This number completes Volume 1st of the WINFIELD COURIER. One year ago it was started to supply a want long felt, not only in the Republican party, but among businessmen of all shades of opinion, who desired a good advertising medum. . . .

The buildings erected during the year just closed have been of the most substantial kind, the most prominent of which we call to mind, the splendid brick Bank building of M. L. Read; the neat Drug house of Maris, Carson & Baldwin; the magnificent flowering mills of C. A. Bliss and Blandin & Covert; the jail and Courthouse; the residences of Kirk, McMillen, and Dr. Graham. These are but a few of the many built during the last twelve months, and they are such as to do credit to any town in the state. Bridges of magnificent proportions span all main streams on the roads leading to town. . . .

[WINFIELD SCOTT OSBORN KILLED BY THOMAS T. RUCKER AT LAZETTE.]

A MAN STABBED TO THE HEART AND DIES ALMOST INSTANTLY.

THE BLOW CLAIMED TO BE STRUCK IN SELF-DEFENSE.

THE ACCUSED WAIVES TRIAL AND IS LODGED IN JAIL.

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One of the saddest affairs we have ever been called upon to chronicle occurred at the town of Lazette, in this county, at a masquerade ball given there last Christmas eve. The chief actors in the horrible tragedy were Winfield Scott Osborn, the victim, and Thomas T. Rucker, the accused, of Lazette. Being somewhat acquainted with the accused, and desiring to give a true version of the affair, we went to the jail and got the story from Mr. Rucker himself, and which runs something like the following.

Rucker was introduced by Osborn to a Miss Della Coates and requested her to dance with him, which she refused to do dis-guised as he then was (Rucker being masked) and on turning to leave her he encountered Osborne, who said: "What is this game you're trying to play on me?" Rucker replied that he was not trying to play any game on him, when Osborne retorted in an angry and excited manner, "Come out here G__d d___n you; and I'll whip h__l out of you." Rucker told him that he had done nothing but was not afraid to fight; whereupon the pair accompanied by a number of others went outside.

What happened after that the accused very properly refuses to disclose, and only adding that the many wild and exaggerated accounts already afloat will not be believed, but asks the public suspend their judgment until the facts are brought out in a fair and impartial trial.

Thomas T. Rucker, the accused, was born in New Orleans, and was 27 years old last July; he is of medium height, light hair, blue eyes, and has none of that "bully look" generally accredited to persons accused of such a crime, but on the other hand would strike the close observer as a young man who must have had the advantage of good moral training in his younger days. He is well known at Lazette and on Timber creek where he bears an excellent character.

Of the murdered Osborne we can say but little. He, we understand, was almost a stranger in Lazette, having come there from Joplin, Missouri. Rucker says he never met him to speak to him until the evening before the fatal Christmas eve.

The prisoner after learning what he had done no doubt overcome with fear and remorse, as well as appalled at the consequences of the bloody deed, attempted to kill himself. In speaking of his widowed mother, who lived at Burlington, Missouri, and how the sad news would affect her, the prisoner was deeply moved and could hardly answer our questions, which shows that he is not at all insensible, nor without feeling. What the Coroner's Jury will show we do not at this writing know, as the result of their deliberations have not been transmitted to this place.

[PERSONALS.]

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JANUARY 2, 1874.]

It puts a person in mind of old times to hear the mellow tones of the new bell ring out on a Sabbath morning. The bell weighs five hundred pounds and is a fine improvement to our young city.

The bummers of Arkansas City and Oxford attended the dance at Thomasville on Christmas night, and got away with all the odd hats, caps, and coats that happened to lie around loose, and many was the poor country boy who went home bareheaded. They should have had better luck.

RUNAWAY. Thursday morning a team belonging to J. G. Service, which was left standing unhitched in front of the post office, took fright and started at a lively gait up main street. Turning the corner at W. H. H. Maris', the left the seat in the road, and one horse was picked up, and, Mr. Service went on his way rejoicing. Nobody hurt.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JANUARY 2, 1874.]

Yesterday we stepped into the furniture shop of J. W. Johnston, three doors south of the post office, and were surpised to see his excellent stock of furniture of all descriptions suited to this country. We know Mr. Johnston to be a first-class workman, and as he manufactures the most of his stock himself out of the best of timber, anything purchased of him can be relied on as good and durable. He doesn't advertise to sell at cost, but he does sell at terrible low figures.

MARRIAGE LICENSES. Number of Marriage Licenses issued for the year ending December 31, 1873: 88.

The following were issued for the month of December just ended.

F. C. Johnson, to Miss Naomi Bickel.

David Perry, to Eliza Cooper.

J. L. Cottingham, to Adorista F. McKee.

Emma Dean, to Estella Tyner.

John Hanahan, to Isabella Anderson.

S. E. Woodard, to Caroline A. Lee.

Jacob Sharp, to Florance M. Lacy. [Yes, Florance...]

Charles Fisk to Olive A. Hunt.

[PERSONALS.]

T. A. Wilkinson has a splendid team of horses which he will trade for city property.

C. M. Scott, of Arkansas City, was in town last Tuesday. He isn't going to Topeka.

Cliff Wood killed five hogs yesterday 221 days old which netted 210 pounds each. Hos is that?

Last Friday Mr. Titus dug his potatoes on the Black farm near town and they turned out in good condition.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JANUARY 9, 1874.]

Allison came to grief by having his pony come out behind in a race with Kimble's horse last New Year's day, a bad beginning for 1874 for Allison.

We regret to notice that Mr. L. B. Paul has packed up his goods and removed with his family to Independence. Mr. Paul was a good citizen and an enterprising merchant, and his loss is deeply felt by our citizens.

Clint. Arnold has sued William Thurman in the sum of $5,000 to repair a breach supposed to have been made in his character by being called a horse-thief by Thurman; and now Thurman has sent J. C. Bigger to Council Grove to take depositions to prove it on him.

Harry Ludlow, who recently sold out his interest in the Sumner county Press, and who has been in our city with a running horse for the past week, started west on a hunt last Wednesday in company with a number of our sports.

That weathervane again. And now comes Stewart & Simpson and the Board of County Commissioners, who say that T. A. Rice did not give, donate, or make the county a present of that vane, but that the county paid for it as a part of the contract. Give us a rest.

Horneman, of Little Dutch, had another dance New Year's night, and although the crowd was large everything was conducted in a very quiet and orderly manner which did credit to the management. The cause assigned for the contrast between this and the one previously mentioned by us, was the fact that a different party of Winfielders attended.

Every person in Cowley county who can raise enough money to pay half fare is going to Topeka as delegates to the third house. Our worthy legislator, Hon. Wm. Martin, and his noon-day shadow, Allison, have already taken their departure and they will be followed in due time by W. W. Walton, R. L. Walker, E. B. Kager, James McDermott, James Kelly, and others too numerous to mention.

[WOLF HUNT: VERNON TOWNSHIP.]

The citizens of Vernon township and vicinity assembled January 5, 1874, for the purpose of organizing for a wolf hunt. D. Hopkins was chosen chairman of the meeting. A committee was appointed to draft a programme for the hunt consisting of Dr.

A. S. Capper, E. D. Skinner, and T. Thompson. The place of closing the circle is the northeast quarter of the 16th section of Vernon township, the boundary lines as follows.

The Walnut river on the east, the Arkansas on the west, the south line of Vernon township on the south, two miles north of the north line of Vernon township on the north.

The day designated for the hunt: January 15, 1874. Time of starting at the boundary lines 10 o'clock A.M. The men are allowed to carry fire-arms, but no shooting is allowed inside of the ring. Dogs are not allowed to run loose when the ring is closed. The Chief Marshal gives the signal when the dogs are to be loosed. The proceeds of the hunt to be donated to the Cowley county school fund. T. A. Blanchard is Chief Marshal. There shall be a marshal for each line and he shall call as many aides as needed; everyone having a horn or bell is requested to bring it. The chief marshal shall wear a blue scarf; the marshal on the lines and their aides shall wear a red scarf or ribbon.

A general invitation is extended to all, and a special one to the editors of the Oxford and Winfield papers.

By order of Committee.

[THE OLD AND THE NEW COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.]

[MARRIAGES.]

MARRIED. MANSER - WALTON. Married in Arkansas City at the residence of Amos Walton, by the Rev. J. E. Platter, on Sunday eve., Jan. 4th, Mr. G. S. Manser of Winfield, to Miss Fannie Walton of Arkansas City.

The happy couple have taken up their residence in our little city, amid the best wishes and warmest congratulations of their numerous friends both in this place and Arkansas City. The bride, without resigning her position as a lady, has become a Man-ser.

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MARRIED. KELSEY - POLK. Married at the residence of the groom's parents ten miles north of Winfield on New Year's night, Mr. Cleveland Kelsey to Miss Sophia Polk, both of this county.

[DIED.]

DIED. In this city, of consumption, January 7, 1874, William T. Doughterty, in the 33rd year of his age. The deceased had been afflicted for a long time and suffered a great deal. He experienced religion a short time ago and died in the triumph of a living faith. He leaves a wife, and family of small children to mourn his loss.

[CORRESPONDENCE RE KAW AGENCY FROM "L___"]

A short time ago I had occasion to visit the Kaw Agency and if you will permit me I will give you a few of the observations that I made.

We crossed the state line south of Maple City, and the road led down the little Beaver. Of this stream little need be said, more than that it runs through as fertile and fine a valley as there is in this country of the same size. About four miles below the junction of the two Beavers, the agency is situated. The confluence of the Big Beaver and the Arkansas is something like a mile below. The buildings at the Agency are being built in as beautiful a natural grove of oaks as can be found, it being on a gentle eminence that commands a good view of the surrounding country. Here you can find all that is necessary to constitute a rich and fort_____ [?] country. The soil is as good as can be found; water is plenty. In the Beaver it is as clear as crystal, but the Arkansas presents a rather murky appearance. There is sufficient timber for all demands, also good building stone and within easy hauling distance.

The buildings being erected are three of stone, vix: the mission, the school house, and the agents house. Besides these there are several wooden ones already up. The mission is the largest of all, it being three and a half stories high. It is intended for the Indian children's home, as they are to be taken away from their parents and kept here to themselves. The idea seems to be a good one.

Mr. Stubbs, the Agent, whose hospitality we enjoyed, is deeply interested in his work, as his labor shows. He has been among these Indians for the last ten years, and the regard evinced for him by his charges is good proof that sordidness and rapacity are not his characteristics and which have so often been a controlling element in many Indian agents' characters. Notwithstanding the oft repeated saying of many that the present policy of the government was a failure, if it works as efficiently in other places as Mr. Stubbs is carrying it out here, I venture the opinion that the end of Indian difficulties will be seen by the time the present generation passes away. I opine that the hue and cry that is raised by many against the humane policy that is now being tried have expectations not altogether disinterested, could the system be done away with.

There is a store at the Agency belonging to parties who own stores at the Osage Agency. This store is under the control of Mr. Lindsay Stubbs, a son of the agent, whose affability makes one feel at home when he gets down there, though he be among the "red men of the west." Mr. Lindsay is, I believe, clerk, a position he is well qualified to fill. A school is taught here by Miss Thompson, an able teacher from this state, but as the Indians are out on a hunt now, she has but few scholars, those of the employees, and those belonging to the half breeds.

A word or two might be said about the half breeds--that is the way they are taking hold of work; the interest they manifest in sending their children to school; their attendance at church, and their general demanor shows they aim to reap the benefits of the policy that intends to educate and elevate them, instead of debasing and destroying them.

Speaking of the half breeds brings to mind the facts that

S. P. Channel of Arkansas City, was down there at the time that we were, to see one of these half breeds, Fredrick Handy by name, the one that created such confusion among the merchants of the City a short time ago. Mr. Channel, I believe, had better success than did the officials that were sent down a short time before, to decoy this poor untutored child of the plain out of his native fastness into the jurisdiction of white man's law. As the officials exercised so much shrewdness, as they thought, I will relate the circumstances as told to me.

The city marshal and a constable of Arkansas City went to the Agency armed with warrants, summons, and "sich," to bring Hardy to grief before the tribunals at the city. In order to make things work, it was essential that their victim should be decoyed within the limits of the state. To do this, in the morning the two officials started from the Agency, and before they got to Hardy's house, one of them dismounted and gave his horse to the other one to lead, and told him to go to some agreed place, on the line, and he would bring their man there. So he started off towards Hardy's limping, and when he arrived there he told Hardy that he was a cattle man and had a drove of twelve hundred head up near the line which he wished to visit, but was so lame that he could not walk, and he wished to get Hardy to take him up there with his team.

Fred readily consented to go, and drove up to where the official directed. The house where they stopped is situated near the line, and Fred instead of taking his team into the state, left it across the line. They went into the house, ate dinner, and after dinner Fred heard the officer state that the people of Arkansas City would have to give him credit for a great deal of shrewdness, in getting the half breed out of the Territory. But he had no sooner said it than Fred was again free, having crossed over the line at a bound, and that is why the scheme set on foot by the victimized merchants to get this man where they could make him "fork over" failed.

[ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ESCAPE TAXATION.]

Something for the Taxpayers to Think of--Unequal Taxation--Official Neglect--Who is to Blame--From Five to Ten Thousand Dollars of Unpaid Taxes.

[PERSONALS.]

NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that I will accept bids for furnishing 20 cords of wood for the county, to be delivered at the Courthouse. Please make your bids for hard and soft wood of merchantable quality. Bids to be opened and contract let on the 24th day of January.

M. G. TROUP, County Clerk.

Winfield, Jan. 13, 1874.

Ice is four inches thick, and our ice men are shoving it under cover before it melts.

Henry McDorman, F. Rix, and R. T. Wells, of Dexter, brought 14 bushels of wheat to Bliss Co.'s mill which made 43 pounds of flour to the bushel, besides the toll.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JANUARY 16, 1874.]

The St. Joseph, Kansas and Texas Pacific railroad company has filed their mortgage for record in the office of the register of deeds for this county. It is a pretty lengthy document and looks like business.

The popular opinion, and one which we entertained ourselves, was, that the county owned the jail, it having been built by the city of Winfield and donated to the county, as we supposed. But the new board of commissioners discovered the other day that the city owned the jail and only gives the use of it to the county.

The daily stage line from Wichita to this place is to be changed from the present route and come down the Arkansas valley to a point about two miles this side of Oxford and then runs into this place and down to Arkansas City. A buck-board will run from here to Douglas.

Sheriff Parker goes out of office with the respect of all who know him. Some prejudice has been raised against him in certain localities by misrepresentation. But James Parker is an honest man, and those who know him have unlimited confidence in his integrity and humanity. Would that we had more like him.

The new Board of County Commissioners met last Monday at the courthouse and organized by electing R. F. Burden of Windsor township, chairman. Mr. Burden is a careful, prudent, and experienced man. He held the position of county commisisoner in Iowa for six years, so that he is no novice. The new board appear to be an intelligent and practical set of men, and bid fair to meet the expectations of all the well wishers of the county.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JANUARY 16, 1874.]

The wolf hunt in Vernon township for which so much preparation was made, happened yesterday. Owing to the stiffening condition of the air there were not many out--about one hundred, probably. The brush, ravines, hills, and vales were scoured and ransacked and tested; and in closing the line, it wouldn't close, it was too ragged. Two wolves were frightened into existence and out of sight and that was the whole of it. Nary wolf killed.

Foughty is in court--the Foughty that the COURIER noticed last fall. He sues one S. A. Moses for libel, damage, five thousand dollars. Moses called him a "lying-son-of-a-b____h" and said he had "stolen corn, and been stealing ever since he came to the county." In his petition, Foughty says he has always borne a good character and that the above language has damaged him to that amount. Perhaps it has (?).

Captain Dick Walker, the new sheriff, is one of the most popular men in the county. Everybody that knows him bets on him. His personal appearance is strikingly favorable--except to criminals. In form, tall, straight, and well proportioned; in motion, lithe, graceful, and dignified, and to those graces are added an intelligent countenance whose flashing eyes and strong, well turned features at once attract the attention of the ob-

server. In repose grand, in action awful--his is a happy combination of the powers, arts, faculties, graces, and acquirements of the remaining members of the "ring." With the length of a Johnson, the sinews of a Green, the muscle of a Torrance, the nerve of a Kelly, the bearing of a Fuller, the decision of a Millington, the address of an Irwin, the brains of a McDermott, the brilliancy of a Webb, and the intuition of a Manning, Dick is calculated to get away with the baggage of all the passengers he goes for. Girls, he is not married, but wants to ------- well, you can guess the remainder. His mustache is so ticklish!

At a meeting of medical men held at the office of Dr. Egbert, Winfield, on Tuesday, January 8th, 1874, it was unanimously resolved to organize a County Medical Society, and the following temporary organization was effected to carry out the necessary arrangements: Dr. W. Q. Mansfield, President; Dr.

D. N. Egbert, Secretary;' Dr. T. G. Peyton, Treasurer.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Dr. Nathan Hughes, of Arkansas City, and Drs. D. C. Cram and W. A. Andrews, of Winfield.

It was resolved that the society meet at 2 p.m. on the 2nd Wednesday in February, at Dr. Egbert's office, to form a permanent organization. Also resolved that the members of the medical fraternity of the county be respectfully invited to be present.

Dr. W. Q. MANSFIELD, President.

D. N. EGBERT, Secretary.

[WINFIELD GRANGE.]

A. T. STEWART, MASTER; J. D. COCHRAN, OVERSEER; N. C.

McCULLOCH, LECTURER; J. G. SERVICE, SECRETARY; JETHRO COCHRAN, CHAPLAIN; MRS. SERVICE, CERES; MRS. MARY A. McCULLOUGH, POMONA; MISS BURGER, ASSISTANT STEWART.

[BEAVER GRANGE.]

W. A. FREEMAN, MASTER; B. F. NESMITH, OVERSEER; Z. B. MYERS, LECTURER; A. K. JENKINS, STEWARD; JAMES DALTON, ASSISTANT STEWARD; M. S. ROSEBERRY, CHAPLAIN; WARREN WOOD, TREASURER; C. M.

ROSEBERRY, SECRETARY; PHILO KENT, GATE KEEPER; MRS. JENNIE WOOD, CERES; MRS. MARY J. FREEMEN, POMONA; MRS. SUSAN DALTON, FLORA; MRS. MARY C. McCULLOUGH, LADY ASSISTANT STEWARD.

Other members are J. A. McCulloch, Harvey Dwyer, Jasper Smalley, Mrs. C. J. Dwyer, Mrs. M. A. Roseberry, and Maggie Kent.

[COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' PROCEEDINGS, JANUARY 6, 1874.]

Resignation of J. W. Tull, of Windsor township received and accepted and Wm. Fritch appointed to fill the vacancy.

Resignation of H. H. Martin, clerk of Vernon township, and W. Nixon appointed to fill vacancy.

Resignation of D. C. Onstott, trustee of Ninescah township and L. B. Walmsey appointed to fill vacancy.

R. Shooen and L. Baldwin were appointed road viewers on A. A. Mills county road to date from Nov. 7th, 1874 [?? 1873 ??].

Report on A. A. Mills county road received, and accepted, and the road ordered opened 40 ft. wide.

Report on Wm. Steele's county road received and accepted as far as station 24 as per Surveyor's plat and report.

Report of County Surveyor on the re-survey of a portion of the T., A. & Winfield state road received and accepted as

reported.

Petition of E. K. Kouty for Co. road laid over, bond being deficient.

Petition of M. R. Leonard for sec line road. Granted.

Sec line road of W. R. Wadkins laid over under the rule for want of affidavit.

Official bond of R. L. Walker, Sheriff, received and approved January 6th, 1874, amount of Bond $10,000.

Proceeded to take up bills.

Perry Knote, attendance on pauper, allowed. $ 40.75

Sam'l Khens, for pauper: 28.00

Lyon County boarding prisoners: 113.00

M. Hemmingway et al road viewers: 62.00

J. P. Short, office rent: 48.00

Stewart & Simpson, grading: 4.75

E. C. Manning, office rent: 19.00

J. T. Stewart, Sawing wood: 18.00

Shoman & Purcell, court house seats: 297.70

M. L. Read, office rent [claimed $165.00]: 142.08

E. B. Kager, office rent: 30.00

Hitchcock & Boyle, brooms: 2.00

Braden & Burford, stationery: 26.25

Jas. Kelly, office signs: 5.00

H. H. Beck, Road damages: 5.00

Rice & Ray, building outhouse: 85.00

C. M. Scott, Co. printing: 15.25

Jas. Parker, Sheriff: 5.00

Coroner's inquest: 23.10

W. D. Roberts et al road viewers: 16.50

Jas. Parker, repairing chair: 1.00

A. A. Jackson, Co. Clerk [claimed $290]: 190.00

W. W. Walton, Co. Surveyor: 6.00

J. M. Young, Jailer [claimed $10.80]: 7.65

E. S. Bedilion, desk for blanks: 6.25

D. M. Patton et al rd viewers: 43.00

A. H. Green, office rent: 7.50

J. W. Johnson, repairing desk: 4.50

T. H. Johnson, office rent: 57.50

H. Chamberlain, treasurer's desk: 50.80

S. Dodsworth, stationery: 149.00

W. W. Walton, Co. Surveyor: 89.76

T. A. Wilkinson, Co. Supt.: 310.00

Jno. Dudley, road commissioner: 14.60

O. C. Smith, gopher scalps; Co. Commissioner: 16.20

T. A. Cowles, gopher scalps: .80

Jas. Parker, Sheriff: 10.60

J. D. Maurer, Co. Commissioner: 12.40

Frank Cox, Co. Commissioner: 18.40

The following bills were laid over and rejected.

Samuel Khens, boarding pauper laid over: $ 7.00

E. P. Hickok Co. Supt. rejected: 12.00

McMillen & Shields pauper bill rejected: 19.00

Geo. Millen rejected: 9.22

G. P. Wagner medical at'dc on pauper rejected: 43.50

E. C. Manning, Probate Judge,

office rent rejected: amount not given.

S. Tarrant boarding jury rejected: 9.10

Geo. W. Crane letterheads rejected: 9.00

E. D. Eddy, pauper bill, rejected.

T. A. Blanchard, bailiff, laid over.

G. W. Craine, stationery, rejected.

J. G. Titus, Pauper bill, rejected.

Farror, Houghton & Sherburne supplies for pauper Welch, rejected. Endorsed that Cowley county does not feel able to sustain this family any longer.

Ordered that the personal property assessed to James Kelly be transferred on the tax roll to R. W. Waddell & Co.

Jas. Kelly was permitted to withdraw from the files a bil unacted upon filed January 7th, 1874.

E. C. Manning was allowed to withdraw a claim for office rent for probate judge filed January 6th, 1874.

County Attorney was instructed to notify parties who had been ruled for costs on county roads to come forward and pay costs on same.

Board adjourned.

A. A. JACKSON, Co. Clerk.

By J. P. SHORT, Deputy.

[PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF CO. COMMISSIONERS, JAN. 12TH, 1874.]

The new Board of County Commissioners met in the clerk's office.

Present: R. F. Burden, M. S. Roseberry, John Manly, who had been duly elected and qualified.

Moved by M. S. Roseberry, and seconded by John Manly, that R. F. Burden act as permanent chairman of the Board.

Road Petition of Wm. Steele received and granted, the same being in accordance with law.

Ordered that the Sheriff be allowed the sum of $1.33-1/2 each per diem, for boarding and taking care of prisoners until further action in the matter by the board.

E. B. Kager appeared and asked the board to provide a safe for the safe keeping of the funds in his possession. Matter laid over.

The county clerk was authorized to advertise for responsible bids for 20 cords of wood.

Ordered that the county clerk have the sheriff hunt up all the county property that can be found, and invoice the same to said sheriff who shall receipt for said county property.

The county clerk was also instructed to have bolts put on jury-room doors, and sash stops put on all the windows of the courthouse.

Board adjourned until 8 a.m. tomorrow.

Board met at 8 o'clock a.m., January 13th, 1874. All present.

The following bills were presented and allowed.

Joseph Stewart, road damages: $ 10.00

George Stewart, road damages: 5.00

J. M. Young, jailor: 8.05

A. A. Jackson, County Clerk: 110.10

James Parker: 4.00

R. F. Burden, Commissioner: 10.00

M. S. Roseberry, Commissioner: 8.00

John Manly, Commissioner: 8.00

Bill of G. Black was presented for medical services rendered pauper, and laid over for further information.

Board adjourned to meet again at regular April term.

R. F. BURDEN, Chairman, Board.

M. G. TROUP, County Clerk.

[LEGAL NOTICE: APPLETON, NOYES & CO. VS. CHARLES C. STEVENS.]

[LONG BROTHERS, PLAINTIFFS, VS. CHARLES C. STEVENS, DEFENDANT.]

[AN EXPLANATION FROM MR. MANNING: ARTICLE TAKEN FROM TRAVELER.]

As I was acting as the agent of the company in the matter of presenting the subscription book for the county subscription, and as there are several errors in the above item, and as I presume you were honestly misled into making the statement by misunderstandings and misstatements I make this reply.

I will endeavor to correct every error in the above item, and also to so put the whole matter before the public as to allay any suspicion that may have been bred by misrepresentation in other quarters. The criticism you make is honorable and the error one you might naturally fall into without looking the question up.

In the first place no "attempt was made at the last meeting of the county commissioners" nor at any other meeting "to have the bonds voted to the Kansas & Nebraska railroad issued to that company." Nor was any attempt made to have the bonds issued to any company, nor to have any bonds issued at all.

Neither is there any "Kansas & Nebraska railroad company" in the state.

Nor did the commissioners foresee any "evil effects that would result from such action."

Nor did they "refuse to issue them."

Consequently, their course will not be "sanctioned by the people of the county."

Nor is it true that "we want no bonds issued until we have the road."

Nor would withholding their issue "prevent their transfer to any other company."

Having stricken the errors from your item there is but little left save conjunctions and punctuation marks.

The company intends to build the road. Their financial agent sailed for Europe on the 10th day of December to negotiate the securities preparatory to commencing work early in the spring. I am advised by letter of such action already taken preparatory to spring work as convinces me that the company is acting and will act in good faith.

I suppose the foundation of the item you published lays in the following facts: Some weeks since, Mr. G. B. Duy, the secretary of the St. Joseph, Kansas and Texas Pacific (late Kansas and Nebraska) railway company forwarded to me the subscription book of the company, with the request that I present the same to the chairman of our county board for his signature whereby the county was to subscribe to the capital stock of the company to the amount of $150,000, and for which subscription the county is to receive an equal amount of paid up stock when the bonds are delivered. In said subscription book are the subscriptions of Butler, Marion, and other counties and townships along the line. Upon presenting the book to Mr. Cox for his signature, he thought that as the company had changed its name since the bonds were voted and as there seemed so little probability of its compliance with the terms upon which the subscription was authorized and the bonds voted, that, first; the county was not held to the contract because the name of the company was changed; second, that the subscription would be followed by the issue of bonds, which would be an additional expense to the county of about one hundred dollars, and which amount would be lost in case the road was not built.

At a meeting of the county board shortly after the subscription book was presented to Mr. Cox, chairman, for his signature, the question of making the subscription was brought up again to ascertain if the board entertained the same view of the matter that its chairman did, and a majority of the board decided that if the railroad company would contract to pay the expense of the two elections already held and for issuing the bonds in case of its failure to build the road according to contract that the chairman would make the subscription and issue the bonds.

Now let us see whether the chairman was right in refusing, or whether the company was right in demanding that the subscription should be made.

On the 15th day of April 1873, an election was held in Cowley county upon the question of subscribing to the capital stock of the Kansas and Nebraska railway and issuing bonds therefor.

On the 18th day of April 1873, the board of county commissioners met at the county seat and canvassed the votes of said election and declared at the end of said canvass "that there were eleven hundred and sixty-five votes cast for the railroad stock and bonds and eight hundred and seventy-four votes cast against the railroad stock and bonds, and that there was a majority of two hundred and ninety-one of the votes cast at said election "for the railroad stock and bonds," and in favor of said proposition. Thereupon it was determined and declared by the board that said proposition voted upon at said election had been adopted. And it was further ordered by the board that the chairman of said board be and is hereby instructed and authorized to subscribe for fifteen hundred shares of the capital stock of the Kansas and Nebraska railway company and issue the bonds of said county for the amount of said subscription!"

This is the action of the county board immediately after the election; and had the subscription book been here at the time the chairman would have subscribed the stock according to the above order.

Why did the commissioners make the order? Because the law required it.

By reference to the act under which said election was held we find in session laws of 1872, page 114, as follows:

* * * That if the proposition voted for be to aid in the construction of a railroad (either by donation thereto or the taking of stock therein) or other work of internal improvement, that the proper officers of such county, city, or township shall at once subscribe upon the books of such railroad company, specifically setting forth the conditions upon which such subscription is made, the amount of such donation thereto, stock taken therein, or bonds voted therefor.

Thus reads the law. Thus read the law when the vote was taken. Every voter should have known the law at the time of voting. It is to be hoped that every man voting in this age and country votes intelligently.

The proper officer to make the subscription in this case is the chairman of the county board, which subscription should be attested by the county clerk. All this was known to the board when the above mentioned order was made. Now, what are the terms upon which the subscription was authorized? Here they are.

"That said Kansas & Nebraska railway company shall construct or cause to be constructed and have in full operation within eighteen months from the date of said subscription being authorized by a vote of the legal voters of said county, voting at an election to be duly called and held for that purpose, a railway of the ordinary gauge of four feet eight and one-half inches, and of a class equal to the average of Kansas railways from the north line of said county by way of the town of Winfield to the city of Arkansas City in said county."

Five depots are to be established in the county, two of which are to be convenient to Winfield and Arkansas City respectively. We further find:

"That when said railway from the north line of said county in the direction of the town of Winfield is completed and in full operation to the said town of Winfield and the rolling stock placed thereon one half of said bonds shall be due and deliverable to said Kansas and Nebraska railway company; that when the said railway is completed and in full operation to the city of Arkansas City, the residue of said bonds shall be due and deliverable to said Kansas and Nebraska railway company, the said railway company giving to said county in exchange for its bonds delivered as aforesaid an equal amount in valuation of the full paid up stock of the said Kansas and Nebraska railway company."

These are the terms upon which the subscription is to be made--these the terms upon which it is authorized. Nor until said terms are complied with are the bonds "due and deliverable." The bonds are to be made out and held by the state treasurer until the work is done or the time expires in which to do it. If the work is performed in time the bonds are then delivered, and after delivery they are registered, and they are not negotiable nor do they bear interest until they are registered.

We see therefore that the company has until the 15th day of October 1874 to build the road to Arkansas City. That it is possible for them to do so none will deny. That the hue and cry raised last summer and fall in the west against railroads and railroad bonds has materially embarrassed all efforts at obtaining eastern capital to build western railroads should be born in mind. That the financial panic of the last three months has aggravated these difficulties is also true. That we here should also withdraw our sympathy and encouragement at this time is somewhat embarrassing.

Mr. Cox ought to have made the subscription.

The name of the company was changed to that of "The St. Joseph, Kansas and Texas Pacific" railroad on the 19th of April last by a vote of the directors, as the law prescribes. The corporation is the same--its franchises are as firmly held as under the old name.

The idea of transferring the subscription or the authority to make the subscription to another corporation by a vote of the people without the consent of this corporation and before the time expires in which they are given to earn the bonds is the sheerest nonsense.

The intimation or insinuation made by habitual liars in another quarter, that I or someone else that had no right to them could or would get hold of the bonds and use them is malicious slander steeped in ignorance.

If, in the face of the law and facts, liars will tell it or fools believe it, let them so do. But what man of ordinary intelligence will hazard it by giving credence to such stuff? And what man with any regard for his reputation for truthfulness will stain himself by repeating it?

While upon this strain, I must say, that the vicious

cupidity of the scandal swallowing public is amazing. The haste in which falsehoods are seized and swallowed and then half digested are cast out again to be a hundred times seized and swallowed is appalling. No attempt is made to protect by public opinion the most spotless character from calumny's stain. It seems to be forgotten that the strongest safeguard to social order is an intelligent, quickened public conscience; that laws cannot be so stringent as to secure to each his own; that they are but the work of minds, and that minds equally as strong may outwit them. It will not do to justify men in keeping within the law when moral law is violated. A community governed by and living within the law alone becomes a licensed banditti. In such an atmosphere the poor and ignorant are at the mercy of the rich and learned, and popular opinion is the child of passion goaded by the lash of wrong. A people who countenance a public slan-derer are nursing a viper that may at any time turn upon anyone that crosses its heedless path.

As for myself, I cannot stop every day to tread upon the vermin in human form that spends its vicious energies in attacks upon me. Several of the maggots that have essayed to devour my body have fled the country or withered into oblivion. A few are spared by an inscrutable Providence to breed and stick. Let them crawl and squirm and bite. Honest or intelligent criticism is worthy of notice. Slanderers, fools, and liars will have their day.

Hoping that I have so put this question of the one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in county bonds that "he who runs may read" please allow me to subscribe myself as a humble reader of the Traveler.

[INDIAN TERRITORY.]

Section 1. Provides for the organization of the Indian Territory into a Territory to be called Oklahoma.

Section 2. Provides for the enumeration of the several tribes within said Territory.

Section 3. Provides for the manner of forming a general assembly.

Section 4. Provides for the meeting of the general

assembly.

Section 5. Defines the power of the general assembly, and prevents the enactment of any law inconsistent with the constitution of the United States and the laws of Congress, or any treaty stipulations with the United States.

The Superintendent of Indian Affairs presides over the general assembly; the judicial power of the Territory is vested in a supreme court and district courts; their present tribal organization is in no way to be interefered with; the Superintendent of Indian Affairs is to be Governor of the Territory. As soon as considered practicable by the Governor, an election shall be held in each of the nations represented in the general assembly for the purpose of determining the sentiment of the people with regard to a survey, sectionizing and allotment of the lands of the several tribes or nations. If such survey meets with the favor of a majority, it shall be done in acordance with the treaties of 1866.

Section 16. Provides that nothing in the act shall be constructed in any way to impair the right or title of the Indians to their land, or any part thereof, nor to annul any previous obligation THE NEXT FIVE LINES WERE CHOPPED UP...LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE PARTIALLY TORN OUT...in the Nation, that congress is not going to open up the Territory, permitting the whites to rush in and dispossess those to whom the land belongs.

[HON. WILLIAM MARTIN REFUSES TO GIVE UP RAILROAD PASSES.]

He Refuses to Give Up His Railroad Passes.

He Renounces the Republican Party.

And now we have a word to say about Rev. Wm. Martin, the reformers' representative from Cowley County. He made haste to get to Topeka four or five days before the Legislature met to join in a grand rally of the forces organizing to break up the Republican party under the head of what was called "opposition." He signed a pledge to ignore party and adhere only to reform. Railroads and railroad monopolies were the special object of their hate. In the meantime they had all received and accepted passes from the railroad companies. Anthony, who is a Republican, in order to test the mettle of the reformers, introduced a resolution requiring every member to deliver his railroad pass to the Clerk of the House to be returned to the railroad companies. Rev. Martin and seventy-five others voted against allowing the resolution to be considered, thus keeping his passes and acknowledging his obligations to the hated monopolies.

On Monday last, there was a caucus of the Republican members of the Legislature at which there were present seventy-seven out of one hundred and thirty-nine members of both Houses, including Speaker McEckron. This number declared their fealty to the Republican party and pledged themselves to stand by it. Rev. Martin, of Cowley, went into the caucus but formally withdrew from it saying that he belonged to no party. How does this talley with the editorial of his manager, Mr. Allison, published in the Telegram immediately after the election, in which it was said that Martin's election was not an anti-Republican victory, but an anti-Manning and McDermott victory? Martin seems intent upon "busting" the Republican party by abandoning it, and to "bust" the railroads by riding on them free.

[RICHNESS IN THE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.]

MORE INTERESTING REVELATIONS!

The new County Clerk has struck a rich lead. The books and records are in such a condition that no one can make any sense out of them. Errors are apparent everywhere. In one instance, that of the school district at Arkansas City, the bond levy by the Commissioners was nine mills, but the County Clerk put it on the tax roll ten mills all the way through. In the Winfield Township tax roll, many errors have come to light. The State Board of Equalization raised the valuation of land twenty-two and a half percent; the County Clerk raised it only twenty percent. There is a large difference between the amount charged to the Treasurer, and the tax roll that was put into his hands to collect by.

The new County Clerk is so nonplussed by the situation that he has suggested to the chairman of the county board that it would be well to have a meeting of the Commissioners to examine the affairs of the office so as to relieve him of an irregu-

larity, and to give the new incumbent a fair start in the

business.

As we said in regard to the mortgage business last week, we are careful not to charge anyone with irregularity or improper conduct wrongfully, but give all an opportunity to explain or defend; but as there has been no explanation to that matter offered to the public, so there may be none to this.

We await future developments with interest.

[PERSONALS.]

There is a proposition before the legislature to remit the ten percent penalty upon unpaid taxes.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JANUARY 23, 1874.]

Nate Robinson has moved his harness shop into the building formerly occupied by the Telegram office.

Owing to the "stringency of the times," the Telegram has been compelled to move out of its former office to cheaper

quarters.

Allison, instead of staying at Topeka all winter as was his intention when he left here, has notified his partner that he will be home in a week or so.

Messrs. Lacy and Newland have filled two ice houses with nice ice. Fisher & Ehret have filled one. Mr. Stewart has not put up any yet, he is waiting for a better freeze.

T. K. Johnson, the Winfield Postmaster, is the only man heard of in the county thus far that publicly justifies Rev. Martin for refusing to give up his railroad pass. Stick to him, T. K., you brought him out.

