EDITORS: MILLINGTON AND LEMMON.
WINFIELD COURIER, JULY 12, 1877.
MEDICINES FOR THE MILLION!
EQUAL TO ANY!
Better than Many, & More For Your Money!!
The undersigned respectfully informs
EVERYBODY
that he prepares the following medicines and guarantees them to be equal, and in many cases greatly superior to many similar preparations found on the shelves of the drug stores in the United States. It has been my study during the last year or two to compound a reliable TONIC MEDICINE that should be pleasant and agreeable to take and be within the reach of every person without the expenditure of a large sum of money. Hence I offer to the public an
AROMATICATED WINE OF IRON,
which I believe will accomplish the objects I have in view.
THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF IRON
are pre-eminently tonic and peculiarly adapted for improving the quality of the blood and giving TONE, STRENGTH, and SOLIDITY to the system generally.
During the hot dry weather of summer Infants and Young Children are very liable to
Sumner Complaints
and a suitable medicine should be within reach. In such cases offer the widely known
NEUTRALIZING CORDIAL,
a medicine that I have found from experience to be very efficacious in controlling Diarrhea, Dysentery, Cholera-morbus, Cholera-Infantum and other forms of Bowel Complaints affecting children. I prepare also a reliable
Diarrhoea Compound,
adapted for the use of adults. It is very popular in the eastern states under the name of "Dr. Squibb's Cholera Mixture." There is no better medicine made for Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cholera, Colic, and all deranged conditions of the bowels. I recommend also the
Universal Liniment for Man and Animal,
An improved preparation for external use in all cases of Rheumatism, Sprains, Bruises, Burns, Lame Back, Painful Swelling, Neuralgia, Sweeny, Splints, Cracked Heels, and all other cases where a liniment is likely to do good.
Sold at my Store at 25 and 50 cents per Bottle.
DR. MANSFIELD, Winfield, Kansas.
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SKIPPED THE DELINQUENT TAX LIST, WHICH BEGAN ON PAGE 1, WINFIELD COURIER, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1877.
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WINFIELD COURIER, JULY 19, 1877.
Custer's remains and three of the officers that fell with him have been brought in for a more appropriate burial.
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Eldorado is to have a grand jollification when the railroad is completed to that place, which will transpire about August 1st. People from abroad are expected to participate.
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By a private act of Congress approved March 3rd, 1877, Hon. T. B. Murdock, of Eldorado, was made a government pensioner. Let us see, that was a Democratic Congress; which side did you fight on, Bent?
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The commissioners of Sumner county have been enjoined from issuing the bonds thereof to the Emporia Narrow Gauge and the Solomon Valley Narrow Gauge railroads. The suit is brought at the instance of parties in Sumner and not Cowley county, as has been represented. Hackney & McDonald are attorneys for plaintiff.
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Sitting Bull has given his account of the battle in which Custer's command was annihilated. He states that the battle lasted only thirty minutes, and that Custer with a few men and officers had cut through the Indian line when he returned and charged back. The Indians were bewildered by this unlooked for desperate charge, but closed in on the few men and killed them all. Custer, it is said, shot five Indians and went down beating another with the butt of his revolver. This account corresponds with others coming from Indian sources.
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K. C. E. & S. RAILROAD.
Between the first and seventh of this month the following charter was filed at the Secretary of State's office, and from that time the corporation had an existence.
"Kansas City, Emporia & Southern railroad Company. Place of business Emporia, Kansas. Directors--J. K. Finley, C. V. Eskridge, C. N. Sterry, Joseph E. Young, and Lloyd B. Fuller."
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THE SUMNER COUNTY R. R. BONDS.
There must be something wrong about the bond business over in Sumner county. William Carter, one of the Commissioners, published the following card in the Wellington Press in connection with the published report of the election returns.
"I enter my protest against the correctness and legality of the canvass of the vote as declared and shown above in the vote for and against the Kansas City, Emporia and Southern railroad, for the reason that the other two members of the Board, over my protest, and at the suggestion of others, counted for the proposition a number of ballots that legally ought not to have been counted, and neglected and refused to count a number that ought to have been counted against said proposition.
WILLIAM CARTER."
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[ANOTHER EDITORIAL ITEM: WINFIELD COURIER, JULY 19, 1877.]
HOW IS THIS?
By the official records at Topeka, Cowley county stands the fifteenth on the list of counties in this State in the valuation of her personal property. There are sixty-four counties in the State, Cowley is among the very youngest. Its personal property valuation is greater than either Wyandotte, Saline, Osage, Nemaha, Neosho, McPherson, Marshall, Labette, Jefferson, Jackson, Davis, Dickinson, Coffey, Allen, Anderson, and fifty other counties in Kansas. It is more than half as large as the county of Leavenworth with all of its wholesale establishments, banks, manufactories, and rich men.
Cowley stands $476,989.00, Leavenworth county $897,389.00. Wyandotte county with its boasted age and wealth does not return one half the personal property that Cowley does.
Labette with its cities of Parsons, Oswego, Chetopah, and a half dozen little towns and two railroads is $42,765 below Cowley. Butler count is $100,000 behind us, and Allen county with its city of Humbboldt and other important towns falls below us nearly $200,000.
We believe there is something wrong in this matter, or else Cowley is a remarkably prosperous county. There must certainly be some swindle in the Leavenworth county returns. The Metropolis (?) of Kansas with the rich counttry around it ought to make a different showing.
Where is the personal property of the great Missouri Valley Life Insurance Company, alone reported to have $500,000 of assets? Come gentlemen, explain this matter.
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[PERSONALS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, JULY 19, 1877.
The Walnut is up again.
Ripe blackberries are plenty. New apples in town.
Green corn 15 cents per dozen.
Col. Alexander has returned to Winfield.
Mrs. E. C. Manning has gone on a visit to Iowa.
Rev. Rusbridge and wife did not go to Colorado Springs.
The 1072 feet spire on the new M. E. church is nearly up.
The oat crop of Cowley is the best ever harvested in this county.
A. A. Jackson's brother, Frank, and wife are on a visit to Winfield.
False Bottom, Black Hills, is the present post office address of Ira E. Moore.
Winfield pays higher salaries to its school teachers than does the city of Atchison.
Miss Hannah Fletcher, the first young lady resident of Winfield, is visiting this place at present.
The Sedan Journal gives an unflattering notice of
D. H. Cross, late a resident of that county.
The tax on a part of N. E. quarter of section 20, township 34, range 4, Creswell township, is $292.54.
Chautauqua county has $133,000 worth of personal property exempt from taxation, by the $200 clause.
A Lawn Party will be held at the residence of D. A. Millington, Esq., on Tuesday evening July 26th, 1877.
The fish law ran out on the last of June, and now a man can sein without danger of being molested by the law.
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[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JULY 19, 1877.]
Mr. A. A. Wiley has purchased Mr. McDorman's interest in the mercantile house at Dexter and now runs it alone.
MARRIED. It was Joe. Mack and Miss Bull who were married some weeks since and about whom there was so much guessing.
A. H. Green is sued for $5,000 damages for the false imprisonment of J. E. Searle, of this city. L. J. Webb, Attorney.
Mr. Searle, of this place, was released from custody in Wichita last Friday by writ of Habeas Corpus. L. J. Webb,
Attorney.
A fine two horse carriage, the property of O. N. Morris, sold at mortgage sale on our streets last Saturday for one hundred dollars.
The wind storm last Sunday evening blew forty feet in heighth of the steeple scaffolding off from the new M. E. church in this place.
The proposition for $5,500 in Winfield township bonds to be used in constructing two bridges across the Walnut river at this place was carried last Tuesday.
The Dedication of the M. E. Church, Winfield, will take place July 12th, 1877. SERVICES: At 10:30 a.m., sermon, Rev.
C. R. Pomeroy; 10:30 a.m., address, Rev. C. C. McCabe, D. D.;
2:30 p.m., Rev. A. H. Walter; 2:30 p.m. address, Dr. Pomeroy; 7:30 p.m., dedication exercises, Dr. McCabe. Services conducted by Rev. A. H. Walter, P. E.
This community will regret to learn that John P. McMillan and family are to permanently remove from this place to Colorado. He seeks a climate that agrees with him better than this. Such families as the McMillans are a credit to any community.
The Patrons of Husbandry of Sumner and Cowley counties hold a picnic at Krell's grove three miles northwest of Oxford on August 1st. Everybody is invited to be present whether members or not. Speeches, music, and other entertainments are on the programme.
The Wichita Eagle says: "Hays Brothers, of this city, bought last week of Mr. Stalter, of Rock Creek, Cowley County, 11,000 pounds of wool of excellent grade, light Merino, cut from 1,400 head of sheep. It was the largest single transaction in that line that ever occurred in these parts."
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Good news from Elk! By a private letter dated July 14th, we learn that the L., L. & G. extension bond proposition has been withdrawn from that county. This leaves the field clear for the Parsons narrow gauge.
LATER. No election was held in Elk county on the
L., L. & G. bond proposition except in Greenfield township. There they were afraid it was a trick and hence turned out to a man and voted about 150 votes against the proposition.
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[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JULY 19, 1877.]
The Normal Institue for this county will begin work August 1. Prof. L. B. Kellogg, formerly of the Emporia Normal School, will have charge of the Institute. He will be assisted by Geo. W. Robinson, of Winfield, Miss Ella Wickersham, of Tisdale, and R. C. Story, County Superintendent.
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Mr. G. H. Buckman has been engaged to give instructions in vocal music. The tuition fee for the entire course is only one dollar.
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Addresses, upon topics of special and general interest, will be given by Rev. Rusbridge, Flemming, Platter, Wingar, and by
D. A. Millington on the 13th of August. Doctor C. E. Pomeroy, President of the Emporia Normal School, will address the teachers and citizens. An examination of teachers on the 30th and 31st will close the labors of the Normal.
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From Samuel Scott, of Vernon Township, we learn that a whirlwind-tornado passed from southeast to northwest through the northwest part of Vernon township, about 2 miles from the Arkansas river on Tuesday night about 9 o'clock. It appears to have struck the ground and then risen for a distance and then descended again at intervals of about a mile apart. The house of James Dale was utterly demolished, as also the house of Mr. Worthington; and one other house, whose owner we have not learned. There were six inmates in the house of Mr. Dale at the time and their escape from serious injury is remarkable. Crops, fences, and stock were destroyed and seriously tossed about in every locality struck by the cyclone. An idea of its force may be obtained from the fact that a wagon containing a barrel of water stood at the door of Mr. Dale's residence and it was torn to pieces and the front wheels with a broken wagon tongue were found about 300 yards from the house, but the remainder of the wagon had not been found on Wednesday, though diligent search had been made therefor.
LATER. The residence of James Paul, one mile east of Oxford, was twisted in two, the upper story being carried away and a large amount of bedding and wearing apparel belonging to Mrs. Paul carried with it, of which no trace can be found. A house belonging to R. B. Wait on the farm near the Bartlow place was also carried from the foundation entirely and thrown southwest and turned entirely towards the storm. Corn was twisted out of the ground and into withs wherever the monster struck the earth. The noise of the tempest is said to have been appalling.
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[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JULY 19, 1877.]
