[NATIONAL ITEMS, ETC.]

SITTING BULL, having tired of his allegiance to the "Great Mother," is reported again within the boundaries of the United States in quest of scalps and plunder. It will now be in order for the British Government to send a commission to interview him.

The following dispatch has been forwarded to Washington by Gen. McDowell to the adjutant general. "General Kautz has just received the following dispatch from camp Bowie, Arizona, dated the 24th: Lieuts. Rucker and Tony, of the Sixth cavalry, have returned. They struck the party that killed the mail rider December the 14th, east of Stein's peak range, and killed one. Five days later they struck them in old Mexico, surprised the ranchero of thirty-four Wickcups, [? that is what paper printed]

destroyed the camp, captured sixteen horses, fifty saddles, and a lot of stuff which the renegades had taken from the train. Fifteen dead bodies were found on the ground, with evidences that more had been killed. The mail matter was recaptured."

The Chicago Times' Helena, Montana, special says: Father Ginin arrived at Malas river Sunday, and reported to Fort Benton by messenger, that Sitting Bull had crossed the line and camped at Bear Paw mountains with a large force of Sioux and Nez Perces. A man named Valentino is supposed to be killed. This report is confirmed from other sources, and it is stated the Indians are burning the prairie south of Bear Paw, and Sitting Bull is on Miles' battleground and has been joined by Lone Deer's band of seventy-five lodges.

[EDITORIAL COLUMN.]

We have frequently spoken of Mr. Dean's herd and urged stock men to adopt this plan of improving stock. A cross between the Texas and short horn gives hardy, thrifty, and very desirable beef cattle.

INDIAN WAR. A Pawnee Indian came in last week and reported that they had a fight on the buffalo range on the south side of Red river, with the Cheyennes and Arrapahoes, in which thirty Cheyennes and twelve Pawnees were killed. The disturbance was caused by tresspassing on one another's hunting grounds. The Pawnees being accused of trespassing, as they generally do, caring little for the rights of others and being a terror on the plains.

[CITIZEN OF THE NEW DISTRICT: BOLTON TOWNSHIP.]

"How I do wish people would mind their own business," and there is Lish Bowers says he won't stand it either, and we didn't intend running the new district nearer than one-fourth of a mile of his school house. Oh, dear! If people would only mind their business; but if Story is a Democrat, we are all right.

Now, friend Scott, if you will publish this and let the people know we are alive and striving, I will write you again when we get our district located.

CITIZEN OF THE NEW DISTRICT.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "C" - WINFIELD.]

After a few preliminary remarks in his inimitable style, by way of introduction, he then commenced his lecture on board the steamer as she glided down the bay of New York and out of the Narrows into the ocean; giving his observations on what he saw and heard among his fellow passengers--their joys and sorrows, ups and downs, and how soon they took to the imitation of the throng around them. When the ocean heaved, the ship heaved; then the passengers heaved.

He even described the characteristics of the various nationalities on board and at the landing in the Mersey at Liverpool, humorously describing the Englishman with his silk umbrella and two hats, with only one head, and that sometimes a very indifferent one. He faithfully describes the great cities of London and Liverpool, with their peculiarities, curiosities, antiquities, and reminiscences. Then he takes you with him on a trip to the North, passing through Leeds, Manchester, and other places until he lands you in the capital of bonny Scot-land, in two senses--the home of the Scotch, and the land of Sir Walter Scott, the gentleman poet, and Robby Burns, the Ayreshire plowman poet and exciseman, a name that will live and be heard among the masses when that of Scott will be forgotten. I don't mean you, of course. The TRAVELER shall and must live forever.

After giving a glowing description of Edinburg; its houses ten stories high; its churches, castles, and magnificent surroundings--showing you the chamber where Mary Queen of Scots witnessed the assassination of her favorite music teacher, while clinging to her skirts for protection, by the hand of her afterwards husband, Darnley; also the place of her imprisonment.

After describing the beauty and grandeur of an English gentleman's private residence and estate, and how he traveled over England on a railroad van as a male, he suddently leaves us for the company of Mr. O'Neal, an Irish gentleman who chaperoned him to the land of "Sweet Erin," shows him Belfast, Derry, and the great Giant's Causeway, where he discovers five or six thousand basaltic columns piled up on top of each other, reminding him of a lot of Kansas politicians apparently straight up, but not perfectly "square," and no two of them agreeing.

Taking the back track on an Irish jaunting car, he visited Bush Mill and Port Rush, a small seaport town described by his traveling companion, Mr. O'Neal, as an elegant little place where the gentry from Ballymence, Strabane, Dublin, and beyant come to bathe, wash, and "oil their hair in its pure salt wather."

[PUBLIC SCHOOLS: ARKANSAS CITY.]

[PETER WALTON: FARMER, GROUSE VALLEY.]

Mr. Peter Walton is a sensible and substantital farmer of the Grouse valley. He came over to the Winfield mill the other day dressed suitably for handling flour bags. One of the mill boys asked him if he was Wirt's brother, and was answered in the affirmative. "Well," said the mill boy, "you don't put on as much style as Wirt does." "No," said Peter, "I used to be just such a d_____d fool as he is, had a three hundred dollar horse, and wore brass toed boots, but I have got over that."

[BUSINESS NOTICES.]

Having sold our entire stock of Drugs, Medicines, etc., to J. A. Loomis (who will continue the business at the old stand), we hereby notify all persons in debt to us to call in and settle by cash or otherwise at once, as we must close up our business immediately.

KELLOGG & HOYT.

[PERSONALS.]

TOM KIMMELL has a boy!

One span of the Walnut river bridge is up.

TELL WILLIAMS now counts himself one of the double men.

A wagon was seen on top of the calaboose the morning after Christmas.

The officers of the Masonic Lodge were installed last Thursday evening.

FRANK SPEERS and Miss Rachael Steiner were married sure enough last week.

The first snow of the winter fell last Friday night, and laid on the ground four days.

A social dance will be held at Peter Myers' house in East Bolton on tomorrow evening.

MR. RIDDLE has opened his goods in Pearson's building, and has a fine assortment of them.

The father and mother of A. A. Newman came all the way from Maine to visit their children.

WORK began on the bridge across the Walnut last week, and it will be ready to cross on in a few days.

The bank at Harmon's ford is very muddy and difficult to cross. Some hay or gravel would help it wonderfully.

The new dry goods man's name is Riddle. He will make special inducements to all who want to buy goods in his line.

REV. R. J. THOMPSON has moved to El Paso, and will preach at that place two-thirds of the time, and the other third in this city.

We learn from G. P. Strum, now in Washington, that Ed. Harbaugh, formerly of Barrett's surveying corps, was married last week.

It is a fact, FRANK SPEERS and Miss Rachael Steiner are really married. La! me, how they did worry the folks putting it off so long.

MARRIED. By Elder Broadbent, December 20th, Mr. Squire Curry and Miss Mary McCoy. The ceremony was performed at the residence of Mr. Haedicke. Good for squire.

MR. MANTOR sold his interest in the grocery store to Mr. Pierce, late of Maine, last week. Mr. Pierce is at home in a grocery and will please all who patronize him. The firm is now PIERCE & WELSH.

If England does take a hand in the Eastern war, what a time there will be. Wheat will go up, corn will be more in demand, pork will advance, but Houghton & McLaughlin will continue to sell dry goods at the same low rate.

LYCEUM. The Aristotelion Society meets at the Parker school house, on Tuesday night, 1st inst. The question for debate: "Resolved that Art exceeds Nature." After debate essays, select reading, and singing. All are requested to come.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, JANUARY 2, 1878.]

W. B. TRISSELL, agent for the Rose Hill and Walnut Valley Nurseries, starts for Chetopa this morning, with a span of matched horses for his employer. He will return next week and continue his good work towards the farmers in the way of nursery stocks.

We have among us a jeweler who is more than an ordinary workman. Mr. JAMES RIDENOUR is his name, and he can always be found at Schiffbauer's grocery. Those having fine watches can leave them with him to be repaired without fear of ruining them.

CHEAP LANDS. COL. McMULLEN offers twenty-five tracts of land, comprising grain farms, stock farms, timber and pasture lands, very cheap. The lands were purchased when they could be bought very low and are now offered at prices that will make it pay to buy.

PIERCE & WELSH sell very nearly

Everything you please;

Tobacco, soaps, sacks of flour,

Sugar drops and cheese.

If you go and make a purchase,

You never will regret,

But will seek their store as you did before,

And tell others to go, you bet.

[$1 for getting the above off.]

Mr. L. Finley intends removing to Pleasant Valley township, and Dr. Leonard will not act as Township Trustee, so the Board of Commissioners will have to appoint a Clerk and Trustee.

MR. JAMES WILSON has returned from Leavenworth, and is glad to get back, and everybody is glad to see him back. He brought with him a beautiful fern. Mr. Wilson is one of the greatest plant fanciers in Kansas, and probably one of the best posted gentlemen on flower culture. He has a fine selection in his store window. He thinks a great deal of his plants, but for all that he will sell some of the prettiest ladies' apparel you ever saw for half what it can be purchased for in any town in the

Southwest.

PRAYER meeting at the residence of Rev. David Thompson at 7 o'clock this evening. The U. P. Presbytery of Neosho will meet at the brick church in this place at 10 a.m., on Wednesday, the 9th inst., for the purpose of organizing and installing Rev. R. S. McClanahan as pastor of the U. P. congregtion in Arkansas City, and it is expected that some of the brethren will remain to assist at the dispensation of the Lord's Supper on the following

Sabbath. All are respectfully invited to attend.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, JANUARY 2, 1878.]

ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting at the First Presby-terian church will be held on Thursday evening of this week. Preaching at seven o'clock. After service the following items will come up for consideration: Hearing of reports. Election of officers whose time of office expires. At this meeting also, the election of three additional elders. Miscellaneous business. Let every member be present. S. B. FLEMING, Pastor.

NEW YEAR'S EVE was celebrated at Bland's school house by a general good time. Enough were present to make a lively company without crowing the house, and there was room for all the gents' number fourteens without getting them tangled. Two violins, a banjo, a flute, a fife, and an accordeon were the instrumental pieces, and when all broke out at once, it roused the bones of even the oldest. All went in for fun, and you can bet they had it.

F. H. Hunt, W. M.; C. H. Bell, S. W.; J. Hicks, J. W.; C. W. Wright, Treas.; O. M. Smith, Sec.; S. H. Pickering, S. D.; D. D. Robinson, J. D.; E. Seque, S. S.; H. Goodhue, J. S.; D. P.

Robinson, T.

MR. J. W. CANFIELD and Miss Bitha I. Bowers were united in the holy bonds of matrimony at the residence of the bride's parents, on the first day of the new year, 1878, thereby celebrating in a manner always to be remembered. Both parties have a great many friends who are glad to chronicle the event.

[THE METHODIST FESTIVAL.]

The festival given by the ladies of the Methodist Society, on Christmas Eve, was an occasion long to be remembered by those who attended--and it seemed as if "all the world and his wife" were there. The house was uncomfortably crowded with people, old and young, who had come to partake of the bountiful feast prepared for them, and witness old Santa Claus distribute his presents from the immense tree that stood at one end of the room,

literally loaded down with handsome silverware for fortunate wives, valuable books for relatives and friends, besides an endless variety of dolls and toys to make glad the hearts of the little ones.

"Christmas comes but once a year;

When it comes, it brings good cheer."

The fancy table was well supplied with ornamental articles, which the fair ladies succeeded in selling to the bachelors and young men as particularly useful to persons situated as they were. The gentlemen in question had no other course than to hand over the cash and pocket the article, but just how an old woman hater was to be benefited by paying fifty cents for an embryo apron made to pin around the neck, is a problem that remains unsolved.

On this table was a veteran law book, 131 years old, contributed by Judge Christian for exhibition.

Over the table hung a beautiful chromo, donated by Mr. E. D. Eddy, and to be given to the prettiest baby in the room. This question was decided by voting (ten cents for each and every vote), with the privilege of repeating ad infinitum), and re-

sulted in favor of Claire, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. R.

Mitchell.

In the contest for the quilt, which was to be given to the handsomest old lady in the room (another dime affair), Mrs. Alexander came out victorious.

The charade was acted very creditably, but the noise of the crowd was so great that few could hear enough to enable them to guess the word. Miss Decou's surprising efforts at harmony, however, were heard above the multitide.

We understand the Society cleared about eighty dollars altogether, which will be applied to finishing their new

building.

[GRANGE FESTIVAL HELD IN SOUTH BEND, PLEASANT VALLEY TOWNSHIP.]

The Grange Festival given at the Grange Hall in South Bend, Pleasant Valley township, last Monday night, was attended by people from almost all parts of the county, numbering in all nearly two hundred. The mangement and arrangement of the affair was one of the best we have attended in the county. A tent was erected a short distance from the door, where cloaks and wearing apparel were cared for, and checks given for safe keeping.

Close by was another long pavilion with a table filled with a dozen varieties of cakes, pies, meats, etc., with waiters sufficient to see to the wants of all. Under the same tent Mr. Goff engineered an oyster, cigar, candy, and apple stand, with a good heating stove behind him to warm by.

There were fifty-nine numbers sold, and the hall was

crowded, yet, all had a chance to dance, and enjoyed themselves exceedingly. The Pennsylvania brothers furnished the music--the best, without any exception, ever rendered at any similar entertainment in the county.

South Bend Grange is well known for its energy and hospitality, and its members compose most of the best people in the locality in which it thrives. By special invitation we attended the gathering, in preference to several others, and were glad of it; and would say to all who may be fortunate enough to be invited at any future time, go, if you can appreciate a good time.

[SITTING BULL.]

Official dispatches from Big Horn post, in Montana Terri-

tory, says two Nez Perces have come into camp, having been in Sitting Bull's camp, and report that a white scout is in the camp of the hostiles as a prisoner. The Nez Perces are anxious to leave Sitting Bull, and are slipping away whenever possible, but are afraid to come in a body. A dispatch from Fort Buford says Sitting Bull is reported encamped on Rock creek and committing some depredations, chiefly on other Indians.

[EDITORIAL COLUMN.]

The trouble on the Rio Grande is a nasty little row between rival cattle thieves over a salt lick. It is impossible to get up an international war over this thing. Ex.

Our national officials are too sharp to drag our country into a war with Mexico just to gratify these scoundrels.

[COMMUNICATION: "A. B. C." - EAST BOLTON.]

A social dance at Peter Myers' house was the event of the new year. All of East Bolton was there. Grouse creek was not represented--Grouse creek was there in full force.

Many were elaborately dressed, though I mention but one. Miss Mary Myers wore a white Swiss, high corsage, and full sleeves, princess train artistically looped and held up by clusters of flowers.

At ten o'clock came supper, and the table groaned beneath all that any appetite could crave. Sixty took supper, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. Denton, Mr. and Mrs. Weatherholt, Mr. and Mrs. Skinner, Wm. Stewart and wife, O. C. Skinner and wife, Miss Landis, the Misses Chambers and Keys, and a host of young ladies your correspondent did not know. The dance continued until the wee small hours of morn, and in taking leave not one could say, "I am weary of this weary world." A. B. C.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "COLORADO BRICK" - THOMASVILLE.]

On Christmas day at half past nine o'clock your humble servant started for Winfield with orders to appear at the house of Mr. Warren Wood, between the hours of one and two p.m., or I would lose my share of turkey; consequently, horse flesh suffered until I returned, and not any too soon, for I found Mr. Turkey ready to step from the stove to the table, preparatory to the carving knife which W. A. Freeman held in his hand.

You ought to have seen this table. It would have made a hungry man dance with joy to see so much hash piled on one table.

After the turkey and other substantial grub was served (such as farmers have and farmers' wives and daughters know how to cook), then came the side dishes. O hurrah! it would take a column of the TRAVELER to name them.

The Rodger Bros. furnished the horse hair and rosin and the way the calico flew and the box toed boots pawed the floor. Well, to describe it would be to paint the sun beams, but everybody lived over it and are doing well now. More anon about the farmers and crops. COLORADO BRICK.

[THOMAS NELSON, FOUND IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY--FOLLOW-UP STORY.]

A man calling himself Thomas Nelson was some weeks since found in the Indian Territory in a destitute and starving condition, and with his extremities badly frozen. He was brought into Sumner county, and afterwards to Wellington, and placed in the care of the overseer of the poor. Upon examination, Dr. P. A. Wood, County Physician, deemed it advisable to amputate his feet, and would have done so, but the poor fellow begged piteously for their retention. Under skillful treatment, he began to recover, contrary to the expectations of the physicians; and on Tuesday he appeared before Judge Evans and a jury, charged with insanity.

It seems that the charges were based on his inability or disinclination to give any intelligible account of himself prior to his discovery as above stated. While he seems to be able to converse and answer other questions, he persistently evades or refuses to tell where he is from or who are his friends. After hearing evidence and carefully investigating the case, the jury decided that the man was sane, and he was remanded to the care of the overseer of the poor. For several weeks he has been cared for and treated at the expense of the county, and he is yet likely to continue a public burden for some time to come. There is a mystery surrounding this case, that so far has baffled every effort at penetration. Wellington Press.

[CHIEF OF PONCA INDIANS LOOKING FOR A NEW RESERVATION.]

[TERM OF OFFICE OF JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.]

To all of which I have to say, that, under Article 3, Section 9, State Constitution, the term of office of Justice of the Peace is two years.

If the Justices elected in November, 1875, were elected for the full or constitutional term of two years, then they are entitled to serve two years from the first Tuesday in April, 1876, or to that day of April, 1878. And hence the Justices elected at the recent election (November, 1877) cannot take office until the first Tuesday in April 1878.

[AD: CHOICE LANDS FOR SALE IN COWLEY AND SUMNER COUNTIES.]

CHOICE LANDS FOR SALE

-IN-

COWLEY AND SUMNER

COUNTIES.

One-fifth of the purchase money required as FIRST PAYMENT,

Balance on FIVE YEARS' TIME.

West 1/2 of section 36, township 34, south of range 3 east; 230 acres, joining Arkansas City; all bottom land; plenty of wter and timber; 100 acres in cultivation; very desirable tract of land; price $3,000. As soon as a railroad reaches here, this place will be worth double this sum.

S 1/23 of SE 1/4 sec. 5, tp 34, S R 3 D. This tract is in the finest portion of the Arkanss Valley. Known as the Sweet land; price $600.

E 1/2 of NW 1/4 sec 5, tp 34, S R 4 E. Upland; known as the Waldo tract. Price $300.

NW 1/4 sec 31, tp 33, S R 3 E. Very fine bottom land; plenty of timber and water; price $4 per acre; known as the McLane tract.

SE 1/4 sec 22, tp 34, S R 4 E. Seventy acres in cultivation; good house, plenty of water, price $1,300; 3-1/2 miles east of Arkansas City; known as the Kerr place.

E 1/2 of SW 1/4 sec 17, tp 35, S R 4 E. All in cultivation; on State line; a most excellent piece of land for stock: $700.

SE 1/4 sec 7, tp 34, S R 3 E. This is a most excellent tract of land near Salt City, in an excellent neighborhood; price $1,200. Known as the Sweet farm.

Lot 1 and 2, and S 1/2 of NW 1/4 sec 13, tp 35, S R 4 W, in Sumner county, Kas. Known as the James W. DeHoney tract; price $400.

NE 1/4 sec 9, tp 35, S R 2 W, in Sumner county, Kansas; known as the James R. Prange farm; price $400.

Lot 2 block 80; lot 25, block 132; lots 5 and 6, block 17; lots 9 and 10, block 150; and 5 acres of timber land on Arkansas river, near Max Fawcett's farm.

NW 1/4 sec 11, tp 35, S R 3 E. Known as the Buckwalter farm; price $1,500.

NE 1/4 sec 13, tp 34, S R 4 E; 80 acres in cultivation; price $800. Known as the W. G. Gooch tract.

NE 1/4 sec 33, tp 33, S R 5 E. Known as the Park farm; price $300.

E 1/2 of NE 1/4 sec 7, and W 1/2 of NW 1/4 sec 8, tp 35,

S R 4 E. Known as the Edwards land; price $600.

NW 1/4 sec 27, tp 34, S R 4 E. Thirty acres in cultivation; price $1,200. Inquire of Rev. David Thompson.

[BUSINESS NOTICES.]

Do you see this Offer of Bliss & Co.,

Winfield, Kansas?

BLISS & CO., WINFIELD, KANSAS.

NOTICE is hereby given to the creditors and others interested in the Estate of L. W. Emerson, deceased, that the undersigned, administrator of said estate, will, on the 27th day of February, 1878, at one o'clock p.m. of said day, make a final settlement of said estate.

O. P. HOUGHTON, Administrator.

[PERSONALS.]

Last Friday was the 29th birthday of C. R. SIPES.

The ferry west of town is running all right again.

School began last Monday, after a week's vacation.

The city is without a mayor. Dr. Kellogg is at Emporia.

DEER can be seen almost any day in Goff's woods, a mile and a half north of town.

It is time to do something to get a bridge across the Arkansas, if we are to have one.

There was good skating on the pond near Speers' mill last week, and many of the boys accepted the opportunity of enjoying the sport.

BOON HARTSOCK has a good large boat capable of carrying six persons at one time, which he will launch on the Arkansas at the ferry this week.

A petition has been circulated asking the County Commissioners to appoint James I. Huey, Trustee of Creswell township, in place of M. R. Leonard, who resigned.

When the surprise party went to Rev. Fleming's house last week, Mr. Fleming was suffering with a severe headache. They left a quantity of good things and entirely cured him of his pain.

With port at 2-1/2 and 4 cents per pound, dressed, someone could make a small fortune by it. It will be eight and ten cents before next winter, and probably have to be shipped in then.

MARRIED. On the 27th of Dec. by Dr. Taylor, at the residence of the bride's sister near Aberdeen, Brown county, Ohio, Miss Lucy M. Woodyard, formerly of Arkansas City, to Mr. W. N. Huron, of Brown county, Ohio.

THE Police News pictures out the whipping of Doane, for pony stealing, by the Kaw Indians, in an extravagant style. The Kaws themselves are fearfully tickled over the illustration and ask many questions of it.

A sycamore tree was cut on John Nichols' farm last week that measured over seven feet at the butt. There is not a wagon strong enough in the country to haul it to the mill, and it will have to be bursted in two with powder before it can be handled at all.

The meat market of Pat & Posy, between the Green Front Grocery and M. S. Faris', made a good display of chickens, turkeys, venison, beef, pork, sausages, etc., during the holidays. Yesterday we noticed a fine fat heifer on their hooks that would grace any market.

From last accounts Wyard Gooch and W. M. Bacon were camped this side of the Salt Fork waiting for the water in the river to fall. A load of flour and some provisions for the Pawnee Agency are there also. Bacon has learned to sleep with one eye opened and make a meal of slap jacks.

On New Year's Eve a merry social party was held at the residence of Leander Finley, Esq., in this city. The youngsters enjoyed themselves hugely from dark until 1 o'clock. On hearing the uproar, we stopped and "peeped through the blinds," and saw some twenty-five or thirty youngsters of all ages, sizes, colors, and sexes, jumbled up together talking, running, jumping, playing, singing, and laughing--all at the same time--apparently as happy and at home as a flea in a blanket. We exclaimed, in the language of the poet: "Go it while you are young, for when you get old, you cannot."

The experiment you made with the skiff, Crawford, was when you began on the back water a half mile from the river and had to go over two or three cornfields. No wonder you thought the channel changed.

NEARLY A GOOD BYE. As Mr. Trissell was returning from Chetopa, he attempted to cross the Cana river on horseback. After getting about half way across, the horse disappeared under the water, and Trissell likewise. When he came up from an exploration of the bottom, he gazed around and grabbed his horse by the bridle and held on while it swam to shore with him. Mr. Trissell could not swim a stroke, and had it not been for the lucky hold he got, he would be balancing his accounts with another world instead of recommending first class nursery stock to the farmers of this county.

We neglected to mention that Mr. Wm. Coombs had his throat severely injured by drinking a few swallos of lye. It had been caught in the water pail and left on the kitchen floor. The hired man noticed it and sat it on the table where the water pail usually was placed, so that in the morning he drank it before discovering his mistake. He had presence of mind enough, how-

SINGULAR DEATH. As Mr. Adams was loading his wagon last week, the mules became frightened at a chicken suddenly flying up and started to run. He pulled on the lines, but could not stop them until they had run about fifty yards, when one of them dropped dead in the harness. It had been in perfect health a few minutes before, and the owner thinks it must have ruptured a blood vessel while running.

The following pupils deserve mention for scholarship, having merited, in Reading, History, Grammar, Geography, and Arithmetic, by a written examination, the following average percent so far as they have advanced during the last term: Jerry Adams in the five studies mentioned, 91; Annie Norton and Mary Theaker, 85; Mattie Mitchell, 94; Laura Gregg, 76; Linnie Peed, not including His-

tory, 80; Linda Christian in same, 74; Flora Finley, in Reading, Arithmetic and Grammar, 85; John Parker in 2nd grade, 75 in the five branches.

MR. STANTON, a relative of J. A. Stafford, and Mrs. Schiffbauer, arrived last week with his wife and two children. Mr. Stanton is a representative of one of the best families in Iowa, and intends to locate with us. From him we learn that a number of other families contemplate moving to this section in the spring.

The bridge across the Walnut at Newman's Mill is complete, but the approach on the west side has not been made yet. The piers are about four feet higher than they originally were, and seem high enough to be out of danger, but the structure of the bridge is very light and should be well tested before accepting it.

[BUSINESS NOTICES.]

Having lately opened a hashery, we send you these, our rules and regulations.

This house will be considered strictly intemperate.

None but the brave deserve the fare.

Persons owing bills for board will be bored for bill.

Boarders who do not wish to pay in advance are requested to advance and pay.

Boarders are expected to wait on the colored cook--for meals.

Sheets will be nightly changed once in six months, or more, if necessary.

Single men and their families will not be boarded.

Nightmares hired at reasonable rates.

Safety valves will be furnished to snoring boarders.

WILLIAMS & MARICLE, Prop's.

SCHIFFBAUER BROTHERS

[EDITORIAL COLUMN.]

The Railroad.

During the past two weeks we have heard a great many inquiries about the Kansas City, Emporia & Southern Railway, and many contradictory reports. We learn from one party in Emporia that the company did not succeed in selling the bonds voted to them and that the road was now being built with their own funds, and had to be built slow. The letter stated that they would build the road on time and be here according to agreement. Another letter stated that the road was being built, but that the cars would not be running to the south line of Lyon county in time to secure the bonds of Cowley county, without an extension of time. But few have doubts that the road will fail to come, and many believe it will be built the greater portion of the way according to contract.

The same is true of the lands just south of this county. A number of squatters have gone into the Territory and taken claims, built cabins, and are preparing to open farms--all on the same idle rumor. It is astonishing how foolish some men are, and what a thirst there is among the frontier people for adventure, in rushing into the Territory to take claims when as good land can be had for less money (when you count the costs) on this side of the line. These men will have to move back ere long, if Uncle Sam finds them on the reserve.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "L" - WICHITA.]

[THE U. P. CONGREGATION OF ARKANSAS CITY.]

About five years ago this congregation was organized with a membership of eleven in full communion. Wm. M. Sleeth and W. Shaw were elected ruling elders. In 1874 the congregation, with aid from the Board of Church Extension, and the generous assistance of friends of religion here and elsewhere, erected a fine church edifice at a cost of about $3,000. Under the fostering care of the Presbytery of Neosho, in furnishing supplies of gospel ordinances, the congregation has increased in numbers and wealth so as to justify them in calling one to take the charge and oversight of their spiritual interests.

Their choice fell on R. S. McClanahan, a licenciate of Monmouth Presbytery, after they had had a trial of his qualifications to edify them for upwards of eight months. The presbytery having ordained and installed him as pastor, it is hoped tht the pleasure of the Lord will prosper through his instrumentality. He has the confidence of the congregation and the community, as a man of fair gifts and decided piety. May the relation lately formed between him and them be prosperous and happy.

Two good men, Mr. Leander Finley and Mr. R. L. Marshall, were added to the session or eldership of the congregation last week, and a comfortable communion was held here yesterday, Rev. J. A. Collins, of Americus, assisting.

A good Sabbath school and weekly prayer meeting are kept up in the congregation. The congregation, being in such good working order and situated in one of the best parts of the State, with a fair prospect of new accessions of members, it is hoped that the congregation will take root downward and bear fruit upward, to the praise of God and the salvation of man.

DAVID THOMPSON.

The Presbytery of Neosho, of the United Presbyterian Church, met in Arkansas City last week. The principal object for meeting was to ordain and install Rev. R. S. McClanahan as pastor of the U. P. church here. On account of this place being so far distant from the majority of the members of the Presbytery, only a few of them were present. Dr. Barnett, for thirty years a missionary in Syria and Egypt. was the Moderator. Mr. McClanahan was received by letter from the Presbytery of Manmouth, Illinois. A unanimous call, addressed to him by the congregation here, was sustained, presented, and accepted. Two trial discourses were delivered by Mr. McClanahan, which were unanimously approved, and he was solemnly ordained according to the usual order of the church, and the pastorial relation established; Mr. McClanahan receiving the cordial greeting of the members of the Presbytery and congregation. The people of this church seem much encouraged, now that they have a settled pastor among them. Revs. Dr. Barnett, Collins, D. Thompson, and R. J. Thompson, participated in the exercises. In the evening instead of the usual prayer meeting, Rev. Dr. Barnett delivered a lecture on the customs of Syria and Egypt, as illustrative of the truth of scripture, to a large and very attentive audience. CLERK.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "T. H." - SOUTH HAVEN.]

The protracted meeting at South Haven commenced week before last, is still in progress, and with much increased interest. There has been a general awaking among the members of both the

M. E. and Baptist churches, and several backsliders have already been reclaimed. A very deep interest pervades the congregation and community. Quite a number are asking the prayers of the church. Revs. Harris and S. C. Noble, of the Baptist church, have been present and labored most faithfully with us. Also our lady evangelist, Mrs. Mary E. Neal, of the M. E. church, together with the preachers in charge, Revs. E. B. Abbott and A. W. Ryan. The services will continue for some time. Nine persons joined the M. E. church last night. May God prosper it to the salvation of many souls, amen. T. H.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "FRANK SIDNEY JAMES" - SOUTH BEND.]

[COMMUNICATION FROM "COLORADO BRICK" - BEAVER TOWNSHIP ITEMS.]

[INDIAN FRIENDS.]

[CHANGE OF FIRM: KELLOGG & HOYT REPLACE TANDY & EASTMAN.]

CHANGE OF FIRM IN EMPORIA. Tandy & Eastman, so long the owners of the post office drug store, have sold out to Kellogg & Hoyt, who came from Arkansas City. Some of our readers will remember Dr. Kellogg as a former resident here. He is a brother of Hon. L. B. Kellogg, and settled here several years ago, but when Arkansas City was started, located at that place. All will regret to learn of the retirement from our business of Dr. A. S. Tandy and D. W. Eastman, but we are glad they are to be so efficiently and acceptably succeeded, and we speak for the new firm a large share of the public trade. Emporia News.

[PERSONALS.]

A building is being erected in Winfield for a faro and general gambling hall.

S. P. CHANNELL has received two car loads of machinery for the spring trade. He is determined to have them here in time.

MR. SAM JARVIS, of the Cedar Vale Blade, is again a resident of Cowley county. He contemplates returning to newspaper labors in Rice county.

WINFIELD has been designated a third class post office with a salary of $1,000 per year, and the P. M. has gone to Washington to see about it.

The new Board of Commissioners met last Monday and organized. Mr. Gale is the only new member, as Major Sleeth and

R. F. Burden were re-elected.

The young man selling buggies and harness at this place two or three weeks ago, by the name of Glenn, is a defaulter, and is accused of stealing $800 of a Cincinnati carriage manufactory. He went south in leaving this place, and rode a large bay horse with a pair of new saddle bags behind the saddle. It is supposed he has gone to Texas.

Do you smoke? If you do, buy the Cowley county home made cigar, manufactured by R. Birnbaum, of Winfield, Kansas, branded "Our Boys," or the "La Magnolia." They are made of Connecticut tobacco, and have an excellent flavor. Hermann and Berry have them, and all the tobacco dealers will soon have them, regardless of the big tales the runners tell against them.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, JANUARY 16, 1878.]

COL. BOONE, the agent of the Ponca Indians, was here last week with a dozen or more members of the tribe, who had been looking for a home in the Territory, on the Salt Fork river. There is a prospect of the tribe being located south of this place. Mr. Boone is a grandson of old Daniel Boone, the Kentucky pioneer, and has been with Indians in the West for more than twenty-five years.

