DAILY CALAMITY HOWLER

DAILY CALAMITY HOWLER

Ira P. Russell went to Wichita this morning on business.

Mrs. Harry Tuller is in Wichita this week attending the fair.

Albert Million, petit juror from Dexter, has been excused for the balance of this term of court. He goes home to take charge of the hardware store of Bryan & Riggs, during the absence of Mr. Bryan, who will take in the St. Louis Exposition.

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We congratulate W. F. Rutherford on the display made in his window of violins, mandolins, guitars, ganjos, accordians, and other small goods. He is becoming as much of a music man as he is a "New Home" machine man, for you can't hardly get in his office for machines, organs, pianos, and bycicles [WAY THEY SPELLED THE LAST WORD].

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The Courier is making a terrible howl about the "poor deluded fellows" listening to the "abominable nonsense" of the advocates of Calamity Jane. Ah! Bro. Courier, take your medicine, it's a bitter dose. Likely if you will shut yours eyes, like you do when you gulp down the dictates of your political masters, it won't taste so bad.

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Dave Baldwin, of Atlanta, had to be relieved from his duties as a juror last week on account of a serious rising on his jaw, caused from a fracture of the bone. The swelling was in the shape of a large boil, that at one time was so large that it rested upon his shoulder. Mr. Baldwin has suffered to a great extent from the fracture and more serious trouble is

apprehended.

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Andrew Edmiston, of Atlanta, was in town this morning.

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Dixon Hale, of Dexter, was in town today on important

business.

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Col. Loomis returned this morning from an extended summer tour through the south and east.

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MARRIED. Fred G. Seabridge and Miss Effie E. Devore, both of Walnut township, were married by Judge Sitton last evening.

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TO BE MARRIED. Geo. B. Curtis, of Silverdale, and Miss Mary E. Musselman of Butler county, secured matrimonial papers

yesterday.

TO BE MARRIED. George W. McDaniel, of Fowler City, Indiana, and Miss Addie Lewis of Arkansas City, secured a marriage license today.

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Salem Fouts and Jap Cochran returned from Arkansas City last evening. They report fences in splendid shape in that city.

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A big mad dog scare was occasioned one day this week on Silver creek, south of here, and it is reported that nine dogs were killed in one day.

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Have you upholstering to do, organs to clean, sewing machines out of order, hides to tan for rugs and robes; animals or birds to mount; broken umbrellas, furniture to varnish, etc., please let me know at 215 east 9th avenue, south side. All kinds of sewing machine needles at 25 cents per dozen. Respectfully,

J. TESCH.

Kenney Sheets is in Winfield attending the M. E. College.

Miss Agnes Renfro left for Latham last Saturday. She will teach near that place. This is Miss Renfro's first school, all wish her success.

Miss Cordie Lunceford is in Winfield attending the Commercial College.

Mr. Newt Brookshire and Miss Alice Gorham were in Winfield last Monday.

Miss Hattie Daniels teaches at Wheatland this winter, Miss Bettie Lunceford at Red Bud, Mr. James Walker at Star Valley, while Alice Gorham numbers herself among the disappointed school ma'ams of Kansas.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Greer are celebrating the recent arrival of a bouncing baby girl.

Several from this neighborhood were at the picnic in Dawson's grove. Star Valley Alliance No. 1 formed in procession one half mile north of school house, and were the first arrivals on the ground.

KANSAS ANNIE.

Hurrah for the CALAMITY HOWLER.

Miss Maggie Hoozer is visiting Mrs. H. R. Branson.

J. D. Salmon is down at Arkansas City at this writing.

Mrs. Lou James of Waunetta is visiting her mother here.

Mr. and Mrs. Irving Cole have returned from a five weeks' visit to relatives in Ohio.

Grandma Asbery, of Plum creek, is visiting the past week with J. D. Salmon and family.

Prof. Limerick returned Sunday from his visit to Ohio and commenced his school Monday morning.

Mr. McCampbell, formerly of the Olds House, in Winfield, has taken possession of the Commercial Hotel and will henceforth feed the hungry in good style.

Dr. Rude and family have located in Dexter. The Dr. and his estimable wife were residents of Dexter years ago, and we extend to them a most hearty welcome. And the Dr. will ever be found ready and willing to help the sick. They occupy the house just vacated by Jim Pierce.

There will be a rousing alliance picnic, in the Peabody grove, north of town, next Saturday. Good speakers will be in attendance. Everyone invited to come. M.

F. T. Berkey is the boss real estate man in town. He made three sales in one day this week.

Miss Lou Pixley has accepted a position as stenographer in the office of Shartel & Cottingham, Mrs. D. A. Johnson having resigned.

F. T. Berkey sold a piece of Winfield property to a Mr. Marx, of Crocker, Missouri, one day this week. Mr. Marx will make this his future home.

September was not a bad matrimonial month in Cowley county. Judge Sitton issued 43 licenses, and out of the 43 he tied the nuptial knot for thirteen couples.

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Mr. Guy, of the Winfield House, returned from the new country yesterday. He is not in love with that country, although he was among the lucky ones to get a good claim. He says he is not stuck on the electric light sytem in Guthrie after midnight. As he left the hotel at three o'clock in the morning, all was as dark as pitch, he fell over a pile of rocks, and got it in the knee badly.

Fire.

For several days this week the stack in the coal house in the rear of the Courier building, under the management of the Newspaper Union, has been on fire. Yesterday the coal house was torn down and the fire was put out, as was thought. This morning about 4 o'clock the engine room and stereotyping department was discovered to be on fire. The alarm was promptly given and on the arrival of the fire company was extinguished. The damage is considerable. The engine, boiler, piping, and the stereotyping machinery are all more or less damaged. At this hour the damage has not been estimated, but will run up into several hundred dollars. The Courier building, containing the Courier plant and Union press room sustained no damage worthy of mention.

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Bob Farnsworth is out again after a short illness.

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Mrs. Geo. Miller, of West 9th, is very sick at this writing.

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I have a good Jersey cow, four years old, for sale cheap.

W. H. BROOKS, 1113 E. 11th.

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Brock Crawford and a Mr. Hutchinson, living south of Howard City, came in this morning with two loads of fine stock shoats and pigs. They are selling very reasonable.

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Go to H. H. Constant's

Place for lunch, short orders, and fresh oysters, 1st door north Winfield & Miller, Main street, west side, between 9th and 10th ave.

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C. W. Horner returned this morning from Edgerton, Kansas, where he has been visiting relatives. Mrs. C. W. Horner intends to remain at Edgerton about a month longer.

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Mr. Galusha came in last night from a business trip down through Oklahoma in the interest of the Winfield Newspaper Union. He says business will go right along as ever, what the fire damaged will be replaced with new machinery at once.

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Market Reports.

Choice Butter: 10 to 17 cents.

Eggs, fresh, per dozen: 15 cents.

Turkeys, per pound: 7 cents.

Hens, per pound: 5 cents.

Roosters, per pound: 5 cents.

Spring chickens, per dozen: $1.50 to $2.00

Irish Potatoes: 40 to 60 cents.

Sweet Potatoes: 40 to 60 cents.

Oats: 22 cents.

Corn: 40 to 50 cents.

Wheat: 60 to 75 cents.

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A rousing People's meeting was held at Tannehill last evening. J. C. Bradshaw and Amos Walton were the speakers, and they handled the g. o. p. without gloves. J. C. Bradshaw is drawing like a mustard plaster; being one of the most entertaining speakers on the stump. We know that when he reads this, he will blush clear up to the root of his hair, but we can't help saying that he is one of those young men who is bound to leave his impress upon his generation.

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Opposed to Competition.

Moe A. Isaacs & Co. are creating a panic in the mercantile circles of Winfield. Wishing to open a store there a few days ago Mr. Jacobs, one of the firm, went and engaged a business room for that purpose. He also engaged advertising space in the Courier, but before his ad was inserted a delegation of other clothiers waited on that paper and informed its proprietors that they would boycott him if he advertised for the new store. Said proprietor notified Mr. Jacobs of what had occurred and the latter very generously annulled the contract between them, allowing the Courier to keep its old customers. But they were not satisfied with that. Gratified with their success these jim crow merchants corralled the city council and got that august body to pass an ordinance imposing an occupation tax of $100 per month on the new store. The goods were already in the store and there was nothing to do but to go ahead and sell them so the manager, Mr. Meyerhardt, paid his $100 under protest and kept on selling. He had, however, already satisfied himself that the ordinance was illegal as well as unjust to the buyers of clothing and concluded to knock it out when the proper time comes.

This baby kick has created a public feeling in favor of the new firm. Several councilmen are opposed to the new ordinance and the mayor himself, after signing it, denounced it as an illegal act. In the meantime the butchers of Winfield, seeing the beauty of a protective tariff, presented a petition to have the same protection thrown 'round them by levying a big tax on all new butchers and meat peddlars and it is expected that the dealers in other lines will do the same.

At present Jacobs is doing plenty of advertising besides what the other merchants and the council give him free and is doing a rushing business. The citizens are getting up petitions to have the ordinance repealed.

We publish the above to show what other people think of the action of our city council in passing the ordinance referred to in our first issue. There is no doubt but the action of the council was wrong and if they wish to place themselves right before the world, they will repeal the ordinance.

No one will doubt for a moment that this occupation tax, if paid by the merchant, will have to be added to the cost of goods sold to the consumer and they are the ones who have to pay it in the end.

