. Tomlin, who has been visiting during the past year in Winfield with his son, left Tuesday for Fort Collins, Colordo, to spend the summer with a son there.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Mr. Millspaugh brings us a lot of peach limbs taken from his orchard. They are full of live buds. The trees are budded fruit. Cowley will have an abundant peach crop for 1884.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Mrs. Smith and Miss Fisher will open Dress and Cloak making in rooms over Expres Office, April 7th, where they will give attention to first-class work.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Hon J. W. Weimer came in from Yellowstone Park last week on a short visit. He has passed a pleasant winter although tolerably cold.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

The County Temperance Convention.

A Mass Temperance Convention, according to previous announcement, for the organization of the county for Temperance work, convened in the Baptist Church on last Friday at 11 o=clock, with a good representation from the different townships of the county. A temporary organization was effected with Rev. J. Cairns as chairman and Frank H. Greer secretry, and the following committees were appointed.

On permanent organization: Mrs. E. D. Garlick and Messrs. Capt. Stubblefield and N. J. Larkin.

On resolutions: Messrs. A. P. Johnson, D. C. Beach, and C. P. Graham.

On plan of work: Messrs. A. H. Limerick, R. O. Starnes [?Stearns?], J. Cairns, D. C. Beach, and C. P. Graham.

The Convention then adjourned to 2 o=clock p.m.

At the afternoon session, after the opening exercises, verbal reports from various sections of the county were presented, giving very favorable showings of the status of prohibition and the increased interest which has been manifested in the Temperance work throughout the county.

The committee on permanent organization reported, recommending a continuance of temporary officers, with the addition of J. W. Millspaugh, vice president, and A. P. Johnson, treasurer, which report was adopted.

The committee on resolutions presented their report, which was discussed and adopted.

[SKIPPED RESOLUTIONS.]

After miscellaneous addresses, the convention adjourned to 8 o=clock, when a forcible lecture on the Temperance question was given by Dr. W. R. Kirkwood.

The second day=s session began at 9 o=clock Saturday morning, when assigned topics were taken up. The first subject, AThe duty of the Christian in relation to Temperance Work,@ was introduced by Rev. J. H. Snyder, followed by remarks from M. V. B. Bennett.

ATemperance Work in Schools,@ was taken up by Prof. A. H. Limerick and was followed with remarks from Prof. Collins and others, when the following resolution presented by Mr. R. M. Tomlin was heartily adopted.

Resolved, That this Convention recommends to the school boards of Cowley County the introduction into the schools thereof, AThe Boys and Girls= Temperance Text Book,@ by H. L. Reade, price 20 cents per copy, or $15 per hundred, published by J. N. Searns, 58 Reade St., New York, and other suitable temperance literature.@

The third topick, AWoman=s Relation to the Temperance Reform,@ was discussed by Rev. C. P. Graham, when an adjournment to 2 o=clock at the Opera House, was had.

On convening the fifth session, the committee on plan of work reported the following, which was adopted.

We, your committee on APlan of Work,@ after a brief conference, are of the opinion that nothing short of thorough and systematic organization can accomplish ends that are now essential to the furtherance of the Temperance movement, and in view of this, we would recommend the following plan.

1. That the county be divided into seven districts, as follows.

1st, or N. W. District: To include the townships of Maple, Rock, Richland, Ninnescah, and Fairview.

2nd, or N. E. District: To include the townships of Omnia, Harvey, Windsor, Silver Creek, and Sheridan.

3rd, or E. District: Dexter and Otter.

4th, or S. E. District: Spring Creek and Cedar.

5th, or S. W. District: Creswell, Bolton, and Silverdale.

6th, or W. District: Vernon, Walnut, Tisdale, and Liberty.

7th, or Central District: The City of Winfield.

2. That we organize this Convention in a permanent organization with a president, secretary, and treasurer, and a vice president in each district.

3. That the vice president of each district appoint one member in each township in his district to constitute district executive committee.

4. Tht president, secretary, and treasurer, together with vice president of each district, constitute an executive committee of county who shall have power to direct and control the work of County, and assign to ech district such duties as may be necessary for the complete organization of county; the meetings of said committee to be held in the City of Winfieeld upon the call of the president and four members shall constitute a quorum.

The officers of the County Temperance Organization for the coming year were elected as follows.

President, Rev. J. Cairns.

Secretary, Frank H. Greer.

Treasurer, A. P. Johnson.

Corresponding Secretary, A. H. Limerick.

Vice presidents--

First district, Rev. C. P. Graham.