Wishing to treat representative Martin fairly we give him credit for voting in favor of remitting the ten percent penalty upon unpaid taxes, for it is true as he says, that our people are hard pressed for money to pay their taxes.

Messrs. Webb and Manning tried skating on the mill pond the other day and broke through. The latter went down to his arm-pits several times in water over his head in depth, but caught on the edge of the ice each time and managed to keep from dying a "stiff cold water man," until Mr. Webb by resolute daring got a board to him whereby he was enabled to get ashore.

Mr. Manning's communication to the Traveler, which we republish this week, is a forcible and complete answer to and expose of the misrepresentations regarding the issue of railroad bonds. We produce the law and terms of subscription as appeared in the original manuscript; whereas the Traveler for want of space left them out. It is not everyone that has access to the law and terms and it is better to publish it all.

Our fellow townsman, W. W. Walton, was defeated in his race for assistant Chief Clerk of the House. He received ten votes and Mr. Allison of the Telegram received ten votes for the same place, but they were both beaten. Representative Martin supported Allison very warmly, so that it appears that a man can get just as many votes who is a candidate for a position from Cowley County without Martin's assistance as with it. Before the result of the vote was announced, several men had changed their votes, thus making the record show that Allison received six votes and Walton only two.

T. B. Stevenson, Esq., of Nebraska City, Nebraska, is in the city taking depositions of witnesses before L. J. Webb in a case pending in the District Court of Pawnee county wherein the people of the State of Nebraska are plaintiffs; and Ortigal N. Palmer, George W. Waldo, and Celesta Randall are defendants. The defendants are charged with the murder of George Randall, the husband of Celesta Randall, one of the defendants. The deceased was the son of a citizen of this county, and the witnesses whose testi-mony is being taken are children of the deceased. The deceased was found dead some months since near his home in Nebraska.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JANUARY 23, 1874.]

Mr. Ed.: I rise to explain. I saw in the COURIER of last week that some person wants to know why the mortgages were not put on for taxation. The statement is true that the County Commissioners authorized the County Clerk to put them on for taxaation. Accordingly, I hired a man to take an abstract from the recorder's office of all mortgages on record the first of March, thinking I should notify the parties to appear before the County Board on their first meeting in January, and when I got the abstract the last of December, I found that a mistake had been made and that instead of showing the mortgages on the first of March, it showed all on record from the first of March to the present time which were not taxable. I then ordered a new abstract and owing to the great press of business in taxpaying, and the time necessary to get up the abstract, my term of office ran out before I could get them.

There have been some decisions in the Supreme Court that decides that any property subject to taxation and not listed can be put on the tax roll anytime before the settlement with the County treasurer in July. Therefore, I presume it will be attended to. Hoping that the above explanation will be satisfactory, I am

A. A. JACKSON, ex-County Clerk.

LATER. Since the item concerning the County Clerk's office was put in type, Mr. Jackson sent in what he calls an

explanation.

[LEGAL NOTICE: W. H. SOUTH.]

W. H. SOUTH has bought W. H. H. Maris' entire stock of dry goods, notions, hats, caps, boots, shoes, glassware, and queensware, and will continue the dry goods trade at the old stand of Maris & Co. Mr. South will also continue the Jewelry trade.

[OTHER NOTICES.]

J. G. TITUS.

[EDITORIAL PAGE: ITEMS FROM THE TRAVELER.]

The delegates of the County Grange meet at Winfield next month.

Fire. Last Sunday the house of Mr. Chaffee, four miles north of town, was totally destroyed by fire. Mr. and Mrs. Chaffee were absent, and their son tried to light a fire, but could not make it burn. Soon after he started to go to one of the neighbors, when he saw his home in flames. Only a few articles were saved.

Shooting Scrape.

On Sunday January 18th, John Easton, of South Haven, went out hunting when he was met by Eckles, two Ward boys, and Kirtlandt. Eckles told Easton that he had been telling lies on him about stealing, etc. Easton said that Eckles had stolen and that he could prove it, when a fight took place. Easton had the gun in his hand, and during the scrape it was discharged close to Eckles' head, taking his hat off. This was more serious than Eckles had bargained for, so he quit, and the escaped man had Easton arrested. Easton was released on bail and then had Eckles and the two Ward boys arrested, who are now at Wellington awaiting trial.

Frank Lorry's mule team was drowned in the Walnut at Harmon's ford last Saturday. Ed. Keho was driving and barely escaped with his life. He did not know the river was up and drove in with the mules checked and straight across the river. After floundering sometime both animals were drowned, but not until they had drifted almost to Speer's mill. The wagon and mules were drawn out and the harness saved.

The law provides that a gauge shall be placed at every ford, indicating the depth of the water, but we never have had one at any of the fords in this township. Soon after the mules were drowned, a wagon with men, women, and children was about to attempt a crossing and were only saved by the warning of John Harmon, who told them of the danger.

[MARRIED: CRAINE - LAMB.]

CRAINE - LAMB. On Sunday, Jan. 25th, 1874, at the residence of the bride's father, in Rock Township, by the Rev. Mr. Platter, Mr. C. A. Craine to Miss May Lamb.

The marriage was somewhat sudden and took the people by surprise, particularly the boys mentioned in the following.

WOULD YOU BELIEVE THAT A LONG, LONG POEM COMES NEXT CARRYING ON ABOUT LAMBS AND CRAINES????

[PERSONALS.]

S. Varner is putting a fine stone walk in front of his shop on South Main Street.

Cliff. Wood makes pretty good wood. The county has contracted for twenty cords of that wood at $4.25 per cord.

Owing to the uncertainty of transportation between this city and St. Louis, we have been compelled to issue our entire edition this week upon yellow paper. [NO WONDER I CAN READ IT!]

Last week Mr. Blandin's team got away from him and ran savagely down Main street and brought up in front of Requa & Bing's clothing store. No damage done.

The sidewalks in this city are "looming up." 'Squire Saffold is putting a handsome stone walk in front of one of his lots on Main street. J. P. also put a plank walk in front of one of his lots.

Nearly the entire population of Little Dutch was in town on Monday attending a lawsuit between Messrs. Horneman and Lacy, which was tried before 'Squire Boyer. The former got judgment.

Maj. J. M. Crowell, special agent of the post office department, arrested Lafayette Reed at Wellington last week, charged with having abstracted from the mails a draft for the amount of $395.

The saloon keepers of this city got "up on their ear," last Saturday and went for two drug firms for selling whiskey without license. One firm sold it by the drink and the other by the gallon. Each firm was fined twenty-five dollars and costs.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JANUARY 30, 1874.]

The body of Mr. Townsend, the young stranger who died recently at the Hudson House, was last week claimed by his relatives, who paid the bills contracted by him during his illness, as far as they thought right and proper (but refused to be fleeced) and took him to his home in Pennsylvania to die no more.

The Board of County Commissioners held a special meeting yesterday for the purpose of examining the condition of the County Clerk's books as left by A. A. Jackson. Although no order was made against Mr. Jackson, yet the Board was unanimously of the opinion that a worse kept set of books would be hard to find within the limits of the state of Kansas. Their examination corroborated the statements made by the COURIER of last week in regard to the matter. The Commissioners decided that the trouble was due more to carelessness and ignorance than to wilful dishonesty, although of course that doesn't exonerate Mr. Jackson from blame. The Commissioners will appoint a special committee to help Mr. Troup, the present Clerk, put the books in shape.

[PRISONER ESCAPES: THOS. RUCKER, LAZETTE MURDERER.]

Rucker's Lodgings Vacated!!

Worthlessness of the City Jail!!

Wednesday morning last, our city was thrown into a tumult of excitement by the announcement that Thos. Rucker, the Lazette murderer, who had been confined in the city jail at this place since the tragedy last Christmas was missing. The inhabitants of the town immediately proceeded to the jail and soon found that it was no hoax, but a bona fide fact. Scouts were immediately dispatched in every direction, but failed to discover any trace of his whereabouts.

The means by which he escaped are very indefinite. It is generally supposed that some outside party opened the doors and gave him his liberty, although it is possible that he had the tools furnished, and did the work himself. At any rate he has gone and the next thing is to find him, although Sheriff Walker is confident that he will soon have his hands on him, as well as the one who gave him his freedom.

And while he is gone, it would be well if the city council would put the jail in a condition to hold him an hour or so if he should be brought back. A man who has a friend in the world and wishes to get out need not stay in his cell an hour. In the first place, there is nothing to prevent anybody giving a pri-soner anything they wish, as the windows have nothing to protect them except some iron bars with space enough between to throw a sledge hammer.

Then again, the jail is at least twenty rods from the nearest human habitation, and the building could be bombarded with a ten pound cannon and the noise would be hardly heard by the citizens at home. The doors are also in such a shape that Rucker could easily have lifted them off the hinges with a crow bar. If some protection was put around the windows and the upper story occupied by a family, it would become more difficult for a prisoner to make his escape when LAST THREE LINES IMPOSSIBLE TO READ...WORDS ALL GARBLED UP.

[COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.]

At a meeting of medical men held at the office of Dr. Egbert, Winfield, on Tuesday, January 8th, 1874, it was unanimously resolved to organize a County Medical Society, and the following temporary organization was effected to carry out the necessary arrangements: Dr. W. Q. Mansfield, President; Dr.

D. N. Egbert, Secretary; Dr. T. G. Peyton, Treasurer. Dr. Nathan Hughes, of Arkansas City, and Dr.'s D. C. Cram, and W. A. Andrews, of Winfield Executive Committee.

It was resolved that the society meet at 2 p.m. on the 2nd Wednesday in February, at Dr. Egbert's office, to form a permanent organization. Also resolved that the members of the medical fraternity of the county be respectfully invited to be present.

DR. W. Q. MANSFIELD, President.

DR. D. N. EGBERT, Secretary.

[ARREST OF THE MURDERER OF HENRY ROUTE, KILLED TWO YEARS AGO.]

In This County Two Years Ago--He Commits Suicide.

Chas. G. Brooks, a Labette county detective, arrested at Dansville, Illinois, sometime in the middle of the month, a man named Reuben Bloomfield, charged with a number of crimes, the principal one being the murder of Henry Route in this county about two years ago. Word was received at this place by Acting Co. Attorney Fairbanks to the effect that Bloomfield was in custody and wishing to know if he was wanted here, and if he was not, he would be tried for some minor offense with which he was charged. Mr. Fairbanks told them to bring him along; but in a short time he received notice that he had committed suicide by taking strychnine shortly after his arrest.

We take the following particulars from the Dansville Times, which was kindly furnished us by Mrs. Mullen.

"There are a few items in regard to the murder of Henry Route not yet made public, which by the kindness of Mr. Brooks, the reporter, is able to lay before our readers. In April 1872, Route started with his own team from the neighborhood of the Bender murders in Labette Co. in company with Bloomfield, with the ostensible purpose of visiting Cowley county in the same state, where Bloomfield claimed to have some land. Route had a little money and a team, and it was the proposition that if Route liked the land and the price, he would buy it. Nothing was heard of the parties until sometime in May when Bloomfield returned without his companion, but with his team. He said that he had sold Route a quarter section in Cowley county and taken his team in payment. In the meantime he had been in various places spending money freely and leading a dissolute life on the strength of the money, which it is now believed he had robbed of the murdered man.

Time passed away and no tidings came of Route, whose wife yet lived in Vermillion county. Sometime in the summer Route's coat was found on Big Hill creek, in Labette county, cut and slashed by a knife in several places, together with his hat, but no traces of the body. The hat and part of the coat were sent to Mrs. Route, who identified the hat, and believed the coat from its texture to have been her husband's.

The body was found in Cowley county in July, by a party looking for land. One hand and part of the arm attached, were first found, and it was not until several days had elapsed that the other remains were discovered. These were hauled about the prairie, and the flesh eaten off by wolves and buzzards. Some remnants of clothing were found, which identified the body as that of Route. It is supposed that the hat and coat were brought this long distance--80 miles--and left as a blind to mislead. The cloud of death hangs over all concerned. The entire circumstances of the terrible crime will, as a matter of course, forever remain a mystery. Henry Route was twenty-five years of age, and left a wife and two small children.

Bloomfield was living in the country near Dansville, and when he was arrested he was not far from his house cutting hoop-poles. When the officer made known his business, he made no resistance, but seemed rather pleased; he said he wanted to go to Kansas anyhow, and wished to know if this would afford him a chance to get there on a free pass, and was told that it probably would if he went with an officer. He then asked leave to change his clothes, which was granted, and it was at this time that he is supposed to have procured the strychnine which he doubtless kept concealed in the cabin. He then told the officers the best route to follow to the city and after kissing his wife good-bye, took his seat in the buggy with four officers. On his way to the city he turned round and took the poison, spilling a portion on his clothes. The Sheriff hurried ahead to a house for an antidote, but before the carriage arrived, Bloomfield was dead.

It is now established that Bloomfield was engaged in building the Bender house--arranged the screen in front of which the victims were placed in order to dispatch them, and was an inmate of the house for some months during the scenes of these terrible murders which so shocked the civilized world and made Labette county so notorious.

[EXCERPTS FROM "EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE."]

The Senate passed a resolution declaring that members should not draw pay for services not rendered, in other words, should not receive their per diem for such time as they might be absent from the sessions. In the House Mr. Boyd, farmer, from Montgomery county, moved to indefinitely postpone it (which motion would kill it) and the motion carried. Martin of Cowley voted "Ay."

The Senate also passed a resolution that members who had accepted free passes from the railroads and whose passage to and from the legislature cost them nothing, should not draw their mileage of 15 cents per mile each way. This was indefinitely postponed in the House on motion of Mr. Potter, reformer, of Coffey county, the farmers and reformers all voting "Ay."

The "Act to exempt mortgages from taxation," as it is called, has been repealed.

A bill has been introduced into the House to create the county of Yates, including that part of the 20 mile strip which is in Butler county.

A bill has also been introduced to create the county of Elk, out of the north half of Howard. It is waiting the action of the House.

The petitions signed by our people praying for an extension of the time in which to make payment for our lands, was put into the shape of a concurrent resolution, and offered in the Senate by Senator Murdock the second day of the session and laid over one day under the rules. The next day it was taken up, adopted, and sent to the House, where it was referred to the Judiciary committee, which committee reported it back recommending its adoption. Since then nothing has been done with it. It might have been adopted in five minutes, at any time, but it seems to be left to float around loose, without anyone to look after it, and today, the fourteenth day of the session, it has not yet been adopted.

Our Representative, Mr. Martin, has introduced a bill to vacate the state road from Nennescah to Winfield. He tried to introduce it under the head of "Presentation of Petitions," and sent it up to the Clerk's desk, but it was returned with the information that it was out of order. Afterward he was more fortunate and succeeded in getting it in.

J. K.

[EDITORIAL PAGE.]

We understand, since our arrival at home, that an effort is being made to have Mr. Martin procure the necessary legislation allowing the Board of County Commissioners to fund, or rather bond, the county indebtedness. We do not believe that the people of Cowley county wish this thing done. Twelve months ago, the circumstances were altogether different. Then we had a Courthouse to build and many thought it necessary to provide funds for that. But now our county buildings are all complete, we can see no necessity for it. We are very well aware that it would be money in the pockets of a few, for instance, county officials, who have to take most, or all their fees, in scrip. But we are now hopeful that the tax next year, with care and economy, will clear the county almost, if not altogether, of debt. In the present state of affairs we would not favor any bill authorizing the Board to bond the debt without first submitting the question to a vote of the people of the county. And we hope that whatever legislation Mr. Martin secures in that particular will provide that the question be so submitted. We would be glad to hear from our readers on this subject, that we may act understandingly in the matter and take such action as will place the county on the best financial basis having due regard for those who hold the county's "promises to pay."

[A CARD FROM M. G. CROWLEY RE TISDALE SWINDLING ASSOCIATION.]

TISDALE, KANSAS, February 2, 1874.

ED. COURIER: Will you allow me space in your valuable paper to expose one of the biggest swindlers and one of the biggest swindling associations in Cowley county? The swindler above referred to is Mr. E. P. Young. The association is the Tisdale Town Company. I take this method of informing the public in general of both of them. I do not do this through any malicious purpose whatever. I do it simply because I have been swindled by both of them. Mr. Young is a man of no honor. He has defrauded me out of honest labor. Mr. G. W. Foughty (who, by the way, is Mr. Young's tool in the town company) has done the same. Now I don't intend to accuse these so-called gentlemen or farmers and laboring reform advocates of anything that I cannot prove. I am willing to test what I charge them with before any court of justice in Kansas.

Mr. Foughty has maliciously lied me out of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) worth of labor, and it has cost me a great deal more to find out Mr. Young's honesty and truthfulness (which I found both to be rotten). I would like if E. P. Young or G. W. Foughty would test this thing in some court, and I defy either of them to throw blemish on my character, or I defy them to show as clear a record as I can, before I took up my residence in Kansas. And I want to say this much in regard to one member of the town company, Mr. J. M. Benbrook, the secretary. I believe him to be strictly honest in every respect--I have always found him to be so both in town and personal affairs.

It is no wonder that Tisdale does not prosper any better than it does--how could it prosper with two such swindlers to run the town affairs. Young and Foughty are a majority. They can pass a bill over the head of J. M. Benbrook even if he does protest it, as they did a bill for work which I done myself, but which Mr. Young claimed he had done. Mr. Foughty said he didn't know anything about the bill, but he thought it must be all right, although he knew I had done the work. Now this looks a good deal like honesty for a man to pass a bill that he will swear that he don't know anything--a specimen of the reform party--I think both of these men were sworn to do the best in their power for the company they represent. Now if Mr. Young wanted to do the best he could for the company, why did he not settle with me honestly, as I proposed? I offered to settle with him before a court of arbitration. Now let these reformers and advocates of the reform party come up to time and answer to these few charges. I can prove what I have charged them with. If they are honest men, they will come up and defend themselves. I intend to keep the public posted in regard to this Tisdale Swindling Association.

M. G. CROWLEY.

[We have no desire to occupy our columns with personal attacks, such as the above, and would not, under any circum-

stances, do so now, if the party had not signed his name in full, and we understand him to be a responsible man. And as we have given him space we, of course, will publish any reply that Messrs. Young & Foughty may see fit to make.] ED.

[PERSONALS.]

Mr. C. A. Bliss has the hams of thirteen hogs in his smoke house, undergoing the curing process. We believe that this is the largest lot of hams ever cured at one time in this county.

A dance will be given at Hudson's Hall on Friday evening Feb. 13th. Good music will be provided, and no pains will be spared to make the affair enjoyable. All are invited. Tickets fifty cents. T. M. CONCANNON, Manager.

Sheriff Dick Walker has a new and safe way of keeping his prisoners. Since the jail has been "broke" so much, he takes them to bed with him. We understand that Mr. Walker will not trust anymore of his prisoners in the jail while the city authorities carry the keys.

Last Wednesday, Manning & Johnson sued James Jordon before Justice Boyer, for attorney fees for the amount of two hundred and fifty-four dollars. A jury awarded the plaintiffs forty dollars, whereupon they took an appeal, and the case will be carried to the District Court.

Last Tuesday Sheriff Walker arrested, on Grouse Creek, Wm. Slater and a man named Bryant charged with assisting Thomas Rucker to break jail last week. Mr. Wm. Slater is an uncle of Rucker's. Before leaving, Rucker gave Slater a deed to his land. Bryant owned up to his part of the transaction, which was the bringing of a horse from Slater's to Rucker wherewith to make his escape. The men were up for a hearing before 'Squire Boyer yesterday, but the case was continued until Saturday, when if any charge is found against them, they will be taken to Emporia for safe keeping.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, FEBRUARY 6, 1874.]

[MARRIED: E. B. KAGER - MISS WRIGHT.]

MARRIED. [VINCULUM MATRIMONII.] One by one the lillies fade. E plurebus unum, ad astra per aspera, sic semper tyranus, Vox populi vox Dei, Erin go bragh, vis unitr fortios vive vale Dum vivimus vivamus, etc.

For the benefit of our readers we will say that the above quotations means that our kind jolly friend, and worthy and efficient County Treasurer, E. B. Kager, has gone and got married. The bright eyes and sunny smiles of Miss Wright of Arkansas City did the business for him. Well, poor fellow, he has been ailing for some time, and his exit from bachelordom was not altogether a surprise to his friends. The young couple have the best wishes of the entire COURIER force.

[GRANGES CREATE COUNTY COUNCIL IN COWLEY COUNTY.]

Fifty-seven grange delegates, being nineteen granges represented by three delegates each (the Lazette grange not being represented), met at the Courthouse in Winfield, on Monday, February 2nd, at 11 o'clock a.m., for the purpose of organizing a County council. The meeting being called to order Mr. A. S. Williams was made Chairman, and N. C. McCulloch, Secretary pro tem. The Council wa then organized and the following officers were elected: A. S. Williams, Master; T. A. Blanchard, Secretary; A. T. Gay, Overseer; W. A. Freeman, Gate-keeper. A. H. Acton of Bolton township, Simeon Martin of Maple township, and John Irwin of Rock ttownship were elected Trustees. A Constitution and By-laws were adopted, a copy of which we are sorry to say we have not yet received. After the matters pertaining to the County Council were satisfactorily settled, they proceeded to choose delegates to the State Council. The following are the delegates chosen: J. J. Johnson of New Salem, B. A. Davis of Silverdale, and Adam Walk of Grand Prairie.

[COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.]

At a meeting of medical men held at the office of Dr. Egbert, Winfield, on Tuesday, January 8th, 1874, it was unanimously resolved to organize a County Medical Society, and the following temporary organization was effected to carry out the necessary arrangements: Dr. W. Q. Mansfield, President; Dr. D. N. Egbert, Secretary; Dr. T. G. Peytton, Treasurer. Dr. Nathan Hughes, of Arkansas City, and Dr.'s D. C. Cram and W. A. Andrews, of Winfield, Executive Committee.

It was resolved that the society meet at 2 p.m. on the 2nd Wednesday in February, at Dr. Egbert's office, to form a permanent organization. Also resolved that the members of the medical fraternity of the county be respectfully invited to be present.

DR. W. Q. MANSFIELD, President.

DR. D. N. EGBERT, Secretary.

[MARRIED: J. R. MUSGROVE TO LESSIE GRAHAM.]

MARRIED. MUSGROVE. GRAHAM. Married in Winfield January 27th, 1874, by the Rev. B. C. Swarts, of Arkansas City, Mr. J. R. Musgrove, of South Haven, Sumner County, to Miss Lessie Graham of Winfield.

[DISSOLUTION NOTICE: L. J. WEBB AND J. C. BIGGER.]

Notice is hereby given that the partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned and J. C. Bigger is this day dissolved, Mr. Bigger having opened an office in St. Louis, Missouri. I shall continue in the practice at my office heretofore occupied by the firm of Webb & Bigger. The firm business will be carried on by me, and I will collect all monies due the firm and pay its debts.

Jan. 17, 1874. L. J. WEBB.

[GEORGE W. FOUGHTY VS. PERRY CHANCE BEFORE D. A. MILLINGTON.]

In Justice's Court before D. A. Millington, J. P., in Winfield township, Cowley County, Kansas.

George W. Foughty plaintiff.

vs.

Perry Chance, defendant.

On the 10th day of January A. D. 1874, said justice issued an order of attachment in the above entitled action for the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) which has been returned served and on the 15th day of January, A. D. 1874, continued said cause for further hearing until the 14th day of February, A. D. 1874.

PRYOR & KAGER, Plaintiff's Attorneys.

[EDITORIAL PAGE: THE COUNTY RECORDS.]

The readers of the COURIER will remember that we published sometime ago an intimation that the county records, as left by Mr. Jackson, were in a bad condition, and should be thoroughly investigated.

The County Board, no doubt acting on the COURIER's suggestion, met at the County Clerk's office, and after careful deliberation, concluded to appoint a committee of three to straighten out the records and give the new County Clerk a fair start with the world. They accordingly selected S. M. Fall, of Lazette; Lucius Walton, of Pleasant Valley; and Wm. H. Grow, of Rock; three as good men as the county affords, men of integrity and ability.

The committee met last Monday and began their labors. They had not proceeded far, however, until they came to the conclusion that they had an elephant on their hands--seeing that to go over the records from the time the county was first organized would be a summer's job, they very wisely asked the Board to meet and advise them as to their duties in the matter before proceeding any further. The Board of County Commissioners have not met at this writing, so we are unable to tell what they will do. We hope, however, that now that the matter has been commenced, it will be probed to the bottom. The people of this county have a right and they demand to know how their affairs stand. We believe that the COURIER has never yet accused anyone of "defalcation," "corruption," or anything of the kind, and we hope that the gentlemen who have made the records will be able to clear themselves of any corrupt intention. But should such turn out to be the case, the guilty one, be he friend or foe, need excpect no mercy from the COURIER.

LATER. Since the above was put in type, the Board of County Commissioners met, and yesterday were in secret session with the committee. The cauldron is boiling. It has been ascertained that Devore, our former county treasurer, is a defaulter to a considerable amount--how much, cannot at this writing be ascertained. J. P. Short, Mr. Devore's deputy, has turned over to Mr. Kager, as near as we can come at it, some $680.00, which he should have turned over with the office in July, 1872. There is also found to be a large amount of scrip afloat which Mr. Jackson's books show to have been canceled, rumor variously estimating the amount of such extra scrip, all the way from $5,000 to $10,000.

Let us look into this matter. Here is say, to strike an average, $5,000 in scrip taken in as county tax by Mr. Short, while deputy for Devore; he presents it to Mr. Jackson for cancellation. Jackson takes the No. and amount and marks canceled on his book, hands them back to the treasurer, who may sell it, thus putting it afloat once more to be taken up at some future time.

Now follows a few pertinent queries: What right had Mr. Short to present these orders to Mr. Jackson to be canceled, until he had marked them "paid" across the face, in red ink, as the law requires?

Then, why did Mr. Jackson cancel these orders if they were not marked "paid?" Then naturally follows another most painful query: was this whole transaction a big steal? Or was it simply negligence and want of knowledge of the law?

We most sincerely hope the latter is the corrrect conjecture. [We could not get at the exact figures as the committee of investigation together with the County Board sat with closed doors so that we could not get in.]

We hope these gentlemen will think better of this matter, and allow at least the accredited representatives of the press to know what is transpiring. The people who read the papers are the taxpayers of the county and they have a right to know all about it, and will know, let it cost what it may, so long as we run a paper.

[PERSONALS.]

The stage from Wichita has been taking a rest up at Augusta, because the lazy denizens of that place are too stingy to bridge their streams.

The price of corn is gradually raising. A short time ago it was plenty at eighteen cents while now it is scarce at thirty cents. A large number of cattle have been brought into this county lately and more is expected, which will make corn rather scarce before next Fall.

Joe Lipscomb says it always did amuse him to see a playful horse, but it isn't so amusing when they begin executing double shuffles on the top of his head, like that one did the other day. The doctor sewed up the tracks and Joe now wears a pocket handkerchief on his cranium for convenience.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, FEBRUARY 13, 1874.]

Ed. COURIER: Allow me to say in explanation to a remark I made in my card of last week in regard to Mr. Foughty being a specimen of the reform party, that I had no reference to the Grangers or the reformers of today, but the howling reformers of last fall. M. G. CROWLEY.

Mr. Barrett, who lives east of town, last Tuesday set fire to the grass near his house for the purpose of burning off a small space, but the grass being very dry, the fire started off with a flash and didn't stop where he expected but went flying across the prairie at a lively gait. A large tract was burned before the flames were checked. No damage is known to have been done.

It will be seen by reference to the proceedings of the County Council of Grangers tht T. A. Blanchard of Vernon was appointed the General agent for this county. Thus far, at least, the Council has acted with rare good judgment. We have known Tom Blanchard almost since the county was first organized--have been associated with him at various times and places and we know him to be in every way reliable.

Thomas R. Bryan, Esq., of Dexter, gave us a call last Monday and like a sensible, successful farmer, left us $3 for the COURIER and KANSAS FARMER for one year. He also informed us that there is a good prospect for a grist mill on the Grouse river at Dexter. A good grist mill would do well at that place, and is one of the very things our friends at that place need.

David Slater and James W. Bryant, the two men who were arrested a short time ago on the charge of assisting Rucker to break jail, were up before Justices Millington and Boyer last Saturday, for a hearing. Judge T. H. Johnson appeared for Slater, and asked a continuance, which was denied. He then waived an examination for his client, and Slater accordingly gave bail in the amount of $1,500.00, to appear at the next term of the District Court. County Attorney E. S. Torrance dismissed the charge against Bryant, in order to make him a witness in the case. The bail for his appearance as a witness was fixed at $1,000.00, which he has so far been unable to give, and is yet in the custody of the sheriff.

[NOTICE TO GRANGERS BY T. A. BLANCHARD.]

COUNTY AGENCY OFFICE, COWLEY COUNTY, Feb. 5th, 1874.

To Patrons of Husbandry throughout my district, I would say that having been elected agent, I have put myself in communication with the State agency, and expect soon to publish all needed information for your guidance in making purchases. In the meantime talk the matter up and if possible bulk orders for your Grange. We will as soon as possible make contracts with retail dealers in our district of which due notice will be given. All communications to this agency to be addressed to me at Winfield, Cowley County, Kansas.

THOS A. BLANCHARD, Agent.

[MARRIED: KAGER - WRIGHT.]

MARRIED. KAGER. WRIGHT. Married on the evening of Feb. 5th, 1874, at the home of the bride near Arkansas City, Mr. E. B. Kager, of Winfield, to Miss Ada Wright of Arkansas City.

Many of the friends of both bride and bridegroom were present, and everything went off in a manner to reflect much credit to the Rev. J. E. Platter, who performed the ceremony, and to Mrs. Wright--mother of the beautiful bride--who feasted the welcome guests with a rich repast, prepared with excellent taste and artistic skill. After the supper, and before the guests had retired from the table, Mr. Platter, in behalf of the friends of the happy couple, presented them with some fine presents as token of friendship and esteem, followed by some very appropriate and fitting remarks. At a seasonable hour, the guests dispersed, and the happy pair took their departure for their new home at Winfield.

[DIED: DR. D. N. EGBERT.]

Died in this city, February 11th, 1874, of inflammation of the bowels, Dr. D. N. Egbert, in the 29th year of his age.

The death of Dr. D. N. Egbert has cast a gloom over the entire community. He was universally respected by all, and especially beloved by the Sabbath School children, with whom and for whom he has labored faithfully ever since he came to Winfield, some two years and a half ago. He was buried yesterday by the Odd Fellows with very impressive ceremonies. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. J. E. Platter of the Presbyterian Church.

[COUNTY COUNCIL: GRANGE IN COWLEY COUNTTY.]

COUNCIL ROOST, WINFIELD, KANSAS,

10 o'clock A. M., Feb. 3d, 1874.

Pursuant to a call of Deputy J. H. Worden, the delegates from the different subordinate granges throughout the county met at the Courtroom in Winfield. The meeting being called to order by the worthy Deputy, proceeded to temporary organization by electing brother A. S. Williams temporary Chairman, and N. C. McCulloch Secretary pro tem. Whereupon the Master appointed the following committees.

On Constitution and By-laws: J. H. Worden, Jos. Stansberry, and Frank Cox.

Committee on Credentials: W. H. Grow, H. H. Martin, and A. Walk.

Committee on Resolutions: T. A. Blanchard, John Irwin,

J. C. Vanorsdol, C. G. Handy, and A. T. Stewart.

Adjourned to meet at 1:30 o'clock, p.m.

1:30 p.m.: Meeting called to order by the sound of the gavel, whereupon the committee on Credentials made the following report and declared the following members entitled to seats.

Pleasant Valley grange: Lucius Walton, E. Frederick, H. H.

Constant.

Winfield grange: A. T. Stewart, J. D. Cochran, N. C. McCulloch.

Darien grange: W. H. Grow, John Irwin, Wm. White.

Eagle grange: Daniel Grant, Samuel Jay, J. Tipton.

Bethel grange: Jos. Stansberry, John Mentch, Geo. Yount.

Silverdale grange: B. A. Davis, Wm. Butterfield, S. C. Winton.

Beaver grange: W. A. Freeman, Warren Wood, J. A. McCulloch.

Grand Prairie grange: Adam Walk, W. P. Heath, Thos. Cooley.

Sheridan grange: Jos. Burt, H. W. Stubbblefield, W. H. Clay.

Vernon grange: A. S. Williams, J. H. Worden, T. A. Blanchard.

Philomathian grange: H. H. Martin, A. H. Beck, John Boyd.

Richland grange: S. W. Phoenix, N. J. Larkin, Frank Cox.

New Salem grange: J. J. Johnson, C. C. Crow, J. C. Baker.

Centre grange: C. G. Handy, Ed Millrd, A. T. Gay.

Committee on Constitution and By-Laws made the following report, which was unannimously adopted.

CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE I. The association shall be know as the Cowley County Central Committee of P. of H.

ARTICLE II. The object of this Council is to aid Patrons and persons connected with the business department of our order in buying supplies, in selling, in marketing, and shipping their surplus products, and for mutual consultation and action of all members upon matters that effect their financial interest, and relate to the good of the order.

ARTICLE III. This Council shall be composed of delegates from the subordinate granges of Cowley County and others adjacent thereto, as follows: one for each grange at large and one for each ten members or fraction equal to six, who shall be elected by the subordinate granges at their last regular meeting of the Council in February next following their election, and hold their office for one year, or until their successors are duly elected.

ARTICLE IV. The officers of this Council shall be a Master, Overseer, General Agent (who shall be ex-officio Secretary), Gate Keeper, and an Executive Committee of five, two of whom shall be the Master and Overseer. The Council agent shall be the Assistant State Agent within his council district, and shall give suitable bond to the Executive Committee of the Council for the faithful performance of duty. The officers shall be elected by ballot at the first regular meeting after the meeting of the State Grange in each year.

ARTICLE V. This council shall hold its regular meetings on the second Saturday of each month at 10 o'clock p.m. [? a.m. ?] Nine members shall constitute a quorum for doing business.

ARTICLE VI. The Executive Committee shall have the general supervision of the officers of the Council, any three of whom shall constitute a quorum for doing business, and shall have the power to remove at any time the Council and appoint someone in his place.

ARTICLE VII. It shall be the duty of the Council agent to receive, bulk, and forward all orders for goods, under the seal of the State Agency and upon their arrival see that the same are properly distributed to the parties ordering. He shall levy such percent upon goods purchased, and upon products sold through this agency, as the executive committee of the council shall direct, and at the end of each quarter report the total cash value of such purchases, and, sales to the office of the Central State Agency. He shall keep a correct cash account of all money received and paid out by him as Council Agent and keep his books open to inspection at all times by the Executive Committee, and under their direction make arrangements with the retail dealers and business houses of his district for supplying goods to members of the order. He shall open a stock record, keep prices current from different localities that are deemed of importance, attend to the business correspondence of the Council, and perform such other duties as the Executive Committee or Council may from time to time direct, and receive such compensation for his services as the Executive Committee may designate, subject to the approval of the council.

ARTICLE VIII. Any article of this constitution may be amended or repealed at any regular meeting of the Council by a vote of two thirds of all the members present, provided notice of such change was given at some preceeding meeting of the Council.

BY-LAWS.

SECTION 1. Each subordinate grange represented in this Council shall pay to the Council Agent a quarterly due of 25 cents for each delegate.

SECTION 2. Purchasing tickets shall in no case be transferable, but all members of the order shall be entitled to one; all tickets to be stamped with the seal of the State Agency kept in possesssion of each council agent, and when so stamped shall be good in any part of the state; one person is not to be permitted to do business on another ticket, but each individual entitled shall procure a ticket of his own.

SECTION 3. The rules of order of the Kansas State Grange as passed at the last session held July 30th, 1873, and found in the 1st Article of the By-Laws, shall be the rules of the order of this Council, with the following exceptions, viz: Where the word Grange is used read Council and consider the last clause of Section 1 stricken out.

SECTION 4. Order of business of this Council shall be as follows:

1st, calling to order by the Master and examination by the

Overseer.

2nd, calling roll and reading minutes.

3rd, report from the Council Agent.

4th, report of the standing committee.

5th, report of special committees.

6th, unfinished business.

7th, new business.

8th, suggestions for good of the order, and financial prosperity of the council.

SECTION 5. The following standing committees shall be appointed by the Master of the Council.

1st, a committee on crop reports and the best method of marketing products on hand.

2nd, committee on warehouses, mills, factories, etc.

3rd, committee on banks, currency, and insurance companies.

4th, committee on taxation, transportation, and needed

Legislation.

SECTION 6. Any of the by-laws may be amended or repealed at any regular meeting, by a majority vote of all the delegates present.

The Council then proceeded to permanent organization by electing brother A. S. Williams, Master; A. T. Gay, Overseer;

T. A. Blanchard, Central Agent; Wm. Freeman, Gate Keeper; and A. A. Acton, John Irwin, and H. H. Martin Executive Committee.

The Master appointed the following standing committees: On taxation, transportation, etc., A. T. Stewart, John Irwin, and

T. A. Blanchard.

County papers requested to publish. Council closed to meet on second Saturday of February, 1874, at 1 o'clock p.m.

A. S. WILLIAMS, Master.

T. A. BLANCHARD, Secretary.

[EDITORIAL PAGE.]

A special dispatch from Cheyenne W. T. of Feb. 14, says: "A Cheyenne runner has just arrived there from Red Cloud Agency, saying that Red Cloud was killed last Monday night by a part of Sioux of whom he had complained for not returning stolen stock. He reported that nearly all the Cheyennes and Sioux have left the agency and that 150 lodges are now within fifty miles of Fetterman and will come in or send to that post. He reports plenty of buffalo in the Big Horn country and thinks the Sioux will go there. Two companies of cavalry were ordered from here to Fort Laramie today."

Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill directing the Secretary of the Interior to appoint commissioners to locate and open a road for military, postal, and commercial purposes across the Indian Territory from the mouth of the main Caske river, in Texas, via Fort Cobb, Fort Sill, and the Wichita agency to the mouth of Walnut river in Kansas, the said road including the belt of country one and a half miles in breadth, to be kept open to driving stock and the transit of merchandise free from any charge forever.

This has long been a pet project with our people and Mr. Ingalls deserves our thanks for his attention to this matter. The bill however should be amended so as to make the right of way five miles instead of one and a half. By all means let us have this route, it is just what our people want, and just what drovers want.

Iron Point, in his items to the Traveler, alludes to the "side editor" of the COURIER. For what we will say to you here, sir, Iron Point, you need not go around the bush to find the "side editor" to lay the blame upon. What appeared in the COURIER last week, in reference to the records of the county, seemed to us then (and we have nothing to take back) to be justified by the facts.

We think so still. There is nothing in that article that could compromise you, if you could make a satisfactory explanation (which you had better have done than occupy your time attacking an imaginary "side editor" of this paper.). While the defunct Allison talked the way you do, we had nothing to say. But when such chat comes from an official of the county, a person from whom we might expect, at least, fair dealing, the matter changes; hence this article.

Your "pooh, pooh! Manning wrote it," is of the same piece as your items to the Traveler a year ago. Your cry of "stop thief," at the Probate Judge and County Attorney was to divert attention from yourself, by making the people believe they were the thieves and scoundrels, and now you would fain have people think that it was Manning who was after you, and that he was actuated by personal spite toward yourself and Mr. Jackson, on account of the town site difficulty.

Now we wish it distinctly understood that this article is not written because we object to having Col. Manning's name associated with the COURIER. By no means, we only wish that we could induce him to take editorial control. As a newspaper writer we know he has few equals, and as to his honesty, much as has been said, and written about him, certain it is, he has never been accused of stealing. You, however, had better busy yourself in clearing up those dark suspicions which permeate the air and hover as a dark cloud just now over the Courthouse, and which seem to be inclined to centre upon you, who were one of the main instigators in the senseless howl raised against honest county officials a year ago. After fair consulting with the committee of investigation, we have concluded to suspend our account of these dark transactions, but a few more insults like the above may compel us in self-defense to tell the public what we already know, and should you be struck by a barbed arrow in a tender spot, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you yourself invited the attack.

[EDITORIAL PAGE: MORE ABOUT HOWARD COUNTY TROUBLES.]

[PERSONALS.]

We regret to learn that Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Paul intend shortly to remove to Leavenworth, there to permanently reside.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, FEBRUARY 20, 1874.]

Read the card of Mr. Waite, money loaner and Real Estate Agent in this city. Mr. Waite is a clever gentleman, and deals on the square.

AD: R. B. WAITE, LOAN & LAND OFFICE. Particular attention paid to making CONTRACTS, MORTGAGES, DEEDS, AND PROOFS. Also to buying and selling REAL ESTATE. Money Loaned on real estate security. Office over Read's Bank.

Our city dads have taken hold of the sidewalk business in downright earnest. Under their energetic management, Winfield will soon be one of the best sidewalked cities in Kansas.

The Commissioners at their last meeting made a new township in the northeast corner of the county, embracing fifty-four squre miles, and called it Harvey, in honor of our new Senator.

J. J. Dawson, living six miles south of town, had his house with everything in it destroyed by fire last Sunday, while he and his family were at church. The fire is supposed to have originated in a defective flue.

We understand that John Swain has purchased the house and lots in this city formerly owned by James Parker, together with Mrs. Parker's piano. Boys, prepare your congratulations, for where is the lady who can withstand these new attractions.

It will be seen by reference to Mayor Smith's card in another column that the city authorities have proposed a fair and honorable adjustment of the jail difficulty to the county board. They cannot expect more than the entire control of the building and its occupants.

[ARTICLE FOLLOWS LATER...CALLED "AN EXPLANATION."]

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, FEBRUARY 20, 1874.]

We walked into Ellis & Black's last night, as we often do, to borrow a couple of peanuts, when we saw, what we thought at first, were a couple of ghosts; but on close examination we discovered them to be only J. J. Ellis and Charley Harter, who were so exhausted after the enormous sales of the day that they looked like ghosts.

HORSE THIEVES. Two men named James Smith and Jessie Russell, charged with having stolen two ponies from the stable of Mr. Hilton near Arkansas City last Saturday night, were overtaken by A. W. Patterson and John Garahy, near Cedarvale, in Howard county, on Monday, and brought to this place to await trial at the next term of court.

Mr. Linn, of Johnson County, has rented the building for-

merly occupied by Close & Greer as a furniture store, and is going to put into it a big stock of dry goods and groceries. Mr. Linn comes well recommended, and will be quite an addition to our city. Winfield is under obligation to the enterprising young firm of Curns & Manser, Real Estate Agents, for advertising our city and county so extensively.

Every farmer in Cowley County should take the COURIER. Many times one copy will pay, and more than pay, the price of subscription. For instance, the following item will pay any man who has corn to sell.

The Government has contracted for two million pounds of corn to be delivered at Fort Dodge and as much more at Fort Sill, and other places in the Indian Territory, and Colorado. This is bound to make corn higher. No doubt it will be 75 cents per bushel before midsummer. Those who have corn to sell, or buy either (for it affects both alike only in opposite pockets) should know this and govern themselves accordingly.

The slander suit Arnold vs. Thurman for $5,000 worth of greenbacks, has resulted in a verdict of jury and people in favor of the defendant. This suit has occupied several days' time and has created more than ordinary interest on account of the prominence of those interested, as well as of others connected with the past history of our county, as brought to light in the evidence or testimony given. It is to be sincerely hoped that there may never be occasion for another suit similar to this one with its attendant revelations, but that the past may be blotted out and forgotten and that in the future, men may be known and estimated by their actions, and by their worth in the community in which they may reside. Walnut Valley Times.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, FEBRUARY 20, 1874.]

Mr. John M. Crowell yesterday evening returned from Leavenworth, where he has had under arrest Dr. S. Mann, the present postmaster at Wellington, Sumner county, Kansas. Dr. S. Mann was accused of embezzling mail matter and forging drafts, by the man, Lafeyette Read, who was arrested some two weeks ago by Major Crowell, and is now confined in the Leavenworth jail. Reed represented that Dr. Mann was one of the combination organized to systematically rob the mails of Southern Kansas. He had a preliminary examination before Judge Lecompe yesterday, and was bound over to appear at the April term of the U. S. Court in the sum of $2,000. We are glad to say that many of Dr. Mann's friends around Wellington believe him to be the victim of a conspiracy and we sincerely hope he may vindicate himself.

The following are the names of those drawn to serve as petit jurors for the March term of the District Court.

W. A. WOOD, NENNESCAH TOWNSHIP.

J. E. JARVIS, SHERIDAN TOWNSHIP.

JAMES G. UTT, OTTER TOWNSHIP.

J. H. CURFMAN, WINFIELD TOWNSHIP.

W. B. NORMAN, MAPLE TOWNSHIP.

DANIEL KAUTZ, OTTER TOWNSHIP.

F. M. VAUGHN, CRESWELL TOWNSHIP.

JOHN W. TULL, WINDSOR TOWNSHIP.

J. H. KINNEY, BEAVER TOWNSHIP.

G. W. GARDINHIER, WINDSOR TOWNSHIP.

C. A. McCLUNG, VERNON TOWNSHIP.

H. S. MILLARD, SILVERCREEK TOWNSHIP.

The Pleasant Valley grange met at Holland's Schoolhouse February 14th, 1874, and after transaction other business pertaining to the order, the following resolution was read, and unanimously adopted, viz:

Resolved, That this grange heartily indorses the action of the County Commissiones in appointing a committee to correct the errors in the County Clerk's and Treasurer's office, and that the Secretary present a copy of this resolution to the county papers with a request of publication.

H. H. CONSTANT, Master.

Art C. HOLLAND, Secretary.

[AN EXPLANATION: S. C. SMITH, MAYOR, RE JAIL.]

Winfield, February 17, 1874.

EDITOR COURIER: As a misapprehension seems to exist in the minds of some in regard to the ownership and occupancy of the jail in this city, will you allow me through your columns to make a statement of the facts in the case.

On the 19th of April last, a written contract was entered into between the City of Winfield and the County of Cowley, according to the terms of which, the county was to build a Courthouse at Winfield at a cost of $10,000 county orders, or $8,500 cash. The City of Winfield was to erect a city building at the cost of $2,500 in which was to be a jail for the accommodation of both city and county, and the city was to give to the county the free use of the jail for the confinement of prisoners, so long as the county should want it for that purpose. Both buildings were built according to contract, each costing something more than the specified sum. The city building is two stories high. On the first floor are six cells with grated windows, and four of the cells have iron doors; the doors of two are of hardwood. The second story is finished as a hall. On the completion of the jail, the key was delivered to me by the builder, and at the request of Sheriff Parker--he having a prisoner ready to occupy the jail--I delivered the key to him, since which time the city has never had control of the jail proper. The city has held possession of the hall over the jail, which has been used for various purposes by permission of the city.

I presume that the misapprehension that exists arises from the fact that J. M. Young, who was acting jailor by appointment of Sheriff Parker, and afterwards by Sheriff Walker, was also City marshal; but the city never claimed any control of his acts as jailor, nor did he receive any instructions as such from the city authorities. Since the escape of the prisoner Rucker, the Sheriff deeming it necessary that the hall over the jail should be constantly occupied, the County Commissioners asked for a conference with the City Council, which was immediately convened for that purpose. At this conference the city offered to give to the county the use and control of the entire building, both stories, on condition that the prisoners of the city should be taken care of without expense to the city, except for board which the city would pay for. I believe the city has honestly and faithfully complied with the terms of the contract, and even offered more than required.

S. C. SMITH.

[COUNTY COUNCIL.]

The following resolutions were unanimously adopted.

Resolved, That our delegates to the State Grange of parton's of husbandry, be instructed to ask our Representative in the Legislature to vote and use his influence against authorizing the Commissioners to bond the indebtedness of Cowley County.

Resolved, That our delegates to the State Grange be instructed to inform our Representative that his action on the pass and per diem resolutions is not approved by the patrons of husbandry of Cowley County.

Resolved, That we approve the action of the County Commissioners in the present investigation of the County Clerk's office, and say, make the examination thorough, and extend it to other officials if thought necessary, even if it takes six months.

Resolved, That our Council agent be requested not to purchase implements of those firms who refuse to contract with the agency.

The following committees were appoiinted by the Master.

Committee on crop reports: Lucius Walton, John Mentch,

S. C. Winton.

Committee on warehouses, mills, etc.: Adam Walk, H. W. Stubblefield, Frank Cox.

Committee on banks, Insurance companies, etc.: T. C. Bird, P. M. Waite, John Manly.

[COWLEY COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.]

The Cowley County Medical Society met at the City Council Room in Winfield on Wednesday, Feb. 12th, 1874, according to adjournment. Present: Drs. Mansfield, Wagner, Cram, Andrews, Black, Graham, and Peyton. Dr. Mansfield presiding. The Secretary being absent, Dr. Peyton was appointed to fill the vacancy, pro tem.

The minutes of the previous meeting were then read and approved, after which Dr. Wagner moved for a permanent and immediate organization, to be termed "The Cowley County Medical

Society." Motion carried.

Society then proceeded to the election of officers, which resulted as follows: Dr. W. Q. Mansfield, President; Dr. Wagner, Vice President; Dr. D. N. Egbert, Secretary; Dr. T. G. Peyton, Assistant Secretary; Dr. W. G. Graham, Treasurer. Upon motion, Dr. Hughes of Arkansas City and Drs. Cram, Andrews, Black, and Mansfield, of Winfield, were elected Censors for the society for one year. President Mansfield then appointed Drs. Wagner, Graham, and Peyton, as the committee to draft a Constitution and By-laws to be acted upon at the next meeting of the society. By vote of the society, the Secretary was instructed to furnish each of the County papers with a copy of the minutes of this meeting.

There being no further business to transact, the society adjourned to meet at this place in two weeks (Wednesday, Feb. 25th, 1874) at 2 o'clock p.m. All physicians are requested to be present.

T. G. PEYTON, Assistant Secretary.

[A CARD: M. G. TROUP.]

ED. COURIER: Some pigheaded galoot whom I dare say pretends to belong to the genius homo, but one who, if he has a right to claim a place among the "species" certainly obtained that right through the latitude of the Darwinian theory, has seen fit to abuse me this week through the columns of the Telegram. Now the facts are these. This man with more initials than brains employed me to make, and acknowledge a deed, for all of which service I charged him two dollars--which, I believe, is the usual price for such service. Now I have no objection to this many initialed individual employing some other attorney to do his business, but I don't want him to assert through the public prints that I have charged illegal fees for service as County Clerk, or I shall certainly have him verify his statements.

Now in conclusion I have this to say to Mr. W. F. M. Lacy: I hope to do the business of my office in an efficient manner, and expect to charge the legal fees for my services. In the meantime if Mr. Lacy or anyone else gets me to make a deed, or any other legal paper, I shall expect to charge the fees that any other attorney would charge for the same services.

Yours, M. G. TROUP.

[MARRIED: McNOWN - STEELE.]

MARRIED. McKNOWN - STEELE. At the residence of the bride's father, Wm. Steele, in Spring Creek Township, February 19th, 1874, by Rev. T. Axley, Mr. Isaac A. McNown to Miss Maggie Steele, all of Cowley County.

[PERSONALS.]

Four horse thieves are now residing in the County jail in this city.

There are 85 cases on the docket of the District Court for the March term.

Dr. Houx returned from his visit to Missouri last week, looking fat and health.

Rodocker has his new photograph gallery nearly finished and will soon commence business.

B. F. Baldwin has been appointed clerk of the School Board of this district, in place of Dr. Egbert, deceased.

Under a misapprehension we stated last week that Mr. James F. Paul intended to permanently reside in Leavenworth, to which place he will shortly remove. Mr. Paul will not dispose of any of his property in this city, and will return at the close of the summer.

Last Monday night the city fathers deposed Mr. Young from the marshalship of this city, and appointed Mr. Z. T. Swigart in his stead. Mr. Swigart is a young man of energy and integrity and will no doubt make a good officer.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, FEBRUARY 27, 1874.]

Constable Burt Covert arrested Albert G. Headrick a few days ago in Howard County, on a charge of stealing a pair of horses from Judge Saffold sometime last Fall. He had a preliminary examination before 'Squire Boyer and in default of bail was lodged in jail to await his trial at the March term of the District Court.

The prisoners now boarding at the Covert House were each treated to a new suit of clothes yesterday morning. Our "devil" declares himself in readiness to commit fonikaboogry, of some kind, in order to be sent to jail, and get a new suit. If anybody ever did need new clothes, our "devil" does.

On last Monday a team belonging to Mr. A. S. Williams of Vernon township became frightened, and after traveling over the prairie at a 4:40 gait, scattering robes, blankets, and buggy seats along the route, finally leaped a fence and brought up in Mr. Hawkins' corral without materially injuring anything.

To Patrons of Husbandry. Each member of the order is required to have a "trade" ticket to enable them to purchase on our special terms. Tickets can be procured by calling on me at the store of Ellis & Black, in Winfield.

T. A. BLANCHARD, Agent.

We take pleasure in being able to chronicle the fact that Hon. Wm. Martin has voted for the resolution submitting to a vote of the people whether we will have a Constitutional Convention, but are sorry to miss his name from the list of those who voted on the Apportionment bill. No doubt Mr. Martin had some good excuse for being absent when that very important measure was voted upon, and he can, perhaps, now see the senselessness of the howl made by his backers last fall, over the fact that McDermott failed to vote on the Mortgage Exemption bill.

On Sunday evening of last week while the proprietor and clerks were absent (at church), some miscreant entered the store of W. H. South and carried off about twenty watches, together with quite a lot of other jewelry. The watches were packed in a small walnut box and the robber carried away the box and all. Although at the time, there was considerable change in the money-drawers, nothing else was touched. The thief entered the store by a rear window, and from his hasty movements (as shown by his muddy tracks upon the floor), it is inferred that he is a new hand at the business. He is still at large.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, FEBRUARY 27, 1874.]

Last week we neglected to call attention to the new roller patented by our farmer friend, Wm. H. Grow. It is certainly one of the most original of the roller tribe. With utility it combines cheapness; anybody can make one of them. Mr. Grow has already disposed of the "right" of fourteen southern states for the sum of $1,500 together with a royalty of $3 for each roller made. We would suggest that Mr. Grow, owing to the cheapness of the machine, call it "Rustle," or "Granger."

OSAGES. Och-tun-ba-ka, and Nan-hunk-gah, stopped with us last Wednesday night and breakfasted with us the next morning. The former is a runner, and had a number of dispatches for different Agents. The latter was sent in by Hard Robe, who is camped on the west side of the Skiskaska, to have someone come down there to trade, which he failed to do. Och-tun-ba-ka is known as "Stanislaw" among the whites, and will be remembered by the early settlers. The peace treaty between the Osages and Cheyennes is very uncertain, and the Osages say, "maybe we fight, maybe we not when we meet. Don't know." Traveler.

Miles, the horse-thief who made his escape from the city jail last Friday week, was retaken by constable McIntire, A. W. Patterson, and Mr. Draper last Saturday, on Coal Rock Creek, thirty miles east of this place, at the house of Mr. Johnson. He made his escape by chipping the wood with a hatchet and burning the door of the jail. The hatchet used he claimed to have stolen from Bowen's Grocery. After his escape he laid out in the grass near Pat Somers' place all day and all night, and then went to houses on the Walnut, where he was fed by people knowing him to be the identified thief who had escaped. He was delayed two days on account of not finding the Walnut River bridge, but afterwards crossed it and went to Grouse creek and from thence to Coal Rock creek, where he was taken.

Miles was brought to Winfield and placed in the county jail for safe keeping.

[A FORGER NABBED: A. J. REEDER, ALIAS JACKSON.]

A few days ago a young man by the name of Wheeler, from Cedar County, Iowa, arrived in Winfield and immediately sought out Sheriff Walker, to whom he made known his errand, which was somewhat as follows.

Wheeler and his father do a general brokerage business in Cedar County, Iowa; that a man named A. J. Reeder, living in that county brought to their office, some six weeks ago, four or five promissory notes purporting to have been executed by parties living there and offered them for discount, which was readily given, as the parties whose names were attached were all good men. It turned out, however, that the notes were cleverly executed forgeries (amounting to about $2,000) and that this man, A. J. Reeder, was the forger. That he (Wheeler) had tracked Reeder to Winfield; that he was known here as Jackson, and further, that he (Reeder) was on the eve of a new departure for that Mecca of thieves and robbers--Texas; and that this man, Reeder, was a desperate character, who would never suffer himself to be taken without a desparate struggle. That, rather than be taken back to the scene of his crime, he would kill himself or the officer.

Sheriff Dick Walker got the situation through his head at once, and tightening his belt, proceeded to George Fisher's saloon, where he was soon enabled, by the description given him, to spot his man, who was intently engaged in a game of "pigeon hole" with some of the frequenters of that place. Dick quietly lighted a cigar, watched his opportunity, and placing the muzzle of his navy to "his man's" ear, said, "Come Reeder, and go with me." At the mention of his name and the determined manner of the Sheriff, Reeder was taken completely by surprise, and before he recovered, was unarmed and completely under the sheriff's control. The next morning he was taken by Sheriff Walker and Mr. Wheeler to Florence, where he was put on the train and started for Iowa.

The arrest of this man, Reeder, alias Jackson, who, if he is the desperado he is represented to be, is one of the neatest jobs that has ever been done in Southern Kansas, and Sheriff Dick Walker has proved himself to be what his friends knew him to be when they elected him--the right man in the right place.

[RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT BY I. O. O. F. FOR DR. D. N. EGBERT, JR.]

WHEREAS, an alwise and benificent Providence has seen proper to take from our midst brother D. N. Egbert, Jr., and

WHEREAS, this Lodge as well as this community, has by his death lost a valuable, efficient, and influential member; and

WHEREAS, this Lodge desires to express its deep sense of the great loss of one of its first and most worthy members; therefore

Be it Resolved, That this Lodge wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.

By order of the Lodge.

J. W. CURNS, NL. G.

Louis T. Michenor, Rec. Sec. pro tem.

[DISTRICT COURT DOCKET FOR MARCH TERM.]

FIRST DAY.

1. The State of Kansas versus John B. Plumb.

2. The State of Kansas versus T. T. Rucker.

3. The State of Kansas versus William Slater.

4. The State of Kansas versus Jesse Russell and James Smith.

CIVIL DOCKET.

5. Zimri Stubbs vs. Samuel Jay, et al.

7. Channcy P. Spaulding vs. Will M. Allison.

8. John C. Smith vs. Sam'l P. Berryman.

9. Helwig & Lane vs. A. D. Keith.

10. Geo. W. Ballou vs. James A. Brake.

11. C. J. Brane vs. E. Fredrick.

12. Thos. L. Clark vs. A. D. Keath.

SECOND DAY.

13. Richard Woolsey & John Brown vs. W. J. and R. A. Mowry.

14. Geo. W. Bailey et al vs. Frank Cox et al.

15. Garrett W. Thompson vs. Samuel P. Reynolds.

16. Thomas Tool vs. W. W. & M. A. Andrews.

17. John C. McMullen vs. W. D. & R. L. Wilson.

18. William Bartlow vs. Phillip Koehler et al.

19. Land E. Greenwold vs. Phillip Koehler et al.

20. Mary E. Porter vs. John Porter.

THIRD DAY.

21. C. M. Wood vs. John W. Milspaugh, Recv'r.

22. L. Ray Blake vs. Elter Arlet Blake.

23. Sarah E. Apple vs. Jacob Apple.

24. State of Kansas ex rel A. L. Williams vs. the Board of

County Commissioners.

25. Benj. Haywood vs. Adolphus H. Green.

26. Benj. Haywood vs. Samuel W. Greer.

27. Benj. Haywood vs. Samuel W. Greer.

28. James C. Fuller vs. Allen B. Lemmon.

29. C. L. Rood vs. John H. Warrenberrg.

30. City of Arkansas City vs. Norman Shether.

31. Amos Sanford vs. Enoch Marris et al.

32. Howard M. Holden vs. Jas. A. Myton et al.

33. Jacob A. Wickline vs. Jacob Richie.

34. Appleton, Noyes, & Co. vs. C. C. Stevens.

35. Thomas Wright vs. J. G. Titus.

FIFTH DAY.

36. Thomas Wright vs. J. G. Titus.

37. Long Bros. vs. C. C. Stevens.

38. Solomon Tyner vs. J. G. Titus.

39. Dora Kiger vs. Henry Kiger.

40. James Hedley vs. Brainerd Goff and Jane Goff.

41. Thomas Wright vs. Amanda Corkins.

42. Conrad Oliver vs. W. C. Hillyer.

43. Samuel Mullen vs. Armstrong Menor.

SIXTH DAY.

44. Mary C. Riggs vs. Benj. H. Reggs [? Riggs...Reggs ?].

45. Ransom Johnson et al vs. Nancy Fay et al.

46. L. Bauman & Co. vs. John N. Yerger.

47. John Swain vs. Seymour Tarrant.

48. Will M. Allison vs. John N. Yerger.

49. William Bartlow vs. School District No. 6.

50. R. B. Corkins vs. W. L. Mullen.

51. Abijay Darnall et al vs. John Tipton.

SEVENTH DAY.

52. Wm. A. Sharp vs. Samuel Jenkins.

53. Geo. W. Foughty vs. Sidney A. Moses.

54. E. P. Hickok vs. Board of Co. Commissioners.

55. John F. Graham vs. Leland J. Webb.

56. Blair Bros. vs. Chas. W. Phoenix.

57. Ransom Johnson et al vs. Nancy Fay et al.

58. Thompson H. Johnson vs. F. O. and H. G. Crow.

59. Jerry McCans vs. Isaac H. Phenis.

EIGHTH DAY.

60. S. L. Bretlon vs. Andrew J. Covert et al.

61. Oscar M. Stewart vs. Geo. W. Nelson.

62. Theodore Mathews vs. Geo. Lobinguire.

63. Mark Phillips vs. Hamilton Gerrard.

64. Jas. M. Shelly et al vs. Thos. H. Benning.

65. Jas. M. Shelly et al vs. J. W. Meadow.

66. Jas. M. Felton vs. John T. Stewart et al.

67. Andrew H. Hoerneman vs. Ephriam Tucker.

NINTH DAY.

68. Leland J. Webb vs. Thos. T. Rucker.

69. Andrew Dawson vs. William J. Funk.

70. Wm. W. Brown vs. Samuel W. Greer et al.

71. Herman Sartin vs. Charles Johnson.

72. James A. Bullen vs. School Board of School District No. 60.

73. Aaron J. Stanly vs. Permelia D. Stanley [? Stanly/Stanley ?]

74. John Weis vs. John N. Yerger.

75. Reuben B. Saffold vs. Barl F. Martin et al.

TENTH DAY.

76. S. L. Bretton vs. Wm. D. Cady. [? Brettun ?]

77. Wm. D. Carver vs. G. W. Rouse et al.

78. Elisha S. Babcock vs. John Jones.

78. John Manly vs. Geo. W. Baily et al.

79. John F. Graham vs. Geo. W. Bailey.

80. NOTE: 80 WAS OMITTED ENTIRELY.

81. John B. Fairbank et al vs. M. Miller.

82. Leonard Stout vs. E. S. Gray et al.

83. Manning & Johnson vs. James Jordon.

84. Martin L. Read vs. S. E. & J. Dudley.

85. The City of Winfield vs. Adolphus H. Green.

[LOCAL NOTICES.]

HORSEMEN TAKE NOTICE. We are prepared to furnish horse bills better and cheaper than any other office in the county. We have a fine large cut, and our work always gives satisfaction.

WHO PLACED THIS AD NOT STATED: GATHER IT WAS COURIER.

SWEET CIDAR at Newland's Bakery. [YES...THEY HAD "CIDAR".]

WANTED: To buy a good young stallion from three to five years old; would prefer a dark bay for color. Apply to, or address the COURIER, Winfield, or myself five miles north of Winfield on the Walnut river.

JOHN WATSON.

HOUSE TO RENT. Five rooms on Manning street. Enquire of

R. B. Waite at his office over Read's Bank.

MONEY TO LOAN. C. C. Harris loans money cheaper than any other man in the county. Apply to Fairbank, Torrance & Green, or to himself at Winfield.

NOTICE. All persons owing the late Dr. D. N. Egbert will please settle with me at once, and save trouble and costs.

SAM'L DARRAH, Adm'r.

DAY BOARD. $4.00 per week at Newland's Bakery.

W. H. South has bought W. H. H. Maris' entire stock of dry goods, notions, hats, caps, boots, shoes, glassware, and queensware, and will continue the dry goods trade at the old stand of Maris & Co. Also will continue the Jewlry trade.

J. C. Fuller, of the Winfield Bank, pays highest market price for School Bonds.

NOTICE TO TAX-PAYERS. TAX-PAYERS will take notice that the warrants for the collection of delinquent taxes on personal property, will be placed in the hands of the sheriff, on the 1st day of March, and, also, that delinquent real estate, will be advertised, on and after the first day of March, and that there will be added ten cents for each lot and twenty-five cents for each tract of land so advertised to pay for the same. There will be no additional cost until the first day of May next, when the land will be sold.

E. B. KAGER, Co. Treas.

[HON. W. P. HACKNEY.]

The correspondent of the Kansas City Times, speaking of the debate on the Hayes impeachment resolution, pays the following well merited tribute to Mr. Hackney.

"Hackney, of Sumner, arose, and hardly had he uttered a half dozen words before he was honored with the keen attention of the entire House, his calm, dispassionate, and perfectly even tempered expressions creating no little surprise after the rather hot-headed and sharp-worded manner which had generally characterized his brief speeches of joint convention and ordinary session times.

It soon appeared tht he had more in him than he had received credit for, his fluent expressions and decidedly effective manner of making points taking the house as but few speakers have this winter. He opened with a calm and deeply earnest statement that at the start he had been with Mr. Hayes, almost from the start, had sympathized with him, believed in him, and until within a few days had intended to defend him. But he had looked in vain for a loophole for Mr. Hayes to escape through. His violation of the law had been so flagrant, so unjustifiable and defiant, that there could be no excuse! No defense!

With these perfunctory statements, Mr. Hackney commenced a brief and very telling review of the evidence, representing its strong points with a clearness and power equal, if not superior, to all other efforts that had proceeded. In closing, he called upon the members to do their duty in the premises, and while he favored a postponement of the matter for a day or two, he could see no reasons for delay in voting for or against the

resolution."

[CARD FROM JOHN DEVORE - EX-COUNTY TREASURER.]

In the spring of 1870, I was elected to the office of Treasurer of Cowley county, and held said office until the next January, by virtue of said election. In the fall of 1870, Mr.

G. B. Green, of Grouse Creek, was elected; but owing to some cause, he failed to qualify and take the office, consequently, I held the office until August, 1872.

At the time of my election, the office was of little consequence, and I could not afford to leave my farm to live at the county seat to attend to its duties. Having been for some time acquainted with Mr. J. P. Short, and having confidence in his ability and integrity, I appointed him my deputy as soon as there were any duties to perform in the office, and he held said appointment and attended to all the duties of said office until it was turned over to my successor, Mr. Kager.

I paid no attention to the office, never handled any of its money in any way or shape, never received a cent of profit, not even a fee (as I gave all the fees to Mr. Short to attend to the office) from first to last. But the office actually cost me my bond and stamp then required by law. Nor until last week, did I know that there was any irregularity in the accounts or books of said office.

JOHN DEVORE.

Winfield, Kansas, March 5, 1874.

[REPORT FROM SCHOOL DISTTRICT NO. 45.]

[MINUTES OF TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION FEB. 27, 1874.]

Minutes of the Teachers' Association, Held at Winfield, Friday, Feb. 27th, 1874.

H. H. Martin, President.

Miss Jennie Greenlee and Miss Jennie Hawkins, Vice

Presidents.

Miss Mary Graham, Treasurer.

G. W. Melville, Secretary.

Mrs. Mina Hawkins, Cor. Sec'y.

Committee:

Mrs. Mina Hawkins

Miss Jennie Greenlee

Miss E. Fowler

Miss Ellen Wickersham

Miss Mary Graham

[THE STATE TREASURER ATTACKED BY HACKNEY: COL. HAYES.]

NOTE: THE PAGE CONTAINING "PERSONALS" FOR MARCH 6, 1874, WAS

MISSING FROM THIS EDITION OF THE WINFIELD COURIER.

[EDITORIAL PAGE.]

Several distinct shocks of an earthquake, accompanied by loud roaring, were felt at Charleston, Missouri, about daylight Saturday morning.

[PERSONALS.]

Sam Myton is putting a pair of hay scales in front of his store.

The disciples of Christ are holding protracted meetings at the M. E. Church.

Nichlos, the barber, has sold a half interest in his stop to a fellow craftsman named Roberts, whom we can recommend as a first class workman.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MARCH 13, 1874.]

Mr. J. J. Ellis has a fine residence in process of erection in the north part of town in which himself and his young wife will reside upon their return from St. Louis.

T. E. Gilleland has fitted up, and moved his stock of boots and shoes into the room formerly occupied by the Parlor Bar saloon. Mr. Gilleland now has a handsome and commodious room, and a larger stock of goods than any firm in the southwest.

And now it is two Railroads instead of one. The St. Joe.

K. & T. P. Co. have filed their mortgage to the New York loan and trust company in the register's office, Eldorado, Butler Co. This Mortgage is for $6,000,000, sufficient to build and equip the entire line, while word comes from Garnett. that the contract to build the Paola Garnett and Fall river road was signed in the city of New York last Saturday. The contractors assume all the debts and begin work immediately. We look for lively times in the Walnut Valley this summer.

Notice to Teachers. By request of many of the patrons of School District No. 1, in the city of Winfield, the School Board have determined to have a spring term of school and wishing to secure the services of two first class teachers do hereby solicit applications for the same claiming a right to reject any or all applications.

By order of School Board.

B. F. BALDWIN, Clerk.

[TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT LAZETTE.]

One Man Killed and Ten Seriously Wounded.

An accident occurred last Saturday at the saw and grist mills of Lacy & Roberts on the Grouse creek. One man was killed and ten seriously wounded, besides a large number slightly wounded. Below we give our correspondence on the subject, which will give the details.

LAZETTE, March 8th, 1874.

ED. COURIER. A terrible accident occurred at the mill of Lacy & Roberts on Saturday about 12 o'clock M. by which one man was killed, ten wounded. The mill was running at its usual speed, grinding corn, the steam gauge standing at forty pounds. Everything seemed to be in perfect order; the mill house was full of men waiting for their grinding, when by some unknown means the iron band that held the stone together bursted and runner flew into atoms knocking people down and tearing the mill house to pieces, throwing fragments some twenty or thirty yards.

Foreman [? Freeman ?] Wedding was struck by a large stone, which crushed his hips to a jelly and dislocated his back. The poor sufferer lingered for an hour and then expired. He leaves a wife and one child to mourn his loss.

Among the wounded were Samuel Sherman, Gear Dawson, Wm. Gintes, Wm. Gubbond, Hezis. Hodgkiss, Delfunt Sutton, My Kimble, Messrs. Lacy and Roberts, and two others, names unknown. It is thought by the physicians in attendance that all the wounded will recover.

The mill is situated on the Grouse creek four miles above Lazette, and has been doing a prosperous business for some two years. The proprietors are deeply grieved at the disaster, and they have the sympathy of the entire community.

Yours respectfully,

COLUMBUS SPRAGUE.

We, the undersigned, who were present at the mill of Roberts & Lacy at the time the burr burst, by which one man was killed and others wounded, take this method of exonerating the proprietors and employees of the mill from all blame, It was in our opinion, an unavoidable accident.

Signed:

H. B. Clover

J. H. Welch

G. W. Dawson

J. W. Kannard

J. H. Smith

Wm. H. Sheras

G. H. McClung

R. F. Burden

Wm. Tilchworth

J. H. Sweet

I. H. Pickett

John H. McDupper

John R. Nugent

David Peel

John H. Wilson

A. T. Smith

J. W. Tull

D. H. Hotchkiss

Geo. Lobinger

B. F. Fritch

E. S. Gield

Columbus Sprague

John Moses

E. Simpson

Stephen Simple

[TWENTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY: MR. AND MRS. PARMELEE.]

Last Monday evening, the most brilliant assemblage of "fair women and brave men" was gathered together at the residence of the Rev. J. B. Parmelee, that has ever asembled in the Walnut Valley. The occasion was the twentieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Parmelee, what the knowing ones call the "china wedding." J. C. Blandin, with malice aforethought, enticed the unsuspecting couple to town and there kept them, not altogether unwilling, prisoners at his house. Taking advantage of the absence of the Rev. gentleman and his estimable lady, the "company" to the number of about one hundred and fifty persons gathered in with buckets, baskets, sacks, etc., each containing something calculated to gladden the inner man.

At the proper time Mr. and Mrs. Parmelee having arrived, were peremptorily ordered to prepare for the trying ordeal, which they calmly and resignedly proceeded to do. When all was ready the bride and groom were led into the parlor. Enoch Maris,

D. A. Millington, Esq., and T. A. Wilkinson acted as Groomsmen, and Mrs. Enoch Maris, Mrs. ____ Johnson, and Mrs. T. A. Wilkinson as Bridesmaids. Rev. James E. Platter, of the Presbyterian Church, then proceeded to "lecture" the happy pair substantially as follows.

SKIPPED HIS LONG ADDRESS.

Rev. N. L. Rigby then pronounced them "man and wife," and offered up a short prayer. $103.00 in greenbacks was made up, enclosed in a soap dish, and presented to Mr. Parmelee by Maj.

J. B. Fairbank, on behalf of the company.

SKIPPED COMMENTS ABOUT FAIRBANK'S SPEECH.

A splendid supper was served and everybody felt that it was "good to be there." The party broke up about 12 o'clock M., everyone boasting that it was the most enjoyable affair ever got up in the romantic Walnut Valley.

Messrs. E. C. Manning, S. H. Myton, J. B. Fairbank, and

A. T. Stewart, as far as we can learn, were the originators of the plot. We hope these liberal minded gentlemen will give another such at no distant day.

[MARRIED: WAGNER/HIGHTTOWER AND MILLER/WILSON.]

WAGNER - HIGHTOWER. At Dexter, Kansas, March 8th, 1874, by Rev. P. G. Smith, Mr. S. H. Wagner and Miss Mellie Hightower, all of Dexter.

MILLER - WILSON. By Rev. Jesse Stone, at his residence, Richland Township, Feb. 18th, 1874. Mr. Jas. H. Miller to Miss Mary E. Wilson, all of Cowley County, Kansas.

[DIED: HIRAM B. WHITING, AT CLEVELAND, OHIO.]

Died at Cleveland, Ohio, February 27th, 1874, Hiram B. Whiting, aged 24 years. Cleveland (Ohio) Leader.

Many of our citizens will remember Mr. Whiting, who spent most of the winter here as the guest of his brother-in-law, T. H. Johnson. He was here but a short time, but his manly bearing and social qualities made him many warm friends who will be pained to learn of his untimely death.

[LOCAL NOTICES.]

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Having made arrangements with eastern parties, we are prepared, through them, to negotiate loans for five years upon

IMPROVED FARMS.

