Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Recap. District Court. Martha F. Worden, Plaintiff, against Linden O. Worden, Defendant. Date: April 23, 1885. Divorce action, Care, custody, and control of Lulu O. Worden, minor child, in hands of plaintiff. Hackney & Asp, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Recap. Sheriff Sale. 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; M. G. Troup; John W. Curns; Nannie J. Platter, Administratrix of the Estate of James E. Platter, deceased; Nannie J. Platter, Houston Platter, Belle T. Platter, Margaret M. 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. Date of sale: April 6, 1885. Property to be sold: Southwest quarter (¼) of section twenty-eight (28) township thirty (30) south of Range six (6) East.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The rum power is being gradually paralyzed in Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Belle Plaine voted bonds week before last for the D. M. & A. road.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The G. A. R. in Kansas last year spent $7,000 for charitable purposes.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

A forging ex-mayor of Adrian, Michigan, gets ten years in the state prison.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Robt. M. McLain, nominated as Minister to France, is Governor of Maryland.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The situation of the striking coal miners about Pittsburg remains unchanged.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Cheyenne Indians are said to be holding war dances preparatory to going on a raid.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The breach between England and Russia is widening, and the British arm is fortifying Penjdeh.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

E. D. Clark, of Vicksburg, Mississippi, the newly appointed Assistant Secretary of the Interior, died on the 22nd inst. of pneumonia.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Moody convention in Emporia opened on the 24th ult. with 1500 people in the audience. Great enthusiasm and deep interest prevails.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

General Grant is considerably improved. He drove five miles last Wednesday without visible signs of fatigue, and slept well all night.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

George Gray has been elected United States Senator from Delaware, taking the place of Thos. F. Bayard, who is now a member of the President's Cabinet.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Kansas has had another windfall. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a warrant for $332,308 in favor of Kansas for expenses incurred by the State in expelling Indian invasions.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The busy mind makes the beautiful face. Each hour of mental work adds beauty-lines about the eyes and brow, adds unusual lustre to the eye and a brave, manly bearing to the worker.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Edwin J. Phelps, nominated for Minister to England, is a prominent lawyer of Burlington, Vt., about 60 years of age, has a comfortable fortune, and is ex-president of the American Bar Association.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Cuban and Chinese workmen who make our imported cigars use saliva to moisten the paste that fastens the end of the wrapper, and who knows what malignant and nameless disorders may thus be propagated?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

A Seneca Falls undertaker has copyrighted an "undertakers' burial contract," by which he agrees in consideration of the sum of $2 to furnish a person dying within one year from the date of contract with a $75 funeral.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Henry Roach Jackson, nominated as Minister to Mexico, is a Georgian of about 64 years. He was a colonel of a Georgian regiment in the Mexican war, and represented the U. S. in Vienna, Austria, before the war. During the Rebellion he was a Southern brigadier general and had a command on the upper Potomac.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Mr. Ryan, of Kansas, has been appointed on what a virtuous press calls a "junketing committee," which will put in a portion of the summer in inspecting the Indian training schools and examining the boundary lines of the Yellowstone Park. The economical Mr. Holman, of Indiana, was the mover of this committee, and consequently, is its chairman.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Time works wonders. It is historically the fact that when the last Democratic president retired, it was a felony to teach a colored person in many of the slave States, to read, and there was a lady of Maryland in prison for having done so. Now there are even many southern men who believe in educating the negro race. Twenty-four years of Republican rule has thus much civilized the country.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

President Cleveland has sent in the following nominations to be envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary of the United States: Edwin J. Phelps, of Vermont, to Great Britain; Robert M. McLain, of Maryland, to France; George H. Pendleton to German; Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia, to Mexico; M. E. Benton, of Missouri, attorney of the U. S. for the western district of Missouri.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Additional nominations by President Cleveland are: Henry L. Muldrow, Mississippi, Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Wm. A. J. Sharks, Illinois, Commissioner of the General Land Office; Daniel McConville, Steubenville, Ohio, Auditor of the Treasury. Mr. Muldrow is an ex-confederate colonel. Mr. Sharks is a Democratic politician who was in Congress from 1875 to 1883 and declined a re-election. Mr. McConville was the private secretary to Governor Hoadley, of Ohio. Samuel S. Cox, of New York, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey; Postmasters, Wm. A. Wartham, Sulphur Springs, Texas; Robert O. Denton, Gainesville, Texas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The "American Almanac" for 1885, which is edited by Mr. Ainsworth R. Spofford, the Librarian of Congress, is out. It computes the popular vote at the recent Presidential election as follows: Cleveland, 8,911,017; Blaine, 4,848,334; St. John, 151,800; Butler, 133,825; scattering and blank, 11,362; total popular vote, 10,048,061, or 79.9 percent of the voters indicated by the census of 1880. Plurality for Cleveland, 62,683. To arrive at this result, the Fusion vote in Iowa and Nebraska is counted for Cleveland, and in Michigan, only 753 Greenback votes are given to Butler. In Missouri, all the Fusion vote is counted for Blaine, and in West Virginia Butler is only credited with 805 votes.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Mr. Blaine, in his book, is seldom better; but it is evident that he has no great love or respect for the memory of Andrew Johnson. In his forthcoming volume he recalls the fact that, in what was considered as Johnson's inaugural address, the entire absence of eulogy of the slain President was remarked. There was no mention of his name or of his character or of his office. The only allusion in any way whatever to Mr. Lincoln was Mr. Johnson's declaration he was "almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event which has so recently occurred." While he found no time to praise one whose praise was on every tongue, he made ample reference to himself and his own past history. Though speaking no more than five minutes, it was noticed that "I" and "my" and "me" were mentioned at least a score of times. Senator John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, who was present on the occasion, said, with characteristic wit, that "Johnson seemed willing to share the glory of his achievements with his Creator, but utterly forgot that Mr. Lincoln had any share of credit in the suppression of the rebellion."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

From the day the Kansas State Temperance Union was reorganized and outlined a policy that foretold the ultimate extinction of Kansas dram shops, it became the target for the hostile arrows of the whiskey interests of the State. Its financial integrity was wickedly assailed, its political policy madly declaimed against, and its officers and members wantonly calumniated without reserve by the liquor leagues and their individual allies. These insinuations and calumnies, emanating from our natural antagonists, were taken as indubitable proof that the Union was accomplishing its work. The "galled jade" was wincing and these attacks came from a retreating adversary. These slanders, as the natural result of successful temperance work, carried with them their own refutation. The more vehement and atrocious the attack, the more convincing the proof that the Union's influence was felt by our common enemy. But after two years of harmonious work, filled only with the splendors of successive victories, a portentous crisis came. The Union was assailed not only by its inveterate foe, but by a faction of its own followers. The malign opposition of the whiskey influence of the State strengthened our cause and unified temperance workers. The line dividing the friends and enemies of prohibition was the only distinct line known. But for the past four months this faction of prohibitionists have boldly assailed the business management of the Union, and with a degree of fervor worthy a better and wiser cause, have attacked its political policy. They have not only impugned the judgment but the motives of the officers of the Union, who have worked side by side with them from the inception of the contest in this State. They bandy asperities with as much freedom and apparent satisfaction as though they were still fighting the old enemy. While these attacks were the product of the guilty malevolence of the saloon power, they needed no reply; but when they are made in the name of prohibition, they ought to be respectfully and logically refuted.

The published statements and reports of the Union ought to have settled all controversy long ago, but for some inscrutable design the war on the organization continues.

First. It has been charged that the funds of the Union have been improvidently expended and culpably diverted from their legitimate channels of disbursement. The receipts of the Union from its reorganization January 10, 1883, including the amount then in the treasury to the date of the last annual meeting, November 16, 1884, were $13,473.22, which has been disbursed in four departments of work.

First for the expense connected with maintaining the office at headquarters, including expenses of committee meetings, office work, rent, fuel, light, postage, expressage, Secretary's salary, and all incidental expenses for the two years, amounting to $2,721, of the total cost of keeping the machinery of the Union in operation for two years.

Second. The sum of $2,183 was expended for literature. The literature distributed by the Union, without a cents cost to those who received it, would have cost at retail the sum of $5,200. Through this department the people of the State have been given, free of cost (the Union even paying postage and express charges), an average of $450 worth of standard literature every month. That this literature has had a potential influence upon the temperance sentiment of the State will hardly be controverted.

Third. The local aid extended and the litigation carried on and assisted by the Union in various parts of the State involved an outlay of $3,094. In this way twenty-five percent of the Union's funds was sent back to the people, and was expended under the direction and control of local committees. Through this department of work, the saloons were driven from many of the towns of the State. Add this item to that expended for literature, and it will be seen that $5,277 (or forty percent) of the gross receipts was returned by the Union to the people who contributed to its treasury.

Fourth. The Union had one lecturer and organizer employed during the entire time, and about eight months of the time had two besides employing some fifteen others to do specific work. The salaries of these lecturers, their railroad fare, hotel bills, and incidental expenses amounted to $5,475. For this money the people were given over 350 lectures, and nearly 300 county and township organizations were formed. A constant methodological agitation was kept up, a system of organization effected, that has resulted in the most majestic temperance sentiment ever known in the State. This item of expense has been sneered at by a gentleman whose terms for lecturers are publicly known to be $50 a night, and whose expense account, according to the published statement of the chairman of his committee, was $825 for a less than forty days. At this rate the expense account of the Union's lecturers would aggregate $17,000. We do not question the accuracy nor justness of this expense but simply refer to it by way of contrast. For the amount we expended, he would deliver 109 lectures. The Union gave the people more than three times that many lecturers who are perpetual lecturers and literary bureaus that are doing valiant service for the cause.

In handling this thirteen thousand dollars, the committee has doubtless made mistakes; but when we are able to show that 40 percent of the gross receipts was returned to the people in money and literature, and another 40 percent expended in field work, in organization, and agitation, and only 20 percent expended in maintaining the machinery of the organization, paying rent, office expenses, and Secretary's salary, we feel that the Union is entitled to the respect and confidence of everyone who desires the success of prohibition, and the cooperation of every person who is working for the demolition of the liquor traffic.

It is not practicable to even enumerate the many advance movements made under the guidance and as the result of the Union's efforts. It was of inestimable value to our cause to demonstrate by the judicial determination of the highest courts in the State and Nation that a county attorney who corruptly shields violators of law must retire from office in disgrace. The State Union, desired by some who should befriend it, accomplished this in the Foster case. The redemption of the city of Topeka, from whiskey rule, largely through the work of the Union, was an example full of useful lessons to faithless city government, and the decision of the Supreme Court of the State holding that the subterfuges under which our cities indirectly licensed the traffic could not be tolerated was a consummation that met the hearty approval of all those who are now bewailing the futility of the Union's efforts. The two years' history of the State Union is crowded full of successive steps in the direction of successful and absolute prohibition.

