[COMMUNICATION FROM W. M. BERKEYWYOMING TERRITORY.]

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876. Front Page.

MY FAMILY: I write, this beautiful Sunday morn, to inform you of our safe arrival in the gold hills. Joe is up again from the measles, which makes us all well, hoping this may find you the same. There is no humbug about there being gold here, but what we find is fine, and on what is termed bars; all old miners say if we can strike bed rock, we can make our fortune.

Castle Creek is nearly as large as Grouse, and runs swifter, having a fall of 55 feet to the mile. It is about 25 feet to the bed rock, and in order to go down we will have to get pumps sufficient to keep the water out. I am inclined to the belief that there is a fortune here, but it will take time and money to get it. We met 200 men going back, calling the whole thing a humbug, but the most were scared out at Indian reports. We have not seen any, only at and near Red Cloud Agency; they are in the Hills, but will attack only small parties. The most of the returning miners never turned a shovel of dirt, and a good many turned back before reaching Buffalo Gap. We saw the bones of one man, who had been killed in the Gap by Indians. He smelled so badly when first discovered that he could not be buried, so they piled rocks upon him. It was a hard sight; but such is life.

Will. has just come in with a fine specimen of quartz, which is rich and will some day make someone rich. If a man had money to live upon for one year, and set down on some of those places, his fortune would be made, but such is not the disposition of most men: they want to go forward, and those who follow will make the money. I would advise all to stay at home for awhile unless they come heeled with one year's provisions or money. Flour is worth $16 per hundred, bacon 35 cents per pound, corn meal 15 cents per pound, corn 13 cents per pound, etc.

One of the boys just killed a black tailed deer, which are plenty; also plenty of those black or brown bears, which are very large. I would like to give you a description of the Hillsit seems as though they were blown up by some terrible volcano, leaving deep gulches running in all directions, and having the finest streams of the coldest water. The mountains are covered with pitch pine and fir, with some poplar or quaking asp, which make the scenery the finest.

I have had but one letter from you, dated April 22. It costs twenty-five cents to get a letter from Cheyenne here, so when you write, write good long letters. We will probably look around before going to work. Gold is here, all over, and of the finest kind; sells for $21 per ounce.

We are going to work this morning, and will give you all particulars in a few days. Some of our men got ten cents at one pan yesterday. I was up in the mountain yesterday, and got so cold I had to come down. Plenty of snow and ice in the mountains. It is about such weather here as it is in March there, and the gooseberries are just leafing out. Direct letters to Custer City. W. M. BERKEY.

[COMMUNICATION FROM "J. A. B."LIBERTY TOWNSHIP.]

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

Editor Traveler:

The hail and wind storm of a few days ago did considerable damage in a few instances.

There are several vacant claims in this vicinity, though they are being rapidly settled upon. There were eight vacant houses within sight of my place, last March, but they are all occupied, and new ones have gone up. Breaking and harvesting are being pushed forth rapidly. Wheat is very fine, as is also the corn.

Religious meetings held once a week, either at Grouse Creek or at Newland's school- house. J. A. B.

[COMMUNICATION FROM REV. B. C. SWARTSHUTCHINSON.]

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

Had a severe hail and wind storm six miles south of this place, last Saturday, which did considerable damage; about twenty buildings destroyed; no lives lost, so far as I have heard; quite a number of persons more or less injured; crops probably injured to some extent along the track of the storm.

Harvest to commence about the middle of this week. Wheat good, and other crops looking very well indeed. Health here excellent. Immigration pouring in lively.

[KANSAS FARMING NEWS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

Corn in Sumner County is reported growing slowly on account of cold weather.

Rev. Mr. Platter, one of the Winfield city farmers, put his own header into his hundred acre field of fall wheat on the 12th instant.

[ITEMS FROM THE INDIAN HERALD.]

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

Osages are first class horse traders.

A few Osages who have been out on a hunt recently, represent buffalo as being scarce.

The printer failed to find the copy of Gov. "Joe's" speech which was promised our readers this week.

The Osages are now more nearly united than has ever been the case since their removal to this Territory.

Agent Beede is getting material ready to repair the damage to the roof of his house, by the late hail storm.

The majority of the full blood Cherokees enlisted in the service of United States during the late war, while the majority of the mixed bloods joined the Confederate forces.

As will be seen at the head of our paper, the name of Osage Agency gives place to Pawhuska, which has been the name of the head chief of the Osage tribe for generations, and means white hair.

Seven of our Pawnee neighbors have recently visited Chetopa, the Chief Counselor of the Osage Nation, smoked the pipe of peace, and received from our distinguished incumbent a pony each in token of future friendship. Pawnees and Osages converse with each other by signs only.

[EDITORIAL COLUMN.]

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

The following extract is from a letter received by Judge Christian, last week, from an old acquaintance in Ireland. It was written three-fourths of a mile from the famous Giant's Causeway, on the northern coast of Antrim County, and explains itself. It shows the ingenuity of the universal Yankee mind in getting up humbugs to secure an honest penny. The letter is dated Ballymoy, Antrim County, Ireland, May 31, 1876.

DEAR FRIEND, There is a great fraud here now that you will hear ofa monster image of a man that will be taken to the exhibition at Philadelphia, and represented to be the giant that made the causeway. He is an American who has it. He came here last Saturday night, and stops at the Causeway Hotel for the purpose of representing that he got it here; but I believe it has been years in progress. Some people here know him (the proprietor), having seen him at different timesalways pretending to be looking after mines. It is likely to give rise to more lies than anything that will be exhibited. Its length is twelve feet and eleven inches, and weight over two and one half tons.

People have crowded to see it. He will get it photographed before he leaves here. It is said to have been dug out of the earth, but he has not deceived so many here as he thinks he has. The representation is very good, though I did not go to see it. Have seen several that did go. Your friend, JAMES McCOUGHY.

[YOUNG SWEDE SAVES GIRL BITTEN BY RATTLESNAKE.]

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

Wichita Eagle: A little girl, living near Eureka, while playing in a harvest field, was bitten on the ankle by a prairie rattlesnake. A young Swede, who was working in the field at the time, got some milk from a cow standing nearby, and inserted a small straw in each of the holes made by the fangs of the snake, and poured some milk into the straws, which counteracted the poison; and within an hour the child was playing around as usual. This occurrence was related to us by an eyewitness.

[REPORT RE BRIDGE BURNED/ CROOK'S COMMAND FIGHTING INDIANS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

KANSAS CITY, MO., June 23. The railroad bridge crossing the Missouri River at this place, caught fire this morning at eleven o'clock. Before the fire department could reach the spot, the seventh span on the north side fell with a loud crash. There were several hundred persons on the bridge at the time, and they scattered like sheep. No one was seriously hurt. The fire caught on the sixth span of the north end, from a spark, dropped by a passing engine. It appears as if the watchmen neglected their duty. The bridge cost one million and a quarter dollars, and is damaged to the extent of from twelve to twenty thousand dollars. Repairs have already been commenced, and trains will be run in two weeks, but it will take several weeks to repair the wood-work. Passengers and freight will be transferred by the ferry, and some roads will transfer freight by the Leavenworth bridge. Cattle will be shipped to Chicago via St. Louis.

H. W. Cook is insane from the excitement of the political contest. He is violent; and is watched at his home by four men.

CHEYENNE, June 23. As intimated in the last dispatch, Gen. Crook's command left camp on the morning of the 16th instant, with four days' rations. They struck the right hand branch of the Yellowstone, into Montana, following down this creek. The next morning, when about five miles down, the Snake and Crow scouts brought in word from the front that the Sioux were in force in the hills; and by half past eight o'clock the command was in position, and an extensive firing was inaugurated along the north of the creek; the enemy, who had begun the attack, showing thereby their confidence in their ability to whip the command, retiring as the soldiers and allies advanced. The Sioux were all well mounted, well armed, and at times were prodigal in the use of ammunition. The fight lasted four hours when the enemy retired out of sight at every point.

All the wounded will likely recover. One Snake scout was killed, and three wounded; and four Crows were wounded. The dead bodies of thirteen Sioux were found on the field, and it is certain that a number more were killed, with the usual proportion of wounded. Gen. Crook's horse was shot under him.

The fight occurred fifty miles from the wagon and pack trains, and owing to the want of rations, and in order that the wounded might be cared for, it was necessary to return. The officers and soldiers all displayed marked gallantry. The nature of the ground making infantry advantageous, Gen. Crook has ordered five companies to join him at once. The cavalry in the meantime is continuing operations on the plains and in the hills should no definite information of the villages be obtained. There is one month's supply of rations in the camp. The Crows have returned home, but the Snakes will remain. The rich game in the country on the Big Horn affords an ample commissary department for the Sioux.

[CHEROKEE STRIP LANDS: COWLEY COUNTY, KANSAS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

#1: Amount paid.

#2: Tract entered; Section of; part of Section.

#3: No. of Section.

#4: No. Township.

#5: No. of Range.

#6: QUANTITY (Acres, 100ths.)

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 NAME OF PURCHASER.