The advantage of borrowing for a long over a short time, is apparent, when in the latter the sacrifice upon sales of stock or grain to meet maturing oblications is considered, while in the former ample time is given for stock or produce to be held over seasons when the market is depressed, that the highest prices may be realized. Again the rise in value of improvements and lands, which time only can bring about, and ability of borrower to meet the small amount of interest which would each year become due when he could not meet principal and interest, and on account of this inability very likely lose his place, are pointts which should be considered important.

To men who have firms upon which they desire to secure loans. We say we believe we can now negotiate for you upon terms which will be satisfactory.

CURNS & MANSER,

Winfield, Kansas.

FOR SALE OR RENT. A farm two and a half miles from Winfield. For particulars, call at Newland's bakery.

. Enquire at Titus' Meat Market.

HELLO!! CARPENTERS!!!

If you want to build a house and take for pay a choice piece of land near Winfield, call on J. G. Titus, at City Meat Market.

DURHAM BULL, 3 years old for sale, or trade for other stock

LOVERS OF THE WEED will be pleased to know that A. H. Green has been appointed exclusive agent for the celebrated California cigars, which are acknowledged by all good judges, to be the best in the market. They are kept for sale at his drug store.

S. M. CLINE.

[Beginning with Friday, March 20, 1874.]

JAMES KELLY, EDITOR

[INDIANS: ARTICLE FROM TRAVELER RE FIGHT WITH CHEYENNES.]

Oscar Wheeler, Willis McCarty, and McGinnis, who reside on the Strip; the former two well known by our citizens, left this place about two years ago to work on the railroad. After working a year or more, they left Dodge City last fall and went hunting through the territory until they reached the South Canadian in Texas, where they wintered, trapping and hunting, with tolerable success. One morning, about six weeks ago, seven Indians supposed to have been Cheyennes, came into their camp and asked for something to eat. Breakfast was made ready for them, and all ate. After breakfast the Indians, who were only armed with bows and arrows, left in an apparently peaceable and friendly manner. But the boys became suspicious from the fact they had not shown their guns, and concluded to move camp that morning, as they expected to move in a few days. While they were loading the wagon, a shot was heard and Oscar Wheeler fell to the ground, pierced with a rifle ball in the left breast, the ball coming out at the back and lodging under the skin. He was not unconscious; and rising up, told the boys to run on the ridge and see if they could see them, while he would drive on with the wagon. The boys did as requested and saw the Indians retreating behind the sand mound, during which some fifty shots were exchanged. Finally, McGinnis got good aim at one and shot, when the Indian threw his gun high in the air and leaped forward, dead. McCarty soon followed, knocking one down, and it is supposed, killed him. The boys drove them back for several miles and then began to retreat to the wagon, the Indians following some ten miles or more when they left. Wheeler was almost prostrated when the two came to him, from loss of blood, but they reached the settlements in safety, and Wheeler is now at Wichita under treatment of a physician, and is in a fair way of recovery. He will be brought to this place as soon as his condition will admit, to be taken care of by his brother-in-law, Mr. Pepper. Traveler.

[REPEALING ACTION OF COUNTY COUNCIL: APPOINTING AGENTS.]

REPEALED. We are glad to learn that the action of the County Council in reference to the appointing of Agents was repealed at their meeting on last Saturday, and the contracts are to be let to the lowest bidders. We are now satisfied that it was not done by trickery, but owing to the negligence of one of the officers for this part of the county. Traveler.

[PEANUT CULTURE.]

[CHANGES IN SCHOOL LAW.]

A recent amendment to the school law, changes the time of holding the annual meeting of each school district, from the last Thursday of March to the second Thursday in August of each year, at 2 o'clock p.m. The district board as now constituted will continue to hold office until the annual meeting in August, and until their successors are elected and qualified. Under the new law, at the next election, a director, clerk, and treasurer shall be elected and hold their respective offices as follows: Director, for three years; clerk, for two years; treasurer, one year; and thereafter at each annual meeting, there shall be elected one member of said board in place of the out-going member, who shall hold his office for three years, or until his successor is elected and qualified.

[APPORTIONMENT OF CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS IN KANSAS.]

The apportionment of Kansas into three Congressional districts will give Kansas three each, instead of one, Masters in Chancery and Commissioners in Bankruptcy; as the U. S. statutes provide for the apportionment of one such officer in each congressional district. The appointing power rests with Chief Justice Waite.

[PERSONALS.]

Quarles & Ferguson have raised the frame of their new barn.

J. P. Short has built a neat little office on his lot on Main street.

G. G. Grady's mammoth circus will exhibit in Winfield, April 8th. As this is the first circus to visit our city and county, our people should give it a generous reception.

AD: GRADY'S AMERICAN CIRCUS, AND GRAND FREE BALLOON ASCENSION!

This is the Most COMPLETE CIRCUS That has ever visited the West. MAMMOTH PAVILIONS! FOUR LADY GYMNASTS! 49 First Class Performers! THREE GREAT CLOWNS and a Grand Free Balloon Ascension Daily! Trained HORSES and DARING RIDERS!!

Grand Procession at 10 O'CLOCK A.M.

WILL EXHIBIT AT WINFIELD,

April 8th, 1874.

Come out everybody and visit this Grand Combination.

ADMITTANCE, 50 CENTS. Children under ten, half price.

Capt. Hunt, a former resident of our city, has returned and is now located in the house formerly occupied by James F. Paul. We are pleased to welcome Captain Hunt back to his old stamping ground.

Isaac Bing has returned from the east where he has been selecting new goods, and in about ten days Requa & Bing will open the largest and best stock of gent's furnishing goods ever brought to southwestern Kansas.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MARCH 20, 1874.]

The Grand Balloon ascension. From C. G. Grady's circus grounds April the 8th at this place will be one of the most grand and terrific affairs ever witnessed on this continent. A man will hang by his toes from the balloon at a distance of one mile from the ground.

J. M. Dever has purchased an interest in the Grocery and Provision store of Weathers & Bro. Mr. Dever is one of our oldest and most trusted citizens. A man of strict integrity and upright manly principles. And those doing business with the firm of Weathers & Co. can safely rely on being fairly dealt with.

NOTICE PLACED IN PAPER: Notice. All persons knowing themselves indebted to the late firm of Weathers & Bro., will save cost by calling at the store of J. C. Weathers & Co., and settling up.

J. C. WEATHERS.

Some half-dozen of the Winfield beauties, accompanied by Miss Mowry, of Arkansas City, the bevy led by Charley Harter, paid us a visit last Tuesday, and circulated around to the consternation of comps. and "devil," who full expected to see the entire office knocked into "pi." Come again, ladies, it does us good to receive a visit from wit and beauty.

Read the new advertisement of H. C. Leedy in another column. Mr. Leedy has bought the butcher shop formerly owned by Davis & Cawlfield, and will continue the butchering business at their old stand. In connection with beef and pork steak, he will keep flour, potatoes, etc. Mr. Leedy comes to us well recommended, and we have no doubt will be a valuable addition to our city.

AD: H. C. LEEDY. Successor to Davis & Cawlfield. BUTCHER and dealer in HIDES. HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR BEEVES. He also has a large stock of FLOUR & POTATOES KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND.

TERMS STRICTLY CASH.

SHOP ON MAIN STREET, WINFIELD, KANSAS.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MARCH 20, 1874.]

J. B. Lynn, formerly of Olathe, Johnson county, this state, has opened out a a splendid stock of Dry goods and Groceries in the building formerly occupied by Close & Greer, opposite the Lagonda House. The store has lately been remodeled and re-

painted, and presents a very neat appearance. Mr. Lynn seems to be a gentleman of enterprise who we have no doubt will do a good business. We welcome him to our midst.

Below we give the names of our businessmen who advertised in the "COURIER EXTRA" this week. Our readers may rest assured that men who advertise liberally will deal liberally.

Ellis & Black, W. L. Mullen, Darrah & Doty, O. N. Morris & Bro., T. E. Gilleland, George Miller, Maris, Carson & Baldwin,

J. C. Weathers and Co., C. A. Bliss & Co., Hitchcock & Boyle, W. M. Boyer, Lagonda House, Banking Houses of M. L. Read and J. C. Fuller, J. B. Lynn, N. Roberson, M. Miller, Frank Williams, Geo. W. Martin, and the Arkansas City Traveler.

SOME OF THE ADS: WINFIELD COURIER, MARCH 20, 1874.]

ELLIS & BLACK, General dealers in GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, QUEENSWARE, AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS.

Corner of Main and Ninth St., Winfield, Kansas.

McMillen & Shields, General Dealers in Merchandise, Dry Goods, Groceries, etc. AT OLD LOG STORE, West Side Main Street.

G. W. MARTIN, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Main Street, next door south to C. C. Stevens' Grocery. Winfield, Kansas. Fine Work and Neat-Fitting Boots a Specialty.

A. BISBEE, BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Makes a thorobred boot. Works the best French brands of calf, and kip, and all work warranted.

2 doors north of Bliss & Co.'s on Main St., Winfield, Kansas.

NEW SHOP. P. HILL. BOOT & SHOE MAKER. At the Sign of the Big Boot, Opposite Myton's Hardware Store. NEAT WORK AND REPAIRING DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. Call and see me.

T. BAKER. BARBER & HAIR DRESSER. Ladies' Hair Dressing A Specialty. Shop Two doors south of Read's Bank, Winfield, Kansas.

ROBERS & NICHLOS, BARBARS AND HAIR-DRESSERS. NEATEST ROOMS IN THE CITY. The oldest and most reliable workman in the West. Special attention given to Ladies' Hair-Dressing.

ROOMS, One door south of Bliss' Store, Winfield, Kansas.

SWEET & LEWIS. Dealers in SCHOOL AND HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. COFFINS AND UNDERTAKING. WEST SIDE MAIN STREET, opposite Hitchcock & Boyle's. WINFIELD, KANSAS.

J. W. JOHNSTON. Retail dealer in FURNITURE. Cabinet-Maker and Undertaker. CALL AND EXAMINE THE STOCK. SHOP three doors south of post office, Winfield, Kansas.

W. H. PARKS, WAGON MAKER. Having bought the shop formerly occupied by Robinson Bros., I am prepared to do all work in my line. Prices reasonable and all work warranted. Shop on Ninth St., Winfield, Kansas.

[MORE ADS: WINFIELD COURIER, MARCH 20, 1874.]

S. H. MYTON. Dealer in HARDWARE. His stock comprises: CUTLERY, FARMING IMPLEMENTS, EDGE TOOLS, STOVES, TINWARE, etc.

West side Main Street, two doors north of Log Store, Winfield.

O. N. MORRIS & BRO. LIVERY AND FEED STABLE.

[O. N. MORRIS / G. O. MORRIS.]

On Eighth Avenue, East Lagonda House, Winfield, Kansas.

W. M. BOYER, BOOKSELLER, STATIONER, AND NEWS DEALER. WALL PAPER.

All late publications and Kansas dailies kept constantly on hand. Diaries for 1874 at cost. Kansas maps, albums, pocket wallets, and all goods in their line.

Tobacco, Cigars, Smokers articles, etc. Winfield, Kansas.

J. N. YERGER, JEWELER, Winfield, Kansas.

KEEPS CONSTANTLY on hand a Complete stock of

Fine Jewelry, Good and Silver Watches, Silver and Plated Ware.

Also a full Stock of Musical Instruments.

A Specialty of GOLD PENS and SPECTACLES.

LOAN & LAND OFFICE,

Particular attention paid to making CONTRACTS, MORTGAGES, DEEDS, AND PROOFS. Also to buying and selling REAL ESTATE. Money Loand on real estate security. Office over Read's Bank.

LUMBER! LUMBER!! JOHN MANLY Is sawing and selling lumber cheap at his SAW & GRIST MILL, One Mile North of Little Dutch Postoffice, On the WALNUT RIVER. He also grinds corn in any way to suit customers. Give him a call, for he will do fair thing by you.

WAR IN CUBA. SWEET & LEWIS. Manufacturers of and Dealers in Household and Office Furniture. A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK OF FURNITURE ALWAYS ON HAND. COFFINS & CASKETS FURNISHED ON SHORT NOTICE. UNDERTAKING MADE A SPECIALITY. STORE ROOMS ON THE CORNER OF MAIN AND EIGHTH STREETS OPPOSITE HITCHCOCK & BOYLES.

NEWLAND'S BAKERY FURNISHES MEALS AT 25 CENTS AT ALL HOURS.

BOARD BY THE WEEK, $4.00.

KEEPS FLOUR, CANNED FRUITS, AND ALL OTHER STOCKS IN HIS LINE AT LOWEST PRICES.

[MORE ADS: WINFIELD COURIER, MARCH 20, 1874.]

M. L. READ'S BANK DEALS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC EXCHANGE. BONDS OF ALL KINDS BOUGHT AND SOLD. DEPOSITS RECEIVED AND INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS....

NO ADDRESS GIVEN.

BIG AD...CURNS & MANSER, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, OFFICE ON THE CORNER OF MAIN STREET AND TENTH AVENUE, WINFIELD, COWLEY COUNTY, KANSAS.

DARRAH & DOTY, PROPRIETORS, LIVERY AND FEED STABLE. BEST OF BUGGIES, SADDLES AND HARNESS HORSES. FURNISHED AT REASONABLE RATES. OFFICE ON MAIN STREET, SOUTH OF LAGONDA HOUSE. WINFIELD.

GEORGE BROWN, CARRIAGE & WAGON MAKER. ALL KINDS OF BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, WAGONS, AND OTHER ARTICLES IN HIS LINE.

SHOP ON THE CORNER OF MAIN AND EIGHTH STREETS, WINFIELD, KANSAS.

WINFIELD BANK OF J. C. FULLER.

BANK BUILDING LOCATED AT CORNER OF 9TH AVENUE AND MAIN STREET.

HITCHCOCK & BOYLE, DEALERS IN [NOTHING LISTED]. PROPRIETORS OF THE OLD RELIABLE GENERAL STORE. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.

NO ADDRESS GIVEN.

[COMMENTS ON MR. AND MRS. J. J. ELLIS AFTER WEDDING TOUR.]

[MARRIED: CURE - MONFORTE.]

MARRIED. CURE - MONFORTE. On March 4th at the residence of the bride's father on Dutch creek, by the Rev. J. W. Lowry, Mr. M. S. Cure to Miss Julia M. Monfort, all of Winfield township.

[LOCAL NOTICES.]

FOR SALE OR TRADE. A splendid cook stove for sale, or trade for a good cow. The stove is nearly new with furniture complete. Inquire at the store of J. C. Weathers & Co., in Winfield.

STEWART & SIMPSON are gong to burn 200,000 brick this Spring. Those who contemplate building will do well to send in their orders early.

HELLO!! CARPENTERS!!!

If you want to build a house and take for pay a choice piece of land near Winfield, call on J. G. Titus, at City Meat Market.

[EXTENSION OF TIME: PAYMENT OF OSAGE LANDS AND TAXATION.]

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 1874.

MR. JONES--Dear Sir: In reply to your favor in reference to the Osage lands, I have to say that it would give me great pleasure to be able to secure the points desired, time payments, etc. But it may be impracticable to accomplish it. Time payments on sales at minimum prices is entirely without precedent, and so embarrasses the operations of the land offices and the departments that there is great opposition to it. Taxation before final payment is also impracticable for the reason that taxation of lands can only be enforced by a sale of the land, and the Government will not allow its own rights to be prejudiced or defeated by tax titles. I think, however, we shall be able to get a bill through extending the time and thus give substantial relief.

Yours, very sincerely,

D. P. LOWE.

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The above letter from Hon. D. P. Lowe to Mr. Jones will show what the Judge thinks about the matter of extending the time for the payment of the Osage lands and taxation of the same. Judge Lowe makes the same mistake that most of those high in authority generally make, viz: do nothing without a precedent. Now we have great respect for precedents, and think that it would be well for some of the servants of the people, that we could name, to model after some others, who have gone before; but when it comes to a matter of this kind we beg that precedents, of what-ever name or description, will be discarded. Ours is just one of those conditions that want to get away from precedents. There is no precedent in the land laws of the United States that will suit our case. Just the opposite of all precedents in the management of these lands is what we want, and what we must have if we get relief at all. Away with your straight jacket precedents, and give us some original common-sense legislation.

[REPORT FROM "GRANGER" AT DEXTER.]

Last Monday night, twenty of our farmers, with ten of their wives and daughters, were organized into a Grange, by Deputy Worden, Esq. T. R. Bryan is Master, and J. A. Bryan, Secretary. J. B. Callison is Overseer, and the other officers are all in the right place. We predict a successful career for our Grange.

Mr. H. H. Martin closed his school at this place last Friday, after having taught five months. The school has been very large--numbering as high as 74 pupils, and averaging nearly 50.

[RAILROADS: ARTICLE FROM KANSAS CITY TIMES.]

Work Commenced Upon the Paola & Fall River Railroad.

Gentlemen prominently connected with the Paola and Fall River Railroad were in this city yesterday making arrangements for men and material for the Paola & Fall River railroad.

This railroad is one of the natural features of Kansas City, and is chartered to run from Paola, Miami county, to Arkansas City, Cowley county, Kansas. It will strike the Arkansas River about fifty miles south of Wichita, and from the time it leaves Garnett, where it crosses the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston railroad, it runs through a fertile section of country as yet unblessed by a railroad; it runs in a southwesterly direction, and intersects the fertile counties of Miami, Anderson, Woodson, Greenwood, Howard, and Cowley. The northern terminus of the road is Paola, on the Missouri river, Fort Scott & Gulf road, fifty miles south of Kansas City. The road has been graded soutthward from Paola; work will at once be put on the road and kept up until the road reaches the fertile valley of the Arkansas. To Paola, the completion of this road will be of great importance; as the terminus, it will bring her much of the trade of the Southwest. The road will connect at Paola with the M., K. & T. for Holden, and the M. R., F. S. & G. R. R. for Kansas City, with which it will no doubt be run in close connection, thereby giving Kansas City a direct route to the Arkansas valley, striking it fifty miles nearer the Texas cattle fields. Kansas City Times.

[PAOLA GARNETT AND FALL RIVER RAIL ROAD.]

It is now but a few days before work is to begin on the resumption of construction of this road. When the time comes, the work of construction will be prosecuted very rapidly and we shall then have the cars of this route running through our city soon after. Mr. Tompkins, whom we mentioned last week, has spent several days visiting this point, Leroy and Paola, and has gone to New York, to return to Garnett next week.

We should not be surpried to see Garnett still more favored than has heretofore been anticipated, for indications now promise that the eastern connection for St. Louis, will be at Clinton, Missouri, instead of at Paola, which will be much nearer an air-line to the "Future Great City." An air-line route from St. Louis to Arkansas City is what is determined on, or rather, one so nearly so as to strike Garnett and Leroy. This much seems to us, as certain. The future is full of hope and of good prospects for Garnett, as the completion of this road on the route contemplated, making a through route from St. Louis to Albuquerque will open a new era in our history as a city. Garnett Plaindealer.

[WAR IN HOWARD COUNTY: SETTLED.]

The war in our sister county has been at last amicably settled. To the sagacity, firmness, and inflexible integrity of the Hon. W. P. Campbell, Judge of the District, the people of Howard are indebted for their salvation; and the world from witnesses the mournful spectacle of a disgraceful civil war. Below we give our readers Judge Campbell's letter to the people of Howard. The manly and dignified stand taken by his Honor, is well worthy of imitation.

"TO THE PEOPLE OF HOWARD COUNTY.

"Every court is vested with the power to enforce obedience to its process and respect for its authority. It has become my duty as Judge of your District Court, in view of the unfortunate state of your public affairs, and the recent alleged unlawful interference by certain persons with the due administration of the law by said court, to resort to the time honored process of attachment for contempt. This is not a rash unpremediitated move, but the result of an honest desire, and a firm purpose to perform a sworn duty.

"Sufficient has been made to appear, to induce the belief that certain proceedings and orders of the court over which I have the honor to preside, have been set at defiance by the open and forcible resistance of some of the citizens of Howard county. If such a circumstance should pass unnoticed, the people might well doubt the stability, and lose confidence in the efficiency of the courts. In such a case, there remains but one course for me, as a public officer resting under the obligations of an oath, to pursue, and that is, to bring the strong arm of the court to bear in its own protection, and to enforce its lawful authority by all the means known to the law. This duty will be resolutely performed. I am actuated by no hostile feeling. The notorious fact that for two months the authority of the court has been openly defied, without proceedings being taken to enforce submission, shows no less than a proper spirit of forbearance. It has now become a matter of importance to the people generally, that the county records and files shall be preserved in their proper places of deposit, in the custody of the legally constituted authorities. Compared with this, the particular location of the county seat is of minor importance. The pending questions affecting the location of the county seat, are matters of law and fact, which will in due time, be settled by the courts.

"In the meantime, it is the duty of all good citizens to let the law take its course.

"Personally, I have no interest in your local controversies, only desiring, when required to decide upon them judicially, that they shall be decided according to the law and the fact. I have no feeling against any locality in your county, only desiring that when the will of the people has been expressed in a lawful manner, the same shall be enforced. I have no apology to offer for any of my judicial determinations affecting your local affairs. They speak for themselves. I care nothing for idle and groundless stories affecting my integrity, circulated in your midst, trusting implicitly in the ultimate good sense and justice of an intelligent people for a complete vindication. I try to act in a manner which will gain your confidence, for no court can expect to fulfil its mission perfectly without being sustained and confided in by an enlightened public sentiment. But most of all, I desire to faithfully discharge the varied and responsible duties of the exalted position to which I have been elevated by a magnanimous people, and leave the bench with a pure and unspotted record, so that the state will have been none the worse off because I have occupied it.

"Attachments have been issued for the arrest of certain persons charged to have been engaged in removing the county records in violation of an order of the court, and for the seizure of the records and their restoration to proper custody, directed to the sheriff. The sheriff and his deputies are bound to serve the process, and are vested with authority to call to their assistance all the forces necessary to execute the writs, and all citizens of the county are bound to obey their orders in that behalf. We desire your sympathy, your confidence, and your assistance in restoring order, and upholding the majesty of the law.

"I know not who are the guilty parties--that is to be hereafter determined--after due investigation. If any sincere and honest men have been led into an unlawful interference with the court, by deception, misrepresentation, or under excitement and passion, they owe it to themselves, their families, and their country, to abandon their vain attempt, as they would flee from a pestilence, and hasten to restore the county records to their proper custodians, and otherwise as much as lies in their power atone to an outraged law.

"It is for the people to say whether by sustaining the courts and the officers, they will have peace, order, and protection, or by a contrary course produce disorder, crime, and ruin.

"It may cost something to restore order in your county, but it will be money well spent. It is the purchase of immunity to a more or less extent, from crime and violence in the future. The law must govern.

"Respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. P. CAMPBELL, Judge.

March 13th, 1874."

[LEGAL NOTICE: ILLEGAL OSAGE FILING.]

U. S. LAND OFFICE, WICHITA, KAN., March 4th, 1874.

COMPLAINT having been entered at this office by William Marshall against Swan B. Huff for illegal Osage filing, No. 8822, dated Oct. 13, 1873, upon the Lots 1 and 12 and northeast 1/4 of N E 1/4 Section 30, Township 32 S, Range 3 East in Cowley county, Kansas, with a view to the cancellation of said filing; the said parties are hereby summoned to appear at this office on the 10th day of April, 1874, at 9 o'clock A. M., to respond and furnish testimony concerning said alleged fraud.

W. J. Jenkins, Register.

[NOTICE: T. G. PEYTON, M. D.]

NOTICE. ALL persons knowing themselves indegbted to me are hereby notified that they must come forward and satisfy their accounts as I must have money or its equivalent. Save cost by immediately complying with this notice.

T. G. PEYTON, M. D.

[NOTICE: T. A. BLANCHARD, AGENT, PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.]

NOTICE is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at my office in Winfield, Kansas, up to Saturday, April 4th, to furnish merchandise, agricultural implements, etc., to the Patrons of Husbandry in Cowley County. Bids may be sent through the mail. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. Bids will be opened at 2 o'clock p.m. of said day.

T. A. BLANCHARD, Agent.

[ELECTION PROCLAMATION: SHERIFF R. L. WALKER.]

I, R. L. WALKER, Sheriff of the County of Cowley, in the State of Kansas, do hereby proclaim and make known unto the qualified voters of said county of Cowley that on the first Tuesday of April A. D. 1874, there will be held an election in the several townships of said County at the usual place of holding elections, for the purpose of electing in each of said townships the following officers, to wit: One Trustee, one Treasurer, one Clerk, two Constables, two Justices of the Peace; and one Road Overseer, in each road district of the several townships.

Given under my hand at my office in the City of Winfield, this 10th day of March 1874.

R. L. WALKER, Sheriff, Cowley Co.

[PERSONALS.]

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MARCH 27, 1874.]

Winfield has the best flouring mills in Southwestern Kansas. Nearly all the people of Sumner county bring their grists to this place.

The advertisement of Mr. Keagy, published in another column, informs our patrons that he has full blooded Berkshire pigs for sale at his residence near Wellington, Sumner county.

AD: M. B. KEAGY, Dealer in, and Breeder of Pure Blood Berkshire SWINE. Persons wishing choice PIGS should call on me at my residence 5-1/2 miles southeast of WELLINGTON, Sumner Co., KANSAS.

In our "Notice to Grangers," last week we stated that seals would be furnished to sub-granges at $8.50 apiece, when it should have been $3.50. Grangers will please notice this correction.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MARCH 27, 1874.]

Everyone who visits this office exlaims, "What a beautiful picture," when they look at a choromo which was presented to this office by J. W. Johnston. Mr. Johnston has a large stock of handsome pictures on hand which he is selling cheap.

Through the agency of the Real Estate firm of Curns & Manser, D. A. Millington, Esq., sold half of the block upon which his house stands, to Rev. James E. Platter. Mr. Platter intends to erect a fine residence upon his new purchase this spring.

A couple of the saloon keepers in this city were arrested yesterday for selling liquor without license, they having obtained their license of the city when it is claimed they should have been obtained of the county. It is a test upon the legality of the city ordinance.

An attempt was made by the prisoners in the county jail to escape, a few nights since. With a nail and a stick of wood, they had broken the lock so that the door could be easily opened when the shades of night furnished an opportunity for escape. But about this time the jailor, Burt Covert, walked in and stopped their little game.

Last Wednesday we were favored with a call from Mr. Houghton of the firm of Farrar, Houghton & Sherburne of Arkansas City, and Mr. Davidson of Wellington. Mr. Houghton had been having a troublesome tooth operated upon by the dentist, but was as sociable as ever. Mr. Davidson reports considerable excitement at Wellington over the coal question.

TO PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. Each member of the order is required to have a "trade" ticket to enable them to purchase on our special terms. Tickets can be procured by calling on me at the store of Ellis & Black, in Winfield.

T. A. BLANCHARD, Agent.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MARCH 27, 1874.]

[INVESTIGATION: COUNTY RECORDS.]

The committee appointed to investigate the County Records have finished their work as far as the term of Devore is concerned, and are preparing a report which will be published as soon as the committee get one or two items which they are after red hot. Hon. S. M. Fall concluded that he could not stay to investigate and retired from the committee. The other two members, Messrs. Grow and Walton, are determined to unearth everything unholy if it takes all summer. We have been collecting facts and figures which we will publish in connection with the committee's report. We have no desire to prejudge the case and will withhold it until then.

[ROBBERY: STORE OF W. H. SOUTH.]

A couple of the lads in this city overreached themselves slightly when they plundered the store of W. H. South, a few weeks ago. The boys were hunted so closely that the concluded the best thing they could do would be to bring the property back, which they did. They wrapped the watches and other jewelry (with the exception of a few rings and a pocket-knife or two) in a gum cloak (stolen at a dance at Little Dutch recently) and deposited them upon the salt barrels in front of the store where they were soon discovered by Mr. South. The walnut box which contained the watches when stolen, had been deposited in the Walnut river for safe keeping, and was not returned.

On the evening of the day upon which the goods were returned (Wednesday), Lucian McMasters turned states evidence, confessing that Tom Quarles and himself had stolen the jewelry and kept it hidden in Cliff Wood's timber. The boys were immediately ar-rested, and yesterday, after an examination before 'Squire Boyer, were committed to bail in the sum of $500; Quarles to appear before the District Court on charge of grand larceny, and McMasters to appear as a witness. It appears from the confession that there are some dozen boys in this town who have kept up a systematic thieving for the past two years, and it is hoped that this will be a lesson for them.

[LIST OF MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED DURING FEBRUARY 1874.]

List of marriage licenses issued by the Probate Judge, during the month of February 1874.

E. B. Kager, to A. L. Wright.

Charles W. Rockhill, to Malinda Hart.

Isaac McNown, to Maggie Steel.

Jasper West, to Sarah J. Skinner.

James H. Miller, to Mary E. Wilson.

Edward B. Taggart, to Mary E. Sweet.

Nelson E. Newal, to Mary A. Arnold.

J. D. Pruden, to Susan A. Jenkins.

Charles Balcom, to Emma Randall.

[GRANGE: BEAVER TOWNSHIP, PLEASANT GROVE SCHOOL HOUSE.]

BEAVER TOWNSHIP, COWLEY CO., FEB. 26, 1874.

The thirtieth grange in this county was organized by deputy Worden at Pleasant Grove school house on the night of Feb. 21st. The Charter members number 28.

OFFICERS.

J. M. Midkiff, Master.

Dr. J. P. Taylor, Overseer.

Dr. C. G. Holland, Lecturer.

Wm. Bonnewell, Steward.

Enos P. Copple, Asst. Steward.

Lit Bonnewell, Chaplain.

Jessie Chatfield, Treasurer.

S. B. Littell, Secretary.

R. L. McCulloch, Gate Keeper.

Kate Kizer, Ceres.

Mrs. Lou Oliver, Pomonia.

Tilly Weitzel, Flora.

Mrs. Susan M. Taylor, Lady Asst. Steward.

Members of other granges are invited to visit us.

J. M. MIDKIFF, M.

S. B. LITTELL, Secretary.

[FLORAL GRANGE: RESOLUTIONS OF DISAPPROVAL.]

At a recent meeting of the Floral Grange the following resolutions were adopted.

WHEREAS, Brother Martin, our representative from Vernon grange, did before his election to office declare his opposition to all monopolies and unjust taxation, and since his election has violated the same by voting in favor of the "per diem" resolution, and refusing to table his railroad pass, thus sanctioning and patronizing railroad monopolies, and unjust taxation, thereby violating the trust reposed in him and knowingly wronging us as brothers and sisters, therefore

Be it Resolved, That we, the members of Floral Grange, disapprove and condemn the proceedings of brother Martin as set forth in the preamble; and

Resolved, That we furnish a copy of the above resolution to the COURIER for publication.

[DECEASED DR. D. N. EGBERT HONORED BY SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS.]

The undersigned Sunday School Class at a recent meeting passed the following resolutions.

WHEREAS, It has pleased our Heavenly Father to take from us our much loved and valuable friend and teacher, Dr. D. N. Egbert; and

WHEREAS, We, as a class, wish to express our deep sorrow at the loss we have sustained in the removal of so worthy a teacher; therefore,

Be it Resolved, That we tneder to the mother and other relatives of the deceased our sincere sympathy in their and our loss, praying that our Father in Heaven will keep us unto that glorious day when we shall sing with our departed friend the songs of the redeemed.

Luella Blandin and Annie Newman, Organists.

Hortie Holmes

Inez Griswold

Callie Blandin

Ella Freeland

Eugenie Holmes

Dora Higginbothom

Josie McMasters

Maggie Dever

Ida McMillen

Laura McMillen

Ettie Johnston

Alice Johnston

Ora Lowery

Plesie Johnston

Emma Howland

[MARRIED: ELLIS/LOWRY - BALCOM/RANDALL.]

MARRIED. ELLIS - LOWRY. On March 4th, 1874, at the M. E. Parsonage, in this city, by the Rev. J. W. Lowry, assisted by Rev. J. B. Parmelee of the Congregational church, Mr. James J. Ellis to Miss Kate A. Lowry.

The happy couple immediately started on their wedding tour to St. Louis, via Wichita and Kansas City, and will return by way of Ft. Scott and Independence, visiting numerous friends and relatives at different places along the route. We wish them a pleasant journey and a safe return.

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MARRIED. BALCOM - RANDALL. At the Lagonda house in this city, by Rev. N. L. Rigby, Mr. Charles Balcom to Miss Emma Randall, both of Arkansas City.

[LEGAL NOTICES.]

Arrangements have been made with the following retail dealers of Winfield for supplying members of the order with merchandise at special rates. With Ellis & Black for dry goods and groceries; S. H. Myton for hardware, implements, etc.; Max Shoeb for blacksmithing. Sub-granges can procure all needed blanks at the lowest rates at the COURIER office in Winfield.

Members will be furnished with tickets upon application, and for protection against fraud, members are requested to take bills for all goods purchased, or work performed, and file the same as often as convenient with the agent. Sub-granges are requested to send me their orders accompanied with $3.50, for sub-grange seals, that I may bulk the order.

T. A. BLANCHARD, Agent.

[NOTICE BY T. A. WILKINSON, CO. SUPT.]

AFTER consulting with the Board of Education and the State Superintendent, I hereby announce that it has been decided to call a convention of all the school district officers who shall be elected on the last Thursday in March, next, in this county, with a view to promoting the educational welfare of the county. A full detail of the objects and aims of said convention together with the time of meeting will be announced in connection with the programme of the Teacher's Institute, to be held at Winfield some time in April, 1874.

T. A. WILKINSON, Co. Supt.

[PERSONALS.]

Ex-Marshal Young was arrested last Tuesday, charged with having assisted in the escape of T. T. Rucker from the jail at this place, some time since.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MARCH 27, 1874.]

D. A. Millington, Esq., was examined by lawyers McDermott, Mitchell, and Adams, and admitted to the bar by Judge Campbell at this term of Court.

The members of the Silver Cornet Band of this city have taken a fresh start. They have engaged Prof. Hoyt of Arkansas City to teach them and practice unceasingly, and we have no doubt we will soon have a band to be proud of.

Owing to the fact that the District Court is in session this week, and the fact that he is engaged in quite a number of important cases, prevented L. J. Webb, Esq., member from this district, from attending the meeting of the Republican State Central Committee at Topeka last Tuesday.

The following are the Attorneys attending at the District Court: Hon. Wm. P. Hackney, Wellington; Hon. Jas. McDermott, Dexter; C. R. Mitchell, A. J. Pyburn, L. B. Kellogg, Arkansas City; Gen. Rogers, Eureka; M. S. Adams, Wichita; Fairbank, Torrance & Green, L. J. Webb, Manning & Johnson, Judge R. B. Saffold, Lewis T. Michener, Esq., Suits & Wood, D. A. Millington, Winfield.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MARCH 27, 1874.]

A mortgage given by the Paola & Fall River railroad Company, to the Farmer's Loan and Trust Company of New York City was recorded in the recorder's office of this county last Wednesday. The mortgage is for $17,000 per mile for two hundred miles amounting in the aggregate to $3,400,000. This instrument has been recorded in the counties of Miami, Franklin, Anderson, Coffee, Woodson, Greenwood, Butler, Cowley, and Sedgwick.

We would call the attention of our readers to the new law firm of Webb & Millington, formed by the co-partnership of L. J. Webb and D. A. Millington. These gentlemen are too well known in this city to need any recommendation from us, but we will say for the benefit of strangers that they are both energetic businessmen, and can be depended upon.

This morning we called into the clothing house of Requa & Bing and found these gentlemen engaged waiting on the many customers who crowded their room examining their immense stock of goods. Their stock of clothing surpasses anything of the kind ever brought to this county. Their suits range from seven dollars to a hundred, and they keep nothing but the latest syles and best quality. They also have a large stock of Hats and Caps, Trunks and Valises, gents Shirts, fine and coarse, and in fact, everything in the line of a first class gents furnishing

establishment.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MARCH 27, 1874.]

We learn from Dr. Walmsley of Douglas that Columbus Chelse was shot and instantly killed by Ira Slayton last Saturday evening at Douglas, Butler county. It seems that an old grudge existed between the parties, and getting drunk that day, they met, exchanging angry words when each got their guns and Slayton getting the drop on Chelse shot him in the right side, the bullet ranging upwards and making a lodgement in the heart. Slayton was immediately arrested and taken to Eldorado and from there taken to Cottonwood Falls, Chase county, for safe keeping. The unfortunate Chelse leaves a wife and four children to mourn his loss.

At nine o'clock Monday morning, smoke was seen issuing from the roof of A. N. Deming's house; and the cry of fire given. Many persons were close by, some with pails of water, but the majority without. The fire had gained good headway, burning on the under side of the pine shingles and rafters, and was very difficult to get at with water, and but little was accomplished until the arrival of the extinguishers when it was soon subdued. Without the extinguishers, the building in our opinnion would have burned to the ground, and we think the City Council never made a better investment than when they purchased them.

Why isn't some measure taken by our citizens to guard against fire? There is nothing in this city with which to stay the progress of a fire should one get well started. Ladders are scarce and the wells are not very near together and fire with the aid of a good wind could burn the entire town with but little opposition. We hope our people will give this question their consideration and see if something cannot be done in this matter.

[THE CANTATA.]

The cantata of Esther the beautiful Queen, which was rendered at the courthouse last Monday and Tuesday nights, was a splendid affair in every instance, and is universally pronounced to be the best home talent entertainment ever given in Winfield. The adaptability of each player to the particular part assigned them was a noticeable feature, and each performed their part so well that we dare not make "any invidious distinctions."