Second district, Dr. Wilkins.

Third district, W. G. Seaver.

Fourth district, W. E. Ketcham.

Fifth district, S. B. Fleming.

Sixth district, J. W. Millspaugh.

Seventh district, S. S. Holloway.

Hon. M. V. B. Bennett, editor of the Kansas Prohibitionist, was then introduced and delivered an address. He also addressed a large audience in the Opera House Saturday night and in the Baptist Church Sunday night. Mr. Bennett is one of the most logical and eloquent speakers that has ever taken the rostrum in the interests of Temperance in Kansas, and his addresses were all highly appreciated. The convention was interesting throughout, and the thorough discussion of different topics relating to Temperance work was the means of creating new enthusiasm and formulating plans which will greatly increase the danger to violators of the prohibitory law.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

FEEDING FOREIGNERS.

What We Ship to Help Feed the Less Favored Ones.

Record for 1883.

Last year was a very prosperous one for CowleyCmore so perhaps than any since 1878.

[Not sure about 1878...8 hard to read] Then our railroad facilities stimulate agriculture, which raises the bulk of our productions. Mr. Green has compiled for his Real Estate paper from the books of the Southern Kansas and Santa Fe railroads at this place figures which show the amount of products shipped out in car lots as follows:

Car loads of wheat and corn: 888

Car loads of flour: 530

Car loads of cattle, hogs, and sheep: 264

Car loads of stone: 337

Car loads of brick: 70

Car loads of wool, hides, butter, eggs, hay, etc.: 433

Total number of cars: 2,524

[TOTALS SHOWN AMOUNT TO 2,522...COURIER OFF BY 2 CARLOADS.]

These are the shipments from Winfield alone, and while this is the central and concentrating point, it must be remembered that the other towns of the county on these railroad lines, Burden, New Salem, Cambridge, Torrance, Udall, Seeley, and Arkansas City make shipments, which in the aggregate will greatly swell the total given above.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Father Kelly, late of Ellsworth, has been placed in charge of the Catholic Church here. He is a bright, energetic young man and zealous in the performance of the heavy duties of his charge. In addition to his work here he has charge of a large number of churches in surrounding counties.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

W. D. Myers and W. S. Patrick, of Pleasant Hill, Missouri, old acquaintances of A. D. Hendricks, visited Winfield last week with a view of locating in the mercantile business.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

WINFIELD=S MILLING BUSINESS.

What the Winfield Roller Mills are Doing for Winfield and Cowley County.

DESCRIPTION AND RESULTS.

Among the institutions which are doing much for the material interests of Winfield and Cowley County, the Roller Mill of Bliss & Wood is the most important. It deals exclusively in our most important product, a large part of which is here manufactured into flour and shipped thousands of miles directly to consumers. During the past year the mill has made every bushel of wheat raised in this county worth from five to ten cents more on the bushel than it would have been if depending solely on a shipping market. Aside from this it has employed a large number of persons who with their families, go toward swelling our population.

A year and a half ago the old mill of Bliss & Wood was burned. It carried but little insurance and its loss left the proprietors nearly bankrupt. But the importance of the institution to Winfield was recognized by the Winfield Bank, which at once lent its assistance in a financial way, and Messrs. Bliss & Wood commenced the erection of a new mill on the old site. Encouraged by the friendly feeling and assistance, and seeing in the future agricultural development of the county the fullest promise for such an institution, they concluded to make it first class in every respect and fixed the capacity at six hundred barrels. The building was accomplished under many difficulties and vexations, but it finally started up, since which time it has prospered, gone on extending its territory and improving the quality of its product, until today it controls the markets of Western Colorado, New Mexico, and a large part of Southern Kansas.

The mill is five stories high, built of magnesia limestone with sawed-stone front. It is located on the Walnut River and, in addition to a splendid water power, has a steam attachment of one hundred and twenty horsepower. The building was designed by Mr. Jos. S. Maus. It is a beautiful structure and complete in every way. Attached to the mill proper is the engine house, boiler, and coal rooms. About a hundred feet distant is the mill elevator, capacity 35,000 bushels, and furnished thoughout with the most approved and complete cleaning machinery in the state.

