ARKANSAS CITY REPUBLICAN.
[FROM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1886, THROUGH NOVEMBER 20, 1886.]
WAGNER & HOWARD, Editors.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
From No. 34.
Corn husking is progressing nicely.
W. J. Lundy
=s house is about completed.D. W. Purdy
=s brother is here on a visit from Kentucky.A. B. Sankey was in to see our school last week.
J. W. Martin has been baling his hay.
The carpenters are at work on S. E. Maxwell
=s barn.A. J. Kells was making hay last week.
Miss Rena Cue returned from Winfield Saturday. Her sister, Katie, is quite sick.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The Apaches En Route.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 24. Geronimo, Natchez, and thirteen bucks and seventeen squaws and papooses, heavily guarded by United States troops, passed through the city yesterday afternoon. The bucks will be sent to Fort Pickens, Pensacola Bay, and the squaws and papooses to St. Augustine, Florida. There was a large crowd at the station and ferry landing, anxious to get a look at the savages.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
AD. Hello! Hello! [ILLUSTRATION OF MAN IN USE OF TELEPHONE.]
Hello Central! Tell the Public that Jack Frost is knocking at Nature
=s Door and that they must prepare themselves to receive this honored guest.It
=s Terrible! It=s Dreadful!! It=s Awful!!! But nevertheless it=s true that we are sellingHeavy, Serviceable Overcoats for $2.50.
Our stock is a complete ideal and every garment a seasonable bargain. Let the Public enter our store and pile upon pile of elegant garments will greet their eyes.
NOTHING ANTIQUE OFFERED.
Everything New, Modern, and Stylish. Make no mistake. We are the wide-awake, Hard-working, Never-to-be-forgotten, Low Priced, Square Dealing Clothiers.
STEINBERG,
The * King * Clothier.
In Highland Hall Block.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]W. Yale, a real estate speculator of Quincy, Illinois, is in the city aiding very materially in our boom.
The Democrat refers to General Atkins as U. S. Commissioner.
I. H. Bonsall is also an U. S. Commissioner.
[PAPER SOMEWHERE CALLED HIM ADKINS INSTEAD OF ATKINS.]
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]W. B. Scott received a message yesterday telling him that his brother, Robert, had been killed in Ohio, by the kick of a mule.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
BIRTH. Hon. Lewis P. King was in the city today from Beaver Township. He informs us that his wife presented him with a handsome boy the first of the week; consequently, he feels very jubilant.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
DIED. In this city, this afternoon (Saturday), Mrs. Sarah Eckels, of paralysis. The funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 2 o
=clock. The deceased was the mother of Mrs. W. H. Nelson. She was taken sick some five days ago, although she has been having poor health for some time. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved family.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
President W. B. Strong, of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad company, was in Chicago last week on his way to the east. Being questioned regarding the proposed construction by his company of a new line between Chicago and Kansas City, Mr. Strong said nothing definitely has been agreed upon, but the chances were in favor of building the line, as he personally was strongly in favor of it. He could not see how his company could possibly get along without one of its own from the Missouri River to Chicago.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The Democrat advises its readers to vote for Schiffbauer because he will represent Arkansas City, if he should be elected. If we know anything about matters, the voters of this district do not want a man in the legislature that will represent only a portion of it. They want a man who will represent the district entire. It sounds strange though, to hear the Democrat say now,
AVote for Schiffbauer for represenative,@ when two years ago it said Avote against Schiffbauer for mayor because he sold the city out to O=Neil.@ Does placing Mr. Schiffbauer on the Democratic ticket make an honest man of him?
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Geo. Vaughan has purchased an interest in the grocery store of C. L. Newton. The firm is to be Newton & Vaughan. They open up for business Monday or Tuesday of next week. Many of our readers are well acquainted with Mr. Vaughan, he having been engaged in Geo. E. Hasie & Co.
=s grocery establishment for some time. Our readers will accord the new firm their share of the patronage in this vicinity. The REPUBLICAN wishes the gentlemen success.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
A Democrat in this city tells us a startling piece of news. He is a groceryman and stands high up in the ranks of democracy; his veracity is not to be doubted. He said that a certain individual, mentioning his name, was paid an enormous sum for the water works franchise. That he was told in his store by a party, who is well known to be one of the leading spirits of the town, that he had offered, himself, a $5,000 check for the franchise, but someone had bid higher. That $10,000 was the sum paid for the franchise, and considering what the city was paying for the works that sum was small enough compensation. Is it possible that anyone of our city offices is filled by such a man? Are the remainder of Arkansas City
=s franchises to be sold by one of her officials in the same ratio, $10,000 apiece?
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]The Boom.
The rain has no effect on our real estate boom. Snyder & Hutchison closed the following sales yesterday.
F. W. Farrar and Geo. Howard, two lots on South Summit Street, to G. C. Scott, of Iowa, for $4,000.
D. Bell, three lots on Fifth Avenue, to W. D. Mowry, for $3,500.
R. A. Gelmer to W. H. Richards, of Iowa, 10 acres in Creswell Township, $1,500.
B. C. Lent, one lot in Beecher
=s addition, to A. D. DeBruce, $500.D. G. Wetmore, house and two lots, block 128, for $600.
John A. Young, 10 acres in Creswell Township, to Mary M. Shupe, $1,050.
H. S. Davenport, one acre in McGrath
=s addition, to Dr. J. A. Mitchell, $500.B. C. Lent, lot 1, block 4, McGrath
=s addition, to Mrs. Kimmel, $450.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Tom Watts is beyond doubt a ladies
= man. The other day he went home, and hanging to the lapel of his coat was an entire switch of red hair. The question naturally arises was the owner of that switch ever attached to it after it became fastened on Tom=s lapel? Tom says he found it on the streets; and in putting it in his pocket, it caught on a button. That is a good story tell. If the young lady who lost the switch will call on Tom, prove property, she can have the same and no questions asked.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Mrs. G. W. Earhart is suffering from an attack of typho-malaria.
Elections next Tuesday. If you did not register Saturday, you cannot vote.
G. L. Brown has returned from Lebanon, Illinois, with intentions of buying more real estate in Arkansas City.
General Armstrong, U. S. Indian Inspector, arrived in the city last evening. This morning he took his departure for Osage Agency.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]MARRIED. Guy M. Hatfield and Rebecca McFarlin of Arkansas City, were joined in the bonds of wedlock yesterday morning by Justice C. M. Wood. Winfield Visitor.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
John Magill returned to his Illinois home this afternoon. About next spring we expect John will remove to Arkansas City. There is no place equal to it.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Musselman came down from Rose Hill, Butler County, last evening. They were called here by the serious illness of their daughter, Mrs. Kennedy, of the first ward.
[Again, paper said Mussleman, which I believe is wrong!]
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Noble Winton, for some time past in the employ of Ware & Pickering, has taken a situation in C. R. Sipes
= hardware establishment. Noble is a worker and will do his employer justice.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Major Rainwater, of St. Louis, a leading spirit of Democracy, came in on last evening
=s train and remained overnight in the city. This morning he took his departure for his cattle ranch down on the Otoe reservation.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
G. A. Hurd, of Decatur, Illinois, master of transportation of the middle division of the W. St. L. & P. Railway, is in the city. Mr. Hurd is delighted with our city and is investing quite largely in real estate.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
DIED. Died Saturday night, October 23, 1886, in this city, James Blaine Beatty, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Beatty. The remains were interred yesterday in Riverview Cemetery. Rev. Witt pronounced the funeral sermon.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The Santa Fe has laid track into Cedarvale from Independence. The citizens of that burg are happy over the advent of their first railroad into that town. The D. M. & A. will soon be there too, the Cedarvale Star informs us.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
After November 1, we will not have to go to Kansas City via Wichita. We will take the Florence, El Dorado & Walnut Valley road at this point, thus missing Wichita several miles. The above road will be completed by that time.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]This morning a special train came in on the Santa Fe. It brought 200 men from Great Bend. They are one of the iron gangs of the Santa Fe. We suppose tracklaying on the Galveston extension will be commenced immediately.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
DIED. Died at the residence of her son, G. W. Lacy, in the First ward, this morning at 8:30 o
=clock, Mrs. L. A. Lacy. Herr funeral will occur tomorrow afternoon, from the M. E. Church, at 1 o=clock. The remains will be interred in Riverview Cemetery.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Rev. Fleming, wife, and youngest son, leave this afternoon for Solomon City, this state, where Rev. Fleming has two brothers residing. He goes there to settle up his father
=s estate. He will return the last of the week, in time to fill his pulpit next Sunday.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The Cherokee Indians have protested against the low appraisement of the Santa Fe right-of-way through their land. They were awarded $93 per mile, or about $8 an acre for their raw prairie, which, considering the inferior quality of much of it and the benefits of the road, is a gilt-edge price.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
DIED. Died in this city yesterday afternoon, October 24, 1886, at 3 o
=clock, Frankie, the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Means. The remains were interred this afternoon in Riverview Cemetery. The funeral occurred from the residence. The REPUBLICAN extends its heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved parents.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The Memphis, Kansas & Western road is materializing over in Chautauqua County. Propositions have been submitted over at Cedarvale and the Starsdays [???] they will carry. This road is believed to be an extension of the Gulf road from Cherryvale to this city. The time is not far distant when two and probably three roads will be running into Arkansas City from Cedarvale.