We cannot however avoid mentioning those who took the more prominent parts. Mrs. M. A. Arnold as Queen, Rev. J. P. Parmelee as King, E. C. Manning as Haman, A. T. Stewart, Mordecai; Mrs.

W. D. Roberts, Zeresh; Miss Kate Johnson and Miss Mary Braidwood as Maids of honor; Charles Black, Harbonah (the King's Chamberlain); Ed. Johnson, Hegei; A. A. Jackson, Hatach; W. L. Mullen, High Priest. They could not be surpassed in any city in the land. Miss Helen Parmelee as organist deserves special mention, as very much depended on her, always prompt, making no mistakes. The chorus was good, and taken as a whole, we venture to say that Winfield will not soon witness the like, and few towns in this country with their home talent could produce so splendid a spectacle. Too much cannot be said in praise of Prof. A. D. Battey, who drilled the class, and superintended the performance to its close.

[DISTRICT COURT PROCEEDINGS: FIRST THREE DAYS.]

FIRST DAY.

State of Kansas vs. J. B. Plumb, Dismissed.

State of Kansas vs. Henry Miles, Plea, Guilty.

State of Kansas vs. Jesse Russell and James Smith, Plead Guilty.

State of Kansas vs. E. R. Parker, $5 and costs.

State of Kansas vs. E. R. Parker, $5 and costs.

State of Kansas vs. Joseph Leroska, fine $5.

Zimri Stubbs vs. Samuel Jay et al, Continued.

J. T. Hooker vs. Emanuel Davis, Settled.

J. C. Smith vs. S. P. Berryman, Continued.

Helwig & Lane vs. A. D. Keath, Dismissed.

C. J. Brane vs. E. Fredrick, Continued.

T. L. Clark vs. A. D. Keath et al, Judgment for Plaintiff.

SECOND DAY.

G. W. Baily et al vs. Frank Cox et al Board of Co. Commissiones, Dismissed.

S. W. Thompson vs. S. P. Reynolds, Judgment by defendant.

Thos Toole vs. W. W. and Maria A. Andrews, Dismissed.

J. C. McMullen vs. W. D. and R. A. Wilson, Judgment by default.

Mary E. Porter vs. John Porter, Divorce granted.

C. M. Wood vs. J. W. Milspaugh, Rec. Continued.

L. Ray Blake vs. Elter Arlet Blake, Dismissed.

Hushfield and Mitchell vs. J. N. Yerger, Judgment for Plaintiff.

THIRD DAY.

State of Kansas ex rel A. L. Williams vs. Board of Co. Com.

Judgment on the rules.

City of Arkanss City vs. Norman Shether. Dismissed at

plaintiff's cost.

Amos Sandord vs. Enoch Marris et al, Continued.

H. M. Holden vs. J. C. Myton et al, Dismissed, plaintiff's cost.

J. A. Wickline vs. J. L. Richie, Judgment by defendant.

[LOCAL NOTICES.]

A, No. 1 Tea for 50 cents per pound at McGuire's in Tisdale.

THE WINFIELD BOOT & SHOE STORE have already received their spring stock being the largest and most complete stock of boots and shoes ever brought to Southern Kansas. They will be sold at prices that cannot fail to please.

500 YARDS OF PRINTS AT 10 CENTS PER YARD at J. B. Lynn & Co., opposite the Lagonda House.

ELLIS & BLACK are almost giving their goods away to make room for their spring goods which will soon arrive.

EVERYBODY COME and get a pound of 60 cent tea at J. B. Lynn & Co.'s new store.

3 lbs. BEST COFFEE AT McQUIRES store at Tisdale for $1.00.

[REQUIREMENTS FOR SELLING SCHOOL DISTRICT BONDS.]

STATE OF KANSAS,

Office of Supt. of Public Instruction,

Topeka, March 14th, 1874.

All parties wishing to sell school district bonds to the Commissioners for the investment of State permanent school fund, must observe and comply with the requirements of the following rules and regulations of the Board.

1st. All bonds offered for sale to the commissioners of the school fund shall be presented to the Superintendent or to the Commissioners whenever together.

2nd. No bonds shall be bought (unless offered direct by the district issuing them) unless accompanied by a written and responsible guarantee that the interest and principal of such bonds shall be promptly paid when due.

3rd. No bonds shall be purchased until the Attorney-General has examined them, and satisfied himself that they are legal in form and substance.

4th. The desirability of any investment shall be determined by a majority of the Commissioners.

5th. The Superintendent shall issue a circular, to be sent to every newspaper in the state, every County Clerk and County Superintendent of Public Instruction, and to every school district stating the price paid for bonds, a copy of these rules, and a request that bonds be sent direct to the Commissioners so as to avoid paying commissions to "middle-men."

6th. No bonds shall be bought unless the certificate accompanying is full, explicit, and filled out in every particular, and in all cases the number of electors in the district, the number signing the petition for an election, and the number voting for and against the issuing of such bonds must be shown.

7th. Until further notice, 90 cents on the dollar will be paid for school district bonds.

8th. These rules shall be recorded, and shall also be published in the Commonwealth, with a request that all papers on the state friendly to the interests of education copy them.

By order of the Board.

H. D. McCARTY,

Supt. of Public Instruction.

[EDITORIAL PAGE.]

One year ago, one, or rather two, of the most disgraceful elections it has ever been our misfortune to witness, was held in this city. Crimination and recrimination, misrepresentation and calumny, was then the order of the day, issues were made that were no issues at all. So far as we were concerned we had, in the multiplicity of candidates, only, what might be termed, a personal preference, we said then, and time has vindicated our assertions, that there could be no significance in that election, any farther than to elect our best citizens to fill the various municipal offices. On the other hand, it was claimed that the settlement of the suit then pending in the supreme court between the citizens and the town company, depended on that election.

It is no part of our object in this article to discuss the merits or demerits of the town site difficulty any farther than to say, in passing, that every sensible man knows by this time, that, that difficulty cuts no figure in our municipal election, nor can it be affected in any manner, no matter who our city fathers may be. Then if the town site question has no bearing, and political faith seems to be out of the question, it is clearly the duty of every good citizen to support and vote for men who will best promote the interests of the town and the welfare of our people. Captain S. C. Smith has been the acting Mayor of the city for almost a year last past, and so far as we know, he has made a good, careful, and efficient officer, guarding well the interests of the town. We are therefore in favor of the election of Mayor Smith, believing that his experience will better enable him to discharge the duties of the office, than any new man, no matter how well qualified.

In the election of the council we, in common with others, have our preference. Although that preference is not of such a character tht we could not support almost anyone of well known honesty and ability. We only ask that the same test be applied to candidates for council that would be demanded in ouur choice for Mayor.

Let us for once, in the history of Winfield, lay aside our petty spites and quarrels, which has a tendency to sour the sweetest temper, and mar the usefullness of the noblest and the best, and unite on men and measures, that will make Winfield what she ought to be--the city of Southern Kansas.

Let us have peace.

[INDIANS.]

The Indians made an attack on a ranch at Scott's Bluffs, Nebraska, Tuesday, killing one man and running off horses. The Sioux at Fort Laramie and the various Sioux agencies are reported very sullen and discontented. It is thought that they mediate immediate hostilities. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail are among those declared unfriendly.

[COMMENTS FROM "A SPECTATOR" RE SCHOOL EXHIBITION.]

[PERSONALS.]

S. M. Fall of Lazette has purchased the right to manufacture one of W. H. Grow's new patent rollers, and can now boast of having the largest and best roller in Windsor township.

Mr. L. B. Paul was in town this week. He purchased twenty pounds of butter at twenty-five cents per pound and shipped it by express to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he says it is worth fifty cents per pound.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, APRIL 3, 1874.]

D. A. Millington, Esq., having been admitted to the Bar of this county as a practicing attorney, has resigned his office of Justice of the Peace, so that there will be two Justices to elect in this township instead of one.

The Congregational social at the residence of D. A. Millington last Wednesday eve was a very enjoyable affair, but on account of the mud, there were not so many out as otherwise would have been. The receipts were about $5.00.

We are glad to learn that work is about to be resumed on the Paola & Fall River Railroad. The gentlemen who have worked this measure up have triumphed over obstacles and discouragements that would have daunted most men. The greater their triumph now if they shall succeed in building the road. Lawrence Journal.

David Parmelee, eldest son of Rev. J. B. Parmelee, while leading a colt to water last Friday evening, received a kick from the playful animal, knocking him senseless and breaking out six of his front teeth and a portion of the lower jaw. The wound was dressed by Dr. Graham, and at last accounts he was getting along as well as could be expected.

A ventriloquist and sleight-of-hand performer gave a show in Hudson's hall last Friday and Saturday evenings. The show was a very poor affair and the proceeds were small, and the performer decamped without interviewing his landlord. The majority of our citizens are not easily duped by such fellows, but once in a while one gets "bit."

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, APRIL 3, 1874.]

Mr. Geriel Wildy of Morgan County, Illinois, has been in the city several days visiting friends and looking up a location. Mr. Wildy has just sold fourteen hundred acres of land at ninety-five dollars per acre. He also disposed of his personal property at public sale and had larger receipts than any sale ever held in that county. Mr. Wildy contemplates locating in Winfield; he thinks this county equals Morgan or any other county in Illinois. We will be pleased to welcome him to our town.

Four papers have been going the rounds of the city this week. One was a petition to the city council to grant Joseph Lekoska license to retail spirituous liquors, another was a petition to the City Council to grant E. R. Parker license to sell spirituous liquor, another was a petition to Judge Campbell to make the sentence of Wm. Bryant as light as possible, and the fourth was to raise by subscription enough money to pay the fine of Al Headrick and liberate him from jail. Every man keeps his lead pencil handy now.

[DISTRICT COURT PROCEEDINGS.]

State of Kansas vs. Thomas Quarles, Recognisance forfeited, alias warrant issued, and bail fixed at $1,000.

Stubbs vs. Jay, Continued.

Spaulding vs. Allison, Compromised.

Ballou vs. Brake, taken under advisement until next term.

Clark vs. Keith, new trial and continued.

Woolsey et al vs. Mowry et al. [NOTHING STATED.]

Haywood vs. Green, Judgement for plaintiff.

Haywood vs. Greer, Judgement for plaintiff.

Fuller vs. Lemmon, Judgment for plaintiff.

Rood vs. Warrensburg, Sale set aside.

Appleton, Noyes & Co., vs. C. C. Stevens, Judgment for plaintiff.

Wright vs. Titus, dismissed at defendant's cost.

Wright vs. Titus, Remanded.

Long Bros. vs. Stevens, Judgment for plaintiff.

S. Tyner vs. Titus, Judgement for plaintiff.

Kiger vs. Kiger, Continued.

Hedley vs. Goff et al, Continued.

Wright vs. Corkins, dismissed by arrangement.

Oliver vs. Hillyer, Judgment for plaintiff.

Riggs vs. Riggs, Judgment for plaintiff.

Johnson et al vs. Fay, dismissed at plaintiff's cost.

Burrman & Co., vs. Yerger, Judgment for plaintiff.

Bartlow vs. School Dist. No. 60, Dismissed at plaintiff's cost.

Corkins vs. Mullen, Dismissed at defendant's cost.

Darnell vs. Tipton, Dismissed at defendant's cost.

Sharp vs. Jenkins, Judgment for plaintiff.

Foughty vs. Moses, Dismissed at defendant's cost.

Hickok vs. Cowley Co., Judgment for plaintiff.

Graham vs. Webb & Bigger, dismissed and cost paid.

Blair Bros. vs. Phenis, Judgment for plaintiff.

Johnston vs. Fay, Plaintiff to give security for cost.

Johnson vs. Crow et al, Judgment for plaintiff.

McGans vs. Phenis, dismissed at plaintiff's cost.

Breton vs. Covert et al, dismissed and cost paid.

Mathews vs. Lobinger, Settled and costs paid.

Phillips vs. Gerard, Dismissed at plaintiff's cost.

Shelly et al vs. Benning, continued, defendant having twenty days to answer and plaintiff ten days to reply.

Felton vs. Stewart, dismissed at plaintiff's cost.

Horneman vs. Tucker, Continued.

Webb vs. Rucker, Judgment for plaintiff and order of sale granted.

Dawson vs. Funk, Continued.

Stanly vs. Stanley, Divorce granted. [? Stanly or Stanley ?]

Saffold vs. Martin, Continued.

Breton vs. Cady, Judgment for plaintiff.

Carver vs. Rause et al, Dismissed.

Babcock vs. Jones, Judgment for plaintiff.

Manly vs. Baily, continued.

Graham vs. Baily, continued.

Manning & Johnston vs. Jordon, Dismissed.

Emerson & Co., vs. Clark, Continued.

Jeffries vs. Read, Referee ordered.

W. Tyner vs. Titus, dismissed at defendant's cost.

Kaylor vs. Veitch, Continued.

State of Kansas vs. Young, Acquitted.

State of Kansas vs. McMasters. Charged with petty larceny. Plea guilty and fined $50 and sentenced to 48 hours in county jail.

State of Kansas vs. McMasters. Charged with grand larceny. On preliminary held in bonds of one thousand dollars to appear at next term of court.

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[POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.]

[MARRIED: RIGBY/TOUSEY - BLISS/HAWKINS - GRIFFIN/GUY.]

RIGBY - TOUSEY. In this city March 31st, by Rev. A. M. Averill, of Emporia, Rev. N. L. Rigby, pastor of the Baptist church in this city, to Mrs. Jennie S. Tousey.

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BLISS - HAWKINS. In this city March 31st, by Rev. A. M. Averill, of Emporia, Mr. E. S. Bliss to Mrs. Mina Hawkins, all of this city.

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GRIFFIN - GUY. On the 25th ult., at the residence of the bride's father, in Beaver Township, by Esq. G. C. Swasey, Mr. Geo. W. Griffin to Miss Mary Guy, all of this county.

[PERSONALS.]

Furgerson & Quarles have their new barn nearly completed.

Dr. Graham has moved into his new office next door to Lynn's store.

We are informed by the County Clerk that the debt of the county amounts to upwards of $28,000.

D. Rodocker has opened up his new picture gallery and is now prepared to do first class work.

The circus has come and gone, and a good many people now wish they had their money back.

With this week ends the publication of the delinquent tax list. We are glad of it, and suppose our readers are also. NOTE: I DID NOT BOTHER PRINTING ANY OF THE LISTS GIVEN IN LAST TWO OR THREE ISSUES.

On Wednesday last we dropped into the store of Ellis & Black, and counted 95 persons, all waiting their turns to purchase goods from the new stock of spring goods. How is that for Winfield?

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, APRIL 10, 1874.]

Through the energy and efficiency of Prof. Wilkinson, Superintendent of Schools, this county has received $469 more money from the state fund, than was received last year. The Prof. has also ferreted out 238 more school children than were reported last year.

A team belonging to Mr. C. B. Cox of this township ran away last Tuesday evening. They crossed the Walnut river, leaving the larger portion of the wagon in the water, and kept steadily on, and at last accounts nothing whatever had been heard of them.

The following are the officers elected in this city last Monday.

Mayor: S. C. Smith.

Police Judge: N. H. Wood.

Councilmen: Samuel Darrah, J. D. Cochran, H. S. Silver,

J. P. McMillen, and R. B. Saffold.

The following are the officers elected in this township last Tuesday.

Trustee: H. S. Silver.

Clerk: E. S. Bedilion.

Treasurer: O. F. Boyle.

Justices of the Peace: N. H. Wood and W. M. Boyer.

Constables: A. T. Shenneman and Burt Covert.

Road Overseers: 1st district, James Renfro; 2nd district, Hiram Silver; 3rd district, Charles Seward; 4th district, C. Cook; 5th district, J. C. Roberts.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, APRIL 10, 1874.]

The gentlemen elected last Monday and Tuesday for city and township officers are, we are satisfied, all good men. Capt. Smith in the past has given evidence of ability, honesty, and efficiency, so much needed in the chief officer of a young and growing city. The council as a whole is a good one and we look for wise counsel in the next twelve months.

Hiram Silver as Trustee we believe to be a judicious selection. He is acquainted with our people and their circumstances, a gentleman of good address and plenty of energy, and nothwithstanding his "cussed" political proclivities, will make a good officer.

E. S. Bedilion, for clerk, we will venture has no equal in Cowley County. O. F. Boyle, for Treasurer, is the right man in the right place. W. M. Boyer has held the office of Justice for some time, and given general satisfaction, and of course will be better qualified by experience to discharge the duties of that office for the next two years.

His colleague, N. H. Wood, elected for the first time, is a young lawyer of good ability, pleasing manners, and we doubt not will make a popular Justice of the Peace as well as Police Magistrate. We bespeak for Judge Wood the charity that should be exercised toward all new beginners.

Thus once more, is our city and township, afloat, in charge of good crews. Let us hope for a safe and prosperous voyage.

[MARRIAGE LICENSES.]

The following is a list of the marriage licenses issued by the Probate Judge for the month of March.

S. Cure to Julia M. Monforte.

J. J. Ellis to Kate Lowry.

Victor Thompson to Ada Fitzsimmons.

J. H. Harris to Catherine White.

T. H. Wagner to Mellie E. Hightower.

D. R. Gross to Eliza E. Mark.

F. M. Osborn to Ester J. Easley.

H. F. Ford to Hattie Hopkins.

Geo. W. Griffin to Mary Guy.

B. S. Godderel to Kate Gordon.

John S. Bryant to Emma Ross.

E. S. Bliss to Mina Hawkins.

N. L. Rigby to Jennie S. Tousey.

[MARRIED: ROBERSON - MENTCH.]

MARRIED. ROBERSON - MENTCH. At the residence of the bride's father on the 5th inst., Mr. N. Roberson to Miss Maggie Mentch, all of this township.

[LOCAL NOTICES.]

Just received: Spring and Summer Styles, which will be sold cheaper than any place in Southern Kansas at the Factory store, one door North of Maris Drug Store.

DON'T FAIL TO CALL AT REQUA & BING'S CLOTHING HOUSE, where they are now receiving their great stock of spring and summer CLOTHING and a splendid assortment of Gent's Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, etc. Their goods are bought at the head of the market--directly from the manufacturers--and of course get them lower than they can be bought of jobbers. They keep first class goods and are selling them at the lowest prices.

[SHERIFF'S SALE: PERSONAL PROPERTY OF M. MILLER.]

[SHERIFF'S SALE: BREWERY CHATTELS, JOHN N. YERGER.]

PLAINTIFFS: Aug Kurtzeborn, M. A. Rozenblatt, Sol Bauman and Meyer Bauman, partners under the firm name of L. Bauman & Co.

DEFENDANT: John N. Yerger.

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that under, and by virtue of an Execution issued on the judgment in the above entitled cause and to me directed and delivered, I will on the 22nd day of April, A. D. 1874, at 2 o'clock p.m., at the brewery of Himelspaugh & Yerger, about one mile west of Winfield, in said county of Cowley, offer at public sale, and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, all the right, title, and interest of the defendant, John N. Yeger, in and to the following described chattels to-wit:

Three (3) large barrels.

One (1) tub.

One (1) mash tub.

Thirty (30) beer kegs.

One (1) force pump and hose.

Said property having been levied upon as the property of said defendant, John N. Yerger.

R. L. WALKER, Sheriff.

Fairbank, Torrance & Green, Attorneys for plaintiffs.

April 10, 1874.

COULD THE BREWERY REFERRED TO BE THE "CAVE BREWERY"????

PLAINTIFFS: Aug Kurtzeborn, M. A. Rozenblatt, Sol Bauman and Meyer Bauman, partners under the firm name of L. Bauman & Co.

DEFENDANT: John N. Yerger.

RECAP: Sheriff selling at the courthouse in Winfield to the highest bidder for cash, all the right, title, and interest of John N. Yerger in and to the following described land situate in said county of Cowley to-wit.

Beginning at a point on the North line of the South half of the South West quarter of section number twenty-nine (29) in township number thirty-two (32) South of Range Four (4) East twelve (12) chains East of the North West corner of said South half of said quarter section, thence South 6" West Four (4) chains, thence North 54" 15' east four (4) chains, thence north 6" East two (2) chains and eighty-two (82) links, thence due West on line three hundred and eighty-two (382) links to the place of beginning, containing land 86-100 acres more or less. The said land having been levied upon as the property of said John N. Yerger.

[EDITORIAL PAGE: LAWSUIT BY GEORGE L. THOMPSON.]

Suit has been commenced in the U. S. Circuit Court of the District of Kansas, by one George L. Thompson, for the recovery of something over $6,000, interest included, for which he holds the warrants of this county. Who Mr. Thompson is, we know not, neither does it matter, for the purpose of this article. The best legal talent concur in the opinion that judgment will be rendered against the county, for the amount claimed, and the costs of the suit.

The COURIER is charged with being in some way the remote cause of the action against the county, because it is alleged that we opposed bonding the debt. Here is what we did say in the COURIER of Feb. 6th, last.

"THE COUNTY DEBT.

We understand, since our arrival at home, that an effort is being made to have Mr. Martin procure the necessary legislation allowing the Board of County Commissioners to fund or rather bond the county indebtedness. We do not believe that the people of Cowley county wish this thing done. Twelve months ago, the circumstances were altogether different. Then we had a Courthouse to build, and many thought it necessary to provide funds for that. But now our county buildings are all complete, we can see no necessity for it. We are very well aware that it would be money in the pockets of a few, for instance, county officials, who have to take most or all their fees in scrip. But we are now hopeful that the tax next year, with care and economy, will clear the county almost, if not altogether, of debt. In the present state of affairs, we would not favor any bill authorizing the Board to bond the debt, without first submitting the question to a vote of the people of the county. And we hope that whatever legislation Mr. Martin secures in that particular will provide that the question be so submitted. We would be glad to hear from our readers on this subject, that we may act understandingly in the matter and take such action as will place the county on the best financial basis, having due regard for those who held the county's 'promises to pay.'"

It will be seen that the main feature of the above article is to submit the proposition to the voters of the county. If the majority of the legal voters think it would be best to bond the debt, they can so express themselves, and then should it turn out to be a bad bargain, they can blame no one but themselves.

But it is useless to argue the point now; no enabling act was passed, and consequently, the Board can take no action in the matter, unless they may proceed under the act of a year ago, and bond $15,000 of the debt, which is all that act will admit. But it is a "leetle" queer that the very argument we made use of last year in favor of bonding the debt, should be used against us this year, by those who opposed the measure, and signed a remonstrance against it last year.

Whatever else the COURIER may be accused of, ambiguity is certainly not one of our failings; we endeavor to make ourselves understood. The COURIER frankly gives its reasons for the faith it held a year ago. Here they are: "Twelve months ago the circumstances were altogether different. Then we had a Courthouse to build, and many thought it necessary to provide funds for that. But now our county buildings are complete, we see no necessity for it." There, gentlemen, are the COURIER's reasons for its seeming opposition to the proposition to bond the county debt. Now, gentlemen, you who signed a remonstrance against it last year and talked, and argued against it, you who denounced those who favored it as being a ring of county officials, to defend the county, what has come over the spirit of your dreams, that you now so ardently advocate what you denounced as a steal last year? Did you oppose it because you hadn't all the scrip you wanted? And favor it now because you have your wallets full of warrants ready to convert into the bonds of the county? Honest, straightforward answers will relieve the public mind wonderfully.

We will have more to say on this subject hereafter.

[INDIANS.]

A correspondent of the Cheyenne Leader states that the United States Indian Peace Commissioners have returned from interviews with the Chiefs, Spotted Tail and Red Cloud, without having accomplished anything. They refused to consent to the removal of the agencies, and Spotted Tail wants his words written down "this time" to the effect that he has been "pestered so much by these flies from the Great Father that he won't talk to them any more."

[ITEMS FROM THE "TRAVELER."]

Ordination and Dedication. The exercises at the liberal church last Sunday were interesting and well attended. Prof. Norton was ordained according to the Congregational order in the forenoon. In the evening, Rev. Mr. Platter conducted the dedication exercises.

Prof. Kellogg gave an interesting history of the origin, nature, and progress of the enterprise, announcing that the church had been built without foreign aid, had but a small debt, and was in a prosperous and hopeful state. Mr. Platter preached a sermon appropriate to the occasion. The church is a neat and tasteful edifice, finely and completely finished, and is in all respects an honor to its founders.

Butler county has but one newspaper, while Cowley and Sumner have three each. There is hardly enough enterprise in that county, outside of Eldorado, to run a saw mill.

Forty-two beds were made at the City Hotel on the night of the circus. This Hotel has been compelled to put on another addition in order to make room for the traveling public. H. O. Meigs is well known as a landlord, and his many friends are glad to hear of his resuming control of this most estimable house.

The city council met at Meigs & Kinne's office last Monday evening, and after being sworn in, appointed R. C. Haywood, City Treasurer, and H. P. Stanley, Clerk. The Council consists of

H. O. Meigs, Mayor; and A. K. Melton, W. S. Packhard, Dr. Sheppard, E. P. Kinne, and I. H. Bonsall, councilmen.

Mrs. G. H. Norton writes from Vicksburg bitter complaints of the weather there; rain and mud all the time. We have about the right latitude and climate. Let us try and make the most of it.

The peach trees are in full bloom this week, and the weather is warm, showery, and beautiful.

Bound to Win. We learn from Senator Ingalls that the "Trail Bill" will become a law, which will not only be of great advantage to the state but make a rush for claims on the border. A project is on foot to have the right of way granted for a railroad through the Indian Territory, which will open the pine forest of Arkansas, and build large commercial cities on the banks of the Arkansas river.

With these and many other projects, the future of Arkansas City is preferable to any young town in Kansas. Both the measures alluded to will not fail, and if more than one is carried through, our prospects are flattering.

What We Claim.

The various cities of Kansas are each in the habit of claiming special merit, and especially in some particular direction. Thus Lawrence is the Fast Horse Centre, Fort Scott the Manufacturing Centre, and Emporia the Gooseberry Centre.

Arkansas City proudly claims pre-eminence in the most important of all human industries. Arkansas City is surely and emphatically the Baby Centre.

We speak according to the facts. There is surely no other portion of Kansas where babies are so numerous, and have such healthy lungs. It never rains but it pours in this country, and the babies come in showers, and warble in unison. It is enough to strike envy into every bachelor's soul to waken at midnight and hear the dulcet notes that resound from every house. The cooing of cats is forgotten; the voice of the nightingale is no more attractive. We lie awake and listen and envy the married men their happiness.

We say to our people, go on! You are doing well. The Centennial comes in '76, and the Census in 1880. We believe that all will render a good account of themselves. We have faith in corn-culture, tree-culture, mental culture, and especially in Stirpiculture.

Meanwhile we want our brethren of the press to distinctly understand that Arkansas City is the Baby Centre of Kansas.

[PERSONALS.]

The Grangers are so close-mouthed that we cannot find out what was done at the meeting of the Council last Saturday.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, APRIL 17, 1874.]

Sheriff Walker is back from Leavenworth, where he has been to take the prisoners sentenced at the last term of the District Court.

At the recent teacher's examination in this place and Arkansas City, 18 applicants were examined: 13 in Winfield and 5 in Arkansas City.

The Paola & Fall River Railroad Company are advertising for 2,500 laborers and 150,000 ties, to complete their road to the east line of Greenwood county.

Scott of the Arkansas City Traveler would have us believe that he stopped at the Mansion House, while in Leavenworth. The idea of a Southern Kansas Editor puting up a a first-class Hotel.

The new stone house of Captain Lowery is now ready for occupancy, and is one of the finest and most complete residences in the county. We would be pleased to see more such residence built this summer.

The editor-in-chief of this paper made the best race for councilman that was made at the late city election. He beat Dr. Mansfield, S. H. Myton, James Kirk, Jones, Williams, Gray, Austin, Jack-of-clubs, and Tom Wright's dog.

Those oranges donated us by George Miller were nice and disappeared lively. George has a lot of candies, lemons, and other good things which he hasn't brought around yet but which we are expecting daily.

I. F. Newland has closed out his restaurant and bakery and opened out a grocery store. He has purchased a large stock of goods at the lowest cash figures and he is prepared to sell the same way. Mr. Newland is a good businessman, gentlemanly and courteous to customers, and those who trade with him can rest secured they will get the worth of their money.

OLD AD [WHICH APPEARED IN THIS EDITION]: NEWLAND'S BAKERY FURNISHES MEALS AT 25 CENTS At all hours of the NIGHT OR DAY. Board by the week, $4.00. KEEPS FLOUR, CANNED FRUITS, AND ALL OTHER STOCKS IN HIS LINE AT LOWEST PRICES.

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NEW AD [APPEARED IN LATER EDITION OF PAPER]: NEWLAND'S CASH STORE. GOODS SOLD 10 PER CENT LOWER THAN THE LOWEST. CALL AND EXAMINE THE STOCK BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE. [GOODS EXCHANGED FOR PRODUCE.] NO ADDRESS GIVEN.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, APRIL 17, 1874.]

Sweet & Lewis, furniture dealers, have dissolved partnership, Mr. Sweet now having entire control of the business, which he will continue at the old stand. The old firm have by their enterprise and industry worked up a flourishing trade, which we are sure will still increase under Mr. Sweet's judicious management. See dissolution notice.

Dissolution Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given that the partnership heretofore existing under the name of Sweet & Lewis, furniture dealers, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts will be settled by J. B. Sweet, who still continues the furniture

business.

J. B. SWEET,

JASON LEWIS.

Winfield, April 14th, 1874.

Capt. E. Davis, who, with his estimable lady, has been sojourning in St. Joseph, Missouri, for the last six months, has returned to town, and gone straight to work beautifying the grounds in and about his elegant stone house. The Captain looks hearty as if life in St. Joe quite agreed with him. We hope he will conclude to make his home with us in the future.

Our prediction about the price of corn, made last January, has been fully verified. We told the farmers then that before the summer, corn would be worth from 50 to 75 cents per bushel. It is worth 60 cents now. Beef has also raised to a good round figure, fat cattle being worth 4 and 5 cents per pound. Surely those of our farmers who have corn or beef to sell, cannot complain of hard times.

Lucius Walton and W. H. Grow, the investigating committee, are still hard at work looking at long lines of figures, receipts, vouchers, etc. They were not prepared to make any report to the county board; consequently, we have nothing new to give our readers in that line. It is a herculean task to go over the records of the county since its first organization, but these men are equal to the emergency, and hang to it with a pertinacity truly commendable.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, APRIL 17, 1874.]

The Board of County Commissioners met last Monday, and forthwith were flooded with bills. We noticed quite a number before the board asking to have their taxes remitted, rescinded, rebated, cut-down, modified, etc. Some blame the assessor, some their neighbors, some the County Clerk, and a few, a very few, acknowledge their ignorance of the law. The board, two of whom only are here, are up to this writing, up to their eyes in business. R. F. Burden and Mr. Roseberry, the two in attendance, have settled down to business manfully, and wear their new honors gracefully. They have our hearty sympathy at this, the beginning of their term. They surely need it.

[MARRIED: KELLY/GROOM - BOWER/STUMP.]

KELLY - GROOM. On Sunday April 12th, at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. Alex Kelly to Miss Alice Groom, all of Richland Township.

This is an instance in which the bride was also a Groom.

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BOWER - STUMP. On Sunday, April 12th, at the residence of the bride's father, by J. M. Barrick, J. P., Mr. Geo. Bower to Miss Maggie A. Stump, all of Rock Township.

The Bower takes the Stump and wins the game; shuffle the cards and make ready for a new deal.

[LOCAL NOTICES.]

MAPLE SYRUP AT NEWLAND'S CASH STORE.

BIDS will be received until Wednesday, April 30th, for the erection of a brick dwelling house in Winfield. The building is to be 26 x 32 with a one-story wing 14 x 14. Plans, specifications, and conditions of contract at Curns & Manser's.

J. E. PLATTER.

[THE "BELLE" OF ARKANSAS CITY.]

The Belle, which our neighbors of Arkansas City have been searching for so long, has at last been found. Her absence was but temporary, just while her breath was shut off by the wax in her throat. Our friends at the mouth of the Walnut will certainly vote our poet a brass medal for his services in discovering the belle who baffled all the Uncle Dudelys in Arkansaw, so long to discover. But we will let him tell the story himself.

Here it is.

He was young, he was fair, and he parted his hair, like the average beau, in the middle; he was proud, he was bold, but the truth must be told, he played like a fiend on the fiddle. Barring his voice, he was everything nice, and his heart was so loving and tender that he always turned pale when he trod on the tail of the cat lying down by the fender. He clerked in _____'s store and the way he tore off calico, jeans, and brown sheeting, would have tickled a calf and make the brute laugh in the face of a quarterly meeting. He cut quite a dash with a darling moustache which he learned to adore and to cherish; for one girl had said, while she dropped her proud head, that 'twould kill her to see the thing perish. On Sunday he'd search for the Liberal Church, unheeding the voice of the scorner, and demurely he sat, like a young tabby cat, with Scott in the amen corner. He sang like a bird and his sweet voice was heard fairly tugging away at long meter; and we speak but the truth when we say that this young man could outsing a hungry mosquito.

She was young, she was fair, and she scrambled her hair as became the belle of the City; she was proud, but not bold, yet the truth must be told, the way she chewed wax was a pity. Barring this vice, she was everything nice, and the surveyors admired her bustle, and the Thomasville boys, being calmed by the noise, walked miles to hear it rustle. She cut quite a swell, did this Arkansaw belle, and men flocked in crowds to meet her; but she gave them the shirk, for she loved the young clerk, who sang like a hungry mosquito. So she hummed and she hawed, and she sighed and she "chawed," till her heart and her jaws were broken; then she walked by his store, while he stood at the door awaiting some love token. She raised up her eyes with a mock surprise, and tried to enact the scorner; but to tell the truth, she grinned at the clerk who loved the amen corner.

* * * They met, alas! What came to pass was soft and sweet and precious: they wooed, they cooed; he talked, she chewed--O, how they loved, good gracious! They had to part, he rose to start; her grief cannot be painted; these are the facts. She swallowed her wax, then screamed, then choked, then fainted. Her pa appeared. Her beaux, quite scared, rushed out to get some water. The watch dog spied his tender hide, and bit him where he'd "oughn'ter." The tale is sad, the sequel stern--so thinks the youth thus bitten. He sings no more, as oft of yore: he gave that girl the mitten.

She pined apace; her slender face looked slender and

dejected; her father kind, but somewhat blind, beheld her, and reflected. His income tax he spent for wax--she smiled and called him clever. She went to work, forgot that clerk, and now chews more than ever.

[EDITORIAL PAGE: THE OTHER SIDE.]

The editor of the Telegram is howling at the COURIER, charging it with having so much influence with the granges of Cowley county, and Representative Martin, as to prevent the bonding of the county indebtedness. Among other idiotic statements he asserts that it would take a direct tax of, from seven to ten, percent to pay the county indebtedness, which he asserts is $28,000. This modern Euclid don't know that a tax of one and one-half percent upon the taxable property of the county would raise $30,000. The valuation of the property of the county last year was $1,260,963.33-1/2. There were entred, prior to March 1st, 1873, 1,240 tracts of land, which were taxable last year; since which time, there has been entered and placed on the county clerk's books 722 other tracts. Now, it is safe to estimate that the value of all property will have risen in the same proportion, or seven-twelfths more property for the purposes of taxation, then last year. This would give us a total valuation of $1,902,823. Then, including what mortgages can be taxed, and we have an aggregate in round numbers of $2,000,000. Then on a valuation of $2,000,000, a levy of one and one-half (1-1/2) percent, instead of 7 or 10, as the Telegram has it, would wipe out the debt. Pick your flint and try it again, brother Allison, or come over and take lessons in Arithmetic of our devil. But we do not propose to make any extra levy this year, to pay off the entire debt. If we can pay one-half this year, and the remaining half, next, we can do so, and scarcely feel it.

We were not aware that the COURIER had so much influence with Mr. Martin, last winter, as to deter that gentleman from putting an enabling act through the Legislature. Had we then but known, the COURIER's most potent influence, we would have certainly used it to prevent the passage of some of the outrageous measures that were enacted last winter. And, perhaps, had we been employed by certain scrip holders to go and stay in Topeka all winter, to run the Representative from Cowley, and see that he put a bond bill through, and then failed, after all our peculiar efforts, we might howl too.

THERE WERE TWO LENGTHY ARTICLES IN THE APRIL 24TH ISSUE RE THE MATTER OF COUNTY PRINTING...DUE TO STUPIDITY ON THE PART OF THE COUNTY BOARD, ALLISON ENDED UP WITH THE PRINTING FOR THE ENSUING YEAR.

[THE INDIAN TERRITORY.]

No sensible Kansan wishes to see the Territory, just south of us, opened up, not because it is a better country than this for it is not. But because people would make a rush down there all the same, leave pleasant homes here, and although at the end of the year they would find themselves willing to come back, the mischief would be complete. No, gentlemen, none but the politicians about Washington and the hangers-on and loafers about our own towns wish to see the Territory open for settlement.

[OTHER ITEMS.]

Chetopa, Kansas, is moving to a new town site to avoid paying a bonded indebtedness of $300,000.

It would seem that New Mexico stands a fair chance of being admitted as a state into the Union. The Senate committee on Territories has come to the conclusion to report a bill to this effect.

Livingstone's funeral is represented as having been the greatest and most imposing ceremony of the kind during the present generation. Stanley occupied the post of honor, heading the right-hand side of the line of pall bearers.

Col. Boudinot, the Cherokee, who is now lecturing in Connecticut, was once a student in a school for Indians at Cornwall, in that state, but the institution was broken up because Boudinot and another Indian married white girls of Cornwall, and the people got very mad about it.

