[CORRESPONDENTS.]

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

A Mr. Hahn from Iowa is building a new residence in Lookout Valley.

Stock in the township are all wintering well; plenty of feed and some to spare.

Mr. T. H. Larkin is making ready to build a fine house on his farm. He needs it sure.

Mr. G. W. Childers has rented his farm for cash rent, and I hear he will remove to Arkansas City for the present.

We had a regular blizzard some time ago, judging from the looks of the boys' earsand some of them froze their fingers, too.

Everybody is on the go now, some hauling wood, some coal, and some feed; more of that for a few days past than anything else.

Mr. L. Dawes has located a claim at last and is preparing to build on now soon. Go ahead, Labe, the world will stand many years yet.

Mr. Richard Courtright has sold his nice farm lately to C. H. Johnson, the cattle king of this township. We hate to give up Dick, but such are the ways of life.

There are a good many people here talking of marching to Oklahoma next week. If they all go, Lookout Valley will be almost deserted for a short time anyway. I wish them success, but I think the time has not yet come for them to go down and take a claim.

Oh, yes! We had our Township Convention the 27th. It was a grand affair. We have a habit here of having both conventions at the same place one after the other, and we have lots of fun for the boys on both sides. We, the Republicans, made, or a few men made the ticket. I should say for us it was jolly to be there. Every man had his little piece to speakthat was the few menthen the deed was done and they walked out to make room for the "odder fellers." Now I, being a firm Republican from principle, object to any such proceedings, and I find there are more men than one who think so, too. CEDARITE.

[SHENNEMAN.]

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Sheriff A. T. Shenneman, of Cowley County, died at the residence of Walter Jacobus, where he was shot, last Thursday evening. He was buried in Winfield on Sunday with Masonic honors.

His funeral brought together the largest congregation of people ever seen on a like occasion in Southern Kansas. Trains were run to Winfield from all neighboring counties and his home people turned out en masse.

His funeral sermon was preached by Rev. J. E. Platter in the Baptist Church, which did not hold more than a moiety of the people present. The funeral procession required more than an hour to pass a given point and a large part of it did not reach the cemetery until after the services there were over.

These facts demonstrate the estimate placed upon Mr. Shenneman by those who knew him best. In his private and social life, he was a true and trustworthy friend, happy in his home, a man without personal enemies and always ready to help those about him.

As an officer he was without a superior. He was shrewd, always on the alert, and, in short, a natural detective. He was the most noted horse-thief catcher in Kansas. He knew all about a horse and never failed to identify a stolen animal months after he had read the description of it. If he had a fault, it was that of absolute lack of fear and a dread of killing. He had been constable, city marshal, and sheriff for years and always did the bulk of the dangerous official work. He was much respected by his fellow officers in surrounding counties for his ready and unselfish cooperation at all times. In his untimely death Cowley County loses a most valuable officer and the state one of its very best citizens.

Wellington Press.

[WORLD NEWS.]

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Robert Smalls, the colored man just placed on the naval retired list with the rank of captain, was one of the bravest men the world ever produced. He was a pilot on the rebel steamer, Planter, and taking advantage of the absence of the officers, he cut her loose at 3 o'clock in the morning, took his wife and children aboard, sailed under the guns of Fort Sumter, and in the face of death delivered the steamer and her cargo of guns and ammunition worth $70,000 to the federal fleet. He has earned his honors.

[SHENNEMAN.]

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

The funeral of Sheriff Shenneman was the largest in the history of the state. Six sheriffs constituted the pall-bearers. An extra train left here Sunday morning and returned in the evening. Wichita Beacon.

[INDIAN TERRITORY NEWS.]

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

An old gentleman by the name of Charles Wolf and his daughter, Louisa, were out herding sheep on their ranch, twenty miles north of Cimarron, and were caught out in the storm on the 18th and were found by their friends on the 19th frozen to death. Also a son of Mr. Newby, who was out herding near Cimarron, was found frozen to death on the prairie.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

INDIAN AFFAIRS.

Secretary Teller has written two letters to the senate committee of Indian affairs, urging the immediate action on legislation in regard to keeping invaders out of the Indian Territory. He recommends imprisonment. He has informed western officers of the contemplated inva- sion, and ordered that no one be allowed to settle in the territory.

[COURIER THREATENED BY ROBINSON AND TROUP.]

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883. Editorial.

FREEZING OUT.

We understand that Robinson and Troup are going to freeze out the COURIER. We will keep from freezing if we can. In this number we have thrown in an extra hod of native coal which we can get, not only in this county but in Missouri and other places. We think we can keep it warm for awhile, at least.

[PROHIBITION AND HACKNEY.]

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

AN ARDENT PROHIBITIONIST.

It is stated that the man who originated the petition to Hackney in the "glorious cause of prohibition," before that petition was circulated, approached County Attorney Jennings and asked him the following question in substance: "Now if the city council should pass an ordinance licensing the sale of lemonade and other drinks, something like the Topeka ordinance, and could thereby raise a revenue of $3,000 a year on the sale of liquor, would you not be willing to leave the prohibition and liquor business to the city authorities and refuse to prosecute?

[FRANK MANNY.]

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

DESIRES RELIEF!

Mr. Seaton offered a bill for the relief of Frank Manny, the Winfield brewer, whose name and fame have become national through the lectures of St. John, who held Frank up to the world's gaze as a bright illustration of the success of prohibition, as having converted his brewery into a conservatory and turned his attention from the brewing of tonics Teutonic to floriculture. Frank has a large collection of plants and flowers and a large, pleasant, cool and shady garden, on the banks of a little creek, but he says his $25,000 brewery is no good for raising flowers, and he asks reimbursement from the state in the sum of $15,000 for losses suffered by reason of the prohibition law. C. C. Black.

[KANSAS LEGISLATURE.]

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

LEGISLATIVE SICK ROOM SUGGESTED.

Every day at roll call the reports show an alarming amount of sickness among the members. From five to ten are excused each day on this account. It has been suggested that a legislative physician be employed, and that one of the committee rooms be turned into a hospital. The idea is a good one, for in addition to sick members, it would be a good place to store sick bills. The name of Mr. Mitchell, of Cowley, has been suggested as hospital Steward, while Dr. E. N. Stearns, being well acquainted with the diseases of sick legislators, would make a most acceptable surgeon. Judge Borton, being of a scientific turn of mind, would make a most invaluable assistant. The supervising board should consist of Mr. Green, Mr. Knappenberger, and Mr. Orner, all heavy weights and extremely pious.

Topeka Special to Leavenworth Times.

[PROHIBITION OPPOSITION.]

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

When the COURIER of last week came out with the petition to Senator Hackney, his answer and our remarks, some few of our anti-prohibition friends were red hot, particularly those few who were specially hit. Our friend, Robinson, was the hottest of them, and after the call of the meeting for the following Monday evening of all citizens, irrespective of their opinions on the prohibition question, to consider the petition to Hackney, he spent about four days on the street, trying to infuse his anger into other citizens, particularly to show those who signed the petition and were not hit that they were hit; and in organizing a crowd to attend the meeting and defeat prohibition resolutions. A plan was adopted and was carried out in the meeting of Monday as far as the noise and howling was concerned.

On last Monday evening, at an early hour, the Opera House was packed full of people. Every seat and every foot of standing room was filled. There were not less than eight hundred, and possibly one thousand, present.

Judge Tipton, not one of the callers of the meeting, pushed himself into the position of temporary chairman, and nominated Rev. J. E. Platter as Chairman, who was elected. Mr. Platter refused to be silenced in that way, and nominated Hon. T. R. Bryan for Chairman, who was elected and took the chair.

Millington offered a resolution to the effect that this meeting is utterly opposed to the establishment of saloons in this city, and moved its adoption, which was seconded by numberless voices all through the hall.

Robinson jumped up and made a long, loud, and excited speech to show that the resolution was unfair and unjust.

Tipton moved to lay the resolution on the table. A vote was called on Tipton's motion, and the saloon element set up a tremendous howl of ayes, repeated by comparatively few voices. The nays were general throughout the house. The Chairman could not decided, and a rising vote was taken. About 150 rose to lay on the table, and nearly the whole congrega- tion rose on the vote against the motion. The prolonged howling prevented the Chairman from deciding the motion, and Millington withdrew his resolution temporarily.

Robinson then got the floor and read in a loud tone, very slowly and excitedly, a long speech abusive of Senator Hackney, and stating, substantially, that he drew the petition to Senator Hackney, and knew what it meant; that it simply meant that the prohibition law was not as well enforced in other cities as in Winfield, and that somehow this operated against Winfield; that he was enthusiastically in favor of the "glorious prohibition amendment and law," and the petition was to urge Senator Hackney to procure the passage of a law that would strictly enforce prohibition everywhere in the State; and that the closing clause, "If this is impossible, don't sacrifice our town on the altar of inordinate devotion to an imprac-ticable principle, did not mean anything at all, but was only some big words which he had on hand, left over, which he threw in merely to round off the paragraph.

During this tirade of three-quarters of an hour the audience sat quietly and heard him out, except that Mr. B. F. Wood raised the point of order that abuse of Hackney was foreign to the object of the meeting as stated in the call. The Chair ruled the point well taken, but the orator was permitted to proceed.

When he yielded the floor, Millington remarked that, as the originator of the petition meant only prohibition in its strictest sense, there seemed to be no controversy, and he there- fore offered the following resolutions as the sense of the meeting, and moved their adoption after debate, which motion was seconded by hundreds of voices.

We, citizens of Winfield and vicinity, in mass meeting assembled, to express ourselves in relation to the matter of the late petition to Senator Hackney, do hereby declare;

FirstThat we are utterly opposed to the establishment of saloons in Winfield, or in this county.

SecondThat we are opposed to the re-submission of the prohibitory amendment.

ThirdThat we are earnestly in favor of such legislation as will make the prohibitory law more effective.

FourthThat we heartily endorse and will stand by Senator W. P. Hackney in his efforts to make the prohibitory law more effective, and honor him for his fearless and manly course on this question.

FifthThat we request our Senator and Representatives to continue their efforts to strengthen this law and to guard against unfavorable legislation.

SixthThat the prohibition law has been much better enforced in this city and county than any former law in relation to the sale of intoxicating drinks.

SeventhThat, through the operation of the prohibitory law, drunkenness and the sale and use of intoxicating drinks have very largely decreased in our midst; that our city has become largely more orderly and moral than before it went into operation, and that all legiti- mate business is more prosperous and flourishing than it could have been in the presence of saloons.

EighthThat it is our honest conviction that the temperance movement in Kansas has been a blessing to thousands of our citizens.

Rev. J. E. Platter then made a short, concise, and practical speech showing the obvious meaning of the petition as interpreted by almost everybody and expressing his strong and earnest dissent from its evident objects.

Mayor Troup then got the floor and spoke loudly and slowly for about an hour and a quarter with the evident intention of worrying out the temperance people in the congregation and making them leave the hall, but they quietly heard him out. He took an entirely different view of the meaning of the petition from that of the originator. He signed that petition because it meant to him that the prohibitory law is an utter and absolute failure; that the amendment ought to be repealed; that it urged Hackney to vote for the re-submission of the amendment, and for revenue purposes, saloons ought to be re-established in Winfield. He knew that prohibition in Winfield was an utter failure; for there were two of the dirtiest saloons here, where the stench of liquor offended the nostrils of the noble mayor (who is also assistant county attorney and don't prosecute) and that three awful saloons are known as Express offices, and are bringing in intoxicating drinks by railroad every day.

Mr. T. H. Soward was called out and took the floor. Troup tried to choke him off by interruption and the audience tried to yell Troup down. Soward in a gentlemanly manner got through with his remarks in a few minutes.

Judge Tipton took the floor for the purpose, evidently, of worrying out the temperance people, for he had absolutely nothing to say but rambled on for fifteen minutes with the most wishy-washy and senseless jargon we had ever heard from the lips of a sane man.

Another old crank got up with a nose about three by six and as red as a beet, and howled about Hackney.