MARRIED. HORTON - UNDERWOOD. Married at the Winkler House, Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas, June 27th, 1877, by G. G. Hall, Mr. Wm. A. Horton, of Wabaunsee county, Kansas, and Miss Ella Underwood, of Wilmington, Clinton county, Ohio.
Am puzzled why COURIER printed this item.
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From Black Hills papers we clip the following:
The Black Hills land office opened yesterday on Deadwood avenue. The register and receiver are busy arranging matters for business. But few of the mines in the Hills have been surveyed.
The new jail building situated in South Deadwood is nearly completed. The whole building, outside measurement, is 30 x 49 feet in size. It is built very compactly of hewn pine logs, one story and a half in height.
There will be a grand glove prize fight at Gay City on Sundy next at 2:30 p.m., in which six professional contestants will engage. It will be the ablest and most scientific friendly contest ever given in the Hills.
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[SPECIAL ADS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, JULY 19, 1877.
Flour for cash can be had at Bliss, Earnest & Co.'s, at retail for wholesale rates. We mean business. XXXX Flour $3.50, XXX Flour $3.00, XX Flour, $2.25.
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100 Spring Calves Wanted, by C. S. Thomas, at the City Hotel.
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For the Next 30 days Frank Gallotti will sell boots & shoes at cost to make room for his fall stock. Give him a call.
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All parties knowing themselves indebted to J. B. Lynn & Co., are requested to call and settle, for we are hard up for money.
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For the next thirty days we will discount all bills over one dollar five percent cash. J. B. LYNN & CO.
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A splendid Aultman & Taylor vibrating threshing machine for sale, either for cash or on time. Enquire of C. C. Harris or at the post office.
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Go to Lynn's and buy a Fine Shirt formerly sold at $2.00 for $1.00 in case.
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If you want to buy a Threshing Machine, come and see L. C. Harter & Co.
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[MORE LOCAL ADS: WINFIELD COURIER, JULY 19, 1877.]
Cut Hair and Combings wanted by Mrs. N. J. Ross, 3rd door north of Read's Bank.
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The EXCELSIOR RENEWER for cleaning kid gloves, silk, woolen, and cotton goods, prepared exclusively by Mrs. N. J. Ross, is the best thing yet for taking out grease spots, paint, etc. Mrs. Ross not only sells the article but will clean up your spotted cloths as well. Give her a call. 2 doors south of Read's bank.
BOY! AM I PUZZLED. MRS. ROSS IS 3RD DOOR NORTH OF READ'S BANK IN ONE AD; 2ND DOOR SOUTH IN THE NEXT AD! ???
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NOTICE.
The co-partnership heretofore existing between H. C.
McDorman and A. A. Wiley, under the firm name of McDorman & Wiley, at Dexter, Cowley county, State of Kansas, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts due the firm will be collected by H. C. McDorman.
H. C. McDORMAN,
A. A. WILEY.
Dexter, Kansas, July 19th, 1877.
NOTE: The undersigned will continue business at the old stand of McDorman & Wiley. The business of former patrons respectfully solicited. I shall conduct a cash or exchange business. Live stock and farm products taken in exchange for goods.
A. A. WILEY.
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[EDITORIAL ITEMS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, JULY 26, 1877.
E. C. MANNING, EDITOR.
Petroleum has been discovered near Eldorado, Butler county. The quantity is believed to be sufficient to pay working.
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THE GREAT STRIKE.
COMMUNISM RAMPANT.
RAILROAD PROPERTY IN FLAMES.
The greatest uprising of labor against capital ever witnessed in this country has reared its bloody head along the lines of railroad from Baltimore to St. Louis. In different cities and railroad centers throughout that vast extent of country, the firemen, breaksmen [WAY THEY SPELLED IT], and other employees of the railroad have quit work, organized and armed themselves, and not only refuse to run trains but also prevent others who have not joined the movement from running them. In some districts the whole population, officials and militia, are on the side of the strikers.
The President of the United States has been called upon by the Governors of several States so widespread and powerful is the uprising. In some places the strikers and their allies have become an infuriated mob, burning buildings and robbing and destroying trains. The soldiers have fired into several riotous gatherings and killed quite a number of men. We cannot give full particulars this week, but according to our last advices, the end was not yet. The immediate cause of the trouble was an attempted reduction of wages by the railroad companies.
LATER. By Monday morning's extra from Kansas City, the startling news arrived Tuesday evening giving information of the extent and degree of the insurrection. It assumed the most formidable proportions at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night and lasted until Sunday night, at which time the latest news was telegraphed. At Buffalo and other cities in New York; at Philadelphia, Reading, and other cities in Pennsylvania; at Cleveland and other cities in Ohio; Vincennes and other places in Indiana; at Chicago and St. Louis, the strike is in operation.
No serious outbreaks so far at these places. At Pittsburgh, however, 800 Philadelphia State troops fired into the rioters on Saturday evening. This increased their fury and numbers. The coal miners and rolling mill men joined the mob and the numbers grew to be thousands. The troops were driven out of the city, three miles of railroad buildings, locomotives, and loaded trains were destroyed by fire, and at evening Sunday the fires were spreading to other parts of the city. One hundred and twenty-five locomotives, over four hundred loaded cars, lumber yards, railroad hotels, union depots, etc., are among the ashes of the fire. Many of the cars were loaded with oil, coke, coal, and other combustible material. The amount of damage to property was several millions and loss of life several hundred at last accounts. Women and children joined in the onslaught and carried off thousands of dollars worth of all kinds of goods from the loaded trains before they were burned. The law stood paralyzed. Fifty thousand people from the housetops and other heights around Pittsburgh witnessed the work of destruction on Sabbath, but were afraid to interfere in behalf of justice or order.
LATER. By the dailies of Tuesday, information comes that the strike has extended to many other cities between New York and St. Louis and to several railroads. In most places the freight trains have been stopped and stock unloaded. Violence had been resorted to in but few places, and that not of a very serious character. The destruction and riot at Pittsburgh had died down on Monday. Uncle Sam is sending troops in several directions. A strike was to take place at Kansas City at noon Tuesday.
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WINFIELD COURIER, JULY 26, 1877.
"GENERAL" MANNING.
This from the Arkansas Traveler is the most unkindest cut of all. [NOTE: MANNING LOVES TO LEAVE OFF "City" WHEN REFERRING TO THE TRAVELER.]
"Some of the anti-Manning clique said they knew the Parsons road was a humbug, and would do nothing to help it along. But where do we find these same men at, and some weeks before, the election? Why, working for dear life for this same Parsons road, under their General, E. C. Manning, W. P. Hackney, first, and Allison, second Lieutenant, with a host of county officials and lawyers as Corporals--all jumping at the slightest nod of their little General, E. C."
And still we have no railroad.
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[PERSONALS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, JULY 26, 1877.
Wheat threshing lively.
Ex-Sheriff Parker is in town.
The new churches are being plastered.
Green apples two dollars per bushel.
Candidates for the office of sheriff are plenty.
Corn 25 cents, good new wheat 80 cents per bushel.
Geo. Hudson returned Saturday from the Black Hills.
Elk county votes again on the Parsons road August 28th.
Peter Paugh has our thanks for a gallon of nice blackberries.
The Wichita stage comes in loaded with passengers every night.
Charley McClellan returned last Saturday from the San Juan country.
B. F. Baldwin wants everyone indebted to him to settle up at once.
A. L. Williams, ex-Attorney General, is watching the corners in our city.
Mr. P. Stump is building a two story stone business house south of the Tony Boyle corner.
Mr. Andy Kirby, of Dayton, Ohio, has been visiting his brother, Pat Kirby, during the past week.
The M. E. church has ordered the chandelier made of the new Rigby lamp, a Winfield man's invention.
John Seaton, "the foundry man of Atchison" came down this week to see about putting in a turn-table at this place.
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[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JULY 26, 1877.]
Mr. Nickerson, president of A. T. & S. F. railroad, visited Winfield last Monday looking up the matter of an extension of his road to this place.
F. M. Hodge, late of Hiawatha, Kansas, and G. J. Killinberger, of Dayton, Indiana, made us a call this week. They expect to locate in this vicinity.
The lawn social at the grounds of D. A. Millington on Tuesday evening was the finest affair of the season.
DIED. Jacob Reil died in this place last Sabbath morning, a victim to strong drink. This is the second man that liquor has destroyed in this town within a few months. The family of the deceased has the sympathies of this community.
MARRIED. J. H. Service, of Dexter, has married a daughter of R. R. Turner's and moved to the vicinity of Cedarvale. Mr. Service is one of Cowley's best citizens.
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SKIPPED COUNTY TREASURER'S QUARTERLY STATEMENT AND SCHOOL FUND STATEMENT IN WINFIELD COURIER ISSUE OF JULY 26, 1877.
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WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 2, 1877.
Sumner county recently voted down a jail bond proposition. Of Course.
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THE STRIKE.
The "great strike" of July 20th to 30th will be long remembered in this United States. Much will be written about its causes and the remedies therefor. If a reader of the COURIER justifies the strike, let us say a word to him. There is no conflict between capital and labor--because capital is the product of labor. You, being a laborer, desire to accumulate competency and by years of perseverance succeed. Having obtained it do you want a "strike," a mob, the community, to destroy it in a night? What incentive is there for a man to labor and acquire a comfortable home or decent business property if a mob can rob him of it in a day? Everywhere in this county steady, industrious, intelligent, honest men are in demand. They do not need to go hungry, nor do they need to "strike" for higher wages. If mob law is to reign, if there is to be no security to capital invested in railroads, buildings, manufactories, machinery, homes, etc., then will capital seek other investments such as government securities, bonds, mortgages, or the vaults of its owners. If capital must seek these investments to be secure, then where is the employment for laboring men? The criminal folly of this striking business, and the demagogue cry of "conflict between labor and capital" are all alike.
If men cannot afford to labor for the wages they are receiving, they should turn their attention to some other pursuit. If it is true that men cannot afford to work for the prices paid by railroad companies, then no one will work long for them and the companies will be compelled to give higher wages or stop their trains. There are millions of acres of land in this country unoccupied, and a man can make a livelihood on any five acres of the same. As long as this is the case, there is no excuse for riot and bloodshed.
This uprising is going to affect the future legislation of this country. It should do so. The poppy-cock cry of "state's rights" has received a severe blow in the last thirty days. America needs and must have a strong central government or the nation is not safe. The spectacle of local militia refusing to suppress a mob composed of their neighbors, and the refusal of the authorities to pay militia for their services on such an occasion shows the weakness of "state sovereignty." A standing army of men who are not dependent upon the votes of a mob for their pay, having a head that cannot in any emergency be in sympathy with local eruptions, but that only knows the law and will enforce it, is what America wants. The red tape of Hayes' gingerbread policy, which compels the executive department of a great nation to wait until just so much property has been destroyed, just so many lives lost, just so many State militia whipped or refuse to serve, and then until he receives just such a formal call from the "Governor" of some so-called "sovereign state" before he can arrest outlaws and murderers in their career of communism has had an unhappy exemplification in the Pittsburgh affair.
Give us a strong central government that will protect "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
[BELIEVE THE ABOVE EDITORIAL WAS WRITTEN BY MANNING.]
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[PERSONALS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 2, 1877.
Hotels full and running over.
Winfield boasts of cigar factory No. 274.
The editor has gone to look after the railroad again.
W. L. Mullen has gone to Kansas City with his cattle.
Burnett & Cutler have our thanks for a fine fish.