[STARSDAYS...COULD THEY MEAN THE Cedarvale Star says...???]
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
DIED. Yesterdat afternoon the funeral services of Mrs. Sarah Eckels occurred at the residence of W. H. Nelson in the first ward. Rev. J. P. Witt delivered the funeral sermon, after which the remains were interred in Riverview Cemtery. They were followed to their
resting place by a concourse of friends. The deceased was 64 years of age, a loving mother and a Christian woman.
[PAPER HAD ECKELS....HOPE TIS CORRECT! SOMETIMES ECKLES SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN USED...BUT I COULD BE WRONG!]
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]H. H. Landcraft, who recently located here from Hannibal, Missouri, is an enterprising gentleman. He will establish a cigar manufactory in the Grady block; and if the demand for cigars is sufficient, he will employ some 12 workmen. Our people should encourage this home institution by lending it their patronage. The REPUBLICAN extends a cordial welcome to Mr. Landcraft.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Washington at 2:550 o
=clock yesterday afternoon. The tremor lasted but an instance, but was sufficiently strong to pi type on the composing stones in the fourth story of the Star office. Another distinct earthquake was felt at Wilmington, North Carolina, yesterday afternoon at a quarter of three o=clock. No damage done.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
There is an old but truthful saying that sometimes you can best get rid of a man in office by placing him in another. This seems to be the case with Mayor Schiffbauer, judging from the men who are seeking his election to representative. Many claim Mr. Schiffbauer makes a good mayor; we think it poor policy to spoil a good mayor to make a poor representative, especially when there are so many valuable city franchises to be bestowed in the near future upon someone.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Words of Praise.
A representative of the Non-Conformist, a labor paper published at Winfield, was in the city last week and bespeaks these good words of our city.
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Arkansas City is located in the southern part of Cowley County, about four miles from the State line and near the juncture of the Arkansas and Walnut rivers. The town was located in 1870, and now claims 6,000 inhabitants. All kinds of business is represented including a large cracker factory, mills, etc. Several years since a canal was constructed from the Arkansas River to the Walnut, having a fall of 25 feet per mile, thus furnishing an excellent water power for all manufacturing purposes; but during the past year, it was found inadequate to the demand and has been extended until now it is five miles long with a fall of 27 feet per mile and of unlimited power. There are already five flouring mills, whose combined capacity is about 700 barrels in 24 hours, built along this canal besides other industries. During the past season there was expended in improvements about $200,000 besides $60,000 in water works and $60,000 in extending the canal. Among some of the building, we mention the City Hall now under construction and a large three-story hotel, nearly completed, and judging from my experience with the hotels here is very much needed.A
Considerable rivalry exists between Arkansas City and Winfield, the latter place being known to A. C. people as >the second station north of Arkansas City;= but during my stay here, I was very cordially treated even if I was representing a paper published in the rival town.@
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]S. Matlack, wife, and children were out driving yesterday afternoon. In crossing a ditch over hear the Whitney farm, the buggy was upset and the occupants thrown rudely upon the ground. Fortunately, the horse was a gentle one; and when the buggy became upset, he stopped. Mrs. Matlack and children were severely bruised. Mr. Matlack thought he was in the same condition until he arrived home and went to remove his coat. Then, upon calling Dr. Chapel, he ascertained that his collar bone was broken. The fractured bone was repaired, and although still suffering from the injury, Mr. Matlack appears on the streets today.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
A distribution of carp from the government ponds at Washington will be made during November. Persons who apply or write for them to Eugene G. Blackford, fish commissioner, Fulton Market, New York City, will receive, each applicant, twenty fish. They are free of charge, except that the receiver pays for the can that contains them, also express charges. This is a cheap way of laying the foundation of what can certainly be made a source of profit on the farm.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]BIRTH. Born to Chas. Childers and wife last night, Monday, at about 12 o
=clock, a boy.Mrs. D. D. Bishop returned home this morning from her visit in the Hawkeye state.
Samuel Hoyt, who owns considerable real estate in this city, came in on the noon train today from Canada.
Col. Moonlight spoke in Winfield last evening. Capt. Thompson and other admirers of the Colonel went up to hear him.
Chas. Nelson, who has been suffering from an attack of malarial fever, for some days past, is reported convalescing.
Dr. James Vawter left for Kentucky last evening. He will be gone about three weeks.
The railroad election in Sumner County yesterday resulted in a victory for the bonds. They were voted by a majority of almost 700 votes.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Thursday Wm. Gooch tore down, boxed up, and shipped his blacksmith shop to Arkansas City, where he will locate for the present at least. Latham Signal.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
J. W. Fox and family, of Silverdale, have sold out their earthly possessions and removed to Kellogg, Michigan. The REPUBLICAN regrets Mr. Fox
=s departure. He was a good and substantial citizen.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The Arkansas City REPUBLICAN admits that a survey of the Ft. Smith line is being run to Maple City, but still declares the Walnut
=s mouth will get the line. Winfield Courier.And so she will.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Henry Whitman was arrested last evening for assaulting John Gabel. He was fined $5 and costs, amounting to $10. He refused to pay, although having money. He is confined in the calaboose until he pays or lays his fine out.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Thomas Dian was very muchly intoxicated this morning when the police found him and took him before Judge Bryant. He was assessed the usual amount of $5 and costs for his offense, which he paid, and was turned loose.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The Republicans of Bolton Township will have a rally Saturday evening, November 1, at 7 o
=clock, at the Theaker schoolhouse. Good speakers will be in attendance. At the I. X. L., same township, October 30, at 7:00 p.m., there will also be one held. Republicans attend.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The press reports state that one J. M. McLees was hanged by a mob at Montrose, Colorado, a few days since. This same McLees was once a client of our lawyer friend, A. J. Miller, of this city, in which case he was acquitted of the charge of murder. But this time the law didn
=t save him.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Our farmer friend, F. A. Pruitt, came over from Otto Post Office yesterday. He informs us that the Santa Fe surveyors arrived in Otto Saturday night on the State Line survey, and yesterday morning started on their way again for Arkansas City. They are setting the grade stakes as they come.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Thomas Finnegan, Jas. Haley, and J. M. Norman were three drunks arrested yesterday afternoon, and on being taken before Judge Bryant, were fined $5 and costs each. They all paid up and were turned loose. Finnegan and Haley were arrested again in the evening on the same charge, and are now in the calaboose.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
They are talking of boring for natural gas in Winfield. We would respectfully suggest to our neighbors who have the matter in charge to commence prosecuting their searches in the First National Bank Building, first floor. Let them bore downward about eighteen inches, and they will strike a basement of natural gas.
>Tis the home of the Courier.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Kind readers, will you vote for a man who electioneers for the office of probate judge with a bottle of whiskey? And yet the Democratic candidate is doing so. Over in Silverdale Township, while talking to a crowd of voters, a bottle was noticed in his pocket. This fact was pointed out to him, and immediately he pulled it out and invited his hearers to have a drink. Only one man did so, and he was a Democrat. Voters, do you want a man in the office of Probate Judge who violates the law so flagrantly, when he virtually has supreme control of the whiskey traffic?
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The Courier, of Winfield, is consoling itself and its readers with the vain thought that Arkansas City will die as soon as the Santa Fe builds south from here, and that new towns will spring up in the Territory and sap our very life out. Poor, misguided fools, they know not that it is impossible to build a town on Indian soil. Even if it was possible, Arkansas City would boom all the more. Our wholesale trade would be greatly enhanced. The REPUBLICAN recognizes the fact that the Courier would like to attend the funeral of Arkansas City
=s boom. For three years it has lived on this hope. Cale was started to kill us, but it failed in its purpose, and today it is almost a cheerless prairie. It is well for Winfield people to live on hope, for that is their most substantial diet.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
We always knew that the Winfield girls were bad at flirting, but didn
=t know they had come this far! A young woman picking her way across the railroad track there the other day saw a brakeman wave his hand to her from the top of a departing train. She smiled sweetly and waved back. Then the brakeman waved violently, and the girl smiled more sweetly and stopped and tried to get out her handkerchief, to fittingly carry out the flirtation. The next thing she was yanked off the track by a flagman, just in time to escape a backing train, which the brakeman had seen and had tried in vain to warn her of.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]The Baptist Harvest Home Festival and Exposition will open on next Tuesday evening, at 8 o
=clock. The donors are kindly requested to have their donations ready for delivery by Friday morning, as the committees will begin gathering them up at that time. (Donations of fowls, livestock, and things easily perishable, will not be gathered up until Monday, November 1st.) All donors who wish to arrange their own displays will please signify it to the solicitors on Friday evening. Also, what part of the building they may prefer. The church building will be used. As the articles donated are already quite numerous, the committees will be much aided by a little promptness by the donors.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Who is Jeffries?