It was evident from the first that three-fourths of the audience at least, were in favor of passing the resolutions offered by Millington, and the scheme of Robinson was to prevent a vote being taken on them by howling. This was kept up until the chairman got so disgusted that he pronounced the meeting adjourned, and the crowd began to move toward the door and go out.

Robinson sprang upon a chair and called the meeting to order. Millington sprang upon another chair and called out swinging a paper in his hand. The audience halted a few moments in quiet, and Millington said in a loud voice:

"The question in order before the house is on the passage of the series of resolutions presented by me. All in favor of the passage of these resolutions will say, Ayemeeting with a general response of "Aye" by nearly the whole crowd. He then said; those opposed will say, "No." A few feeble responses were heard and he proclaimed that the resolutions were carried by an overwhelming majority. The crowd then continued to pass out amidst such a noise that nothing could be heard.

Robinson sprang upon the stage and swung his arm yelling something at the top of his voice about coming to order, but he could not be heard and the audience continued to pour out.

The writer remained until nearly all the audience had passed out and the lights were turned down. Nothing more was done and he left.

This meeting demonstrates that the people of this city are overwhelmingly in favor of all the above resolutions, and particularly enthusiastic in their endorsement of Senator Hackney.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Speaking of the petition to Senator Hackney in behalf of saloons in Winfield and the remarks in the Kansas City Journal from its Topeka correspondent, the Wellingtonian remarks:

"While it is true that Cowley County was the banner prohibition county of the state, it is equally not true that Winfield was ever anything of a banner prohibition city. None know this any better than the Journal's clever Topeka correspondent. None better than he know that the businessmen of Winfield, as a class, never were prohibitionists. He also knows what he dare not tell, for the effect it would have, that the `prominent manufacturer and ice dealer' is, or rather was, a manufacturer of beer, only. There are in the town, exclusive of the hotels and drug stores and including the two banks, eighteen that could by any decent reasoning, be called `largest' business houses. Of this numberfifteen of these same `largest business houses' never were prohibitionists. So that leaves but three to be accounted for, and the correspondent does that for two of them, namely: the bank and hardware, and leaves but the grocery house to be accounted for, and we can do that. Winfield, like other towns of its like, and for purpose of this sort, too often counts every peanut vender, billiard saloon keeper and lunch counter president, as `prominent' businessmen.

"Again: had the astute correspondent said, something over 200, instead of almost 300 names, he would have impressed us as being nearer the truth. It would also have been better had he told his readers, that many of these same businessmen allowed themselves to be classed as prohibitionists, when in reality, they were not; but on the contrary, their sympa- thies were all the other way. Senator Hackney himself was not; and is perhaps not yet, a prohibitionist, as he himself says in this interview, and yet it would be hard for Journal readers to understand that. While it is true that Winfield has always been rated a prohibition city, yet these same businessmen have no settled convictions upon this or any other subject, any farther than it may effect their pockets and their standing in society. There are more people in Winfield whose lives go to disprove the Bible doctrine, `a man cannot serve God and Mammon,' than any other town in the state. Hence it will be seen that any apparent reaction in this town is not much of a `pointer' and bears with it but very little significance."

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Mayor Troup in his speech Monday evening complained that Hackney in his letter of reply called him a money changer.

Why, my dear fellow, Hackney did not call you a money changer. You neglect the coat the senator prepared you, don the coat made for the other fellow, and complain that it don't fit. Please read carefully the first part of the letter about sworn officers of the law disregard- ing their oaths and their duties and doing all they possibly can do to subvert law and render aid and comfort to outlaws. That is the coat made for you. The onslaught on money changers was prepared for the other fellow. Are you not the mayor of the city whose sworn duty it is to see the laws are enforced? Are you not assistant and acting county attorney whose duty it is to prosecute violations of the law? Did you not state in that speech that you knew of two of the meanest, dirtiest kind of saloons which have been selling intoxicating drinks for a long time in this city, known as express offices? Have you prosecuted these men for violation of the law? Have you closed up these places as nuisances? Are you not owned body and soul by the money changer who will use you just as long as you will do his dirty work and squeeze a nickel out of you and then sell you to someone else or kick you one side among the rubbish?

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Some conservative prohibitionists have admitted that Hackney in his answer to the petitioners, handled the originators of the petition too roughly. Now if they knew all the badgering and attempted intimidation these same men had heaped upon the Senator to induce him to violate his promises to his constituents before his election, to violate his oath to sup- port the constitution, and to second and help them in their schemes to have saloons opened in Winfield and the law set at defiance, they would say as we do, that his answer was just right. Nothing that the popular senator has ever said or done has made him so many enthusi- astic friends as that letter. Hundreds of men have called into our office to express their warm- est approval of the letter and of course on this question, and many of them who have always opposed him politically, say now that they would vote for him for anything he should want. We believe that a majority of those petitioners would now vote the warmest approval of his letter.

[SORGHUM SUGAR FACTORIES.]

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Mr. R. R. Conklin, late of this place, but now a leading loan agent of Kansas City, writes us a letter in relation to Prof. Henry A. Weber of Champaign County, Illinois, who has invented a process by which sugar, of a quality superior to the New Orleans, can be most profitably made from the sorghum cane. He has demonstrated this fact by establishing a sugar works at Champaign, Illinois, and running it successfully one year, during which it has produced 86,000 pounds of sugar which grades "yellow C" and sells at 8-1/2 cents at the factory, and has made 25,650 gallons of very superior molasses.

Mr. Conklin is well acquainted with Prof. Weber and says he proposes to establish some sugar factories in Kansas this year because of the advantage of climate and suitable land for cane. Mr. Conklin has induced Prof. Weber to visit Winfield with a view of establishing a factory here, and thinks he will arrive soon. The advantages of such a factory at this place are too apparent to require an argument and we hope our citizens will receive the professor with cordiality and give him all the assistance and encouragement in their power.

[CORRESPONDENTS.]

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Valley View Sabbath School.

This Sunday school closed its third year on January 23, 1883. Its prosperity has been continuous since its organization. The secretary, Miss Lizzie Thompson, read a well prepared report, in substance as follows: Number of officers and teachers during the year, 327; average attendance, 6 45-17; No. of scholars present during the year, 2364; average attendance 50 14- 47, No. of visitors, 130. The superintendent (Jas. F. Martin) was absent only one Sabbath during the year. The school failed to meet four Sabbaths on account of bad weather.

The treasurer, F. W. Schwantes, reported $76 expended for organ and papers, and that there was a balance on hand of $16, thus showing the financial health of the school. . . .

The school elected the following officers, Wm. Staggers, Superintendent; C. W. Short, Assistant Superintendent; Miss Carrie Schwantes, Secretary; Miss Katie Schwantes, Librar- ian; and F. W. Schwantes, Treasurer. The school meets every Sabbath at 3 o'clock p.m. All are cordially invited and will be made to feel at home at its sessions. The Valley View Sunday School is one that does not "freeze out" in the winter season. We are sorry to say it is the only one in Vernon Township that can claim such a record. M.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Floral Jottings.

Health is good in this vicinity at present.

Daniel Read is off to northwest Missouri, on the patent hens' nest. Success to you Dan.

Cole Bair and Orand say if anyone has a better evaporator than theirs (the Stubb's) to trot it out.

The sorghum crop of this part was quite an item last year and promises to be greater this yearif talk is worth anything.

If it were not for occupying so much space in your valuable paper, I would like "The true Inwardness" and "A Monumental Fraud" to be left standing in your columns for some time.

In reply to Mr. Patten I would like to say I think a large majority of the farmers don't want a hedge law. They want a herd law, I think. But as he says, let each one speak out for himself.

The Baptists at Floral have just closed a successful meeting under the labors of Revs. Hickok and McEwen. They expect to build a stone house for worship soon; have about $700 subscribed.

T. W. Dicken don't expect to go thirsty after this, as he has a new drilled wella large one two feet in diameter. Jack Yarbrough has one of the same kind. It is said Thos. Walker will be the next lucky man.

Mark Irwin and family will soon be residents of Cowley County. As good as Saline is, he can't stay away from Cowley. It is always thus with folks away from our fair county. A few months or years absence brings a longing to return.

J. W. Randall still has a lively trade. Farmers, you will do well to stick to John. You'll find it's less trouble to go to Floral when you want fifty cents worth of tobacco or twenty- five cents worth of coffee or sugar (isn't that the way to put it?).

By the appearance of wheat it will be a light crop. Considerable corn in the field yet. Mr. Wm. A. Hart says he will gather his corn as soon as it will do to crib; he has been busy this winter building cribs. J. M. Dunbar says it pays to feed his corn so he is picking up a few stock hogs.

I think "Horatius" in the COURIER of Feb. 1 expressed the sentiments of the majority of the better class when he said, "While we respect the law of the land and believe in main- taining its dignity, at the same time we think it a wholesome idea to purify the country of atrocious, reckless, infamous dare-devils by summarily dispatching several of them in a manner that would be a forcible reminder and an impressive warning to bandits, outlaws, and vicious characters generally." If law was not so often a farce, the citizens would be willing for it to take its course; but how often is a murderer turned among us or sent up for a short time to be pardoned, or if he serves his time, come back in society worse than before, in a great many cases. D. O. GOOD.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Otter Scriblings.

Severe colds prevail in Otter.

Mr. E. Nelson has rented his farm to Henry Slater.

Mrs. R. R. Turner, Sr., is lying very low of typhus fever.

The storm king has been wielding his mighty sceptre of late.

The ground hog failed to see his shadow in Otter on his annual visit.

G. C. Cleveland has left his farm for a clerkship in Davis & Dale's store.

G. W. Webb has rented his farm to Mr. Bates and intends devoting his time to stock.

BIRTH. R. R. Turner, Jr., is the happy father of a bouncing boy. The father is doing wellso is the boy.

A petition is in circulation to divide school district 63, it being the third or fourth attempt without success.

Mr. Graves is overhauling and repairing his house on the Ross place, and is also building an addition.

Mrs. Buckley is expected back from Ohio shortly, where she has been on a visit to her parents and friends.

Mr. L. Guthrie has sold his farm to Mr. Nelson, lately from Illinois, and has gone to Oswego to look up a location.

Wednesday evening while returning from a dance, George Bowen's horse fell on him, bruising him internally. The result of horse racing at night.

There was quite an excitement in Cedarvale on Saturday last over the railroad question, which is again being agitated by our leading men, who think there is a chance of an east and west road from Oswego through Sedan and Cedarvale westward to Arkansas City.

The sad news of our brave Sheriff's death was received with deep regret by the citizens of this community, and we think we express the feelings of the majority when we tender, with our own, their deepest sympathy to Mrs. Shenneman in this her sad hour of affliction.

To our Hon. Senator W. P. Hackney is due the thanks of every citizen of Cowley County for the worthy manner in which he disposed of the late petition sent him from Winfield, and if every person taking the oath of office to support and enforce the laws of the state had done their duty as well as our Hon. Senator, I doubt no prohibition would have been a success throughout the entire state. And we think the broadside he pounded to their whiskey ranks will prevent their petitioning to him again. TELLER.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Excelsior School Report.

Report of Excelsior school, District No. 9, for the month ending January 20, 1883.

No. of pupils enrolled, 31; Average daily attendance, 20. No. of visitors present during the month, 5. Names of those perfect in attendance: Metta Byers and Harry Pierce. The examination held at the close of the month resulted in the following standings, graded on a scale of 100.

Of the advanced grade, Frank Crawford 95; Dora Smith 93; Harry Pierce 94; Flora Smith 97; Anna Crawford 96; Josie Robinson 94.

Intermediate grade: Welden Crawford 94; Katie Robertson 90; Philena Copple 84; Harry McLaughlin 86; Willie Sherrod 97; Ora DeWitt 93; Willie Wright 96.

[PERSONALS.]