This nation has pursued the same kind of a policy for thirty years, by a protective policy, and all the while the consumers have been paying [SEVERAL LINES OBSCURED...PAPER CUT]

engaged in importing cheap labor to do his work. What is sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander, and if the council insists on adhering to the ordinance they should extend it to the laboring men who come here to work. There are a number of men at work within the corporate limits of the city who were imported from other points to work on the elevator. This importation of laborers could be stopped by a protective policy, and by all means let the council extend its beneficent policy on all alike.

HOWLER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1891, PRINTED A TIME CARD...

THIS CARD SHOWED SCHEDULES FOR ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE,

F. E. & W. V., SOUTHERN KANSAS, MISSOURI PACIFIC, ST. LOUIS &

SAN FRANCISCO RAILROADS. DID NOT BOTHER TO COPY.

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Banks Will Close To-Morrrow at 2 O'Clock, p. m.

On account of the funeral of M. L. Read, president of the First National Bank, and one of our oldest and most respected citizens, our places of business will be losed promptly at 2 p.m. to-morrow and remain closed the balance of the day.

COWLEY CO. NAT. BANK,

FARMERS STATE BANK,

P. H. ALBRIGHT & CO.

There was many a sooner in a schooner.

The Norman school opened with 210 pupils.

Norman has two cotton gins running in full blast.

When the clock struck twelve, everybody struck out.

Horses suffered more than anything else on the 22nd.

A German farmer near El Reno has built a $1,080 barn.

There was a worse danger in being too late than too soon.

"All things come to him who waits." Even lands open up.

A bottom farm near Yukon is said to have sold for $4,000.

Now for the first baby, first church, and the first newspaper.

The next boomer cry will be: "On to the Cherokee Strip."

The jail at Oklahoma City has fourteen regular boarders.

Tuesday, September 22nd, is another birthday for Oklahoma.

The statehood convention at Oklahoma City was postponed.

The Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands will make five big counties.

A man does not have to be a politician to run for the new lands.

Kingfisher needs a new depot to accommodate its increase in business.

The new counties will have to be named. Have you a name for them?

Oklahoma and her memorable 22nd will occupy a distinct place in history.

As for the cotton crop in the Chicasaw nation, the ball worm was not "in it."

The district convention of the W. C. T. U. will meet at El Reno September 29 and 30.

Oklahoma is the only place that ever had a boom that had the government stamp on it.

The passenger trains in Oklahoma this year are as long as the freight trains here last year.

One of the Dalton boys has been captured again. There must be an awful big family of them.

Governor Steel's acquaintance with men who want office at this time is something appalling.

Tramsel is the name of the county seat of Pottowatomie. Captain Baker of Salina, is postmaster.

The ladies of 'Frisco got up entertainments and raised enough money to buy a 300 pound church bell.

It is hard to keep cool in Oklahoma even as late as September, when there are new lands to be opened.

The negro colonists at Langston and the cowboys are having trouble, which may end in bloodshed.

There are no railroads in the new country. That makes it different from the other opening.

There is more jam on the Oklahoma streets than there is on Oklahoma bread and butter just at present.

In a couple of weeks the Indians in the east will begin to get some sound pointers on how to till the soil.

The Oklahoma courts have decided that the Cherokee Indian is not "in it." They will be sustained.

If you were "in it" before noon, you will not be "in it" when it comes to proving up at the land office.

John Wingler of Edmond has in good growing condition forty thousand budded peach trees on his farm.

There are plenty of people left who think that the only thing necessary to take into the new country is a pistol.

It will be a relief not to hear so much about intruders. You can intrude all you want after noon Tuesday.

People are coming to Oklahoma this fall by the hundreds and next year will see double the population of this year.

One Sac and Fox family truned up last week that had not been allotted. The agent fixed them up all right, however.

Horses are scarce just now. But what's the matter with mules? It was Capt. Cahos' mule that made the big run in 1889.

In Oklahoma corn that was planted on wheat stubble, after the wheat war harvested, is now in roasting ears and looking fine.

One wagon at Oklahoma City going toward the new country contained two barrels of whiskey and a lot of gambling paraphernalia.

Frank Greer changed the Capital into an evening paper so that he could have the first paper in the new country after its settlement.

It will not be sufficient for a man to say he is an Oklahoma boomer after this. People will ask him if he is an eighty-niner or a ninety-oner.

The Chickasaw nation will produce between 60,000 and 70,000 bales of cotton this season, over one-third of which will be marketed at Ardmore.

A man will get land cheaper in the new country if he rides an ox and still cheaper if he walks and starts at the same time with the fellows on horseback.

Another twenty-second and just at the opposite end of the year. This administration is bound to open countries right if it has to try every day in the year.

Last opening was on Monday--this is on Tuesday. It would be just like the government to open the Cheyenne and Arapahoe country on Wednesday.

Breakfast will be taken in Oklahoma proper next Tuesday morning. But heaven only knows if there will be any dinner eaten at all in that new country.

Oklahoma was the child of Kansas. The Indian country is now the child of Oklahoma. This makes Kansas a grandparent.

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[HOWLER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1891, CONTINUED.]

People's Journal: The old party press throughout this section talk like the fight is between the two old parties, whereas, the real fight is between the people and the money power. The money power is entrenched behind the two old parties, and in its fight against the people it hopes to be able to win, promising, as it does, position and gold to its workers. People, this is the truth. The old parties are simply tools in the hands of the plutocrats--tools to destroy the libeties of the people--paid tools to fasten the chains of bondage upon the toilers, are the party leaders of the old parties.

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Frank Savage was down from Rock today.

Our popular townsman, J. M. Safford, has a brother visiting him for a few days from Urbana, Illinois.

John Wilkin came in Thursday evening to see if the boss at headquarters had heard of any new recruits to the great moral party of Cowley county.

A meeting of the county alliance has been called to be held at Arkansas City on Tuesday, October 13. The meeting will probably hold over the 14th. Don't forget the date.

Don't forget to attend the meeting at the courthouse this evening, under the auspices of the People's club of Winfield.

J. H. Ritchie of Montgomery county will address the crowd.

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Register of Deeds, A. A. Jackson, returned Thursday evening from a trip to Princeton, Illinois, where he had been to attend a re-union of his old regiment. He reports a pleasant time while gone, although but twenty-six of his old comrades answered to the call with himself.

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WANTED. A young lady boarder at corner 6th and Manning.

Geo. Dwyer, of Cambridge, was over today attending the People's central committee meeting.

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Charley Jones, of Burden, was in town today attending the People's central committee meeting.

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Wm. Primrose, Dan Adams, and Geo. Barton were down from Atlanta yesterday trading with our merchants.

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Chairman Strong returned this morning from Wichita, where he has been all week as a witness in a case before the U. S. grand jury.

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J. H. Ritchie came in this morning from Independence and took the 10:30 Mo. Pac. train for Dexter, where he speaks to a meeting of the 1st District Alliance. He will return this evening and speak here at the courthouse tonight.

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Ritchie, on the sub-treasury plan at the courthouse tonight.

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Ike Harkleroad of Silverdale, took in the central committee meeting today.

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Ed Green was on hand as usual at the committee meeting this afternoon.

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Wm. Primrose, Daniel Adams, and Geo. Barton of Atlanta, were in town last evening.

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I. P. Gardner dropped in and ordered the DAILY HOWLER sent to his address at New Salem.

A. B. Kennedy of North Richland township was in today today and reports the people's cause booming in his section.

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Mr. A. DeBard, who is teaching school three miles south of Torrance, came in on the Southern Kansas this morning, and will leave this evening on the 'Frisco for Atlanta.

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This morning early a woman came in town from Arkansas City, half frenzied with grief over the [TWO WHOLE LINES ARE GARBLED UP IN PAPER]

J. E. Riley, telling him her story, and as luck would have it, Jack knew just where the boy was. Last Wednesday as Mike Markum's hired man was coming to town, he overtook a small boy three miles out, and seeing the little fellow was tired, asked him to ride, which offer he gladly accepted. He then told his story that his father had abused him and drove him from home, he had left without telling his mother. He was anxious to get some place to stay and work for his board. On coming to town and Markum hearing the lad's story, told his hired man to take the boy home with him and they would take care of him until he could find another home. Markum had told Riley of the circumstance, who was prepared to enlighten the woman as to the whereabouts of her lost boy.

"The fact that twenty or thirty thousand men own a large proportion of the wealth of this country is not the only alarming fact; it is equally alarming to know that a large part of the power of the elective franchise is in the hands of a few 'bosses' and that, so universally that there is hardly a large city free from their domination. The hardest blow that large corporations strike at free government is the blow with which they tend to crush independent, self-asserting manhood."

And this from a correspondent of the same paper who signs himself "D."

"I doubt not but that it can be truthfully said there is not a prominent nation in the world which has enough money in its treasury to pay off its indebtedness, and many of the great powers are notoriously burdened with debt."

Worse and worse. Gentlemen, you positively must stop. Otherwise, the great and good pension agent of Kansas will hear of it and the voice which used to shatter the rafters in the Methodist church of Winfield will turn its denuciatory thunder loose upon you. The Topeka Capital will call you an anti-prohibitionist, and the Smut Mill across from the post office will grind out its choicest collection of epithets. Be warned in time. Flee from the wrath to come, ere the Courier crowd will get their drinks ahead, and inspiration in proportion. The country must be saved. Shall not Barney Kelley keep his pension agency and the Courier proprietor his post office?