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We have seen several notices of political meetings throughout the county, which stated that Messrs. So-and-so and Jeffries addressed the meeting. Who is this mysterious Jeffries that appears to lack a handle to his name?@ Winfield Telegram.Who is this Jeffries? Well may you ask that question, Mr. Telegram. Lend us your ears for cuspadors, while we tell you who he is. Jeffries, whose given name is Chawles Petah, is of Teutonic-Hibernian extraction, you know. Crush us, if he isn
=t. He was born of humble but Republican parentage a hundred years ago, more or less, and has since been enlisted in the cause of Republicanism. He came to the Sand-hill but a few short months ago, but in that time he has established himself in the eyes of Democracy as a bad man from Bitter Creek. They recognize him as the vulture that is picking the marrow from the backbone of the dead carcass of Democracy in his speeches all over Cowley County. He is the bald-headed eagle who grasps the puny child, Democracy, in his talons in Cowley County, and soars to his mountain-top home of oratory, and there tears the deceased body into atoms. He is the bird of prey, with a long beak and startling shriek, that is, perhaps at this very instant, swooping down upon poor, scared Democracy in some schoolhouse in Cowley County, and giving it a foretaste of what that party will soon enjoy in hades. He is the rattlesnake at Republicanism with his boots on, and has his terrible fangs already fastened in the throat of the Democracy, and is slowly but surely choking it to death. He is the city attorney of the great metropolis on the Sand-hill, and also occupies a high legal position in the high court of judicature, Bittle block, last stairway, third room to the right. He is all this and much more, Mr. Telegram. Now, tell us not in mournful language that you, a Democrat, do not know who Jeffries is. Tell us now, poor, timid creature, you do not know Jeffries, and we will forward you his chromo.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Killed in a Boyish Quarrel.
DIED. Word reaches us that the 13-year-old son of Jacob Shipman struck and killed his playmate, the son of John L. Bone, with a board. The parties reside in Cedar Township. The boys were playing in the school grounds of Centennial schoolhouse, last Friday afternoon during intermission, when a dispute arose and hot words ensued. Finally Shipman picked up a piece of board and struck Bone on the side of the head, just above the right ear, and fractured his skull. Bone was taken into the school room by the teacher and asked if he wanted to go home. He replied that he did not think he could walk there. Shortly afterwards he became unconscious and his playmates and the teacher took him home. He remained unconscious until about seven o
=clock that evening, when he died. Young Shipman was arrested and taken to Winfield. He will have his preliminary next Monday. The boy was accompanied to Winfield by his father and a number of his neighbors, who came in with the intention of going on his bond. Both families are highly respected in the community, and the affair is deeply regretted by everyone.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The Telephone Exchanges both in Newton and Caldwell have been removed for the want of patronage. We are informed by N. T. Snyder, the manager here, that this exchange has grown from 30 to 60 subscribers during the past year, and that he has already one board of fifty members filled, and ordered the second from Kansas City. The company have also ordered a carload of 35-foot poles sent here, and as soon as they arrive, the old poles will be replaced with new. N. T. Snyder informs us that the work of the office is now more than Miss Emma can handle, and he has been obliged to put on an assistant operator and message boy.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
President Grant gave $1,000 to the sufferers by the Chicago fire, and President Cleveland gave $20 to the sufferers by the Charleston earthquake. This difference of fifty to one in the matter of charity fairly represents the relative merits of the two men in every respect.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
DIED. At his home in the 4th ward, this morning, October 26, 1886, J. B. Crews. The funeral services were held Wednesday at the residence. The deceased has been sick for 16 months or more. He leaves a wife and three children.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]The heaviest frost of the season fell last evening.
W. S. Thompson has just received a handsome new regulator.
Theo. Fairclo is still very sick. His recovery is somewhat doubtful.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Mrs. J. H. Berger left for Farmland, Indiana, yesterday morning to visit.
Wm. Brown was drunk and dressed up last night. This morning he paid Judge Bryant $5 and costs.
T. M. Finney has commenced his preparations for having Santa Claus at his store during the holidays.
A public sale of the personal property of Charles Lish, deceased, will occur November 11, in Silverdale Township.
A. Fairclo came in today from Bentonville, Arkansas, called here by the serious illness of his brother, Theodore.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]The Santa Fe has put on duty a night operator at their depot in this city. His name is S. B. Ninde and he is from Topeka.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
D. L. Weir and other Republicans were over to Maple City last night, and had a rousing rally. He informs us that the Republican ticket is solid there.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Yesterday there was one mile of track laid on the Santa Fe extension from this city through the Territory. Today and from now on, two miles will be laid per day.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
We wish to return our sincere thanks for the love and kindness shown to us by our neighbors and friends in our late bereavement of our dearly beloved Frankie.
MR. AND MRS. D. L. MEANS.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
A Mexican was found down in the Second ward last night, without hat or coat, dead drunk, unable to walk. He was taken and put in the
Acooler@ overnight. This morning Judge Bryant fined him $5 and costs. He paid up.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The election up at Belle Plaine and Oxford, to vote bonds for the Winfield & Wichita railroad, came off yesterday. The propositions were defeated by large majorities at both places. Thus does Winfield
=s scheme to secure the Rock Island road vanish.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Miss Ella Bishop, who has the principalship of the Central school building, has been tendered a position in the Iowa State Normal, at Cedar Falls, Iowa. The salary offered there is larger than here, and the work is more congenial. As yet she is undecided about accepting the offer.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]The calaboose was chock full of drunks last night. There were only nine. Thos. Finnegan, Jas. Haley, and Thos, Dian, although having twice paid the penalty for getting drunk the day before, were taken in last evening on the same charge. This morning they were fined $5 and costs again, which they paid.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
John Drury was over from Maple City today. He informs us the State Line surveyors will arrive at Grouse Creek, coming this way, tonight. The chief engineer told him this was the final survey and that he was setting the grade stakes. The road passes about one-third of a mile north of Maple City.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Last evening between 7 and 8 o
=clock, two young ladies, who were going to their home in the Second ward, were insulted by some drunken men. Fortunately, some friends happened along and saved the girls from further insult and injury. This is what comes of the mayor and council licensing joints to do business in Arkansas City. It is nothing more than we expected. Innocent and unprotected girls insulted while returning home from an evening uptown. It is a shame.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
F. P. Schiffbauer is a political will-o-wisp. He has led his following into all parties, except the prohibition. Like Mr. Schiffbauer, they have dodged around until they have settled for the time-being in the Democratic camp. Mr. Schiffbauer is also very ambitious. He desires to hold public office, no matter whether there be any salary attached or not. Men who are so desirous of office are the ones to keep out. They are not to be trusted. As a rule, they have too many axes of a personal nature to grind.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Some Democrats claim that if F. P. Schiffbauer should be elected representative, he will accomplish great good in regard to our bridges. Let us see. Some time ago the West Arkansas River Bridge was taken into the city limits, so that the burden of its repairs would not fall so heavily on the shoulders of our merchants. What has he done for the bridge? He has never ordered any repairs, although it has needed them several times. As usual, the merchants have had to go down in their pockets and have the bridge made passable. Mr. Schifbauer
=s bridge record is not very bright, and it will be made no brighter by sending him to the legislature.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]H. R. Cutting, the gentleman who came near ruining Mr. Bayard
=s reputation as a diplomat, like Banquo=s ghost, will not down, and has forced his way through the Mail and Express again before the state department. Monday a voluminous bundle of papers came to Assistant Secretary Porter of that department, containing Mr. Cutting=s claim against the government of Mexico and state of Chihuahua for $50,000 primitive and exemplary damages. The state department through which this claim will have to be presented, will give the matter very mature consideration before it will press the claim. The department does not deny Mexico=s right to punish Cutting or any other man violating Mexican law upon Mexican soil, and it will first decide from the facts secured by Mr. Sedgwick and the claims of the state authorities in Chihuahua whether Mr. Cutting has any claim whatever.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Rev. Dooty and Deputy Postmaster Bibbler, of Dexter, were in the city today soliciting aid to build a church at their town. This was Rev. Dooty
=s first trip to Arkansas City, and his ideas underwent a grand change as soon as he arrived. He had always supposed our town was insignificant. He formed his ideas from reading the Winfield papers. These gentlemen inform us that the prevailing opinion is that the D. M. & A. road will not run to Dexter; that three surveys have been run into the town, and the engineers report it impossible to locate a route on account of the hills. Dexter is located in the Grouse Valley. If the I. & S. W. should be built, it will miss Dexter. Virtually, Dexter is without prospects of getting a road. If she had pulled with Arkansas City, she would have had a road. The Grouse Valley would furnish a good road-bed. Rev. Dooty and Mr. Bibbler received considerable aid from our citizens.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The last base ball game for the world
=s championship was played in St. Louis Saturday, the score standing 4 to 3 in favor of the St. Louis Browns. This gives them four games to three and the champion belt.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]A. Groglode has an attack of malaria.
F. A. Beard has removed to this city from Otto.
R. R. Phelps came in from Burden on the morning train.
Mrs. Wm. Masterson, of Bolton Township, is quite sick with an attack of malaria.
Quite a flood of emigration seems to be drifting through Kansas into No Man
=s Land.G. W. Cunningham and Mr. Tuthill left for New York on the Frisco morning train.
