Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885. Front Page.

Again, newspaper covered Election Proclamation, Richland Township. Election to be held on Tuesday, June 16, 1885. Petition by Lewis Stevens, of Richland township, plus 174 other legal voters in township. Stock to the tune of $5,000 desired in Kansas City and Southwestern Railroad Company, etc.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885. Front Page.

Repeated request by Fairview Township for bond election in their attempt to get the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic Railway. Petition presented by J. Wade McDonald, attorney for railway, for J. M. Barrick and 78 other resident taxpayers of Fairview Township. They were seeking $10,000 in payment for twenty shares of stock at $500 each in road. Election to be held June 10, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Saturday was a grand day for Winfield. A brighter, calmer, or more lovely day was never seen; it was perfect. At an early hour the streets began to show unusual animation and by noon all was crowd and jam. People from everywhere were present to exhibit patriotism in honoring the fallen heroes. By one o'clock the Opera House was jammed full for the address of Rev. B. Kelly. The Grand Army and Woman's Relief Corps marched in platoons and occupied reserved seats. The Cornet Orchestra and Messrs. Crippen, Roberts, Bates, and Shaw were again present to the delight of the audience. Among several beautiful selections, they again rendered "Lincoln's Funeral March." If there is a more sublime piece of music than this, as rendered by these gentlemen, it has never been heard. It arouses enthusiastic praises every time rendered. The vocal music by the quartette composed of Mrs. Fred Blackman, Miss Lizzie McDonald, and Messrs. Charles Slack and Louis Brown, accompanied by Miss Maude Kelly on the organ, was grand and appropriate. Their appearance on the rostrum is always an assurance of music unexcelled. The audience arose in prayer by Post Chaplain, A. B. Arment, when Rev. Kelly delivered his address. It was a magnificent production, and delivered with Mr. Kelly's great enthusiasm, stirred the soul of every hearer, and brought forth loud and frequent applause. It is with much pleasure THE COURIER presents it in full.

When Mr. Lincoln stood upon the battlefield of Gettysburg and participated in the dedication of the national cemetery, he said: "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." He was in the presence of the graves of the fallen from eighteen different states. As the surviving members of the G. A. R. and citizens of the nation have met this day--not in the presence of the graves of the fallen from eighteen states--but of all the states of this great and mighty nation, the truth of Mr. Lincoln's prophecy is confirmed.

The nation has not forgotten what was suffered, sacrificed, and accomplished more than twenty years ago. Forget the men who made the Declaration of Independence a reality? And that it was not written for Americans, but for men? Can we forget my brother in the presence of your empty sleeve; your sightless eye; your stiff and lamed limb? Can we forget in the presence of the tattered flags, so torn with shot and shell? Forget the great price paid for the nation's life? Forget in the presence of the widows and orphans, whose loved ones cheer their homes and gladden their hearts no more? Forget the men who are not here, and who sleep at Richmond, Pittsburg Landing, Mission Ridge, Gettysburg, Andersonville, and a hundred battlefields? Forget the lonely hours where widows and mothers wait in sorrow and silence for a mere government pittance to buy their bread? Forget the cause which cost us such sacrifice?

Comrades, these things are too deeply chiseled in our memories. "If I forget thee O, Jerusalem!" We meet today, not only to crown the immortals--our fallen comrades--but to keep alive the principles of liberty and of human progress, for which they contended, and to evolve patriotism.

It is right that on this afternoon May day, we should lay aside the business and pleasures of life, and men and women and youth, and even children, should wander thoughtfully among the green mounds which mark the last resting place of our departed heroes and cover their graves with flowers. Some have objected to the continuance of this day. It is alleged that its continuance is irritating and alienating; keeps up the strife. This is not its object nor its effect. We proclaim, as the sentiment of this occasion, the immortal utterance of our martyred Lincoln: "With malice towards none, with charity for all." And yet we do not mean to be sycophants. We shall not apologize for our past record. We are willing that all should look upon us when we gather around the graves of our comrades, and read in our manner, that we were honest and meant it, when we said, twenty-five years ago, "The Union must and shall be preserved, now and forever, one and inseparable."

Let us decorate the graves of our fallen comrades. It does not mean war. It means peace. I firmly believe that if Decoration Day becomes universal and as generally kept in the nation as the Fourth of July, we shall never have another war. Let every devout heart pray to Almighty God to hasten the time when nations shall learn war no more.

Some say it is a waste of time and money that might otherwise go to the relief of the families of deceased soldiers. That looks right, but is it sincere? Does such a declaration come from the men who haul the largest loads of coal, or send the richest hams, or the purest flour to the home of the soldier's widow? No. Men who make such objections intend to do no such thing. Their conduct strikingly reminds one of an incident in the life of the Savior. When Mary anointed His feet with precious ointment, Judas suggested that it was a waste and ought to have been sold and the proceeds given to the poor. I make no application. The men who inaugurated this custom of decoration are the men who founded the home for soldiers' orphans, and the men who sustain this observance are the men who do the most for the soldiers and their families. Your presence here today, without regard to political, social, or personal distinctions, is the best assurance to me that no worthy soldier, their widow or orphans, will be forgotten. I rejoice in this occasion because its spirit overlooks the boundaries of artificial distinctions amongst men and recognizes the tie that binds us together as comrades. Various distinctions existed amongst the departed, but they were bound together, and we are bound to each of them by a common bond. Some of them were white and some were black. Some of them were natives of America and some of other lands. Some of them were Roman Catholics and some were Protestants, and many not connected with any church on earth. But as American citizens we cannot but feel today that every patriot soldier who gave his life for the republic was her worthy son, and our worthy brother.

All distinctions are this day modified or lost. The orphan daughter will decorate the grave of the colored soldier who fought and fell in the battle by the side of her father of a more delicate hue, and the protestant maiden will affectionately plant the wreathed cross at the head of the sleeping Catholic. By the undying love for freedom of all named, no less than by their anatomy, it may be known that "God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth."

Our first lesson for the observance of today is, "The brotherhood of man and the unity of a race." Our second lesson is an increase of love for our country and appreciation of its worth.

By the recurrence of this day reflections are awakened in our minds of a very tender character. Throughout the preparation, the gathering of flowers, the twining of garlands, the procession, the music, the beautiful exercises of decoration, our minds are reverting to the past and contrasting it with the present. Parents are here who have given their all to this cause. Widows are here whose minds recall the happy hours when they were the honored brides of those whose graves we today adorn, and over which they will bend with aching hearts and tears of affection. Orphans are here who will remember their once dear father's, and look mournfully on the graves covered with flowers. As they return to their homes their agonizing hearts will ask: "What have we for our sacrifice?" We point them to our national flag, rescued from dishonor, raised from the dust, and now floating proudly over a nation of freedmen, and say to them that by the blessing of God this is the work accomplished by your fathers and sons and husbands. We point them to a nation preserved, united, purified, and made stronger than it ever was before, and we say to them this is the temple of liberty, which by the blessing of God the hands of your sons, brothers, husbands, and fathers have built. The sacrifice was great; the loss beyond computation. But the richness of the heritage by them bequeathed to the millions who shall yet rise up and call them blessed justifies such a priceless expenditure. Yours is the honor of having given such soldiers to their country--of having saved the struggling republic.

Fellow-citizens, let me remind you of the obligation you owe to the surviving comrades of the fallen and of the families of those who gave their lives for you and yours. Over twenty years have passed since the last rebellious gun was fired. Through all these years thousands of soldiers have been enduring sickness and disease entailed upon them in the army days, and year by year life after life has yielded to them. Around us we see the sleeveless coat, the missing leg, the sightless eye. Oh, citizens! Young American brothers! Do you realize the fact that for you and yours these patriots suffered, endured, and died? If you do, you will see to it that the rights of the widows and orphans of these fallen men are protected and preserved. If you do, you will give your votes to soldiers in preference to others. If you do, you will see to it that no editor or speaker writes or speaks sneeringly of the pittance paid to disabled soldiers, their widows and orphans.

Ingratitude is always base. I trust it will not become our dishonor and sin. It seems to me that out of a right estimate of the value of a preserved, purified, and prosperous nation, and a just appreciation of the suffering and struggle through which it was secured, a never ceasing gratitude must arise. For the patriot dead this gratitude can be but a sentiment. For the loved ones behind, it can take practical form. For the patriot living, it demonstrated itself by active works for their comfort, benefit, and happiness.

Dear friends, the observation of this occasion is both commendable and appropriate. It is appropriate that we should observe it in the spring-time. This season is the fittest type of the Resurrection to which we so fondly look as the time when this precious dust by the almighty power of God shall be restored us, clothed with immortal life and beauty. It is fitting that we should strew flowers on the graves of our loved ones. They will fade and wither, but while they remain--by their beauty, delicacy, and sweetness they are the fittest gifts of love.

My comrades, how vividly all these war experiences come back to you today. On the dial of memory the hands are turned backward. You think of the days of pleasant companionship. You call back the admirable personal traits out of which grew brotherly regard and genuine love. The bond which common danger and suffering forged is again welded. The days which are gone, and the comrades who departed with them are here again recalled by these memorial services. Through your own service in the cause of freedom and the nation, and your untarnished record as faithful soldiers have you gained the right to wear the badge of the Grand Army of the Republic, for without such record you never could be mustered into its ranks. You well know the claims of your dead comrades to have their memories cherished, for you shared their trials, sufferings, and their glory.

They have gone, but their memories, patriotism, and achievements continue and will last as long as the republic lives. If these are forgotten, the nation ought to die. Let us hope that in the long years to come the proudest boast of the future American citizen will be that he can trace his lineage to one who fought, endured, and died that the nation might live with all its countless blessings for humanity. In thousands of cemeteries on this day are flowers strewn over the last resting places of the patriot dead, and we are guarding their memories by the proudest titles men ever bore.

Soldiers of the Republic! Comrades of the G. A. R., let us feel in ourselves the future life by deeds of kindness to each other. We are like a forest in which nearly two-thirds of the trees have been cut down. The winters have snowed their years upon us and we begin to fall. Comrades, let us say when we go down to the grave, I have finished my work! Not I have finished my life. The tomb is not a blind alley. It is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight to open on the dawn.

Heroes are waiting us from Bunker Hill, Yorktown, Antietam, Gettysburg, Richmond, Ft. Donaldson, Pittsburg Landing, Mission Ridge, Dallas, Atlanta--in short, from every battlefield of the Republic. When the great final roll-call shall occur, may we all so have lived that we shall be able to say, in the language of a great soldier: "I have fought a good fight--I have finished my course," and be able to answer present.

The muffled drum's sad roll has beat

The soldier's last tattoo;

No more on life's parade shall meet

These brave men and these true,

On Fame's eternal camping ground

Their silent tears are spread,

And glory guards with solemn round

The bivouac of the dead.

Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead,

Dear as the blood ye gave;

No impious footsteps here shall tread

The herbage of your grave;

Nor shall your glory be forgot,

While Fame her record keeps,

Or honor points the hallowed spot

Where valor proudly sleeps.

