Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885. Front Page.

What name is it that stirs the blood,

That makes us scorn rain, snow or flood,

And bid defiance to the mud?

That place to which all men are bound,

The finest country ever found

Upon this planet's surface round,

The name which drives most men insane

And makes them chant the loud refrain,

"Hurray for noble David Payne,"

What place is that which squatters seek,

And on cattle kings their vengeance wreak?

That name that sounds so like the Greek,

That paradise, that sunny clime,

Where all may have a happy time,

A land that's beautiful sublime!

There criminals can safely dwell,

With no one near their crimes to tell,

And make their dwelling place a hell.

To guard this land, brave General Hatch

Will prove for boomers more'n a match.

"Boys in blue" will make them snatch,

O! Let us not be so deceived,

Reports from there can't be believed,

When things are settled, we'll feel relieved,

Until the government shall say

That we may settle there and stay,

Let's tell our friends to keep away.

For Payne's successor, Capt. Couch,

I need not here attempt to vouch,

It's evident that he's no slouch.

Our "Uncle Sam" well has the power

To give each citizen a dower.

He'll act by and by: let's wait that hour.

Until the government shall give

Its full permission there to live.

We'll not be over positive.

This matter has for each and for all

A lesson with a wholesome moral.

Be sure you're right before you quarrel.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A Committee of the British Association has found out that a man really grows in stature up to his 50^th year, although after 20 the growth is very slow.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The human race is divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, "Why wasn't it done the other way?"

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. Cunningham, who is under arrest in London charged with being a dynamiter, will probably be convicted and hung. English juries seldom discover a "doubt" that will benefit a dynamiter.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Oneida, New York, is wild with joy over the fact that Cleveland has ordered his inauguration shirt of a dealer in that place. The neck measure is 17½ inches, which is less than has been popularly believed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Although Lord Woolsey is gaining no ground against El Mahdi, it appears that the French troops are making steady progress in Tonquin. Thus the balance of civilization against barbarism is maintained.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

While 16,000 names were dropped from the pension roll last year by reason of death or other causes, more than 35,000 names were added so that the net result was lengthening of the list by over 19,000 names during the year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The first apple orchard in Kansas, according to Secretary Brackett, consisted of 120 apple trees, brought all the way from Illinois in a wagon and planted in Douglas County in 1855. Today the State has twenty millions of fruit trees.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Some teachers of penmanship now teach their pupils to write with both hands. The method of instruction is to make the pupil write his name in pencil and then go over it with a pen held in left hand. Constant practice gives proficiency.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

In Common Point, Georgia, is an olive grove from which 200 gallons of oil were made last year. It is claimed that it is the only place in the United States where real olives are used for the manufacture of olive oil. Even it is suspiciously near cotton plantations.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

James G. Blaine has determined to write a history of American politics from 1783 to 1875 as soon as his present work shall be concluded. The fellows who predicted that Blaine would lie down on his back and die if defeated are finding themselves much mistaken.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Minnesota has brought out a new license scheme. The drinkers are to be licensed instead of the saloons. Proper precautions are to be taken, and no dealer is to be allowed to sell to a man who cannot show a license. The only trouble with this beautiful plan will be to make it work.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

It is said that the trustees of Union College, New York, of which President Arthur is a graduate, contemplate offering him the vacant Presidency of that institution. That would be something original. Ex Presidents seem to have nothing to do, no future. Why not make College Presidents of them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

"Bill" Nye invites the Prince of Wales' son, who has just come of age, to be his guest when he visits this country. "I tender you," he writes, "the freedom of my double barreled shot gun during the prairie chicken holocaust. I know where the angle worm grows rankest and the wild hen hatches her young."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

From parties who have recently returned from the east, it is learned that in all parts of the east people have the "Kansas fever" and are making inquiries in regard to the price of land.

Lindsborg Localist.

This is but a sample of many such items we might pick out of our Kansas exchanges. There is every reason to believe that Kansas is to receive an unusually large immigration this year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The largest room in the world under one roof and unbroken by pillars is at St. Petersburg. It is 620 feet long by 150 feet in breadth. By daylight it is used for military displays and a battalion can complete maneuver in it. Twenty thousand wax tapers are required to light it. The roof is a single arch of iron and exhibits remarkable engineering skill in the architect.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A little daughter of Hans Nelson, living near Pipestone, Minn., was pursued by two gaunt hungry wolves. She ran until exhausted, and then had presence of mind enough to turn and face them, when the wolves stopped, snapped their jaws, and in a few moments turned and fled. The little girl managed to get home, but was much exhausted and almost frightened to death.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The authorities have again received letters containing warnings that St. Paul's Cathedral and the Bank of England in London would be attacked with dynamite. Detectives Roper and Wilson, two of the government's principal witnesses against Cunningham and Burton, are annoyed by frequent threats against their lives. Recently these threats have been written on paper stamped with skull and crossbones, apparently issued by some murderous organization. Detective Roper received a letter advising him to order his coffin, and assuring him that he would meet his fate before next Saturday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

D. J. Morrell, of Johnston, Pennsylvania, has been sent to a private insane asylum. He was from 1867 to 1871 a member of Congress, and a member of the Committee on the Pacific railroad, and in that capacity visited Kansas. On March 1^st, 1870, he introduced in the House a bill to provide for the celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of American Independence and tenaciously fought the measure through. His brother died in an insane asylum a few years ago.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

If the papers of Kansas would take up the subject of our business conditions and prospects and talk about it from a cheerful standpoint, in a very short time the public would follow their example and the result would be that soon the long hoped for revival of business would be upon us in earnest. There is an abundance of unemployed capital, the people are, as a whole, richer than ever before, the producing classes are generally out of debt, hundreds of new acres are being brought under cultivation and on modes of doing business have been improved with each succeeding year. So let us quit growling and look on the bright side of things. Leavenworth Times.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

John T. Quarles, one of the earliest, though not as has been said, the first colored lawyer in the United States, died recently at Flushing, Long Island. He was born in slavery at Atlanta, Georgia. His father was a preacher of distinction. After the war, Charles Sumner helped him to enter Westminster College, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated at the head of his class. He studied law under the direction of Sumner in Washington, and was admitted to the bar. In 1870, Grant appointed him Consul to Port Mahon. He was transferred by Hayes to Malaga. At Port Mahon he married Marie Jacqueminot, daughter of the French Consul at that port and granddaughter of Napoleon's marshal of that name. In 1882, after his return home, Secretary Sherman appointed him a special commissioner to visit the United States Consul on the Spanish court. He was an ardent politician and a man of influence with his people. He leaves a small property and a large law library.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Under the title of "Mr. Cleveland's Great Statesmen," the New York Tribune comments: "To be embarrassed by riches is the common lot of presidents-elect. In the opinion of the party it always has a great many great men; enough to fill a new cabinet for every day in the year of the presidential term. But this year the difficulties are enormously exaggerated by the Democratic creative faculty. It is safe to say that there have been more great statesmen made out of nothing within the last ninety days than in all the previous history of the world. A man cannot get through the corridor of any uptown hotel without running against two or three score of great statesmen of the latest and most fashionable manufacture, who were ordinary politicians of small bore 3 months ago. Every state had created a lot as early as the first of December, every congressional district by the 1^st of January, and now it has got down to cities and towns. Given a man who knows how to read and write, and has been an active Democrat, and is anybody's way or is anybody's friend, and the Democratic party will manufacture a great statesman out of him in about fifteen minutes--a man fit not only for any cabinet office but for any and all other conceivable trusts, always excepting the presidency. This year we are not manufacturing possible presidential candidates. It is not fashionable. The gentleman from Buffalo does not like it. The fun of it all is that Mr. Cleveland seems to take more kindly to the little great men of recent manufacture than to the somewhat larger sort, who were known beyond the borders of their own school districts ninety days ago. For some reason not commonly explained by his party, his admiration for a man appears to be in inverse ratio to his size. If the man is intellectually large, Mr. Cleveland's affection is moderate, but if he is one of those great statesmen who have been manufactured out of nothing, or next to nothing, Mr. Cleveland is apt to regard him with interesting enthusiasm."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Fort Worth (Texas) Gazette: The cause of Jeff Davis is the cause of the Confederacy, and they both belong to the past.

Philadelphia Press: Pittsburg is wrestling with two forms of danger from natural gas, one of which is dynamiter's gab.

Detroit Post: If cranks are permitted to preach murder, it is always certain that sooner or later other cranks will practice it.

Cleveland Herald: The American people are prepared to see Mr. O'Donovan take advantage of the outward bound steerage rates.

St. Louis Republican: The Oklahoma business will descend to the new administration, and cause it more perplexity than all the unratified treaties.

Indianapolis Herald: The New York Post has proven to its own satisfaction that Blaine is responsible for the dynamite troubles. The Post is a full-blown fool.

Burlington Hawkeye: Carter Harrison got left in his aspirations for the Senatorship, but he still has Mike McDonald and Joseph Chesterfield Mackin. The great triumvirate is still solid.

Burlington Hawkeye: There are some Republicans in Iowa who have been pinching themselves every morning recently to find out whether they really are Republicans. They have read the report of the prohibitory convention.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: The President ought immediately to get down on his knees and apologize to the Oklahoma boomers for the "great crime" of using United States troops to force them out of the Territory. Nothing less will appease their sense of injured innocence.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Kansas man turns up in an unexpected manner and comes to the front refusing to accept money. This may seem startling, but the truth has come out through the writings of some fool editors. Two papers were recently distributed among the members, in which grounds were taken against the bill now before the legislature providing that the county commissioners shall allow to the official papers the pay allowed by law. One of these papers, in a long array of figures, goes on to show how much money has been saved the county by its contract to do the work for nothing. The books of the paper itself caused some investigation as to the manner and style of newspapers published in that county. There are six, three being in the county seat, two in one outside town, and one in another. Two of the papers in the county seat are well filled, well printed papers with circulations ranging from 1,700 to 2,000, circulating in all parts of the county, one of which has been advertising for the county when the other did not have it. The covetous glances of a hungry printer took in the situation, and collecting a bagful of types he went there and located, and offered to do the work for much less than half price, catching, of course, the delinquent tax list, for which full price must be paid. With a circulation of less than two hundred in the county, all county advertising was buried therein, causing a loss to the citizens of the county aggregating ten times the amount of advertising rates fixed by law. He now claims half price is good liberal pay, and enough for any office, yet he never for a moment gives up his grip on the full price allowed on the delinquent tax list, the tax redemption list, or the sale of school lands. Having found cutting cord wood hard work, he asked the county commissioners to help him get out an inferior sheet called a newspaper, and with 100 or 200 subscribers thus rob the county and people of the little pittance paid. The object of the bill is simply to take away from ignorant commissioners the power to cut down prices from reputable papers and aid blacksmith concerns to rob the county and the people of the little they receive. While trying to be economical, the commissioners should cause all advertisements to be written and tacked up in the coal house attached to the courthouse, where they would be as prominent as they now ofttimes are. It has been hinted that many commissioners, standing in with the tax title sharks, do not desire publicity. Your correspondent has seen cases of this kind in Kansas, and would not be surprised if such cases occur. This little scheme should be borne in mind, compel commissioners to pay full prices, and every community will be benefitted, in spite of the fool papers that say one-quarter price is enough, yet demand full prices for the tax list, which are far higher than the sales allowed for regular advertising. The bill will meet with some opposition, but there is reason to believe it will pass. If it does, there will be a stop put to the senseless cut-throat fights so often witnessed in smaller cities. K. C. Journal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

