[EDITORIAL COLUMN.]
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
The Supreme Court of this State has recently rendered a decision in the case of E. S. Bedilion vs. the Board of County Commissioners of this county. The case went upon an agreed statement of facts. The only object was to obtain a construction of the section, providing for the payment of costs, by the county, in criminal cases. This being a case involving only $5.60 and of no "political significance" was disposed of in a breath by saying the county was liable for the fees of the "Clerk of the District Court." Does the Supreme Court intend to say that the county is liable for the fees of the Clerk only? Will the balance of the 1,900 fellows throughout the State have to employ lawyers to take their case to the Supreme Court before they can get their little two dollars? Had the Supreme Court just added after the words, "the county is liable for the fees of the Clerk of the District Court" and the other persons named in section 19, laws of 1881, so that us wayfaring fellows could under- stand just what it meant, the decision, not to say court, would be entitled to some respect.
["JUDEA" - PAPER READ BY MRS. H. E. SILLIMAN.]
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
[Put in first paragraph only. Paper very lengthy. MAW]
The name Juden, which, though in latter periods has been applied to the whole of Palestine, belonged, strictly speaking, to the southeastern part of it. Since the time of Christ the Land of Palestine has been called the Land of Israel, Judah, Judea, and the Holy Land.
[TRIAL DOCKET: DISTRICT COURT.]
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
The following is a list of cases that will stand for trial at the April term of the District Court, commencing on the 25th day of April, A. D. 1882.
1. State vs. Lewis Albright.
2. State vs. J. W. McRorry.
3. State vs. George Ousterhout.
4. State vs. H. L. Wells.
5. State vs. John Headrick.
6. State vs. John Fleming.
7. State vs. John Fleming.
8. State vs. David V. Cole.
9. State vs. Thomas H. Bassywater.
10. State vs. Charles G. Thompson.
11. State vs. W. A. Irwin.
12. State vs. Charles F. Foults.
13. State vs. Charles G. Holland.
14. State vs. Frank Manny.
15. State vs. Henry H. Causey.
16. State vs. James T. Shepard.
Mercer M. Funk vs. Cynthia Clark et al.
M. E. Bolton vs. Caroline Arnold.
M. L. Read vs. John J. Breene, et al.
Oscar F. Weeks vs. A T & S F R R Co.
Hackney & McDonald vs. Bolton and Cresswell townships.
S. S. Brettun vs. Jacob G. Titus et al.
A. H. Green vs. E. F. Widner et al.
Daniel Sheel vs. G. E. Brad et al.
C. C. Stevens vs. City of Winfield.
Harrison Harrod vs. Moses Harrod et al.
Chicago Lumber Co. vs. Bolton and Creswell townships.
Mary K. Hoyt vs. Charles G. Hoyt et al.
N. S. Burnham vs. M. O. Burnham.
John J. Clark vs. S. J. Rice et al.
S. E. Yoeman vs. C. Coleman.
Eliza Reihl vs. Joseph Likowski.
Elija Wells vs. Nancy J. Wells.
W. H. Treadway et al vs. W. C. McCormick.
Lillie S. Cooper vs. J. F. Cooper.
James C. Fuller vs. James Hardin, County Treasurer.
Mary A. Millington vs. James Hardin, County Treasurer.
Homer G. Fuller vs. James Hardin, County Treasurer.
Sarah E. Parker vs. James Hardin, County Treasurer.
Ben H. Clover vs. Robt. F. Burden et al.
First National Bank vs. L. C. Harter et al.
James Jordon vs. B. H. Clover et al.
M. L. Read vs. Wm. S. Page et al.
E. B. S. Vanostran vs. Com'r's of Pawnee County.
Ellen Scanlaw vs. Com'r's of Pawnee County.
N. B. Freeland vs. Com'r's of Pawnee County.
A. W. Miller vs. Com'r's of Pawnee County.
J. F. Troxel vs. Com'r's of Pawnee County.
W. P. Carpenter vs. C. C. Pierce et al.
Hiram Veozy vs. Wm. Frederick et al.
Hibbard A. Tucker vs. A. H. Green.
Frederick A. Foster vs. Wm. W. Whiteside et al.
M. L. Robinson vs. George Easterly et al.
John S. Johnson vs. J. M. Boyles.
Assignment of Ellen F. Stump.
Julia R. Stevens vs. Wm. H. Dinwiddie.
S. D. Skinner vs. O. C. Skinner, 2nd.
Lycurgus Scott vs. Margaret Wear.
Geo. W. Chaplin vs. John Garrabee et al.
A. Furst & Co. vs. F. T. Sanford et al.
A. J. Pyburn vs. N. W. Fitzgerald.
Missouri A. Mann vs. Adam Mann.
J. A. Cooper & Co. vs. E. J. Cooper.
J. R. Cottingham vs. James Burns.
W. H. Riggs et al vs. H. M. Stransburry et al.
D. B. Meridith vs. J. E. Dickinson et al.
Assignment of Daniel Reed.
Jacob Binkley et al vs. R. Hanlan. [3 times]
Jacob Binkley et al vs. W. Metzger.
Houghton & Speers vs. Jas. Hardin, County Treasurer.
H. Jochems vs. R. Tegart.
A. W. Goodell vs. W. Gibson et al.
Charles Hutchins vs. F. T. Sanford et al.
Thompson Wise & Co. vs. Wm. Whitney.
Ezra Bartlett vs. A. B. Steinberger.
B. A. Waldron vs. W. Warren et al.
Malvina Stocking vs. Horace Stocking.
W. C. Robinson vs. Andrew J. Cress.
John S. Parr vs. Wm. W. Ward et al.
R. P. Jennings vs. Martha J. Miller et al.
F. V. Ray vs. M. C. Ray.
W. J. H. Pallard vs. S. C. Cunningham et al.
James Jordan vs. W. D. Clark et al.
E. R. Thompson vs. Jas. T. Shepard.
A. D. Wear vs. C. E. Victory et al.
Phoney Kirk vs. Andrew Kirk.
Joel Jackson vs. R. A. Robinson et al.
C. G. Oliver vs. Malinda Clay et al.
L. C. Harter vs. H. A. Pratt et al.
W. M. Haskett vs. J. S. Hawkins.
M. L. Read vs. Flora E. Covert et al.
M. L. Robinson vs. C. C. Pierce et al.
James Biggs vs. Sarah J. Biggs.
Mary A. Loomis vs. E. P. Greer et al.
Amanda J. Hanson vs. John C. Hanson.
Mathew Chambers vs. Peter Myers.
E. Downie & Co. vs. John A. Earnest.
Joseph E. Lowes vs. Anthony Hanna et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. Chas. F. Snow et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. Mary E. Shriver et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. Wm. W. Craile et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. Geo. M. Bowen et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. James E. Bunce et al.
Wm. C. Hastings vs. A. H. Sylvester et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. A. A. Shock et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. D. M. Harper et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. Peter L. Loy et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. John C. Stratton et al.
Wm. H. Hastings vs. John W. Nolte et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. B. F. Strickland et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. Wm. Hemphill et al.
Geo. W. Moore vs. Henry T. Jackson et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. Isaac Brown et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. Geo. W. Mercer et al.
Travelers Insurance Co. vs. A. B. Henthorn et al.
Winfield Bank vs. Phillip Stump et al.
Lillie L. Cooper vs. John F. Cooper.
Nelson Gunsaulis vs. Harriet Gunsaulis.
Chas. A. Hill vs. John France et al.
Moline Plow Co. vs. S. J. Sherrod.
Matilda Ennis vs. Alexander Ennis.
E. M. Gordon vs. Andrew Gordon.
A. A. Wiley vs. Harriet A. Doty et al.
Isaac White vs. James S. Gilkey.
Mary Lowes vs. Wm. Gould et al.
N. H. Banking Co. vs. E. T. Haycraft et al.
Hartford Insurance Co. vs. David Shock et al.
Nashua Savings Bank vs. A. H. Caywood et al.
F. R. Foster vs. Joseph E. Curd et al.
R. R. Conklin vs. Geo W. Wilson et al.
Jarvis, Conklin & Co. vs. Geo. R. Waters et al.
Hartford Insurance Co. vs. Mary Murray.
N. H. Banking Co. vs. Jno. M. Sargent et al.
S. M. Jarvis vs. Silas A. Berry et al.
Nashua Savings Bank vs. Robert N. Craine.
A. D. Wear vs. Hozea T. Kizer et al.
A. D. Wear vs. Henry C. Gray.
Annie S. Hamilton vs. J. W. Hamilton.
E. N. Darling vs. H. O. Meigs et al.
Edwin S. Mount vs. Henry Mount et al.
Lydia A. Thorpe vs. Newton I. Thorpe.
S. E. Schemerhorn vs. S. T. Endicott et al.
Joseph Merick vs. A. C. Williams et al.
W. C. Scranton vs. C. G. Handy et al.
Chas. C. Black et al vs. Jno. R. Smith et al.
R. C. Haywood vs. C. M. Scott.
Chas. C. Black vs. Wm. H. Richardson et al.
Geo. P. Wagoner vs. Frank W. Finch.
NOTE: THEY NUMBERED CIVIL DOCKET CASES...137 IN ALL.
NOTE: SAME ISSUE OF COURANT [APRIL 20, 1882] ALSO HAD A BREAK DOWN ON THE COMMISSIONER'S PROCEEDINGS...DID NOT COPY...VERY SMALL PRINT!
HOWEVER, THEY HAD SOME INTERESTING SUB-HEADINGS!