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THE CRISIS PASSED.

There are some amusing things that take place in this world, but they usually happen behind the scenes and the busy world knows nothing of them, unless the newspaper reporter happens to learn of it. The editor of the Courier has been on an extended visit of late, and as the affairs of the Courier, as well as the republican campaign were in a desperate shape, the fellows who have been trying to edit the paper sent out a telegram for their chief to return immediately as business of great importance required his presence. When the chief returned, there was a meeting of the three liars in a private room of the Courier building in which, substantially, the following conversation took place.

Ed: Well, boys, how are things going?

Joe: Bad enough, I assure you. Business has been very dull with us, the receipts of the office not being sufficient to furnish two men in the necessary elixer of life since you went away. The candidates refuse to put up any boodle and if I had my way about it I'd give them h__l, so I would.

Ed: Oh, no, that wouldn't do; for if we do that the party would repudiate the Courier again, and we are not able to stand more than one more repudiation [TWO LINES ALL MESSED UP]

makes me tired yet to think how the party sat on me. I went to Guthrie on purpose to see Hackney and see if he couldn't make the state committee put up, but Hackney says that the committee absolutely refuse to give him a cent since he was deposed two years ago. But say, if you need omeny, why don't you work some of the merchants by having an interview with some of them with whom we stand in, and get him to blow about the great Courier as an advertising medium?

Joe: I did that last night [Thursday] with a certain drug store here, but I haven't got a single new ad today and it seemed to fall on the community like a wet blanket; and I believe that the merchants and the people are on to the scheme, for I overheard a crowd of thos dod-gasted calamity yelpers laughing and talking about it today. They seemed to be making fun of it.

Ed: I was of the opinion that you fellows would be running low on the subject of heavy editorial and so I have written out some three or four for Friday's daily and I will read them for you.

"Fishback has a dead sure thing on the clerk's office and Salem Fouts is getting ready to surrender.

"Wilkin will come in with both hands down and you may mark that.

"Strother will get there and you may mark that down.

"Nipp will be elected. Mark that down."

Ed: What do you think of them for a bracer, Jack?

Jack: Those are regular heavy weight corkers, and I am afraid if it gets out who wrote them, my reputation will suffer for in my happiest vein I could never get off such whoppers as that.

Ed: Now, Joe. I want you to charge up these editorials to each of the candidates at the rate of $50 each, and we can pass it in as assets when we fail, as it seems we are bound to do soon. Also announce this evening that we will get out a lot of extra papers for Saturday evening, and that the matter of editorials will be kept up to the usual standard and say also, that the Courier is the only daily paper in town and if you think best you might say it is the only one in the county and state. Our readers are of a peculiar build and will not know any better, so make it strong. Be on the alert for the main chance and I tthink we will be able to tide thro'. Good night, boys, and be sure to keep up your lick. Be sure and clip all the democratic stuff that you see lying around loose, especially when you know it will reach our readers.

Don't read this until you have read P. H. Albright's address delivered at Manning's hall Friday evening September 18, 1891.

In his address Mr. Albright declares that the value of a dollar must be as definite and unchangeable as the length of the yard-stick, the weight of the pound, the duration of the hour, or the volume of a bushel.

Mr. Albright seems to be unable to understand the difference between "a measure of value" and the value itself.

Let us consider the consistency or inconsistency of his foolishness.

In one place he says, "After a while the various sovereigns and legislatures all over the world got to adopting a standard for weights of gold and silver, and finally we adopt, in the colonial times, that twenty-five and four-fifths grains of gold should constitute a dollar. Then they had a measure of silver for about 420 grains to the dollar." Further, he says: "Those measures of value have been definite and certain ever since, and they must always continue to be definite and certain."

Whether Mr. Albright is ignorant or not is unanswerable, but it is a fact that the silver dollar of to-day is only 9 parts pure and only contains 412-1/2 grains. Is it true then that measures have always been definite and certain?

Mr. Albright further says that at one time in his business fife gold commanded as high as one dollar and seventy-five cents in paper money. The gold he referred to was used for plating.

Now let us ask again was that measure of value definite and certain?

Wherein lay the value of that gold? In its money properties or in its commercial properties? The fact is that the gold was not a measure of value but actually possessed the value within itself.

His argument is lame in another particular. It is lame in the fact that debts which had been contracted were payable in currency and commanded no more dollars of paper money than their face called for.

It is true that creditors were willing to accept a less number of dollars in gold, but that was altogether for speculative purposes.

And why under existing circumstances should they not be anxious to get possession of the gold, it being the basis.

Mr. Albright has left us in the dark as to the time of his business referred to in his speech, but it must have been just before the rebellion, or during its progress, or shortly after its close.

If it was before or during the war, the situation may be easily explained. The people's party claim that the money should be based on the credit and STABILITY of the government.

Now at that time the nation was threatened with division. It seemed as if there would be two governments instead of one.

Gold having value of itself and also being the basis of money (or the supposed basis), it was acceptable in either country, simply because the people erroneously believed and accepted the silly theory that money must have a metallic basis.

If the time referred to was shortly after the war, the situation is more easily explained than ever.

It was at this time that the nefarious legislation of congress began with reference to financial affairs, first making the interest on the bonds, and afterwards making the bonds themselves payable in coin, and still later making them payable in gold. Why shouldn't gold raise in value, and yet Mr. Albright says these measures of value are definite and certain.

Here is one of Mr. Albright's illustration.

"I will go to a farmer, and I will say I want to buy your 1,000 bushels of wheat.

"Well, what are you going to give for it? Legal tender paper money made by act of congress with nothing behind it? How many head of cattle will that buy, and how much cloth?"

Oh, these are profound questions, but they may be answered. In the first place there is a great deal behind that legal tender paper money besides the fist of congress. There lies behind it millions of acres of wheat and corn, hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton, mountains of iron and mines of gold, silver, and coal, and millions of cattle, hogs, horses, and sheep, and more than that there lies behind it the manhood, the womanhood, and the patriotism of every American citizen. In answer to the second question, we will say that at $1 per bushel and eight years ago about 25 head of good milk cows might have been bought for that legal tender money. At the same price now at least 50 head of equally good cows may be bought.

Now a wise thing for us to do if we can is to determine which of these things is the measure of value and which is the real value.

Certainly no one will assert that the cows are the measure of value, it is evident that the paper is not the measure of value, and as gold and silver and paper are all at par, the same argument holds good with either of the other monies, and as the amount of the material in the coin is the same as it was 8 years ago and the buying power twice as great, we can but conclude that these articles have but a relative value. Now what is it that regulates or determines the relative value of a dollar.

One of the things undoubtedly, is the number of dollars in circulation in proportion to the bulk of materials to be exchanged.

If Mr. Albright is a student of political economy, he doubtless remembers that all political economists agree in saying that a contraction of the currency decreases the price of all articles of exchange in proportion to the contraction, and that an inflation of the currency increases the price in proportion to the inflation.

They also agree in saying that the best times are experienced during the period of inflation.

To illustrate, let us suppose that a reasonably good horse sells for $150 (as was the case 8 or 9 years ago). By contracting the currency one half, you make it impossible for that horse to sell for more than $75.

By inflating the currency to double the amount, the horse represented $300.

The illusttration bears within itself no argument for or against contraction or inflation, for it makes absolutely no difference whether the horse sells for $75 or $150 or $300 except to the man who is in debt. To him it makes a wonderful difference.

The law of political economy set fourth above is absolutely undeniable.

Let us imagine a man to contract a debt of $150 under circumstances when one real good horse will pay it, suppose also that he pays no interest. The currency shall now be contracted one-half, rendering his horse worth but $75. He must now sacrifice a team of equally good horses to satisfy his creditor.

The same argument holds good with reference to all other articles of exchange. And yet our financial statesman declares that the masure of value remains definite and certain.

Shame on such nonsense, such foolishness. A person who advocates such stuff is either prejudiced, ignorant, or "has an ax to grind"--or all three. In any case it should fail to catch with an intelligent thinking people, as we have in Cowley County.

E. B. SANDFORT.

Atlanta, Kansas.

W. K. McComas, of Burden, was in town this morning on

business.

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This office printed Sale Bills this week for A. B. Tuggle.

Public Sale.

I will offer for sale at my residence, three miles east and two and one-half miles south of Rock on

SATURDAY, OCT. 17th, 1891,

The following property to-wit: 50 head of cattle, consisting of 12 yearling steers, 12 spring calves, remainder cows and heifers.

TERMS OF SALE: Nine months' time on all sums over $10. All sums of $10 and under, cash in hand. Bankable security will be required on all notes.

A. B. TUGGLE.

J. W. DOUGLASS, Auct.

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Judge Troup and stenographer Raymond took the Sunday evening train for Howard to open county court today.

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J. A. Kirkland, of Hillsdale, Miama [WAY THEY SPELLED IT] county, in company with A. B. Tuggle of Rock, made this office a call Saturday last.

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For Sale.

Two tickets to Chicago, good until Oct. 29th. Will sell cheap. Call at room 10, Hackney Block.

Misses Nora Schmidt and Lettie Reed returned last night from Wichita where they have been for the past week visiting friends and attending the fair.

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Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. This is why Wall street and the entire National bank system is fighting the sub-treasury plan and the people. Do you catch on?

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The alliance is not a partisan political party, but a political educator of economic questions. The People's party is an organization to put into operation the demands of the

alliance.

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Township Ticket.