A number of young and married folks assembled at the residence of T. H. McLaughlin on Tuesday evening of last week, and passed a merry time. McLaughlin has got into the habit of making a success of everything he undertakes, let it be business or pleasure, and with the help of the amiable lady of the house, nothing was left undone that could in any way minsiter to the enjoyment of their guests.

STORE BROKEN INTO. Mr. Goodrich, of Maple City, was at this place last week, in search of a couple of young men who belonged to a party of herders in the Territory, who broke into Mr. Southard's store on Monday night, January 7th, and took therefrom seven pairs of boots, several pairs of pants, some jewelry, knives, and other articles, amounting to $60 worth in all. They have not been caught yet.

ERRATUM. In last week's issue a little notice appeared, stating that the young folks had a good time at the residence of Mr. Leander Finley--one of our most respected citizens. The article was written by a parent of one of the young ladies who attended the gathering. We read the notice and ordered it published, thinking it to be a good natured, friendly mention of the party, and believe the writer intended it as such; but inasmuch as the gentleman referred to feels deeply aggrieved on account of it, and denounces it as a base, vulgar, and malicious slander, "reflecting discredit on any orderly house," we will state that it was a young ladies' society meeting; that there was no "jumbling up together, running, jumping, and laughing." There were no "colors" there, and the party left in time to go to church in the evening.

COUNTY PRINTING. The Board of Commissioners met last Monday and Tuesday. After organizing, they announced they were ready to receive sealed bids to do the county printing for the next year, and the bids were handed in by W. M. Allison, C. M. Scott, and Millington & Lemmon. The latter named gentlemen agreed to print the delinquent tax list, and school land sales at legal rates, and all other county printing without further remuneration.

W. M. Allison bid to do all the county printing at one-twentieth the legal rates prescribed by law, and the award was made to him, and the Telegram designated the official paper of the county.

This is a lucky bid for the county as it will cost the gentleman about $200 to fulfill it.

SOCIAL DANCE. One of the most pleasant parties of the winter was held at Newman's hall on Monday evening, under the direction of two or three good citizens of this place. Music was furnished by C. R. Sipes, James Steiner, and Ret Berkey, and the floor managed by I. H. Bonsall and S. P. Channell. A good number were present, and the company enjoyed themselves exceedingly. It was the best selected audience we have seen in Arkansas City since the good old days of long ago, and the secret of it was there was no distinction made on account of surrounding circumstances. A similar party once every two weeks would add greatly to the social enjoyment of the place.

A new dry goods store has been opened in Pearson's building, in the room formerly occupied by Berry Bros., by Mr. J. M. Read, of Hutchinson, Kansas, and conducted by Mr. Riddle, a merchant of known integrity and an accommodating gentleman. He has a fine stock of all kinds of dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, hats and caps, and proposes to sell at figures that all can buy. His stock of prints is very large and placed on revolving shelves so that you can go in and examine every price yourself. Call and see him.

We neglected to call special attention to the new ad of Dr. J. A. Loomis last week. If you want anything in the line of drugs, patent medicines, paints, oils, varnishes, lead, etc., the Doctor can supply you. He also has a fine lot of stationery and toilet articles. It is the only place in town where school books are kept. Mr. Will Mowry has charge of the prescription department, and will be found at the store, ever ready to accommodate his many friends.

[LIST OF LICENSES ISSUED BY PROBATE JUDGE.]

J. W. Canfield and Tobitha I. Bowers, of Creswell township.

Chas. N. Barr and Clarissa Grimes, of Tisdale township.

Chas. F. Zemmesman and Annie C. Wilson, of Winfield.

Allen Drumman and Florence A. Prater, of Winfield.

Henry C. Barr and Ruth Ann Reed, of Tisdale township.

Jesse C. Franklin and Ella E. Scott, of Winfield.

Daniel Boonershiner and Ann V. Shope, of Rock township.

Isaac H. Taylor and Susan H. Dowe, of Rock township.

Solomon Mooney and Lucy Stanton, of Harvey township.

Joel M. Rivers and Rose Hess, of Rock township.

Wm. Fritch and Emma A. Luston, of Windsor township.

Jas. E. Harlam and Margaret A. Shoughnessey, of Tisdale township.

Sewell I. Olmstott and Lucinda Smith, of Rock township.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "SCRIBELER" - EAST CRESWELL.]

Our boys set a trap the other day for a cayote, and when they came to look, found a wild cat. So they tried again, and next time got a catamount, 4 feet long. It seems to be the same as the panther of the east (or as some called them--painters.)

They are a savage creature indeed. Son now the wish is among the boys: more traps.

Miss Hawkins' school is giving good satisfaction, and the young ideas are learning to shoot at a mark. SCRIBELER.

[ADS: TRAVELER, JANUARY 16, 1878.]

NEW DRY GOODS STORE IN PEARSON'S BUILDING, OPPOSITE COWLEY COUNTY BANK.

J. H. READ.

To the Citizens of Arkansas City and Farmers of Cowley county:

We wish to state that we have opened a new DRY GOODS & CLOTHING HOUSE and are prepared to sell a good quality of goods at prices to suit the times. We have every variety of Prints, Muslins, Flannels, DRESS GOODS, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, and Notions. COME IN AND SEE OUR GOODS and learn our prices.

MONEY TO LOAN. J. A. LOOMIS, LOAN AGENT.

SUCCESSOR TO KELLOGG & HOYT.

-DEALER IN-

DRUGS AHND MEDICINES,

PAINTS, OILS, AND WINDOW GLASS.

LAMPS, SHADES AND CHIMNEYS,

SCHOOL BOOKS AND STATIONERY,

TOILET ARTICLES AND PERFURMERY,

And everything usually kept in a first-class Drug Store.

Physicians' Prescriptions and Family Recipes Compounded at all Hours.

DON'T FORGET THE PLACE.

-AT-

KELLOGG & HOYT'S OLD STAND.

[NATIONAL NEWS.]

[CHEROKEE STRIP IN MARKET.]

Relief to Settlers Who Have Made Homes On The Border.

The following letter from Hon. Thomas Ryan states briefly that the Cherokees have accepted the proposition and the land is now in market.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 11, 1878.

Friend Scott: The Cherokees have accepted the bill providing for a sale of the Strip to actual settlers for one year, at $1.25 per acre; and all remaining unsold at the expiration of that time may be sold to any body, i.e., the highest bidder, at not less than $1.00 per acre. The Secretary has directed the land office to proceed at once to carry out this law.

THOMAS RYAN.

[MORE ABOUT TTHE K. C., E. & S. NARROW-GAUGE RAILWAY.]

[COMMISSIONERS' PROCEEDINGS.]

At the regular meeting of Jan. 7th the board ordered the opening of the Laubner, Loy and Owings roads; rejected the report of the commissioners to locate the Arkansas City and Independence state road, and refused to pay the expenses; allowed various claims, amounting to $3,878; approved the bond of Chas. Harter, sheriff; approved the bonds of a large number of township officers; received and approved the reports of trustees of all the townships except Otter, Sheridan, and Silverdale; canceled county orders paid by the treasurer to the amount of $4,403.17; canceled $27.50 in orders that had been in the county clerk's hands three years uncalled for; and granted ferry license across the Arkansas river, near Salt City, to Henry Pruden.

Monday, the 14th. New Board: R. F. Burden, chairman,

W. M. Sleeth, and G. L. Gale. Appointed John Lynn and Frank Williams to assist Judge Gans in counting the county funds; appointed Jas. L. Huey trustee of Creswell township, vice Leonard, resigned; let the pauper contract to Butterfield, of Silverdale township; let the medical attendance to Dr. Shepard, of Arkansas City.

We are indebted to the courtesy of M. G. Troup, county clerk, for the above items, and also for the following.

Total assessment of the county, $1,967,563.

Total tax levy for all purposes, $70,784.92, of which $18,793.30 is school tax and $17,633.07 is school bond tax.

Treasurer Bryan has collected about $29,000 of the taxes for 1877, which is about 41 percent. Winfield township has paid over one-half of its taxes. Mr. Bryan has gone to Topeka to settle with the State treasurer. He will pay there about $7,000, including payment of all the school bonds that are matured.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "W. A. M." - CEDAR TOWNSHIP.]

A sociable was held last week at the residence of Mr. Hiram Blenden's, in Spring Creek township. There were present Mr. Libby and lady, Mr. Austin Blenden and lady, Mr. J. W. Searle and lady, Mr. J. Bobbitt and lady, your correspondent and lady, and the following young folks: Mr. Sam McKelvey and Miss May Montgomery, Mr. Wes Martin, and Miss Jane Montgomery, Mr. Eli Blenden and Miss Sadie Rider, Mr. Wm. Key and Miss Cally Bell, Mr. Jas. Phipps and Miss Bell, Mr. Ike Blenden and Miss Pruitt, Mr. Newton Tolls and Miss Annie Pruitt, Mr. Ike Bell and Miss Addie Marston, Mr. John Montgomery and Miss Jane Tolls. First violin, Prof. H. Wells; second violin, John Bobbitt; piccolo, Jas. Key. The music was good, the supper splendid, and the dancers enthusiastic. Everybody went home happy as happy goes. W. A. M.

[ITEMS FROM THE SEDAN JOURNAL.]

Several persons from this vicinity have gone to the Nation to take claims on the Cherokee Strip. Vain delusion.

Sunday night last Wm. Prather, living six miles south of Boston, was shot in the breast, the ball passing through one of his lungs, by his brother, J. C. Prather. It seems that the brothers could not get along well together and frequently quarreled. The shooting occurred during one of these quarrels. Wm. Prather is a man of family. J. C. Prather was a single man. At last accounts the wounded man was not expected to live. Up to date the murderer has not been arrested.

[PONTOON BRIDGE AT OXFORD.]

[MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.]

[COMPLAINT IN ATTACHMENT: BERRY BROS. VS. MARICLES.]

Thomas E. Berry, Andrew A. Berry, and Isaac K. Berry, partners doing business under the firm name of Berry Bros., plaintiffs, against Londowick Maricle and David Maricle,

defendants.

Plaintiffs demand two hundred dollars and interest.

NOTICE is hereby given that on the 9th day of January, A. D. 1878, I. H. Bonsall, a Justice of the Peace of Creswell township, Cowley county, Kansas, issued an order of attachment in the above entitled action, for the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, and that said cause will be heard on tthe 16th day of February, A. D. 1878, at two o'clock p.m. of said day. BERRY BROS., Plaintiffs. C. R. MITCHELL, Attorney for Plaintiffs.

[COMPLAINT IN ATTACHMENT: JOHN M. HOLLAWAY VS. MARICLES.]

John M. Hollaway, plaintiff, against David Maricle and Londowick Maricle, real name unknown, defendants.

Plaintiff demands one hundred and ten dollars and interest.

NOTICE is hereby given that on the 10th day of January, A.D. 1878, I. H. Bonsall, a Justice of the Peace of Creswell township, Cowley county, Kansas, issued an order of attachment in the above entitled action for the sum of one hundred and sixty dollars, and that said cause will be heard on the 16th day of February, A.D. 1878, at one o'clock, p.m. of said day.

JOHN M. HOLLAWAY, Plaintiff.

C. R. Mitchell, Attorney for Plaintiff.

[PERSONALS.]

The Osages will be paid their annuity this week.

The foundation for Weir's house is ready to build on.

Dr. Kellogg's house to rent.

New addition to Billy Gray's house on Summit street.

The water in the Walnut lowered four feet Monday night.

Live hogs are only worth $2.50 per hundred in Wichita.

Maj. Sleeth sent three loads of hogs to Wichita yesterday.

Logan's new house is almost finished. It is next to Wintin's.

Considerable shooting of pistols Monday night, for fun.

J. A. Stafford sold his interest in the livery stable to Mr. Stanton yesterday.

MITCHELL & HUEY will remove to the new rooms over Houghton & McLaughlin's in a week or two.

W. R. RIDDLE has been following artistic work at Winfield for the past two weeks.

Those ponies branded Y O U and L O T are stolen ponies from Medicine Lodge.

The Masonic hall has been nicely carpeted, furnished with coal heating stoves, and adorned with a beautiful chandelier.

Mr. Dean, a gentleman from Oneida, Illinois, is bringing a lot of fine Morgan horses and Durham cattle to this place.

An old gentlemen said he wouldn't live in Arkansas City. Said he was here a month and no one offered to give him a drink.

Mr. Fitch has moved again back to his house on Summit street. L. W. Currier goes into the house he vacated.

R. A. Houghton goes into Stafford's house, and Stafford goes into Col. McMullen's house.

We need a barber in town.

The streets were crowded with teams last Saturday.

Saturday night's mail arrived Sunday noon this week.

They are putting more money down a coal hole at Eldorado.

The prairie wolves killed fourteen of W. B. Turner's sheep last week.

Sim Moore sells real estate at Tisdale since his return from the Black Hills.

Mrs. Williams, the landlady of Dexter, has gone to some more genial climate.

R. A. HOUGHTON sold his house to Mr. Stanton, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, last week, for $700.

A SMALL FLAT BOTTOMED BOAT was built and placed on the river last week; bound for Fort Smith.

MR. STAFFORD purchased Col. McMullen's residence for $2,500. It is the best dwelling house in this locality.

UNCLE RICHARD WOOLSEY and Wheatley Gooch are pardners in a clothing house at Deadwood, Dakota Territory.

DICK ROSEY and CASS ENDICOTT are back from the San Juan mining country. They expect to go back in the spring.

The windows for the M. E. Church are on the road, and cost $114.60. The glass are hand stained, and of the best quality.

The young men behaved badly at the Chetopa temperance meetings, and the editor of the Herald advises them not to do so again.

PETER PEARSON, one of our old residents, returned from Omaha last Wednesday. He has been engaged in a wholesale house.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, JANUARY 23, 1878.]

The ladies of the M. E. Aid Society of Arkansas City, through their untiring efforts during the year 1877, contributed $369 to the M. E. Church fund.

New picket fence around Frank Schiffbauer's residence.

A shot gun went off in Berry Bros. store last week and bored a hole in a shelf and spread three boxes of boot blacking around promiscuously.

MR. LIPPMANN took the contract to haul both of Col. McMullen's safes to Winfield for $30. He has six yoke of oxen to each wagon. The safes weigh 4,400 and 4,460 pounds each.

E. B. KAGER made a trip to Chautauqua county lately. He liked the county for stock purposes; says there are fewer people to the square mile than in Cowley, most of them engage in stock raising, and have more money.

IN TOWN. MAJ. JAMES K. FINLEY, the bloated aristocrat of Emporia, paid the metropolis of South-Central Kansas a visit last Tuesday. He thinks the Emporia narrow gauge will blossom out like a rose in early spring. Eldorado Times.

Let her blossom.

The Walnut raised 12 feet Saturday night, and took out about ten feet of the dam at the mill. Whole trees forty feet in length floated down the river. The approach on the west side of the bridge is made of sand, and will be carried off when the first flood comes, unless it is stoned up on both sides.

Times are harder than we have ever before experienced in Southern Kansas. We have nearly $1,000 on our subscription books that has been due a long time from some parties. We need the money to conduct our business, hence we are compelled to make this unpleasant public announcement. We don't make it this time to be put off. We have bills that must be paid and we propose the payment shall come from the amount due us on our books. Heretofore we have advertised that we would take wheat, oats, corn, hay, cord word, pigs, calves, and almost anything we could eat or feed to stock, and few have responded.

We now announce that we must have the money and desire all in arrears to call in and settle without a personal dun, and advance the money if you wish the paper continued, as we have not capital enough to send the paper and wait for the pay.

The gentlemen of Oxford have constructed a good bridge across the Arkansas river by simply placing pontoons, or flat boats, all the way across. The Independent says:

"The new pontoon bridge is now in place, and proves to be a grand success. The crossing of the Arkansas at this place was never better or safer in our most prosperous days.

"The pontoons, five in number, are safely and securely anchored, and stayed by strong guy ropes, and the intervening spaces covered by portable, but broad, safe bridges, with bannisters running the entire length."

Why can't we do the same thing at this place?

An agent of King's Bridge Company has been here estimating the cost of building a bridge across the Arkansas river south and west of town. They have completed the bridge across the Walnut south of Winfield.

[BUSINESS NOTICES/SOME ADS.]

THE MAN that borrowed my ax can bring it back. I know who he is, and will let the public know it, if he don't.

L. H. GARDNER.

[BUSINESS NOTICES/ADS CONTINUED.]

PAY YOUR BEEF BILLS. Having sold my entire interest in the meat market to Henry Endicott, I now want all parties indebted to the firm to call in and settle all they owe, or the accounts will be left with an officer for collection.

A. W. PATTERSON.

[BUSINESS NOTICES/ADS CONTINUED: TRAVELER, JANUARY 23, 1878.]

ALL THOSE INDEBTED TO L. H. GARDNER & CO. are requested to call and settle before February 1st, either by cash or note, as we are in need of money and must have it.

[JAMES CHRISTIAN - FIRST MASTER OF THE FOURTH MASONIC LODGE]

Judge James Christian, of this place, was the first Mastor of the fourth lodge organized in the Territory of Kansas, and helped to organize the first Grand Lodge in Kansas--having the second dispensation issued by the Grand Master of Missouri to organize a lodge in Kansas; but owing to political troubles, his lodge was numbered six on the list, it being located in that abolition den, Lawrence. Even Masons then were not disposed to do justice to locality. But times have changed since then. In looking over some old Grand Lodge reports, we noticed the name of Brother James Christian as Master of Sharpsburg Lodge No.

11 [? could be 111 ?], in Kentucky, in 1849, and of Prairie Lodge No. 90, in Missouri, 1850.

[Beginning January 30, 1878.]

[BILL INTRODUCED FOR MILITIA FORCE IN STATES & TERRITORIES.]

Mr. Ross, of New Jersey, has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives, which has been in the course of preparation for some time, for the organization of the militia force in the several States and Territories. It contemplates, in fact, the abolition of the regular army by substituting a uniform militia to be paid out of the United States Treasury. It provides tht each officer and private in the organized and uniformed militia of the States and Territories shall receive $25 per annum. Before this is paid the Secretary of War is to be satisfied that each militiaman has performed ten days' service in the field in each year in addition to the ordinary company drills in armories. It is further provided that there shall be a detail of ten regular army officers for the inspection of the militia while in camp. This is to operate as a check on the reports made by the State officers. Arms are to be furnished the militia in quantities deemed proper by the Secretary of War. The States are required to uniform and bear the expense of the forces, except when the latter are called into the service of the General Government. The bill is to go into effect June 1, 1879, and appropriates $8,000,000 for that purpose.

[EDITORIAL COLUMN.]

Now that the Cherokee Strip is in market again, it affords the best opportunity in the west for good cheap homes.

A meeting should be called by the settlers on the Cherokee Strip, and a vote of thanks tendered to Hon. Thomas Ryan for his labor in their behalf.

Nearly 100 settlers have taken claims on the Cherokee Strip since Hon. Thomas Ryan's bill passed. Everybody is thankful to Mr. Ryan, and consider it as great a favor as any they have received from our Representatives in Congress.

1st. The talk of repudiation so brief in many of the old counties of the State has frightened capital away from Kansas investments, which are dependent on popular favor.

2nd. The unbehaved character of the weather of the past two or three months.

3rd. The delay of the Greenwood county bonds. No other county or township except yours are affected by this. We have one year under the vote in this and Greenwood to reach the south line of this county. The failure to reach that point by Feb. 1st has not and will not make any difference in the prevention of the work, but finding some time ago that it could not be done, the company did not think it advisable to keep a large force on hand, when they could not work to advantage more than 10 to 15 days a month. Work is progressing regularly every day that the weather and ground are favorable. The company pay cash promptly every month, and as soon as we have suitable weather, it is my opinion they will show us a specimen of railrroad construction not yet seen in this country. We have until Feb. 1st, 1879, to reach the north line of your county, but I do not think we shall need more than half the time. Having so much money already invested, it will be the interest of the company to push the construction with all possible dispatch. With the inauguration of a large line from Kansas City to St. Louis, now almost a certainty, and the splendid success of Capt. Eads at the mouth of the Mississippi, the early construction of our line becomes doubly important to every man within reach of its influence, and also to the company. The time for reaching Eureka and the north line of your county as specified in your vote is ample. We have no doubt that the people of Cowley county will do the fair thing when the proper time comes. No one here who is conversant with the facts has for a moment doubted the success of this great enterprise. For myself, I hereby invite myself to your next Christmas dinner, and expect to come all the way by D. H. passage on the

K. C., E. & S. R. R.

Yours Truly,

E. P. BANCROFT.

[THE TEXAS CATTLE LAW.]

The Supreme Court of the United States has wiped out the dead line in Kansas--a fact that will be pleasing to border counties. The Texas cattle law of Missouri is similar to that of Kansas. The following decision strikes at all, as it is general in its application.

Intelligence has been received from Washington that the Supreme Court of the United States, on Monday last, decided that what is known in this State as the Texas cattle law,

is unconstitutional.

In Caldwell and other counties, numerous suits had been brought against the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad Company for unloading Texas cattle at Kidder station, in violation of this law, the farmers alleging that their native cattle died from the Texas fever communicated by these Texas cattle. The courts in Missouri held that the statute, prohibiting the importation of cattle between March 1st and November 1st of each year, was constitutional and valid. The case was then taken to the Supreme Court of the United States by writ of error, under the judiciary act. The court, as above stated, has made a finality of the case, holding the law to be in controvention of the United States laws which confer upon Congress the executive power to regulate commerce among the several States.

This was a test suit, and upon the decision depends over one hundred like suits, calling for damages to the aggregate of about $40,000. St. Joseph Gazette.

The Price Current, since its establishment, has always kept its readers posted in reference to the Texas cattle drive, yearly, to Kansas; and the figures, which we have given, having been procured from reliable sources, have invariably proved correct. The prospects of the drive of cattle from Texas to Kansas, at the present time, are that it will be about the same as last year, if not in excess--that is, 200,000 or over. We say "prospects of the drive," and by that remark we mean that the figures given would indicate about the same number as last year, if not more, will be driven; but the cramp in money matters, will, it is generally thought, cut the number down from what is now given. Texas cattle drovers, last year, had quite a successful season of it, and it is considered by those best posted that there was more money made than any previous year since the drives from Texas to Kansas commenced, and this has induced many to drive again.

Below is given a partial list of the number of cattle which will be driven, and with which we have been kindly furnished by Mr. Peyton Montgomery, of the firm of Quinlan, Montgomery & Co., he having obtained it from Judge Deverly, of Dodge City, Kan., a letter containing the facts having been written to that gentleman by Mr. Richard Head, of Texas, foreman for Ellison & Deweese.

Ellison & Deweese ............. 8,000

J. and T. Deweese ............. 12,000

J. T. Ellison & Son ........... 6,000

Lytle & McDonald .............. 12,000

Smith & Savage ................ 12,000

D. R. Fant .................... 9,000

Snyder Brothers ............... 14,000

W. Butler ..................... 4,000

John Gamel .................... 6,000

Presnall & Mitchell ........... 8,000

Waugh & Stevens ............... 4,000

Shriner Brothers .............. 5,000

Bishop & Hough ................ 6,000

J. W. Iliff ................... 15,000

C. C. Lewis & Co. ............. 10,500

W. S. Caruthers ............... 8,000

Capt. King .................... 10,000

Maj. Hood ..................... 4,000

A. Drumm ...................... 2,000

A. R. Adair ................... 1,000

Chapman & Tuttle .............. 5,000

TOTAL: 161,500

There are quite a number of the old drovers yet to be heard from.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "W. A. METCALF" - CEDAR TOWNSHIP.]

Mr. Henry Ward was married to Miss Jane Tackett on the 23rd inst., by Esq. Ketchum, at the residence of Daniel Ward. A free chiveree was given by the boys--no cake.

DIED. On the 21st of Jan., Mrs. Compton, wife of M. Compton, of Spring Creek, Cedar township. Mrs. Compton was about 35 years old, and leaves six children, the youngest being only ten days old the day of its mother's death. Mrs. McNett took it and will give it just as good treatment as its own mother could.

W. A. METCALF.

[REPORT FROM "T. H." - SOUTH HAVEN.]

BORN. To Mr. and Mrs. Bell on the 17th inst., a daughter.

Mr. McCondlis is making arrangements to build a fine barn on his farm 2-1/2 miles southeast of this place. T. H.

[BRIDGE PROPOSITION: MO. VALLEY BRIDGE CO.]

GENTLEMEN:

We propose to furnish all material and build and complete ready for crossing seven (7) spans of 60 feet each, of combination bridge similar to the short span just completed by our company over the Walnut, for the sum of ten ($10) dollrs per lineal foot, or $4,200; $2,000 of the amount to be paid in Bolton township ten-year, ten percent bonds, with coupons payable semi-annually; balance to be paid in cash. Bridge to be built as follows:

The superstructure to be single pile bents, four piles driven in one row, capped with 10 x 10 inch oak or walnut caps; a fifth pile to be driven above the bent to protect it from drift. All to be securely braced together. Piling to be from 25 to 30 feet long, to be oak or walnut, with an average diameter of 12 inches; to be driven so as to raise the bridge from two to four feet above the old bridge, as directed by you.

SUPERSTRUCTURE

to be as stated above, same plan as short span on the Walnut, and of following dimensions: Top chords and inclined posts to be good white pine 10 x 12 in.; joists to be oak 2 x 12 inches, placed two feet from center to center; spans to be 60 feet, roadway 14 ft., floor to be 2 inch elm, laid diagonally. Needle beams 4 x 12 inches pine; posts to be 2-1/2 inch star iron (wrought); lower chords to be in 20 ply each 4 x 12 inches. All iron and chord timbers to have two coats of paint.

We will repair the old bridge now standing (that is, the balance after 420 feet of new bridge is in) so far as it can be done by using the old material, without additional charge. If new material must be used, or additional pile bents are required, the same must be paid for.

We will commence the work as soon as the funds have been provided, and complete the same within 60 days, weather and roads permitting.

The bridge we propose to build as herein described we guarantee to be strong enough to carry a uniformly distributed load of sixty tons on each span of 60 feet.

MO. VALLEY BRIDGE CO.

Arkansas City, January 26, 1878.

[ARKANSAS TO BE BRIDGED WITHOUT DELAY.]

An agent of the Missouri Valley Bridge Co. was in our town last Saturday, settling with our Township Boards for the new Walnut bridge.

While here, he made an estimate for putting in a bridge over the Arkansas. A meeting of our leading citizens was called to consider the proposition made by the company. Mr. Eaves, the secretary of the company, submitted in writing a proposition to rebuild in first-class style the part washed out, amounting to 420 feet, and repair the old bridge, for $2,000 in township bonds and $2,200 in cash. The bridge is to be a combination bridge with iron lower chords on substantial pile foundations raised four feet higher than the present bridge. Mr. Eaves' proposition was accepted by the unanimous voice of the meeting. A committee of citizens was appointed to act in connection with the Township Board, and instructed to make a contract for the work, on condition that the necessary funds were raised. The committee was instructed to raise by subscription the part necessary to be contributed by Creswell township, and after securing that amount, to proceed to Bolton township, and ask of that township to vote the balance required--that is, $2,000. A large amount has been raised, and it is important our citizens should subscribe the balance without delay. The bridge is to be completed within sixty days from the time the money is raised. So hurry up.

[ARISTOTALLIAN LITERARY SOCIETY.]

[TRAVELER ADMITS MISTAKE RE DAM BROKEN AT NEWMAN'S MILL.]

ALL RIGHT. In a few numbers of last week's issue we mentioned that about ten feet of the dam at Newman's mill had broken. It looked so while the water was up, but it was a mistake. It is all right and the mill is grinding every day, making the best flour of any mill in the Southwest. The bridge across the Walnut is finished, a wide road has been made in front of the mill, and it is easy of access from every direction. Bring in your grists if you want good flour.

[PERSONALS.]

W. H. WALKER lost a good horse last week from congestion of the bowels. Everything known by mind or book was tried on it, but with no avail. As we stepped to the office door one day last week, we noticed a horse down with the cholic. The next day another was lying down to ease its bladder. More care must be used in selecting good corn, and a little nitre or rosin used in their feed, occasionally.

JIM FARRAR has gone.

THERE is not a whisky distillery in the State of Kansas.

REMEMBER we take hard and soft money, when we can get it.

QUITE a crowd gathered at the new bridge across the Walnut last Sunday.

There will be nine performers with the Swiss Bell ringers tomorrow evening.

Flowers are blooming on the prairies, and grass is green in the timber along the streams.

We will take about a thousand bushels of corn on accounts due, allowing the market price therefor.

The water in the Walnut has gone down again so that good fording is afforded at all the fords.

A load of young folks were upset while going to a party at Mrs. Jas. I. Mitchell's last week. No one hurt, however.

Send the TRAVELER to your friends to induce immigration. We will send it three months for 50 cents, and pay the postage

ourselves.

They had what Lyman Herrick calls a "regular buckwheat hoedown" at Charley Eaton's last Thursday night. All had a huge time.

PROF. BACON will take up his residence at Chicago this week. He leaves many friends at this place, and may return before many months.

OLD MRS. MOSS, aged 90 years, fell and broke her leg while walking out last week. The bone was broken close to the thigh and cannot be reset.

THERE were some doubts as to securing timber for piles for the bridge across the Arkansas in case it was decided to have one. It has been settled.

A. W. BERKEY and wife are residing temporarily at the county seat. Ret wasn't out of town half an hour until he was missed by his associates.

BILLY GRAY scrapes the faces of all having a surplus of hair. His place of business is just over Pierce & Welsh's store. Go up stairs and turn to the left.

The bridge across the Walnut south of Winfield, on the old piers from which the Baker bridge was washed away a year and a half ago, is completed and is said to be a good one.

You don't have to slide down a pole to get to town now. The west approach to the bridge is completed. There were some fine sights to be seen there while the pole climbing was going on.

I joined in marriage at the residence of John T. Kerr's, Mr. Theodore Moore and Miss Maud Jones. All of Cowley county, Kansas. ELDER E. E. HARVEY, Jan. 24, 1878.

Good enough. We congratulate you, Theodore.

BRIDGE COMPLETED. The approach to the Walnut river bridge was completed last Friday, and teams are now crossing every day. The piers were built about four feet higher than they were, and a good bridge with iron stringers placed on them. No matter whether the river is full to the banks, the public are now assured of safe crossing.

[ARKANSAS RIVER BRIDGE.]

Mr. Smith, representing the King Bridge Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, paid us a visit last week to make estimates on a bridge across the Arkansas river at this place. In company with Mr. T. H. McLaughlin, we went to the ferry crossing west of town, measure the river, and heard the estimate, as follows.

Distance from bank to bank, 900 feet, on a line with Central Avenue; to construct an iron bridge, same as the Topeka bridge, $100,000; to construct a wooden bridge that would last ten or twelve years on piles, twelve feet from low water, spans of sixty feet each, single roadway, two turnouts, $9,900, or $11 per foot. All agreed that it would cost from $2,500 to $3,000 more to build a bridge west of town than it would south. The distance across the river south of town was estimated to be 640 feet. The old bridge had eight spans of 80 feet each. Since then the bank has washed away thirty feet or more. To construct a combination bridge of wood and iron, to join on the remaining bridge, would cost $4,500; of Iron, $7,000. The distance to the remaining span is 425 feet. Mr. Smith said if stone could be reached at fifteen feet, he would build stone piers.

There is no doubt the bridge west of town would secure the most trade to this place, but the item of $3,000 would make a great difference to those who had to pay the bonds. In our opinion, the combination bridge--that is, a wooden bridge with iron stringers--would be the best. It would be folly to attempt to vote bonds enough for an iron bridge at present.

[WHAT-IS-IT?: WILD BEAST.]

[ROBBERY: SCHIFFBAUER'S STORE.]

The articles taken from Schiffbauer's store on Monday night were six silver plated knives, some finished Elgin staffs, some roller jewels, and eighteen watches, in all valued at $482. The watches belonged to the following named persons, with the values set opposite their names.

Frank Lorry, gold, $ 50.00

L. W. Currier, gold w. and chain, 70.00

Mr. Louderdale, silver, 10.00

Mr. Davis, silver, 8.00

Peter Pearson, silver, 12.00

George Eaton, silver, 25.00

John Wort, silver, 15.00

George Metcalf, silver, 20.00

George Hunter, silver, 30.00

N. N. Wintin, silver, 12.00

S. M. Laituman, silver, 25.00

J. M. Shurtz, silver, 10.00

Samuel Lewis, silver, 20.00

W. S. Thompson, silver, 35.00

Mrs. Morgan, plated, 20.00

J. Z. Rentschler, silver, 20.00

G. H. McIntire, silver, 10.00

Mr. Davis, brass, 5.00

R. W. McKnow, silver, 35.00

Total value of watches: $432.00

Staffs and jewels, 20.00

Knives and spoons, 30.00

TOTAL VALUE: $482.00

[DEBATE AT PARKER'S SCHOOL HOUSE.]