1. STATE OF KANSAS VS. W. C. BAIRD.
2. IN THE MATTER OF INSANITY OF THOS. J. SHEDDAN.
3. STATE OF KANSAS VS. CHAS. McLAIN.
4. LIBBY & MOODY VS. JAMES HARDEN.
5. STATE OF KANSAS VS. GEO. RICE.
6. STATE OF KANSAS VS. SHEEL.
7. STATE OF KANSAS VS. THEO. MILLER, FEE BILL.
8. STATE OF KANSAS VS. EDMUND LEWELLEN.
EACH CASE SHOWED MONEY PAID FOR JUSTICES, SHERIFF, JURORS, WITNESSES, ETC.
[PERSONALS.]
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Xen Fitzgerald has been up from Red Rock, Indian Territory.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
The report comes that Augusta has twenty-five cases of small pox.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
J. S. Lytle, a citizen of Standford, Kentucky, has been looking over our town.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
There was a very pleasant select party at the residence of Mr. Frezize, Monday evening.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
D. P. Blood, of Douglass, and L. M. Blood and wife of Augusta, are stopping in the city.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
J. A. Phillips and A. T. Bush, of St. Louis, have been taking orders for their respective houses today.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
E. F. Osborn, of New York, is stopping at the Brettun and looking at Winfield with a view of locating.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Fred C. Blackmon, the new operator at the Santa Fe depot, arrived today and has been duly installed.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
DIED. W. T. Ekel, well known to many of our citizens, dropped dead in the street at Portland, Oregon, on Sunday last.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Mr. Thos. Worthington, deputy sheriff of Wyandotte County, is in the city, a guest of his kinsman, Judge Tom Howard.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Dr. Davis has moved his office into the room upstairs, just south of the telephone central office, in Myton's new building.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Warner Johnson, of Seeley, this county, received this week from Sell's Sons, large stock dealers in Canada, a thoroughbred Berkshire pig.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
W. G. Vermilye, of Chicago, came down on the Santa Fe train this forenoon, and will visit sometime with his cousins, the Vermilye brothers, of this county.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Judge McDonald has returned home from Wellington, where he lay very sick several days last week. We are glad to see that he is able to be up and around again.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
The building occupied by the English Kitchen Restaurant has been purchased by S. H. Jennings, brother of our County Attorney, from D. W. Rogers, for the sum of $2,200.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Our friend, Maxfield, of Seeley, is again in trouble. This time he is charged with choking his daughter, a young lady. There is evidently too much Saint John cider up there.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
J. P. Baden has had a telephone instrument put up at his headquarters. J. P. can now be at both of his stores at all times. Who wouldn't have a telephone and with the telephones stand.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Mr. E. House, district agent for the Burlington Insurance Co., is in the city, making his headquarters at the Brettun. Mr. House represents a good company and has a good list of risks, in this section. He visits Winfield every thirty days.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
It looks very much as though Allison was going to make his mark and redeem Sumner County. He has cleaned out the County Attorney, fixed out old De Banard, and is now after the Mayor, the Marshal, and the prostitutes of Wellington.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Mrs. Bovee, the lady who broke her leg by stepping off the sidewalk on election day, was taken to Johnny Swain's house instead of to her home in the country, as we stated. She has had the best of care and we understand is getting along nicely.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
MARRIED. At the residence of Dr. Green, in Winfield, April 17th, 1882, by Rev. J. Cairns, Mr. David Gamman and Miss Annie C. Maxfield, both of Seeley, Cowley County.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
We have at last succeeded in procuring an additional fifty foot store, fronting on Ninth Avenue and connecting with our Main store by an archway, which gives us a 150 foot store room, the largest in Southern Kansas. We will keep our new room especially for carpets, matting, window shades, curtain fixtures, and fringes. If the ladies will favor us with a call, we will show them as pretty a line of the above goods as they would find in any western city.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
CATTLE FOR SALE. We have one hundred three-year-old steers, and sixty two-year- old steers, nearly all of them domestics, all first-class and in good condition to take the grass, which we want to sell during the next thirty days. They are located three miles from Sedan, Chautauqua County, and can be bought in lots to suit the purchaser. For further particulars, call on us or address. P. H. Albright, at Winfield, or H. H. Albright, Sedan.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
The Kansas Queen, or Cowley County calf, was shipped over the Santa Fe today by her owner, Mr. Mullen. She will be taken off the train at Wichita for the purpose of exhibiting her and resting her up. She weighed on the Santa Fe scales this morning, we are informed by Mr. Kennedy, the railroad agent, 3,660 pounds.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
J. S. Jennings, of Wichita, and his brother, Milton Jennings and wife, of Marion, Indiana, came down to Winfield yesterday, and no doubt will become citizens of our town. Milton is President of the Indianapolis & Fort Wayne Railroad company. They are both well pleased with our town.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
It is now seasonable and fashionable to have Geuda Springs water brought over for family use. If Bob Mitchell would get the Governor to permit him to "salt" this water just enough to keep it from spoiling, he could work up a good wholesale trade in Winfield.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
A couple of ladies were examining the pictures in McInturf's show case the other day when a wag, whose name we will not divulge, pointed out to them O. M. Seward's photo as that of Jesse James, when they both exclaimed, "Oh, my, he looks just like a robber!"
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Winfield men always come out on top no matter whence they wander. From the Durango, Colorado, Herald, we learn that our old fellow townsman, O. F. Boyle (we always called him Tony), has been elected trustee of that city, leading out with the largest vote on the ticket.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
New advertisements will be found in the today's paper for the Champion Furniture House of A. B. Arment, the new grocery house of George T. Wilson, and Mrs. Fannie Buck's piano and organ store. Read them, and then call and see the advertisers.
ADS:
I have opened a Grocery first door north of Lynn's, where I will sell goods as cheap at the cheapest, for cash only. A stock of Dry Goods at cost. Call and see them before they are all sold. Good delivered to any part of THE CITY FREE OF CHARGE.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
6 POUNDS Levering's coffee for $1, coal oil, 20 cents; canned corn, 10 cents; beans, 10 cents, pears, 10 cents, jelly, 10 cents a glass, brooms, 20 and 25 cents; calico, 6 and 7; peaches, 15, 25, and 30 cents per can; shirting, 11; tubs, 65; oysters, 12-1/2 and 25; soap 5 cents per bar; and the best 10 cent counter ever in town.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
A full line in everything usually found in Furniture Establishments. A living profit is all I ask for doing business. A car load lot just received. A. B. ARMENT.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
I would announce to the public of Winfield and vicinity that I have secured the sole agency for the celebrated Hallet, Davis & Co., W. W. Kimball's, W. P. Emerson's Pianos, and the B. Shoninger and W. W. Kimball Organs, and would be pleased to show my goods to those wishing to purchase. Please call at my rooms at the New Bakery, at Mrs. Stump's old millinery stand, where you will find on exhibition a fine selection of the above fine toned and most popular instruments. All instruments fully warranted and prices exceedingly low. Instruments sold for cash, or time payments. MRS. FANNIE BUCK.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Now hide your cans of concentrated lye. On Monday a two-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith used the contents of a can as a beverage with very unsatisfactory results. It will recover.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
J. R. Truslo, of Newton, engineer on the Santa Fe road, and wife, visited with Mr. C. D. Austin and family last Sunday. Mr. Truslo pronounces the small pox scare at Newton is a hoax.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Our new carpets are on the first floor, and the best light room in the city. Entrance on Main street or Ninth avenue. M. HAHN & CO.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Our own Judge Bard was a passenger on the train, when at Gads hill it was robbed by the James gang, and contributed his share. The Judge graphically tells the story, and says that there is no assessment that a man will pay so promptly and cheerfully as the one in which he is persuaded with a whole arsenal of guns in the hands of men in whom he has the utmost confidencethat they will shoot.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
N. R. Wilson made us glad Saturday with a bunch of nice large, tender pie-plant, picked with his own sweet hands. Just at this particular season of the year when there isn't much green stuff to take internally, such presents as this are highly appreciated. They save one the trouble of buying the herb in a powdered form.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Judge Soward has opened his office as Justice of the Peace in his old office over the Postoffice and is now ready for business. Those who want to law, should give him a call.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
From the Wellington Press we take the following proceeding of the Presbytery of Emporia, in session at Wellington.
"The presbytery of Emporia convened in the Presbyterian church of this city on last Tuesday evening. A sermon was delivered by E. P. Foster, which was followed with prayer by J. H. Ralston. A. M. Anderson, D. D., of El Dorado, was elected moderator. The presbytery then adjourned to meet Wednesday morning. Devotional exercises were held from half past eight until nine o'clock. J. H. Ralston, of Burlington, was elected stated clerk, and J. D. Hewitt, of Wichita, temporary clerk. The call from the Wellington Presbyterian church to John M. McClung was allowed to be presented to him and he was allowed to hold the call until the fall meeting of the presbytery before answering.
"Two new churches were ordered placed under the charge of the presbyteryStar Valley, near Winfield, and Mayfield, near Wellington. W. V. McCoun, of Arkansas City, a candidate for gospel ministry, was received in charge from the Crawfordsville (Indiana) presbytery. Wednesday evening, Rev. Wilson, of Pawnee Agency, a licentiate, and being examined for admission to the ministry, preached his trial sermon from Luke, first chapter, and fourteenth verse. About thirty-five ministers and twenty elders are in attendance. Up to the time of going to press, we have been unable to obtain a fuller report than is given above, but a full report will be given next week."