Mothers, wives, sisters, and lovers of the heroes of the Grand Army of the Republic--living and dead! What words or thought can I use that will properly present your devotion, sacrifice, loyalty and patriotism? We do not forget the time when your womanly hearts and patriotism nerved you to buckle on the sword, imprint the kiss of affection, and send us forth in defense of your country and for the protection of your homes and the interests of your children. We do not forget the tokens of love sent us to the camp and hospital--the letters, containing words of cheer and hope, and that seemed wet with the tears of affection. We know that every form of benevolence that woman's heart and head could devise was developed and used for our comfort during the dark and stormy days of war. We are too manly and brave to forget or undervalue your work and sacrifice, or to think that the Rebellion could be put down without you, and know that when the proper history is written, it will appear that woman's devotion, sacrifice, and work did as much to save the nation and the valor and courage of the men. And, now, in the tender, delicate, and arduous work you have willingly and enthusiastically undertaken to do, caring for and helping the needy, you have the blessing of God, the approval of all good men and angels, and the gratitude of the men who compose the G. A. R. May you all at last hear the Great Commander say, "She hath done what she could."

At two o'clock the procession was formed and the march to the cemetery taken up. The order of march was as follows.

1^st. The Courier Band, led by its handsomely caparisoned Drum-Major, J. E. Snow.

2^nd. Winfield Post, G. A. R., with visiting Comrades and Co. C., State Guards.

3^rd. The Winfield Juvenile Band.

4^th. Twelve little girls dressed in white and twelve little boys, followed by flower wagons.

5^th. Woman's Relief Corps.

6^th. Citizens.

7^th. The Winfield Union Cornet Band.

8^th. Winfield Fire Department.

The parade was in charge of Post Commander S. Cure and aid-de-camps, H. H. Siverd, J. J. Carson, A. H. Limerick, W. B. Caton, C. Trump, John Evans, and Dr. States.

The handsome uniforms of the Bands and Fire Department gave the parade fine display.

The line of march was north on Main street to Eighth avenue; east on Eighth avenue to Harter street; north on Harter street to Fifth avenue; east on Fifth avenue to Michigan avenue, in Highland Park, and thence north to cemetery.

The services in the cemetery were held on the center campus. The Beautiful Manual and ritualistic services of the Grand Army was here rendered, and Miss Florence Campbell delivered an original poem. Miss Campbell's rendition exhibited culture and elicited high praise. It is a splendid production and speaks for itself. Here it is.

And now, when roses are blooming,

When the world is all in tune,

When the air is heavy with fragrance,

And the garden's all abloom;

When the fair young hand of summer,

O'er forest, field and plain,

Has heaped a thousand garlands,

Till nature's wide domain

Is strewn with tinted blossoms.

We come to this place so blest,

And learn the magical meaning,

The beautiful lesson of rest.

In this quiet camp of the dead we stand,

Where no sentry paces his beat.

Nature's deep silence the countersign

The "All's Well," the winds repeat.

As silent as thought the hours creep by,

Bringing their shade and shine

To many a grassy curtained tent,

Where our noble dead recline,

As billows the field before me,

So billows many a plain.

In unkept fields, by lone mountain side,

Are sleeping our noble slain.

The silence of a score of years,

Are whispering o'er the tomb

Of those who fell in battle

Amid the smoke and gloom;

Thinking of all those troublous days,

Thinking of naught beside,

I've drifted back through the sea of years,

On memory's dreaming tide.

There are notes of martial music,

In a low, sad, minor strain,

Floating forever and ever,

Though unsettled, through my brain.

And I have caught the echo

Of freedom's wordless song.

Swelling from thousand unseen throats,

To a chorus glad and strong.

Live a wild bird loosed from its cage.

It flies through the balmy air,

Each ear is a twig where it perches,

Each heart the warm nest where

It broods new chords and new fancies.

They, too, will soon take wing.

And to future generations

The noble song will sing.

We all are mediums to glean

These ghosts of sound from the air,

To interpret these loyal whispers,

That are floating everywhere.

"I'm tired of this soldier business;"

Oft times we hear it said,

By those who we urge to keep this day,

And honor our royal dead.

It seems to me there was time,

When ever a man but grew

So "tired of this soldier business,"

Yet, stood by his colors true.

Mid the clouds on Lookout Mountain,

When Sherman marched to the sea;

When Grant went on to Richmond,

When a Nation's destiny

Hung wavering in the balance;

When hope well nigh expired,

On weary march, and in prison pen,

There were many heartily "tired."

But grandly they proved to a bonded race,

A race oppressed, down trod,

That one man was a majority,

If he only stood with God.

To that one man give homage today,

His "soul is marching on."

He was the vanguard of Liberty,

Brave, noble, old John Brown.

I think of those weary marches,

Of the stifling battle smoke.

Of the women waiting and watching,

Of the hearts that well nigh broke.

Again I return to the present hour,

From the misty realm of time,

And see before me those living ones

Who fought in that terrible war,

And living ones, though maimed and scared,

I deem you a plumed Navarre.

Something so tender and sacred,

This day of days should be,

Like words from some grand old poet

Set to sweetest melody.

Bring hither your floral tribute,

Of nature's choices and best,

'Till "God's acre" shall glint and glisten,

A beautiful haven of rest.

Bring hither the choicest treasures

Of the finest month of the year.

In each fragrant blossom there dwelleth,

The dew of an angel's tear.

Come each and all with your garlands,

And cover these graves at our feet,

Let them lie in their tinted glory,

As if dying men were something sweet.

Bring lilies, white as the wings of peace,

And deck each hallowed spot,

Bring twining vines, and evergreens,

A silent "forget-me-not."

Bring roses, because we loved them so,

Strew daintiest blossoms between,

Bring pansies, they are for thought you know,

And we "keep their memory green."

Three comrades present a year ago,

To the roll do not respond.

They are learning the mystic secrets

Of the beautiful beyond.

The turf is not green above the last,

Whom death claimed for his own.

Thank God on this sunny hill side,

No grave is labeled "unknown."

Though the blaze of rebellion has faded,

From out the southern sky.

"A charge to keep" we yet have,

These graves to glorify.

In our hearts, and with our hands,

Let us keep this sacred day.

Let the heroes "bivouac" forever,

Be decked with bloom each May.

They fought with a bravery born of truth,

That bore with it conviction,

Each life, a sermon strong and true,

Today brings the benediction.

Comrades, who stand before me today,

The death to which they bowed,

Yet bravely met in those troublous years,

When the nation cried aloud.

Let each camp fire brightly burning,

Break through the mist of years,

With your garlands each May returning,

And water them with your tears.

Now bow the head for a moment,

And pray to God that he,

The hero of Appomattox,

And the famous apple tree,

May he be spared a little longer,

Ere he answers the muster on high.

His famous deeds of valor,

We'll remember until we die.

'Twas he who recommended,

This day to be set apart,

And a memorial service offered,

From a nation's grateful heart.

Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield,

Grand trinity of men,

We deck each brow with laurels

And the nation cries "amen."

And now I look to the future,

How shall we this day keep,

When the last of this noble army,

On the hill shall fall asleep?

Shall we have "no time for such things,"

As the years go speeding on?

Why they had time for so many things,

Way back in sixty-one.

Oh, a liberty's sun to the living ones,

A watch fire for the dead.

Undying truths shall feed the flame,

As years wing their flight o'er head.

With no thought for the boys in gray,

Save pity and regret,

We forgive the work of years ago,

But cannot now forget.

And as each spring comes floating down

From the isle where years lie asleep,

As o'er each mournfully silent grave,

The stars their vigils keep.

Adorn with flowers each soldier's grave,

Whether blue or gray.

But tell honestly, tell truthfully,

The cause of keeping this day.

Shall we drown the memory of loyal ones,

Who sleep in their peaceful graves,

With heaven's tri-colors above them,

'Neath the soil they died to save?

They were right, eternally right,

The others were in the wrong.

Shall we play with facts, fantastic tricks,

And tell in story and song,

That you are sorry you ever tried

To face the shot and shell?

To give to the balmy summer air

The flag we love so well?

We pen each day a historic page.

Shall we send it blindly on,

That the work completed so long ago

Was illy, cowardly done?

Even the commonest soldier,

Who went at his country's call,

At rest on the field or living still,

Should receive the honor of all.

Shall we bow to a cowardly policy,

And let it lightly go?

From the dumb lips of a million slain

Comes back the answer "No!"

In the name of all heroes living,

In the name of all those dead,

I pray you teach to your children

The truths for which they bled.

As the old comrades are "mustered out,"

And "fall in" one by one,

With that silent army waiting to hear,

"'Thou faithful servant, well done,"

When the drum beats fall on no veteran's ear,

We'll remember your cause was ours,

And on this our nation's Sabbath day,

We'll cover you over with flowers.

The service of grave decoration then began. The garlands were deposited by a bevy of Misses and boys, in charge of Mr. A. E. Baird and Dr. F. H. Bull, and composed as follows: Maude Conrad, Alma Rogers, Maggie Hendricks, Hortense Kelly, Maude Cooper, Lottie Caton, Lottie McGuire, Mattie Paris, Lulu McGuire, Winnie Limerick, Katie Beck; Master Charley Stewart, Robert Scott, Clifford Stubblefield, Clyde Albro, Johnnie Scott, Robbie McMullen, Waldo Baird, Charley Greer, Harry Hunt, George Carson.

A. A. Buck, Capt. Co. F, 13^th Ill. Inft.; James McGuire, Co. H, 10^th Ill. Inft.; Samuel W. Greer, Capt. Co. I, 15^th Kansas Vol. Cav.; A. T. Shenneman, Co. D, 1^st Ill. Cav.; Miles A. Bailey, Co. D, 24 Kansas Inft.; S. G. Gray, Co. H, 2^nd Iowa Inft.; James H. Finch, Co. D, 13^th Kan. Vol.; Jacob Riehl, in Colorado Art. Co.; Thos. Welch, Co. I, 13 Kan. Vol.; James Carmine, Co. F, 19^th Ind. Inft.; B. N. Rutherford, Capt. 98^th Ohio Inft.; C. L. Flint, Co. I, 40^th Ill. Inft. Vol.; D. P. Herndon, Co. H, 7^th Ky. Cav. Vol.; I. N. Corkins, regiment unknown; N. E. Mansfield, 92^nd N. Y. Inft. Vol.; J. N. Vandorn, 130^th Ill. Inft. Vol.; Henry H. Parks, Co. K, 83rd Ind. Vol.; Enoch Bembarger, 4^th Iowa Cav. Vol.; Nate Fisher, regiment unknown.

Mr. Taylor, regiment unknown; Chas. I. Dunkin, Co. B, 1^st Bat., 16^th U. S. Inft.; Wm. H. Sarson, 1^st Vermont battery; Harvey Swindler, Co. G, 4^th Mo. Cav.

John M. Connor, Co. E, 9^th Kentucky Cavalry.

The Vernon Cemetery was decorated by Capt. H. H. Siverd, Dr. D. J. States, W. W. Painter, J. W. Millspaugh, T. A. Blanchard, and other old soldiers, with 150 Vernon citizens.

The decoration of the Catholic cemetery was conducted by Messrs. Walter Denning, H. W. Stubblefield, and D. C. Beach, assisted by citizens.