W. C. Elder, of Auburn, Missouri, is visiting in the city. Mr. Elder is connected with the C. G. & Q. Railway.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]L. B. Davidson started for St. Louis, this morning, where he goest to attend the Cracker Men
=s Convention.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Dr. Covert, who recently located here from Indiana, has entered upon the practice of his profession. He has taken office rooms above the post office.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Miss Emma Brickett, a teacher in our public schools, arrived from Parsons yesterday. Miss Ida Springer is expected to arrive from Quincy, Illinois, tomorrow.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The literary inclined people of Bolton Township have organized a lyceum. J. D. Guthrie is the president. The society meets on Friday evenings at the Guthrie schoolhouse.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Wm. Thomas, this morning, brought us in a fine
Amess@ of new potatoes. It was a second crop. Mr. Thomas thinks that two crops of potatoes can be grown in this Valley successfully.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
DIED. A telegram from Sheriff McIntire announces the death of McLennan, the insane man. He died at Ottawa, while in charge of McIntire and his deputies, on the way to Ossawatomie. The body will be brought back to Winfield, where it will be taken charge of by relatives.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Col. A. B. Campbell, per announcement, addressed the Republicans of this vicinity last evening. He reviewed the history of the two great political parties, proving by their record that the Republican party was the one to have our reins of government. The Colonel is a pleasant talker and held his audience
=s attention for almost two hours.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
President Cleveland has just forwarded $10 to the pastor of the Emanuel African M. E. Church at Charleston. The church was destroyed by the recent earthquake, and the pastor requested aid from the president to assist in rebuilding. In his letter forwarding the money, Mr. Cleveland apologizes for the smallness of the gift, but adds that his best wishes are for the church.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The Democrat says the REPUBLICAN said it would support no Winfield man for office. We have never said it. But we did say we would not support any of those county officers for re-election who assisted in the State Line fight in Winfield
=s interest. Have we violated that vow? No, we have not. We are not such an imbecile as some other editors within a stone=s throw, who cannot remember from one day to another what they say. We do not call a man a thief one day, and support him the next for a public office.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]There is considerable kicking about registering. The city clerk advertised that the registration books would be open until last Saturday night to receive names of voters. According to the law the books remain open until ten days before the election occurs. This closed them last Friday night. Many voters were waiting until Saturday to register, as the afternoon of that day was the only time they could spare. When they came to register, City Clerk Benedict would not let them. Many think it is a Democratic dodge to defeat the will of a majority of the voters.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
W. S. Thompson and Jas. Ridenour are making a division of their stock. Mr. Thompson will continue the business at his present stand. Mr. Ridenour will remove to the room in the Johnson Loan & Trust company
=s block, as soon as finished. Each one will lay in additional stock. Mr. Thompson has already begun receiving his.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The following dispatch will be of interest to our readers from Maine. A terrible disaster has come to our sister town of Farmington. The heart of and business part of the beautiful village of Farmington Hill, including 14 stores, 52 dwellings, 3 churches, the old courthouse, the old county building, corner of Main Street and Broadway, and both newspaper offices are in ashes. The loss was about $300,000, and occurred Friday.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Dr. J. W. Hoyt, of Olney, was in Newton Monday, and favored the Mentor with a pleasant call. Dr. Hoyt is making arrangements to move to Arkansas City, Kansas, in about six weeks, to make that his home. His parents, his wife
=s parents, and his brother-in-law, Geo. L. Brown, formerly in the hardware business here, will go to Kansas at the same time and settle in that part of the state. Dr. Hoyt is one of the foremost physicians in the state and stands high in his profession. He leaves an excellent practice, and will be missed professionally and socially in Olney. The Mentor hopes he may be pleased with his new home in the west, and flourish like the green bay tree. Newton (Illinois) Mentor.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Our contemporary, the REPUBLICAN, continues to pour forth its pot-house slang and abuse on the democratic candidates. Democrat.
Hush, Charles. You know the above is untrue. We have slanged no one, and don
=t intend to. We have only referred you to the inconsistency of the course your journal has pursued. You told your readers that Mr. Schiffbauer two years ago sold the city out on the water works franchise. You have never taken that charge back, although you say now Mr. Schiffbauer is such a good man. Explain, Charlie, how you can flop so suddenly. You are certainly as great a political acrobat as Mr. Schiffbauer.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Largest stock of school books in the city at Sollitt & Swarts.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Frank Schiffbauer is the man of all men in the county who has stood by the people and thwarted no action or move that was elevating in design and principle, and that led to the advancement of the public good. We recognize in him a leader with no other purpose than laboring for laws that will place the employer and employee on a more equilibrium basis. Democrat.
We would refer our cotemporary to the Knights of Labor of this city on the labor question. They can tell some interesting facts. How Mr. Schiffbauer said to them:
ABoys, elect me mayor, and I will see the water works franchise is granted to no one but who will employ home laborers.@ The boys had faith in his promises. They did as he asked. They fulfilled their part of the agreement. Did Mr. Schiffbauer fulfill his? No. Ask the Knights of Labor and their reply will be ANo.@ We all know the franchise was granted to the Inter-State Gas Company. We further know that our home laborers, although asking for work and needing it badly, were denied. That the Inter-State Gas Company brought in laborers to lay the mains and do all the work that the laborers of Arkansas City could do. When Mr. Schiffbauer=s attention was directed to this state of affairs by a petition from the Knights of Labor, what did he do? Nothing. He completely went back on the boys that had put him in power, and they won=t forget him. Oh, yes; Mr. Schiffbauer always stands by the people, as long as there are any personal gains to be obtained.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Dry Colors and Mixed Paints at cost at H. S. Heap
=s.Mixed Paints and Paint Brushes at cost at H. S. Heap
=s.Go to Sollitt & Swarts for school books and school supplies.
See Jewett
=s Base Burner, best made. For sale by H. S. Heap.Eddy
=s Drug Store is the place to buy school books and school supplies.The grade on the Santa Fe is ready to receive the track for 60 miles down in the Territory.
LOST. Between here and Geuda Springs, a brown overcoat. Finder return to this office and get reward.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Alex Wilson is the manager of A. F. Huse
=s coal yard since that gentleman embarked in the hardware business.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Miss Sarah Emery and Miss Gilbert are prepared to do first-class dressmaking. Room No. 25, Leland Hotel.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
J. Kroenert, of the Diamond Front, received this week one carload of sugar and one carload of canned fruits.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
J. P. Musselman took his wife up to Rose Hill yesterday and then returned to this city. His daughter, Mrs. Kennedy, is still very sick.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Hon. L. P. King has no unsavory business record attached to him. He has always born the name of an honest and upright citizen.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Received at the Diamond Front: fresh mince meat, fresh Swiss cheese, maple syrup, and buckwheat flour. J. KROENERT.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Two tramp
Aprints@ last evening made their forms up of bad whiskey and when found by the police were ready for the calaboose. Today they are working their fines out on the streets.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Dr. J. W. Hoyt, of Olney, Illinois, made the purchase of nine lots yesterday in the south part of town, from W. E. Moore. The consideration was $4,200. Mr. Moore purchased the lots five days ago of F. W. Farrar for $3,375.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
A man in Wellington has married a woman who has no nose. He is perhaps a wise man and was led to the alliance because he knew if he went out with the boys at night his wife could not smell his breath when he came home.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
C. D. Crandall, general superintendent, and C. W. McDaniel, assistant superintendent, of the telephone company, are in the city. They inform us they intend to reconstruct the entire telephone system in this city, and give it an entire overhauling.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]The first of next week E. L. Kingsbury will go out to New Kiowa, to fill a similar position there for Messrs. Price & McGavock to the one he has here. Before going, Ed will cast a straight vote for Republicanism. Mrs. Kingsbury will remain here.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
A. F. Huse and Amos Spray have purchased the hardware establishment of M. C. Beymer and are now ready to greet their many friends. We were mistaken yesterday when we stated Uriah Spray had gone into partnership with Mr. Huse. The REPUBLICAN extends its well wishes to the new firm.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The following named persons were arrested by Capt. Price yesterday for taking wood from the Territory. They were placed under bonds to appear at the next term of U. S. Court at Wichita: M. L. Christian, Johnathan Brinson, Edward Bellville, W. D. Bellville, J. A. Morgan, K. D. Ripp, and John Myres.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
J. W. Henthorn, city editor of the Visitor for nine months past, will leave next week to take a lucrative reportorial position on the Pueblo Daily News, published by a former associate. J. W. is a brilliant paragrapher, with the experience, versatility, and activity that makes a valuable newspaper man. Courier.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
DIED. B. Davidson received a dispatch this morning from his wife at Pleasant Hill, Missouri, stating that his son, David, aged 11 years, had died. In consequence of which, Mr. Davidson has closed his store and gone to attend the funeral ceremonies of his beloved son. Mrs. Davidson and children were on their way to this city and were stopping off and visiting relatives when the boy took sick and died.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
The Democrats will have their wind-up rally Monday evening, November 1, in Highland Opera House. The following personages will deliver addresses: Col. Forsyth, Amos Walton, Miss Ella Kelly, and F. P. Schiffbauer. This is a sleek scheme of the Democracy to ring in an entertainment of this kind on the eve of election. They will make some startling (?) charges, no doubt, thinking the opposition will have no chance to answer. But the voters are not to be misled by any such proceedings. They have their minds made up.