For a year or two past there has been a very heavy immigration of colored people to Arkansas from the southeastern states. Hundreds of colored people have located in the counties of Conway and Pope, on the Little Rock and Fort Smith railway. A good share of the counties named is mountainous and inhabited by many rather rough characters. The citizens in the valley and along the railway gave the colored brothers a warm welcome, gladly furnishing employment. The mountain boomers have for months viewed the immigration with disfavor, but their feeling never took pronounced shape until the 26^th of January, when they ordered the negro tenants on J. R. Alwine's farm to vamoose. The negroes refused, and everything went on quietly until the 11^th ult., when the boomers returned and fired several volleys into the houses occupied by the negroes. Alwine, his son, and a school teacher boarding with him, assisted the negroes, and the mountaineers were repulsed. No one was killed. A few days later Walter Cole and J. B. Strickland were identified as the leaders of the boomers and arrested. They were taken to Atkinson on Saturday for trial, but so many of their friends from the hills were with them and their conduct was so threatening that in order to prevent a riot the magistrate before whom they were taken turned them loose almost without the appearance of a trial. After this, they visited the farms of S. H. Speers, sheriff of Conway County, and W. P. Childrens, also a leading farmer in the same county, and ordered them to discharge their colored laborers. Both parties refused to comply. A large portion of Speers' fencing has been torn down, and his fields thrown open to the stock. The boomers swear no negroes shall live north of the railroad track in either Pope or Conway counties. Mr. Alwine, the planter on whose place the first trouble occurred, accompanied by A. Mill, a lawyer at Atkinson, arrived at Little Rock, Arkansas, February 24, and laid the whole matter before Gov. Hughes. The executive declares that the colored people have equal rights with the whites, and shall live and pursue their occupations where they see fit, and he will protect them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Governor of Minnesota has made a requisition on the Governor of Missouri for Frank James, for participation in the Northfield bank robbery and murders. Frank has been having easy sailing in his trials heretofore among his old Missouri friends and neighbors, who promptly acquitted him as jurors. But when the cold-blooded Minnesotan--who has no chronic admiration for train robbery and street murder in any form whatever--reaches out to collar Mr. James with the strong arm of unprejudiced law, his friends begin to tremble for their idol's safety. Delegations of his friends have already waited upon Gov. Marmaduke, praying him not to give up their hero to a "relentless and prejudiced" Minnesota public, which would instanter put him in prison where languish the Younger boys for this same Northfield horror. Gov. Marmaduke is reported to have looked solemn and wise and "reserved his decision." But he will never consent to let Minnesota have Mr. James, and Mr. James will take good care never to step outside the limits of Missouri except in disguise. Missouri will cling to her idol, and she can make the most of him.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The passage of the bill to prohibit the further importation of foreign contract laborers is the beginning of a more exclusive policy on the part of the United States: It is a notice to the world that the United States will no longer furnish an unlimited and unrestricted field for all the wretched of the world to flock to.

This is a slight infringement upon a principal which has governed since the foundations of the republic were laid, but it is a necessary restriction and should have applied from the first.

In the past twenty years, there have come to us more than twice as many people as the country possessed when the colonies declared their independence from Great Britain, and the number is equal to one-eighth of all the present population of the country.

The most generous friend of the human race and of the world's poor will own, we think, that the republic endangers its own existence when it assumes to assimilate all these millions, with its own people. The majority come from lands ruled by either churches or kings, or both. Many of them come with the love of home and home institutions strong in their hearts; thousands, feeling the restraints which have hedged them about since infancy removed, misunderstand the nature of real liberty, and refuse to accept the necessary restraints which a free government imposes.

If we add to these the others who come merely as a speculation, come intending to yield no allegiance, but simply to exchange a little work for some money to carry them back to their native land, it is plain enough that the government, in permitting them to come, is doing injustice to its own poor, and that this bill is a righteous one, and ought to have been passed years ago. Leavenworth Times.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mackin, Gallagher, and Gleason, on trial for falsifying returns, at the last Presidential election, in several precincts of the Eighteenth ward, of the Fourth Congressional District, Chicago, by which Brand, Democrat, for the Legislature, was made out to have a majority over Leman, Republican, were found guilty, while Biehl was acquitted of the charge. The seating of Brand would have given the Democrats a majority on joint ballot in the Legislature, and thus decided the election of a United States Senator, and this was the evident object of the conspirators.

The jury came in with its verdict at 5½ o'clock in the evening. The greatest excitement prevailed in and around the court room when the verdict was announced. The attorney for the defense at once moved for a new trial. Other indictments are now pending against most of the defendants both in the Federal and State courts, and Mackin is under bonds on various cases to the amount of $20,000 to $30,000. The fraud excited great indignation in the city, and a committee of leading citizens was formed, comprising prominent men of both the Democrat and Republican parties, and a large fund was raised to push the prosecution to a successful issue. Mackin is a working politicians, and has held a prominent position in the councils of the party in this city, being Secretary of the Democratic county, city, and district committees. Gallagher is less prominent, but has taken an active part in politics in a small way since his arrival here from Philadelphia. Gleason is a Republican and has been an active worker also in a small way.

Both Mackin and Gallagher were released on bail soon after the verdict, the bond in each case being $20,000. M. C. McDonald and a Clark street saloon-keeper named Cavanaugh are joint sureties for the whole amount.

Gleason's bond remained at $7,000, and he also has been released.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mrs. Astor's supper to twenty of her intimate friends was given Monday night. On this occasion the famous service of solid gold was used. These yellow dishes are seldom brought out from the Astor vault. They cost $100,000, it is said, although I have heard the figures exaggerated to $250,000. Anyhow, there is no great extravagance in them, for the metal can at any time be melted into good bullion and only the workmanship lost. I have attended many of the Astor entertainments, but never one when the golden utensils were displayed. A friend who has had that inestimable privilege declares that she didn't enjoy the experiment very much, after all.

"In the first place," she said, "the eatables were completely overcome and dominated by the plates on which they were served. The daintiest morsels seemed to have no flavor at all, and after awhile I fancied that they became impregnated with the peculiar metallic taste. And then I got it into my head that the man sitting opposite to me was a detective in disguise, placed there to see that I didn't slip a plate into my bodice. He was afterwards introduced to me, and I had reason to believe that his covert glance had been purely sentimental, but they spoilt my supper all the same. No, thank you, fine china ware is good enough for me."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The trial of the noted outlaw Frank James for the Otterville train robbery and obstructing the United States mail, was called up at Boonville, Mo., February 22, and dismissed, leaving Frank James a free man so far as the State of Missouri is concerned. Prosecuting Attorney Shackleford stated that his principal witness had died, and he had no further evidence for conviction. The State was not ready and to save useless expense, he asked that the case be dismissed, which Judge Edwards did. The proceedings were done so quietly and secretly that no one, except those immediately connected with the case, knew anything about it until this morning. Frank James came late last night and was surprised to find out that the case was dismissed and he was free to go where he pleased. He left this morning for his home.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Wellington Standard innocently remarked that "The Arkansas river is solid ice--frozen to the bottom," and these two little lines brought forth sparks of burning brimstone from the Arkansas City Traveler that would make the "devil himself" quake and tremble. Listen: "We want to see the editor of the Standard, we want to see him bad. We would like to link our bony arms around his neck, introduce our fingers into his eye sockets, fill his mouth with Limburger cheese, and compel him to accompany us to the bank of the aforesaid beautiful stream and convince him that the river was not frozen to the bottom by shoving him head foremost about a dozen times through the clear water to the gravelly bed. We would compel the boys who are swimming there to tie his clothes into double compound, complex knots, to mud ball him, duck him roast him. We would insist on him taking a turn fishing and would push him into the river's limpid waters, and hook him out with fish hooks; we would take him out boat riding and make him row, and after all this we wouldn't give him a bite to eat, and will do this tomorrow if he will show his jealous countenance in this burg. You knock that chip off my shoulder, if you dare, doggone you."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Last week Mr. Early West's children, says the Arkansas City Republican, found and ate some castor beans that had been placed in a winter bouquet and thrown out of doors. They came very near killing them, producing violent purgency and vomiting. Doctors were called and through skillful management they soon recovered. Castor beans are very poisonous and persons should be careful in handling them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The joint legislative committee which has been investigating affairs at the state penitentiary has presented its report to the two houses.

After citing the laws governing the institution through directors and wardens, the committee says: "This investigation has disclosed the fact that the wholesome provisions of these sections of law have been largely, if not wholly, disregarded by both the directors and warden, particularly in the matter of the warden, particularly in the matter of the examination and approval of accounts. The directors, whose duty it is, evidently, to assist the warden in these examinations of accounts, intrusted the performance of that duty to the clerk, Mr. Pusey, and the warden, claiming that he relied upon the approval of the directors, failed to make such examinations thereto as he should have made, to have duly protected the interests of the state. The result of such disregard of the provisions of the law and business principles has resulted in a loss at this time to the state of quite a large amount of money, as will more fully appear hereafter. The law contemplates that the directors shall keep a record of their transactions. This they have not done, as will be seen from a copy of the entire record of one of their meetings (which is hereto attached and marked exhibit "A"), at which meeting accounts to the amount of thousands of dollars were approved by said board. This exhibit is but a specimen of the manner in which their accounts were generally kept. During the summer and fall last past the financial management appears to have been almost entirely surrendered by the warden to the late clerk, Pusey. The payment of bills, the adjustment of accounts and the preparation of vouchers appears to have been entirely left in his hands. Detailed statements of the cash received and of the indebtedness incurred were sworn to by the warden as correct with the most cursory and superficial examinations, if examined at all.

The irregularities in the books and papers of the institution first began to appear in July last, and previous to that time, there is no evidence that any money was lost to the state. The lack of restraint on Mr. Pusey and his uncontrolled management of the financial affairs seem to have begun to bring forth its illegitimate fruit and beginning with August, 1883, the practice of allowing Mr. Pusey to make the warden's settlements with the auditor and treasurer commenced. During the fourteen months succeeding, Mr. Pusey made eight regular monthly settlements on water business. The records of the auditor of the state show that at first Mr. Pusey's settlements for Warden Jones were only occasionally, but later they increased and, during the five consecutive months, Mr. Pusey made the regular settlements. These settlements were made with the auditor and treasurer upon the written request of the warden."