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

It is now thought that Langtry will not visit Winfield this season.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

$600 worth of beautiful costumes in the Operetta Tuesday Evening.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

S. G. Gary entered upon his duties as sheriff of Cowley County last Saturday.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Arkansas City has organized a Post of G. A. R., with Capt. Nipp as commander.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

The coal men of Winfield have all made fortunes this winter and it is not over yet.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Charlie Shenneman returned Saturday to his post as keeper at the Kansas penitentiary.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Miss Jennie Hane returned from Topeka last week after an absence of several weeks.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Judge Torrance left for Pennsylvania Tuesday, called there by news of the serious illness of his mother.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Frank Manny is confident that his bill for $15,000 damages against the State on account of closing his brewery will pass.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

The call for extra copies of the COURIER last week was simply immense. We printed almost a double edition, and then didn't have enough to supply the demand.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

M. L. Robinson's amateur circus company which performed so satisfactorily to them- selves Monday evening at the Opera house are expected to take the circuit and will next perform at Wellington and Wichita.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Post No. 85, G. A. R., Winfield, have their regular meetings on 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month, in Odd Fellow's Hall.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Jake Goldsmith spent last week at Topeka among our law-makers. He was much inter- ested in the legislative proceedings.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

J. M. Householder brought in a dozen chickens last week and received from J. P. Baden for them $5.40. This is a big price for chickens.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

The social at the Presbyterian Church last Friday evening passed off very pleasantly, though the extreme cold lessened the attendance somewhat.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Several beautiful cutters were out Saturday and Sunday, and the merry jingle of sleigh bells were heard on our streets for the first time this winter.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Murdock, the skating rink man, skipped for a more congenial clime last week, leaving many men with unpaid bills to mourn his untimely departure.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Frank S. Jennings received a dispatch from Ohio Tuesday morning announcing the death of his father, which occurred Monday night, of apoplexy. He and his brothers, H. S., and Ed., started east on the 3:30 train.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Dr. L. Burgheim, of Columbus, Texas, is visiting with his cousin, Henry Goldsmith. The Doctor is a highly cultured and intelligent gentleman and is watching the course and effects of prohibition in Kansas with much interest.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

The COURIER is under many obligations to Fred Blackman, the telegraph operator at the Santa Fe depot, for favors last week. Fred is one of the most courteous and obliging gentlemen we know of and it is always a pleasure to do business with him.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Mr. R. R. Conklin of Kansas City was in town Tuesday, accompanied by Mr. M. A. Scovill of Champaign, Illinois, who is looking up the sugar refinery business. Recent developments indicate that sugar refining, or the manufacture of sorghum sugar, is destined to become a profitable industry in the West, and capital is turning its attention to it. No better field for investment in this line can be found than here in Cowley County.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

[NOTE: FIRST PART WAS SET UP IN TWO COLUMNS.]

[Left column] FOUR WEEKS AGO. "Suppose the City Council were to license three persons at a thousand dollars each to sell `soda water and other drinks, what would you do?'"

M. L. Robinson to County Attorney Jennings.

[Right column] THIS WEEK. "Friends, let us not do anything to injure the glorious cause of prohibition, so near to our hearts!" M. L. Robinson at meeting Monday night.

[Left column] PRESTO! "Inasmuch as the Amendment as enforced has always resulted in injury to the development of our town . . . . We would respectfully urge upon you the necessity of so providing for its enforcement that its application shall be uniform throughout the state. If this is impossible, don't sacrifice our town on the altar of inordinate devotion to an impracticable principle." Petition written by M. L. Robinson.

[Right column] CHANGE! "That petition meant that the law should be enforced in other parts of the state as well as here, and did not mean saloons in Winfield." M. L. Robinson's explanation of the petition.

Above we present four utterances from the tongue and pen of M. L. Robinson. Placed as they are the reader will have no difficulty in determining that M. L. Robinson is either a vacillating hypocrite or a knavish fool.

But in order to show the peculiar manner in which this gentleman works to secure the backing of citizens in his schemes, we will be pardoned for referring to the above chronologically.

Some four weeks ago Robinson approached County Attorney Jennings and in the very cautious manner shown in his language above quoted, intimated to him (Jennings) that three men stood ready to pay a thousand dollars each for a license to sell "soda water and other drinks" in this city, and asked him what he would do, in his official capacity, if such license was granted and they opened up. Mr. Jennings very quickly told the gentleman that he would prosecute all infringements of the law to the fullest extentthat he had sworn to enforce the constitution and the law, and should regard his oath and his duty without fear or favor. This was a fitting reply to such an insult, and Mr. Robinson sought elsewhere to find a man who would betray his honor, his pledges, and his oath to accommodate a "smiling, influential banker." Strange as it may seem, he settled upon Senator Hackney as the man. Wily in all his undertakings, he knew that backing must be secured for such a proposition, so a petition, ambiguous in language and uncertain in construction was drawn and placed in the hands of a man interested in opening saloons, and by him circulated. Upon its face the petition meant something or nothing, or anything. To the businessman, glancing at it in the hurry of busi- ness activity, it meant just what his convictions on the prohibition question were. To the pro- hibitionists it meant "Strive to have the law enforced in other places as it is here." To the anti-Prohibitionist its true and real animus could be shown in a moment. Thus, in the hurried way petitions are always signed, this harmless looking document was signed by lawyers, doctors, businessmen, and citizens generally who would no more lend their names to assist M. L. Robinson in his efforts to subvert constitutional obligation and trample law under foot than they would start on a trip to the moon. The petition was then taken to Topeka and placed in the hands of Senator Hackney, by Frank Manny. Had the petition been a fair and square declaration of principle, either for or against prohibition, every sane and sensible man knows that it would have received respectful and candid consideration at the hands of Senator Hackney. But he knew a few things that the signers of the petition did not know. He had spent the Sunday before in Winfield and at that time learned of Mr. Robinson's proposition to County Attorney Jennings. He also knew that he was equally interested with Robinson in a scheme whereby three thousand dollars saloon tax would materially benefit both of them in a financial wayand this scheme was the water-works business. He looked at the petition and saw that it was in Robinson's hand-writing. He also saw it was not a fair, square statement of principle, but contradictory, ambiguous, and calculated to deceive. In an instant he saw through it all, as would everyone who signed the petition had they known these facts. He saw that M. L. Robinson, seeing an opportunity of adding to his hoarded wealth, was willing and anxious to open up the "flood gates of drunkenness and debauchery" in our city. He knew that Robinson had approached a sworn officer of the law with intentions looking to that end, and receiving no encouragement, had come to him, thinking that he, if fortified with a respectable petition and with the same personal interests involved, would betray the pledges made by him to the people of Cowley County, turn his back upon the constitution and his oath to support it, and sell himself and his people for gold.

M. L. Robinson little counted upon his man when he reckoned that W. P. Hackney could be cajoled or influenced into such an action. Turning upon his maligner, he hurled the petition back into his teeth in words of burning indignationwords that will live in the hearts of the people of Cowley County as long as love of honor lasts, and words that will rise to haunt the author of that petition until he passes beyond the scenes of human weakness. With that desire for fairness so characteristic of Senator Hackney, he did not confine the full measure of his wrath to the one at whom it was directed, but supplied a part of it to some officers of the law. This loop-hole was eagerly seized by the doughty banker, and through it he seeks to wreck his vengeance on the Senator by drawing into the fight the men who had signed his petition, and who hoped to express a matter of principle, knowing nothing of the sordid motives and dark pit-falls behind it. In this he partially succeeded, until the above facts were brought out at the Monday night meeting.

When a resolution, severely condemning Mr. Hackney, was offered, to defend the Senator from this gross and venomous assault, Rev. Platter opened the eyes of the people to Robinson's duplicity by making a statement of the facts, as given him by Mr. Hackney. Since then one of the best men who signed that petition, a citizen as highly respected as any in the community, said to us: "Until I learned the true inwardness of this matter, I thought Hackney's letter was ill timed and intemperate. I now think he did just right, and wonder why he didn't make it hotter." Others of our businessmen, signers of the petition, have expressed the same feelings; and all of them, except a few who were in collusion with Robinson, or whose souls are owned (through the medium of mortgages or overdrafts) by him, will take a similar view, and, instead of feeling outraged toward Hackney, will put their anathemas where they belong.

By his action in this matter, M. L. Robinson has lost the confidence of all the better classes of this community. Having betrayed the principles he has heretofore, and now pretends to avowbetrayed men into supporting him with a false document, written with the intention of deceiving, he has certainly placed himself in an unenviable light before his fellow men, and must of needs, reap the consequences. A man who works honestly, openly, and fairly against a cause he believes to be wrong, is a freeman exercising the highest and noblest rights of citizenship decreed him by the Constitution of a free country. But when a man steals forth under the cloak of hypocrisy, and attempts to subvert law and unduly influ- ence those in whom the people have vested power, he sinks below the level of a freeman, and becomes a menace to liberty and good government.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

The new nickel 5-cent piece has made its appearance in the city. Instead of a figure 5 surrounded by thirteen stars, it has a large V in the center surrounded by a wreath, while to the outside encircling words, "United States of America," are added "E Pluribus Unum." The shield and the motto "In God We Trust" on the reverse are supplanted by a regulation head of Liberty with thirteen stars around it. The size of the new piece is between that of a three- cent piece and a twenty-cent piece. The coin is the same weight of the old and of the same alloy, the proportions being twenty-five of nickel and seventy-five of copper.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Capt. Payne with about 50 teams and 150 followers left Arkansas City February 1st to go to the North Fork of Canadian River, in the Indian Territory, about 130 miles south of this place, to the land known as Oklahoma. The colonists were well provided with food and arms. A few hours after their departure someone telegraphed the Secretary of the Interior, who made a requisition for troops, and Gen. Pope ordered Major Bennett, Commander of Fort Reno, Indian Territory, to send all the available troops to the Oklahoma country to intercept them. The cavalry started so as to meet the "boomers" on the ground, for the purpose of ejecting them.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

The report came up Tuesday that Mark Greenlee and another young man had frozen to death in the Territory at the Jones cattle camp. The person who brought the news said that the boys had been riding their range, got very cold, and returned to the dugout, where they found the fire out and no matches, and finally becoming exhausted, laid down and were frozen, and their bodies were found next day. Mr. Greenlee, Mark's father, thinks the rumor a mistake as Mark is not at the Jones ranch but at Tomlin & Webb's camp. Joe Greenlee went down to learn the facts Monday night.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

DIED. A little son of Mrs. McCalluma widow lady who resides at the mouth of Posey Creek, in Pleasant Valley Townshipwhile sliding on the ice on the river last Thursday broke through and was drowned. A man who was chopping wood nearby heard the boy scream for help, but before he had time to reach the river bank, the boy had disappeared beneath the ice. A number of the neighbors were immediately summoned and every effort made to rescue the boy, but it was some time before his body could be found, and he had probably been dead about a half hour when taken out. Democrat.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

The Good Templars installed their officers for the ensuing quarter on last Friday evening as follows.

W. C. T.: Frank W. Finch.

W. V. T.: Mrs. N. J. Lundy.

W. Secretary: Chas. Jenkins.

W. F. Secretary: D. C. Beach.

W. T.: Mrs. A. Hamilton.

P. W. C. T.: S. B. Davis.

W. M.: Miss Alice Corson.

W. I. G.: Miss Ella Rounds.

W. O. G.: Geo. Case.

W. Assistant Secretary: Miss Lena Walrath.

W. D. M.: Wm. Lorton.

W. R. S.: Miss Lucy Cairns.

W. L. S.: Miss Rose Rounds.

W. C.: James A. Cairns.

Organist: Lola Silliman.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Bard & Harris are now cosily fixed up in their new office back of Harter's drug store. This firm by liberal advertising and obliging treatment of customers are gaining an enviable reputation as land and loan agents, and are gentlemen with whom it is a pleasure to do business.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Post No. 85, G. A. R., meets at Odd Fellow's hall every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. All comrades in good standing are cordially invited to attend.