The committee of decoration of the South Cemetery were T. J. Harris, S. Parkhurst, Ed. Haight, and Jno. Gill; with citizens.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

We notice that certain anti-prohibition republican papers of this state still keep up a grumbling about the republican part of this state following new leaders who are leading the party to dissolution and ruin. These newspapers have been prominent in the state and have formerly supposed that they were the leaders of the republican party and of the public sentiment of the state. They were to have had no doubt that on the question of prohibition, the republican party would follow in solid ranks wherever they should lead and carry the state in the way they should dictate. The took the anti-prohibition road and are surprised, astonished, and chagrined that the party and the people would not follow but took the other track. It seems to them a rebellion and a secession worse than that which produced the late war, and they believe the fate of the rebels must of necessity be worse than that of the confederate rebels. They feel that this refusal to follow their lead is not only a rebellion against their rightful authority, but a direct insult to them which cannot be tolerated, and such an insult as will split the party in the middle and scatter it to the four winds. They think the fault is in a few prominent, prohibition republicans who have lead the rebellion, and still lead it, and bamboozle the bulk of the republican party into following them, and therefore, they keep up a whining about these new leaders, who really ought to be punished for high treason.

Now we want to inform these newspapers that the republican party of this state has no leaders now and never had such, in the sense that these newspapers supposed that they were leaders. The republicans of this state were and are republicans, not because any man or set of men lead them, but because they were agreed on the policy of keeping Kansas and other territories sacred to freedom; of defending the Union and nationality of the United States against all attacks at whatever expense, and on the general policy that has been adopted by the party since the war. They are not republicans because of a friendship for whiskey, beer, or saloons, nor because they believe in suppressing these by law. They are republicans, however, because the party is progressive and is sure to adopt new reforms whenever cool and sound judgment dictates that such adoption will be the best thing for the whole country and it is ripe for such adoption.

No man or set of men is leading the republican party of this state. These newspapers were never leaders of the party. They were active and in the front ranks, but the people followed just as a hundred farmers in driving their loads of produce to a market town, follow the team which happens to be ahead, not because it is a team of influence but because it is traveling the road in which they wish to go. If that leading team, arriving at a fork of the road, should take that leading to a mill or a saloon, the rest of the teams would nevertheless take the other fork that led to the market town. So when the head of the Republican column came to the fork in the road, these newspapers took the license fork, no doubt thinking it the pleasantest road to travel, and many others of their way of thinking followed in the same road and would have followed had the most obscure men in the party been at the head of the column. But the greater number believed that the prohibition fork was the best road and took it without reference to who was ahead on that road or the other.

Another thing: the Republicans of this State are intelligent and free. They love their party and its principles and will stay by it but they love freedom more and they will express and vote their opinions on the prohibition question and on any other question outside of the party platforms without reference to its effect on the Republican party. Each one prizes his right as a free man on all these questions above all party considerations, and if a prohibitionist or an anti-prohibitionist cannot or will not be a Republican unless all Republicans will agree with him on this liquor question, it cannot be helped. Each will still assert his freedom. We cannot change this state of affairs and there is no use of trying. We might as well accept of the situation as it is and must be, and quit whining. Whoever is ambitious to appear as a leader of the Republican party must first find out which way the party or the bulk of it wants to go, then rush to the front and lead in the road that those who come behind are going to travel anyhow.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The southeast part of this county is sadly in need of a railroad. The townships of Cedar, Otter, Dexter, Sheridan, Liberty, and Spring Creek taken together form an area of about twenty-one miles square or about 440 square miles (a territory as large as that of several counties in the State), through which there is no railroad and most of which territory is from ten to thirty-three miles distant from any railroad station. The people of this part of the county have assisted in giving railroads to other parts of the county and have cheerfully paid their taxes and expenses consequent thereon, while other parts of the county have enjoyed all the special benefits of handy railroad facilities, short hauls by wagon, railroad property for taxation for township and school purposes, and other advantages in various ways. They have always earnestly desired those advantages, but have not been so selfish that because they could not get them they would prevent other parts of the county from having such advantages. They have now a chance to get a railroad such as they want and need, which will give them these special advantages, and they have a right to expect that the people along the line of the A., T. & S. F. and those along the line of the Kansas Southern, who have been enjoying such advantages for years, will turn out to the polls next Wednesday and vote for the D., M. & A. They have just given a good round and unselfish vote in favor of the K. C. & S. W. over a part of the county in much less need of a railroad than themselves, and have a right to expect that all those who will be specially benefitted by that road will turn out and vote in favor of their road next Wednesday.

If these men who are enjoying or are about to enjoy these special benefits, procured by the aid of the men of the southeast part of the county, shall fail to respond now when they can return the compliment, they are much meaner than we take them to be. Cambridge, Burden, Torrance and New Salem owe their existence as well as prosperity to the building of the Kansas Southern. They surely are not so supremely selfish that they will fail their more southern friends in this the crisis of their prosperity. Burden opposed the K. C. & S. W., probably for the reason that it would likely build up a rival town eight miles north of them which would divide their trade, but she has no such reason for opposing the D., M. & A. If she should work against this road, it would turn double the trade from Burden than she would ever get from this section if the road should never be built, for the people of the southeast would hate Burden and hate her justly. But should Burden take hold of this matter, and help her more southern neighbors, she will redeem herself and be the honorable enterprising Burden again. If she fights this proposition as she did the other, she will alienate her friends all over the county.

Cambridge is filled with and surrounded by a noble people, who were willing to help their more southern neighbors last year and will do it again this year. Arkansas City will wheel into line and give them a majority vote in return for their generous support of the K. C. & S. W. So the bonds are bound to carry anyhow, but it is now a good time to shake off old prejudices and give this proposition such a vote as will show these people that you are their friends and wish to help them. Even Beaver, Bolton, and Harvey, the townships most remote from the D., M. & A. may be expected to show the courtesy to the southeast to vote for the bonds, particularly, while in making for themselves such warm friends and so many of them, they will be voting to reduce their own taxes and to reduce the price they pay for coal $2.50 per ton and for lumber $7.50 per 1,000 feet; to advance the price they get for wheat and corn and to make a better market for their minor produce.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

1. Because it is a Standard Gauge road and will connect and transfer readily with all the leading roads; with the A. T. & S. F. at Larned, at Belle Plaine, at Udall and at Winfield; with the Wichita and Western at Kingman; with the Southern Kansas at Winfield and Coffeyville; with the M. K. & T. and Missouri Pacific at Chetopa; with the Fort Scott and Gulf at Baxter Springs, and with the various roads through Arkansas and Southwest Missouri, and with the Southern system of roads at Memphis.

2. Because it is a direct communication with the cheap coal and lumber of Arkansas, Southwest Missouri, and Southeast Kansas, and will save us twenty-five percent in the cost of our coal and lumber.

3. Because it will be a direct communication with the Southern markets where our wheat and corn will net us much more money than in the eastern markets.

4. Because it will open up a direct communication with a competing line to Denver and furnish us with a grand market for all the small produce we can raise.

5. Because it will give us fifty miles of railroads to be assessed for taxation which will pay for itself and reduce the rate of taxation for county purposes.

6. Because it will be of great value to every man in the county in raising the price of wheat he has to sell, and reducing the price of what he has to buy from outside the county.

7. Because it will in its construction expend large sums of money in this county for labor, team work, vegetables, butter, eggs, etc.

8. Because it will give our county a tremendous lift in the direction of prosperity and wealth.

9. And not least, it will give a railroad to a large section of our county which is greatly in need of the special advantages of near railroad facilities.

Of course if we could get all these advantages without voting the bonds, it would be better for us, but we know it cannot be done. The amount required is very light indeed. It is no more than a ten dollars debt would be to a man worth two thousand dollars.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The laws concerning the Imbecile Asylum are very lame and incomplete. They should be amended so as to permit men of all ages to be taken into the Asylum and cared for and the appropriations should provide for a much larger building so that three-fourths of the voters of Richland township could be admitted. We were never so astonished in our life as when the report came that Richland had given 95 majority against the K. C. & S. W. bonds. While Dexter and Ninnescah have voted to give them the special advantages of a railroad, they were idiotic enough to vote dead against their own interests. Of course they will refuse to contribute the pitiful sum of $5,000 in township bonds unless the sensible men in that township wake up and stir themselves. Perhaps the people of that township will be willing to vote such a nuisance as they seem to think a railroad is, on to the southeast part of the county next Wednesday.

We cannot believe that a majority of the people of that township are really such imbeciles as their vote last Monday would indicate, and we beg of them to wake up and redeem themselves from their unpleasant position by giving a large majority for the D. M. & A. county bonds, and also for the Richland township bonds to the K. C. & S. W., unless, indeed, they resent that they are asked to contribute so paltry a sum as $5,000.

There are so many men in Richland whom we respect and honor that we believe they will now wake up and retrieve the honor and credit of their township.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

We saw several gentlemen today from Richland, who felt much chagrined for their township, but plead the excuse that a horde of kickers and imbeciles in and about New Salem had been clipped off from Tisdale township and forced onto Richland without her consent, which had so provoked and discouraged the good people of Richland that they did not turn out, and the New Salemites did the principal part of the voting. A Tisdale man was present who answered the Richland men in this wise: "Tisdale is sorry for Richland, but she will never take the Salemites back, no, never; she will fight first."

We advise the people of Old Richland township to turn out en masse and do their own voting, and advise the New Salemites to vote right next time, and try to conciliate their neighbors on both sides of her. New Salemites are mostly excellent people, but seem to follow bad leaders.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

WINFIELD, May 27, 1885. Since we have had so much rain and mud, a great many eastern people have become uneasy and wish to return to their old hunting ground, just as if it never rained there; but your humble servant lived in Jackson County, Indiana, several years, and it rained most of the time, so we are well satisfied with this place. Just let it rain. Some people won't be contented anywhere, not even among their wife's people. There is a kind of self conceit that everyone ought to possess, and that is the necessary conceit or belief that we are all able to make life one grand possibility of great and good achievements of high and noble living, if such be truly our aim. Success is not a thing of luck; but of salient endeavor and belief in one's own powers is the right sort of thing to possess, for if we have not faith in ourselves, the world never takes it upon itself to dispute our opinion. There is a chance for success in everybody's life, if each and everyone could be grounded in that belief. Then let us all be encouraged. The darkest hour is just before day. O. R. M.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The celebrated Tiger overalls for sale only at J. J. Carson & Co.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

James N. Young, James Hill, and Henry E. Asp left today, the former to transact business in St. Louis relating to the K. C. & S. W., and the latter to look after the right of way, grading, and track-laying from Beaumont here. Now that the bonds are carried, the company will hump every joint in pushing the road through. Several hundred men are now at work and more are added as fast as they can be procured. Forty flat-cars, twenty box-cars, and two combination cars arrived at Beaumont yesterday for work on this line, and the entire rolling stock has been contracted for and will be ready for the track in a short time. Whoa!

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The count last evening stood 850 net majority for the bonds. Today Liberty reported 63 majority against and Maple 33 against, leaving the majority for the bonds 754, with Cedar and Otter yet to report. Their returns will not change the result either way ten votes. The majority for the bonds may be set down at 750.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mary Wayne Fisher, of Philadelphia, who enjoys great popularity in the east as a contributor to various periodicals, recently visited the Pacific coast, and incidentally investigated the operation of female suffrage and jury service in Washington Territory. She has written the following letter to the Rural New Yorker, which will be read with interest by fair minded people.