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Monday Charles and Robert Ford were arraigned in the circuit court upon an indictment charging them with the murder of Jesse James. The courtroom was thronged to suffocation. As Judge Sherman finished reading the bill and asked of Robert Ford, guilty or not guilty, he exclaimed as if he had been waiting for the judge to finish the reading of the indictment: "Guilty," and then turned to H. H. Craig, police commissioner of Kansas City, with a cold, scornful smile, with which he then turned upon the crowd. Charles Ford also plead guilty in the most unconcerned manner.
Judge Sherman then briefly passed sentence upon them, omitting all formality: "You, each of you, shall on May 19, 1882, be taken to some convenient place and be hanged by the neck until you be dead." The boys smiled as the judge finished the sentence without further formalities. They were then taken back to jail. Their pardon was granted by Gov. Crittenden yesterday, and was expected to arrive last night. The Ford boys were arraigned, plead guilty, were sentenced to be hung, and pardoned all in one day. And Jesse James is dead yet.
NOTE: HE DOES NOT GIVE ANY CREDIT TO A NEWSPAPER FOR ABOVE.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
When we read such items as the following from the Howard Journal, we are almost glad we don't live there anymore.
"We expected to have had in this issue a notice of the marriage of M. H. Hahn, but it seems that it is not to be. Mr. Hahn was engaged to one of our young ladies, and came down from Emporia to make final arrangements for the wedding. In accordance with this plan, the time for the ceremony was set for ten o'clock yesterday morning, and the young lady, by hard work and the assistance of a few friends, got her trousseau in readiness; but on Wednesday, Mr. Hahn and a former sweetheart took the train north, leaving the young lady to whom he was to have been married in entire ignorance of his intended desertion. Whether he and the girl who went with him will get married on their arrival at Emporia is more than we know; but we do know that the desertion of his affianced bride is shameful, and he should be punished."
The Hahn referred to in this notice was once a resident of Cowley County, and lived somewhere on the sloping banks of Timber creek.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Rev. Mr. Cairns, of Winfield, preached in the Baptist church last Sunday evening. He is an old pioneer of this country and gave some of his experience of his early days in Kansas. Among other things, he gave a history of his trip he made to Wellington eight or ten years ago to organize a Baptist society in what was then the village of Wellington. After a day's hard work, he succeeded in finding eight or ten members and they organized the Baptist church of the city of Wellington. He seemed much surprised on finding what was then a village was dedicating a church before his own town. His church in Winfield will be dedicated in about four weeks. Press.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
We presume Bill Allison is the happiest man in Sumner County. The libel suit brought against him by Wilsie, the County Attorney, for Allison having charged him with taking money from the several saloon keepers in Sumner County, in monthly installments, as a bribe to not prosecute them, has been decided in Allison's favor, and Wilsie is stuck with the costs. If things are as they seem, Wilsie ought to be at once prosecuted for bribery and punished to the fullest extent of the law. It is said that Allison made a good case against Wilsie, fully establishing his charges. We surely congratulate Allison upon his acquittal.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Ezra Nixon is in from his New Mexico wanderings looking none the worse for his prolonged stay. Ezra is just simply "stuck" on the new town of Robinson and as soon as he can succeed in making a collection of shekels of sufficient value to carry an able-bodied man out there, he is going back. We have a sort of lurking idea in our head that Ezra walked most of the way back, he was so long getting here.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
We suggest that Steinberger and Ed. Greer stop this endless war of words between the Courant and Courier, and go off into some solitary place (taking a good supply of provi-sions) and fight it out, if it takes all summer. We would name for referees, John Allen, for Abe, andwell, Ed. might send up to Newton and get Lemmon. Burden Enterprise.
That's a lie. Frank James was born in Kentucky in 1811; Jesse in Clay County, Missouri, in 1815. Their father was the Rev. Robert James, a prominent and eloquent Baptist minister, a pleasant and courteous gentleman, possessed of more education than was common with the ministers of his church in the frontier days of 1843 in this state, when the James family moved from Kentucky to Clay County. He was one of the first Trustees of the William Jewell College, located at Liberty, and though a resident of that vicinity only from 1843 to 1849, he has left a kindly remembrance of himself among the old settlers. In the latter-named year, he went to California, and there died in 1851. The James boys' mother is still alive and vigorous, and resides on a well-cultivated farm four miles east of Kearney, a station on the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad. She was a Miss Zerelda Cole, of Scott County, Kentucky, and, though she has attained the advanced age of 58, she wears the traces of what in her young womanhood must have made her the famed beauty in all the country round about.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Typo sends us the following items from Geuda Springs, which will no doubt be of interest to most of our readers.
"The springs have taken a new boom within the past ten days, houses are springing up in every direction. Two new, two-story, boarding houses, and a number of residences have been commenced this week. The Chicago Lumber Co. have opened a yard here, and have built a neat office. Messrs. Hubbell and Riley of Caldwell have just identified themselves with the new town. Mr. Riley bought the Ward place (ten acres) between the old and new town, on Tuesday, for $1,000. They let the contract for a business house opposite the springs, and have obligated themselves to build a two-story stone or brick house this summer. We have now five boarding houses, all two-story but one, but the need of a larger hotel is felt more and more every day. Why is it that some man with money does not see this chance for a splendid investment? Some two or three hundred visitors were at the springs Sunday, and the number will increase every week from this time. We have now three groceries, two dry- goods, and two drug houses, and nearly fifty dwellings built and contracted for. Dr. Perry is just finishing the last of his ten cottages, he will furnish them all. Mr. McCarty of Wellington is building a small hotel, and quite a number of strangers are here looking out for a chance to invest."
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Pursuant to call, a number of gentlemen interested in the organization of a Cowley County Agricultural Society met at the Courthouse Saturday, April 15th, 1882, and was called to order by T. A. Blanchard. Thereupon, J. W. Millspaugh, of Vernon township, was elected Chairman and T. A. Blanchard, Secretary. F. H. Graham stated that the object of the meeting was to organize for the purpose of holding a county fair this fall. On motion of J. B. Jennings, the meeting unanimously resolved to hold a fair, and a committee of six gentlemen, consisting of J. C. Roberts, W. P. Hackney, W. J. Hodges, J. W. Millspaugh, J. H. Horning, and W. A. Tipton, was appointed to draft articles of incorporation and report at the next meeting. The meeting then adjourned to meet on Saturday, April 22nd, 1882, at 2 o'clock, at which time all feeling an interest in the fair are requested to attend. All Cowley County papers requested to copy.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Ad. Powers is the latest victim of a turn-over. We don't mean that he has turned over a new leaf, but that as he was returning home the other day, from having taken his girl home, he swung around the corner on South Main street, the buggy flopped over, and Ad. stretched out on the ground very much resembling an elephant taking a nap. There was no damage done, expect breaking the buggy considerably, and severing half a dozen or so of Ad.'s ribs.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Taking a stroll out in the southeast part of the city, which by the way is fast becoming one of the most pleasant residence portions of our city, we noticed improvements going on by almost every one, especially those of Mr. Beeney, he having enclosed his pretty residence by a handsome picket fence, which adds materially to its appearance.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
D. E. Guerney, the popular stockman, has been back here to see about his cattle on Grouse Creek, and stopped in town over Sunday. Mrs. Guerney is now in Boston and we expect D. E. will soon follow.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. Council met in regular session, Mayor M. G. Troup presiding. Present, Councilmen Read, Gary, Mater, and Hodges, City Attorney Seward, and Clerk Beach.
The minutes of the regular meeting of April 3rd, and of the meeting of April 7th, to canvass the votes cast at the general election held April 8th, were read and approved.
Col. J. C. McMullen and Mr. R. S. Wilson, Councilmen elect, being present, were then inducted into office; Messrs. Hodges and Mater, vacating their offices.
Petition of J. W. Curns and ten others, for sidewalk and street crossings, to begin at the southeast corner of lot No. 6, in block No. 87, and running thence south on the west side of Manning street to the southeast corner of lot No. 18, in block No. 89, in the city of Winfield, was read and on motion the prayer of the petitioners was granted, and the Attorney was instructed to prepare an ordinance in accordance therewith.
Petition of E. P. Hickok and ninety-seven others, asking that the Council cause to be removed the powder house in the south part of Winfield, between Main and Millington streets, was read, and on motion of Mr. McMullen was granted, and the Attorney was instructed to prepare an ordinance providing for its removal to as great a distance from the city as the general safety demands, and the laws of the state will permit.
Ordinance No. 156 being an ordinance providing for the construction of certain sidewalks therein named, was read and on motion of Mr. Read, was taken up for consideration by sections. Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 were adopted. On the motion to adopt as a whole on its final passage, the vote stood as follows: Those voting aye, were Messrs. Read, Gary, McMullen, and Wilson; nays, none, and the ordinance was declared adopted.
The finance committee reported on the reports of Treasurer, for the months ending January 15th, February 15th, and March 15th, 1882, that they had examined the same and found them correct. Report adopted.
The special committee, appointed to confer with the County Commissioners relative to the construction of a tank and wind mill on the courthouse grounds, reported adversely to the city having any connection with the matter. On motion, the report was adopted and the committee was discharged.
Bill of clerks and judges of election, 1st and 2nd ward, $20.000, was allowed and ordered paid.
Bill of W. L. Hands, for use of team, for burial of pauper, $3.00, was approved and recommended to the County Commissioners for payment.
Report of Police Judge for March was read and referred to committee on finance.
On motion of Mr. Gary, the City Attorney was instructed to prepare an ordinance prohibiting the lariating of stock, so that they may obstruct any street or alley, by crossing the same; prohibiting the stacking of hay within the city limits, and prohibiting the use of barbed wire for fencing, within the city limits, unless the same shall be protected by a board above it.
The City Attorney was, on motion of Mr. Read, instructed to amend the ordinance relating to fire limits, so as to bring it within the provisions of the statute concerning the same.
