Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

"The strange, sad rumor reaches us that our dear but over-ambitious friends at Winfield, in the matter of the Methodist college business, bit off more than they can chew. It was awful funny to sail in and outbid the biggest town in the state, but it wasn't business, all the same. Wichita talked business, Winfield highfly. Highfly caught the impracticable, vain-glorious preacher's committee, but the trustees seem to be insisting upon business, a kind of talk that Winfield is not well up in, apparently. At least so unsatisfactory has their talk and action become that one of the trustees has resigned and another threatens to. A portion of the preacher committee accepted, with ill-grace, the assertion made before them by the editor of this paper, that from the absence of business sense and business action their college would fail, we citing the failures of Blue Mount College and the Baker University of this state, both Methodist institutions, one of which the church presented to the state, and which is now the State Agricultural college. Wichita don't want the college now, nor did she ever particularly hanker after it. It would be better to be a college town than to be nothing, and we hope Winfield will brace up to the demand that she make good her promise. That this hope is sincere, we have only to say that Wichita has had two college propositions of late, either of them more favorable than the Methodist proposition. And we don't think that the trustees, either, should weaken so easily, but brace up also and make the best of a bad bargain.

Wichita Eagle.

The over-anxiety manifested in the above article only evidences the deep and bitter disappointment still rankling in the breast of the Eagle man on account of Wichita's defeat and humiliation in a contest for the College in which they had put their job up and in which they were sure they had a clean walk-away. It's sore, isn't it? Poor Marsh! Winfield is sorry that you will persist in parading the soreness left by your blasted hopes. You shouldn't have gone into the College business. You are evidently not adapted to such work; you are better fitted as a base bulldozer to control the rabble and things of your commercially thrifty town, rather than to dictate to a committee of level headed, competent preachers. It brings the blush to the face of every intelligent reader of your paper who knows you when you parade what you told the preacher committee, and, we will add, you said many other equally foolish and prejudiced things that had as well not be repeated. Your story of having two other propositions offered you sounds thin and boyish on the heels of your M. E. College and Reformatory School efforts. You needn't be so apprehensive about the trustees and Winfield failing of their duty in this college matter, as they will live up fully to the letter and spirit of the bid from Winfield that secured the location of the College--the result so mourned--and this is what makes the Eagle man so strangely sad and jealous. Wichita's member of the board of trustees, it is true, did resign, but it came about in this way: At the first meeting of the board, this same gentleman offered a resolution to postpone action until the next meeting of the conference. His motion did not receive a second, yet the worthy president of the board ruled that he would entertain the motion without a second. The animus of the motion, on reflection, became so apparent that its author withdrew it with an apology. This same member was elected treasurer of the board, by the way--a fine scheme to have the treasurer of the Winfield College a resident of Wichita; but while this job was being put up in the interests of Wichita down here the officers of the law were levying attachments on the would-be treasurer's goods in Wichita. So at the next meeting of the board, a by-law was adopted that the treasurer should be a layman, not a member of the board of trustees. The Wichita treasurer at once appeared upon the scene and tendered his resignation as trustee, but he was promptly informed that unless his resignation of treasurer was also tendered, his resignation as trustee would not be accepted, so the only thing left for him to do was to resign both positions. And it occurs to us, for the credit of the Eagle's position, the less said about this College business, the better.

Now as to the facts:

The board of M. E. College trustees closed a three days' meeting in this city Thursday, and returned to their homes. It was the most important and satisfactory they have yet held. The warranty deeds to the two beautiful and valuable tracts of land, forty acres, donated by the College Hill Town Company and the Highland Park Town Company and the twenty thousand dollar subscriptions of these companies were accepted and the deeds placed on record. Various plans were examined and discussed, and the board adjourned to meet August 19^th, to give the contractors time to mature and complete their bids, when the contract for the building will be closed and the work of construction commenced. In the meantime several model college buildings will be visited and carefully studied by a committee from the trustees for the purpose of confirming their judgment as to the very best plans. The trustees are availing themselves of the results as to plans and furniture of some of the best institutions of the kind in the land, and the ability and patience they are putting into the work assures for Winfield a University second to none in the west.

Will the Wichita Eagle please copy?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

THE COURIER has numerously chronicled the fact that work on the S., M. & A. "would soon commence," etc., but now that it has commenced is a settled fact. Walter G. Seaver, the Dexter Eye optician, came in Saturday from Belle Plaine and reports that grading is progressing right along, and that all the men and teams that can be secured will be put on Monday. The contractors have finished all delaying preliminaries and mean to boom the work from this time on. They have two large engines, flat cars, and all necessaries for operations. The grading will come this way from Belle Plaine, to connect the Santa Fe for a supply route. This is business, and with the arrival of the K. C. & S. W., must be followed with a boom. Let 'em come. We will open our arms with affection.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

And still the demand for agricultural products widens. A late industry, which promises wonders, to squash raising. The girls now use them for bustles. A young lady was passing along Main Street Friday, when something fell--a medium sized round Hubbard squash. Of course, those who saw the mishap recognized where it came from, and have made oath to the fact that it fell from its state of bustle. In the center of the squash is a hole for the fastener, which broke. As a bustle it certainly must be a big success, and is on exhibition in this office, where any lady wishing to consult the latest styles can examine it. President Martin will likely introduce this new squash field before the Horticultural Society at its next meeting, and urge the raising of a greater supply. This story looks thin, but we've got the proof. Squash bustles, however, must be securely fastened.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

American christians waste $5,000,000 per year for tobacco, and give $1,000,000 for the evangelization of heathens. In other words, tobacco, in their estimation, is worth five times as much as immortal souls. How many Kansas christians will have to meet that or even a heavier charge at the judgment seat? We wish the answer might be none, but alas, we know of many who are squandering many times more money for tobacco than they are giving to save lost souls. My dear reader, are you guilty? It will be an easy thing for you to turn a deaf ear to this statement now, but forget not the solemn truth, "for all these things you must render an account." What will be your excuse for non-attendance upon the services of God's house tomorrow? Take your excuse to God first ere you act upon it. R.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

E. M. Reynolds hands us his home paper, the Nora Springs, Iowa, Advertiser, containing this unique personal. The parties are probably well known here and their foreign rambles will be noted with interest: "Mr. Q. Cumber and his sister, Mrs. Belle Ache, have been guests of ye editor the greater part of the week, and all discrepancies which occur in this paper may be laid to their protracted and unwelcome visit."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Tell a man during the spell of weather to keep cool and he feels insulted, grows hotter than ever. We proffer no such advice. We simply say ditto to Irving. Teach yourself to be easily pleased. The best way to keep cool and serene is not by putting a cabbage leaf in one's hat, is not by putting ice water in one's stomach, nor yet by tarrying long at the straw that leads to mixed drinks. Such devices are not to be despised, but the most effective weapon with which to ward off the heat is the fine art of being easily pleased. The man who is easily pleased is a man who can rely upon his digestion, and digestion, as everybody knows, is half the battle of life even when the mercury is standing at a harrowing height. Thrice happy is he who has learned to be easily pleased--to take the world as it comes.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Our Cyclones went up to Udall Friday afternoon for a little exercise with the Udall "Dudes." They crossed hats for five innings, showing a little score of thirty-three for the Cyclones and twelve for the Dudes. The boys returned on the evening freight, having had a few hours acceptable recreation. The Udall boys received our club very agreeably. Met them with the band set up, the lemonade, etc. The "Dudes" pitcher got a bad hit on the forehead with a ball, and was spitting blood all night, supposed concussion of the brain.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The "Rough on Rats" base ball nine, of the Terminus, have challenged our "Exterminators" for a battle at that place on August 5^th, next Wednesday, for the championship of the State. The A. C. nine are certainly unaware of the real exterminating qualities of our nine or they would never offer to sacrifice themselves. But let the E's. blot them out and regain our "rep.," lost so ignominiously by the Cyclones. The R. O. R. are composed of staunch businessmen who can make such a visit immense.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The man who builds a good comfortable home for himself; beautifies and ornaments his grounds with trees, shrubs, and flowers, is a public benefactor and assists largely in the growth of the town. You may not be able to build a brick block, but you can brush up around your door-yard, and clear off the rubbish from the back alley. Let each one do what he can to add to the beauty of the town.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

There has been quite a sensation worked out during the past week implicating some of our most prominent citizens. We are requested by friends to withhold names for the present. It is quite rich and racy, and those who are not posted will no doubt be anxious to learn the particulars. We hope things may be straightened around without a tragedy, for we do not wish to chronicle such an act.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The regular quarterly meeting of the Free Baptists will convene at Liberty schoolhouse in Liberty township, on Friday, the 7^th of August, holding over Sunday. The place is 11 miles Southeast of Winfield and one mile east of the Magnolia farm. There will be a basket dinner on Sunday. A cordial invitation is extended for everybody to attend.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The large, branching elms next to Baden's Headquarters have been trimmed. They almost hid the building and made air very sultry in their neighborhood.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

WHEREAS, We, the members of the Cowley County Normal Institute, being about to separate for the work of the year after a pleasant session whose good results it is impossible to estimate, and whose influence must be felt in every school district in Cowley County, do realize our indebtedness to the people of Winfield for their aid and sympathy, and to the County Superintendent, the conductor and his assistant instructors, for their unremitting labors in our behalf, and

WHEREAS, We recognize and appreciate the high value of the mental training afforded us during the past weeks, the ideal of teachers, and teaching that has been kept before us, and are grateful for the acquaintance and leadership of persons possessing that best product of modern education--a well rounded christian character, therefore be it

Resolved, That we extend to Superintendent Limerick our hearty thanks for his patient and untiring efforts to promote our welfare, secure our comfort, and disseminate a spirit of good will among us.

Resolved, That we hereby tender Prof. Wilkinson, his assistants, Profs. Gridley, Barnes, and Miss Kelly, our heartfelt thanks for the noble work they have wrought among us. We are grateful for the stimulus to higher attainments which their presence and influence has afforded us. May Heaven's blessing attend them through life's school, whether in the shadow of the valley of examination or on the delectable mountains of a Normal social.

Resolved, That our sincere thanks are due the Winfield churches for the use of their buildings; especially do we appreciate the kindness of the elders of the Christian church in throwing open to us the church for our afternoon sessions.

