THE WINFIELD COURIER.
[FROM NOVEMBER 6, 1884, THROUGH DECEMBER 25, 1884.]
D. A. MILLINGTON, EDITOR.
ED. P. GREER, LOCAL EDITOR.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Nearly 30,000 square miles of United States territory are now owned by foreign syndicates and capitalists.
The present population of Kansas is 2,135,614Can increase of 106,885 within the past year.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
POLITICS! POLITICS! SOME RETURNS ARE MENTIONED.
SKIPPED ALL OF THIS!
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
NEW SALEM PENCILINGS.C@OLIVIA.@
Mr. W. C. Douglass has sold his farm.
Mrs. Murry has been quite ill, but is better.
BIRTH. A bouncing boy at Mr. WestsCOld Salem.
Mr. Earnest Johnson has been east for a load of apples.
Miss Dolly Gilmore is giving lessons in music, has quite a class.
Mr. Eli Read has a good organ for sale. A good bargain for someone.
Mr. and Mrs. Hodges of Winfield were guests of Joe Hoyland on Monday.
Mr. Cox, Senior, and Mr. Smith have recently arrived in Salem from Illinois.
Severe colds, or regular Apink eyes and noses,@ among the Salemites at present.
Mr. Wilson=s little girl has had an attack of diphtheria; she is about well again.
Mr. Miles and wife can pass the apples around, as they have been off to Labette for some nice ones.
Mr. Harry Bryant had a party, and he and his young friends had an excellent time, I am informed.
Mr. and Mrs. Watsonberger, the guest of our Watts, have returned to Illinois, highly pleased with Kansas.
Mrs. Chapell entertained her nephew and his wife a short time ago. Mr. C. C. Chapell arrived home from Mexico this week.
The Misses Etta Johnson and Dolly Gilmore are learning the dress making art from our excellent modiste, Mrs. Bovee.
One three years old in this vicinity can do some hurrahing for Blaine and Logan, and closes his political play by a big hurrah for Ed. Greer.
Mr. C. Miller is having his house plastered. Mr. Foster of Cambridge is the operator. He and wife were guests of the Hoyland and Vance families last Saturday and Sunday.
Rev. C. P. Graham has returned from his visit to Illinois, and thinks Kansas is the place for him. Had a fine time, but the climate of Kansas suits him better, and seems more like his ideal home.
Messrs. Calvert and Joseph Irwin are each erecting a pretty cottage. Salem is growing fast, not in wickedness alone, but Sunday schools and churches seem to be in a flourishing condition, and most of its citizens are good law abiding people. When we visit the widow and orphan, let us take them something good to eat or wear, and not go on Sunday, but give them one day of rest.
Doctor Irwin=s store was broken into, his safe blown open, money and jewelry taken, and the damage to building and Medicines destroyed by explosion, all combined to make the loss foot up to very nearly four hundred dollars. Is our nice little town, ASalem,@ meaning Apeace,@ to rival Wichita in robbery, etc.? If there is plenty of work and everyone kept at it perhaps they will not have time for making plans and carrying them out. Satan finds plenty of work for idle hands and heads too.@
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
BEAVER CENTER.C@YOUNG NASBY.@
S. E. Byers is now living in Winfield.
Robert Victor has returned from an exploring trip in the west.
Monroe Teter, Will Carr, and Floyd Gyer have all received numerous leap year calls from the ladies of this vicinity: The boys are on the market.
[Paper had Tetter...believe Teter is correct.]
C. S. Byers was all smiles last week. He received a letter from Illinois, not in regard to politics, any further than this, she and he shall both vote the same ticket, Woman=s Rights.
Beaver Center polled a full vote on last Tuesday and done its share in determining that the Government shall not fall into the hands of the Democratic party, that once trampled our flag under foot and today is as rebellious as ever. We hope that the election of last Tuesday has sealed the doom of the Democratic party forever.
One of our young men on last Sunday evening was greatly surprised at the appearance of mother while seated in a finely decorated parlor beside his Enamorada, forgetting all the cares of this life. On the approach of his mother, there was a hurried interview between the mother=s shoe and the son=s coat tail. The son beat the record of AMaude S.,@ on the home run, singing, ALife is not always sunshine, neither is it always rain.@
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
PLEASANT VALLEY.C@COUNTRY JAKE.@
Mr. Holcomb, our Trustee, has moved on to Edward Campbell=s farm.
BIRTH. A new arrival at Mr. John M. Byers. It is a girl. Dr. Holland reports all doing well.
I was asked the other day if C. S. Byers, of Beaver Center, was married yet. Will Mr. Byers please answer? [Not sure of first initial...could be O. S. Byers...???]
Mr. Eastman is building on his farm that he purchased of Edward Campbell. A. C. Cronk is doing the carpenter work.
M. S. [?] Teter, of Beaver, took in the speech last Saturday evening at the Odessa schoolhouse. Mr. Teter is ever found with his shoulder to the wheel.
Mr. M. Sindle, of Indiana, has been visiting his sister, Mrs. J. Muret. Mr. Sindle has gone west on a prospecting tour. If he likes the country, he expects to improve a claim.
Mr. H. D. Gans delivered a speech at the Odessa schoolhouse last Saturday evening. Mr. Gans is a good speaker. He explained political matters so plain that none, though Democrats, need to err therein.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
The Winfield Markets. Butter 25 cents; eggs 15 cents; potatoes 60 cents; chickens 5 cents per lb. live weight; wheat 50 cents; hogs $3.50; corn 25 to 30 cents.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Extraordinary Sale at S. Kleeman=s.
I am in Winfield and the public of Cowley County shall know that as to my expense I am single handed and as to my resources I have the best of backing and can sell goods at cost, as long as any other merchant, can find fun in doing soCand by buying in connection with other houses, I can buy lower, and my cost means less; so be sure and see me before you make your purchasesCI will convince you that your dollar will buy more at my place than elsewhere. S. KLEEMAN.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
District Court the Past Week.
Court adjourned Monday to the January term.
Judge Torrance left Thursday for Howard to hold a term of court.
The Grand Jury adjourned Saturday after two week=s faithful labor. Their findings were principally among violators of the liquor law and will appear to be the public at their maturity.
Sheriff McIntire left yesterday afternoon for the penitentiary with Campbell, for ten years, and Askin=s for five years. The latter had just served out a three years term in the pen when he stole the $75 horse which gave him this round. He rather likes the state bastille.
Joseph Likowski vs. John M. AlexanderCPostponed to April, 1885, term.
Elizabeth McQuain vs. Nancy A. Baldwin, et alCSheriff ordered to sell land as provided by law and report proceedings at the next term of court.
Read & Robinson vs. W. A. Wright. Commissioners report confirmed and cash dividend between plaintiffs and defendant, including Jas. McDermott=s Attorney fee, $25.00; McDonald & Webb=s Attorney fee, $25.00; $5.00 each for Commissioners and summons, $7.00.
David McKee vs. Hull Bixby. Plaintiff given leave to make new parties affidavit, W. W. Andrews and wife, by filing amended petition.
A. P. Carmon et al vs. R. B. Temple. Settled and dismissed without prejudice at cost of plaintiff.
Victor B. Buck & Co. vs. Wm. D. McClintock et al. Dismissed without prejudice at cost of plaintiff.
Letha C. Green vs. Adolphus H. Green. Dismissed without prejudice at cost of defendant.
Fannie Wilson vs. James Wilson. Trial by court and divorce decreed on grounds of extreme cruelty, plaintiff to pay costs.
Winfield Bank vs. Hugh Riley et al. Judgment by default against defendant for $250.70 and interest at 10 percent.
City of Winfield vs. Steven Van Buren et al. Appeal dismissed by defendant. All costs and fine have been paid.
Laura Jones vs. J. L. Jones. Divorce decreed on grounds of abandonment and plaintiff adjudged to pay costs.
Hardwick & Peabody vs. Vance & Roseborough. Dismissed with prejudice.
State vs. A. L. Thomas. Violation liquor law. Continued by order of court and bail fixed in sum of $200. Recognizance already given forfeited.
State vs. Edgar C. Mason. Violation liquor law. Recognizance forfeited and case continued; bail fixed at $300 in default of which the defendant was committed.
State vs. Wilson M. Campbell, the Bolton Township rape case. Trial by jury, verdict of guilty and sentenced to penitentiary for ten years.
State vs. E. Kimmel and Frank Hillman. Cases continued with bonds of $300 each for appearance at the January term. Bonds given.
State vs. James Stansbery [?Stansberry?]Cpetit larceny. Plead guilty and sentenced to one hour in county jail and to pay costs.
State vs. Edward F. Shindle, violation liquor law. Found guilty by jury on 3rd jaunt, sentenced to fifty days in county jail, permit forfeited, and costs to pay; he was placed under bond of $500 for good behavior for one year, to stand committed until same is given.
State vs. W. J. Burge, violation liquor law. Jury disagreed and case was continued; bail fixed at $500.
State vs. J. C. Beeson, grand larceny. Trial by jury and acquittal.
State vs. John Askens, horse stealing. Found guilty by jury and sentenced to penitentiary for five years.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
The COURIER has been favored with a little book issued by the Santa Fe folks, giving some facts about the corn crop in Kansas, illustrating it with colored pictures, with poetical explanations, expressing the size and thriftiness of the corn here. The yield last year is placed at 172,800,900 bushels, which is 61,977,838 bushels more than Missouri raised; 85,607,688 more than Iowa, 70,000,000 more than Nebraska, 100,000,000 more than Texas, 157,676,100 more than Minnesota, and so on through the Union. And quoting from the poetry, this is expressive:
A
What do they holdCthese walls of corn,Whose banners toss in the breeze of morn?
He who questions may soon be told:
A great state=s wealth these walls enfold.@
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
The Cowley County Water Power and Manufacturing Company has been chartered. Its purpose is the construction of a canal from the Arkansas River in Beaver Township to the same river at Arkansas City. It cuts a bend of fifteen miles and will have a fall of fifty feet. Its officers are: M. L. Read, president; J. C. Long, vice-president; N. A. Haight, treasurer; I. H. Bonsall, secretary. The organization thus far was completed Tuesday. Stock to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars will be issued. The leading men of Winfield and Arkansas City are taking hold of the project and it will undoubtedly be a success.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
The Robinson Hose Company will give a ball in the Opera House on the evening of the 14th inst. that is expected to be a grand affair. Elegant invitations and programs will be sent out this week to only those whose presence will be genial to the majority. No pains will be spared by the management in making it a success in every particular.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
[For some time ads by Winfield merchants have been lengthy and heated, with special inducements...skipped most of these.]