"Soon after our arrival here, the Republican Convention of King County was held in Seattle, then the Democratic County Convention and a little later the Republican Territorial Convention, all of which was attended. To both the Republican conventions women had been sent as delegates, and quite a large number of women were in constant attendance at the territorial convention, which was exceedingly interesting because of the fight the people were waging against the N. P. R. and its land agents. No women were candidates for office on either of the territorial tickets although both parties strongly endorse woman suffrage. The Democrats put a plank in their platform in favor of making jury service for women optional. But on the various county tickets women were nominated for the offices of school superintendent, county treasurer, and justice of the peace, and quite a proportion were elected. Between ten and eleven thousand women voted on the 4^th of November in the territory, and a thousand in the city of Seattle, showing that as large a portion of women, as of men, voted. Of course, the male population largely predominates everywhere on this coast. Women attended the primaries, and when the nominations were made, they selected their men from the various tickets in the field, and proceeded to work for them. It was well understood that the women voters did not care a straw, as a body, for party; but formed an independent vote which would determine the result of the election. In Seattle, the women, by committees, canvassed the city by wards and learned exactly the sentiment of the women as to suffrage. Four-fifths of the women favored suffrage and one-fifth were opposed to it, or indifferent. Fully a third more women voted in all the towns at the territorial election than had voted previously at the municipal elections.

I made it a point to visit all the polls in Seattle on election day, both in the morning and evening, and anything more quiet, orderly, and free from confusion could not be imagined: no loud talking, no swearing, no drunkenness, no impoliteness. It was a superb day, warm and sunny, and the women who had been selected to look after voters of their own sex at the polls had no discomfort to endure and they did valiant service. The women, so far as I have been able to learn throughout the territory have shown great wisdom and discretion from the beginning in making the exercise of the ballot thoroughly respectable. The foremost women especially are the leaders politically, and the best women have been and are the first to vote, and more gentle, womanly, modest, and admirable women, as wives and mothers, I have never seen anywhere. The result of the election showed that without an exception, ten candidates endorsed by the women, and for whom they cast their votes, were elected, and vice versa. It was the quiet exercise of "the power behind the throne," but the result was simply tremendous, and the saloon men, for the first time in the history of the territory, found themselves hopelessly defeated. A new leaf had been turned over.

An ex-chief justice of the territory said to me one day, in talking on the subject, that until women voted, the law and order party had no chance whatever; that the whiskey men controlled the primaries and elections. He not only believed in the right of women to vote but he as fully deprecated any or all laws that prevent their voting--it is their duty to vote and the only element which can be introduced into politics, to purify and elevate them, is the woman element. He gave it as his opinion that in the course of time women would be elected to the legislature and hold State offices. I, laughingly, said to him, that if I lived in Washington, I would stand for the office of State Treasurer, which I would fill admirably! At to women on juries, he said the tendency was to improve the service decidedly, as the sheriff only calls good and capable women which necessitates in turn the best class of men. The sheriff, or officer, who would have the hardihood to summon a disreputable woman as a juror, would not be tolerated. The number of bad women is so small in comparison with that of good women that their influence as voters or in politics does not count.

As regards women on juries, there is one significant thing. If a lawyer is defending a bad client, known to be such, be it man or woman, he excuses all the women on the jury that he can. If saloon men, gamblers, keepers of houses of ill repute, or disorderly resort dread any one thing more than another when arrested and brought to court, it is a jury with women on it. Some of the best work done in the territory has been done by women on grand juries. In Seattle six of the grand jurors were women, some of the very brightest women in the city; and what is true of Seattle is proportionally true of every other town in Washington. Seattle being a sea-port, the social forces are more varied and perplexing than in inland towns, and the cases tried in the courts embrace nearly every kind known to general jurisprudence.

In order to see women as jurors, I attended court a number of times, presided over by the chief justice, who has only words of the most unqualified praise and commendation of women as jurors. I found a pleasant, light, well ventilated court-room, clean and entirely free from tobacco smoke; everything was as well ordered and conducted with as much decorum as a religious service in a church; excluding "revival" meetings, and it was no more disagreeable, so far as I could see, to sit on a bench as a juror than to sit in a church pew, while it was vastly more interesting. Aside from the three dollars per day pay to serve for a term as a juror is equal to a good education. Some of the women sat bonneted, some took their bonnets off, which I thought the proper thing to do in a temple of justice. When it is impossible for women to leave their homes to serve as jurors, they are of course excused the same as are men. I heard a woman lawyer defend a Chinaman, she having been appointed by the court for that purpose. She was neither a beauty nor an experienced attorney; but she got her client acquitted. Two women, one of them a Swiss, have been admitted to the Seattle bar. One is a graduate of the Boston Law school and is said to do very good work. She studied the law because she had a "liking" for it, although, in conducting a case, she evinces no unusual talent.

Seattle has a woman physician, a graduate of the medical department of Ann Arbor, Michigan, University. The city has also what is unusual, a woman who is a barber. I took the laddie to her to have his hair cut, and we found her busy shaving a man, with another waiting his turn. She has allied with her in the business a man whom I took to be her father. She said she had been in the business about a year. She is a sensible, practical, quiet, good looking little woman, dignified, and with no "nonsense" about her to invite discourtesy from evil-minded patrons, and she keeps her shop as neat as a new pin. But I didn't like her hair-cutting altogether."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mr. Isaac N. Davis and Miss Celestia L. Gilkey were married at Maple City Sunday last, by Rev. N. A. Rankin. They sail off with bright prospects and many warm congratulations.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The general agent of the Oswego Coal Company was here yesterday and informed Mr. A. H. Doane, in the course of conversation, that the completion of the K. C. & S. W. would insure their coal laid down at Winfield at from fifty cents to one dollar less per ton than now. So much for profits!

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Eli Brock has appealed a case from Justice Werden's court, Udall, against John Lane to recover $7 for labor. The costs in the case have already reached $11.60 and in the District Court will soon thribble that.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

H. E. Silliman, of this city, was elected a member of the Ottawa Baptist University Board. This institution is in a more prosperous condition than ever before--coming right forward among western educational institutions.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Will A. McCartney is a candidate for the first County Attorneyship of Clark County, with no opposition. Capt. Wakefield and S. H. Hughes oppose each other for Register of Deeds. Thus do the formerly of Winfield folks come to the front.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The literary traditions of the White House, interrupted by the death of Gen. Garfield, bid fair to be continued by Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, the sister of the President. It is related of her that when the announcement of Gov. Cleveland's nomination was made at the Executive Mansion at Albany, Miss Cleveland, who was obliged to face the distinguished assembly, preserved her composure by assiduously conjugating a Greek verb. During a recent visit to New York, some of her friends advised her to publish a volume of essays. She resisted some time, but finally consented. The manuscript was finished week before last, and I am told the volume is almost ready for publication. The revised proofs are sent to the author who has two names under consideration for the book, but the choice has not yet been definitely made.

A few words chosen from the encomiums of a personal friend will give the public some idea of the personal qualities of the lady who presides over the White House. "Miss Cleveland," says her friend, "is a woman of sweet disposition, and of breadth and strength of character. After her mother's death she determined to stay at her old home in Holland Patent and to live in her own way. There she studied and wrote. But after the election, and from the moment she knew her brother's wishes and saw her duty plain before her, she laid aside her pen work and lectures. She is in the White House just what she was at Holland Patent--a woman of sensibility and refinement. Instinctively kind and thoughtful of others, she is a favorite with strangers. A lady who happened in at the White House one morning recently found her at her desk with her books about her, studying and writing about an epoch in history which more than others interests her. She had many letters before her, and the maid carried off a handful of replies which she had just prepared; but the books were nearest to her, and she had been having a quiet hour with them. Dressed in a white flannel gown, with fleecy turtle scarf about her throat, and no other ornament than a pink rose carelessly fastened at her throat, she looked as simple and unpretentious as a school girl, and, with her short brown hair falling in natural waves about her brow, as girlish. Her nervous hands played with a paper weight as she talked of the work and the pleasures of her place and the mistaken views entertained regarding it. The substance of her remarks was that the duties performed by one in her place were such as could never be understood save by those who had known them, and the publicity attaching to the place was its greatest drawback. She talked of the White House, of its beauty, of the flowers which were about her in profusion, and of the long line of good and useful women who had been from time to time in the place she now fills.

Children of officials often give a refreshing side to social life at the Capital that makes it not all superficial and frivolous. It has been said of General Sheridan that he is not a success as a "society man," because he is too much in love with his pretty wife. The "Hero of Winchester" is even more devoted to his children, three girls and "Little Phil," Jr., a boy of five years. The twin girls, Mary and Louise, look up to their elder sister, Irene, who is but a year older than themselves, with a faith in her superiority that is something amusing. "So you three little girls are sisters," said a lady the other day, meeting the trio out for a walk. "Oh, no; we are twins. Irene is our sister," replied one of the pair with serious simplicity. At the fancy dress children's party given at General Beale's house not long ago Irene Sheridan wore a train. Little Johnny Hazen, the only child of General Hazen, was so much amused that he laughed at the little lady. The twins were indignant, and one of them exclaimed: "Just see that boy laughing at our sister! I don't like him a bit, and I don't know his name. But you know his father is the man who makes the weather."

From a confidential friend of the Grant family I learn something of the plan suggested by Senator Leland Standford, of California, through which the younger Grants are to resume the broker and banking business in New York and San Francisco this fall. The difficulty was to contrive some means to prevent their capital from falling into the hands of Ward and Grant's creditors, and thus being swallowed up. After much consultation of lawyers, a device has been framed that will prevent this and allow these young men to earn an honest living without any fear that they may be compelled to pay a swindler's debts. Their experience, says this gentleman, has been of so terrible a character that all foolishness is completely knocked out of them, and they will be more than pleased if they can earn four or five thousand dollars a year.

Chief Fortin's successor as cook at the White House is Katharine Keonan, a young Irish woman from Albany, who has been employed at the White House since President Cleveland has been there. L.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The rulers of the city met in semi-annual conclave last night with Councilmen Myers, Jennings, and Hodges absent. Ordinances relating to pilfering, telegraph companies, excavations in the streets and alleys and out lots and midnight prowlers, were postponed. An ordinance prohibiting the pesky fowl from running at large in the city between the first of March and first of November, was defeated. The yellow-legged fowl was too much for our Methodist Council. The City Fathers thus bring the stern rebuke of the female populace. An ordinance making an occupation tax was ordered. The following bills were ordered paid: J. H. Rice & Son, registration books, $10; City officers salaries for May, $180.38; J. C. McMullen, rent fire department building for May, $25; Judges and clerks of R. R. election, $52; Jas. McLain, four days night watch and special police May 22^nd, $7.50; Black & Rembaugh, printing, $14.50, and A. T. Spotswood supplies Fire Department, $1.10. Bills of Black & Rembaugh, printing, $55; Ed Pate, costs in City vs. Brown, $24.35, and Pauper claim of Mrs. Scroggins were referred to the Finance Committee. Bill of A. H. Doane, coal furnished City Attorney, was rejected. Bids of L. Wise & son and Wm. Moore & sons for laying city sidewalks, were referred. Pauper claims of Reed & Robinson, rent of house to Mrs. Quarles, $14; G. H. Buckman R. R. fare for Wm. Fisher and Geo. Hushman, $11.00, and J. N. Harter, medicines, $4.25, were recommended to the County Commissioners for payment. Wm. Moore & Sons were given the contract for furnishing stone to the city. The Fire Marshal was instructed to purchase lanterns for the Fire department. The Street Commissioner was instructed to give no receipts for poll-tax unless the full day's work was done.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Recap. On May 12, 1885, petition was presented to the Board of County Commissioners of Cowley County by W. H. Gillard, and 51 other legal voters of Omnia Township for $7,000 stock in Kansas City and Southwestern Rail Road Company. Election to be held June 16, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

R. L. Wood, Administrator of the estate of Levi M. Brown, deceased. Filed in Probate Court.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Magdaline Heisinger, Administratrix of the estate of William Heisinger, deceased. Filed in Probate Court.