[THEY HAD KELLY...AM AT A LOSS...SHOULD IT BE KELLEY?]
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Yesterday Marshal Gray received word from Quincy, Illinois, to be on the lookout for one Monroe Morgan, a colored man. At about six o
=clock the marshal saw a colored man answering the description, and immediately arrested him. The negro protested his innocence and claimed that he had never been in Illinois, but it was proven that he had told his landlady that he had. He was taken into custody and is now held awaiting the action of the authorities of Quincy. Morgan is wanted for cutting a man with a knife. He came here about two weeks ago and is a blacksmith by trade.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]DIED. Died last night, at about 12 o
=clock, at his home in this city, Theodore Fairclo. The deceased has been sick with an attack of typhoid fever for several days and his demise was not unexpected. It was given out a couple of days ago that he could not get well. The deceased was a respectable citizen and had been engaged in the drug business in this city since 1881, having removed here that year. He ws born in 1848. The remains were interred this afternoon at 2 o=clock in Riverview Cemeter. Rev. Witt pronounced the funeral sermon. The deceased leaves a wife and one child to mourn his demise.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Miss Ella Kelly is advertised to speak at the Democratic rally next Monday evening. Miss Kelly says she is running from an educational standpoint and that she is an independent candidate. How she can run from an educational standpoint on the Democratic platform is more than we can comprehend. The Democratic party has not a very brilliant record on the school question. Again, Miss Kelly informed us she would have naught to do with the Democratic party because it favored free whiskey and that she intended to be independent of either party, that she would not speak in their public gatherings. Since she failed to get the endorsement of the Republican party, she has settled in the Democratic camp. Indeed, politics do make strange bed-fellows.
[KELLY OR KELLEY...THAT IS THE QUESTION.]
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
A hunting party composed of Messrs. Taylor, Cochran, Morris, and Alexander of this city, and Messrs. Goodrich, Howe, Johnson, Edwards, Hill, and Wilkins, of Maple City, accompanied by 34 canines, visited the Territory the latter part of last week. On their return the party report their hunt to have been a grand success. They captured some antelope and an abundance of smaller game. We believe John Wilkins organized the chase and it was of his hospitality the Arkansas City delegation partook. Each one of his guests informs us that Mr. Wilkins treated them royally. The party was greatly enlivened by the presence of Rob Howe, who added greatly to the enjoyment of the occasion. Enos Goodrich won the title of being the pioneer hunter. The hunt was a grand success, beyond a doubt.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
As Mayor of this city, Mr. Schiffbauer has established a reputation that the foul and slimy attacks of the REPUBLICAN can never tarnish. Democrat.
Yes, Mr. Schiffbauer has a reputation as a Mayor of Arkansas City, but it is not a good one by any means. The Democrat two years ago helped to establish his record. It branded him every foul name known to its vocabulary. Mr. Schiffbauer
=s record reads about as follows.Elected mayor of this city by the labor vote, per agteement, to give them work, which he did not do nor try to. He imposed a city attorney upon us for months who by his ignorance was detrimental to the city
=s interest because he was a relative of his Ahonor.@ He caused us to have our present system of water works, which we will find in the future that they will be a burden on us in order to secure protection from fire. As it is now, it costs $3,000 annually to protect the business portion. By the time fire plugs are scattered all over the city, at the exhorbitant price stipulated in the franchise, in order to protect residences, we will be paying about $9,000 annually for water works, which should not cost more than two thirds that sum. Under Mayor Schiffbauer=s reign, we have houses of ill fame, running in full blast in the upstairs of a number of our business houses. They pay once in a great while a $10 fine. We also have numerous Ajoints@ running in the city in full blast under Mr. Schiffbauer=s reign. Oh, he has a record not to be tarnished. There is no doubt of it. It is a grand one, but one that will not do to appear in public print.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]The attempt of the Democrats to carry Kansas on a free whiskey platform, with a renegade Republican as candidate for governor, becomes a more and more doleful and difficult proceeding as the days and discussion progresses. Prohibition has not been a perfect success in Kansas in every respect; but the people are not willing to swap it for a system of open and complete saloon rule and they are quite as much opposed at the same time to the idea of making a governor of a man who has followed the example of St. John in going over to Democrats because the Republicans quit electing him to office. Globe Democrat.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
Don
=t catch cold. Catching cold is much more preventable than is generally supposed. A person in good physical condition is not liable to colds, and will not fall victim to them unless he is grossly careless. Keep the feet warm and dry, the head cool, and the bowels and chest well protected; avoid exposure with an empty stomach; take care not to cool off too rapidly when heated; keep out of draughts; wear flannels; and with the exercise of a little common sense in various emergencies, cold will be rare. If colds were a penal offense, we should soon find a way to prevent them.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
West & Co., of Burden, received a small sample order from Arkansas City of crackers and candy manufactured at that city. The crackers were fine, as also the candy, which was in good condition and fresh. This is a new undertaking for Arkansas City, and we hope the proprietors of these factories may have the best of success, which will make for Burden a splendid opportunity of procuring fresh crackers and candy direct from the factory, when we have the Pan-Handle road from Burden to Arkansas City. Burden Enterprise.
Arkansas City Republican, October 30, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Grouse Creek Items.
October 27, 1886.
Last evening Jack Frost visited us, and put a silver tint on all of nature
=s work that had much verdure. It is about time for Autumn leaves to fall. How vividly Autumn reminds us of a stage in man=s existence.The Sunday school picnic last Saturday, under the lofty boughs of the black jacks in the pasture of D. J. Coburn, was well represented, and those assembled had a good time in general. The table groaned under its load of viands prepared by the good people of the community.
AWhere there is a will, there is a way.@ We want all to understand one thing, and that is this: AWe don=t undertake our undertakings with a doubtful spirit.@Our Sunday school still prospers, and we hope that it may as long as the weather is pleasant.
A young child of Mr. Ely is very sick. At last reports it was no better. We hear of considerable sickness among the children.
The good people of our neighborhood gathered at the residence of Mrs. Phillips yesterday, and gathered the most of her corn. Mrs. Phillips and Miss Ward, her sister, are two fine old ladies, and what our people do for them they do with good grace, for they feel that it is a favor bestowed worthily.
Mr. B. Warren is expected home from Arkansas today.
[PAPER SHOWED
AB.@ DID THEY MEAN DRURY WARREN INSTEAD?]If you don
=t believe that necessity is the mother of all inventions, call at District No. 62 and see the contrivance for warming the schoolhouse. You will go away satisfied.Mr. Gratley killed a wildcat last Saturday evening, four feet in length, as large as a common dog.
Mr. D. J. Coburn stands in the ranks on beets. He pulled one the other day 26 inches long, 25-1/2 inches in circumference, and 8-1/2 inches in diameter. Who can beat this?
JUMBO.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
About Oklahoma.
The commissioner of Indian Affairs, J. D. C. Atkins, in his annual report to the president, has this to say about Oklahoma and the country east of longitude 98.
A
It would be best for the Indians in the eastern part of the Territory to divide their lands in severalty, allotting 160 acres to the head of a family, and eighty acres to each minor child. The large surplus remaining should be sold to actual settlers at a just price, and the proceeds would enable the poor Indians to improve their allotments, put up school buildings, etc. Let these Indians at once assume all the responsibility of citizens of the United States, with its laws extended as a protecting aegis over them, and the day of their fear and apprehensions of marauding whites will be forever ended.@The commissioner dwells at length upon the surplus lands in the Indian Territory, and says,
Awere all the Indians in the United States to be uprooted and transplanted to that territory, there would be, including those residing there, 256-3/4 acres for each living Indian.@The commissioner suggests that the Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes, the only Indians in the Territory west of longitude 98, be removed to lands east of that line. He expresses his conviction that the proposition to throw open Oklahoma to white settlement would be an experiment dangerous to all concerned.
A
It is, therefore, recommended as a preliminary step that congress authorize the department to appoint a commission, who shall visit the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, the Wichitas and Kiowas, Comanches and Apaches, in the Indian Territory, to ascertain their views with reference to the subject of removal to lands in said Territory east of the 98th degree.@
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
Railroad Building in Kansas.
A correspondent writing to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat about railroad building in Kansas, says:
A
To sum up, it may be said that there are fully 25,000 men engaged in this railroad building in Kansas, the Indian Territory, and North Texas. They are of migratory habits. After working for one company awhile, they hear something which sounds better on another job, and away they go. The result is that one in traveling through this country sees camps everywhere. Covered wagons are moving along the country roads, north, south, east, and west. Men with their arms in slings, and with weary, pained looks, come into the cars. They are the wounded in this great battle, and are on their way back to hospitals in the rear.@
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
Dynamite Gun Cruiser.