Then followed in detail the defalcation of Pusey as they occurred; after which, the report continued as follows: "The system of making petty coal sales in vogue at the institution gave Mr. Pusey scope for the exercise of his peculiar talent. A person wanting to purchase coal would make his application, and after paying for the amount of coal desired, would receive an order on the weigh clerk for the same. On presentation of the order, the coal would be delivered to him and the order taken up by the clerk. No record was made of the issuance of the order. At the close of each day's transaction, these orders were returned to Mr. Pusey by the weigh clerk, and, as there were no records, Mr. Pusey made such use of them as he saw fit. If the orders were destroyed, the money need not be accounted for and many orders must have been by him destroyed. Since the discovery of Mr. Pusey's frauds, however, this system has been changed and the orders are delivered by the weigh clerk to the warden instead of to the clerk. The total amount of Pusey's embezzlement, as nearly as can be ascertained, by the petty coal steals, is about $5,000. The following tabulated statement will give the various amounts, specifically, with date: August 6^th, on settlement with the state and not accounted for by Pusey, $200; September 18^th, received by Pusey on George W. Innes & Co.'s vouchers (forged), $2,782.36; received by Pusey from error in the settlement of the account with G. Samish, not accounted for, $150; the check of Warden Jones in payment of a draft on Ripley & Kemple, retained by Pusey, $447.28; salary drawn by Pusey in excess of the amount due him, $83.33; received on coal sales, not accounted for by Pusey, but amount admitted by the warden, $328.70.

In this connection it is but just for the committee to say that there is no evidence or suspicion tending to show that the warden acted incorrectly in any instance. His duties have been many and he placed too much confidence in a clerk for whose appointment he was not responsible. The appointment had been dictated to the board of directors by the then governor of the state. The difficulties which Warden Jones labored under which are urged in palliation of his neglect, can be to a considerable extent removed by giving the warden clerical assistance--either a private secretary or a clerk, for whose appointment and transactions he shall be held responsible and whose duties it should be to keep the warden's cash book and compare detailed statements and vouchers with invoices, etc., before the statement and voucher is approved by the warden. The present management took charge of the institution under exceptionally favorable circumstances. The discipline and management were in thorough order, and the coal mine in so nearly a perfected state that the plans of the late warden had but to be carried out to insure a financial success, such as had hardly been deemed possible in the history of prison management. That this has largely been done is evident by the large output of coal and the self-supporting condition of the institution. At the time of our visit to the institution, there were 777 convicts. To accommodate this large number, in many instances two prisoners had to occupy the same cell, the total number of cells being 688. The cells are in dimensions 7½ x 7 x 4 feet, which size is wholly inadequate for the accommodation of two persons. The question of dollars and cents, ever so important in state actions is not the only one to consider. Humanity is interested in knowing that all proper efforts have been made toward reclaiming to better life those who, at the expiration of their terms, are returned to society. We, therefore, recommend that an institution, reformatory in its character, be built at as early a date as possible by utilizing, as far as may be the labor now at the disposal of the state, and that, when built, it be used for the confinement of those convicted of their first offense and for lesser crimes; that they be clad in a garb differing from that in vogue; that such be authorized by law; that when those serving terms from the state shall prove incorrigible, they shall be transferred to the penitentiary; also that the trusty and meritorious in the penitentiary may, during later periods, be transferred to such reformatory place.

The report concludes with extensive and creditable notices of the new water works, said to be the best in the state, and the macadamized road to Leavenworth. The committee recommends a more perfect system of sewerage, the employment of a secretary for the warden, and an assistant physician, and that the records of the prison in all respects be kept more systematically.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The bill reported to the senate to enable the President to negotiate for the purchase of the Oklahoma lands provides, among other things, that any person who, without authority of law, enters these lands shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisonment not more than one year, or both, for the first offense and fined $1,000 or imprisonment not more than two years for each subsequent offense. The bill authorizes the seizure of the outfit of such persons.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A citizen of Wichita once died and went to heaven, said a modern Munchausen. At the golden gate he was asked his name, which he told, and where he came from. When he said he was from Wichita, the angel told him he could not enter. Accordingly he went down to hades. The Devil asked him his name, which he told, and also where he came from. When he said he was from Wichita the Devil said he could not come in. "My God!" exclaimed the man, "must I go back to Wichita?"

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

This globe we have in mind is over seven feet in diameter and made of wood, by a Capuchin monk, Father Legrand, in 1729, and is, today, preserved in the public library of Dijon, the French ancestral home of Father Laurent. On the proper place of its huge surface is marked the then known geography of what is now the State of Iowa and adjacent territory, and, as elsewhere appears in the report of the Academy of Science meeting, transcripts of this part of the globe (relating to Iowa) have been carefully made by M. Guignard, Librarian of Dijon, and transmitted to the academy.

What was known of Iowa and what was Iowa 160 years ago? We find the great river flowing by her eastern border and then known as the "Missisipi." Lake "Pepin" is located near St. Paul, and is an immense widening of the river, which, from this point north breaks into many streams.

The River des Moingona is easily recognizable from its name and course as the Des Moines, and is quite accurately traced, but widens into an immense lake near the Minnesota line, and at a point quite above is marked the spot inscribed: "To this point came the Baron Lahontan." It is probable that the Baron got mixed up in traveling over those marshy prairies, for, though he evidently struck Lake Obokoji and Spirit Lake, he evidently got over on the Missouri. This river is down, but it runs parallel with the Moingona or Des Moines, up into Iowa and comes to a sudden end. Between these rivers was the apparent missionary ground of the Jesuit fathers, for this country is thickly lined with the names of Indian tribes, while north of the Des Moines we find few Indian settlements.

Of the Indians, the Panis appear the most numerous. Others are the Esanapes, Panibousas, Paoutaousas, Alaouez, Mahas, Tintons, Osages, Apanas, Panisassas, Cansas, and the Illinois, the latter being put on the West bank of the Mississippi river, near St. Louis.

The only bluffs marked on the great river are located near Muscatine and below in Illinois.

There is a river flowing from a Lake Panis in Missouri eastwardly, which is named "Meschasepi," evidently a corruption of or the original of Mississippi.

The Ouabache (Wabash) empties into the Mississippi where the Ohio joins it, and the fathers evidently supposed the two rivers were one and the same.

Fort St. Louis is marked on the Illinois river, about 100 miles from its mouth.

Salt Springs are located very near the celebrated Hot Springs of Arkansas, and it is probable that the famous Arkansas baths had been tried by these early missionaries; let us hope with great relief to those pioneer fathers who were traversing the malarial swamps of the West 200 years ago in the service of their Master.

Many other singular features appear in these extracts from the old globe. They are the earliest map of Iowa extant, so far as known, and will be studied with deep interest by students of history and geography. They settle the question of the origin of the name of Iowa's capital and river, which but for the elegance of the present combination should be changed from Des Moines to Moingona. The present name has no meaning; the other name would perpetuate the memory of what appears to have been Iowa's most powerful tribe of Indians.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Sam Randall won't take a cabinet position, it is said. Sammy apparently thinks he is a bigger man than Cleveland.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The U. S. Senate passed the bill containing an appropriation of $50,000 for the erection of a public building at Wichita, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Cleveland is said to have a "cool-brindle eye." A cow with that variety of eye is very apt to be wicked. Will the parallel hold?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Senator Ingalls does not believe in European contract pauper labor. Our Senator takes the side of the workingman every time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

In its last issue Puck has a very suggestive cartoon--a recumbent lion being kicked by an ass. The lion is Gen. Grant and the ass is dressed in a major general's uniform labeled Rosecrans.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Gladstone government is having a difficult time in explaining, in the face of lately published letters of Gordon, in which he severely censures the government for leaving him to his fate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

There is less talk now and less apprehension in Washington of an extra session of Congress. The Republican Senate by its prompt dispatch of work the Democratic house delayed, has brought about this relief to the public mind.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

If, owing to the inhospitality of the climate, and the ruggedness of the route, Gen. Wolseley couldn't get to Khartoum, we do not see how the Irish patriots are going to get five Gatlin guns and a ton or two of Congreve rockets to El Mahdi, as has been suggested.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The country press seems largely inclined to help Sedalia to the capital of Missouri. The difficulty of getting to Jefferson City and the poor accommodations afforded when one gets there, are conspiring to make the removal of the capital popular throughout the state.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The value of wheat and flour imported into Canada for the last six months of 1884 was $1,650,268; corn meals $185,061. The total value of wheat exported from Canada for the six months mentioned here above is $3,460,167, of which only $782,909 was the produce of Canada.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A German test for watered milk consists in dipping a well polished knitting needle into a deep vessel of milk, and then immediately withdrawing it in an upright position. If the milk is pure, a drop of the fluid will hang to the needle; but the addition of even a small proportion of water will prevent the adhesion of the drop.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Frank Bacon, the Kansas commissioner at New Orleans, in his reply to the resolution of the Kansas legislature, condemning his action in joining in an invitation to Jeff Davis to help escort Liberty bell to New Orleans, takes over a column of nonpareil in relating how he captured Jeff at Beauvais. It rather strikes us that Jeff captured Mr. Bacon by a very numerous majority.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The reports of Gen. Grant's condition are such as to create widespread alarm. Though the mission of his life may be said to have been accomplished, if great achievements form a measure for any man, yet the American people are loath to believe that he is in danger. The hope is sincere and universal that Gen. Grant may be long spared to us as the first citizen of our great republic.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A story is told of a shrewish Scotch woman who tried to wean her husband from the dram-shop by employing her brother to act the part of a ghost and brighten John on his way home. "Who are you?" said the man as the apparition rose before him from behind a bush. "I am Auld Nick," was the reply. "Come awe,' mon," said John, nothing daunted. "Gie's a shake o' your hand. I am married tae a sister o' yours."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The annual report of Spofford, librarian of Congress, has been submitted to the Senate. It said the library contains 544,087 volumes, and 185,000 pamphlets, an increase of 31,256 volumes over the previous year. The law library, included in the above statement, contains 63,265 volumes. The "copyright office" report says: "It still shows increased business notwithstanding commercial and industrial depression."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Just why the United States should pay Charley Reed and Scoville $5,000 for defending Guiteau, we cannot understand. They were appointed by no court to do it: Scoville being a brother-in-law of the assassin became his council at his solicitation, and Charley Reed volunteered to defend the assassin for the sake of the notoriety it would give him. It is just robbing the people of $5,000 outright to give it to this twain for defending Guiteau.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The way the New York World goes for the mugwumps is absolutely cruel. They deserve no recognition whatever at the hands of the Democrats, it says, for Mr. Cleveland is in honor bound to make his administration distinctively, thoroughly, uncompromisingly Democratic in all its political features. As the World is quite generally supposed to voice the sentiments of the incoming administration, it is quite evident that there is a period of exceedingly chilly weather in prospect for the mugwumps.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