On motion of Mr. McMullen, Mr. Read was elected President of the Council for the ensuing year.
The Mayor then made the following appointments of standing committees for the ensuing year.
Finance: Gary, McMullen, and Wilson.
Streets and Alleys: Read, Gary, and Wilson.
Public Health: McMullen, Read, and Gary.
Fire Department: Wilson, Gary, and McMullen.
The Mayor appointed David C. Beach, City Clerk, for the coming year.
On motion of Mr. Gary, the appointment was confirmed by the Council.
The appointment of City Engineer was laid over for one meeting.
The Mayor then appointed James Bethel to the office of City Marshal.
Mr. Read moved that the appointment be confirmed; no second. On motion Council adjourned. M. G. TROUP, Mayor.
Attest: DAVID C. BEACH, City Clerk.
[CHIMES FROM BETHEL.]
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
James Long has leased the Frank Williams stone quarry.
Betty and the baby have taken up their abode at Uncle Robert Weekley's.
Mr. and Mrs. Noah Wilson, of Mount Carmel, visited friends at Bethel last Sunday.
George Arnold has partly succeeded in getting the odor of wild onions from his person.
The frost of last Friday night did considerable damage, particularly to corn and other tender sprouts.
Ed. Howard lost his false mustache last Sunday evening. The finder will be rewarded by leaving the same at his residence.
Tom Wilson, while lariating his cow one day last week, got tangled up, and after cussing around awhile, offered to give his place away to the first man that came along.
Rudolph Howard, of Winfield, was sailing around among the young ladies last Saturday, with a spanking fine team and buggy. Mr. Howard is a favorite among the ladies.
Jack Paugh, of Arkansas City, an old time boy of Bethel, is here visiting friends, and believe me, he has got a brand new suit of clothes. Me thinks I hear the wedding bells.
You made a big mistake last week. See here, Grandpap Binkey, who was taken to Illinois, is recovering. How does it read now since it's cold? It should have been ill, not well.
Mr. Hassell is quite an old gentleman but lacks none of the get up and get on that account. He has planted seventy acres of corn, set out quite an orchard, and made other improvements on his farm too numerous to mention.
Thomas Youle, Justice of the Peace of Walnut township, the lengthiest man in the country, is the father of four boys straight, the largest real estate holder in the neighborhood, and has the largest field of corn and the straightest rows to be seen in this part.
R. W. White, of Bethel, who taught a six months term of school in Fairview district, No. 21, closed his school last Saturday. Mr. White is one among the ablest teachers in the county, all because he lives at Bethel.
Marion Culvert, of Howard County, Indiana, who bought the H. L. Barker place, at Mount Carmel, is expected here with his family about the 1st of May. He has sent on six or seven hundred head of sheep. Mr. Culvert bought this place about Christmas, paying $1,750, and has lately refused $2,500 for it. That shows how money is made in Kansas.
Two or three timber sows are camping near the bridge on Dutch creek. This is a shame. Can't the officers prevent this nuisance? It's an insult to all decency. This is the great thoroughfare which a large amount of trade comes to your town, and if our mothers and sisters are to be insulted everytime they go to town, it's better that other arrangements be made.
[Second the motion. Fire them out. Pr.]
[FROM "CLODHOPPER" - OMNIA GLEANINGS.]
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Sheep are picking their living the past ten days, and stock cattle are doing very well.
Corn planting is far advanced. Some have finished and most of the remainder will do so within the week.
Wheat never looked better at this date, anywhere, but the acreage in this vicinity is small as compared with other years.
The fruit prospects are so far, all that the most exacting could ask. Peach, cherry, and apple trees being full of the miniature fruit and strawberries in full bloom.
School districts number 121 and 126 are in the market for teachers for a spring and summer term. Any idle teacher would do well to correspond with their clerks at Baltimore.
Still another change is called for in the laws regulating the management of our state school fund. In this section proceedings to foreclose mortgages on several farms have been instituted, said mortgages being given to secure the payment of money borrowed at twelve percent, per annum. At the same time hundreds of thousands of dollars of the common school fund are invested in Government bonds drawing three and a half and four percent. This money should be loaned to the people at four or five percent, and secured by mortgages based on the assessment of real estate, and save the hard-pushed, poor settler from the greedy extortions of the heartless loan agents. Certainly laws can be so framed as to make the fund safe and at the same time benefit a deserving and needy class of our population.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
George Phelps, who was a butcher in Douglass, stole a horse from a Mr. Smith, rode him to Winfield, sold him, and took the train for Colorado. Constable Siverd recovered the horse for Smith, and Walter Denning is out fifteen dollars.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
The lack of funds to run the public schools does not stop the schools by any means. Four teachers are at work in the East Ward, and have all the scholars they can manage, the parents paying $1.25 and $1.50 per month each pupil. In the West Ward Miss Klingman is the only one holding school at present, but next Monday Miss Alice Dunham, a young lady who has been very successful as a teacher in Nebraska, will open another subscription school for mixed grades. This will furnish schooling for forty or fifty more of our "young Americans." Those who entrust their children's schooling to Miss Dunham will secure most satisfactory results, as she is an accomplished teacher and used to conducting mixed schools. She will occupy one of the rooms in the West Ward school house, and will charge $1.00 per month for each pupil.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
On our way to dinner yesterday we stepped into the new Baptist church and took a glance at it. We found it nearly completed and waiting for the seats and carpets, which we were informed, are now on the way from Chicago. The masons, carpenters, and painters have completed their work, and the Baptist people have a house by far superior to anything of the kind in Southern Kansas. The building is sixty-three by eighty-four feet between extremes, is built of our native stone, with a handsome stone tower on the southwest corner. It contains a main audience room forty by sixty feet in the clear, a lecture room, twenty-six by thirty-six, two vestibules at the main entrance fourteen by fourteen feet each, and three small rooms in the rear of the pulpit for dressing and classrooms. The ceiling of the main room is of wood, and handsomely painted. The main room is separated by three large doors filling the entire space, and which are hung by weights; and when lowered, it throws the two into one main audience room, which will be seated with the latest improved opera chairs and will contain three hundred and fifty-five chairs, arranged in semi-circular form, and there will be eighty seats around the walls, for use in case of a crowd. The choir platform will be furnished with a magnificent Estey organ, now on the way from Brattleboro, Vermont, and one dozen handsome chairs now in place. The lecture room will contain the seats now in use, having a seating capacity of one hundred and forty-four with forty-two extra chairs now in the building and five chairs on the platform. This makes a total seating capacity in all of six hundred and thirty-eight.
The platform is on the side of the main room and in the rear of the pulpit and under the platform is the baptistery, communicating with the dressing rooms by doors at each side of the platform.
The pulpit, which was presented to the church by Mr. Ulysses D. Eddy, of New York City, is unique and handsome, and can hardly be described. It must be seen to be appreciated. It cost $75, at the manufactory.
Services are being held in the building regularly now and tomorrow the Sunday school will be held as usual at 9:30 a.m. This school has now an attendance of over two hundred, and when the new seats are in, will have accommodations superior to any other.
The pastor will preach at 11 a.m., and in the evening, and at the close of the evening services the ordinance of baptism will be administered for the first time in the new baptistery, there being six or seven candidates. The Baptists extend a hearty invitation to all to attend their Sunday school and any or all of their preaching services.
Cowley County Courant, April 20, 1882.
Many of our old settlers will remember John Irwin. He was one of the earliest settlers in Cowley County, and owned a claim nine miles up the Walnut bottom. The place is now owned, we believe, by Mr. Green. He left a $1,500 a year salary in Decatur, Illinois, to seek his fortune in the west. He had a contest with Mr. William Raglan, in which they both sunk about all they were worth. John was one of the finest specimens of manhood we have ever seen. He was six feet two in his socks, broad, square shoulders, blue eyes, with light curly hair slightly sprinkled with gray, and a smile that would melt the heart of an iceberg. He was one of the most genial and companionable of men; one of those who never forgot that he was a gentleman. Talking, or rather writing of Mr. Irwin, reminds us of a story.
Col. E. C. Manning and the writer having been on a county seat excursion, those being the days of county seat elections, made it a point to call by Mr. Irwin's place, arriving there about the middle of the afternoon, tired and hungry. Not finding the family at home and the gnawings of hunger making us more desperate at every fresh gnaw, we removed a window, the door being locked, and climbed through. We found plenty, and after eating to our satiety, we made our escape as we had entered. Carefully replacing the window, we lit out for Winfield, little dreaming that all that time we were closely watched by a posse of Mr. Irwin's neighbors, who, having seen us enter the house in that surreptitious and burglarious manner, armed themselves with shot guns, concealed themselves in the hog lot and awaited our egress, when upon recognizing us, made no demonstration, and we didn't know for long afterwards how near we came to being shot for tramps.
We have been reminded of John and this trifling reminiscence by seeing in the Decatur (Illinois) Herald that John Irwin has the best $1 shirts in that town. They are for sale, however. We hope that John will make a fortune out of them.
[PERSONALS.]