J. E. SNOW, Adjutant. H. W. STUBBLEFIELD, Post Commander.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Commissioner Walton returned Wednesday of last week from a visit to relatives in Douglas County. He stopped over in Topeka to have a word with Gov. Glick about the sheriff appointment, but arrived too late.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

MARRIED. Married at the residence of C. A. Bliss, January 31st, 1883, by Rev. J. Cairns, Mr. Thos. W. Forter and Miss Lizzie M. Allen.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Will Wilson and Ez. Nixon went up to Topeka Wednesday and will spend two weeks among our law makers.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Timme, the Tailor, went up to Newton Tuesday afternoon to look after his business interests there.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Rob. Phelps and lady were in the city Wednesday. Bob is looking well and keeps business booming.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

McDermott & Johnston have removed to the Manning building over the post office.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

The fate of Cobb, the boy who was lynched at Winfield on Wednesday last, was a sad, but a deserved one. He stated just before he was hung that it was reading the sensational narratives of the exploits of Frank and Jesse James that led him to destruction. We have frequently seen Atchison boys pouring over these works of the devil, and afterward imitating the supposed exploits of the James boys in their play. This is extremely dangerous, and the sooner the fact is impressed upon the youthful mind that these men were not heroes, but brutal, cowardly robbers and murderers, the better it will be for the rising generation. All such books and plays should be suppressed, and that murder and robbery is heroic eradicated from the youthful mind, by a vigorous application of the paternal slipper. Let the boys learn that honest, patient labor is heroic, and that dishonesty and crime are despicable, but keep forever out of their reach these untrue stories that have already ruined so many.

Atchison Champion.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

The investigation by the Coroner on the body of young Cobb was commenced Thursday morning and lasted until Friday noon. The courtroom was constantly thronged with people during the inquest. The Coroner secured the services of Judge Tipton as attorney and David C. Beach as clerk. Below we give a synopsis of the evidence.

The first witness put upon the stand was Frank W. Finch, who knew nothing whatever of the occurrence until told in the morning, when he notified the Coroner, and they together repaired to the scene of the hanging.

Sheriff McIntire was the next witness called. He stated that the deceased was brought in the evening before and placed in his custody by Deputy Taylor. He made a bed and fixed him comfortably for the night, leaving on one pair of shackles. Mrs. Shenneman and several others were allowed to enter the jail and look at the prisoner. About ten o'clock the crowd in the office were requested to retire, and they did so. Mr. Wm. Shenneman and Deputy Taylor remained to assist the Sheriff, should anything occur. Mr. Shenneman is a police officer in Bay City, Michigan, and though his feelings were not of the kindest toward the prisoner, he said he would do all in his power to protect him from violence.

The prisoner was taken from the jail about half past two o'clock in the morning, when all fear of such a visit had subsided, and Mr. Shenneman and Deputy Taylor had retired to the house, just across the walk. Sheriff McIntire was sitting by the stove, where he had been sitting for about a half an hour, when the front door was jimmied open and twelve or fourteen men appeared outside. Four of them, with revolvers drawn, rushed in and the leader ordered him to throw up his hands. The request was instantaneously complied with. The leader then said to the other three: "Keep your revolvers right on him! If he moves a hand, put a hole through him! Do only as I order!" He then asked where the keys were, and on the Sheriff hesitating to reply, said, "Blow him through if he don't answer!" McIntire said they were in his pocket, and the captain demanded their immediate delivery to him. The Sheriff took down his hands, but was ordered to again raise one of them; with the other, he took the keys out and handed them over. The captain then stepped forward, threw the jail door open, and said, "No. 1, 2, and 3 to your posts!" And three men came right in and walked into the jail. He then ordered, "Reserve, guard the door!" The three men soon came out leading the prisoner. The witness heard no words spoken in the jail.

The men in charge of the Sheriff and the captain stayed at the office door for about five minutes. The captain demanded: "Do you promise you won't follow us?" No answer was immediately given, and the captain shouted "Halt!" to the men on the sidewalk with the prisoner. He then turned to the Sheriff again and said, "Now say you won't follow us, and say it d d quick!" The other three left, but he stayed in the door, with revolver drawn, for a moment, when he again ordered, "Command halt! Send me two men!" The men came and the leader left. The two men guarded the Sheriff about five minutes, when they pulled the office door shut and left. The witness said the office door was not locked when the men came in, and that the first thing he heard on its being thrown open was, "Throw up your hands!" He made no resistance; did not think it policy to do so, though he had a revolver on his person. He was alarmed, for he had dispelled the expectation of any such visit at that late hour. The leader gave his commands in a loud but distinct voice, and the Sheriff could see the bullets in every revolver as it was pointed at him, and he instantly concluded that the men holding them meant business. He could not recognize a single man, black cloths being tied over their faces with only eye-holes cut therein. There seemed to be no attempt at disguising their clothingsome being dressed in dark and some light. He could not recognize the voice of the leaderthe only one who spokebut said it was rather a deep, coarse voice.

After the maskers had retired, Deputy Taylor came in, and the Sheriff put on an overcoat and said they would follow up if possible. The crowd with the prisoner was not visible in any direction when they started, but they succeeded in finding the place where the victim was hanging, but all was deathly stillness and not a living soul in any direction. After ascertaining that the man's life was entirely extinct, they returned to the jail and went to bed about five o'clock.

The Sheriff stated that he did not have the least apprehension when the prisoner was lodged in jail the evening before of his being taken by lynchers, and intended to take him before a magistrate the next morning for a preliminary examination.

Deputy Taylor took the stand at the conclusion of Mr. McIntire's testimony. He said he left Wichita with the prisoner in a carriage about 8 o'clock p.m., Tuesday evening, arriving at the jail in this city about the same hour Wednesday evening. The driver lost the road near El Paso and they wandered around on the prairie for some time, but struck the trail again and brought up at Mulvane just at daylight. His intention was to reach Winfield about 4 o'clock Tuesday morning, but their losing the way prevented it. Mr. Taylor's understanding of the situation was that everything had quieted down, and it was perfectly safe to bring him here. He had not the least intimation that a lynching would occur Wednesday night until, while in the house, he heard a noise and went out and discovered that the jail was being entered by masked men. He walked around in front of the office and was suddenly "held up" by two black maskers, who, with revolvers thrust in his face, ordered him to keep his mouth shut, and said, "You beat us Saturday night, but you can't do it this time! We're organized!" He offered no resistance, for he saw that they were determined, and thought that they would even disable him to accomplish their purpose. He had no idea as to the identity of the men who guarded him.

Marshal Herrod was next called, and stated that he had no knowledge whatever of any intention to lynch the prisoner, and knew nothing of his being hung until morning. He visited the jail on the evening before and saw the prisoner, but everything seemed so quiet and orderly that he went home about eleven o'clock and retired.

James A. Cairns then took the witness stand. He testified that he did not know the prisoner would be hung that night, but to satisfy his curiosity, stayed up with a number of others to see the performance, if it came off at all. He, as all others, recognized none of the maskers.

T. R. Timme, Joseph O'Hare, and John Hudson were put on the witness stand, but were only a few of the many persons who followed the procession as spectators, and their account of the affair was substantially the same as that contained in the COURIER's second edition last week and which appears on the fourth page in this issue.

Geo. Emerson, John Nicholas, J. P. Short, John Riley, and James Bethel were also called as witnesses, but were all enjoying peaceful slumber at the time of the lynching, and were merely at the jail to see the prisoner on the evening before.

The following is the verdict of the Coroner's jury.

"An investigation began at Winfield, in Cowley County, Kansas, on the first day of February, 1883, and continued to February second, before me, H. L. Wells, Coroner of said county, on the body of Charles Cobb, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereunto subscribed. The said jurors, upon their oaths, do say, That the said Charles Cobb came to his death on the morning of February first, 1883, by being hung by the neck from the R. R. bridge of the K. C. L. and S. R. R. across the Walnut River, in Cowley County, Kansas, at the hands of parties unknown to the jury. In testimony whereof the said jurors have hereunto set their hands, this 2nd day of February, 1883. T. R. Bryan, A. E. Baird, James A. Cooper, S. C. Smith, Henry Brown, A. D. Hendricks.

"Attest: H. L. Wells, Coroner."

The following telegram was received from Cobb's father by Coroner Wells in answer to a message informing the father of his son's death.

"VALLEY FALLS, KANSAS, February 2nd, 1883.

"H. L. WELLS, Winfield, Kansas:

"Will you box my son and send him by express to this place? If not, hold him until I come. C. M. COBB."

The remains were placed in a casket and sent to Valley Falls on the Santa Fe train Friday afternoon.

Deputy Taylor informs us that the prisoner was quite talkative while he was being brought down from Wichita, and exceedingly abusive. He said Shenneman was the fifth man he had killed, and he was glad he had killed him. That he expected to get away, and wanted to kill five more men before he died, mentioning Jacobus, the school teacher, Frank Finch, and Taylor as four of them. He seemed to talk in the most cold blooded manner of murder and revenge. When Taylor examined his shackles before taking him from the Wichita jail, he found them cut, and put on two new pairs; but left the old ones on, saying nothing about his discovery. Several times on the road, the prisoner tried to get Taylor to take off the shackles on one pretext and another, but the Deputy kept him heavily ironed just the same. He showed no signs whatever of weakening during all his captivity until he made the confession in the jail on Wednesday evening to Mrs. Shenneman.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

A few leading citizens met Mr. Scoville and Mr. Conklin at the Brettun House Tuesday evening at which samples of the new process sorghum sugar were exhibited, the process explained, the advisability of the establishment of a sugar factory discussed. The samples were very fine and satisfactory and the gentlemen present expressed the fullest confidence in the matter and a belief that a sugar factory here will not only pay largely but be of the greatest value to the farmers of the county and business of the city. The business will be further considered. Samples of the sugar are left at the COURIER office, and a barrel of it will be sent to Wallis & Wallis, grocers of this city.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Frank Finch tells a good joke on M. L. Robinson, and which portrays certain traits in the gentleman's character so clearly that we reproduce it.

Frank and Troup were coming into town, Monday evening, before the meeting. When passing near M. L.'s house they were hailed, and that worthy came rushing up to the buggy, stuck his head under Troup's nose in that confidential manner so peculiarly his own, and said: "We've got 'em on the hip! Now don't be too strong anti-prohibition. We want to go slow. Just keep cool; we've got the resolutions!" He had his resolutions, and he has them yetin his pocket. By the way, how do the anti-prohibition boys, who turned out so nobly at his solicitation, like the way he kicked them overboard and flopped back to the "glorious cause of prohibition, so near to his heart?" His eagle eye must have detected a nickel on the side of prohibition that he hadn't seen when he was negotiating with them.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

The new Board of Directors of the Winfield Building & Loan Association, eleven in number, met at the secretary's office Tuesday evening and elected officers for the current year. H. G. Fuller was elected President; D. L. Kretsinger, Vice President; J. E. Platter, Treasurer; and J. F. McMullen, Secretary. The entire board was present. The new series is being rapidly taken.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Wheat today (Wednesday) brings 75 cents for best. Hogs $5.60 to $6.00. Corn 30 cents. Butter brings 20 cents per pound and eggs 25 cents per dozen. Chickens live, 6 to 7 cents per pound; dressed 7 to 8 cents. Potatoes $1.25 per bushel. Apples $1.40.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

A petition numerously signed, has been received from residents of Vernon Township, protesting against the exercise of lynch law in punishing crimes. It will be published next week.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Mr. Gessler is one of our best law-abiding citizens and calls to give us a word of encouragement in the cause of supporting the law, and endorsing Hackney's letter.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

The township election in Walnut resulted in the election of T. A. Blanchard over his Democratic competitor for trustee by one majority. D C. Beach was elected clerk.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Dexter Township re-elected S. H. Wells, trustee, giving him 99 out of the 105 votes cast. This was a fitting compliment to an efficient officer.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Council met in regular session, Mayor Troup in the chair. Roll called. Present: Council- men Wilson, McMullen, and Gary; absent, Councilman Read.

Minutes of last regular meeting, and of the adjourned meetings of Jan. 16 and 17 were read and approved.

The bill of F. M. Freeland for 75 cents for board furnished city poor, was approved and recommended to the county commissioners for payment.

The following bills were presented and allowed and ordered paid.

A. T. Shenneman, board city prisoners: $1.50.

Frank W. Finch, Assistant Marshal, January: $15.00.

Beach & Denning, rent, Council room: $3.00

City officers' salary, January: $67.00.

Wm. Moore & Sons, well stone: $5.00.

The City Attorney was instructed to inquire into and report upon, by ordinance or other- wise, the question whether those taking out licenses as movers of buildings cannot be protected as such licensees.