$164.00 N ½ of SW ¼ 1 35 3E 80 REUBEN BOWERS

$288.00 SE 1/4 2 35 3E 160 E. B. KAGER

$116.00 Lots 5, 6 5 35 3E 66.29 WM. PARKER

$472.80 NW 1/4 10 35 3E 160 SAMUEL H. DEWEEZE

$ 62.15 Lot 1 17 35 3E 34.53 E. B. KAGER

$ 62.37 Lot 2 17 35 3E 34.65 E. B. KAGER

$144.80 N ¼ of SE ¼ 17 35 3E 80 E. B. KAGER

$300.00 NW 1/4 10 35 4E 160 J. B. LYONS

$124.80 N ½ of SW ¼ 8 35 4E 80 WM. C. BROWNE

$249.60 NE 1/4 9 35 4E 80 WM. C. BROWNE

$136.80 N ½ of SW ¼ 10 35 4E 80 WM. C. BROWNE

$128.80 W ½ of NE ¼ 10 35 4E 80 WM. C. BROWNE

$132.80 W ¼ of SE ¼ 10 35 4E 80 WM. C. BROWNE

$273.60 NW 1/4 16 35 4E 160 WM. C. BROWNE

$146.96 NW 1/4 of SW 1/4

& Lot 53 4 35 5E 73.48 J. C. McMULLEN

$240.00 N ½ and SW 1/4

of SE 1/4 4 35 5E 120 DANIEL GRANT

$240.00 S ½ of NE 1/4 &

NW 1/4 of SE 1/4 8 35 5E 120 J. C. McMULLEN

$160.00 NW 1/4 of NE 1/4 &

NE 1/4 of NW 1/4 11 35 5E 80 JOHN B. SOUTHARD

$240.00 W ½ & NE 1/4 of

SW 1/4 8 35 6E 120 ALEXANDER TOLLE

$ 80.00 SE 1/4 of NE 1/4 12 35 7E 40 MARY GALLAGHER

$145.07 Lot 4 & NW 1/4

of SE 1/4 17 35 7E 70.77 BENTON MATHIS

$ 80.00 Part of 3 35 8E 40 MORRIS ROBERTS

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a copy of the abstract furnished by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to this office, or so much of the Cherokee Strip Lands sold under sealed bids, November 30, 1875, as are embraced within the limits of Cowley County, Kansas. H. L. TAYLOR, Register.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM "A. CONKLE."ON THE TRAIL.]

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

The following herds have passed since my last.

June 5. R. R. Savage, 950 mixed, for Ellis.

June 6. Houston & Dismuke, 1,950 mixed, for Ellis. Kingsberry & Holmsley, 1,400 mixed, for Bluff Creek.

June 7. Burk & Smith, 3,400 mixed, for Ellis.

June 8. D. H. Snyder, 1,800 mixed, for Ellis.

June 9. W. C. Osburn, 1,200 mixed, for Ellis. Capt. Kennedy (two herds), 8,000 mixed, for Ellis.

June 10. Oge & Woodard, 2,900 mixed, for Bluff Creek.

June 12. Halstein & Murry, 1,400 mixed, for Colorado.

June 13. L. M. T. Pope, 800 mixed, for Medicine Creek.

June 14. L. M. T. Pope, 1,460 mixed, for Medicine Creek.

June 15. W. B. Grimes, 2,000 mixed, for Bluff Creek.

[PERSONALS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, Wednesday, June 28, 1876.

The 4th of July comes on Tuesday.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

JOHN P. WOODYARD returned last week from Wichita.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

MR. HINKLEY of Grouse Creek had a horse stolen lately.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

The Indians are willing to have boats on the river, but object to railroads.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

The brick kiln of Gallert & Endicott's was lit up last week; and is burning now.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

It has been decided not to have any picnic at this place on the 4th, as talked of.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

A boy on Grouse Creek picked the lock of a bureau and ran off with a small sum of money.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

THOS. BAKER has rented the Billiard Hall, and L. C. Currier is working at Speers' mill.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

MR. KAGER traded his house in town and other property for Jas. Benedict's farm, last week.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

MR. BIRD has apples seven inches in circumference. S. P. Channell also has some apples on his trees.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

MR. W. H. WILSON, north of town, is building a stone house 21 by 20. Welch & Glenn are doing the work.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

The store at Silverdale was broken into lately, and about eight dollars in money and some articles taken.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

All express matter will be found at Judge Christian's office. Parties wishing stage tickets will have to go to him.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

PROF. KELLOGG is to deliver the oration at the 4th of July Celebration at Emporia. They appreciate a man up there.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

TIMOTHY. Capt. Chenoweth showed us a head of timothy measuring 10-3/4 inches. It was sown during the dry weather two years ago.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

See the card of Thomas Baker, barber and hairdresser. Mr. Baker is an old-time barber, and understands how to give a good shave.

AD: THOMAS BAKER, Barber and Hairdresser.

Shop in Billiard Hall on west side of Summit street,

Arkansas City, Kansas.

Try me once, try me always.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

ANOTHER BARBER AD:

W. H. HARRISON, BARBER.

Rooms one door south of E. D. Eddy's.

Late papers for the entertainment of guests.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

ARRANGEMENTS are endeavored to be made to send some parties to Little Rock, Arkansas, to meet and come up on the Arkansas City boat.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

E. B. KAGER left for Philadelphia Monday morning. Mrs. Kager preferred to stay at home rather than endure the hot weather and discommodure.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

TONY BOYLE and Miss Anna A. Melville were married at Emporia, June 11th, by Rev. A. H. Walker, and are now on their wedding tour to Philadelphia.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

The Centennial communication of Rev. Fleming was handed in too late for publication this week, on account of sickness in his family. It will appear in our next, and will be found interesting.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

S. C. WINTIN and M. A. FELTON are about to build a flat boat, and load it with corn for the Little Rock market. Mr. Wintin made one trip before with flour, and thinks corn will pay.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

If anyone doesn't believe in the progress of Cowley County, let him go one mile north of town and see the two headers and one steam thresher at work, where five years ago you could "jump" a deer almost any day, and can yet start a jack rabbit.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

H. P. FARRAR let the contract for his house last week to Embry & Parker. It is to be 20 x 26 feet, and erected on the lot just south of A. A. Newman's. The builders do all the work and turn over the key ready for occupancy.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

The Oxford applicant for the school at this place acted wisely. After seeing the result of one of our quiet gatherings, he withdrew his application and started for home, congratulating himself that his scalp remained.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

RUNAWAY. A little more than a week ago, Will Howe, formerly of Maple City, borrowed his father-in-law's team (Mr. Adams) and went to Labette County and did not return. An officer was finally sent, and brought the team back.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS meet Monday, July 3rd. It is a regular meeting, and will probably last several days, as they will have considerable to attend to. The Commissioners are R. F. Burden, near Lazette; Robert White, of Rock Creek; and William Sleeth, of Arkansas City.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

A man across the Walnut saw the box of a header machine, near the Arkansas River, and thinking it was a steamboat, left his plow and ran a hundred yards toward it, when he thought there was no smoke, and taking a closer view saw his mistake. He is a Granger too.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

In this delightful country, flowing with milk and honey (the milk in jars and the honey in cans) it costs $2 per acre to cut and stack wheat from a header; when cut by a Marsh harvester, $2.25; by a dropper, $2.25 to $2.50. A header will cut on good ground thirty acres per day; a Marsh harvester, about ten acres; a dropper nearly the same. The threshing costs five cents per bushel for wheat; and three cents for oats. The prices paid harvest hands will average about $2 per day; some have paid $2.50. A steam thresher can thresh 1,000 bushels per day; an ordinary thresher, of ten horse power, about 600 bushels. About eight men go with the thresher.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

The following agricultural implements have been sold at this place during the year 1876.

30 Harvesters.

24 Headers.

4 Threshing Machines.

1 Steam Thresher.

9 Combined Reapers and Mowers.

1 Self-Binder.

87 Breakers.

52 Cultivators.

16 Gang and Sulky Plows.

53 Stirring Plows.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

C. R. MITCHELL, Esq., of Arkansas City, one of the ripest lawyers and most successful attorneys of the bar of Southwestern Kansas; with his wife, spent the day last Thursday in the "Kingdom of Wichita." But for C. R.'s distaste for political life, he would be better known throughout the State; as it is, he is making his mark in his chosen line. Wichita Eagle.

You're right. If C. R. Mitchell had not positively and continually declined, he would have been spending his winters in Topeka, in behalf of Cowley County.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

At a school meeting held at Winfield, last Wednesday, it was unanimously decided to employ Prof. Hulse to teach the public school at that place for $810 per year. We congratulate Prof. Hulse on his success, and the people of our sister town on securing one of the best educators in the Southwest.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

SUICIDED. Geo. Easton, a young man of about 23 years of age, of Douglass, Butler Co., yesterday morning, shot himself while in bed, just below the heart. All the reason he gave was that he was tired of life. The affair created considerable excitement in Douglass.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

WALTER A. VANDORN, a former resident of this place, dropped in suddenly and unexpectedly, yesterday. He hails from Daytona, Florida, where he is engaged in farming and gardening. He was an early resident of this place and will be remembered by many.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

JOHN ALLEN, of this city, is spoken of as the possible nominee on the Republican ticket for County Attorney. We know of but one man who would make a stronger candidate for the party, and that man is C. R. Mitchell, of Arkansas City. Telegram.

Mitchell has more friends in Cowley County than any other lawyer we know of, and if he could be persuaded to run, would scoop anything that could be put against him. We swear by "Bob" down this way.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

WE WISH TO STATE to the public that we have thoroughly revised and corrected the set of Abstract Books prepared by Messrs. Meigs & Kinne. We have carefully compared each instrument on record in the Recorder's office twice, each time by a different person, and know our books to be correct. We have also prepared, at much cost and labor, a complete list of all lands sold for taxes since the county was organized. Parties procuring abstracts of us get the benefit of this history of tax sales in this county. Our system of Abstracting is as thorough and complete as the system of book-keeping; mistakes are almost impossible.