PHILADELPHIA, November 4. Wm. Cramp & Sons have made arrangements to construct for the government a dynamite cruiser which will be capable of making twenty knots an hour and of firing a 200 pound dynamite shell every two minutes. The vessel is to cost not more than $350,000.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
Wichita seems to have considerable trouble with her domestic arrangements. One man goes home and finds his wife going out of the back door with two male boarders, gets drunk, throws the furniture out of doors, and roosts on the pile with a double barreled shot gun and threatens vengeance on everything within reach. Another man caught his wife attempting to elope with her neighbor
=s husband, and the guilty woman, covered with shame and remorse, made a desperate attempt at self-destruction by taking morphine. It requires something of an effort to be virtuous in Wichita.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
To Farmers!
The Arkansas City Roller Mills will be running in full blast on and after Monday, October 18th, and will buy wheat and exchange flour for wheat. Come and see us.
ARKANSAS CITY ROLLER MILLS CO.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
AD. Democrats are happy and so are Republicans because
SALISBURY & CO.
Are Passing
All Competition.
Our Prices on BOOTS AND SHOES Make Republicans and Democrats Happy, Our Competitors Despondent.
Toss your hats, O, ye men.
Shake your aprons, O, ye women,
For Democrats and Republicans all go to
Salisbury & Co.
The One Price Shoe Men.
Highland Hall Block.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]C. D. Rushmore has purchased the stone water tank. He will use the stone for building a foundation for his residence.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
Nat. Banks, a colored farmer of Bolton Township, has proven that cotton can be grown successfully in this region. He planted about an acre last season, and has raised a crop fully as good as any he ever saw in the south.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
P. L. Snyder & Co., this morning contracted to furnish 3,000 bushels of grain and feed to the Saginaw Cattle Company and the Fairmont Cattle Company, to be delivered within the next thirty days. All told, there will be 168,000 pounds, which will have to be freighted to the cattle ranches of the above companies down in the Territory.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
An amusing incident was that perpetrated on his wife by one of our most prominent businessmen. He recently had occasion to go to Winfield to transact some business, and as it would take two days to get through, he thought he would remain overnight. But when night came, the idea struck him to come home on the night train and return on the early morning Santa Fe train. Accordingly at train time he came down to the depot and boarded the train for Arkansas City. As the train was late, he arrived here about midnight. He went to his houme and went to bed without awakening his wife. About 4 o
=clock in the morning, he arose and returned to Winfield. When he came home in the evening, he was asked by the hired girl, in the presence of his wife, what caused him to get up so early to catch the 6 o=clock train. With well feigned surprise, he replied that he had remained in Winfield all night. Then it was that looks of consternation were depicted on the countenance of his wife and hired girl. The latter then stated she had seen a man come in about midnight and go to the bed-chamber of the lady of the house and early in the morning had heard someone leave the house. The husband angrily turned to his wife to demand an explanation, when, by her Afainty@ appearance, he concluded he was carrying the joke too far and he was compelled to tell the truth.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]C. F. Hilton, of New Mexico, a former resident of this vicinity, is visiting old friends this week. He has land over in the Grouse Valley.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
Advices from the Indian Territory state that the most extensive and destructive fires ever known in the Territory are sweeping over the prairies. Millions of rich grazing lands, which a few days ago were covered with a luxuriant growth of grass, are now barren, charred wastes. The area burned over extends from Vinita on the north to Muskogee on the south; and on either side of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad as far as the eye can see. Large numbers of cattle have been burned to death, and immense quantities of hay, baled and loose, which was to have been used to fodder during tthe winter have been destroyed, and cattlemen will be compelled to drive the herds elsewhere to save them from starvation. An investigation into the origin of the fire is to be made by the Vinita Indian Agent.
Wellington Postal Card.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH. [JUST A FEW ITEMS GIVEN.]
The oldest church in this country is situated in Hingham, Massachusetts, where is also the oldest sexton. Boston Journal.
An effort is being made by a colored clergyman and editor to raise funds to establish a training school for colored boys in Texas.
NOTE: THERE ARE MANY ARTICLES SUCH AS THE ABOVE BEGINNING TO APPEAR MORE AND MORE IN THE REPUBLICAN THAT I AM CONSISTENTLY SKIPPING. THIS PAGE HAD SOME FASHION CHAT AND HUMOROUS SAYINGS, FOR INSTANCE, THAT ARE INTERESTING BUT NOT PERTINENT!
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
[JOTTINGS...FROM MONDAY
=S DAILY.]Last night two horse-thieves were arrested in this city by the owners of the animals they had stolen out at New Kiowa. The thieves were guarded last night at the Star Livery Barn and taken to New Kiowa this morning.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
BIRTH. Born to Thos. Allen and wife, a 10 pound girl last night.
Geo. E. Hasie has returned from his trip out west. He thinks that a good country out there.
Work on the telegraph line along the Santa Fe through the Territory from this city has commenced.
Mrs. L. H. Miller has returned from her trip out west. Her husband has a claim near Garden City.
J. H. Punshon and family returned to Arkansas City Saturday evening from their visit back in Missouri.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Caldwell is on a boom now on account of a discovery of a silver mine. An assayer says there are 340 ounces of silver to a ton quartz.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
N. O. Levans, of Bradford, Pennsylvania, is in the city, stopping at the Bradford Restaurant. Mr. Levans is here for the purpose of putting in his system of electric call-bells in the St. James Hotel.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
Mrs. H. D. Cummings, of Buda, Illinois, arrived in this city yesterday. Mr. Cummings and wife will leave for Arkansas City next week, where they will reside in the future. Emporia Republican.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
James Ridenour is preparing his room for his jewelry store in the Johnson Loan and Trust Company
=s block. The time will not be long until Jim will open up with a handsome stock of jewelry.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
As we stated last week, the Santa Fe is completed into Winfield from Douglass. A mixed train is being run to Winfield, but not on any schedule time. The train does not even connect with the Santa Fe train for this city.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
Hallow-e
=en was last Saturday night. This is the night when AOld Nick@ goes abroad and commits acts of deviltry. The Topeka Capital says Hallowe=en is October 31. We always supposed it was October 30, on the eve of the 31st.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]H. M. Colville, a friend of James Parks, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, is in the city. He will remain here and vote the Republican ticket next election. The REPUBLICAN gladly welcomes all such young and enterprising men as Mr. Colville.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
J. F. Hoffman came in on the morning train from a week
=s visit out west. He informs us that country is fast settling up. He saw no town equal to Arkansas City while away, except Wichita. The talk along the road was Arkansas City and Wichita. It will always be thus.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
School commenced this morning in the east and the Central School buildings. It was not opened in the new building because of the non-arrival of the seats. By mistake the seats were shipped to Arkansas City, Arkansas. School will be opened in the new house the last of the week.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
Rev. Dooty and S. Bibler made a raid on Arkansas City this week, and succeeded in raising upward of $40 to go toward the completion of the M. E. Church of this place. Mr. Bibler speaks in high praise of the social and business qualifications of the city. Mr. Bibler was so taken with the town that we are afraid we may lose him. Dexter Eye.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
Saturday the Pan-Handle elections came off in Little Walnut, Logan, Clay Townships, Butler County. A dispatch to the Wichita Eagle says the bonds were voteds unanimously in all three townships. This is glorious news and we hasten to carry it to Winfield. Let Courier call the Pan-Handle a myth now. It is materializing and it will soon be built from Reece to Arkansas City. Then we will have a Missouri Pacific connection and railroad competition. The good work goes bravely on and Arkansas City still booms.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
A stranger was in Arkansas City today and saw seventy-six drunken men, seventeen dead drunks, and four funerals in three hours. Verily, they do boom down there. Courier.
This reminds us that we did see a citizen of Winfield on our streets Friday. We saw him early in the morning and late at night. The last time we gazed upon him, he was clasped in the arms of a lamp-post and endeavoring to divest his stomach of lots of poor malt and rot-gut whiskey. Because he was drunk, he thought everyone else was in the same condition.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
The Dexter Eye says it cannot understand why Winfield and the Santa Fe should persist in leaving Dexter out in the cold in regard to a railroad. It says the Santa Fe misses that town about three miles, when, just as well as not, it could come within one mile. We will tell you why, Eye, Dexter is left out in the cold. Should you get a railroad, Winfield knows that you would become more than a whistling station, surrounded as you are by such fertile farming land. Winfield pretends to be your friend, while in reality she is stabbing you in the back. In fact, keeping you from getting what you most desire: a railroad.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Contractor Murray, of the Santa Fe, notified Marshal Gray Saturday afternoon that he had a watch and chain stolen. Later on J. R. Norman was arrested, accused of having committed the theft. He was placed in the lock-up until yesterday, when he was turned over to the sheriff for safekeeping until the day of trial. Norman sold the watch and chain as soon as he stole them and this led to his discovery.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
[JOTTINGS...FROM TUESDAY
=S DAILY.]J. L. Hosmer, of Marysville, Kansas, is visiting in the city.
Dr. C. S. Acker returned home this evening from Chicago.
H. W. Valentine, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, is in the city prospecting.
Mrs. S. Kennedy, daughter of J. P. Musselman, is convalescing from her severe spell of sickness.