Second. The political attitude of the Union has been the fruitful theme upon which orators (renowned and obscure), papers (metropolitan and local), agitators, (conscientious and hypocritical), have dwelt with peculiar delight. The executive committee has no apology to make for the political course of the Union. The Union in the last campaign, not in a clandestine manner but openly, publicly, and aggressively adhered to the Republican party as the intrepid defender and fearless ally of our cause. It stood by the Republican party because that party stood by Constitutional Prohibition in Kansas. It fought the Democratic party because that party fought Constitutional Prohibition in Kansas. The Kansas State Temperance Union is looking after Constitutional Prohibition in Kansas, and is not yet ready to enlarge the boundaries of its jurisdiction. We have plenty to do at home. What it did politically was intended to subserve the cause of Constitutional Prohibition. Already the course pursued has received its overwhelming vindication. George W. Glick, the Hercules of the whiskey power in Kansas, no longer disgraces the chief executive office of the State. We have an invincible majority in the legislature. Re-submission was defeated by a decisive vote. Amendments to the prohibitory law have been enacted by a vote of four to one that will make it in our judgment the most practical and effective law ever known in the history of prohibitory legislation. Suppose the Union had followed the leadership of its former president and enlarged the number of his factional following, what would have been the result? Glick would today be Governor of Kansas. The twenty-two saloon keepers recently in the Topeka jail would only have remained there until the outrageous usurpation of authority of the governor released them, and the school fund of Shawnee County would have been ruthlessly robbed of $6,000. Topeka, instead of being without a saloon, would have an alarmingly increased number, running in audacious defiance of law, with absolute immunity from punishment. Saloon keepers all over the State would be shielded and protected by the officers whose election was secured by the stupendous folly of prohibitionists. The legislature beyond question would be anti-prohibition. Instead of a perfected and strengthened law, we would have an emasculated one, or none at all. Re-submission would prevail, and under the genius and inspiration of these influences, Gambrinus would hold a Bacchanalian feast of two years' duration, and would praise the political course that ushered in such an era of vandalism and crime. Unbridled license would be given to the despoilers of home and the maligners of honor. This calamity was averted by the felicitous promptitude with which the Union met the political issues. A majority of the Republican party of Kansas believe in prohibition as a settled policy of government, and nearly all believe in the enforcement of the law. Whether prohibition is endorsed "as a principle" or not, the dominant party is, and will be, the dauntless champion of its enforcement. The enforcement of the law accomplishes all that is aimed at by prohibitionists, and whether that is reached through the medium of those who believe in the cause absolutely, or those whose loyalty prompts their acts, the result is the same.

The business affairs of the Union will bear the rigid scrutiny of every friend of prohibition, and the wisdom of its political course will be demonstrated by the emigration of saloon keepers, instead of their immigration.

This statement is not made with a controversial design. The Union has no desire to prolong a controversy between prohibitionists, but does desire to show that its management has been fair and honorable, and that its course in public matters receives a daily vindication. Nor is this statement made as a eulogy upon the organization, or to pay a tribute of panegyric to its officers. It is simply to convince prohibitionists who have been unduly influenced by false representations from various sources that the State Union is still entitled to the cordial good will and hearty cooperation of every person who desires to drive the drink scourge beyond the limits of the State. This is the fundamental desire of the Union, and whenever the decrees or acts of any party are at variance with that desire, that party will find in the Union a relentless foe. Our creed has but a single article: the enforcement of Constitutional Prohibition in Kansas by the shortest route. All who can subscribe to that creed are in harmony with us.

In conclusion we congratulate the prohibitionists of the State upon the auspicious condition of our cause. Prohibition has a firmer hold upon the minds and affections of the people than ever before. The crisis is over. The possibility of abandoning the policy of prohibition no longer exists. All that remains to be done is patient aptitude and harmonious and continuous work, and the victory will be not only complete, but perpetual.

(Signed)--B. Kelly, P. I. Bonebrake, R. Wake. H. W. Lewis, Geo. Morgan, Joab Mulvane, A. B. Campbell, Albert Griffin, G. W. E. Griffith, James A. Troutman, W. B. Slosson, Philip Krohn, J. Jay Buck, Executive Committee.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The sugar beet is excellent for sheep, being palatable and containing much solid and nutritious matter.

A recent Ohio law makes sixty-eight pounds of ear corn a bushel in that state.

A great mistake in tree planting is failure to cultivate the orchard, thus allowing the soil to become hard and crusted, and also covered with weeds and grass.

The average weight of carcass of American cattle has been increased over 3 percent of the weight of fifty years ago, while the average weight of milk is even greater.

A square symmetrical cow is not always the best dairy cow. The milker is rather wedge shaped, as seen from before and has plenty of belly, with great hips and thighs.

There are now more than 500 tile factories in Illinois and well distributed over the state against only thirty-three seven years ago. This is the very best indication of prosperity for Illinois farmers.

A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer says he has sown nothing but the Fultz wheat for years, as it produces well, stands up firmly, does not shell out, has nice plump grains, and makes excellent flour.

It is reported that there are 2,400 stables of cows in New York, the milk of which is sold in the city, and these cows from the time they enter the stables until no longer able to give milk, never see grass.

A fruit grower placed tobacco stems around the trunks of peach trees, and the borers did not touch the trees. He set the stems around the butts of the trees and tied them at the tops, and it kept off the rabbits in winter.

Raspberries and blackberries are hardier if planted on light sandy loam, but if large berries are desired a mulch should be used in July. On moist land mulching is not necessary, but the canes are more liable to be winter killed.

Over 500 carloads of peanuts were sold in Chicago last year. The peanut business may seem a small affair to some, but we can assure our readers that it requires a large quantity to fill 500 cars. And this for Chicago alone.

The winter pork packing season in Chicago closed February 28, and since its commencement November 1, the packers have slaughtered and salted 2,421,000 hogs, against 2,011,348 for the corresponding period a year ago.

Sir J. B. Lawes, of England, says that the largest wheat crops are produced in the seasons that are rather dry, though excessive drought would lessen the yield. When the summer is wet, an usual growth of straw follows at the expense of the grain.

A barrel of frozen apples, says the Germantown Telegraph, can be made all right and better than before by removing half a bushel, filling up the space thus left with snow pressed down and rounded up, and setting in a moderately warm room for a day or two.

One of the best preventatives of the chicken cholera is to soak corn in coal oil and feed the corn to the fowls three or four times a week. Another method is to mix a tablespoonful of coal oil with two quarts of corn meal. Moisten the meal and feed twice a week.

In building wire fence use more wire. Five strands are much safer than three, and the extra cost is money well spent. Ninety cases of injury in a hundred can be averted by this simple expedient. Put light scantling in place of the top strand to make the fence visible.

Special farmers almost always meet with discouraging losses. Where one confines himself exclusively to one crop, there is sure to be either a bad year or a fall in the price. Where one is raising stock, grain, cotton, and hay, there will be always something to fall back upon.

At the Iowa Agricultural College the relative money values of milk-producing foods weighed are given as follows: Corn, per hundred pounds, 50 cents; oats, 60 cents; barley, 55 cents; wheat, 65 cents; bran, 75 cents; oil meal, 45; clover hay, 80 cents; timothy, 50 cents; potatoes, 10 cents.

The first requisite after one decided to engage in stock breeding is to select a location suitable to the kind of stock he wishes to raise, as to soil, lay of land, water, etc., as well as proximity to markets. There is hardly a farm, however, upon which stock-raising may not be done profitably.

A bill has been introduced by the Connecticut senate providing for a state bounty of 10 cents to any person planting, protecting, and cultivating elm, maple, tulip, ash, basswood, oak, black walnut, hickory, apple, pear, or cherry trees not more than sixty feet apart, for three years, along any public highway.

In our experience in producing milk, says the Daily World, we have succeeded best by using from sixteen to twenty pounds daily of a feed composed of 100 pounds bran, 50 pounds wheat meal, 50 pounds buckwheat shorts, and 50 pounds corn chop. A ton of this mixture costs us at present prices, $10.75.

The Holstein (Dutch, Friesian, or Duch) cow, as the Netherlands cow is occasionally called, is the most uniformly deep milker of any of the distinctively dairy breeds, uniting a great flow of milk with lasting qualities, and milk rich in both fat and casein, as well as being the oldest established breed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

To the Honorable Board of County Commissioners of Cowley County, in the State of Kansas:

The undersigned resident taxpayers of the County of Cowley, in the State of Kansas, respectfully petition your honorable body to submit to the qualified voters of said County of Cowley, at a special election to be called for that purpose, a proposition for said county to subscribe one hundred and sixty thousand dollars ($160,000) to the capital stock of, and to take one hundred and sixty thousand dollars ($160,000) in the capital stock of the Kansas City and Southwestern Railroad Company, and to issue the bonds of said Cowley County to the amount of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars ($160,000), in payment for said stock so taken, to the said Kansas City and Southwestern Railroad Company, to aid in securing the construction of the line of railroad which said railroad company proposes to construct from Kansas City, in the State of Missouri, through the said County, of Cowley to the south line of the State of Kansas. The said railroad company proposing to first construct the portion of its said line of railroad from the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railroad north or northeast from said County of Cowley into and through said County of Cowley by the way of the city of Winfield, in said county, and the city of Arkansas City, in said county, to the south line of the State of Kansas as aforesaid.

The terms and conditions of said proposition, the subscription to, the taking of said stock and the issuance of said bonds are as follows, to wit:

The amount of aid intended to be hereby voted by said Cowley County to said railroad company, and the amount proposed to be subscribed to, and taken in, the capital stock of said railroad company by said Cowley County, and the amount hereby petitioned and asked for, is the sum of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars ($160,000). The bonds of the said Cowley County to be issued under the authority hereof, to be of the denomination of one thousand dollars ($1,000) each, to run thirty (30) years (redeemable after ten years at the will of the county) from the date of their issuance, to bear interest at the rate of six percent per annum, the interest to be payable semi-annually, and the principal and interest to be payable at the fiscal agency of the state of Kansas in the city of New York.

The said railroad when and as so built shall enter the said County of Cowley on the north side thereof and extend through said county in a southwesterly direction, as near as practicable, and through the townships of Omnia, Richland, Fairview, and Walnut to the city of Winfield, and touching the corporate limits of said city, and thence by the most practicable route to the said city of Arkansas City and touching the corporate limits thereof, and thence from said city of Arkansas City to the south or west line of Bolton township in said Cowley County, with suitable freight and passenger depots located, one in said Omnia township at the place provided in township proposition of said township heretofore voted on; two in said Richland township at the places provided in township proposition of said township heretofore voted on; one within three-fourths of a mile by an air line from the crossing of Main street and Ninth avenue in the said city of Winfield; one in said Pleasant Valley township; one within three-fourths of a mile by an air line from the Central Avenue Hotel in said city of Arkansas City; and one in said Bolton township.