A special dispatch from Kearney, Mo., of April 18th, gives particulars of the killing of another detective by one of the notorious James Brothers. The victim was found dead and covered with blood on the road, four miles east of Elkhorn, Ray county. A card crossed with blood was pinned to his coat, and inscribed, "This shall be the fate of all Pinkerton's detectives who come to hunt the James Brothers." Signed, Jesse James, Frank James. A handkerchief in the murdered man's pocket was marked "P. K. Cole."

[CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.]

On motion, S. Darrah was duly elected as President of the Council for the ensuing year. H. S. Silver, S. Darrah, and R. B. Saffold were appointed a standing committee on finance for the ensuing year. S. Darrah, J. D. Cochran, and J. P. McMillen were appointed a standing committee on streets and sidewalks.

The bill of A. J. Jones for services as policeman one day and one night, $3.00, was audited, allowed, and ordered paid. Bill of Burt Covert, $12.25, for boarding prisoners was referred to the finance committee. Fee bill "City of Winfield vs. Adolphus H. Green" of $36.40, was referred to the finance

committee.

The sealed proposals for the City Printing were opened and rejected. The clerk was authorized to ask for new bids.

On motion, the Clerk was authorized to advertise for bids to build sidewalks along 9th and 10th avenues, where they have not been built as required by ordinance.

The time fixed for the regular meeting of the City Council was the first and third Mondays of each month.

On motion adjourned to meet Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock a.m.

J. W. CURNS, Clerk.

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City Council Proceedings.

Council met in pursuance of adjournment April 22nd, at 9 a.m. Present: Mayor Smith, and councilmen Cochran, Silver, Darrah, and Saffold. The Clerk being absent, R. B. Saffold was chosen as Clerk pro tem.

The bids for the City printing for the ensuing year were then opened and read, and the contract awarded to James Kelly, editor of the Winfield COURIER, he being the lowest bidder.

On motion a committee of three were appointed, consisting of McMillen, Cochran, and Silver, to provide a "pound" for the city and have the same enclosed. On motion, adjourned.

R. B. SAFFOLD, Clerk, pro tem.

[SEALED PROPOSALS FOR SIDEWALKS IN WINFIELD.]

Sidewalks to be along lots 12, 13, 14, and 18 in block 128; along lots 1, 19, and 7 feet along lot 20; 7 feetalong lot 21 and along lot 22, all in block 129; along lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, in block 149; along lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, in block 169 on 9th avenue. Also along lots 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 in block 149; along lot 1, block 130; along lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, in block 150; along lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, in block 170, on Tenth avenue in the city of Winfield.

Sidewalks to be constructed as follows: To be built four feet in width, the outer edges of which shall extend out five feet from the front of the lots along said blocks; to be built of hard wood or pine lumber one inch in thickness, well nailed to three stringers of hard wood or pine lumber, said stringers to be 2 x 6 (said walk may be constructed of stone) to be placed on the established street grade.

Bidders are required to state the amount for which they will contract each walk separately, and where parts of walks are required to be built to state the amount per front foot thereof.

J. W. CURNS, City Clerk.

[PERSONALS.]

J. G. Titus has sold out his butcher shop.

WOW! DID NOT CATCH THAT THEY GOT COUNTY PRINTING...ALL I SAW WAS A NOTICE THAT COUNTY WAS TAKING SEALED PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING...GIVING IT TO LOWEST RESPONSIBLE BIDDER!

KELLY MUST HAVE GOT TO THEM WITH HIS COLUMNS!

Rev. I. A. Koons will preach at Pleasant View School house Sunday the 26th inst. at 3 o'clock p.m. Pleasant View is only three miles east of Winfield on the Tisdale road. Just a pleasant ride, and all who come will be welcome.

The judges and clerks of the late township elections cost the county about four hundred dollars, to which add the cost of publication and posting of proclamations, and other incidental expenses, and it will be found that the total cost of holding an election in this county is over five hundred dollars.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, APRIL 24, 1874.]

In another column will be found the advertisement of Leon Lippman's saw and grist mill, situated upon the Grouse creek in this county. He has any quantity of lumber which he offers cheap. His mill is in good running order and grists will be ground on short notice. Mr. Lippman is a reliable businessman, and one who can be depended upon.

AD: SAW AND GRIST MILL! GOOD LUMBER AT FAIR PRICES AT

L. LIPPMAN'S MILL, ON GROUSE CREEK. All bills filed

promptly and any kind of good stock taken at market price.

PRICE OF LUMBER. Soft lumber $21.50 per thousand, when taken

by the thousand.

Oak $2.25 under 14 feet.

Walnut $2.75 to $3.50

GRISTS ground at any time and good meal insured.

We wish to call the attention of our readers to the fact that the county printing, which Allison, of the Telegram, says is worth $1,500 a year is actually worth less than $500 all told. A table which we are preparing, and which we hope to have ready for publication next week, shows just what the county has paid out for printing both at home and abroad for the past twelve months.

A. H. Barnard of Belle Plain, and James F. Hall of Wichita, have formed a co-partnership and rented the Hudson House in this city. They are both gentlemen of experience in the Hotel business, and will make the Hudson House one of the best in the city. We are always glad to welcome such men to our midst.

A little misunderstanding arose one day last week between Mr. S. Jones, of Arkansas City, and D. F. Best, of Winfield, with reference to money matters. From words the disputants proceeded to blows, and after a short but lively scrabble, Mr. Jones succeeded in placing Best in a position unfavorable for the well being of his optics, when the latter yelled "enough," and was let up glad enough to come out second Best. Traveler.

Arkansas City poets have been spending their time, and puzzling what little brains they have, for some time, over the "Belle" of that rural seaport, and have not as yet come to any definite understanding as to whom the term will apply. Now we think we have solved the problem and if our readers will turn to the first page of this paper, they will read a full account of the proceedings that brought the matter to our notice.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, APRIL 24, 1874.]

Rev. P. B. Lee of Duncan, Illinois, is now here visiting his uncle, Rev. J. B. Parmelee, and spying out this goodly land of ours. Mr. Lee represents some twenty families in Illinois, who are preparing to immigrate to Cowley, provided he brings them a good report. He has bought one quarter section a few miles above Winfield on the Walnut river. This is one more instance of the value of the COURIER's judicious advertising. Mr. Lee is perfectly satisfied with the country and we may expect a large immigration, through his representations, to our county this

summer.

J. M. Johnson, living on the Nenescah near Belle Plain, Sumner County, brought to this city a lot of the finest sweet potatoes we have ever seen. They were in a perfect state of preservation, which is something remarkable even in this latitude. He sold them to McMillen & Shields at $3.75 per bushel. Mr. Johnson raised some 300 bushels, put them in a cave, or "dugout," where he maintained a temperature, by means of a stove, from 40 degrees to 60 degrees Farenheit. Would it not be well for some of our farmers who are in a hurry to get rich to try Mr. Johnson's plan? He says that he intends to raise a thousand bushels the coming season. Success to him.

Nearly every letter received here from other states in regard to this country, speaks of having read the description of Cowley County in the COURIER. Just so; the COURIER is by far the best advertising medium in this part of the state. It is read every week in nearly every state in the Union. It is read in England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and France, that we knw of, and to how many other parts of the world it be sent by others, we don't of course know. Everybody should subscribe for it and send it to their friends in the east. It will give them a much better idea of the country than any letter they may write.

Mr. S. H. Myton met with a somewhat serious accident last Sunday evening. He had been for some time apprehensive that burglars were trying to break into his store. On that particular night he was aroused by a noise as of someone trying to raise the window. He got out of bed, and taking a loaded rifle, rested it upon a stove, the muzzle pointed toward the said window to await developments. While awaiting the supposed thief, he fell asleep and by some mismanagement pulled the trigger and the gun went off at the same time bursting the barrel to pieces scattering Sam around in all directions, burning his face and completely closing one of his eyes. NEXT LINE IMPOSSIBLE TO READ. swelling, all right. We hope that Sam will be more careful in future, and buy himself a good gun.

[COMMISSIONER'S PROCEEDINGS: APRIL 16, 1874.]

COWLEY CLERK'S OFFICE,

Cowley County, Kan., April 16th, 1874.

The following is a list of bills allowed by the Board of County Commissioners at their last regular meeting, showing the amount to whom allowed, and for what purpose.

Judge of Election:

U. H. Demot $4.50; John Liston, $2.00; R. I. Theaker, $2.00; T. H. Morris, $2.00; Warren Wood, $2.00; W. A. Freeman, $3.90; D. M. Patton, $6.00; J. H. Patton, $2.00; J. Q. Searle, $2.00; Tim. McIntire, $2.00; D. Thompson, $4.50; A. J. Pyburn, $2.00; T. R. Bryan, $2.00; D. A. Merideth, $5.00; G. L. Burdett, $2.00; John Mosier, $2.00; C. Sprague, $2.00; J. H. Pricket, $5.70; A. Weatherhead, $2.00; Wm. Adkinson, $2.00; Adam Walck, $5.00; A. McKinley, $2.00; Isaac Onstott, $2.00; P. J. Copple, $4.00; R. S. Strother, $5.00; W. M. Gillard, $2.00; Wm. Jenkins, $2.00; Thos. Shaver, $7.00; A. A. Mills, $2.00; T. L. Thompson, $2.00; John Boon, $7.00; F. M. Ross, $2.00; J. J. Smith, $2.00; T. H. Henderson, $2.00; H. H. Constant, $3.60; M. L. Devore, $2.00; Robert Thursk, $2.00; H. L. Busher, $4.80; S. B. Johnson, $2.00;

J. W. Miller, $2.00; N. J. Larkin [? Latkin ?], $4.30; S. D.

Groom, $2.00; Wm. White, $4.40; G. H. Williams, $2.00; J. M. Barrick, $2.00; A. P. Brroks, $4.80; S. F. Draper, $2.00; T. P. Carter, $2.00; W. Ketcham, $2.00; M. B. Hennon, $5.80; I. How, $2.00; B. A. Davis, $5.00; J. N. Fleharty, $2.00; W. M. Butterfield, $2.00; J. B. Smith, $4.20; C. D. Willeston, $2.00; D. Terrill, $2.00; G. W. Foughty, $3.80; J. G. Young, $2.00;

J. M. Marks, $2.00; G. C. Swasey, $3.90; T. A. Blanchard, $2.00; D. B. Ware, $2.00; M. Hemmenway, $2.00; H. D. Gans, $2.00; H. D. Wilkins, $5.00; J. D. Cochran, $2.00; W. Williams, $2.00; J. P. Short, $3.00.

Clerk of Election: EACH ONE WAS PAID $2.00.

Isaac Shuster, W. M. Wilson, Geo. Wright, L. P. King, J. W. Blair, J. W. Ledlie, G. H. McIntire, S. W. Emmerson, Jesse Hines, Jas. McDermott, _____ Horneman, _____ Walbert, A. J. Walck, Samuel Adams, D. A. Byers, L. Goodrich, C. B. Hall, Wm. Stalp, Alvin Barris, John Stockdale, C. R. Miles, T. H. Aley, Samuel Watt, L. Holcomb, S. J. Holebrit, Peter Hansen, H. H. Hooker, J. N. Groom, C. M. Stowe, [CANNOT READ NEXT NAME AT ALL], M. Brooks, S. M. Jarvis, W. Estes, J. B. Waggoner, [CANNOT READ NEXT NAME], J. C. Felton, J. W. Hamilton, W. H. Clay, S. S. Moore, Ed Millard, D. H. Worden, Chas. McClung, A. J. Pickering, J. B. Todd, C. M. Wood, John Swain.

Other bills:

W. M. Boyer, Stationery: $3.85

E. P. Hickok, Co. Supt.: $12.00

James Kelly, District Clerk: $2.90

John Swain, Carpentering: $18.00

R. L. Walker, Sheriff: $79.60

J. W. Johnson, Repairing table: $3.50

J. W. Tull, guarding prisoner: $11.80

C. Brintzenhoffer [?], guarding prisoner: $3.00

Isaac Kaylor, guarding prisoner: $1.00

Fred Ward, guarding prisoner: $2.00

R. Fitzgerald, guarding prisoner: $3.00

W. Fritch, gurding prisoner: $2.00

G. M. Rouse, guarding prisoner: $1.00

Elmer Kinney, guarding prisoner: $1.00

J. L. M. Hill, Deputy Sheriff: $1.50

Burt Covert, Jailor: $36.00

Burt Covert, Jailor: $104.88

Jurors:

W. A. Wood: $24.00

J. W. Tull: $26.60

G. W. Gardenhire: $16.60

J. H. Kinney: $22.80

C. A. McClung: $22.60

Witnesses:

Joseph Requa, $4.50; G. W. Ballou, $8.50; Geo. Walker, $4.50; R. L. Walker, $4.50; John Seis, $2.50; Wm. Fritch, $6.10; H. D. Gans, $6.10; T. J. Jones, $1.50; W. E. Doud, $4.00; Barney Shriver, $4.50; Thomas Lawson, $4.50; James Parker, $1.00; Nepolen [? Napoleon ?] Bryant, $4.50; Harrison Barton, $3.50; W. M. Boyer, $6.35; C. S. Smith, $2.30.

W. M. Boyer, Justice of the Peace: $10.75

R. L. Walker, Sheriff: $30.25

J. L. M. Hill, Constable: $9.65

M. G. Troup, for land abstract: $72.95

J. G. Titus, meat: $3.80

W. M. Boyer, Justice of the Peace: $7.50

Burt Covert, Constable: $55.60

Burt Cover, witness: $.50

R. B. Saffold, witness: $.50

M. G. Troup, Co. Clerk: $90.15

W. M. Boyer, Justice of the Peace: $5.75

R. L. Walker, Sheriff, paid as follows: $2.25; $14.25; $56.00; $2.00; $32.00; $73.50; $3.55; $4.15; $2.25.

Geo. L. Walker, Bailiff: $22.00

J. L. M. Hill, Bailiff: $18.00

T. A. Blanchard, Bailiff: $8.00

Burt Covert, Jailor: $17.77; $52.44; $8.00; $6.75.

Gophers:

Stephen Mann, $1.70; T. W. Morris, $3.50; A. J. Burrell, $3.00; A. C. Holland, $4.60.

James Kelly, District Clerk: $12.00; $2.00.

Witnesses:

Burt Covert, $4.50; S. Tarrant, $3.00; H. S. Silver, $3.00; James Kirk, $3.00; A. A. Jackson, $7.50; Arthur Hane, $4.50; C. W. Jones, $5.70; C. Mayes, $7.70; J. E. Mayes, $7.70; Robert Bailey, $7.50; Geo. Mayes, $7.70; T. H. Suits, $1.50; T. H. Johnson, $6.90.

Jurors:

H. S. Millard, $25.00; F. Brown, $93.80; W. H. Brown, $24.80;

D. A. Cawlfield, $22.00; C. M. Sloan, $24.20; Benj. S. Turner, $24.40; H. C. Loomis, $22.00; Wm. Burkey, $24.80; S. C. Wood, $24.80; Wm. Fowler, $24.80; J. H. Penix, $22.00; J. E. Davis, $4.60; J. R. Davis, $4.60; W. R. Land, $4.40; S. M. Jarvis, $6.80; J. L. King, $4.80.

Timothy McIntire, Justice of the Peace: $3.70.

G. H. McIntire, Constable: $12.50

J. L. M. Hill, Deputy Sheriff: $2.00; $10.00.

A. T. Sheneman, Agent: $136.65

John M. Young, Jailor: $21.33

W. M. Boyer, Justice of the Peace: $2.20; $9.00.

D. C. Cram, Medical Service: $8.00

Braden & Burford, Stationery: $50.90

George W. Crane: $83.85; $45.00; $9.80; $190.50.

James Kelly, Printing: $35.00; $12.50; $7.90; $2.25; $6.25; $6.75.

C. M. Scott, Printing: $18.10

H. B. Norton, Examiner: $6.00

M. S. Roseberry, Commissioner: $30.00

R. F. Burden, Commissioner: $40.05

Lucius Walton, Investigating Committee: $60.00

W. H. Grow, Investigating Committee: $60.00

Witnesses:

A. Wood, $1.50; B. Wood, $1.50.

Sweet & lewis, Chairs: $5.50

Chas. Brush, Road Damage: $10.00

T. McIntire. J. P.: $4.40

G. H. McIntire, Constable: $11.80

A. M. Patterson: $.50

S. Tarrant, Board: $6.50

Margaret Winner, Washing: $4.50

E. D. Eddy, Medicine: $12.30

J. W. Johnson, coffin: $8.00

J. T. Stewart, sawing wood: $38.00

Hitchcock & Boyle, goods: $6.25; $12.50; $6.25; $32.50.

Wirt Walton, Co. Surveyor: $70.33; $73.45; $4.00.

J. P. Fairbank, examiner: $27.00

T. A. Wilkinson: $308.00

E. S. Bedilion, book rest: $1.50

James Kelly, District Clerk: $2.00; $9.30

E. S. Torrance, County Attorney: $250.00

Witnesses:

G. H. McIntire, $9.50; W. M. Boyer, $3.00; Ben Townsend, $3.30; Burt Covert, $1.50; T. A. Suits, $3.00.

J. W. Johnson, furniture: $7.50

Sweet & Lewis: $7.50

Robert Robinson, digging grave: $2.00

M. G. Troup, Co. Clerk: $135.20; $108.60.

T. A. Rice, Carpenter: $10.90; $7.10.

C. M. Wood, wood: $43.50

Samuel Kuntz, pauper: $29.50

S. H. Myton, wood, etc.: $50.86

G. Black, medical service: $25.00

R. L. Walker, lantern: $1.75

T. McIntire, J. P.: $5.25

G. H. McIntire, Constable: $6.80

W. Parker, witness: $1.30

E. Parker, witness: $1.30

TOTAL AMOUNT ALLOWED: $3.997.05

I, M. G. Troup, County Clerk in and for Cowley county, Kansas, do hereby certify that the above is a true statement of all the claims against Cowley County at the last regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners.

Witness my hand and official seal this 20th day of April, A. D. 1874.

M. G. TROUP, Co. Clerk.

[LOCAL NOTICES.]

McMILLEN & SHIELDS will not be undersold.

W. H. SOUTH, at Maris' old stand, offers at auction for the next 30 days his entire stock of dry goods, notions, queensware, glassware, etc. Mr. South means just what he says. Anyone wishing to buy anything in his line can buy very cheap for cash.

9 POUNDS of SUGAR for $1.00 at Newland's Cash Store.

[AD: H. C. LEEDY.]

H. C. LEEDY. Successor to Davis & Cawlfield. BUTCHER and dealer in HIDES. HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR BEEVES. He also has a large stock of FLOUR & POTATOES KEPT CONSTANTLY ON HAND. TERMS STRICTLY CASH. SHOP ON MAIN STREET, WINFIELD, KANSAS.

[EDITORIAL PAGE: WHERE SOME OF THE MONEY GOES TO.]

As we promised our readers last week, we now lay before them a statement of the cost of Stationery, Printing, etc., since the 1st day of January, 1873. This includes books that have ben ordered for the County Clerk and Treasurer's offices, and probably some others.

R. S. Wadell & Co. $125.12

W. M. Allison 76.08

C. M. Scott 295.00

James Kelly $238.81

Total: $740.01

Brayden & Burford, Indianapolis, Ind. $ 77.65

Dodsworth & Co., Leavenworth, Kansas 594.40

Crane & Byron, Topeka, Kansas 1,013.90

Total: $1,688.95

It must now be borne in mind that included in the county printing is the item $229.25, for advertising the delinquent tax list, every dollar of which the county gets back. Several other items included in the printer's bill which the county does not lose, as, for instance, in the case of rejected road petitions, etc., where the principal petitioner has the cost to pay.

We are inclined to take the most liberal view of the amount that went out of the county in that time and allow two thirds of the amount for books, legal cap, ink, pens, pencils, etc., which could not be had here, and that leaves us the sum of $562.98-1/2 that should have been paid to some printer in Cowley county. Now, we do not mean to say that the above sum has been thrown away, by no means; but on the other hand we suppose the county has got value received for its money. But, we do say that the work can be done in Cowley county just as well and for the same price. Then, why not have it done here? Echo, please answer. As we said last week, no agency in a county does so much to settle up that county as its newspapers. Then why not give them all the encouragement possible and the crumbs which will fall from the county table, anyway? We hope that those who have charge of county affairs, will, in the future, look at the subject in a higher, broader sense than they have heretofore.

[FUN IN THE POST OFFICE: DEXTER, KANSAS.]

The Postmaster, at Dexter, sometime ago received a postal card addressed to the "Dexter Base Ball Club," and containing a challenge to play. After vainly endeavoring to deliver it, he returned it to the writer with the following excuse.

POST OFFICE, DEXTER, KANSAS, April 27, 1874.

FARMERS' BASE BALL CLUB: Cedarvale, Kansas.

Gentlemen: I return to you the enclosed card, which was received here several days ago; and when you shall have received it, I may reasonably hope to be happy again. I have been reluctantly forced to the conclusion, that there must be a marked difference between the farmers who compose your club and the specimens of that genius [? genus ?] who flourished in this immediate vicinity.

Here, they are men of kind hearts and charitable dispositions, and could never be guilty of that refinement of cruelty which you have exhibited toward the humble individual who represents the majesty and power of the great Republic, at this place, and who, four times a week regularly distributes to the hungry farmers, their rations of intelligence, both through the medium of the public press, and especially correspondence, to each his proper proportion in due season, and all for the paltry sum of $140 per annum.

I have been in this position a sufficient length of time to enable me to distribute nearly every kind of matter with a reasonable degree of certainty; but this card has brought me up standing. Sleeping or waking, at all times and under all circumstances, whether engaged in the multitudinous duties of my office, or attempting to recuperate this frail body of mine, by partaking of a small portion of generous food, this card rises like a spectre before my mind, demanding that it be delivered according to the letter and spirit of the laws and regulations which have emanated from that autocrat of the Postoffice Department, he of the many initials, J. A. J. Creswell, and whose bold signature adorns my commission.

Visions of postal cards and base ball clubs have hopelessly mixed and confused in my dreams until I have literally Bawled in my agony, and have come to think that I have reached the lowest depths of Base ness. What shall I do with it? is the all absorbing question. This I have prayerfully and tearfully considered, seeking only for light to enable me to do equal and exact justice in this matter, as I know my duty to be under the 15th Amendment to our great Magnacharter. I have suffered agonies over it, until I have convinced my friends that I would soon compel them to send me to Ossawatomie, where the power of the great State of Kansas, with its broad prairies, its crystal springs, and babbling brooks, might be able to exorcise this fell spirit, whose presence has destroyed my peace of mind and nearly unsettled my reason. I have made herculean efforts to deliver this card according to the intent of its superscription, but have lamentably failed. I delivered it to the village blacksmith, but he would have none of it; I sent it to the proprietor of our rival store, but he viewed it as an insult, and I rejoice that my head has not been broken; I gave it to the school ma'am, but she declared that the bawls she had to submit to daily, now, were sufficient without being affected with the farmers of Cedarvale, whose lungs she had reason to believe, was none of the weakest, but if they should intrude their presence upon her, she would score them one; I gave it to our limb of the law, but he said, that, while he had been in practice for a number of years, and believed he was making considerable progress, on the downward road, he never would admit that he was base enough to bawl in unison with the common tillers of the soil, the horny, handed sons of toil, therefore he declined it, but suggested that it might be intended for some of the grangers.

Catching at this last idea, I gave it to the Master of our Grange, who is also a Justice of the Peace, but he said they had evidently mistaken their man; he was familiar with nothing connected with the business except the home run; he would therefore bid me good day; I gave it to our shoemaker, but he, being deaf and dumb, said nothing. I gave it to our doctor, who, after examining the address long and attentively, readily remarked: "I have never objected to being called a billiard cue, but a base ball club--it's too bad--" and he burst into tears.

I gave it to our Minister of the Gospel, who told me to search diligently for the "Dexter Base Ball Club," and when I found it, to let him know, and if it could be used for the purpose of beating a little sense and charity into the heads of the farmers of Cedarvale, he would be happy to receive it in part payment of his next quarterly dues, and he, being a man equal to 240 pounds avoirdupois, is well calculated to use it. I think I will accept his offer. The law forbids me to advertise the card in the usual way, but on my own account, I have made great efforts to find the person or thing ffor which or whom that card was intended. Diligent search has been made in and about this place, but without success so far. Mounted carriers have been sent in every direction, southeast, some west, some north, and some south, even to the uttermost limits of our delivery, with strict instructions to find that Club, and not to return without tidings, under pain of having the card forced upon them. Their success was not encouraging. One party brought a stone from the Flint Hills, somewhat resembling a club; one brought a stick of strong wood, from the home of the Kaw, evidently a ball club, but not base enough to fill the bill; one brought a saw log from the mill on upper Grouse, while those from the west brought only the last lingering rays of the setting sun.

I would have advertised it in the county papers, but I feared my mind would not bear the strain long enough for them to get their paper out. You will see from these few lines that I have done my duty according to the light I have, honestly and fearlessly, albeit tremblingly, and in the earnest hope that no other poor devil of a bloated office holder may be afflicted as I have been. I subscribe myself

POSTMASTER.

[PERSONALS.]

The Hudson House, under the management of its new proprietors, Hall & Barnard, and under the name of the Valley House, will be opened by a grand ball upon the 19th of this month.

Captain Davis has bought Cal. Quarles interest in the new Livery Stable and has settled down once more to his old business. The Captain is an old hand at the business, and a good one.

On account of the scarcity of feed in this county, Messrs. Cochran, Land, and Graham have driven their cattle up to the central part of the state where they will keep them until grass gets bigger.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MAY 1, 1874.]

The case of C. P. Spaulding, of Tisdale, before the U. S. District Court at Topeka, for selling liquor and tobacco without a government license, was tried last Tuesday, but the jury failing to agree, the case still hangs. The jury stood eleven for conviction and one for acquittal.

LOST. On the street between Judge Saffold's office, and the office of Manning & Johnson, a leather pocket-book containing about $40.00. The loser, Mrs. S. M. Morgan, is a poor woman little able to lose it, and the finder will confer a great favor by leaving it at either of the above named places, or at this

office.

Mrs. E. F. Kennedy has purchased an interest in the millinery and dress-making establishment of Mrs. A. H. Gibson. They have had their room refitted and repainted and now have as fine a store as can be found anywhere. They already have a fine stock of goods to which they are making additions daily.

We have often admired the pluck and energy of the real estate firm of Curns & Manser. Ever ready to oblige their customers; sparing neither pains nor expense to show new comers the country, and above all, they fully understand the use of printers ink as the columns of the COURIER will plainly indicate. We would advise any and everybody to give them a call, when anything is needed in their line.

The following is a list of the teachers who obtained certificates at the late examination held in Winfield and Tisdale. Mr. E. A. Millard and Miss Carrie Morris deserve special notice as having the best evidence of good scholarship of any of the applicants.

2nd Grade: T. M. James, J. T. Tucker, Porter Wilson,

T. W. Gillard.

3rd Grade: Miss E. Burden, Miss J. Hawkins, Miss Belle Dudley, Miss Libbie West, Mrs. M. A. Tucker, Miss Ettie Fowler, Miss M. Hawkins, Miss G. L. Davis, Miss M. A. Tucker.

Ye Editor went to Arkansas City last Monday. Here is what he says. "In company with W. M. Boyer, Esq., we borrowed one of Darrah & Doty's splendid rigs and went on a flying trip to Arkansas City. Of course, we called on C. M. Scott of the Traveler, and found that gentleman in one of the finest furnished offices we have seen anywhere; we concluded that C. M. was making money, and that his patrons were that kind of men that make a city.

The Traveler is a good paper and well sustained. The businessmen of that town know the worth of a good newspaper and use its columns to some purpose. We met several old friends, but our time was too limited to look around much. Arkansas City can boast of one of the finest school buildings in the state, and it would be well for us to imitate her example in this respect. Prof. E. W. Hulse from the state university of Wisconsin has just arrived to take charge of it, and we learn from Prof. T. A. Wilkinson, who brought him here, that Mr. Hulse is in every way well qualified for the position.

[NEW DISCOVERY: LEAD IN COWLEY COUNTY.]

Lead in Cowley County.

T. A. Blanchard, Esq., has left in our office a specimen of lead ore which he found on his farm north of town. It is as large as a hen's egg, and contains about 75 percent pure lead. Mr. Blanchard has found several "chunks" of this quartz in the last few weeks, and is quite sanguine that there is plenty of the mineral there, enough at least to warrant him in making a thorough examination. We have no doubt but it exists in paying quantities. What with coal, salt, lead, etc., Cowley County is blessed far beyond the most of her sister counties. Mr. Blanchard has already taken steps to satisfy himself on the subject, and will let us know in a short time the rsult of his "prospecting," when we will give it to our readers.

[RAILROAD NEWS.]

[MARRIAGE LICENSES.]

Henry Coryell to Amy K. Parker.

Nathan Robinson to Margaret E. Mentch.

Alexander Kelly to Peoria A. Groom.

Abram S. Kapper to Elizabeth Martin.

Wm. H. Hyde to Mary Ruddick.

Geo. Bauer to Maggie A. Stump.

Wm. R. Bedell to E. A. Straghan.

[Personal Items.]

[BENDER.]

A regular will-o-the-wisp is this same old Bender--now you have him, and now you hain't got him. A short time ago the old man was caught in the mountains of North Carolina, then in Texas, again in Iowa, and Missouri. Doubtless few states in the Union but have at some time or other caught a Bender. But he always turned out to be other than the old king of butchers. Now he has been caught running wild in the mountains of Utah, and brought to Topeka, and again it turns out that it is not old Bender, at least there is doubt about it, and under the circumstances we are inclined to give the old man the benefit of the doubt. Several witnesses have been to Topeka to look the supposed Bender square in the face, but they cannot agree as to whether he is the Bender, or some old Mormon curmudgeon, who by having too many wives, was driven distracted into the mountains. This Bender business is growing somewhat monotonous.

[LOCAL NOTICES.]

THE GREEN FRONT STORE at Arkansas City, Kansas, will sell you--

Choice Natural Leaf Tea at (per pound) $.40.

Choice Rio Coffee (per pound) $.30.

7 lbs. peaches for $1.00.

15 1 lb. Bars of Choice Family Soap: $1.00

14 lbs. Choice White Beans: $1.00

4 Spools Best Thread: $1.00

HOUGHTON & McLAUGHLIN.

[EDITORIAL PAGE: TAX ERRORS FOUND BY STATE.]

The following letter will explain itself.

STATE OF KANSAS, AUDITOR'S OFFICE.

LUCIUS WALTON, Chairman--Winfield, Kansas.

Dear Sir: Enclosed, find copy of Reports of Sale of School Lands of Cowley county, as requested in yours of the 10th inst. I find upon examination of the reports the following error in addition, etc., which are now charged to your county, to-wit:

To error in adding report Dec. 31, 1871. $ 400.00

To error in adding report Dec. 31, 1872. 2,259.20

To error in adding report June 30, 1873. 0,000.00

Extending amount, June 30, 1872. .80

Extending amount, June 30, 1873. .20

Total Corrrections: $2,660.20

There are some other minor errors, but they do not change the total foot, and no account is made of them on the books in office. I regret the delay in furnishing reports, but could not furnish them sooner and take the precaution to have them care-fully compared with the original reports on file in this office.

Please acknowledge receipt of same.

Very respectfully,

D. W. WILDER, State Auditor.

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The foregoing letter was received by the committee that is examining the records of Cowley county, in response to an inquiry made to the Auditor of State for information. The Auditor of State receives reports from the County Clerk of each county, of the amount of School Land Sales, and charges said amount to the County Treasurer. If there are no mistakes in the County Clerk's reports, from this county, then there is considerable School Land money in the hands of the County Treasurer.

[BENDERS.]

If the real Katie and Johnny Bender have been arrested at Salt Lake, let us hope that they will be held there. Bitter experience of the past has demonstrated the impossibility of identifying anybody in Topeka, and we protest against having any more Utah paupers inflicted on this already outraged community.

Mr. Hampton, the officer who brought the spurious Bender to Topeka, has returned to Salt Lake, leaving his prisoner in charge of Sheriff Wade. All efforts to identify the poor old man have failed, and the Salt Lake authorities have squandered over $600 in his arrest and transportation. He is now boarding at the cooler at the expense of Shawnee county, and there is no telling what will be done with him, unless Clemens takes him out on a writ of habeus corpus, and sells him to the Great Eastern circus. Anybody can have him, however, by proving property and paying charges. Photographs exchanged if desired. Commonwealth.

[VALUATION OF TAXABLE PROPERTY OF COWLEY COUNTY.]

[FIRST WORD HARD TO READ: APPEARS TO BE "LANDS"]

Lands: 1st grade, $10.00; 2nd, $8.00; 3rd, $6.00; 4th, $4.00; 5th, $3.00; 6th, $2.00; 7th, $1.25.

Horses: 1st grade, $60.00; 2nd, $40.00; 3rd, $25.00; 4th, $10.00. Stallions, $100.00.

Mules and Asses: Jacks, $100.00. Mules, 1st grade, $75.00 2nd, $50.00; 3rd, $25.00; 4th, $10.00.

BULLS: 1st grade, $40.00; 2nd, $20.00.

CATTLE: 1 year old: $3.00. 2 year old: $5.00. 3 year old: $10.00 to $15.00. 4 year old: $15.00 to $25.00 including cows. A deduction of 20 percent on Texas cattle.

Oxen: $25.00 to $50.00.

Sheep: $1.25 to $2.50.

Hogs over 6 months old: $.50 to $10.00.

Wagons: $10.00 to $60.00.

[STATE NEWS.]

A good many immigrant wagons have passed through the city this week. Quite a number of them were heading for Cowley county. Emporia News.

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[PAOLA & FALL RIVER RAILROAD.]

[NOTICE TO ROAD OVERSEERS.]

Road overseers would do well to pay a little attention to the following section of the general statutes of 1868, chap. 80, page 902.

Sec. 14. Each road overseer, within his district, shall erect and keep up, at the expense of the township, posts and guide boards at the forks of every state and county road, containing an inscription, in legible letters, directing the way, and naming the distance to such town or towns or public place or places as are situated on said road; and any overseer of roads, failing to do so in a reasonable time, shall, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the proper county, be fined in any sum not exceeding five dollars, with costs of suit; and when collected, it shall be paid into the county treasury for school purposes.

From the above it will be seen that any traveler who may miss his way, by reason of not finding guide boards at road crossings, can bring an action against the road overseer. In fact, action can be brought by any person against a road overseer who fails to perform his duty.

[NUTS FROM THE WALNUT VALLEY TIMES.]

If the Paola & Fall river railroad is built to Arkansas City, the Wichita branch of the Atichison, Topeka & Santa Fe road will be pushed to that point at once. This will make Arkansas City one of the largest towns in Southern Kansas. Amos Walton will please pay the taxes on our town lots in that town and draw on us for the money.

[ADS: WINFIELD COURIER, MAY 8, 1874.]

N. ROBERSON, HARNESS & SADDLES, THE BEST MATERIAL WORKED.

MAIN STREET, OPPOSITE OLD LOG STORE, WINFIELD, KANSAS.

W. G. GRAHAM, HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

OFFICE OPPOSITE LAGONDA HOUSE. HOURS 10 to 11 A.M., 2 to 4, 7 to 9 P.M.

KIRK & GORDON, BLACKSMITHS, ARE FIRST-CLASS WORKMEN.

HORSE SHOEING AND PLOW SHARPENING A SPECIALTY.

They believe in the principle of Good work at Low Figures.

Shop on Corner of Main Street and 8th Avenue.

O. N. MORRIS & BRO., LIVERY AND FEED STABLE. The Liveliest Steppers In the Business. Furnished at all hours of the DAY OR NIGHT. Eighth Avenue, Winfield, Kansas.

[CITY ORDINANCES: WINFIELD - PUBLISHED MAY 8TH, 1874.]

An Ordinance providing for street crossings in the City of Winfield.

Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen of the City of Winfield:

SEC. 1. That street crossings shall be constructed on the south side of 10th avenue across Millington Street and across Loomis Street, and on the south side of 9th Avenue across Millington Street and across Loomis street.

SEC. 2. Said crossings shall be four feet wide laid on three stringers 2 x 6 inches and shall be made of native hard word lumber 1 inch thick on the established grade.

SEC. 3. This ordinance shall be in force and take effect on and after its publication.

Approved May 4th, 1874.

S. C. SMITH, Mayor.

J. W. CURNS, City Clerk.

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Ordinance Number 35.

An Ordinance repealing section (8) eight of ordinance number (10) ten of the City of Winfield.

Be it ordained by the Mayor and councilmen of the City of Winfield:

SEC. 1. That section eight of ordinance number ten be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication.

Approved May 4th, 1874.

S. C. SMITH, Mayor.

J. W. CURNS, City Clerk.

[PERSONALS.]

W. H. South is selling at auction.

"Old Arch," Morris & Bro.'s fast pacer, is dead.

The Senate saloon is closed for the want of a license.

The sale of land for delinquent taxes has been going on lively this week.

The meat shop on the 9th avenue has moved a couple of rods to the east.

Crowds of "Prairie Schooners" are now navigating in every direction.

Boys, why don't you organize a base ball club and keep up with the times?

Remember the ball, upon the opening of the Valley house on the 19th inst.

We are under many obligations to Hon. Wm. D. Kelly, M. C., for valuable documents.

Fishermen are happy--except Manning and Kelly, who went angling the other evening and didn't get a bite.

New signs are all the rage now. We notice one on the St. Nicholas restaurant, and one upon Darrah & Doty's Livery stable.

C. M. Scott of the Arkansas City Traveler, has been invited by his red brethren, the Osages, to accompany them on an extensive hunt, but declines with thanks.