These books are in charge of Mr. A. W. Berkey, who will devote all his time in the future to the Real Estate business. Any parties having land for sale can leave the same with him, and parties wishing to purchase will do well to give him a call before purchasing elsewhere.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

We take pleasure in calling the attention of the people of this vicinity to the set of Abstract Records kept at the Arkansas City Bank. We have personally examined these books, and find the simplicity and thoroughness of the system commend them to the judgment of all businessmen. They are kept up at an expense of not less than one dollar per day, and should be patronized by all having this kind of business to do, instead of paying their money elsewhere for someone to hastily look through twenty sets of larger books at the county seat, which necessarily must be very imperfect, unless time and great pains are taken. But in the set of books referred to, the history of each quarter section and town lot has a certain place devoted to it, hence at a glance all the transfers may be seen. A set of books of this kind is indispensable in a town so far from the Registrar's office, and parties interested in this town and vicinity should obtain abstracts of all lands bought and sold, and show that they appreciate a home institution.

[BUSINESS NOTICES.]

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

WM. FOWLER, we learn, is making a trip to Little Rock, Ark., in a canoe. He started this week.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

WANTED. A No. 1 Miller, and a man with team to haul logs, at Steam Flouring Mill, Arkansas City. W. H. SPEERS.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

Parties indebted to us will oblige by calling within the next ten days for settlement.

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

I will be absent until August 15. In the meantime, Pryor, Kager & Pryor, at Winfield, or T. McIntire, Arkansas City, will attend to my business. E. B. KAGER.

[NOTICE ABOUT OFFICE OF JUDGE CHRISTIAN.]

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

LAW OFFICE, EXPRESS OFFICE AND FIRE INSURANCE OFFICE OF THE HOME INSURANCE CO. OF NEW YORK. On Saturday, Judge Christian took full possession of the Express office and Stage Company's office, and moved both to his law office, corner of Central Avenue and Summit street, opposite Central Avenue Hotel, where all persons having business with either office will find him on hand. There will be no more complaints about not being able to get in to the office, or find the agent. The public can rest assured that they will find the Judge prompt in the discharge of anything he undertakes. We are also pleased to learn that the Judge has been appointed agent of one of the best fire insurance companies in America, the Home Insurance Company of New York, a company well known for its fair dealings and prompt payments of all losses. Parties wishing any species of property insured against fire, in town or country, will do well to give the Judge a call. They will find him straightforward, fair and honest.

[STATE/NATIONAL NEWS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, June 28, 1876.

Routes to the Black Hills are not inquired after just now. The short cut out of the Hills is what the boys are looking for.

A bill has been introduced in Congress by Hon. John R. Boodin, to so change the boundary between Missouri and Kansas as to place Kansas City on our side of the line.

[CENTENNIAL LETTER: REV. FLEMING.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876. Front Page.

Kansas, failing to command sufficient space in any of the main buildings to group her collections together, decided to erect a building of her own, which furnishes ample space for the exhibition of her varied products, and does credit to the State. The building is in the shape of a Greek cross; the center with the four wings is devoted to the exhibition. In the center, beneath the dome, is suspended a curious and ingeniously constructed bell, made by Professor Henry Worrall. It consists of grains in the stock, grasses and broom corn brush woven together in the shape of the old bell that rang out on Independence day. The tongue is composed of one of our elongated club gourds with a common bell shaped gourd attached as hammer. It is just the size of the old revolutionary bell, being eight feet nine inches across the bottom and eight feet six inches high.

There is a break made in the material, to represent the crack in the old bell, and it bears the same inscription: "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land and to all the inhabitants thereof. By Order of the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania for the Statehouse in Philadelphia." Colorado, not demanding the space of an entire building for her exhibit, occupies the west wing of our building. She makes a very fine showing of her vast mineral wealth, and presents a most picturesque group of stuffed animals, from the buffalo and bear to the wild cat and prairie dog. The balance of the building, except a very small portion occupied by the A., T. & S. F. R. R. for the exhibition of products along their line of road, is occupied by Kansas.

A short extract is taken from the copy of the Harper Weekly of June 17, 1876, which has an excellent description of the contents.

"There are forty-two flag staffs on the building, the flags for forty-one of which have been generously contributed by the Ladies of Leavenworth. They consist of the national colors of the United States and those of each of the foreign governments exhibiting, the same to be added at the close of the exhibition to the Centennial collection, and returned to the State House at Topeka for preservation in the museum of the State Board of Agriculturethere to remain a souvenir of the kindly cooperation of the Ladies of Leavenworth. At the north end, twenty-four feet from the floor is a transparence'The Great Seal of the State of Kansas'from which rays of golden grain radiate, alternated with a background of cotton: an important staple in Southern Kansas. Immediately under this there is an attractive collection of vegetable casts resting on a projection; suspended from this projection is a well drawn map, in colors, 24 x 13 feet. From the floor to the map is a receding grain stand with ten shelves, supporting over 1,000 sample glass grain jars, which contain an exhaustive display of wheat, rye, corn, barley, oats, buckwheat, sorghum, castor beans, and the oil manufactured from the same; tobacco, the seed of hemp, flax, broom corn, millet, Hungarian, timothy, and red clover; hazel, pecan, and peanuts; soils, fire clay, yellow and red ochre, mineral paints, plaster of Paris, potter's clay, hydraulic cement, salt, etc. Labels on these jars give name of contents, where and by whom grown and collected. By reference to the large map, the locality is easily determined. A space of about fourteen feet on either side of the map, and between it and the two sides, is devoted to a forest of corn of wonderful growth. The stalks are from 15 to 18 feet in height, containing from one to three ears of corn from ten to fourteen inches long.

"Upon the walls on either side, and in glass cases, is an attractive and interesting display of wild and cultivated grasses and grains in the stalk; wheat from four feet to five feet six inches high, from fields yielding from 40 to 64 bushels per acre; corn from 40 to 100; oats from 50 to 75, timothy, 2-1/2 tons to the acre; clover and millet, 4 tons; blue grass, from two feet to three feet four inches high; fourteen varieties of wild grasses, ranging in height from six to ten feet.

"One case contains a display of silk ribbons and silk cocoons, the latter showing the size of the cocoons raised from eggs imported from Japan, and the noticeable increase in size of succeeding generations raised in Kansas. Silk culture in this young State of diversified industries is no longer problematical. "The rest of the display consists of a formidable array of valuable building stones from nearly every county in the State; between 40 and 50 different kinds of timber; a collection of stuffed birds of about 300 species; a large entomological collection, including the veritable Rocky Mountain locust; an extensive collection of fossils; lead, ore; coal, etc."

This description by Harper is so correct that I take the liberty of giving it in his words, as I could not improve it, and would have written substantially the same. On the whole, Kansas has done her part nobly, and we feel proud that we have such a representation at the Centennial. S. B. F.

Arkansas City, June 27, 1876.

[EDITORIAL COLUMNS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

STEAMBOAT! The steamboat, "Gen. Wiles," passed Cincinnati on the 23rd ult., making seventy miles per day. Everything is in working order, and progress will be made without further delay if no accidents occur.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

The earnest and successful working of Hon. W. R. Brown, Representative in Congress for the Third District of Kansas, in behalf of the settlers on the Cherokee Strip Lands, should commend him to the hearts of every resident of the county. There are probably one thousand people on the Strip, who have taken claims, built small houses, and already made considerable improvement on the land selected as their future homes, who are anxiously looking forward to a definite settlement of their titles.

[CHEROKEE STRIP LANDS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

By the following letter from Hon. W. R. Brown, it will be seen that the Cherokee Strip Lands are to be brought into market to actual settlers, at the same price and under the same ruling as before.

C. M. Scott:

We have today passed through the House the Cherokee Strip bill. I will see Senator Ingalls today, and request him to attend to it in the Senate. I shall urge his attention, and as he is on the Indian Committee, he can put it through. W. R. BROWN.

[INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL DELAYED.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

Washington, June 25. The failure of the Committee of Conference to agree on the controverted amendments to the Legislature, Judicial, and Executive, the Consular and Diplomatic, and the Post Office Appropriation bills, will, it is supposed prevent Congress from adjourning as soon as was anticipated, namely, about the 10th of July.

The question as to whether the Indian Bureau shall be transferred to the War Department, on which a committee of conference has been asked, will also serve to delay the passage of the Indian Appropriation bill.

Thus far about 16,000 petitions and memorials have been presented in the House, three-fourths of them being public, and the remainder private measures.

Two or three only of the general appropriation bills have become laws, and much other business remains to be transacted. It is not at all probable that the Tariff bill will be again

considered.

[COWLEY COUNTY: M. G. TROUP, CLERK.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

MARE. Taken up by Mark K. Hull, Dexter Township, on the 22nd of May, 1876, one bay mare colt about two years old, branded J. C. on right side of neck under the mane. Valued at $20.

Also, one sorrel mare colt, with a white face and three white feet, about one year old, no brands. Valued at $10.

SOW. Taken up by Brainard Goff, Creswell Township, one black and white spotted sow and seven pigs. Valued at $31.00.