The present war in dry goods has produced some unique advertisements not the least novel among which is that of S. Kleeman, the North Main Dry Goods man. He has mounted a cannon with a black flag and a play card declaring war to the teeth. Its open mouth and business-like attitude, as it stands in front of his store, produces much comment.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
The millers of Winfield, Wellington, and Arkansas City have subscribed necessary funds to experiment on a project to establish a line of barges on the Arkansas River for the transportation of flour, grain, etc., to the head of steamboat navigation.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
The millennium is dawning. Caldwell, that cow-boy paradise, has passed a Sunday law, closing on that day all places of business, excepting hotels, restaurants, livery stables, and drug stores, under penalty of from ten to one hundred dollars.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Frank L. Crampton and sister have opened a first class Restaurant at the Winfield Baker. They have over ten years= experience in Hotel and Restaurant; they know how to please their customers. Give them a visit. [Paper had Winfield Baker??? Should it be Bakery?]
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
A project is on foot to cut another canal from the Arkansas River near Geuda Springs, and north of Arkansas City, to empty into the Walnut River. Competition seems to be the object.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
The ladies of the W. C. T. U. extend a cordial invitation to all to be present at their next social, to be held Tuesday evening, November 11th, at the residence of Mrs. Strong.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
PERSONALS.
Senator Hackney left for Topeka yesterday on legal Abiz.@
J. E. Allen again planted his familiar form on Cowley soil last week.
Charlie Slack, after over two months= tussle with typhoid, was on the streets yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam=l Smedley got in this week from several weeks travel in the Western counties.
Frank J. Sydal and family returned Monday from a week=s visit at the old home, Chetopa, Kansas.
Ed. Frazier, who was recovering from an eight weeks= siege of typhoid fever, took a serious relapse Monday.
J. S. Mann has given us another touch of metropolitan airs in a perforated sign of his business suspended across Main Street.
Mr. H. B. Hedges, who came in last week from Ohio with his family, has purchased the Watson property on East Ninth Avenue.
John Stalter left Tuesday evening for Upper Sandusky, Ohio, being suddenly called there by news that his father was laying at the point of death.
Dr. F. H. Bull was given a very pleasant surprise Monday evening in the appropriate celebration by relatives and friends of his forty-fourth birthday.
MARRIED. Mr. Sumner I. Zerger, local editor of the Oklahoma War Chief, South Haven, and Miss Allie E. Smith, of Oxford, were united in marriage in this city on the 28th ult. by Elder Thomas. [boomer related?]
Miss Jency Holland, of Constant, has taken a position as saleslady with S. Kleeman. Miss Nina Anderson is also with this establishment, making Mr. Kleeman two very acceptable lady clerks.
Some individual with evil intent tried to gain entrance recently into the residence of Mr. H. C. Reynolds, but the latter gentleman appeared on the scene and caused a mighty hasty retreat.
BIRTH. Will Lorton, of Richland Township, was made happy and proud last Saturday in the arrival of a lively little girl at his home. Will bears the high-sounding title of Apapa@ very gracefully for one so young.
The South Kansas Medical Society meets at Wichita Tuesday next, November 11th. Drs. Geo. Emerson and C. C. Green of this city are president and secretary. All our prominent physicians will attend.
Warner Bros. have shown us a very neat design turned out on a lathe in five minutes from Cowley County stone. It shows the ease and success with which our stone can be worked up in any shape under the sun.
BIRTH. And now comes forward Mr. John D. Pryor, with the cigars in celebration of the advent at his home last Sunday morning of a buxom new boy. The echoes of the battles are in harmony with these vociferous times.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
[MORE PERSONALS.]
MARRIAGE LICENSES. The following parties have been authorized by Judge Gans to commit matrimony since our last.
Mathis Y. Hudspeth and Matilda Radmacher.
Frank Young and Minnie Tucker.
Theodore Shaffer and Nancy Smalley.
Martin Miner and Mary Thompson.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Frank F. Leland introduced himself into the political arena for the first time in a most excellent speech at Akron last Friday night. It was vigorous, telling, and well received. The young Republican members of the Cowley County Bar distinguished themselves in the late campaign.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
There will be Universalist preaching by Rev. S. F. Gibb at the Christian Church next Sunday at three o=clock p.m., subject, AHow shall we apply our hearts unto wisdom?@ And at half-past seven in the evening, subject, AHow are the disciples of Jesus to be known?@ All are cordially invited.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Prof. B. T. Davis and Jas. A. Cairns discoursed temperance to the people of Maple City, Last Sunday. Mrs. E. D. Garlick at the same time organized a large band of Juvenile Templars, while Miss Lucy Cairns discoursed music for the occasion. That section shows up some staunch temperance people.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Things have come to such a pass that we must not be astonished at anything. The latest curiosity was brought into our office yesterday by Mr. J. W. Browning of Beaver. It was a twig in luxuriant leaf and bearing a pretty half-grown apple. The tree fruited heavily in the fall and was trying to beat previous records in another crop this year.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Mrs. Joseph Hahn raised the largest beet in the United States this year. It measured 32 inches from top to tip, is 14 2 inches in circumference, and weighs 9 3/4 pounds. Mr. Hahn took it to Kellogg station and had it weighed and measured. They intend to send it to Mr. Hahn=s mother in Indiana. How it will surprise easterners to see such products from droughty Kansas.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Mr. D. M. Adams, of Pleasant Valley, left on our table Saturday a basket of nameless productions, among which were string beans of huge proportions. The pods were fully a foot long and the only name we could given them was the Meal BeanCone pod for each meal. There were also a number of very fine apples, which Mr. Adams is anxious to have some horticulturalist name.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
DIED. P. H. Albright received by wire Monday the sad intelligence of the death of his brother, H. H. Albright, in Connecticut, where he had gone from this city but a few weeks before. He had been suffering for some time with an affection of the lungs and the change of climate was made to alleviate this disease, but it seems to have only hastened the inevitable. P. H., accompanied by the wife of the deceased, left immediately for Connecticut. During his absence Grant Stafford has charge of the business of P. H. Albright & Co.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Messrs. J. J. Jones and Will Smith, of the Washington Civil Service, were in the city this week visiting with their old friend, Mr. N. A. Haight. They were in the government survey of the Indian Territory with Mr. Haight for five years. This was an extremely AWild West@ in those days, some eleven years ago, and the wonderful changes were astonishing to them. Having cast their last vote in 1873 before going to D. C., at what was then their residence, Arkansas City, they put in their votes while here for the straight ticket. The law makes the residence of civil service employees in non-suffrage Washington only temporary.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
DIED. It is with deep regret that we chronicle the death of Mrs. Mary DeLametter, which occurred at her home in this city Saturday morning, of typhoid fever, after several weeks= illness. She leaves a family of three children, who all doted on her and are bowed down with the severest grief of a life time, one of them a married son, John, the gentlemanly salesman of M. Hahn & Co., Miss Susie, popular among our young people, and a married daughter in Wisconsin. Mrs. DeLametter was a lady of much intelligence, energy in good works, and superior amiability. She was born in North Walcott, New York, and was in her forty-seventh year. The funeral took place on Sunday at 4 p.m. from the Methodist Church, Rev. Kelly officiating, and the remains were followed to Union Cemetery by a large number of sympathizing people.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Attention, Farmers; when you come to Winfield, go to the new restaurant at Winfield Bakery (opposite New York Store) for your meals.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
The Juvenile Templars will meet in the Presbyterian Church on Friday afternoon at the usual hour. All children of the city are invited.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Lost. A pocket book containing three notes and other papers at Central House. Will pay a liberal reward for same. Noble Caldwell.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Remember the place on Main Street between 9th and 10th Avenue, opposite New York Store, is the place you get the best meal for twenty-five cents.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Go to Prather=s for your children=s school shoes; he has a goat shoe with extension sole that is the best thing out.
The Latest Returns from the election gives Prather 25 cases heavy boots to be sold regardless of price; come early.
Just received at Prather=s 30 dozen more of those fine goat shoes to be sold for $2.00 a pair.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
CITY AND COUNTY ELECTION NOTES. [SKIPPED MOST OF THE HEADERS.]
The COURIER office was jammed with eager faces at an early hour Tuesday evening to catch the first bulletins that came in. Anxiety, deep and searching, was depicted in every visage. The first dispatches were meager, but along toward midnight the news began to come from all quarters, fluctuating in the interests of both parties. The crowd overwhelmed all bulletin board space and the Opera House was secured. About this time dispatches giving New York, Indiana, and other strongholds to the Democrats began to come in. These engulfed the Democrats in wildest hilarity. Democratic throats that hadn=t yelled for twenty years were seen to oil up and fairly paralyze the air with hurrahs. The Republicans were feeling a little blue, which feeling was borne out by the dispatches until yesterday afternoon, when the tables turned and Republicans began to yell. The COURIER office was densely packed in the evening, and every dispatch as it noted increased Republican gains everywhere, received with triumphant shouts. When New York was conceded, enthusiasm knew no bounds. Men marched by hundreds up and down Main Street fairly renting the air with hurrahs. Headed by the Juvenile Band, they paraded the streets until a late hour. When the crowd left the COURIER Sanctum at one o=clock, it was to sleep in sweet consciousness of a grand Republican victoryCin the sweet assurance of prosperous times and happy people for another four years.
The last Republican meeting of the Campaign at the Opera House Monday night was an enthusiastic and harmonious one: a true precursor to the grand victory in waiting. Words are inadequate to express the effect of the beautiful and appropriate songs of the Glee Club. Mr. Blair, the leader, had transposed songs to fit each local candidate and their reception was telling and hilarious. Capt. W. E. Tansey, Senator W. P. Hackney, Judge T. H. Soward, A. H. Limerick, and Ed. P. Greer gave addresses. Before the meeting adjourned, Senator Hackney stepped forward and said that he had marched on the field with the colored man and he would also like to have one speak on the rostrum with him; and he moved that Mr. John Nichols express his opinions to the audience. John made a speech which would honor any man who had come up under similar circumstances and showed the loyalty that flowed in his veins for the Grand Old Party that gave his race the liberty and citizenship that would allow them to voice their sentiments anywhere in the north. He heaped just censure on the spirit that suborned the darky in the South.