A meeting will be held in Pleasant Valley township Thursday evening, Oct. 15, at Odessa school house for the purpose of nominating a People's township ticket.

W. J. CANN, Com.

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Mrs. H. Tuller left for Kansas City this morning.

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Geo. Corwin left this morning for Kansas City on a business trip.

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The union meeting held at the First Baptist church last evening was well attended.

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Mrs. J. M. Armstrong and Miss Anna Eden of Atlanta were in town today trading with our merchants.

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Misses Ona Arnspiger and Mollie Ryman and Mrs. Robertson, of Portland, Kansas, made this office a pleasant call today. Mrs. Robertson and Miss Arnspiger will leave for Kansas City this

evening.

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The "Old Roman" at Arkansas City says the democrats in Vernon and Ninnescah townships have all gone back to their first love. This seems strange when only three men in Vernon township can be found that will vote the democrat ticket, and one of them is the democratic candidate for county treasurer. The Old Roman should tell another and then catch a breath.

The amount of the mortgages filed during the week ending Saturday, Oct. 3rd, as shown by the Daily Abstract of Sadil & Light is:

Filings $59,343.58

Releases 30,534.90

Excess of filings $28,808.78

Sadil & Light are getting to be regular calamity howlers, and the wonder is, that the smut mill don't give them a severe roasting. Better look out, boys.

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Everyone who receives wages or has a fixed salary has a right to demand that the purchasing power of his money shall not be diminished. That is the republican doctrine as expounded by President Harrison, Senator Sherman, and all republican leaders.

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THE COUNCIL.

The city council meets this evening and there is a great deal of interest manifested by the people as to the outcome of the meeting.

The action of the council, at a former meeting, in laying a tax of $100 per month on a clothing merchant who advertised to sell goods very cheap, had the effect of bringing out a petition from the butchers to have a tax of $100 per month on all new butcher shops that wish to come in and do business within the corporate limits of this city. Of course, a tax of this kind will easily succeed in preventing any more shops from starting up for the present, and by protecting the shops we already have we will soon be able to buy our meat as cheaply as the citizens of Chicago and Kansas City or New York, there being but a small margin of difference now.

The towns of Kansas have been having a serious business depression of late, but there don't seem to be any of the city councils of other towns that have studied the question or inquired into the causes or remedies as have the "dads" of Winfield. Taking the recent ordinance passed by the council as a basis for calculation, we evidently have too many people here and some kind of measure had to be adopted in order to prevent an increase.

If the theory of the council is a correct one, then no better remedy could have been suggested, and Winfield had better act quickly in order that she may reap all the benefits possible from the discovery before our neighboring towns catch on to the scheme and inaugurate a boom.

There are at this time about thirty-five or forty men engaged in building an elevator in the northern part of the city, and their pounding and thumping is a great annoyance to that otherwise placid and quiet neighborhood.

The council should not adjourn without taking some action in this matter. It looks as if, under this new regime, that these fellows should be arrested for disturbing the peace of the community, and made to feel the cold arm of the law. If they are permitted to go on, they will soon have the building completed and then the company will send parties here to manage it, and after they are once here, it will be almost impossible to get rid of them.

Business is business, gentlemen, and while it may require some nerve, you should not waver or hesitate as to carrying out the policy you have outlined, and may be in the sweet bye and bye when our population has been reduced to the happy minimum contemplated by your policy; when the elegant council chamber that has so often resounded to the eloquence of Councilmen Harter, Cure, Vance, et al, shall have become the abode of bats and owls; when the antiquarian of the future shall wander through this lonely and deserted village in search of the cause of our decline, after having examined some of the "statoots," will be able to write our epitaph in something after the following style:

"Here is a city whose decline began at a time when it elected a council supposed to know straight up, but it didn't."

The mortgage debt generally represents values and not poverty. Courier.

Misses Nolan and Pixley went to Kansas City Monday evening.

Henry Branson of Grouse was shaking hands with his many friends today.

District court will convene again in this county in two weeks, or as soon as the judge gets through in Elk county.

Mrs. A. E. Baird and daughter, Pauline, went to Mound City, this state, Monday evening.

Lee Phillips was taken very sick just after he played the last game of baseball here. He is still very low with typhoid fever at his home.

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Bill Allison came in last night and left again this morning. His family is visiting here at present. Wm. is Probate Judge of county A in the new country just being settled.

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Co. Pres. J. A. Rupp and Dist. Pres. Wm. Baird will be in Arkansas City next Saturday, Oct. 10, looking up the interests of the Co. S. S. Convention which will be held in Winfield Nov. 30th and Dec. 1st.

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The man who gave his name as F. M. Miller, and was arrested for shooting into the train between here and Belle Plaine, waived examination and gave bail in the sum of $600 for his appearance at district court.

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Adelphi Lodge No. 110 A. F. & A. M. meets tonight in Masonic hall, corner of 9th and Millington street. All members are requested to be in attendance. Visitors are cordially invited. By order of the W. M. B. W. TROUT, Secretary.

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There will be a S. S. Convention held in the Presbyterian church at Maple City on Sunday, Oct. 11th, commencing at 10 o'clock. Basket dinner. I am endeavoring to secure good speakers for this occasion. Come everybody, and go home filled with a determination to do better work.

J. A. RUPP, Co. Pres.

Dr. Strong and wife, of Clayton, Indiana, are visiting his brother, S. P. Strong, of Rock. The Dr. was here about nine years ago and was somewhat surprised at the substantial improvements in Winfield since his former visit. He says Winfield presents the most attractive appearance of any town he has seen in his travels. The doctor is an old-time republican, but S. P. is of the opinion that after staying awhile in Kansas, that he will imbibe a sufficient amount of calamity doctrine to make a good howler in 1892. Nevertheless, Mr. Strong is one of those genial, whole-souled men that it does noe good to meet with, and we trust that his visit in Kansas will be an enjoyable one.

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The county commissioners convened their court Monday.

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D. C. Lynn is here at present from Texas. Charley is well known in these parts.

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G. D. Akers, one of Udall's most enterprising merchants, was on our streets Tuesday.

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Ed McMullen and wife left Monday for a visit to St. Louis. They will take in the fair while gone.

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Capt. Myers returned Monday morning from Colorado. He says a heavy snow fell at Colorado Springs while he was there.

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J. E. Conklin and wife left Monday evening for Kansas City where they will visit for several days and take in the Priests of Pallas parade.

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John Keck left Monday morning last for Kansas City to meet his wife, who has been east on a visit for some time. They will take in the sights in K. C. this week.

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Cal Ferguson returned from his business trip to New Mexico Sunday evening. He reports a very interesting time while gone. He was in Old Mexico and saw a fine country.

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Will Ferguson went to Chanute Sunday evening to take a position in a large clothing establishment. Will is an accommodating young man and will not fail to give satisfaction to both employers and customers.

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Total amount of mortgages, chattel and real estate, filed and released Oct. 5th were:

Releases . . . $7,697.00

Filings . . . 3,667.27

Excess of Filings . . $4,029.73

Owing to fact that the County Alliance and Southwestern Soldiers' Reunion hold meetings at Arkansas City on the 13, 14, 15 of Oct., the meetings in Maple, Rock, and South Richland township will be cancelled for the present and a later date will be substituted.

S. P. STRONG, Chairman Com.

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Guy Sparks has resigned his position as deputy register of deeds under A. A. Jackson, and will soon move his family and effects to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he has accepted a position as bookkeeper for a manufacturing establishment. Guy has been deputy register for nearly two years and has given entire satisfaction to Mr. Jackson and to the public in general. While Winfield loses one of her best citizens and family, that loss will be a gain to Indianapolis. Success to Guy, may his future be a bright and lucrative one is the wish of this office.

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One of the Courier's "prosperity yawpers" from North Richland township was in town this week and gave that paper some figures that will do to display before his friends from the east, but any sensible man in Kansas knows they are rather "fishy." The gentleman, Mr. Sam Tull, told "the thing over the way" that he had a farm of 160 acres which he rented this year and received $1,200 for his rent and his renter got $2,400 for his labor. This makes $3,600 mde this year from 160 acres, not including the fruit which Mr. Tull says if he could have saved was worth $500. Here $4,100 of grain and fruit is raised on 160 acres in one year. This is a little over $25 to the acre. What could this renter raise to have brought so much at present prices? Any farmer in Richland township knows these figures won't work. Mr. Tull says his neighbors clear $10 and $11 per acre. Nothing short of a few affidavits from these "prosperity" farmers will settle this matter. We give those figures to show to the balance of Richland township that Mr. Tull and his neighbors are "extra good farmers."

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The A. C. Traveler has a writer that signs himself "Truth and Justice" and tries to create a breeze by attacking clerk Fouts' salary record. Will Truth and Justice come to time? If so, he can get that $500.

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Township Ticket.

A meeting will be held in Pleasant Valley township Thursday evening, Oct. 15, at Odessa school house for the purpose of nominating a People's township ticket.

W. J. CANN, com.

The city council met last evening with Mayor Graham in the chair. Present Councilmen Evans, Harter, Hickok, Myton, Reed, Vance, and Whiting.

Bills to the amount of $156.85 were read and allowed.

Petition of about 200 citizens of Winfield and vicinity, requesting that the ordinance requiring Moe Isaacs & Co., to pay a tax of $100 per month be reduced, was referred to finance committee.

The ordinance in reference to occupation tax of $100 per month on new butcher shops was postponed until next meeting.