[REMOVED: COL. J. C. McMULLEN CLOSES ARKANSAS CITY BANK.]

REMOVED. The Arkansas City Bank closed its doors at this place last week for the purpose of temporarily removing to the county seat to extend its business. Col. J. C. McMullen, its President, during his residence here for the past five years, proved himself a valuable citizen, and a prudent, careful

businessman.

We owe to him the credit of building one of the finest residences in Southern Kansas, and locating some of the best and most extensive farmers in this section. By his liberal advertising and constant efforts, he brought many to Kansas and Cowley county tht might never have been here, had he not been with us himself. Being a man of reputation and means, besides an affable gentleman, he is bound to succeed wherever he goes, as we earnestly hope he will.

[JEWELER ROBBED: MR. RIDENOUR, LOCATED AT SCHIFFBAUER BROS.]

JEWELER ROBBED. On Monday night last a burglar entered the store of Schiffbauer Bros., by boring a four inch hole in the outside door whith an extension bit, and drawing the bolt. He then bored three holes in the second door with a 3/4 inch augur and cut out enough to admit his hand, drew the bolt, and went into the store. Evidently he knew just where to go for the

watches, eighteen in all, which were kept in a small box in one of the drawers. After taking the watches, he helped himself to some silver plated knives and forks belonging to the store.

Mr. Ridenour, the jeweler, has the sympathy of the citizens, as he was just making a good start in business.

The safe for the house arrived this morning, and there will be no more danger hereafter.

[SWISS BELL RINGERS: THE ANDREWS FAMILY.]

[SUMNER COUNTY: VOTING ON HAVING A JAIL.]

[ROW AT SPEERS' MILL.]

A slight disagreement took place at Speers' mill last week between a couple of stalwart young men, over a little balance due that one owed the other. The matter was amicably settled after some delay, Tom convincing Dow that times were hard, which so affected him that he mourned until his eyes were black.

[SOME BUSINESS NOTICES/ADS.]

[CONGRESSIONAL ITEMS.]

Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill to reimburse the States of Kansas, Texas, Nebraska, and Colorado for expenses incurred by said States in repelling invasion and in the suppression of Indian hostilities.

The House bill to remove obstructions from the Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, and Red rivers was then taken up and passed after a brief discussion.

[EDITORIAL COLUMNS.]

Our understanding is that the Cherokee Strip Lands, being a four mile strip 225 miles long, extending from near the east line of Montgomery county to the west line of Cherokee county in the State of Kansas, is now in market and for sale at $1.25 per acre, subject to pre-emption only, by an actual settlement of six months residence, and the Land Office at Wichita has been instructed to receive filings (or declaratory statements). Anyone who has not previously taken a claim on this Strip can settle on any vacant claim, and in six months procure a patent for it by paying the Government price of $1.25 per acre. No "claim" must contain more than 160 acres.

The rulings under which it is disposed of are the same as before; only the price west of the Arkansas river is $1.25 per acre instead of $1.50. We have written to Mr. Ryan for the law and will publish it in full or a synopsis of it.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "WALNUT HILL" - EAST OF THE WALNUT.]

A word about your town. I spent an hour there not long since, taking observations, in which time I found the prevailing complaint to be dull times, but did not hear a man say what made the dull times. Now I will tell you what the people say just east of the Walnut. The roads are so bad from the Walnut to the town site that the people can scarcely get through on horseback, and with a team, they stick in the mud repeatedly.

Let him be ever so good a man, he is tempted to say some bad words, and thinks he will never go to the town again; but when he gets there and sees the smiling countenances of the merchants, and hears them tell how cheap they will sell him goods for cash, and what high prices they will pay him for his produce, he repents of the bad words and other things he said, and promises to go to town again when he gets a roll of butter and a few dozen eggs ahead.

I remain just east of the Walnut until death.

WALNUT HILL.

[NEW DEPUTIES: COWLEY COUNTY SHERIFF.]

J. L. M. Hill and J. H. Finch are the deputies our new sheriff has appointed. We think he has made good selections.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "GRIMES" - TISDALE.]

I think the class of newcomers is much better than--heretofore. They come prepared to stay, not to speculate on claims. The Black Hills fever took off quite a number of our fellows, but their places were so soon filled that we hardly missed them. Your old friend, Dr. S. Thompson, has withdrawn from us, and I suppose will physic us no more. His place is supplied by Dr. Wright. We have concluded that he is about as near right as you get 'em.

McGuire, Moore, and a few others blow their horns weekly for the amusement of the public. Owing to the tightness of the times, we don't charge them anything for practicing on us, trusting that if they succeed in the realization of their aspiration, they will not forget the friends of their youth.

Weddings don't seem to flourish first rate. Our marriageable young folks are getting scarce. It seems our boys have been a little slow, perhaps afraid.

All of our old farmers are getting ready to put in big crops. They say if prices are fair, we must raise more.

Our school is prospering. There are about fifty scholars. Ours is the banner school outside of Arkansas City and Winfield. I don't just now think of anything of importance that has transpired of late, except the Grange Feast on the night of the 5th, which got away with anyting of the kind I've attended in the State. The Grange is composed of first-class people, and its a big thing socially. The only drawback I see, it is carrying too many shirks. GRIMES.

[DEXTER: GREENBACK CLUB FORMED.]

The citizens of Fairview vicinity met for the purpose of talking over matters concerning the finances of our country. Mr. Collins was called to the chair, W. E. Merydith, Secretary. Mr. Hamit rose and explained the object of the meeting. The chairman, Mr. Wm. Moore, Mr. Million, and several others made speeches condemning the resumption act, demonetizing silver. The highest enthusiasm prevailed. It was moved by Mr. Hamit that the platform of the Greenback party be adopted. Carried. The citizens organized themselves into a Greenback Club by electing the following officers: Mr. Callison, President; Bonebraker, Vice President; W. E. Merydith, Secretary; Burdett, assistant Secretary; Mr. Elliott, Treasurer. The Secretary was instructed to send for the constitution and bylaws of the National Greenback Club. W. E. MERYDITH, Secretary.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "A SUBSCRIBER" - SOUTH BEND.]

It seems that the school marm [? LATER REFERS TO TEACHER BEING A MAN ?] of South Bend, on Monday last, whipped one of the scholars for telling a lie. Next day the stern parent came to the school house. The teacher said, "Good morning," and the stern parent said, "Don't say good morning to me, after whipping my boy. Now I want you to apologize or I'll whip you four times as bad as you did my boy."

The teacher said he never apologized when he was in the right. The parent got out of the wagon vowing vengeance. The teacher stood his ground, and when the parent saw he could not bluff the teacher, he changed his tactics. He asked the teacher to step back of the building, which the teacher did. He then laid violent hands on the teacher, and threatened to whip him. The teacher took his part and shook the overgrown parent off bluff No. 2. Finally the parent left, taking his six children with him. Thrice did he appear before the teacher on this day--which by the way was raining--but the teacher stood firm and said he was teaching the school, and that he was going to teach it or know the reason why. He kept his children away the balance of the week. This morning when the constable served a warrant on him, he almost wilted (for he is a Justice of the Peace), he went along however. He tried to compromise, this the teacher would not agree to. The Justice of the Peace, however, paid his fine and costs, and then made ample apologies to the teacher, agreeing also to send his children to school again.

This we hope will teach this particular parent a lesson for he has found fault with every teacher that ever taught in our district. He has an idea that his children are better than any of the rest, and when his children are punished, he thinks they are misused, and so he comes to the school and bluffs or tries to bluff the teacher. He has had a fuss with every teacher we have had and always got off easy.

Our school closes on the 15th of March. By publishing this you will oblige A SUBSCRIBER.

[REPORT FROM "AUNT JACOB" - BOLTON TOWNSHIP.]

J. A. Scott, Master.

Wm. Hadicke, Overseer.

Wm. Trimble, Lecturer.

John Christian, Steward.

James Headley, Asst. Steward.

Wm. Mercer, Chaplain.

A. J. Kimmell, Treasurer.

J. M. Sample, Secretary.

Wm. Parker, Gate keeper.

Sister A. J. Kimmell, Ceres.

Sister S. C. Sample, Pomona.

Sister S. F. Sample, Flora.

Sister M. Prewitt, Asst. Stewardess.

AUNT JACOB.

[PERSONALS.]

THE EAGLE MILLS, situated on the southwest corner of the town site, have been leased by Mr. Grimes and Perry Woodyard, who are now ready to grind wheat or corn for a reasonable toil. Sawing will be promptly attended to, and satisfaction guaranteed. Flour, meal, and bran always on hand.

GEN. PHIL. SHERIDAN was in Wichita last week, and left by ambulance for a tour of inspection of the posts in the Territory. Many of the citizens called upon him. He was accompanied by his staff, consisting of Gens. Crook and Whipple and Cols. Strong, Moore, and Fred. Grant.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, FEBRUARY 6, 1878.]

MURPHY has broke loose.

The Walnut raised again last Friday.

The chance for ice next summer is thin.

Since we advertised for a barber two weeks since, we have two now.

Don't forget that we will take hard or soft money at this office if you offer it.

WILL. LEONARD came down from Oxford last week to see the old folks at home.

JAMES C. TOPLIFF is on his farm now, and will make large preparations for his summer's work.

MITCHELL & HUEY will remove to their new office over Houghton & McLaughlin's store next week.

THOMAS MANTOR has charge of R. A. Houghton's clothing store while Rube is absent in the country.

The company of three that upset on the banks of the Walnut knocked the bottom out of a mud hole.

Members of the Stock Protective Union should have their fire arms within easy reach as spring approaches.

BIRTH. A happy man is Joseph Disser. Tuesday evening of last week dates the birth of his first-born: a daughter.

At last accounts, young Steiner, the boy who was stabbed, was better, and it is believed will entirely recover soon.

BIRTH. "JOE WILLIAMSON has a boy! Tell Wes!" Ira Barnett was notified of the fact by thirty postal cards last week from Iowa.

FINNEY & STANTON have made an addition to their stable and added several conveniences both for themselves and the public.

JAMES I. MITCHELL has returned from Wichita, and will bring his stock of saddles and harness. He can do better here than anywhere.

The oldest son of Mr. Keeney was thrown from his pony and broke his collar bone last Saturday. Dr. Shepard has the case in charge.

At a public meeting last night, it was determined to organize a Murphy temperance movement at this place, and the matter is now underway.

BRIDGE, OR NO BRIDGE, IS THE QUESTION. The $2,200 has been subscribed on this side and the matter lies with the people that will use one the most.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, FEBRUARY 6, 1878.]

Last Saturday was ground-hog day. He came out and heard the knashing of teeth in the Callahan-Somers affray, and went back to stay in his hole.

A fight occurred in the "Railroad Saloon" at Winfield, last week, in which one man tried to gouge the other's eye out, and the other bit off the finger of his opponent.

Regardless of hard times, Mrs. Hartsock and Mrs. Watson will order a fine lot of the latest spring fashions in millinery goods. Call in and see their winter goods.

There is not a stepping block in town to assist ladies to get on or off a horse. Some enterprising merchant can have all the country ladies stop at their stores by building one.

Both members of the Chamberlain family, Albert and his brother, who came to this county several years ago, are now dead. His brother died at Belle Plain about four years ago.

The County Surveyor, Ed. Haight, was at work surveying town lots at this place on Monday. While we think of it, Ed's name is North A. Haight, but somehow he has always been recognized as Ed.

Fortunately for his family, Mr. Chamberlain was a member of the Knights of Honor, and his family were entitled to $2,000 at his death, which will insure them from want if properly managed.

School closed at Parker's school house last Wednesday. After a vacation of one month it will be resumed, with Miss Pickett as teacher. B. F. Maricle is teaching in Gilstrap's district on Grouse creek. School began on Monday.

A frightful accident to a party of three, who were thrown from a buggy and underneath the horses in a mud hole near the east approach of the Walnut river bridge, occurred last Sunday. The boys at the Green Front Grocery can tell you all about it.

WILL LEONARD has purchased a half interest in the Sumner County Democrat, and will be recognized as one of the members of the press at the county seat of Wellington. Will has it in him to become a worthy newspaper man, and a few months at the capital of Sumner county will convince the people of it.

[NEARLY A SERIOUS FIGHT: THOMAS CALLAHAN AND JACOB RENTZCHLER.]

Last Friday evening, as Thomas Callahan and Jacob Rentzchler were returning from Wichita, where they had been to sell some hogs, they stopped for the night at the house of Patrick Somers. Tom was provided with a gallon jug of alcohol, and the evening was passed away by drinking the contents of the jug, with a little water added.

In the morning, as the two gentlemen were about to depart, Mr. Somers mentioned to Mr. Callahan that he had endeavored to take improper liberties with his wife, and must make some kind of apology or retraction. Mr. Callahan denied the statement, and Pat came at him with a pitchfork, and a general row ensued, in which Pat drew a knife which Tom took away from him. Pat then got hold of a razor, and with one slash, cut through a gum coat, an overcoat, and to the vest that covered Tom's precious carcass. This was taken from him also, but not until he had cut the third finger of Tom's left hand almost off. After the razor was disposed of, a general knock-down followed, in which it is said Mrs. Somers took quite a conspicuous part, armed with an ox bow.

Mr. Rentzchler, deeming discretion the better part of valor, ran off a short distance, and gazed placidly on the tumult with silent admiration until he saw one man down and likely to be killed, and then interfered to prevent death.

The visitors left as soon as the battle subsided, not stopping long enough to hitch their horses to the wagon and bring their groceries home, and an officer had to be sent to bring them in.

From all accounts it was a desperate affray, and will probably have to be settled by the courts. Both the participants are of Irish birth, and had been neighbors on the Walnut near this place for several years. Liquor was the main cause of the whole transaction. When sober they are as sociable and friendly friends as one would choose to meet.

[STABBING AFFRAY AT SALT CITY.]

Last Saturday night William Skinner and Hugh Steiner, aged about eighteen years, met in Frank Waldo's store and engaged in some bitter words against each other. The bystanders knew that an ill feeling had existed between the two since the 4th of July, at which time the boys had a quarrel at a picnic, and thinking there would be trouble, sent for A. H. Acton, Justice of the Peace. Mr. Acton soon came and separated the two, took the pocket knife from young Skinner, and handing it to his son, asked Skinner to go home with him.

As they were turning to go, the knife was handed back to Skinner by Acton's son. As soon as Skinner got the knife, he made a rush at Steiner and stuck him between the lower ribs, at the same time exclaiming: "There, d__n you, take that!" Steiner than ran out of the store accompanied by Acton's son.

From the store they went to a hay loft, and hid by crawling under the hay. The matter was talked over, and it was concluded that it would not do to let it pass unnoticed, and a warrant was issued for the arrest of the avenger. After some searching, they were heard talking in the hay loft, and constable Sam Axley ordered them to come out. Young Acton did so, but declared that Skinner was not there. A lantern was procured, and the constable went into the mow and Skinner came out and gave himself up.

It was a very unfortunate affair, and the parents of both parties feel deeply aggrieved. There is too much of a desperate spirit manifested among men, and generally indulged in by boys to shoot or use a knife on the slightest provocation, that should be discouraged by all law-abiding citizens.

[DIED: ALBERT A. CHAMBERLAIN - CABINET MAKER/UNDERTAKER.]

DIED. On Monday, February 5th, Albert A. Chamberlain; aged forty-three years and six months.

It is with a feeling of regret that we announce to the public the sudden death of our friend and fellow townsman, Albert A. Chamberlain, so long a resident among us.

Mr. Chamberlain came to this county from Wisconsin, in 1870. He followed his trade as cabinet maker and undertaker for several years, then moved to his farm a few miles east of the Walnut, and finally returned to town and resumed his occupation, having recently purchased the furniture store of Mr. Lafayette McLaughlin.

Mr. Chamberlain was a genial gentleman of lively spirits, and all were friends who knew him. But a few weeks ago he called us in to look at his stock of coffins, remarking in his jovial way: "They are a handy thing to have in the house." How little he thought death would be first to knock at his door. But it is well enough to enjoy life while we may, for tomorrow we may die. The deceased was confined to the house since January 29th with catarrh in the head, and paralysis followed. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his loss.

[MEETING TO ESTABLISH A CEMETERY FOR BOLTON TOWNSHIP.]

There will be a meeting held at the Bland school house February 9th, at 1 o'clock p.m., for the purpose of selecting a cemetery for Bolton township, and also to ascertain the people's opinion concerning the bridge.

J. M. SAMPLE, Trustee.

[DEPARTURE OF DR. KELLOGG/MRS. A. O. HOYT.]

DR. KELLOGG and family, with Mrs. A. O. Hoyt, took their leave on Monday to make their residence at Emporia. The Doctor was one of the first settlers in this section, and purchased the farm joining the town on the south of T. A. Wilkinson over seven years ago. Mr. Hoyt is a thorough business gentleman, full of enterprise and energy, whom the people of Emporia will be glad to meet, and his wife is one of the most agreeable ladies to be found in the West.

[RAFT WITH LUMBER BROUGHT DOWN WALNUT.]

A raft of 10,000 feet of lumber was brought down the Walnut from Mr. Leander Finley's timber to Lippmann's saw mill this week. Harklewood was Captain of the craft, with Thad. McGinnis and Ben. Moore as first and second mates, and Tim McIntire, pilot. All went well until two of the crew immersed themselves in the river and nearly swamped the raft climbing out.

[GENERALITIES: THE COMING INDIAN CAMPAIGN.]

The various reports that have reached the government with reference to the whereabouts of Sitting Bull and his band have been disregarded at the War department. There is a settled determination to make thorough war upon that party whenever and wherever found in our dominions. Permission has been asked of the Indian bureau by the military authorities to enlist the Crows against the hostile Sioux. The Crows are old enemies of the Sioux tribe, and have been for a long series of years friendly to this government. The Indian office has acceded to the request from the secretary of war if there is any danger of Sitting Bull crossing into United States territory recruiting, that the Crows will commence immediately.

[EDITORIAL COLUMNS.]

It is reported that immense quantities of the best timber are being destroyed in the Indian Territory south of this and Sumner counties. If no timber were cut down except such as is actually used up savingly, it would be much better, but this wholesale waste should be stopped at once. Where is the deputy marshal for that territory? Winfield Courier.

[REPORT FROM BOLTON TOWNSHIP: J. C. TOPLIFF, SECRETARY.]

A meeting was called by J. M. Sample, Trustee, to meet at the Bland school house at one o'clock today, to take some action in regard to purchasing a site for a cemetery, to be owned by the township. Notwithstanding the weather was very stormy, quite a large number from middle Bolton and west Bolton turned out.

J. M. Sample was elected Chairman, and James C. Topliff, Secretary of the meeting. It was the opinion of all present that the township needed a cemetery of not less than five acres, and that the same be purchased if possible. If a location be decided on and the parties owning the land would not sell at a fair price, to condemn the land according to law, and go ahead and improve the place. Quite a number of locations were suggested and voted on, but all were defeated, and it was finally left to the Township Board to select a site as soon as possible, of not less than five acres, and as near the center of the township as possible. Survey of the ground into lots, which are to be numbered, and given to the different residents of this township in rotation, as called for. Also to have the same all broken out the coming spring. It is understood that the committee members are to look up a site this coming week.

After the cemetery matter was disposed of, the bridge question was brought up before the meeting, and nearly everyone had something to say in its favor. It was the opinion of all present that if we did not have a bridge soon, many would leave the township. Mr. Pepper asked that a vote be taken in regard to voting aid to build a new bridge and repairing the old one south of Arkansas City, which was done, and the same was carried unanimously. They all agreed to turn out on election day and see that all their neighbors went to the polls to vote.

The Board then met together, and in response to petitions from 114 of the residents and tax payers, ordered that an election be held at the usual voting precincts on Saturday, the 9th day of March next.

J. C. TOPLIFF, Secretary.

[NOTICE TO TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES.]

SECTION 24. The trustee shall, annually, on the second Thursday in September, settle with and audit the accounts of the township treasurer, and of all the road overseers in his township, for all moneys disbursed of them; in which sdttlement he shall not credit said officers, or either of them, for any disbursements made by them; and he shall, within ten days thereafter, cause the township clerk to record at length such accounts in the township records.

[COMMUNICATION FROM R. C. STORY - WINFIELD.]

[COMMENTS ON SALT CITY STABBING: SKINNER/STEINER/ACTON.]

entirely in fault, and as it may be judicially investigated, it is but justice to both parties to state the facts.

Until the day of the trial, I did not know of any difficulty on the 4th of July, and all I now know is what Mr. Steiner gold me. Doubtless Willie Skinner was badly to blame for the language used on that day; but it is also a fact known to many that it would not have occurred but for the whiskey sold at the picnic, to minors and others, that day.

On Saturday last I sent Willie Skinner to Salt Springs, and in the evening he was in Waldo's store. Some boys, ready to get others into trouble if they can escape, went to the church where Hugh Steiner was, and by rapping on the window and loud talk, succeeded in stopping the discourse and attracting Steiner's attention. Steiner left the church and went with the other boys to the store, where the trouble began.

Esquire Acton stopped the disturbance, and Willie Skinner left for Acton's house. Steiner, urged on by others, followed after and declaring the thing must be settled, raised his hand as if to strike. Then came the trouble. No "rush for Steiner;" no "d__n you, take that."

Such, Mr. Editor, any responsible citizen of Salt Springs will tell you, and many will state further that Willie Skinner did only what the most of older men would have done. No trouble would have occurred between the boys had it not been for the meddlesome interference of others, who are far more to blame than either of the boys.

Three Justices sat on the trial, and fined Willie Skinner $10, which fact ought to satisfy any man that the blame was not entirely on one side. I will say that the father of Hugh Steiner acted like a gentleman, and reported the fuss as brought on by others.

WM. SKINNER.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "C. C. H." - EAST BOLTON.]

Our people are all ablaze over the bridge proposition which will determine the matter of briding the Arkansas river south of the city. May the bonds be carried and the bridge be speedily constructed, is the wish of everyone living in East Bolton.

[REPORT FROM "PRO BONO PUBLICO" - EAST CRESWELL.]

[NOTICE TO SETTLERS ON CHEROKEE STRIP.]

In accordance with the instructions from the general land office, this office will be prepared to receive applications from settlers entitled thereunder to enter tracts covered by their respective settlements not to exceed 160 acres for each settler, at $1.25 per acre for the period of one year from this date. Each applicant will be required to submit proof to consist of his affidavit corroborated by the affidavits of disinterested witnesses, which shall show that he is an actual settler on the tract desired, and also that there is no other party entitled thereon as a prior settler.

JAMES L. DYER, Receiver.

Wichita, Kans., Feb. 7, 1878.

[REPORT FROM W. A. METCALF - CEDAR TOWNSHIP.]

Mr. Gregg, who has been sick with pneumonia, is able to sit up a little each day.

Four deer were killed on Cedar creek, this township, one day last week by a party of Kaw Indians.

The Joe Smith branch of the Mormon church baptized four of our citizens in East Beaver creek last Monday morning. The wind blew cold from the north, and their clothing froze on them before they could get into a house.

W. A. METCALF.

[REPORT FROM "GUN POWDER" - SILVERDALE.]

[COMMUNICATION SENT TO TELEGRAM FROM PLEASANT VALLEY.]

Hostilities commenced by one of the Indians striking Bobbitt, the youngest of the Holland boys (aged 9 years) on the head with a bow stick. Hawkins told Bob to knock him down, whereupon the Indian punched him with his stick. At this W. Holland picked up an ax and told the Indians to "skin out;" refusing to do so, one of the Indians drew his butcher knife and flourished it defiantly above his head.

William threw the ax at him, striking the Indian near that promiment cheek bone, and stretching him on the ground apparently lifeless; but the timely arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Holland and the free use of camphor soon restored him to consciousness. It was found that instead of being knocked senseless, he was simply knocked sensible. They retreated in good order.

[NOTE: TRAVELER REPRINTED TELEGRAM ARTICLE.]

[COMMUNICATION TO TRAVELER EDITOR FROM JAMES L. DYER.]

DEAR SIR: This office is in receipt of instructions from the General Land Office, relative to the sale of lands on the Cherokee Strip, and will be prepared to receive applications from actual settlers on the 7th of this month, for the period of one year thereafter. Each applicant is requested to submit proof to consist of his affidavit corroborated by the affidavits of disinterested witnesses which shall show that he is an actual settler on the tract desired, and also that there is no other party entitled thereto as a prior settler, and will be required to pay for the same $1.25 per acre. No person will be permitted to enter more than 160 acres.

Very Respectfully,

JAMES L. DYER, Receiver.

[COUNSEL FEES: OSAGE CEDED LAND SUITS.]

Hon. D. C. Haskell has introduced a bill in Congress, providing for the pay of counsel fees in the Osage Ceded Land suits. The bill appropriates out of the Indian fund $50,000 for that purpose.

[THE HESSIAN FLY: REPORT FROM WM. B. NORMAN, RED BUD.]

[PERSONALS.]

A brother of H. P. Farrar is visiting this place.

HERMANN GODEHARD was blessed with a bouncing boy last Wednesday.

Go to the Methodist Church tomorrow evening and have an oyster feast.

HUGH STEINER, the young man who was stabbed last week, is recovering rapidly.

WYARD GOOCH is making another tour in the Territory, going to Pawnee Agency again.

REV. S. B. FLEMING failed to reach his appointment on Sabbath night because of high waters.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN was buried under the management of the Knights of Honor last Wednesday.

MR. TISDALE, the manager of the stage line, was down last week in company with agent M. L. Bangs.

NOTICE the new card of Col. J. C. McMullen in this issue. The Colonel expects to offer good inducements to his old patrons.

AD: J. C. McMULLEN, PRESIDENT.

A. W. BERKEY, ASSISTANT CASHIER.

CITIZEN'S BANK OF WINFIELD,

WINFIELD, KANSAS.

(Successor to Arkansas City Bank, Arkansas City, Kansas.)

Does a General Banking Business.

Pays Interest on Time Deposits.

Loans Money on Well Improved Farms.

Has a very superior new burglar proof safe,

with all the recent improvements.

Correspondents: American Exchange National Bank, New York;

First National Bank, Emporia.

MARRIED. At the residence of Rev. Herbert, on Thursday, February 7th, James F. Goatley to Sarah Key, both of Bolton township.

TOMMY YOUNG, the man who drove the stage from this place for many years, died at Lawrence, Kansas, some days ago, leaving no will or request whatever.

ED. HORN returned from Fort Sill and Red River last week. While at the Fort he had the explicit pleasure of gazing on bow-legged Fred. Grant, the ex-President's son.

An election has been called in Bolton township to vote on the proposition of issuing $2,000 in bonds to build a bridge across the Arkansas to join that portion of the old bridge that remains, since the flood of Sunday, May 27th, 1877. It is generally believed the proposition will be carried by a good majority, as it costs much more to pay ferry toll than to pay interest and principle on $2,000.

NEN-NE-ES-CAH, the little town on the Arkansas about eighteen miles above this place, is growing like a young mushroom. It is the half way place between Wichita and Arkansas City, where travelers stop for refreshments. The place derived its name from the Osages, and means "white water." The country about it cannot be excelled, and there is sure to be a good trading point there.

HORSE STOLEN. A negro by the name of Sam Houston stole a horse from Mr. Austin, on Grouse Creek last Thursday, the propery of one Mr. Warren. Sam Houston was overtaken near Tisdale, shot at, robbed of his hat and money ($2.60), and then delivered to an officer. Subject for the next school house debate: "Which is the more honorable--to steal a horse, or rob a man of his money and his hat?" W. B.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, FEBRUARY 13, 1878.]

FIRE. Yesterday morning smoke was seen issuing from the roof of the Arkansas City House, and the cry of fire was soon raised. The fire department with one extinguisher arrived promptly, and after a few minutes the fire was subdued with avery small damage to the property. One or more of these extinguishers should be mounted on wheels with a light ladder provided. It is too much of a load for one man to run any distance with.

J. C. TOPLIFF and STRONG PEPPER presented to the Township Board of Bolton township last Saturday petitions signed by more than 114 voters in favor of calling an election to vote $2,000 in bonds towards the bridge across the Arkansas River. We understand that everyone was in favor of the proposition, as well as several others who did not get a chance to sign the petitions. Let every man turn out on election day and vote for the bonds, and see that his neighbors do the same, so that a contract can be drawn up and work be commenced immediately.

DONATION. A donation party will be held at the M. E. Church on next Thursday evening for the benefit of Rev. B. C. Swarts for his labors during the last fall and winter. An oyster supper will be held the same evening at the same place, besides music and other attractions. Any contribution will be thankfully accepted that is needful in a family. Mr. Swarts was the first minister at this place, and one of the first settlers, and has been almost constantly laboring for the good of the church and community since he came. We hope the donation party will be largely attended and freely contributed in.

We made a short trip to Wichita last week, and found the roads almost impassable with teams stuck in the mud in several places. In accordance with our usual good luck in vehicles, the stage upset about three miles west of Winfield while going down a slight hill, coming down with considerable force. We were on the under side, and a female sat on our shoulder and ribs, with a heavy paper sack in her lap. After frantic efforts we were released, and soon went on our way rejoicing. At Wichita business was quiet, owing to the state of the roads. The liveries were doing but little, but two hotels were full of strangers anxious to get out into the country. The Richey House found accommodations for their old patrons, and had to put off some new ones. A. N. Deming is doing well; has one of the most convenient houses in the city, and is generally popular with the traveling public. Frank Wood can be found at "Jones'," glad to see all his friends.

T. L. Brown, Noah Kimmell, and E. Baldwin sold their hogs for $2.95 per 100 weight, and considered it a good sale under the present market. But little wheat was being offered or bought. Very few wagons on the road, and we saw but two droves of hogs.

Three Pawnee Indians broke into the school building at Pawnee Agency and stole some children's clothing. The Agent ordered them to be tied up and whipped thirty lashes. Two of them were whipped and one ran off to avoid it. He makes his residence on the Arkansas river near this place.

[BERRY BROTHERS PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED.]

The partnership heretofore existing between Thomas E. Berry, I. K. Berry, and A. A. Berry, is hereby mutually dissolved, Thomas E. Berry continuing the business. All persons owing the old firm will please call and settle at once, without further

notice.

BERRY BROS.

[BOLTON BRIDGE BOND ELECTION NOTICE.]

WHEREAS, A petition has been presented to the Township Board of Bolton township, signed by 114 voters, being more than three-fifths of the votes at the last general election, for the purpose of voting Two Thousand Dollars to build a combination bridge and repair the old bridge across the Arkansas river south of Arkansas City; it is therefore ordered that an election be held on the Ninth day of March, 1878, at the usual voting precincts in Bolton township, for the purpose of voting for or against the proposition to issue Two Thousand Dollars to repair that part of the old bridge now standing, and to build a combination bridge in place of that part destroyed, across the Arkansas river south of Arkansas City. The form of the ballots shall read: "For the Bridge Bonds," and "Against the Bridge Bonds."

J. M. SAMPLE, Trustee.

T. S. PARVIN, Clerk.

A. J. KIMMEL, Treasurer.

[AD: THOMAS E. BERRY--GROCERIES, QUEENSWARE, ETC.]

NEW HOUSE, FIRST DOOR SOUTH OF WILSON'S CENTRAL STORE.

Having bought the entire interest of Berry Brothers, hereafter I will endeavor to keep a Large Stock of GROCERIES, QUEENSWARE, GLASSWARE, CROCKERY, CUTLER, ETC.

Call before Buying Elsewhere.

Yours, Respectfully,

Thomas E. Berry.

[STOLEN PROPERTY FOUND: W. H. BILSON/JAMES RIDENOUR ARRESTED]

W. H. Bilson and James Ridenour Arrested.

Last Sunday morning Mr. Samuel Hoyt went to the stable back of Silas Parker's house, and found lying in open view a case containing a gold watch, the property of L. W. Currier. Considerable talk was indulged in as to how the watch came there, and suspicion pointed toward the men arrested, whom it was thought had become frightened at Mr. Currier's threats, and thought best to let him have his watch. Shortly after Mrs. Alexander noticed the movements of Mr. Bilson, and saw him go to the cellar of the house on the north of her residence, she informed her son, Will, and upon his going to the cellar he found the forks taken from the store, wrapped in a sun bonnet, hid under the joists of the building. Mr. Bilson was then arrested, and confessed he had helped to steal the articles, and that Ridenour was his accomplice. He said that on the morning of the robbery Mr. Ridenour said to him, "I want you to help me do a little work tonight." Bilson replied, "All right; I am ready if there is any money in it." He claims that Ridenour then promised him $25 if he would help him, and the two went to the store, bored the doors, and took the property, and that Ridenour had the watches. At this writing the trial has not taken place. While the evidence seems to be gainst Mr. Ridenour, there are many things to make his friends believe he is innocent. One thing in particular is, that a gold watch was brought to him on the day previous to the robbery to be regulated. He moved the regulator, and handed the watch back, saying it would do as well to carry it. The cause of Mr. Ridenour's arrest is all on Bilson's statements. As yet there is no further evidence. After the trial we shall have more to say about it.