C. L. Kloos has placed in the parlors of his Nickle Plate a handsome piano. Friend Kloos is always up to the times.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]The Catholic Society of this city will have services every other Sunday in Highland Hall, commencing Sunday, November 7, at 10:30 a.m. Rev. B. J. McKerman, pastor.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
Messrs. J. C. and E. F. Campbell, of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, have been spending a couple of days here as the guests of S. S. McDowell. They are well pleased with the appearance of our growing city.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
The Southern Kansas, published at Independence, has this to say, which is of interest to our readers.
A
During the past year the Chicago, Kansas and Western railroad has been built from a junction with the Southern Kansas here, southwestward through the county and Chautauqua, where trains are now running to Elgin on the Indian Territory line. This road has been laid with the heaviest rails and in the most substantial manner of any Santa Fe line in Kansas, and when completed to Arkansas City, as it will be shortly, will form part of a great trunk line from Chicago southwestward through Kansas, the Indian Territory, and Texas down to the Gulf coast at Galveston, placing us in direct communication by a railroad under one management with the best possible markets for all our products.@
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Col. Bob Ingersoll shrewdly observes that he would like to see the workingmen of the country have a majority in congress, with a president of their own, so that they could satisfy themselves how little, after all, can be accomplished by legislation.
AThe moment responsibility should touch their shoulders,@ he argues, Athey would become conservative,@ by reason of discovering that Amaking a living in this world is an individual affair,@ with which the government practically has little or nothing to do. In other words, they would quickly be made to understand that the true secret of prosperity is to be found in personal industry and economy, rather than in the attempted regulation of everything by law.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
A
The Fort Smith, Kansas & Western Railway Company@ filed a charter yesterday, and Wellington is named as the place of business. The directors are P. A. Wood, John T. Steward, A. Graff, M. B. V. Holmes, and F. P. Neal, all of Wellington. The capital stock of the company is $5,000,000. The charter provides for a standard gauge road from a point on the Arkansas River in Cowley County, through Cowley, Sumner, Sedgwick, Kingman, Reno, Rice, Barton, Ellsworth, Russell, Ellis, Osborn, Rooks, Graham, Phillips, and Norton, to Denver Junction, in Colorado.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
Charles DeLay and family have removed here from Winfield. Mr. DeLay is employed in A. A. Abbott
=s Carriage manufactory. He could not obtain employment any longer in Winfield, and so removed here. He was up to the county seat, and while there heard Bill Hackney discussing the two towns. Bill was cussing everyone in Winfield and Arkansas City, and said the former would be a dead town unless John Eaton was elected representative. This evening will tell the story.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
All persons that are and have been members of the United Brethren Church, that are living in this city, are hereby requested to meet at the Y. M. C. A. Hall next Sabbath evening, November 7, at 7 p.m., for the purpose of organizing a class of the aforesaid church.
REV. T. W. WILLIAMS, Pastor.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]From Coolidge.
COOLIDGE, KANSAS, November 2, 1886.
ED. REPUBLICAN: It is really amusing to see how early some of the embryo towns of Kansas take on metropolitan airs, and with what audacity and confidence they speak of the probabilities of perhaps ten years as the possibilities of so many months, and the wonderfully increased value of
Aour corner lots@ whenever some venturesome newcomer begins to talk of bids on a twelve by sixteen house.A
Oh, yes,@ said an old timer, Awe are improving, sir. Lots that were worth fifty dollars two months ago are now worth one hundred, and are steadily advancing.@And I asked:
AWhat is doing all this?@He replied:
APeople coming in, building going on.@A
Is that all?@ I asked.A
Oh, no,@ he said, Awe are promised a railroad, and the country will be very productive when it is filled up.@A
Ah!@ I remarked, Ayour reasoning will mislead you. Your basis for increased value savors of uncertainty, and you are keeping off the very means of bringing the railroads and filling the country. Did it ever occur to you that is a mistaken policy--that such rapid advance in property attracts the speculator rather than the settler? And that those who would build up, establish, and increase the prosperity of the place will be kept away and forced to go where a more wise and liberal policy prevails?@A
Well, stranger, may be you are right; but corner lots are high, and if you want to buy in this town, you must pay the price.@I did not want to buy, but began to think of a new place just under way, and how bright its prospects seemed, and how business-like and liberal its policy. The management offers a lot free to each settler building, and, from the town quarry, all the stone needed for foundation purposes. There has been no advertising and very little talk of the enterprise, and yet, almost before it is known beyond those interested in organizing the company, the surrounding claims are nearly all taken up, and inquiries from a distance concerning the mysterious town fill the originators full of hope for its future, and promise a successful and satisfactory result.
Some day I may know more of a town that will soon make for itself a name, and then I shall be glad to write it up.
WANDERER.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
Rose Valley Items.
[The following news items were written by the scholars of District 34.]
A literary society was organized at the Rose Valley schoolhouse Friday evening, October 26. Seventeen names were ennrolled. L. F. Abernethy was elected president; Mr. Cue, vice president; Miss Alto Maxwell, secretary and treasurer; S. G. Phillips, critic.
Miss Lulu Hunter, who has been sick for some time, is slowly improving.
Mr. T. L. Baxter has been making hay this week. Hay-making is late with some of our farmers.
Howard Maxwell has removed to town to attend school. He, with two or three others, will keep
Abach.@Miss Alice Baker, who has been staying at Mr. McMains, and Misses Annie and Minnie McMains, have left us and will attend school in town.
Mr. S. E. Maxwell
=s barn is completed, and the carpenters have begun work on an addition to his house.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Strike at East St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, November 1. A circular posted at Whitaker
=s pork packing house in East St. Louis this morning, notified employees that hereafter ten hours would constitute a day=s work at prevailing wages. The employees have been working nine hours per day heretofore. At noon they held a meeting to consider what action to take, and pursuant to agreement among themselves, demanded of their employers that the present hours of labor be not changed. The employers refused to comply with the demand, and the men at 1 o=clock refused to go to work. There is little excitement over the strike, and no trouble anticipated.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
He Refused.
CHICAGO, October 30. About noon today Attorney Solomon of the counsel for the Anarchists appeared before Judge Gary armed with a stack of law books and aksed to be heard on motion for a new trial, based on documents submitted to the court a few days since. The court promptly refused to listen to a renewal of the argument and Mr. Solomon withdrew.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
[JOTTINGS...FROM WEDNESDAY
=S DAILY.]J. F. Henderson is home from Torrance.
A. G. Lowe showed us a red beet weighing eleven pounds, raised on his Sumner County farm.
Mrs. C. Drake, aunt of Mrs. J. W. Strohm, arrived last evening from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to visit.
Bob Farmsworth [? DO THEY MEAN FARNSWORTH?] drove down from Winfield yesterday to see how the election was going. He carried Tansey cigars.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Moore left this afternoon for New Windsor, Illinois, where they go to visit Mr. Moore
=s brother.Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Davis left this morning for a month
=s sojourn up in Michigan. Mr. Davis is the Frisco agent at Geuda.Troops E of the 5th Cavalry will be relieved of duty in the Territory about the 15th of this month by troops from Col. Sumner
=s command at Ft. Riley.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]J. P. Musselman returned home this morning, his daughter, whose sickness called him here, having begun to improve rapidly. J. P. talks of returning to live in Arkansas City.
[AGAIN: PAPER HAD MUSSLEMAN...???]
B. Davidson returned last evening after laying the remains of his son at rest. He was accompanied by his wife, as far as Wellington, where she is now visiting.
F. B. Lane and family remove to West Plains, Mead County, this afternoon. We regret very much that these most worthy people should seek a home elsewhere, but with them go our best wishes for their future prosperity.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
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=S DAILY.]Jeff. Darnell did excellent work yesterday in Silverdale Township for the Republican ticket. While, in the Democratic ranks, Joe Gibson labored. As the fruits of Darnell
=s work, King got 32 majority; the result of Gibson=s was a majority of five for Walton.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
J. W. McConnell, teacher at the Coburn schoolhouse, was summoned to Webst er City, Iowa, yesterday by a telegram announcing the serious illness of his mother. He closed his school for two weeks and left last evening on the Santa Fe. Our sympathies go with J. W.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
DIED. Erastus M. Godfrey, the father of J. M. Godfrey, died at the residence of the latter, in the Bittle addition, this morning at one o
=clock, of Bright=s disease. He was 72 years of age. The funeral will be preached at the Christian Church at 10 o=clock tomorrow morning.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
A Kansas statistician discovered, from careful study of the records, that there were five acres sold and taken up in Kansas during the last fiscal year to three in Dakota, three in Nebraska, the total number of acres sold in Kansas being 5,637,000, in Dakota 3,700,000, in Nebraska 2,551,000. As usual, Kansas beats them all. Why not? There is only one Kansas.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
The Election.
Yesterday in Arkansas City was an unusually quiet one for election day. Drunks were few and far between, although representatives of the rival candidates were out in full force. The vote in the city was hardly a half of a full vote. Scratching was the principal feature of the voting. Cal. Swarts received the largest number of votes in the city, and will likely do the same in the county. The principal fight was on representative, and Mr. Schiffbauer, the Democratic nominee, who usually has a walk-away in the city, had his majority cut down to 66 votes. This was due largely to the laboring men of the city voting against him. They worked faithfully for his defeat, and assisted very materially in accomplishing it in the district. The vollowing is the vote in the city.