John D. Maurer, Administrator, estate of Jonas Maurer, deceased. Attorneys: McDermott & Johnson. Date: August 10, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Charles F. Baxter, Administrator, estate of Wm. O. Baxter, deceased. Attorney: Henry E. Asp.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Sheriff's Sale. J. B. Lynn, plaintiff, vs. James Wilson, defendant. Sale of real estate taken as the property of James Wilson. Sale: July 6, 1885. G. H. McIntire, Sheriff.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Sheriff's Sale. M. L. Robinson, plaintiff, vs. Andrew J. Cress, defendant. Sale of real estate, Sale: July 6, 1885. G. H. McIntire, Sheriff.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

ECLECTIC. Office over Farmers' Bank, residence 1030 Lowry street, Winfield, Kansas. Sole control of the Brinkerhoff system.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Any one wanting to obtain a copy of the Scriptures, who is unable to pay for it, can have the same by applying at the Depository, Brown & Son's Drug Store.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Wheat, cash: 85-7/8; Wheat, July: 87-3/4; Wheat, August: 89-3/8.

Corn, cash: 46-3/4; Corn, July: 45-1/2.

Wheat, No. 2 red, cash: 80-1/4; Wheat, No. 2 red, July: 83.

Corn, cash: 40-1/2; Corn, July: 41-1/2.

Hogs: $3.50

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The El Dorado Republican remarks: "From a casual reading of the papers we would conclude that Newton, Wellington, and Winfield were cities of the first magnitude, but when cold facts are considered, El Dorado is but little behind any of them in point of population; and when it comes to intelligence, enterprise, wealth, and all that goes to make up a first class community, our city surpasses them all."

Of course it is well for the Republican to talk this way. El Dorado is a bright and flourishing little hamlet with some brick houses and the home of T. Benton Murdock. Its comparison with Newton and Wellington is fair, and its aspiration to figure in comparison with Winfield is laudable, but hardly bears out the truth of history.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Another batch of boomers, numbering about thirty-five, came in Friday from the north and went into camp at Boomerville. There were ten wagons loaded with household truck, women, and babes. We noticed one lady carrying a canary bird and cage, and on another wagon was a hen coop well filled with fowls. Every outfit that has arrived so far floats the American flag in the van. This party had their flag carried by a horseman, with a young lady riding by his side representing the goddess of liberty. The put on just as much style about this "invasion" business as though they were not all rebels. Caldwell Journal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Judge Gans was down Wednesday from Winfield looking over the statements of some of our druggists. The Judge informs the Republican that as soon as he is convinced that any druggist is guilty of selling liquors illegally, he will revoke his permit. He also told us that he was informed that in order not to have such a large amount of statements filed monthly, certain parties were not using statements but selling direct over the counter. We drop this bit of information for the benefit of the guilty persons. A. C. Republican.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Wichita is to have a fruit canning establishment. The peaches and things are to be shipped from New Jersey. Several Colonels and Judges of that town are out west looking up a tine mine, and if they succeed in finding one, the fruit factory will be a success. Wichita will furnish the sorghum sweetness for the fruit and water to boil it in. The coal will come from Fort Scott. The town already has another boom over this enterprise. El Dorado Republican.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The Park has recovered from the recent flood and is again as lovely as the Garden of the Gods." Hundreds of people spent yesterday afternoon under branching elms listening to the warblings of the songsters, the rustling of the leaves, and enjoying the balmy breezes. The buzzing mosquito and relentless chigger had a picnic.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Dr. C. Perry informs us that a very destructive worm, resembling the cut worm, is destroying the clover in his yard. It eats the leaves off, leaving the stalk perfectly bare. The Doctor has searched in vain for a name or remedy for the destroyer. This is a chance for some entomologist to vent himself.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

This warm weather is a great blessing to one or two men we know around here who earn their bread by the sweat of their brow. They can sit down on a dry goods box or stand gawking on the postoffice corner and sweat so much easier than in cool weather.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The case of Parr and Branson against W. A. Lee to recover $150 damages claimed to have been made in the non-delivery of a traction engine was filed Saturday in the District Court from Judge Kreamer's court, Arkansas City.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Judge Gans issued two certificates of double bliss Saturday, Isaac Davis and Celestia Gilkey, and W. H. Woodruff and Eliza Bradshaw. The latter couple were joined on the spot in the Judge's latest improved and surest manner.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

It seems that there are ten decided imbeciles in Winfield who voted against the bonds, besides a hundred or more weak-minded who did not vote at all. So the State Institution cannot be built here too soon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Constable Harrod took Bogardus, in the toils for embezzling two hundred dollars for Jarvis, Conklin & Co., at Saratoga, to Kingman yesterday, where he will await trial before the District Court.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The Methodist Episcopal church at Tisdale, eight miles east of Winfield, will be dedicated on June 14^th. Rev. H. D. Fisher, D. D., of Topeka, will preach the dedication sermon. A cordial invitation is extended to everybody.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The rains keep coming down regularly every afternoon. If some of this dampness could be treasured up for future use, it would be a blessing.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mr. S. Allison has bought the feed barn east of Hackney & Asp's office, and assumed control last week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Hackney & Asp have just put in a fine new safe: one to make the heart of the festive burglar go on a strike.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

"Coffins at cost for the poor," is the way a local appears in a neighboring county paper.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Ladies: Smith & Zook have novelties in slippers and fine walking shoes.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Our streets presented an unusually lively appearance Saturday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

J. L. Hodges is in from Clark County.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

O. M. Akers was down Saturday from Udall.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

J. P. Voorhees was down from Udall Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Frank Freeland was up from the Terminus Sunday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

J. O. Hoyt was over last Friday from Geuda Springs.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

R. B. Phelps, of Burden, was doing the En city Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Frank K. Raymond, reporting in the Sumner District Court, Sundayed at home, as usual.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. James McDermott had a new arrival at their home last evening--weight unknown.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

W. J. Willard, of the Geuda Springs News, was over Saturday taking in the Decoration exercises.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mr. Schurmann returned home last Thursday and is getting along very well with his broken ankle.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

W. E. Dockson went to Arkansas City to meet the council in reference to numbering the houses of that place.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Miss Susie DeLametter came over from Wellington to Sunday with friends. She departs soon for Pratt County.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

J. K. Malley came in from a week down on Grouse, Saturday, and departed for Wichita, now his headquarters.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Misses Minnie DeLay and Nina Stivers and Messrs. Will Ferguson and Harry Holbrook spent Sunday in Wellington.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Capt. Wakefield, formerly of Winfield, is a candidate for Register of Deeds at Clark County's first election, the only formerly of Cowley man in the field.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Jimmie Simpson left us a twig of Amsden June peaches Thursday morning. It was twelve inches long and bore twenty peaches. This will eclipse all other years in fruit production.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Uncle Joe Likowski came in Saturday from Mt. Dora, Florida, to look after his property interests and visit. He reports the formerly of Winfield folks at Mt. Dora all doing well and happy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Messrs. John Mentch & Son, nurserymen, favored THE COURIER Friday with a magnificent lot of strawberries from their vines. They were larger than walnuts and finely flavored.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Lucian McMasters, brother of Mrs. Dave Harter, has returned to Sunny Kansas, with his wife, after several years' absence in Michigan. He says this county is the only ideal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Capt. Lyon brought us in a twig about twelve inches long from one of his mulberry trees Tuesday. It contained fifty-two fine mulberries. The season, though late, seems to be quite prolific.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

J. G. Evans, from Ohio, has opened out over Long's grocery. The Doctor is a graduate of the Ohio Medical College, of Cincinnati, and comes to us highly recommended. We wish him success.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Messrs. Kirk & Alexander placed their order today with the Richmond City Mill Works, of Richmond, Indiana, for a full roller mill of seventy-five barrels capacity, through their agent, J. W. Heck.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mr. Daniel Knox's light Brahma hen comes to the front again with an egg measuring six and a half inches by eight. There is certainly a little goose about his hen.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Rev. R. C. Childs, of Hardenburg, Indiana, an old friend of Rev. J. H. Reider, arrived today and will spend a few days, possibly remain over Sunday, and fill the Baptist pulpit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Judge E. S. Torrance came over from Howard, where he is courting, to Sunday with his family. The trial of Etherly for killing in cold blood his father in-law at Elk Falls is now in the justice mill and drawing intense concern.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mr. Edwin Beeney has been dressing up his residence property on South Loomis street, in a spring suit of rare beauty--new paint, new porch, newly trimmed lawn, shrubbery and trees, etc. Mr. Beeney displays much taste in the appearance of his home.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mr. J. C. Fuller is home after a delightful southern trip of a month. He took in the exposition at New Orleans, and other southern places, returning home via the east. He reports things yet lively at the World's Fair, but the weather is too warm for proper enjoyment.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Rabbi Kranskoff left for Kansas City this evening. His friends had hoped to have him remain over Sunday and fill the Methodist pulpit, which was willingly offered, but his arrangements would not permit. But he has promised to return at some future time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

J. Well & Co., K. C. clothing, filed a case in the District Court yesterday against Wert Bros., formerly merchants at Burden, demanding $646.75 due them on merchandise. Wert Bros. seem to be getting numerous legal calls of this nature.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Wm. Updike, for years county treasurer and a prominent citizen of Crawford County, Illinois, is a guest of Frank L. Crampton, from Robinson, Illinois, Frank's old home. He is prospecting with a view to investment. He has been over most of Kansas and thinks Winfield and Cowley excel.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

W. G. Seaver, the Dexter Eye optician, and W. E. Meredith brought in the returns of Dexter, arriving at one o'clock last night. Dexter acquitted herself nobly, giving 143 for the bonds and 27 against. When Dexter turns herself loose, she always gets the goal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Dr. John Fleming found difficulty in entering his drug store about twelve o'clock Sunday night, hunted up the night-watch, took off the lock, and found therein a broken key, which bore evidence of coming from the genius of a knight of the jimmy. There had doubtless been an attempt to burgle.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