AD: JAMES RIDENOUR, JEWELER.

Watches and Clocks repaired in first-class style, and in good working order. Also Engravings and Repairing of Jewelry. Watch repairing a specialty. All work warranted. I am to be found at the Green Front Grocery Store, Summit street, Arkansas City, Kansas.

[SITTING BULL.]

HE WANTS TO FORM A COMBINATION TO KILL OFF THE WHITES.

The following dispatch containing an account of the visit of Sitting Bull's Sioux over the border, and their attempt to form a confederation to attack the whites, has been received, and is vouched for as reliable in every respect.

FORT BENTON, MONTANA, Feb. 8. Charley Ruckman arrived from Fort Claggett last evening with the following important information. On the 13th ult., the Crows and Gros Ventres who camped at Fort Claggett discovered moccasin tracks of about one hundred Sioux in the vicinity of the camp and pieces of tobacco tied to sticks were found, which signifies the Sioux desired to smoke and hold a council. The Crows and Gros Ventres, however, considered the tobacco a decoy, and were afraid to venture out.

The following day Major Reed, who was at the fort, started for his ranch in company with one of the Crows. When a few miles out they discovered a large party of Sioux mounted, and were compelled to turn back.

That night all the Indians camped near the fort tied their horses to their lodges; but in spite of this precaution, fifty head of animals were stolen, evidently by the mounted party seen the day previous. The party on foot is supposed to be still prowling near the fort.

Lame Bull, a Gros Ventres, has gone with the Crows into the Judith country, taking the lodges of his own people with him and advising the rest to follow.

A Gros Ventres Indian came in from Marions today and re-

ported as follows: A member of the Black Feet tribe recently came to his camp, on the Marions, to learn how he and his people felt about joining the Sioux. It appears that the Sioux have held a council with the Sarcess, at Cypress Mountains, when the Sioux stated that they want us to form an alliance with all the Northern tribes to kill off the whites before the latter became too numerous. The Sarcess communicated with the Black Feet and the latter sent this Indian to negotiate with the Gros Ventres.

Before the Gros Ventres Indian, from whom this information is obtained, left the Marions, a runner from the main camp of Milk River had come in with news to the effect that a delegation of nine Sioux had come to the camp to get the Gros Ventres and Assinoboins to join them against the whites. The Gros Ventres profess to have threatened the party, whereupon the latter went outside the camp, "dug a hole and dared them to come on." They say they would have attacked them, but were afraid of the

Assinoboins.

[EDITORIAL COLUMN.]

The above, taken from the Winfield Courier agrees with our sentiments exactly, and we think should be considered by our Representatives at Washington.

In response to numerous inquiries about the "Cherokee Strip," we present the following facts obtained, as we believe, from a reliable source.

The "Strip" consists of a somewhat wedge shaped tract of land along the south line of the State some 200 miles from east to west and varying from about one and a half miles in width at its eastern and to some four and a half miles at the west end. It lies between the south line of the Osage Diminished Reserve and the Indian Territory. It was caused by a defective survey of the north line of the Indian Territory some years ago.

Some four years ago the "Strip" first came into market by an act of Congress and by the terms of the law, was to be sold to actual settlers only at $1.50 an acre for all east of the Arkansas river, and $1.25 for all west of that river, for one year, after which it was to be sold under sealed bids to the highest bidder, regardless of actual occupancy. Under this law, the land was settled and all the best portion of it taken as far west as the west line of Sumner county.

This past winter by the efforts of our Congressman from this district, Hon. Thomas Ryan, practically the old law for the sale of the strip was re-enacted, and the land is now open for sale to actual settlers in tracts not exceeding 160 acres to a settler, at $1.25 per acre. But all the best land has been culled out and taken as far west as the west line of Sumner county, beyond which we should not advise settlers to go on the strip except in the few favored parts where it is coursed by creeks. Emporia News.

[LETTER RE CHEROKEE STRIP.]

[INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING SALE OF CHEROKEE STRIP LANDS.]

Strip Lands to Actual Settlers.

[MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS: EDITORIAL COLUMNS.]

A new city has been laid out on the old town site of

Ninnescah, and called Bushnell.

[WORK ON NARROW GAUGE HAS STOPPED TEMPORARILY.]

[INDIAN TERRITORY: U. S. INDIAN COMMISSIONER WRITES RE SETTLERS]

The U. S. Indian Commissioner at Washington writes to the Land Office at Independence, concerning the settlement recently made just over the line in the Territory, that all locations south of the State line are in the Indian Territory, and cannot be recognized. Such settlers are intruders and cannot acquire a title to any land south of said boundry.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "CHRISTMAS" - WALTON, SUMNER COUNTY.]

There have been a number of claims taken on the strip within the past two weeks, and some trouble is anticipated in regard to claim jumping.

[REPORT FROM "ETTO" - CRESWELL TOWNSHIP.]

Mud out here is an impediment to locomotion, as equestrians are compelled to travel the under ground road.

Wheat looks remarkably well, and promises a bountiful crop. Acreage exceeds any former sowing.

Farmers are seen standing around their premises arranging for the spring's crop. Some of our farmers adhere to the old adage, "The early bird catches the worm," and have planted potatoes, and others seem to think that "he that by the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive," and are driving matters in this respect.

We too can boast of a literary society, and judging from the gass upon some questions, gassers are not all dead yet.

Would it not be profitable to the farmers these long winter evenings to organize a farmers' club society, and discuss the most profitable and scientific mode of crop raising ? ETTO.

[K. C., E. & S. R. R.]

[REPORT FROM "BLINKY" - WINDSOR TOWNSHIP.]

District 112 needs a school. There are fifty school children in the district, and no school. If our Board don't do something soon, we will have to bring out that man in Winfield that wears spectacles, and see what he can do. Look a little out, boys.

The mill at Lazette has stopped running. Reason not known, but we can guess all the same.

The Kelly boys are fixing up a stock ranch. They have some good cattle, and are fine boys.

[INTERESTING TO THE SQUATTERS IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY.]

For some weeks there has been strong evidences of a stampede from the counties of Cowley, Sumner, and others, not very remote from the south line of the State, to the lands just south of this and Sumner county and in the Indian Territory. Many have gone down there and staked off their claims. Some have stayed there and others are only waiting for spring to come, before perma-nently removing to that locality. To all who have come to us for an opinion on the matter, we have said, "Don't go--the lands are Indian lands, and not open for settlement, and you will just get comfortably settled when the military will drive you out."

Some have taken our advice and others laughed at our warning, while still others requested us to write to Washington and find just the status of the lands.

This we consented to do, and a few days since wrote to Hon. T. R. Ryan, the Representative in Congress from this district. The following is the letter we received in reply, which we hope will convince all those who are wild on this question, that they are entirely on the wrong track, and be satisfied to stay quietly at home and improve the lands they already have in Cowley.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

Washington, D. C., Feb. 6, 1878.

W. M. ALLISON, My Dear Sir:

In reply to your letter, I will state that I had an interview this morning with the Secretary of the Interior, upon the subject of the right of persons to enter upon and occupy lands in the Indian Territory in the vicinity of the Kansas border south of Cowley and Sumner, etc. He expressed the opinion that such right does not exist, but on the contrary, such occupancy would be a violation of treaty obligations, and if his attention was called to the fact that persons were occupying such lands, he should regard it his duty to remove them promptly, if needs be, by military force. I therefore think you would do a kindness to all persons who contemplate going upon these lands for settlement, to advise them not to do so.

Very Respectfully,

THOMAS RYAN.

[RETAIL MARKET.]

Eggs, per dozen, 9 cents.

Butter, per pound, 18 cents.

Onions, per bushel, $1.60

Turnips, per bushel, 20 cents.

Cabbage, 10 cents.

Potatoes, per bushel, $1.00

Poultry--Chickens, per dozen, $2.00

Turkeys, per pounds, 6 cents.

Bacon, per pound, 12 cents.

Tallow, per pound, 12 cents.

Hides--Green, 4 cents.

Hides--Dried, 10 cents.

Cattle, 2 cents.

Hogs--on foot, 2-1/2 cents.

Hogs--dressed, 3 cents.

Sugar, per pound, 10 and 12 cents.

Coffee, 3-1/2 lbs. for $1.00

[BUSINESS NOTICES/ADS/]

[PERSONALS.]

ED. FINNEY, of Osage Agency, is now a happy father.

JAMES HUEY is administrator of the Chamberlain estate.

We need a mail route from this place to Pawnee Agency.

The school building at Pawnee Agency is almost completed.

BIRTH. JANUARY 17th, 1878, dates the arrival of a daughter at Al. Pruden's house.

BIRTH. HERMANN'S baby is a girl, instead of a boy. We missed our guess on the gender last week.

A census of Winfield, recently completed, shows that place to have a population of 1611.

A. A. CHAMBERLAIN was the first member of the Knights of Honor that died in Kansas.

TOM CONCANNON, of Winfield, is in the Indian picture and view business, with a traveling exhibition.

G. B. GREENE brought his cattle up from Dean's herd last week; Grass is green on the Salt Fork.

JARED ELLERS, formerly of Miami Town, Indiana, died of pneumonia at Salt Springs, last Sunday.

The barber left last week, and was not gone half a day until a man was after him for the boots he wore.

L. C. WOOD sold his house on South Summit street to Williams & Maricle last week. It will be used as a hotel.

L. C. WOOD has donned the blue ribbon in obedience to the command in Numbers, 15th chapter, 38th verse.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, FEBRUARY 20, 1878.]

J. I. MITCHELL has returned from Wichita with his stock of saddles and harness. He has some very fine ones.

JAMES BOICE, of Lake City, Colorado, is stopping a few days at this place. He came down to buy ponies for pack animals.

WADNER, of Cedar Vale, got dead drunk, laid in a wagon all night, and woke up in the morning in another world.

The pontoon bridge at Oxford has been broken up by the late rise in the river, and crossing at that point has been suspended.

J. C. TOPLIFF purchased the Vanston tract of land joining his farm in Bolton township that was sold at Sheriff's sale last Saturday.

O. D. LEMERT, of Elk Falls, sold his cattle in Chicago for less than they cost him in Elk County. Consequently, he lost freight and feed.

THOMAS CALLAHAN signed the pledge and donned the blue ribbon Monday night at the Murphy meeting, and has resolved to drink no more.

Take the Santa Fe road for the San Juan country. The fare to Fort Garland from Wichita is $33, to Del Noret by stage $25, to Lake City from Del Norte $15.

The M. E. donation was not so well attended as was expected, on account of wet weather. Those present, however, contributed freely. Only $16.00 was obtained.

EPHRIHAM MERRIT received a terrible blow last week from being bucked on the horn of the saddle. It made him sick, but he held on until he fainted, and then fell to the ground.

WM. H. McCABE was married to MRS. REBECCA WILLIAMSON on Thursday evening, 7th inst., and MR. JUSTICE FISHER to MISS ESTHER WILLIAMSON. T.

We were favored with a call from Mr. Otis Houghton last Monday. Mr. Houghton is a promising young man, takes a lively interest in affairs generally, and we hope to meet him often.

EDITOR TRAVELER: Please say to all whom it may concern that our windows have been received, there will be Sabbath school in the M. E. Church next Sabbath at 10 a.m., and preaching at 11 a.m. No services at night. A general invitation is extended to all interested. B. C. SWARTS, Pastor.

[TRIAL: BILSON AND RIDENOUR.]

THE TRIAL OF BILSON AND RIDENOUR was held at Pearson's Hall last Wednesday afternoon and night. County Attorney McDermott prosecuted the case, with C. R. Mitchell defending Ridenour, and Amos Walton defending Bilson. Judge Christian and I. H. Bonsall were the judges. Bilson was bound over to appear at the next term of the District Court, in the sum of $600, and failing to obtain bail, was committed to jail. The evidence was not sufficient to convict Ridenour, and he was discharged. In searching Bilson's property, in Mrs. Williams' boarding house, some goods were found that had been taken from Charley Balcom's house some time ago, also some articles that were taken from A. K. Melton's trunk.

[LIPPMANN'S MILL.]

FROM LIPPMANN'S MILL. Lippmann is running on full time. During the last week there were two rafts of lumber, of ten thousand feet each, landed at Lippmann's landing on the Walnut. The Murphy movement has reached the mill. They have also formed an anti-tobacco society. The Ragamuffins and Advance had a boat race on Saturday. The Ragamuffins came out victorious, they challenge any two men in Creswell township for a race. If accepted, leave word at the mill. Strayed or stolen from the mill, three jacks, two blacks, and one red one. Persons finding the above will be rewarded by calling at the mill and leaving the property. DEAD BEAT.

[OSAGE AND PAWNEE INDIANS.]

The Osages were paid $31,491.25 a few weeks ago, averaging $13.75 per head. They have nothing to sell now, and you can't buy a pony of them for double its value. The Pawnees, however, are fearful poor, and almost in a starving condition. They are returning from their bufffalo hunt without meat, and some white men stampeded and drove off a number of their ponies. They had a squad of eight soldiers with them, but the Indians were only armed with bows and arrows, and the thieves were well armed. There were not enough soldiers to take them, and they could not overtake them.

[MORE PERSONALS.]

O. W. HUNT, HATTIE WILSON, and MATTIE RICE were relieved from labor at the Kaw Agency after the Inspector made his report.

Mr. Hunt was engaged as industrial teacher on farming. Miss Wilson was instructing seamstress, and Miss Rice was employed in the dining room. The cause was because the appropriations were limited. Mr. Spray's place was also recommended as superfluous, but was afterwards reconsidered--a very wise reconsideration.

A lively runaway took place last week in front of Hermann's grocery. Two women and one boy were in the wagon when the horses were beating a tattoo on the dashboard, but they did not remain long. When the horses came against the post that supports the awning of the grocery, the spectators showed their dexterity in leaping out of the way. One man we never saw jump before made a fifteen foot leap.

A. A. NEWMAN was awarded the contract at the Pawnee Agency for 65 head of cows, twelve yoke of oxen, 525 bushels of corn, 375 bushels of oats, some pine lumber, and 200,000 shingles. SCHIFFBAUER BROS. were awarded the contract for salt and brooms.

A Leavenworth firm received the contract for the balance, being oil, putty, glass, etc.

If you were to see our wood pile of seventy-five cords, you would see that we have no cause to shriek for wood. Corn or any other thing to eat is what bothers us.

THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL of this place has just recxeived five hundred books from a Boston Sabbath school, and the old books of the school were given to one on Grouse creek. J. C. Topliff manipulated the matter.

One of the best arranged cottage houses that has been built lately is the one just east of Mr. Benedict's, built by Silas Parker for James Wilson. The location is a good one, and will always be pleasant.

The "settlers" (?) on the Salt Fork have ordered Dean to keep his cattle off their "improvements." They will elect themselves governors next, and require a man to travel the regular highway (maybe).

It is said Bilson, the man arrested for burglary, was to have been married on the day his trial took place, to Miss Maggie Mercer. It was a lucky thing for the young lady he was discovered so soon.

[AMONG THE MEXICANS.]

When gold is to be had, a human life with them is no better than that of an ox. Their manner of murdering a lone traveler away out in the solitude of the plains equals the Thugs of India, as described by Eugene Sue in the "Wandering Jew." It is about as follows: The bandit secretes himself near the roadside, either in a dense thicket of chapparal or else in the umbrageous top of a tree overshadowing the path on which his victim is expected to approach. He has with him, coiled up in a circle a couple of feet in diameter, a lasso. The lasso is a rope a quarter or a third of an inch in diameter, and made of leather thongs, or the long, coarse hair taken from the manes and tails of horses and cattle, and twisted together in a manner that would outwit the oldest sailor in the United States navy, and which is at the same time peculiar to Mexicans. The lasso is generally thirty to fifty feet long, and has at its end a smooth running noose, admitting of the easy sliding of the rope through the same. The lasso is used and managed with great dexterity by all Mexicans, and, indeed, by Texas cow boys and cattle men as well. By practice it can be thrown with such precision, on horseback at full speed, as to catch around the neck of the swiftest horse and almost instantly bring him to a halt.

As the unwary traveler approaches, not dreaming of his danger, the Mexican highwayman suddenly tosses the coil of rope from his hands into the air. After describing a curve, and whilst the murderer himself remains hidden behind the tall cactuses or thick chapparal, it alights on the head and around the neck of the doomed traveler. The latter has not even time to utter an exclamation of horror or of despair ere the robber gives the lasso a sudden jerk. The noose is tightened around the victim's throat, and before he can draw a knife, or otherwise attempt to free himself, he is dragged off his horse and falls, a strangled corpse among the stones, sand, and rocks.

The black-bearded, swarthy Thug then plunders his victim, searches in his pockets for gold or silver or greenbacks, takes his horse, if the latter has not escaped into the plains, drags the body into a gully or secluded spot among the rocks, and the mystery of oblivion covers all.

[LINCOLN TERRITORY.]

[EDITORIAL COLUMN.]

Mr. Dorsey submitted an amendment to the resolution recently submitted by Mr. Voorhees, instructing the committee on the judiciary to procure information in relation to issuing bonds to certain railroad companies on certain contingent land grants of lands of the Indians of the Indian Territory. The amendment instructs the committee to ascertain what amount of money has been expended by the several Indian tribes of the Indian Terri-tory in support of delegates to Washington during the past five years, and in opposing the organization of civil government over said territory and whether any such money has been taken from the school funds of any such tribes, and if so, what legislation is necessary to prevent in the future the diversion of such school funds from their legitimate purpose. It further instructs the committee to ascertain whether a civil form of government cannot be organized over the Indian Territory for the better protection of life and property, and whether the lands now held in common by said Indian tribes cannot be divided in severalty among the Indians without confirming conditional grants of lands to certain railroad corporations. Ordered printed.

[REPORT FROM "A' - "HELL'S HALF ACRE" -- EAST END OF BOLTON.]

As "C. C. H." reports from east Bolton, I will only give such items as relate to the east end of Bolton, known as "Hell's Half Acre."

Ed. Haight, our popular County Surveyor, has been here surveying the disputed territory, and has done it to the satisfaction of all concerned.

A general plowing, preparatory to sowing oats and planting corn, is the order of the day. Mr. Heins, an old Ohio farmer, is with us. He says this is the most productive country he ever saw--every house teeming with children. He intends to move here (he is childless).

This district can boast of one of the best Sabbath schools in the county, under the charge of Mr. Pearson and Mrs. Weatherholt.

Thanks to Mrs. Denton, the boys nearly all wear the blue ribbon. We have a better school, in charge of Miss Landis, a larger Sabbath school, and a greater number of blue ribbon boys than any other district, and I will add, less tobacco chewers and whiskey drinkers, thanks to the hard times.

Mr. Chambers, of east Bolton, had a horse cut on the hip, to all appearances with an ax.

O. C. Skinner had a shoat in a pen forty rods from his house, that some time during the night lost most of its upper jaw. It was amputated more than halfway to his eyes, the bone and hair squarely cut off. The tongue and lower jaw were uninjured. The brute that can commit such cruelties ought to be known. A hemp neck tie would adorn his neck, and his carcass should be thrown in a cess pool. A.

[ITEMS FROM THE WINFIELD COURIER.]

They have begun laying the foundation for the new machine shop.

The Christians at Antioch, Sheridan township, Cowley county, are preparing to build a fine church edifice near the Jarvis school house.

Settlers on the Cherokee Strip are not required to file on their lands, but may make a direct entry upon showing compliance with the law.

Justices of the Peace should bear in mind that on the first day of March in each year, they are required by law to report to the County Superintendent of Public Instruction the amount received from the proceeds of fines and estrays during the six months preceding and belonging to the school fund of the county, and that they are required to pay the same over to the county treasurer on that day.

[MISCELLANEOUS.]

Capt. McDermott, Cowley County, is a member of the Republican Congressional Central Committee for the third district.

There are no less than eight candidates for Secretary of State already in the field, among which is Wirt W. Walton, of Cowley County.

The Senate confirmed the nomination of Indian agents: Samuel A. Ely, Philadelphia, Pawnee Agency; A. B. Hunt, Kentucky, Kiowa Agency; Chas. A. Ruffle, Minnesota, Chippewa Agency, Minnesota.

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We understand that Col. St. Clair has returned with another proposition from the Santa Fe Railroad Company. The company seem to be growing very liberal with their propositions. We may expect one monthly for the next five years. Sumner Co. Democrat.

[FROM THE SUMNER COUNTY PRESS.]

Many settlers are proving up and paying for their homes on the Strip. Some of the finest farms and best improvements in the country are to be found on these lands.

A suit for five thousand dollars damages, has been commenced in the District Court, against Dr. J. A. Maggard, of Oxford, by E. B. Foot, a former resident of that village.

According to a decision of Gov. Anthony, no vacancy exists in the office of County Surveyor, by reason of the failure of

S. T. Wood to qualify in the time prescribed by law. The present incumbent, Geo. T. Walton, will hold the office till the next general election.

[MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS RE KANSAS.]

There are 204,108 sheep in Kansas.

There are forty one breweries in Kansas.

The Chetopa Herald says that the agent of the Ponca Indians, now located near Baxter Springs, has decided to remove them to a part of the Arrapahoe and Cheyenne reservations, south of Arkansas City. This will cause a still greater demand for dead dogs.

[PERSONALS.]

The silver bill has passed the Senate, and the President probably will sign.

PRYOR, KAGER & PRYOR have dissolved the law partnership existing among them.

R. W. McNOWN, of Maple City, and LEE DAVIS are going to make hay in the Black Hills this summer.

MR. S. P. CHANNELL delivered a temperance lecture at the First Presbyterian Church Monday evening.

We met Drs. Davis and Mendenhall on their way to attend an important case on Grouse creek last week.

A wagon containing a lady ws overthrown and precipitated in the Arkansas river, last Friday, near the ferry.

Parties returning from Emporia state that the

K. C., E. & S. W. railroad will be built during next spring and summer.

MR. JENNINGS conducted the teachers' examination held at this place last week. There were twenty-one applicatns present.

A. W. BERKEY and wife came down on Saturday to visit the old folks. Mrs. Berkey will remain in the city until today.

An exchange says: "Mr. Nickerson, president of the Baptist church, gave $100 to help the A., T. & S. F. R. R. at Newton."

BEN SIMPSON is U. S. Marshal for Kansas in place of Chas. Miller. If he makes as good an officer as Charley Miller, he will do well.

A social dance was held at the Central Avenue hotel on the evening of Washington's Birthday, and was well attended and generally enjoyed.

The office of County Superintendent of Public Instruction is more thought of since our last Superintendent became the State School Instructor.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, FEBRUARY 27, 1878.]

The room was crowded so that many could not secure seats at Parker's school house last Tuesday evening, to witness the exercises of the literary society.

MARRIED. On the 17th inst., by C. G. Handy, Esq., at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. Arthur S. Morse to Miss Hattie Davy. All of Beaver township.

A man by the name of David White hauled a load of wood to Winfield last Saturday, purchased a bottle of liquor, and started to return. He was found a few miles from the place with his foot caught in the wood rack, and his head hanging near the ground, dead.

FROM WINFIELD. DIED. On the 17th inst., an infant child of J. E. Platter. Aged six months.

A big revival meeting is going on in the M. E. church by all the churches combined. Crowded house every night. E. P. KINNE.

A. A. NEWMAN sold 8,000 pounds of boneless shoulders and smoked hams to James Boice, of Lake City, Colorado, last week for eight cents per pound, and Schiffbauer Brothers furnished him a large quantity of eggs at five cents per dozen. These hams will go up the mountains on pack mules.

This can't be. Wirt is said to be engaged to two or three charming daughters in this county; besides, he proposes to sojourn in Topeka two years longer.

"Major Fuller is putting in his time drawing sectional views of round houses, turn tables, bridges, etc., for the narrow gauge. He has outlined two or three narrow gauge engines, and Mr. Riggs has painted them in gorgeous colors. One of them is called 'Lewis Lutz.' It is a freight engine with a boiler of large girth and a tank for lager."

Tell the Major we are all anxious to see him draw the engines down this way.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, FEBRUARY 27, 1878.]

DIED. REUBEN BOWERS, a well-known and prominent citizen of Bolton township, late of Lincoln, Illinois, died at his residence on Friday last, of general debility, after a lingering sickness of about three weeks. He leaves a wife and four children, two of whom are married. Mr. Bowers was a gentleman with many friends, and his loss is deeply felt by the whole community of this section. The burial ceremony took place Sunday at 11 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Fleming.

A man named Bacon has examined the Arkansas river from Little Rock to Arkansas City, Kansas, and proposes for a bonus of a thousand dollars to run a steamboat to that place.

ON SUNDAY MORNING about one-third of the west pier of the Walnut river bridge was discovered to have been washed out. Mr. Newman and James Huey, the Township Trustee, immediately engaged four teams and had them work all day Sunday hauling rock to throw in above the pier to save it. It does not interfere with crossing, and will be permanently repaired when the water lowers.

A colony is being formed in Beaver township to settle in the Indian Territory west of the Arkansas River, upon Government lands that are not occupied by Indians or anyone else. They think it a good move to show the government that the people want it for homes, and think it will bring it in for settlement. Bad move, gentlemen. You won't settle long.

DIED. Near Salt City, February 18th, Mr. ELLARD ELLARS. He came to this county on the first day of this month, and died on the "Oaks" farm after a residence of only four days. His wife started on the 19th with his body for Miami county, Indiana, their former home. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn his loss. A. H. A.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, FEBRUARY 27, 1878.]

It will soon be time for another railroad election. Before we vote again on any proposition, we should have money sufficient deposited in the county ttreasury to defray the expenses of the election in case the road is not built. The county has expended over $4,000 on railroad elections already and "still we have no railroad."

PAWNEE PETE, an old Pawnee Indian who has been trapping on the Arkansas, has with him a white child that he claims to have bought from the Cheyennes for two ponies. She is about thirteen years old, light brown hair, black eyes, and has an intelligent expression. She cannot talk English, but speaks the Pawnee language fluently. Evidently she belongs to some family in Texas, who have been mourning her loss for the past six years, as the Indians claim to have found her six years ago. The authorities should endeavor to find her connections and have her

returned.

[FATHER ARRESTED FOR HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH DAUGHTERS.]

A Father Arrested for Having Sexual Intercourse

With His Two Daughters.

NICHOLAS HOSTETLER, an old man sixty years of age, living on the divide about four miles north of this place, was arrested last week on the complaint of his son for holding sexual intercourse with his two daughters, aged fifteen and nineteen years.

The testimony proved he had been practicing his hellish designs for more than two years, and he was bound over to appear at the next term of court for trial, and is now confined in the county jail.

His wife returned to Indiana, to the place of their former residence, several years ago, and he has been living with his family since then.

His preliminary trial took place at Winfield, before Justice Boyer, by whom he was bound over. The matter has caused considerable excitement, and his neighbors are wonderfully indignant at the prolonged outrage in their midst. What the trial will develop remains to be seen.

[ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES.]

ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. Houses rent from $3 to $10 per month, and are few. You can build a 12 x 14 for about $300.

Plenty of farming land can be rented by giving one-third of the crop in the crib to the owner.

You can buy farming implements here cheaper than you can ship them in.

It don't pay to ship furniture; you can do better to buy here.

A team, wagon, and harness can be purchased at from $200 to $250; oxen at from $50 to $100 per yoke.

The rate of freight from Wichita to this place is 50 cents per 100 pounds; the distance is 55 miles.

Board by the week can be had from $3.50 to $6.00; by the day at $1.00 to $1.50.

The stage fare from Wichita is $5.00.

Articles of merchandise, groceries, and provisions, are but little in advance of those in the East.

[TEACHERS' EXAMINATION.]

C. M. Swarts

Mattie Mitchell

N. N. Wintin

J. R. L. Adams

H. M. Williams

Anne Norton

Mary Pickett

B. F. Maricle

Isabella Birdsell

Rosa Sample

C. L. Swarts

Mary Theaker

A. E. Hon

Albertine Maxwell

Flora Finley

Anna Hutchinson

Lizzie Marshall

Stella Burnett

Dora Winslow

Jennie Scott

C. C. Holland

[EDITORIAL COLUMN: LITTLE HISTORY--CHEROKEE STRIP LANDS.]

As there have been many conjectures about the manner in which the Cherokee Strip lands were brought into market again, we give the following history of it, which we believe to be correct.

A petition was circulated and signed by many settlers, which was taken to Washington by ourself, and presented to Hon. W. R. Brown, then member of Congress from this district.

The bill was drawn up and introduced by Mr. Brown as it now stands, with this addition in Section 8. After the words, "of Cherokee Nation," was added, "or a delegation thereof duly authorized." It passed the House as introduced by him.

The Senate amended, making it wholly different, by providing it be sold to actual settlers, only, and striking out the words, "or a delegation therof duly authorized."

The Indians would not accept it in that shape, and as Mr. Brown had come home, the result was the bill laid on the Speaker's table until the second session.

On his return to Washington, Brown endeavored to have the bill re-instated as originally passed, and the House non-concurred in the Senate amendments. The Senate insisted, and in conference committee the Senate rescinded in part, the House in part, and the bill passed in the present shape, to-wit:

WHEREAS, Certain lands in the State of Kansas, known as the Cherokee Strip, being a strip of land on the southern boundry of Kansas, some two or three miles wide, detached from the lands patented to the Cherokee Nation by the act known as the Kansas-Nebraska bill, in defining the boundaries thereof, said lands still being, so far as unsold, the property of the Cherokee Nation; and

WHEREAS, An act was passed by the Forty-Second Congress, which became a law on its acceptance by the Cherokee nation authorities, and which fixed the price of the lands east of the Arkansas River at two dollars per acre, and west of said river at one dollar and fifty cents per acre; and

WHEREAS, Portions of the same have been sold under said law, and portions remain unsold, the price being too high;

Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary shall offer for sale to settlers all of said tract remaining unsold at the passage of this act at the local land offices in the districts in which it is situated, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; and all of said lands remaining unsold after one year from the date at which they are so offered for sale at the local land offices shall be sold by the Secretary of the Interior for cash, in quantities or tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, at not less than one dollar per acre.

SEC. 2. That the proceeds of said lands shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and placed to the credit of the Cherokee Nation, and shall be paid to the treasurer of the Cherokee Nation, on the order of the legislative council of the Cherokee Nation.

SEC. 3. That this act shall take effect and be in force from the date of its acceptance by the legislature of the Cherokee Nation, who shall file certificate of such acceptance.

Approved, February 28, 1877.

The delegation of Cherokees at Washington agreed to this bill, and promised to present the matter to the Legislature of the Nation, and see that the consent was obtained; but they said the Legislature would not meet until in October, and hence the consent would not be obtained until that time. Our delegates in Congress accepted, because that was the best they could do, and they did it because it was the only chance to save the land for the settlers. The objection they had, as the Cherokee delegation said, was merely in time, as there was no doubt the bill would be accepted as soon as the Legislature could act.

When Hon. Thos. Ryan went to Washington, he took the matter in hand, and persuaded the Legislature to act, thereby securing the land to the settlers. Mr. Ross, the Cherokee delegate in Congress, was very much interested in the bill, and went of his own notion before the conference committee, and said the Cherokees had more interest in the matter than the settlers had, and would attend to it when the Council sat. Col. Phillips also worked for this measure, and deserves much credit.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "H. P. S." - MAPLE CITY.]

Johnnie Clayton brought down the house with his splendid rendition of "Muzza's Baby." Miss Della Goodrich and Jennie Montgomery, assisted by several other young scholars, gave some spicy dialogues and vocal music, all of which seemed to be well appreciated. Miss Sadie Ketchum read Carleton's "The Schoolmaster's Guests," and afford a treat that is not often to be enjoyed. "The Census Taker" was the gem of the affair, though. The characters were taken by Mr. and Mrs. Bobbitt, Sadie Ketchum, Laura Goodrich, and Hattie Wilson, and the rendition of this spicy dialogue, play, or whatever may be the proper term for it, was just splendid, and not to be surpassed anywhere. The gathering was dismissed about nine p.m., and all present expressed themselves well pleased.

[REPORT FROM "DICK" - SOUTH HAVEN.]

[STATE ITEMS.]

Winfield desires to become a city of the second class.

The Ellis county Russians are cultivating tobacco

extensively.