We received a call from Rev. P. G. Smith, of Dexter, yesterday.
Fish are very readily taken from the Walnut now with a hook.
The Harter Brothers of this place have opened a store in Wellington.
Tommy Robinson, the famous stone cutter, has returned to Winfield to stay.
Miss Josephine E. Mansfield, of New York, is visiting her father, Dr. Mansfield.
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[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 2, 1877.]
See the change in Wm. Newton's card. [Card reflects change of address to location near Cigar Factory from Mullin's Old Stand.]
CARD: HARNESS,
SADDLES, COLLARS, BRIDLES, WHIPS, SPURS, ETC.
WM. NEWTON,
Keeps a Full Stock of Everything in his line at
2 Doors South of Cigar Factory.
REPAIRING DONE PROMPTLY.
WINFIELD, KANSAS.
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See in another column, the new ad. of Lynn & Gillelen, which speaks for itself.
AD: CASH WILL BUY MORE
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, QUEENSWARE, HATS & CAPS,
AND NOTIONS OF
LYNN & GILLELEN
than any other House in Cowley Co.
COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES.
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Since the last issue new arrivals at the Central Hotel number 74 and at the City Hotel 45.
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Fifty teachers were enrolled at the Normal Institute yesterday, the first day, and still they come.
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A. A. Jackson accompanied Nickerson (A. T. & S. F.) on his trip from Wichita via Winfield to Eldorado, and returned Saturday last.
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The one hundred and seven foot spire of the new M. E. Church is completed. It looks well, Messrs. Hyde and Smiley constructed it.
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For ten days Winfield dealers have been out of sulky stirring plows and they are getting short of many other things on account of the railroad strike.
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Prof. L. B. Kellogg, of Emporia, made his appearance in our city on Tuesday evening. He is assisting the board of examiners at the Normal.
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Miss Hannah Fletcher, who has been visiting old acquaintances in this vicinity for the past few weeks returned to Howard City yesterday.
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C. J. Adams will preach in the Baptist Church on Sabbath evening at the usual hour.
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[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 2, 1877.]
Mr. S. W. Greer was knocked momentarily senseless last week by a stone falling from the hand of a son who was leading the same upon a wagon. He is recovering from a severe cut in the head.
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On Tuesday evening Mr. Chas. E. Stueven, formerly of Wichita, arrived in our city with a new barber's outfit, which he had in running order yesterday morning in the building one door north of J. W. Johnston's furniture store.
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We are happy to meet Mr. F. D. Taylor, formerly of Boston, Massachusetts, who arrived in our city a few days since. He comes to Winfield with the intention of permanently locating and engaging in the dry goods and grocery business.
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C. S. Thomas, of this city, and R. H. Beardslee, late of Waldron, Illinois, are erecting a large water-power grist mill, with three run of buurs, on the Grouse, near Silverdale. The size of the building is 36 x 40. These gentlemen are experienced millers and will undoubtedly meet with success.
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Messrs. Geo. Townsend and James Binner opened the doors of their new saloon, on the corner of Main Street and 8th Avenue, yesterday morning. The neat, clean room, new glassware and pictures, the pleasant and agreeable gentlemen, George and Jim, behind their new and handsome bar, attract considerable attention in that part of the city.
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G. H. Crippen, who is handling so many agricultural implements for Harter Bros., was in Kansas City during the strike and threatened riot. He says nothing but the greatest prudence and nerve on the part of law abiding citizens prevented a violent outbreak and that during the last few days the ring leaders of the mob are being quietly picked up by the police and lodged in jail.
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DIED. A mournful occurrence befell Spencer Bliss and wife last week. They were on their way back to Winfield from New York State, accompanied by their children, twins, Bertie and Birdie. One sickened and died at Burlington, Iowa. The afflicted parents brought the little corpse with them homeward. At Wichita the other child sickened and died. Thus the afflicted parents brought back to their home the corpses of those who promised to fill it with sunshine. The children were aged 14 months. Every parent will sympathize with the mourners.
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[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 2, 1877.]
The Sabbath school pic-nic at the Brane schoolhouse on the 21st ult. was the largest gathering of the kind held in this vicinity for some time. Four schools were in attendance. Everything passed off in the most pleasant manner. Odessa Sabbath school, the parent of the occasion, on last Sabbath passed resolutions thanking Rev. Rusbridge for the entertaining and useful address delivered at the pic-nic.
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Charley Stewart, a ten year old son of Archie Stewart of this place, was struck insensible by a frightened horse in the stall last week. The lad was watering the horse and stumbled as he approached the animal, which occasioned the result. His brave mother ran into the stable and drew the helpless boy away from the perilous position and he was soon restored. A bad cut on the head is the worst visible effect of the blows. Otherwise he seems all right.
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List of letters remaining unclaimed in the Post Office at Winfield, Cowley county, Kansas, on the 1st day of August, 1877.
FIRST COLUMN:
Anderson, Geo.; Buckwalter, W. H.; Boyles, J. M.;
Burns, Wm. D.; Butler, H. B.; Carson, Miss Annie;
Cadwell, James B.; Charles, C. B.; Dixon, Joseph Church;
Eulms, Miss; Elpanara, Mrs. B.; Espy, Eliz; Kofer, Julie E.; Gooale, Elizabeth; Gilland, Wm.; Graham, Eliza A.; Gibson, Lucinda; Hewit, Chancy S.; Hubbard, Geo. W.; Herron, J. S.; Hannah, Mr. Barlow.
SECOND COLUMN:
Jackson, J. S.; Keely, Lucia; Kenard, Arthur;
Lear, Mrs. Sarah; Kilgore, J.; Magors, W. A.; Morse, N. C.; Mount, M. H.; McRoamer, L. D. H.; Mackey, J. C.; McKimm, Melinda; Meanor, Armstrong; Martin, Ida M.; Nixon, Anne; Prebler, Ab.; Price, Edmund; Stevens, Mrs. Sallie; Smith, Samantha;
Turner, C. R.; Windsor, Elizabeth.
Persons calling for any of the above will please say
"advertised."
JAMES KELLY, P.M.
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[THE A. T. & S. F.: STRIKE ACTIVITIES.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 2, 1877 - PERSONALS PAGE.
THE A. T. & S. F.
The Commonwealth of the 27th ult., says:
"Night before last the switches of Emporia and Newton were turned and spiked by a few of the employees of the A. T. & S. F. R. R., and no trains except passenger trains allowed to pass. When the passenger train from the south yesterday reached Emporia, a committee of employees desired to come to Topeka to lay their grievances before the superintendent.
"The conductor not having authority to pass the men, the train was delayed till that authority could be given him, which was done, and the train came in about on time.
"The committee had an interview with Mr. Morse, the superintendent, and presented their grievances. The officers are reticent as to their nature, but we were informed that no concessions were made. The superintendent stated to the committee that this was no time to consider grievances. At this time their property was valueless to them, and if there should be a strike all they would do would be to close the road to business and await events. The whole subject was, however, talked over in a friendly manner, and an agreement arrived at, the result of which was that the men on the Emporia and Newton division, where the trouble was, have resumed work.
"The free use of the telegraph wires was given to the committee to consult with their colleagues at Emporia, and after the interview closed, a special train was furnished them to return to Emporia.
"The railroad iron for the Florence road, which had been stopped, was allowed to go on, and the completion of that road by the 1st of August is now assured. This, we judge, ends all danger of a strike on this important road. The employees of this road are exceptionally intelligent, and the officers, without making any concessions, have so managed as to retain the good will of the men, and the latter will continue to perform their duties with the feeling that all grievances will be arranged in due time."
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[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 2, 1877.]
The Topeka Blade, of July 27th says:
"A thousand stand of Springfield rifles, with one hundred thousand cartridges, have been received by Gov. Anthony. The arms and ammunition that have been stored in the old armory were quietly removed last night to a place of safety. The old canon has been dismantled to prevent its falling into wrong hands."
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Notice.
We have this day (August 1st, 1877) associated with us as a partner, Mr. Warren Gillelen. All persons owing the firm previous to this new connection are requested to settle as speedily as possible.
J. B. LYNN & CO.
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[SPECIAL ADS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 2, 1877.
All persons knowing themselves indebted to Mrs. Philip Stump will please call and settle at once.
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Fresh breakfast Bacon and hams at Wallis & Wallis.
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Mince pies at the new bakery of Burnett & Cuttler.
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[EDITORIAL ITEMS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 9, 1877.
Cars were run to Eldorado July 31.
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The remains of Gen. Custer, Col. Cook, Lieut. Riley, and Dr. De Woolf arrived in Chicago August 1.
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AN OUTRAGE.
On Saturday last, by a trick, T. K. Johnston, of this place, was made chairman of the Republican Central Committee of this county. Less than one half of the members of the committee were present in person and only five of those who were present voted to name Mr. Johnston as its chairman.
The committee consists of twenty-two members, one from each township in the county. Mr. Sam Jarvis, the late chairman, has moved out of the county. The committee had been called together by the Secretary and it was understood by the committee that Mr. Chas. Eagin, of Rock, should be named as its chairman. Everybody seemed satisfied with that choice and no other result was expected. But in a clandestine manner certain parties had been sent to different members of the committee and obtained their proxies. In every case of which we have heard that any choice for chairman was expresed by the committeeman himself on giving his proxy, that expression was adverse to Mr. Johnston. But these proxies, disregarding their instructions, voted for the very man they were instructed to vote against.
Aside from the sneaking manner in which this outrage upon the Republican party of Cowley county was perpetrated, the disgrace of putting a vicious Democrat like Johnston at the head of a Republican committee must fall heavily upon the men who are responsible for it. Mr. Johnston has never voted or worked with the Republicans of this county. He has persistently fought the party and voted against its candidates. If he took a fancy to a particular man on the ticket, he would vote for such only. For six years he has tried to break down the Winfield COURIER, and to build up the Cowley County Telegram. The one has been a consistant Republican journal, the other has been everything but Republican and is now a square-toed Democratic paper.
The COURIER, during that time, has had two different proprietors--Mr. Waddell and Mr. Kelly--and three different editors, Messrs. Waddell, Kelly, and Manning.
Last fall we were informed by some of his friends that Johnston voted for Tilden against Hayes and for Martin against Anthony, and for Crawford against Ryan and for other Democratic candidates. He was to have been the first lieutenant in Bill Hackney's company that was going to help inagurate Tilden with bayonets. He has always been a chief counsellor in the camp of the Democrats of this county and can say and has said who they should or should not nominate as candidates, when their conventions should be held and when not. And now, if he can nominate such men in the Republican convention as he desires, the Democrats will not make any other nominations but will ratify the selections he makes. Every step taken by Republicans in party matters will be reported by him to his associate managers of the Democratic party.
His favorite political journal during the presidential controversy last winter was the Kansas City Times. He has never given a Republican journal in the county any business or countenance but has given all his business to the Democratic journal. And it is a man of these inclinations and with this kind of a record who was put at the head of the Republican
committee.
Of course, if a man wants to be a Democrat, it is his right, but he has no business in the counsels of the Republican party. The members of the Republican Central Committee should assemble in person and repudiate this outrage. The job was put up for the purpose of getting the advantage of the Republicans of Cowley. Johnston and his counsellors will run both party machines; and if the Republicans do not dance to their music, then the Democratic forces will be rallied.