Gov. Glick in his speech at Arkansas City last Friday night paid a very uncomplimentary personal tribute to Rev. Kelly of this city, whereupon the citizens of the Terminus rented the Opera House there, telephoned Mr. Kelly to come down Monday evening and paralyze Glick=s abusive argument. The Rev. went down, and threw shot and shell into the camp of the enemy for two hours in a way that made the boldest of them wince. It was a powerful speech, and Tuesday=s 161 majority for Martin in that place voiced its results and the staunch sentiments of that people. Rev. Kelly has no use for a religion that can=t enter into politics and everyday life and no use for that political party that can=t stand a little religion; convictions which are appreciated by all loyal and noble-thinking people.
Our more enterprising Democrats did all in their power to receive Governor Glick last Thursday in a manner indicating a warm place for him in the hearts of Cowley people. He was driven about in a fine landau drawn by four brightly caparisoned snow white steeds, jockeyed by liveried men, with all the apparent pride and pomp of Old England. Through courtesy to the Governor of the Great State of Kansas, Republicans swelled the crowd to respectable proportions. Merely as a gubernatorial candidate he would have made not even a small riffle among the loyal people of CowleyCa fact plainly exhibited through Tuesday=s ballot.
The colored voters of Winfield showed their loyalty to the Grand Old Party which gave them citizenship by marching in a body of thirty, Tuesday, and casting their straight ticket, amid shouts of approval. A more enterprising and loyal lot of colored men can=t be found than those in Winfield.
On Wednesday while the bulletins favorable to Sheriff Cleveland were coming in, Ben Cox was strutting the streets with a victorious little rooster perched on his Cleveland hat. He appeared on the street Thursday morning without the rooster and with his white plug encircled with crape.
Spencer Miner says he bet his wife that West Virginia would go Republican and he saved his wife and got Virginia. AWe turned the rebels out,@ is the way he puts it. He=s wild with enthusiasm, especially over the result in his native State.
The antiquated Democracy of Cowley could hardly hobble up to the polls Tuesday, and when it did get there, the dose was too much for its soured condition. Every Republican candidate ran head of the ticket.
Over a thousand majority is estimated for Martin in Cowley and the Plumed Knight will get about fourteen hundred. Nearly every county Republican candidate got there with a thousand majority and upwards.
Henry E. Asp beat the record of Maude S. His rousing majority is a compliment worthy the pride of any ambitious young man. It is a splendid recognition of his superior energy and ability.
Liquid enthusiasm seems to have vanished with Glick=s prospects. Very few intoxicated men have been seen in this city during all this intense excitement.
The visages of J. B. Lynn, Ben Cox, and Sam Gilbert are perfect pictures of despair: at least they were the last seen of them early yesterday evening.
O, where! O, where! is G. Washington Glick and his red-nosed followers? In their caves of gloom never to come forth triumphantly again.
Judge Torrance and Prof. Limerick, with no opposition, captured almost the entire vote of the countyCa meritable compliment indeed.
L. P. King got there, Eli, for the legislature in the 67th district, with a good majority.
Poor, honest O=Hare! His only consolation is in having at least kept in sight of Sheriff Cleveland, in Cowley.
Glick and whiskey downed and Martin and prohibition enthroned. AAd astra per aspera.@
Rewards are now being freely offered for the discovery of a Democrat.
A
God reigns and the Government at Washington still lives.@
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
[MORE PERSONALS.]
Ed Mounts has almost completed a four-room cottage home on corner of 6th Avenue and Platter Street.
Holmes & Son will soon be occupying the large brick addition to their pork packing establishment.
Mr. E. Glouser has well underway a large, neat residence on the corner of 9th Avenue and Bliss Street.
The Presbyterian parsonage, corner of 10th Avenue and Mansfield Street, has recently received valuable additions.
Mrs. Halyard has just finished two neat houses on east 10th Avenue, one for a home, and the other for a tenement.
W. B. Pixley [?? Rixley??Bixley??] has just completed a very pleasant home on North Mansfield Street containing some six or eight nice large rooms.
East Ninth Avenue continues to spread herself in improvements, and at no distant date with rival Main street for business attractions.
Mr. J. S. Maus, superintendent of Bliss & Wood=s mill, has just built a neat six-room home on the corner of 8th Avenue and Lowry Street.
Mr. J. H. Olds has almost ready for occupancy a house of unique architecture and considerable room, near his handsome 8th Avenue residence.
Messrs. Braniger & Steele have added to their Santa Fe elevator a corn crib of ten thousand bushels capacity, with drive-way and other conveniences.
On the corner of 11th Avenue and Loomis Street, Mr. Dan Mater has put the earnings of his anvil into a neat, comfortable home, which is now ready for occupancy.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
One of the prettiest and most substantial houses on South Millington Street is being erected by John Crane. It is a brick, with stone trimmings, and contains nine rooms.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Col. J. C. McMullen is erecting another brick law office on east 9th Avenue, to be occupied when finished by Ed. McMullen for a loan and collection office. Ed. is a rustler and will succeed.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
F. M. Freeland is finishing a home on east 8th Avenue of which he can certainly feel proud. The architecture is neat and convenient, the finish tasty, and the grounds large and promising.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Messrs. Curns & Manser have their fine two story brick and stone building on Main well under way and will soon be occupying it. It is arranged with special real estate office conveniences.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Lovell H. Webb is bringing his Alittle brown front@ on Millington Street to a finis. It is a very neat cottage and Lovell and his estimable lady ought to be Aas happy as clams@ when they get ensconced in it.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Mr. Lewis Cooper has recently built a story and a half home near the Brick, Stone & Tile Works; in fact, that whole neighborhood is dotted over with new buildings, it being impossible to obtain names of owners.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Ed. Cole is acting very suspiciously, and those who have viewed the handsome house he is just completing on east 10th Avenue, are wondering what bird will fill the cage. It is roomy and tasty: too much so to be entrusted to tenants.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Winfield is dotted all over with new houses, mostly large and substantial, but where so many newcomers are building, it is impossible to get all names. This list is but an index to the many improvements now going on in the building line.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
East 10th Avenue seems to be monopolizing improvements. In addition to those already named, the COURIER Senior and family are almost driven outdoors by the workmen. Additions, remodeling, etc., greatly changing the premises.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
A home which will be an adornment to the city is being erected on the corner of 7th Avenue and Bliss Street, by Mr. Gilbert, the hog dealer. It is of brick, eight or ten rooms, and will cost no inconsiderable sum when finished according to plans.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Mr. S. N. Powers is finishing on the corner of 8th Avenue and Millington Street, a very commodious and comely residence. It contains fourteen rooms, will cost about five thousand dollars, and will be one of the most desirable places in the city.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Mr. T. B. Myers is spreading himself commendably. Having got rid of the din and bustle of his former location, he is building a fine two-story residence in the prettiest part of the city, out on east 11th Avenue. It will be a very handsome place when completed.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Ed. G. Burnett is putting the finishing touches on a neat and convenient residence on the corner of 11th Avenue and Mansfield Street, while a block south on Lowry Street, Mr. Joseph Garret, the sturdy South Main blacksmith, is also finishing a pleasant new home.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Mr. S. H. Rogers= family recently arrived from Emporia and are now occupying his splendid new residence on East 11th Avenue. The architecture of this house is novel and it appears prominently among the number of handsome residence in that neighborhood.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
The handsome stone block of S. H. Myton is nearing completion and greatly improves the appearance of Main Street. When Mr. Myton gets his vast stock under this roof, about January first, he will have a hardware and implement establishment eclipsing any in the West.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
G. H. Crippin & Co. have recently built a wheat bin of twenty-three thousand bushels capacity, near the Santa Fe depot, and are filling it rapidly to hold for speculation. They have already binned up over twenty thousand bushels in their old bins. With wheat at fifty cents a bushel, it is certainly safe to hold for a raise.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Irve Randall is getting to be a big Alandlord.@ His tenement houses are scattered all over town, and several additions to the list are just being completed on East 10th Avenue. They are all roomy and neat and none are renting for less than twelve or fifteen dollars per month.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
The new third-ward school building is going up with a rush. Messrs. Warner Bros., the contractors, have some twenty men now at work and expect to finish the building by January first. It is large and convenient and will certainly Afill a long felt want.@ Its room will relieve the over-crowded departments of schools and greatly enhance educational opportunities.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Grand Clearing Sale of the Linen Store at Auction.
Everything goes at your own price. No cost sale; no reserve on anything, but a bona fide sale to close 203 dozen linen towels left; 325 dozen linen napkins; King William table cloths; Royal Kolimoor cloths; Scotch Linen sets; Irish sets in Shamrock and Rosebud patterns; German linen cloths, cream pattern napkins to match; Camels hair, Genuine East India and Arabic Shawls; English Marsailes Quilts; French window curtains; Lace bed sets; Large line of ladies and gents underwear, and other goods too numerous to mention. Sale positive and without reserve. Commence Saturday at 2 o=clock sharp and evening at 7 o=clock, and continue every afternoon and evening until sold. Store next door to Wallis & Wallis store. Reasons for this sale will be explained day of sale.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
The Compres Veve [??? Really next to impossible to read???]
Is a most wonderful, curious, and immortal plant now offered for sale to our citizens as a house plant. It blooms beautifully and the fragrance of its blossom is unexcelled. It grows well either in water or soil and its various peculiarities are exceeding rare. It is a lycompodiun [?] or club mass, and is a native of Old Mexico and Yucatan. Sample plants to be seen on exhibition at Lindell Hotel. Dr. J. H. Feagles, the agent, will be in the City this week.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Notice. I have opened a first class restaurant in connection with my Bakery, and Oyster Parlor, where I will always be found ready to feed the hungry with the best the market affords and at lowest living rates. Hoping to merit your patronage, I am
Respectfully, Frank L. Crampton,
Proprietor of Winfield Bakery & Restaurant.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
[Skipped the ASYNOPSIS OF THE TAX LAW.@]
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
LETTER FROM DR. TAYLOR.
San Francisco, California, October 25, 1884.