A man in Cowley county fed his span of horses with castor beans, to make their hair smooth and sleek, and then buried them both in the same hole.

[PERSONALS.]

ONE WEEK from today the Masonic Hall will be dedicated, and a supper given afterwards. In connection with the above, a dance will be given, to which all Masons in good standing are invited. Invitations will be issued to friends.

CALVES and YEARLINGS are in good demand in this section. Calves sell from $4 to $6 each, and yearlings from $8 to $12. The market is overstocked with hogs, and they sell for two and two-and-a-half cents per pound on foot.

MUSKRATS are becoming numerous in the ponds and along small streams. A few years ago there were none. The Norwegian house rat has not made its appearance yet on the border, although mice are plentiful.

The stage will leave at 6 o'clock in the morning hereafter, and promises to arrive on contract time, 7 o'clock in the evening. Letters to insure being sent should be dropped in the office before 9 o'clock.

TRAPPERS continue to bring in furs--mostly beavers and raccoons.

The election of city officers takes place the first Monday in April.

A young folks' social was held at the house of Rev. Fleming last night.

CAPT. NIPP has enrolled one more member to his interesting family.

In a few weeks the newly appointed minister of the M. E. church will arrive.

The election on the bridge bond proposition of Bolton township takes place next Saturday.

BORN. To Mr. and Mrs. Journey J. Breene, on last Wednesday, a son. Another man made happy.

The Santa Fe road has made a proposition to extend their line through Sumner county within the next five years.

WINTIN has opened his meat market in the new building adjoining Gardner's drug store and displays a fine lot of beef.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, MARCH 6, 1878.]

CITY COUNCIL met Monday. JAMES BENEDICT is acting Mayor, and makes a good one. He bears the honor very meekly.

We don't want to have anyone killed, but then if England and Russia should go to war, how nicely it would help us out with our surplus grain.

J. C. TOPLIFF is now helping the Schiffbauer boys in their spring rush of business. The boys are fortunate in securing so valuable a person as J. C.

The day after the school examination at this place, Mr. Jennings went home and was married. What a wail will go up now from expectant school marms.

JASPER L. KELLOGG, of Courtland, New York, made this place a visit of a day or two last week. He finds many old acquaintances whom he used to know in 1870.

GEORGE ALLEN has just painted a fine express wagon, owned by Daniel Sifford, for M. A. Felton. The workmanship of it is as good as any we have seen in this section.

REV. SWARTS will deliver a sermon on the propriety of church members dancing, next Sunday evening, at the M. E. Church. We have heard a number express an anxiety to hear him.

There will be a meeting of the members of the Prairie View cemetery at the Parker school house, March 25th, 1878, at 9 a.m. By order of the Board. G. H. SHEARER.

DR. HUGHES and wife were surprised last Wednesday evening by a company of young and married folks, but proved themselves equal to the occasion by making all enjoy themselves most heartily.

MR. TRISSELL delivered a temperance lecture at the U. P. church last Monday evening. It was well spoken of by those who heard it. Mr. Trissell "knows how it is himself," and made a good argument against it.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, MARCH 6, 1878.]

DEXTER ITEMS. Wheat in the vicinity of Dexter has never looked more promising than it does at this time.

The stone mill commenced grinding again last Monday week, under the supervision of Mr. Samuel Nicholson, who has rented it of Mr. Platter of Winfield.

Several fine stone barns are being built by some of our energetic farmers on the creek. We especially noticed one in course of erection by Mr. Bullington, and also one by Mr. Furman. The latter is 34 x 44 feet, stone, and finished with pine shingles and lumber. Its cost when completed will be over $1,000.

Messrs. Elliott & Harden shipped 200 head of hogs last Monday, which will make an aggregate of between seven and eight hundred head shipped from their place during the past two months.

Another deserter of the rank and file, Mr. Charles Schiffbauer, of the Green Front grocery store, took passage on Tisdale's accommodation yesterday morning for Kansas City and St. Louis. Everybody thought Charley would be one of the boys as long as he said with us, but here he goes in answer to a little epistle from one more tender than the fairest of the fair. While absent he will have a surgical operation performed on the limb that has been troubling him so much. The trouble arises from a pistol wound received while scaling the breastworks of Fort Arbuckle during the Indian war of 1875.

The Pleasant Grove Sabbath School met and organized Feb. 24th, under very favorable auspices. Officers elected as follows: Superintendent, J. Mussulman; Assistant Superintendent, R. McLey; Secretary and Treasurer, Jennie Scott; Librarian, W. F. Estus; Assistant Librarian, Ross Mussulman. Number in attendance: forty-three.

The Sabbath school returns a unanimous vote of thanks to the First Presbyterian church of Arkansas City, for their generous gift of seventy-five volumes to our Library.

The new glassware at the Green Front makes a good display, especially that $7 ascension parlor lamp, and those glass pitchers and salt cellars, and goblets and glasses and lots of other things. Then they have silver plated knives--like those poor Bilson fanced, and silver spoons, with forks to match, and almost any kind of table cutlery, table adornments, or eatables. Go in and see the boys; it makes them grin clear across their faces to see you coming.

RUNAWAY. An accident of a serious nature occurred on Thursday morning inst., to a son of Mr. Abraham Mann, of Grouse Creek. It would appear that the boy was engaged in hitching up a team of mules, when they became scared, and ran away. The front wheels of the wagon to which they were attached passed over the boy's chest, severely injuring him. At last accounts he was progressing favorably.

There is considerable speculating on the Bolton bridge proposition, and some of the best posted residents of the township say the proposition will be defeated on account of the parties favoring the project failing to go to the polls. A man generally will take more trouble to vote against bonds than for them.

MASTODON TOOTH. Judge McIntire found a fine specimen of petrified bone, evidently the tooth of the ancient mastodon. Its weight is three pounds, and measures seven and a half feet long by three and a half wide and three and a half high. It is a valuable specimen.

CALLED. We received calls from Col. J. C. McMullen, E. P. Kinne, Senator Pyburn, Hon. Wm. P. Hackney, James Hill, Burt Covert, John Allen, of Winfield; Mr. Haskell, the Kansas architect, and Mr. Smith, the contractor of the Pawnee school building, last week.

HERMANN GODEHARD announces by hand bills that he has the "Palermo" oranges for 50 cents per dozen, and "Messina" lemons for the same, besides York State apple cider, apples, dates, figs, and groceries. We tasted the oranges. They are splendid.

The dance held at Charley Eaton's last Tuesday night was composed of many persons from this place, who went in for fun in a manner that would have done you good to have seen.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, MARCH 6, 1878.]

SEALED proposals will be received at Pawnee Agency until March 20th, for breaking 400 acres of sod, and cross plowing 700 acres of last year's breaking. Work to begin immediately after the contract is let, and finished by May 25th, 1878.

They are organizing a Sunday school at "Sunny Side" school house, in East Bolton, and the large number of young folks in attendance speaks well for the ladies who have charge of the good work, and reflects credit upon the community.

[HONOR STUDENTS: HIGH SCHOOL.]

GIRLS: Annie Norton, Mattie Mitchell, Emma Mitchell, Nellie Swarts, Mary Theaker, Linnie Peed, Linda Christian, Flora Finley, Laura Gregg, Susie Berry, Mary Wintin, May Benedict, Carrie Benedict, Carrie Cramer, Sarah Randall, Mary Holloway, Stella Swarts, Mollie Christian, Clara Morgan, Annie Brown, May Hughes, Emma Theaker, Albertine Maxwell, Annie Hutchinson, Belle Birdzell.

BOYS: Jerry Adams, Lewis Coombs, John Parker, James Lorton, Fred. McLaughlin, Peter Trissell, Charles Holloway, Harry Finely, Willie Edwards, George Berry, Benny Dixon, Alvin Hon, Sammy Swarts, Frank Randall, Charlie Randall, Lintin Hunt, Frank Swarts, Charles Swarts.

[INDIANS.]

No less than 247 Indians have bitten the dust in frontier wars during the last year. And each bite cost the United States $11,478.24.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "C" - EAST BOLTON.]

We have just formed a Greenback Club, and as we exert a vast influence on election day, the would-be candidate had better trim his sails and prepare for the fight. No man can be elected to office in this county who is not with us.

We organized by electing F. C. Davis president, who on taking the chair made one of the most convincing and impressive speeches ever listened to. To our perfect satisfaction he demonstrated that Papa Sherman had burnt up $30,000,000,000,000 of the people's money; had reduced to want and beggary the laboring and producing masses; had created a bloated bond, non-

The Government is to loan each man enough to pay off his debts now contracted. You see, we are to go each other's

security, which makes it perfectly safe.

One speaker claimed that since the resumption act passed, his cows had become so poor their calves had died for lack of milk, and another said that young children were dying of the same cause and that the bottom would soon be depopulated.

Resolutions were passed to send one of their number to Washington to see that the resumption act was repealed, and the tax taken off of tobacco and whiskey.

Now, Mr. Editor, if you care for the dear people, come with us. Your heart is right, and if you will work with us, we will help your natural bashfulness over the chasm of timidity, and you can get one of our greenback girls and have a family of your own (I mean that you can own.).

A shakedown at Mr. Key's in honor of the marriage of James Goatley to Miss Sarah Key, was all they could desire. Had you been there and seen the cream of our place waltzing through the mazes of the dance, you would have exclaimed: "Give me one, too." C.

[COMMUNICATIN FROM "W. E. MERYDITH" - CRAB CREEK.]

Mr. Bruebaker and Mr. Hamil had an arbitration in regard to the damaging of crops by stock. Two of Hamil's big boys concluded to settle Bruebaker's hash. One took a big rock, the other a revolver, and began to abuse Bruebaker. Some of the men got in the door and would not let Bruebaker out, but he pushed through the window and made for the boys.

The one who was on the shoot so big at first begain to wave his revolver at him and backing out swore he would shoot if he jumped on him. Others interfered and kept the brave shootist from getting a sound threshing.

A Greenback meeting was held at Fairview schol house on the 2nd to further the organization of the club. The constitution and bylaws were read and adopted by nearly all who were present.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "C. C. H." - BOLTON TOWNSHIP.]

"Uncle Frank" Dickinson is contemplating building an addition to his mansion in Dixie. "Uncle Frank" says he has apricots in full bloom. He understands horticulture and makes it his business; therefore, he will haul fruit as early as the earliest.

We understand that some of the pledged abstainers (Murphys) in "Hell's half acre" degraded themselves, broke their pledges, and degraded their characters last Monday evening--Woe be unto the backslider in the "last day."

While C. W. Rockhill was down from Sumner county last week to get a load of wood, his mules strayed off and left him with his wagon and team twenty-three miles from home. Fortunately for Mr. Rockhill, he secured Mr. A. J. Fullerlove's team to draw his load home.

Mr. J. J. Jones is talking of moving his family to Elgin in the spring. We predict his return in the fall.

School opened again in the Bland school house last Monday. Miss Dora Winslow succeeds Miss Mary Pickett as preceptress this term.

The election on the bridge bonds passed off quietly last Saturday. In the east voting precincts there were eighty votes cast, seventy-nine for and one gainst the bonds.

The youngsters of East Bolton extend their many thanks and are grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Weatherholt for the pleasure of attending a social dance at Mr. Weatherholt's last Friday evening. The ball was well conducted and all present enjoyed themselves.

Standley, the African explorer, has made his return from the jungles, and set up a confectionery and candy "grabbing" in lower Egypt. He (Mr. Standley) had an opponent in the candy pulling business last Friday evening, though his rival was not so generous in his distributions as the explorer.

Mrs. Terwilliger desires to learn what gentleman (?) it was that halloed at Mrs. Terwilliger's one night last week when she was alone, and inquired the way to "Hell's half-acre."

C. C. H.

[EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.]

WINFIELD.

Miss Mollie Davis, Miss Ella Hunt, Miss Henrietta King, Miss Mattie Wist, Miss Maggie Stansbury.

Mr. B. F. Starwait, Mr. M. H. Markcum, Mr. J. O. Barricklow, Mr. John D. Hunt, Mr. John Bowers, Mr. J. K. P. Tull.

NINNESCAH.

Miss Maggie Scott.

TISDALE.

Miss Gertrude Davis, Miss Sada Davis.

NEW SALEM.

Miss Sarah Bovee, Mrs. Ida Brown.

ROCK.

Miss Electa Strong.

FLORAL.

Miss Mary Pantions [? Pontious ?].

ARKANSAS CITY.

Mrs. Amy Chapin; and Misses Mattie Mitchell, Albertine Maxwell, Flora Finley, Annie Norton, Mary Pickett, Lizzie Marshall, Stella Burnett, Isabella Birdzell, Dora Winslow, Rosa Sample, Jennie Scott.

Messrs. C. C. Holland, B. F. Maricle, H. M. Williams,

C. M. Swarts, C. L. Swarts.

CEDARVALE.

Mr. J. P. Hesmer; Mr. James Perisho.

DEXTER.

Mr. J. F. Reed.

Misses Alpha Harden, Annie Harden.

OXFORD.

Miss Veva Walton.

NOTE: I SKIPPED THE TEMPERANCE ADDRESS BY MR. TRISSELL.

I ALSO SKIPPED COUNTY ASSESSORS MEETING...RATES PUT ON

ANIMALS AND MACHINERY..J. M. SAMPLE, CHAIRMAN; W. H. CLAY, SECRETARY.

[CITY MARKET - CORRECTED TO DATE BY SCHIFFBAUER BROTHERS.]

[BUSINESS NOTICES/ADS.]

[PERSONALS.]

JACK SEAMAN has gone to the Territory.

MANY new faces are to be seen every day looking for land.

Dr. Hughes has gone to Topeka to be absent a week or more.

This county should have a "poor farm" now that land is cheap.

The Township Assessor will darken your doors in a few days.

Mrs. Wilson, of Beaver township, caught a Troutt last Sunday.

FREIGHTERS to the Territory won't have to ford the Arkansas now.

FREE BRIDGE across the Arkansas at this place within the next sixty days.

The phiz of the assessor is abroad in the land. It is James Huey this year.

Judge Gans will preach at the Parker school house next Sunday morning and evening.

Frank Finney, representing Himoe & Co., Lawrence, paid us a short visit yesterday.

Mr. Bonsall left us a small twig from a peach tree, and one from an apricot tree, in full bloom.

W. B. Trissell starts for Chetopa on March 16th, with teams for nursery stock for his spring delivery.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, MARCH 13, 1878.]

FRANK WALDO has closed his store at Salt City, and Wm. Berkey has the entire trade of that community.

The white girl owned by Pawnee Pete was offered for sale for $20 yesterday. She should be taken charge of.

H. C. BATES and Mrs. Barr, both of this place, were married at Wellington last week. This is one instance where the bait caught the "bar."

MARRIED. By Esquire Bonsall, on Sunday, March 1 th [?], at his residence in this place, Mr. James Troutt and Mrs. Wilson, both of Beaver township.

PARKER's pony ran off with Judge Christian's sled Monday. The last seen of the pony, he was going towards Norton's, getting up a pretty good motion.

SOMEONE ought to go down and shoot that correspondent in East Bolton. Shoot him in the hat [? could not read first

letter of this...looked like rat...?]. The editor was the first to have a good laugh over the article. That "C" is a clipper.

MR. WELSH arose from his bed last Saturday evening, while wild with fever, dressed himself, and walked up town. He was taken to John Williams, and has been prostrate ever since.

PIERCE & WELSH are bound the good people shall not suffer for anything to eat, and now have piles of rice, smoked hams, and bacon in their store, besides sacks of buckwheat flour and hominy by the bushel.

An Indian took a pony from John Grimes' stable Saturday night, and got as far as the Arkansas river when he was met by Mr. Standley, and thinking he was the owner of the pony, the Indian turned it loose, so that it returned.

ALBERT HORN started for Booneville, Missouri, yesterday, to make a visit of a couple of weeks among some old friends. He will visit St. Louis before returning. Albert has worked very steady for several years, and needs a little recreation.

THE BOLTON TOWNSHIP BOARD met on the 11th inst., to canvas the vote on the bridge bonds, which was in favor of the bonds, the vote standing 118 for and 39 against. East Bolton cast 80 votes, 79 for and 1 against. West Bolton cast 77 votes, 39 for and 38 against.

HURRAY FOR THE NEW BRIDGE to span the raging Rackensack! Topliff's happy, Parvin's happy, Capt. Hoffmaster's happy, Skinner is happy, and three-fourths of the residents of Bolton township are happy over the result of the election. One hundred and eighteen to thirty-nine is a pretty good majority. No more reports of "ferry stuck," or waiting an hour and a half on the other side.

NEW BARBER. MR. JOHN NEWMAN, a young man only eleven months from Germany, has purchased the tonsorial tools of Wm. Gray, and began work at the same place in the room over Pierce & Welsh's store. Mr. Newman is the best barber we have ever had, and one of the most proficient men in his profession that we have ever met with in the West. Give him a trial, and you will be convinced of it.

[TRAVELER: ATTEMPTS TO COLLECT MONEY DUE.]

For the past three weeks Mr. Standley has been endeavoring to collect $300 out of $800 due this office. Most of our patrons in arrears have responded cheerfully by note or cash. In one instance the party declared he owed nothing, and that the paper was stopped before his time was out, and that, if anything, we owed him. That's pretty good. We would have gladly corrected the mistake if it had been made known to us, but somehow it was not discovered until the individual was one dollar in arrears. In another instance, the party claimed he never had any work done but what he paid for, but since he is a gambler by profession, and a poor one at that, we will gladly forgive him. These are the only two repudiations out of nearly one hundred.

In other instances where our agent has called and found the parties absent, they have responded by sending the money to us. All in all, we think we have met with success, made many collections, and retained the friendship of our patrons.

[MASONIC SUPPER AND DANCE.]

[BOLTON ELECTION: REBUILDING OF ARKANSAS RIVER BRIDGE.]

The election in Bolton township last Saturday, on the proposition to vote $2,000 in bonds to rebuild the Arkansas river bridge, was carried by a majority of 81. One hundred and fifty-nine votes were polled, thus: East Bolton, 81 for, 1 against; majority, 80. West Bolton, 39 for, 38 against; majority, 1. Total majority, 81. Considerable enthusiasm was manifested, and a full vote polled. The next thing now will be a bridge to cross on whether the water is high or low, and that, too, free of charge.

[BILSON ESCAPES/CAUGHT.]

BILSON ESCAPED. Bilson and the colored man who stole the horse escaped from the jail at Winfield, Monday night, and have not yet been found. As Fitch, the jailor, went in, the darkey knocked him down, and the two ran out and locked the jailor in. It was half an hour before he could get out.

LATER. Bilson was caught yesterday morning under the U. P. Church, by William J. Gray. That is the nearest Bilson has come to attending church for a long time.

[LIST OF PETIT JURORS FOR MAY TERM OF DISTRICT COURT.]

G. W. Martin, Winfield township.

R. S. Thompson, Omnia township.

S. P. Channell, Creswell township.

J. M. Mark, Liberty township.

B. B. Vandevanter, Winfield township.

Stephen Elgins, Omnia township.

James Jackson, Silver Creek township.

John Harden, Dexter township.

John M. Gates, Bolton township.

Thessins Magginnis, Liberty township.

J. H. Mounts, Liberty township.

Abijah Howard, Richland township.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "ANONYMOUS" - PLEASANT VALLEY.]

Times are hard, money is scarce, but all seem to be

contented with what they have.

Mr. Eastman, lately from Iowa, has purchased the farm formerly owned by Mr. Lanse. Pleasant Valley is improving very fast. Many of the wealthy and energetic farmers are building or making preparations to build.

[CITY ORDINANCE NO. 58.]

BE IT ORDAINED, by the Mayor and Councilmen of the City of Arkansas City--

SECTION 1. That an election be held at I. H. Bonsall's photograph gallery on the first Monday, the first (1st) day of April, A. D. 1878, for the purpose of electing the following city officers, to wit: A Mayor, five Councilmen, and a Police Judge.

SECTION 2. That said ordinance No. 58 be in force after its publication once in the Arkansas City TRAVELER.

JAMES BENEDICT,

Acting Mayor and President of the Council.

[AD: S. P. CHANNELL, TRAVELER, MARCH 13, 1878.]

S. P. CHANNELL'S ADVERTISEMENT.

NOW, WHEN THE MURPHY MOVEMENT IS THE RAGE, AND ALL are anxious to don the "blue ribbon," would it not be well to step into S. P. CHANNELL's Hardware and Implement Store, and examine the large assortment of Implements of all kinds that have been wearing the blue ribbon awarded to them for superiority at the different trials all over the land? Among them you can see the

"HAINES' ILLINOIS HEADER!"

Decidedly the best in the market. This Header is 500 lbs. lighter than the one made last year, and has many other important improvements. You can see the

CELEBRATED MARSH HARVESTER AND SELF-BINDER,

The first Harvester made to elevate the grain on a table for binding, and it is the best and lightest draft today. Also, the

DEWEY HARVESTER,

The old and reliable Buckeye Machines,

"WARRIOR" AND "MEADOW LARK" MOWERS,

J. I. CASE and N., S. & Co. VIBRATOR THRESHERS,

Gilpin, Corr, and Skinner Sulky Plows,

JOHN DEERE GANG PLOWS, CULTIVATORS,

And all kinds of first-class farming tools that you may need.

S. P. CHANNELL is agent for the new and wonderful

ST. JOHN SEWING MACHINE,

Every lady should examine this before purchasing any other machine, as it has some improvements not yet reached by other machines. It makes no difference whether it is run backward or forward--the work will always run from you, with no loss or change of stitch.

Remember the Place: Two doors south of the Post Office,

Arkansas City, Kansas.

[MORE ADS: TRAVELER, MARCH 13, 1878.]

ALBERT HORN, BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURER.

CITY LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE. WEST CENTRAL AVE., ARKANSAS CITY, KAS. FINNEY, STANTON & HOPKINS, Propr's.

GOOD RIGS, GENTLE TEAMS, AND CAREFUL DRIVERS.

Horses Boarded by Day or Week.

The Best is the Cheapest.

WILSON'S CENTRAL STORE is headquarters for the best quality of all kinds of goods at the lowest prices.

SUMMIT ST., ARKANSAS CITY.

ARKANSAS CITY, KAS.

[J. H. PIERCE. M. E. WELSH.]

NEXT DOOR TO THE POST OFFICE, ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

Arkansas City, Kansas.

L. H. GARDNER & CO.,

Invite the attention of the people of this vicinity to their

select stock of

DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

Robert Maxwell has charge of the store, and attends to the putting up of physicians' prescriptions and family receipts, and would be pleased to see any and all who may be needing anything in the Drug line.

Coal Oil, Chimneys, and a full line of Patent Medicines

kept in stock.

A. A. NEWMAN, Proprietor.

Are Running on Full Time. Custom Grinding a Specialty.

FLOUR, BRAN, AND FEED CONSTANTLY ON HAND.

Highest Cash Price Paid for Wheat, Corn, and Rye.

Pure Drugs and Chemicals,

GLASS, PUTTY, PAINTS,

Oils, Varnishes and Dye Stuffs.

Coal Oil, Lamps, Shades, Chimneys, etc.

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[Beginning March 20, 1878.]

[COMMUNICATION FROM "W. A. METCALF" - CEDAR TOWNSHIP.]

Mr. Dennis Cochran sold his claim on 160 acres for one span of mules, wagon, and harness, valued at $250, one mare valued at $75, and $50 cash. The improvements consisted of one small pine house, a few trees, and 40 acres of breaking, 20 of it in wheat. Wm. Yandall sold his claim for $100 cash. The improvements were one house and about 20 acres of breaking.

It is rumored that Wm. Morgan has sold his claim for $650 cash.

Quite a demand for work teams.

Everybody at work like so many badgers.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "RAMBLER" RE WINFIELD.]

ANOTHER ATTRACTION IS ADDED TO THIS DAY'S PROCEEDINGS FOR THE SIGHTSEERS: THE REMOVAL OF AN "OLD LAND MARK" IN WINFIELD'S HISTORY. THE OLD LOG BUILDING BELONGING TO COL. MANNING, THAT HAS BEEN USED AS A POST OFFICE, PRINTING OFFICE, COURT HOUSE, AND I BELIEVE A HOTEL AT ONE TIME, HAS BEEN YANKED OUT OF ITS OLD PLACE AND CARRIED UP MAIN STREET FURTHER.

Col. Manning's shirt sleeves are engineering the job, and Col. Hudson is the contractor.

The great event of the day to the fast men is the trial of speed against time, on a bet between B. M. Terrell and Jim Hill for $100. Terrell is to drive his fast team from Wichita to Eldorado, some 47 miles, in five hours. Three of our sporting men started in a buck this morning to be at Eldorado as judges. Bi Terrell and his team started promptly at 11 a.m. in a light open wagon. It is the general belief that Bi will rake in the cash, as the conditions (weather, roads, etc.) are all in his favor.

Col. McMullen, our new banker, is preparing to erect a new dwelling on his Manning lots. It will be one of the handsomest in the city, as the Colonel never does anything by halves. His cashier, A. W. Berkey, also talks of building this spring.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "SAND LAPPER" - BEAVER TOWNSHIP.]

Mr. Louis P. Sting has the broadest smile on his face you have seen since--well, since you were born. It's a boy and weighs ten pounds; and Louis weighs more too, if his estimation don't exaggerate. Think many will "smile" pretty soon.

Sensation in North Beaver and South Vernon. It is reported that a girl, of mature years, appropriated some wearing apparel and numerous other things from Abr. Graham. The constable found most of the goods and returned them. The girl was going to be married, and now, perhaps the William Henry will withdraw from matrimony and take his chances with breach of promise.

Our Hoosiers seem to like Kansas very much. They want the TRAVELER to keep them posted and all will go well. Uncle Dick is fencing a pasture. It is a large one, but the Arkansas River don't turn stock, too much sand and not enough water.

Mr. Warren Wood is doing some lasting improvements on his place. Mr. Wood is one of those whole-souled, wide awake farmers, and will ever succeed.

D. W. Frew has gone east on a short visit. We miss him. He is full of trade and always wins, farms some too; about two hundred acres.

[SUPT. LEMMON GATHER SCHOOL CUTS, ENGRAVING, DIAGRAMS.]

We learn that Superintendent Lemmon is visiting leading towns in the State with a view of securing "cuts," engravings, or diagrams of all our best school buildings or educational institutes. These, with photographs, will be bound in folio and shipped to Washington, D. C., there to be shipped to Paris by the Normal Bureau of Education, and placed on exhibition at the World's Fair in 1879.

[MR. GREEN BRINGS IN HOGS.]

Mr. Green, from Cowley county, brought to this city [THE ARTICLE DOES NOT STATE WHAT CITY], on Monday, eleven hogs of the Poland China breed, which averaged 511 pounds. They were eighteen months old. Three of them weighed seventeen hundred pounds.

[SOME BUSINESS NOTICES/ADS.]

[PERSONALS.]

MR. ELY, the newly appointed agent of the Pawnees, is expected this week.

AGENT SEARING will make arrangments to get the Mexican girl of Pawnee Pete.

SOME of the boys had considerable fun burning off the prairie last Thursday night.

The city of Wichita is out of debt with $2,000 in the treasury. So says the Beacon.

J. I. MITCHELL sold his farm near South Bend to Mr. Moore, of Illinois, last week.

The popular landlord of the Central Hotel at Winfield made a short call yesterday.

The receipts of the Masonic supper and dance were $70, showing that it was well patronized.

The Green Front have a car load of salt at Wichita. That's a pretty good order for one firm.

C. R. SIPES will have one of Walter A. Wood's self-binding harvesters here this week. It's a novelty. Costs $310.

R. C. HAYWOOD returned from New York State last Monday. He reports an immense emigration to Kansas.

The boys down at Lippmann's mill think they have a horse that can run. Can't someone give them a chance?

BI TERRELL won the drive from Winfield to Eldorado last Saturday, making the drive in four hours and 19 minutes.

ARISTUS BERKEY, of the Citizen's Bank of Winfield, and wife were down to attend the burial of Capt. Smith last Sunday.

MR. NEWMAN, the barber, understands making ladies hair switches, and is a thorough workman. His charges are $1.50 and $2.00.

COL. BENNETT made us another call this week. His avoirdupois is not so much as it used to be. He has shaved off his chin whiskers.

PARTIES interested will be pleased to know that Trissell will deliver trees in Arkansas City on Thursday, the 28th of the present month.

The Cowley County Bank sold the farm of 170 acres, in South Bend, known as the Henderson farm, to Mr. Kirkpatrick, of Iowa, for $1,900.

The Pawnees of this locality are enjoying a big feast on chickens that died of cholera, old beef entrails and heads, and now and then a fat dog.

CHARLES McGINNIS is instructing the amateurs at Winfield to rehearse the play, "Ten Nights in a Bar Room." Mr. McGinnis is a competent teacher as well as a real tragedian.

REV. T. S. HUNT, the new Methodist pastor, has come, and will preach at the new brick church next Sabbath morning and evening. Sabbath school at 10 a.m. as usual.

BORN. To Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Johnson, of Sumner county, on Thursday last, a 10-1/2 pound girl.

To H. Post, of Sumner County, a 10-1/2 pound boy, one day last week.

MR. M. E. WELSH sold his interest in the grocery store of Pierce & Welsh to Mr. L. McLaughlin last week, and then started on a trip for his health to Illinois. His family will remain here.

C. R. MITCHELL has been chosen one of the grand jurors and Thos. Wilkinson one of the petit jurors to serve at the next term of the U. S. District Court to be held at Topeka during the month of April.

A fire started from a spark from the engine at Lippmann's mill, last Wednesday night, and before it was discovered, burned ten cords of wood. They had a lively time keeping the machinery from being damaged.

DR. CORMACK returned to Fredonia last week. During his short stay at this place, we don't know of a man who made warmer friends than the Doctor and his amiable wife. We shall be glad to welcome them back at any time.

A BURNING SHAME. A white child, a little girl about ten years old, hawked about our street, for sale, by a dirty, filthy, lousy Pawnee Indian named Pawnee Pete. He claims that he gave two ponies to a Cheyenne Indian for her, and has had her in his possession about five years. She has dark brown hair, hazel eyes, and a fair skin, considering the life she has led in the Indian camp--smoked, tanned, and sunburned, innocent of the use of soap. This poor child has been with these dirty, filthy devils since a small babe. No doubt her parents were killed by the Cheyennes or Pawnees before they came from Nebraska, as they brought her along when they came to the present Pawnee Agency, seventy-five miles south of this place.

Liberty-loving Kansas Republicans have known of this child being in bondage ever since the Pawnees came here, three years ago, but she is not a negro. That accounts for the apathy of our people. She has the misfortune to be white. The poor thing knows nothing of her own race or language--no one to pity, no one to console this little waif out in the cold. President Hayes ought to order some of his officers or agents to take charge of her, and see that she is properly cared for. Here is a case for some of our home missionaries to show their faith by their works. Papers friendly to the cause of justice and humanity will please call attention to this case, that something may be done in her behalf.

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS. We were favored last week with visits from several distinguished gentlemen from the Territory in the persons of Agent A. C. Williams of the Wichita Agency, Agent Searing of the Pawnee Agency, and Mr. Hopkins and Tom Finney of Osage Agency.

Agent Williams came up on business connected with his department, and to see his new sons-in-law and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Schiffbauer and J. A. Stafford and wife. Mrs. Williams accompanied him. We believe this is the first leave of absence Mr. Williams has accepted since he took charge of the Wichitas. He meets many old friends at this place.

Agent Searing was compelled to make a trip on official business, which he transacted in a short time and returned. Mr. McFarland accompanied him. The entire community, and especially those at the Pawnee Agency, regret that Mr. Searing is not to be retained in the Indian service, as he is a thorough business gentleman.

Mr. Hopkins and Tom Finney seemed perfectly at home, and made it pleasant for all to meet them again. From them we learned that Agent Beede intended coming up with them, but was delayed.

DIED. On Saturday morning of last week, the sad intelligence was received of the death of Capt. O. C. Smith, a resident of Bolton township, this county, for many years past, and a citizen much respected and honored for the noble principles of manhood he bore. Capt. Smith came to this place in the summer of 1869, from Ohio, where he had been engaged in ship carpentering. He was generally a hardy man enjoying good health. A few days before his death he became over-heated while sowing oats, and to cool off divested himself of his clothing; and as a result, took a cold from which he never recovered. Every effort was made to save him, but his disease had reached a point beyond the skill of man, and all were of no avail.

As a man and a Mason, Capt. O. C. Smith occupied a high position. He was the first Master of the lodge at this place, and at the time of his death was Senior Warden of the Order. The Masons took charge of the body, and interred it under their usual custom in the cemetery adjoining the town. He was 46 years of age.