Report of police judge for September was referred to city attorney.

An ordinance providing for a sidewalk on East 5th to connect with sidewalk leading to college was passed.

Sidewalk on South Fuller was ordered completed.

A crossing was ordered in on corner 16th and Fuller.

Committee on deed of Island Park and survey of same granted further time in which to report.

Committee appointed to confer with a committee from the assembly were also given further time to report.

Crossings on West 9th and East 7th were ordered repaired.

Street on East 7th ordered repaired.

On motion council adjourned to meet next Friday evening.

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Board of Education.

The Board of Education met last evening in regular session. Present--Fink, Albright, Cheek, Smith, Wood, Crawford, Pate, Sydal, and Supt. Spiudler [?]. NOTE: MUCH OF THIS WAS MESSED UP IN PAPER...ONLY GIVING A FEW ITEMS.

On motion the salary of Miss Gibson, principal of 5th ward school, was raised from $52.50 to $55.

On motion superintendent was instructed to purchase primary text books upon the subject of hygiene and narcotics for use of teachers below B, Grammar grade, and that teachers be required to give oral lessons daily to their pupils upon these subjects.

On motion board adjourned fr one month.

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WALNUT VALLEY.

Moving is the order of the day in this locality.

B. F. Walker is about to trade his farm here for one in Missouri.

The Y. M. C. A.'s of the Winfield College held gospel meeting at Walnut Valley school house last Sunday evening. They will also conduct meeting at same place next Sunday evening.

We would advise the little boys who have been meddling with property around vacant houses to read the law posted in our school house.

"Bige" Gaily has returned from the new land. He wasn't as successful in securing a laim as his cousin, E. Walker.

The apple paring at Mr. Walker's last Tuesday was well attended, and those who were present report a good time.

BELLE.

Wm. Linke is here looking after the interests of Geo. W. Moore & Co., of Hartford, Conn.

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Charley Roberts, of Union Hill, started for Oskaloosa, Iowa, Monday morning on business.

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Jas. Walch will fill Jim McLain's place as deputy marshal during Jim's absence in Kansas City.

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Frank Pierce, of Dexter, was in the city yesterday. Frank says that the republican party of Dexter is on the wane.

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Fred Wilber came up from Guthrie, shook hands with his many friends, and started for Kansas City Tuesday evening to take in the fair.

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John R. Sumpter, of this city, has been recommended by the Winfield Board of Trade to be appointed deputy state grain inspector.

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Sol Burkhalter has some friends visiting him from Dayton, Indiana. Sol and his friends will take a trip down thro' the territory in a few days.

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The heavy frost last night has caused vegetation to wilt and the leaves on the trees to drop. Ice one-fourth of an inch thick was discovered this morning.

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Cap Whiting returned from the promised land this week. He is the possessor of what will be in the near future, valuable property in the new town of Chandler.

There will be a musical soiree at Manning's Hall tomorrow evening under the efficient management of Miss Myrta Lamport. This will be a musical treat worth hearing.

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Quite a number have gone to Kansas City this week to attend the fair and witness the Priests of Pallas parade. Among those that went are Arthur Bangs and wife, Jim McLain, John Keck, J. R. Cottingham, and Geo. Osterhout and family.

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The familiar visage of Berry Scroggins is visible on our streets again. He is not overburdened with massive real estate possessions in the new country. The squaw that had a prior claim on the land Berry coveted did not exactly suit his taste so he

vamoosed.

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The A. C. Democrat still keeps telling its readers something about Amos Walton's record. So far Bro. McIntyre has shown the successor of Amos which was McIntyre himself, to be the rascal. If Amos Walton was a candidate on the democrat or republican ticket, he would be a gentleman.

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L. J. Davidson, of Eaton, will move his family and effects the first of next week to Leoti, in the northwest part of the state. This is a move that the many friends of L. J. will dislike to hear. Mr. Davidson is one among the early settlers and is recognized as one among the best men in his locality. He was elected last fall as representative of his district by the People's party, and conducted himself at the session last winter in a manner that his constituents all feel proud of his record. He is a man of sterling integrity, morally a chirstian, politically a true reformer, conscientious in his beliefs, and honorable in his dealings. Such is L. J. Davidson, whose many friends wish him and his family a long and prosperous life in their new home.

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The engine room of The Newspaper Union is being rapidly

rebuilt.

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Squire Turner of Otter township was in town this week. Mr. Turner is one of the oldest settlers in the east part of the county.

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Sam Hartsell, of Sumner county, made us a call this week. He says the people are on top in Sumner county, notwithstanding there are two more tickets in the field.

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TO BE MARRIED. Mr. Ithamer Saunders and Mrs. Miranda Rhoads, both of Winfield, have taken license to wed, and the ceremony will be performed this evening his his honor, Judge Sitton.

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F. Baker, of Dexter, was in town this week and got a check cashed on the first installment of his pension, of which he has just been granted $8.00 per month, dating back from September, 1890.

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L. P. King dropped in to see us Tuesday evening. He was on his way to Kansas City. He has been around over the state some in the last ten days and finds the reform movement gaining in popularity wherever he goes.

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MARRIED. Marriage today (Wednesday) between S. G. Babcock of Wichita and Louise S. Gregg of Winfield. Mr. Babcock is a traveling salesman for a large wholesale hardware firm and Miss Gregg is a teacher in the Winfield high schools.

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An engine set fire to a stack of wheat while threshing at W. E. Stenhour's in Vernon township last Monday. The stack was entirely consumed. The tank was at a neighbors being filled and the fire could not be checked at once.

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We are requested by the managers of the Cowley county fair that they have been able to pay all their premiums in full this year. This is a splendid showing for the association and will encourage those who were patrons and competitors this year to take renewed interest, and make it a greater success next year.

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Total amount of mortgages, chattel and real estate, filed and released Oct. 6th were:

Filings ....... $14,263.72

Releases ...... 4,309.20

Excess of Filings. $ 9,954.52

In the article taken from Sadil & Light's abstract, in yeserday's Daily, a mistake was made in putting the word "filings" in the place of "releases." It should have read: Excess of releases $4,029.73. The mistake was made by the compositor and escaped the vigilant eye of the ornamental proof reader.

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S. S. Convention.

The Vernon township Sunday school convention was a success in spite of the rain.

Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. P. B. Lee, of Winfield. Worley O'Neal at the organ. Basket dinner, and plenty of it.

The afternoon session opened with an excellent song service, followed by a class drill by Mrs. R. V. Rupp. This lady had prepared a paper on Sunday school teaching, telling of her method, etc., after which her class arose, and without books sang "Sing, Sing His Praise." Then in concert repeated the 23rd Psalm. Then in concert repeated the Lord's prayer. They were again seated, and without any help, whatever, never once disappointed their teacher as she questioned them over the lessons of three years ago. The baby of the class, Marshall Land's tiny little girl, passed the hat around the class, taking up its weekly collection and giving the same to the county president.

Next followed the Seely class, Miss Cora Bruington, Teacher. This is a fortunate class, having a room by themselves during Sunday school. Their drill covered the 3rd quarter. They used colored charts and colored cards.

Mrs. Emma Smith, of Winfield, was next introduced. Shje gave us one of the best temperance talks we have heard in the State.

Rev. Viele, of Oxford, was the next speaker.

District President Wm. Baird, of Wellington, addessed us for a short time.

The newly elected township officers, viz: Rev. B. McBride, President; Miss Lottie E. Soule, Secretary, Charles Tharp, Vice President, and Grace Steinhour, Treasurer.

President Baird and Mr. C. Farguhar remained to address the young folks at night. SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKER.

J. D. SALMON.

J. D. SALMON, People's nominee for Register of Deeds, was born in Henry county, Virginia, December 5th, 1837. He left that state in the year 1859, about one week prior to the hanging of John Brown, and settled in what was then known as Barren, now Metcalfe county, Kentucky. On the 4th of July, 1861, he enlisted as a private soldier in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry; served in every non-commissioned office in his company, and was promoted for gallantry to the office of second lieutenant.

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DEXTER ITEMS.

Sleeman Kaster has returned from the new country.

Mrs. W. P. Hardwick started Monday to visit her mother and other relatives in Missouri.

Mr. Bryan, our hardware merchant, accompanied by his wife, went to St. Louis to attend the fair.

The howlers and howleresses will meet in Dexter next Saturday evening for the purpose of organizing a People's Club. Everybody invited to come. The people are enthusiastic over this way.

The following gentlemen visited at the residence of L. B. Bullinton last Saturday: Salem Fouts, Amos Walton, Ham Hawkins, and Jap Cochran. It is wise to say they are all candidates on the people's ticket, and will of course be elected in November.

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HACKNEY ITEMS.

Cool days now with some frost in the mornings.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown attended church at Arkansas City Sunday.

Miss Celina Bliss of Winfield, is visiting Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Chapin.

Mr. and Mrs. Cal Snyder, S. D. Fisher, and Ed Chapin attended the fair at Wichita last week.

Mr. J. M. Midkiff is preparing to build a new house in the fine grove on his farm near Hackney.

The district alliance will be held in the Mercer school house in West Bolton on Saturday, Oct. 10.

Miss Ella Shaw is back from the Hoosier State and her pleasant face is a welcome sight around Hackney.

Mrs. O. B. Mason received a telegram calling her to Iowa on account of the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. Smock.

Jimmey O'Conner, the station agent at Hackney, is sick with fever at his boarding place. The station is closed for the present.