EDS. COURIER: You will see by the date of this letter that we are at, or near, the Ajumping off place.@ Well, in fulfillment of my promise to write an occasional for the COURIER, I send this out to you today. I hope I shall be able to give you an interesting and profitable letter, hoping that others coming to this country may profit by our experience.
We had a rare contract with the Santa Fe railroad companyCto be furnished comfortable mattresses and brought through to this city on the express train. For this privilege we paid the company all they asked for fare ($45) and for their mattresses and curtain ($2). The mattresses consisted of two strips of thin cut calico sewn together like a long meal bag and stuffed with coarse hay, the curtain, of two strips tacked together and hung up in front of the lower berth; in all, about fifteen yards of calico and two cents worth of hay: 47 cents. So, if the friends will take my advice when they start for California they will furnish their own mattresses and curtainsCfor surely those furnished by the railroads are a fraud and a sham; and as to the transportation, that was the Abiggest of all frauds,@ yet railroad men and officials hate terribly to be told that they are a combination of thieves and frauds. This is true and yet the people have to put up with it and submit to all sorts of indignities. But there will come a time when monopolists would do well to Astand from under,@ for the wrath of an incensed and injured populace is terrible as history has shown. Instead of carrying out their contract with meCto take us through by expressCthey side-tracked at Holbrook, where we lay for seven hours, and were then picked up or hitched onto by a freight that took us a couple of hundred miles a day, making the trip an exceedingly unpleasant one. Our car was crowded all the time and that by not the most amiable class of people. But we arrived safe and sound yesterday and I found myself not much the worse. Considering everything, I stood the trip well, but suffer every day with my lung and my tendency to paralysis, though the latter is much improved.
We came by the way of the Needles, consequently missed the glorious country around and about Los Angeles, and instead saw an immense stretch of the most completely Godforsaken country that the Lord ever left unfinished. I often wondered if God, or any other intelligent persons, really had anything to do with the construction of the country lying between the Needles and Majavi, and if so, for what purpose? But when we got within 400 miles of San Francisco, we began to touch the outskirts of the Aflower land,@ and at the stations the people began to bring onto the train some of the products of the land, such as grapesCelegant two pound for a quarter and a little further three for a quarterCand then five or six pounds of the most delicious grapes that anyone could want and of immense size. Also very fine apples, pears, and peaches.
As to San Francisco, my impressions are not favorable as a place of residence or business, yet living is not expensive. Fruits, vegetables, meats, and grains are cheap, as long as they can be kept out of the hands of monopolists, as for example elegant roasts or steaks from 8 to 12 cents per pound. Immensely large heads of cabbage or cauliflower for 5 cents, and so on. Furnished rooms all the way from one dollar a week up to $50 a month.
But I find myself growing tired and an aching through my chest admonishes me to bring this letter to a close, but there are things that I would be glad to say if I were able to do so without too much sufferingCyet I must not close till I say two things more.
First. A more wonderful piece of civil engineering cannot, most likely, be found on the planet than that which carries the road from Majavi to Merced, across the foot hills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. There are seventeen tunnels and for 25 miles the grade is 117 feet to the mile. In winding their way down onto the plains, the road makes, at one place, what I think does not exist upon any other road in the world, viz.: a Acomplete loop.@ The road runs along a sort of hog-back toward the north and on a continuous curve towards the east around a sugar loaf hill; it dives under its own track and strikes out for the westward.
A fearful accident once occurred on this road in crossing this mountain range, the publication of which, I was told, was prevented by the railroad company. The train was stopped and detached from the engine, which went on ahead for water, and failing to set the brake, the train started back at breakneck speed, flew the track, and plunged into a fearful chasm below, killing some hundred and forty passengers outright. [It was published. ED.]
In closing I wish sincerely to thank my friends for their loving kindness to me during my late illnessCamong whom I must name Col. Whiting=s family, Mrs. Scofield, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Brittain, Mrs. McCoy, and one who outstripped me and went into the heavenly country before me, Mrs. Olive Rummer, whose death was so sudden and unexpected.
I a few days I will write some private letters to parties whom I promised letters, but I must now bid the readers of the COURIER good-bye. I will write again, probably from Los Angeles next time.
T. B. TAYLOR, M. D.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Publication Notice.
In the matter of the assignment of Willie C. Goss and William V. McConn, partners as Goss and McConn:
Creditors and others interested will take notice that Hugh H. Siverd, assignee of the above named Goss and McConn, will on the first day of the next term of the District Court of Cowley County to be held in the City of Winfield on the first Tuesday in January 1885, exhibit and file the accounts of his trust as such assignee and such accounts will be allowed by the court on that day unless good cause to the contrary be shown.
They are further notified that said assignee intends at Said time to apply to the said District Court for a discharge from his trust as such assignee.
E. BEDILION, Clerk District Court.
DAVID C. BEACH, Attorney for Assignee.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
AD. S. A. COOK, ARCHITECT AND SUPERINTENDENT. Correspondence solicited. Office in McDougall building.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
THE OFFICIAL COUNT.
Mr. Ed. P. Greer received a majority as officially declared of two hundred and ninety-four, in this legislative district, composed of five townships, and the city of Winfield. He carried every ward and precinct and received a majority in the city of one-hundred and thirty-nine. His majority over the Republican candidate for governor in the district is fifty-five.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
HENRY E. ASP.
Asp=s majority for County Attorney of Cowley County is 1,063, according to the official count. This is in spite of and a good answer to the Telegram=s mud slinging. It is a well merited compliment to Mr. Asp.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
THE KANSAS JUDAS.
The principal business in Kansas for the past forty-eight hours has been that of burning St. John in effigy. In this work the most earnest temperance men in the state have heartily joined. The Manhattan Nationalist, one of the most radical prohibition papers in the State, denounces him as a Judas, and says:
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It will not excuse Mr. St. John to say that he professed to be working in the interest of Prohibition, for he knew better. The act by which Judas betrayed his Lord was a kiss, but time will probably show that St. John has not even as much conscience as Judas had.The duty of prohibitionists is plain. They should punish the traitor in the way he will feel it the mostCby letting him severely alone. They should stay away from his meetings, and let his late allies, the brewers and distillers, furnish him audiences if they will. Wherever he goes, he should be made to feel that the finger of scorn is being pointed at him, as the ATemperance Apostle@ who tried to help the saloon party into power, and did it solely because the party that contains three-fourths of the active prohibitionists, and had repeatedly honored him above his desserts, was not disposed to keep him in office forever.@
It is universally believed, by Kansas RepublicansCprohibitionists and anti-prohibitionistsCthat St. John was paid by the Democrats, in cash, for his perfidy. Nothing that he can ever say or do will change this conviction, in the slightest degree. He is a disgraced and dishonored man. The brand of shame is burned upon his forehead, in letters that will never be erased. Hypocrite, shyster, demagogue, apostate, traitor, the scorn and contempt of every decent man in America will follow him as long as he lives. He has done the temperance cause in a few brief weeks more injury than a hundred thousand of its sincerest friends can repair in four years. He has aided in putting its deadliest enemies in control of the Nation, and he has outraged and angered the only party that has ever done anything to promote temperance, or to restrain or abolish the evil of the liquor traffic. And he has done this, animated by the meanest motives that can actuate any person; first, to gratify a mean personal spite, and second, for mercenary personal profit.
St. John will, in the future, retire to the obscurity from which he should never have emerged. A small-brained man, puffed up by inordinate vanity, and lifted, by accident, into a prominence he never deserved, he has availed himself of the first convenient opportunity to demonstrate how unworthy he is of the slightest respect, consideration, or confidence.
Champion.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
AD. DIAMOND BLACK, McAllister, Wier City, Osage Shaft & Pittsburg Coals Always in stock. Also a full line of Anthracite & Smithing Coal. Bottom prices guaranteed.
WINFIELD COAL COMPANY.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
[Skipped Abstract of County Auditor=s Report for month of October, 1884.]
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
RECAP. Admn.=s Notice. Probate Court. Estate of Francis M. Sutton, deceased. S. A. Chapell, Administrator. Letters of administration granted to Chapell, dated November 10, 1884.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
RECAP. District Court. Merrick Thread Company, Plaintiff, vs. Lucius L. Day; Gordis [?Gordin or Gordia??] R. R. Cobleigh; Norman S. King; Herbert F. Day; H. S. Vansickler; and William G. Marston; Defendants. Real estate attached...$230 + interest and costs of action involved. McDonald & Webb, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
RECAP. District Court. Cora E. Lippencott, Plaintiff, vs. Charles S. Lippencott, Defendant, re divorce. Jennings & Troup, Plaintiff=s Attorneys.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
RECAP. District Court. Elizabeth Weakly, Plaintiff, vs. Jacob W. Weakly, Defendant. Divorce Petition to be heard December 25, 1884. Plaintiff to get back her maiden name of Elizabeth Dressell, and custody of infant child, Caroline Weakly. W. P. HACKNEY, Attorney for plaintiff.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
The Winfield Markets. Butter 25 cents; eggs 20 cents, potatoes 60 cents; chickens 5 cents per lb. live weight; wheat 50 cents; hogs $3.90; corn 25 to 30 cents.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
No Advertisement This Week.
On account of the immense amount of business transacted by us during the past week, we are unable to have our usual talk with our customers and can only say that Saturday morning we will show a line of new markets just manufactured and of later design than anything made early in the season. We have still a small quality of the Braided Berlin Swill Russian Circulars sold in the city for $17. We will sell them at $12.75. It is just the garment for ladies that look for quality and finish.
We have a hundred big bargains in our cloak department, bought late this season and will be sold for less money than those who bought early paid for the same garment. Come.
S. Kleeman.
[Weird ad!]
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
[PERSONALS.]
The total vote of Cowley County is 6,525. This indicates a population of 32,625. Hurrah for Cowley!
All interest has centered in the Presidential result during the past week and business has been almost suspended.
It is amusing in the extreme to see a Democrat gazing on a bulletin board pretending to read what is written thereon.
DIED. A little ten-year-old daughter of J. S. Alter, living near Geuda, was drawn into a cane mill last Friday and crushed to death.
Whiting Bros. are always in the lead. The latest novelty in their butcher shop was some splendid fresh buffalo beef. It went off with a rush.
The Presbyterian Church is now lit with gas and is adorned with an elegant two hundred dollar chandelier. It has seventy-two jets and its illumination is superb.