The duty of the COURIER is plain in a case like this. It cannot be silent and see the party to which it owes fealty betrayed. It would not be worthy the confidence of Republicans if it did so. Hence we are compelled to say that this movement has the appearance of a trade among certain politicians. Johnston and his huckstering Democratic associates have agreed that the Democrats shall not run anyone against George Walker as a candidate for Sheriff and it was three or four men who are pushing George ahead as the Republican nominee who put Johnston where he could command the forces of both parties. This high-handed outrage will find little else than stern repudiation among the Republicans of this county.
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[MORE EDITORIAL ITEMS: WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 9, 1877.]
Did not General Sherman speak the truth when he said, a little while ago, that without an army the American people would become a mob? We have the mob today. It would be a greater one if the army were smaller. If there was no army, the mob would rule. If one does not know what mob rule means, let the history of the French Revolution be studied. Gen. Sherman was very nearly a prophet. Let him be honored in his own country.
Kansas Tribune.
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The Eldorado Times says: "On Wednesday evening, while parties were blasting in the coal oil territory, south of town, the last blast set the gas on fire escaping from the crevices of the rock which blazed up twenty feet high for some minutes. This is the best indication yet of a genuine coal oil discovery."
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It is singular how a dangerous emergency inspires respect for a soldier. And then to think that a cowardly Democratic Congress so crippled and refused to provide for the little handful of blue-coats, that they have to give their obligations and submit themselves until a future Congress shall pay them their $13 a month! Who has more cause to strike than the soldiers of the United States?
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[PERSONALS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 9, 1877.
Charley Stevens is living in town now.
Spencer Bliss is still confined to the house by sickness.
Hotel arrivials for the week ending August 8th: Central Hotel, 65; City Hotel, 53.
L. Shamleffer, of Council Grove, is stopping temporarily in Winfield.
The five thousand dollar damage suit instituted against
A. H. Green by J. E. Searle has been withdrawn.
Mr. L. B. Riggs, of Emporia, has been in town a few days this week looking after the interests of the Emporia railroad.
Nate Robinson has put a two-horse hack on his mail route from here to Eldorado. It runs daily to the railroad: fare, $3.50.
While out hunting one day last week, Mr. F. D. Taylor was shot in the left hand by the accidental discharge of his shot gun.
There is no opposition in Elk county to the bonds for our east and west road. The proposition will surely carry and the road will be built.
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[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 9, 1877.]
The dwelling house that John Roberts built for his intended and then did not occupy was moved to town this week, drawn by six mules and six horses.
We were happy to meet Mrs. E. C. Boyle, of Augusta, on Monday. She has been visting friends, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Bangs, in this city a few days of the past week.
Two different companies, in which the Courthouse has been insured, have failed and the county has lost the insurance money. T. K. Johnston was the agent who wrote up the policies.
The Republicans of the county may expect to see the call for a Republican convention in the Telegram, the private and official organ of the man who is acting as chairman of the Republican Central Committee.
Dr. and Mrs. J. O. Houx left this morning for Columbus, this State. The Dr. will return in about ten days, while his wife will remain there visiting her father, Mr. S. A. Weir, during a portion of the coming fall and winter.
Sam Myton has a new fangled grain drill on exhibition in front of his store that seems to beat everything heretofore in-
vented. It is called "The Best." It is no kin to our sewing machine man. He sows (sews) where he does not reap; it does not.
W. C. Root & Co., the new firm which purchased T. E. Gilleland;s business and stock, has arrived and taken possession. They will endeavor to keep on hand a stock of the very best boots and shoes manufactured, and will sell the same at the lowest prices.
Winfield Courier, August 9, 1877.
At this week's meeting of the county board, Mr. M. L. Robinson was appointed Trustee of Winfield township in place of J. S. Hunt, resigned. P. Hedges was appointed constable of Tisdale township, and G. H. Norman was appointed Clerk of Maple township.
The County Commissioners, having been presented with the necessary petition, called an election to vote on the question of issuing $120,000 bonds to the Emporia Narrrow Gauge road. It will be held on the 18th of September. The proclamation will appear in next week's paper.
Next Sabbath the new M. E. Church building of this place will be formally dedicated to the worship of the Lord. The occasion promises to be one of unusual interest. Rev. C. C. McCabe, famed throughout the United States for his eloquence and melody, will be among the noted personages present. Rev. C. C. Pomeroy of Emporia, Rev. A. H. Walter, Presiding Elder of this district, and other divines will participate in the ceremonies. The new church is the finest structure of the kind in this State south and west of Lawrence. It is a proud monument to the enterprise of its founders and a worthy tribute from human hands to the worship of "Him who doeth all things well." The congregation on that occasion will test the accommodating capacity of the elegant building.
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[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 9, 1877.]
JAKE MUSGROVE, of South Haven, visited Winfield this week. Jake is an old time resident of this place. Like a sensible man, he took one of Winfield's fairest girls to his side a few years ago and went down on the border to do and dare for him and his. He now owns many broad acres, counts his harvest yield by the thousands of bushels, has cattle, mules, and horses by the hundreds, takes the COURIER and pays for it, votes the Republican ticket, and is fat and happy.
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A FRAUD. The press of the State will bear witness that the COURIER has given space to few if any of the humbug advertisements that are constantly sent to publishers. But we have been sold by one. L. Dresser, 307 N. Seventh St., St. Louis, Mo., by very flattering representations got us to insert
his ad., $20 American Watches for $10." He agreed to pay therefor on receipt of the first copy of paper containing ad. The ad ran two months and no pay yet. Of course, he is a fraud and his wares are the same or he would not lie about paying his bills.
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A SQUIRT. The look of astonishment on the county commissioners' faces was as good as the side show of a circus. This was when T. K. Johnston presented a formal written document to the board directing how the county should be divided into commissioner districts and signed "T. K. Johnston, Chairman of the Republican Central Committee of Cowley County." The law directs how a county shall be divided, and a citizen might make suggestions; but just how the "chairman" of a political committee could "officially" give directions or make suggestions in a matter of this kind was a stunner. He will probably formulate the programme for the coming dedication and sign it "officially."
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Mr. J. J. Todd, living four and half miles east of this city, has one of the largest and finest peach orchards we ever had the pleasure of visiting. In setting out, three years ago, the trees were placed equal distance apart upon about fifteen acres of ground, which has been kept in good order since. The trees are now sufficiently large to afford an excellent shade while passing through the orchard, where scarcely a weed is to be seen, and are laden with the most luscious fruit. He also has an apple orchard of seven hundred trees, all of which are thrifty and fine looking, some bearing lightly this year. His large blackberry patch yielded more fruit than he could possibly find time to gather. His vineyard also looks fine. The vines are all drooping to the ground, so heavily laden are they with fruit. The yield will be something near two thousand pounds of the finest varieties of grapes.
[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 9, 1877.]
The following are the teachers attending the Cowley County Normal.
Winfield. Misses Ella C. Davis, Mary Pontious, Fannie Pontious, Miss C. Johnson, Alice Pyburn, Lusetta Pyburn, Mattie E. Minihan, Lissie Sumners, Mattie E. Walters, Rachel E. Nauman, Alie Klingman, Alice A. Aldrich, Genie Holmes, Ella E. Scott, Ella Hunt, Ella Wickersham, Emma Saint, Mollie Bryant, Ella Freeland, Maggie Stansbury, Amy Robertson, Lizzie Kinne, Sarah Hodges, Jennie Hare, Sallie Levering, Effie Randall, Sarah E. Davis, Ina Daniels; Messrs. O. S. Record, Frank Starwalt, M. H. Marcum, J. D. Hunt, J. A. Rupp, C. C. Holland, J. B. Freeland, N. N. Winton, A. B. Taylor.
Arkansas City. Misses Lizzie Landis, Mattie F. Mitchell, Ella Grimes, Albertine Maxwell, Belle Birdzell, Flora Finley, Kate Hawkins, Stella Barnett, Mary A. Pickett, Tillie Kennedy, Anna O. Wright; Messrs. B. F. Marich, E. R. Thompson, J. F. Hess.
Dexter. Misses Alpha Hardin, Viola Hardin, Sarah J. Hoyt, Rettie Landis; Mr. T. J. Rood.
Tisdale. Misses Gertrude Davis, Sarah Davis.
Cedarvale. Miss Martha J. Thompson; Mr. S. T. Hockett.
Oxford. Miss Veva Walton.
New Salem. Miss Sallie Bovee.
Red Bud. Mrs. Belle Seibert; Mr. H. S. Bush.
Lazette. Miss Kate Fitzgerald.
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[THE NEW COMMISSIONER DISTRICTS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 9, 1877.
The New Commissioner Districts.
Some townships having been elected since the last division of this county into commissioner districts, it became necessary to redistrict the county, which the commissioners proceeded to do as follows last Tuesday. At the next election district number one elects a commissioner to serve for one year, district two for two years, and district three for three years.
District No. 1: Population in townships.
Winfield ......... 1,444
Rock ............. 737
Maple ............ 408
Ninnescah ........ 341
Vernon ........... 593
Beaver ........... 477
Total: 4,000
District No. 2: Population in townships.
Bolton ........... 731
Creswell ......... 1,052
Pleasant Valley .. 435
Liberty .......... 425
Silverdale ....... 403
Spring Creek ..... 223
Cedar ............ 275
Otter ............ 527
Total: 4,071
District No. 3: Population in townships.
Dexter ........... 616
Tisdale .......... 503
Sheridan ......... 373
Windsor .......... 582
Silvercreek ...... 338
Richland ......... 710
Omnia ............ 188
Harvey ........... 341
Total: 3,651
NOTE: IF ABOVE FIGURES ARE CORRECT, THE TOTAL POPULATION
IN VARIOUS TOWNSHIPS OF COWLEY COUNTY EQUALS A TOTAL
POPULATION OF 11,722 IN COUNTY AT THIS TIME. DO NOT
BELIEVE THIS AGREES WITH THE FIGURES THEY GENERALLY
GIVE OUT RE TOTAL POPULATION. FURTHER, COURIER GAVE A GARBLED REPORT...HAD TO FIGURE OUT PART OF IT WITH
CALCULATOR TO COME UP WITH TOTAL GIVEN FOR DISTRICT
NO. 3...THEY HAD WINDSOR/SILVER CREEK LUMPED WITH FIGURE OF 338, LEAVING OUT AMOUNT FOR WINDSOR. MAW
Winfield Courier, August 9, 1877.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad has arranged with the various railroad lines in the country for special round trip rates to the Rocky Mountains, and has secured the following rates to Denver, Colorado Springs, Canon City, Pueblo, and return.
From Kansas City and Atchison, $45; St. Louis, $50; Chicago, $65; Quincy, $50; Cincinnati, $65; Buffalo, $75, and correspondingly low rates from all points east, north, and south. These tickets are good for 90 days, and to stop at all stations west of the Missouri river. Tickets are on sale at all principal stations throughout the country. This is the new route to Denver through the garden of Kansas and Colorado. Send for maps, circulars, time tables, etc., to
T. J. ANDERSON,
Gen. Pass. Agent,
TOPEKA, KAN.
[THE TAX LEVY.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 9, 1877.
The Tax Levy.