The union review at the M. E. Church was a failure as to attendance from Irwin Chapel, no one being on hand but the superintendent.

The store building at Hackney is being enlarged and the co-operative association propose building a large hall over the store for the use of the Grange and as a town hall.

Rev. O. B. Lee preached to a good congregation at the Chapel Sunday at 11 o'clock, and he and his wife and little daughter were entertained by R. W. Anderson's until the evening meeting.

MARRIED. Married, at the home of the bride, Mr. Jesse Mumaw and Miss Addie Compton. The young people are of the best and most respected families in the valley, and have numberless good wishes from all.

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A Literary Day.

At R. W. Anderson's on Saturday, Oct. 3rd, in response to notice given by the hostess, a number of friends assembled to enjoy and give enjoyment by an interchange of thoughts and sympathy.

The meeting was opened by scripture reading by Mrs. Mary Ann Roseberry. Prayer by Mrs. Greer of Winfield. Paper by Mrs. Clara Mason, which was discussed by Mrs. Greer, Mrs. McGlashin, Mrs. Hannah Brown, Mrs. Amy Chapin, and others.

Dinner was served to all, and a social time enjoyed for two hours when the work of the day was resumed by singing "While the Years are going by."

Recitation by Miss Nettie Anderson; then Miss Bliss of Winfield, being called on to sing or play, replied by a short quotation from a poem by P. P. Bliss, written in his early days, which was so well received that Miss Celina was persuaded to recite the whole poem.

Then followed other recitations by Miss Muriel Chapin, an original poem by Mrs. Amy Chapin, Atha Muret, Mary Beaver, Cora Wooley, Mrs. Hannah Brown, Mrs. John Bower of Vernon, and Mrs. C. G. Bradbury of Vernon. A GUEST.

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The republican club attempted to have another meeting last night but gave it up, there not being a quorum present. This club ws organized about two weeks ago with a great blast of trumpets as to what they were going to do. They began business by excluding all who were not members of the club, thus committing the party to the principle of secret political organization in the face of all that has been said by the Pariseical republican organs upon the iniquitous plan of holding secret caucuses. The Knights of Reciprocity and the republican club of Winfield are surely not orthodox republicans.

About 20 percent of the audience last night was from the post office department of this city. The meeting was advertised in the Courier last evening, and as a consequence it was supposed that the fact that there would be a meeting hadn't got noised around very much, and the members of the club who did go were somewhat surprised to find that an enemy in the shape of a People's party man had learned of the meeting and had come to take in the show. After having opposed the idea of secret political gatherings, they disliked to request him to withdraw and so they finally decided to adjourn and not carry out the program advertised. The club will probably make another to meet in the future.

Felix Calonder brought a load of wheat to market last Wednesday, and sold it to Kirk & Alexander's buyer. Mr. Calonder had run 4 or 5 bushels through the fanning mill, that had a little oats in, he then drove to his granery and finished his load. He weighed on the city scales before he sold, and had 47 bushels and 30 pounds. He sold his load for 69 cents per bushel, weighed his load on the mill scales and had 46 bushels and 30 pounds. The buyer agreed to pay 69 cents per bushel but on account of a little oats, the mill docked the load 9 cents on the bushel. Mr. Calonder feels as though he was cheated out of one bushel of grain in weight, besides the 9 cents on the bushel.

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Mrs. Latham, of Udall, is in the city today.

Sam Pryor's mother came in from the east this morning.

Sheriff Gibson started this morning for the Oklahoma country on business.

Geo. Frazier, one of Udall's prominent merchants, was in town today on business.

S. H. Carr returned from the territory last evening, where he has been during the summer.

Frank Gilliland, of Sheridan township, was in the city today. He is one of those reformers that wants no fusion from any source.

County Attorney McGinnis, of Butler county, was in the city today on business with our county commissioners. He is one of those persistent calamity howlers, that was elected last fall by the people.

Geo. Wagner, of the A. C. Dispatch, ws here and stayed over night. This morning the south bound Santa Fe was about an hour late, aned George "fessed up" that he was getting "most all fired thirsty" before he left.

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Total amount of mortgages, chattel and real estate, filed and released Oct. 6th were:

Releases ...... $2,392.50

Filings ....... 1,859.68

Excess of releases ...... $ 942.82

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The Courier has made some additions to its staff for the campaign. They now have a new patent, self-adjusting, double-back-acting, excelsior, cog-wheeled liar that can grind them out to order. Stereotyped plates will be furnished republican papers for the campaign at reduced rates.

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The people's club held a meeting at the city building last evening. W. P. Hardwick, commissioner from eastern Cowley, made the speech of the evening. Mr. Hardwick said that while he had always been a democrat, he was opposed to 82,000 republican majority, with its attendant evils, and believed that it was his duty to use the only means presented, that of voting the people's ticket to rebuke the republican party for its subserviency to corporation and ring rule. He spoke of the high character of the candidates on the people's ticket, and closed with an exhortation to all true democrats to repel the seductive smiles of republicans and vote for their interest. He was frequently applauded during the course of his remarks. The president, Mr. Q. A. Glass, gave the club a recitation upon the subject of tariff, which brought down the house. Short speeches were made by O. P. Fuller, Ira P. Russell, and others. After which the club adjourned to meet on next Wednesday evening, at Manning's Hall. James Buchanan will be present at that time and will deliver a talk on the subject of money. This is a subject of importance to everybody and all should avail themselves of the opportunity to hear this lecture. A special invitation is extended to ministers and bankers to be present.

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Commissioners' Court.

The following business has been transacted and a few additional allowances to paupers:

Sealed proposals for the construction of a bridge across Dutch creek in Fairview township was received. The superstructure was awarded to the Wrought Iron Bridge Co., of Canton, Ohio, for $584. The substructure was awarded to Roberts and Webber for $430.

The report of the viewers in the Wm. Stout county road was adopted.

The following viewers in the James Bruington road were appointed: Leonard Stout, S. C. Smith, and R. L. Glover. The same were appointed in the Wm. Frelinger road.

In the matter of the John Sargeant road, E. Harned, Steve Elkins, and J. R. Ferguson were appointed.

It has leaked out that the democratic central committee are fitting Andy Thompson for joint discussions with republicans and people's party speakers. No better choice could have been made. Andy possesses superior advantages as a debater, chief of which is that he never hears what an opponent says, usually considering it unworthy of notice.

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HEADQUARTERS SOUTHWESTERN SOLDIERS' ASSOCIATION,

ARKANSAS CITY, Kas., Oct. 1, 1891.

CIRCULAR LETTER, No. 3.

The membership of this association being scattered all over the southwest, and it being impossible to reach all by letter, this circular is issued for the benefit of all concerned.

(1) The annual reunion and encampment of the association will be held in this city Oct. 14, 15, 16, at which time it is expected that every member will be present, if possible, with his family.

(2) A general invitation is hereby extended to all ex-soldiers to attend with their families. Ample quarters have been provided in tents which with fuel and straw for bedding will be free to all veterans.

(3) Department Commander Tim McCarty and Staff, Capt. Bernard Kelly, Senator Plumb, Hon. A. R. Green, Hon. Joe Watters, Gov. G. W. Steele, and other prominent speakers will address the Association. "Camp Fires" will burn every night.

(4) Battery "A," K.F.G., "C" Company 2nd Infantry K.N.G., 3rd Regiment Knights of Pythias, "A" and "B" Companies Arkansas City Cadets, will go into camp with the Veterans. The Day Parade of the Association will occur Oct. 15, and a Night Parade lighted by "Greek Fire" will be given on the same or succeeding evening.

(5) Round trip tickets, at the price of one fare, will be on sale at all railroad stations within 150 miles of Arkansas City, Oct. 13 to 16, good to return up to and including Oct. 17.

By order of B. F. CHILDS, President.

OFFICIAL,

ORTON INGERSOLL, Sec.

My informant was himself called by the Cherokees T-kaw-wha-lees-ky, which signifies "The man who writes orders for flour."

John Howard Payne, the author of "Home, Sweet Home," was a warm, personal friend of John Ross. At the time the Cherokees were removed from their homes in Georgia to their present home west of the Mississippi river, Payne was spending a few weeks in Georgia with Ross, who was occupying a miserable cabin, having been forcibly ejected from his former home. A number of prominent Cherokees were in prison, and that portion of Georgia in which the tribe was located was scoured by armed squads of the Georia militia, who had orders to arrest all who refused to leave the country.

While Ross and Payne were seated before the fire in the hut, the door was suddenly burst open and six or eight militia men sprang into the room. Ross' wife was seated on a trunk containing many valuable papers and a small amount of money, and at the unexpected intrusion she sprang up and screamed wildly. Ross spoke to her in the Cherokee language, telling her to be seated, as she would save the contents of the trunk. She sat down again and the intruders told Ross that he and Payne were under arrest and must prepare to accompany the squad to Milledgeville, where they were to be imprisoned. The soldiers lost no time in taking their prisoners away. Ross was permitted to ride his own horse, while Payne was mounted on one led by a soldier. As the little party left the hovel, rain began falling and continued until every man was drenched thoroughly.

Towards midnight Payne's escort, in order to keep himself awake, began humming "Home, home, sweet, sweet home," when Payne remarked, "Little did I expect to hear that song under such circumstances and at such a time. Do you know the author?"

John Mann, of the sheriff's force, has a cousin visiting him from Missouri.