The boys of Robinson=s Hose Company are making big preparations for their ball Friday evening. The Episcopal ladies will serve an oyster supper in connection with it.
The State Temperance Union holds its annual meeting at Topeka next Wednesday. Every temperance society, church, and Sunday school of Cowley should send its entitled delegate.
Winfield City polled for president 847 votesCin the first ward 495, in the second ward 352. This indicates a population of 4,235 in the city limits, not including the six hundred in Walnut who properly belong to this city.
Mr. Lewis Foster, of this county, got his right arm caught in the gearing of a steam corn sheller, last week, and it was so terribly mangled that immediate amputation was necessary. The shock and pain was so great that fears are entertained for his recovery.
[OFFICIAL VOTE GIVEN ON THIS PAGE...I SKIPPED.]
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
DEADLY BULLETS!
Saturday Night=s Excitement has a Sequel in the Murder of a Colored Man and the
FATAL SHOOTING Of a White! General Recklessness and Bad Whiskey the Cause.
FLETCHER AND BURGE THE VICTIMS.
Notwithstanding the intense excitement caused by the Presidential uncertainty, Winfield was free from dangerous passions and fatal results until Saturday night, when the deadly revolver, in the reckless hand, took the life of Charlie Fletcher (colored) and gave Sandy Burge (white) a death wound. Excitement had been at a fever heat during the evening, but had vented itself up to eleven o=clock only in civil hilarity, playing of bands, and other harmless modes of jollification. But at that hour the celebrating portion of the crowd had mostly exhausted all enthusiasm and departed to their homes, leaving the ground in charge of the more boisterous. The Democrats had been celebrating during the evening the supposed elevation of Cleveland; and though loud denunciation of disciples of both parties had been indulged in, this sad ending is thought by all to have no political significance, but merely the result of whiskey and undue recklessness. However, we present the evidence at the Coroner=s inquest, from which all can draw their conclusions. The affair is very much deplored by members of both parties, as anything but an honor to our civilization and the good name of our city.
Fletcher died within an hour after the bullet had passed through his abdomen, and was buried Monday afternoon from the colored M. E. Church, of this city, a large concourse of white and colored citizens following the remains to South Cemetery.
Burge walked, after being shot, in company with the marshal, to Smith=s lunch-room, sat down, and soon fainted away. He was taken to the Ninth Avenue Hotel, where doctors were summoned and where he remained till Sunday morning, when he was removed to his home and family in the east part of the city. He was shot with a thirty-two bullet, which entered just below the fifth rib on the right side and passed through the right lung and came very nearly out at the back. As we go to press he still lies in a critical condition, though the physicians give him the possibility of recovering. But little change has been noted in his condition since Sunday.
Coroner H. W. Marsh was summoned, impaneled a jury Sunday afternoon, and held an inquest on the body of young Fletcher.
The jury was composed of Messrs. John McGuire, J. B. Lynn, George Emerson, T. H. Soward, W. J. Hodges, and James Bethel, who brought in a verdict that Fletcher came to his death by a pistol shot from the hand of Sandy Burge.
A synopsis of the evidence is given herewith, which fully explains the whole affair.
The first witness called up was Andrew Shaw, colored. He said: AI saw Charlie Fletcher on the corner of Ninth and Main on Saturday night, at what hour I don=t know. I saw no one shoot, nor did I see anyone with a pistol or other weapon in hand. I saw Fletcher fall. Before this I told him to have no row. When I heard the first shot, Charlie whirled around and fired. I saw the flash of a gun from the direction where Sandy Burge was standing. I also saw Mr. Lacy there with a star on.@
Dan=l D. Miller was next called. He said: AI saw a difficulty last evening at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Main Street about 11 o=clock. I was standing on the curb-stone near the hydrant when Henry Franklin, colored, came and spoke to me. He told me he understood the white boys were making up a mob to drive the darkies out of town and if they were, they would have a good time doing it. I told him I had heard nothing of the kind and thought everything would be all right if they behaved themselves. While we were talking, Lewis Bell was also talking. A. A. Thomas, standing near, said: >Democrat, Republican, or any G__d d___m man that jumps on me during this campaign will carry his guts off in his hand.= Bell said: >I am a Democrat and if you jump on me, I=ll see that you jump off.= Thomas replied, >the hell you say.= Thomas then left and Bell was talking about the G__d d____m niggers or coons. Franklin, colored, went to Bell and Bell knocked him down. Just at that time Sandy Burge drew his revolver. I was about two feet from him. I advanced, grabbed him by the right shoulder, and whirled him around facing south and told him to put up his gun. He replied: >I won=t fight a G__d d___m nigger a fist fight.= Some man then hollowed to turn his G__d d__m gun loose or put it up. He tore loose from me and whirled round facing northeast; his pistol in hand, and immediately there was a flash of a pistol about 10 or 12 feet east of where Burge stood. At this time Burge threw his hand up, made a slight noise, and as his hand came down, his pistol fired. I saw the colored man fall and he fired his pistol as he fell. The colored man was standing 10 or 12 feet nearly north of BurgeC12 feet from where the first shot was fired. The next moment Burge fired his pistol again in the same direction. I don=t know who fired the first shot. I think the first shot struck Burge. I also think the shot fired by Burge struck Fletcher and I don=t think it was Fletcher=s shot that struck Burge. There were two shots fired from down the street east of us, after Burge and Fletcher shot. The first shot of the last two burned my face and made me dodge. The second one struck the lamp post. Don=t know who fired them. Then I shot around the corner.@
Henry Franklin, colored, was then called, who testified: AI saw Charlie Fletcher at McGuire=s corner about 11 o=clock. I was standing near the lamp-post, and after Bell struck me, Fletcher passed by me. Burge was standing east of me 5 or 6 feet, on the sidewalk. I can=t tell who fired the first shot. It came from about where Burge stood. I think Burge shot twice. My opinion is that Burge shot Fletcher and Fletcher shot Burge.@
James H. Finch then took the stand: AAs I stood on McGuire=s corner last night about 11 o=clock, I saw a colored man come along. He stopped just off the curb-stone and some man spoke to him. The colored man said, >I don=t want any trouble,= and laughed. Somebody at this time pitched in for a squabble and then the colored man fell to the sidewalk. Someone said, >Give it to the son of a b____.= Just at that time Burge put his hand to his hip pocket to draw a revolver and began backing off from where he stood, in rather a stooping position. I watched him because I had a conversation with him about an hour before and he was drinking and I thought there might be some trouble. I thought in his condition if there was trouble, he would be in it. I was some 20 feet from him when he started to draw his revolver and made toward him, thinking I could knock his revolver out of his hand or his arm up so he would not shoot into the crowd. Before I got to him he fired two shots and snapped the revolver once. He shot a little northwest. Saw the man who was shot as he commenced falling. He was 12 or 15 feet northwest of Burge. He was a colored man. Burge shot the first shot and the darky shot about the same time. I should say four or five shots were fired. The colored man was falling when he shot, and I can=t tell where the other shots came from. I thought Burge=s second shot went some other way than toward the colored man. The darky said, when I went to him, that Sandy Burge shot him.@
The next witness was Alex. Franklin, colored: AI knew Charlie Fletcher and was on McGuire=s corner about 11 o=clock last night. The first thing I saw, old man Franklin was pulling Henry Franklin off the ground. I then saw Sandy Burge=s revolver; then the reports and the blaze of it; the reports were about together, and then Charlie Fletcher fell. Charlie fired one shot and Sandy the other. I heard four shots. A stone Mason, unknown to me, shot two shots! Sandy then snapped his revolver again and walked off. Don=t know whether he shot twice or not. Charlie told me when we took him home that Sandy shot him and he shot Sandy.@
Frank A. Smith was then introduced: AI came up the sidewalk from Jim Smith=s lunch room last night about 11 o=clock. There was a crowd on McGuire=s corner. I heard a blow struck and soon after saw Sandy Burge walking backward and pulling a revolver. I told him to put up his gun. He then shot. I believe he shot down within five feet of his own feet. The next shot he fired so as to range about a person=s breast. As he shot the second shot, the colored man said, >I am shot!= and fell. Fletcher told me after he was down that Sandy Burge shot him. There were from five to eight shots fired.@
Capt. J. B. Nipp testified: AI heard a fuss on McGuire=s corner last night, about 11 o=clock, and went over there. I saw Sandy Burge draw his revolver and back up. Heard several say >Put up your gun!= and heard five shots fired. Saw the blaze of the pistol from where Sandy stood; think Burge did a part of the shooting and don=t know who did the rest. The time was very short between the knock-down and the shooting; the time between the first three shots was not long enough for a man to draw his revolver; about time for pulling a trigger.@
John W. Dix said: AI saw a crowd on McGuire=s corner last night a little after 11 o=clock and ran over there. I heard a blow when nearly there and on getting to the crowd saw Sandy Burger with his revolver drawn down by his side. Someone told him to put it up or turn it loose. Then they began to rush toward him and he backed up, telling them to stand back; but they kept telling him to put it up. The words were repeated a number of times, when he backed off the crossing east a few paces and told them not to crowd him or he would shoot and started to raise his pistol; before he got it up, the colored man shot him. The flash of the colored man=s pistol was not gone before Sandy=s flashed. Sandy and the colored man shot at each other.@
A. A. Thomas next testified: AI heard there was going to be a fight and went over to McGuire=s corner. There I saw Henry Franklin, colored, staggering through the crowd. They said he had been hit. Saw Sandy Burge with his revolver out and Charlie Fletcher had his in his coat pocket with his hand on it. Sandy started off the gutter-stone and said, >That won=t do.= I told Fletcher to keep his pistol in his pocket, that Sandy was bluffing. Fletcher and I walked 10 or 12 feet toward the crossing. Then Sandy shot downward into the ground. I then moved southward and heard two shots. The smoke came from both the colored fellow and Sandy and I don=t know which shot first. It seemed that Fletcher shot as he was falling.@
The testimony of Marshal Herrod was introduced, as follows. AI took a pistol away from Sandy Burge last night just after the shooting and took one from the hands of the colored man while he yet lay in the street. (Here the balls from the wounds and the pistols of Fletcher and Burge were produced in evidence, the balls fitting exactly their respective pistols.) There was two shots out of Burge=s pistol and one out of Fletcher=s when I got them.@
Said John Easton: AI met Sandy Burge yesterday morning between 7 and 8 o=clock and in a conversation with him he said, >I will kill the first d___n nigger that steps in my way.=@
James McLain testified: AI heard Fletcher say that Bell couldn=t get to him; he could reach him first. I searched him about fifteen minutes after and found no pistol. Bell was cursing and swearing and had two or three rackets.@
Dr. C. C. Green testified to having found Fletcher lying in the street in a dying condition and gave location of wound, which passed through the abdomen. The bullet was a forty-five caliber.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Invitations are out for a ball under the auspices of the Robinson Hose Company, on Friday evening of this week. It will be one of the pleasantest hops of the season. This organization is composed of the best young men of the city, and their entertainments are always the most agreeable. The AGill Society@ of the Episcopal Church will serve an oyster supper in the hall at 12 o=clock.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
[PERSONALS.]