It is said the Mormon President and party, who have been in Mexico on a secret mission, have completed arrangements with Chief Cajeur to remove the polygamists to Sonora, Mexico. It is said that President Taylor has agreed to settle 50,000 people there within two years, and that the polygamists will leave the monogamists in a body. The report has not been verified yet, but our long suffering people will bid them "God-speed" in any undertaking that will relieve this country of the pest. We hope it is true.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

An Arkansas squire is always equal to the occasion however trying it may be. An incident illustrating this happened in the St. Francis Bottoms, Arkansas, a few days ago. A negro was crossing the Tyronza river on a mule, fell off, and was drowned. The mule, however, came safely to shore and was immediately taken possession of by a "squire" who lived thereabouts. The river was dragged and after some time the negro's body was found and on it was strapped a pistol. Right here was where the "squire" came to the front. The negro had been dead three days, but the squire fined him $50 and costs for carrying concealed weapons, and in default of payment confiscated the mule and pistol. A great and glorious future awaits this "squire."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Senate has passed the bill authorizing the president to enter into negotiations to acquire for the Government full title to the Oklahoma lands, to the end that they may be thrown open to white settlement. It is hardly likely that the House can take up the bill, as it is so pressed with delayed work that it can hardly give attention to any new legislation. If the opening of Oklahoma be delayed until next December, when the Forty-ninth Congress convenes, the present Democratic House can be blamed for it. Legislation in regard to Oklahoma is imperatively demanded by large numbers and great interests in the west, but this measure like many other pieces of legislation is almost certain not to be entertained by the House--it having frittered away valuable time in profitless discussions.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The greatest obstacle to the enforcement of the prohibitory law is the fact that express companies take orders for liquors of persons all along the line of the railroads, and bring such liquors from Missouri to supply their customers for drinking purposes. And even this is not the worst of it. The express offices in the towns and cities of Kansas have become the vilest kind of doggeries, keeping on hand beer and whiskey in bottles, kegs, and demijohns for sale, and selling to those who apply. Of course, they have a pretense that the sale is a delivery of a package received by express, C. O. D., addressed to the applicant, but in fact the address is supplied to a package already on hand when the applicant calls, so a man can get his order on a Kansas City house filled in one minute after leaving his order with the express agent in the interior of Kansas. It is the baldest kind of violation and defiance of the law, and these vile dons of infamy running as express offices ought to be suppressed whatever the damage or inconvenience to our citizens in their legitimate uses for express business.

Two of these dens have existed in Winfield for the past two or three years, and the only valid argument used here against the prohibitory law is that under it the express companies without paying any license or other tax do the dram-shop business that would pay license and other taxes but for the law.

Senator Jennings attempted in the Senate to amend H. B. 367, by fining the transportation companies heavily and imprisoning the agents or employees who handle, transport, and deliver intoxicating liquors to anyone in Kansas not authorized to sell under the law, or to anyone to be used as a beverage, or sold in violation of law.

But this amendment failed because it interferes with railroad traffic, and a majority of the Senators are owned by the railroads. Some Senators are strongly for any amendment which will make the prohibitory law more efficient, save such as will interfere with or tend to regulate railroad traffic. With them, railroads and express companies are above law, are "bigger" than the State of Kansas, and should rule and regulate the State instead of the State regulating them.

One of the smart arguments against the amendment was that it would "bust up" the Republican party. This is the stock of argument on all questions, and if any member of the Kansas Legislature is idiotic enough to let such a foolish, bulldozing argument influence him in the least on any question, he should be furnished quarters in the State Imbecile Institution at once.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

We publish today a letter of President Cleveland under date of February 24, in reply to 100 members of Congress in favor of silver coinage, requesting the incoming President to make no recommendation in his inaugural address in favor of the proposed suspension. Mr. Cleveland states the facts of the situation in a concise and statesmanlike manner and his views in our opinion are eminently sound. The imminent danger is that gold will be displaced as currency and sent to Europe, becoming in this country a commodity for speculation and held at a premium of 15 to 20 percent, possibly higher. The effect would be to cause a most serious panic, reduce the volume of currency $300,000,000 and reducing the prices of labor and farm products to anti-war rates, thus fully terminating our long period of unprecedented prosperity.

We think the silver producers and speculators are asking too much of the people of the United States when they demand that the government shall buy all their silver bullion to pile up in the treasury without increasing the circulation of currency but at the expense of the prosperity of the whole people.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The committee on public lands reported to the national Senate February 24, with amendments, the bill to prevent aliens from acquiring land in the Territories. As amended, it provides that hereafter it shall be unlawful for persons not citizens of the United States, or who have not declared their intention to become such, or for foreign corporations to hold real estate in the Territories. The bill also provides that no railroad, turnpike, or canal corporation shall hereafter acquire or own lands in the Territories, except such as are necessary for their operation or have been granted by Congress; and all such lands, whether acquired before or after the passage of this act, which are not necessary for the operation of such companies, shall be disposed of within ten years after the passage of this act, and, if not disposed of, shall be forfeited to the United States. All property acquired in violation of this act shall be forfeited to the United States.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Col. W. C. Jones, Warden of the State Penitentiary, at Lansing, has very sensibly tendered to Governor Martin his resignation, with the request that it take effect April 1^st. The resignation was accepted and Col. Jones' successor will be appointed before the Legislature adjourns sine die.

Thomas Taylor, the gentleman appointed by Governor Glick, December 17^th, to take the census of Comanche County, with a view to perfecting its organization, made his returns to Governor Martin Feb. 26^th, showing 2,579 inhabitants. The county seat has not yet been established. There are three candidates for the honor: Coldwater, Nescatunga, and Avilla, but the face of the returns appear to indicate that a majority of the legal voters are favorable to Coldwater. Whether they take kindly to the fluid known by that name is not stated, but there seems to be a lurking suspicion about headquarters that they do.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The trial of Judge Advocate General, David G. Swaim, by the court martial has finally concluded by the finding of "guilty of conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline, but not guilty of neglect of duty; not guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer, and not guilty of selling forage on his own account." The sentence of the court is to be suspended from rank and duty for twelve years and forfeit one half of his monthly pay for the same period. The President has finally approved the sentence, though he criticizes the court unmercifully for its inconsistencies.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A modern scientist has discovered that mental activity enhances physical beauty, thus controverting an old theory. He says: "A handsome man or woman either who does nothing but lives well or self indulgently, grows flabby and all the fine lines of the features are lost, but the hard thinker has an admirable sculptor always at work keeping his fine lines in repair and constantly going over his face to improve the original design."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

At a party given by Senator and Mrs. Miller, of California, recently, Senator Bayard's daughter wore the startling costume of the evening in the dress of a "lady of the First Empire." The scant and clinging garments were of pale blue cashmere, the waist only the merest girdle or zone of pearls, and the skirt open at one side to the knee.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The habit which frontier postmasters have of carrying the mail around in the pockets of their trousers vexes the souls of the cowboys. When one of the latter has ridden 200 miles after his mail and is told by the postmaster's wife that the post office has gone after a barrel of water and won't be back for two days, the "cow-puncher" feels like complaining to the Government.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

When the new administration is settled firmly into power and the office seekers have been provided for that can be accommodate, then 1,000 cowboys will be needed to make a grand round up in the District of Columbia of all the disappointed office seekers, then a charity committee to provide transportation home. Two hours spent in that crowd would cause any ordinary man to commit suicide.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The question before the United States Senate, being in substance, if not in words, "Resolved, That we are opposed to the assassination of unoffending people by dynamite." It was carried, 65 to 1. The negative vote was cast by Senator Riddleberger, who thereby wrote himself down an ass, and as near infamous as an ass may be.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The following is the reply addressed by President-elect Cleveland to the silver coinage advocates in congress.

To Hon. A. J. Warner and others, members of the Forty-eighth congress.

Gentlemen: The letter which I have had the honor to receive from you invites, and indeed obliges me to give an expression to some great public necessities, although in advance of the moment when they would become objects of my official care and partial responsibility. Your solicitude that my judgment shall have been carefully and deliberately formed is entirely just and I accept the suggestion in the same friendly spirit in which it has been made. It is also fully justified by the nature of a financial crisis which under the operation of the act of congress of February 28, 1878, is now close at hand. By compliance with the requirements of that law, all the vaults of treasury have been and are heaped full of silver coins, which are now worth less than 85 percent of the gold dollar prescribed as the "unit of value" in section 14 of the act of February 12, 1873, and which, with the silver certificates representing such coin, receivable for all public dues. Being thus receivable, while also constantly increasing in quantity at the rate of $28,000,000 a year it has followed of necessity that the flow of gold into the treasury has been steadily diminished, silver and silver certificates have displaced and are now displacing gold, and the sum of gold in the federal treasury now available for payment of the gold obligations of the United States and for the redemption of United States notes called "greenbacks," if not already encroached upon is perilously near such encroachment. These facts, while they do not admit of difference of opinion, call for argument. They have been forewarned to us in the official reports of every secretary of treasury from 1878 till now. They are plainly affirmed in the last December report of the present secretary to the speaker of the present house of representatives. They appear in the official documents of this congress and in the records of the New York clearing house of which the treasury is a member, and through which the bulk of receipts and payments of the federal government and country pass. These being the facts of our present condition, our danger and our duty is to avert that danger which would seem to be plain. I hope that you concur with me, and with the great majority of our fellow citizens, in deeming it the most desirable at the present juncture to maintain and continue in use the mass of our gold coin as well as the mass of silver already coined. This is possible by the present suspension of the purchase and coinage of silver. I am not aware that by any other method it is possible. It is of momentous importance to prevent the two metals parting company; to prevent increasing the displacement of gold by increasing the coinage of silver, to prevent the disuse of gold in the custom houses of the United States in daily business of the country. While to prevent the ultimate expulsion of gold by silver, which financial crisis, as these events would certainly precipitate, were it now to follow on so long a period of commercial depression it would involve the people of every city and every state in the Union in prolonged and disastrous trouble, and a revival of business enterprise and prosperity so ardently desired and apparently so near, would be hopelessly postponed. Gold would be withdrawn to its hoarding place, and unprecedented contraction in the actual volume of our currency would speedily take place. The saddest of all would be in every workshop, mill, factory, store, and on every railroad and farm. The wages of labor already depressed would suffer still further depression by the scaling down of the purchasing power of every so-called dollar paid into the hands of toil. From these impending calamities rests surely the most patriotic and grateful duty of the representatives of the people to deliver them.