Resolved, That to Prof. Merriman for the kindness in directing the singing; to Dr. States for his work before the physiology class; to Profs. Jay and Wilkinson and Dr. Kirkwood for their interesting and valuable lectures delivered before the Normal, and to the people of Winfield for the interest manifested, the thanks of the Institute are unanimously expressed.

Resolved, That we, the teachers of Cowley County, do go from this Institute fully determined to make this year's work the best of our lives, and to this end we ask the aid and support of every friend and patron of the common school, and,

Resolved, That these resolutions be published in the Winfield papers.

By order of the committee. H. G. Norton, chairman. A. J. McClelland, secretary.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Saturday was the 100^th number of THE DAILY COURIER. For a hundred day old youngster, it is lusty and healthy. Its circulation reaches into almost every home in the city, with not a single "delinquent." Its advertising patronage is excellent and steadily growing. Words of the heartiest commendation come to it from all directions, coupled with new subscribers and hard cash. It now employs thirteen men and nine carrier boys and its weekly payroll averages one hundred and sixty dollars. Sixty persons are supported from its salary list. And while the profit account is yet exceedingly light, the items of receipt even up those for expenditure. This is the direct result of publishing a first-class paper. After the first few issues, many citizens said, "You can't keep up such a paper," but the public have kept it up and made it a credit to the town, a permanent fixture. As its circulation and patronage increase with the age and growth of the city, new improvements will be added. THE DAILY COURIER will be up with the times and fully abreast of the progress and life of the "Queen City." When it can't do this, it will "turn up its toes to the daisies." It will never inflict on a suffering public the burden of supporting a concern that does not return value received in a measure full and running over.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The oldest deed given in Cowley was filed with Register Soward Friday. It was made, if it don't lie, in 1865, when this country was a howling wilderness. It conveys a lot in Arkansas City from A. G. Lowe to Fannie Eckert. As it wasn't acknowledged and the other day it would appear that the man who drew it had been partaking excessively of "medicine," a failing common at the Terminus. Of course, the deed is worthless with such a mistake. A deed was also filed Friday conveying property from A. F. Smith to E. P. Brooks, without a sign on the deed, farther than personal knowledge of the persons, to show in what place are lots 6 and 7, block 5. It is on the records, worthless. The parties live in Burden. Examine your deed with a keen eye, if you want no trouble.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The school board has employed the full corps of city teachers, excepting those for the new Central school building, which will not be finished before September 18^th, as follows: A. Gridley, Principal, $125 per month; Prof. W. N. Rice, High School, $60; Miss Louise S. Gregg, $50; Miss Lois Williams, $45; Miss Sada Davis, $45; Miss Maude M. Pearson, $40; Miss Iva Crane, $40; Miss Lucretia Davis, $40; Miss Mary Berkey, $40; Miss Alice E. Dickie, $50; Miss Mattie Gibson, $45; Miss Mary E. Hamill, $45; Miss Mary Bryant, $50; Miss Florence Campbell, $50; Miss Clara Davenport, $40; Miss Jessie Stretch, $50; Miss Fannie Stretch, $45.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Through the courtesy of Messrs. Bliss & Wood, our fat man procured a "dead head" ticket and joined the excursion down the muddy Arkansas last Tuesday. We left Winfield on the regular passenger train going south; our hearts were filled with gladness and our baskets filled with eatables that made the reporter drop all thoughts of trouble and feel like a school boy. We numbered ninety-five souls besides several children. We reached Arkansas City with care. Here the cars were run down to the second crossing below the depot, where we expected conveyances would be in waiting to take us to the river, but "nary one" was there, and half a mile of dusty road ahead that insured our landing on the "Kansas Millers," but equal to the occasion, we took our lunch baskets in our hands and faced all difficulties by starting for the bridge east of town across the Walnut, where the "Kansas Millers" was tied up tight and fast. Vast volumes of smoke could be seen issuing from the smoke stack. Like all such picnics, each and everyone ran, of the notion that hurrying was the thing or we would get left. We soon reached the bank and viewed the Kansas wonder. As it has been described heretofore in this paper, it will not be necessary now. Getting on board about 1 p.m., we were joined by some twenty from the Terminus. We now numbered 120. Now commenced our troubles. The drinking water failed to come and, of course, after walking through the hot sun and sand, we felt a "leetle" like imbibing. However, all we could do was to smack our lips and imagine there was a dozen cases of beer on deck, instead of water. About 2 p.m., the water came, and we sailed out of harbor at once, and down the stream so merrily. Everything went all right going down. The reporter's soul felt such joy as he has been a stranger to for a long while. We ran down at the rate of about twelve miles per hour, running twenty-five miles down the stream. We had been looking for some time for a landing place close to some shady nook, where we could land and go ashore and explore the mysteries of our lunch baskets. Some of us had been in such a hurry upon leaving home that our stomachs had been strangers to food since early in the morning. The reporter especially longed for the good time to come when some worthy individual would tap him on the shoulder and say lobsters, spring chicken, ice cream and cake, come along! And we wondered if the party would be scared to see how quick we would come. Finding no suitable place to land, we unfurled the table cloths and napkins and went to work. We partook of the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Parmer, Miss Rena Crampton, and Mrs. F. P. Nichols, four dinners in all, for which we are under many obligations. There was plenty to eat but little to drink. To be sure, the waters of the "Arkansaw" lapped the sides of our boat, and though water was all around us, we were perishing with thirst. Two or three ate this water--they parted it with a knife and swallowed without tasting. They reported some hours afterward a depressed, heavy feeling, like unto being weighted down by sand. About this time we struck for shore and quite a number landed in a shady place. It was found well stocked with the festive chigger and they (the excursionists), soon struck a B line for the boat, except one dude. We had fairly pulled out into the channel when we heard a piteous wail from the bank, and lo and behold, the dude was standing on the shore with a wild and haunted look on his countenance. We had to pull back and take him in, and this is where we got stuck--on a sand bar. Now our sticking troubles began and lasted off and on during the night. There was a colored deck hand, of the genuine southern type, that proved very handy. When we got stuck he would step off with a pole and wade around up and down the river for some distance. He did this probably to assure the passengers there was no danger of them getting into deep water and sinking. At least, we all felt that we were stuck safe and sure every time the "coon" took one of these walks. The capstan was in constant use with the trees along the shore. Several sand bars were torn up by the roots and were reported striking for the Missouri when last seen. If there had been any accommodations for sleeping, we could have got along first rate. As it was, we had to sit bolt upright all night, or stretch ourselves out on a board, and there was not much chance to sleep then, with the talking and laughing going on; and having no water made it worse, though water was found about 3 a.m., which alleviated our condition to a great extent. We reached the starting point at 5 a.m., Wednesday morning, and had to walk to the depot. We felt pretty well tuckered out, you can guess. The Winfield Juvenile band was along and discoursed sweet music. We had an organ aboard and had some good vocal music by E. F. Blair, A. F. Hopkins, Louie Brown, Mrs. Allen Ayres, Mrs. Cunningham, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. C. A. Bliss, and Miss Lola Silliman, organist. The mills of Arkansas City were represented by the proprietors themselves. These gentlemen did everything they could, taking a hand at the capstan and working like truck horses. The Kansas Millers has made several trips when the river was much lower than now, and came up all right. We attribute the trouble to new officers. There was a new outfit in command, and, no matter how competent, necessarily they would have to have some experience with the channel of the river before running successfully. Again, we were too heavily ladened. No doubt this boat will run all right with the proper load. She has done it, and will right along. Though it was very hard to sit up all night, the jovial company caused the hours to pass away. The owners of the Kansas Millers made it as agreeable as possible to all on board. Though there were several things which were not in the programme, yet this was not the fault of the owners. The scenery as far as we went is only ordinary. Though the day was very hot, when the boat was in motion we got a good breeze. We don't feel this morning as if we wished to excurt again for two or three days.

We walked to the--

The stream was very muddy.

We got stuck on a sand bar coming up.

There were too many captains aboard.

We want to go again as soon as we get well.

The band boys took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich.

Ed. Pentecost dispensed ice cream and lemonade until it ran out.

Five ministers and the reporter were aboard--this was the trouble.

We advise the Wichita party to bring along some of "Adam's ale."

We were to be back to Arkansas City at 10 p.m., and take the train at 10:30.

The fat, heavy weights aboard are supposed to be the ones that stuck the boat.

Conductor Myers watched for our return until 1 a.m., and went home disgusted.

During the water famine Dr. Park was seen to step outside and drink a bottle of eye-water.

We had lots of good things to eat, but the water was some distance from shore that was fit to drink.

The ladies' white dresses were spotted with black from the smoke stack, as well as the gentlemen's clothes.

There was some talk of a moonlight dance, but the presence of five ministers and the fat man put a damper on it.

There was a mistake made in not having a sufficient supply of water put aboard when the boat left Arkansas City.

During the scarcity of water, some salt ice, left in the cooler, was found and devoured instantly. The cooler was not touched.

Joe Maus, of the Winfield Roller mills, showed the reporter many favors, as well as to others. Joe is a good man to have along.

The officers of the boat were: Alton, captain; Barnes, pilot; Clarke, engineer. Robinson Crusoe was aboard, but had no dog or gun.