S. B. Sherman was over from Cambridge Monday.
Henry Goldsmith got in from New York City yesterday.
The Probate Judge has appointed John Kessinger administrator of the estate of Geo. W. Coulter.
Si. Hanchet lies at the point of death this (Wednesday) afternoon, after three weeks tussel with typhoid.
The younger children of Col. and Mrs. J. C. Mullen are improving after a dangerous attack of diphtheria.
Abe Steinberger has changed his Grenola Chief to a seven column, all home print, and now calls it the Hornet.
Mr. J. D. West, brother of Mrs. J. S. Hunt, arrived yesterday from Lowell, Michigan, and will visit for a time here.
Letters of administration were granted this week by the Probate Judge to James R. Sutton, in the estate of Frank M. Sutton.
Mr. Henry E. Asp is in the northern part of the state on legal business. He drops into the harness quickly after an exciting campaign.
John Hyden came down from Leon, Butler County, and spent last week here. He was married to a sister of Billy Impson some six months ago.
A. V. Wilkinson, the chronicler of the Cambridge News, was in the metropolis Monday and reported that little city all torn up over the Presidential uncertainty.
Mr. E. M. Osborne, of East Hampton, New York, is visiting Mr. Arthur Swain, of Rock, and looking after his sheep ranch and other property interests in this county.
Jas. H. Bullene left yesterday for Dodge City, to remain several weeks with his new lumberyard at that place. He also has yards at Kingman, Ashland, and other places.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
MARRIAGE LICENSES...issued by Probate Judge during the past week.
Aaron Marshal and Lovicy Moore.
Thos. Turner and Amelia Bulah.
Joel Premall and Ella Andrew.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Rev. H. Ehlers, a German Lutheran minister, will hold services next Sunday at 11 a.m. in the hall over J. P. Baden=s store. He has favored the German of our city with acceptable sermons before and all should turn out on this occasion.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
The South Kansas Medical Society met at Wichita Tuesday. The attendance from here were Drs. Emerson, Mendenhall, Green, Wright, Tandy, and Park. The meeting was a very pleasant one and wound up with a big banquet in the evening.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Rev. Thomas Audas, P. G., will preach at the M. E. Church next Saturday evening and Sabbath morning. Love feast at 9:30 a.m., communion at close of morning service. At night the ladies of the Foreign Missionary Society will hold their quarterly service.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Joe Hoyt, of Arkansas City, better known as ABuckskin Joe,@ made a vow four years ago never to have his hair cut until he was worth $50,000. Lately he concluded he was able to have it cut, which he did, and it was found to measure fifteen inches in length. His mustache is six inches long.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Deputy Sheriff Johnson, of Udall, brought in Albert Smith Tuesday night and lodged him in the county bastille for threatening to kill James Carey, of that place. He had a trial before =Squire Norman, was found guilty, and bound over in the sum of five hundred dollars. Bondsmen didn=t materialize.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Rev. J. H. Snyder is putting the finishing touches on his fine new residence just across the west bridge. The architecture is very neat and the location beautiful. Should the projected bridge across the river at the end of Ninth Avenue be built, the splendid table land just over the Walnut will soon contain many handsome suburban residences.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Charlie Fletcher, the colored victim of Saturday night=s tragedy, was in the employ of Jas. H. Bullene, driving the lumber delivery, and bore a reputation of civility and industry. He also worked some time for Senator Hackney, who gives him credit for peaceability and good behavior. He was to have been married about Christmas. Mrs. Andy Smith, a sister, was his only relative here.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
At the request of Jailor Finch, the Grand Jury while in session inspected carefully the county jail and pronounced it unsafe and irreparable and recommended to the County Commissioners the building of a new and more commodious bastille. Cowley is assuming proportions worthy a respectable, safe, and roomy jail and the commissioners will no doubt see the feasibility of a ten thousand dollar investment in this way.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
The old saw goes Athere is nothing new under the sun,@ but O=Hare, of Winfield, told us Saturday night about something new. He styled it a Ayellow-legged-chicken-preacher.@ It won=t do to let our hunters get wind of the whereabouts of this rare bird, or it would soon pass through the hands of Smith & Hildrebrand on its pilgrimage to Chicago or Cincinnati, snugly laid in a cracker box for a coffin. Tally one for O=Hare, the wonderful discoverer.
Udall Sentinel.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Capt. H. B. Seeley will give his famous lecture, AThe Battle of Gettysburg and Southern Prison Life,@ at the Opera House, December 2nd, under the management of Winfield Post G. A. R. Proceeds for the benefit of Relief Corps. Probably around no event in our National history clusters so many interesting incidents as attach themselves to this, the AWaterloo of America.@ Capt. Seeley comes handsomely endorsed and no one can afford to miss so rich a treat.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
McDonald & Miner of this city will start next week a general merchandise store at the new town of Ashland, Clark County. Spence Miner will have charge of it and try pioneer life during the next year. Mrs. Miner will remain here till spring, leaving Spencer a lonely Awiddy.@ There are great prospects in that county, and Spence is the man to assist ably in developing them. The only question is, how can we lose him? We will rest in the hope that he will soon tire of the festive coyote and prairie dog, and put some trusty fellow in charge of the store and hie himself back to the Queen City.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Our Democratic cotemporary copied an item last week from a Geuda Springs paper uncomplimentary to Dr. C. Perry of this city, regarding the location of a new school building at that place. Far from doing anything detrimental to Geuda, as charged, the Doctor has done all in his power, as a heavy property owner there, for its advancement. He has donated lots to different public improvements and offered a donation of six desirable lots for the new school building site, but a vindictive board refused unless public spirit be extended through lots the Doctor was reserving for a private residence. Appreciation as well as liberality is essential to the upbuilding of a town.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
The Bridges.
The bridge questions voted on last week were nearly as uncertain as the New York returns. The result is: For the purchase of the Walnut River bridge south of Winfield, carried by 21 majority. For the purchase of the Walnut River bridge west of Winfield, carried by 22 majority. For the purchase of the Arkansas River bridge west of Arkansas City, lost by 2 majority. For the purchase of the bridge south of Arkansas City, lost by five majority. For the building of the iron bridge across the Arkansas River in Beaver Township, lost by 27 majority. For the building of the iron bridge across the Walnut River in Fairview Township, carried by 334 majority. This matter of the county purchasing the bridges already built, at $5.00 each, seems to be a mistake. The Statute provides that the county cannot at any time appropriate more than the original appropriation for repairing or maintaining a bridge. Thus, if the county buys these bridges at $5.00 each, it can never spend more than $5.00 each in keeping them up. The bridges that were defeated, with the exception of the Beaver bridge, are better off than those which carried. Arkansas City and Winfield both voted solid for the bridges.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
The Kansas City and Southwestern a Certainty.
The surveyors on the Kansas City and Southwestern railroad have surveyed through this city to Winfield and Arkansas City, and pronounce it the most practicable route that could be found. The grade will cost but little, the route being almost level. There seems to be little doubt that the road if built will go over this route, and the managers of the company assure us that the road will certainly be built, as it will fill a long felt want in Southern Kansas, and will be a paying piece of property. It will be difficult to estimate the benefit of this new road. It will make Burden, within the next two years, a city of from 2,500 to 3,500 population, will increase city property to four times its present value, and farms for many miles around will increase in proportion. This is the rule in all cases. Farms near a prosperous city always command a good price, and instead of being from twenty to thirty miles from a good market with competing railroads, the people of eastern Cowley County will have it right at home. No difference if the road does run through somebody=s field or door yard. The property will be worth that much more, and if you don=t like it, you can sell out at a big price and move out where railroads are not needed. Let the locomotive come, but keep off the track. Burden Enterprise.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Sportsmen=s Club.
The annual hunt of the Sportsmen=s Club came off last Friday. The annual banquet came off Monday evening at the Brettun, and was a very pleasant affair. The banquet was presided over by Mr. C. C. Black, president of the club. The gold medal was presented to Mr. Ezra Meech, the winner, by Mr. G. H. Allen in a neat speech. This was followed by the presentation of the tin medal to Ed. P. Greer, by Judge T. H. Soward. Mr. Soward=s speech was a happy effort and was received by rounds of applause. After a reply from the recipient, the club resolved itself into an experience meeting, and the various haps and mishaps were recited by the participants. About a thousand rabbits, more or less, were exterminated by the hunters. But very few quail were killed, the count being purposely placed very low. These annual hunts and banquets are becoming more popular year by year.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Meeting of the County Temperance Union.