The county commissioners have been in session this week, and among other things done by them the annual tax levy was made. Below we give the levy. The school district tax is not given, because that cannot be known until the annual school meetings are held, which come off today.
State tax 52 mills (Levied by the Legislature).
County tax, general purposes, 6 mills.
County Bond tax, 12 mills.
Beaver township, general tax, 1 mill.
Bolton township, general tax, 1 mill.
Bolton township, bond tax, 33 mills.
Bolton township, road tax, 3 mills.
Creswell township, general tax, 2 mills.
Creswell township, bond tax, 9 mills.
Creswell township, road tax, 3 mills.
Cedar township, general tax, 1 mill.
Dexter township, general tax, 1 mill.
Harvey township, general tax, 1 mill.
Liberty township, general tax, 2 mills.
Maple township, general tax, 2 mill.
Ninnescah township, general tax, 1 mill.
Omnia township, general tax, 1 mill.
Otter township, general tax, 1 mill.
Pleasant Valley township, general tax, 1 mill.
Richland township, general tax, 1 mill.
Rock Creek township, general tax, 1 mill.
Spring Creek township, general tax, 2 mills.
Silver Creek township, general tax, 1 mill.
Silverdale township, general tax, 1 mill.
Sheridan township, general tax, 1 mill.
Tisdale township, general tax, 1 mill.
Vernon township, road tax, 2 mills.
Windsor township, general tax, 1 mill.
Winfield township, general township, 1 mill.
Winfield township, bond tax, 6 mills.
[NOTE: DO NOT UNDERSTAND VERNON TOWNSHIP...THEY SHOW ROAD TAX;
BUT VERNON DOES NOT SHOW A GENERAL TAX LEVY...???!!!]
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[CANDIDATES' ANNOUNCEMENTS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 9, 1877.
To the Republicans of Cowley County:
I hereby announce myself as a Candidate for the office of Sheriff of Cowley county, subject to the decision of the Republican Nominating Convention, and I pledge myself to abide by the decision of that Convention.
S. W. CHASE.
Tisdale, Kansas, Aug. 7, 1877.
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[TOWNSHIP BOARD'S NOTICE FOR PROPOSALS FOR BRIDGE BUILDING.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 16, 1877 - FRONT PAGE.
Township Board's Notice for Proposals for Bridge Building.
To all whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received by the Township Board of the township of Winfield, in the county of Cowley, State of Kansas, until the hour of 10 o'clock a.m., on Friday, the 17th day of August, A. D. 1877, for the construction of two bridges across the Walnut river, in said township at the following points, to-wit: One on the C. S. Smith county road, and one at the site of the old bridge on the W. S. Voris county road. Proposals for the building of such bridges must be accompanied with complete plans and specifications of the same (including the kind and quality of materials to be used in the construction of each material part thereof) and must state the price to be charged therefore in the bonds of said township at par value, and the difference, if any, between this and the price which would be charged therefor in cash.
Each and all of such proposals must be filed in the office of the clerk of said township in the city of Winfield, and be accompanied by a bond in an amount equal to double the proposed cost of such bridge with sureties to the approval of said board, conditioned for the faithful execution of the proposed work and the carrying into effect by the bidder, of any and all contracts entered into by him with said township, in reference to the building of such bridge or bridges.
The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
J. S. HUNT, Trustee.
E. S. BEDILION, Township Clerk.
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[EDITORIAL ITEMS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 16, 1877.
E. C. MANNING, EDITOR.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Republican voters of Cowley county are hereby notified that there will be a delegate convention of Republicans to be held at the Courthouse in the city of Winfield on Saturday, Sept. 22nd, 1877, at 11 o'clock A.M., for the purpose of nominating one Sheriff, one County Clerk, one Register of Deeds, one Treasurer, one County Surveyor, one Coroner.
Also one Commissioner each for districts No. 1, 2, and 3, to be nominated by the delegates from their respective districts.
The following is the representation each township is entitled to in the convention as fixed by the Central Committee, at their meeting Aug. 4th, 1877.
Beaver, Cedar, Harvey, Liberty, Maple, Ninnescah, Omnia, Otter, Pleasant Valley, Silver Creek, Sheridan, Spring Creek, Silverdale, Tisdale, two delegates.
Bolton, Dexter, Rock Creek, Richland, Vernon, Windsor, three delegates.
Creswell, four delegates.
Winfield, six delegates.
It is recommended by the committee that the primary meetings for the election of delegates be held on Saturday, Sept. 15, 1877, at 2 o'clock p.m., at the usual place of voting in each township, except in townships where there are two voting precincts, in which case the place of meeting may be designated by the Chairman of the Township Committee, except further that in Winfield and Creswell townships said primaries will be held at 1 o'clock p.m.
CHAS. H. EAGIN, Secretary.
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REPUDIATED.
From every township in the county the earnest Republicans protest against the action of a few committeemen who attempted to make T. K. Johnston chairman of the Republican Central Committee. The significance of the movement is too apparent and the outrage too flagrant to be passed unnoticed. As will be seen by a card elsewhere a majority of the committee refuse to recognize the action taken by that minority as binding upon the committee and have united in a request to the secretary to call a convention. In pursuance of that request he has issued a call which appears elsewhere.
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[MORE EDITORIAL ITEMS: WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 16, 1877.]
A CORRECTION.
Endeavoring always to state the truth in the COURIER and willing at all times to correct misstatements, we now say: that having in last week's paper, said, under the head of "An Outrage"
"In every case in which we have heard that any choice for chairman was expressed by the committeeman himself on giving his proxy, that expression was adverse to Mr. Johnston. But these proxies, disregarding their instructions, voted for the very man they were instructed to vote against."
Our information being second hand at that time was only partially true. These are the facts: Mr. Wooley instructed the party to whom he gave his proxy to cast the vote for Chas. Eagin for chairman. Mr. Vanorsdol says that he instructed his proxy against Mr. Johnston; Mr. Norman was known by the person to whom he gave his proxy to be opposed to the putting of Johnston into that important position. His instructions were: "McDermott first, Eagin next."
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TO REPUBLICANS.
We, the undersigned members of the Republican County Central Committee, believing that the election of T. K. Johnston as chairman of said committee does not represent the wishes of the Republican party of this county and that said election was by a minority of the Committee do hereby disapprove of and repudiate the same, and hereby request the Secretary, Chas. H. Eagin, to publish the call for a county convention at the time and in accordance with the order of the Committee made at the meeting held on the 4th of August, 1877.
P. Stout, Ninnescah Tp.
W. H. Gilliard, Omnia Tp.
J. O. Vanorsdol, Richland Tp.
Wm. B. Norman, Maple Tp.
L. L. Newton, Harvey Tp.
A. P. Brooks, Silver Creek Tp.
B. H. Clover, Windsor Tp.
H. C. McDorman, Dexter Tp.
R. P. Goodrich, Spring Creek Tp.
W. A. Metcalf, Cedar Tp.
C. W. Roseberry, Beaver Tp.
I unite with the committee in protesting against and repudiating the attempt to elect Mr. T. K. Johnston as chairman of the Committee.
CHAS. H. EAGIN, Rock Tp.
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[MORE EDITORIAL ITEMS: WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 16, 1877.]
FORGOT HIMSELF.
When the Republican Central Committee was in session on the 4th inst., someone moved to have the proceedings and call published in the Republican papers of the county, and T. K. Johnston instinctively, and forgetting the company he was in, suggested that they be published in the Cowley County Telegram," the Democratic organ.
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Nez Perce Indians.
The Nez Perce Indians in Montana Territory were attacked August 9th by Col. Gibbon, U. S. A., and about 180 men. The Indians were victorious, killing and wounding more than half of the command and capturing all their horses.
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SPOT HIM.
When Republicans see a sidewalk politician going in and out at T. K. Johnston's Democratic headquarters, they should spot him. Such men are in the ring whose purpose is to surrender the Republican party of Cowley to the Democrats. They expect to accomplish by intrigue and strategy that which cannot be done by reason and numbers.
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QUIET.
Every year heretofore at this season there has been great bustle and activity in the Democratic and Reform political camps of this county. Not so now. The Democratic leaders are hid in the fence corners watching the result of T. K. Johnston's effort to manipulate the Republican party in their interest. If he succeeds, they will fall into line. If the Republicans shake him off, then will the call "to arms and reform" be sounded.
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REPUDIATION.
The Leavenworth Times, August 9th, contains an infamous suggestion which counsels electing a legislature that will pass a law enabling counties to repudiate their railroad bond indebtedness. Leavenworth city has made unwise and foolish efforts to concentrate railroads there in its strife for commercial supremacy on the Missouri river. Having overreached itself, it would disgrace the whole State in an effort to escape its own folly.
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Silver Creek Heard From.
At a meeting of the Republican voters of Silver Creek township, Cowley county, held August 11th, 1877, Mr. J. P. McDaniel was chosen chairman, and A. P. Brooks, secretary of the meeting.
On motion Mr. A. P. Brooks was elected chairman of the township Republican committee, and as the member of the Republican County Central Committee from this township in place of S. M. Jarvis.
The remaining members of the township central committee not being known, Z. W. Hoge and James Goforth were elected as the remaining members of the township committee.
The Republicans of this township feeling themselves outraged by the selection of a Democrat to the position of chairman of the Republican Central Committee of this county adopted the following:
Resolved, That we, the Republicans of Silver Creek township, do most earnestly protest against the action of the Central Committee in electing T. K. Johnston as chairman and recommend that the secretary of said committee issue a call for a county convention in accordance with the call agreed upon.
Resolved, That we deny the righht of any individual or individuals not residents of this township to say who shall represent it as a member of the County Central Committee.
Resolved, That the Republican party is composed of the bone, a sinew of the county, and they are able to take care of themselves.
J. P. McDaniel, Chairman.
A. P. Brooks, Secretary.
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[M. E. CHURCH FREE FROM DEBT: DEDICATION OF CHURCH.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 16, 1877.
LAUS DEO!
A MEMORABLE DAY FOR WINFIELD.
The M. E. Church Free From Debt.
On Sunday last in the new stone church one of the largest audiences that ever met in Winfield congregated to help dedicate the new and imposing edifice to the good of man and the glory of God.
C. R. Pomeroy, D. D., of Emporia; C. C. McCabe, D. D., of Chicago; Presiding Elder Walters, of Wichita; J. E. Fox, P. E. at Hutchinson; Rev. J. Kirby, and Rev. J. P. Harson, of Wichita; Rev. H. J. Walker, Wellington; Rev. J. W. Stewart, Oxford; Reverends B. C. Swarts, Arkansas City; E. Nance, Maple City;
____ Long, of Tisdale; W. H. McCamey, of Dexter; J. E. Platter,
C. J. Adams, P. Lahr, and J. L. Rusbridge, pastor, of Winfield, assisted in the labors of the day.
Chaplain McCabe spoke for an hour to an attentive and interested audience, pointing in forcible and glowing terms to the work of the church, the needs of our people, the dangers to our Republic, and the saving power of religion in matters of dollars and cents, of bread and butter. True is it, as he said, that the demon of intemperance finds its most untiring and relentless antagonist in the church of Christ. As a social, a political, an economical, and an educational investment, our church capital is productive beyond all other investments.