Judge Gans sat in the center of the boat and held on to a rope during the entire trip. Since the Judge's Chicago experience, he don't believe in immersion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The examination of Dr. J. S. Crabtree, late assistant P. M. at New Salem, charged with burning the Salem postoffice, fixtures, mail, etc., found its sequel Wednesday in the discharge of the Doctor. The case was before U. S. Commissioner, L. H. Webb, for two days, and was one of intense interest. Almost the whole population of New Salem, with many from Burden, were present, and six witnesses for the prosecution and twenty for the defense were examined. Dr. L. S. Downs and W. H. Lucas were the principal prosecuting witnesses, Dr. Downs having made the complaint. The case was ably conducted by U. S. District Attorney, W. C. Perry, for the prosecution, and Senator F. S. Jennings for Crabtree. P. O. Inspector Maj. J. M. Crowell, who worked up the case, assisted Perry with the evidence and Deputy U. S. Marshal O. S. Rarick was the attending marshal. Lucas, Crabtree's assistant in the drug store and postoffice, which were both in the same building, swore that he locked the store up and went home at 10 o'clock, leaving the light burning on the counter. After the fire he found the remains of the lamp and coal oil can some feet from where he had left them, and he was satisfied that someone had moved them. Dr. Downs swore positively that, at about 11 o'clock, sitting in the door of his house, one hundred feet across the street, he saw Dr. Crabtree unlock the door, enter the building, lock the door behind him, and carry the lighted lamp behind the prescription case. He saw nothing more until the alarm of fire. Shortly after he reached the spot, Dr. Crabtree came driving up, calling "fire!" A dozen or more witnesses swore that Crabtree didn't leave the Burden I. O. O. F. Lodge until about 10:30. The distance to Salem is eight miles, a good hour's drive, showing it very improbable for Crabtree to reach Salem before the fire broke out. Crabtree swore that he first saw the fire when a mile from it, and didn't know it was a building until very near the town, and that it was his building till he was in town. Crabtree's previous good character was established, and it was shown that in case the $1,200 insurance was paid, he would still be the loser seven hundred dollars or more. No possible motive was shown for the crime. Commissioner Webb's grounds of discharge were that while Downs was probably honest in his statements, and thought he saw Crabtree enter the building, and very likely did see someone enter, yet his distance away made it possible for him to be mistaken as to the person he saw, and when considered with the testimony of Crabtree's whereabouts, made that possibility almost an absolute certainty. That the fire was incendiary, there is no doubt from the evidence, but who did it can't be established in law. Sympathy has been very largely with Crabtree from the first, and all familiar with the case are happy at his discharge. The general impression is that the prosecution was prompted by professional jealousy, and much unsavory criticism is given Downs. All are satisfied that Crabtree is without a stain in the matter.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The revisers of the old testament must have lived in a cool climate and a continual state of tranquility or they never would have changed "hell" to "sheol." It will never work. After chasing an item this afternoon five miles over our parching sidewalks, with the mercury hugging 110, and then only run down three lines, we are ready to banish "sheol" for "hell." It may do for history, but as a means of expressing this weather, it's nowhere. Accosting a fellow sufferer a thousand times a day with "Ain't this hottern' sheol," would be entirely too lamb-like--too inexpressive, and the man with no more enthusiastic disgust ought to go to the regular old orthodox "hell" with a loud thud. Give us hell and take your gehenna and your sheol.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

One of the young bloods of this city was placed in a most trying position the other evening. He took his best girl to Sam's ice cream parlor and ordered two dishes with the usual confectionery accompaniment. The little feast proceeded in the usual merry way and at the end the pair arose, but, O horror! The young man discovered that his purse was somewhere else. What to do he knew not. He requested his fair companion to remain as security until he could go out and hunt up the needful; but to use a society expression, she kicked, and refused to be pawned. This broke him all up, and some say he left his hat and rushed up town bare-headed, but it is more likely that Sam, though a stranger to the young man, took pity upon him and allowed him to depart. Such an incident is likely to burst the cords of love, and this is written as a solemn warning to young men never to forget their purses when they go out with their girls.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Courier Cornet Band has been mustered by Captain C. E. Steuven, as the Regimental Band of the 2^nd regiment K. N. G., the particulars of which we chronicled the other day. The band now has seventeen members. This is a big feather in the cap of our band. Their triumph was scored over the Wichita, Emporia, Independence, Wellington, and a number of others in this district. But four bands in the State have received this distinction, there being but four regiments K. N. G. It shows the splendid reputation of the Courier Cornet Band away from home. Col. Woodcock, who made the appointment, is a Wichita man.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Wichitas will play the Border base ball club of Arkansas City a return game on September 6^th. The Emporia club will also play A. C. soon. The Wichitas won the contest, Tuesday, with the Borders only by a scratch. The Wichitas ran their score up with a rush to the fifth inning. On the sixth, seventh, and eighth, the Borders whitewashed them, and if it hadn't been for one reckless play by the Border first baseman, would have won the game. The Wichitas were uncourteous in allowing the Borders to pay for their own entertainment, when the Wichitas had the $100 purse and numerous wagers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The first number of the Caney Chronicle, a new Chautauqua paper, has fallen into our paws. Its salutatory says, "a newspaper cannot live on wind," which will probably be a stunning revelation to many sheets that have stuck it out on this diet for ages, and are not very hungry either. The Chronicle is a neat paper and we hope its wind will blow up a big drift of filthy lucre.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Wellington girls are getting too nice to walk anywhere any more. A young lady promised to go to a party with a gentleman, and when he went after her, she peeped out of the window, and seeing no buggy, asked him how he was going. "Afoot, of course." And she said in a high, cracked voice: "Faix and thin ye can go that way and Oi will go wid me brother."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Ottawa's proposition to give $5,000 and 100 acres of land to secure the locating of the State Orphan Asylum, has been favorably considered. The State Board of Charities was there on Monday, in a formal visit of inspection, and individually expressed themselves as much pleased with the surroundings. A decision will be arrived at in a day or two.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Arkansas City's Border base ball club walked clear over the forms of the Wellington "Scrubs" Wednesday--24 to 3. This is about the worst "do up" that has yet been recorded. Wellington seems to have a very appropriate name for its club, this time. The Arkansas City boys are getting famous. Cowley always walks arm in arm with the celebrated "get there Eli."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Floral, since becoming a railroad station, is getting muscular and begins to move things. Harry Zimmerman let the contract Thursday for a good hotel building and Capt. Stevens the contract for a roomy and substantial business building, while numerous others are doing likewise, and Floral will soon be a city indeed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Descendants of the slick fellow who first caused woman and then man to fall--the old original serpent--are said to be more numerous this summer in yards about town, than usual. The crop of hop toads is also large. This is a great country for live stock.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Fire Department, while out for practice Wednesday, turned the hose loose on the courthouse lawn, making it look as fresh as a blooming maiden. The 600 feet of hose stretched nearly all over the grounds.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Normal Institute closed Friday after a four weeks session unexcelled in the history of Cowley County.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The following notice made to our local college committee has the true business ring and betokens progress. All should read it and comply with the request of the Board of Trustees as to putting all matters pertaining to the college in an acceptable business shape. The Trustees are working with zeal and ability and what started in hesitancy and doubt is now assuming shape that will gratify the most enthusiastic and sanguine. Now let all come up to their part of the work and our hopes of a great university on College Hill will be fully realized. The following is the notice: "Winfield, Kansas, July 30^th, 1885. To W. G. Graham, T. H. Soward, W. P. Hackney, B. Kelly, and M. L. Robinson. Gentlemen: Having accepted the deeds from the College Hill Association and the Highland Park Association, and having made the necessary arrangements to begin at an early day the construction of our college building, we hereby give you notice that we desire the payment to the treasurer of the Southwest Kansas Conference College, M. L. Read, within sixty days, the one-third of the $40,000 as mentioned in your proposition to the committee of location. We also request that you put the remaining two-thirds of the $20,000 of subscription in the shape of acceptable obligations according to contract. B. C. SWARTS, Prs. Protem. J. D. BOTKIN, Sec'y, Board."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Prof. J. A. Wood, brother of our B. F., will open on September 7^th, a Normal and Commercial College in the McDougal Hall and rooms adjacent. He will be assisted by Prof. I. N. Inskeep, just retired from the principalship of the Titusville, Pennsylvania, commercial college. Prof. Wood was for eight years just past superintendent of the Salem, Indiana, public schools, and is an educator of large ability and experience. He starts this college as a permanency. A corps of first-class assistants have been procured and the institution will be an honor to the city. Prof. Inskeep is at the head of the profession in penmanship, bookkeeping, and drawing. Everything pertaining to a thorough normal and commercial education will be taught, and the tuition will come within the reach of all. A night school will accommodate all unable to attend during the day, and will likely be attended by many of our ambitious young men.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

If you want to invest, take a share in the National Guards Association, and have a say so in the building that is to be erected. It is the intention now to sell all the shares and then call a meeting of the stockholders and decide whether or not to build an opera house. Would this not be a good move? Will this city not support a first class opera house? It can be done and now is the time to do it. Twenty-five hundred dollars having already been subscribed insures the purchase price of the ground. Ten dollars cash will secure a share. Fall in and take a share and get fifty percent on the investment.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Watson Titus is somewhat exercised over his being fined a few days ago for injuring a tree, and makes the statement as follows: He lives in a house for which D. C. Beach is agent. Some days ago, while mowing his yard, he accidently cut off a little tree, fourteen inches high, which was hidden in the weeds. Although on the lot he had rented, a neighbor complained of him and the cost and fine is $7.25. He is a poor man and can illy afford the luxury of a fine for something that was purely accidental.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Udall Sentinel says: "Albert Roberts, of Winfield, is the new proprietor of the City Meat Market. He brings his family here and will at once become a citizen." Wonder if this can be our musical Al? Hope not.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

In the last issue of the Telegram, the editor, alias "linked sweetness long drawn out," makes the charge that our fat man was threatened with being lynched while the "Kansas Millers" was aground, the passengers having the erroneous idea that the avoirdupois of the F. M. sunk the boat. One thing; the spiritual shadow of the Telegram can congratulate himself on never being threatened with such a thing as sinking a feather. It is rumored around town that George has had the colic since the Fourth and he is not certain as yet whether it is the colic or the backache. If George is ever threatened with being lynched, it will be for pulling a hen roost, but never for sinking anything.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