[BEACON ARTICLE: "THE BLACK HILLS A FRAUD."]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

A. N. and W. P. Johnston returned from the Black Hills last Wednesday. These gentle- men, together with Harry Flood, M. Curry, and Chas. Tarry left this place on the 7th of last February, with one wagon. They arrived in Custer City on the 2nd of March, and on the 8th of last May started from that place with sixty others on their return from the land of gold. They were in the Hills upwards of two months, were so far north as Deadwood, eight miles from Custer, and prospecting in various directions around the latter place. They report but ten claims in the Hills that are paying wages and these, only when provisions are low. Outside of these, nothing has been discovered so far that will yield living wages. They are convinced of this from their own observations of numbers of old miners from Colorado, Nevada, and California, who, after prospecting so far as they could with safety, left the country.

From seven to ten thousand adventurers have gone into the Hills up to date, every man of whom, except the merchants and speculators, who could get back, has left; cursing his own folly, and the men and newspapers, who, by misrepresentations and wholesale lying, have led so many to destruction.

When the Messrs. Johnstons left, the population of Custer City numbered seven to eight hundred people, including thirty to forty families of women and children, and with few exceptions, all were in a destitute condition; and unless quickly relieved, would be in a starving condition. On the day of their departure, there were but four sacks of flour in the town, and this was held at sixty dollars a sack.

Town property is utterly worthless; houses that cost from seventy-five dollars to one hundred and seventy-five dollars, together with the corner lots, were traded for two or three meals of victuals, to keep their owners from starving to death.

They pronounce the whole thing an infamous fraud, gotten up by the soulless corporation of the Union Pacific and the towns along the line, for the purpose of reaping a harvest of blood and money from the betrayed adventurers who have flocked to the Hills.

The route from Cheyenne to the Hills is lined with graves of the murdered adventurers. Custer itself is surrounded by the Indians who threaten to scalp any man, woman, or child left there after a certain date, and the killing and scalping of prospectors are of daily occurrence. The inhabitants are out of ammunition and unable to defend themselves.

Notwithstanding all these facts, the authorities of the Union Pacific through the newspapers along the line and through circulars, and paid correspondents, are spreading broadcast through the land glowing descriptions of the discovery of gold, the agricultural and pastoral advantages of the country, and denying all reports of Indian raids and murders.

A man, by the name of Williard, who came out with the Johnston party, in consideration of a pass over the road to the East, signed a letter, written by the editor of the Cheyenne Sun, in which the fellow states that he had brought out $1,500 in gold, that the country was full of gold, rich discoveries were being made daily, and that there was no foundation for the reports of Indian massacres. He acknowledged to a son of ex-Gov. Blair, of Michigan, who met him on the cars, that he had signed the letter at the instigation of the Cheyenne Sun, and received a free pass over the road as a reward for his villainy.

There has never been a stage to Custer up to the present time, although the Cheyenne papers stated last winter that a daily line had been put on the route from that place to the Hills. The mails have been carried in by the freighters, and nine out of ten of them have been destroyed by the Indians and the carriers scalped. When the party left on the 8th of May, the snow was from one to two feet deep in Custer, and it is said that the cold is severe enough even in July to freeze water. Consequently, the country is totally unfit for cultivation.

This whole excitement of the Black Hills has been a scheme gotten up and fostered by the Union Pacific road and the towns along it for the purpose of speculation, and is heartless, cruel, and blood-thirsty. The government should put a stop to this wholesale lying and robbing, and make known authoritatively the true condition of the Hills. Our space forbids of a detailed account of the unfortunate adventurers and experience of these gentlemen. We believe that they are truthful and reliable men and their statements can be accepted. Wichita Beacon.

[ANOTHER BEACON ARTICLE: FREIGHT TRAIN FROM FORT RENO.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

Captain Smith's freight train, from Fort Reno, Cheyenne Agency, arrived in Wichita last Friday week. There were fifteen wagons, five of which were loaded with hides and ten with buffalo robes of Arapaho and Cheyenne tanning.

The train left Cheyenne on the 4th inst. We learn from the men with the train that there was almost a collision at the Fort between the Indians and the military on the 9th inst. The military authorities had some time previous arrested six of the chiefs of the Cheyennes, as hostages for the surrender of two braves who had murdered a white man. The Indians approached the Fort with the avowed intention of releasing their head men, and the prospects of a lively battle were, at one time, very good. By judicious action on the part of the commanding officer, the matter was finally settled, by the surrender of the two murderers and the release of the chiefs. The two braves were immediately forwarded to Fort Smith for trial. Beacon.

[PERSONALS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, Wednesday, July 5, 1876.

We ate new corn last Saturday.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

REMEMBER the blackberry festival next week.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

The Band Boys left for Wellington Monday.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

School closed last Friday until next September.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

THREE barrels of lemonade were sold by one stand at Winfield yesterday.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

The late heavy rains have done great damage to the wheat crop of Cowley.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

MR. MUMMERT, the cheese maker, offers to exchange cheese for produce with the farmers.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

Col. McMullen and Prof. Hulse, accompanied by their wives, left for the North and East this week.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

If Prof. Hulse had given to each pupil a lock of his hair who asked for one, he would have been bald-headed.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

DIED. Elizabeth, wife of Solomon Smith, of Silver Creek, on June 27th; aged 50 years. Cause: scrofula.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

DIED. At Salt City, Monday morning, June 3rd, of whooping cough, Mary, daughter of Dr. Paxton, aged one year.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

CHANNELL & HAYWOOD were awarded the contract to supply ten plows, ten sets of harness, and other articles to the Kaw Indians.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

The County Commissioners met last Monday, and after disposing of two or three road petitions, adjourned to meet next Tuesday.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

BORN. To Mr. and Mrs. Porter Wilson, of Maple township, on the 13th inst., a son. Also, to Captain Siverd and lady, on the 20th inst., a son.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

R. J. POND, formerly a sharer of corn bread and molasses in an early day here, is now engaged in a picture and fancy store at Coruna, Michigan.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

FOOT RACE. Thos. Parvin and Jasper Coryell ran a foot race of 55 yards, last Saturday, for the fun of the thing. Both parties ran well, but Parvin was too slow to win.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

CHANNELL & HAYWOOD's new store room will be completed, and the goods moved in within the next two weeks. Mr. Newman expects to move in his new room this fall.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

W. T. KIRTLY lost one off his horses last week, and is now without a team, which to a farmer in this county is next thing to being destitute. His friends will buy one for him soon.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

A blackberry festival will be given by the ladies of the Presbyterian Society at the Central Avenue Hotel on Wednesday night, the 12th, one week from tonight. Admission: 15 cents; blackberries, including cake, 10 cents.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

The boys must stop throwing stones about the street, as complaints have been made by several parties of damage done to signs and windows, and persons have been hit in the face. Eyes may be put out, and someone may have heavy damages to pay. Parents should see that the practice is stopped.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

Thursday, June 22nd, Mr. Ela hired a boy by the name of Willett, whose parents live on Little Dutch, and set him to work in a cornfield. When night came the boy did not come in, and as Mr. Ela was absent from home, nothing was thought of it. On coming home, Mr. Ela started in search of the boy, and at Winfield found his team in the livery stable, but the boy was gone. He is sixteen years of age, and has not been living at home for sometime.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

DIED. On Friday, the 16th inst., at her residence in Maple Township, this county, of catarrhal fever, Mrs. Jeannette Butler, aged 41 years, wife of Sumner Butler, formerly of Steele County, Minnesota. She has left a large family to mourn her loss.

Also, on the 26th inst., suddenly, cause unknown, Mrs. David Lloyd, formerly of Doniphan, died. She leaves five children to mourn her loss.

[RICHARD PAGE POISONED: DIED WITHIN TEN MINUTES.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

One of the most startling occurrences that ever took place in this city was made known last Saturday.

Richard Page, aged 35 years, and for the past six years a resident of this county (with the exception of one winter spent in Canada) was at his place of business at the City Bakery, as usual, until about one o'clock p.m., when he started home to dinner, taking a chew of tobacco on the way, saturated with strychnia, which caused his death within ten minutes.

The circumstances, as far as could be gathered from evidence, and what the dying man said to his wife and others, are as follows.

On Monday morning Mrs. Page told her husband that mice had already got into their new cellar, and she wanted them killed before they got into the house. Mr. Page stated that he would get some strychnia and poison them, and as he passed Kellogg & Hoyt's drug store, he stopped in and purchased a few grains, which he carelessly put in his vest pocket with his tobacco; carrying it until Saturday, when he took a chew as above stated, and discovered his mistake.

On arriving at the house, he complained of being sick, and went to the cellar to get a mug of ale, but could not drink it. He then called for sweet milk, and drank some, when he found he was unable to get to his bed except by crawling. Mrs. Page then asked him what was the matter, when he said: "I have taken strychnia with tobacco, by mistake." He then called his wife and two little girls to him, and bid them good-bye.

Mr. Hutchinson was called in, and Drs. Shepard and Hughes sent for, but they arrived too late to lend assistance. On Sunday afternoon he was buried, being followed to the grave by a host of friends, making as large, if not the largest, funeral procession ever attending the remains of anyone from this place.

As a man, Richard Page was a respected citizen and devoted Christian, honored and respected by all who knew him. His life was insured in an Express Agents Insurance Company for $3,000, which, with what capital he had, will provide for the family.