CHARLES SCHIFFBAUER has undergone the surgical examination of his leg at Kansas City, to extract a ball that was received more than two years ago from the careless handling of a pistol in the hands of a friend. The bone had been fearfully fractured, and those that witnessed the surgical operation speak of it as being a very difficult one. He is now recovering as rapidly as could be expected, and will return in about a month with a sound limb. The surgeons express the opinion that had it remained many months longer, he would have had to have it amputated.

Arkansas City, T. S. Hunt; Caldwell, A. W. Ryan; Winfield, J. L. Rushbridge; Winfield circuit, P. D. Lahr; Dexter and Tisdale,

W. M. Rose; Lazette, M. E. Green; Douglass, C. A. Stine.

A lamp exploded last week in the barber shop next door to the TRAVELER office, and would have resulted in setting fire to the building had it not been seen from the street and prompt measures taken. The cause of the explosion was lack of oil in the lamp, allowing the gas to accumulate and take fire. There is little danger from explosion when a lamp is well filled, but when the oil is low, there is great danger.

The darkey horse thief who escaped with Bilson by locking the jailor in the jail last week was caught on Skull creek, by John Barber, who was shot by his brother a few months ago for an attempt at rape. The darkey carried a wooden poker with him with his name cut on it that he had in his cell to the place where he stole a horse. The next morning the horse was gone, and the stick was found close by, which led to his capture. The sheriff and deputies were surprisingly active in the capture of the man and did some hard riding to effect it.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, MARCH 20, 1878.]

THROUGH the efforts of Mr. O. P. Houghton, the white girl with Pawnee Pete will be taken charge of. Commissioner Hayte has instructed Agent Searing to see that she is cared for. It will be an exception to the rule if she would remain with the whites as most children, when once accustomed to Indian life, seldom leave it for the ways of the whites. The Indians have already impressed her with the idea that the whites are her enemies, and she avoids all conversation with them, often breaking into sobs and tears when urged to tell her history.

O. P. HOUGHTON lost a yearling mule in a very singular manner last Friday. The gate between Mr. Houghton's property and the adjoining timber is one of sliding bars, and it would appear that the mule had approached and attempted to look over the two posts at one end of the gate, but got its head between them, thus seriously interfering with its accustomed ease of locomotion. On trying to extricate itself from this awkward position, the animal's head became more firmly fastened, and no one coming to the rescue, the poor brute choked to death.

While Ed. Tyner was hauling a load of hay last Saturday, the wagon upset, and threw him and Mrs. Barlow, who was with him, to the ground with considerable force. As they struck, the pitchfork pierced the old lady in the thigh, running through the entire flesh of the limb, and projecting on the opposite side. Mr. Tyner went to her assistance as soon as he could, and drew the fork from her. The wound is a severe one, yet she walked a distance of a mile and a half after the accident, and when last heard from was still moving about.

The Masonic supper and reunion was largely attended last Wednesday evening, and we believe enjoyed by everyone. Supper was served in the hall, after which music and dancing was engaged in at the Central Avenue Hotel until early in the morning. Mr. Bonsall delivered a few appropriate remarks at the opening, and assisted in conducting the exercises that followed. Among the fraternity we noticed M. G. Troup and lady from Winfield, and a good number from Bolton and Silverdale townships.

ELDER HUNT (Adventist), of Wellington, will commence a series of meetings, including a number of lectures on the prophecies from a prophetic chart, on the evening of the 6th of April. His subject on Sunday, the 7th, will be "What is Adventism?" All are invited. H. M. WILLIAMS.

Kitley, Sumner County, Kansas.

MAPLE TOWNSHIP ITEMS. Thirteen families aggregating 50 persons have moved into Maple township during the past four months, and still they come, and yet there is room. Maple is a congressional township, and has five fine school houses within her lines. If there is a township in Cowley county can beat the above, we should like to know it. RED BUD.

The funeral procession of Capt. Smith was one of the largest we have seen at this place. It was formed of Masons on foot preceding the remains, followed by vehicles and horsemen. Mr.

S. P. Channell was master of ceremonies, with Mr. John T. Grimes as marshal. The procession and funeral ceremonies were very

imposing.

CRAZY MAN. Captain Wallingford brought over a young man last Saturday from Bolton township who he found wandering about. The man is twenty years of age, has light hair, hazel eyes, is about five feet ten inches in height, and when found was wandering alone on the prairie like a wolf. He was taken to Winfield.

LEG BROKEN. A family named Castle, while on their way north from Sumner county, met with quite a serious accident on Monday last. A little girl fell from the wagon, breaking her leg above the knee. The travelers were near Mr. Geiser's at the time, and the little sufferer was taken there and well cared for.

MR. REYNOLDS, near Salt City, sent us in a quart of new potatoes of this year's growth, and has had two meals of the same lot this spring. The vines had a wagon sheet thrown over them to protect them from the frost, hence the early growth.

[EDITORIAL COLUMNS.]

Answer. Since this country was purchased from the Osage Indians--only eight years ago, it has gained a reputation unequaled on the globe for fine climate, good farming lands, and stock privileges.

Answer. Two. Both Germans. Another would do well during the winter. The population of the town is about 700, mostly New England and western people. We will have a railroad within the next 18 months.

The prospects are, situated as we are so near the border, that we will always have a good town.

We have no cigar maker. There is one at Winfield and two or three at Wichita. One 15 miles distant and the other 60.

Kansas is one of the most healthy States in the Union. A fortune can be made raising stock.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "CUCKLEBURR CITY."]

This is a new place on the bottom opposite Rocky ford. It is a place that in the near future promises to rival all other cities in Cowley county. The bottom contains about one thousand acres--its size admitting of its being densely populated. Its settlers have tried to raise corn and wheat for exportation, but the raging Rackensack forms one boundary, and impassible bluffs the other, and the citizens have generally given it up until aerial navigation shall have been perfected, or the Government appropriates money to help build the Topliff, Moore, and Denton road. On account of the spring raise, the settlers plant their corn in the fall, and gather before spring.

Near the center of the bottom lays the farm and stands the summer residence of Rube Houghton. In the summer it is his resort for hunting and fishing, and partly to secure the benefits to be derived, from drinking the water in his well, which has medicinal qualities, and produces results similar to that produced by a dose of quicksilver, only more prompt and effective. Nothing more effective to remove billiousness.

The soil is composed of white sand, from one to ten feet deep--beautiful to look upon, if it don't blow.

The citizens are generally cultivating a flower of great fragance. The bottom is literally covered with it. A Government geologist recently here to view the scenery named it a cuckleburr.

But you send the explorer here to get subscriptions, and let some youngster put a cuckleburr on his saddle, and he will declare by all the gods that the boy who invented crooked pins for the pason to sit on was a humane Christian Sabbath school scholar in comparison with the wicked rip who cuckleburred him. So says -----------

[THE INDIAN TERRITORY.]

A statement has recently been made, in several journals in this State, to the effect that Senator Ingalls had introduced a bill to organize the Indian Territory, and was pressing it upon the attention of the Senate. There is not a worth of truth in these statements. Congress has no power to organize the Indian Territory. The tribes who dwell there, the Choctaws, Creeks, Cherokees, Seminoles, and Chickawas, hold their land under treaties with the United States, which can be abrogated only by the consent of the Indians. The government has issued patents to the different Nations, which constitute a title as absolute as that by which any farmer in Atchison county holds his land. The only way in which the Indian Territory can be organized is with the consent of the Indians residing there, and for Congress to attempt to deprive them of the lands which they hold under solemn compact, and open the country to settlement, would be a flagrant outrage upon vested rights, which should not be contemplated for an instant by a people who profess to be generous or just.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "VIATOR" - PLEASANT VALLEY.]

[COMMUNICATION FROM "A. E. H." - PLEASANT VALLEY.]

School commenced in District No. 10 the 11th inst. Mrs. Chapin acts as preceptress. Mrs. Chapin has taught several terms of school, and she will be very likely to give satisfaction.

A number of young folks met at the Pleasant Valley school house last Monday evening for the purpose of singing. Mr. Thomas Timmerman acted as chorister.

Mr. Whitson lately returned from Kentucky, having been there on a visit for the past two months.

[PLANT SHADE TREES ON SCHOOLHOUSE GROUNDS - I. H. BONSALL.]

[ITEMS FROM THE COURIER.]

A photo of the school house at Arkansas City, given to Mr. Lemmon some ago by Esquire Bonsall, to be hung in the Superintendent's office at Topeka, will be a part of the Kansas educational collection.

A sheriff's party, from Shawnee county, last week pursued a horse thief into this county and rushed down into the Indian Territory about twenty miles. Having lost all track of him, they gave up the pursuit and search; and while passing through this county on their return, they met their object of pursuit jogging gently along on his stolen horse toward the Territory and took him in.

No danger need be apprehended from Indians. Since the settlement of the country eight years ago, they have not committed an outrage within our borders. Their location is really a blessing to us. It furnishes us a good market at home for much that would have to be hauled away were they to be removed.

Arkansas City. This is a city of some 600 or 700 inhabitants, is beautifully situated on a swell of land between the Arkansas and Walnut rivers near their forks, and is one of the most charming towns in the State. It is in the very best portion of the Arkansas valley and is surrounded by a splendid farming country. It has a class of citizens of unusual intelligence and culture, and some fine large business houses with large stocks of goods. It has the finest school house in the county. It is located 4-1/2 miles from the south and six miles from the west line of the county. Almost every line of business is here

represented.

[HORSE THIEVES CAUGHT - ARTICLE PRINTED FROM ELDORADO PRESS.]

Last Saturday morning a postal card from Topeka reached Sheriff Anderson warning him to be on the look out for two horse thieves going out of the State with two stolen horses. The card described the men; one of them wore a broad brim, white hat, and leather breeches; the two horses were designated, and a third horse, not stolen (at least at that time), was in their

possession.

Deputy U. S. Marshal Petrie and Constable Cory got the news, and, during the day, got wind that they were in this vicinity. Towards night they struck out to the south, intending to intercept them at the south line of the State. Driving all night they reached Arkansas City Sunday morning, and failing to strike the scent, they put down in the Indian Territory; got on a false trail leading them twenty miles below the State line, and, finding their mistake, started back, hoping to meet their game.

On Monday morning, just this side of Arkansas City, they met a man wearing the tell-tale leather breeches and white hat and riding a horse that answered the description given in the postal. Dropping their cocked weapons upon him before he had time to make defense, they compelled him to surrender.

The poor fellow "weakened," told the whole story, and "gave away" his partner. His name is given as Frank Mills and he is from Texas. He said that his partner was the instigator of the theft and that if he went up, he wanted his partner to go too. He further said that the alluded to partner had friends near Augusta in this county and that he was laying over with them and that the two had intended to reunite in the Territory.

Hurrying up the Walnut as rapidly as possible, they reached Augusta and proceeded to make a search. Petrie struck his man in a saloon in Augusta, and covering him with a "six pistol" brought him to time. His name is J. T. Carter and his widowed mother lives near Augusta. It is not the first "irregularity" he has been guilty of, and he is spoken of as a "bad man."

Mondy night Petrie and Cory brought their men into town, having been in almost constant motion for two days and nearly three nights, traveled nearly two hundred miles, and "run down" six teams.

One of the stolen horses had been traded off for a mule in this county. On Thursday morning Alex took the men to Topeka. The horses are here waiting for their owners. Mills does not have the appearance of a hardened criminal, but persists in saying that he was persuaded to do the act by Carter. May the "majesty of the law" be demonstrated. Eldorado Press.

[ARTICLE RE MAJOR FULLER - KANSAS CITY, EMPORIA & SOUTHERN RR.]

[BUSINESS NOTICES/ADS.]

[PERSONALS.]

MR. JAMES WILSON is gradually recovering from his attack of fever.

PIERCE & McLAUGHLIN's and the TRAVELER office buildings are being repainted.

DIED. On Saturday evening, of pneumonia, a little girl of David Bright's, aged six years.

BORN. It's Will Wright this time. Ten pounds and a boy at that. Whoop la! Last Monday.

The boys report eels in abundance in the Walnut, and frequently catch them on common hooks.

R. A. THOMPSON has been appointed administrator of the estate of Capt. O. C. Smith, deceased.

The Central Avenue Hotel has treated itself to a new porch on the south and west side of the building.

The members of the Stock Protective Union will meet at Bland's school house one week from next Saturday.

MR. HUNT, the newly appointed Methodist minister for this place, preached his initial sermon at the M. E. Church last Sunday morning.

The order for Mrs. Chamberlain for $2,000 has been received by the Arkansas City Knights of Honor, No. 480, and forwarded for payment.

CHANNELL has one of Marsh's self-binding harvesters in his store. It is a curiosity to see it binding straw, old bags, or anything it can get hold of.

A petition has been forwarded to the County Superintendent to have S. B. Adams appointed Director of school district No. 2, in place of Dr. Kellogg, removed to Emporia.

It is stated Mr. Steiner and others will make an effort to prevent the issue of the Bolton township bridge bonds. An attorney has already been consulted, but the general opinion is that it will amount to nothing.

A mistake was made Sunday evening in administering medicine to Bessie Channell that might have resulted in the death of the child, had it not been that violent vomiting set in. The mistake was made in giving the wrong medicine.

DR. CARLISLE, of Knox county, Ohio, had a letter of introduction to Mrs. Gray from some friends in the Buckeye State. He came out last week and has concluded to locate among us. The Doctor will turn his attention mainly to stock raising.

Through the death of a relative in California, William and Frank Speers inherited several thousand dollars. An attorney offered them $3,000 each for their claim, and they concluded they had better have that much clear, and accepted it.

The Postmaster General has changed the name and site of the post office now called Ninnescah, in Sumner county (on route No. 33,234, from Wichita to Arkansas City), to Bushnell, two miles northeast, and appointed J. M. Napier postmaster.

The name of Bellview post office, Sumner county, has been changed to Marengo. Wm. H. Claunch has been appointed postmaster at Littleton, and Ansen Gridley postmaster at Oxford, Sumner county, and James W. Crawford, P. M. at Medicine Lodge, Kansas.

The contract for building the bridge across the Arkansas was signed by the Missouri Valley Bridge Company of Leavenworth, last week, and sent to this place to be signed by the Trustees of Creswell and Bolton townships. As soon as it is signed and returned, work will begin.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, MARCH 27, 1878.]

The contracts for breaking at Pawnee Agency were awarded last week, as follows.

W. H. Simms, 250 acres at $1.70 per acre.

W. A. Metcalf, of Maple City, 150 acres at $1.74 per acre.

Theoron Houghton, 280 acres at $1.87-1/2 per acre, including sharpening of plow.

The prices bid were very low, proving the scarcity of money and hard times. Just think of a man going sixty miles to break prairie at $1.70 per acre!

Friday afternoon two well appearing young men rode into town horseback, and stopped for the night. In the morning they attempted to sell their horses very cheap, claiming they were from Sumner county and needed money. In the meantime a postal card was received stating that two horses, a sorrel horse with white face and a bay horse, had been stolen from Thayer, Kansas, about 100 miles distant. One of the horses had been purchased in the meantime by Mr. Riddle, the dry goods merchant, who traded a suit of clothes for it. The postal card was directed to the City Marshal, and was handed to Wm. Gray, who, with constable Morgan, examined the property, found the description almost exact, and arrested the two men in the saloon without resistance. They had a preliminary trial before Judge Christian and were bound over to appear at the next term of the District Court to be held in May. In default of bail, they were committed to jail. The coun-

tenances of the two were not of the best, and their demeanor before the Justice's court was such as to make anyone believe they were guilty, as they declined to give their names or answer any questions. Before taking them to jail, Mr. Riddle recovered the clothes he had traded them, but is out the $4 in cash he gave as booty.

MR. BERRY and brother, with James Morgan, went to the Territory last week and took possession of the white girl claimed by Pawnee Pete. The Indians at first refused to give her up, and when they saw the officers were determined to take her, drew their knives and prepared for a fight. After some parleying they consented to let her go, provided she would be taken to Pawnee Agency, and the matter left with a council of their men whether they should give her up or not.

The aged squaw who claims the child was very much affected, and plead with the officers to strike her in the head with her tomahawk if they were going to separate them. She was permitted to go with them.

We called to see the child, and should pronounce her a full-blooded white girl. Her hair is light brown, and fine; her eyes are grey, and her complexion fair, considering her treatment. It is thought by several that she may be the child of a Mr. Friend, living in Eldorado, Kansas, who lost one child and had his wife scalped about six years ago in Texas.

On complaint of Wm. Gray, city marshal, L. H. Gardner was arraigned before Judge Christian on Monday last for selling intoxicating liquors without a license. Amos Walton acted as attorney for the city, and C. R. Mitchell for the defendant. After hearing the testimony, the evidence failed to sustain the charge, and Mr. Gardner was discharged. The cost will have to be paid by the city. It is the opinion of the Police Judge that no one can sell liquor without a license under the city ordinance, for medical purposes or otherwise. This will compel all drug stores to take out a license, unless the ordinance is amended.

Chas. McGinnis, James Kelly, W. M. Allison, E. E. Bacon, Geo. Walker, Will Stivers, Sam Davis, Mrs. Chas. McGinnis, Miss Minnie Bacon, Miss J. Millington, and Miss Carrie Olds.

Two foot races took place last week. The first was between Charles Holloway and a Pawnee Indian. The second was between Linton Hunt and the same Indian. Holloway "threw up," and the Indian won the prize. Hunt won the second race by several feet. The distance run was about 150 feet.

STABLE BURNED. A stable belonging to Preston Parr was discovered to be in flames on Saturday noon of last week, and by the time the two horses belonging to James Parr, and some cattle, could be got out, it had gained such headway that it could not be extinguished. About 200 bushels of corn were consumed, besides other property belonging to James Parr. Jim is a poor man, has worked hard, and the loss will be severely felt.

DAVID MARICLE and MISS LIBBY DAILY were joined in the holy bonds of matrimony last Tuesday evening, by Judge Gans. The evening following, the boys gave him one of those unearthly chivarees, something like a Chinese orchestra. Our congratulations go with the happy couple. May they live long, be

prosperous, and multiply the earth.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, MARCH 27, 1878.]

The election of one Mayor, five Councilmen, and a Police Judge takes place at Bonsall's office on next Monday. But little has been said of the matter as yet, and Monday will probably develop whether there is any issue to be made. There will probably be a trial of those opposed to licensing saloons to elect a Council.

[BUSINESS NOTICES/ADS.]

FOR SALE. The following described property: 1 house and 2 lots in center of town; one Hamiltonian stallion, eight years old; one Durham bull, two years old; two cows and two yearling heifers; one buckboard and single set of harness. Also my entire saloon outfit, consisting of 4 billiard tables; bar and bar fixtures complete. I will sell the above mentioned articles cheap for cash. All parties knowing themselves indebted to me will please call and settle by cash or note, as I wish to straighten my business immediately.

I am, Very Respectfully,

L. W. CURRIER.

SEALED PROPOSALS, subject to the usual conditions, will be received at this office until 12 m., April 1, 1878, for breaking

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ACRES OF PRAIRIE LAND,

in lots to suit. Approved bond in the sum of $1,000 will be required. Bidders are requested to be present or represented by attorney at opening of bids, which should be addressed to the undersigned, to whom apply for further information.

A. C. WILLIAMS,

I. S. Indian Agent.

We've sold our harness; sold our rails, sold a number of our ponies. We now have about 200 feet of walnut and sycamore plan, 2 inches thick, eight feet long and six inches wide, and 700 pine shingles we would like to dispose of. Also some cord wood. We have fourteen head of ponies and horses, a hog, and a jennie that we haven't sold yet.

C. M. SCOTT.

[NOTICE: BOLTON TOWNSHIP RE BONDS FOR BRIDGE ACROSS ARKANSAS.]

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to an election held in the township of Bolton, in the county of Cowley and State of Kansas, on the 9th day of March, A.D. 1878, by the electors of said township, for the purpose of voting for or against the issuance of the bonds of said township to the amount of $2,000, in denominations of $500 each, to aid in the construction of a bridge across the Arkansas river, south of Arkansas City, Kansas; said bonds to be made payable in ten years from their date and to draw interest at the rate of ten per centum per annun; said election having resulted in favor of said bonds--we, the undersigned, Township Trustee, Clerk and Treasurer of said Bolton township, will, on the 22nd day of April, A.D. 1878, issue said bonds according to law.

JAMES M. SAMPLE, Trustee.

T. S. PARVIN, Clerk.

[EDITORIAL COLUMN.]

For the last thirty miles before it enters the Indian Territory, the river runs through Cowley county alone, making sixty sections of land that border on that river--38,400 acres of land in the valley within one mile of the river. In many places the valley is from one to ten miles wide. Think of that, ye simpletons that are being carried out on the plains by the buncombe speeches of railroad officials.

The climate here is very mild. But few diseases prevail. The few are mostly pneumonia and malarial.

A change from the swamps of Indiana to Southern Kansas would no doubt be beneficial for your rheumatic affliction. We have a few medical men, yet there is room for more, competent worthy men.

We have the Arkansas river on the west side and south about one mile distant, and the clear, running Walnut on the east, with their confluence about three miles from this place, where a solid body of timber covering an entire section can be seen.

Our roads are the best natural roads to be found in the United States, and good eleven months of the year.

This county is well adapted to farming, fruit growing, and stock raising. Grouse creek offers the best chance we know of for stock privileges, and the high lands a short distance east of it is a splendid farming and fruit growing region.

We have the best society to be found on the border, and your wife and daughters would be welcomed by all. Especially the daughters, for there is a demand for better halves in this new Eldorado.

33238, Elk City to Cedar Vale, Anthony Swartney & Benj. J.

Johnson, Farmersburgh, Kans.; $592.80.

33239, Independence to Eureka, A. A. Call, Algona, Iowa; $1,870.

33240, Independence to Sedan, D. M. Moore, Harts' Mills; $2,498.

33242, Coffeyville to Ark. City, Berniah Magoffin [?], Sedalia,

Mo.; $972.

33244, Elk Falls to Wichita, H. B. Guernsey, Elk Falls, Kas.;

$1,475.

33245, Elk Falls to Winfield, A. A. Call, Algona, Iowa; $939.

33246, Elk Falls to Elgin, Ed. Parmley, Grapton; $415.

33247, Boston to Cedar Vale, David G. Greathouse, Boston, Kas.;

$440.

33250, Eureka to Arkansas City, John W. Dorsey, Middlebury, Vt.; $488.

33253, Eldorado to Winfield, H. Tisdale, Lawrence, Kas.; $1,334.

33258, Ark. City to South Haven, W. C. Brown, Cadiz, Ohio; $228.

33259, Oxford to Medicine Lodge, John Miner, Sandusky, Ohio; $838.

33260, London to Caldwell; V. K. Hines, Sandusky, Ohio; $589.80.

33261, Wellington to Arkansas City, Berniah Magoffin [?],

Sedalia, Mo.; $263.

33262, Wichita to Ark. City, H. Tisdale, Lawrence, Kas.; $1,220.

33263, Wichita to Caldwell, H. Tisdale, Lawrence, Kas.; $1,584.

33275, Medicine Lodge to Kinsley, John R. Miner, Sandusky, Ohio;

$884.

33276, Kiowa to Medicine Lodge, V. K. Hines, Sandusky, Ohio;

$139.50.

32014, Muscogee to Kickapoo Agency, M. A. Thompson, Windsor, Mo.;

$1,400.

32016, Coffeyville to Talaqua, Jesse K. Morgan, Coffeyville,

Kas.; $900.

32017, Coffeyville to Kickapoo Agency, M. A. Thompson, Windsor,

Mo.; $1,290.

32020, Camp Supply to Dodge City, John R. Miner, Sandusky, Ohio;

$761.

32021, Camp Supply to Ft. Elliott, Texas, John R. Minder, Sandusky, Ohio; $820.

[ARTICLE BY JAMES CHRISTIAN RE KANSAS HISTORY.]

FRIEND SCOTT: As the Historical Society of Kansas seems desirous of scraps of the unwritten history of Kansas, to illustrate the lives and acts of its early settlers, I propose to give through your paper a little light on one of the saddest events that ever occurred in the early days of Kansas settlement.

I mean the death of Gaius Jenkins at the hands of James H. Lane, familiarly known as "Jim" Lane. The circumstances of the killing, the supposed causes that led to the terrible calamity, the trial of Lane before Justice Ladd, and all the facts connected with it, were published in the papers of that day, so that a republication of these facts would throw no new light on the subject. But as nearly all the principal actors in the drama are now in their graves, I now propose to give a little scrap of history--a link in the chain of causes that produced that

catastrophe--that came under my own observation, and of which I had personal cognizance at the time.

Those familiar with the early events in Lawrence will remember that shortly after Col. Lane settled in that place, in the spring of 1855, one of his children died and was buried on his claim, a short distance southwest of the old "log house" he then lived in. Around the little grave was a neat paling fence.

In the fall of that year the "Kansas troubles" commenced. Col. Lane was, as all will remember, absent much of the time during that winter and the following year of 1856, and his family, with the exception of little Jennie, was then in Indiana. During the troubles, and while Lane was absent pleading the cause of the Free-State party, Jenkins, being a settler on the same claim, took forcible possession of Lane's log house, and plowed up and cultivated the land that Lane had broken up, and on which his child was buried.

In 1857, on the return of Lane and family, all traces of the grave were gone, having been plowed over and cultivated the previous year, and the fence removed so that not the faintest trace of where the grave was could be found.

Lane and myself spent several days hunting and digging about where we supposed the grave was located, and both came to the conclusion that the body had been dug up, as no trace of the coffin could be found or any part of the paling fence. When we concluded it must have been raised by someone, Lane instantly laid it to Jenkins, his enemy and claim contestant. I shall never forget the expression of his face as, with compressed lips, he exclaimed:

"Such a G_d d_____d ghoul is not fit to live! If I was only certain that he dug up my child out of revenge on me, I would kill him at first sight."

The tears started in his eyes. I tried to calm him by telling him we might be mistaken in the exact distance from the house--that as the ground had been plowed over, and no mound perceivable, the body might still be there.

"Yes," said he, "but why did the d____d brute tear the paling away, and plow over the grave so that it could never be found?"

This was a conundrum that I could not answer, but had to admit it was a most beastly and inhuman act. The remembrance of that child's grave still rankled in his breast against Jenkins until the fatal encounter in 1858, when Jenkins was slain.

"General" Lane, until the day of his death, believed that Jenkins dug up the child and threw it away. Whether he was guilty or not, God only knows, but these are the facts as I saw and heard them. Lane, with all his faults, was a loving and an affectionate father, passionately fond of his children.

JAMES CHRISTIAN.

[CORRESPONDENCE FROM "D. W. WILLEY" - OTTO TOWNSHIP.]

The school house in district No. 89 was burned on the night of the 25th of February. There was a meeting there that night which closed at 8-1/2 o'clock. The lights were carefully put out and the wood taken out of the stove, and carried outdoors and the fire on them put out. After carefully looking for fire that might have fallen on the floor, the stove door was closed and the hearth shoved up, to prevent any accident from that quarter, and the school house door closed. This was done by John Hanahan in the presence of F. N. Osborn and wife, C. M. Easley, and the two preachers, and they will so state under oath if need be. At 11-1/2 o'clock--three hours after the light had been put out--Mr. Jay, living three-fourths of a mile from the school house, and in plain view, went out to see if there was a light at the school house, and saw none. His statement is corroborated by Alice Tolls and Robt. Howe. At 11 o'clock P. W. Ledlie looked to see if the meeting had closed, and saw no light. A few minutes before two o'clock a part of my family was awakened by the light shining in at the bedroom window, and aroused the rest, when we all saw the school house in full blaze. Next morning the wood taken from the stove the night before and the litter between them and the house was not burned. It can also be proven that the school house was threatened a few days before it was burned.

There are some other facts in my possession connected with this sad affair, but I don't now propose to mention them.

There was a dead calm the night of the burning. "Beam" or no "beam," it is impossible for me to believe it was an accident, and four-fifths of the people in the district and community believe the same. D. W. WILLEY.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "WUN' PHOOL" - PLEASANT VALLEY.]

Our trustee, Mr. West Holland, is darkening the doors of our cabins this week, on his rounds counting children, pigs, chickens, ducks, dogs, etc. Mr. Holland proved to be the most entertaining and most inquisitive caller of the season.

It appears that "A. E. H." would have the school house in Dist No. 10 called the "Pleasant Valley" school house, instead of the original, adopted, and true appellation, the "Holland" school house. Now, Mr. "A. E. H.," do you not recollect the time, some years since, that the voters of Dist. No. 10 decided, by their votes, to have the school house in said district named in honor of Mr. Holland, on whose land the school house was built? I think I have a "vague" recollection of such a decision. Now Mr. correspondent, lay all malice aside, and if you desire to have the name of our school house changed, appeal to our election next August, or a more honorable way would be to ask our Legislature to grant you the desired change. WON' PHOOL.

[BOUNTY FOR SOLDIERS: 1861 - 1864.]

An item has been floating around among the newspapers some time to the effect that all soldiers who re-enlisted for three years, between January 1, 1861, and April 1, 1864, having previiously served nine months, were entitled to $400 bounty, or so much thereof as remains unpaid.

The item turns out to have been worthless. A number of soldiers engaged an attorney to examine into the matter, and he immediately wrote to the proper department at Washington, and in a day or two received the intelligence that:

"There have been no bounty laws passed of general character since July 28, 1866, and the statement referred to is buncombe.

"The bounty referred to in published statement was payable in installments, and these installments were all paid as fast as they acrrued, and when the men were discharged, they received all there was due up to their discharge.

"Where the soldiers died in the service, and the heirs have not yet received the remaining installments, then they are entitled thereto."

[HON. THOMAS RYAN: UTTERANCES RE SILVER BILL.]

[KANSAS CITY, EMPORIA & SOUTHERN RAILROAD.]

Mr. Fuller, engineer of the Kansas City, Emporia & Southern railroad, came down last Thursday, and on Friday morning met the commissioners in session. The bonds of the county, amounting to $203,000, and the stock of the company to an equal amount, were enclosed in one package and addressed to Donnell, Lawson & Co., the Fiscal Agents in New York, to be held by them in escrow until the road is completed in sections of ten miles. The bonds are invalid unless the road is built, and only so many can be delivered as the length of the road built will justify. If but one line is built through the county, $50,000 or $60,000 of these bonds will never be issued. Eureka Herald.

[SEALED PROPOSALS: OSAGE AGENCY, INDIAN TERRITORY.]

Bidders for these supplies (except live stock, which must be delivered at the respective Agencies) will state distinctly the price, net, at which the articles will be furnished and delivered at either Lawrence or Leavenworth, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, or at the respective Agencies named above.

Bidders for work oxen, cows, and bulls must state distinctly the kind bid for, if Texas natives the bid must so state. The articles bid for must be in strict accordance with schedule lists referred to, and in all respects subject to thorough inspection by parties to be appointed by the undersigned, and in weights, kind, quality, and condition for the service required must be satisfactory to the U. S. Agent. Mules and work oxen must be kind and well broken and easily managed.

Bids will be received for pork or all of these supplies, but the articles called for at each Agency must be embraced in separate bids, and the right to reject any or all bids, if deemed for the interest of the service, is reserved. The successful bidder or bidders will be required to enter into contract at once, furnishing bond with approved security for the faithful performance of the same. Deliveries to be made immediately after approval of contract by the proper authorities at Washington.

The right is reserved to increase or diminish the amount called for twenty-five percent. Copy of printed advertisement to accompany each bid, and should be addressed to the undersigned and endorsed "Proposals for Indian Supplies."

Bidders are invited to be present at the opening of their bids.

CYRUS BEEDE,

U. S. Indian Agent.

[PERSONALS.]

S. P. CHANNELL sold his hardware store to Agent Williams last week, and will give possession in May or June. Mr. Channell is a man of many friends, and all regret to have him quit

business.

With two setts of burrs running all day and nearly all night, Newman can hardly keep up to the rush he has for his four X flour, and yet he manages to accommodate all who come with grists to grind.

They have a new lamp chimney and burner at J. A. Loomis's that is the handsomest we have seen yet. Owing to the shape of the chimney, it seldom breaks from the flame of the wick. They have a lot of novelties on hand.

Before returning to the duties of his office at Wichita Agency, A. C. WILLIAMS purchased the fine farm of 120 [? THIS FIGURE WAS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO READ...LOOKS LIKE 120] acres of Rudolph Hoffmaster for $______ [THIS FIGURE IS DEFINITELY NOT LEGIBLE]. It is situated on the State line, four miles south of town, and is a very desirable fruit, grain, and stock farm.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, APRIL 3, 1878.]