The said railroad to be of standard gauge to be a first-class road, and is to be built and completed and have cars running thereon for the transaction of business through said county to said Arkansas City on or before six months from the date of the election herein prayed for, and to the south or west line of said Bolton township on or before nine months from the date of the election herein prayed for unless prevented by unavoidable legal proceedings. And provided that in case this proposition is carried at the election herein prayed for, that the said Richland, Omnia, Walnut and Creswell townships and said city of Winfield shall be released from their subscription heretofore voted and authorized to be made to the capital stock of said railroad company. And provided further, that before any election shall be called as herein prayed for, the said railroad company shall give security either by depositing with the county treasurer of said Cowley County a sum sufficient to defray the expenses of said election or by executing a bond to the State of Kansas, for the benefit of said Cowley County, with sureties to be approved by the chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, conditioned that in case said proposition is carried at said election and said railroad company shall fail to build its said railroad as herein provided, that said railroad company shall pay all the costs of said election. And in case said railroad company shall build said railroad as herein provided, the said sum of money shall be returned to said railroad company, or if such bond is given, the same shall be and become void. And in case the said railroad company shall fail to comply herewith it shall forfeit its right to the bonds herein provided for and the subscription of stock made in pursuance of the election herein prayed for shall be and become void.

When and immediately after the subscription of stock and issuance of bonds of said Cowley County have been voted and authorized to be made and issued as herein prayed for, according to the terms and conditions herein then the Board of County Commissioners of said Cowley County, for and on behalf of said Cowley County, shall order and direct the county clerk of said Cowley County, in the name of and for the benefit of said Cowley County, to make said subscription of stock to the amount of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars ($160,000), to the capital stock of said Kansas City and Southwestern Railroad Company, according to the terms and conditions provided for herein, and the said county clerk shall make such subscription of stock immediately thereafter.

When the said railroad company shall have built or caused to be built its said line of railroad into said Cowley County ten miles from the north line of said county as aforesaid, and the cars are running thereon for the transaction of business, the Board of County Commissioners of said Cowley County shall thereupon immediately and without delay cause to be executed as the law directs the bonds of said Cowley County of the denomination, and on the terms and conditions hereinbefore stated and described, to the amount of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) and shall deliver said bonds when so executed to the President of said railroad company or to his order, and the said railroad company shall at the same time it receives said bonds make out, execute under the seal of said railroad company and deliver to the treasurer of said Cowley County, in the name of, and for the benefit of said Cowley County, certificates of full paid stock of the capital stock of said railroad company, in an amount equal to the amount of the bonds of said Cowley County so received by it, dollar for dollar, in exchange therefor and in consideration thereof.

When the said railroad company shall have built or caused to be built its said line of railroad from the north line of said Cowley County as aforesaid, into and through said county to the said city of Winfield, and touching the corporate limits thereof, and the cars are running thereon for the transaction of business, the Board of County Commissioners of said Cowley County shall thereupon immediately and without delay, cause to be executed, as the law directs, the bonds of said Cowley County of the denomination and on the terms and conditions hereinbefore stated and described, to the amount of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), and shall deliver the said bonds, when so executed, to the president of said railroad company, or to his order; and the said railroad company shall, at the same time it receives said bonds, make out, execute under the seal of said railroad company and deliver to the treasurer of said Cowley County, in the name of and for the benefit of said Cowley County, certificates of full paid stock of the capital stock of said railroad company in an amount equal to the amount of the bonds of said Cowley County so received by it, dollar for dollar, in exchange therefor and in consideration thereof.

When the said railroad company shall have built or caused to be built its said line of railroad from the said city of Winfield to the said city of Arkansas City, and touching the corporate limits thereof, and the cars are running thereon for the transaction of business, the Board of County Commissioners of said Cowley County shall thereupon immediately and without delay cause to be executed, as the law directs, the bonds of said Cowley County on the terms and conditions hereinbefore stated and described, to the amount of forty thousand dollars ($40,000), and shall deliver said bonds when so executed to the president of said railroad company, or to his order, and the said railroad company shall at the same time it receives said bonds, make out, execute under the seal of said railroad company and deliver to the treasurer of said Cowley County, in the name of and for the benefit of said Cowley County, certificates of full paid stock of the capital stock of said railroad company, in an amount equal to the amount of the bonds of said Cowley County so received by it, dollar for dollar, in exchange therefore and in consideration thereof.

When the said railroad company shall have built or caused to be built its said line of railroad from said city of Arkansas City to the south or west line of said Bolton township, and the cars are running thereon for the transaction of business, the Board of County Commissioners of said Cowley County shall thereupon immediately and without delay, cause to be executed as the law directs, the residue of the bonds of said Cowley County, upon the terms and conditions provided for herein, which sum, in addition to the bonds hereinbefore provided to be used, shall not exceed the sum of four thousand dollars per mile for each mile of main line, exclusive of side tracks constructed in said county, and shall not in the aggregate, including the bonds hereinbefore provided to be issued, exceed the sum of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars and shall deliver said bonds when so executed, to the president of said railroad company or to his order, and the said railroad company shall at the same time it receives said bonds, make out, execute under the seal of said railroad company and deliver to the treasurer of said Cowley County, certificates of full paid stock of the capital stock of said railroad company, in an amount equal to the amount of the bonds of said Cowley County so received by it dollar for dollar in exchange therefor and in consideration thereof.

The form of the ballots to be used at such special election for and against the proposition to take stock and issue bonds therefor, as above recited, shall be in the following form, to-wit: The ballot in favor of said proposition shall contain these words, "for the railroad stock and bonds of the Kansas City, and Southwestern railroad company," and the ballot against said proposition shall contain these words, "against the railroad stock and bonds of the Kansas City, and Southwestern railroad company," and your petitioners will ever pray.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Mr. Cook's subject was face to face with Mormonism. The Mormon country, he said, was 1,000 miles long, and the advancing threads of its vile growth are crossing Montana, Idaho, Arizona, and New Mexico, with its red roots ramifying in all directions from Salt Lake City, its center. Since he had stood on this platform before it had been his fortune, he said, to travel through, as well as around, the cancer, and the red rim was as interesting as the core. If Mormonism be allowed to grow undisturbed 25 years longer, it will exert a controlling influence in every State west of the Mississippi, possibly excepting California and Oregon. Where there were only about 15,000 polygamists, yet these were petty nabobs, and exerted a wonderful influence. The secret hope of Mormonism, he said, is to build a Mormon oligarchy, independent of the United States, in the States about Utah, just as it was the hope of the rebellion to establish a slave oligarchy about the Gulf of Mexico. Even now United States law in Utah was a sword without a hilt, or a Gentile sword with a Mormon hilt. In visiting Salt Lake City the last time he took with him thirty leading questions which he put to Federal Judges, prominent businessmen, and apostate Mormons, and there was remarkable unanimity in their answer. He read only a few of these questions and answers, saying they would all be printed. Among other things these men then told him that Mormonism was as dangerous without polygamy as with it. This, he confessed, surprised him, but its history in Missouri and Illinois seemed to confirm this view. Mr. Cook recommended the Cullom and Cassidy bills as the best remedy for this growing evil. If we could not get these, the next best thing to do is to enlarge the powers of the present Utah commission. All the men he consulted with there agreed that if Mormonism were left for the schools and churches to remedy, it would gain such political control as to compel its admission into the Union, as a State, and place polygamy under the shield of States rights. "The man who sits in Brigham Young's seat is an autocrat," said Mr. Cook, and his political dictation extends through all the Western Territories. The lecturer urged vigorous measures in dealing with the problem, including not only schools and churches but the sending of circulars to U. S. Ministers in all foreign countries, warning people of the disloyal character of Mormonism, to prevent their increase by immigration, and the putting of Utah under military law. He also advised a national divorce law. "Let us smite with a clean hand," said the lecturer, and the sentiment brought out a hearty cheer from the great audience. In concluding his Prelude, Mr. Cook read a letter from Senator Hoar, expressing his pleasure at the selection of the Mormon question as one of the subjects of his prelude, and his earnest desire to see the great evil adequately dealt with. "If Mormonism live and grew, the Christian family will not be an element in the civilization of the great Central States of the future," said Senator Hoar in his letter.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The following is a list of the appointments of the South West Kansas Conference made by Bishop W. X. Ninde.

Argonia, F. M. Romine; Arkansas City, N. S. Buckner; Arkansas City circuit, V. H. Brink; Andover, J. W. Anderson; Belle Plaine, N. Asher; Burdenville, C. K. Woodson; Caldwell, W. H. Rose; Conway Springs, Samuel McKibben; Dexter, T. C. Warren; East Wichita, J. D. Woods; Goddard, Emory C. Beach; Haysville, J. L. Rose; Mulvane, James Lull; New Salem, to be supplied by J. Q. Knight; Oxford, N. J. Burton; South Haven, A. B. Cluckner; Wellington, W. H. Cline; Wellington circuit, C. N. Bottorff; Wichita, T. S. Hodgson; South Wichita, to be supplied; Winfield, B. Kelley.

Augusta, S. Price; Augusta circuit, to be supplied by D. L. Knowles; Burton, Andrew Hocker; Canton, A. J. Bixler; Douglass, W. W. Woodside; El Dorado, D. W. Phillips; El Dorado circuit, I. C. Patton; Florence, J. M. Archer; Halstead, L. O. Mead; Leon, to be supplied; Marion, P. F. Jones; Marion circuit, to be supplied by H. Pracht; Newton, A. T. Burris; Newton circuit, to be supplied by Oldfield; Peabody, H. Wait; Sedgwick, G. W. Akers; Towanda, P. D. Lahr; Valley Center, A. H. Parker; Walton, C. E. Williams; Hutchinson, D. D. Akin.

Brown Grove, J. M. Clark; Chase, E. B. Abbot; Conway, J. C. Sutton; Dodge City, D. F. Owens; Garden City, S. Brink; Garfield, to be supplied by J. A. Vickers; Great Bend, S. H. Enyart; Great Bend circuit, to be supplied by R. J. Davis; Kinsley, J. H. Romine; Larned, N. P. Tedrick; Little River, F. P. Moore; Lyons, L. M. Hartley; Lyons circuit, to be supplied; McPherson, J. D. Botkin; Marquette, N. A. Porter; Ness City, to be supplied; Nickerson, A. P. George; Pawnee Valley, L. A. Drummond; Pawnee Rock, to be supplied; Rush Center, H. E. Fleming; Spearville, to be supplied by J. B. Handy; Sterling, J. N. Funston.