On motion Council adjourned. M. G. TROUP, Mayor.

Attest: L. H. WEBB, City Clerk.

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Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

For Sale or Exchange. 120 acre farm, 35 acres, in good cultivation, frame house, 1-1/2 acres orchard, good well, No. 1 land, 5 miles west of Cedarvale, in Cowley County. Price $800.

For Sale or Exchange. 320 acre farm, 80 acres in cultivation, 2 houses and stables, 3 good wells, 3 acres bearing orchard, splendid location for stock farm. Price $1,000, per 1/4 section, or $2,000, for whole tract.

For Sale or Exchange. 2 houses and lots in Winfield. Price $60 & $300 respectively; will exchange for team in partial payment. S. L. GILBERT, Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Cheapest Pork in town at Packing House Market.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Back bone, ribs, and tenderloin at Holmes & Son's today.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

A splendid line of cook stoves at Horning & Whitney's.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Best XXXX Flour at $2 per 100 lbs., Blue Front, Udall.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Solid gilt lined black walnut picture frame 60 cents. Red Front.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Scarfs, nubias, hoods, and underwear at Blue Front, Udall.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Cheapest dress goods in Cowley County, at Lightwater's, Udall.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Mince meat choice and nice, 400 lbs. For sale at Wallis & Wallis.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

A small choice farm adjoining Winfield, to rent. James Jordan.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

A good extra Cardigan Jacket, only one dollar. Red front Building.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Children's Scarlet Medicated Vests at the Red Front Building.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Brick. For good brick go to Green's brickyard, near Bliss & Wood's mill.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

No. 1 Warranted Cast Steel Saw only one dollar. Red Front Building.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

We have received 2,000 lbs. Choice solid Head Cabbage. A. T. Spotswood & Co.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

500 lbs. Choice new apple butter by the gallon or pound. Just try it; at Wallis & Wallis.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Try Canon City nut coal for your Base Burners. Sold by G. B. Shaw & Co.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Three or four good work mares wanted. Inquire of A. H. Green. A. Hollingsworth.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

The Red Front Building known as Strahan's New York Bargain House is the place.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Good business house for rent. Possession given on March 1st. Apply to Wallis & Wallis.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

We have received 300 bushels of good Winter Apples for sale. A. T. Spotswood & Co.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

F. K. Raymond, Court Stenographer, will give instruction in shorthand writing. Resi- dence, Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

For rent. Possession is given on March 1st. The property now occupied by Taylor & Taylor on east side Main Street, just South 10th Avenue. This house has three rooms. Rent low. Apply to Wallis & Wallis.

Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

Skipped statement, County Treasurer, quarter ending Dec. 31, 1882, and School Funds.

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Winfield Courier, February 8, 1883.

JOHN H. TOMLIN/WALMER L. WEBB. TOMLIN & WEBB, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERS, WINFIELD, KANSAS. We desire to call your attention to the following prices.

SUGARS: Brown, 8-1/2 to 11 pounds for $1.00.

Coffee "A," 8-1/2 pounds for $1.00.

Granulated, 8 pounds for $1.00.

COFFEES: Rio, 3-1/2 to 8 pounds for $1.00.

COFFEES: Java, 3 pounds for $1.00.

TEAS: Dust, per pound, 20 to 25 cents.

TEAS: Japan, per pound: 35 cents to $1.00.

TEAS: Oolong, Gunpowder, and Young Hyson, per pound: 60 cents.

(A present is given with each pound of Tea.)

Pure Vermont Maple Syrup, per gallon: $1.20.

Sorghum, per gallon: 25 to 50 cents.

Best Carolina Rice, per pound: 12-1/2 cents.

Fresh Buckwheat Flour, both ordinary and self-rising.

We carry a Full Line of Dried Fruits, Raisins, Prunes, Prunelles, Currants, Blackberries, etc., while in can goods we have everything that is in the market, viz: Canned Fruits and Vegetables, Preserves, Jellies, Oysters, Salmon, Lobsters, Sardines, and other Fish, etc.

Our Queensware stock is full and complete, and we defy competition in price.

We pay the highest price in cash or goods for country produce.

Remember the placeEarnest's old stand.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883. Front Page.

Skipped long article by R. C. Story entitled "Kansas Schools."

[PROTEST: VERNON RESIDENTS.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

To the Editor of the Winfield Courier:

SIR: We, the undersigned residents of Vernon Township, solemnly and sincerely enter our protest against such proceedings as were held in Winfield on the morning of Feb. the 1st, viz.: the hanging of Charles Cobb by a mob. We are in favor of punishing crime, but not in favor of mob law.

E. D. Skinner, Henry Hawkins, W. W. Painter, J. T. Prewitt, J. M. Householder, P. Hill, M. Gesler, L. F. Hess, A. H. Miller, Joseph Astor, J. S. Baker, F. H. Werden, T. Thompson, I. B. Corson, P. B. Lee, J. W. Millspaugh, R. Wellman, M. Nixon, L. E. Gault, M. W. Brown, W. L. Pennington, M. Nicholson. George Wilson, L. Gibson, T. B. Ware, Wm. Carter, H. G. Woolley, J. S. Ward, S. E. Case. W. S. Woolly, J. E. Wooley, W. L. Holmes, E. C. Martin.

[CORRESPONDENTS.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Cedar Creek Items.

Geo. Childers will move to Arkansas City.

Larry Guthrie has sold his farm to Mr. Nelson.

Dr. Hart of Cedarvale has skipped, so says rumor.

Lots of newcomers in these parts and more coming.

G. W. Hosmer has rented part of his farm to Mr. Harden, late of Illinois.

Several of the Rock Creek folks started for Oklahoma this week.

Dan Ramey and Mart Wright are both expecting friends from the east.

Frank Shatz has sold his property in Cedarvale to Mr. Legate and is going to Missouri.

Mr. Montgomery, who is feeding cattle on the J. H. Service place, is using up the most of the surplus corn in these parts. He is feeding 250 head, and they are looking fine.

At our primary C. K. Myles was nominated for trustee. By the way, G. W. Bartgis is a candidate for Recorder of Deeds, and if elected, will make a good officer. We think that as this is the first time we have had a candidate out, he will stand a good chance.

[HORSE DISEASE.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

A NEW HORSE DISEASE.

A Little Rock special says advices from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations, Indian Territory, say an unknown and fatal disease is creating great ravages among the horses. They fall dead without warning. There is great alarm among those in the neighborhood owning large herds of horses.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

A COSTLY LUXURY.

Officials at the Indian Bureau assert that Captain Payne's raids upon Oklahoma lands in the Indian Territory have already cost the government $200,000, and this expenditure might have been saved if Congress had adopted the repeated recommendations of the Commission- ers, providing punishment for trespassers upon public lands.

[DICK GLASS - CREEK FACTIONS.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Dick Glass, the noted desperado whom our late Sheriff Shenneman arrested here last fall and who escaped from him when he was being escorted to Fort Smith to be delivered up to the authorities for trial, is still at large and committing murders and depredations in the Territory. He was one of the leaders of the Spiechie party in the late outbreak, and in the amnesty arrangement which followed, he was not included. Now both parties are agreed that he should be killed on sight.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

A dispatch from Muskogee, Indian Territory, says there are strong indications of a renewal of hostilities between the contending bands of Creeks. George Parker has been appointed commander of the Checote faction, and has called in all available men, and, it is said, will attack the consolidated forces of the Spiechies, now camped about fifteen miles from Okmulgee, as soon as the weather is favorable. Both parties are buying all the Winchester rifles and other weapons and ammunition they can obtain, and it looks as though trouble may result.

[MONUMENTAL FRAUDS.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

We do not believe half of the gentlemen called "monumental frauds" by the COURIER are such. We believe the originators of the petition formed a majority of the number of those who understood the object. Enterprise.

Please notice, Mr. Enterprise, that the COURIER did not call anybody a "monumental fraud." You find that expression only in the headlines, which read as follows: "A MONU- MENTAL FRAUD, WITH AN ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH GLICKERIES IN WIN- FIELD." Then follows the petition to Hackney. No other construction can be placed upon the words than that we pronounced the petition a monumental fraud, which it really was. But if the term is considered personal, it could mean but one person, for it is used in the singular number, "a monumental fraud." If such construction were placed upon it, no one need hesitate in pointing out the particular person whom the coat would fit.

[SWINDLERS.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

We clip the following relating to our friend, T. S. Green, who lives ten miles up the Walnut, from the Chicago Tribune of the 10th.

At least one Granger has got even with Flemming & Merriam. His name is T. S. Green, and he lives in Udall, Cowley County, Kansas. A few days before the Tribune exposed the methods of these menor these alleged menGreen shipped to them direct twenty car loads of corn, exacting an advance of $100 on each car load, or $2,000 on the lot. Nine car loads had been disposed of before the exposure was made, but the remaining eleven were in storage in Armour, Dole & Co.'s, and Vincent & Co.'s warehouses. After reading the Tribune, the elevator men determined to protect the shipper from the sharks, if possible, and accordingly declined to give the receipts to Flemming & Merriam when they applied for them, on some pretext or another.

Meanwhile they telegraphed to Mr. Goddard, General Freight Agent of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, inquiring who T. S. Green was. Mr. Goddard replied that Green was a responsible farmer. The elevator men were afraid to telegraph to Green direct at first, not knowing him, lest it might transpire that he was merely an agent for Flemming & Merriam. On receipt of Mr. Goddard's telegram they immediately mailed to Green a copy of the Tribune, and he took the first train for Chicago. Yesterday he arrived, and was over-joyed to find that his interests had been protected by men who were utter strangers to him. He brought suit by attachment, and the warehouse receipts were turned over to him. His eleven car-loads of corn had been sold "on the bulge," or for much more than it would bring today, and after figuring up he found that, including the $2,000 advanced before shipment, he was a little ahead on the deal. Farmer Green will return to Southwestern Kansas, on the border of the Indian Territory, with a full purse and a good opinion of Chicago elevators.

Flemming & Merriam were one of those firms lately "set down on" by the Post Office Department as swindlers. They had been in the commission business in Chicago for some years, and had achieved a good reputation in that line. Mr. Green, like many others, shipped his corn to them for sale. The P. O. D. discovered that they, with Kendall & Co., and other firms, had been sending out circulars all over the country inviting men to send them funds with which to operate in grain corners, and that these firms had in this manner received money from various farmers and others all over the country amounting to not less than $200,000, and were simply wholesale swindlers. The Department ordered that no money orders should be paid them and no registered packages delivered to them. This opened the eyes of those who had sent them money or shipped grain to them, and there was a rush to recover. The swindlers skipped out for Canada.

As soon as Mr. T. S. Green got wind of their character, he started for Chicago, with the above result. He expresses the warmest thanks and gratitude to Mr. H. K. Elkins, of the firm of Vincent & Co., St. Louis Elevator, and to the Commission firm of S. H. McCrea & Co., 169 Washington street, Chicago, for their noble, effective, and disinterested assistance ren- dered him, and recommends them as entitled to the highest esteem and confidence of shippers.

We congratulate our friend Green on his energy and success in beating Chicago swindlers.

[HACKNEY'S BILLS PASSED.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

D. A. MILLINGTON, Esq., Winfield, Kansas.

DEAR SIR: My bill locating the Feeble Minded Institute at Winfield, and appropriating fifty thousand dollars to build necessary buildings, passed the Senate today by a handsome majority. Yours truly, W. P. HACKNEY.

P.S. My bill changing our terms of court passed the House today and awaits the Governor's signature. HACKNEY.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

SKIPPED A LONG LETTER BY "C. M. A." FROM KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, RE HACKNEY'S REPLY TO THE PETITIONERS...GATHER IT WAS SOME ADVOCATE OF PROHIBITION, AND DID NOT AMOUNT TO MUCH.