[FOOT RACE: FRANK SPEERS AND WILLIAM KOONS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

A few of the sports went from this place to Winfield last Friday and inveigled the boys into betting on a foot race between Frank Speers and William Koons, of Mattoon, Illinois. Someone recognized Koons as being the renowned "California Plow Boy," and the stakes were generally on him, although Frank Speers had many friends. After getting bets to the amount of about $50, the race was prepared for; both parties stripped, and a run of 55 yards made, Speers gaining the race by about two feet. The Arkansas City boys knew which party to bet on, and came home happy, with about $30 ahead. One man in Winfield did the main betting, and is now consoling himself by declaring he will "never bet on another foot race." Koons is the man that got away with the youth of Cedar Vale, about two years ago, and has a practice of getting away with everything he runs across, while Frank Speers has a reputation for beating everything that comes along.

[MORE PERSONALS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

Last week William Fowler completed his sail boat, measuring sixteen feet long, and started for Little Rock, Arkansas, with his carpenter tools, provisions, and worldly possessions. He had his boat made with a wheel on each side, to turn with a crank, while sitting on the front seat facing the bow, and an attachment made to the rudder so as to steer with his feet, besides a strong sail to be used when the wind is favorable. He returns to Arkansas to remain permanently, as mechanics' wages are good and work plenty; besides, he has made the necessary arrangements to take unto himself a rib, to share the toils and privations of a life in the swamps.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

The closing exercises of the Arkansas City public school took place last Friday, when the pupils bid their teacher goodbye, and as a token of their gratitude and respect, presented him with a beautiful book of poems, entitled "Farm Legends." The number of students attending the last term was 155, twenty-two of whom were paying a tuition of about $2 each. The enrollment for the spring term was 72. Several of the students passed creditable examinations during the last week of the term, and received teachers' certificates. There has always existed the most friendly feeling between the students and Principal.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

The celebration at Winfield yesterday was a complete success, and nearly 3,000 people were in attendance. Speeches were made from a dozen or more prominent men of the county; the band furnished good music; the ladies' horseback parade, representing every State in the Union, was a fine sight, and everything passed off pleasantly. Space forbids us giving details in full.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

Many farmers could have had their wheat in the shock if they had not gone to work in the corn fields.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

NOBLE WINTIN returned from Colorado, last week, where he has been for about three months.

[BUSINESS NOTICES.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

STRAYED. A dark bay mare pony, four years old, no brand, from C. Glenn, Arkansas City.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

STRAYED. A small pony mare, dark brown color, no brand, from Frank Lorry.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

Mr. C. Mummert, proprietor, has always on hand a good supply of old and new cheese. Will take wheat, corn, eggs, and butter in exchange.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

FOR RENT. About 100 acres to put in wheat. For particulars enquire of J. H. Mettler, 3-1/2 miles southwest of Salt City, Sumner County, Kansas.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

40 Head of two-year-old cattle for sale by Houghton & McLaughlin.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 5, 1876.

150,000 No. 1 brick for sale on reasonable terms. Enquire at the brick yard.

[JAS. CHRISTIAN CORRESPONDS WITH KENTUCKY NEWSPAPER.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876. Front Page.

[The following sketch of Cowley County, is taken from the Carlisle, Nicholas County, Kentucky, Mercury, and will be found of interest both to readers at home and abroad. ED.]

Ed. Mercury:

As an old resident of Carlisle at a period long anterior to the advance of the Mercury, I still feel a deep interest in the welfare of your people, and read with such pleasure in the Mercury of the sayings and doings of that locality. In your paper of the 1st inst., I read a faithful description of Coffey County, in this State, by your correspondent, J. H. Hughes; who I suppose is one of the Nicholas Co. Hughes of the days of yore, and I was forcibly struck by his comparison of that section of Kansas as compared with the Arkansas Valley as Fleming to Bourbon. I can corroborate the statement in full; his picture is not overdrawn. This is certainly the best and richest body of land in America.

Much has been said and written of the great Arkansas Valley, and yet no one has overstated the truth. Cowley County, from where I am now writing, is on the Arkansas River. The last twenty seven miles of this river, before it enters the Indian country, runs through this county in a south-easterly direction, meeting the waters of the Walnut River, that runs south through the county at this (Arkansas) City. The Grouse, another large stream, comes in from the north-east. All three meet near this place, thence united, enter the Indian nation, making this the best-watered, best-timbered, and most highly favored county on the river in the great Arkansas Valley.

As indicated, we are on the south line of the State, on the thirty-seventh parallel of latitude near the line that divides Kentucky and Tennessee, considerably south of Carlisle.

A visit to this county at this time would convince the most skeptical that no picture of the fruitfulness of this county can be overdrawn. We are now in the midst of the wheat and barley harvest. This week and last has been a busy time with the farmers, and next week will be busier still. Between twenty-five and thirty harvesters and headers have been sold in this town the past week, to be used in this and Bolton Township.

There are twenty-two townships in this county, and to give you an idea of the extent of wheat and other crops raised in this county, I will give the result of this (Creswell) township, which is about an average of the others. There are in this township 30,000 acres of land, 6,000 of these are in cultivationone-fifth of all; 3,000 of these are in wheatone-half of all. There are 740 inhabitants in this township, 624 head of cattle; 311 of which are milch cows; 397 horses; 57 mules; 509 hogs; 29,000 fruit trees set out and growing but not yet fruiting; 13,550 pounds of butter made in the family last year.

How does this look for a five year old county. Six years ago this country was an "Indian reserve," a howling wilderness; now it is a home of plenty. There are thousands of acres of Government land in this county yet which can be bought at the entrance price, $200 for 160 acres; but will be sold to none but pre-emptors, to keep out speculators. We have a herd law in this county, so that there is no fencing required. Of the 6,000 acres in cultivation, not 100 acres are enclosed. Whole quarter sections are in wheat without a sign of a fence. Our wheat this year will average over twenty-five bushels to the acre. JAS. CHRISTIAN.

[CORRESPONDENCE FROM "WM. HUNT" RE FLOOD AT KAW AGENCY.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

Editor Traveler:

I came home from your city on the afternoon of the 28th of June, through a terrific rain, which continued in unceasing torrents until noon the next day. Beaver Creek was at high water mark at sunrise on the morning of the 29th, and by noon it was ten feet above anything ever known, sweeping fences, pig styes, chicken houses, and crops; corn five and six feet high entirely submerged. Indians and half breeds had to flee their tents and houses, the water being four feet deep on the first floors. The engine at the mill was entirely submerged, and a pig was found lodged in the forks of a tree, some ten or twelve feet from the ground, the next day after the waters had subsided, and rescued, still alive, by an Indian.

We have made no estimate of the loss to the Mission and Agency farms, nor to the loss of our Indians; neither do I suppose that your readers would be interested in such an esti mateknowing, as they generally do, the Indian's capability of making up by traffic and begging any loss he may suffer. Furthermore, it is not my object to give you a doleful picture of the damage done by the flood, so much as to inform you of the great Centennial celebration held at this place today.

In order to revive the drooping spirits of our red brethren, occasioned by their recent losses, the managers of affairs decided that we would give an issue of beef, flour, sugar, and coffee, and have a grand barbecue and feast. Accordingly, we sent out word yesterday for all to come in and celebrate the Centennial anniversary of American independence, and they came en masseIndians, squaws, papooses, dogs, and catswith the stars and stripes fluttering in the breeze. Now I do not pretend to say that it was altogether an outburst of patriotism, on the part of our red brethren, to thus assemble with such enthusiasm, for it may possible be that longing appetite for roast beef had something to do with it. Be that as it may, they barbecued, roasted their beef, fried their cakes in the tallow thereof, made their coffee in a fifteen-gallon kettle, and ate to their heart's content, smoked, and ate again. Of course, ice cream, lemonade, and epicurean delicacies, were not in the bill, but the real substantials of life were in abundance. Doubtless the citizens of Philadelphia and other great cities of the States enjoyed themselves on this day, but none more so than did the Kaw Indians.

Orations were delivered by Superintendent Spray and the writer of this article, and the Kaws went home happy and contented. They were so favorably impressed with the importance of Centennial celebrations they would be perfectly willing to sacrifice whatever time and labor it might cost them to hold one every week, provided two or three good beeves, etc., could be furnished. WM. HUNT.

[EDITORIAL COLUMN.]

Arkansas City Traveler, Wednesday, July 12, 1876.

EXPLANATORY. During our absence the paper will be left in charge of Hon. C. R. Mitchell, with the assistance of others, who will be responsible for its course during the next five weeks. Any matter pertaining to work in the office will be attended to by Ed. G. Gray, who will also have control of the local columns. While in Philadelphia and elsewhere, we shall occasionally send an item. C. M. SCOTT.

[MORE ITEMS: EDITORIAL COLUMN.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876. Editorial Column.

L. J. WEBB, Past Master of Adelphi Lodge at Winfield, delivered the Anniversary address on St. John the Baptist, at Wellington, on the 24th of June, to a large audience. A few years ago public addresses by Masons was almost unknown, and the workings of the Order rarely alluded to outside the Lodge; but this is an age of progress, and the desire for more light is increasing wonderfully.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

In pursuance of the confirmation of the terrible state of affairs in the Indian country, General Pope issued orders yesterday at Fort Leavenworth, to the effect that the whole garrison, consisting of six companies of the Fifth Infantry, under the command of General N. A. Miles, will report themselves at once in readiness to march to the front.

Companies B, E, and K, which are now at Fort Leavenworth, will be joined by company F, which recently was ordered to Fort Gibson; company G from Fort Hays, and company H from Fort Riley. Company I will remain at Fort Leavenworth until relieved, probably, by a company of artillery from the East.