Arlington, J. L. Stratford; Anthony, B. C. Swarts; Anthony circuit, Cyrus Wesley; Attica, E. S. Hodsdon; Comanche, to be supplied; Cheney, R. Sanderson; Clarke, to be supplied; Hutchinson circuit, A. Hartman; Harper, L. J. Van Landingham; Hazleton, to be supplied by H. C. Bosley; Iuka, B. F. Wonder; Kingman, John A. Lucas; Kingman circuit, to be supplied by J. B. Dooty; Mount Hope and Eldridge, W. R. Rolingson; Medicine Lodge, W. H. Gillam; Medicine Lodge circuit, C. H. Burleigh; Mead, J. N. Stamper; Nickerson circuit, to be supplied by B. F. Rhoads; Pratt, to be supplied; Stafford, to be supplied by J. F. Clark; St. John, A. J. Taylor.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The amended law for the protection of native cattle against the introduction of Texas, Spanish or splenic fever, prohibits the bringing into the State or herding "any cattle capable of communicating or liable to impart" Texas fever, at any time between the first day of March and the first day of December. Section 2 requires the sheriff to take charge of any such cattle if he knows of them in his county, and section 3 requires the live stock sanitary commission to examine the cattle and pass judgment on their condition. If they are such as this act intends to prohibit, the sheriff must keep them quarantined until after December 1. Heavy penalties are affixed for the violation of the act and damages are allowed to persons injured by reason of the presence of the cattle which the act is intended to prohibit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

WONDERS NEVER CEASE. Prof. C. Donaldson, New Orleans, La., proprietor of Museums, who suffered eighteen years with rheumatic pains, states he has spent ten thousand dollars to get cured. After trying doctors, famous baths, electric appliances, and legions of Liniments without relief, he tried St. Jacobs Oil, which complete cured him. It is a wonderful remedy, he says, and he has sold his crutches.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

There is more than $5,000,000 invested in the manufacture of roller skates in this country.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

St. Louis has 1,785 saloons and twenty-two breweries, besides wholesale liquor dealers and importers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Miss Cleveland, who is now "first lady of the land," is opposed to dancing anywhere, and especially at the White House.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Bishop Johnson, who died in London the other day, had nine daughters, for whom he had husbands in nine vicars of his own diocese.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Jeff Davis will be one of the speakers at the New Orleans Exposition on April 15th, which will be known as Mexican Veteran's day.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Emperor Don Pedro, of Brazil, favors the method of preventing yellow fever by vaccination, and 500 persons have been vaccinated at Rio Janeiro.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The steamship Louisiana has just completed a trip from New York to New Orleans in five days nine hours and fifteen minutes, making the quickest time on record.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Being elated over the prospective visit with her parents to Chicago, a little Sandusky girl startled her mother by exclaiming at the close of her evening devotions: "Good-by, God; I am going to Chicago."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

A frisky fellow in Connecticut aged 88 years has been tied to the bed-post by enterprising relatives because he wants to marry a ninth wife. They have concluded to draw the line somewhere, and number nine seems to have been the limit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The senate met recently and immediately went into executive session. The committee appointed to wait upon the President reported that they had performed their duty and the President had expressed a wish that the senate should remain in session until this Thursday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Mrs. John L. Sullivan has sued for a divorce from the slugger, her petition alleging habitual drunkenness and cruelty. She further asks that his property, about $20,000, be attached so that she shall be sure of obtaining sufficient money upon which to live. The divorce and request should by all means be granted.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Pneumonia has assumed almost the force of an epidemic in New York City, the number of deaths from the disease during the first seventy-three days of this year reaching the startling figure of 1,210, an increase of 45 percent over last year. This remarkable mortality is attributed to the sudden change in the temperature and the foolish habits of laying aside winter wraps and flannels when the sun gave the first hint of spring.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

S. B. Hynes, General Passenger Agent of the Southern Kansas road, reports that an agent of that road, especially detailed, who has just returned from a trip of inspection and investigation along its line, reports that the area of winter wheat killed will not exceed 5 percent. Mr. Hynes also says that the Southern Kansas is earning from $700 to $800 a day more on its passenger business than it did this time last year, but losing on the freight business.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Henry Stull, aged 100, died at his son's residence, near Marathon, Ohio. He was born in 1780, in Montgomery County, Pa., two miles from Valley Forge, where Washington's forces passed the terrible winter of 1777-8. He served in the war of 1812, and was at the battle of Lundy's Lane and Chippewa, under General Scott. He was born before George III acknowledged the American Independence. He was a member of the M. E. church for many years; never used intoxicating liquors, but was a great lover of tobacco.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Arabs have shown in their fighting with the British troops that they have all the qualities for making as fine soldiers as could be desired. They have courage, dash, and spirit. They rush in by hundreds to almost certain death. As skirmishers they are rarely equaled, and as bush fighters and stealthy assailants, they rival the most romantic tales of our American Indians in that line. What they need is skilled officers and perfect drill, and with these they would be the equals, man for man, of the British. Their courage is admirable, and they are fighting for their own land against a foreign invader.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Col. J. R. Hallowell has resigned his position as United States Attorney and it is reported that Gov. Glick, who is at present the Democratic boss in Kansas, has designated Hon. Thomas P. Fenlon as Col. Hallowell's successor. This will be a good appointment, and will be in harmony with the traditions of the office. It has been the rule to have what is termed a "good fellow" in the District Attorney's office. It is appropriate that "Hal" should be succeeded by "Tom." The echoes of the good stories told by the Republican incumbent will not die away before the refrain will be taken up by his Democratic successor.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Jeffersonian simplicity was a very good thing in Jefferson's time. Democracy was pretty good then, too. But there is nothing Jeffersonian now among Democrats--not even simplicity. One may go about the White House grounds now at any hour of the day or night and not see a horse hitched in any of the fence corners, nor a man's saddle hanging to a stake, or a tanned sheep skin thrown over a rider. There are not mattocks nor dock diggers lying at the bar, and no grub poles lying along the path up to the house. No, nothing of the kind. Such things might have been seen when Jefferson was head man. But, as before said, there is nothing like that about the president's house now. Simplicity went under a cloud when Jefferson's light went out. Capital.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Governor Martin, having to appoint a Judge of the Superior Court of Shawnee County, was solicited by the friends of a respectable number of gentlemen, the leading candidates being W. C. Webb and J. C. Stonecker. Desirous of knowing the sentiments of the parties to be most immediately associated with the Judge, Gov. Martin requested an expression of opinion from the gentlemen of the Shawnee County bar. A vote was taken on Tuesday, resulting in a majority vote for Judge Webb, who was accordingly commissioned. We think the choice will prove satisfactory. Our reason for thinking the incumbent will make a good judge is that he has made one in the past. He served acceptably in that capacity in the Bourbon County district, and since he has resided in Topeka he has probably seen more service as pro tem judge than any half dozen lawyers on the circuit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The forces of Honduras and San Salvador have had several skirmishes, the armies of Guatemala and Honduras acting in harmony. San Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rico have formed an alliance to protect themselves against the revolutionary scheme of President Barrios. San Salvador put her whole army in the field. Nicaragua provides 4,000 men, Costa Rico sends 2,000. Costa Rico at the same time contributes $100,000 toward the expenses of the war. President Zaldivar of San Salvador will assume the chief command of the allied forces. President Cardenas of Nicaragua will be second in command and Gen. Soto of Costa Rico will probably take third place.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

We publish on the first page of this issue the proposition in full submitted by the Kansas City & Southwestern Railroad Company in Cowley County. It is elaborate, explicit, and covers every point that will possibly be raised, as between the County and the railroad. The time in which the road is to reach Winfield is limited to six months, with a bond to pay the costs of election in case it does not build within the time. The townships which have heretofore voted aid to the road are released by the terms of the proposition, and the line is located down Timber creek as heretofore surveyed. The Burden people made a very strong effort to secure the road, but President Young would not consent to any divergence that would lengthen the line. The proposition has been unanimously accepted by the Winfield Enterprise Association and by the people of Arkansas City and all along the line. The petitions will be out for signature this week. The COURIER will discuss the proposition at length during its pendency. While there are some things in it that we would like to see modified, we know that this is the best that can be done. The line is attracting much attention, and promises to be one of the best roads for the people that has ever been proposed in southern Kansas. Cowley must secure it. It is a matter of vital interest to every citizen--not for a week, or a month, but for all time. With this line and the D. M. & A., our future is settled and our permanent prosperity assured. This is no time for vain croaking but a time when every citizen should go energetically to work to get every new enterprise that can in any possible manner be reached.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The City election will be held next Tuesday, and as yet no tickets are in the field. For mayor the names of D. L. Kretsinger, Dr. Graham, W. R. McDonald, and Mr. Ordway are prominently mentioned. Any one of these gentlemen are thoroughly competent, and would give the city an active and energetic administration. James Connor is mentioned for the council in the First ward. He is one of our best men, and should go in without opposition. Among others mentioned for the council in their respective wards are Arthur Bangs, Ed. Bedilion, A. H. Doane, J. B. Lynn, H. Brotherton, and W. A. Smith. All are good men, and would give us a clean and effective government. Let every citizen without regard to party or creed make himself a committee of one to go to any and all meetings or caucuses for the nomination of tickets, and see that first class men only are put on ground. There is much of weal or woe, depending on the class of persons selected to govern the city during the next two years.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

A few cranky newspapers seem disposed to persuade the retiring saloon-keepers that they may still continue their establishment under the guise of "drug stores." These cranky newspapers have already cost the saloon men so much by their silly advice that we should think they would beware of them. The Champion would advise men who have already made the sacrifice of going out of the whiskey business in one shape, to keep out of it in every shape. The Champion is not disposed to discuss the morality of the matter; it leaves that to the preachers and temperance lecturers. The real druggists will make common cause against bogus druggists, and make it very hot for them; and, beside, the pharmacy act, which goes into effect as soon as published in the state book (which will appear shortly) does not tolerate amateur or imitation druggists. Besides this, the Legislature meets again next winter--the present Legislature in extra session--and if it is seen that the law is evaded by this "drug store" monkeying, a law will be passed which will place the whole liquor business in the hands of State agents. The time and money lost in attempting to get around the law had better be devoted to seeking other investments. On the whole, it would be better to let whiskey go to the devil--from whence many people believe it came. Champion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The following regulations for the observance of Lent by Bishop Fink, of the diocese of Kansas, we give as a matter of general information.

1. All the faithful who have completed the twenty-first year, and are not otherwise dispensed, are bound to fast.

2. Every day in Lent is a day of fasting and abstinence except the Sundays.

3. By dispensation, the use of flesh meat is allowed once a day every day except Wednesday and Fridays, and Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday of Ember Week, and the four last days of Holy Week.

4. The use of flesh meat and fish at the same meal is forbidden.

5. The use of lard, milk, butter, eggs, and cheese is allowed every day.

6. From fasting are dispensed the sick and convalescent, women in pregnancy, and giving each and all who have laborious work to perform.