We visited today one of the, at first, unnoticed institutions of Winfield, but which, on examination, becomes one of the important ones. We speak of the planing mill of the Warner Bros. Here, in one half day, work can be done by the applicable machinery that would take the work of two carpenters a week to accomplish by hand. In speaking of the other important institutions of Winfield, let us not forget this one.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, at its last meeting, elected the following officers for the ensuing six months: Mrs. C. H. Greer, president; Mrs. E. D. Garlick, Mrs. G. E. Raymond, Mrs. Albright and Mrs. C. Strong, vice-presidents; Mrs. F. W. Finch, secretary; Mrs. W. B. Caton, corresponding secretary; Mrs. J. C. McMullen, treasurer; Mrs. J. W. Curns, superintendent of literature.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The malady among the hogs in this vicinity has become very serious, says the Burden Enterprise. Quite a number have lost from half to all of their hogs. Judge Walton has lost five out of seven of his Poland Chinas and half of his others. He tells us that it is nothing like hog cholera, but entirely a lung disease--proven by a post mortem examination.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Some rapscallion relieved Mr. G. L. Gale's barn, east 10^th Avenue, of a good set of single harness Thursday. He could have helped himself to the horse and buggy just as well. It was evidently some fellow with a horse and buggy who merely borrowed the harness--to be returned when he gets ready.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The sportive propensities of Wellington are now being soothed by walking matches. L. H. Logan and Grant Hughes walked, in the rink, about twenty two miles in four hours, in a sweat bath and loud cheers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Another metropolitan air has struck us: a hand organ with a monkey attachment. The monkey is attired in female style, and is the wonder of the small boy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Floral is to be incorporated and have a paper styled "The Floral Daisy." Smart town that, with a depot prospect.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Wichita has closed all her beer "joints" and the town is experiencing a drouth.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The success of this meeting is largely due to County Superintendent Limerick, whose efforts to make the exercises both interesting and profitable, have been unrelenting. The teachers and citizens of Winfield have left nothing undone necessary to promote the happiness and comfort of the teachers in attendance. The arrangements for supplying ladies accommodations in the homes of citizens are admirable. We also consider this city highly honored by the presence of so large a number of that class to whose efforts society is so deeply indebted. We honor teachers, not simply for their individual attainments, but for the sake of their calling. I honor them as I do the minister of the gospel. I cannot know or judge how much goodness each member of that sacred profession may have, but his sacred calling demands my personal respect. So with the teacher. I cannot judge of his or her attainments in natural science, but I honor them for their profession, and for this they command my utmost respect. I look upon teachers as I do upon ministers of the gospel and members of the medical profession, all following in honorable aims. They are associated in my mind alike in the places they hold in the community and the learned professions. I think in this point of view they may claim precedence over all other pursuits in the world. They are engaged in a work which requires a great amount of personal sacrifice and labor in order to accomplish a great amount of good. In this connection I would grant teachers the first place if not the highest. Regarding these three professions, connected together as they are by unity of purpose and aims, the teacher's work is the first and most important. The teacher, it is said, has charge of the minds of the community; the physician their bodies; and the minister their souls. But without the teacher and his work, the other two professions would be lame and crippled in their influence for good. It is said to be easier to conquer disease than to overcome ignorance. It is the able, earnest, faithful teacher who lays the foundation for the others to base their work upon; and, therefore, I think the teacher commands our highest esteem, for without the teacher we could not get along at all. O. M.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The pretty school ma'ams held another of their lively socials in the McDougal hall Thursday. They were out in full force, with many of our citizens, arrayed in their brightest smiles and jolliest spirits. Besides the excellent music, led by Prof. Merriman, some appropriate toasts were given. "Our State Educational Institutions--Their Place and Power," was responded to by Prof. Wilkinson in a very neat speech. The Professor has taken part in Kansas educational matters for some time, and is thoroughly conversant with them and their great civilizing power, as his talk on this occasion evidenced. The pithy toast, "Our State Normal School--Its Attractions, Its Usefulness, and Its Successful Graduates," was thrown at Prof. Gridley. It was one nearest the Professor's heart, and he did it full justice. He is one of the first graduates of the State Normal School, has attended nearly all of its alumni meetings, and his speech was very happy and profitable. Alfred Wing, of Arkansas City, responded to "Our Common Schools, the Headlight of the Nation"--a subject as truthful, deep, and broad as the nation itself. Mr. Craddock, of Tannehill, did justice to "The Recruits of our Educational Army." These applicable toasts gave spice and instruction to the occasion and were happily received.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Headquarters Eighth Kansas. Atchison, Kansas, June, 1885. Dear Comrades: Twenty years ago the Eighth Kansas disbanded as a military organization. About eight years ago a few members met at Leavenworth and organized a Regimental Society, with at that time but few names on our Roster--and your Secretary is pleased to report that the Roster now contains of Co. A, 17; B, 30; C, 37; D, 41; E, 33; F, 34; G, 25; H, 27; 1, 27; and K, 3. Total: 274 names and addresses. There are many names yet to be added, and it is especially requested that all members having the report of our reunion held at Leavenworth two years ago, will examine the list of names and report all names known to them not on the list, giving company, and address to the Secretary. I take great pleasure in informing you that the Eighth Kansas will hold a Regimental Reunion at Topeka, Kansas, September 29^th, 30^th, and October 1^st, 1885, during the general soldier's reunion, and you are earnestly requested to attend, with your families and comrades, and make this reunion a grand success. You can obtain all necessary information in due time, as to railway rates, time of departure of trains, etc., from your G. A. R. Post, or the railroad agent of your town. Fraternally Yours, JOHN A. MARTIN, President, C. W. RUST, Secretary. Kansas papers please copy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Wellingtonian, among all the gush about Wellington's greatness, gets in a little truth occasionally. It says: "The weeds have been allowed to grow up in Wellington in wild and picturesque confusion. Let us chop them down and cover up the dirty business and make the place look a little less like a candidate for the poor house." Poor Wellington! The cows are very likely pasturing on Washington Avenue, the main street of the town. There hasn't been any industrious feet tramping over that desert for many suns. Remember, brother Allison, that "git up and git" towns don't give the weeds a chance to grow. In Winfield, a weed hardly peeps up before a hoof, at a 2:40 gait, bent on "biz," comes down with a thud, and the weed is a corpse. Only deserted villages have weeds growing up among the cobble stones of the street. Don't give yourself away, Wellingtonian. It makes us sad.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Ed. Gray was up from the Terminus again Thursday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Judge McDonald returned from Washington, D. C., Saturday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Rev. N. S. Buckner and son, Harry, were up from A. C. Thursday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

H. G. Buford is erecting a roomy and valuable residence on east 7^th Avenue.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Frank Dale has been appointed to succeed Dick Walker in the Wichita U. S. Land Office.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Miss Maggie Taylor went over to New Salem Wednesday for a day or so among friends there.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

T. M. Hicks and J. M. Hinegardener were over from Cambridge Friday. Mr. Hicks is one of Cambridge's merchants.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

L. C. Fleming has made his first annual settlement with the Probate Judge as administrator of the estate of Alfred E. Huff, deceased.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

M. Hahn, of the Bee Hive, left Thursday afternoon for New York City, Boston, and other great trade centers, to lay in a full stock for the Hive.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Mrs. Billy Hand and family are off for a visit with relatives at Ellinwood, Kansas, and Billy is bracing for various single vicissitudes.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

W. G. Seaver and Major Fanning, chief D., M. & A. engineer, passed through Friday, from Dexter, on their way to Belle Plaine.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

U. S. District Attorney Perry, who conducted Uncle Sam's side of the Crabtree case, left Thursday for his home, Fort Scott, via Topeka.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

C. A. Shaw is painting a picture of a dude. Mr. Shaw has great artistic ability. Some of our clothing men should get hold of this picture.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Drs. W. T. Wright and C. E. Pugh left. They go to remedy a throat trouble on Thursday for a week in Cincinnati that has afflicted Dr. Wright greatly of late.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

John Cairns was down from his Omnia township stock farm Thursday, the first time in many days. He is the same John as of yore: jolly and energetic.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Capt. And Mrs. J. S. Hunt returned Friday from three weeks in Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Detroit, and other places in Michigan. Their vacation was very delightful.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

W. L. Moorehouse has nearly completed the forty foot extension to the Spotswood grocery. This building is now roomy and imposing--a splendid adornment to West 10^th Avenue.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Heat or no heat, they will get married--get shot with Cupid's dart and a matrimonial certificate. Ottis McClain and Harriet Covert are the latest victims, having procured the document last Thursday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Capt. Gardener and family, of Norwich, Connecticut, who purchased the T. B. Ware farm, in Vernon township, arrived Friday, and have taken possession of the place. They are a family of means and refinement, and a splendid acquisition to Vernon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Arthur H. McMaster returned, Friday, from a month's rambles on the northern lakes and among the Michigan pineries. His divorce from his wife, O. J. D., of coal notoriety, wouldn't hold, and he comes back femaleless. This is as it should be.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

S. B. Hunt, of Pleasant Valley, has left in THE COURIER agricultural department, a bunch of millet that is simply immense--as big as any producer, even in prolific Cowley, can show up. It is seven feet tall, with heads nearly a foot long, with heavy stalk.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Aus F. Hopkins is acting suspiciously. He has bought lots in College Hill and Highland Park. The next thing will be a little brown front and--well, we promised to not give away the feminine part of it. He wants to live where he can educate his children conveniently, you know.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Capt. Nipp and James Cooper got in Thursday from a month in the western counties. They have now taken another world to conquer--started a new town in the Bear Creek Valley, old Stanton County. The town is called "Veteran," is a new-born babe, but yells lustily and will grow like blazes if enterprising men and good location count for anything.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Geo. L. Gale is not alone in the harness steal. Mr. Gale was speaking to his neighbor, J. P. Stewart, about the theft, when Mr. Stewart remarked that the thief could have got a new set by coming to his (Stewart's) barn. Mr. Stewart, going to his barn shortly afterward, found that the thief had acted upon his suggestion. His bran new harness were gone. Misery loves company.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Judge Gans filed his appointment at the schoolhouse last Sunday, morning and evening. The house was crowded to its utmost capacity, and some went home who could not conveniently get in. His sermon was full of straight forward, practical truths, and held the closest attention of the large audience. He will preach here again on the fourth Sunday in August. Burden Enterprise.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

"It is so hot in Atchison," says a local paper, "that a load of apples exposed to the sun Thursday were baked brown and done, as though cooked in an oven." Another paper vouches for the truth of this lie by declaring that the tires of the wagon got so hot that they set fire to the wheels and burned the wagon up, the apple man barely escaping with his life. No wonder John J. Ingalls is talking of moving to Winfield.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Mr. J. L. Kennedy and Miss Lizzie Moore, of Arkansas City, were united in the bonds of Cupid's weld by Rev. H. D. Gans, in the Central Hotel parlors, Wednesday. They are both splendid young people, not of flourish and trumpet, but a substantial, will-do-to-tie couple who will live a happy, useful life here and end up with honored gray hairs and Heaven. We throw our old shoe after them for good luck, as the cigar that is beyond our temptation is passed to the fat man.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