The sermon of the morning was followed by a statement from Mr. Rusbridge concerning the financial condition of the M. E. Church of Winfield. A building had been erected at an expense of $7,000, of which some three thousand dollars remained unpaid. The work of this day, the prefatory exercises of the dedication, was to raise the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, which would practically cancel the immense debt of the church and free the building from all incumbrances.
At this announcement from Mr. Rusbridge, the hearts of the most hopeful failed them, and few felt that the work of this day would remove this immense burden. In a few minutes contributions and subscriptions began to pour in. One hundred dollars was reached--then five hundred, and soon a thousand had been subscribed, and then the hopes of all grew stronger, and the purses of the many grew liberal, while rich and poor, male and female, saint and sinner, gave of their means to aid the noble cause. By the close of the morning services about eight hundred dollars had been given. At the afternoon exercises a few hundred more was given, and at night the entire amount of twenty-five hundred dollars was reached, and then the audience rose up and sang that grand old song, "Praise God from whom all Blessings Flow." The work was done! The church was free! The service of dedication was finished, and the people departed to their homes proud of the beautiful edifice which adorns our city, but prouder still of that generosity and liberality which adorns the hearts and minds of our enterprising citizens.
Of the music, of the songs, of the sermons, of the vast crowd assembled, we say nothing, as the entire city seemed to have been present and to enjoy the occasion, and so our readers need no comments upon these matters.
An elegant silver set for communion service, presented by
F. M. Friend, and a fine clock from Will Hudson were among the donations.
The building is 40 x 80 feet in size, with an arched ceiling 27 feet high. It is beautiful in outline and harmonious in its appointments.
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WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 16, 1877.
Thanks to D. Reed for ripe peaches.
Hay put in the stack for $3.00 per ton.
A new house on 9th Avenue by Geo. W. Martin.
The County Normal has seventy teachers as pupils.
New residence by Capt. Stevens on Millington Street.
Frank Williams new hotel will open about August 27.
Judge McDonald's wife is visiting relatives in Denver.
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The high water has made havoc with the dam at Bliss' mill.
A nice new residence on south Mansfield street by F. S. Jennings.
Dr. Thompson, a true blue Republican of Tisdale, called Tuesday.
The big stone store is fast approaching completion for J. B. Lynn & Co.
Two new residences by B. F. Baldwin, one on 5th and the other on 8th street.
Tom Wright has returned from the Shot Creek mines. He made the trip on foot.
The little toads which are so thick just now are the natural enemy of chinch bug.
Hotel arrivals for the week ending August 15th, numbering as follows: Central Hotel, 78; City Hotel, 55.
Mrs. L. A. McRaw, of Winfield, Kansas, is in the city visiting her son, Mr. Charles Prall. Kansas City Mail.
Col. J. C. McMullen and family, of Arkansas City, were up to Winfield last Sabbath to attend the dedication.
The contract has been let, to T. A. Wilkinson, to erect a new school house in the east end of this school district, No. 1.
Dr. Mansfield has sold his drug store and business. Ira McCommon, clerk at B. F. Baldwin's, takes charge of the
establishment.
T. J. Floyd, an old subscriber of the COURIER, of Areanum, Ohio, has come to Cowley county to live, and called upon us last week.
A shotgun, laying in a teamster's wagon, in front of Brotherton & Silvers, was accidentally discharged last Friday. 'Twas a wonder no candidates were hit.
The tax levied at the annual school meeting in this district is as follows: Teachers' wages, 8 mills; incidental expenses, 32 mills; for new school hours in Kings neighborhood, 12 mills.
Prof. L. B. Kellogg, of Emporia, will address the teachers and citizens Friday evening at the Courthouse on "Education for the People." Free to all. Give him a house full.
J. H. Wood, of Wellsburg, New York, brother-in-law of
L. J. Webb, called upon us this week. Like all newcomers, he is delighted with Cowley county and thinks of becoming a citizen thereof.
Criminal and civil suits are brought against Hoover Gibson, of Sheridan township, for being the prospective sire of offspring outside of his own family. A girl of sixteen makes the complaint.
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The ladies propose to "strike" next Tuesday evening and get no supper. To relieve the distress occasioned by this movement, the Ladies' Aid Society, of the Presbyterian church, will furnish supper to the famishing community at Williams' new building for 25 cents.
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John Hoenscheidt, of Eureka, Kansas, has placed us under obligations for an elegant map of Greenwood county, accompanied with a plat of Eureka and engraving of the city, courthouse, and school house. The plats and designs are all the workmanship of Mr. Hoenscheidt, who is a first class architect, surveyor, and civil engineer.
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The COURIER changes hands Sept. 1st. The present publisher wants to collect everything due up to that date. Quite a number of those who owe for the paper responded to last week's notices. There are a good many back yet. Over six hundred dollars are due us from subscribers in sums varying from ten cents to $3.35. The amounts are small to them, but the amount is large to us.
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The annual meeting of school district No. 1 was, we hear, rather slimly attended. Rev. J. E. Platter was elected director for the ensuing term. A tax of 13 mills was levied for school purposes for the present year. The number of children in the district of school age is 345. During the last year $700.12 has been paid out in excess of amount in treasurer's hands, the same drawing an interest of $57.71. The sum paid to teachers was $1,800.00. For the present year one teacher gets $90, one $45, and two $40 each, a month.
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Hon. Levi Wilson, of Leavenworth, has the contract for furnishing 532,000 lbs. flour to the Cheyenne Agency, Indian Territory, at $4.03 per cwt.
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The Rose Hill & Walnut Valley nursery, which is supplying everybody in this county with trees, shrubs, and vines of all kinds, and for which W. B. Trissell is agent, has become one of our Cowley county institutions. Owing to a crowd of matter their ad is left out this week. It will appear next week.
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[ADS, ETC.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 16, 1877.
For Sheriff.
I hereby announce myself as candidate for the office of Sheriff of Cowley county, subject to the decision of the Republican county convention.
A. T. SHENNEMAN, Vernon Township.
NOTE: NAME WAS SPELLED "SHENEMAN" BY COURIER!
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CHANGE IN FRONT PAGE...THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1877.
Instead of E. C. Manning, Publisher, paper now shows...
THE WINFIELD COURIER.
PUBLISHED EVERY THUURSDAY BY
The "COURIER" Company.
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WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 23, 1877.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Republican voters of Cowley county are hereby notified that there will be a delegate convention of the Republican party to be held at the Courthouse, in the city of Winfield, on Saturday, September 22nd, 1877, at 11 o'clock, a.m., for the purpose of nominating the following officers:
One Sheriff, one County Clerk, one Register of Deeds, one Treasurer, one County Surveyor, one Coroner.
Also one Commissioner each for districts 1, 2, and 3, to be nominated by the delegates from their respective districts.
The following is the Representation each township is entitled to in the convention, as fixed by the Central Committee at their meeting Aug. 4th, 1877.
Beaver, Cedar, Harvey, Liberty, Maple, Ninnescah, Omnia, Otter, Pleasant Valley, Silver Creek, Sheridan, Spring Creek, Silverdale, Tisdale, two delegates each.
Bolton, Dexter, Rock Creek, Richland, Vernon, Windsor, three delegates each.
Creswell, four delegates.
Winfield, six delegates.
Total, 56.
It is ordered by the Committee that the primary meetings for the election of delegates be held on Saturday, Sept. 15th, 1877, at 2 o'clock p.m., at the usual places of voting, in each township, except in townships where there are two precincts, in which case the place of meeting shall be designated by the Chairman of the township committee, except further that in Winfield and Creswell townships, said primaries will be held at 1 o'clock p.m.
Let every Republican voter in the county be present at the primary meetings at the hours above designated, in order that a fair and impartial representation may be had in the convention.
By order of the Republican Central Committee.
T. K. JOHNSTON, Chairman.
NOTE: IN THE PREVIOUS ISSUE, COURIER PRINTED ELECTION NOTICE BY CHAS. H. EAGIN, SECRETARY...IT WAS REPEATED IN THIS ISSUE...THE NOTICE GIVEN BY EAGIN AND JOHNSTON WERE MORE OR LESS IDENTICAL EXCEPT EAGIN SAID "It is recommended by the committee that the primary meetings for the election of delegates be held on Saturday, Sept. 15, 1877, etc.," WHEREAS JOHNSTON SAID "It is ordered by the committee, etc.," and added final paragraph: "Let every Republican voter in the county be present at the primary meetings at the hours above designated, in order that a fair and impartial representation may be had in the convention," followed by the line "By order of the Republican Central Committee."
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WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 23, 1877.
[E. C. MANNING ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM COURIER.]
TO THE COURIER HEADQUARTERS.
With regret I announce to you my retirement from the COURIER. Twenty-two months ago I became publisher of the paper with the determination to remain with it until the rail-cars should enter our valley and start across the Indian Territory. With what fidelity the paper has labored to that end you all know. The principal obstacles in the way have been removed and you can almost hear the cars whistle. The COURIER during that time has tried to advocate that policy and those measures which seemed best for its readers and for the county at large. Man is fallible. Newspapers controled by men can be no better. Please remember the good and forget the evil it has done.
I had expected to remain with the paper until Sept. 1st prox. Business matters brought the separation sooner. I leave the office as one steps from the threshold of his home. We are all proud of Cowley county; none prouder than I--proud of its resources, proud of its municipal history and reputation, proud of its citizens. It has not been like many new counties, the refuge of criminals and the mother of swindles. The pages of her history are not darkened by the record of any heinous offense. May it ever be thus.
No one instrumentality can so far mould, protect, and preserve that reputation as the press. The prosperity of a county comes from the prosperity of its people. He who, or that which, strikes at their prosperity is its and their normal enemy. An honorable newspaper stands like an armed sentinel on guard, to protect and warn against dangers to its prosperity and blemishes upon its reputation. Such has been the endeavor of the COURIER in the past; such, I believe, will be its endeavor in the future.
As a business enterprise the paper is in a healthy condition. Especially have the businessmen of Winfield given it a hearty support. Its circulation in the county is good and its readers comprise the best men in our little province. For their countenance, counsel, and support in the past, I return earnest thanks for myself and public acknowledgment for the COURIER. For twenty-two months I have dropped in at your firesides once a week--a visitor for good, I hope. In stepping down and out from that important relation, to make room for those who are better and abler for the work, let me utter this exhortation: "Stand by the COURIER and the COURIER will stand by you."
E. C. MANNING.
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SALUTATORY.
In assuming the management of the COURIER we now make our salaam to you, the people of Cowley county, for it is for your interest that we are to labor and it is to you that we are to look for encouragement and support.
We hope to be able to serve your interests so well that you will help us to make the COURIER a county paper of which you may well be proud, such a paper as you may feel an interest in and call your own.
We shall not pretend, however, that our motives are wholly patriotic, we admit that the idea of bread and butter enters somewhat into our calculations, we even hope that our labor may be so remunerative that our wife and children may have some rather nice looking duds to exhibit in church and Sunday school, in fact we are not entirely free from the disease so epidemic in this country, the desire to make money.
We are, however, well aware that no newspaper can flourish in such a county as this unless the people are prosperous.
We admit, too, that next to ourselves and family the welfare of Winfield lies nearest our heart. When Winfield had scarcely begun to exist, we made it our home and invested our money in it.
Since then we have spent much of our time and money in trying to work up measures for its aggrandizement, and we feel a kind of proprietorship in its success and beauty, far in excess of our actual interest in it, and we intend that the COURIER shall work faithfully to promote all the best interests of this city of our own pride.