The temperance workers of Cowley County are earnestly requested to meet with the officers of the County Temperance Union at the Courthouse in this city on Thursday, December 4th, at ten o=clock a.m., for the purpose of following up this triumphant State election with aggressive work for the cause of prohibition. Let every vice-president and every member of the Union, especially, be present and bring all your prohibition friends. We have an open field for labor; let us improve it. By order of C. T. U.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
DIED. Ora Ellen Evans, daughter of Capt. J. B. and Mary E. Evans, of Vernon, Cowley County, Kansas, died of membranous croup, following diphtheria, November 5, 1884, aged 6 years, 9 months, and 6 days. Ora was a sweet, affectionate child, and enjoyed the kind indulgence of a loving father and the tenderest sympathies of her affectionate mother. She was the joy of the whole family and the favorite of those who knew her. She loved the Sabbath school and carefully saved her pennies to give to its support. She will be greatly missed in the household, but the blessed Savior has taken her to himself and those who loved her here will be sure to find her in the Ahome over there@ if they seek a preparation for that home. MARY E. ROSE.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Within the last few years the farmers and stockmen of Southern Kansas have been sowing large quantities of millet for feed, increasing the quantity each year, until now it has become one of the leading features. Cattlemen claim that cattle will thrive about as well on millet as they will on corn and hay. This season has been a remarkable good one for this grass, the yield being simply immense, averaging from two and a half to four tons per acre. We observe that while the upland does not hold as many tons per acre, the quality is rather better, the stalks being smaller and the ground free from weeds and other plants. Millet hay generally sells about 50 percent higher than prairie hay.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Accompanied by the genial Dr. S. R. Marsh, we took a spin through the lovely country between this city and Tannehill, Monday. No better farms can be found under the blue vault of heaven than in this sectionCall adorned with handsome residences, fruit, and forest trees; good fences through which can be seen fine hogs, fat cattle, sleek horses, and wavy green wheat in entrancing variety. And the bins are all full and the sturdy owners of these farms have plethoric pocket books and broad smiles. Such a trip relieves the dull monotony of city life and shows up a convincing share of the vast resources and prosperity of our County.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
The farmers of Vernon Township have organized a stock company for the purpose of building a Roller Grist Mill at Kellogg. Ten thousand dollars of the stock is already subscribed. The mill is to cost $25,000, will have a capacity of 150 barrels per day, and will be known as Athe Granger Mill.@ D. D. Kellogg is president of the company, Geo. Wilson vice-president, H. H. Martin, Secretary, and Henry Buss, Treasurer. Messrs. W. W. Painter, C. P. Ward, and another whose name we failed to get were elected as trustees. The building is already commenced.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Engineer R. S. Moorhead and crew will start in a few days down the Arkansas in a boat furnished by the millers of Arkansas City and Winfield. Their object is to ascertain whether the Arkansas can be opened for practical navigation. The prime mover in this enterprise is Mr. J. Hill of our city. Mr. Hill has engineered several enterprises which at first seemed to promise no success to successful results, and while everyone is incredulous there can be but one prayer for the success of the great work. A. C. Democrat.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
The farmer who holds his corn until next spring will get forty or fifty cents a bushel for it, for the reason that feeders here in the county will need it, and at present freight rates, corn cannot be shipped here for less than the price mentioned. We may be mistaken as to the amount of corn in this county, but think that the surplus will go this fall. Burden Enterprise.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
The masquerade skate at the rink Tuesday night passed off very pleasantly. A large number of masquers were on the floor and many of the costumes were novel and unique.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
The W. C. T. U. will meet next Tuesday at 3 o=clock p.m., at the residence of Mrs. Caton on Church Street.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
The Southern Kansas is selling cut rate tickets to Chicago, St. Louis, and other points.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Money to loan on collateral security. C. D. Murdock, Central Hotel.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
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Diamond Black@ coal just received at Winfield Coal Co.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
UDALL.C@G.@
Mr. Timmons has opened a coal yard here; something long needed.
Have you heard from New York? is the most pertinent query of the day.
Bud Boyles has sold his farm to W. A. Shoup for $2,000 cash. Bud contemplates going west.
O. O. Brown sold, or rather traded, his property here for property at Wichita, and will remove there about January 1st. We are sorry to lose O. O. from our midst, as one of our most enterprising citizens.
Quite an excitement was raised here on Friday last, by the appearance of one of our deputy sheriffs with a warrant for the arrest of H. M. Banta on charge of selling spirituous liquors without a permit. Result of Grand Jury.
We have received a fresh invoice of doctors within the past two weeks. Dr. Elder, of Winfield; Dr. Constantine, of Nebraska; Dr. Baker, of Chicago; and a German surgeon by the name of Rehm. We extend to all these cordial greetings.
Business is fast settling down to its normal condition once more and our businessmen will do well to remember that as the Democrats have borne our rule for twenty-four years we can certainly bear and live under their rule for the next four, if needs be. So let us all accept the result cheerfully and do our best to prevent a panic.
Paint the town red, cried out the Wichita Beacon of the 11th inst., and in conformity with its request Albert Smith, a laborer of this place, proceeded to fill his skin with benzine and start the ball to rolling. His first encounter, with Sam Downing, was a success. Sam fled after the first round. Then Dan Winn seemed to loom up more conspicuously in front of this wild red painter than r. p. thought could be tolerated. Result: first blood for Dan. TableauCDan with a billiard cue, r. p. with drawn knife in his hand. Act secondCtown not quite all painted; r. p. attacks Jim Casey. First fall for r. p., when, after a severe struggle, our Jim comes out on top, breaks away from the bold, bad man, makes a lunge for the door and disappears amid the darkness followed by said r. p. The boys say that Clarence Booth made the best time on record in his run under the billiard table. On Monday J. Casey went before Esq. Wm. B. Norman and swore out a warrant for the arrest of Smith, charging him with assault with intent to commit murder. Trial now in progress; C. Britton for defense.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
FROM OTTER.C@OTTERITE.@
Mrs. Pugh of Winfield is out on a visit to her son, Mr. Johnson, of our neighborhood.
Farmers are very busy husking their corn and few are selling, but most all are cribbing, thinking to get better prices.
J. J. Wilson has treated himself to a new pair of Fairbanks stock scales. This is the second pair in the township.
Messrs. Aley Bros., Guthrie, Webb, and Wilson, and others are feeding each a small lot of cattle for the spring market.
Mr. Wm. Hefner at Cedarvale is very sick, but with hopes of recovery; also one of Mr. Wakefield=s sons is very sick.
And still they settle on claims back on the Flint Hills. D. E. Ramsy is soon to commence the erection of a new house on his mountain farm.
Our Horse Traders certainly are getting rich from the number of trades they make; they tell me that they sometimes ride home the same horse they rode off in the morning, with an additional 15 cents in their pockets.
At this writing, Nov. 6th, 7 p.m., the latest reports we can get are very favorable for Blaine and Logan and the Democrats are crestfallen, but for fear of shouting before we get out of the woods I will desist for a season. St. John did not receive a single vote in our precinct.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
PLEASANT VALLEY.C@COUNTRY JAKE.@
Oh! how the democrats smile.
Miss Abby Keever is visiting in this vicinity.
Mr. West Holland and wife are visiting friends in North Carolina.
There will be preaching in the church at Constant one week from next Sunday by Rev. Castle.
Miss Jiney Holland has accepted a position as lady clerk in Mr. S. Kleeman=s dry goods store in Winfield.
BIRTH. The population of Pleasant Valley continues to grow. Mr. Lee Brown is the happy father of a bouncing baby girl.
Mr. Frank Brown is building on his farm two miles south of Constant. Mr. Lacock of Winfield is doing the carpenter work.
The A. T. & S. F. R. R. has surveyed and located a side track one half mile north of Constant. This will be of great benefit to the farmers of the community.
A certain young man of Beaver Center dropped into a dining parlor in Winfield to partake of the necessaries of life and not finding the refreshments ready, began to amuse himself with the landlady=s shears, but alas to poor M____, for the Landlady soon appeared upon the scene and there was a hurried interview and the last that was seen of that young man he was seen going up the street with his coattail flying at an angle of forty-five degrees.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
BEAVER CENTER.C@YOUNG NASBY.@
We smile in autumn sunshine.
Miss Annie Godey is suffering with typhoid fever.
A number of Beaver Centerites will serve out a six months= term on western claims.
John Williams and Ed. and Henry Garett [Garrett?] are now prospecting in Reno County.
Blatch Jenkins and Kin Wright and wife returned from a visit in Kentucky on the 8th inst.
We feel that the melancholy days are coming, we look for all kinds of business to become as stagnate as a copperhead is poisonousCif Cleveland gets there.
DIED. The Angel of death has again visited our vicinity, taking from us George Coulter, one of Beaver Center=s brightest young men. The Bereaved friends have our sympathy.
Miss Cora Beach gave a Spelling School on last Friday evening. The house was crowded to its utmost capacity, and the spelling was a success in every respect. Miss Beach will give a spelling every two weeks, so long as good order is observed.
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Young Nasby@ has created quite a sensation in this vicinity. I will give a description of him. His weight is between 100 and 300 lbs.; hair about the color of Toney=s mule; you will find him a very sociable young man and would like to become acquainted with you all.We had the misfortune to be present at the Democratic Rally, which consisted of a miscellaneous crowd, from the boot-black to the man with the rooster on his hat. Every city has a commons. This was certainly the commons of Winfield, representing the old shoes, tin pans, and cans of the back alley.
Ed. Watt, a prominent Democrat, was so excited over the election that he recalls his promise with his dearest own and writes him the following letter: ADear Grover: I am sorry in the extreme that I can=t accompany you to Washington. My time will all be needed in collecting funds to defray expenses of the Democratic Rally. My love for you is unshaken. I think you are the best looking Bachelor in the country. Please accept my regrets.@
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Doc. Mudgett tells us that a shoe of mammoth dimensions was found in sand recently, where the sand was being excavated, at a depth of ten feet, and that from the strata of soil it was found in, it was judged to belong to some giant of a prehistoric age. The Dr. States that the shoe was of leather, preserved, indeed, that it still retained the odor of a well worn sock, and was run over at the heel. If the doctor succeeds in finding any more relics, he proposes to obtain Georgie Gray=s horse, Methusula, and start a museum on a small scale.
Udall Sentinel.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
A large quantity of second-hand Ahope,@ a big stock of Adesire,@ together with a Aright smart chance@ of Ad___n it@ are now being offered by the despondent Democrats of Cowley at shockingly low rates. Their stock of Aget there@ was exhausted twenty-four years ago.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
Three girls, not a thousand miles from Cowley, neither of whom was over eighteen years old, ambushed a schoolmaster and walloped him half to death for showing favoritism toward a fat girl in the geography class.
Winfield Courier, November 13, 1884.
STREAKS OF SUNSHINE. [ADS.]
Lost. A single shawl, tan color with dark bars, somewhere in the streets of the city last Friday. The finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving it at the residence of Mrs. J. E. Platter.
Strayed. A roan horse pony with dark mane and tail; rope halter around neck about 12 feet long. I will give $5 reward to the one finding him. Address me at Winfield. C. R. McCLUNG.