We learn that John McCoy and Clara Garner, of Barton County, Missouri, were married at Winfield last Saturday, remarks the Udall Sentinel. It was the same old story of undying love. Objection by the old man, who stood the lover off with a double-barrel bull dog, a vicious shot gun, and a No. 12 boot. The lovers met by stealth; dark night and rope ladder; a swift and dangerous ride to the nearest station. They separate to meet in "Sunny Kansas." Are wed. Go back to meet angry father and ask his forgiveness. Ground work for exciting book on romance. We congratulate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Mr. G. C. Wallace has bought the interest of A. T. Spotswood in the grocery of Spotswood and Wallace. Mr. Wallace, during his year's residence here, has shown himself to be a thorough businessman, of large means, pleasant and reliable--one who is fast winning public favor. Mr. Spotswood is one of Winfield's pioneer merchants and has always commanded a patronage and esteem to be proud of. His enterprise and energy have shown themselves in everything for the interests of our city. Of course, he expects to remain in Winfield and will soon branch out in some new direction.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Dr. Emerson and O. M. Seward went out Friday and spent the night with Ezra Meech. The Doctor says Ez. has been entirely unconscious ever since the accident. He only exhibits restlessness occasionally. The Doctor says the blow that caused the concussion was received on and just above the temple. His long unconsciousness, without a rally, makes his recovery very improbable. His father, in answer to a telegram, said he would start from Michigan immediately, and will probably arrive Sunday. Of course, it is impossible to remove Ez. from Dr. Emerson's ranch, but he is receiving all the attention the people of that neighborhood and friends from here can give.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Oliver McRoberts, aged fifteen years, and Ed Cooper, aged eight years, engaged in a street fight Thursday. Ed's older brother came on the scene and soon had Oliver down with a club flourishing over his head. Oliver's father made complaint against Cooper before Judge Snow and after a trial Cooper paid a fine of $5.00 and costs. Cooper then made a complaint against Oliver, and Friday a trial was had before Judge Snow with a jury, who brought in a verdict of guilty. Oliver was fined $5.00 and costs, but could not raise the money and is now in jail. There are several other boys in town that need a small dose of this same medicine, and it is only a question of time when they will get it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Our school board has been busy at their regular and adjourned meetings for the past few months, endeavoring to select or contrive a plan for the proposed addition of four school rooms to the Central school building, that will meet the wants in regard to capacity necessary, and at the same time make a building that will be in good style and proportion. Sketches were submitted to them at their meeting two weeks ago, which provided for the addition of two rooms on each floor, adjoining the building on the north, and was thought first to be the correct idea, but upon close study and examination it was readily seen that it would make an inconvenient plan, because of having two separate halls and stairs, with no communication with each other except by passing through one of the school rooms, and would also make as ugly and unsightly a building as the old barracks building or some old-styled asylum. At this meeting Architect Willis Ritchie, who came here from Ohio to do the work on Mr. Eaton's residence and bank building, was called in to see if he could suggest to them some plan which would fill the bill. Ritchie's first suggestion, which, though it would make the best appearing and most convenient building, was decided as impracticable because it would give only two additional rooms and would not accommodate the number of pupils we have. He then gave them the idea which they have adopted and are having plans prepared for. This plan will build the new addition on the south end of the building, which will be the same size of the new part of the present building, with the main entrance, with tower for bell above, fronting south on 9^th Avenue. The building will be built after the same design as the present one up to the top of the stone walls of building; there a stone cornice about four feet high will be built on, and a modern Gothic roof put on the entire new parts of the building. This will make the finest looking school building in this part of the state out of what is now one of the most ordinary looking buildings, and will not only be a credit to our city, but will make one public building that our citizens can take some pride in pointing out to strangers. Mr. Ritchie will also prepare a set of elevations for the same floor plans, which will provide for no change in the roof of the present new part of the building, and for a roof of same style on the proposed building. They will receive bids on both propositions, and the board can then let the contract for the latter building in case the proposed plan is too costly for the fund appropriated.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Ezra Meech, Jr., met with a very bad accident yesterday morning at Dr. Emerson's ranch on Silver creek. He intended to start to Michigan Friday, to a family reunion, taking along a number of horses. He was rounding the animals up in a rough pasture, assisted by a small boy, both mounted. Ez. sent the boy around a steeply inclined mound, while he went straight over. Both were at full tilt and collided at the other side, knocking both horses down and throwing Ez. to the ground on his head, it is supposed. He was unconscious, and the boy brought in assistance, had Ez. taken to a house on a stretcher, and a physician from Burden summoned. Dr. Emerson was also sent for. He went out Thursday afternoon and returned late last night, reporting Ez. still unconscious and almost motionless. The Doctor thinks it either very serious brain concussion or nerve paralysis, more probably the latter. No scars were visible. The case is undoubtedly very dangerous. Dr. Emerson went out again Friday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The ladies of the Christian church were very successful with their ice cream social at the red front building Thursday. These ladies, with their numerous successes in social giving, have won a reputation that always insures large attendance, pleasure, and profit. The room was filled chock-full all evening of youth and beauty, young and old. The young ladies of Winfield are famous for their ice cream eating propensities; and long before all were supplied, the cream ran out, though an astonishing amount was consumed. The ladies took in over seventy-five dollars. The ladies kept bobbing around at such a rapid rate that our reporter was stumped in an effort to get the names of those presiding over the six or eight tables.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Willie Doane's fine new bicycle was taken from the barn Sunday and ridden off. A few days ago a young man supposed to be one Alfred Brown was trying Willie's wheel and asking if it could be bought. There has been a second hand wheel at Adam's express office for three weeks consigned to Alfred Brown, from the east, which has never been called for, and this is supposed to be the fellow who got away with Willie's bicycle. He probably couldn't raise the charges on his own. He was tracked west and Sheriff McIntire is after him. Brown is a good rider and will probably be headed only by wire or letter. Willie was getting very proficient on his wheel and this mishap can't be taken with easy grace.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Some time ago Best rented from Green a lot on Main street, and for his own convenience moved on to the lot a small building, which he placed on loose stones. Green recently notified him not to remove it. Best consulted his attorney, who advised him to pay no attention to the notice, and at the end of his tenancy, he removed the building. Green at once caused his arrest for severing the building from the freehold and removing it. The evidence was heard on Monday before Justice Snow who, this morning, rendered his decision of "not guilty," as Best had a right to remove the building. Judge Snow further found that the prosecution was without probable cause, and adjudged that Green pay the cost.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Thursday was a hot one. A crowd of forty-five, coming from Tisdale, just as they reached the edge of town, keeled over from the heat of the sun, dead. No means could bring them to. They were in an open wagon, and no one of the party gave any signal of distress before it happened. The driver alone was saved. They all were young, and if they had only lived, might have reached a mature old age and graced the table of THE COURIER. So it is, the young will be cut down when they are least expecting it, and the old ones will be left. McGuire Bros.' are minus forty-five chickens, victims of the sun's fierce rays.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Police Court drouth had a refreshing sprinkle Thursday. L. Wise, charged with unnecessarily blocking Millington Street, plead guilty and got $7.25. He unhitched his team to feed them from his wagon in front of Dr. Mendenhall's house, and the Doctor kicked: didn't like a barn yard under his door sill. Wilson Titus dropped $7.25 for killing a tree, by stock, for D. C. Beach. Peter McCush was another $7.25 man, having partaken too freely of liquid refreshments.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Father J. F. Kelly and sister, Miss Sarah, got off Friday for a permanent residence in Wellington. This is a loss keenly felt by their many friends here, and Wellington can certainly congratulate herself on her good luck. As we have said before, Father Kelly goes to Wellington because of the better advantages offered for a good Catholic school, for which an experienced educator from Leavenworth has been secured. Father Duggan, who takes Father Kelly's place here, has arrived. He was in charge of the church here for a time before, is a zealous and influential priest, and will doubtless soon win the good graces of our people.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Protection, Comanche County, Echo says: "For the past four months we have been sending THE WINFIELD COURIER an exchange, but it has been impossible to get THE COURIER in return. We hear of it in an indirect way, however. We notice articles, going through the patent sides, credited to THE COURIER."

All innocence on our part, Echo. We have been resting easily in the belief that you were getting a weekly literary feast at our board. We hear thy echo and shall happily respond.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The town of Wilmot, in Richland township, is one of the booming new villages of Cowley. The stone is on the ground for the foundations of several new business buildings.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Emporia is discussing the question of discontinuing the Sunday evening services during the remainder of the heated term.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

We are authorized to announce J. B. Nipp as a candidate for re-election to the office of County Treasurer, subject to the action of the Republican county convention.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

We are authorized to announce J. S. Hunt as a candidate for re-election to the office of County Clerk, subject to the action of the Republican county convention.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

We are authorized to announce T. H. Soward as a candidate for re-election to the office of Register of Deeds, subject to the decision of the Republican convention of Cowley County, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Among the list of postmasters suspended yesterday, we find the name of our friend, A. D. Brown, of Burlington, Kansas. We suppose he is an offensive partisan as a Republican, but there are lots of that kind of postmasters in Kansas, who have had no intimation that their resignations would be accepted, so that does not explain. We suspect that Miss Cleveland had a hand in this business for she is a prohibitionist and Postmaster Brown has been exceedingly offensive to the prohibitionists as an anti-prohibition partisan. Perhaps Shelton, of El Dorado, was a prohibition victim also. If is the true solution of the matter, Murdock, of Wichita, Ashbaugh, of Newton, and several others we could name, had better be packing their carpet bags, and Father Baker might as well prepare some other than a forest shade this hot weather. Now do not come back to us about the prohibition postmaster at Winfield. He had no intimation that his resignation would be acceptable, but felt slighted that he was not considered an "offensive partisan," and so resigned.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

We find the following in the Washington correspondence of the Kansas City Journal of the 29^th.

"J. Wade McDonald, of Winfield, Kansas, disappointed aspirant for the postoffice at that place, is still here and his signature has been sought by several Kansans among their endorsers for place."