7. Those who are dispensed from fasting may use flesh meat at their discretion on those days on which meat is allowed.

8. In all cases of doubt, the faithful should consult their pastors or father confessors, and be guided by their advice.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

A duel was fought on the race track at the Wichita Agency, Indian Territory, between two men over a small bet, and both were killed. The particulars of the affair were received from a scout from Fort Reno. Frank Copeland, a cowboy and scout, became engaged in an altercation with a half-breed Indian named Foster, and after two or three minutes' wrangling, the men decided to fight at fifteen paces with Winchester rifles. The dueling ground was measured off inside the track and the men took their places. Many persons witnessed the horrible affair. At the call of three both men fired and both fell dead, Copeland receiving a bullet through the brain and Foster one through the heart. The men had been good friends for a long time and were well known at all the Indian agencies in the territory.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Whoever is responsible for the escape of Sandy Burge has a load to carry, the weight whereof he does not at present appreciate. That a man should shoot another down and never be arrested, or brought to trial for the crime, is something which the people ought not and will not tolerate. If Burge is innocent, he should be declared so by the court, and not remain an outlaw. If he is guilty, society demands his punishment.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Southwestern Kansas Teachers' Association began a two days' session in El Dorado, March 27, there being about one hundred teachers present. The first session was held in the afternoon. The discussions proved interesting and instructive. Professor Canfield, of the State University, was there and addressed the association.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The nation waits in breathless expectation of the death of its most distinguished citizen, General U. S. Grant. Slowly day by day he has been sinking until at this writing, news of his death is hourly expected.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

It is announced that Vice-President Touzalin, of the Santa Fe road, has resigned and will devote himself to his private business interests at Omaha.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Governor Glick seems to have been relegated to his "cave of gloom" in fact by the Blair-Martin faction in Washington. He failed to be Secretary of the Interior, got left on Commissioner of the Land Office, and was politely laid on the shelf as a candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture. He then sadly returned to Kansas accompanied by his tried and trusted friends, Gov. Ike Sharp, of Normal school land fame, and Sam Wood, the Great Unwashed. His "influence" is being eagerly inquired for by a large number of small fry who had attached themselves to the tail of his kite. It is doubtful whether Glick could get a fourth rate clerkship without General Blair or John Martin's endorsement.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The prohibition movement upon the saloons culminated in a street encounter at Atchison, March 27th, between Jesse Crall, a well-known saloon-keeper, and the Rev. D. C. Milner, pastor of the Presbyterian church, and an active prohibitionist. Milner was standing opposite the saloon, when Crall approached him and after a little preliminary talk, struck him several blows in the face. This fired the blood of the preacher, who fought back fearlessly. Finally they clinched and went to the pavement, the minister the under man. They were then separated. Crall came out of the battle in decidedly the worst shape, his features being both black and bloody. Crall claims that a bystander held him during the fiercest moments of the battle, and prevented a square fight. Another party jumped in to help Milner, when Beth Crall, a son of the belligerent, knocked him into the gutter. The entire party were placed under arrest. The affair created quite a breeze in all circles, but the sympathy of that community is generally with Mr. Milner. Mr. Crall says that Mr. Milner had been urging his arrest under the liquor law for selling a very fine brand of "Herb bitters." Mr. Milner, it should be said, has the use of but one arm, his left having been injured at the battle of Chickamauga.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Ninety counties in Georgia have partial or total prohibition.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Judge James Humphrey has been re-elected railroad commissioner by the executive council.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

British Columbia is willing to take all the Chinese that come along. So was the United States until they began to overrun the country.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Lamar, of Cleveland's Cabinet, is named Lucius Quintus Curtius. Because of his name, they call him the "noblest Roman of them all."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

When the Langham hotel burned in Chicago, $50,000 worth of the hand grenades, supposed to extinguish fires, were totally consumed in the flames.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The First Assistant Postmaster General has the appointment of 50,000, exclusive of the 2,500 presidential offices not touched by the civil service law.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

In response to an appeal from the managers of the Exposition, the management of the various railroads running into New Orleans have announced a one cent a mile rate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

F. E. Warren has been appointed governor of Wyoming and as it is said that he gives satisfaction to the people of the Territory, it is supposed that he is a strong ladies' man.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Methodism began in 1720. In the sixth year its membership was fourteen, and today is 4,000,000, an increase of 25,000 members per year for the one hundred and fifty years.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The civil service association of Maryland are going for secretary Manning for making an appointment of a characterless scamp as appointment clerk in the treasury department.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Governor has appointed J. E. Bonebrake of Abilene, John Severance of Mitchell County, and Ed. R. Smith, of Linn County the committee to locate the new state reformatory.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The wrath of something or somebody seems to be after the Illinois legislature. Senator Bridges died of paralysis on the 20th inst., leaving the legislature again a tie on United States Senator.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

It is said that Mr. Cleveland breakfasts at eight o'clock; he shaves himself; he refuses to receive newspapers without subscribing for them; he declines to accept dead head theatre tickets. Washington is paralyzed in consequence of these discoveries.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The British War Department has approved the use of a smokeless gunpowder. It is called "cocoa" powder. The vision of the gunner will not henceforth be obscured by his own weapon; but his enemy will have the advantage of a more certain aim. The "smoke of battle" was as useful in deranging the aim of one side as the other.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

According to the London correspondent of the New York Times, cholera has already appeared at Toulon. It was brought by wounded troop transports, no care being taken to prevent infected soldiers from landing. Toulon is described as in a worse condition, as regards filth, than in last July. The outlook for France is very serious.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Dwight S. Spafford's majority for Representative in the Illinois Legislature from the Whiteside-Lee District, at the special election, was 4,514, according to the official returns. The total vote polled in opposition was only 761. Mr. Spafford has been formally sworn in, and taken his seat as a member of the House, thus restoring to the Republicans their full 102 votes on joint ballot.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Buchanan County Court House, St. Joseph, Missouri, took fire at 2:30 on the morning of the 28, ult. The inside was completely gutted, except the wing containing the office of the recorder of deeds and county clerk probate court and county collector's office. All the records and books were destroyed. The records of the circuit and county courts are safe in the vaults. The law library, valued at $10,000, is a complete loss. The county jail was saved. The prisoners were removed. The buildings cost $250,000; insured for $100,000. W. B. McNutt, chief of the fire department, was fatally injured.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Kansas City has a sensation in the expose of one Mott, a spiritualist who has been astonishing people by the thousands. The expose seems to have been the work of Maj. Lawrence, of the Journal, assisted by members of his reportorial corps. It was most complete and convincing, and should prevent people from wasting money in "feeing" people to impose upon their credulity.

The manner of the expose was as follows. Maj. Lawrence was called to the cabinet and asked to see his father (or his spirit). In obedience to his call, a face appeared at the aperture, which Lawrence recognized as being the familiar phiz of Mott; but to further stamp the thing as a fraud, he pressed a small rubber syringe, which he held in his hand, and sent a stream of aniline dye into the face of the ghost and against the opposite side of the cabinet. When the police forced open the cabinet, they found Mott, covered with dye, seated in a corner out of range of the syringe.

The Journal exhibits considerable enterprise in the manner in which it places the expose before its readers, and throws the Times so far into the background that it cannot be seen.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

An old man in Pennsylvania, recently appointed postmaster, committed suicide from worrying over the intricate duties of his new office. There will probably be a number of suicides before the year is out from no opportunity to worry over these same duties.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Senator Hill of Georgia, whose painful death from a cancer in his mouth, much like that which afflicts General Grant, it will be remembered, submitted to having his tongue amputated to eradicate the disease, but even that heroic alternative was of no avail. Though by no means so excessive a smoker as General Grant has been, his cancer was attributed to cigar poison, and began with a little pustule on the tongue. The tenement-house cigar making is no doubt a prolific source of malignant diseases. The probability is that General Grant's death, when it occurs, will be the signal for the inauguration of an anti-tobacco crusade of formidable dimensions. That his case will for some time lessen the amount of cigar smoking done as a voluntary precaution on the part of inveterate smokers is also very probable.

Emporia Republican.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Chronic diarrhea can be immediately controlled and permanently cured by the use of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, and Diarrhea Remedy. It is made for bowel complaints and nothing else. This medicine can always be depended upon. It stops the pain as soon as taken. It is a vegetable compound--safe in all cases and pleasant to take. It should be kept in every house. Sold by BROWN & SON.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Gov. Martin has appointed the state board of health as follows: Drs. Charles H. Guiber of Beloit; A. P. Forster of Fort Scott, and D. Furber of Perry, for the three year's term; Drs. J. Milton Welch of LaCygne, and D. W. Stormont of Topeka, for the two year's term; Drs. H. S. Robert of Manhattan and T. A. Wright of Greenwood, for the one year term.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

A company was organized in Topeka March 28th, under the name of the Western Telegraph company. Its object is stated to be the building of a telegraph line from Kansas City westward.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

27,500,000 bushels of coal were mined in Kansas in 1884.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Baron Van Lindorn, of Rotterdam, Holland, lately bought 6,400 acres of land in Rush County, and will raise a colony in Holland to settle it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

4,170 persons were engaged in mining coal in Kansas last December, and $1,555,000 were paid for work. Of this sum $240,000 was paid in Crawford County.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Mr. Spafford, Republican, was recently elected a member of the Illinois senate from the nineteenth district, where there was a vacancy caused by the death of State Senator Logan.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

A lad named Bradshaw, aged 15 years, committed suicide at Argentine, Kansas, by taking poison, the cause being his aversion to going to school, he having been punished for playing truant.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

J. W. Haworth, United States Superintendent of Indian schools, died recently. He was from Kansas, and an efficient man for the place. His death occurred in New Mexico from heart disease, and the remains were sent to Olathe for interment.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

A meeting of the Kansas State Editorial and Publishers' Association has been called to meet at Wyandotte, commencing Wednesday, May 13th, and continuing two days. It will be entirely devoted to business, without any excursion attachment, which will be a disappointment to a majority of those who usually attend the meetings of the Association.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The surprise of the week was the nominations for the British and other foreign missions. The most important nomination of the list, and one of the most important in the gift of the government, that of minister to Great Britain, goes to Mr. E. J. Phelps, of Vermont, a man utterly unknown to the country at large. Senator Pendleton's appointment to Berlin was not wholly unexpected, and occasions no surprise. Governor McLane's appointment to France recognizes one of the bright lights of Maryland democracy, and returns to the diplomatic service a gentleman who has already won distinction in that line of duty. Kentucky gets another disappointment in the failure of General "Cerro Gordo" Williams to receive the Mexican mission, that prize going to Georgia. No name is sent in for the Spanish mission, but it is commonly understood that Mr. Foster will return to that country to complete the negotiations on which he has been engaged affecting our commercial relations.

Mr. Cox, who goes as minister to Turkey, has earned a holiday by hard work in Congress for a quarter of a century, but the country will part with him with regret. For some reason or other Congress of late years has been steadily becoming more and more uninteresting. It may be because there are no great emotional issues; or because a dreary industry has become the fashion as against the oratorical traditions of earlier times. But whatever the explanation, the fact remains; and now that Mr. Cox is to go, the proceedings will be more dismal than ever. He is almost the last survivor of a group of men of eloquence and ready resource, who ten or fifteen years ago were the principal figures in Congress. And the new men do not make good the vacant places.