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
W. E. Tansey has turned over the books in his office to Judge Soward, his successor.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
James Jackson, one of the substantial men of Burden, called on us recently.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
BORN. Born, April 22nd, 1882, to Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Braine, of Pleasant Valley township, a son.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Mrs. Billy Impson has been quite sick since her return home, but is much better, we are pleased to say.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Thousands of head of cattle are now making their way to the western summer grazing lands of the state.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
R. M. John, of Pontiac, Illinois, is stopping in the city, and is looking around with a view of locating here.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
J. C. Jackson, the New York jewelryman, was in the city yesterday, taking orders for goods in his line.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
M. L. Robinson was elected a Director in the Cowley, Sumner, & Ft. Smith Railroad Company last Friday.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
A. J. Pyburn, a former resident of Winfield, but now of Lamar, Missouri, has been in town a couple of days.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Mr. J. L. Whitson made us a call today and increased our happiness to the extent of one year's subscription.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Dr. Davis is now number two on the telephone list, having had an instrument put up at his residence this morning.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
The time for the dedicating of the new Baptist Church in this city has been changed from the 14th to the 28th of May.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
O. O. Potter, James Deming, and J. J. Piffer, of Meadville, Pennsylvania, have been here looking over the country, with a view of locating.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Last week the Clyde pottery was struck by lightning. We are surprised that a jug manufactory received such visitations in these days of prohibition.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
J. F. McEwen called and pleased our shop today by depositing his yearly subscription in our till. He also sends the paper to Iowa friends.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Seventy-five dollars per month and expenses for good, reliable salesmen to sell our "Silent No. 8," in Cowley and Sumner Counties. D. F. BEST, Manager.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Wm. Dawson, Jr., of Winfield, came in last night. Will is looking hale and hearty, and the world has evidently treated him kindly since he last visited this city.
Independence Reporter.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
The familiar countenance of Charley Stevens is again visible on our streets. He has been out on the Atlantic and Pacific, in New Mexico, for some time, but says he will try Winfield for awhile again.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
E. H. Copple, one of Cowley County's most substantial farmers, made us a pleasant call this morning and left sufficient wealth to pay for two copies of the weekly for a year.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Augusta is now having a turn of small pox. A private letter from there says five railroad men have recently come down with the dreaded disease. This is getting pretty close to home.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Dr. Emerson performed an operation upon Jacob Kirch, who lives in the south part of town Wednesday, which seems almost incredible. Mr. Kirch has suffered some time with dropsy, and had bloated so that an operation was necessary. The Dr. took from him three wooden buckets full of water Wednesday, rendering him temporary relief. Before the operation Jacob was a very fleshy man apparently, but now he is like a skeleton.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Saturday while Miss May Hodges was playing with some other children at Mr. Conner's, who went to push the door shut and ran her hand through the glass, severely cutting both hand and arm. Dr. Wright dressed the wounds and Mis May is doing as nicely as could be expected after such an accident.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
We will give five dollars reward for the first loaf of bread baked from this year's wheat crop, by a Cowley County farmer's wife or daughter (the latter preferred), accompanied by a photograph of the baker, and brought to our office.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
One of the carriages which went to Geuda Springs Sunday met with the usual luck and was turned over. No damage done except the breaking of some mineral water bottles.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
The next meeting of the Cowley County Fair Association will be held on Saturday, May 6th, instead of the 13th, as announced in a previous issue.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
J. A. Shade and M. M. Herr, of Noblesville, Indiana, are here on a prospecting tour, and may conclude to locate in this vicinity.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Saturday was a fated day for Winfield. Between eleven and twelve o'clock, Mr. Snyder was accidently shot and killed. About five o'clock, a young man whose name we were unable to learn, let his team run away, and he was thrown from the buggy and seriously injured. Then just after dark a man named Wm. McLain, a brick mason of this city, while standing in a grocery store that does not advertise, suddenly fell to the floor, in an unconscious condition. Dr. Wells was called, and after administering stimulants, brought him to, and he was taken home. The Dr. pronounced the attack palpitation of the heart. Moral: People should not carry pistols, drive runaway horses, nor fool around stores that do not advertise.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
The Fair Association held their second meeting at the courthouse Saturday afternoon, and the meeting was called to order by the president, J. W. Millspaugh. The committee appointed on permanent organization made their report, which embraced a carefully prepared constitu- tion and by-laws, and the following officers were then elected: President. J. W. Tipton; Vice President, H. Harbaugh; Secretary, T. A. Blanchard; Treasurer, J. W. Millspaugh. The meet- ing adjourned to meet again, according to the minutes, "at two o'clock in two weeks," which means of course, Saturday, May 6th, 1882, at two o'clock P.M.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
There will be a special meeting of the Winfield Business and Protective association at the office of the Secretary this (Saturday) evening at 8:30. Business of importance will come before the meeting and every member is requested to attend.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Father Mullen still has his Kansas Queen at Wichita, and has been making money exhibiting her. He has been offered $2,500 for the Cowley County calf delivered in Kansas, any time within two weeks.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
J. G. Craft, an old Winfield boy, is down from Kansas City looking up old friends. J. G. is the same jolly good fellow he always was, and looks as if Missouri river water agreed with him.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Hon. C. R. Mitchell, of Cowley County, the owner of Geuda Springs, fast becoming famous for the wonderful curative properties of their waters, was in the city on Saturday. From the papers we see that extensive improvements are contemplated at the Springs. Close connection is now made, by a hack line from Arkansas City, with the railroad trains.
Wichita Eagle.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
We don't remember of having done a meaner thing than that of receiving a friendly call the other day from Amos Walton, of Arkansas City, and then never saying a word about it. Now Amos is entitled to a good notice, and were it not that we let it run by so long, we would give him a stunner.
Speaking of and seeing Amos brings back many remembrances of Cowley County's early history. `Twas he who organized the Farmers' party in 1872, left his office in town, went to the country farm, broke calves, plowed hedge, salted chickens, trimmed rhubarb trees, and done every kind of work which would identify him with the farming element and make him solid. All this availed him nothing except glory, and the next year he came to Winfield, opened a law office, and did a pretty good business. He afterward published the Plow and Anvil, and made a red hot paper of it. but finally concluded there was no honest way of making a living except that of farming, and drifted into that calling again, the last time as a matter of business. Amos says he is doing well, and we are truly glad to know it. There is one thing sure. While he was leader of the opposition party in Cowley County, he did a good job of it, if the Republicans did abuse him and have a good deal of fun at his expense.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
When Cowley County was on her knees to Sumner County, asking them to assist in the nomination of Hon. E. S. Torrance for Judge, the position he so fitly fills now, Sumner gave our people a sickly smile, said no, and did all in their power to nominate a distinguished renegade by the name of Judge Adams. Torrance is as pure a man as can be found in the district, while Adams was corrupt, and the Sumner County people knew it, but they scorned our appeals and stuck to their old fraud with the tenacity of blood hounds. That is past and gone now. Torrance succeeded despite the unfriendly opposition, and Sumner County comes smilingly, asking our support for a Secretary of State, a State Treasurer, and there is no telling how many other places they will wish to take in.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
We understand our Methodist brethren will make some much needed improvements about their church building this spring, in the way of replacing the old rotten plastering, which has been tumbling down for months, with a substantial ceiling, and such other repairs as are necessary to place their house of worship on an equality with the others of our city. This is a good move, and we are confident will be speedily attended to, as the members of this congregation are of that class, who, when they start out to do anything, mean to do it, without faltering.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
C. G. Constant and his son were arrested yesterday on complaint of Mr. Cronk, charged with taking, stealing, etc., of a certain fence, etc. This seems to be a neighborhood quarrel that has raged more or less for some time.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Judge Torrance was taken sick at Wellington last Monday afternoon, and compelled to return home Tuesday morning. He is better though, now, having breathed the wholesome Winfield air a few days.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
John O'Brien, Esq., the class slugologist of the world, has just completed a job for THE COURANT office, of about two hundred pounds of slugs, and about half that amount for the Courier. He now uses a slug-planer designed partially by himself, and completed by Mr. Geo. Wheeler, of the blacksmith firm of Wheeler & Cantrell. John can now, with his outfit, make up all the old metal about a printing office into slugs equal to any made by the foundries. Every printing office in the State, or out of it, should give John a job.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Geo. A. Schroeter extends a cordial invitation to all to call in and examine the new clock to be placed in the McDougal building. This is an opportunity that should not be lost. After it is up, many of the beauties cannot be seen from the street.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Again, we are called upon to chronicle another accident, resulting from the accidental discharge of a pistol, Frank Manny being the victim. It seems that Frank has been annoyed very much of late by depredating skunks which could not withstand the allurements of his chicken house. He, becoming tired of the nuisance, borrowed a pistol of a neighbor and prepared to make it interesting for the pests. Between three and four o'clock this morning, Frank heard unmistakable signs that induced him to make a raid. Seizing his pistol he made his way to the chicken house, and saw one of the animals slipping around and immediately gave chase, cocking his pistol as he ran. During the chase he stumbled on a pile of rock, which threw him violently to the ground with the pistol pressed close to his side, which exploded, the ball penetrating the flesh and muscles of the left side, striking the fifth rib, and coming out about eight inches from the entrance. Frank says that when he fell he heard the pistol go off and felt something warm and concluded he had something and had better get to the house. A perfect impression of the hammer can be seen on his side, showing the violence of his fall.
As we saw Frank laying there suffering, but kind and gentle, we were irresistibly impressed by the similarity of characters between Frank and Dicken's Mark Tapley, in Martin Chuzzlewit, the more trouble he had the more cheerful he became. We earnestly hope Frank's wound may not prove to be of a serious nature and that his jolly face may soon again be seen upon the streets.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. At a meeting of the ladies of the New Salem vicinity and the Sabbath School on Sunday, April 23rd, 1882, the following preamble and resolutions on the death of Mrs. Hannah Nichols were unanimously adopted: WHEREAS, God has seen fit in his all wise Providence to remove from our midst by death, our beloved sister, Mrs. Nichols, we, her sisters, mourn her loss not only in our social circle, but in our Sabbath School, where she has been one of our most earnest and zealous co-laborers, and by her death her husband has lost a loving wife, the family an indulgent and affectionate mother, the community a good neighbor and an earnest and zealous Christian woman, Resolved, That we, her sisters, benefit ourselves by her example that she set us while here on earth by her Godly walk and conversation. Resolved, That we, her sisters, give a mother's care and counsel as best we can to her daughters, Misses Ella and Clara, and that we tender our deepest sympathy to the afflicted husband and daughters in this sad hour of bereavement, and encourage them to look to God for strength to hold them up in this hour of trouble, and enable them to trust and say the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, blessed is the name of the Lord. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family and to the press.