FIRST WARD.
For Governor: Martin, 75; Moonlight, 73.
For Associate Justice: Valentine, 85; Whitelaw, 71.
For Congress: Perkins, 80; Bacon, 70.
For Representative: King, 70; Schiffbauer, 82.
Clerk District Court: Ed Pate, 81; Roberts, 69.
Probate Judge: Tansey, 62; Walton, 90.
County Attorney: Swarts, 86; to fill vacancy, 80; Forsyth, 64; to fill vacancy, 63; Henry Asp, 1.
County Superintendent: overman, 71; Kelly, 89.
Judicial Amendment: Against, 71; For, 72.
SECOND WARD.
For Governor: Martin, 83; Moonlight, 90.
Associate Justice: Valentine, 90; Whitelaw, 83.
Judicial Amendment: Against, 80; For, 20.
Congress: Perkins, 80; Bacon, 84.
Representative: King, 70; Schiffbauer, 100.
Probate Judge: Tansey, 70; Walton, 104.
Clerk: Pate, 91; Roberts, 82.
County Attorney: Swarts, 92; to fill vacancy, 93; Forsyth, 82; to fill vacancy, 78.
Superintendent: Overman, 70; Kelly, 99.
THIRD WARD.
For Governor: Martin, 51; Moonlight, 63.
Associate Justice: Valentine, 53; Whitelaw, 62.
Judicial Amendment: For, 50; Against, 65.
Congress: Perkins, 53; Bacon, 62.
Representative: King, 30; Schiffbauer, 81.
Probate Judge: Tansey, 40; Walton, 76.
Clerk: Pate, 50; Roberts, 64.
County Attorney: Swarts, 58; to fill vacancy, 58; Forsyth, 58; to fill vacancy, 58.
Superintendent: Overman, 40; Kelly, 77.
FOURTH WARD.
For Governor: Martin, 122; Moonlight, 75.
Associate Justice: Valentine, 125; Whitelaw, 72.
Congress: Perkins, 122; Bacon, 75.
Representative: King, 100; Schiffbauer, 83.
Clerk: Pate, 126; Roberts, 72.
Probate Judge: Tansey, 107; Walton 89.
County Attorney: Swarts, 131; Forsyth, 71.
Superintendent: Overman, 114; Kelly, 92.
The prohibition vote was small. In the city entire it amounted to between 30 and 40 votes.
TOTAL VOTE OF THE CITY.
Martin .................... 361
Moonlight .............. 301
Valentine ............... 353
Whitelaw ............... 301
Against Amendment ......... 346
For Amendment ................ 208
Frank P. Schiffbauer ......... 346
L. P. King .......................... 280
Amos Walton .................... 359
W. E. Tansey ..................... 270
Miss Ella Kelly .................. 357
S. F. Overman .................... 200
Calvin L. Swarts ................ 366
C. I. Forsyth ....................... 180
SILVERDALE TOWNSHIP.
For Governor: Martin, 83; Moonlight, 65.
Associate Justice: Valentine, 85; Whitelaw, 68.
Judical Amendment: For, 20; Against, 120.
Congress: Perkins, 82; Bacon 66.
Representative: King, 88; Schiffbauer, 52.
Probate Judge: Tansey, 71; Walton, 76.
Clerk: Pate, 82; Roberts, 67.
County Attorney: Swarts, 79; Foryth, 68.
Superintendent: Overman, 72; Kelly, 72.
CRESWELL TOWNSHIP.
For Governor: Martin, 150; Moonlight, 83.
Associate Justice: Valentine, 123; Whitelaw, 82.
Judicial Amendment: Against, 136; For, 86.
Congress: Perkins, 151; Bacon, 82.
Representative: King, 146; Schiffbauer, 76.
Probate Judge: Tansey, 142; Walton, 90.
Clerk: Pate, 154; Roberts, 80.
County Attorney: Swarts, 150; to fill vacancy, 149; Forsyth, 81; to fill vacancy, 2.
Superintendent: Overman, 109; Kelly, 116.
Cal Swarts will be elected county attorney by a handsome majority. Arkansas City gave him a substantial compliment by her solid vote for him yesterday.
Bolton Township shows the scratching proclivities of voters. It gave Tansey, Republican, 24 majority; and Schiffbauer, Democrat, 24, a difference of 48 votes.
The Republican nominee, J. F. Martin, was defeated yesterday in the 59th district by the Hackney-Courier gang; and John Eaton was elected by a majority of 45 votes.
F. M. Vaughn was re-elected trustee of Creswell Township by nine majority over N. W. Kimmel.
Amos Walton polled a larger vote in Arkansas City than John A. Martin. Amos ran ahead of his ticket.
Come to think of it, we would just as leave be called a pauper and narrow contracted across the chest as being a defeated candidate.
Miss Kelly, from the best reports obtainable, will be the next superintendent of public instruction of Cowley County. Her majority is estimated from 500 to 1,000.
Bolton Township elected the following officers:
J. A. Scott, trustee; John Sturtz, clerk; C. G. Furry and W. S. Voris, justices of the peace; J. C. Preston and S. Christy, constables.
S. I. Perring was elected trustee of Silverdale Township yesterday; Joel Lewis, treasurer; E. Scott, clerk; Justice of the peace, Ed Powers, and constables, Jack Paugh and Wm. Miller.
John Shroeves was elected trustee of Spring Creek Township; J. F. Thomas, clerk; A. Woods, treasurer; Josiah Johnson, justice of the peace; Charles Gilkey and Eugene Tooman, constables.
Creswell Township elected the following officers.
Trustee, F. M. Vaughn; clerk, E. F. Green; treasurer, G. W. Ramage; justices of the peace, J. B. Guyer and W. Allen; constables, W. C. Guyer and B. Somerville.
Amost Walton, for probate judge, gave Capt. Tansey a mighty close run, but it is conceded by Democrats the last named has gotten there by a small majority. Mr. Walton carried this city by 80 majority. He and Miss Kelly ran ahead of their ticket. It begins to look as if Arkansas City was mighty close to be captured by the democracy.
Returns of the district are not all in yet, but we feel safe in saying Hon. L. P. King
=s majority over Mr. Schiffbauer is in the neighborhood of 100. Bolton Township and Arkansas City were the only places that gave the Democratic nominee majorities; in the two, the majority was 90, Creswell gave King a majority of 70; Beaver, 35; Silverdale, 32; Spring Creek, 10; Liberty, 30; Grant, 26.Up to our hour of going to press returns have not come in sufficiently to show how much majority the Republican ticket has in Kansas. The indications are that the entire ticket is safe and Martin elected governor by a handsome majority. Texas has gone democratic by probably 100,000 majority. Hewitt, democrat, is elected mayor of New York City; Iowa is republican by from 7,000 to 9,000 majority. As yet, as stated above, the returns are too meagre to tell definitely the result.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
[JOTTINGS...FROM THURSDAY
=S DAILY.]F. J. Hess
= building is going up rapidly. Brick work has reached the second floor.John Anderson of the 5th congressional district defeated Wilson by a large majority for congress.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
[MORE JOTTINGS...FROM THURSDAY
=S DAILY.]Judge W. D. Kreamer sold his North Summit Street lot this morning for $3,000. About four months ago he paid $1,400 for it.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
We had another jail delivery last night. Four prisoners made their escape; one remained. He was a negro up for drunkenness.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
The latest returns received gives Cal Swarts 800 majority; Tansey, 400 to 500; Miss Kelly, 1,200; John A. Martin 800 over Moonlight.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
G. B. Rogers, Santa Fe trainmaster, came down this morning, bringing a special engine to go to the front on the line through the Territory.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
The nose of the statue of liberty at New York is two feet long. It is well that it is not gifted with the power of smell, as the stench arising from the corruption of New York politics would keep the goddess in a constant state of nausea.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
MARRIED. The marriage of W. D. Carey of Arkansas City and Miss Eva Dodd, Hackney & Asp
=s handsome young stenographer, will take place in this city this evening. Mr. Dixon of the Indian Bakery will furnish the pastry. Winfield Visitor.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
The building boom still increases and unemployed workmen are hard to find. The lumber dealers report increased sales to parties in the city. There are now between forty and fifty buildings in the course of construction in Arkansas City, while as many more are under contract. The growth of our city is without an equal.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
The Santa Fe passenger train made the first trip through to Winfield last evening, bringing Kansas City passengers through from Winfield this morning. They will commence running regular trains today, making Winfield the terminus for awhile. It is expected in a few weeks that Arkansas City will be the end of the line instead of Winfield. El Dorado Republican.
Arkansas City Republican, November 6, 1886.
W. S. Upp, Geo. E. Hasie, N. T. Snyder, D. Hollenbeck, of this city, Jas. Glover and Wm. Cain, of Udall, will go over to the new town of Bluff City this evening. Snyder, Hutchison & Co., will open a real estate office there. Mr. Glover, of Udall, will have charge of the firm
=s business there. The contracts for 30 buildings have been signed up and will be built in the next month or so. The Frisco will extend its line from Caldwell to Bluff Ci