We saw a statement in the same paper, and probably by the same correspondent, when J. W. McDonald first arrived at Washington, that he was an aspirant for the Winfield postoffice. Now we understand that he went to Washington on legal business for the Oklahoma boomers, whose counsel he is, and that just before he started, Geo. C. Rembaugh employed him to secure his (Rembaugh's) appointment as postmaster. Now how did the K. C. J. correspondent find out that J. Wade "went back on George" and "put in" for himself, is what we want to know. How did George get the appointment against the only Kansas politician in Washington at the time? But there is another suspicious circumstance about it. We have heard of nothing from J. Wade to George or anybody else about the glorious victory of pulling George through against the combined fight of Buford, Glick, the whole Kentucky delegation, and other great influences thrown in, no congratulations, nothing about his great influence with the president, as is the regulation way. What is the matter, J. Wade? Have you lost your grip on politics?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Susan Coolidge contributes to the very beautiful midsummer Wide Awake a long ballad based on the traditions of the famous "Luck of Edenhall." The ballad has four full-page illustrations by E. H. Garrett.

"How the Boojums went Down the Crater," by Ton of the Boojums, is the singular title of a story of adventure in the superb midsummer Wide Awake.

Success, is the captivating title of a book intended to furnish useful hints to young people as to the best ways of getting on in the world. Its author, who is to be congratulated on having made a book at once so interesting and instructive, is O. A. Kingsbury, and the publishers D. Lothrop & Co. (12 mo. $1.25.)

Mrs. Elizabeth A. Thurston, who will be pleasantly remembered as the editor of that delightful book of selections, "Mosaics of Life," has edited a new and even more valuable and pleasing book of similar character, entitled, "Echoes of Many Voices," which will shortly appear in D. Lothrop & Co.'s popular "Spare Minute Series."

A Commonplace Day is the latest of the bright and breezy books which no author so well as Pansy knows how to prepare. D. Lothrop & Co., publishers.

Tent V. Chautauqua, is the title of a fresh, bright story of Chautauqua, by a new author, which gives an agreeable impression of life at that resort and is sure to interest a wide range of readers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Judge Aldrich, of Boston, Mass., while recently trying some liquor cases, said to the jury:

"When we are dealing with these cases, we are dealing with the very head-spring of the current of crime which is constantly flowing onward deeper and deeper. Four-fifths of the crimes are the direct result of the use of intoxicating liquors. If the traffic in intoxicating liquor and the use of it should cease, the business of this court would in a very short time be so inconsiderable that the juries would have to stay only one or two weeks to dispose of the cases presented to them. If the juries' experience should be what mine has been, they will observe during the next three weeks of their continuance in court how many crimes are ascribed to the use of liquor. They will hear the young man who comes before the court charged with larceny saying, 'I was intoxicated.' When the man charged with assault and battery on his wife is brought forward, he will say, 'I had been drinking.'"

If the taxpayers want the taxes lessened, let them dry up the very "head-spring of the current of crime." The saloons more than double the expenses of every city and county in the State. Remove them and the heaviest burden upon American industry will be removed. The liquor traffic and prosperity never go together. The one is a cancer which eats the life out of the other. The only remedy is removal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

"Rural" has an article in our e. c. in which he attempted to instruct the editor of the COURIER in relation to chess in wheat, by repeating a part of the same matter which the COURIER gave, in relation to the classification of these grasses by botanists, and their opinions expressed in past years in favor of the theory better expressed by the writer in the Dep. Agricultural report of 1884, that, "under no known circumstances can wheat change into chess," and then concludes with: "but what we want are cold, cold facts by persons who have sown absolutely clean wheat in exposed places, on ground known to be clear of foul seed for several years in succession."

This is the true doctrine. A single fact of this kind, proved beyond question, is worth more than all the theories of all the scientific men that ever lived. All men fall into errors and mistakes of facts, whether scientific or otherwise. A scientist is one who has made some branch of natural history a study and is supposed to be better acquainted with that branch than most people. Such men collect such facts as they can, and from the facts, reason and formulate laws, make classifications, and compile works and text books on the special branch which they have studied. Their conclusions are accepted as science without question and would undoubtedly be true science were they in possession of all the facts. But unfortunately, man is not omniscient or immutable. New researches are continually being made and facts, unknown before, are continually being discovered. These newly discovered facts are continually refuting old and established theories, making new classifications necessary, causing the adoption of new ideas of natural laws, and the steady advance in science.

But we scarcely expect any new facts in regard to wheat turning to chess. There are plenty of facts reported. Almost every wheat grower of the present and past generations has observed facts tending to confirm the idea that wheat may produce chess. Thousands of statements are made and undisputed, like the following: One farmer says he sowed wheat which he believed to be clean, and if there was chess in it, he could not discover it; sowed it on new ground, prairie newly broken, knew of no means by which chess could get in, but the crop was mainly chess. The weather had been unfavorable to the production of wheat. Another says he sowed clean wheat in a large field, a small portion of which was afterward pastured down close. In that part which was thus pastured down, the crop was mainly chess, while in the balance of the field the wheat crop was excellent and practically clear of chess. These statements with variations could be collected by the thousands. Such circumstances have been known in all ages and in all wheat growing countries; and the natural conclusion has always been that chess came from the wheat seed. But the botanists had formulated a law for the growth of plants, which was substantially that plants of varieties as wide apart as what they had denominated species could not amalgamate to produce hybrids and could not produce each other; no species could advance to a higher species by any kind of culture and improvement nor deteriorate into a lower species by any kind of unfavorable environment. This law had been enacted by Frederic Cuvier centuries ago and had been approved by succeeding generations of botanists. So when a botanist has been questioned on the possibility that chess is produced from wheat, he has invariably referred to this law and answered that such change is impossible; that change cannot occur from one species to another much less from one genus, order, tribe, or family, to another. So this arbitrary classification of the botanists and this equally arbitrary law which they have made has ruled them, and they have decided all such cases accordingly without reference to the facts; or if they notice them at all, they make a supposed explanation, but so exceedingly thin that, in comparison, the explanation that the devil came and sowed the chess in the night, would be respectable.

But there is another branch of science, that of biology, in which many discoveries have been made of late years, thousands of facts hitherto unknown with regard to the origin and succession of plants from the lowest orders up to the highest. Few persons of any pretensions to science now dispute the idea of the evolution of species or that wheat had evolved from a vegetation of a much lower order than chess. It is now generally conceded that a plant in the processes of germination and incipient growth goes through all the forms of the lower orders through which it has been evolved during the countless ages of the past, and that an arrest of the development of the young plant, by unfavorable environment, may cause the plant to mature in the form of the state in which the development was arrested. In most cases of arrest of development of the embryo plant, it dies and never shows what it would have become had it lived, but there are some cases in which the embryo lives and produces a plant of a warped, stunted, and degenerated form, more widely different from the seed sown than some species differ from others. Biology is fast accumulating such facts, both in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and formulating new laws in conformity therewith, and we would advise "Rural" and "Mark" to study biology awhile if they have any time to devote to natural history. The trouble with them is that they have gone no farther than botany as formulated with the imperfect knowledge of forty years ago. A few years hence will come the "New Botany," which will be as unlike the old in some respects as the "New Chemistry" is unlike the "Old Chemistry," of forty-five years ago, which taught that heat, light, and electricity were imponderable substances shot through space like cannon balls, instead of wave-like or molecular motions, merely motion or effect and not matter at all, as is now known to be the fact, or as unlike as the old astronomy, which taught that the sun, planets, and stars revolved around the earth, is to the newer astronomy of the present day.

The trouble with "Mark" and "Rural," the Ag. Rep. Writer and others, is, that they are conservatives, they hang on to this old in scientific matters and do not "keep up with the band wagon" in the march of discovery and progress. Probably the "old man" has held to the old botanical idea that chess cannot be produced from wheat, more years than either of them have or will, but the old man is a radical and don't get so badly stuck in the old ruts that he cannot get out.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Capt. J. S. Hunt announces, this week, his candidacy for re-election to the office of County Clerk. The Captain is too well-known to need endorsement from this paper. He is now serving his third term in that office, and his integrity and efficiency have never been questioned. He has now hosts of strong friends who are earnest in their desire that he should retain the office.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The announcement of Capt. J. B. Nipp as a candidate for re-election to the office of County Treasurer appears this week. His careful and efficient administration of the office has received and is receiving the hearty endorsement of the people. He will be returned almost unanimously--a compliment of which he is eminently worth.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Democratic administration are making a pretty mess of it out of the cattle lease business, the Roach matter, and the seven hundred thousand dollars of money lost in transmission.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Gov. Martin is the most level-headed Governor that Kansas ever had. The laws of the State under his administration are enforced more effectively than under either of the preceding administrations, but in a way to produce the last possible friction and bad blood. He is always watchful of the interests of the State and its people and prompt to do the right thing in every emergency. He suppressed the Atchison riots before any injury was done any one by violence, and in a way which was effective. He poured oil on the troubled waters and balmy peace and good will was established between the contending parties. The Cheyennes became turbulent and threatened a raid through Kansas and a repetition of the atrocities they committed a few years ago, and the people of the southwest part of the State were alarmed as well they might be. The Governor did not wait until the damage was being done, but acted promptly on the first symptoms, and in an incredibly short space of time he secured a perfect cordon of military posts and patrols along the southern border of the State, sufficient to head off at every point the most formidable raid that the Cheyennes could have organized. His judicious promptness prevented the raid, and as a consequence, prevented the uprising of the Northern Cheyennes and various kindred tribes in the northwest as well as in the Territory. When through the orders of the national government, the trails through the Territory were opened up to the cattle from parts of Texas which have always carried the Texas fever with them and disease and death among the domestic cattle of Kansas when driven through or into this State in the summer; he promptly issued his proclamation commanding the sheriffs and other State officers to enforce the quarantine law of the State and prevent the incursions of these cattle. In several other cases we could name, he has been equally prompt and efficient and in every case he has done his work in the most sensible and judicious manner.