R. E. Bunker, with his mercantile partner, J. E. Carr, were over from Milan, Sumner County, to contract with Messrs. Bliss & Wood for flour. Mr. Bunker is a son of the famous Siamese Twins. The history of the wonderful prodigies, it will be remembered, states that, though their bodies were joined together, both married and had children.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Miss Cora M. Dousman, after several months visit with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Horning, left last evening for her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a young lady of admirable social qualities, refined, vivacious, and sensible, and made many friends in our social circle who will heartily welcome her return at any time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Rev. J. H. Snyder returned Saturday from the General Conference of the U. B. church, at Fostoria, Ohio. He was minute secretary of the Conference, and therefore returns much fatigued. The session held twelve days and was very interesting and profitable throughout. The attendance was large. Rev. P. B. Lee will visit in Ohio two weeks before returning.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Wm. D. Halfhill, the young attorney who was arrested here several months ago, and taken to Van Wert, Ohio, on charge of embezzlement, has been convicted, and judgment pends. It is a penitentiary offense, $100, and will likely give him a year. While out on bail on the charge in question, he forged a note for a considerable sum and was again socked in the cooler, making a double dose.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Engineer Moorehead informs us that the boat of the Arkansas River Navigation Company is completed at St. Louis and ready to be brought around by water to Arkansas City. It will cost seven thousand dollars laid down at the Terminus, and draws ten inches. The test of the navigable qualities of the "ragin' Arkansaw" will be made in the near future. The projectors feel confidence of the success of their experiment.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Messrs. Harris & Clark are stumped. Their valuable qualities have never failed them till now in answering any question the human brain could formulate regarding the Garden of Eden, Cowley County. But one fellow has got ahead of them at last. A letter has come from New Orleans "which art very important," and the firm wants to see a Frenchman badly. Several have already turned away with the excuse of being "rusty on French."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mrs. L. M. Lutes, of Arkansas City marshal-whipping fame, was convicted of keeping a house of ill-shape, fined five dollars and costs, amounting to seventy-eight dollars, in default of which she now languishes in the county bastille. She is about thirty years old, with two children, a boy four years old and a girl six, who are in the bastille with her. She is of fiery eye and glib tongue, rather tall and fairly neat. She is not of that gentle, feminine appearance that attracts sympathy, but such as shows disposition to wither all surroundings.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Gen. Hatch spent Thursday in the city. He is very well pleased with Winfield, and says he is thoroughly satisfied as to the truth of the many compliments that have made her famous. He is on his way northward. The General is a fair type of the pictures usually presented of the typical U. S. officer: straight, handsome, fastidious in dress, and a perfect gentleman. As a conversationalist he is exceedingly entertaining, and THE COURIER greatly enjoyed his call. Though appearing not over fifty, his hair is as white as snow--adding lustre to the General's fine appearance.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The survey party in charge of Chief Engineer Morehead, which left here early in April to survey the route for the Kansas City and Southwestern railway, returned to town on Monday. It consists of T. S. Morehead, Harry Hill, Dan McDonald, T. E. Coppage, Dr. J. D. Love, James Jones, C. W. Raehrig, Will McCune, Fred Barrett, and W. T. Sherwood. The survey was begun at Beaumont, Butler County, and carried on amid interruptions from rain storms and swollen creeks to within three miles of Arkansas City. The work is begun at Beaumont and three miles of rail laid; the work of grading is being actively carried forward. The route surveyed is found entirely practicable, cuts and fills will be light; but some slight deviation will be made on account of creeks. Some portions of the route will require to be done over, in order to make connections, the bad weather interfering with the work. The three miles intervening between the city and the end of the survey will shortly be gone over, and the survey continued to the State line. Arkansas City Traveler.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

James N. Young, President of the Kansas City & Southwestern railroad, arrived this morning at 10 o'clock from St. Louis, having driven over the route of the road from Beaumont. About five hundred men are now at work grading and track laying and the road is completed to within five miles of the Cowley County line. If the bonds are carried next Monday, the line will be pushed as fast as all the men the company can get can push it. The engine will be puffing into Winfield within sixty days. With the advent of the K. C. & S., followed closely by the D. M. & A., with the building of our Imbecile Asylum, our street railway, and other prospective enterprises, Winfield and Cowley County will take on a substantial boom to continue until she stands the peer in population, wealth, and everything else, of any city in the great State of Kansas! What we want to do now is to fasten our eternal grip on everyone of these enterprises. To grasp them is great prosperity; to reject them is to die.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

R. C. Howard, of the Republican, telephones us that a suicide was committed in Arkansas City last night at 11:30. The victim was George Sealey, aged 40, who came there two months ago. He was a laborer and worked at odd jobs around town. For some time past he has been sick and unable to work. He became disheartened and last night ended all by placing a revolver to his right temple and perforating his brain. He lived, unconsciously, a few hours after the shot. He was unmarried and had no relatives or friends in this section. The inquest was being held as we go to press. Mr. Howard also telegraphs us that the inquest is yet going on over the body found down the Arkansas river, Mussleman, with prospects of guilt being placed as indicated in our Tuesday's account. It will make a romance.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Last evening at Belle Plaine the directors of the D., M. & A., after their session of three days finally closed, signed and settled a contract with Fitzgerald & Moonlin, for the building and equipment entire of sixty-one miles of their line, being from Kingman to the Arkansas river. The balance of the line through to Joplin is also let to the same parties conditional upon the voting of the aid promised. This is really the first time that persons could say that the building of this road is actually and absolutely assured. There is now no doubt of it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Prof. E. P. Hickok's activity is showing itself in his new Comanche County abode, according to the Protection Echo.

"Prof. Hickok has had ample experience in the land business, and is well posted in regard to the pre-emption laws. You will always find him ready and willing to give any information on any point of law that he may be able to explain. The Professor is one of those accomplished men who never charge for information that he may be able to give. If you want any information, don't hesitate to ask him, you will always find that he has a willing manner in answering."

The Professor is also preaching regularly to the people of Protection and the Echo speaks highly of his sermons.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The Leavenworth Times has gathered crop reports from every county in the State. It says of Cowley: "Acreage averages about 15 percent more than that of last year. The leading cereals are wheat, corn, oats, and millet. Prospects for wheat are about 38-1/3 percent of average crop. Corn about 33-1/3 percent above the average crop and the others about as usual. Hog crop has increased about 10 or 15 percent over last year, but have lost a good many sheep on account of 'scab.' The population has increased about 2,000 in the past year. Have the finest prospect for fruit we ever had."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The Clark County News has the following regarding an old Cowley County boy.

"Henry Phenix, of Day Valley, made us a very pleasant call Wednesday. He stayed by Cowley in its dark days, and his financial star of success rose with the sun of prosperity foretelling something greater here in Clark County. Mr. Phenix has broken twenty-five acres of which twelve is in corn up five inches, has in a crop of millet and sorghum, four hundred grape vines, small fruits, and several millions of box elders coming up, and the first Jersey cows in the county. Verily, Henry has faith, and we trust that success will reward him for his energy and labor."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Henry Hahn, of Vernon township, in crossing the gutter on South Millington street, near J. S. Mann's residence, was thrown from the spring seat of his wagon last evening. He fell with fearful force on the side of his face, peeling the skin off and making very serious disfigurement. Dr. Emerson dressed him up. It took an hour to bring Henry to. He was able to get home, but will "cuss" our streets for some time. Such gutters as the one in question are certainly worthy of special attention from our Street Commissioner. They are death on vehicles and human comfort and safety.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Hundreds of persons from various portions of the country are coming to the giant State of Kansas, many of them visiting Cowley County. Nearly all of our hotels are daily crowded to their utmost capacity, some of the visitors being compelled to seek accommodations elsewhere. Probably there never was such an immigration to Kansas and the west as at the present time, and still they come, seeking homes beyond the great father of waters. Ere many years have come and gone, Kansas will be one of the wealthiest and largest populated states in the west.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

A voter in the Second Ward, when arriving at the polls yesterday, was asked if he had registered. "Yes," was the response. His name couldn't be found on the poll books. "Where did you register?" asked one of the judges. "At the Commercial Hotel," was answered with innocence appalling. It seems strange what delusions some individuals, even in enterprising, intelligent communities like ours, rest under.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Not a day passes but some eastern people arrive in our city looking for homes and some place to invest their capital. Farm and city property is changing hands every day and bringing good prices. Men of means are coming in prepared to risk their money in the future of Cowley County. This county offers great attractions to men of capital and they are not slow to see it. And so we boom right along.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Marshal McFadden initiated one of the new ordinances Thursday morning. It says that no professionally "soiled dove" can appear on the streets. One did appear on the street--and before Judge Turner. She was released on condition that she shake the dust of the city from her boots within twelve hours. Otherwise she will find a very thorny path hereabouts.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Horseback riding is the latest and most exhilarating pastime among our young folks. A bevy of a dozen or more were out on their prancing chargers last evening, some of the young ladies exhibiting much equestrian skill.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

How is this for high? The price of wheat is three or four cents per bushel higher in this city than in Chicago. Wichita Eagle.

So low as that? Wheat sells in Winfield at fifteen cents per bushel more than it is quoted at in Kansas City.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mr. J. H. Magness has just returned from the east with a large and fine assortment of monuments and tombstones, which he will sell at less than one third former prices. Call at his works at Burden.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The Newton Republican complains that the real estate men of that town are not doing enough to advertise it. When a Kansas real estate man droops, he is very sick.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Metropolitan airs are coming thick and fast! A hand organ on the streets today raised everybody on tip-toe--and put one fist in their ear and the other in their pocket.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Leonard Farr, an old resident of Cowley, is here from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, looking after his property interests.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The railroad election yesterday passed off quietly, but with a giant effort on the part of Burden to defeat it. Saturday they flooded the whole county with circulars, and their men were at every polling place. They spent much time and money in the effort, but it availed them naught. The people know the benefit of railroad facilities, competition in freight, and are bound to take hold of them when presented. Dexter and Udall came up nobly and gave good majorities for the bonds. It now remains for Arkansas City and the balance of the county to stand squarely by the D. M. & A., and redeem their pledges as faithfully as Dexter and Udall have done, and the D. M. & A. will go through with a thousand to spare. This election settles the question as to the future railroad prospects of our county. The K. C. & S. W. will be running trains into Winfield by the tenth day of July, and the D. M. & A. will follow closely. The following are the returns from the different townships so far as heard from:

FOR. AGAINST.

Walnut 176 23

Arkansas City 565 8

Creswell 94 34

Winfield 757 10

West Bolton 68 19

Vernon 54 49

Ninnescah 110 71

Dexter 143 27

Silver Creek 17 325

Tisdale 37 67

Silverdale 11 65

Windsor 35 88

Omnia 62 17

Harvey 21 64

Sheridan 15 78

Rock 8 59

Maple 0 0

Spring Creek 4 129

Beaver 2 95

P. Valley 0 0

Liberty 0 0

Fairview 37 19

Cedar 0 0

Otter 0 0

Total so far received for the bonds: 2,238

Total so far received against the bonds: 1,247

Majority: 991

Richland majority against: 95

P. Valley majority against: 46

Net Majority for bonds: 850

Liberty, Maple, Cedar, and Otter are yet to hear from.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The Wellington Press, in an extreme fit of the blues, ejaculates: "The Winfield COURIER is a daisy--when it comes to lying. It is trying to figure out the population of that village, and the attempt to get it up with some of its neighbors is rather amusing. By taking several adjacent townships, it gets the population to 7,000, but admits finally that it only has about 5,000 in the city proper. Winfield looks to us to be a place of about 3,500. It is a nice little town, of course, and we should think its daily paper would be ashamed to undertake to repeat the Wichita Eagle's old game of lying outrageously about its population. Come, boys, brace up and be truthful. Don't undertake to march in the processing alongside of Wellington. You don't carry tonnage enough to do that yet."