It is the inner arrangement of the mill which makes it rank as the best institution of the kind in this or any other state. In fitting it up the question of expense was the last consideration. Every appliance known to the milling trade calculated to improve the quality and quantity of the product was included in the furnishings. The plans were drawn and furnished by W. F. Gunn, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, who is probably the best millwright in the United States. He also worked out what millers call AThe System,@ or the intricate maze of elevators, conductors, etc., which take the wheat from the elevator, conduct it through all the break rolls, Ascalpers,@ bolts, and purifiers, until it is finally turned out into a flour sack as AO. B.,@ ASuperb,@ AHomo,@ or AGrit,@ the famous brands which have become household words all over Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. The finished plans were turned over to Mr. Jos. S. Maus, and under whose charge every timber was framed and every piece of machinery placed and connected. This was by far the most important part of the work and the skill and mechanical ability displayed by Mr. Maus, verified by the successful working of the mill for nearly two years, shows him to be the Aboss@ mill-wright of the west.

The first floor, partly a basement, is a maze of gearing and shafting for transmitting the power to the machinery above. It also contains the Aelevator boots@ and conveyors. The second floor contains thirty-four pair of AGray=s Patent noiseless Rolls,@ the applicances which have so recently knocked the old-fashioned mill stones into the junk-shop. It also contains three flour and one bran packer. The third floor contains eight silk reels, five No. 2 Smith purifiers with approved dust-catchers, and five large bins for flour, bran, etc., which run up through the third story to the fifth. They are capable of storing three days= product of the mill. On the fourth floor is a second invoice of eight silk reels, and five No. 2 Smith purifiers with dust-catchers. On the fifth story is located all the elevator heads, five scalping reels, five No. 2 Martin Centrifical reels, one grading reel, and a machine for sweeping the little remaining flour off of the bran before it is turned over to the festive town cow. After seeing this machine our fears of foundering the cow on bran from this mill were speedily dissipated. We tried to follow a grain of wheat through all its intricate wandering before it came through as flour, but gave it up in despair. As far as we could learn it goes through about twenty miles of elevators, is mashed, pounded, scraped, hulled, dusted, and Ascalped@ a dozen times, then unmercifully sent back and compelled to go through the process again if Joe Maus has the least suspicion of its containing an atom of anything but pure, snow-white flour. In quality the product of the Winfield Roller Mill can never be surpassed. With a sack of AO. B.@ and ten grains of common sense, any woman can be supremely happy.

The amount of business done by this mill is simply astonishing. Its full capacity is six hundred barrels a day, to produce which it takes two thousand nine hundred bushels of wheat every twenty-four hours. The firm has kindly permitted us to copy from their books the following facts and figures relative to the business done last year.

Bushels of wheat used: 294,415.40.

Amount paid for same: $241,420.80.

Average price paid: 82 cents per bushel.

Mill product shipped to foreign points: 671 cars.

Mill product used by local consumers: 8,000 sacks.

Screenings sold: 28 cars.

The mill employs an average of thirty-two men and paid out for salaries during the year $19,846. The total mill business for the year was over a half a million dollars. The mill is in charge of Mr. Jos. S. Maus, as head miller. As he designed, erected, and set it to running, he understands running it to perfection. The figures of the Mill=s business show that they consumed during the year more than half of the total wheat crop of the county. During the year to come they will use three quarters of the total product and pay Kansas City prices for it. Thus can every farmer and every businessman see the benefits of the institution. It is worth more to us than anything we have except our railroadsCand if we didn=t have them, we wouldn=t have it. Messrs. Bliss & Wood have come out from under a heavy load. They risked all they had left in the world to build up this business and are entitled to the gratifying returns they are receiving on it.

That the men who handle this immense business know how to do it, is evidenced by the systematic working of the business departments. C. A. Bliss, the head of the firm, is one of our keenest, shrewdest businessmen. He exercises a general supervision over the affairs of the mill, in all its details. Mr. B. F. Wood, the junior member, handles the grain buying. He has had twelve years= experience with grain and is perhaps the best judge of wheat in the west. He knows at Afirst sight@ just what a lot of wheat will do in milling. To his judgment and care in the selection of stock, much of the success of the business is due. No mill can make good flour from unsuitable wheat, and Mr. Wood never allows a bushel to go into his elevator until he is satisfied that it will show the right kind of a product. The commercial business is in the hands of Mr. E. S. Bliss. His headquarters are Ain the field,@ and his energy has placed the firm=s product in every hamlet on the Santa Fe railroad from Emporia to Old Mexico. He has built up a most valuable market, the demands of which are only limited by the production of the mill. Messrs. Bliss & Wood assure us that their subtantial aid and encouragement in rebuilding their mill, all came from the Winfield Bank.

[THERE WAS A PICTURE OF MILL AND A SECOND BUILDING IN THIS ISSUE.]