But there is a considerable whining and complaint that he did not call out the militia to enforce prohibition in Dodge City. It is claimed that he neglected an important duty. Agents of the State Temperance Union went there to take measures to enforce the laws in relation to the sale of intoxicating drinks, in that place notorious for persistent and open violations of the law. They were bulldozed, intimidated, and threatened with violence, and left. It was demanded that the Governor should call out the militia to protect the complainants and enforce the law. He prudently declined to do so on the ground that the emergency was not such as to require so exasperating and odious an experiment. In that action is he sustained by the Attorney General of the State, by the Adjutant General, A. R. Campbell, one of the most radical prohibitionists of the State and late president of the State Temperance Union, by Judge Strang, a radical prohibitionist and the judge of that judicial district who informed the Governor "that the orderly processes of law can and will be carried on at Dodge City without the aid of the military power, and that it would be the extreme limit of folly to send militia there," in which sentiment, not only A. B. Campbell, but a great many others of the leading prohibitions of the State concur.

"The history of civilized governments records no instance where military power has been invoked to aid in suppressing a misdemeanor," and if the militia had gone to Dodge, and a drop of blood had been spilled, the almost universal sentiment of the State would have revolted and in our opinion it would have been the most fatal blow at prohibition that could have been struck. The Governor's action was not only clear headed and judicious, but the very best thing that he could have done for the cause of prohibition.

There are silent but irresistible forces at work to regenerate Dodge City. The passage of the Texas cattle bill, the defeat of the trail bill, and the rapid settlement of the country south and southwest of Dodge have destroyed that place as a cattle town. The cowboy must go, and with him will go the gamblers, the courtesans, the desperadoes, and the saloons.

It is certain too, and every observant and intelligent man knows it, that the present law is steadily and quietly working a revolution. Ninety percent of the drinking and drunkenness in Kansas has been abolished. The reform already accomplished in the State exceeds the most sanguine expectations of the friends of temperance. Look at Topeka, a city of nearly thirty thousand inhabitants, and a year ago full of drunken men and saloons. A very prominent gentleman living there, one of the most prominent in the State and not known as a prohibitionist, tells us that he has not seen a drunken man on the streets of Topeka for four months, where formerly such were daily seen and some days in very considerable numbers. The City Marshal says that in July, including the 4^th and up to the 18^th, but five arrests were made for drunkenness. The Governor knows and appreciates these things and will do his part of the duty of enforcing the law as efficiently as will any man who is made because he did not send the army to Dodge.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

One of our anti-prohibition friends says that our article of yesterday intimating that certain postmasters are being suspended because they are offensive anti-prohibitionists, is blanked nonsense. We don't know about that. There are other reasons for the theory besides actual suspension of anti-prohibitionists. Gen. C. W. Blair is a prohibitionist and is nearest to President Cleveland of all the Kansas Democrats. His candidates get appointed, and why? Is it because he is a prohibitionist? John Martin is next to Blair in influence with the president. Is it because as district judge he struck the heaviest blows to enforce prohibition? Ex-Gov. Geo. W. Glick seems to have no influence with the president. Why does not the Great Mogul of Kansas Democracy control all the Kansas appointments, or some of them at least? Is it because he used his official power as governor to try to break down the prohibitory laws? Is it a fact that the president appoints for Kansas only prohibitionists when he knows it? Geo. C. Rembaugh was endorsed by prohibition leaders, perhaps under the impression that he was a prohibitionist. His prohibition predecessor endorsed him and that might seem conclusive. It looks as though he owed his appointment, partly at least, to the president's impression that he was a prohibitionists. He will have to join the prohibition ranks and advocate prohibition in the Telegram or the first he knows Cleveland will ask him to resign as he did Meade, of Hazelhurst. When it shall become well known that President Cleveland discriminates in favor of prohibitionists, won't prohibition take a boom and won't thousands of Democratic topers reform.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The County Fathers met in adjourned session yesterday. The matter of a superintendent and matron of the County Poor Farm was considered. The bids were: R. L. Hogue, $1,200; Sam Martin, $800; Wm. Saunders, $800; David M. Sidle, $600; Nelson Utley, $460. Utley's bid being the lowest and his standing and recommendations being first-class, he was awarded the contract, providing he enters into satisfactory agreement and undertaking with the Board. Mr. Utley is a pioneer of Windsor township, where he now resides. He will move his family right on to the poor farm and will no doubt prove to be the right man.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The following are the real estate transfers filed in the office of Register of Deeds since our last issue.

A J Thompson et ux to W H Brooks, lot 3 and w hf, lot 2, blk 331, Thompson's ad to Winfield: $600

William D Crawford to Marion Fitzsimmons s hf sw qr 18-31-3e: $200

John F Delzell et ux to Sallie G Vawter, 5 acres ne qr nw qr 25-34-3e: $1,850

John W Jones et ux to Susan M Bristow, n hf nw qr 7-35-3e, 80 a: $2,500

R R Roberson et ux to Frank J Hess, lot 14, blk 59, A. C.: $200

Montford Anderson to Robert Keller, lots 17 and 18, blk 159, A. C.: $175

Lenore Snyder and husband to F J Hess, lots 23 and 24, blk 23, 24, blk 75, 19, 20, 23, and 24, blk 75, A. C.: $600

Ella Tankisley to Thomas B Picks, e hf se qr 3 and 20 acres off s hf sw qr 3130-7e: $350

William B Hall et ux to Sarah D Stolp, lot 4 and e hf lot 5, blk 291, Courier Place, Winfield: $225

James McDermott et ux to James H Bullen, lot 12 and 11 frac lots blk 282 Dexter: $150

Will L Aldridge to David Sidenn, lots 13, 10 and 17, blk 52, A. C.: $1,500

Elizabeth A Lyon and husband to M L Gates, lots 5 and 6, blk 167, Winfield: $2,500

College Hill Town Company to N S Buckner, lots 13, 14, 15, and 16, blk 16 in C H Winfield: $450

College Hill Town Company to J F Huffman, lots 11 and 12, blk 16, in C H Winfield: $250

George Gray to Mrs. Kessiah Huff, lots 7 and 8, blk 5, Moffet's 3^rd ad to Udall: $190

Adolphus G Lowe et ux to Fannie Eckert, lot 17, blk 168, Canal City's ad to A C: $168

William Cox to Tyler H McLaughlin, lot 6, blk 67, A C: $3,000

Albert A. Newman et al to Thomas H Tyner, lots 18, blk 36, A C: $380

Frank J Hess et ux to Thomas H Tyner, lots 23 and 24, blk 113, A C: $60

Harriet N. Bancroft et ux to Rufus B Haywood, lots 20, blk 65, A C, qc: $10

John R Cates to Thos J Brooks, lots 14 and 15, blk 17, Burden: $1,200

Addison F Smith et ux to Edward P Brooks, lots 6 and 7, blk 5, Burden: $60

E M Reynolds et ux to M L Robinson, lot 12, blk 10, Grand Summit: $100

R O Stearns et ux to Mary Jane Kempton, pt of lot 27, blk 1, Burden: $160

Isaac Johnson et ux to Albert Brookshire, pt n hf se qr 120-30-5-e, 15 acres: $1,500

College Hill Town Company to Southwest Kansas Conference College, pt of se qr 22-32-4 e, 20 acres, for College site.

J W Ross et ux to John W Moore, e hf ne qr 22-30-6-e: $800

Millard C Copple et ux to Lynda B Harper, lot 26, blk 17, A C: $3200

Alfred A Kevett to W M Sleeth, lot 24, blk 60, A C, qc: $15

James P Witt et ux to David G Lewis, lot 6, blk 60, A C: $150

Albert A Newman et ux to George A Beecher, lot 7, blk 127, A C: $35

Hugh R Darrough et ux to William S Houghton, lot 9, blk 67, A C: $35

Caswell C Endicott to Sewell P Channell et al, lot 9, blk 67, A C, qc: $1.00

Albert A Newman et ux to A Beecher et al, lot 5, blk 127, A C: $35

Emanuel L Miller to James H Miller, lots 3 and 4 and s hf nw qr 3-31-7-e: $800

Lydia B Harper and husband to Lizzie B Benedict, lot 26, blk 17, A C: $180

John McArt et ux to Daniel H Rigdon, lots 7 and 8, blk 126, A C: $150

College Hill Town Company to N Ashler, lots 13, 14, 15 and 16, blk 18, C H, Winfield: $450

Henry S Gardner to D B McCollum, s hf nw qr 13-33-4e, 20 acres: a$100

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

ever brought to Winfield. Having but a small stock of last spring's purchases, and goods now being about twenty-five per cent cheaper than ever known, you can buy new goods for less than old goods are now offered.

Our present stock, though, can supply your wants for this time of year.

We can match you up a pair of hose--or if you don't mind having them in two colors--or could sell you a Gingham dress cheap--if you could use two pieces.

Our Table Linens are as cheap as can be found--if you don't want a longer piece than we have in stock.

Our Parasols have not all been broken, but we will bet we will sell them about as cheap as if they had been.

We are sure we can save you money on everything in our line--if you will not wait until all is sold.

Our Calicoes are cheap at 5 cents, but we will sell you all you want at 4 cents; and if you think it funny to buy L. L. Muslin for 5 cents per yard, come in and have some fun out of it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Skipped Statement of County Treasurer for the Quarter ending June 30, 1885.

Small print! Hard to read.

Also skipped "School District Tax Fund" and "School Bond Fund" in this issue.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

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With an extended course of study, and a large corps of instructors and lectures.

With L. E. Sayre, Ph. G., late Professor of Pharmacy in the Woman's Medical College, and Instructor in Materia Medics in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, as Dean, will give complete and thorough instruction in this line of work. The course will be two years in length.

Is maintained especially for those who lack the preparation in the Languages necessary for admission into the Freshman Class. This Department will also give instruction in other preparatory branches.

Necessary expenses vary from $180 to $200 per annum. For pamphlets issued by Departments of Law and Pharmacy, or for Catalogue of University, and any desired information, address

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The ECLIPSE will run in a lighter wind, having more wind surface, and will run steadier in a strong wind than any other make. The Althouse, Wheeler & Co., is a vaneless mill and regulates itself perfectly. We have one put up in our store and would be pleased to have it examined.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Wheat, cash: 87-3/4. Wheat, September: 89-7/8. Wheat, October: 92-1/8.

Corn, cash: 46-1/2. Corn, September: 46-1/4.

Wheat, No. 2 red, cash: 80-3/4. Wheat, No. 2 red, September: 83-3/4.

Corn, cash: 35-1/4. Corn, September: 36.