MISS JULIA BOVEE, Secretary.
[CAMBRIDGE.]
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
A representative of THE COURANT made a trip to Cambridge last Friday. Cambridge is a snug little town of some twenty-six houses and about one hundred inhabitants. It is nicely located on the bank of Cedar creek, about a mile and a half east of the Grouse.
We found several old-time friends. F. Henrion, formerly of Dexter, carries a general stock worth about eight thousand dollars. Mr. Henrion is doing a good business and highly pleased with the situation.
McD. Stapleton keeps the other store. In addition to a very large dry goods and grocery stock, he has what might be called a mammoth stock of clothing, hats, caps, boots, and shoes.
There is also one drug store and blacksmith shop.
The post office is kept by Henry Hicks. Miss Jennie Hicks is in charge of the office at present, Mr. Hicks being absent in Texas.
A good flour and grist mill is located there, owned by Hewson & Craft. This is our old friend, Craft, erstwhile of Benderville, this county. This mill, under the immediate super vision of Mr. Hewson, is said to make as good flour as any mill in the state. This firm also showed us about ninety of as fine hogs as we have seen this year. They propose to turn off about one-half of them by the middle of June.
This little place is also blessed with a neat and commodious school house, used also for church services. It is built of stone and is 25 x 60 feet and two stories high. School is now in progress with H. T. Albert and Miss Maud Leedy as teachers. There are about forty scholars in attendance.
We must not forget to mention the livery stable of Graybill & Coll [? Coil ?]. They have first-class rigs at reasonable prices.
On the whole, Cambridge is a nice little town and the people seem to be reasonably happy.
[PERSONALS.]
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
E. F. Kendall, agent of the wool house of Hallowell & Coburn, Boston, called to see us today. Mr. Kendall's mission is, if possible, to infuse new life into the wool interest. He will go from here to Howard, Elk County.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
T. K. Johnson came home on the 7:30 train, from Durango, Colorado, where he has gone into business. T. K. is shaking hands with old friends today and everyone is glad to see him at home again.
[STATE NORMAL SCHOOL NOTES.]
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
This week completes the second of the remaining half term of ten weeks, leaving seven weeks more of actual work.
The literary societies have long since settled their difficulty with the faculty, and are now working with renewed energy.
Miss Hoxie's class in drawing have been occupied for some time past in drawing plans for school houses. A prize is to be given for the best conceived and executed plan.
Only till the middle of June, and the Normal will graduate a class of over thirty, who will undertake to instruct the youth of the state according to the most scientific principles.
President Welch and wife started Saturday for a week's trip to New Mexico. The Professor did not like to leave his class for so long, but they took the matter in hand and courteously voted him a leave of absence.
We met Mr. Frank Finch of Winfield perambulating the streets of Emporia one afternoon of last week. We gently took him in charge and conducted him through the Normal building. We were surprised that he did not seem impressed with the beauty of the professional class girls, who were present that afternoon. But come again, Frank, our girls are not all professionals.
At the last meeting of the Regents of the State Normal School, the selection of a successor to President Welch was brought forward. A number of the educators of Kansas have been mentioned in connection with the presidency, prominent among them the county superintendent of Cowley County, Prof. R. C. Story, one of those who is more ably fitted to assume control of this institution. But it seems the claims of all Kansas men were ignored by the Regents, for the third ballot resulted in the election of Prof. A. B. Taylor, of Lincoln University, Illinois. For a number of years Professor Taylor has been a prominent educator in that state. Being in the city he visited the school and left a very favorable impression upon the students. He moves here and takes control before the next school year. . . .
[COMMUNICATION FROM "MUNROE" - CHIMES FROM BETHEL.]
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
The wind and dry weather is burning up the corn and wheat.
Billy Schwantes is tearing the bone out of a piece of sod and planting the same in corn.
Harvey Dunham returned from Wellington last Monday morning. He has been visiting his sister in that burg.
John Mentch, of Olive, has planted out a fine orchard of apple trees.
Mr. and Mrs. Otho Arnold, of Winfield, visited friends at Bethel last Sunday.
Aleck Burns, of Mount Carmel, left last Tuesday for Pennsylvania, his future home, via K. C. L. and S. Railroad. Mr. Burns received a letter from his wife, who went about two weeks ago, stating that his presence would be needed to adjust affairs satisfactorily. The writer had an interview with Mr. Burns at the depot as he was leaving, and learned the full particulars, and will give them to the readers of THE COURANT in the next letter.
Mrs. Hutten, of Galena, Illinois, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Youle, of Olive. She seems to be well pleased with this part of the country.
Joe Burger, formerly of this place, who now resides southeast of town, had the misfortune to lose a valuable horse one day last week. MUNROE.
[FAIRVIEW TOWNSHIP ITEMS.]
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
We had a refreshing shower last Tuesday.
The farmers have about all finished planting corn. The wheat fields look beautiful, and promise a bountiful yield.
Our townsman, Mr. Rogers, is seriously indisposed, caused by a severe fall, and being old, his chances for recovery are slow.
MARRIED. Mr. David Gammon, one of our enterprising young farmers, didn't appreciate single blessedness, so he recently married Miss Maxwell, of Seeley. We wish them all the happiness that falls to mortals here below.
Mrs. Metzger is quite ill.
[PERSONALS.]
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
DIED. Died, in this city, Wednesday, April 10th, 1882, Mrs. Hannah Nichols, aged about thirty-two.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Maynard Miller, of Kansas City, a handsome lad, came down from the north yesterday forenoon and has been in the city ever since.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
H. D. Pryor, Attorney at Law, of Winfield, was in this city Monday and Tuesday attending to a suit in Justice Bowen's court. Howard Courant.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
A. T. Shenneman, Sheriff of Cowley County, was in Howard several days this week, and was registered at the Welborn House. Howard Courant.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
The officials of the A., T. & S. F. railroad have notified the management of the K. C., L. & S. K. that they will take control of that road on the first of May, and instruct them to notify their employees along the line that after that date their services will no longer be required.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
The tower clock for the McDougal building, ordered recently by George Schroeter, our popular jeweler, arrived today and will be put up as soon as possible. Schroeter is an excellent workman, and will put up this excellent time piece in a manner that will be a card for him and an ornament for the town.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
T. T. Morgan, of Eureka, has been in Winfield several days visiting with his niece, Mrs. S. Silver, whom he has not seen before for fifteen years. Mr. Morgan, like all others who visit our city, pronounces Winfield the boss town, and Cowley the finest county he has seen in the west.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
A strange case of paralysis is reported from Cedarvale, in Chautauqua County. A twelve or fifteen year old son of A. Halverson, a wealthy farmer living near Cedarvale, has been dropping corn for a week or so, and last Friday he became paralyzed from his waist to his feet, and in spite of all the efforts of medical attendants, the little fellow seemed to have received no relief up to Sunday evening, when P. H. Albright, our informant, left there.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
And now, the Capital is becoming desperate, and declares that the prohibitionists will not be satisfied with the nomination of any other man except the Saint, or words to that effect. The champions of the third termer, St. John, have been showing weaknesses for some time, but this is the silliest break yet made. Papa Millington will have to hurry up or he will be the last man over the fence, and then the people will be laughing at him again.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
Frank Manny is an original Dutchman for a fact. He has one of the finest delivery wagons in the world, not a red wagon but a green one, and upon either side is lettered "Beer and Ice." This was put on before the days of prohibition, and recently some have complained of Frank because he still carried the sign, so this morning he appeared on the street with his wagon delivering ice, and over the word "beer" was tacked a neat strip of mourning crepe.
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
ED. COURANT. I would like to talk (through your paper) to the old soldiers of Cowley County. There having been a failure in our getting together last fall, and having talked with a number from different parts of the county, I would suggest that we have an informal meet- ing at the courthouse in Winfield, April 29th, at 1 o'clock P.M. At that time we can talk over our township organizations and make arrangements for a county regiment, and talk about forming a regiment to go to Topeka this fall to the second reunion. Let all turn out.
[ACCIDENT: DEATH OF JOHN WESLEY SNYDER.]
Cowley County Courant, April 27, 1882.
One of the saddest accidents ever recorded in the history of Winfield was the sudden and accidental shooting of one of Cowley County's most respected farmers Saturday, about fifteen minutes before twelve o'clock.
The streets were crowded with people, and a notion wagon man from Topeka, was stationed just south of Harter's drug store, selling his goods to all who wished to buy.
Mr. Snyder, an old resident of the county, who has lived on a farm about seven miles south of Winfield, on the Walnut, for the past eight or nine years, came to town this morning with a load of millet seed, which he expected to sell. He brought with him his wife and their baby, a little boy about sixteen months old.
Upon arriving in the city he walked down to the corners, as the crossing of Main street and Ninth avenue are termed, and was standing just at the rear of the notion wagon, listening no doubt to the man's speech to the crowd. The notion man stood in his wagon in his shirt sleeves, his coat lying in the front end of the wagon upon a box, which it is supposed contained articles of some kind for sale. He went to this box, apparently, to take something out, and taking his coat in his hand returned to the rear end of the wagon and laid it down upon another box, when his pistol fell out of one of the coat pockets and to the ground, striking the hind wheel of the wagon as it fell, and was discharged.