Geo. Hargis, of Arkansas City, was up today. He is one of the prominent attorneys of that city.

The ladies of the Christian church will give a dinner and supper on election day, Nov. 3.

The Spirit of the West, of Burden, found its way to this office this morning, marked X. We accept.

George Corwin returned this morning from Kansas City, where he has been on business and attending the fair.

A. Kinley, of Atlanta, was in town today, and will keep posted from now until election day through our columns.

Congressman B. H. Clover was in town today. He has been in Oklahoma for some time, but has been home for two weeks sick.

Guy Sparks' father returned from New Mexico this week. Guy has been waiting for his father's return before he started to his new home in Indianapolis. He will likely go now in a very short time.

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Mrs. Marian Todd, of Michigan, has been secured by the people's committee for three speeches in Cowley this campaign.

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Total amount of mortgages, chattel and real estate, filed and released Oct. 8th, were:

Filings ..... $4,336

Releases .... 2,337

Excess of filings .. $1,999

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See Geo. Neff's new delivery wagon. It is a daisy. George will have no time to rock the baby now on account of the increase of trade. In fact, there are no flies on George (especially these frosty mornings). When he undertakes to accommodate his customers, he does it.

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A good old, gray-haired brother undertook to enlighten J. C. Bradshaw in his speech last night in Sheridan township on the events of the late Kansas legislature. But as the g. o. p. party now quoting by guess, he was confronted by the Senate Journal and the good old man ws left in the soup.

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Jasper Cochran.

Jasper Cochran, or "Jap," as he is familiarly called, nominee for sheriff on the People's ticket, was born in Scott county, Indiana, March 17, 1851. In 1854 his parents moved to Mashaskie county, Iowa, where he lived until 1870, when he came to Kansas and settled in Winfield, Oct. 15, of that year, lacking but six days of having lived in Cowley county twenty-one years at this writing.

He has been engaged in various pursuits, but wherever found he has distinguished himself for industry and executive ability, coupled with the strictest integrity and uprightness of life and conduct. For several years past he has been engged in farming and fruit growing. His nomination by the convention came unasked and unsolicited by him, and was a sort of a paralyzer to the opposition; because of his spotless record as a citizen and man among men.

That he will be elected to the office of sheriff is conceded by all and that he will perform the duties of the office to the best of his ability, no one doubts for a minute.

H. C. Hawkins.

H. C. Hawkins, nominee on the People's ticket for county treasurer, is a native of Indiana. When but four years of age his parents moved to the state of Iowa, where he grew to manhood. In 1871, he came to Cowley county and settled in Vernon township, where he has lived ever since.

Politically Mr. Hawkins has been a republican with a sufficiency of independence in his make up to straigghten his ticket when the ringsters placed thereon men whom he though unfit for the positions. For the past two years he has affiliated with the People's movement.

Wherever Mr. Hawkins is known, his name is a synonym for honor and integrity and the people need have no fears with regard to placing the county funds in his keeping. He is an old and tried citizen and taxpayer that has helped to make Cowley county what it is today.

He is making friends wherever he goes, and there is now no doubt that he will be elected by the largest majority yet given the People's ticket.

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The Courier of last night boiled over with a lot of sympathetic heart rending gush. It started out as usual to show to its readers the stereotyped story that our mortgages was evi-dences of our wealth and prosperity. It says nine out of every ten mortgaged as an alternative to have a home. No one doubts this for a moment, but when these Cowley county farmers mortgaged their farms from six to ten years ago, they had confidence in the administration who was supposed to be running this government in the interest of the people. They did not expect a government to be run on the principle of a reduction of values, in order to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, but such is the fact, and the Courier dare not tackle this question to the contrary. The Courier drops on to the chattle mortgage question, and intimates the great majority of chattle mortgages is caused by our farmers buying machinery. This is to a great extent true, but why do those farmers put chattle mortgages on their stock, from the simple fact, they have grown the grain, and it takes the necessary machinery to take care of it, and values on everything has been depreciated to such an extent that they have no ready money to buy with. The grain they raise has not paid the true cost of production for the last eight years on account of depreciating values and gambling in the products of what the farmer produces. This great promulgator of law and morality after showing that mortgages was a benefit, and a necessity, then gives L. P. King a round up on what they call his misrepresentation of the railroad bonds in Cowley county, which no doubt is a snag the Courier and its "prosperity yawpers" do not like to run against.

Another stumper the Courier ran against was the fact that our County Surveyor has been allowed $156, instead of $52. This extravagance is all laid at the door of the last legislature, which passed a law to the effect that the county surveyor "must keep his office open one day in the week, or that he may keep his office open six days and receive $4.00 per day." Mr. Carnes should be given credit for being a conscientious reformer, as he only made out a bill for $162, while the law would have given him $304. The Courier man sees in this law a rare chance for boodle, and is striving to place a man in the office, who will put in a bill of $304 each quarter instead of $152. This $152 boodle that the Courier looks at will go a long ways to help keep up a corrupt newspaper for a corrupt political ring. With a reform county surveyor in office, the county saves $608 a year, which if in the hands of the prosperity yawping party, would be used for political boodle.

The Courier finally winds up on "the old soldier racket," and says the people's party, in order to catch votes, put up by a one armed soldier (J. D. Salmons for register of deeds) against R. S. Strother, "as brave a soldier as ever faced the privations of war."

Could our readers peruse the article on the "old soldier racket," in last night's Courier and then read some of the pathetic slobbering of this same paper of a few years back, they could see at a glance, that this "old soldier racket" has about lost power with the Courier and its party.

The pension that Mr. Salmons receives, that is such a bugaboo in the eyes of the Courier, does not pay him for the loss of a strong right arm and the suffering he underwent for many months caused from the loss of his arm. This little fusilade being fired at Mr. Salmons emanates from the brain of one who should forever hold his tongue about the "old soldier racket," when the position he now occupies and under the circumstances he occupies it, is so well knoown to every citizen almost in this county. He should take a back seat on the "old soldier" question. A man who has no use for an old soldier, only to get his vote to keep his party in pwoer and then occupy a position the "old soldier" is entitled to, is not much on "consistency."

Ritchie's sub-treasury pamphlet should be in the hands of every alliance man. Send for it.

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A Good Citizen Gone.

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R. B. Overman of Otto was in town today.

W. M. Taylor of Udall made this office a call today. He is a conscientious reformer.

Mrs. T. H. Harrod is enjoying a visit at present from a sister from Council Bluff, Iowa.

Grant Wilkins, teaching in district No. 95, was in town today on business with the County Superintendent.

T. G. Yarbrough of Box City was in town today with a load of sweet potatoes. He reports the reform sentiment in Harvey township stronger than ever.

Chairman Strong returned to his post this morning. He says the people must excuse him as he has been at home feasting, visiting, and threshing his crop of wheat.

T. S. Powers of Richland township will hereafter be found standing guard at the front door of the g. o. p. headquarters in this city, John R. Sumpter having thrown up the sponge.

Lafe Devore called on the "Calamity Howlers" in their den yesterday, and said the peoples' partty is far ahead in Pleasant Valley township.

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Capt. White, having received the necessary wherewithal to pay the expenses of his company from the state, he will go into camp with his militia next Tuesday at Arkansas City, and eat pork and beans during the reunion. About thirty will go and it is to be hoped they will have a splendid time.

David Edwards, living six miles east of Guthrie, Oklahoma, a nephew of H. L. Edwards of this city, took the first bale of cotton to the Guthrie market. A premium was offered for the first bale, which will give Mr. Edwards over $122 for getting ahead of his neighbors. Young Edwards had in 65 acres of cotton this year.

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A correspondent to the Courier let the cat out of the bag yesterday, when it said, "T. J. Lowe was a member of the democrat central committee and president of a peoples' party club. We can inform the Courier correspondent that this is nothing new, for what was once a democrat to be found at the head of a peoples' party club, but a rare thing to find a democrat central

committeemen.

???? ITEM NOT UNDERSTOOD!

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Jackson Snyder, of Dexter, was trading with our businessmen today.

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Art Holland, of Guthrie, is in town today. He says when he wants to loaf, he comes up to Cowley county as it is so very quiet here.

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John R. Sumpter has resigned his position as sentry at the republican headquarters. It became too monotonous, he couldn't stand it.

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D. M. Sidel returned Thursday evening from a months visit at his old home in Ohio. He says the condition of the weather has been very seasonable and politics are hot.

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J. W. Browning and Louis P. King of Tannehill, were in town today.

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Judge Troup returned this morning from Elk county. He says he found rather a peculiar docket over there. Out of a hundred civil cases not a contest. There is but little war over law points in Elk county.

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Total amount of mortgages, chattel and real estte, filed and released Oct. 9th were:

Filings .... . $8,326.25

Releases .... 3,449.50

Excess of filings ... $4,876.75

A people's club will be organized at Dexter tonight. Count on a big majority for the people's ticket in the old republican stronghold of Dexter.

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Attorney General Ives has appointed Ben S. Henderson as assistant attorney general for Cowley county. The reasons for the appointment arise from the complaints that have been coming into that office with regard to the loose manner in which the county attorney, C. T. Atkinson, has been enforcing the law of this locality. A reporter had an interview with Mr. Henderson in which he declared it his intention to do his whole duty. This sentiment will be heartily endorsed by the People's party, and while Mr. Atkinson was elected by the People's party, the party does not endorse his method of dealing with law breakers, if reports be true. An official investigation of his records in that office will probably reveal matters as they exist, and we withhold comment for further developments.