The command will be ordered to the mouth of the Big Horn River, and will start within a few days. The excitement in the city is yet intense, and several old army officers have tele graphed to Washington their willingness to begin at once to enlist volunteers, and have asked for permission to do so, feeling confident that one or more regiments can be raised in a very short time, composed principally of old Indian fighters and frontiersmen.

Arkansas City Traveler, Wednesday, July 12, 1876.

Salt Lake, Utah, July 6. Advices from Bosler, Montana, July 3, at 7 p.m., states that Mr. Taylor, bearer of dispatches from the Little Horn to Fort Ellis, arrived this evening, and reports that a battle was fought on the twenty fifth ult., thirty or forty miles below the Little Horn.

Custer attacked an Indian village containing from 2,500 to 4,000 warriors on one side, and Colonel Reno was to attack it on the other. Three companies were placed on a hill, as a reserve. Custer and 15 officers and every man of five companies were killed. Reno retreated under the protection of the reserve. The whole number killed was 315. Gen. Gibbon joined Reno and the Indians left. The battleground looked like a slaughter pen, as it really was, being in a narrow ravine. The dead were much mutilated.

The situation looks serious. Gen. Terry arrived at Gibbon's camp on a steamboat and crossed his command over and accompanied it to Custer, who knew it was coming before the fight occurred. Lieut. Crittenden was among the killed.

The special correspondent of the Helena, Montana, Herald, writing from Stillwater, Montana, July 2, says: Custer found a camp of about 2,000 lodges on the Little Horn, and immediately attacked it. Custer took five companies and charged the thickest portion of the camp. Nothing is known of the operation of this detachment, only as traced by the dead. Major Reno commanded the other seven companies, and attacked the lower portion of the camp. The Indians poured in a murderous fire from all directions, beside the greater portion fought on horseback. Custer, his two brothers, nephew, and brother-in-law, were all killed, and not one of his detachment escaped. Two hundred and seven men were buried in one place, and the killed were estimated at 300, with only thirty-one wounded. The Indians surrounded Reno's command and held them one day in the hills, cut off from water, until Gibbons' command came in sight, when they broke camp in the night and left. The Seventh fought like tigers and were overcome by mere brute force. The Indian loss cannot be estimated, as they bore off and sacked most of their killed. The remnant of the Seventh Cavalry and Gibbons' command are turning to the mouth of Little Horn, where a steamboat lies. The Indians got all the arms of the killed soldiers. There were seventeen commissioned officers killed. The whole Custer family died at the head of their column. The exact loss cannot be known, as both adjutants and sergeants majors were killed. The Indian camp was from three to four miles long, and was twenty miles up the Little Horn from its mouth. The Indians actually pulled the men off their horses in some instances."

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

Chicago, July 6. Dispatches confirming Custer's fight on the Little Horn River, have been received at Gen. Sheridan's headquarters.

Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota, July 6. The town is draped in mourning, and a meeting of the Common Council and citizens was held this evening to take measures for an appropriate tribute to the gallant dead.

Toledo, Ohio, July 6. A special to the Blade from Monroe, Michigan, the home of Gen. Custer, says that the startling news of the massacre of the General and his party by the Indians created the most intense feeling and sorrow among all classes. Gen. Custer passed several years of his school in Monroe, and his parents have resided there many years. His wife is a daughter of Hon. Daniel L. Bacon, a prominent citizen of that place, and is now at the post recently commanded by Gen. Custer.

St. Louis, July 6. A telegram from Gen. Ruggles, at St. Paul, to Captain Green Hale, commanding the cavalry at the arsenal here, gives the following as the names of the officers killed in the fight between the Sioux and Gen. Custer's command: General Custer, Colonel Custer, Colonel Keogh, Colonel Yates, Colonel Cook, Lieutenant Smith, Lieutenant McIntosh, Lieutenant Hodgson, Lieutenant Reilley, Lieutenant Porter, and Lieutenant Sturgis. Lieutenant Horrington is missing.

Chicago, July 6. An Inter-Ocean special, under date of Bismarck, Dakota Territory, July 1, says that information has been received from the Sioux expedition, dated at the mouth of the Big Horn, July 1st, which says that Custer left the mouth of Rosebud with twelve companies to follow the Indian trail of a large band of hostile Sioux. They followed up in the direction of the Big Horn. The Indians were making for the eastern branch of Little Horn. Gen. Terry with Gibbon's command of five companies of infantry and four companies of cavalry, started to ascend the Big Horn to attack the enemy in the rear. On the morning of the 25th two Crow scouts brought intelligence of the battle of the previous day, and upon receipt of the news, the command commenced the march in a southerly direction, where smoke could be seen, which indicated that Custer had fired the Indian village. Next morning the column entered a plain bordering on the Little Horn, where had recently stood an immense Indian village three miles in length. The ground was strewn with the slaughtered horses, cavalry equipments, and the dead bodies of nine Indian chiefs. The clothing of Lieutenants Sturgess and Porter was also found, pierced with bullets. Further on was found the body of Lieutenant McIntosh.

Just then a scout arrived with the intelligence that Col. Reno was entrenched with the remnant of the Seventh Cavalry on a bluff nearby waiting relief. The command pushed on and found Reno with the remainder of the seven companies. Reno's command had been fighting since Sunday noon, the 25th, until relieved by Terry on the night of the 26th. Terry's arrival caused the Indians to retire. Reno knew nothing of the fate of the other five companies, which had been separated from them on the 25th to make an attack under Custer's command, at a point about three miles down the right bank of the stream.

[BOUNTY BILL.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

The new bounty bill has passed both Houses and become a law. It allows all enlisted men, soldiers, sailors, and mariners, including slaves and Indians, $8.25 per month, for their services between the 12th day of April 1861, and the 9th day of May 1865, deducting from the amount all bounties received either from the State or United States. This law will greatly relieve the Kansas soldiers.

[PERSONALS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

HENRY WORK is in Colorado.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

And now come the cucumbers.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

A number of children have the whooping cough.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

RUST is spoiling the oat crop in some sections of this county.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

HURRAH! The boat is on the Arkansas, and coming right along.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

GRAPES are rotting considerably from the effects of wet weather.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

MISS GUSSIE SLOCUM delivered the centennial poem at Emporia, last week.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

The Arkansas is 26 feet high at Little Rock, and full to the top of the bank here.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

The County Commissioners are in regular session today, and probably will be until Saturday.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

The ladies of the M. E. Society will meet at the residence of Mrs. Grimes on Thursday afternoon.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

We expect to announce the arrival of the "Gen. Wiles" steamboat at this place within the next three weeks.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

SPEERS' mill whistles fifteen minutes before 12 and fifteen minutes before 6 in the evening, by his own time.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

REV. FLEMING preached his sermon on the political history of our country during the past century to a full house last Sunday.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

MR. JENNINGS, a young lawyer lately located at Winfield, and J. D. Pryor of the firm of Pryor, Kager & Pryor, made us a short call yesterday.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

The south side of the Arkansas River bridge, belonging to Bolton Township, is to be repaired with pine lumber. The whole bridge needs new flooring.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

In our opinion, if the brewery at Winfield was differently locatedsay nearer the fordthe Walnut River would be fordable for twelve months in the year.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

OLD MR. CAMPBELL has returned from the Black Hills. He says the great trouble is that most people expend all their money in getting there, and then have none to work on.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

BLACKBERRIES are healthy fruit to eat. You'd have thought so to have seen a gallon disappear from the sight of our office boys, the other day, when Sherb. Hunt treated.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

The Arkansas City boat is now stemming the current of the Arkansas River, not a great distance from Little Rock. If they take on coal in the Territory, it will delay them two weeks, as it has to be dug yet.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

J. L. STUBBS and Mr. Tisdale, of Paw-hus-ka (Osage Agency), favored us with a call. They report great damage done to the wheat crop in that vicinity, and state that the water in Bird Creek was fifty feet high.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

CENTENNIAL. The editor remained long enough to do most of the writing for this week's paper, and yesterday morning hied himself away to the Philadelphia show, with his pockets full of TRAVELERS, circulars of Arkansas City and Cowley County, toothpicks, etc. Before returning he will visit Lower Canada, Niagara Falls, and see his dad and mam.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

We learn that the band boys gave entire satisfaction at Wellington, and that more than 8,000 people were assembled. If it had not been in the midst of harvest, they would have had fully one-half more in attendance. The boys say they were entertained in the very best manner, and came home feeling that the people of Wellington were among the best they ever met.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

C. R. Mitchell and O. P. Houghton have formed a partnership, and this week open an office to buy and sell real estate in this and adjoining counties. We know of no two men we could more fully recommend to the public than these gentlemen. Settling in an early day, they are familiar with the country, and know where to buy cheapest. Mr. Mitchell is a prominent attorney, and Mr. Houghton a thorough businessman of years' experience. We recommend them to the public generally.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

Monday morning, Lewis Gardner's team became frightened and ran down 1st East street until they came in front of Judge McIntire's house, where A. A. Davis' team was standing attached to Chamberlain's buggy, which they ran completely over, breaking all four wheels, the box, seat, tongue, and springsmaking it almost a total wreck. One of the runaway horses had its neck badly cut, leaving the windpipe bare. From appearances, a law suit for damages will probably grow out of it.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

MARRIED. At Winfield, July 4th, by Judge Gans. Mr. T. N. Parker and Miss Ella Herbert, both of this county. That was a grand way to celebrate the Fourth on this Centennial year. Instead of remaining at Winfield to see the fireworks, they went home.