I am, gentlemen, with sincere respect, your fellow citizen.

Albany, Feb. 24, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The report of Special Agent Evans of the treasury department on the operations of the trade between the United States and Mexico as the result of his investigations under instructions from the department, has been received by Secretary McCulloch. It sets forth that Mexican customs and regulations are difficult of comprehension, and unnecessarily onerous, no less than seventeen papers or copies being required to be presented on direct importation, and a consular invoice costing $14.56 being required when the value of the goods exceeds $40. Irregularities in papers, from whatever cause, render the importer liable to the charge of double and in some cases treble duty, and petty fines are imposed for the omission of minor words and misspellings and everything seems to be done by the custom officers to retard business. Trains carrying goods were being delayed, and permits and stamps being required at almost every stage of importation, while the number of examinations required after the goods have passed the frontier and paid duty, are extremely annoying, independent of delay. On the question of reciprocity, Mr. Evans says: "It is urged that congress would relieve this country from gloom and suffering caused by business depression by adopting reciprocity relations with Mexico and thus open a new channel for the sale of American products. Disappointment, in my judgment, awaits such expectations. Of twenty articles to be admitted free from Mexico under the treaty, fourteen are now free under the general tariff law. Of the seventy-three articles which may be introduced into Mexico without duty, fifty are now free except a charge for package or bulk duty, and twenty-three comprise articles for which there appears to be no market in Mexico."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A few days ago, in Hawkins County, Tennessee, James Reynolds put kerosene oil on the top of the heads of his three little children, aged 2, 4, and 6 years, for the purpose of killing vermin. Two of the children died within two hours. A physician saved the other.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Imagine a man about 40 years of age, of medium height, as lean, as the saying is, as shotten herring, with a mahogany complexion, cole-black beard and eyes, and three vertical slashes on his pallid cheeks; add to this a long cotton shirt as a garment, a narrow turban as a headdress, a pair of wooden sandals, and in his hand--dry as those of a mummy--a string of ninety heads, corresponding to an equal number of divine attributes, and you have the Mahdi. Those who have seen him say that Mohammed Ahmed plays to perfection the part of a visionary dervish, waving his head when walking, and murmuring constant prayers, his eyes fixed on heaven.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The Post-Dispatch publishes a special from Albany which it claims is perfectly authentic and reliable. It states that Cleveland has already offered five Cabinet portfolios, and that they have been accepted by the following gentlemen: Bayard, Secretary of State; Manning, the Treasury; Lamar, the Interior Department; Vilas, Postmaster General; and Garland, Attorney General. Cleveland wishes to appoint Whitney Secretary of the Navy, but hesitates to take two Cabinet officers from New York State. It is probable, however, that the portfolio of the War Department will be tendered either to Judge Endicott or Patrick A. Collins, both of Massachusetts, with a preference for Endicott, who was the Democratic nominee for Governor last Summer, and who will come nearer than any other gentleman representing the Independents in the Cabinet. Cleveland, in his inaugural, will take his stand on the tariff question on the plank in the Chicago Convention platform. He will take a positive position on the silver question in favor of one standard.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The elopement craze may be considered at its climax when young women elope and marry men for whom they do not care, according to their own confession. This is what a Buckeye maiden has just done. She is a millionaire in her own right--he a roller-skater master. He has, however, been bought off, receiving $15,000, and promising to disappear and never claim his wife. The first chapter is thus ended.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

A Wilkes-Barre funny man offered a tempting wager that Cleveland would never see Washington alive, and that exactly four months after his inauguration three-fourths of the business houses of the country would be closed. As Washington is believed to be permanently dead, and the Fourth of July is a National holiday, the tender seems to be safe.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

San Francisco is once more in convulsions over the Chinese question, because a court has very properly decided that Chinese children cannot be excluded from the public schools. There are 1,000 or more of them of school age in the city, and the thought is a dagger in the San Francisco breast. Their children, they vow, shall never "go to school with the little pagans."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

There is no immediate danger of ex-Senator Dorsey coming to want. His profits last year from his big cattle ranch were $150,000. He proposes during this year to make an extended European tour in company with Bob Ingersoll. It is said to be the intention of the latter to remain several years abroad with his family.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

SECTION 1. The board of railroad commissioners shall from time to time, upon complaint by any bona fide shipper or other person interested, if they deem such complaint reasonable, investigate the same, and shall direct such changes in the freight rate charges of any railroad company doing business in this state, upon any commodity or kind of freight mentioned in said complaint; and the schedule containing such freight rate changes so modified shall be posted by the railroad company thus affected as the board of commissioners shall direct. Said board of commissioners shall on like complaint and investigation, also direct any change in the classification of any commodity or kind of freight, from any class to any other class, as may be deemed reasonable and proper. Before making any change as herein provided, either in freight rate charges or classification, the board of commissioners shall give at least ten days' notice to the railroad company whose rates of freight or classification it is proposed to change, and such railroad company may appear by its agent or other person and show cause, if any, why such proposed change should not be made; a certified copy of such changed rate of freight charges shall be furnished by the board of commissioners to the managing officer of the road affected, and shall take effect from such date as said board may direct; and a certified copy of such changed schedule of freight rate charges shall be deemed and taken in all courts of this state as prima facie evidence of the reasonableness of the freight rate charges of the commodity or kind of freight upon which such freight rate charges have been changed, and the certificate of the commissioners, together with the schedule of freight rate charges containing the rates so changed, shall be held prima facie reasonable freight rate charges established by said board of commissioners in all suits against such railroad company whose freight rates have been so changed, until the contrary is proven.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official state paper.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Kansas City Journal report of February 27^th: The members assembled this morning, wearing solemn countenances. At first sight they appeared prepared for the final day, and were only lacking their ascension robes. The sergeant-at-arms felt his heart thump, for he had used the last yard of linen in covering the carpets, and here were over 100 members clamoring, as he supposed, for robes to cover their manly forms as they winged their flight to the region of clouds as the earth sank to nothingness. In groups the members assembled, and low toned, earnest voices indicated something serious. The speaker found no difficulty in seating the members, as was usually the case. The chaplain was delighted at the attention he received. Chief Clerk Martin's voice sounded through the hall with more distinctness than usual, and he imagined for once that the members would listen to the proceedings of the previous day; but they did not. The journal was stopped as usual, and then the actual feelings of the members became apparent. Member after member arose with calendar in hand, and desired to know what had become of certain bills. The committee appointed to revise the calendar had dropped about 100 bills. To this each man had no objection, so long as his bill was not interfered with. When the printed book was placed in the hands of the members this morning, there was a hasty scanning of its contents, and lowering brows were seen all around. The music commenced as soon as the journal was closed. Efforts were made to resurrect bills that had gone through the furnace. Principal among them was the bill making appropriations for the current expenses of the asylum for idiots and inebriates at Lawrence. This had been marked from the calendar, and the bill making an appropriation for the erection of a building for this purpose at Winfield had found a resting place among the bills on the third reading. Mr. Roberts of Douglas tried to secure an explanation, and also to bring his bill back to its proper place, but failed, as Mr. Greer of Winfield had fastened the clasps too securely for them to be loosened. It now looks as though the Winfield fellows had captured the idiots and imbeciles.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

James N. Merritt, of Wamego, died at Providence hospital in this city last week, after a lingering illness of several months. At the time of his death there were present his wife and brother. He was down here in days gone by as one of the brightest and brainiest men who visited the capital from the west and socially was greatly esteemed. He was in the 41^st year of his age. The remains will be forwarded to Kansas tomorrow morning and will be met at Kansas City by his seven brothers.

Senator Plumb deprecates the manner in which Congress has deferred the most important legislation until the closing hours of the session and cites the civil sundry bill appropriation of $22,000,000, as an example. When the bill shall have passed, he says it will not have had four full day's consideration. The Missouri members all voted for the river and harbor bill as it finally passed.

The House foreign affairs committee today authorized Mr. Eaton, of Connecticut, to submit to the House a favorable report upon Mr. LeFevre's resolution calling for retaliatory action for Germany's restrictions upon American products.

Mr. Eaton takes the ground occupied by LeFevre's resolution that under our treaties with Germany that country has been favored above all others; that discrimination against American products was in violation of the spirit of these treaties, and that the situation warrants the action suggested in the resolution.

Owing to heavy payments from the treasury in the present month for pensions and other obligations, it is estimated that there will be but a small reduction of the public debt for February.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The day was mostly spent in discussion of H. B. 367 amendatory and supplemental to the prohibitory law. Senators Lloyd, H. B. Kelly, White, Blue, Hick, Pickler, Bawden, Buchan, Kellogg, Jennings, and others took part. Many proposed amendments were voted down and one carried, that proposed by Mr. Jennings making the penalty for the first offense not less than $100, and ten days imprisonment and for subsequent offenses, not less than $200 and thirty days imprisonment, and in no case over $500 and ninety days imprisonment. Several amendments to make the language more grammatical carried.

House bill (Greer's) 246 to enable cities of the second class to extend their corporate limits, was considered in Committee of the Whole and recommended for passage.

The concurrent resolution asking the Attorney General to inquire into the liability of parties for the amounts stolen by Pusey at the Penitentiary, was adopted.

Bill reported by the Committee on elections, changing township elections from February to November, was passed.

The Judiciary Committee made report upon the communication of the Attorney General covering a proposition from the Union Pacific Railroad Company, messaged to the Legislature by the Governor. The Committee reported a resolution to instruct the Attorney General to accept the proposition and dismiss the quo warranto proceedings. Mr. Gillett moved that the report be printed for future consideration. Mr. Slavens explained the necessity for prompt action. The case comes up before Judge Brewer next Tuesday. The counsel for the State ask instruction. The motion to print prevailed.

Mr. McTaggart's H. B. 401, to authorize Cherokee township, of Montgomery County, to issue bridge bonds, passed.

The hour having arrived for special order, being report of special committee upon the railroad bills. Their report was read. It includes a substitute bill.

Mr. Simpson submitted a minority report, disagreeing with the report of the majority, because it does not make it the duty of the Railroad Commissioners to fix freight rates. The minority, Simpson and Butterfield, also report a bill, which was read.

Mr. Hatfield moved that both reports be tabled and printed. Mr. McNall characterized this motion as child's play. Mr. Simpson was willing the bills should be printed, but desired that the printing shall be done at once. Mr. Hatfield accepted an amendment making the bills special order for 3 p.m. this day, and his motion to print prevailed.

Mr. Bond's H. B. 112, to punish misrepresentation of breeding stock, passed.

Mr. Beattie's H. B. 311, creating the Twenty-second Judicial District from the counties of Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee, and Riley; Mr. Sweezy offered an amendment to include Osage County in this district, which was adopted. The bill was further amended so as to arrange the terms of court in the four counties, and the bill passed.