There are no vacant rooms in Newman's brick block on the corner, and had there been a half dozen more, they would have been all occupied. It is well planned, well built, and guarded against fire by a fire wall and iron roof on the top. Newman understands erecting buildings.

Everything passed off quietly on election day.

The Eagle Mills are having a good run of custom.

School closes next Friday for a vacation of two weeks.

A daughter was born to Mr. Dennis Harkins last Thursday.

The M. E.' are well pleased with their new minister, Mr. Hunt.

The County Commissioners meet next Monday in regular

session.

When the Walnut is past fording, we are lucky to have a good bridge.

The streets of town are all serene. The boys are all off on the stream.

READ C. R. Sipes' advertisement if you want to know what that machine is in front of his store.

AD: THE WALTER A. WOOD SELF-BINDING HARVESTER.

Manufactured by the Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Machine Co., Hoosick Falls, N. Y. / J. E. Haner & Co., General Southwestern Agents, Saint Louis, Mo.

The Walter A. Wood Self-Binding Harvester is the accredited head of the whole Harvesting Machine family, and its superior strength, durability, ease of management, style of finish, and capacity for harvesting and binding grain, in a superior manner, is acknowledged.

AD GOES ON AND ON: LISTS FOUR MORE WALTER A. WOOD SELF-BINDING HARVESTER ITEMS PLAYING UP ALL THE MACHINE CAN DO!

FOR SALE BY C. R. SIPES.

CASTINGS for any kind of farm machinery can be had at the Wichita Foundry. See their ad. [I SKIPPED.]

There are three logs at Lippmann's mill ten feet each in length that will make 3,000 feet of lumber.

FRANK EARL says he will take farm produce for his work, and he is one of the best workmen to be found.

The Green Front and Pierce & McLaughlin each have a neat silver mounted cigar case filled with the best of smoking

material.

The contractors of Mrs. Watson's new millinery store, Parker & Canfield, have it about completed. It is a neat little

building.

DR. HUGHES will be home from Washington this week, and will announce in our next issue what he has to do with the Territory.

CURNS & MANSER's abstract record employs one man almost constantly to keep up with the transfers on real estate and

mortgages.

A counterfeit National $500 bill has been detected in Chicago. It differs from the original. One ear of John Quincy Adams is bit off.

Another new farm implement is a harrow made entirely of iron. One can be seen in front of Channell's store, and about forty in his cellar.

A $500 bill pronounced counterfeit was taken in at one of the banks at Winfield by the assistant cashier, and the man can't be found who gave it.

The engine used on Christy's steam thresher is to be placed on the ferry west of town by Speers and Walton, to try the experiment of ferrying by steam.

A new doctor came down to seek a location last week, and has about concluded he can do very well, although Drs. Alexander and Shepard have the entire practice now.

The wife of Mr. James Wilson arrived last week from St. Louis, where she had been detained by the sickness of her sister. We are glad to welcome such a valuable member of society.

DIED. At her residence in Salt City, Kansas, of consumption, Friday, March 29th, 1878, Mrs. Chenoweth, wife of Capt.

W. E. Chenoweth. Our sympathies are extended to the afflicted

husband.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, APRIL 3, 1878.]

NOTICE. One month after date of this issue, I extend a challenge to Arkansas City for a foot race of a mile; C. M. Scott to judge at start and outcome. Respectfully,

CHAS. SCHIFFBAUER.

Several of the freighters with freight for Pawnee Agency found the Salt Fork past fording, and had to return. They left their loads at Dean's ranche, and will return this week to take them on.

"STILL they come," and yet there is room. "The emigration to Kansas continues unabated, and the various land offices are overflowing with homestead and pre-emption entries."

This is the daily language of our northern contemporaries, and it is no doubt true that thousands are flocking to the wilderness portions of our State to get homesteads, carrying with them what little money they can rake, scrape, and gather to-

"There is luck in leisure." Never despair or lose heart by length of time.

John R. Owings, who resides at Coffeyville in this State, lost a fine span of mules while on a hunt on the buffalo range in 1872, six years ago.

In passing through Sumner county last week, about eighteen miles west of this place, not dreaming about mules, his eyes caught sight of a pair of ears that looked familiar, and on a nearer approach, he discovered one of his long-lost mules. Upon further investigation and inquiries of a Mr. Straight, who had the mule in his possession, he learned that one of his neighbors, a Mr. John Randall, had the other one. Mr. Straight had taken the mules up, having found them out on the buffalo range in the western part of the State, and had them in his possession about six years.

Owings then returned home for the purpose of getting witnesses to prove his property, and his proof being deemed satisfactory, he on last Saturday was on his way home to Coffeyville with his long-lost mules--a fine span, worth $250.

Mr. Owings was so well pleased that he called and subscribed for the TRAVELER to complete his happiness. Reader, if you want to be happy, come and do likewise. Deposit two dollars and secure the best paper in the Southwest.

The contract for the erection of the Arkansas river bridge south of town, was signed by James Sample, trustee of Bolton township, and James Huey of Creswell township, last week. Just before the letter was mailed, a representative of another company came in and asked the privilege of bidding on the work, promising that they would put up a better bridge for the same money, or as good a bridge for less money. The trustees, thinking there might be an opportunity of saving the townships from one to three hundred dollars, concluded to hold the contract until the bid could be made. This will delay the matter five days, after which, the bridge is to be completed within sixty days.

The election of city officers took place last Monday with the following result.

MAYOR:

JAMES BENEDICT ......... 61

W. M. SLEETH ........... 37

COUNCILMEN:

J. T. SHEPARD .......... 63

WM. SPEERS ............. 59

THOS. BERRY ............ 63

C. R. SIPES ............ 58

I. H. BONSALL .......... 61

S. P. CHANNELL ......... 40

A. A. NEWMAN ........... 37

H. P. FARRAR ........... 37

E. D. EDDY ............. 37

T. H. McLAUGHLIN ....... 40

POLICE JUDGE:

TIMOTHY McINTIRE ........ 12

Total number of votes cast: 98.

It is generally supposed that the officers elected will favor granting a saloon license on a proper petition.

AN EXPLOSION. Rev. McHue preached a sermon at Salt City, on last Friday night, taking as his text "Who shall stand at Judgment Day. Flee from the wrath to come." After the sermon a bench was moved out for those who desired to come forward, but in moving it two lamps were upset and an explosion followed. Great consternation prevailed. Two men sprang through the windows, followed by one woman who climbed out but immediately fainted. During the excitement some of considerable presence of mind, took off their coats and smothered the flames, while one old lady never ceased praying and shouting.

We have been favored with a copy of the fifth Agricultural and Centennial report of 1876, with the compliments of Hon. Alfred Gray, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. The book is one of the best publications ever made by this or any other State, and is worth tenfold the cost of its publication. On the first pages are colored maps of each county in the State, showing the railroad lands, Government lands, water courses, location of towns and school houses, followed with an impartial history of every portion of the State. It will find a place in our library.

THINGS are certainly looking brighter. Last week one of our county bankers received two sacks of silver coin--$500. The rain on last Wednesday and Friday brightens the farmers' prospects for a big wheat crop and early garden vegetables. Everything is looking lively, and the wild geese are flying low. On last Friday night they made the night hideous with their squawking, as though ten thousand of them were on the house tops.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, APRIL 3, 1878.]

The Sheriff of Neosho county, with one of the owners of the horses stolen from Thayer, Kansas, were here last Friday after the property that had been taken to Winfield. The thieves, Isaac Ingalls and Martin B. Dailey, alias Al. Wilson, had been working in a coal mine before they took the horses. Both had been in the mountains, and were known as bad characters. W. M. Gray received $25 reward for their capture.

EARLY Tuesday morning, an effigy was seen erected on a pole in the center of the street at the crossing of Fifth Avenue, representing a man. It was stuffed with straw, and had in one hand a bottle of "Rostetter's bitters," with a blue ribbon on one side and a board on the other, inscribed "Poor Murphy is dead." We suppose it alluded to the election the day previous, but we think the matter was considerably overdrawn.

BORN. To H. Post, of Sumner county, a 10-1/2 pound boy, one day last week. Traveler, March 20th.

That's pretty tough on Tom. "Go away from home to learn the news."

NEW LANDLORD. NEWTON COX, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, has leased the Central Avenue Hotel, and is now lord and peer over the entire mansion. Mr. Cox is an energetic young man of good business qualifications, and will no doubt establish himself as a landlord whom the people will be glad to patronize.

[EDITORIAL COLUMNS.]

Our notice of the white captive owned by Pawnee Pete, is meeting with sympathizing friends from every quarter. The following is a letter from Mrs. Thomas Nickerson, a Boston lady of wealth and refinement, showing that there is a chance among the best of people for the unfortunate beings of mankind.

We answered Mrs. Nickerson's letter, informing her that the captive had been placed in the school at the Pawnee Agency, through an order from the Secretary of the Interior, obtained by Mr. O. P. Houghton, and would be properly cared for.

Yet while this case has been made a specialty of, and the child cared for, we remember seeing several Mexican and Texas captives among the Kiowas and Commanches several years ago who have not been heeded by private or public citizens.

[PAWNEE CAPTIVE WHITE GIRL IS NOT MR. FRIEND'S CHILD.]

The Eldorado Press in speaking of the Pawnee captive white girl says:

No, it is not Mr. Friend's child. The child that Mr. Friend lost was a boy, and was recovered several years ago, after much trouble and expense. The little fellow was brought home, but death again robbed the father of his boy. Mrs. Friend, who was scalped at the time, was not killed; but through almost superhuman courage deceived the red devils, by fainting to be dead, never flinching while they thrust the arrow in her side and tore off her scalp. A full history of the troubles that the Friends had with the Indians would be more thrilling than fiction.

[GEORGE H. SCHOENEWALDT: BORDER RUFFIAN.]

Facts from the Life of a Border Ruffian.

"Yesterday, George H. Schoenewaldt, a German desperado of the very worst type, cool, deliverate, cold blooded assassin, a man who never knew what fear was, nor shrank from the committal of any crime, however desperate, was returned to his old quarters, at the Kansas State penitentiary, from which he escaped on the 7th of June last--nearly a year ago.

In 1872 Schoenewaldt was sentenced to the penitentiary for eight years, on a charge of highway robbery. He had served five years of his time, when he escaped, and fled to his old stamping grounds in Southern Kansas, in Montgomery county.

A party was sent out to arrest him, and in the effort to effect his recapture, he mortally wounded one of his pursuers, and crippled tow others. He then fled to Missouri, and was captured in October last at Jefferson City. He was arrested in that State and was sent to the penitentiary there for highway robbery. Yesterday he was brought from Jefferson City to the State Penitentiary, where he will serve out his term, and then be taken to Independence, Montgomery county, to be tried on the charge of murder.

Schoenewaldt's career has been a varied one, and discounts any dime novel ever written. He has been guilty of nearly everyone, if not all, of the crimes forbidden by law and religion, and was for years the terror of the Southern Kansas border, making his headquarters, when too hotly pressed, in the Indian Territory, where he headed a band of outlaws, as desperate as himself. Neither life nor property was safe when Schoenewaldt or any of his gang was around, and the mention of his name was enough to send the chills down the back of the good citizens of Montgomery county. He was daring, reckless, and brave to excess, and no one dared meet him face to face. Many anecdotes are told of his contempt for law and those who endeavor to enforce it.

On one occasion, and not so long ago, either, the Sheriff of Montgomery county, at the head of a posse, proceeded to stir up Schoenewaldt, he having a short time before that committed several depredations upon various parties and stolen quite a number of horses and driven them off to the Indian Territory. The Sheriff and party pursued him closely and made it hot for the desperado, but without coming in close quarters. One night, after a hard chase, and when Schoenewaldt and his gang had been kept busy keeping out of the way, Schoenewaldt crept into the camp of the Sheriff, and stole the official's horse. The next day the animal came back, with a polite note to the effect that he had returned the horse, and that if it was desired, he would steal the Sheriff and return him also. If ever Kansas had a mad Sheriff, it was this particular oone, and it was many a day before he heard the last of his adventure with Schoenewaldt.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "W. A. METCALF" - CEDAR TOWNSHIP.]

Last Monday week, the 24th of March, Mr. Peter Quigley died. There is something strange and inexplicable in his taking off. About 12 months ago he was arrested as insane, and after a hearing by his Hon. Judge Gans, he was put into the custody of Mr. A. H. Smith. After a short time he was released, and soon after that event his wife left him.

Since that time Mr. Quigley has been living on his farm attending his business with his usual sagacity. But on the evening of the Monday spoken of, about as Mr. Ben. Caldwell and lady were passing Mr. Quigley's residence, Mr. Quigley beckoned them to the house, and told them he was very sick and wanted Mr. Caldwell to bring a doctor. Dr. Phillips was accordingly summoned, and after an examination, told Mr. Quigley that he had been taking morphine. After considerable time and coaxing, Mr. Quigley acknowledged having taken four doses to allay a pain that had seized him since eating his dinner. But all that could be done was unavailing, and he died during the night.

I learned this evening from an uncle of Mr. Caldwell's, that Mr. Caldwell, his brother, and a Mr. Early were made quite sick by eating a pot of beans that was cooked during the day that Mr. Quigley was taken sick, and of which in all probability Mr. Quigley had eaten of also. There was no inquest held.

Yours, W. A. METCALF.

[PROBATE COURT MATTERS.]

[COMMUNICATION FROM "ANONYMOUS" - PLEASANT VALLEY.]

Several families have lately moved into this neighborhood.

Mr. Samuel Wait has sold his 160 acres of land to Mr. Whitson for $1,200. Mr. Whitson is one of those energetic farmers of Pleasant Valley.

Rev. T. S. Hunt, pastor of the M. E. church at Arkansas City, preached his introductory sermon at the Pleasant Valley school house last Sunday at 3 o'clock p.m.

We have a Spiritual Medium in our neighborhood. He takes much pleasure by inviting his friends to "night circles" in which he pretends to tell them of many events of their past lives.

The gentleman who wrote a piece from Pleasant Valley, signed "Wun Phool," is in trouble. He is afraid that the school house in Dist. No. 10 will assume the name of "Pleasant Valley."

ANONYMOUS.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "A. G. BOONE" - REMOVAL OF PONCA INDIANS.]

I had hoped to have located in your neighborhood before this, and had ordered my mail sent to your office, but from some unknown cause in the Indian Department have not received orders for the removal of the Poncas.

A. G. BOONE.

[PERSONALS.]

The Berry Brothers go to Pawnee Agency to take charge of the trading post at that place.

Mr. Riddle expects to move this week. During his short stay here, he has formed many warm friends.

[MORE PERSONALS.]

DIED. Of old age, April 1st, 1878, at his son's residence on Grouse creek, John Musselman, aged 88 years.

PETER PEARSON has purchased the furniture lately owned by

A. A. Chamberlain, and will continue the business at the old stand.

A. J. SEARING, late agent of the Pawnees, was here last week, on his way to Topeka to attend the trial of the former agent, Burgess.

BERRY BROTHERS sold their grocery store to Frank Speers and Joseph Hoyt last week. Joe and Frank will make lively dealers, and will always be found up to the times.

The contract was let last week for the building the Arkansas river bridge to Mr. Bullene, of Leavenworth, who represents a Pittsburg company.

T. K. JOHNSON and S. C. Smith, two of Winfield's best citizens, made us a short call last week, and renewed their subscriptions to the TRAVELER.

Owing to the strike of the railway brakemen, firemen, and engineers on the Santa Fe road last week, no mail was received Friday evening from the East.

Mrs. Watson has moved to her new house nearly opposite her former place of business, and has arranged her spring stock so that it makes a beautiful appearance.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, APRIL 10, 1878.]

Dr. Shepard returned from the Presbytery on Monday, where he had been accompanying Rev. Fleming. His brother from Springfield, Mo., returned with him and may locate with us.

That blank space in the "Family Record" of David Finney's, headed births, is now filled as follows:

"Tuesday, April 2nd, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, a daughter."

The following marriage licenses have been issued by the Probate Judge:

Geo. Fenn and Mary Campton.

John E. Bates and Hannah Lloyd.

A. M. Johnson and Maggie Hufff.

James M. Hindgardner and Jane Spraddine.

W. M. E. Ruckman and May Yaunt.

The long promised and looked for meeting between J. F. Hess and Joseph Campbell, of South Bend, came off at Capt. Nipp's farm on the 4th inst. Blood flowed freely, and eyes changed color rapidly, but all is quiet at present. SUBSCRIBER.

A. H. GREENE, of Winfield, is doing a good thing for Cowley county in the matter of inducing immigration. He has one man at Topeka, one at Wichita, and four at Winfield to look after parties desiring to locate, and to distribute his 12,000 copies of his real estate register.

There is to be no more cutting of wood in the Territory by residents of the border, and as a consequence, combustible material will sell from one to two dollars more on a cord before winter. There is plenty of timber in Kansas--when it can't be had in the Territory, by the way.

MRS. HARTSOCK has just received her spring stock of millinery goods, and her tastily arranged room on the corner is literally full of high hats, low hats, hats for old and young, "wide-outs," "schooners," and every imaginable contrivance for the head. We advise the ladies to talk sweet to their husbands now, and make their best puddings. Nothing like appealing to the affections.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, APRIL 10, 1878.]

REV. J. C. SHEPARD, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, Mo., will preach in the First Presbyterian Church next Sabbath morning. Rev. S. B. Fleming goes to Winfield to participate in the installation of Rev. Platter as pastor of the church in that place. A Sabbath school concert will be given next Sabbath evening by the scholars of the First Presbyterian Sunday School.

DR. HUGHES returned from Washington last week, and in company with R. L. Walker will go to the Territory this week for the purpose of selecting a suitable place for their headquarters. The office to which these gentlemen have been appointed by the Secretary of the Interior is known as Special Agents for the unoccupied Indian reserves and Government lands. Their duties will be to put a stop to all timber depredations, collect tax on cattle in the Territory, arrest all parties trafficking in liquor within their jurisdiction, and have general supervision of all matters not assigned to the different Agencies. After their return a statement will be made by them. It is the policy of the Government to first tax and then protect the stock men in the Territory, and to protect the timber at all hazards. After these gentlemen become thoroughly established, there will be less lawlessness in the region south of us, and instead of being a harbor will be a trap for thieves.

SUSPICION OF FOUL PLAY. Mr. Rect. Davis brings the news from Eureka, Kansas, that a large man over six feet in height, wearing overalls six inches too short for him, was found in a creek on a by-road last week with a bullet hole in the back of his head, and from the mysterious disappearance of Mr. H. C. Bates, after leaving this place, he supposed it was him. Since the rumor we received a letter supposed to have been from the man, postmarked at Medicine Lodge, Kansas, as follows:

"Mr. SCOTT--Dear Sir: Will you please forward my mail to Great Bend, Barton county, Kansas, and oblige me?

Yours Truly, H. C. BATES.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, APRIL 10, 1878.]

The examination at Winfield on the 5th and 6th insts. was attended by the following persons:

Mrs. A. D. Hoyt, Dexter.

Mr. Y. W. Bartgis, Cedar Vale.

Mr. J. A. Natt, Miss Stella Stafford, Miss Mary Tucker, Miss Kate Fitzgerald, Lazette.

W. C. Ketchum, Maple City.

R. B. Corson, Little Dutch.

Miss M. E. Buck, Miss N. P. Buck, Miss Anna Buck, Miss Nellie Buck, R. B. Hunter, New Salem.

Mrs. R. E. Rhonimus, Albert Lumkins, Tisdale.

FIRE IN THE TERRITORY. The large missionary school building at Wichita Agency was burned to the ground on the morning of the 29th ult. Nothing was saved, and the loss will amount to $25,000. It was the finest Government building in the West. An Indian boy, named Soldier, nephew of Black Beaver, was burned to death. One hundred and forty scholars roomed in the building.

[BUSINESS NOTICES/ADS.]

[BUSINESS NOTICES/ADS CONTINUED.]

I have a large stock of glass and queensware which I will dispose of as low as any house in town, on 60 and 20 days' time on bills of $5 and upwards to responsible buyers.

THOS. E. BERRY.

One dapple gray mare, 14-3/4 hands high, Copperbottom and Canadian stock; an extra saddle animal, drives double or single, has been accustomed to heavy farm work. Only reason for selling--unless driven every day is too spirited for a woman's use. I would be glad to exchange for a gelding, less spirited, but equal in other respects.

J. A. LOOMIS.

ON MONDAY, April 22nd, at 3 o'clock p.m., I will offer for sale, at my residence, all my household furniture and kitchen utensils. Terms of sale, cash up and no grumbling.

SILAS PARKER.

[MORE BUSINESS NOTICES.]

Having purchased the entire furniture stock at this place, I feel it my duty to let the public know a few facts in regard to what I am going to do, and not going to do.

1. I will endeavor to keep on hand a well assorted stock of furniture, and everything else pertaining to the business.

2. To establish and strictly adhere to the one-price system.

3. Prices as low as the lowest.

4. I shall endeavor to sell at the lowest margin possible, strictly for cash or its equivalent.

In strictly adhering to the above rules, I shall not hesitate to solicit the public patronage.

P. PEARSON.

[EDITORIAL COLUMNS.]

BITTER CREEK, April 12, 1878.

Mr. Scott: I learn that Mr. Riddle, the merchant in your city, fell from a loaded wagon this morning, near Brown's ranch, the wagon passing directly over him. He died in a few minutes after.

Respectfully, W. B. TRISSELL.

[NEW CITY COUNCIL: WINFIELD.]

The new city council of Winfield met on the 3rd inst., and organized; Hon. J. B. Lynn, mayor, in the chair; present councilmen, T. C. Robinson. G. W. Gully, H. Jochems, C. M. Wood, and

E. C. Manning. C. M. Wood was chosen president pro tem; J. P. Short, clerk; J. C. McMullen, treasurer, and N. C. Caldwell, attorney. The following committees were constituted: Streets and alleys, Messrs. Wood, Robinson and Manning; finance, Manning, Gully, and Wood; fire department, Jochems, Gully, and Robinson.

[UNITED STATES MARSHAL: DISTRICT OF KANSAS.]

Hon. Ben F. Simpson, on Monday last, assumed the duties of United States Marshal for the District of Kansas, being sworn in by Judge Foster. He has appointed John H. Smith, of Columbus, as his deputy at large, and Spencer P. Wade, of Topeka, his resident deputy.

[LETTER FROM JAMES CHRISTIAN TO LAWRENCE STANDARD REPRINTED.]

[THE INDIANS.]

Unofficial but trustworthy information from Ft. Walsh confirms the recent story of a large confederation of hostile Indians in that vicinity. Sitting Bull and Spotted Tail have been reinforced by lodges by the Missouri agencies, including Red Cloud's, and it is now estimated that there are from 5,000 to 7,000 warriors within 100 miles of Fort Walsh. Some of these bands have been seen by Gen. Miles' scouts. The savages are very restless, and are under constant surveilance of the too limited force of Canadian mounted Police, who evidently anticipate trouble.

At a council, the last week in February, the Indians resolved to resist the buffalo law, and Sitting Bull counselled moderation towards Canadians, but breathed defiance against the Americans. The force is well armed and equipped, and could probably be augmented to 10,000, in which case a vigorous summer campaign will be probable.

[DISTRICT COURT.]

Mr. E. S. Bedillion, District Clerk, furnishes us with the following list of cases which will probably be for trial at the next term of the District Court, commencing on Monday, May 6, 1878.

CRIMINAL DOCKET.

State of Kansas vs. F. G. Cady, mayhem.

State of Kansas vs. C. Coon, trespass.

State of Kansas vs. S. Huston, larceny.

State of Kansas vs. N. Hostetter, incest.

State of Kansas vs. W. H. Bilson, larceny.

State of Kansas vs. W. H. Bilson, burglary.

State of Kansas vis. C. R. Turner, peace W.

CIVIL DOCKET.

Geo. Stewart v. R. B. Waite.

John Brooks v. E. B. Kager, Co. Treasurer.

Jas. Renfro v. Margaret Renfro, Administrator.

A. H. Green v. Sarah E. Requa.

Joel E. Cox v. Mary J. Cox.

Geo. Hafer v. H. C. Colson.

J. M. Alexander, et al, v. W. W. Andrews.

M. L. Read v. Robt. Hudson, et al.

B. C. Cook v. W. F. Worthington.

State of Kansas, ex ral, Cessna v. A. G. Thurman.

H. B. Ray et al v. D. F. McAllison.

J. W. Blizzard v. J. G. Titus.

Nancy McManus v. J. S. Harmon.

Parker & Canfield v. R. B. Scott.

W. W. Vessels v. T. J. Vessels.

Frank Porter v. E. W. Colson et al.

M. D. Wells v. T. E. Gilleland.

Chas. Seacat v. S. E. Hostetter et al.

J. C. McMullen v. Jas. Steiner et al.

Amelia Ragland v. R. P. Akers.

A. W. Gault v. T. D. Hargrove et al.

Henry Scheffer v. J. F. Berner.

R. B. Waite v. County Com.

Mary H. Buck v. J. B. Southard et al.

S. L. Brettun v. A. H. Beck.

S. L. Brettun v. J. C. Goss et al.

G. P. Strum v. J. K. Stevens et al.

Lizzie M. Martin v. M. E. Paugh et al.

Graham & Moffit v. J. F. Baurer et al.

Boyle & Melville v. E. R. Evans et al.

T. H. Barrick v. J. S. Garrison et al.

S. Frederick v. Co. Commissioners.

J. C. McMullen v. J. Morgan et al.

Lucinda Perry v. Luther Perry.

C. C. Harris v. Tanford Day et al.

Mary H. Buck v. D. J. Bright et al.

W. R. Sears v. C. Collum et al.

S. McMasters v. N. Hughes.

L. G. Yoe v. T. E. Gilleland.

T. Watts v. W. D. L. Devore et al.

E. H. Gallup v. Calvin Coon.

R. B. Waite v. Henry Schneider.

M. L. Wilson v. H. B. Rude et al.

E. Howland v. E. B. Johnston et al.

E. Howland v. J. B. Pierson et al.

A. F. Ferris v. J. A. Denning, et al.

J. N. Hill v. G. A. Jackson et al.

Rebecca Turner v. F. C. Davis et al.

Hackney & McDonald v. W. W. Andrews.

Mary H. Beck v. M. W. Luckey.

M. Harkins v. E. C. Hurst et al.

M. M. Funk v. Cynthis Clark et al.

E. C. Seward v. S. H. Myton et al.

J. C. McMullen v. P. F. Endicott et al.

Samuel Hoyt v. J. P. Gassoway et al.

Buck, McCuen & Patterson v. T. E. Gilleland.

Mary H. Buck v. J. K. Stevens et al.

C. C. Harris v. J. B. Lynn.

Parker & Canfield v. E. B. Kager.

Giesecke, Mevsenbury & Co. v. T. E. Gilleland.

T. H. Barrick v. W. D. Mowry et al.

Chas. Barr v. T. J. Raybell et al.

J. C. McMullen v. M. A. Bowers et al.

A. P. Dickey v. T. A. Wilkinson.

Elizabeth Myers v. W. H. Brown et al.

J. W. Hamilton v. J. D. Pryor et al.

Nancy Bishop v. E. B. Johnson.

[INDIANS.]

Sitting Bull is said to be preparing for a vigorous campaign in the northwest against the whites this spring.

The completion of the Kaw Land appraisement will throw about 213,000 acres of land on the market, most of which is in Morris county.

Scarfaced Charley, chief of the Modocs, and several of his tribe were in Galena during the fore part of the week. They have all joined the Murphys and wear blue ribbons.

[PERSONALS.]

The pile driver to do the work for the Arkansas river bridge is at Wichita.

E. B. KAGER, Richard Rosey, and Cass Endicott started to Colorado yesterday morning.

The editor visited the Pawnee reservation this week, and will probably have a little to say of it next week.

MESSRS. Hackney, Walker, and Hon. A. J. Pyburn, of Winfield, called on us last week. Dick took a smoke on the patent cigar case from Osage Agency.

The town was full of Pawnee Indians last week, with ponies and buffalo robes for sale. They sold their robes from $3 to $5 each--the lowest they have been for years.

Agent Williams is expected to take charge of his hardware store recently purchased of S. P. Channell some time in May. Mr. Channell will spend the summer in the mountains.

The Courier says Omnia can boast of some natural curiosities. One is a petrified log on A. J. Henthorn's place, 18 inches in diameter and 15 feet long.

See the advertisement of the "Athletic Grocery House" in this issue. It claims to be the only house of the kind in the world. The boys are worthy of a liberal patronage.

AD: HOYT & SPEERS.

ATHLETIC GROCERY HOUSE, ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

Plain & Fancy Groceries Always on Hand.

CIGARS AND TOBACCOS Of the Finest Brands.

Don't Fail to Give us a Trial,

And if you don't see what you want, ask for it.

DR. HUGHES and R. L. Walker, special agents for the protection of property in the Territory, are out west looking out a location for headquarters. After their return we shall now all about their movements.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, APRIL 17, 1878.]

The news of Mr. Riddle's fearful death was a terrible shock to this community. Our sympathies are extended to the wife he was overjoyed at the thought of meeting when he left this place to meet her.

The Police News copies the article from the TRAVELER of the Indian girl, and pictures our citizens standing about with broad rimmed hats on, with pistols in their belts, while a long haired Pawnee stands over a meek looking child.

MR. MORRIS TISDALE, of Osage, and Mr. Gilbert, of Kaw Agency, were in town last Friday. In the absence of the editor, the foreman of the office did the newspaper hospitalities--i. e., smoked at their expense, and honored them with his company on the streets.

R. A. THOMPSON has resigned the appointment of administrator of the estate of O. C. Smith. Clara Smith, of Garrettsville, Ohio, a young lady eighteen years of age, and daughter of O. C. Smith, is here to look after the estate, accompanied by Mr. Gage, a cousin.

JAKE BEALS has abandoned his intended trip to Texas for the present. He started, but after going several miles, a black squirrel with a bushy tail ran directly across his path, which being considered a very bad omen, the resolute Jacob returned, and will remain with us until black squirrels quit running.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, APRIL 17, 1878.]

WHILE blasting rock in James Benedict's well, a few days since, a piece of ore was obtained having the appearance of silver. When put to the test it was found to contain a small quantity of silver, with a mixture of iron and zinc. Wilson county has been airing herself considerably of late on the silver question, but Cowley can't be outdone.

The agent of the Pittsburg bridge company offered to let the parties in Creswell township freight out their subscription to the bridge fund (so far as services of freighters will be

needed), if they so desire, with the one provision that they work for the same that other parties can be hired. This will make it considerably easier on those with whom money is a scarce article.

MISS OLLIE HARTSOCK, niece of D. B. Hartsock, arrived last Friday night from Alton, Illinois. She intends making her home with Mrs. Hartsock, over the Walnut, and the beaux of East Creswell are hunting up their best looking shirts, collars, and ties, while the former belles (who aren't a bit jealous, you know) emphatically declare that "they don't care!" Certainly; that's all right.

We expect to outrun both parties, and sit down and wait until they come along. If we fail in this, we will have to have them run, turn a stake, and come back.

As soon as the new bridge is completed, the businessmen of our town should see that the fact is extensively advertised throughout Sumner county and all the country west of us. Good stencil work on boards securely placed in prominent portions, stating that our merchants will make every inducement to the people to trade with us, would result in bringing back a large part of the trade we have lost during the last year. Think of it.

W. B. TRISSELL left for Wichita last Monday, to make his home at that place. We regret losing Mr. Trissell, who has been with us for the past year or two as agent for the Rose Hill nurseries. By the fairest of dealing, and strict attention to business, he has made a lasting reputation for the above firm, and we take pleasure in recommending him to the people of Sedgwick county.

Before going Mr. Trissell sold his stock to Mr. Thomas Baird, who has the territory of Cowley for his operations. A better man than Tom is not to be found in the county, and he undoubtedly will succeed.

AN ATTEMPT IS NOW BEING MADE TO DISPLACE AGENT BEEDE, of Osage Agency. Whether it will be successful or not, we cannot say, but we know that no agent in the Territory enjoys the confidence and friendship of the border people to so great an extent as does Cyrus Beede. The fight is instigated on purely personal grounds, as was the affair against Agent Williams, who is above reproach, and proved himself one too many for the gentleman. We are confident that no spot can be found on the official character of Mr. Beede, though affairs have come to such a pass that the breath of suspicion, by whoever blown, almost carries conviction with it, and a man is unceremoniously bounced--everything urged against through personal spite being taken for granted. We hope Mr. Beede will be retained.