But our great field of labor is the whole county, our grand and glorious Cowley, with her twelve thousand industrious and thriving population, her forty-five hundred quarter sections of land rich in everything necessary to make desirable homes for her citizens and future wealth, her sixty thousand acres of wheat, her fifty thousand acres of the most luxuriant growing corn ever seen, with her herds and flocks, her schoolhouses and churches, her improved farms and thriving villages, her virtue and intelligence; here is our work and whatever shall promise advantage to all of the people of the county shall have our chiefest care.
There are many advantages that we need, and that will yet require much hard work, many journeyings and negotiations, much writing and time and anxiety and care, and we shall work with you to secure them.
Our railroads we must have and two if we can get them.
While we shall adhere to our east and west road so long as it is possible that it can be built into our county, we shall advocate the north and south road which is now before the people. In supporting both we do not fear that we shall secure too many or too soon. We ardently hope that neither will fail, but in case of such misfortune we shall work until we secure at least one road and cheap freights to and from eastern markets. When this is accomplished, we shall then truly be on the high road to prosperity.
We shall try to promote the interests of our common school system, of our churches, and of all other societies and organizations that are well calculated to make our people, young or old, more virtuous, more intelligent, more prosperous, better citizens, and happier in all our social relations.
We shall try to run clear of all rings and factions should any such exist, but shall have our own opinions on social, economic, and political questions, and shall express them freely and fearlessly when in our judgment the occasion exists.
In politics we believe in the Republican party, the party of progress and of freedom, the party which has abolished slavery and preserved the integrity of our nation for seventeen years, the most trying and turbulent in the history of our republic, made so by the errors of former Democratic administrations, and which, leaving behind all of the past but its lessons, deals with the living present and looks forward to a grand future.
When that party was first organized, we were of its members, have ever since adhered to its fortunes, and intend to work for its success so long as it shall remain true to its history and traditions and move forward in the course we have described.
We shall try to promote the unity of that party, to harmonize factions, and to keep the party in good working order.
The COURIER shall be eminently a newspaper, containing accounts of all matters of general interest transpiring in our county, with a summary of the news of the state as derived from our exchanges, together with the latest news from all parts of the world.
Everything of general interest that we can make room for will appear in our columns, correspondence, science, and literature each having a reasonable space, and we hope the files of the COURIER will be worthy of preservation as a history of the times in which we live.
Nothwithstanding our many hopes and aspirations for the future of the COURIER, it is with great diffidence we assume its control. We succeed in its charge an experienced newspaper man who has written his name high among the names of Kansas journalists, and has made the COURIER respected throughout the State, and we feel it an undertaking of no small magnitude to sustain its present position, much more to improve it, but with your liberal encouragement and support, we will do what we can.
WOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT THIS EDITORIAL WAS UNSIGNED!!
AT THIS POINT IN TIME THE EDITOR IS UNKNOWN!
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WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 16, 1877.
OUR SCHOOLS.
Our district school board are in negotiation with the trustees of the Presbyterian church with a view to rent the basement of the new church building for school purposes. The church trustees are to finish up the room ready for the furniture and the school board are to make a temporary partition dividing the space into two rooms, and to furnish the rooms. The rent is to be $300 per year. The question of leasing for two years instead of one is not settled at this writing.
We think the school board should not hesitate one moment to engage the room for two years, for it will certainly be as much as two years before new rooms can be built by the district to pay $300 yearly rent than to pay from $500 to $800 yearly interest on the cost of a new schoolhouse. The church basement will be convenient and suitable in every way. It will be warm in winter and cool in summer and be a very pleasant place for the pupils of the two lower grades. We heartily approve of the project.
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UTAH DIVORCES.
Our friend, Robert Hudson, has got his divorce. It will be recollected that he had a suit for divorce pending before the District Court of this county for some time which culminated in the refusal of his honor, Judge Campbell, to grant the divorce, but charging him ten dollars per month to be paid to his wife for her support.
Feeling deeply grieved by this decision of the court, he followed in the footsteps of the illustrious Brick Pomeroy, and like him obtain his decree in a probate court of the land of Brigham.
Like Brick, he too accepted the services of a sharp Chicago lawyer, who, for the sum of one hundred dollars, to be deposited in Read's bank to await the result, agreed to obtain for his client a decree of divorce without alimony that would be valid in this or any other state, and be so pronounced by our courts, and when it should have been so procured and tested, Read was to pay over the fees.
The famous Poland bill which passed Congress and became a law, in giving jurisdiction to the territorial courts of Utah, provides that the Probate Courts of Utah in their respective counties shall have jurisdiction of suits for divorce for statutory causes concurrently with the District courts.
The act of the Territorial legislature of Utah relating to bills of divorce provides that "Any person who is a resident of the Territory or wishes to become one, could maintain an action for divorce in that Territory, and "when it shall appear to the satisfaction and conviction of the court that the parties cannot live in peace and union together, and that their welfare requires a separation" then a divorce shall be granted.
Now neighbor Hudson really does wish to become a resident of Utah, and it is really true that he and his wife "cannot live in peace and union together," therefore it was very easy to satisfy and convince a probate judge in Utah of these facts. So having first made the required publication in some Utah newspaper that has a circulation of 150 copies, our Chicago limb of the law presents his evidence and the decree of divorce is granted without alimony. An attested copy of the decree is on deposit at Read's bank awaiting a judicial test in our courts.
Mr. Hudson proposes to refuse payment of the next $10 alimony, which is due Sept. 1st, at which time the District Court will be in session, which will precipitate the test of his divorce which he desires.
We shall leave the matter without expressing an opinion for the court will soon act upon the case.
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The convention of County Attorneys at their late meeting at Topeka have given the following answers to legal questions which were propounded to them.
"Neither the people of a school district at an annual meeting, nor the School Board of a district, have the right to appropriate money raised for building purposes to the payment of a judgment against the district.
"County Clerks, in making certificates of final payment on school lands forfeited by the purchasers, have no authority for compounding the interest due.
"If a School District has bonds outstanding, the County Superintendent can divide the district, but the whole territory of the old district will be liable for the old indebtedness.
"The Clerk and Director of a school district cannot call a meeting of the district for the transaction of district business without first notifying the Treasurer.
"Where a school district Treasurer has been re-elected, and fails to give a new bond, and has not been specially requested to do so by the Clerk and director, he is Treasurer until the Superintendent appoints a successor.
"A School Board has no right to employ teachers before the annual meeting in August, such teacher to teach after said meeting.
"In case a bridge is to be built which is to cost more than $1,000 and the county agrees to appropriate $1,000, the delinquent road tax collected, belonging to the township in which said bridge is to be built, cannot be used by said township in completing such bridge.
"Where the cost of the bridge exceeds $1,000, but the excess is raised by private or other means, the County Commissioners can appropriate $1,000 to complete the bridge.
"If trustees fail to furnish, in time, a list of jury names, a legal jury can be drawn from the names furnished."
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The R. R. Bond Elections
Will soon be upon us, and the people will again be asked to deposit their ballots either for or against the proposition to take $100,000 stock in the Memphis & Ellsworth railroad, which proposes to run through our county east and west through Longton, Elk Falls, and Greenfield townships. The bonds will, beyond a doubt, be carried, but it is well that all who favor to be on hand on election day and see that the assurance is made doubly sure. The election takes place on Tuesday, the 28th inst.
Howard City Courant.
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The piers for the bridge across the Walnut are nearly completed. Had it not been for the high waters, the bridge would have been completed by this time. Augustta Gazette.
Had it not been for the high water, the bridge would not have been built at all.
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The only acknowledgement by Manning that Millington has taken over control of the COURIER appears on the "Personals" page of the August 23, 1877, issue.
To Courier Readers.
All subscribers to the COURIER who are in arrears for subscription will please settle the same up to September 1st, 1877, on my account. Mr. D. A. Millington, at the COURIER office, will receive the same for me for the next thirty days. Accounts not paid at that time will be left with an attorney for collection.
E. C. MANNING.
August 23rd, 1877.
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[PERSONALS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 23, 1877.
This year's wheat crop will reach 750,000 bushels.
Miss Nellie Barnard, of Wellington, visited Winfield last week.
Mr. C. S. Thomas, of the City hotel, took a trip to Wichita the first of the week.
Sid Major and wife visited friends in the vicinity of Arkansas City during last week.
The school board has taken a lease of the basement of the Presbyterian church for two years.
Rev. C. J. Adams was too ill to preach last Sabbath.
Messrs. Simpson and Stewart have the contract to build the piers and abutments of the new iron bridges.
Hotel arrivals, in this city, for the week ending August 22, 1877, number as follows: Central, 51; City, 40.
Cowley county will produce this year a million and a half bushels of corn. Never before was the corn crop so promising.
The ground is in splendid condition for seeding with wheat. The breadth of land to be sown this fall will probably reach 65,000 acres.
Mr. D. A. Millington will lecture before the teachers and citizens at the Courthouse on Friday evening next. Subject: Prairie and Forest Fires.
The boys in the office are under obligations for several very fine peaches which were tossed through an open window by Mr. J. D. Cochran, our city marshal.
A game of base ball is to be played, five miles west of this city, on Saturday, September 1st, between the Grasshoppers, of Vernon, and the Modocs, of Belle Plaine.
A picnic will be given in Marshal's grove, on the Arkansas river, in this county, on Friday, August 31st, by the Aurora Sunday School, of Vernon township. All are invited.
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Rev. J. L. Rusbridge is going east to be absent a few weeks and recruit after his months of arduous lobor in building a church and raising the funds to pay for it, in addition to his regular pastoral duties.
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Read Prof. Jones' professional card in another column. The Prof. is a first class workman and you can always depend on what he tells you.
NOTE: AM AT A LOSS WHERE THIS CARD IS IN PAPER...COULD NOT
FIND IT....
HOWEVER, I DID UNCOVER AN AD BY THOMAS J. JONES ???
AD: THOMAS J. JONES,
PRACTICAL PAINTER.
House, Sign, and Carriage Painting, Graining and Papering.
Office under Read's Bank, Winfield, Kansas.
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Now we get the answer to who is handling paper...
THE COURIER COMPANY is composed of D. A. Millington, James Kelly, and A. B. Lemmon, who will jointly edit and conduct the business of the COURIER. Job work, subscriptions and advertisements are respectfully solicited.
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Harter, Harter & Co. have taken a contract to supply the Cheyenne, Comanches, and Wichita Indians with flour. This will make a home market for a large quantity of wheat and save a large amount of hauling to Wichita.
NOTE: "HARTER, HARRIS & CO." IS CORRECT...COURIER GOOFED!
QUESTION: WHEN DID NEWMAN AND OTHERS IN ARKANSAS CITY GET
INTO THE CONTRACT BUSINESS? IT APPEARS THAT
WINFIELD WAS FIRST!
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There is to be a meeting at the Vernon Center schoolhouse, in Vernon township, on Saturday evening, August 25th, to form a secret organization for protection against horse-thieves. If the originators of the movment desire secrecy, they must not tell about it to a COURIER man.
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Our Cowley county readers in going to Independence should take the hack line at this place and go by Sedan thence to Independence by daily stage. At Sedan they will find good hotel accommodation at the Great Western, kept by a Cowley county man, Capt. H. W. Stubblefield.