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For Murder.

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Agreeably Surprised.

Tuesday, October 6th, was the 57th birthday of S. P. Strong of Rock. The following neighbors had been invited to help celebrate the occasion: A. P. Carman and wife, J. R. Richards and wife, Golden Kestler and wife, Albert Abbott and wife, Dr. A. M. Strong and wife of Clayton, Indiana.

A. P. Carman was chosen to present a neat speech and a fine gold watch in behalf of the donors, the children of the recipient. The ladies then presented their host a beautiful nickel plated reading lamp.

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I SKIPPED A LONG ARTICLE ABOUT COMMISSIONER GUTHRIE AND THE COUNTY PRINTING...MENTIONS PRICES/PAPERS WHO GOT PRINTING FOR DIFFERENT PERIODS OF TIME....OCT. 10 ISSUE.

Prof. E. O. Jones, of Burden, was in the city Saturday.

Miss Edith Nichols returned to her home in Sedalia, Mo., Saturday night.

Judge Sitton Sundayed at his farm near Burden, returning to duty this morning.

Marshall Sanderson ran in five tramps Saturday night for breaking into a car of flour near the Santa Fe depot. Six others escaped.

The college Y. M. C. A. have a "gospel wagon" that goes out to the school houses around the city every Sunday evening.

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There will be an examination of applicants for teachers' certificates held at the High School building in Winfield on Saturday, October 31st, beginning at 8 o'clock a.m.

MRS. LIDA S. BRADY, Co. Supt.

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Marshal McClain arrested a young man on Saturday evening for being drunk and disorderly. He seemed to be of the impression that he was the owner of the corporation and went about brandishing a knife, and using abusive language. He is more like himself at the present time.

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Maj. and Mrs. Sulley will conduct the meetings of the Salvation Army Wednesday and Thursday nights. They are famous workers and all will be well repaid for attending.

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Hon. James Buchanan will speak at the opera house at Winfield next Wednesday evening, the 14th.

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Total amount of mortgages, chattel and real estate, filed and released Oct. 10th were:

Filings ..... $35,851.79

Releases .... 23,785.73

Excess of filings .. $12,066.06

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C. T. Atkinson Arrested.

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STAR VALLEY.

Our school is flourishing.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sims went to Winfield last Sunday.

Will the correspondent of Wheatland explain why some of the pupils from this district prefer attending school at Star Valley?

Mr. Graham, our pastor, did not materialize last Sunday. Perhaps his absence was caused by the effects of over-eating at the donation party, given him by his New Salem friends.

Ed Buch was among the lucky few to secure farms in the newly opened lands. Mr. John Willis also secured a farm, but he said he did not care for one of which he must farm both sides to obtain sustenance on this earthly sphere, and so he left it to the howling coyotes.

OLD BACHELOR.

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WHEATLAND.

Miss Bettie Lunceford will begin school at Red Bud next Monday.

There was a party at the residence of Mr. A. Leach, given in honor of Ab's birthday.

Messrs. F. Greer and E. A. Houser are entertaining the threshers at their respective homes.

Mr. Ike Johndrow expects to leave sunny Kansas for the fairer and more fruitful (?) state of Missouri.

Miss Agnes Renfro recently visited her home and reports herself fascinated with the life of a pedagogue.

Mr. Melvid Sheets finished making sorghum last week. George and Carrie do not think themselves as sweet as they used to be.

Mr. James Lunceford was in Winfield two days last week. He took a chair to Miss Cordle. She now wishes us to announce that her visitors do not have to stand up now.

Miss Alice Gorham has been staying at Mr. Greer's this week, serving in the capacity of chief cook and kitchen maid.

KANSAS ANNIE.

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WANTED. 40 acres of ground plowed. Apply to S. E. Burger, 2 miles north of town.

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Gordon's hog and chicken liquid, if introduced into the system of the animal, will destroy the germs of cholera without injury to the living tissues. For sale by Quincy A. Glass, the druggist.

Hon. B. H. Clover was in the city today.

The Dress Cutting School is offering premiums to those organizing classes.

Capt. White, of Co. C, is a modern Diogones. He was seen on the street today at noon with a lighted lantern. He failed "to find a man" here and went on to Arkansas City.

S. P. Strong, P. W. Craig, A. P. Carmine and others are attending the county alliance in session at Arkansas City today and tomorrow.

Co. "C" goes to Arkansas City this evening to attend the reunion of the Southwestern Soldiers' Association. They took their tents, blankets, and commissary and are prepared for a warlike good time.

The Athenian literary society is preparing a course of lectures and concerts for the coming season. They expect to have a few such lecturers as Geo. R. Wendling and some of the best singers in America.

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There was a large and enthusiastic meeting at Udall last night. King and Bradshaw were the speakers and two glee clubs furnished music for a crowded house. Mark down gains for the People's ticket from Ninnescah.

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At the next county meeting of the Woman's Mutual Improvement Society, members will please come prepared to answer to the roll call, by repeating a verse of scripture relative to the christian hope. B. HENDRIX.

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For the annual convention of the Y. M. C. A., the Santa Fe will sell excursion tickets to Parsons, Kansas, and return at $2.50. Tickets sold Oct. 20th to 24th. Limited for return until Oct. 27th. W. J. NEVINS, Agent.

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L. M. Toland, the popular Pacific Express driver, has entered the Business College, where he will complete a course. He does this with the advice and consent of his employers, and will no doubt be given a good position when through.

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Miss M. M. Hammond, of Leavenworth, is in the city soliciting funds for the Home of the Friendless of that city. The writer has a personal acquaintance with Miss Hammond, extending through a number of years, and can heartily recommend her to the people of Winfield as a lady of high Christian character and well worthy of confidence and respect.

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Total amount of mortgages, chattel and real estate, filed and released Oct. 13th were:

Filings ...... $4,790.00

Releases ..... 3,554.00

Excess of filings .... $1,246.00

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Attention!

There will be a special communication of Adelphi Lodge No. 110, A. F. & A. M. this evening for the purpose of work in the Master Mason's degree. Visiting members cordially invited.

By order of the Worshipful Master.

B. W. TROUT, Sec.

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James Buchanan tonight.

Workmen were digging today for the foundation of the Morgan monument.

Mr. Childers, of El Dorado, called at the Sheriff's office this morning. He is a boyhood friend of Mr. Gibson's.

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Total amount of mortgages, chattel and real estate, filed and released Oct. 13th were:

Filings ....... $561.58

Releases ..... 400.00

Excess of filings .... $161.58

Henry Ireton, of Seeley, was in town today. Henry says that we might say for him that he had not left the People's party by a good deal, and had no intention of doing so, as was stated by the Courier some time since. He says that he does not believe in the sub-treasury plan but that does not prevent him from supporting the ticket placed in nomination by the convention in this county. The smut mill would have people believe that Mr. Ireton was a full fledged republican, which he never was, but that is about as near the truth as that sheet ever gets.

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Ira P. Russell and glee club will furnish music at Manning's hall tonight.

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Mrs. L. W. Swan has just received new millinery and a stock of notions. Call and inspect them.

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There was a large amount of wheat on the street today, and the price was a few cents higher than usual.

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Rev. Miller returned Tuesday morning from the fall meetings of the Presbytery of Emporia held at Osage, Kansas, and the Synod of Kansas held at Kansas City, Kansas.

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30 head of cattle to be sold on Saturday, October 17th, at 1 o'clock on the Corner of Main and 9th avenue. Regardless of price. D. J. DIX, City Auctioneer.

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One S. B. Littell occupies over two columnns of space in the Courier last evening in "doing" Quincy A. Glass, president of the People's club of this city. After Quincy gets through with him, he will not only be awfully tired, but he will have learned the lesson so often learned by the fellow who fools with a gun when he didn't know it was loaded.

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Married.

The Morgan Monument.

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Senator Plumb is in town today. He is enroute to Arkansas City to attend the reunion.

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There are a great many strangers in town today. Most of them are enroute for the reunion.

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WILMOT.

Hattie Copeland is spending the week in Butler county.

Several of our young folks attended church at Floral Sunday evening.

The Wilmot alliance will attend the lecture at New Salem Friday night.

Miss Iona Carter, of Winfield, visited her cousin, Leonora Furthy, Sunday.

R. H. Copeland, one of the College students at Winfield, spent Sunday at home.

I. B. Holmes, of Rock, was over last Sunday looking after his claim west of Wilmot.

Misses Dottie Pontius and Laura Harman are in Winfield learning the dress-making trade.

PANSY.

DRESS CUTTING SCHOOL.

J. E. Conklin went to Newton last night.

Barney Esch, of Grouse, was in the city today.

Jim Taylor and wife, of Dexter, were in town today.

J. G. McGregor and family went to the reunion in the carriage today.

Misses Alice Sayles and Belle Holland went to the City yesterday.

Misses Sarah Hawkins and Minnie Holland are taking in the reunion.

Clem Bradshaw came in from Arkansas City to hear Buchanan speak last night.

Mr. M. S. Foster of Atlanta was in town today. Mr. Foster was on his way home from a visit in Iowa.

The K. of P. went down en masse to attend the reunion today. They make a fine appearance when marching through the street and their maneuverings are good.

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The Courier has bolted the republican nominee for county clerk--at least the editor of that sheet is fighting Mr. Fouts--which fact insures Mr. Fouts' election by an increased majority. What has poor Fishback done to deserve such a fate?

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