The Secretary of War has a handsome daughter of twenty, who will be a great acquisition in official circles and an invaluable aid to her mother when they are settled here next season. As for the Secretary himself, I hear that the employees in the War Department who have come in personal contact with him are more than pleased with his unvarying courtesy and kindness. As one of the "unknown men" of whom Representative Reagan, of Texas, inquired so particularly a fortnight ago, Mr. Endicott is destined to become well and favorably known. I also hear from authentic source that the President at first wished to put Charles Francis Adams in his cabinet. Mr. Adams declined and urged the appointment of Mr. Endicott. So in this we are to thank Mr. Adams for what is already regarded in Washington as an excellent appointment.

Mr. Blaine is still busy on his new book. He expects to have it completed by the middle of the summer, and is very well pleased with what he has already done. He has a critical eye, and has the rare quality of being as able to criticize his own work as that of another. He expects this work to live and give him a name when a long line of ex-Presidents have sunk out of sight. He is reported to have been very well pleased with Mr. Cleveland, and to have expressed the opinion after his call upon Mr. Cleveland at the White House a few days ago, that the new administration would be a success. He thinks Mr. Cleveland meant every word he said in his inaugural, and that he is not to be moved or shaken in his determination by any amount of political pressure. It is the general impression here in Washington that Mr. Blaine feels friendly towards Mr. Cleveland and thinks it will be the duty of the Republicans in Congress to give the President every possible backing in carrying out the policy he has laid down.

Senator Palmer has earned an enviable reputation as a dinner giver. He is believed in Washington to surpass ex-President Arthur in this respect. There is so much perfection about his dinners that Mr. Arthur, upon the occasion of a Palmer dinner at which he was a guest some time ago, frankly expressed his admiration to his host, and personally complimented the chief, Emile, who is at the head of this department in the Senator's household. I am reminded of what a Senator said to me last winter about dinners. We were talking of the dinners at the White House, and in particular of that given to the judges of the Supreme Court, at which there were also several Senators. The table was said to be the handsomest ever seen in the state dining room. My Senatorial friend said: "Yes, that was an elegant dinner. But the most completely beautiful table I ever sat down to was at Senator Palmer's a week ago. Mrs. Palmer, herself, is a woman of taste, but Emile, the French cook, is the power behind the culinary throne."

The "season" at Washington is practically over, and the Senate will probably close up shop today. But there are many who expect a brilliant post-Lenten social display.

Mr. Arthur left Washington Saturday. L.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

One of the most important expenses in living is the cost of Boots and Shoes. We have taken advantage of the closeness of times in the Eastern market and spent some three weeks in making spring selection of

They have been bought for CASH, and it is our intention to sell them for the same as near as possible, which will enable us to sell them on a much smaller margin than were we to sell otherwise. In order to verify the above statement, we will quote you prices.

A Man's Calf Boot, $2.00.

A Man's Low Shoe, $2.00.

A Man's Plow Shoes, $2.00.

A Man's Calf Brogan, $2.00.

A boy's Plow Shoes, $1.00.

We have Ladies' goods in endless variety. Slippers from 15 cents to $3.00. Ladies' Button Shoes, Kid or Goat, $1.50. Bear in mind we are making no cut or doing business for any less profit than heretofore. The above prices are only some of the many bargains we have to offer. We challenge the world to

Give us a call and be convinced. It is our intention to win your patronage by selling good goods for LESS MONEY than can be bought elsewhere. Come and examine prices.

We have a first-class workman in connection with this store. Repairing neatly and promptly done.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

and "All Over" Edging, which I am prepared to offer to the trade at greatly reduced prices. I bought these goods from 25 to 30 percent cheaper than I could buy the same goods this side of the water; and that enables me to sell them very low.

Call and see them before buying.

Consider well this opportunity.

It may never come again.

I will also add that I have made up my mind to go out of the Clothing business. Anyone wanting a Suit, Pair of Pants, Coat or Vest will save from 25 to 50 percent by buying them of me. I have the goods and

I will say in conclusion that I have just returned from the East, where I found and bought the handsomest and cheapest stock of DRY GOODS ever brought to Winfield by any merchant. I earnestly invite one and all to call and inspect and price my goods, and if they don't agree with me they are at liberty to call me a fool for selling off my old stock at 90 cents on the dollar last winter. Respectfully,

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Globe says that a proposition partaking of the nature of an ultimatum was telegraphed by the government to St. Petersburg March 27. It requested at the same time that the Russian government should send answer that would reach Downing street, London, not later than Monday next.

The Globe also declares Earl Granville on March 16th proposed to Russia that both Russians and Afghans should withdraw from that portion of the country at present the subject of dispute and remain outside of it during the continuance of the negotiations then in progress in London. To this proposal Russia sent no reply until last Wednesday. She refused to accede to England's proposition on the ground that the withdrawal of her troops would be a source of humiliation to Russia. After this answer was received, the cabinet decided to embody the reserve and militia and the ultimatum already referred to was sent.

In the house of lords, March 27, Granville, replying to the marquis of Salisbury, said there was nothing indicating a tendency to flinch on the part of the government regarding the Afghan question. The government firmly adheres to the policy agreed upon by both political parties, while at the same time they were availing themselves of every means to arrive at a satisfactory solution of the difficulty. He was unable to fix a date when the negotiations will be concluded. Russia is now considering England's dispatch. England considered Russia bound to the recent agreement. In the meantime the ameer of Afghanistan has instructed his chief to observe the neutrality.

A dispatch from Korti states the last British detachment evacuated that point.

The Queen will start for Aix-Les-Baines Monday. The Queen's message of March 27, calling out the reserves and militia for permanent service, has been received by the country with great enthusiasm. The enthusiasm is especially marked at the various military stations throughout the kingdom. Everywhere active efforts are being exerted to get barracks ready for the reserves, and have areas and accoutrements at hand to equip them. Immense stores of arms are at the tower ready to be distributed when required. The war feeling is strong among the reserves, and many have already joined the guards before the orders summoning them to service were received.

Great preparations are being made at Aldershot for the reception of the army reserve forces and militia called out by the Queen's message. Quarters are ready in Chatham for a large force. The greatest activity prevails in the ordnance department in hastening the armament of vessels ordered for immediate service. Extra hands are employed and all available quarters at Chelsea have been made ready for occupation. It is reported that the naval service will be at once called out for service. The government has given contracts for 10,000 uniforms.

Active preparations are making to get available cruisers and iron clads belonging to the navy into condition for active service as soon as possible. It is known that the destination of these vessels is the Baltic sea and the Black sea; the entrance to the latter, however, being conditioned on the assent of Turkey. Members of the Third royal fusileers and Fifth rifle brigade, both military organizations, are responding largely to the Queen's call for volunteers to serve with the regulars.

The total reserve force of English navy in 1884 was 20,500.

In the event of war 25,000 militia will be assigned to garrison duty in Ireland and that number of regulars will be released for active service.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Permit me, through your valuable paper, to acknowledge with gratitude my sincere thanks to the pastor, deacons, and members of the Winfield Baptist church for their having made the Baptist church and pastor in Dayton the subject of prayer.

On the eleventh day of March, we secured the services of the Rev. A. P. Graves, D. D., evangelist, who was welcomed by a large congregation, that has increased until no house in town will hold the people, and very many precious souls have been converted. As first fruits sixteen were baptized last Sunday, eight more received, with many more saved, and others inquiring the way. Dr. Graves is a preacher with a national reputation, a bold, fearless defender of the faith, whom God has owned and blessed in almost every State and territory of the Union. When we consider that state of religion here six months ago, and then today, we can but say: "What hath God wrought?" and still infidelity is strongly entrenched. I have often been told that the people were too far advanced to have another revival here, but the best ever held in Dayton is the one we are having at present, so we have evidence that God hears prayer. I hope that my friends will excuse me for not answering their letters, as I am very busy, and am suffering from a cold that hurts my head.

All through February and March we have had the finest weather I ever saw. Cattle are doing well on the grass, and spring wheat all sown and looks well.

I must congratulate you on securing the institution for large bodies and small minds. I may come back again, and most people like a good large home, so thanks for Jennings, Greer, and other noble young Honorables--they have done well. We also congratulate you on the new temperance law. I think you have a sure thing on intemperance. May God bless the cause, and add to that impartial suffrage, so that the heart being right the whole nation may follow suit. Excuse haste; more anon. J. CAIRNS.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Secretary Endicott states that no orders have yet been issued to Gen. Hatch to clear Oklahoma. The President's proclamation ordered that all occupants of Oklahoma, whether settlers or cattlemen, should vacate, and a reasonable time will be allowed for them to comply. In the event of their failure to remove, the interior department will take steps to free the territory of all intruders, and if the assistance of the army is required, it will be given.

Capt. Couch received a dispatch from Washington March 27th, stating that the President had promised to examine the colonists' memorial carefully and consult Secretary Lamar. The dispatch also stated that the secretary of war says the proclamation means the removal of all cattlemen. The colonists issued a circular inviting the cooperation of home seekers. They say they are receiving encouraging advices from nearly every state in the Union.

Maj. DeWees is scouring the territory in search of the Coffeyville boomers, but nothing reliable has been learned of their whereabouts since they left Kansas.

General Hatch is at Chilocco to prevent any except cattlemen entering the territory.