[ITEMS FROM THE TELEGRAM.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

Mr. S. Tarrant has returned from the Centennial.

We hear of quite a number of deaths from the flux, which occurred during the last two weeks.

Several children have died, in this county, during the past three months with the whooping cough. Mr. Sam. Eckles lost two.

A petition, asking the Commissioners to repair the Dutch Creek bridge, above town, is being circulated and extensively signed.

When the fireworks of the Fourth arrive, the people will be notified of the evening on which they will be burnedso that all may come in and see them.

[MARRIAGES.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

Married. On Sunday, July 2nd, 1876, by Rev. N. L. Rigby, at his residence in Winfield, Mr. Wm. Jasper Cochran and Miss Isabel Stark, both of this city.

Married. On Tuesday, July 4th, 1876, at the residence of E. R. Weitzell, in Beaver Township, by W. V. Sitton, J. P., Mr. Job. Froggath, of Sumner County, and Miss Mahilda Hugals, of this county.

[BOUNTY BILL & KANSAS LANDS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

Washington, July 5. The President signed the bill to extend the time for filing claims for additional bounty under the act of July 28th, 1866, which expired by limitation on January 30, 1875, until July 1, 1880.

Also, an act providing for the sale of Kansas Indian lands in Kansas to actual settlers, and the disposition of the proceeds of the sale.

[FOURTH OF JULY.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

Animated by that spirit of independence which characterized our patriot sires of old, a small party of Arkansas City Fourth of July-ers turned their backs upon the great show at Winfield, and started for the Territory; where upon the broad prairies, by the sparkling waters of the Shilocco, we might have room to "spread" ourselves, and liberty to partake of the Legislature's forbidden fruit for which we all had an "orful hankerin'." Our objective point was the springeverybody knows where that is. We left town at 8:30, with banners flying, and at 9:15 passed the State line and beyond the limits of the game law. And right here I would like to call the attention of the authorities to a system of lawlessness that exists along the border, which if persisted in will disgrace us as a community, and cause great annoyance to the Government.

I allude to the disgraceful conduct of Polk Stevens et al., in cutting up the State line and using the pieces for well ropes, lariats, etc.

After passing into the Territory, O. P. Houghton, E. D. Eddy, Kendall Smith, Henry Mowry, and others, armed with double barrel shot guns and dogsI mean dogs and double barrel shot gunsstarted out to hunt for game, while the rest of the party went to look for the spring, which (everybody knowing exactly where it was) we found immediately. Here we corralled our wagons, and to the tops thereof stretched wagon covers, and soon had a comfortable tent commodious enough to cover our whole party of fifty. The next thing in order was to prepare the "wittles." L. McLaughlin's pony express came in on time bringing a game sack full of game, consisting of young quails, snipes, woodpeckers, and prairie chickens of all ages, from the newly bedged with parts of its late domicile hanging to them to the toothless old hen of "ye olden time." Eddy, under the supervision of Mrs. Houghton and Mrs. L. McLaughlin, cooked the game in a very satisfactory manner, while Tyler McLaughlin, as chief cook of the coffee department, covered himself all over with glory and cinders.

Kendall Smith and Jim Benedict roasted three pecks of wormy sweet corn, and Mrs.candor compels me to say itMrs. Meigs ate it. Evidently the author of "Ten Acres Enough" had never seen Mrs. Meigs eat roasting ears. Other parties disposed of grub in the same proportion, but the undersigned sat between Jim Benedict and the "picter" man, and as a consequence, went home hungry, and "Oh! how dry I was."

After dinner we had a patriotic song by Mrs. Alexander and O. P. Houghton, and an eloquent address by E. D. Bowen, M. D. The toast, "The flag of our Union: long may it wave, from Kansas to Maine and Georgi(e)a," was responded to by E. D. Eddy. Mrs. Alexander was the life and spirit of the party (she carried the spirit in a bottle). After our patriotism had effervesced, T. H. McLaughlin set up the lemonade, and we started for home. On the way Mrs. L. McLaughlin unfolded some blood curdling panther "tails" of the early days in the backwoods. Just as the Centennial sun sank to rest, we returned to our homes, with a feeling of pity for those people of limited means who could not afford to travel, but were compelled to put up with the skeetery and weedy woods of Winfield.

[STEAMBOAT.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

The following, from the Cowley County Telegram, gives an unbiased expression and feeling of gratitude in behalf of the farmers, and general progress of all.

It gives us pleasure from time to time, to give all the information in regard to the Arkansas City steamboat that we can glean from the "TRAVELER." We look upon this experiment as one in which the whole of Cowley County is deeply interestedand for the success of which each and everyone of her citizens should pray. The successful navigation of the Arkansas River as far north as Cowley County is the next best thing to a railroadin fact, we believe that it would be much better for the county as it would present a much cheaper outlet for surplus produce than we could possibly get through the medium of any road. And the arrival of the boat now coming should be the signal for a general rejoicing throughout the entire county. We suggest that when our neighbors can have the exact day of its arrival that they notify the county so that the farmers may be there en masse to send up a shout of joy when the smoke stack first rises in view, and send up cheer after cheer in answer to the tones of its whistle and peal of its bell. What say you, Scott? Can't you make that a "big day" for the little city?

[BUSINESS NOTICES.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

FOUND. On Sunday last, a child's sack coat. Inquire here.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

FOR SALE. Two spans of mules, two sets of work harness, and two lumber wagons. Enquire at the Arkansas City Bank.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

The sod disk or rolling cutter harrow, for preparing newly broken ground for wheat, for sale by BENEDICT & BRO.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

WANTED. A girl to do house work at El Paso; enquire of William Marshall, the stage driver, or James Christian, at the Express office, Arkansas City.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

STRAYED. A dark bay mare pony, four years old, no brand, from C. Glenn, Arkansas City.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

STRAYED. A small pony mare, dark brown color, no brand, from Frank Lorry.

[TIRADE OVER TRANSFER/INDIAN BUREAU TO WAR DEPARTMENT.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 12, 1876.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune, speaking of the bill to transfer the Indian Bureau to the war department, says:

There was quite a heated passage between Senator Ingalls, who is the chief advocate of the transfer, and Mr. Morrill, of Maine, who, at the time he spoke, had not been confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Ingalls insisted that the War Department is not a slaughter house and the officers are not all butchers; that the continued tirade against the bad faith of the Anglo-Saxon with the Indians is unjustifiable, and that the American continent is not designed for the exclusive use of a few millions of savages. The Black Hills war, he said, is exclusively brought about by a peace policy, and the Indian never had been and never would be civilized; when he becomes so, he is no longer an Indian. Mr. Ingalls said that sentiment is a simple thing for those who have no Indians in their States.

[INDIAN NEWS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

Omaha, Neb., July 13. Recent dispatches from the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies state that the affairs are very uncertain. Owing to the recent news of Custer's defeat, the Interior Department are issuing nothing but corn and flour, having failed on beef entirely.

Scouting parties have been withdrawn from the Agency at the bridge on the Sidney route. There is still one company of troops at the bridge.

It is not probable that the Indians will make trouble at the agencies, as they are their only refuge in case they are overpowered.

[SOLUTION OF THE INDIAN PROBLEM.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

The present Sioux war, precipitated by Sitting Bull and his large and formidable gang of roving and desperate savages, ought to be the last Indian war the Government will be called on to prosecute. There is one way, and only one way, to make it so. It is to drive the Indians now occupying the northern Territories into a common reservation in the Indian Territory, and to exterminate all the savages who refuse to go. The temporizing policy may as well be abandoned once for all.

The overflow of people from Europe and the Eastern States has already begun to spread over Colorado, Wyoming, Dakota, and Montana. Already Kansas and Nebraska are pretty well settled, and after passing the 100th degree of longitude, a far larger area per family is necessary for the support of those who locate on the western plains, on account of the barrenness of the country and the scarcity of rain. The attractions of the minerals and the opportunities for stock raising in the Territories will increase the emigration there steadily and rapidly. It would be folly to resist it, and cruel to subject the emigrants to an unequal frontier struggle with roving bands of hostile Indians. These Territories can only be made safely inhabitable by ridding them of the savages, and the interest of civilization demand that this shall be done.

Fortunately, this policy may be carried out without doing the Indians any injustice; on the contrary, it will be the most humane to them, and will provide for their future more permanently than any other. The Indian Territory, lying between Kansas and Texas, and just west of Arkansas, has a larger area than the State of Illinois, and is ample for the accommodation and support of all the aboriginal population of America, which does not number more than 300,000 persons. The climate is warm and well suited to the outdoor life which the Indian pursues. Having them all together, they can be better and more cheaply supported; the Territory can be thoroughly guarded and the excursions of wild Indians quickly checked; the climate, soil, and associations will make the Indians incline more rapidly to agricultural pursuits; and all the civilizing influences of education and religion can be brought to bear upon them in a degree not possible while they are scattered about in small tribes and at large distance.

This is the plan upon which the war against the Sioux should be prosecuted. Having conquered them into submission, all the other Indian tribes of these Northern Territories will peacefully submit to the change, glad of the assurance of protection against the outlaw Indians which it will carry with it. As to Sitting Bull and his followers, there is no excuse for the development of the slightest sentimentalism. His present force consists of all the hostile bands that have been harassing the whites and the peaceful Indians in that country for the last twelve or fifteen years. They have been marauding, plundering, and murdering ever since the Spirit Lake massacre in Iowa and the Sioux massacre in Minnesota. They have made war on the commerce of the Upper Missouri for years. They have frequently attacked the Crows, Shoshones, and other friendly tribes. They have absorbed the appropriations of millions to use as resources for further fighting.