There were perhaps three hundred people standing within range of the pistol, and all looked surprisedly around to see who, if anyone, was shot, but for a minute or more there seemed to have been no one hurt, when Mr. Snyder clasped his hands upon his breast and started around the wagon, staggering as though he was going to fall. This was the first sign of anyone being hurt, and those standing near, seeing the old gentleman reel, caught him, just as he was in the act of falling. He was lowered to the ground, the blood gushed from his nostrils and mouth, and inside of three minutes he breathed his last. On an examination it was found that the ball had entered his body near the point of his breast bone, and supposed to have passed upward through the heart. For minutes the surging crowd was uncontrollable, and the news flew through the city by telephone and word of mouth, and horror-stricken citizens could be seen coming and going in every direction.
We can scarcely imagine anything which would so thoroughly shock our citizens and wring from one and all such general expressions of sympathy as did this shocking accident. To make the scene all the more effecting, just as the unfortunate man was breathing his last, there came through the crowd a womanyes, a woman, bearing in her arms a child. The crowd, which had stood firm and dense, anxiously trying to get a glimpse of the dying man, parted as she approached, and she passed through to where he lay. It was his wife, and the child in her arms was his baby, its little tongue, not yet able to speak, lisped the word "papa." This was a moment to try the strength of one's nervous system. Brave men bowed in silence, and for a few moments the sight which their eyes fell upon was one long to be remembered.
That horror-stricken wife, with her child on one arm, knelt down in the blood and dust by the side of him to whom she has for years looked to for support and counsel, and gently raising his head, held it and respectfully kissed the mouth from which the blood was gushing. The poor woman was raised by strange hands and born away, and the crying child was taken charge of by a kind lady who was standing by.
The Coroner was there by this time, a jury summoned, and the body born to the office of H. G. Fuller, over the Post Office where an inquest was held. After hearing the evidence of a number of gentlemen who were present, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that Mr. Snyder came to his death from an accidental shot fired from a pistol belonging to W. H. Wood, a traveling salesman. Mr. Wood was placed under arrest, but after the verdict of the jury was rendered, he was discharged.
It is a sad affair and has cast a gloom over the entire city and community.
John Wesley Snyder was born in Franklin County, Indiana, in December, 1835, and was at the time of his death 46 years old. He was the father of eleven children, six of whom are living and five dead. He has been a member of the Christian church for twelve years. He came to Cowley County about eight or nine years ago, and has ever been respected by all who knew him.
[EDITORIAL COLUMN: GEN. SHERMAN AND PARTY.]
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
About ten days after Gen. Sherman and the merry party of ladies and gentlemen engaged in the inspection of the military posts along the Southern frontier has passed through Arizona, the Indians rose and killed over half a hundred settlers. Rumors of an outbreak were current when Gen. Sherman passed through Arizona, yet he and his merry party seem to have done nothing for the protection of the poor settlers who were soon afterwards murdered in cold blood and fearfully tortured. But then the trip made by this merry party of ladies and gentlemen will be a big thing in perfecting the organization of the army.
[EDITORIAL COLUMN: DENVER NAMED AFTER KANSAS MAN.]
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Few people know that Kansas furnished the man after whom Denver, Colorado, was named. Born in Ohio, James W. Denver rapidly rose to distinction in the West. After he had killed two men in duels, he was appointed Governor of Kansas, which then embraced Colorado. Mr. Denver had an eye to business and sent an expedition to open the country about Denver and found the present city of that name. Brick Pomeroy, who tells the story, does not say where the original Denver has gone to or what has become of him.
[PERSONALS.]
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Farmer Jackson, of Seeley, is supplying our butchers with fine mutton.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Twenty yards of calico for one dollar, at M. Hahn & Company's Bee Hive.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
The 26th was celebrated by the Odd Fellow's more generally this year than ever before.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Jacob Seeley, Esq., a former substantial farmer of this county, but now a resident of Iowa, is here on a visit.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
T. T. Rude, of Torrance, one of Cowley County's brightest young men, favored us with a friendly call Friday.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
The Lawrence & Southern road will not be amalgamated with the rest of the Santa Fe system, but will be operated independently.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Mrs. Brown, of New Salem, whom we noticed sometime ago as having broken her ankle, is mending slowly. She is now able to sit up.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
John S. Reeder called at our office this afternoon and subscribed for the paper to be sent to his father, Dr. W. M. Reeder, of Troy, this state.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
McGuire Brothers are making extensions to their store facilities at Tisdale, in order to be able to accommodate the increasing trade.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
MARRIED. Married, at the residence of the bride's parents, Wednesday, April 26, 1882, Rev. P. G. Jones, officiating. Albert J. McNeil and Anna B. Weaver.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Dr. Wilson E. Austin, a former resident of Winfield, who will be remembered by our old settlers, is now practicing his profession in Reading, Michigan.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Mrs. M. G. Troup took the early train for the east this morning, where she will visit old friends for some time. M. G. will live on hotel fare and get fat until she returns.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
The Winfield Bank has just opened and stacked upon their counter 2,000 silver dollars. They are all new and look pretty shiny. They would just about fill a peck measure. There is one thing a little strange about these silver dollars. Our banks bring here on an average of about 1,000 of them per month, and distribute them out, but there is never any clue as to where they go to, as none of them are sent out of the country. Where do they go to?
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
The K. C. L. & S. road will soon commence the erection of a depot building at Torrance. The site has been surveyed and the preliminary arrangements made for the erection of the building. The boys there have waited long and patiently for this improvement, and we congratulate them upon their success in at last gaining their point.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Henry Colyer, of Liberty township, one of Cowley County's most substantial and hardest working farmers, came in today and renewed his subscription.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
We have talked with Mr. Jacob Seeley, who informs us that he has brought his family back with him and that he is going to stay. He says that the mud is knee deep in Iowa and no grass or green trees yet. Cowley County, Kansas, is good enough, Mr. Seeley says.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
We hope the report is true that the Santa Fe railroad company now has control of the Kansas division of the K. P. The Santa Fe management is one of the most enterprising in the United States, and it makes business wherever it extends its lines.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Our big calf, the Kansas Queen, is now on exhibition at Topeka and is creating quite a sensation. Col. Mullen has been offered one dollar a pound for her, so says the Common wealth.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Mr. Wm. P. Harrington, of Silver Lake, Shawnee County, came down yesterday and will spend a few days visiting his brother, O. H. Harrington, of this city.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
The U. S. snag boat, "Wichita," is lying at the mouth of the Cimarron, unable to get down the Arkansas, as she draws 14 inches and there is only 6 in the river. They have been lying there for six weeks, but expect soon to get down in consequence of the usual spring rise. The Captain says surveyors will soon start down from Arkansas City to determine the practicability of the jetty system for making the river navigable; and if it can be done, work will begin inside of a year. He also thinks it feasible, saying at a cost of $2,000,000, a three foot channel could be made thirty feet wide, taking about five years to complete it. Kansas wants this done as it will give her cheaper rates on wood and coal, and afford transportation direct to the seaboard for her wheat, corn, etc. After getting down, the "Wichita" will work for the next year improving the river between Fort Gibson and Fort Smith. Indian Journal.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
In the cases of the State vs. Drs. Headrick, Holland, and Cole, the court held the informa- tion insufficient and allowed the prosecution to amend. The case of the State vs. Dr. Fleming for selling liquor contrary, etc., was, after the jury had been impaneled, dismissed. The information located the doctor on the wrong side of the street.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Rev. J. E. Platter, of this city, has been elected by the Presbytery of Emporia, as a dele- gate to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which meets at Springfield, Illinois, on the 18th of May. A better selection for a delegate from this Presbytery could not have been made.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
DIED. George B., son of A. H. and M. L. Arment, died April 28th, 1882. Thus the tender bud of thirteen months is broken from its parent stem to yield its perfume in heaven.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
George McIntire, our deputy sheriff, caught a man at Hunnewell, by the name of Wright, who is charged with having bought a team of a man at Arkansas City, a few days ago, and paid for it in bogus Missouri scrip. Wright was bound over before a justice at Arkansas City, and is now in jail here awaiting his trial. He has a family living in Sumner County.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Judge McDonald's brief to the Supreme Court in the Payson and McNeil case is one of the strongest legal documents we have ever seen. It covers twenty-seven pages of printed matter and the citations embrace the law in every phase of the case. The document was printed by our job department, and we flatter ourselves that it compares favorably with any work of the kind ever laid before the Supreme Court. Courier.
We have no doubt but that Judge McDonald's brief is a good and strong one. We judge wholly from the gentleman's ability. But when it is considered that the Courier has about as much idea of law as the running gears of a last year's crow's nest, the compliment is some- what doubtful.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Miss Nettie Hathaway, one of the leading belles of Burden, left Tuesday morning for Michigan, where she expects to stay for an indefinite length of time. She has made many friends during her stay in Burden, and there are several of the masculine gender whose hearts will beat a little quicker with the news that she is going away. That her stay may be short and the return to make a permanent home with us is the wish of a host of friends in Burden.
Enterprise.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Hiram, or "Harry" Hopkins, as he is generally called, who was hurt Monday at the Dunkard mill by being caught on the shaft while fishing, had his right arm below the elbow and both legs broken. He is the eldest son of Daniel M. Hopkins, formerly a resident of Nennescah township, but now a resident of Vernon, a leading Republican of Cowley County. He has the sympathy of all in this family affliction.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Jno. P. Edwards, of the Wichita Compiler of the forthcoming Historical Atlas of Cowley County, called on us today, and informs us that they are meeting with success in all portions of the county. Those desiring a copy of the Atlas should give their orders at once as there will be only copies enough published to supply the actual list of orders taken. We clip the following from the Wichita City Eagle, which will show how Jno. P. Edwards' County Atlases are appreciated in Sedgwick County.