We learn from the Traveler that a Mr. Chatman, living near Thomasville, found a small vein of iron ore on his farm.

A fellow by the name of Polk, got drunk in Caldwell a few days ago, and brandishing a six shooter, let it off accidentally, shooting one "Pony" Marshal through one leg and lodging the ball in the other. So says the Traveler.

Another huge mass meeting of the Osage settlers is called to meet at Parsons on Wednesday, the 27th inst. Among the distinguished speakers who are announced to be present are Generals Logan and Butler, and Judges Lawrence and Black.

The stage and "buckboard" have swapped roads and now we ought to be happy as we are two or three hours ride nearer Wichita. We are not, however, as happy as might be expected, owing to the fact that the mail is very irregular. What is the matter with the post office at Wichita?

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MAY 8, 1874.]

We called at George Brown's wagon factory the other day and found him busy making wagons, harrows, etc. George is a good workman, and uses the best Indiana and Michigan well seasoned timber, and the fact that Kirk & Gordon does the iron work, is sufficient guarantee that it is done well.

McMillen & Shields are moving their goods into the room formerly occupied by the drug store of A. H. Green. They are getting on a fine stock of goods and expect to do a good business in their new location. The room which they vacate will be immediately occupied by the grocery store of I. F. Newland, who will have a large stock and sell cheap.

Forty acres of land off from the farm of W. W. Andrews and adjoining the town site on the north is being laid off into town lots preparatory to being made a part of the City of Winfield. The addition embraces the residences of M. L. Read, T. A. Wilkinson, E. B. Kager, Dr. Graham, N. C. McCulloch, and J. J. Ellis, and will be one of the prettiest portions of the City.

Rev. James E. Platter has let the contract for building his new residence to Messrs. Stewart & Simpson for the sum of $3,700. Had Mr. Platter searched the country over he could not have found more able honest and energetic men to build his house than the firm of Stewart & Simpson. Life-long contractors and builders, they are just the men to build quickly, cheaply, and well.

Children's carriages, picture mouldings, and a general assortment of everything kept in a first class furniture store, at Johnstons. Being a practical workman of over 25 years experience, having worked in some of the best establishments in the United States and Canada, Mr. Johnston has a right to think he can do as good work and sell as cheap as any other establishment of this kind in the Southwest.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MAY 8, 1874.]

Rev. Mr. McQuiston, the newly appointed Methodist minister of this city, had one of his horses stolen from his stable last Tuesday night. Between nine and ten o'clock in the evening, Mr. McQuiston heard the neighing of a horse and upon going out, found a horse with a lariat and stake attached, wandering around hear his stable. Thinking that it was a neighbor's horse which had broken loose, he caught the animal and fastened it to the fence and then informed Mr. Dever that he thought his horse had broken loose and that he had fastened it to the fence. After an examination Mr. Dever reported that his horses were safe, and when Mr. McQuiston went to look after the horse he had caught, the animal was nowhere to be found. It is supposed that the horse which was found loose belonged to the thieves, and that it was at this time the horse was stolen. Mr. McQuiston has offered fifty dollars reward for the return of the horse and thief or thirty dollars for the horse.

While at Wichita the other day we met the owners of the first droves of Texas cattle which have reached Kansas this season. These gentlemen inform us that the "drive" this year will be fully up to, if not longer, than any year in the past. We stopped at the Occidental, which is a magnificent hotel, kept by gentlemen who seem to understand the difficult art of catering to the wants of the traveling public. The wheat along the route from this place gives promise of an abundant crop, and if our millers here will just let the public know where they can get their grinding done, we venture to say that their mills will, ere long, be taxed to their utmost capacity.

We take pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to the new advertisement of Kirk & Gordon. These gentlemen are first class workmen, and should be patronized by everybody who want their blacksmithing done right, also to the card of Dr. Graham. The Doctor has a splendid reputation as a physician and surgeon. Give him a call. O. N. Morris & Bro., also being convinced of the value of the COURIER as an advertising medium, have enlarged their card to about twice its former size. They have fine rigs and deserve patronage. N. Roberson inserts a card this week calling attention to his stock of Horses and Saddles. He has the best shop and does the best work of any one in the county. Call around and see him.

[CHURCH SERVICES IN WINFIELD OUTLINED.]

[DIED: GERTRUDE ROBINSON.]

[CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS - MAY 4, 1874.]

The Council met at Sheriff Walker's office May 4th, 1874, at 7-1/2 o'clock p.m. Present: S. C. Smith, Mayor, and Councilmen J. P. McMillen, R. B. Saffold, S. Darrah, and H. S. Silver. J. W. Curns, Clerk. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.

The committee on pound, reported they had done nothing toward providing for a pound, and asked further time, which was granted, and the committee were authorized to purchase a suitable lot for said pound, and to fence the same.

The committee on grade of 10th avenue reported they had not established the grade on said avenue. On motion the said committee were discharged and the establishing of the grade was left to the committee on streets and sidewalks.

The following bills were audited by the committee on finance and severally allowed and ordered paid.

Bill of Burt Covert boarding prisoners, claimed $12.75, allowed $9.33.

Bill of City of Winfield vs. A. H. Green, claimed and allowed $36.40.

Bill of Eben R. Parker, expense of suit, claimed $84.20, allowed $59.20.

Bill of Joseph Lekoski, expense of suit, claimed and allowed $26.85.

Winfield Courier, May 8, 1874. [City Council Proceedings.]

Bill of A. T. Shenneman, services as police, claimed $2.00,

allowed $1.50.

Bill of Z. T. Swiggart, services as marshal, claimed and allowed $35.50.

Bill of T. H. Suits, Attorney fees, claimed and allowed, $25.00.

Fee bill City of Winfield versus A. H. Green for $6.00 for attendance of Thos H. Benning was referred to finance committee.

Bill of A. A. Jackson was referred back to finance

committee.

A petition was presented signed by Joseph Lekoski, R. Ehret, and E. R. Parker, asked that the license tax on saloons be reduced from $300 to $200; on motion the petition was rejected, the vote being as follows: ayes--J. P. McMillen, H. S. Silver and S. Darrah--3; nays 0.

A petition was presented by Joseph Lekoski asking for a dram shop license under and by the laws of 1868, and that he be allowed to retail spirituous and fermented liquors in his frame building on lot 8, in block 109, in Winfield. On motion the petition was granted and ordered that a dram shop license be issued to Joseph Lekoski for the period of one year from May 1st, 1874, on the payment of $300 per annum, payable semi-annually, and also that the said Joseph Likoski be required to give a bond in the sum of Two thousand dollars to the City of Winfield as required by law.

[QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NAME: IS IT LEKOSKI, LIKOSKI, OR IS IT

LIKOWSKI...AS I THINK HIS AD LATER SHOWED?????]

A petition was presented by R. Ehert asking for a dram shop license. The petition not having sufficient names was referred back to R. Ehret.

[QUESTION: WHAT IS HIS NAME? THEY HAVE EHERT AND EHRET???]

An ordinance was read and passed repealing section 8 of Ordinance No. 10; the vote on the final passage being, ayes:

McMillen, Saffold, Darrah, and Silver; nayes none.

An ordinance in relation to street crossings on south side on 10th avenue, and on the south side of 9th avenue, was read and passed, the vote on the final passage being as follows: ayes McMillen, Darrah, Silver and Saffold; nays 0.

On motion the clerk was instructed to certify up to the County Clerk the amount which was paid by the City for the construction of sidewalks along lot 3 in block 130, and lot 4 in 129 in Winfield. On motion the clerk was authorized to advertise for bids to build street crossings, and also to build sidewalks along such lots as the committee shall report necessary to be built along Main street and 9th and 10th avenues in Winfield as have been required by ordinance, the bids to be handed in at the next meeting of the council.

The Clerk was authorized to purchase dog tags.

The City Attorney was instructed to revise the City Ordinances and present the same at the next meeting of the council for approval.

On motion adjourned.

J. W. CURNS, City Clerk.

The Council met at the office of S. C. Smith May 5th, 1874, at 8 a.m., in pursuance of a call. Present: S. C. Smith, Mayor, and Councilmen Darrah, McMillen, Saffold, and Silver. The call was read which was as follows:

We, the undersigned, members of the City Council of the City of Winfield, would respectfully request that you call a special meeting of said council this 5th day of May, 1874, at 8 o'clock a.m. for the purpose of considering the matter of granting a dram shop license to R. Ehret.

Signed,

J. F. McMILLEN,

H. S. SILVER,

R. B. SAFFOLD.

R. Ehret then presented a petition asking for a license to keep a dram shop; on motion the petition was granted and ordered that a dram shop license be issued to Reinhard Ehriet for the period of one year from May 1st, 1874, on the payment of $300 to the City, said tax to be paid semi-annually; And further that the said Reinhard Ehret be required to give a good and sufficient bond in the sum of two thousand dollars to the City of Winfield, as required by law.

On motion adjourned,

J. W. CURNS, City Clerk.

[LOCAL NOTICES.]

CONSTITUTIONS and Bylaws of the Patrons of Husbandry are kept for sale at the Traveler office in Arkansas City.

WE HAVE ENLARGED AND refitted the building formerly occupied by Mr. Green as a drug store, two doors north of the post office, and have removed our stock of goods from the old log store to the above mentioned building where we will be pleased to wait on our old customers and as many new ones as may be pleased to call on us. We have just received a new and fresh stock of dry goods which we will sell very cheap for cash. Remember the place: two doors north of the post office.

McMILLEN & SHIELDS.

AUCTION SALE of dry goods and queensware at W. H. South's every Saturday.

MONEY TO LOAN. C. C. Harris loans money cheaper than any other man in the county. Apply to Fairbank, Torrance & Green, or to himself at Winfield.

WINFIELD, KANSAS.

[EDITORIAL PAGE.]

A Cherokee Indian, William Adair, has been admitted to practice law at the bar of the United States Supreme Court.

The Olathe horse, Smuggler, has been entered for the $10,000 trotting race to take place at Boston in September.

Five men from Osage township, in Labette county, who had known the veritable Bender, visited the reputed article from Utah, and declared him bogus. The old man was accordingly released, and has been sent to the poor house.

The Arkansas valley will again be used, as it was last year, as a great pasture field for immense herds of Texas cattle. It is estimated that the drive this season will exceed that of last year, which amounted in round numbers to four hundred thousand head.

The blackbirds are destroying large fields of corn on the Walnut and Arkansas rivers. A little strychnine inserted in the colonel of a grain of corn will finish them. Traveler.

Prof. Henry B. Norton, of Arkansas City, is just now being talked up by the Emporia Ledger, Topeka Commonwealth, and Arkansas City Traveler, for the position of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. It is really encouraging to see the newspapers bring out such men as Prof. Norton, for places of trust and honor. We know of none in the state better qualified for the position than he, and the Republican party of Kansas will honor itself and the State by nominating and electing Henry B. Norton.

[EDITORIAL: VALUATING REAL ESTATE BY COUNTY TRUSTEES.]

We have a few words to say to the trustees of this county, and hope that it may be of some benefit even at this late day. They met in this city a few weeks ago, and agreed to value real estate from $1.25, to $10.00, per acre. Now under any circumstances, $10 is an extraordinary rate to value land for the purposes of taxation, and especially is it so when compared with the rates agreed upon by the other counties of the state. The Donophan county assessors agreed to rate land at from $2.00 to $4.00 per acre; Greenwood county, at $2.00 to $8.00 per acre; and Butler, $3.00 to $8.00, and so on in nearly every county in the state. Donophan county is an old settled, well improved county. It has railroads, large cities, fine houses, big barns, etc., and her land would, no doubt, on account of her advantages, improvements, etc., sell for double what land in Cowley would bring, and yet by the action of our trustees, our county will have to pay more than double the state tax Donophan county pays.

We pay too much tax; everybody admits that; and yet it is our own fault. There is no one to blame but ourselves. $1.25 to $5.00 at most would have been a fair valuation for any of these new counties; and our tax next year would then be at least tolerable. Cannot something be done even at this late day. We here in Cowley have not a single dollar to throw away by way of paying taxes for older and richer counties than our own. Then let something be done. Value the lands you haven't reached yet at the lowest figure and let the county board of equalization bring what you have already assessed down to it. We know of no other plan now.

[ITEMS FROM THE TRAVELER.]

L. B. Kellogg has returned from Washington. He does not think the "Cattle Trail Bill" will become a law much before the close of the present session of Congress. Some modification of the bill will be necessary to insure its success. Some enactment to legalize and regulate the cattle driving from Texas to Kansas is absoltuely necessary for the mutual protection of the drovers and Indians.

FRIGHTFUL. The little son of Mr. Mott, aged eighteen months, drank from a cup of strong lye, last Monday, and is not expected to live. The mother had just left the house, and when she returned, the child was lying on the floor with its mouth so much swolen as to be unable to make any noise. Assistance was called as soon as possible and it may possibly recover.

Orin Wilkinson, formerly of this place, but late of Arkansas, writes that the whole country is under water, and the

Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers still rising, and people and stock are being drowned and starving to death. During all this the Governors are fighting for their positions. That would be a lively state to emigrate to, surely.

Prof. Norton's discourses bring out a class that have hertofore been unknown at church.

A herd of buffalo, seven in number, came in on the townsite of Caldwell, May 4th, became frightened at the school children, and ran away.

The tuition for the common branches of English for non-residents of this school district is $3 and $5 for the higher brances for the whole term.

[MORE ITEMS FROM THE TRAVELER.]

MASONIC. M. Cowgill, Custodian of the Masonic order for this district, is delivering a course of lectures at this place. The order has been in session since last Thursday evening and will continue until Friday of this week. Members from Winfield, Dexter, and South Haven are present.

HORSES STOLEN. Four stage horses were stolen on the west line of the stage company, one from the Rev. McQuiston, at Winfield, and one from Mr. Harris, near the mouth of the Walnut. Mr. Harris' came back two days after being taken. The thieves had also stolen a boat, and finding they were being pursued, left the boat and horse.

Mr. Read, a young man who was tried and held to bail for his appearance at the present term of the District Court for robbing a gentleman on Big Cana of $600, has absconded from the county, and left his bondsmen to settle the bill. There is $2,200 reward offered for his arrest, and we are told there are about fifty men after him. He murdered a man in Texas, and robbed a gentleman in Missouri of $1,700 last fall. Detectives were in the Falls with the necessary papers to arrest him for the different crimes he had committed, expecting him to make his appearance at court, and it is supposed he got wind of it and has so far made his escape. He had two hours start of his pursuers. It is confidently hoped that he will be arrested, and that full and complete justice may be meted out to him.

[LEAD ORE BROUGHT IN BY S. WILKINS OF COWLEY COUNTY.]

[COTTON SEED: WICHITA EAGLE ARTICLE.]

[NEUTRAL LAND CASE: CHEROKEE LANDS.]

[PERSONALS.]

W. W. Andrews is putting up a brick residence in the north part of town.

Quite a number of good substantial buildings are being erected in town just now.

Hunt, the tailor, has moved his shop to 9th avenue two doors east of Mr. Saffold's office.

Mrs. Howard desires to call attention to her large and well selected stock of millinery. See ad.

AD: MRS. L. H. HOWARD HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF LADIES' FURNISHING GOODS. The Finest and Best styles of Hats, Flowers, Ribbons, etc., ever brought to Southern Kansas. LACES, COLLARS, GLOVES, PARASOLS, HOSIERY. New Style Hair Goods. Notions, etc., All of which will be sold at the LOWEST CASH PRICES. No address was given.

I. F. Newland has moved his goods into the old log building. He expects to put in a stock of Dry Goods in a few days.

Mrs. Gibson & Co. have erected an awning in front of their millinery store. It improves the appearance of their room very much.

Mr. H. B. Lacy is now ready both morning and evening to deliver ice. He has a nice wagon and expects to run his business in style.

A number of horses were stolen in and around this city last week and as far as we have learned no trace of any of the thieves has been found.

John Huff, Esq., of the Genessee Valley, New York, gave us a pleasant call yesterday morning. Mr. Huff is a pleasant gentleman possessed of considerable of this world's goods. He considers Winfield and Cowley County hard to beat, and expects to locate here perhaps this coming fall.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MAY 15, 1874.]

In a short time the Superintendent of Public Instruction will send to the clerk of each school district a correct map from which he can make out his report of all those persons liable to personal tax, and thus avoid the mistakes so frequently made of reporting parties not living in the district.

Isn't it about time that those who have charge of the Soldiers' Association were making some arrangements for their annual celebration on the 4th of July. There is now only about six weeks to prepare in, and some action ought to be taken at once. Let the soldiers speak out.

We notice that the City Council has paid the costs in the District Court which Eben R. Parker and Joseph Licoski [THIS NAME IS ALWAYS MISSPELLED...BY EVERYONE!] were adjudged to pay for selling liquor without license, amounting to $86.05. Why should the City have this to pay? Every taxpayer in town would like to know. Will our City Fathers, City Attorney, or anyone with a knowledge of the facts, rise and explain?

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MAY 15, 1874.]

The subject of buying a cemetery, we understand, again agitates some of our citizens. Our city ought to have some good convenient place in which to bury her dead. The one now used, northeast of town, is owned by an association. That association purchased the ground from Dr. Graham, to whom it is still

indebted for part of the purchase money, and now they are anxious that the city purchase the grounds from them and assume the debt.

We have opposed the measure thus far merely as a matter of taste. The grounds is not the spot we would select as the last resting place of our departed friends. But it is true that the remains of nearly all who have died here since the location of the town, have been deposited there.

It is a burying ground, and some argue from this that it ought to be continued as such, rather than go to the trouble and expense of removing those who are there to some other place which might be selected by the city.

We do not know how much the association is asking for it, but we have been told the city can purchase ground that would be considered, at least by us, much more preferable, for less money. If that be the case, our city council should act with caution, bearing in mind that their action in this matter is not for a day, but reaches far into the future in its consequence; and as public opinion seems to be so nearly divided on this subject, we think it would be well to have an expression of the wishes of the taxpayers of the city in regard to the matter, and let them decide. Why can't we have a meeting called at an early day and settle the matter of cemetery or no cemetery. Who will move first in the matter.

[ITEMS FROM "OBSERVER" - VERNON TOWNSHIP.]

W. J. Bonnewell, living on the Arkansas river, found, growing wild on his place, a pure hill of the Lindens pie plant.

Vernon township can beat any other township in the county for wheat. We measured some that was twenty inches high May 5th.

From the present prospect of our crops, we can supply Sumner and all the western counties at liberal rates, by another year.

F. Brown, Esq., of Beaver township, took his place, as a claim, three years ago, the 1st day of last April. He has as good frame buildings as there is in the township, a fine orchard with a No. 1 prospect for fruit, 40 acres in wheat and oats, and is now finishing corn planting of which he has 60 acres. Everything looks lovely and he is bound to make farming pay.

OBSERVER.

[RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT: ADELBERT D. LEE.]

[REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS: COWLEY COUNTY.]

Geo. Blanchard to W. D. Clarke: n e 1/4 sec 12 tp 32 s r 3e; 160 acres; $1,400.

C. C. Harris to Joseph Park: s w 1/4 sec 2 and e 1/2 of s e 1/4 sec 3 tp 32 n r 4e; 240 acres, $3,100.

Geo. W. Baily and wife to William Brown: n e 1/4 sec 29 td 30 s r 4 e; 160 acres; $1,450.

Fredrick Moe to Amos E. Mahaney: n w 1/4 sec 11 tp 20 south r 3 e; 160 acres, $1,000.

Geo. Walz and wife to Sallie W. Tillson: n w 1/4 sec 33 tp 31 s r 7 e; $1,200.

Matilda J. Davis and husband to R. B. Waite: n 1/2 of s w 1/4 and n w 1/4 of s e 1/4 sec 29 tp 30 s r 4 e; 120 acres, $800.

Major F. Strout and wife to Chas. F. Hilton: w 1/2 of s e 1/4 and s w 1/4 of n e 1/4 of sec 33 tp 34s r 5 e; 120 acres, $800.

[EDITORIAL PAGE.]

Arkansas City has expressed her willingness to take a part in the reunion, and offers its assistance and warrants amusement if the committee will designate this place for the meeting this year. We should like to welcome, and will do our best to entertain you, with speechs, music, and all the amusements at our command, such as footfall, velocipede races, and Indian war

dances.

[S. L. BRETTON VS. W. H. CADY: SHERIFF'S SALE.]

[ORDINANCE NUMBER 36: LEVYING AND COLLECTING LICENSE TAX.]

An Ordinance providing for levying and collecting license tax.

Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen of the City of Winfield.

SEC. 1. That an annual license tax shall be levied upon and collected from each and every person or association of persons, prosecuting their trade or business within the corporate limits of the City of Winfield, and coming within the provisions of this Ordinance as follows.

THE FOLLOWING SHALL PAY AMOUNTS LISTED.

Auctioneers: $6.00

Contractors and builders: $2.50

Druggists: $3.50

Brokers: $10.00

Pawn brokers: $15.00

Confectioners: $4.00

Restaurant keepers: $3.50

Butchers: $3.00

Public boarding house keepers: $3.00

Hotels and taverns: $5.00

Keepers of billiard tables for pay for each table: $5.00

Keepers or owners of drays or wagons or other

vehicles used within the limits of the

city for pay, for each one horse dray

wagon or other vehicle shall pay: $2.50

For each two horse dray or wagon or other

vehicle, must pay: $4.00

Provided, That no livery stable keeper or keepers shall by virtue of his or their license as such, so keep and use any such dray or wagon or other vehicle for pay without first having procured the prescribed license therefor in addition to the license prescribed hereinafter for such livery stable keeper or keepers.

THE FOLLOWING SHALL PAY AMOUNTS STATED.

Lumber dealers: $5.00

Furniture dealers: $3.00

Saddle and harness dealers: $2.50

Stationers: $2.00

Jewelers: $4.00

Livery stable keepers: $5.00

Real estate agents: $2.50

Attorneys at law: $2.50

Physicians: $2.50

Express companies or agents for each company represented by the agent shall pay: $5.00.

All persons or association of persons engaged in general merchandise (which includes any three or more branches of trade retail): $10.00

For wholesale and retail: $15.00

Grocers retail: $5.00

Grocers wholesale and retail: $10.00

Hardware merchants exclusively: $5.00

Dealers in agricultural implements: $2.50

Dealers in stoves and tinware: $2.50

Dealers in clothing exclusively retail: $5.00

Dealers in clothing wholesale and retail: $10.00

Merchants of all kinds engaged in any one or more branches of

trade not named or mentioned in this ordinance, for each and

every branch of such trade retail, shall pay $2.00

Wholesale and retail: $10.00

SEC. 2. Hawkers and peddlers or other persons who shall sell or offer to sell on any street, lane, or alley, or upon any public square or area, or upon any sidewalk within the limits of the City of Winfield any goods, wares, or merchandise excepting the same be of their own manufacture or production, shall pay $10.00.

Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so construed as to require any person to obtain a license or pay a tax for selling newspapers or periodicals or for the sale of beef, veal, sheep, pork, deer, elk, antelope, or buffalo, when the same is sold by the quarter or in bulk, or for selling fish or game; or for the selling of apples or for the selling of potatoes or other vegetables.

Provided, Further that no hawker or peddler by virtue of his license as such, vend, sell, or offer to sell his wares or merchandise in the street or upon the sidewalks at auction or any species of outcry.

SEC. 3. That upon payment into the city treasury of the prescribed tax by any person or association of persons coming within the provisions of this ordinance, a license shall be issued to such person or association of persons, authorizing him or them to prosecute their trade or business within the limits of the city of Winfield, which license shall be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the Treasurer, and the City Clerk shall affix the corporate seal thereunto, such license shall not be

transferable.

SEC. 4. That any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction be fined in a sum not less than five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars.

SEC. 5. That ordinance No. 14, relating to license tax approved April 28th, 1873, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 6. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication.

Approved May 18, 1874.

S. C. SMITH, Mayor.

J. W. CURNS, City Clerk.

[DELINQUENT TAX LIST.]

COUNTY TREASURER'S OFFICE,

Winfield, Kan., May 14th, 1874.

NOTICE is hereby given that I will on Monday the 22 day of June A. D. 1874 and the next succeeding days, sell at public auction, at my office, so much of such tracts of land and town lots in the following list for the taxes and charges thereon, as may be necessary for that purpose. The tracts of land and town lots in said list remains unsold for want of proper advertising.

E. B. KAGER.

County Treasurer.

NOTE: I DID NOT LIST PROPERTY.

[PERSONALS.]

Al Bisbee got married last Sunday.

Bing has a summer trim on his hair.

Dr. Cram has gone to Leavenworth to be gone two or three weeks.

John Davis had his arm broken by the kick of a horse last week.

P. Hill and McMillen & Shields have each erected new awnings over their doors.

Corn is six inches high in some parts of the county, and wheat is beginning to head.

Two ice wagons are delivering ice morning and evening to the heated inhabitants of our city.

R. F. Burden, chairman of the board of county commissioners, has six miles of fine growing hedge.

Ben Clover of Lazette, one of nature's noblemen, has been spending a few days in town this week.

There will be services at the Baptist church morning and evewning next Sunday by the Rev. N. L. Rigby.

Mrs. Bradish, the accomplished landlady of the Bradish House, has returned to town after an absence of about a year.

Dr. J. E. Williams, one of Cowley's oldest settlers and best citizens, has gone with his family on a visit to his old Kentucky home.

The ladies of the Congregational Church will give an ice cream sociable at the residence of Rev. Mr. Parmelee next Wednesday evening.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MAY 22, 1874.]

Yesterday morning, A. T. Shenneman started for Ft. Worth, Texas, with twenty-five head of horses. He will be gone a month, more or less.

A. B. C. Steinbarger, one of the COURIER force, started yesterday morning for Independence on a visit to his parents. He will be gone about ten days.

George Carman of Sturgis, Michigan, one of the earliest settlers of our county, is now here looking after his extensive interest in Cowley county. Mr. Carman has one of the finest farms in the county.

We have just turned out of this office for John H. Davis, some of the finest horse bills ever turned out of any office in Kansas. Mr. Davis had two of the best blooded horses in the state in his charge, and farmers would do well to give him a liberal patronage.

A petition is being circulated for the purpose of starting another saloon in this city. We are suffering for the want of a dozen or more saloons, and we see no surer way for a man to get away with what little money he has than for him to start the third saloon in Winfield.

One of the boys of this city was arrested last Tuesday for bathing in the Little Dutch creek where the road crosses, just north of town. He was brought before Justice Boyer, who fined him ten cents and costs, amounting in all to a little over five dollars. The boys must all watch out or some others may have to pay fines.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MAY 22, 1874.]

Mayor Smith, Miss Hatch, and Rev. N. L. Rigby and lady, are on a visit to the Kaw Indians. We don't hardly know what to think about it when two unmarried persons go off on a long visit with a minister and his wife, but the report is circulating that Mr. Smith is prejudiced against single blessedness. Some ill-favored individuals also report that the trip to the Territory was to save paying license. We don't believe it however and shall take every opportunity to contradict such report.

Perambulating the street the other day, as the once celebrated Beau Brummel would put it, we discovered several new awnings erected since our last issue. Notably, one in front of the new store of McMillen & Shields. On entering we found John P. McMillen, his father, and the clever and gentleman Everleth busy waiting upon their hosts of customers. One glance at their surroundings revealed to us the secret of their immense trade. A beautiful and tastily arranged stove, everything on their shelves that any person would be likely to ask for, in the line of dry goods, groceries, Hats, Capts, Boots, Shoes, Notions of every kind, and all of the very best quality, and at the very lowest price possible. We came away full convinced that at the splendid new store of McMillen & Shields two doors north of the post office, was the place for the public to buy the best goods for the least money.

Sunday School Festival. There will be a festival in the courthouse next Tuesday eve. It is got up entirely by the children of the Union Sunday school. There will be a supper, and fine music by the children. All turn out and have a good time.

The County Commissioners met last Monday and continued in session three days. After mature deliberations they came to the very wise conclusion that the county printing was in good hands and that the county was getting the worth of its money. Some little changes were made in the old contract, but the COURIER and Traveler are still the official papers of the county, and Allison is displeased about something.

Mr. H. C. Leedy, Esq., who has been for some time past at his old home in Michigan, returned home night before last, and glad to get back to Winfield. Mr. Leedy informs us that times are hard there. That farmers have nothing to sell and no prospect for the next year except an abundant crop of fruit. When things are simmered down to facts--mind we say facts--it will be found that Kansas is one of the most favored countries on earth.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MAY 22, 1874.]

Al Headrick is in limbo again; this time it is for stealing a horse in Labette County. He had been working for a man named Humphries, living twelve miles southwest of Parsons, and being out of work and out of money and not being anxious to walk away, he "borrowed" a horse and rode away. He says he meant to turn the horse loose and start him back home after he got to Grouse creek, but his great aversion to treading on mother soil overcame his scruples in regard to keeping other people's property and so he rode on. He stopped at a school house to attend church, a few miles north of town, on Timber creek, where he was arrested by Sheriff Walker and Constable Shenneman, and lodged in jail at this place. Sheriff Walker started with him for Labette county, yesterday morning.

The Ball given at the Valley House last Tuesday evening was a decided success in every respect. The crowd was well selected and the music was fair and although the dining room was rather small for the crowd, under the gentlemanly management of Mr. Hall, time passed pleasantly. Messrs. Barnard & Hall, the new proprietors, have fitted the house up in splendid style. Everything about the premises is new, and the house has undergone such a thorough renovation that the patrons of the old Hudson House would never surmise from the appearance of the interior that it is the same building. The cooking, which is a very important feature of a hotel, is done by Mr. Hall, who is an old hand at the business, and understands all the secrets of the art, as those who were wont to visit him at the Oyster Bay in Wichita can attest. Mr. Barnard, as a landlord, cannot be surpassed; always amiable and accommodating and a gentleman in every sense of the word. Both of the proprietors have served their apprenticeship at the hotel business, and fully understand the wants and requirements of the public, and we have no doubt that they will ere long, have a large share of the patronage of the citizens of the city, as well as the public generally.

[MARRIED: SWAIN - LEFFINGWELL.]

SWAIN - LEFFINGWELL. At the residence of the Rev. James E. Platter, by the same, May 21st, 1874, Mr. John Swain to Miss Emma Leffingwell.

Accompanying the above notice, was a beautiful bride's cake, and a choice lot of Havanas, for which Mr. Swain and his fair bride have the unified thanks of the COURIER force. The happy pair have settled down like sensible people at home, and began already the arduous task of paddling their own canoe. They have our best wishes for their future. Reader, are you will wallowing in the slough of single cussedness? Go right off and do likewise.

[COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS: MAY MEETING.]

R. L. Walker, sheriff: $10.50; $11.00; $25.00.

A. T. Shenneman, bailiff: $10.00

McMillen & Shields, pauper bill: $20.57

Jurors: J. E. Jarvis, $4.80; W. B. Norman, $5.60; J. H. Curfman, $3.10; F. M. Vaugh, $5.00; James G. Utt, $9.00.

Wm. Slater, witness: $10.00

Burt Covert Jailor: $2.21

Farrer Houghton & S pauper bill: $36.50

Braden & Burford, books: $28.00

G. W. Crane, books: $39.00

A. S. Thomas, fee bill: $40.45

N. C. McCulloch, lock: $1.00

W. H. Grow, investigating com.: $102.00

Braden & Burford, books: $28.85

Burt Covert, bailiff: $18.00

J. W. Johnson, furniture: $2.50

J. L. Mitchell, pauper bill: $10.00

R. F. Burden, commissioner: $1.00

M. S. Roseberry, commissioner: $12.00

John Manly, Commissioner: $12.00

M. G. Troup, Co. clerk: $144.40

Road Viewers: G. W. Melville, $2.00; S. W. Greer, $2.00; D. W. Mumaw, $2.00.

W. W. Walton, Surveyor: $8.00; $12.00; $8.00.

Road Viewers: A. J. Dawson, $2.00; A. J. Reeves, $2.00; W. W. Limbocker, $2.00; J. F. Graham, $2.00; John Worthington, $2.00.

John Worthington, Marker: $1.50

J. P. Allen, Road Chainman: $1.50

Joel Stewart, Road Chainman: $1.50

Hitchcock & Boyle--Locks $4.85; wood $4.75.

George Gray, sawing wood: $1.00

James Kelly, county printing: $242.65; $17.00; $2.50; $34.00.

C. M. Scott, county printing: $242.65; $20.26.

W. M. Allison, county printing: $2.00

J. L. M. Hill, Bailiff: $20.00

Total amount allowed: $1,235.34

[ITEMS FROM THE TRAVELER.]

Stolen. A mule was stolen from James Alexander last Saturday night and parties are in pursuit.

One mule and a black mare were taken from South Haven on Sunday night. The thieves started east on the line.

Another mule stolen. Mr. Wagstaff, living about three miles southwest of Flag Station, had a dun mule stolen from the lariet last Sunday night.

Out of ten men who have stolen horses in this locality, only one has escaped, and he had to leave the mules and run for his life. Four are in the penitentiary, two are in the county jail, and three were shot. It is no use to steal horses from about Arkansas City. The people are too determined and too full of energy to endure it.

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The dedication of the new school house last Saturday evening was a grand success. Parties from adjoining school districts were well represented and well pleased. The exercises caused considerable interest, and enlisted many in the cause of education. At the close a vote of thanks was extended to the speakers, the band, the manager, and the contractor of the school building.

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A "Fishing Party" was organized on Stewart creek, Maple Township, Thursday night--the 14th inst.--with an attendance of about thirty of the best and most sturdy farmers of this

vicinity.

The fish have been acting in a new and singular role recently, some four or five horses having mysteriously disappeared from the neighborhood, and no trace of them has yet been found. The "lines" they propose to use will be 3-4 inch hemp rope. They named their party

VIGILANTE.

End of items from Traveler.

[PERSONALS.]

The work on Andy Gordon's new house on 8th avenue is rapidly progressing.

H. Brotherton has returned home and is now engaged in selling mowers and reapers.

J. P. Short has green peas and new potatoes of the early Rose variety for his table.

L. J. Webb, Esq., went to Dexter last night to assist in organizingg a Masonic Lodge at that place.

Mayor Smith, Miss Hatch, Rev. N. L. Rigby and wife, returned all safe from their visit to the Kaw Agency.

The disciples of Christ are holding a co-operative meeting this week in their new church. Quite an interest appears to be manifested in the work.

T. M. Concannon went down to the Territory on a hunt, a few days ago, and captured a pair of young antelopes, one of which he brought home with him.

The attention of our readers is directed to the card of John Weis, who is engaged in blacksmithing at his shop opposite the Methodist Church. Johnny is a good workman, and those who have any business in his line should give him a call.

AD: JOHN WEIS, BLACKSMITH, Has fitted up his new building

Opposite the M. E. Church, and is now prepared to do

everything in his line. HORSE-SHOEING A SPECIALTY.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MAY 29, 1874.]

Green's soda fountain is getting to be one of the principal attractions of this city. Every lady, gentleman, and child knows where to go when they want a nice drink. Frank Lutz, the handsome and gentlemanly clerk, will always be found ready for

business.

The building formerly occupied by the Senate saloon, is being repainted and otherwise improved, and will be occupied by the Real Estate office of Curns & Manser. These gentlemen have, by theirr business talent and judicious advertising, established such a business that a larger office was found to be necessary.

An effort is being made by the "boys" of this city to organize a base ball club. A meeting was held on the grounds last Monday, which resulted in the election of a President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, and a meeting is being called for next Saturday afternoon. We hope that the "boys" will take an interest in this matter, and put it through, for the need something of the sort to exercise their muscles. All turn out and help organize tomorrow.

By close calculation, should no unforseen accident happen, the winter wheat crop of the county will yield 180,000 bushels. We have three splendid flouring mills capable of grinding each 200 bushels per day, which in a year of 300 days will grind the entire crop. Is there a county in the state of our age can do so well?

Sheriff Dick Walker, who left here a week ago yesterday to take Al. Hedrick to Labette county, arrived at home last Wednesday evening. He reports that the vigilantes had formed a plan to intercept him at the west line of that county, for the purpose of lynching his prisoner. But he, suspecting something of the kind as well as being warned by some of the citizens, eluded the committee by taking a circuitous route. Fortunate for Mr. Hedrick's neck that he was in charge of so brave and intrepid an officer as Sheriff Walker. [? THOUGHT THE NAME WAS HEADRICK?]

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, MAY 29, 1874.]

Prof. H. B. Norton will deliver two lectures at the Courthouse on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of next week. The subject on Tuesday evening, June 2nd, will be "Glacial period of the Northern Hemisphere." On Wednesday, June 3rd, his subject will be "Genesis and Geology."

The popular interest awakened in regard to scientific subjects has led many of our scientific men to prepare lectures suited to meet this demand. Prof. Norton is one of the leading educators and scholars in the west, and as a popular lecturer meets with favor everywhere. Go and hear him. The proceeds are for the benefit of the Presbyterian church building fund.

Hon. J. D. Maurer, late County Commissioner, and one of the best the county ever had, was in town a few days ago.

Geo. W. Ballou, one of Grose creek's substantial farmers, paid our city a visit the other day.

It is rumored that Dr. Maggard of Oxford is about to locate in Winfield. It would please us muchly to welcome the M. D. to our town.

Found. A large woolen ottoman Shawl, near Black Crook, which the owner can have by paying for this advertisement and proving the property, at the Ladies Bazar. [?Bazar ?]

[REPORT OF WINFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL.]

[HORSE THIEVES CAUGHT: TRAVELER.]