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Mr. "Tuck" Southard, with the Baird Bros., at Winfield, was in our city last week. He reports the Bairds as prosperous. Also, Wm. C. Robinson, as great a Sunday School worker as ever, and very popular; and Mr. T. E. Gilleland as having sold out his boot and shoe business and going into clothing. All prospering.
Independence Courier.
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The Normal Institute still increases in interest and in the number of teachers in attendance. An accession of five has been made this week, and the total number in attendance reaches seventy-five. It is really exhilarating to meet fifty neatly dressed, bright looking, jolly schoolmarms on the narrow sidewalk everytime one goes to dinner.
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The new Presbyterian Church will be dedicated on the 3rd Sunday in September if nothing occurs to prevent. President Anderson, of the Agricultural College at Manhattan, is expected to be present and take part in the exercises. The directors intend to raise the funds to supply the deficiency by private subscription before the day of dedication.
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ALMOST A RUNAWAY. Last Sunday afternoon as a gentleman and lady from Arkansas City were leaving the hotel in a buggy, one of the horses began kicking and trying to run. Several gentlemen endeavored to stop them, but without success, until John H. Rearick boldly ran in, caught the unruly one by the bridle, and brought them to a full stop. Mr. Rearick certainly deserves great credit for averting what would undoubtedly have been a serious affair.
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The festival given by the Presbyterian ladies, to raise funds to carpet the new Presbyterian church, came off on Tuesday evening at the new palace building of Mr. Frank Williams. Everybody was there with his wife, baby, sweetheart, brother, uncle, and mother-in-law, as Short says, "to get one good square meal." The way the loads of two-story biscuits, pressed hash, chickens, grapes, ice cream, peaches, cake, etc., disappeared was wonderful. Everyone said a great many smart things and joined in the general merriment. Altogether it was one of the most enjoyable occasions that Winfield has ever seen. The receipts reached $90.
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Mr. Daniel Read, who lives on upland prairie land, in Tisdale township, two and one half miles west of New Salem schoolhouse, has a farm and an experience in Cowley county that shows what an energetic man can do. He settled there six years ago. Two years ago he became a little discouraged and went to California for a new location. He thought that no improvement on this county and in seven months was back upon his place in this county.
He has 320 eight-year-old bearing apple trees, 850 bearing peach trees, many of them the choicest varieties, one acre of blackberries, three acres of cottonwood trees, 1,800 in all, some of them thirty feet high. This grove he used for a hog and stock lot, and it contains a large artificial pond of water. He has sixty acres of fine corn and raised this year considerable other crops. Twenty months ago, on his return from California, he purchased a six-months-old pig for $3.50 and from that start in hogs he now has seven brood sows and altogether thirty hogs, and has twenty-five dollars worth besides. He is now selling peaches from his orchard and has had ripe peaches for four weeks. He has been in twenty-one different states of the Union and considers this section the best country for a man of moderate means that he ever saw. Some specimens of Early Amburge peaches from his orchard are before us as we write.
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The Bridges.
The township board of Winfield township have let the contract to build the bridges across the Walnut river to the King Bridge Co. for the sum of $7,000.
Several styles of bridges were presented in the bids and specifications and the board selected therefrom King's best and strongest style of patent tubular wrought iron bridges.
The cost is $600 more than it would have been had one of the lighter styles been selected, but the board have done well in selecting the best.
The South bridge is to be of one span of 150 feet, and the abutments are to be taken down 13 feet, rebuilt, and raised 6 feet higher than before, and is to be completed ready for travel on or before the 27th of next October.
The West bridge is to have a main span 120 feet, an east approach span 60 feet, a west approach span 30 feet, two stone piers 30 feet above low water, and one stone abutment, the whole to be completed by the 17th of November next.
The bridges are to be paid for with the bonds authorized by our late election so far as they go and the balance by private subscriptions, of which nearly the necessary amount is already pledged.
The specifications on file are very voluminous and minute, leaving no loophole, so far as we can see, for a misunderstanding with the contractors or for slighting the work. Everything necessary to a perfect and substantial job seems to have been specified.
We opposed the bonds at the election because we did not believe we were able to build both bridges, and feeling that the South bridge was most important we desired that it alone should be undertaken. It now looks as though we were mistaken and that both will be built in a short time, and we are prepared to give those who have labored so effectually to this end due credit for all the success that shall be achieved.
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[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 23, 1877.]
That Accident.
The following account of a most painful accident, which will interest a good many people in Cowley county, where the unfortunate young man lived and was well known, we copy from the Black Hills Daily Times.
"Just as the miners, who are working claim No. 11, Deadwood Gulch, above discovery, owned by James Burns, were leaving their work for noon today (August 9th), a fatal accident occurred in the following manner: Two men had been raised out of the shaft, forty-five feet deep by six feet square, in one bucket, and while two others, John Philbin and Joe Carter, were awaiting the descent of the other bucket, it became detached from the chain, and fell with lightning-like rapidity down the shaft, striking, in its descent Philbin and Carter. The former fortunately escaped with severe bruises on the left side of the head and left shoulder, but the latter, we regret to announce, was killed instantaneously; in fact, never moved a muscle after being struck. Philbin says the bucket struck the unfortunate man on the crown of the head, felling him at once, and that he never spoke or moved again. The bucket weighs about fifty pounds. The only manner in which the accident can be accounted for is that the descended bucket must have become entangled with the one ascending, and was borne to the surface, in company with the bucket containing the two miners who were being raised, which, of course loosened the chain so that the hook turned and the bucket fell back into the shaft.
"DIED. Joe Carter came to the Hills from Cowley Co., Kansas, in April last, where he lived, a near neighbor to Mr. Burns, the proprietor of the mine, and where his mother, step-father (named Fannestock), and one married brother reside at the present time. He has worked for Mr. Burns about two months.
"I am informed that it is a common occurrence for the shaft buckets to become entangled in the way I have mentioned above."
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[MORE CANDIDATES' ANNOUNCEMENTS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 23, 1877.
Earlier issues showed S. W. Chase and A. T. Shenneman announcing their candidacy for Sheriff.
This issue showed three more:
County Clerk.
I hereby announce myself as candidate for the office of County Clerk, subject to the approval of the Republican
convention. JAMES S. HUNT.
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Sheriff.
I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Cowley county, subject to the decision of the Republican Nominating Convention, and I pledge myself to abide by the decision of that convention. L. LIPPMAN.
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Sheriff.
To the Republicans of Cowley County.
I am a candidate for the office of Sheriff of this county, and shall submit my name in the Republican Convention, to be held on the 22nd of September.
Some of my opponents have circulated a report that I am a Democrat. I have always been a Republican, and voted the Republican ticket. I shall abide by the decision of the Republican convention and support its nominees.
GEORGE L. WALKER.
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[SOME OF THE ADS/NOTICES.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 23, 1877.
Nice, smooth, dry wood for sale by J. C. Franklin, as his Harness Shop.
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The highest price in cash paid at the mill of C. A. Bliss & Co. for good milling wheat. Do not sell to anyone else until you see them. Their mill is now running on full time.
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A Word to the Wise.
All parties knowing themselves indebted to the firm will call and make a settlement by September 1st. We start east then to buy goods and want our money.
LYNN & GILLILEN.
Winfield, August 21, 1877.
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Cash for Wheat.
Harter, Harris & Co. want 10,000 bushels of wheat delivered to them at the Tunnel Mills within the next thirty days.
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[MORE ADS/NOTICES: WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 23, 1877.]
For Sale.
Barley and Timothy seed, by A. G. Forney, living 22 miles southeast of Belle Plaine, Sumner Co., Kan., at the following prices: Barley, $1.00 per bushel; Timothy, $2.50. Also two choice varieties of seed wheat, viz: California May and Todd, the latter was procured in Ohio two years ago.
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Farm for Sale.
400 acres of choice upland, in Sheridan township, 12 miles east of Winfield. Inquire at this office, of
D. A. MILLINGTON.
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A Bargain.
My home and lot, situated in Winfield, is for sale cheap. Price $400.00; $100.00 down and balance on time, in small payments.
W. E. DOUD, Eureka, Kan.
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GEO. P. TOWNSEND,
at the
CUSTOM HOUSE,
Keeps the Best and Purest Liquors.
Corner 8th Avenue and Main Street,
WINFIELD, KANSAS.
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[AD: M. J. MILLER, ARCHITECT AND BUILDER.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 30, 1877 - FRONT PAGE.
M. J. MILLER,
Architect and Builder,
WINFIELD, KANSAS.
Designs for buildings of any description, with estimates of cost, free. To all those with whom I make contracts I desire to call attention to the fact that I can and will do as good work, and as at low prices, as any workman can do it. Call and see me before you build. A liberal share of patronage solicited. Shop next to old M. E. church building.
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[EDITORIAL ITEMS.]
WINFIELD COURIER, AUGUST 30, 1877
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE "COURIER" COMPANY.
A GOOD INVESTMENT.
The election for the Emporia railroad comes off Sept. 18, prox., and we hope that the bonds will carry by a large majority. Indeed we cannot see why a single voter in the county should vote against the proposition.
We know, however, that there are many who oppose all bonds from principle, and while we respect both them and their views, while we deprecate as much as they, the system of reckless issues of county bonds in large amounts on many different occasions, as has been done in many of the older counties of this State, yet we hold that there may be and are occasions when bonds to a limited amount may be voted and issued to secure great and important interests when such interests cannot be secured in any other way, and this we believe to be one of those occasions.
We cannot if we would issue bonds in the reckless manner that some of our older counties have done. They have bonded themselves from $400,000 all the way up to $1,300,000. It is no wonder that they complain of high taxes but it is a wonder and a disgrace that they should try to repudiate their bonds. But since they have bonded themselves so heavily a law has been passed limiting the issue of bonds in each county to $100,000 and 5 percent of the assessment of the county. Under this law the limit based upon the last assessment is less than $200,000 in the aggregate for railroad purposes, which is a very modest sum for a great county like this, capable of becoming the wealthiest county in the State if we only had railroads.
It is true that we have already voted $120,000 to the Parsons road, but those bonds are not issued, perhaps they never will be, it is not quite sure that that road will be built. Even though that one raod would be sufficient for all our purposes, yet that road is not as certain as our necessities, and we cannot afford to reject another equally probable road for fear that we may have $80,000 or even $120,000 more to pay.
If we should get both roads, unless our assessment should be increased above $2,000,000, both together could not get over $200,000 of our bonds, though we had voted ten times that amount. The company have the law before them, know that the law is a part of every contract, and know that we have voted to the Parsons road; therefore, when we vote to the Emporia Company $120,000, it is no promise to deliver them more bonds than the law will allow.
If our assessment should be raised to $2,800,000 by the time the roads are built and if neither company forfeits, but both build to us on time, then perhaps we may issue $120,000 to each road. In that case, however, it will be because the building of the roads will have induced a large amount of capital to be brought into the county sufficient to be assessed $800,000 and with so much new capital to pay taxes the rate of taxation for the bonds would be reduced, to say nothing of the very material help this new capital would be in reducing our other taxes. But let us consider the effect on our taxes of the issue of the highest amount contemplated, $240,000, which will be considered as the worst that can happen if we vote these bonds.
Taking all our taxes together, State, cou