At their meeting of the 27th ult., the colonists adopted a resolution thanking Hon. Sidney Clarke of Kansas, Congressman Weaver of Iowa, and Senator Van Wyck for their efforts in securing the resolution of the public domain from the use of the cattle kings.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The war department was informed that Oklahoma boomers intended to invade the Indian Territory next Monday and march direct to the Oklahoma lands. Hatch telegraphed that Couch had informed his followers they would not move at the time proposed. They are now at their old camp, and number about 500.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

"The World," a spectacular drama of more than ordinary merit, will be presented at the Opera House Tuesday evening next. Several of our citizens saw this play in Topeka last fall and can vouch for its worthiness. A leading daily gives this comment: "The World" was presented in a highly successful manner, and an audience never departed from the Opera House better pleased than the one of last night, all commenting on the great play in the most complimentary terms. The actors are good, and some of the scenes excite intense interest. In the raft scene, everybody gazed with breathless surprise, watching the party of three clinging to their rude support, which rolled incessantly in the great waves of the ocean."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Constable Tom H. Herrod re-arrested Henry Chavis Tuesday and the stolen lumber, nails, etc., having been found in his possession, he plead guilty before Justice Snow and got three months in the county bastille and twenty-five dollars fine, with costs of suit. He is a gentleman of color, and seems to have been following the pilfering business as a vocation. Numerous articles were found in his possession after his arrest, one of which was an overcoat stolen from Ed. Bedilion last year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Wellingtonian: "Mr. D. A. Carr, who for the past seven years, held the position of salesman with J. B. Lynn & Co., of Winfield, has accepted a similar position with the famous one price clothing and boot and shoe house, to be opened in a few days in this city. Mr. Carr is a good salesman and if he proves as popular with Wellington buyers as he was with those of Winfield, his employers will find him a valuable assistant."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The awnings along Main street are being raised in compliance with an ordinance to a uniform height of fourteen feet, making a very favorable change in appearances. If we must endure the old rookeries on our principal street, it is commendable in the City Fathers to make them look as well as possible. A number of them should, and probably will, give place to handsome brick buildings this year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

City Clerk Buckman clothed only about eight hundred and fifty with authority to wield the ballot at next Tuesday's election before the close of the registration books--several hundred less than our voting population. Some men don't seem to understand that a municipal election has more individual import than an election for president of the United States.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

"The scenery of 'The World' was grand, and was fully appreciated by the audience. The eighth grand tableau formed the principal feature of the play and was one of the finest examples of scenic effect ever put on the state in this city. Little's World is welcome in Dubuque any time."--Dubuque Times. Opera House, Winfield, Tuesday evening, April 7th.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Everything but wheat seems to be gradually climbing up in our local markets. Prairie hay is higher than for years, $9.00 a ton, and scarce at that. Corn brings forty-two to forty-five cents a bushel. Wheat still hangs at sixty cents, but is bound with the discouraging outlook for this year's crop, to move to a dollar before the summer rolls by.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Have you seen the latest improvement New Jewell and Adams Westlake gasoline stove for sale by Horning & Whitney? They are perfection and your wife should never give the "bald head end of the broom" a minute's rest till you get her one. "Absolutely indispensable in summer" is the verdict of all who have tried them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

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, 2nd door upstairs.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Adams & Westlake gasoline Stove will bury your wife in smiles and straighten the cross eyes of your mother-in-law. Anything under the sun can be cooked with rapidity and perfection. Get one of Horning & Whitney, before the heated season sets in.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Grand Central Hotel, Ft. Smith, Arkansas, of which Ed Weitzel, formerly of Winfield, was landlord, burned down last week, consuming all furnishings. There was no insurance, and Ed's loss was heavy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Chautauqua Library Circle will be entertained tonight at the Baptist church by a lecture by Rev. Reider on "David, King of Israel." The invitation is general.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Great attractions at the 9th avenue closing out sale. Goods received daily from our mammoth stock east. Call early and secure bargains. Sign, Red Flag.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The mad dog scare is still abroad in the land and everyone should examine the color of a dog's nose before he goes near him. If it is kind of a pale blue, you want to pass by on the other side of the street.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Brown & Son deliver gasoline to any part of the city, at 20 cents a gallon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

District court convenes Tuesday next.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Next Sunday is Easter.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Capt. T. B. Myers, our city assessor, is on the war path.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Ray Oliver is a happy "dad"--a bouncing boy made its appearance at his house Monday night.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

P. H. Albright left Monday for a few days in and around Attica, looking after real estate loans.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The rumor that Frank Lockwood, formerly of Winfield, had killed a man at Medicine Lodge, Monday, was unfounded.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Frank Hall came in from Ashland last week. Ashland is having a wonderful boom and will soon be the official county seat of Clark.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Mrs. J. Cottingham, of Floral, left yesterday for Sharpsburg, Ky., in answer to a summons announcing the supposed fatal illness of her father.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Rev. Dr. Wallace, an old friend and school mate of Dr. Kirkwood, delivered two very able discourses at the Presbyterian church last Sunday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

G. M. Fortune, an attorney from Douglas, was here Tuesday and Wednesday defending a client in an ejectment case in Justice Buckman's court.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Ed Nelson, of the New York store, with Frank A. Cook, an old friend who is visiting him, leave today for a week's fish and hunt in the Territory.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

A. A. Richards, formerly of the Wellington Press, but now an attorney of that city, was perambulating over the Queen City of southern Kansas Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

County Superintendent Limerick and Prof. Gridley, wife and sister, attended the Burden Commencement exercises Tuesday evening, the gentlemen taking part in the exercises.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Henry Chavis, a colored gentleman, was before Justice Snow and a jury of six Thursday, on a charge of jayhawking some lumber from a Mr. Moore in the west part of town. He was acquitted.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Mat Ewart got in Thursday last from a month's perambulation of the east. He took in the inauguration, the sights of Gotham, and various and sundry points of interest, and returns corpulent and happy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Charley Dever has been honored with the position of clerk of the city school board, Lou Zenor having resigned. Charley is one of our brightest, most reliable young men, and will fill the position to the satisfaction of all.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

T. R. Bryan got off for Kansas City Thursday last, to engage in the real estate and loan business. His family will remain in Winfield during the summer. We all rest in hopes that our tow line will draw T. R. back again at no distant day.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. George Ordway have returned from their six weeks' sojourn at the Crescent City, recreating and enjoying the sights of the World's Fair. They leave for California in May, to spend the summer, in hopes of improving Mr. Ordway's health.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

George Dilett, residing five miles northeast of the city, died Friday night last, of dropsy, in his forty-ninth year. He was one of Cowley's early settlers. He was buried Monday in the Catholic cemetery, just east of the city, Father J. F. Kelly officiating.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

General A. H. Green had an ingenious April fool yesterday--salt colored by sorghum to a light brown and displayed as "Kansas sorghum sugar, from the Lawrence refinery." Everybody was ready to taste this promising product. Very few escaped.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Miss Alice Thompson has returned from Jacksonville, Illinois, and will probably spend the summer with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Thompson. She is a charming young lady and made many friends during her visit here last summer.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Mr. G. S. Manser got in Tuesday from his eastern tour. He visited many points of interest after taking in Cleveland's inauguration, and returns fat and happy. Mrs. Manser, after carefully taking care of G. S. nearly all through the trip, lost him on the road and came home last week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Miss Anna Hunt, to the regret of all concerned, has retired from the money order department of the postoffice. She is a young lady of unusual business tact and affability and her nearly two years' service in that intricate position gave splendid satisfaction. Miss Eva Berkey takes her place.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Dr. F. A. Howland, son of our A. A. Howland, and well known to our people, has returned from Chicago and settled, for the practice of his profession, in Cambridge. He took a thorough course in the Homeopathic school. He is a young man of splendid ability and ambition, and will make a mark in his profession.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Capt. W. S. Tough, of Leavenworth, one of the foremost horsemen of America, called on the COURIER Tuesday, in company with Judge J. Wade McDonald. Captain Tough owned, at one time, "Smuggler," the famous Johnson County trotter, which he sold to a New Yorker for $40,000, and at present owns much fine horse-flesh. He will probably have a representation at our Speed Fair in May.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Luther J. Barnes, of Grenola, Kansas, purchased of McMullen and Silliman the fine imported stallion Matidjah, No. 997 (14,021). This horse is a direct descendant of the famous Arab stallion Gallipoli, which is said to have been the most celebrated horse of his race. The farmers in that vicinity can be congratulated upon so valuable an animal coming into their midst. The first cross of the heavy horse is the best general purpose animal, also the most saleable of any race known to man.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Cowley County Teachers' Association met in regular monthly session in this city Friday and Saturday last. Over sixty of the wide-awake teachers of the county were present. The meetings of the association have always been interesting and profitable, but this one was by far the most enthusiastic and beneficial. Among the prominent features was a lecture by Rev. Reider, on "The Teacher's Unconscious Tuition," at the Methodist church Friday evening. The various topics discussed by the Association were pointed and pithy--topics of much importance to school work in Cowley County. These meetings of teachers mean much for educational matters. Ideas are interchanged, modes of instruction compared, and conclusions arrived at that do much in putting the schools of our county in the foremost ranks. We are indeed glad to note the zeal and enterprise exhibited by our teachers in elevating and perfecting their vocation. Education is the bulwark of the Republic--the backbone of everything that enhances its facilities should receive the warmest encouragement from all. This is the last meeting of the Association until the fall schools open.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The high price of corn and low price of wheat is convincing our farmers that corn is the important crop in this county, and they are determined to improve the opportunity to plant a larger area this year. The heavy cattle interests of western and southeastern Cowley, with the large number of hogs and other stock all over the county, consume an immense amount of corn, and large quantities have been shipped in this year. Our farmers are learning that mixed crops are the more profitable, and that corn, hogs, cattle, and horses contain double the profits and far less labor than large crops of wheat.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Riverside Park has been nicely cleared up with the advent of gentle spring, the daisies and violets begin to peep up among the blue grass and the usual throng of "whispering lovers" and other folks wander around under the sturdy oaks and along the bank of the placid Walnut every Sunday afternoon. With the addition of a number of rustic seats here and there, Riverside will make a recreative resort unsurpassable. Its owners show commendable enterprise in furnishing to the public so beautiful and convenient a resort.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Clothes line fiends are abroad in our midst. The wife of one of our citizens put out her washing Monday, and in the tranquil hours of the night several articles disappeared. The articles taken would indicate that the purloiner was a woman, or had a weakness for women's wear. George Rembaugh, of the Telegram, lives in that locality, but that doesn't account for the disappearance of the three pair of ?!? and an old shirt. We think George has a shirt.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The first case in this county under the new prohibitory law came before Justice Snow yesterday. Thomas Copenhaser procured a pint of whiskey of L. M. Williams last week by filling out the required affidavit, and thereupon proceed to get "full." He was raked in for procuring the liquor under false pretenses. He was found guilty and fined $100 and costs and thirty days in the bastille.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Hose Company No. 2 gave a very enjoyable hop in McDougall's hall Friday evening last.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Arkansas City Traveler gets down from its usually firm perch of justice and accuses Winfield of "secret schemes," "hidden intrigues," etc., in trying to pull down that town. "The iron has entered her soul, rancor and hatred is in her secret thoughts, and like the cowardly Italian, seeks to plunge a dagger in our back when we sleep," says our disgruntled neighbor. These burning words were caused by the erroneous idea that Winfield was trying to deprive Arkansas City of any prospect of securing the Kansas City and Southwestern railroad. Quell your self-aroused wrath, dear brother. Keep on your shirt. All the envy has been exhibited on your part. Winfield has not made an utterance, never sounded a chord that would warrant the Traveler, or any body in the Terminus, in throwing such bitter wads of venom. The Traveler acts very unwisely in this matter--throws away the spirit of harmony and good sense that has heretofore characterized it. The idea that the prosperity of any town depends on pulling down its neighbors, is false philosophy--too thin to find lodgment in any sensible cranium. Our whole county is bound together as one municipality, and that which builds up in one part will help every other part. Every true, right-thinking citizen rejoices in the prosperity of every town of grand old Cowley, and would not lift a little finger to the detriment of any of them. Our mission is to build up and not tear down. The growth of Winfield or any other place, does not, and cannot, depend upon the ruin of others. On this broad and enterprising platform Winfield stands, ready to pull, shoulder to shoulder, for the advancement of our splendid county. And we think the people of Arkansas City have this spirit also, notwithstanding the Traveler to the contrary. The Traveler has always been one of the newsiest and soundest papers in southern Kansas, and this break on its part surprises its many admirers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Our New Salem friends seem to be laboring under a misapprehension of facts in their resolutions condemning Senator Jennings and Representative Greer. The petition for the division of the township contained 139 names, the validity of which no one seemed to question. The remonstrance contained 167 names, but Trustee Sparrow certified in writing that 34 were either duplicated or not bona fide residents of the township. These deducted left the petition 139 and the remonstrance 133. In addition to this the names on the petition represented three-fifths of the taxable property in the township. So much for the "rights of the majority." That the action taken was in accordance with the wishes of a majority of the resident taxpayers of Tisdale township, there is no question or a doubt in the minds of either Senator Jennings or Representative Greer. Of course, it is perfectly right for Mr. J. J. Johnson to hold meetings, misrepresent the facts, and cause various good and usually fair and honorable men to feel themselves aggrieved and outraged. As for Mr. Baker, the writer hereof cares not the least what he may do or say. His importance is felt only by himself. There is nothing in his head to speak of, except what J. J. Johnson puts there. When Johnson kicks he squeals; and so far as appears, this is the full fruition of his uses here on earth. There are many excellent and worthy men in and about New Salem for whose good opinion the writer cares much. Upon their account, especially, the matter in controversy was most carefully weighed and the balances of justice evenly held. That it weighed against them was no fault of theirs. Like the fable of poor dog Tray, they were in bad company, and are the sufferers thereby.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Methodist Conference for this district, at its meeting at El Dorado last week, appointed a committee of seven to locate a college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church at some point in this section. Winfield, Wichita, Wellington, and El Dorado are the places in competition for its location. The committee meets on the 12th of May, at Wichita, to receive and consider propositions from these towns. The conditions are that not less than twenty acres of land suitable for the college site and campus, and not less than fifteen thousand dollars for building fund be donated by the citizens or corporation of the community offering the best inducements and advantages for the location of such school. An eligible site, ample grounds, healthfulness of location, convenience of access as regards the population and territory of the conference, the amount contributed toward the buildings and equipments of the school and the local patronage and support, will be chief among advantages having weight with the committee, under the instruction of the conference. That Winfield offers superior advantages is evident--the prettiest city in the West, people whose morality, enterprise, and intelligence is unsurpassed, unexcelled building material, and a climate whose healthfulness is renowned. The Winfield Enterprise Association has the matter in hand and will see that Winfield's advantages are made prominent and that her pecuniary inducements are such as will secure this institution of learning.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The writer had the pleasure of attending the first annual commencement exercises of the Burden High School Tuesday evening. Cowley County has always been foremost in educational matters, but the last few years have been marked by unusual strides. But a few years ago a little frame schoolhouse, twenty by thirty, was the seat of learning for our sister city. It was enlarged, additional buildings rented, etc., until demand and enterprise erected a handsome stone building, containing four departments, and being one of the most substantial and convenient schoolhouses in the county. Now they have outgrown this, and will add two more rooms. The past winter saw Burden's first graded school. Under the superintendency of Prof. R. B. Moore, one of the foremost educators of the State, ably assisted by Misses Mary Berkey, Alice Hardin, Ella Kempton, and Lizzie Burden, the different departments bore gratifying fruits. The first graduates from the Burden High School who "commenced," Tuesday evening, were Misses Effie C. Young and Lain Burden and Mr. Arthur W. Brooks, all of whom acquitted themselves nobly on this occasion. The entire exercises were very interesting and creditable. Burden has great reason to congratulate herself in her varied advancement--her public and private improvements and general air of thrift and enterprise. No town of her size in the West can exhibit a better growth, more public spirit, or more energy in everything that makes true citizenship.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Sandy Burge, the murderer of Charley Fletcher, colored, during the campaign excitement last fall, has skipped--quietly taken up his crutches and departed for parts unknown and pastures green. It will be remembered that Fletcher, before he succumbed to Burge's bullet, sent a forty-four calibre ball through the body of the latter. Burge lay for months at death's dark door. The wound was a terrible one, and until recently its continued discharging seemed to make death inevitable. But lately the wound began to heal rapidly--about an inch each week, and the last time the county physician called on him but about three inches of the fearful tunnel remained unhealed. Yet Burge was as weak as a kitten and had to be lifted in and out of bed and could barely hobble across the room on crutches. His helpless condition during his siege made official vigilance unnecessary. But Burge took time by the forelock and slid out before the officials though incarceration necessary. That he had assistance is self-evident, for at the time he left, Saturday or Sunday, it would have been impossible for him to walk without crutches. He will not be able to evade the officials with any rapidity, and they will no doubt rake him in by the time the District Court gets ready for his case. His wife and family left Monday for Sumner County, where they have relatives.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Marshal of Burden has posted up this notice: "All owners of dogs, whether with or without tax tags, must be tied up from March 26th, 1885, to the first day of May. By order of the Council." Henthorn, of the Eagle, owns thirteen "yaller" dogs, and kicks higher than a plumber's bill. And numerous owners of dogs, who are running around loose, earnestly protest against being tied up a month, with or without a dog tag, to save their lives. Almost every person in Burden owns a cur to two, and this little piece of legislation promises to make a wholesale slaughter of men and women. However, Henthorn thinks it would be a tough thing to find anybody "loose" in Burden. May the Lord save the doggoned dog owners!