Be "azy," dear brother! You'll see still darker days yet. Winfield's march of progress will continue to leave many more promising towns than Wellington near the tail of the procession. Truth is mighty and must prevail! That this is now the Queen City of Southern Kansas is riding abreast of every gale and that it should hit our sister city behind the ear is not surprising. But don't take it too hard! Brace up and sturdily prepare for the inevitable.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

A citizen of Burden passed through the city Friday bound for Pleasant Valley township with a grip sack full of circulars opposing the railroad. The circulars, one of which is in our possession, contains the most grossly false and exaggerated statements we have ever seen in print. The very fact that Burden appealed with tears in the eyes of its committee for an opportunity to vote $30,000 to this road if it would come that way gives the lie to all its arguments. This town is flooding the country with these false documents and is sending its men into all parts of the county to defeat the bonds on Monday. The circular figures the present, past, and future bonds, railroad, county, town, school, water, and everything else, with interest for thirty years to come, and makes the grand total over a million dollars. There would be as much sense in a man computing the sacks of flour he will be compelled to eat in the next thirty years, and committing suicide because the pile looks so large. Burden's interest undoubtedly lies in defeating these propositions, but they ought to be able to figure and print without lying.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Judge H. B. Sumner, attorney for Mrs. L. M. Lutes, of Arkansas City marshal whipping fame, succeeded in releasing his client on a writ of habeas corpus, yesterday afternoon. She was in the bastille in default of seventy-eight dollars fine and costs on conviction of keeping an immoral dive. The ordinance relating to this matter was proven worthless, owing to lack of legal lore on the part of the city attorney. He sent it in for publication without the Mayor's signature, and never entered it on the ordinance book. Mrs. Lutes was immediately re-arrested by Sheriff McIntire on the State case against her for cowhiding A. C.'s marshal. She was taken to Arkansas City for a preliminary hearing before Judge Kreamer.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

County Attorney Asp and Sheriff McIntire were prosecuting the trial of John Cooley at the Terminus Thursday, charged with the murder of George Mussleman. Cooley's examination showed both parties to be professional fishermen, on the line of the Territory, just below Arkansas City. Thursday week they started across the Arkansas, the skiff upset, and Mussleman was drowned. Circumstantial evidence was much against him, the water being shallow where Mussleman is said to have drowned, and the victim's neck being broken. The rumor that a fair grass widow was mixed up in the affair was discredited. The Justice Court bound Cooley over to the District Court in the sum of $1,500. Bail has not been given, and he languishes in the Bastille de Finch. Mussleman was twenty-seven and Cooley is thirty-five years old.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mrs. K. Bailey died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. L. Rinker, Saturday night, in her seventy-third year. Mrs. Bailey was born in Little York, Pennsylvania, moved with her family when twelve years of age, to New York, where, in 1833, she married Mr. Louis Bailey, who died in Winfield in 1880, the spring of his arrival here from Indiana. She was a member of the Episcopal church for fifty years, and had done much for the cause of christianity and humanity. She was the mother of twelve children, six of whom are living. John H. was present at her death from Rice County. The funeral took place Sunday evening from the residence, conducted by Rev. B. Kelly, and attended by a large number of friends of the family. The deceased was interred beside her husband in Union cemetery.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

An effort is being made in the towns south of us to arrange a telephone circuit embracing Winfield, Arkansas City, Geuda Springs, Wellington, Belle Plaine, Argonia, Conway Springs, Wichita, Derby, Mulvane, and Udall. This is a good scheme as it will enable the citizens of these neighboring towns to become more intimately related to each other, and in time it may furnish the outlines for a city equal to London or Pekin. Wichita Republican.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mr. Asa Carrington, shipping clerk for W. A. Lee, and Miss Carrie Hord, were united in the bonds of unalloyed bliss last night by Rev. Gans, at the residence of W. E. Jameson, South Manning street. Both are possessed of many sterling qualities, and though they stole a march on their friends in this matrimonial deed, the congratulations are none the less hearty. THE COURIER force are all ardent smokers and ready to whiff the wish that the happy couple "may leef long und been happy."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Sheriff McIntire received a dispatch today announcing that L. J. Etherly, who murdered J. M. Messmore, his father-in-law, at Elk Falls some weeks ago, escaped last night. He wore side-whiskers about a week old; moustache; cark clothes with light mixture; white spot in center of button; small, mouse colored wool hat; gray blue eyes; thirty years old; five feet, eleven inches high, and weighs one hundred and seventy pounds. Three hundred dollars reward is offered for his capture. Etherly was on trial at Howard, with Judge Torrance presiding. No particulars yet as to the manner of his escape. He is a desperate character and a bad man generally.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The returns of yesterday's vote for the jail bonds come in very slowly. Very little interest was taken in the matter any place in the county, and the bonds are no doubt defeated. Winfield polled 313 votes for and 41 against, while the townships heard from voted almost solidly against. One great reason for this defeat is the ambiguity of the tickets--"For the loan;" "For the erection of public buildings." Of course, everyone of the tickets had to be explained before anybody would vote it. Then the election, following the next day after the railroad election, was too much at once--farmers couldn't leave their work to vote. Some townships scarcely polled a dozen votes. A new jail is absolutely necessary and must come sooner or later. Another vote, at a time when some attention can be given to the matter, will no doubt carry.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

The following are the real estate transfers filed in the office of Register of Deeds yesterday.

U S to C G Holland, lots 2 and 3 e hf of sw qr 25-34-s-3e, 155 acres: $193

T J Harris and wife to Richard A. Clark, lots 10, 11, and 12, block 246, Citizen's ad to Winfield: $750

Read & Robinson to Elizabeth Garret, lot 7 blk 52, Read's ad to Winfield: $300

J Croco et al trustees of Presbyterian church to Mrs. F O Prichard, lot 10 blk 91 and frac lot 10 blk 91, Manning's ad to Winfield: $500

B W Matlack to F A Osborn, nw qr 13-34-s-4e, 160 acres, quit claim: $175

Highland Park Town Company to William Renner, lot 12 blk 11, H P ad to Winfield: $0

Chas A Hayes to Mary Etta Snow, lot 1 blk 95, Menor's ad to Winfield: $250

Burden Town Co to Temple West, lots 3 and 4, blk 17, Burden: $50.00

W J Hodges and wife to William Gates, lot 8, blk 98, Mansfield's ad to Winfield: $350.00

A F. Harris and wife to Simon Vallmer, lots 3 and 4, 18-31-5 7 e, 25 acres: $1,800

P W Smith and wife to Jerry Hammon, lots 1, 2, and 3, block 14, Smith's ad to Udall: $100

U S to William Pingry, e ½ of sw ¼ 30-34-s-5 e, 80 acres: $100

E A Norris and husband to Sherman & Hicks, n ½ of sw ¼ 12-33-s 7 e, 80 acres: $800

John A Barrick and wife to Marshes Scofield, ne ¼ of sw ¼ and se ¼ of sw ¼ 16-31-s 4 e, 80 acres quit-claim: $1.00

S M Jarvis and wife to J E Jarvis, lots 1 and 2 and ½ of ne ¼ of 6-3-s3 e, 160 acres: $4,000

C M Scott and wife to Manford Anderson and Samuel H Hines, lot 4, block 77, Arkansas City, quit-claim: $10.00

H P Farrar and wife to William R Owen, lots 3 and 4, blk 77, Arkansas City: $10.00

Wm R Owen and wife to Monford Anderson and Samuel H Hines, lots 3 and 4, blk 77, Arkansas City: $450

Thomas C Bird and wife to George Ordway, sw ¼ of s ½ of nw ½ sec 13, and 3 ½ of se ¼ 14-34-s 6 e: $1,000

U S to James K. Miller, s ½ of nw ¼ of sw ¼ 26-32-s 7 e, 160 acres: $200

M L Robinson and wife to J W Clifford, lot 11 Block 10, Grand Summit: $100

Emma Thomas and husband to John Mott, lots 11 and 12, block 50, Arkansas City: $600

Sylvester Woods and R M Tichenor to Hannah Marquis, e ½ of sw ¼ 10-31-s 5 e, 80 acres: $400

Hannah Marquis to Laura A Capper, e ½ of sw ¼ 10-31-5-e, 80 acres: $325

I W Randall and wife to Elizabeth A Lyon, lot 2 blk 309, Thompson's ad to Winfield: $650

Wm H Treadway and wife, nw ¼ of ne ¼ 17-32-6 s e: $150

Lizzie E Mudgett and husband to Mrs. E S Hackworth, lot 1 block 10, Udall: $50.00

A G Mudgett and wife to A J Thompson, lot 12 blk 149 Winfield: $3,375

Peter C Clark and wife to A J Thompson, lot 12 blk 149 Winfield: $3,375

Mary J Swartz and husband to G Schultheiss, lots 21 and 22 block 190 Swart's ad to Ark City: $63.00

C G Furry and wife to William D Furry, ne ¼ of se ¼ of se ¼ 9-34- s 3 e, quit-claim: $1.00

Rebecca E McCormick and husband to W D Furry, ne ¼ of se ¼ 9-34-s-3-e, ex 1 rod off ne: $1,100

J M Alexander and wife to A B Gardner, part of ne ¼ 27-32-s-4-e: $312.50

J L Hodges and wife to F S Jennings and A M Jennings, lot 12, block 149, Winfield: $3,200

Geo W Spruill and wife to Henry L Booth, lots 9 and 10, block 28, Ark City: $150

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

One of the best grain and stock farms in the county, 240 acres fine bottom land, 230 acres under plow, 40 acres timber, 200 acres of upland pasture, timber and pasture enclosed with barbed wire fence, fine running water and several large springs, house 16 x 26 story and a half, stone barn 21 x 33, sixteen foot walls, room for ten head of horses, granary room for 3000 bushels, necessary out-buildings, corrals, etc., peach orchard, 1½ miles to schoolhouse. This place will be sold, if sold soon, on very reasonable terms. Inquire of or address THE COURIER, Winfield, Kas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Eighty acres of a Mixed crop of wheat, rye, and cheat; will make the best kind of hay for stock; also a second-hand string binder in good running order. Will sell cheap if sold soon, as I need to be free to attend to interests elsewhere. Jo Mack.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

And now the wild western atmosphere seems to be banishing even the G. Washington qualities of the handsome, auburn-haired Lou Zenor. The Medicine Lodge Index says: "Lou Zenor took in the Winfield races and returned home Sunday. He says the Lodge has not as many people as Winfield, but it can walk all around that town when it comes to a general get-up-and-get contest."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

812 Main street is the location of the new clothing store of J. J. Carson & Co.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

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

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mr. McCollum is building a blacksmith shop at Hackney.

James McCullough and family visited in this vicinity one day last week.

If anyone has found a stray dog, they will do a favor by returning the same to J. Ricks. It's a setter.

Some young dupe had the audacity to report Posy creek up past fording. That is not so; it has not been that high by six inches.