[PERSONALS.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

The Wichita Daily Times has ceased to exist.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

The new district court bill gives Cowley three terms per year.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Sheriff Gary went east Tuesday morning and brought Colgate in.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Jack Hyden has been very sick for some days, but is now improving.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Jim Rothrock, Seeley's live young merchant, was in the city Tuesday.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Fifteen days more will stop the wonderful flow of statesmanship at the capital.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Allen B. Lemmon came down from Newton Monday and returned in the afternoon.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Commissioner Walton was in the city Tuesday, on business connected with county affairs.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

M. Hahn returned this week from a two week's visit with friends in Topeka and Junction City.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Mrs. Jacob Seeley and family left this week for Iowa, where they will locate permanently.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Taylor & Taylor will remove March first into the Jillson building, two doors north of their old stand.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Frazee Bros., have opened up a new harness shop in the Smith building on East Ninth Avenue.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

A. J. Burgaur left for the east this morning. He will visit New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati in the interests of the Bee Hive.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Petitions containing over fifteen hundred names were sent to our representatives at Topeka last week praying for railroad legislation.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Read Robinson, the fat and jolly tourist, has been spending a few days visiting relatives here. The boys always have a hearty welcome for Read.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

J. Wade McDonald returned from Colorado last Thursday, bringing with him his family, who have sojourned there for the past six months.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

The Seeley Choral Society will repeat their entertainment Friday evening. It was well received Saturday evening and is an excellent entertainment.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Mr. J. C. Sample is working Cowley County in the interests of the "Vigilant Insurance Company," being a concern for the insurance of stock and farm animals.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Cal. Ferguson has furnished his livery barn with the best outfit of horses ever gathered together in this city. It is a pleasure for horsemen to look through his barn.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

We received a pleasant call from Mr. Geo. S. Gillett, of Udall, Friday. Mr. Gillett is a sturdy defender of free trade, and earnestly opposed to any but a tariff for revenue.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Joe went down and found Mark Greenlee all right and looking very lively and active for a dead man. The rumor of his having frozen to death was without foundation.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

The mumps have taken here like an epidemic, and heads as well defined as a Poland China porker are no uncommon thing. Even printers are not exempt, and the COURIER force has its share of the bid head.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Senator Hackney ventured to come down Saturday, without a body-guard. But little excitement prevailed, and he returned Monday. During his stay his office looked like a reception room and was thronged with citizens.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Henry Paris will continue his street sprinkling contract of last year through the coming summer. No one ever did this work so well as Hank, and with better satisfaction to the citi- zens. He never attempts anything that he don't do right.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

We wonder that the Telegram critic who discovered Hackney's "lamentable ignorance," and who is so familiar with Dickens, did not notice the striking similarity of Mayor Troup's "simplicity," in his open letter, and Uriah Heep's "humbleness."

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Dick Glass, the noted desperado, has been captured by the U. S. Marshal at Fort Smith, and will possibly be held for keeps this time.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Frank Manny came near losing one of his hot-houses Sunday night. Someone had laid a wet coat on one of the flues, and during the night it caught fire. The fire spread to the greenhouse and before it was discovered much damage had been done.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

The different departments of J. B. Lynn's store covers more space than any establishment south or west of Topeka. The amount of business done by him during the last six months would make the common country merchants' eyes bug out to contemplate.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Over in Missouri the other day a celluloid comb exploded and tore up a lady's back hair. Things are getting mighty explosive now-a-days. A man exploded in our presence, lately, in such a violent manner that we were unable to account for it. It now seems probable that he had been feeding on celluloid combs.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

During the past week banker Robinson has fretted and fumed and worried himself nearly into a fever over some fancied reference to him in late issues of this paper. He has grown hollow-eyed and haggard, and mopes around seeking to inflict people with the tale of his wrongs. At first he found a few sympathetic listeners, but now they merely smile and wag their heads when he raves. We, together with other friends who never forsake the afflicted, hope to work a thorough reformation before we leave him. In this undertaking we have the best wishes of the whole community.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Col. J. P. Sanford's lecture on "Old Times and New," was highly appreciated by the large audience in attendance Friday evening. Having traveled all over South America, crossed the ocean many times, and visited all places of note upon the Eastern continent, besides taking a trip around the worldin fact, as he expressed it, having "eaten bread in every known country the sun has shone upon"he is eminently qualified for his position, and perhaps, as a lecturer on travels, is without a peer.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Harry Pierce, a fourteen year old son of C. C. Pierce, of Pleasant Valley Township, met with a serious accident last Friday. He was riding a pony, which reared up and fell over a pole with the boy underneath. The boy had the bones in his right arm at and near the elbow joint so broken and splintered that his physicians, Drs. Emerson and Mendenhall, found it necessary to amputate the elbow joint. The operation was performed on Saturday morning.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Tell W. Walton, of the Caldwell Post, and Marion Blair, a jolly cattle man, left their autographs on our table Monday, together with one of the most wretched-looking, ungainly conglomerations of curved lines we have ever seen. The boys said it was a pencil sketch of a range-fed Texas steer. It looked as if it had been subsisting on a cockleburr and barbed wire during the winter, and that the melancholy days of its existence were fast drawing to a close.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Mr. Gailord Davis, a young man living west of town about four miles, became insane last week and is now extremely violent. The first symptoms were noticed last Thursday, when he exhibited intense excitement on religious subjects, and soon became so vicious that it took six men to hold him. He will probably be sent to the asylum. No cause is given for the malady.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Mayor Troup's letter on Senator Hackney is a wonderful document. Withering in sarcasm and running over with scintillating invective, it metaphorically dangles the mangled scalp of our Senator before a horrified public. We understand he wrote it with a stick. What would it have been if he had written it with a steel pen? The thought is too saddening for contemplation.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Last week's COURIER made some unhappy souls hereabouts. One of them came down and stopped his paper, his brother's paper, and his uncle's paper, and from indications we were lead to believe that he would have stopped the whole edition had it been the right time of the moon. Our subscribers will rejoice with us that the publication is still allowed to go on.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Roadmaster Prowell, of the K. C., L. & S., leaves for Washington Territory this week. His family go for a few weeks visit to friends in Fort Scott, after which they will join him there. Mrs. Prowell and her accomplished sister, Miss Amy Scothorn, have borne a prominent part in the social life of our city and will be greatly missed.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

DIED. Father Ives, one of the oldest residents of the county and of Ninnescah Township, died Monday evening. He was in his ninety-fifty year, and was stout and hearty up to ninety. He had been all his life strictly temperate in everything, never using tobacco or liquor in any form.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

The Wichita Leader has revived after a long silence, and is this time a neat little five column weekly. It is edited by two bright boys, one of whom is George McDonnell, formerly of Winfield, and some years ago an apprentice on the Telegram.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Deputy Taylor received a letter from Cobb's father last week in which he requested that his son's pony and gun be turned over to Mrs. Shenneman, to be disposed of as she saw fit. Cobb's mother is said to be very much prostrated.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

DIED. Timothy Hart, a man well known to many of our people, and who was at one time in partnership with J. M. Dever in the bakery business, suicided Monday evening by shooting himself through the heart with a thirty-two calibre revolver. About six months ago he and Mrs. Smith, of Vernon Township, were married. He soon exhibited signs of crankiness and ran his wife's son off the place. This caused a separation and Hart came to town. Monday he told several persons that he was going to kill himself. In the afternoon he went out to his wife's place. On the way out he met several persons and informed them that unless he could make a settlement, he would kill himself. He went to the house, went in and sat down imme- diately in front of his wife. He then asked her if she would give him some shoats for a piece of land he had, and whether, if he went out of the house, she would let him come in again; that he hadn't anything to live for and nothing to live on, and asked if she would give him enough money to buy him a coffin. The woman sat sewing, with her head down, and did not see his movements. Her daughter, Dolly, who was sitting near, saw him draw the pistol, put it to his heart, and fire. He fell over on the floor and died in a few minutes. The Coroner was summoned and a jury empaneled as follows: A. A. Knox, foreman; Wm. Rose, J. M. Jarvis, J. A. Kerr, M. J. Land, J. S. Baker. The verdict was that he came to his death by his own hands. Hart's mind had been unsettled for several years.

Mrs. Hart has had more than the usual amount of trouble in her household. Her first husband was killed by a threshing machine, and now her second husband kills himself.

[COLGATE AGAIN ARRESTED.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

For some time past Bliss & Wood have been perfecting the papers upon which to again try Colgate. He seemed to have got wind of it and before daylight Monday morning appeared at New Salem station six miles east of town, where he was observed to get on the train. He seemed tired and heated, and his actions were such that a man at once came down and reported the circumstance. The papers were got up, charging him with arson and grand larceny, and the officers at Ottawa were telegraphed to arrest him, which they did. The case is a continuation of the one on which he was tried before, and a grave doubt exists in the minds of several of our lawyers as to whether it can be made to stick or not.

Bliss & Wood are acting as the agents of the insurance company in bringing the prosecutions.

[RAILROAD PROJECT.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

The Missouri Winfield and South Western railroad project has met with encourage- ment and substantial backing far beyond the most sanguine expectation of its projectors. The counties all along the line are taking hold with a will, and wealthy eastern roads which are anxious for southwestern connections are becoming interested. Never yet has a railroad been started in Kansas under more favorable circumstances, and with brighter prospects. It opens a direct way to the coal fields of Missouri, through one of the finest regions of the state, on through Winfield and Geuda to the cattle trade of the Territory and finally will go on through Oklahoma to the Rio Grande River. We expect within eighteen months to hear the whistle of the M. W. & S. W. locomotives, which means a new life and big boom for Winfield.

[WINFIELD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: ENTERTAINMENT.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

The Drama.

The Winfield Library Association will give an amateur dramatic entertainment at the Opera House on the evening of Thursday, March 1st. Some of the best amateur talent in the city will appear and two plays will be enacted. The particulars will be given next week. It is the object of the Library Association to open and keep open a reading room in some conve- nient place on Main Street, and this entertainment is a move in that direction. The ladies of this Association are doing a large amount of gratuitous work to make this institution useful and valuable to our city and everyone should second their efforts and render every assistance they may ask.

[ATTACHING PORTIONS OF CITY.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Directions to Voters.

It is directed by the Board of Education of the City of Winfield, Kansas, that the territory adjacent to the city, attached for school purposes, be attached to said city for voting purposes as follows, to-wit: That portion of such adjacent territory lying west of a line running north and south with the center of Main Street in said city be attached to the second ward of said city for voting purposes, and that portion of such territory lying east of a line running north and south with the center of Main Street be attached to the first ward of said city for voting purposes.

[MARKETS.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

The Markets. Wheat today (Wednesday) brings 82 cents per bushel. Corn brings 32 cents per bushel. Hogs bring $6.00 per hundred. The produce market is steady and strong. Eggs bring 20 cents. Butter 20 cents. Butter will probably go down before Saturday as it has already fallen in the east.

[PERSONALS.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

We learn of a very bad case of destitution in the south part of town. A family by the name of Lewis, comprising an old lady who is paralyzed and her husband who is sick, a son, nearly dead with the consumption, and a small granddaughter. They want to get back to Pennsyl- vania, their old home. The Commissioners were applied to for transportation, but refused to furnish it, preferring to keep them in the poor house. Our charitable citizens should look after this case.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Judge Gans was extremely jubilant Wednesday, having made three pair of souls happy, as follows.

MARRIED. T. J. Huff and Margaret A. Irwin.

MARRIED. Geo. C. Marriott, and Delia L. Stone.

MARRIED. J. E. Mulvany and Annie Starbuck.

During the first of the week he issued marriage licenses as follows.

F. W. Beaman and Carrie Coon.

J. C. Harris and Maggie E. Hammill.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Senator Hackney has been overrun with letters and numerously signed petitions thanking him for his stand on the prohibition question. The people are with him in his stand for law and order as against hypocrisy and Shylocks.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

There was an ice gorge in the Walnut Wednesday, just above the mill. The river rose five feet in about fifteen minutes when the gorge moved out. The river is rising rapidly.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Miss Alice Dunham, cousin of the writer, returned to her home in Lincoln, Nebraska, Wednesday afternoon, having spent the past year in this city with relatives.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

High water is worrying the railroad companies. A bridge near Harper is gone and the bridge across the Arkansas at Oxford is in a dangerous condition.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Mrs. Millington returned yesterday from Newton, where she had been staying for two weeks on account of the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Lemmon.