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

Wishing to extend to our farmers and others the very best facilities for the improvement of their stock, we have purchased five imported Norman Horses, from the celebrated Perche district in France. These are all recorded in the Percheron stud book of America and France, and we have properly certified and authenticated copies of same to which we invite the inspection of all breeders who wish to improve their stock.

One of our colts, Valmond, was sired by Brilliant, one of the best horses ever brought to this country and now at the head of Dunham=s stables. We invite special attention to his pedigree. We have also three grades out of imported St. Louis dams and Kentucky mares. It is admitted the world over that this matchless breed excell all others in strength, style, and action. They are intelligent, docile, broad between the eyes, easily broken, thin skinned, and stand the hot weather the best of any breed. It is claimed by breeders that they have the best feet of any horse in AmericaCbetter than the ClydesdalesChaving a high cup foot, while the latter are flat footed, and are deficient in many other particulars.

We quote from the history of the Percheron Race:

AThat cool, restrained, and ever fresh energy, that courageous patience, of which the Percheron, every day, gives an example, dragging, at a trot, heavy loads, the weight of which frightens the imagination; stopping short in both ascending and descending; starting off freely and always without balking; never refusing his food; fearing neither heat nor cold. He possesses superior strength, speed, docility, temper, and a complete absence of irritability. Hence it is that all our Provinces, envy us the posssesion of the race, and even foreign countries seek after it with an eagerness amounting to a passion.@

These horses crossed even with our Indian mares make a most valuable and salable animal. Bred to a mare of reasonable size, their offspring are the most valuable of any in the market. These Norman horses are for sale on one, two, and three years timeCgiving the purchaser an opportunity to earn more than the cost of the horse with his service before payment is required. These horses are in charge of Mr. S. Eslinger=s stable opposite Courthouse. We give written guarantees of the pedigrees of this stock and warrant all our representations in reference to them when sales are made.

J. C. McMULLEN,

H. E. SILLIMAN.

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

STREAKS OF SUNSHINE. [ADS.]

What the Rev. Cairns has to say in regard to Cole=s Wahoo Bitters: AWinfield, Kansas, March 21st, 1883. Ed. ColeCdear sir: For many years I have had a deep seated prejudice against most all liquid tonic bitters, as only another form of indulging in intemperance, but having been induced to try your Wahoo Bitters in my family, for biliousness and as a blood purifier, we have so far found it all you recommend it to be. Yours truly, J. CAIRNS.@

[NOTE: PAPER SHOWED 1883...BELIEVE THEY MEANT 1884!]

Winfield Courier, April 3, 1884.

A Visitor=s View.

Prof. C. Marsh, who instructed our pretty songsters and brought out last week in the Opera House the Cantata of the four seasons, gives his observations of Winfield to his home paper, the Lyons (New York) Republican, in the following interesting letter. The Professor is an old newspaper man and shows up the AQueen City@ meritably.

I came here two weeks ago. Winfield is about fifty miles east of the center of the state in Cowley county, and about 250 miles from Kansas City. It is a beautiful town with fine wide streets, and contains 4,500 people. There are fine graded schools on the union plan, which contain about 1,200 pupils. The principal, Prof. Gridley, is a live Yankee, born at Westfield, Massachusetts, and it is safe to say that he is both a Agentleman and a scholar.@ The village has ten churches, namely; Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Christian, United Brethren, Swedenborgian, Catholic, and two colored churches, Baptist and Methodist. The village also has, as defense against fire, the Holley system of water works, the reservoir being built on a hill standing just outside the corporation limits, about 100 feet above the level of the village. It will, of course, throw water over the highest building here. A gas company has been formed and chartered, and the gas works will be put in early in the coming spring. So you see this town, like John Brown=s soul, is Amarching on.@

There is a large grist mill, and also a flouring mill. They are considered the finest mills in the state. They are of sawed stone and run by water. The flouring mill, with thirty four sets of rollers, has a capacity of 500 barrels per day. Winfield has also the largest carriage factory in the state; and another has just been started which will turn out carriages of all kinds, and also make a speciality of lumber wagons.

This town has the benefit of two railroads, the Kansas City, Lawrence & Southern Kansas, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, which afford a most ample means for transportation.

One industry peculiar to this place is worthy of special notice. I refer to the limitless quarries of stone, which in quality excels anything found in the state. It is of a light and sometimes dark gray color, and when first quarried is sawed into blocks of any desired size by steam saw-mills erected for the purpose. After exposure to the air, it becomes Aas hard as a rock.@ When the new post office was built at Topeka, the United States Government se