Ex young Nasby was in the vicinity one day last week. He says corn looks better here than it does in Beaver. The Beaverites are not all done planting yet.

J. Muret, wife, and Mrs. Muret's mother, Mrs. Dindle, will start for Clark County in a few days. They will leave their farm in charge of their twelve-year-old son, Claude.

Mr. D. Whitson sowed 20 acres of orchard grass this spring. It is up and looks fine. When anyone tells you that tame grass will not do any good here, tell them they don't know. Billy Whitson has as fine a piece of timothy as ever grew any place.

There was an agent in this vicinity last week representing a manufactory of patent medicines of Wellington. He was working towards Arkansas City. It is no doubt he saw the report in the COURIER of the number of invalids in that city, and will strike a bonanza if he can just make them believe it's b-e-e-r.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Items are scarce in this part.

George Watts has moved to Moline.

Mrs. George Rowe is on the sick list.

Ben Clover visited Winfield Friday.

E. J. Sherlock spent last week in Kansas City, tending court.

Mrs. Foster and Mrs. Dan. Rowe visited friends on Cedar Creek last Saturday.

The Sabbath school at Windsor is in a flourishing condition.

Messrs. Irwin Crawford, Fall, and the Bowe Bros. shipped a car load of hogs from this part Monday.

The farmers are very busy; some planting their corn over, others replanting, and some are sowing millet.

Eddie Darnell has been suffering the past week from erysipelas on his face, but at present writing he is better.

Rev. Elliott, from Nevada, Mo., has been holding a series of meetings at the South Prairie schoolhouse the past week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Farmers are still plowing and planting corn.

Walter Baxter, of Mulvane, was here last week.

Otis, we would advise you to give Dan some more oats.

O. M. A. offers a reasonable reward for a good plan for killing a(u)nts

Girls, tell Bob Mc. you must have one of those cabinet pictures of his. They are good ones.

The singing at Star last Sunday night was a daisy. A few more such and Star will be flying.

Misses Katie Holmes and Lola Williams, of Rock, were visiting with Mrs. Fatout a few Sundays ago.

Misses Sarah and Ollie Wilson are down with the diphtheria. Dr. Tucker, of Douglass, is tending the cases.

Mahlon Fatout boasts of the boss corn rows of the season, and he does positively assert that there will be no point rows in the middle of the field.

Miss Fanny McKinley, the last winter's school ma'am of Star, was visiting friends here last week. Come again, Miss Fanny; the latch string always hangs out.

Robert Maddux and Jack Justice went to New Haven last Thursday and returned Friday. Robert drives a fast team. The round trip is about one hundred and twenty-five miles. Jack got his pony this time. It had been gone about two months and Jack had spent about twenty dollars in getting him back.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mr. McCormick, of Arkansas City, visited this locality Friday last.

Eli Bookwalter came over from Sumner a few days ago. Judging from the frequency of Eli's visits to Cowley, he is cultivating a distaste for "batching."

Will Birdzell's eye-balls were somewhat discomfitted by an accidental application of white-wash to those organs while wielding the brush on the ceiling, recently. He didn't know it was loaded to shoot downward.

Mr. Harader has received his improved milling machinery and will soon commence the production of a grade of flour far superior to that heretofore made at that mill; at least an improved quality would encourage more home patronage.

'Squire Broadwell has been engaged, with his entire force, ditching his lower farm. This is a good move and will no doubt amply repay him for all his trouble. His bottom cornfield was almost totally destroyed by recent heavy dews.

One day, not long since, "G. V." saw Mr. Holcomb mowing weeds and hauling them away. Of course, "G. V.'s curiosity overcame his modesty, and he went to inquire whether the weeds were to be used as sickworm nutriment. "Those weeds will immejitly be hog feed," said Mr. Holcomb. Thus our farmers are clearing out the weeds with the intention of saving 50 cent corn.

The click of the merry, merry clod gymnasts' "shot gun" cornplanter tells us to wait a few days longer and South Bend will have planted her second crop of that cereal for 1885. But 'tis all for the best. Chinch bugs that were alive and hearty only a few days ago are now drowned and washed away. Josh Billings says: "The best remedy for rheumatism iz to thank God it izzent the gout." This is so strikingly applicable to our case that you will please excuse the quotation.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Quite a number from Torrance spent Saturday afternoon at Burden.

The Neuman family spent Sunday afternoon in our city. Come again.

Mr. John Allen and G. W. Gardenhire were in Grand Summit one day last week.

Fred Collins and Jeff Dorsett passed through our city Sunday and stopped at Capital Hill.

Several of the young people spent Sunday afternoon at Capital Hill and attended church at night.

Laura Elliott and Mattie Wilson were out horseback riding Monday evening. You should have seen them.

Mr. Henry Branson received word Thursday morning that his father had lost his house, and everything in it, by fire.

Torrance is to have a hardware store soon; and I understand there will be a gentleman here this week to take the hotel.

There was no mite last Saturday night, but will meet with Mr. C. Neuman next Saturday evening. All are invited to attend, as a big time is expected.

Misses Lydia and Alice Taylor, of Sparta, Illinois, arrived in our city Friday morning on a visit to their brothers, Will and Abe. They expect to spend several months with us.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Mr. Hardwick has returned from his western trip.

Some very nice fish have been caught in Grouse since the flood.

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hall visited friends in Dexter this week.

Mr. Dover, our worthy school teacher, has given good satisfaction so far.

Mr. Elliott, a Christian Minister, has been preaching at Dexter the past week.

Mrs. J. V. Hines has been on the sick list of late, but at present writing is improving.

The funeral of Mrs. Jerry Ellinwood, who died two weeks ago, took place on Sunday at 11 o'clock.

Mrs. J. D. Salmons and Mrs. S. B. Bullington spent a few days visiting friends in Wichita last week.

Several new members were initiated in the Dexter Chapter at their last meeting. Among them were our editor and his wife.

Miss Lou Jarvis spent Sunday with Mr. Henry Branson's family. Lou is teaching quite an interesting school southeast of Dexter. We wish her much success.

The flood damaged the farms along the Grouse valley considerably. A great deal of the farm land is badly washed and much of the corn will have to be replanted.

The Mite Society gave a strawberry festival in the hall last Thursday evening. Quite a good assemblage was present and all enjoyed themselves splendidly. Did not learn how much the proceeds amounted to.

Dexter celebrated Decoration Day in a very appropriate manner. The day was bright and lovely for the occasion. The exercises were conducted by the G. A. R. They met at the hall and marched to the cemetery east of town. The Dexter band gave us some very good music. The floral offerings were very beautiful and the graves of the old soldiers, their parents, wives, and children were all remembered and decorated in a most touching manner. Elder Elliott delivered the address at the cemetery, a most eloquent and forcible sermon. There was an immense crowd present and it will be a day long remembered by Dexter people.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Last Thursday evening Mrs. Lewis Brown entertained a group of festive young folks with cake and ice cream.

The Grangers are making extensive preparations for doing a mammoth business when established in their new quarters.

The recent railroad bond election has not shaken our faith in the intelligence of the voters of Pleasant Valley township.

Mr. D. B. McCollum has completed his blacksmith shop at this point. The Grangers' stock of goods will be stored in it while their building is being removed to its new location.

"Mark" is in receipt of "Farm Experiments," a valuable pamphlet of fifty pages, by Prof. E. M. Shelton of the State Agricultural College at Manhattan. This little book is chock full of instructive information to farmers and may be secured by addressing the Professor as above.

The bridal cake feast in which "Mark" participated one evening in THE COURIER office about the middle of last week caused the echoes of sentimentalism to reverberate once more in his manly bosom. May the blushing bride's blissful cup of joy remain over full to the brim but never splash over and waste its ethereal sweetness on the desert air.

From present appearances King Cupid seems to have caught another victim in his affectionate meshes in this community. The judge of the hymeneal court will doubtless be called upon to relieve said victim from the direful agonies of suspense. "How near (sometimes) and yet so far." The public heart palpitates in sympathy for the struggling captive.

The muchly anticipated Union Sunday school picnic missed fire but struck an abundance of water. Owing to the protestations of the aqueous elements, the gather in the shady groves on the verdant banks of classical Posey was abandoned. A few of the neighbors met under the protecting canopy of Irvin Chapel, spread their luscious lunches and devoured them amid a volley of unkind anathemas directed toward the weather clerk. It was ever thus with mortals from the earliest dawn of human existence. They are subject to disappointments, discouragements, and displeasures.

Your reporter took a jaunt last Sabbath evening to district , one of his old battle grounds where, in days of yore, "the air was full of farewells to the dying and mournings for the dead," and was amazed at the progress of civilization. The denizens have recently actually organized a Sunday school. But it does not seem to be safe for a superintendent and his assistant to attend regularly, yet they were on this particular occasion conspicuous for their absence. The blushing secretary also manifested a sense of cautiousness by omitting the customary reading of the minutes. However, a decided step in advance has been taken and these eccentricities of the presiding officers will gradually wear off as rapidly as confidence is established between them and their festive subjects. Your faberizer will allow "Magnolia," of the Tribune, the honor of first imparting to the public the names of the courageous officers, for his delicate modesty, in the light of recent experiences, prevents him from indulging in personalities.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

R. R. bonds carried by 40 majority, and the D. M. & A. will have over a 100 majority.

The City Hotel has changed names. Hereafter it will be known as the Devore House.

Our new law firm of McKinley & Higgins seems to have its hands full of law business.

Mrs. Jeff Parr died on last Friday and was buried on Saturday. She leaves a husband and five small children to mourn her untimely departure.

G. T. Frazier has been confined to his bed for the past few weeks, but we are glad to announce that he is once more on the streets ready for business.

Shriver & Co. wants to keep their scale on First street, and consequently are busy circulating a petition to be presented to the City Council to that effect.

On Tuesday the Marshal arrested Noah Douglass, Peter McCush [McCuish?], and a party by the name of Kelly for drunkenness. $5 and costs was the verdict of His Honor, Judge Werden.

Udall turned out en masse to attend the decoration at Mulvane on Saturday, and all were well pleased with the kind manner in which they were entertained by the citizens of that place.

The election passed off very quietly; not much excitement, and no fighting, but nearly so. Bob Norman was about to whip Jim Napier, but Jim thought discretion the better part of valor, and quietly walked off.

We congratulate the Sentinel on its first birthday. One year ago it was a weak, puny child, in swaddling clothes, while today it stands forth in its strength, an honor to our city, and well worthy of the pride of its founders. Success to you, Will, may your exchequer always be as full of golden ducats as your paper is of valuable news.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Coles Wahoe Bitters are not a beverage, they are the best regulator of liver and kidney and stomach, and are the strongest tonic bitters made.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

If you want to keep off ague and keep your system in a good healthy condition, use Coles Wahoo Bitters prepared and sold at Coles Drug Store.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

Coles Ague Cure is the best. It never fails. Reference: Hundreds of people who have used it in Cowley County. Prepared and sold at Coles Drug Store, Winfield.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

SCOTCH COLLEYS. I have a litter of thoroughbred Scotch Colley shepherds, from imported stock, that will be sold at $10 each. C. M. Scott, Arkansas City, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 4, 1885.

LOST. On the 30^th of May, between Winfield and Burden, one poc