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

A committee has been appointed by the Winfield Enterprise Association, composed of W. G. Graham, A. H. Doane, F. S. Jennings, and Ed. P. Greer, to receive bids and look up a location for the Imbecile Asylum. Persons owning land within two miles of the city to dispose of for this purpose, should interview this committee. Forty acres is required.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Cowley County Fair and Driving Park Association has accepted a proposition from the horsemen of Winfield, together with some of her prominent citizens, for a speed fair on the Fair Grounds in May. Several citizens and horsemen have guaranteed an expense fund of five hundred dollars, to be used in preparing the speed ring, for purse money, etc. Horses from all over Southern Kansas will be present--the circuit which has exhibited an interest, embracing Parsons, Winfield, Caldwell, Harper, Wichita, and other representative places, at all of which exhibitions will be given in routine. Not only will a large number of splendid flyers from this section be present but a majority of the horses that have wintered in Texas will stop over for a few weeks' campaign before entering the eastern and northern climates. Many famous horses will be present, and an exhibition of speed will be expected that will far surpass any yet given in these parts. The Fair will hold three days, and over fifteen hundred dollars in purses will be offered. Cowley has a speed ring that can't be excelled in the West, and this commendable enterprise on the part of our citizens will be a very fruitful advertisement.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

[To Miss Florence M. Campbell, one of our city teachers, was assigned the topic: "What questions should be settled between the district board and the teacher, not included in the contract," for delineation at the Teachers' Association in this city last Saturday. She handled the subject handsomely in the following practical poem.]

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The second annual meeting of the Southwestern Kansas Teachers Association convened in El Dorado on the 27th ult. The largest delegations came from Wellington, Harper, and Arkansas City. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Superintendent Jay, of Wellington; Secretary, Superintendent Weir, of Arkansas City; vice-presidents, County Superintendent Hammond, of Wichita, and Prof. Olin, of El Dorado. For executive committee, Prof. Knowles, of Peabody; Raney, of Anthony; and Hubble, of Sterling.

Wichita was chosen as the permanent place of meeting. The papers and discussions were eminently practical and beneficial. Among the noted instructors and visitors in attendance were Prof. Canfield, of the State University; Prof. Saddler, of the State Normal school; and Prof. Sanders, President of the Fort Scott Normal school. Prof. Canfield's lecture was a rare intellectual treat.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Bring in your applications for loans; Thomas R. Bryan having this day taken the management of our general office at Kansas City, Missouri, will say to the people of Cowley County that we can assure you prompt and fair dealing. HARRIS & CLARK.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Flour, corn, meal, and feed always on hand at Kirks' mill, 8th avenue, west of Lynn's store.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The "Jolly Pathfinders" appear again at the Opera House on Friday evening, April 10th, in "Six Peas in a Pod." This comedy is an entire change from "Scraps," introduced here by this company a few weeks ago, and will prove fully as popular with our people. The company's fine uniformed band and orchestra is a great attraction, and the company itself is unexcelled.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

We present on the first page the proposition of the Kansas City & Southwestern railroad to the people of Cowley County. President J. N. Young and Vice-President L. D. Latham are now here and mean to push things with a vim. Mr. Young will rent a house here and remove his family and make Winfield his headquarters until the road is completed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Louise Sylvester troupe, which was billed for Winfield Tuesday evening, will disband at Wichita this week, owing to the illness of its popular star. Miss Sylvester is convalescing and will soon return to her home in New Orleans.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Saturday was a "big day," so to speak. The streets were crowded with teams and people, and a better feeling seemed to prevail than for months.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

A number from the Winfield Baptist Church will attend a reception tendered them by the Baptists of Wellington, Friday evening next.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

The Presbyterians have no services Sunday next, owing to Dr. Kirkwood's absence at Presbytery, which convenes at Newton today.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

Robinson Hose Company will give another of their pleasant hops in the McDougal hall tonight.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

A Temperance Society has been organized here.

Our Sunday school is in a flourishing condition.

Corn is from 45 to 50 cents; hogs, $3.60; sheep--nothing.

Several cases of sickness in this formerly healthy valley.

J. J. Wilson was in this neighborhood recently trying to buy cattle.

Mrs. Hempy is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Yokum, in Harper County.

The farmers have alternate spells of corn stock cutting and plowing.

On the 18th Legrand Baldwin departed this life. The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Webb. Dr. O'Connor, who was present, made several brief, fitting, and touching remarks.

Our term of spring school will begin on April 20th, Provided, First, the school board can hire a No. 1 pedagogue. Our district has now five students in attendance at Ft. Scott. If any district as small as this can show more intellectual power, please inform the whole world, (the valley of Otter), in case some Hawaiian heathen may want to know where to send for material for teachers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 2, 1885.

There are no saloons in Arkansas City, and only seven drug stores.

Since the cold weather has subsided, new houses are springing up on every hand. This promises to be the most prosperous year the Canal City has yet enjoyed.

Frank Lorry was arrested Thursday, charged with threatening the lives of his father and mother. He had a hearing Saturday and was dismissed.

The gentleman who was chairman of the secret caucus held in the fourth ward recently, and who distinguished himself at the last county convention, is making for himself quite a reputation as a ward politician. It is quite evident from his efforts to "pack" the school board, that he aspires to the position of principal of the city schools. May the good Lord deliver us!

Superintendent A. H. Limerick and wife, Professor Gridley and sixteen of the teachers in the Winfield schools, visited this city last Thursday for the purpose of visiting our schools. Unfortunately, the schools here were closed to allow the teachers to attend a meeting of t