Mr. Reeves' H. B. 61, giving Republic County another term of court, was amended so as to provide for a change of the terms of court in Washington County, and passed.

Senator White's S. B. 44, creating the Twentieth Judicial District from the counties of Rice, Barton, Stafford, and Pratt; passed.

Senator Case's S. B. 209, creating the Twenty-first Judicial District from the counties of Rush, Ellis, Ness, and Trego, together with several unorganized counties, was read a third time and voted down.

The Quantrell raid bill was defeated, and an amendment to the Price raid bill voted down.

No. 360 in relation to cities of the first class, was discussed, amended, and recommended for passage in Committee of the Whole

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A memorial was presented from Mr. Albert Perry, one of the Directors of the Penitentiary, defending himself and the Board against the charges in the report of the Penitentiary investigation Committee.

A long debate occurred over $50,000 appropriation to the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth. It was referred to the committee on claims.

After ordering three bills in regard to schools, one in regard to free libraries, one for organization and compensation of militia, and one in relation to bridges, to third reading, subject to amendment and debate, the Senate took up the special order, House bill No. 367, the temperance bill.

Senator Jennings moved an additional section prohibiting railroads and express companies from transporting and delivering any of the liquors named in section one, except to druggists holding permits. It fines the company and imprisons the employees.

Senator H. B. Kelly moved to lay the amendment on the table. Lost. Yeas 5, nays 23.

The question was recorded on motion of Senator Jennings.

Senator Jennings spoke earnestly in favor of his amendment. He went into a recital of his own experience and the experiences of others in his district. The law had been pretty faithfully executed, but the great barrier in its way was in the fact that when all other means of evading it had failed, the resort was had to securing it through railroads and express offices. There was no reason why common carriers should be able to assist the violators of law.

Senator White opposed the motion.

H. B. Kelly, Lloyd, and several others discussed the amendment.

The amendment of Senator Jennings was then lost: yeas 14, nays 21.

Senator Allen offered the following amendment, which was adopted.

Any officer, agent, or employee of any railroad company, express company, or other common carrier, who shall knowingly carry or deliver any intoxicating liquors to or for any person, to be sold in violation of this act, or the act to which this act is amendatory and supplemental shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500, and be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty nor more than sixty days.

House bill No. 5, concerning teachers and studies in common schools, was passed on third reading.

The great bone of contention, the substitute for Senate bill No. 12 (Senator Butler's bill) was taken up, and after considerable wrangling and various efforts to amend and refer, the Senate adjourned without definite action.

Mr. Sweezy: To authorize Township Boards to levy taxes upon all property in their townships. This was advanced to position on the calendar for third reading.

Mr. Glasgow: To authorize Republic County to levy bridge taxes.

Mr. Currier: To encourage the training of youth in the mechanic arts.

Mr. Benning: To legalize a certain levy in Atchison County.

Senate Amendments to the House bill to establish a Board of Pardons were considered. Mr. Slavens stated the urgent necessity for the passage of the bill, arising from the large number of applications for pardons left over by the outgoing Governor. Mr. Buck thought it unfortunate that the bill had been changed as it has by the Senate, but hoped the bill would become a law, as it is the best we can get. The Senate's amendment concurred in.

The House considered the special order in committee of the whole, with Mr. Carroll presiding, it being the bills reported by the special committee on railroad bills.

The question being a choice between the two bills for consideration. Mr. McNall attacked the proviso in the majority bill which gives railroad companies the right to take 3½ cents per mile passengers fare when fare is paid on the train. Also in that the committee have not obeyed the instruction of the House given when the committee was created, to report a bill which should make it the duty of the Commissioners to fix maximum rates for each railroad of the State.

The ten minute rule was raised, and it was the sense of the House that it be suspended during this debate.

The balance of the day was spent in the debate.

The evening was spent in discussing the Price raid bill and resulted in indefinite postponement.

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A concurrent resolution was passed requesting that all soldiers of the Union army who suffered in rebel prisons during the war be put upon the pension rolls at once, none receiving less than three dollars per month and those over 55 years of age receiving not less than five dollars per month.

An amendment to H. B. 367 providing that persons selling or giving intoxicating drinks to minors be punished by heavy fine and imprisonment was voted down.

The bill 358 fixing terms of court in the 8^th district passed.

H. B. 367 (prohibitory law amendments) passed 30 to 7.

Substitute for H. B. 12 fixing salaries for county officers passed.

S. B. 265 relating to fees and salaries passed.

A large number of local bills passed.

S. B. 123 establishing a Soldier's Orphan's Home passed.

S. B. 254 and S. B. 264, 259, 186, 168, and H. B. 31 relating to the assessment and collection of taxes passed.

Senate bill 140 concerning railroads passed. (As this is the best the Senate will do in that direction and as the House will probably pass it also we give it in full in another column.)

S. B. 225 in relation to the transfer of real estate passed.

Greer's bill to enable cities of the second class to extend their corporate limits passed the Senate.

Other bills of a general character passed, viz.: For filing certified lists of county offices in the Secretary of State's office; for enrolling and engrossing bills; to make up for deficiency in permanent school fund; relating to unorganized counties; making appropriations in the State Historical Society; to pay counties for expenses for destitute insane; to punish for injuries to irrigation canals; relating to liens for irrigating lands; to exclude minors from courts where obscene cases are being tried; exempting certain property from execution; to provide for improving roads; relating to regents and trustees of public institutions; relating to county boards of examiners; relating to furnishing tobacco to minors, and to fix times of holding courts in Eighth judicial district.

State concurrent resolution to order printed 10,000 extra copies of the revised report of the State Board of Agriculture for 1883 and 1884 was concurred in. This gives each member of the Legislature at least fifty copies for distribution.

S. C. R. to order 500 copies of the House bill reported by the Temperance Committee, as mended by the Senate, was concurred in.

To H. B. 5, relating to the physiology and hygiene in the public schools, was concurred in. The amendments change the law requiring teachers to pass examination in those branches to as to only require that they pass such examination in the elements of those topics.

Mr. Roberts discovered an appropriation bill for a new Idiotic Asylum at Winfield on the calendar for third reading, and challenged its position there. He moved that the bill be remanded to general orders. The result was that it was left on third reading, subject to the amendment and debate.

The proposition of the Union Pacific Railway Company, being the special order, was called up by Mr. Clogston. It has appeared in full in the Commonwealth. It has been referred to the Committee on Judiciary, which made report advising the Attorney General to accept the proposition. Mr. Clogston moved that the report of the Judiciary Committee be adopted.

The report of the Judiciary Committee was unanimously adopted, and the concurrent resolution covered in that report was adopted.

The following named bills passed the House.

Bill reported by the Committee on Roads and Highways, constituting township officers, Boards of Commissioners of Highways.

Senator Harwi's S. B. 244, to authorize cities of the first-class to make provision for payments of amounts due on contracts for sewers, bridges, culverts, etc., by levy of taxes or issue of special bonds.

Mr. Jones' bill to authorize the school district at Garden City, Finney County, to vote bonds for a schoolhouse.

In committee of the whole much time was spent in the discussion of bills to provide uniform series of text books for schools.

H. B. 326 grading the salaries of county superintendents with maximum limit $1,500; minimum $400 in counties having more than 1,500 persons of school age, the salary is $600, with $40 dollars more for each additional 100 of such persons. Mr. Cannon and Mr. Carroll opposed the bill. The bill was approved by the committee.

Bills making appropriations for State Reform School and Blind Asylum, were approved.

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The Senate committee on claims reported against the $50,000 appropriation for the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth.

The report of the committee to investigate the liability of parties in relation to the Pusey frauds having reported the adoption of the report was indefinitely postponed.

A bill making Parsons a sub-county seat of Labette County, was advanced on the calendar.

After a great deal of wrangling, and the advancement to third reading of a few local bills, on motion of Senator Buchan, the Senate went into committee of the whole on appropriation bills, Senator Allen in the chair.

Senate bill No. 116, an act making appropriations for executive and judiciary department of the State for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1868, and June 30, 1887, and for deficiencies from the fiscal year ending June 30, 1884, and June 30, 1885, was taken up, and after a thorough, critical examination, was passed to third reading.

Senate bill No. 284, an act making an appropriation and providing for the erection of a suitable building for the "Kansas asylum for idiotic and imbecile children," at Winfield, Kansas.

Senator Barker moved to strike out "Winfield" and insert "Lawrence." He said that this proposition would involve the State in an expense of thirty or forty thousand dollars to no purpose. There was now a building suitable for all the purposes of this school, which could be obtained for nothing. In these times of depression, there was no necessity for useless expenditures.

Senator Jennings spoke very earnestly in favor of Winfield, his own town, and of its advantages. Other Senators spoke upon the subject, but it was hardly serious enough to bring out good speeches. Some of them thought the institution could do no good either to the imbeciles or anybody else.

Senator Barker's motion failed, and Winfield was selected as its locality, and the bill was put upon third reading.

Senate bill No. 250, an act to establish the office of State Entomologist, defining his duties, powers, liabilities, and compensation; also making an appropriation for the salary and office expenses of said officer, from the appointment until June 30, 1885, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887, passed to third reading.

The rules were suspended, and the House commenced the business of the day with

Substitute bill reported by the Committee on Railroads, to require fencing of railroads, was first read. Mr. Hatfield moved that this bill be passed by until the Senate bill on the same subject shall have reached the House. This prevailed.

Mr. Bryant's H. B. 62, providing for the incorporation of mutual livestock insurance companies. Passed.

Mr. Collins' H. B. 298, providing for the formation and regulation of mutual fire insurance companies, passed.

Mr. Corwin's H. B. 100, providing for formation of township mutual fire insurance companies, was defeated.

Mr. Slavens' H. B. 467, to prevent and punish malicious mischief. It makes damage done to animals or property, making a false alarm of fire, pulling a bell rope or setting brakes on a moving train, misdemeanors. Mr. Slavens explained that there are classes of mischief for which the laws do not provide a remedy beyond a civil action for damages. The bill passed.

S. B. 306, to repeal a funding act for Leavenworth County of 1879. It applies also to cities of the first class. It was passed.

Mr. Reeves' H. B. 3, providing for payment of animals having glanders or farcy which are ordered destroyed by authority of law; with a fifty dollar limit per head.

A spirited discussion ensued but no order was made in relation to the bill.

To Mr. Burton's bill changing terms of court in the Eighth judicial district were concurred in. Also in amendments to H. B. 246, to empower cities of the second class to extend their corporate limits. Also in Senate amendments to H. B. 191, authorizing Burton County to issue bonds. Also in Senate amendments to H. B. to vacate parts of streets in Council Grove.

Senate resolution to adjourn Saturday, March 7, was concurred in.

Mr. Cox's H. B. 448, to empower Wakarusa township of Douglas County to build a township hall. Passed.