[TOWNSHIP ELECTIONS.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Township Elections.

The following township officers were declared elected by the Board of Commissioners at their canvass of the vote on Tuesday.

BEAVER: S. D. Jones, trustee; J. H. Watts, clerk; E. F. Wright, treasurer; J. D. Hammond, J. P.; constables W. C. Spruens and W. McCulloch.

BOLTON: P. A. Lorry, trustee; C. Cipher, clerk; A. J. Kimmel, treasurer; A. J. Gilbert, J. P.; Al Ramsey and J. W. Fagan, constables.

CEDAR: D. Beard, trustee; R. E. Howe, clerk; Jacob Smith, treasurer; W. Rutherford and Jacob Shipman, J. P.'s; Wm. Morgan and E. E. Moore, constables.

CRESWELL: J. B. Nipp, trustee; W. D. Morey, clerk; W. M. Sleeth, treasurer; G. H. McIntire and J. J. Breene, constables.

DEXTER: S. H. Wells, trustee; C. W. Barnes, clerk; C. A. Walker, treasurer; R. J. Gilbert, J. P.; Joseph Church and Thomas Blakely, constables.

FAIRVIEW: R. B. Corson, trustee; Wm. White, clerk; J. H. Curfman, treasurer; M. C. Headrick, J. P.; Abijah Howard and N. E. Darling, constables.

HARVEY: E. Holmes, trustee; H. Glaves, clerk; W. F. Hall, treasurer; W. Smith and

A. M. Moon, J. P's.; G. W. Wingert and S. D. Moon, constables.

LIBERTY: J. A. Cochran, trustee; J. E. Grow, clerk; G. W. Stover, treasurer; W. S. Castor and J. D. Mounts, constables.

MAPLE: Jos. Graham, trustee; A. J. Walch, clerk; C. M. McKinney, treasurer; E. J. Cole, J. P.; J. B. Norman and W. E. Smith, constables.

NINNESCAH: Wm. Sensenney, trustee; J. Craven, clerk; G. S. Cole, treasurer; A. A. Jackson and W. B. Norman, J. P.'s; J. A. Copple and M. June, constables.

OMNIA: D. S. Cogswell, trustee; J. H. Morgan, clerk; J. A. Mitchell, treasurer; E. Harmon, J. P.; J. C. Stratton and J. Gregory, constables.

OTTER: C. R. Myles, trustee; J. W. Aley, clerk; G. W. Bartgis, treasurer; W. H. H. Rathbun, J. P.; W. Nash and J. P. Hosmer, constables.

PLEASANT VALLEY: Ludolphus Holcomb, trustee; Frank A. Chapin, clerk; Daniel Gramm, treasurer; D. S. Sherrard, J. P.; S. Miller and A. Post, constables.

RICHLAND: H. J. Sandfort, trustee; C. H. [?U.?] Bing, clerk; J. R. Cottingham, treasurer; D. C. Stephens and A. D. Kennedy, J. P.'s; S. J. Holloway and A. O. Welfelt, constables.

ROCK: S. Williams, trustee; A. W. Railsbeck, clerk; G. L. Gale, treasurer; Reuben Boothe and M. N. Martindale, J. P.'s; A. B. Tuggle and J. C. Martindale, constables.

SHERIDAN: B. Shriver, trustee; W. H. Funk, clerk; J. C. Partridge, treasurer; A. J. Crumb, J. P.; J. C. Lawrence and C. Hall, constables.

SILVER CREEK: J. M. Hooker, trustee; J. R. Tate, clerk; Johnson Chandler, treasurer; Ed. Pate and Clark Walker, constables.

SILVER DALE: I. D. Harkleroad, trustee; John Algeo, clerk; P. F. Haines, treasurer; R. C. Smith, J. P.; Geo. B. Pratt and Wm. Probasco, constables.

[NOTE: STILL SAYING SILVER DALE....BECAME SILVERDALE LATER!]

SPRING CREEK: Geo. Easton, trustee; Robt. Haines, clerk; Albert Gritkey, treasurer; Samuel Thompson, J. P.; Robt. Shinn and Frank Schofield, constables.

TISDALE: Hugh McKibben, trustee; J. W. Conrad, clerk; Alex. Cairns, treasurer; E. P. Young, J. P.; W. L. Holmes and Scott Wooley, constables.

VERNON: E. D. Skinner, trustee; P. B. Lee, clerk; Thos. Thompson, treasurer; H. H. Martin, J. P.; W. L. Holmes and Scott Wooley, constables.

WALNUT: T. A. Blanchard, trustee; D. C. Beach, clerk; Joel Mack, treasurer; J. L. King, J. P.; J. Mentch and J. C. Montfort, constables.

[CORRESPONDENTS.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Valley View Items.

Wheat looks badly.

The care of stock and keeping up good fires seems to be the principal occupation this cold winter.

Mrs. S. D. Smith received serious injury by falling a few days since, which it is feared will confine her to the bed for a number of days. Her Sabbath school class will greatly miss their teacher until she is able to meet them again.

A number of young people have been giving themselves special training, and on Thursday evening (Feb. 15th) will give a public entertainment in our schoolhouse. The drama "Bread on the Waters," with songs and other exercises will be given. To those who will be fortunate in getting into the crowded house, it will be an evening pleasantly spent.

While we are not uninterested spectators of Winfield's agitation, we hope prohibition will not suffer for want of charity on the part of its friends. We cannot believe that the good sense of the masses are in favor of either free or licensed saloons to infuriate our sons to madness and drag them down to drunkard's graves. With all of the evidence before our eyes, are we willing to re-open this traffic and fill our jails with criminals and our poor houses with paupers? No, no! This cannot be. Our young men are most certainly worth saving. Do not let us lead them into temptation.

This is a wide-awake, moral community, so much enjoyed by its people and eagerly sought by those seeking homes. The school is held eight months in the year. Mr. Wm. Staggers, late of Illinois, is the successful teacher. Then we have a Sabbath school every Sabbath afternoon that does not burn out during the summer or freeze out during the winter; besides having excellent officers and teachers and full supply of bibles and testaments. It has a good organ and scholars that know how to use it. During the winter months, one of the chief attractions and a source of much social enjoyment and mental improvement, is the lyceum which is held each Thursday evening. The aged and young together make these occasions of much interest and a source of great improvement on the part of the young. Here the young learners display their talent on the organ, the young Demosthenes in declamation; and the young men learn to preside with dignity and intelligence. The latter attainment, which is of great importance, can only be acquired by practice, and it is the opinion of the writer, that a greater number of young men are profiting by these opportunities in the rural districts than from an equal population in towns and cities. Ye farmer boys, be not discour- aged. In our own country more great and good men have come from the country than cities. At the last lyceum the following question was discussed: "Is Conscience a True Guide to Conduct?" As leaders, Wm. Staggers affirmed and J. F. Martin took the negative. A number of persons participated. . . . M.

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Skipped long poem, "Reflections," written by Mrs. R. D. Jillson.

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Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

Mr. Avis is better, so I hear.

Look out for valentines, girls.

Mr. Chappell has threshed his millet.

What glorious weather, bright sunshine and blue sky "trimmed" with cloudy, foamy white.

A brother of Mrs. W. C. Douglass has come to Salem to stay. He arrived on the Sunday evening train.

Mr. Earnest Johnson recently hauled a load of hay to Winfield that weighed two tons and seventy pounds. Pretty good for one team.

Miss Etna Dalgarn is in the city helping nurse her "measley" brother. We hope he may soon recover from that disease that is so very severe sometimes.

There is to be a little social party at Mrs. J. J. Johnson's tonight (Friday) and I have to send regrets for I cannot go. I know those that attend will be entertained in an excellent manner.

Mr. Miller and wife took a trip to Cambridge not long since, looking for a suitable place to summer his sheep. We do not like to lose good neighbors. They have not yet decided where they will go.

Mr. Baker Jr. has been around in Salem with the petition, asking our men to sign it, praying our Legislature to reduce the R. R. fare to 3 cents per mile. Hope it will be done.

Mr. Pixley is suffering with the fever but it is not dangerous. It is of the "Oklaho" type. Several others are just as bad, and some since they heard the soldiers would drive them out are better or may be considered convalescent.

Mr. Wesley McEwen and wife are home from their bridal tour in Iowa and will settle down to housekeeping right away. They experienced some very cold weather while there as the thermometer chronicled 40 degrees below zero. Mrs. McEwen brings tidings of our old time neighbors and friends, the Parker family. We rejoice to hear they are well and doing well.

Plenty of people attended the Prairie Home meetings, and quite an interest was mani- fested, but the last week was so bad I did not learn how they closed. Some of the neighbors in that vicinity are suffering with the mumps. Mrs. J. W. and Mr. W. B. Hoyland are victims to them at present and sometimes their sufferings are intense. They "contracted" them at meeting.

With many regrets that he could no longer stay, Mr. E. T. Vance left for home on Thursday last; will go via Iowa, and anticipates a fine time there. He seemed charmed with Salem and its inhabitants and intends to come back in the not far-distant future. The boys gave an oyster supper in his honor at the home of Mr. G. D. Vance, and all seemed to enjoy themselves and were perfectly delighted over the excellent way the delicious bi-valves were served. There were different kinds of cake and other goodies to make the supper complete.

Quite a number of us, armed with oyster, crackers, and cake, sailed into the cozy home of Mrs. Wolf and her family one evening last week as a farewell party to Mr. Vance. They had been informed of it by some "little bird," and the light streamed forth from several rooms and inside was warmth and a hearty welcome to us all. The time passed with music, joke, and song until the evening was far spent. But the extension table was brought forth and the odor of various savory viands greeted our nasal appendages and the table fairly groaned beneath the weight of nic-nacsand perhaps some of us were ditto after supper. OLIVIA.

[ELECTION REQUEST: SCHOOL PURPOSES.]

Winfield Courier, February 15, 1883.

RECAP: MAYOR TROUP ISSUED PER REQUEST OF BOARD OF EDUCATION A REQUEST FOR AN ELECTION. WED., FEB. 28, FOR PROPOSITION OF ISSUING $5,000 OF THE BONDS OF SAID CITY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES. GEO. EMERSON, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD, L. D. ZENOR, CLERK OF BOARD.

"For the purpose of paying teachers' wages and improving and repairing school buildings, the laying of sidewalks and improvement of school furniture. . . ."

Election 1st ward: to be held in a building situated on Lot No. 19, in Block No. 129, in said ward. J. C. Fuller, George Emerson, and G. H. Buckman to be judges; John M. Reed and H. E. Silliman to act as clerks.

Election 2nd ward: to be held in a building situated on the rear end of Lot No. 1, in Block No. 109, in said ward. B. F. Wood, A. H. Doane, and T. H. Seward to be judges; L. D. Zenor and J. H. Vance to act as clerks.

[MORE PROTEST: VERNON TOWNSHIP.]

Winfield Courier, February 22, 1883.

VERNON TOWNSHIP, February 14, 1883.

I have been waiting in vain for the papers of Winfield to endorse or condemn the hanging of young Cobb, several days ago. If it was right, why don't the press, the pulpit, and the people endorse it? Why don't the actors unmask in the presence of a grateful people? Why depend upon civil law to repress other mobs and punish criminals? Why not let these good men capture as well as hang their own prisoners? Why have we civil officers sworn to resist these right-doers? Why want these good men to imperil their lives, as they would have done had A. T. Shenneman commanded the fort that night? In a word, why all this clashing of rights, compelling these good men to kill a good officer (as they seemed ready to do) that they might kill a bad man who had killed another good officer?

On the other hand, if it was wrong, why did not the press, the pulpit, and the good people cry out boldly against it, before and after its commission, to prevent it and its repetition? Why did not your city and State officers arrest and punish all disturbers of the peace, and all inciters to mob violence if it took all the officers, good people, and militia of the State to do it? Why did the preacher barely wash his hands of this crime, and not improve the grandest opportunity, perhaps, of his life to do a lasting good? Why did he not tell them truthfully but kindly, before the deed was done, that the laws of God, of this and all civilized countries, would condemn such an act as cold, revengeful murder? [He did. ED.] That the pitiful cry of that poor, doomed, God-forsaken wretch would ring in their ears through life? That a life of penitence could not repair the wrong they were about? That "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord?" That the sevenfold vengeance of the slayers of Cain would await them now and hence? That the spirit that animates the mob has no kinship with Deity, and that the tribute paid to the memory of the noble dead was a rebuke to the spirit of the mob?