A SAD ACCIDENT. Last Friday night the sad intelligence of the death of Mr. Riddle, lately of this place, was brought to his many friends. Mr. Riddle left our city Wednesday morning on a load of goods, intending to to to Larned, where Mr. Read purposed opening a branch store. When a little this side of El Paso, the wagon received a heavy jolt while crossing a small bridge, throwing the driver and Mr. Riddle down between the horses. The driver escaped with little or no injury, but Mr. Riddle's back was broken in the fall, and the wheels of the wagon passed over his body, killing him almost instantly. Mr. Riddle was between fifty and sixty years of age, and universally respected and admired by his acquaintances. A perfect gentleman, a friend alike to rich or poor, and an earnest Christian, he was one who will be sincrely mourned by a large circle of relatives and friends. He was a native of Pennsylvania, but for many years past had made his home in the West. His wife and family have the sympathy of our entire community.

[OUR NEW BRIDGE: BRIDGE OVER THE ARKANSAS RIVER.]

Within six or seven weeks our people can have the pleasure of crossing the Arkansas on a good, substantial, Pratt truss bridge, built by a Pittsburg company.

The bonds were voted and money raised with a view to letting the contract to the Missouri Valley Company of Leavenworth, but the wording of the contract, which the latter company sent to the Trustees of the two townships interested, differed materially from the proposition made by their agent, and as the Pittsburg gentlemen made a more satisfactory offer, for the same money, they were awarded the contract.

The iron furnished by this company is to come from their foundry at Pittsburg, is stronger than that proposed by the Leavenworth firm, and at every joint there is thirty percent more iron than in the bar, thus adding to rather then detracting from the strength of the bridge. The joists are to be 2-1/2 x 12 inches, 20 inches from center to center, and laid lengthwise, while those of the other company were to be only 2 x 12 inches, 24 inches from center to center, and laid crosswise. These advantages, together with the unsatisfactory course pursued by the Leavenworth company, induced the Trustees to accept the offer they did.

Another fact, worthy of note, is the Leavenworth company demanded in their contract that half the money be paid when the material was on the ground, in defiance of their first proposition, while the gentlemen from Pittsburg ask for no money or bonds until the work is completed, and then take the Bolton township bonds at par.

The Trustees have acted with a promptness and decision that reflects credit upon their judgment, and their course will undoubtedly result beneficially to those interested. They have been left to act solely by themselves, the businessmen whose opinions were asked displaying a singular apathy upon a question of such importance, thus throwing the entire responsibility upon the aforementioned gentlemen. Thanks to Mr. Huey, of Creswell, and Mr. Sample, of Bolton, our people will have a number one bridge, less liable to need repairs than that over the Walnut, built by a perfectly reliable company--and in a short time, too.

[EDITORIAL COLUMNS.]

LONE WOLF, WHITE HORSE, BLACK HORSE, AND EAGLE HEAD, KIOWA and COMANCHE chiefs, are returning from St. Augustine, Florida, where they have been confined for three years past. There will be the liveliest time heard of for years when they reach the Agency. Their relatives have been mourning for them "many moons" and their reception will be made of more importance than anything that has occurred to them from their childhood.

[CONTINUATION OF EDITORIALS: TRAVELER, APRIL 24, 1878.]

There are no homesteads to be had in Cowley county. You can pre-emp 160 acres within a distance of twenty miles of this place, and within five miles of Dexter or Maple City, by settling on it six months and paying $200. There is plenty of timber along the creeks and rivers that can be bought for $10 and $20 per acre.

There is no coal mine being worked, although there is coal in the eastern part of this county. Coal brought from Wichita, the nearest railroad point, is worth $13 to $18 per ton.

The creek and well water is as good as you ever drank. The well water at this place is soft water, and is used for washing without "breaking."

There are two railroads proposing to build to this place. The Kansas City, Emporia & Southern, now being constructed, and the Santa Fe offers to extend its line from Eldorado if suitable franchies are offered.

You can learn the exact market value of products by referring to our market report published every other week.

We made a hurried visit to Pawnee Agency last week, in company with Mr. Thomas E. Berry, the newly appointed trader at that place, and felt well paid for the visit. After crossing the Arkansas river, and Chilocco creek, and following down Bodoc a distance of eighteen miles, we halted at Dean's cattle ranch, thirty miles from Arkansas City on a straight line. The ranch was not adorned with pictured walls, but we made the best of it we could. On Saturday we crossed the Salt Fork about a mile below the ranch, then Turkey creek and followed Black Bear to the Agency, where we found a host of former acquaintances all busy in their several employments. Mr. Ashton has almost completed the beautiful stone school building, erected at a cost of $15,000. The plan of it is decidedly good, convenient, and well guarded against fire. On our arrival Agent Ely was absent from the office, overseeing some work at one of the adjoining farms. In the evening we had the pleasure of meeting him, and found him to be an affable, honest appearing gentleman. It was our impression he was a native of Pennsylvania, but he informed us he was a Kansas man, having lived for several years near Wyandotte, Kansas, engaged in fruit and vegetable growing.

Among those in the employ of the Government, we were introduced to Mr. Hurtford, a fine old Irish gentleman, whom we should have judged to have been a full blood Johnny Bull, and found him a man of remarkable experience and judgment.

Carrying the hod was Pattison, the first Sheriff of Cowley county, who has seen many ups and downs since leaving God blessed Cowley.

McFarland, Bishop, Dr. Williams, Manningtonn, and our old townsman, P. H. Woodard, all all there yet, but some of them expect to leave before the warm weather sets in. We enjoyed the hospitable entertainment of Mr. and Mrs. Woodard, who took us in when the boarding house was crowded.

The site of Pawnee Agency is a beautiful one, situated on a green knoll with surrounding trees on every side, with Mount Pisgah on the west, and another mound overhanging the east, each affording a beautiful lookout and pleasant roaming place.

At the house of Battee Beyheylle, a full blood Pawnee and interpreter for the tribe, we saw the LITTLE WHITE GIRL so frequently spoken of before, amusing herself in one corner while the Indian daughters of "Bat," as he is called, were cleaning away the supper dishes. From Mr. Beyheylle we learned that the mother of the girl is an Indian and that her father is an Irishman. She was born at Freemont, Nebraska, and answers to the name of Maggie Brown. Mr. Beyheylle did not know her father, but claims to know she is not a captive.

After a general ramble among the rocks and nooks and a hurried glance over the Agency grounds, we returned to our homes with a promise to ourselves to again visit the home of the Pawnees at some distant day.

[REPORT FROM "404" ON HAPPENINGS AT THE CAPITAL IN TOPEKA.]

U. S. Court, Temperance Movement, Politics, Suicide, Strike, etc.

The representative, attorney, counselor, and friend of the 89th District, Empire of Cowley, knows "how it is himself." The judge refused to grant him permission to return to the bosom of his clients on his own motion, and he is still here, drawing his three dollars per day and wondering who in thunder gave his name to the marshal when he drew the jury.

The railroad strike that raised such a tremendous commotion along the Santa Fe road recently, is at an end. Trains run regularly, the striking engineers and firemen are out of employment, the officers of the road are conquerors. The State militia is triumphant and the Governor of the Great State of Kansas resteth upon his well earned laurels. The prompt action of the latter in this matter coupled with the moral support of the community here and elsewhere over the State, is what raised a blockade that might have resulted disastrously to the people, property, and the best interests of this country. Persons living far away from the line of the road do not realize the state of affairs that existed here for three days and nights. One of the leading thoroughfares of the west was as completely blockaded up as any line of travel between the contending armies of the late rebellion. Not a train was allowed to move, commerce was a stand still, emigrants arriving at the border of the State broke ranks and returned to the east declaring that Kansas was not the kind of a place it was represented to be, and they would prefer "cheap lands" with less contingencies. The damage done to the State by this "strike" cannot be estimated by dollars and cents. The injury extends beyond a mere pecuniary consideration as it will take a long time to remove the impression that is prevalent today in the east, that we are a "heathenish set" out here in Kansas, and but a little remote from the Mexican banditti.

The temperance movement is carrying things by the storm here. The State officers; politicians, women, and children of the capital are all on the "red, white, and blue" side of the question. The officers are "lending their influence," the politicians their humble "voices," and the women and children their names, and presence at the meetings to keep the cause along. There were about twenty saloons in full blast when the war was declared, and there are twenty and one now. But the foes of rum are not discouraged, they are still pressing on, they have captured the school children, and every little tad almost in the city is wearing the badge of a reformed drunkard.

Society was shocked last night by the announcement of a suicide at the Tefft House. W. B. Stewart, of Ft. Scott, a young man favorably known throughout Kansas and Missouri; brother-in-law of C. A. Morris, of Larned, and Hon. D. W. Wilder, of St. Joseph, Mo., took nearly a drachm of strychnine, and afterwards attempted to hasten his death with a pistol, and died within thirty minutes after swallowing the awful dose. He had been in the city for about a week, was drinking considerably and was greatly depressed in spirits on account of losing money at the gambling table that belonged to the St. Louis wholesale house, for which he worked. His remains were taken to Fort Scott today for burial. This is a temperance lecture that all can

understand.

U. S. Marshal Simpson is in attendance at court, and is organizing his forces with a view of having an effective service. He will re-district the State and appoint deputies to take charge of the several counties. He has retained Geo. F. Sharett, chief clerk under both Tough and Miller, as his chief clerk and deputy. George is one of the most enterprising and business like young men in the State.

The political pot is beginning to boil and old sailors discern a speck in the horizon that bodes no good for several of the present candidates for office on the State ticket.

Spring is here with all its beauties, its hopes and aspirations, and the State, viewed from its capitol, never entered upon a more prosperous season of "seed time and harvest." May the prosperous present be fully realized in a fruitful future.

404.

[CORRESPONDENCE FROM "A. E. H." - PLEASANT VALLEY.]

[DEATH OF MRS. JARBOE DUE TO POISONING.]

A Mrs. Jarboe, of Cowley county, was fatally poisoned from eating wild greens.

[SITUATION IN EUROPE: WAR INEVITABLE.]

The latest news from Europe is that war is "inevitable." The queen has forbidden the exportation of torpedoes and other explosive missiles; has also chartered some 18 steamships to carry the same number of British regiments from India to England, with the prrivilege of landing them either at Cario, in Egypt, or Malta, as they may desire, as she no doubt thinks they are a good thing to have handy. This looks like business. People may ask: What is all this preparation for? Or, what is at stake that so arouses the nations of Europe to rush to arms?

Russia says it is spiritual matters--the cause of Christ; the Greek religion is in danger from the Turk.

England says it is temporal matters: The golden gate that divides the Black from the Sea of Marmora; the ancient fords where crossed the vast army of Philip of Macedonia, Darius the Media; where Xerxes, with his 2,000,000 soldiers and 300,000 sailors, crossed 500 years before the Christian era, Alexander the Great, and others.

It is the possession of that point of land on which stands Constantinople, once the capitol of the world, founded by Constantine the Great in A. D. 328. In a circle of 400 miles around that point there has been more human blood spilled than on all the balance of the earth combined.

Within this circle also dwelt the greatest heroes, orators, statesmen, philosophers, poets, painters, and sculptors the world ever saw. From the year 330, when Constantine removed the seat of empire from Rome to Byzantium (called Constantinople in his honor), it remained under the sway of the Latin and Greek emperors until 1453, when, after a long and blood struggle between Christianity and Mohammedanism, Constantinople was finally taken by Mohamet II. This ended the Greek empire and accomplished the extinction of the dynasty of that race of conquerors.

Constantinople, during this reign of the Roman and Greek emperors, stood twenty eight sieges at the hands of her enemies in their attempts to possess themselves of the queen of the Bosphorus and the commanding situation of the Dardannelles.

Constantinople has been a fat bone of contention for over 1,500 years. The Turks have now held possession of the city and the two straits--the Black Sea from the Mediterranean--for over 400 years, and the only power that has attempted to shake their hold upon that coveted spot is Russia.

Between 1772 and 1849, only 78 years, there were ten wars between Russia and Turkey, and consequently ten treaties. Under each one of them, Turkey ceded territory to Russia. The Turkish empire has been designated the "sick man of the East." Russia is endeavoring to write his will for him, and have the dying man leave her the golden horn as her share of the estate.

England is determined that this shall not be done; that that horn shall not gore her as she passes to and from the Black Sea. It would be a black day for her if she did.

Our people, as a general thing, favor the Russians because they leaned favorably towards us in our late unpleasantness. People who do not study these matters closely are often misled by the high sounding professions, flourish of trumpets, and impious appeals to Deity which precede or accompany Russian declarations of war--thinking that her motives are as high and holy as she represents them.

But the Poles, the Swedes, the Cossacks, Turks, Mongols, Tartars, and other nations that Russia has robbed in the past 250 years, will be slow to believe her professions of honesty or truth. There have been wars of sentiment, such as the crusades under King Richard, but the God that is most worshiped in these days is not the God of Heaven, but the God of mammon, power, and territorial extent.

Should a clash of arms occur, there will be somebody hurt. Thank fortune there is a big water between us and the belligerents.

[COMMENTS ABOUT A., T. & S. F. RAILWAY.]

Guess she will before long.

[NAVIGATION OF THE ARKANSAS: STEAMBOAT BEING CONSTRUCTED.]

A company of old settlers at Arkansas City are constructing a small flat bottomed steamboat, to play upon the Arkansas river below Wichita. That this enterprise is practicable, has never been questioned by river men who are acquainted with this stream. The Arkansas at all stages flows a sufficient volume of water.

The only obstacle to the navigation of this river, that has ever been apprehended, arises from the numerous bars of light sand, which it has been argued, were liable at any time to effect sudden changes in the current or channel. These men (one of whom is an old river boatman) says that every trip made with a boat has a tendency to draw the water to the proper channel, and to assist in removing or washing away these, by no means formidable, bars of light and floating sand. These parties are the first who have proposed to make a practical test, and we now hope the matter will be thoroughly tested, and have full faith in final

success.

With the Arkansas river navigable even for small craft, will secure to this part of the valley a position, and commercial advantages which can be acquired from no other source. Let the people take hold of this enterprise with a will, and extend the necessary aid and encouragement, and doubtless ere many months the people of this valley may receive their freight and ship their produce from points within their own borders.

[BODY OF MR. RIDDLE TAKEN TO HUTCHINSON FOR BURIAL.]

The dead body of Mr. Riddle was brought into the city, last Thursday night, and Friday morning, was taken to Hutchinson, where the deceased has several children living. It appears that Mr. Riddle was on his way from Arkansas City, where he had been engaged in disposing of a stock of goods, to Hutchinson, with his two sons and a wagon load of household furniture, and in crossing Spring creek, he and the son driving were both thrown from the seat by the jolting of the wagon. Mr. Riddle fell under the wheels, which passed over the small of his back, breaking his back-bone. By the time his son had recovered himself and approached his father, the latter was about dead. He groaned once or twice, but was entirely senseless. His body was put in the wagon and brought in. Coroner Munger was sent for but did not hold his inquest, thinking it unnecessary. The deceased had about $130 on his person. He was about sixty years old, and is said to have been a sober and steady man. As stated above his body was taken to Hutchinson in charge of his two sons.

[AMOS WALTON: OBTAINING SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR STEAMBOAT.]

Mr. A. Walton, of Arkansas City, was in town last Friday. Mr. Walton came up to ascertain how much the Oxford people would subscribe to a project, now on foot, to construct a boat, to be propelled by steam, to navigate the Arkansas river between Wichita and Arkansas City. Mr. Walton says that the subscribers will not be requested to pay their subscription until one trip has been made between those points. Mr. Walton proposes to use a flat boat now at Arkansas City, and by using an ordinary steam engine and sterm wheel, intends to experiment on the navigation of the Arkansas river. This sounds like business, and our people should give it a careful consideration before passing it by.

[INDIANS: SAN AUGUSTINE PRISONERS.]

After the suppression of the Indian outbreak in 1874, in the Indian Territory, the government selected something over seventy hostages, including chiefs and young warriors, from the Cheyenne, Arrapahoe, Kiowas, and Comanches, and confined them in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida. Maj. Miles, Agent at Cheyenee Agency, has shown us the following telegram from Hon. Wm. M. Leeds, acting Indian commissioner, in reference to their disposition.

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 15, 1878.

J. D. MILES, Wichita, Kans.: Of the San Augustine prisoners landed at Fortress Monroe, yesterday, fifteen remain at Hampton Normal school, three go to Syracuse, New York, and thirty-nine will be delivered to you by Col. O'Brien, at Wichita. From Wichita you will forward them to their reservation. They will start this afternoon. W. M. LEEDS, Acting Com'r.

The Indians will arrive here Thursday night, and will be sent on as soon as transportation can be obtained.

[SPEARS AND WALTON: OBTAINING AID FOR STEAMBOAT.]

Messrs. Spears and Walton, of Arkansas City, are endeavoring to obtain the aid of the towns on the Arkansas river for the purpose of running a light draft boat between that point and Wichita. The boat is built, the machinery spoken, and everything in readiness to push the experiment. Mr. Walton was in town on the 12th looking after their interests. The citizens of this place will hold a meeting on the night of the 17th, to hear the gentleman's plans and objects, and to discuss the feasibility of the project. Independent.

[INDIANS: MORE ABOUT SAN AUGUSTINE PRISONERS.]

Chiefs of the Kiowas, Comanche, and Arrapahoe Indians, with their warriors, fifty-nine in number, confined at St. Augustine, Florida, the past three years, arrived here yesterday, and go west this evening. Seventeen, however, will remain at Hampton Normal School. Among the chiefs are Lone Wolf, White Horse, Black Horse, and Eagle Head.

[OXFORD: DESIROUS OF STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION.]

Oxford is agitating the question of steamboat navigation on the Arkansas river, between Arkansas City and Wichita. The project looks feasible. Ex.

[BIDS FOR CONTRACT FOR BREAKING 350 ACRES AT INDIAN AGENCY.]

Sealed proposals will be received by the undersigned at Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Agency, Indian Territory, until 1 p.m., Saturday, April 27, 1878. For the breaking of 350 acres of prairie in lots to be designated by the agent in charge, at the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Agency, Indian Territory. Work to commence at once on notification of the approval of their contract, and all to be completed on or before June 30th, 1878.

A good and sufficient bond will be required for the faithful performance of the contract. Bidders are requested to be present at the opening of bids. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids. All bids to be addressed to

J. D. MILES, U. S. Indian Agent,

Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Agency, I. T.

[PERSONALS.]

The First church is being repaired and repainted.

C. R. MITCHELL returned from Topeka Monday evening.

Mrs. Huey goes to Iowa this week for a four months visit.

Walnut about three feet above ordinary fording last week.

Mr. Hutchison brought down the pile driver from Wichita last week.

We have rain just whenever we need it now, and there's nothing to growl at.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, APRIL 24, 1878.]

A number of the ladies of this place will spend the summer at Colorado Springs.

The men are here and at work on the Arkansas river bridge. In sixty days teams will be crossing.

THOMAS EMBRY BERRY made a trip to Kansas City last week to purchase a stock of Indian goods.

M. L. BANGS, who bangs around the stage office at Winfield, was here last week and gave us a call.

WORK has begun on the Arkansas bridge. Mr. Bullene, the contractor, is here with his men ready for work.

A young man by the name of William Kearns lost a pocket-book near the Arkansas river bridge last week containing $180.

IF GIBSON goes in, the Osages will go out. (Out on another peaceable hunting expedition, where they mistake white men for turkeys.)

Mr. and Mrs. Gillis [? Gellis ?], Mrs. Swickard, and Miss Kate Purdy were baptized in the Walnut by Rev. Harvey, last Sunday, near Wright's ford.

The Indian Agents in the Territory can't tell whether they are agents or not until the weekly mail comes in, the changes are so rapid.

ELIZABETH says she did, and Henry Ward says she didn't. There's a mistake somewhere. Maybe they did and maybe they

didn't.

The preliminaries for operations in the Territory are not all made yet, consequently, the notices we expected to publish cannot be made yet.

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PERSONALS. Jerry Tucker was summoned to his home in Ohio last week, to part with a dying mother.

We are indebted to Ed. and Henry for locals during our visit to Pawnee last week.

Fred. Hunt, Wilbur Deever, Kittie McGahay, and Mr. and Mrs. Berkey spent the Sabbath at this place.

Colonel Bennett made his appearance as usual last week, and went away with money in his pocket and orders for about $800 worth of groceries.

Agent Searing, Stacey Matlock, trader at Pawnee Agency; Mr. Manington, the hotel man; and King Berry were all here last week.

Hon. Hubbard, the "hub" of Sumner county, who represented that district two terms in the Legislature and originated and passed the famous "dead line bill" made himself known familiarly last week. Hubbard is an energetic farmer, and owns the largest span of mules we have seen in this country.

Col. McMullen has been elected city treasurer of Winfield. They seem to appreciate the Colonel at his new home.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, APRIL 24, 1878.]

GOODS uncalled for at the Express office in Arkansas City. Parties will please call and get them.

JAMES CHRISTIAN, Agent.

S. P. Channell, 3 packages.

Mansor Rexford, 1 package.

Ellen M. Finney, 1 box.

Thomas Brown, 1 box.

F. Sommers, 1 box.

Benedict Bros., 1 package.

James Root, 1 sein.

Ellen Bank, 1 trunk.

A. Wilson, 1 package.

J. A. Loomis, 1 package.

STRUCK OIL. JOHN L. ALEXANDER, son of Dr. Alexander of this place, went to Edinburg, Pennsylvania, two years ago, to engage in boring for oil. In company with another young man, they drilled a hole three hundred feet deep and lost their drill in the hole, owing to the way it was coupled. They began another hole 25 feet distant and drilled 1,200 feet when they struck a vein of oil, flowing 37 barrels per day, worth $1.30 per barrel. After losing his drill John invented a new coupling which he has had patented, and stands a chance of making something out that as well as the oil.

We hear that ex-agent Isaac Tecumseh Gibson wants to be re-instated as agent of the Osages. That would be bad for the

Wah-sah-shees, and they wouldn't hesitate to make it known, unless Isaac should distribute a few sacks of flour to Governor Joe again. Wonder if this hasn't something to do with the trouble Agent Beede was put to lately?

It is stated that Colonel Boone, who has had charge of the Ponca Indians, has been removed from the office of Indian Agent. The old Colonel has been among Indians for the past thirty years, but we suppose someone with more political friends wanted the place, and he has to go.

R. A. HOUGHTON will move his clothing to the store one door north of his present place of business, and before the close of the week will have a fine lot of fresh groceries that he expects to sell cheaper than he ever sold before. Rube has many friends, and will have a good trade.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, APRIL 24, 1878.]

THOMAS MANTOR went to the woods a week ago after young trees, and was working among what he supposed to be a lot of young oaks. They proved to be the poison oak, and he has been suffering from the effects of it ever since. His limbs are swolen and look as though they had been scalded.

BATES RESURRECTED. BATES, who left this place some four weeks since, and was reported to have been murdered in Greenwood county near Eureka, has returned. He does not show any evidence of having been dead, and listened to the horrible details of his murder with wonderful eagerness.

NOTICE the new advertisement of Peter Pearson, the new furniture man, and then drop into his store room opposite the Cowley County Bank, and see what a nice lot of bedsteads, bureaus, stands, chairs, lounges, and all kinds of parlor and kitchen furniture he has.

AD: NEW FURNITURE STORE IN PEARSON'S BUILDING, SUMMIT STREET,

ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

All kinds of goods: PARLOR, CHAMBER, OFFICE AND KITCHEN

FURNITURE Of all Descriptions.

PICTURE FRAMES MADE TO ORDER.

All orders neatly executed by PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER.

Satisfaction guaranteed.

Call and see my stock and examine prices.

Latest style of Children's carriages.

Coffins always on hand or made to order.

P. PEARSON.

"LITTLE CHIEF," with a number of his band of Osages, was on our streets Saturday. Several Poncas, Pawnees, and Kaws were also visible. It is not an unfrequent occurrence to see representatives of half a dozen Indian tribes in town at the same time.

A race took place at the mouth of Crab creek, a few miles below Dexter, last Saturday, between the Burt Covert mare and a gray colt belonging to Hank Robinson. The gray colt won the race by sixteen feet. Some of our boys came back minus a horse.

MR. WARE showed us a sample of wheat in full blossom, that will be ready to cut in three weeks. There were only ten straws of it, bound with wire with a self-binding machine.

The trial of ex-agent Burgess was postponed until additional evidence could be procured. The trouble is alleged to have been unlawfully purchasing cattle, but the more they find out about it, the less guilt is attached to it.

[MORE PERSONALS: TRAVELER, APRIL 24, 1878.]

AL. BURTON is married! Married to one of the best young ladies on the Walnut. Rev. Harvey tied the knot. Rebecca Gillis claims him. Good enough; let's hear from the next one.

In the course of ten days Pierce & McLaughlin will open a large and well assorted stock of gents and boys clothing, boots, shoes, and furnishing goods, at prices to suit.

A hail storm fell on Slate creek, Sumner county, on Tuesday of last week, destroying 200 acres of wheat in one tract. The grain was completely driven in the ground.

JOSEPH SHERBURNE left us a specimen bull snake killed by himself, that measured five feet and ten inches. It had been dead too long to keep by putting it in liquor.

DR. GRIFFITH, of Altoona, Illinois, with his son-in-law, has located among us. The Doctor will practice medicine at this place.

THE PONCAS camped near Dean's ranch, painted their faces, donned their Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes, and visited the Pawnees last week. They had a big pow-wow.

SPEERS and WALTON will have their steam ferry boat ready to run this week, and before long will make a trial trip to Oxford, El Paso, and Wichita.

MR. FEAGANS left us 20 spears of wheat grown from one grain, at one time, taken from the upland farm of L. C. Norton's, in Bolton township.

ED. GLISBEE came down with Dr. Davis last week on a pleasure trip. The Doctor expects to visit old Kentucky this week.

Mr. Letz and Doc. Covil, of Salt City, intend going to the mining region in Colorado this spring.

[BUSINESS NOTICES/ADS.]

[MORE BUSINESS NOTICES/ADS: TRAVELER, APRIL 24, 1878.]

For Sale at a Bargain.

230 acres of land joining the town site, 80 acres improved, 70 acres of timber, and a stone house in town with 4 lots; one of the best corn farms in the county, all for $2,500. Inquire of Judge Christian, Arkansas City, or at the Citizens' Bank, Winfield. Also 40 acres of growing wheat on this tract, price $3.00 per acre. J. C. McMULLEN.

One blacksmith's shop and stable with two lots, across the street from Finney's livery stable, and four lots all together near James Benedict's; 160 acres of land with 30 acres improved, near Goff's, 3 miles north of town; five acres adjoining town site, on the northwest, sown in wheat, will be sold cheap for cash or on time.

MRS. DIANTHA T. THOMPSON.

80 acres of land, 3 miles north of Arkansas City.

Apply to J. L. Huey or W. E. Gooch.

JUST RECEIVED at Houghton & McLaughlin's: The largest, best assorted, and cheapest stock of boots and shoes ever offered in the Valley.

[OBJECTIONS RAISED TO NOMINATION OF INDIAN INSPECTOR.]

[MISCELLANEOUS STATE/NATIONAL ITEMS.]

Opium smoking is on the increase in the Black Hills. There are dens at Deadwood, Central, and Lead City.

[From the Winfield Republican.] Mr. D. D. Kellogg, of Vernon township, has a fine residence and a large peach and apple orchard. He this spring set out 7,000 forest trees, and has besides a large number of older forest trees.

[EDITORIALS.]

A public meeting will be held at the courthouse in Winfield on the 11th day of May, 1878, at 2 p.m., for the purpose of organizing an agricultural society, and to take into consideration the propriety of holding a fair during the coming fall. All are invited to attend, and it is hoped that all interests appropriately connected with the enterprise will be represented.

J. E. Platter, B. B. Vandeventer, J. B. Lynn, T. R. Bryan, C. A. Bliss, E. P. Kinne, H. D. Gans, E. E. Bacon, Winfield;

J. B. Holmes, W. White, W. J. Funk, Rock; S. M. Fall, R. F. Burden, Windsor; N. J. Larkin, A. Kelly, Richland; Chas. A. McClung, J. S. Wooley, Vernon; W. B. Norman, Adam Walck, Maple; Dr. A. S. Capper, Ninnescah; Ira How, Liberty; William J. Hodges, C. G. Handy, Tisdale; J. B. Callison, Spring Creek; D. W. Wiley, Cedar; E. Shriver, Sheridan; Jonas Messenger, Omnia; J. A. Bryan, Dexter; R. Stratton, Harvey; S. B. Adams, Creswell; S. M. Sample, D. P. Marshall, Bolton; G. W. Herbert, Silverdale; D. B. McCollum, S. Watt, Pleasant Valley. Courier.

I have no doubt you could do much better here in Kansas than you can among the stones, stumps, and swamps of Michigan, but we always hesitate to encourage anyone to leave their old homes, friends, and attractions to come to a new country almost wholly undeveloped in resources, unless they first express a desire to move somewhere; then we say "come and see us," and the God blessed country we live in, with its fields of waving grain, streams of purest water, with its high, healthy prairies dotted with sleek, fat cattle. Coming as you would, from a well settled region, with all modern improvements, to a new country, there must necessarily be many discouragements and drawbacks, but if you are satisfied you cannot get along with your present State, we can assure you that you can here by ordinary industry and

judgment.

Kansas is a grain and fruit growing State, as well as a good stock country. One man can easily farm 80 acres and have time enough to look after a few cattle and hogs.

The amount of capital required to start in this country is from $500 to $1,500 as follows.

To begin a farm on good footing, it would require $500 for a choice tract of eighty acres; $200 for a good large team of mares; $100 for a wagon and harness; $100 for plows, harrows, rakes, etc.; $100 for provisions; $50 for a couple of cows; $300 for a house, and $100 for a stable. In all: $1,450.

To begin as most of the early settlers did, would be: Eighty acres from the United States, under the pre-emption act, $100; team, wagon, etc., $200; plows, harrows, etc., $50; shanty to live in, $50; cow and pig, $20. In all: $420.

Land can be obtained from the Government twenty miles east of this place at $1.25 per acre, after a six months residence. There is no need of being idle in Kansas. You can plow ten months of the year.

There are no homestead lands in Southern Kansas. That along the railroad has been chosen from so often tht few desirable tracts remain.

The bounty on Osage orange, or hawthorne hedge, is $2.00 for every 40 rods after the same has been declared a lawful fence, and continued eight years. The bounty on stone fences is dropped, and also the bounty on growing timber. By amendment it has become a mere nullity and obsolete. There is plenty of stone, sand, and limestone for all kinds of building purposes.

Many thousand immigrants (or really, excursionists) are coming to Kansas daily, but not one out of ten comes to locate.

It is not a good plan for farmers to buy land to speculate on. The same money invested in stock would double every year or it can be loaned on real estate security for 25 percent, per annum, or on chattel security at three percent a month.

The climate is a delightful one, and is warmed by the southern breeze in summer and cooled by the mountain air in summer.

It is a very windy country at times, but there are few days when it is too blustering to work out of doors. The land on the Arkansas river bottom we don't consider ever subject to drouth. Like the Nile of old, it is irrigated, only our river has an under flowing or sub-irrigation, that always keeps the soil moist.

Occasionally the State is subject to dry seasons, but it does not begin until near wheat harvest. Early planting almost insures a crop.

This county, and Kansas generally, is well watered with clear, swift running streams of clear, pure water. On the highest elevations water can be obtained at from 20 to 40 feet.

Coal has been found in the eastern part of this county, but it is not extensive. In eastern and northern Kansas it is very plentiful. Osage City, Kansas, coal sells for $13 per ton here, after being hauled 50 miles from a railroad. Wood delivered sells for $4 per cord. Native lumber sells for $25 per 1,000 feet, and shingles $3 per 1,000. Pine lumber is worth from $40 to $60 per 1,000 feet.

Being a young man, you had better come prepared to stay. If a married man, it would be well enough to first come to look, and then send for or go back and bring your family.

[CORRESPONDENCE FROM "W. A. METCALF" - CEDAR TOWNSHIP.]

Mr. A. H. Smith, the genial Otto postmaster, is sowing 80 acres of flax. Flax that if you can! He is also planting ten bushels of hedge seed. Hedge that if you can! Mr. Donald Jay has 160 rods of the best stone fence I ever saw, just completed. Our Wheat crop is just as nice as nice can be, all headed out finely. Our assessor has completed his assessment in this township, and has given better satisfaction than any assessor we ever had, by a big majority.

Mr. W. W. Wills' house was burnt on the 23rd, between 12 and 1 o'clock, with all it contained. Mr. and Mrs. Wills were helping Mr. and Mrs. Thompson slaughter, and had left two little girls alone. The little girls cooked their dinners, and after eating, went out to play, and the entire inside of the house was aflame before they knew of it. Mr. D. W. Willy was the first one on the ground, and succeeded in saving a tub of pork. That was all that was saved. The house was a pine house, and burned up quickly. Mr