Mr. Carroll's H. B. 254, to empower the Board of Education in cities of the first-class to take additional bonds from the City Treasurer. Passed.

Mr. Burton's H. B. 463, to punish the manufacture or sale of impure dairy products, butterine, or oleomargarine.

The bill as perfected provides punishment for manufacturing or selling any impure, or unwholesome articles of food coming under the names of dairy products, butterine, or oleomargarine. It also requires manufacturers of articles of food made from oleaginous substances other than the products of pure milk, to label every package on the market with its true name. The bill passed.

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In committee of the whole the following bills passed.

Senate bill No. 309, an act making appropriation for State Printing for the balance of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887.

Senate bill No. 321, an act making appropriation to pay per diem and mileage of regents, trustees, and directors of the State Institutions for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1886, and June 30, 1887, and for deficiencies for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1882, 1883, 1884, and 1885.

Senate bill No. 322, an act making appropriations to the Legislative department.

The committee rose and the report was adopted.

The Senate went into committee of the whole, Senator White in the chair, on the special order, Senate bills 151 and 182, both relating to grand juries.

Senator Jennings explained that the first in order provided for grand juries at each term, while the last provided for a grand jury at least one term in the year.

The motion to have two terms a year carried and the bill was recommended for passage.

The committee rose, and the report was agreed to.

Senator Jennings moved to suspend the rules and that the bill fixing the terms of the District Court in the Thirteenth District be read a third time. Adopted. The bill was read a third time and passed.

The following bills passed a third reading.

House bill No. 470, an act to amend sections 1 and 2 of chapter 102 of the session laws of 1883, naming the counties and fixing the time for holding terms of court in the Eighteenth Judicial District in said counties, and to repeal said sections.

House bill No. 362, an act relating to the Twelfth Judicial District, and providing for the holding of an additional term of court in the county of Republic.

Senate bill No. 319, an act fixing the terms of court in the Ninth Judicial District, and to repeal chapter 96 of the session laws of 1883.

Four local bills passed a third reading.

Senate bill No. 284, an act making an appropriation and providing for the erection of a suitable building for the Kansas Asylum for Idiotic and Imbecile Youth, at Winfield, Kansas, was passed. The appropriation is $25,000.

On motion of Senator Buchan the Senate went into committee of the whole on special appropriation bills.

Substitute for S. B. No. 5, an act making an appropriation for the erection of the State House, and to provide for a special levy of taxes therefor.

Senator Buchan offered an amendment to appropriate $75,000 to commence work on the east wing of the Capital immediately, to be paid out of the general revenue fund, and replaced when the half mill special appropriation provided for shall be collected. This motion was adopted.

Senator Crane moved to strike "one half mill" and insert "one-fourth mill" as the amount to be collected to pay this appropriation. The motion was lost, and the bill was ordered engrossed for third reading.

Mr. Finch then introduced the following resolution, which was adopted.

Resolved, That the Speaker appoint a committee of five to draft resolutions expressive of the regret of the House at the untimely death of the Hon. J. S. Merritt, and that in respect to his memory the House do now adjourn until 2 o'clock p.m. Mr. Anthony desired to amend the resolution so that it provide that the House go to the depot as a body to be there when the train passes conveying the remains to Wamego. This prevailed, and the House adjourned for that purpose.

Bill reported by the House Committee on Resolutions, requiring railroads to be fenced, was read a third time and passed.

Senator Green's S. B. 249, authorizing the purchase of more farming land for the State Agricultural College, passed.

Substitute reported by Committee on Cities of the First Class for H. B. 370, making amendments to charters of such cities, passed.

Senator Harwi's S. B. 8. It amends several sections relative to the police court of cities of the first class. Passed.

Mr. Scammon's H. B. 212. To provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about coal mines. Passed.

Substitute for S. B. 21, to regulate the practice of pharmacy, creating a board for that purpose, was amended in two or three points and passed.

Mr. Sweezy's H. B. 474. Giving township boards power to levy taxes upon all the property of the township, whether owned by citizens or non-residents. Passed.

Mr. Carroll's H. J. R. 1, recommending the calling of a Constitutional Convention, came next. Lost.

Senate bill 119 was substituted for a House bill on the same subject and amended. It is for the protection of game. Passed.

Mr. Moore's H. B. 326, raising the pay of County Superintendents of Public Instruction, was defeated.

Senator Young's S. B. 142, as it was before amended in the House, was read a third time. It is the bill which was then shorn down to the one provision of permitting the establishment of a uniform system of text books in the public schools. It was passed.

Mr. Glasgow's H. B. 475, a bridge bill for Republic County. Passed.

Mr. Currier's H. B. 202, limiting the amount of schoolhouse bonds to be voted by school districts to 6 percent, of the taxable property, and requiring a three-fifths vote; was defeated.

Mr. Slavens' H. B. 216, making a verbal agreement a lease for one year, and not from year to year. It also provides for cancellation of lease when tenant commits waste. Passed.

Mr. Slavens' H. B. 218, providing for vacation of office in cases where official bonds are found to be insufficient by the office whose duty it is to approve such bonds, and when a new bond is not furnished. Passed.

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District Court: Edgar Smith, Plaintiff, against Thomas A. Wilkinson, Anna C. Wilkinson, Hampton S. Story and Story his wife, whose real name is unknown; Isaac A. Camp, and Camp, whose real name is unknown; Gibbs, Sterrett & Co., Gibbs Sterrett Manufacturing Company, G. and C. Merriam, A. P. Dickey, James A. Loomis, Mr. G. Troup, John W. Curns, Nannie Platter, Administratrix of the Estate of James E. Platter, deceased, Nannie J. Platter, Robert J. Platter, and Jane E. Platter, heirs at law of James E. Platter, deceased, and M. T. Green, E. T. Williamson, and George L. Pratt, partners doing business under the firm name and style of the Chicago Lumber Co.

BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF SALE TO me directed and delivered, issued out of the District Court of the 13^th Judicial District of the State of Kansas, sitting in and for Cowley County in said State, I will, on the

at the hour of 2 o'clock p.m., of said day, at the south door of the Court House in Winfield, in the County and State aforesaid, offer at public sale and sell to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, all the right, title and interest of the above named defendants in and to the following described property, to-wit: The southwest quarter of section twenty-eight (28) township thirty (30) south of Range six (6) East, taken as the property of the above named defendants and will be sold as the property of the above named defendants.

Given under my hand at my office in the City of Winfield, this 3^rd day of March, A. D. 1885. G. H. McINTIRE, Sheriff Cowley County, Kansas.

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New Superintendent, who has no superior in the State. Flour already improved and more improvements to be made and everything on a boom.

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Will sell you a better farm for less money than any other man in Southern Kansas.

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you want. Give us a call. North Main street, Winfield, Kansas.

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of all kinds in stock. Any one in need of goods in our line will find it to their interest to call on us, as we keep the largest and best assorted stock to be found in the county.

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The Sedan Graphic is evidently disgruntled: "Incendiarism is running rampant and unrestrained at Winfield, while the man who sells a glass of whiskey or beer in violation of the prohibitory law is hunted down with untiring efforts by the law and order citizens of that town. In the mind of the average citizen of the city on the banks of the placid Walnut, all other crimes pale into insignificance when compared with the sale of a glass of beer." No law-breaker can find quarters in the Queen City, and the festive fire-bug stands an equal show with any other criminal--a splendid chance to suffer the grip and penalties of outraged justice. With such officials as Sheriff McIntire and Constable Siverd to track the lawless, with County Attorney Asp to prosecute the man who thinks he is a bigger man than the "statoots" will find himself throttled with a vice-like tenacity that will might soon "knock him hout." Unpunished violators of law promise to be exceedingly "scarce" in Cowley during the reign of these officials. They have a stalwart, intelligent, law-abiding people to back them--a people who recognize nothing but fealty to every duty and law.

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"Ed Haight, the Courteous county surveyor," says the Arkansas City Democrat, "has been in town during the week. He thinks that Winfield is bound to have the proposed canal. It is proposed to get the city to help with $100,000. The water will be brought from the Arkansas, a distance of some twenty miles. We wish the county seat success in their new enterprise. Some years ago some of the very men who are most prominent in this enterprise were laughing at Arkansas City and her ditch."

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S. Kleeman is having the room formerly occupied by J. C. Long remodeled and painted up surprisingly for the reception of his dry goods stock and will get moved this week. The shelving, counters, etc., are of beautiful and modern design and when Mr. Kleeman gets the room filled with the immense stock he has laid in, he will have an establishment that will be metropolitan indeed--one worthy so rustling, pleasant, and capable a merchant.

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The Arkansas Valley Conference of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ is in session this week at Sedgwick City. Bishop E. B. Kephart, D. D., whom many of our citizens remember because of the able discourse preached by him in our city two years ago, will preside at this conference. Revs. P. B. Lee and J. H. Snyder have gone to take part in its sessions, consequently there will be no preaching at the United Brethren church in this city next Sabbath.

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The annual session of the Grand Lodge of A. O. U. W. of Kansas was held at Leavenworth last week. Cowley was represented as follows: Winfield, J. F. McMullen and C. C. Green; Arkansas City, I. H. Bonsall and M. N. Sinnott; Burden, Ed Millard; Dexter, W. G. Seaver; New Salem, H. H. Holloway. Mr. McMullen was elected a representative to the Supreme Lodge. The next session of the Grand Lodge will be held at Topeka.

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Miss Mattie Harrison left for her home in Hannibal, Missouri, Friday evening last after a winter's visit with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fuller. Miss Harrison is a charming young lady of high attainments and admirable social qualities, and made many friends during her stay, who regret her departure and will look with pleasure for her return.

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In mentioning the Aikin, Poor, and Watts liquor case last week, we were wrongly informed and made the "front" name of Watts, Ed., when it should have been John H. As this has been construed by many to mean Edward, the sterling young son of Mr. Samuel Watt, of Pleasant Valley, we gladly make this correction.

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Three days of sunshine and balmy breezes have thawed our people all out and made all buoyant and happy. Real estate men are busy and use soul-stirring eloquence in supporting the prediction that the Queen City and Cowley County are to have an unprecedented boom this spring.

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Our spring catalogue will soon be ready for distribution, and we will visit Winfield this spring with plants, bulbs, seeds, etc., and desire those wishing anything in our line to wait our coming and make selections from our stock. We will be at Friend's music store. Exact date later. Bristol Sisters, Topeka, Kansas.

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The Winfield roller mills will receive next week a Hamilton Corless 200 horse power engine. This is the largest engine yet put in a Kansas mill, and will furnish economical and unexcelled power. Messrs. Bliss & Wood will also attach hominy and corn meal machinery to their mill soon.