"Edwards Historical Atlas of Sedgwick County. This valuable work, which has been compiled, drawn, and published from personal examinations and surveys made by John P. Edwards, is upon our table. It is a history and atlas of Sedgwick County complete. The book is 18 x 20 inches square, finely bound in heavy board and cloth. There is a map of Sedgwick County and another of the State. The one of the State is the finest map of Kansas we ever saw. There is also a large and beautiful colored plat of the city of Wichita and additions showing every lot in the city by proper number, etc."
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
A short time ago when Henry Goldsmith was priming his soda fountain, two of our most violent temperance men were standing near the window that opens from the street into the basement, where the chemicals are kept and concocted, etc. Our two worthies were busily discussing the pros and cons of the prohibitory law, when the fumes of the mixing chemicals began to exude through the open window, taking them fairly in the nostrils. They looked at each other in sorrowful silence. "My friend," said the Captain, solemnly, "you've been drink- ing this morning." "Me!" exclaimed the friend. "I haven't touched a drop of liquor of any kind whatever, for five years, and I don't want you to accuse me of it, either." "Oh, you can't fool me; I can smell whiskey as quick as anybody." "It's your own breath you smell," shrieked the friend. "Oh, you're a pretty temperance man." And just as crimination and recrimination was beginning to pass freely, the source of the perfume was happily dis- covered. How many people are wrongfully accused because appearances seem to be against them? Had not the gentlemen discovered their mistake, they would have both gone to the grave, each believing the other guilty.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
In the case of the State against J. W. McRorey, the Adams express agent here, charged with violating the prohibitory law, on account of parties having received beer through his office, the County Attorney Tuesday dismissed the case without permitting it to go to trial. THE COURANT never did think McRorey was guilty, and are glad to see him acquitted without the expense of fighting the case through a long tedious trial.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
The new entrance to our store is filled with rag, hemp, engrain and brussels carpet, oil cloth and window shades. Entrance on Main street or Ninth Avenue. M. Hahn & Company's Bee Hive.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
The whiskey cases have been dragging their tiresome lengths through the District court now in session here, since Tuesday of last week, and up to the present writing (Wednesday afternoon) four cases have been disposed of and the case of Dr. Wells is pending. The two cases against Dr. Fleming came up Tuesday, one was thrown out of court after the jury had been empaneled, and the other was tried up to the time for the jury to retire, when the Judge instructed the foreman of the jury to sign a verdict of not guilty, which he did, and the defendant was discharged. The case against McRorey was dismissed without going to trial. The costs accumulated up to the present time are something like $500 or $600, and still there is no money added to the school fund in the way of fines. The taxpayers may murmur a little after awhile when these bills are to be paid, but then they will have the consolation of knowing that the Saint John agents at this place have had that much fun. We shall endeavor to furnish a full account of the trials in due time.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Mr. Mullen has stopped at Topeka with his Kansas Queen, and this is the way the Commonwealth speaks of her.
"W. L. Mullen, of Winfield, has a wonderful specimen of the productiveness of Kansas, at the tent above Seventh street, on Kansas avenue. It is a four-year-old white English Durham heifer, which stands full seventeen hands high, and weighs 3,000 pounds. She will be on exhibition the rest of the week, and every Kansas man ought to see her. She was raised in Cowley County, and until last spring ran on the prairie with other cattle. Since Mr. Mullen purchased her, she has received some attention, and is now a beauty. Mr. Mullen very properly calls her `Kansas Queen,' and is taking her to New York, exhibiting her in the towns en route, charging ten cents admission. At Emporia he was offered one dollar per pound for her by several persons. We advise everybody to see her."
[REPORT FROM E. T. TRIMBLE - SUPT., WINFIELD CITY SCHOOLS.]
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
To the School Board of Winfield.
The school year just ended has generally been one of progress, though the short term last year followed by one but little longer this year has rendered it impossible to perform the amount of work necessary, yet the advancement of the various grades has been generally satisfactory; indeed, better than could have been expected under the circumstances.
The grading of the schools has caused a better attendance and consequently more interest than was formerly shown by the pupils, yet it has required time to bring about this change and the prospects are that if the term can be lengthened to the average, the school will enter upon a term of prosperity far in advance of what they have heretofore enjoyed.
In order that you may understand the advancement made in the last three years, I here present a comparative statement of the years: 1879-80, whole number enrolled, 623; average attendance, 247; percent of attendance, 84; 1880-81, whole number enrolled, 726; average attendance, 452; percent of attendance, 92; 1881-82, whole number enrolled, 891; average attendance, 533; percent of attendance, 93.
The above comparison shows that while there has been a gain in the whole number enrolled, yet the average attendance and percent of attendance has increased at a greater ratio.
This gain is shown more particularly in the High School Department as may be seen from the following statement of attendance. 1879-80, number that attended three months, 36; average attendance, 23; percent of attendance, 80; 1880-81, number that attended three months, 40; average attendance, 36; percent of attendance, 93; 1881-82, number that attended three months, 54; average attendance, 46; percent of attendance, 90.
The gains shown by the above is but an index of interest shown by the pupils. In earnestness and application, I can say that the High School is 100 percent better than it was in 1879-80. As a further evidence of the progress made in this department, I may mention that the number who completed the course in 1880 and received certificates of graduation was two, in 1881 there were five, and this year there is a class of fourteen; and the prospects are that the class next year will be still larger.
The course of study which was arranged three years ago although then in advance of the grades is unsuited to the present advancement of the schools and should be arranged before the commencement of the next term.
All the schools have suffered because of a lack of apparatus and library of reference, but more especially has this been the case in the High School where apparatus and books of reference are, if possible, more necessary than in the lower grades.
By voluntary contributions and by giving entertainments, the teachers and pupils have this year purchased books to the amount of $50.00 and the present graduating class by giving a supper during the holidays raised over $50,00, which was expended for Philosophical apparatus.
If possible, a fund should be provided to be expended for additions to the nucleus of a library and apparatus thus gained.
I would also call your attention to the conditions of the school grounds. There should be an effort made to ornament and improve the grounds by planting trees. Driving and riding across the grounds should be prohibited and strictly enforced as the schools are not only annoyed during study hours, but when the pupils are at play, their lives are endangered. It is also necessary that walks be provided. As the grounds are at present when it rains, the pupils and teachers are obliged to wade through mud and water often over the shoetop in order to get to the school house.
Probably most of the sickness of pupils and teachers has been caused by getting their feet wet in going to and from school. In addition to this, the mud carried into the school rooms dries; and by sweeping, the dust settles on the walls, desks, and seats, and accumulating, is breathed by the pupils, thus causing disease.
The windows of the buildings have never been so that they could be lowered and raised to secure proper ventilation. I have been unable to get them properly adjusted though I have several times called attention to the fact. The lack of curtains at some of the windows has no doubt caused much injury to the pupils as they have been compelled to use their eyes in a strong glare of light; as a result, some have been compelled to leave school for a time until their eyes improved and some perhaps have received injuries from which they will never fully recover.
At present there is no well on the school grounds of the west ward; and though there is a well in the east ward, there is no pump so that the schools are entirely deprived of water except what can be secured from wells not on the school grounds.
The outhouses in the east ward are old and unfit for the uses of the schools, and new buildings are an absolute necessity. I would recommend that all teachers who have given satisfaction and wish to remain be retained and that the selection of teachers for the coming year be made as early as possible.
Respectfully submitted, E. T. TRIMBLE.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Rev. Hyden, the new M. E. minister, is fast becoming very popular among our people by the manly, Christian, independent course he is pursuing in his work. Not like a great many who come to town with nothing in view but an object to straddle a hobby and ride into prominence on it, caring nothing for their church, only to get notoriety. But the Reverend is not thirsting for any such. He is a man of ability, and will labor for the benefit of his church instead of playing the part of correspondent for a seven-by-nine dishrag to libel respectable citizens. Burlington Patriot.
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
We are in receipt of an invitation to attend the opening party of the A. O. U. W. Lodge No. 88, to be given at their hall in Burden, Friday evening of this week, May 5th. Arrange- ments are being made for an excellent time, and there is no doubt but they will have it. E. A. Henthorn, Robert R. Phelps, and Ed. Millard compose the committee which has the arrangements for the party in hand.
[COMMUNICATION FROM "GRANGER" - BEAVER TOWNSHIP.]
Cowley County Courant, May 4, 1882.
Dr. Bowlin, of Kentucky, who came to see his brother-in-law, Mr. W. D. Lester in his last illness is still in our midst, but will probably return to his home shortly. We think the Doctor to be a perfect gentleman and a worthy man and would be much pleased to have him become a citizen in our midst.
The Methodist M. E. Church South are contemplating building a church the present season near Beaver Center. Three men have subscribed $100 each and two more have promised $150, making $450. This looks like business. We have no doubt but what they will succeed in the much needed enterprise.
MARRIED. Mr. Theodore Dillow has given up keeping batch by taking to himself a helpmate on Tuesday night. Her name is Miss Rilla Rorick. We wish the happy couple much joy and hope they may succeed in sunny Kansas and that they may prosper abundantly.
Mr. Rogers is now engaged by the aid of Mr. B. W. Jenkins in building a fine residence on his farm. Mr. Rogers is a man full of mercy and will no doubt ma