I should like to know, further, why Cobb was brought to Winfield the second time, after he was known to be the Jefferson County criminal, when he had to be taken away for safety before that fact was known? And why brought the third time when he had to be taken away the second? Why did not the officers of the law show themselves worthy the dead chieftain by protecting his prisoner as he would have done? If they were unable to do so themselves, why did they not invoke "the powers that be" to help them? Could it be that they wanted Cobb killed because he wanted to kill them? Or could it be that Cobb should want to kill them because he saw that in their hands he was doomed? Don't it look strange that Cobb should want to kill them for saving him? Stranger still that he should ask the man to unbind him whom he told he wanted to kill? Was Cobb insane? What means that paternal letter setting forth strange paternal feelings? Did young Cobb inherit his vicious nature? What means many other stories afloat that would seem to extenuate the act of this mob? If it was right, does it need any bolstering? If wrong, who can bolster it?

I put the foregoing in the interrogatory style for two reasons: First, it is the shortest way of stating my convictions; second, it is the best way to get the facts I want. I write this in no spirit of ill-will toward anyone, and with a view to the future instead of the past. Personally, I am glad that Cobb is dead, but deplore the way he was killed. I hold this act up to the scorn of all good people, with no malice toward those who did it. Possibly some of them are my friends. I know that some, who were carried away by the excitement of Shenneman's sad fate, are such. It is time, I think that all good people passed a final judgment upon this question. I did so many years ago. With my notion of right I could not under any circum- stances, in the presence of civil law, countenance, encourage, or engage in a mob. I conceive it to be the duty of a good citizen to help to resist one when called to do so by an officer. Even a life lost in such a cause would not be sacrificed in vain. It is useless to say that all men who sanction or engage in mob violence are cowards and bad men. This is not true. One must have deep settled convictions, indeed, to withstand the impulse to avenge the death of a good man, a faithful officer, and a true friend, like A. T. Shenneman. I would not, for one moment, deny my own feelings in this case. I wish every man, woman, and child was anchored to the Rock in this matter. Our laws are, in the main, the reflex of the sober sense of the people. We mould them ourselves. No excitement should carry one beyond his cool convictions of right. The law that stands for protection when none assail, but fails to protect when assailed, is a fraud. Every violation of a law impairs the force and usefulness of all law. Hence I conclude that the highest duty of a citizen is to stand up boldly for the majesty of all laws at all times and under all circumstances. If wrong, who will correct me? J. B. EVANS.

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Winfield Courier, February 22, 1883.

Upon reviewing the communications I have sent from time to time for the perusal of the readers of the COURIER, I find that very many interesting occurrences and observation have been omitted. In fact, I forgot what I had told and what I had not.

Before I proceed, I cannot fail to remark that this lovely spring morning, with its breath of balmy sweetness, produces an exhilarating sensation, such as can never be felt in Cali- fornia, from the fact that they never have such mornings. I mean in the part of the State where they boast of a fine climate. Indeed, it would have been worth a mint of gold if this rainfall could have descended upon their wheat fields and orange orchards. Up to the time I left Los Angeles Johnston, there was a general expression of fear lest the rain, so long expected, would fall upon more devoted heads. Grape vineyards and orange groves depend entirely upon irrigation, and when the supply is short from want of their annual rains, every ranch is put on an allowance of a certain number of inches, according to his acres, that all may fare equally; so, you see, art supplies as grudgingly as nature, and is quite as unrelish- able. Many streams and rivers have been drained of every drop of water through irrigating ditches, and the probability is very reasonable that unless some method is adopted to bring water from the earth in shape of Artesian wells, it will not be many years before the products of such huge dimensions will wither and die under the arid rays of the perpetual sunlight. This is their orange harvest, and, without doubt, it is the handsomest sight that the eye ever rested upon. Riding, as I did, for seventy-five miles over smooth roads, either side of which was lined with trees loaded with the golden fruitin many cases bowed with the heaviness until they lay upon the ground, and almost hiding the dark, glossy, rich foliagemore beau- tiful than words can explain, and one must be indeed most unappreciative if they failed to admire and exclaim, "When this golden fruit is turned into golden dollars, then will my acme of hope be realized, and I can take a trip to the land and home of my birth, where the loved ones await me, and where I can die under the reign (rain) of a happy childhood!"

The immensity of the vineyards all through Los Angeles Johnston, and it is over 200 miles from north to south, impresses a prohibitionist of the enormity of the traffic in wine alone; and a visit to the cellar of Wm. Konig at Anaheim, where 36,000 gallons stare you in the face, at all ages, from ten years to the juice of the last yield in 1882, makes you feel that to diminish his stock by bringing away even a half pint of his best, was one less drinkto the wine-bibber. I am no judge of wine. I don't know, by the taste, California wine from Winfield wine. The former, I am told, is made of the Mission grape; the latter is supposed to be the dregs of everything. California can never carry a temperance face, and it is no wonder saloons prosper by the millions, so long as the agricultural pursuit tends so strongly to raising the Mission grape. A vineyard of hundreds of acres, with the fruit spread upon boards three feet square, already assuming the color of raisins, is a handsome sight. The most extensive production, however, of this grape (Muscat Alexandria) is in the Napa and Sonoma valleys. So far as my likes and dislikes were considered, Los Angeles Johnston is the garden of California, although there had not been sufficient rain up to the 20th of January to grow a blade of grass; but the people generally took more pride in beautifying their homes, and altogether were more like the citizens of the East. The flowers, which "bud and bloom" the year around, afford very little satisfaction, as they are so covered with dust that both beauty and odor are a libel on God's works, and not half as attractive as when seen through the window of a conservatory. If we could be transported instantaneously from here to there and back at our will, it would be very agreeable, but as a fixture, from choice I prefer Southern Kansas, with all her cyclones and grasshoppersfor such is her reputation in California.

I enjoyed to the fullest extent every inch of my tour, from the day I left Winfield until I stepped into it again. My journey of a night from Santa Barbary to Ventura by stage, a distance of fourteen miles, which took seven and a half hours to perform, this on washed out roads, now on the ocean beach, now on a side hill, now the driver off hunting the road, shut up with a Chinaman and Spaniard, you may think was something but enjoyable. When we at last arrived at that end of the route, chilled and tired at 1:30 at night, with no fire but in the billiard-room, around which, later, sat two stage drivers, one stage agent, the Spaniard (drunk), who had taken two drinks at the bar to prevent taking cold; the bar-tender, and the landlord. All but the Spaniard could talk straight, although the entire atmosphere was impregnated with the perfume of whiskeydrank and not drank. Miss Sue Hunt and myself, I assure you, thought it was something to remember in our travels, especially as when we left at four in the morning, Wagner, the landlord at the Palace Hotel, wrapped us up well in a double blanket, with instructions to the driver to bring it back the next day. At 6 p.m., we struck the S. P. R. R., just in time to see the express train pull out. So there was no hope for us but to put up for the night, and take the morning train for Los Angelespronounced in Spanish Lo-san-ka-les.

The many funny adventures we had in different places would be more laughable if told verbally than if put upon paper, so when opportunity presents, I will tell you. And right here let me say, that everybody is invited to come and see the variety of specimens and the stereo- scopic views I have from nearly every place I visited.

Probably no State in America is represented by people from everywhere as is California. Whichever way I turned I met someone who knew those whom I did. If on land or water, the first question was, "Where are you from?" Travelers generally have a good time; all are sociable and strive to make the best of their journey, while steamboat captains and hotel proprietors are too polite for anything. At San Francisco alone, the men are extremely uncivilunless they are going to make a few dollars.

There are several pleasantly located little towns from San Francisco in all directions, but the want of heavenly moisture prevents displaying them to good advantage. A stay of two months in the Golden Gate City gave me ample time to visit all places of interest, and see the sights. One day we would take a street car to the North Beach, where warm salt-water baths were served up for twenty-five cents; another, out to the Precedio, at the fort; and beer gardens, inside of which they gave a clam chowder for ten cents, in hopes you would buy lots of beer and whiskey. Then, there was the Cliff House, a fashionable drive for Sunday; fine roads, through Golden Gate Park, at both ends of which it was the custom to liquor up and drive fast. The Cliff House is a modest structure, with balconies all around, overlooking the ocean, and but a few yards out are the Famous Rocks, where the sea lions can always be seen in large quantities sunning themselves and roaring above the tumult of the breakers. The Farallone Islands are forty miles out in the sea, and in summer time parties go in search of Gull's eggs, which are laid in crevices of the rocks in quantities. They are shipped by the cargo, being so large, and are quite as palatable as a goose egg. Here the sea lions are so huge in dimensions, and in such vast numbers, that they often show fight, and it is never safe to go bathing around the Island. At Prescadero Beach, south of the city about 53 miles, are found very handsome pebblesas handsome as many which are set in jewelry. The Geysers is of too strange a formation to be passed by; no route would bring you in its way. The trip there is one on purpose to see a canon altogether not larger than one block, as laid out in a city, with boiling water hissing like a locomotive from every crack and crevice of the rocks. Springs seem to boil up under your feet, and you feel as though you dare not stand still a second for fear of sinking into a seething cauldron. No tourist should miss the Geysers. It is a mystery what ever left such a place.

Lone Mountain Cemetery, the Industrial School, House of Correction, Alms House, prison at San Quintin, Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, all are interesting. The Yosemite alone remained unvisited. Not until June will the snow be thawed to admit of running the stages again, which were hauled off in October. Another trip to accomplish that omission will be imperative at some future time. MRS. H. P. MANSFIELD.

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Winfield Courier, February 22, 1883.

Rock Items.

ROCK TOWNSHIP, Feb. 16th, 1883.

Muddy. School 2 weeks longer. Plenty of ducks on the river.

BIRTH. Bob Bailey is happy once morea boy.

Ab. Holmes has returned from Arkansas.

Everybody either has a bad cold or is just getting over one.

Mrs. S. D. Williams has returned from a visit to Lawrence.

Marion Harcourt is delivering his wheat in Douglass at 80 cents per bushel.

Stock suffered greatly during the past cold spell, but we haven't heard of many dying.

Frank Dawson left for Colorado last week, where he has a good position offered in a coal office.

The Teachers' Association at Darien last Saturday was a failure on account of the rainy day.

Prof. Shoemaker, principal of the Douglass schools, visited with Gene Wilbur over Sunday.

Mr. McKinley moves onto the Wilkie farm and a young man from Illinois takes the farm he has been on.

Election passed off very quietly. Nobody wanting office, truly the office sought the man in this case.

Said Dawson went to housekeeping Monday. He has rented the farm occupied the past year by Mr. Pratt.

Quinton Thompson has bought the 1/4 section just east of him, belonging to Scott, of Illinois. Price paid, $2,400 cash.

If you are a lover of fine sheep, just stop east of here, at John Stalter's. He has one of the best sheep ranches in Kansas.

Gene Wilbur has some four or five hundred fat wethersand they are fatwhich will be on the market now in a short time.

Pedagogues are gradually preparing to lay off until fall for repairs, and attend to putting their money out at interest, and collect overdue notes.

Mr. Hollingsworth, living for the past year on J. B. Holmes' farm, will move 4 miles east, and James Rodgers and brother will take his place for the coming year.

Mack Strong, son of S. P. Strong, has returned home after a winter's sojourn in Indianapolis. He has been attending a medical institute, for the benefit of his hearing, and comes back some improved.

Considerable R. R. excitement before the past cold spell, over the proposed continuance of the Douglass branch of the Santa Fe, but alas! The biting cold has frozen excitement out of all animate and inanimate objects and we hear no more about it. JIM.

[GOULD.]

Winfield Courier, February 22, 1883.

ADVANCED BACKWARD.

The story is current that the leasing of the Mutual Union by the Western Union enabled Mr. Gou