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A fine line of residences in the city for sale at prices to suit buyers. Farms for sale in all parts of the county. Insurance written on all classes of insurable property. Money loaned on farms and city property by H. T. Shivvers. Office in McDonald building, 2^nd door upstairs.

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The Democrats of the city were almost paralyzed Monday by the false report by wire that the man of destiny had been assassinated at Albany. If it had come a little later, the "Dem's" would have been just full enough to take it all as a gigantic joke on first notice.

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Last Tuesday a farmer near town took his spade and went out to see if the ground was fit to plow. He dug down fourteen inches, and after the first eight found the ground full of frost and hard as a brick. He will bet on the ground hog in the future.

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The entertainment of the Alpha Society at the Opera House Friday evening last was highly creditable to all participating--in fact, many pronounce it as fine an entertainment of its kind as was ever given in the city. It was novel and unique.

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E. H. Nixon got in from Utica, Iowa, yesterday. He reports the snow about twenty inches on the level and lanes blocked by drifts. A very chilly comparison with Cowley's glorious sunshine and balmy breezes.

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City Clerk Buckman has enrolled about four hundred names on the registration books of the city, leaving about the same number who should have their names put on the roll of honor immediately.

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August Kadau's visage is all aglow with rosy-cheeked modesty--his title is now "papa," and it's a bouncing ten pound boy, which appeared Monday evening last. August is recovering.

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The Southern Kansas railroad is changing the wheels on its cars from iron to paper. The paper wheels are said to be safer. At any rate most of the eastern railroads adopted them some time ago.

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I have sold my interest in the dental office to Dr. H. C. Baily, and take pleasure in recommending all who wish first-class dental operations to call on him. Dr. VanDoren.

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The Ladies' Aid Society, of the Presbyterian church, meets on the usual day and hour, this week with Mrs. Henry Brown.

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Wanted. 500 or 600 sheep. C. D. Murdock.

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Mrs. Carrie Legg is convalescing after a serious illness.

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A. H. Jennings is looking after property interests in Sedgwick County.

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Mr. M. H. Markum, of Pleasant Valley, got in yesterday from a week among Topeka solons.

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Mr. and Mrs. John W. Curns have returned from their New Orleans trip, having enjoyed it immensely.

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Mr. J. L. Ward, one of Vernon's bright young men, has commenced the study of medicine in Dr. Wells' office.

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Miss Ella Trezise and Addie Hudson are visiting the latter's sister, Mrs. Geo. Bruce, at Cherryvale this week.

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J. P. Short left Wednesday for a few days sojourn at the State Capitol. He was accompanied by his daughter, Miss Edna.

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Rev. F. A. Brady, formerly of Burlington, this State, has located here in the Insurance business. He is officing with C. H. Leavitt.

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Mrs. W. J. Wilson and Miss Jessie Millington have been visiting Mrs. W. C. Garvey and others in Topeka during the past week.

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Mr. J. A. Goforth, one of Silver Creek's staunchest farmers, made the "hub" his occasional visit Friday and dropped in on the COURIER.

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Mr. J. S. Baker got in from Topeka yesterday and reports that the bill dividing Tisdale township was defeated in the House, Tuesday.

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Mr. W. L. P. Burney, a bright young attorney from Harrisonville, Mo., a friend of Mr. Robert Rogers, is visiting here and may locate.

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G. H. Allen, formerly agent of the Wells Fargo express here, has formed a partnership with Noble Caldwell in the insurance business.

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C. H. Sipe, of St. Louis, president of Millers National Insurance Company, was here this week looking up the export business among our millers.

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A. P. Johnson is spending this week at Red Bluff, a new town in Comanche County, in which he is interested and for whose company he is attorney.

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George Stivers came in from Fredonia Saturday for a visit with his sister, Mrs. M. G. Troup, and old friends, looking as handsome and "cute" as ever.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

The young son of Squire H. C. Castor, of East Liberty, died Saturday night. He was twenty-two years of age and had been married but a short time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Married, at the residence of the groom's parents, near Winfield, March 1, 1885, by Rev. B. Kelly, Mr. J. W. Zauni and Miss Mary E. Burge, all of Cowley County.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Rev. B. Kelly spent the latter part of last week in Topeka, encouraging the passage of the new Prohibitory law. He thinks it is iron-clad, just what we want, and will be easily enforced.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Col. J. C. McMullen returned Sunday from a week at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He reveled in snow about two feet deep while there and makes a comparison largely in favor of "Sunny Kansas."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mrs. J. C. McMullen left Tuesday for a ten days visit with her daughter, Miss Nellie, who has been attending college in Denver, Colorado, for some months past. Mrs. McMullen has a sister residing in Denver.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. J. L. Richardson, of Jones County, Iowa, has been spending a few days with his cousin, Mr. F. W. McClellan. Mr. Richardson was called to Cowley, by the death of his brother, Edward, which occurred recently at Grand Summit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. W. S. Shaffer has moved from his old home in Walnut township to Omnia. Mr. Shaffer has been one of Walnut's staunchest citizens, of true blue Republican principles, and his neighbors regret the loss of so wide-awake, active, and influential a man.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Constable H. H. Siverd brought Dr. Samuel Thompson in from Maple City, Tuesday, charged with illegally selling the ardent. The Doctor plead guilty in Justice Snow's court and got off with one hundred and forty-five dollars fine and costs. Verily, the way of the transgressor is thorny.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Elder F. M. Rains, State Evangelist of the Christian church, is here this week assisting Elder J. S. Myers in a protracted meeting. Elder Rains, during his pastorate of our Christian Church in early days, won scores of friends, who always give him a warm welcome. He is a minister of superior eloquence and logic and is doing a world of good throughout Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

James Lukens, a young man who was engaged in Captain Stubblefield's feed store, was given about fifty dollars, one day last week, to pay off certain bills for his employer. The youth had had the California fever for some time and pocketing the money he took the train and has not been heard of since. He had shown no signs previously of crookedness and was considered reliable.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mrs. Emma Smith, sister of Mrs. Henry Brown, left for a future home in Dakota last week. In her departure Winfield loses one of its staunchest workers in every good cause. In the temperance work she was especially unceasing. To such women as Mrs. Smith the world owes much for its advancement in everything that leads humanity to a higher and better life.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Judge Gans has invested the following parties with authority to commit matrimony during the past week: Sullivan Kitch and Minnie Dunn, Isaac Davis and Anna Wooden, Wm. Carver and Christina Wingert, John Munn and Martha Samples, Chas. Knowles and Ida Carder, Chas. Doty and Sarah Mounts, Jonathan Yount and Mary Burge, Wm. Eldridge and Laura Anderson, Wm. Parsons and Louisa White, F. M. Reed and Anna B. Schnee.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Cedarvale Star: "Mr. James A. Cairns and Mrs. E. D. Garlick, of Winfield, were at this place on last Wednesday and organized a Good Templars' Lodge. They paid us quite a compliment by saying that it was the best lodge that they had ever helped organize in southern Kansas. We return them many heart-felt thanks." The parties mentioned speak very highly of the splendid entertainment given them and of the staunch temperance proclivities of the citizens of Cedarvale as exhibited on this occasion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mayor and Mrs. Emerson, Mr. and Mrs. Irve Randall, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Read, Dr. D. V. Cole, and Miss Nellie, Mrs. M. L. Robinson, Byron Rudolph, Will Robinson, Col. Loomis, A. J. Thompson, Grant Stafford, and C. C. Harris are among those who have got home this week from a delightful trip to the Crescent City. They report the sights of the World's Fair varied and grand. One of the unique things mentioned is a miniature representation of Geuda Springs, surrounded by circulars describing the Western Saratoga.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

H. M. Epler was arrested at Independence last week by Sheriff McIntire and taken to Arkansas City, where he was arraigned before Justice Schiffbauer, and on plea of guilty was assessed seventy-five dollars and costs for stealing a gold watch in the Terminus. Epler is a young man of good appearance and had all arrangements made to lead to the altar one of Independence's belles, on Sunday last. He seems to have made this break to get the money on which to commit matrimony. But a purloiner's victim has no sympathy for Cupid.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Mr. John Drury was up from Maple City Monday and told of a bad accident that befell R. E. Howe, who runs the mail back from Arkansas City to Maple City. Howe undertook to cross the Gilstrap ford on Grouse creek Saturday morning last, which was badly swollen, and had both horses drowned and himself and a lady and gentleman passenger barely escaped with their lives. Howe did some heroic work in the icy waters in rescuing the lady. He was familiar with the ford and noted the high-water register, but the channel had washed out and surprised him.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Rev. B. Kelly closed his first year's appointment at Winfield last Sunday evening in a powerful, fearless, and eloquent sermon--one that received the highest commendation. The Conference for this district meets on the 19^th inst., at El Dorado, and if the wishes of the Methodist church here, and every citizen in favor of morality and good government are carried out, he will be returned unanimously. The Methodist church has grown greatly under Mr. Kelly's pastorate and the close of the year finds it entirely out of debt. The influence of such a minister as Mr. Kelly on a community can hardly be estimated, and the unanimous call of our Methodists for his return receives a hearty endorsement from all.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Lindsey Jones, a youth of thirteen, who has been under the care of Sheriff McIntire for some months past, was found guilty of petty larceny before Justice Snow last week and returned to the State Reform School at Topeka. The lad was homeless, and a pretty tough case. Sheriff McIntire worked on him in hopes of improvement, but Lindsey didn't straighten to any alarming degree and forced the conclusion that the Reform School was the best place for him. So Mr. A. Gilkey, of Maple City, from whom Lindsey had stolen certain articles a year ago, preferred the necessary charge. The Reform School will make a man of him--give him the discipline that every boy needs to fix him for the battles of life. He will remain there till twenty-one.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Henry E. Asp is just in receipt of a letter from James N. Young, of Chicago, President of the Kansas City & Southwestern Railroad Company, stating that the material has been purchased and the contracts let for the construction of that line and that work will commence at Beaumont, Butler County, as soon as the right of way can be obtained. They commence at Beaumont, which is on the main line of the St. Louis & San Franciso, because the rails from St. Louis and the ties from Arkansas can be laid down cheaper there than at Kansas City. Work will progress both ways from Beaumont, and the prospect is that most of the counties and townships that have voted bonds can be reached in time to fill the stipulations contained therein. Some of the bonds are valid till August, others till June, and those voted in Winfield till May 27. But should it be impossible to reach certain places within the given time, aid will be re-solicited and the work pushed right through. This road is now a sure thing and its early construction means that Winfield and Cowley County will receive an impetus that will make her material advancement during the next year unprecedented. Further developments of a specific character will be made by our next issue.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 5, 1885.

Some two months ago Wm. D. Halfhill came to Winfield and being a former pupil of B. F. Wood was readily recommended and became a partner with Chas. H. Leavitt in the practice of law. But certain traits had spr