Texas Horses & Corn. I have 250 head of unbroken Texas Horses and mares at my ranch on Otter Creek, one mile east of the mouth of Grouse, that will be offered for sale at fair prices, this winter and next spring. I will also pay thirty cents per bushel for 5,000 bushels of corn delivered at the Ranch. C. M. SCOTT.
$10 Reward. Strayed or stolen from this city Thursday night, Nov. 6th, 1884, one roan pony, 12 2 to 13 hands high, heavy built, very heavy tail; no brands nor marks except slight saddle marks and small speck on left eye. Had on heavy saddle and red Indian blanket.
The above reward will be paid for information leading to its recovery. Address J. W. HENTHORN, Burden, Kansas.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
According to the report of Commissioner Price, for 1884, the Indians have made considerable progress towards civilization, and it is claimed that in the near future they will be a help rather than a burden to the Government. The Commissioner suggests that Congress should pass stringent laws prohibiting the sale of arms and ammunition to Indians. We have always thought that it would be wise to refuse ammunition to an Indian, unless he could satisfy a government agent that he had recently killed one bad Indian and wanted to kill another.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
Cowley County polled at the late election on the presidency 6,521 votes. Sumner polled 6,578. Winfield polled 947 and including the suburbs at least 1,100. Wellington polled 967 votes. This disposes of the Wellington claim of being ahead of Winfield. Winfield and Walnut Township tog ether polled 1,376 votes. Arkansas City and Creswell Township together polled 1,088 votes. Arkansas City has not got in the lead yet, but has done well.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
[SKIPPED...Notes of County Election. Election News and Notes throughout country.]
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
[Skipped article from Grace Darling, now a Canadian resident, re temperance in Canada. Some areas went for prohibition; others did not.]
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
The Winfield Markets. Butter 20 & 25 cents; eggs 20 cents; turkeys, live, per lb., 6 to 7 cents; dressed, 9 cents to 10 cents; chickens $1.50 & $3.00 per dozen; potatoes 50 cents & 75 cents; wheat 50 cents; corn 25 cents; oats 28 & 30 cents; hogs $3.75 per cwt.; Hay $5 per ton.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
One of the pleasantest social gatherings ever enjoyed by Winfield society was the ball of the Robinson Fire Company at the Opera House last Friday night. A large number were present and true enjoyment reigned supreme. The company was select and the music splendid. The boys were highly successful in their efforts to give a party worthy the presence of our elite lovers of the Terpsichorean art, and have given an advertisement that will insure even greater success to their future entertainments. Financially, the boys were left, but they didn=t expect any recompense, the object being purely entertainment. The AGill Society@ of the Episcopal Church served the company with an excellent oyster supper. The members of Robinson Fire Company have arranged for another ball on December 2nd, which will receive the full attendance of our society people, and should more than clear the Company financially.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
The young men of the city met on Tuesday at the office of A. H. Doane & Co., and organized AThe Winfield Social Club,@ the object of which is to Atrip the light fantastic,@ bi-monthly. These social hops have been a society feature of the city for years back and a great source of true recreation. Frank Leland is president of the club; Lacy Tomlin, Secretary; and Charley Dever, Treasurer. The membership will be about thirty-five couples. The first hop will be given on Friday night, the 28th.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
There will be a meeting of the New Salem Cemetery Association in the public hall at New Salem on next Tuesday night. A full attendance of the members is requested, as there will be important business demanding their attention. J. W. HOYLAND, President; J. S. BAKER, Secretary.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
Mr. John Stalter returned from Ohio Wednesday, where he was called to attend his father, who died there in November. He was over seventy-five years of age and one of the pioneers of Wyandotte County.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
Call at the Farmers= Bank when you want to borrow money or transact any banking business. Our rates are as low as at any bank in the county. Give us a call before going elsewhere.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
We guarantee to borrowers the cheapest rates in Southern Kansas. We ask no business if we do not make good our guarantee. Jarvis, Conklin & Co.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
Curns & Manser loan money on terms to suit borrowersClong or short time, annual or semi-annual interest, or any way it may be desired, at lowest rates.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
We are closing out to quit business and are offering our entire stock of pumps and windmills at actual cost. Cairns & Reynolds.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
Go to P. H. Albright & Co., for real estate loans when you want the money promptly and on the safest and most reasonable terms.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
We must reduce our stock to make room for our new goods which are now arriving daily: hence the cost counter. Bryan & Lynn.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
6 percent money to loan by Jarvis, Conklin & Co. Remember the placeCat the old stand south of A. T. Spotwood=s.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
Udall has been incorporated as a third class city and elects officers the first Monday in December.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
Mistaken Identity. P. H. Albright relates an exciting personal experience on his way to Connecticut, from where he has just returned. Arriving at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, about 9 p.m., he got off the train and sauntered up the street to hunt up a newsboy, when he was tackled by a suspicious looking fellow with the query ADidn=t you come through from St. Louis today?@ An affirmative answer was given and thinking the man up to some confidence game, P. H. began to move toward his train, from which he had gone some distance. Another fellow soon stepped up and began to shake interrogations at Mr. Albright. This convinced him that he was in bad hands, in a wicked city, and he began to answer them on the move, when they stopped him and said, AGuess you=re the man we want.@ P. H. didn=t understand this and, as they were in citizens= clothes, he demanded identification to the claim of detectives, which the conductors of the train soon did. After informing his sister-in-law, who was accompanying him, of the trouble, and starting her safely on the road, he was marched off to the police station, where, after all the proof at hand that he was Athe man,@ he was marched off up the street. It was the night after the election, when Republican Pittsburgh was alive with Plumed Knights and every street was jammed with shouting people, then believing Blaine elected. He was compelled in going through the street accompanied by the officers to march for the first time in a Republican procession. He had explained the situation and offered, to avoid the bastille, to pay men for guarding him at any hotel till morning, when he knew telegrams would soon show up his innocence, but was refused. The dark, awful city jail was soon reached, at that time fairly swarming with criminals of all classes. Things looked gloomy, but he had to stand it and was marched in. He made them promise, however, to grant his first request in part, by sending in a trusty official to keep him company during the night. The excitement of politics had filled the jail with a howling mob, making the thought of spending a night there hideous. Soon the chief of police arrived, re-examined Mr. Albright, and after a brief consultation with others, told the keeper to let out the prisoner. P. H. was escorted to a first-class hotel and told that Athey were mistaken in their man.@ It seems that a man of about Mr. Albright=s description had committed deviltry in St. Louis and gone out on the same train that carried P. H., followed by telegrams for arrest. Detectives were at the trains in all the large cities, and seeing P. H. as he stepped off at Pittsburgh, spotted him. When the telegraph announced the Pittsburgh arrest, the answer came from St. Louis that the culprit had been arrested at another place, relieving Mr. Albright from the worst dilemma of his life. On such a journey as his, en route to the scene of a brother=s sudden death, this delay was peculiarly unfortunate and trying, and one for which there was no redress.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
A New Winfield.
The new town of Ashland, in Clark County, is getting to be one of the AInfant Wonders@ of western growth. It was laid out by a party of Winfield gentlemen some four weeks ago. There are now thirty houses up and foundations being laid for others as rapidly as the lumber can be got on the ground. The town is on Bear Creek, at the intersection of the two great western trails. Already a newspaper is running in full blast. It has two hotels, restaurants, and almost every modern convenience. Every deed given by the Town Company provides that should intoxicating liquors be sold on the premises, the deed becomes null and void. It is to be emphatically a temperance town. Mr. W. R. McDonald, of this city, is President and Messrs. Nipp, Hughes, Cooper, Taylor, Averill, Gibson, Bullene, Kinnear, Hall, Berry, Gridley, Hudson Bros., Greer, and several others constitute the town company. It is located near the center of Clark County, and will be the county seat when the county is organized. Messrs. Hughes & Cooper are putting in a stock of hardware; also Mr. Kinnear. McDonald & Miner are putting in a large stock of dry goods. The settlers are pouring into the county and claims are being taken rapidly. The land is good and the general lay of the country smooth. A very large number of Cowley County people have taken claims around the new town. Many other persons from this vicinity are going out to take claims or engage in business.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
Sportsmen, Beware.
The Riverside Park Association have just caused the arrest and conviction of a hunter for shooting on their premises. The law of this state makes it a misdemeanor to hunt or pursue game on the premises of another and subjects the victim to a fine. The Association being subject to much annoyance in preserving their grounds as a pleasure resort to the public have determined to call to their aid all the laws bearing on this subject and any person detected in removing signs from the Park, hunting, shooting, cutting, or carrying away timber or destroying fences will be dealt with summarily. This is a very proper proceeding and as the Association has opened their grounds to the public; free of charge, the public should assist in protecting them, and unless the vandalism heretofore practiced ceases, the association will be compelled to close its grounds to the public and use them for private purposes, but every effort will first be made to enforce the laws, and culprits may expect no mercy.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
Young Folks= Picnic Dinner.
Arrangements have been made for every band of Juvenile Temples in the county, together with all young folks whether yet members or not, to meet at the Opera House, Winfield, for a grand picnic dinner on Thanksgiving day, the 27th. Interesting exercises will be given and the occasion promises to be of great pleasure and profit to the children. All parents of the county should either bring or see that their children are present. Such temperance gatherings are a power in the proper development of youthful sentiment. Baskets will be essential. Order of officers of Juvenile Temples.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
Farms for Sale or Rent.
We have many good farms for sale or rent; also, many vacant lots, and improved city property in Winfield, for sale. Will sell on easy terms or will rent farms to good parties for a term of years. Call or address M. L. Read or M. L. Robinson at First National Bank, Winfield, Kansas.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
Teachers Examination. An examination of applicants for teachers= certificates will be held at Winfield, beginning at 8 o=clock a.m., Nov. 29, 1884. Applicants will please appear promptly at that time. A. H. Limerick, County Superintendent.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
The first snow of the season appeared Tuesday, but soon faded away under the softening sunshine.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
[MORE PERSONALS.]
Judge Torrance has ordered a Grand Jury for the December term of the District Court of Sumner County.
Will McClellan, the popular delivery clerk of the post office, is just recovering from a severe tussle with rheumatism.
Mrs. W. C. N. Garvey and son came down from Topeka Tuesday and will visit a couple of weeks with Mrs. Bedilion.
Winfie