The present war, indeed, has grown out of the confession of the Peace Commission that they are powerless to do anything more with the Sioux, and is prosecuted at the special request of the Indian Department. Had he not been vigorously attacked now, Sitting Bull would probably have induced the entire Sioux Nation to join him, and this might easily have led to a general Indian war. Such a result can be surely avoided by the policy of concentrating or "corralling" all the Indians of these several Territories into the Indian Territory, giving them separate and adequate reservations, and exterminating those who will not acquiesce. The peaceable treaty Indians will probably rejoice at the change, as it will give them for the first time something like certain protection against the savage Indians. If this policy be adopted, the necessary regiments should be filled up to their full strength, and such a force thrown against the hostile tribes as will bring them into quick submission.

[PERSONALS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

HAY harvest has commenced.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

T. H. HENDERSON was in town last week.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

SEE the card of Dr. H. D. Kellogg in this issue.

AD: H. D. KELLOGG, M.D., PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Arkansas City, Kansas.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

WILL MOWRY is agent for the Loring & Blakely organs.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

HOUGHTON & McLAUGHLIN intend putting 335 acres in wheat this fall.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

O. P. HOUGHTON is building a granary, 20 x 30 feet, with a capacity for over 3,000 bushels of wheat.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

A NEW stage driver has been put on the road between Wichita and El Paso, which hastens the arrival of the mail at this end.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

MR. ROBINSON, of Illinois, was in town last Friday. We understand he was one of the applicants for the school at this place.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

FRANK RANDALL, ex-fiend of the TRAVELER office, has left the ars artium omnium conservatix, and is now spreading himself on a tinner's stool in Colorado.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

JOHN NICHOLS' team made a sickly attempt to run off, last Saturday, but only succeeded in straddling H. & Mc.'s Fairbanks and breaking the neck-yoke.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

FRANK GALLOTTI, of the firm of Boyer & Gallotti, of Winfield, called upon us Friday last. Frank is one of the old-time b'hoys, and a jolly good fellow.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

A. J. REEVES was bitten by a copperhead snake, last Tuesday, on the finger, but by speedy application of alcohol, he received no material damage therefrom. The snake's dead.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

WYARD GOOCH and brothers are said to have the best wheat stacks in the surrounding country.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

We would call attention to Judge Christian's call to the farmers, and hope they will respond liberally, as it is for the general good of our county that this grain is to be forwarded. Bring in your samples.

NOTICE:

To the farmers of Creswell and adjoining townships.

GENTLEMEN: I want to get a few samples of this year's crop of wheat threshed from the stacksay about a pound eachto be sent to New York, at the request of a prominent gentleman of that city, for inspection. Please send me your name, the number of acres raised, the quarter section, township, and range where raised, and greatly oblige yours,

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

THE COWLEY COUNTY NORMAL SCHOOL is postponed until August 21, in consequence of the failure to secure accommodations for teachers. Prof. Lemmon is doing his utmost to make it comfortable for the teachers during the term.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

We regret to announce the death of Bob Sheather, at his home in New York, July 4, of typhoid fever. He was for some time Deputy Treasurer of this county under E. B. Kager, and will be remembered by many of this place and Winfield.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

W. B. SKINNER received a letter from his son, dated Sidney, Dakota Territory, July 4, in which he expressed his determination to start for Colorado as soon as possible, as times were none of the best there. Mr. Felton received a letter from Joe Rickels last Thursday evening, we think, stating that Mr. Berkey and his son, Will, started for home the day he wrote; that he and Uncle Richard Woolsey had traded their wagons, teams, and everything for a claim, and were working a lead paying from three to ten cents per pan; that Uncle Richard's sight has improved wonderfully from the time he first saw "pay dirt;" that he was erecting a shop, and both were determined to "see her through." These letters, however, were written before the late Indian fights, and it is possible they may change their minds.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

In looking over the county papers, and talking with gentlemen from different sections of the county, we find it is generally expected that Arkansas City will have a grand celebration when the steamboat arrives. The people of Winfield and Oxford have asked us to notify them as to the exact time of its arrival, when they will endeavor to come down and help us out in our jollification. To this we say, we will do our best to notify all, but the probabilities are the whistle will be the first warning we will have of its approachin which case the fandango can be postponed until the day following, when we want everybody in the county here to yell, and we promise them the demonstration will eclipse anything of its kind ever witnessed in Cowley County.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

C. R. MITCHELL received a letter from Wm. Fowler, who left this place June 24, for Little Rock, Arkansas, in a small sail boat, in which he reports his safe arrival at Russellville, some seventy miles below Fort Smith. He had a rough time of it, as the river was constantly raising and filled with driftwood; but he made good speed, traveling 150 miles in one day, and being but six days in making the distance. He made inquiry concerning the "Gen. Wiles," but it had not at that time reached Little Rock, though it must be near Ft. Smith now.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

A. N. DEMING, of Wichita, and Mr. Stedman, of Potsdam, N. Y., dropped in on us last Thursday evening. Mr. Deming is at present engaged in buying grain with H. O. Meigs, they shipping it east and west from Wichita. Mr. Stedman is looking at the country with a view to finding a desirable location for his brother, and thinks Cowley County and the Walnut Valley are just a little ahead of anything he ever saw.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

WIRT W. WALTON, of the Winfield Courier, will be a candidate for Chief Clerk of the next House of Representatives. He will make an excellent Chief Clerk. Sumner Co. Press. There is one thing against Wirthe allowed a woman to wallow him in the snow last winter. Topeka Blade.

Wouldn't want any better fun, Swayze, and to us it looks as if your objection savored somewhat of sour grapes.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

HOFFMASTER'S livery stable was converted into a High Court of Impeachment last Saturday, and the arbitration case of Skinner vs. Kay et al, argued by Hon. W. P. Hackney, of Winfield, for Skinner, and Judge Christian for the opposition. Hackney was "scooped," and confessed he didn't know anything about livery-stable arbitration cases.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

The handsomest piece of mechanism we ever saw is a chronometer safe lock, shown us last Sunday by Mr. Brolley, the company's agent. It is complicated, complete, and most effectual in securing safes against burglarsso effectual, in fact, the cashier himself cannot open it before the hour set, when it will open of its own accord.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

J. J. ESTUS writes us from San Juan, Colorado, sending some specimens of ore, and saying that that country is not what it is "cracked up" to be, but much the same as a lotteryone fellow draws the prize and the rest go hungry. He says there are some very rich mines opened up, but the chances are against a poor man.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

DR. HOUSTON and "his son John" are worse than Arabs. They took up their tents, packed off to Leavenworth, stayed two weeksand all done so silently no one knew anything about it until the doctor waltzed up to Eddy's drug store, last week, and told it.

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

Mr. M. A. Felton started for Wichita, last Saturday morning, with the intention of building a flatboat there and floating pine lumber down the Arkansas to this place. He thinks he can come down in one day at the present stage of the water.

[ON THE FLY: REPORT FROM EDITOR C. M. SCOTT.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

Arrived here this noon after an uncomfortably warm ride of two days and a half. The stage arrived at Wichita about seven in the evening, and I had time enough to see the monopoly town of the Southwest and retire at a reasonable hour.

At 4:45 the train left for the north. We breakfasted at Newton for 75 cents each, took dinner at Topeka, and supper at Cameron Junction, and arrived at Quincy, Illinois, by 2 a.m.; and there we waited until 4:45 to take the Toledo and Wabash to this place.

At Cameron, I met and had a long conversation with Dr. Gray, formerly of Arkansas City. He is conductor of the Pullman sleeping car from St. Joseph to Cleveland, Ohio, and makes his home at Peoria, Illinois, where his wife and family are.

Crops along the entire line were good, except the corn in Illinois, where it is on low land and has been drowned out. The Mississippi was at one time seven miles wide this spring, at Quincy, and much of the country is yet under water. Residents tell me it has been raining for nearly a month, and as I write, it continues. Wheat is standing in the shock. Oats are not ripe yet.

We had a little sensation last night that broke the monotony of the dark ride for a half hour or more. I was sitting on a seat just behind a peculiar, quiet man of about 45 years, when all at once he jumped up and yelled repeatedly: "Go away!" followed by prolonged curses. No one paid much attention to him until he made a grab for a blind man sitting opposite him, when he was made to sit down, until the conductor came, and a lively tussle took place in trying to get him in the closet, where he was held until the train reached Palmyra, and the police took charge of him.

Green apples, ten cents per dozen, were the first luxuries we encountered. Travel on the road is good, and about one third of the travelers are bound for Philadelphia.

[BLACK HILLS: INDIANS MAKE RAID UPON MINERS.]

Arkansas City Traveler, July 19, 1876.

Burlington, Iowa, July 15. C. W. Hanscome, a reliable man, who came here today from Custer City, near which place he has been at work on a dry gulch claim, says the claim was paying $20 per day per man.

On the 20th of June, the Indians raided their camp, capturing nine horses and killing the following of the company: A. M. Carter, of England, Wm. Brown, Henry Brown, Cowell Valentine, John Huff, and W. M. Page.

Two men, Hanscome and Cook, cut their way through and escaped; and returning next day, found their comrades terribly mutilated and scalped, and the provisions gone.