Two men, William Gilmore and Francis J. Seltz, who have been stopping at the mouth of Grouse for some weeks, and of whom we spoke last week, warning the people to look out for them, were overtaken and captured on the Shawkaska river, by Curry, Keho, Blair, and Roberts, last Sunday morning. The men took the horses from the Kaw Agency on Thursday night, came up Grouse creek, and were going west. The horses belonged to Big and Little Lewis Pappan; half breed Kaw Indians. The horses were missed at daylight, and the Indians started in pursuit, tracking them all the way to Bolton township, where they received the first news of them. Pappan's horses were tired out and he persuaded the above mentioned men to follow them on Saturday night, by whom they were captured the next morning.

At sight of the men the thieves ran and were only stopped by the firing of Curry. Seltz received the shot from Curry's carbine, the ball entering near the wrist and paralyzing his arm. At this, the thieves gave themselves up and begged to be well treated. On Monday morning they were arraigned before Justice McIntire and plead not guilty. The preliminary trial was waived, and the parties were bound over to appear at the district court in the sum of $1,000. Failing in bond, they went to jail.

Bill Gilmore is a man of about 26 years of age, over six feet tall, dark hair, intelligent expression, and mild countenance. He was born and raised in Arizona, and has spent most of his time on the border and among the Indians. In 1861 he was with General Custer, and carried dispatches from Camp Supply to Fort Dodge for General Sheridan, during the fight on the Washita. He is deeply prejudiced against Indians, and claims he would not have stolen from the whites. In conversation with Mr. Gilmore, we find him to be a well read and experienced man. Wild life and excitement is as familiar with him as his every day meal.

Francis J. Seltz is a younger man than Gilmore, with a countenance not as good or mild. He is a good conversationalist, however, and speaks fluently and rapidly. Seltz did not care to give his history, and was perfectly indifferent on some subjects. His life has been mostly confined to the east, until a few years past. He has had some difficult encounters, but only in self defense. He was free to say that he was a good shot with a carbine and could have killed the four men that were after him if he chose to, but did not want to do it.

With these additional captures, we should think horse thieves would choose some other locality for their operations.

The thieves are now resting quietly in jail in this city.

[LOCAL NOTICES/ADS.]

June 6th, 1874, there is to be sold the largest lot of household furniture ever sold in this county, consisting of Bedsteads, Bedding, Stands, Bureaus, Chairs, Wardrobes, Carpets, Stoves, Queensware, Silverware, Tableware, and many other articles too numerous to mention. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock A.M. Now is the time to get furniture cheap.

REUBEN ROGERS, Auctioneer.

T. A. BLANCHARD, Clerk.

Keep Cool and Comfortable By wearing Lyle thread and gauze Undershirts, light drilling and linen Drawers. Keep Clean by wearing white and fancy shirts when you can buy them so cheap at Requa & Being's Clothing house where they keep a full line of Gentlemen's wear of every description, such as neck ties, scarfs, handkerchiefs, collars, gloves, etc.

Piles of Hosiery and notions at McMillen & Shields, new and fresh.

ICE! ICE! ICE!! Mr. H. B. Lacy desires to announce to the citizens of Winfield and vicinity that he is prepared to deliver ICE to any part of the city both morning and evening in city style.

[EDITORIAL PAGE.]

We publish in another place the report of the committee of investigation. It will be seen that the report brings Mr. Short and Mr. Kager several thousand dollars behind. Mr. Short claims that he holds receipts to, nearly or quite, cover the amount charged against him, and we have Mr. Kager's word for it, that he has in his hands, even more money than the committee found against him. However this may be, we have no comments or criticisms to make until these gentlemen have had an opportunity to settle with the county board. We cannot however close this article without saying a word for the committee. They, we believe, have discharged their duty faithfully and conscientiously, and their report shows with what ability that work was done. We will have more to say of this when we have looked the field all over. Let this suffice for the present.

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REPORT OF THE COWLEY COUNTY

INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE.

WE, your Committee appointed to examine the books and accounts of the County Clerk and County Treasurer, beg leave to submit the following report as the result of our investigation. In instituting the examination, we first took the books and accounts from the organization of the County up to the 16th day of July, 1872, at which time J. P. Short, Deputy County Treasurer, turned the office over to E. B. Kager, the present incumbent of the office. On examination of the books and accounts of A. A. Jackson as County Clerk, and John Devore as Treasurer, under the management and control of J. P. Short, Deputy, we found the books and accounts in a very confused and tangled condition, the Treasurer not having made a settlement of his accounts during his term of office, and turned the office over to his successor without paying over moneys in his

possession.

After due deliberation as to the best method of instituting the examination, we concluded to take the Tax-roll as it was furnished the Treasurer, by the County Clerk for collection, as a basis for our settlement and hold the Treasurer for all moneys coming into his possession by virtue of his office.

In making up the roll we found many mistakes for and against, but these, we consider merely the result of incompetency and inexperience on the part of the County Clerk.

In our report, $3,075.47 stands charged to Mr. Short, on account of the County which in reality is covered by county warrants which have been canceled on account of Short, but have not been destroyed or ordered applied on his account by the County Commissioners.

The tax-roll of 1872 is the greatest complication of figures and erasures that we ever saw, and we regard it as a matter of impossibility to arrive at just conclusions in every particular in making up the accounts, but we have made our figures from the most reasonable conclusions in the premises always giving Mr. Kager the benefit of the doubts. Mr. Kager has not made a settlement of his accounts since he came in possession of the office of County Treasurer, and reference to our report reveals the fact that he had a large sum of money in his possession on the first day of July, 1873, at which time the law requires him to make his annual settlement, and at which time most of the funds in his possession should have been paid out.

The accounts in both the County Clerk's and County Treasurer's ledgers, in most instances show clearly to our minds that the original charges have been erased and figures changed. In making up the account of School Land Sales, we took the County Clerk's and Treasurer's accounts in connection, from which to base a settlement; even then there may be, and doubtless is, discrepancies. We are informed that persons have made payments on school lands and have taken the Treasurer's receipt therefor but failed to have it countersigned by the County Clerk and charged to the Treasurer as the law requires, and in other instances parties have made payments on School Lands for which neither Treasurer nor Clerk have given the proper credit.

We would recommend that notice be given through the papers of the County to parties who have purchased School Lands to examine the records and see if any such irregularities exist.

On comparing our School Land sales account wiith an abstract of school land sales received from the Auditor of State, we found Mr. A. A. Jackson had made an error in addition of the school land sales reported on account of Mr. Short in favor of the County Treasurer to the amount of $400.00, and $1,252.26 remained unreported. The same error occurs in his report to the Auditor of State of school land sales on account of E. B. Kager to amount of $2,260.20, and $97.80 remained unreported.

Mr. Kager says he has money in his possession that he does not know where to apply, but when he finds the proper place for it he is ready to pay the same over. This admission of the County Treasurer seriously involves his competency, in our opinion, for the faithful and efficient discharge of the duties of the office.

In justice to ourselves we must say that we have prosecuted the investigation under very unfavorable circumstances. There has been a continual disposition on the part of those directly interested in the settlement, and our County Clerk, M. G. Troup, to cover up and withhold information that would lead to a solution of the complications connected with the work hence it has been very tedious and discouraging to the Committee.

We found many irregularities in the accounts, particularly in the manner of making them up, and entering the same on their books. We have brought the best order out of the confused mess, that we could and feel safe in saying that we have arrived at a good state of perfection in making up our accounts, and now submit the following figures as the result of our investigation, showing the amount collected on each fund, the amount paid out on the same, and the amount remaining in the hands of the Treasurer, up to the date of each settlement as the exhibit will show.

LUCIUS WALTON,

W. H. GROW, COMMITTEE.

S. M. FALL.

Winfield, Kansas, May 30th, 1874.

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Report of the Committee of the financial condition of the County; Showing the gross amount collected on each fund and the amount paid out on the same; also the amount due the different funds at the expiration of the official term of J. P. Short as deputy County Treasurer, up to the time (July 16, 1872) E. B. Kager took possession of the office.

RECAP OF TOTALS:

Amount collected: $14,658.81

Amount Paid out: $ 8,903.80

Remains Unpaid: $ 5,759.08

Overpaid: $ 4.07

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Report of the Committee on the financial condition of the County from the 15th day of July, 1872, at which time J. P. Short, Deputy County Treasurer, turned the office over to E. B. Kager, County Treasurer, to July 1st, 1873; showing the net gross amount due each fund, the amount paid out on the same, and the amount remaining in the treasury on the first day of July 1873.

RECAP OF TOTALS:

Due Fund: $44,572.70

Paid out: $34,066.12

Remaining in Treasury: $10,604.11

Overpaid: $ 97.53

[ITEMS FROM THE TRAVELER.]

A dancing master was in town Monday evening, trying to get a school.

One of our painters has been called to Winfield to paint Rev. Platter's new house.

A man came into our office the other day and offered us a wild cat in payment of subscription.

The editor goes to the Kaw Agency this week, to interview Agent Stubbs, and the Kaw brethren.

Mr. Oaks, near Remanto, had his wagon burned last week by prairie fire. In the Indians started the fire.

D. H. Clough had the lowest bid to drill a six inch hole for coal, but the award is not yet made.

C. R. Mitchell is to return in one week.

BIRTH. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Endicott, a daughter.

MARRIED. Max Fawcett has returned, no longer a bachelor.

Esquire Meigs proposes a baby show for the 4th of July.

BEES. Peter Pearson caught the swarm of bees that passed over town a few days since.

The young man drowned in the Nenescah, spoken of two weeks ago, was Lewis Roach, son of Simpson Roach, who resides near Oxford.

Cowley county will raise and grind 3,500,000 pounds of lour this year; affording on an average, to each family, 5,330 pounds.

Loads of bacon have been brought to this market from Howard county. The farmers of Howard smoke and pack the meat themselves.

John Cattrell has ten acres of castor beans on the sod, on the Grouse, doing well.

FOURTH OF JULY - ARKANSAS CITY. It will be seen by the proceedings in another column that the people of this place have determined to celebrate the 96th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Extensive arrangements are being made, and it is believed the grandest celebration Cowley county ever witnessed will be the result. A general invitation will be extended to all, especially the citizens, soldiers, and Grangers of this and adjoining counties.

ADDRESS. Prof. Norton goes up to Lawrence to attend the University Commencement next week. He has been selected as one of the orators on that occasion. He also addresses the literary societies of the Emporia Normal School, June 18th.

[CITY ORDINANCES NUMBER 37 AND 39: WINFIELD.]

QUESTION: WHAT HAPPENED TO ORDINANCE NO. 38?

Relating to Dog Tax.

Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen of the city of Winfield.

SEC 1. That an annual tax of one dollar per year be, and the same is hereby levied upon all dogs six months of age or over.

SEC 2. That an annual tax of three dollars per year be, and the same is hereby levied on every bitch six months old and over.

SEC 3. That the above tax shall be paid to the city Treasurer upon the receipt of which the Treasurer shall deliver to the owner of each dog or bitch a receipt for the same and upon the presentation of each receipt to the city clerk, he shall register the name of the owner of such dog or bitch and the clerk shall deliver to said owner a metal tag stamped with the letters "T.P." to be securely fastened to the collar of each dog or bitch.

SEC 4. That any person owning or harboring any dog or bitch within the limits of the city of Winfield without paying the tax upon the same, as required by this ordinance shall upon conviction be fined in the sum not exceeding ten dollars. That such dog or bitch so owned or harbored shall be killed by the Marshal wherever found within the limits of said city.

SEC 5. That ordinance No. 5 and 16 are hereby repealed.

SEC 6. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication.

Approved June 3rd, 1874.

S. C. SMITH, Mayor.

J. W. CURNS, City Clerk.

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Ordinance Number 39.

An ordinance amendatory of ordinance No. 36 Relating to general license tax.

Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen of the city of Winfield.

SEC 1. That section 3 of ordinance No. 36 shall be amended to read as follows: "SEC 3. That upon payment into the city Treasury of the proscribed tax by any person or association of persons coming within the provisions of their ordinance, a license shall be issued to said person or association of persons authorizing him or them to prosecute their trade or business within the limits of the city of Winfield--which license shall be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the Treasurer and the city clerk shall affix the corporate seal thereto. All licenses granted under and by virtue of this ordinance shall terminate on the first day of May next after the same are issued and shall not be transferable."

SEC 2. Section 3 of ordinance 36 of which this is amendatory is hereby repealed.

SEC 3. This ordinance shall take effect, and be in force from and after its publication.

Approved June 2nd, 1874.

S. C. SMITH, Mayor.

J. W. CURNS, City Clerk.

[DISSOLUTION NOTICE: E. C. MANNING & T. H. JOHNSON.]

The copartnership heretofore existing between the undersigned under the firm name of Manning and Johnson is this day dissolved by mutual consent. The firm owe no debts. The debts due the firm will be collected by and receipted for by either member of the late firm.

Winfield, Kan., June 1st, 1874.

E. C. MANNING,

T. H. JOHNSON.

[PERSONALS.]

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JUNE 5, 1874.]

Winfield has three daily and two tri-weekly mails.

Miss Saddie Webb was thrown from a horse last week and slightly injured.

Green has a new awning. So has Boyer; and the Ladies' Bazar has a new awning and beautiful new sign.

Col. E. C. Manning is to deliver a lecture before the Teacher's Association at Arkansas City Saturday evening, June 27th.

John Rhodes' son, who left home a short time ago on a French leave, was overtaken at Wichita and brought back by C. C. Harris.

Mr. Sharp, living south of town, was bitten by a copperhead snake a short time ago. He is now considered out of danger.

A young man by the name of Taylor was severely injured a few days ago by having a wagon loaded with lumber run over him.

Isaac L. Comfort, the "old boy" of the Censor of blessed memory, has been for the past two weeks playing the "devil" with the roller in this office.

Ned Perkins, who has been for some time past in Texas, came through with a drove of cattle a short time ago, and is now here visiting his friends.

A first class runaway took place yesterday. Mr. McDonald's pony team made things lively on the street awhile without doing any damage.

C. M. Scott, of the Arkansas City Traveler, says that he has been offered a wild cat kitten in payment for his paper. That man evidently thought the Traveler was a wild cat concern.

Hon. E. S. Torrance is in attendance upon the U. S. District Court, at Leavenworth, on behalf of the county in the case of

George L. Thompson, versus Cowley County.

Geo. C. Hill, Esq., of the state of New York, paid us a visit the other day and expresses himself so well pleased with Cowley that he intends to locate here.

Geo. W. Martin, the popular fine boot and shoemaker, has turned out lately some of the snuggest new style shoes we have seen for a long time. He calls them Bon-tons.

Rev. James Cairns, of Polo, Illinois, is now here visiting his friend and co-worker, Rev. N. L. Rigby, and viewing the country generally. He will preach in the Baptist church next Sabbath morning and evening.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JUNE 5, 1874.]

Mr. C. L. F. Johnson, whom everybody knows to be one of the jolliest and cleverest of gentlemen, is now paying Winfield his semi-annual visit, looking after his large interests here.

Capt. T. B. Myers, who has been for some time past on a visit to his old home in West Virginia, returned a few days ago and declares that Cowley County is the best country he has seen yet. Of course it is.

Township assessors will bear in mind that if they do not take a report from each farmer in the county of the amount of grain put in and other grain and stock statistics, that the County Board will not be likely to pay anything for services in which so important a matter is left out.

Langdon, the leader, for years, of the Cherokee settlers, went through here bag and baggage last Saturday, bound for Colorado. He gives it up at last, that Joy has gotten the underhold on the Neutral lands.

A complete organization of the first nine of the "Frontier" base ball club was effected last Saturday. The officers are

E. C. Manning, President; W. W. Walton, Secretary; A. H. Hane, Treasurer; and L. J. Webb, Captain. The second nine should, and doubtless will, organize tomorrow.

A little child of Mr. Jeffries, living in the south end of town, had one of its eyes badly injured by having a sharp pointed knife run between the eye and the socket, very nearly to the base of the brain. Dr. Black, who dressed the wound, has hopes that the sight may be preserved.

The lecture of Prof. H. B. Norton last Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, owing to a misunderstanding as to the time, and owing to this, and owing to that (but we believe owing to the fact that many of us do not yet appreciate such talent as Prof. Norton, and are not particularly fond of intellectual treats) anyway, the attendance was not so large as it might have been.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JUNE 5, 1874.]

A good joke is told on Sheriff Walker, who, besides being the best Sheriff in Kansas, is one of the most bashful of bachelors. Well, a short time ago, the amiable Richard was called upon to serve an attachment against a certain young and lovely widow living out in the country. He called upon her and said, "Madam, I have an attachment for you." The widow blushed, and said his attachment was reciprocated. "You don't understand me, you must proceed to court," said the gallant sheriff. "No indeed," replied the blooming widow, "This is not leap year, so I prefer you to do the courting." "Mrs. H., this is no time for trifling, the Justice is waiting." "The Justice," replies the blushing fair one, "I prefer a parson." Dick retired in disgust, and that widow is single to this day.

The teachers of the Winfield graded schools together with Superintendent Wilkinson's singing class, will close the spring term of school with a musical and literary entertainment. It is proposed by combining outside talent with that of the school children, to make this entertainment worthy of the patronage of the parents and friends of education. Prof. Hulse, Principal of the Arkansas City schools, will aid Mr. Wilkinson; also, Prof.

E. J. Hoyt, with the musical part of the entertainment. A paper will be read by Miss Helen Parmelee and Superintendent Wilkinson, and essays by Mrs. T. A. Wilkinson and Miss Bryant. The proceeds of the exhibition will be expended in purchasing an organ, for the use of the public schools of Winfield. Therefore, all are directly intersted in the success of the enterprise.

Correction. The note in the teacher's report of last week had reference to the deportment only. By mistake the average deportment of the scholars in the intermediate department (which was 90) was omitted.

Announcement. The Presbytery of Emporia will hold an adjourned meeting at Oxford on Saturday and Sunday, June 13th and 14th; on Saturday evening at 7-1/2 o'clock, the opening exercises will be held in the church. On Sabbath morning at eleven o'clock the ordination and installation of Rev. S. B. Fleming will take place. In the evening at 7-1/2 o'clock, the newly completed house of worship will be dedicated. All are cordially invited to attend these exercises.

Lost! Lost! Saturday, May 23rd, 1874, five miles west of Lazette on the Lazette and New Salem road, a valuable silver watch, open face. It had one yard of narrow black tape attached as a guard; any person finding said watch, please leave it with Miss B. M. Dudley, Floral, Kansas, or M. Hemmenway, Lazette, Kansas, or the COURIER office, Winfield, and they will receive due reward.

[MARRIAGE LICENSES: MAY.]

List of marriage licenses issued during the month of May.

Isaac Darnell to Cerilda Cessna.

H. L. Brown to Emma E. Morgan.

Wilson Shaw to Nan V. Bradford.

Alvan Bisbee to Lucy Bates.

L. J. Wells to Lydia R. Hildreth.

Russel H. True to Francis T. Morris.

Levi J. Montgomery to Emma Wiggins.

David Thompson to Diantha T. Wetherbee.

John Swain to Emma S. Leffingwell.

William Doolen to Ida Baldwin.

Henry C. Harns to Electa Hosmer.

Wm. H. Bartholomew to Alice A. Stockdale.

[CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS: MAY 18, 1874.]

The bonds of Joseph Likoski and Reinehart Ehret to the City of Winfield as dram shop keepers were presented to the Council and on motion were approved.

Finance committee asked further time on the bill of Thos. H. Benning. The bill of J. W. Curns for service as Clerk, and stationery $9.23, was allowed.

The application of Z. T. Swiggart to have his salary raised from $35 to $50 per month was referred to the finance committee.

The petition of J. C. Weathers to have the grade lowered between 10th and 12th Avenues on Main Street was referred to the committee on sidewalks.

On motion order number 195, on the treasurer of Winfield in favor of J. M. Young, marshal, was canceled.

An ordinance providing for the levying and collecting of license tax was read by sections and duly passed; the vote on passage stood, ayes McMillen, Darrah, Silver, 3; nays 0.

[LOCAL NOTICES.]

MONEY TO LOAN. C. L. F. JOHNSON, Bradish House.

For Sale. A farm in Badger Valley; rich soil and never failing water; 5 miles from county seat.

Apply at Tarrant's City Bakery.

[ORDINANCE NO. 38.]

An Ordinance relating to the pay of City Marshal and Street

Commissioner.

Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen of the City of Winfield.

SEC 1. That the pay of the City Marshal of the City of Winfield shall be $40 per month.

SEC 2. That the pay of the Street Commissioner of the City of Winfield shall be $10 per month.

SEC 3. That the above sums be allowed the City Marshal and Street Commissioner for their service, from and after the first day of May 1874.

SEC 4. That said sums shall be in lieu of all fees.

SEC 5. That all fees of the city marshal shall be paid into the treasury of the City of Winfield.

SEC 6. That ordinance Number thirteen be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC 7. This ordinance shall be in force and take effect from and after its publication.

Approved June 2nd, 1874.

S. C. SMITH, Mayor.

J. W. CURNS, Clerk.

[EDITORIAL PAGE: COMMUNICATION FROM M. G. TROUP, COUNTY CLERK.]

OFFICE OF COUNTY CLERK, Winfield, June 6th, 1874.

Much as I dislike the task of replying to every "fist" who sees fit to assail me, yet the report which lies before me, namely, the report of the late Investigating Committee, coming from the source that it does, is perhaps worthy of notice on my part. I dare say the people fancy this "good state of perfection" report, from a committee appointed to investigate the affairs of this county, ought at least to be accurate, reliable, and truthful. But I am sorry that truth compels me to say it is neither of the three.

I wish to say a word as to the history of this investigation. When I first came into office, I ascertained that the accounts of a former treasurer, who had been out of office nearly two years, were still open, and apparently unsettled. I wrote to the chairman of the board and apprised him of the fact, and saying I would like to have himself, and the balance of the board, at an early day, examine the records of my office. The board came to my office, examined the records, and concluded to appoint a committee to assist the Clerk, Treasurer, and County Attorney to straighten, and close up, the accounts of the county.

Now mark you, this committee was to assist the proper officers to do this business, or, as was suggested at the time, to see that the records were properly investigated, in all fairness to all parties concerned. I, of course, cheerfully acquiesced in the action of the board, and met the committee in all candor and frankness. The same civilities were observed on my part throughout the entire investigation. But not so with the committee. They soon began to feel the importance of their position, and began to run the investigation with an eye to their own welfare. I now come to the place where I suppose this "good state of perfection" committee took umbrage at my course in this matter. I say I suppose the difficulty arose from what I shall now mention, for in all candor and seriousness, I cannot for the life of me tell why this committee should throw dirt on my unoffending head.

After the committee had prosecuted their labors to a certain point, I meekly suggested to them and to the chairman of the board that it was a useless expenditure of the county's funds to carry the investigation any farther.

About that time the committee began to look wise, whisper mysteriously, and to shun me. Now mark you, I did not like said committee to go about the streets of this city, look wise, and insinuate sly malicious slanders against any of the parties interested, but I went to the chairman of the board direct, and told him that it was certainly bad policy to prosecute the investigation any farther as it was certainly spending money that would result in no pecuniary benefit to the county.

The sequel shows I was right and hence the "ire" of this committee. But the board saw fit to listen to the malicious insinuations of this office seeking committee rather than take the advice of your humble servant, and what is the result. The county has squandered several hundred dollars for a report by which, if the county would settle, it would lose several hundred more. This committee, after arriving at a "good state of perfection," declare Mr. Kager had on hands, on the 1st day of July, 1873, a certain sum of money. I suppose it never occurred to these wiseacres to ask Kager whether he had that amount at the time specified or not. If they had done so, it would certainly have prevented them from making such asses of themselves as they have done. No, that would not do, they must needs rush into print, and say he ought to have had that much money, and leave the impression on the minds of the public that he did not have the money. Bah! Gentlemen, is that what you call a fair, honest, and impartial way of doing things?

Perhaps men who will resort to the same tricks that two-thirds of this committee practiced last fall to secure the offices they were investigating might call that an honest way to treat a fellow creature, but I hardly think the public will think so. Suppose Mr. Kager admits the amount they claim as correct, the county will have squandered several hundred dollars, and have its labor for its pains. But suppose Kager says he has more money on his hands than they claim, what a grand farce the whole thing is, and what asses this trio of chronic office seekers have made of themselves. And let me say right here that the latter supposition is the true one.

The treasurer had more money on the 1st day of July, 1873, than this "good state of perfection" claimed he had. But I beg pardon for intruding myself on the public in this matter. In fact, it is not my corpse. But since the committee, with the same degree of maliciousness that characterizes their entire report, have seen fit to say I threw especial obstacles in the way of their investigation, I should like to have them state publicly and positively what those obstacles were. If they had not willfully and falsely, and without any cause, threw the first dirt, I should not have said a word. But when I am so unjustly assailed as I have been in this case, I deem it a duty to defend myself.

If this investigation had been properly conducted with a view to perfecting the records of the county, it would have been a good thing. But since it was prosecuted wholly for the purpose of blasting the reputation of a few persons, and not for the purpose of closing the accounts of the county, as was intended, it can result in no good. A word about the records of the county, and I am done for this time. The records are in exactly the same condition they were, ere this committee was appointed. This office knows just as much as it did before. The accounts are still all open, and some future officer may want them closed, which will necessitate more investigating.

Yours,

M. G. TROUP.

[A CARD: E. B. KAGER, COUNTY TREASURER.]

MR. EDITOR: I settled as the board of County Commissioners ordered, and have their certificate that I did make a settlement August 16th, 1873, and the proceedings of the County Commissioners will show the same. I did not make the settlement in July because I was making my settlement with the State Treasurer as the law directs, and I could not make myself "numerous." Most of the funds in my hands July 1st, 1873, were township and school district funds, and could not be paid out until the treasurers demanded them, and as they had not demanded the money, it remained in my hands and some of the same money is in my hands now. Figures in our books were often changed because the board would change so many taxes. Still I am free to confess it would be much better to have done otherwise.

I had more money in my hands on the 1st day of July, 1873, than the committee charge me with having, and if the board of County Commissioners will settle by that statement and give me bonds that I will not have the balance in my hands to pay, I will make Cowley county a present of several hundred dollars. The committee must think me incompetent because I did not keep still and put the money in my pocket or divide with them.

The only attempt I ever made to withhold anything from the committee, was, I refused to let them have a receipt book, as I thought they were too careless with our books. But I offered to let them have the book if they would use it in my office. I showed them mistkes to the amount of $200 or $300 made by them against me. The others interested can answer for themselves.

Yours, etc.

E. B. KAGER, Co. Treas.

[WINFIELD WILL CELEBRATE THE GLORIOUS 4TH!]

WINFIELD WILL CELEBRATE!!

IN A STYLE WORTHY OF HER.

And Worthy the Day She Celebrates.

A Special Invitation to the Soldiers and Grangers.

By reference to another place, it will be seen that our people have taken decided action, and will celebrate the 4th in glorious style. On that day the soldiers' association is also called to meet at the same time and place. Let everybody turn out. Let the grangers come by the thousands and mingle with the tradesmen, mechanics, and merchants. Let the soldiers and sailors of both sides come. Let him who wore the blue, and him who wore the grey, forget, for that day at least, that they ever were enemies. Let everybody come determined to celebrate as becomes American citizens loving but one flag, owing allegiance to but one country, and our word for it, Winfield, the queen city of the plains, will do her part to make this celebration the grandest affair ever yet contemplated in the Walnut valley.

[REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.]

[NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT: DELPHINE P. MANNING.]

ALL persons interested are hereby notified that I shall make final settlment of the estate of Delphine P. Manning, late of Cowley County, Kansas, before the Probate Court in and for said county on the 10th day of July, 1874. Any person having claims against said estate are notified to present them, on, or before this time or they will be forever barred.

E. C. MANNING, Administrator.

June 2, 1874.

[PERSONALS.]

Darrah & Doty have the contract for sprinkling main street during the season.

Capt. E. Davis and lady have returned to Winfield to reside permanently.

O. C. Smith, late county commissioner of Cowley county, is now a boat captain on Lake Erie.

It is said that Mr. Holmes Smith of the Fair grounds has been offered $10,000 for his farm.

The jury found Winner guilty of murder in the first degree. McNutt is being tried this week.

There is to be a grand platform dance at Manly's Saw Mill on the Walnut above Little Dutch June 26th.

Father Schurz, of Wichita, will hold service in this city Saturday, July 5th, 1874. All are invited to attend.

A. H. Green, Esq., was thrown from his buggy in main street and slightly hurt last Tuesday and his team ran away.

John Nichols has removed his barber shop to A. A. Jackson's building east side of Main St., where his friends will find him ready to give them a shave or hair cut at a moment's notice.

Mr. Service of New York City has been here on a visit to his brother, James G. Service, for a week past and expresses himself highly pleased with our county.

Dr. Austin of Oxford has been in town for several days tending to Mrs. L. H. Howard, who has been sick with a fever for some time. The Dr. is highly spoken of by those who know him best, as a successful physician.

The farmers have commenced cutting their winter wheat of which there is a very large breadth and heavy yield in the county. Who will have the first wheat in market? Let us hear from the enterprising man.

B. B. Manning picked up an unknown nine and cleaned out the first nine of Winfield last Saturday. The boys who sent the challenge to Wichita, say it cannot be done again. It will be tried again tomorrow afternoon. [Base Ball item]

Tom Wright's running mare put thirty feet between itself and a running gray that wandered through here last Saturday in search of a soft snap.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JUNE 12, 1874.]

Before Judge Miller of the U. S. circuit court, sitting in Leavenworth last week, G. L. Thompson obtained a judgment against Cowley County upon unpaid county scrip for $6,299.48.

Three rough looking strangers were seen camped in the brush on the Walnut last Wednesday night. They were on foot, had no blankets, and looked as though they might be looking for horses.

Al Hedrick, who was taken to Labette county by Sheriff Walker a short time ago, broke the Jail of that county in company with another man and is now at large. A reward of $50 is offered for his apprehension.

In the Traveler report of the judgment taken against the county by Geo. L. Thompson, it erroneously gives it as "Scrip issued for the building of the courthouse." This is incorrect. It was not the scrip issued to build the courthouse on which the county was sued.

Rev. James Cairns, of Polo, Illinois, paid us a farewell visit on Tuesday morning, as he was about to depart for his home in the Sucker state. He expressed himself as highly pleased with his visit, and delighted with the country. Mr. Cairns is one of those frank, earnest, great hearted men, who seem to be placed at intervals along the road from the cradle to the grave, to give the ordinary travelers a better opinion of mankind. We are always sorry to part with such men.

[FOURTH OF JULY: SOLDIERS' REUNION.]

[MOB LAW IN TEXAS: TWO MEN FROM COWLEY COUNTY HANGED.]

Two Men from this county Hanged for Horse Stealing.

Both Thought to be Innocent.

The following note from A. L. Austin, a prominent cattle dealer in Texas, was handed us by his brother, Dr. Austin, of Oxford. The James Brown spoken of is probably the son of Mrs. Myers, who lives a few miles north of town, and who went to Texas sometime last March. We can find no one who knew Hedges and he probably does not belong here. It is a sad commentary on the laws of the state when mobs are permitted to shoot and hang on mere suspicion.

"'Hanged' in Earth county Texas about the 15 day of May one James Brown & John Hedges both from Cowley county Kansas. I think the latter was innocent of the charge against both--that of horse stealing. A Bill of Sale was found on the person of Hedges for the horse he had--procured of a man in my employ gathering cattle. A. L. AUSTIN."

[PROCEEDINGS OF 4TH OF JULY PLANNING COMMITTEE.]

Public meeting of the citizens of Winfield, was held last Monday evening at the office of Curns & Manser for the purpose of preparing for a celebration of the 4th of July at Winfield.

On motion G. S. Manser was chosen chairman and L. J. Webb, Esq., Secretary.

C. M. Wood offered the following, which was adopted.

N. H. Wood, James Simpson, and J. T. Hall were appointed a committee to confer with the Soldier's Association and invite them to take part in the celebration.

On motion it was resolved that the celebration be a basket picnic.

T. K. Johnston, Enoch Marrs, and C. M. Wood were appointed a finance committee.

M. L. Robinson, James Kelly, and J. T. Hall were appointed a committee to procure speakers.

A. T. Stewart, Max Shoeb, and H. B. Lacy were appointed a committee on grounds.

J. T. Hall, T. A. Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs. John Swain, Miss Mary Stewart, and Miss Baldwin were appointed a committee on music.

H. B. Lacy, C. M. Wood, and J. P. McMillen were appointed a committee on ice water.

J. P. McMillen, Wirt Walton, and L. J. Webb were appointed a committee on fantastics and amusements.

L. J. Webb and James Kelly were appointed a committee on

artillery.

Captain R. L. Walker was appointed Marshal of the day.

James Kelly offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted.

Resolved, That we extend a cordial invitation to the several Granges of the county to attend and participate in the celebration.

The meeting then adjourned to meet Monday evening June 15th at 8 o'clock P.M.

G. S. MANSER, Chairman.

L. J. WEBB, Secretary.

[COMMUNICATION FROM S. M. FALL RE TROUP ARTICLE.]

LAZETTE, KANSAS, June 15th, 1874.

BRO. KELLY: In answer to an article which appeared in your paper June 12th, written by one M. G. Troup, we would say that the spirit of his piece is not good, and any man to read it carefully can see that it is a boastful, headstrong, lengthy, labored article.

Said committee considere it would be much better, and give more general satisfaction to be governed by instruction and advice from the County Commissioners, than a swell headed County Clerk, who, repeatedly refused to let us have paper, pencils, receipts, etc., which we were justly entitled to in the prosecution of the work.

If we had prosecuted the work in a way that Mr. Troup wanted us to, instead of the Commissioners, we would have been first rate fellows.

But because he could not run the committee and Commissioners to whitewash the thing and have it said that he is the Grand Mogul of the whole concern, he became impudent and sulky.

A man that undertook to find a delinquent list and upon trial couldn't find a correct one, and yet swore he knew he was right and the committee a set of fools, and did not know anything about it, this committee has no use for.

I would suggest that brother Troup part his hair in the middle, take county scrip, and buy a new plug hat, let Cowley county furnish him a gold headed cane, in order that he may walk about the city, put on style, and be more in his natural element.

I do not wish to enter into a long personal dispute or quarrel in this matter, but if brother Troup don't go a little slow, he will be shown up in a more minute and particular manner at no very distant day.

Respectfully,

S. M. FALL.

[PERSONALS.]

County scrip is selling for sixty cents.

New potatoes are plenty at $$2.00 per bushel.

Corn is selling for 50 cts., butter 10 cts., eggs 7 cts.

Our silver cornet band is brushing up for the 4th.

The farmers report the cotton crop is looking well.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JUNE 19, 1874.]

Deputy Clerk Bedilion has his new cottage enclosed.

Six cents a bushel is the going price for threshing wheat.

The bridge across the Walnut below town is reported in an unsafe condition.

The Winfield Meat Market is supplying Arkansas City with fresh meat.

The new school organ has arrived and is established in the school building.

I. L. Comfort cuts wood and will attend to orders left at the Lagonda House.

We have heard of fifteen new thrashing machines brought to Cowley county this season.

Tom Collins has been in town this week, and several bloods have been on the search for him.

Mr. Blandin has built a large addition to his commodious dwelling, which looks very comfortable.

E. B. Johnson, of Beaver township, has been selling elegant, clean dressed cat fish on the streets at ten cents per pound.

Cal. Ferguson, of the firm of Davis & Ferguson, has returned from Baxter Springs, bringing with him his wife.

Richland township contains 600 population. Rock township has 314 acres of winter wheat, and 3,127 acres of corn.

The two horse thieves recently committed to the county jail, were but recently discharged from the Kansas Penitentiary.

B. B. The first nine vanquished the second of Winfield, last Saturday. Tomorrow afternoon decides the best two in three.

T. A. Blanchard has been chosen by the County Council P. of H. to represent Cowley at the coming State Fair.

Winfield township contains ninety more male than female inhabitants over the age of twenty-one years.

The farmers in the vicinity of the Blanchard school house are going to have a neighborhood celebration on the 4th. T. A. Blanchard, orator of the day.

$185 has been subscribed towards defraying the expenses of the celebration on the 4th.

We never saw better cocoanuts than those kept by George Miller. They are sound and sweet, and taste as delicious as it is possible for cocoanuts to taste. George is the only person in town who keeps them, and he sells reasonable.

Capt. Cook, of Virginia, was in the city the fore part of the week visiting Dr. Mansfield, and looking at the country.

[MORE PERSONALS: WINFIELD COURIER, JUNE 19, 1874.]

A gentleman named Anderson, living between this city and Arkansas City, lost a horse last week which is supposed to have been stolen, as a suspicious looking character was seen lurking in the neighborhood the day before.

A daughter, aged about five years, of a Mr. Acton, living near the south line of the county, was bitten by a mad dog last Friday. The father took the child to Wichita in search of a mad stone, and failing there, telegraphed to various places in search of one, until finally he heard of one in Howard county. He passed through here on Monday last with the child on his way to Howard. The dog was killed after having bitten some domestic animals.

The Elk City Courant is a new paper published in Montgomery county, and the first number is before us. It looks well. Clark & Steinbarger are publishers. Abe Steinbarger graduated as a publisher in the COURIER office and of course knows how to get up a paper.

The members of this office are indebted to Miss J. E. Daggart, for an invitation to attend a picnic at the Floral and Pleasant Hill schools. The picnic will be held at the junction of the Dutch and Timber creeks, on Wednesday next, the 24th inst.

[WINFIELD TOWNSHIP STATISTICS.]

Population of Winfield township: 2,399

Males over 21: 395

Females over 21: 365

Males under 21: 355

Females under 21: 344

Acres of improved