Hogs: $4.15.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Having purchased the entire interest of A. T. Spotswood in the grocery and queensware business, it is my intention to do business strictly on a cash basis. All my goods will be bought exclusively cash and shall sell them for cash or for produce only, thus doing away with the expense of a bookkeeper and all the annoyance and loss that accompanies the credit system. Goods can be sold on smaller margins under this system. I have remodeled prices and shall give my customers the benefit of a cash deal. Have a large stock of queensware, lamps, etc., that must go, as the room is needed for other goods, and shall offer extra inducements to any wanting anything in that line until the entire stock is sold. Respectfully,

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Sam Kirkwood, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Kirkwood, gets this handsome send off from the Clark County News on leaving Ashland. "Mr. S. M. Kirkwood, who has been for several months manager of the Ashland lumber yard, of James H. Bullene, will start Monday for Minneapolis, Minnesota, to enter McAlister College, where he will take a thorough literary course. Mr. Kirkwood's business habits and moral ways made everybody here his friend, and we know of no one within the circle of our acquaintances that we wish more good fortune. May success be his at McAlister and his co-workers appreciate real merit is the wish of the News and his many friends here in Ashland."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Among THE DAILY COURIER carrier boys are some of very bright business tact. The little fellows are honest in their collections and take great interest in proper deliveries, feeling much grieved should they accidentally fail to deliver any subscriber a paper. Especially meritorious is Clifford McAlister. Besides delivering THE DAILIES for one "beat," he "shines 'em up" and does various little things averaging over five dollars a week. He deposits a good share of this and now has a bank account of over fifty dollars. A splendid showing for a twelve year old boy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Dispatches, wicked fellows, got on their red, white, and blue base ball lights, and accompanied by a number of spectators, lit out Sunday to play a game with the Dexter club. Arriving there no base ballists could be found--they were all at Sunday school, and after moseying around in the hot sun for a few hours, our boys betook themselves for home, sadder but wiser. It was a very effective sermon. It gave the boys religion and never again will they depart from the straight and narrow path of the Sunday catechism.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The festive burglars tried it on John Keck's residence Saturday night, but were scared off by little Junie Scofield, aged thirteen, who was sleeping in the front room. She heard two men talking at the window, a few feet from her head. They said, "This is the place." The window was open and they were trying to open the screen. Junie got up and started to wake up Mr. and Mrs. Keck, when she stumbled over a chair and the burglars got up and got. Brave little girl! Much better than some larger ones would have done.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Sheriff McIntire and A. H. Doane gave Alfred Brown, who appropriated Willie Doane's bicycle, a warm chase Monday. His track was easily scented to Wellington. He told certain parties there that he could make sixty miles a day easily. He got into Wellington at 7 o'clock Monday morning, got a loaf of bread, and sailed off. He was headed for Meade County, where his father and brother are. Sheriff McIntire went west on the S. K. this morning, preceded by telegrams and postals that will undoubtedly stop the rapscallion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

At the close of the services at the M. E. Church Sunday, Mrs. N. R. Wilson presented the horn quartette, Messrs. Crippen, Bates, Shaw, and Roberts, with lovely bouquets as an appreciation of the beautiful music they rendered. This choir, vocal and instrumental, is one of the very best. The vocalists are Mrs. Fred Blackman, Miss Lizzie McDonald, and Messrs. Chas. Black and Louie Brown, with Miss Maude Kelly, organist.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The committee of the "Grant Monument Association," with headquarters at New York, have arranged with the Western Union Telegraph Company for the various operators throughout the country to receive contributions to the monument fund. Anyone desiring to contribute can get a receipt and proper credit by handing the same to Mr. Harris, at the S. K. depot.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Dispatches had a battle with the Walnut Valley Starts, a club composed of the railroaders of the K. C. & S. W., on the Fair Grounds Monday. Our boys got the score, 23 to 13. The railroaders battled our boys nearly out of the diamond in the first few innings, but the Dispatches waked up like magic and got there in good shape.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Arkansas City, as appears by our reporter from there, elsewhere in these columns, is beginning to get its dander up at the flagrant violations of the liquor law. As a "medicine" town, A. C.'s reputation is getting famous and we are glad to see this move toward choking the unlawful venders.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The different school boards of the county will bear in mind that at the annual school meetings, August 13^th, a vote will be taken on a uniformity text book. Copies of the 1885 school laws can be obtained by calling on County Superintendent Limerick.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Dr. Park is on the jump just now. The baby mania is sweeping over this vicinity. Now it is J. T. Everett, who lives 1¼ miles northeast of town, presented with a bouncing 11½ pound girl Sunday night.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Will L. Aldridge and Miss Anna McBride, of Arkansas City, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony at the Brettun House Monday by Judge Gans, in his most appropriate manner.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Senator F. S. Jennings, with wife and boy, left Monday for two days at Sedan. Frank went on legal business and, as a husband should, took his wife along to keep him straight.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The drawing at Mrs. Wright's millinery store has come off. No. 120 drew the earring, No. 42, the breast pin, and No. 199 the doll. These tickets are still unclaimed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Rev. N. S. Buckner, Arkansas City's M. E. minister, has bought lots in College Hill for a future home. Our college draws like a mustard plaster.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Poland China sow, with pig, and two male hogs, will be sold cheap. Thomas Worsley, two miles south of New Salem post office.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Chilocco Indian School will have a new Superintendent soon. We trust he will be more affable than the present one.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Wm. McBride, A. C., was up Tuesday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Judge Pyburn was up from A. C. Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Geo. E. Conrad, Arkansas City, was up Tuesday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

H. P. Snow and T. J. Rude were down from Burden Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Judge Summer drove up from the Terminus Sunday evening.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

J. O. Cable, Chicago commercial tourist, was hung up at the Central Saturday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Mrs. F. J. Hess and Miss Thompson were up from Arkansas City last Friday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Chas. C. Black returned Monday from two weeks absence on D., M. & A. business.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

H. R. Branson, R. C. Maurer, and W. D. Allen were over Saturday from Torrance.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Cal. Swarts, T. J. Mills, and M. Johnson were up from the Terminus last Friday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Joe Conklin returned from Harper Sunday and reports everything booming out there.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Frank Barclay is here for a week among his old friends. Frank is always warmly welcomed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Fred N. Dickie is doing a slashing business in his broom manufactory. He makes a good broom.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Lon Wharton and family got home Saturday from a week's rural vacation near Cambridge, much rejuvenated.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

R. W. Stevens, of New Salem, has sent us in some very fine apples, raised on his farm. They are mellow, luscious, and of good size.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Marshal Dunbar has taken his billiard hall from the Mendenhall building and will move it to Atlanta, the new Omnia township town.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Governor Martin offers a $300 reward for the capture of the party or parties who murdered Mrs. Julia A. White, of Cowley County, June 29.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Mrs. H. B. Schuler and son Willie, with her mother, Mrs. E. Moon, left Tuesday for a month in Streator, Dixon, and other places in Illinois.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Rev. F. A. Brady was down from Udall Saturday accompanied by his old friend, Rev. Eli Pool, who is visiting him, from Adrian, Michigan.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Rass Ross, on one of J. B. Holmes' farms, had a stack of oats struck by lightning. It struck in the center, and soon burned the stack up.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Robt. Hudson has remodeled his counters and had them repainted and grained, which adds very much to the appearance of his jewelry establishment.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Mrs. Fred C. Hunt returned Saturday evening from two weeks with her parents at Ponca, accompanied by Will Hodges, who went back today.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Mr. Charles Rempe purchased sixty acres of land from Mr. John D. Pryor, two miles east of town, Monday, and will put it all in fruits, mostly small fruits.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Ella Marley filed her petition with District Clerk Pate Friday asking the powers that be to divorce her from Alfred Marley, on the grounds of extreme cruelty.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Bliss & Wood started up their mill Monday under full steam. This mill is now equipped with as fine machinery as can be found anywhere, and is a credit to this city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Mrs. L. M. Williams and children left on Monday for Enfield, New Hampshire, for two months' visit. L. M. will pine away in the meantime and make a regular ghost--a fat, smiling ghost.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Prof. A. Gridley left on Monday to conduct the Kingman County Normal Institute, which holds during August. The Professor, owing to railroad connection, will hardly get home in that time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The case of John E. Doyle against Anna E. Maidt and husband, suit to foreclose $520 A. C. mortgage; and Ellen Riley against Fairclo & Holloway, suit to gain possession of certain A. C. property, were filed with District Clerk Pate Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

From a Denver paper it appears that J. A. Cooper is president of the Beggett Bank in Denver. We wonder if this is our J. A. Cooper and the outcome of speculating in new towns. We always thought J. A. was cut out for the purpose of running a bank.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Rev. S. R. Reese, of Holden, Missouri, has purchased, through Messrs. Curns & Manser, the Dr. Davis homestead in College Hill, for $1,155. Mr. Reese intends moving to Winfield at an early day and will make valuable improvements on the property purchased.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Warren Stone arrived from Emporia Monday and will open out his book store--the Red Front building, at once. His family will follow in a few days. He has the appearance of a man who will soon win public esteem.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

J. B. Pedrick was in the city Monday in the interests of the State Fair, which is to be held at Peabody, Sept. 1 to 4 inclusive. The fair this year is likely to outstrip all former efforts in point of attractions.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

R. H. White is now working at his trade, painting, in Sharron, Barbour County. He writes J. E. Snow to know what the county and State have done toward offering a reward for the capture and conviction of the murderer of his wife. The Commissioners offer $300 and the State $300.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

V. R. Woods, an employee at Schmidt's quarry, had a leg terribly mashed Friday while loading stone on cars with the derrick. A big stone caught his leg fair and square and mashed the bones up in bad shape. Dr. Emerson splintered it up and hopes to avert amputation if the warm weather doesn't head off the remedies.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

J. B. Cook, of the Neosho Valley Investment Company, writes M. L. Read that the D., M. & A. bonds in Spring Valley township, Cherokee County, carried Thursday last by forty-nine majority. The remaining townships in that county vote the 18^th inst., while counties all along the line are considering propositions.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

E. S. Bliss, Capt. Gary, J. W. Millspaugh, I. N. Ripley and families took a flying trip to Chilocco Monday; also S. B. Millspaugh. They arrived at Chilocco in time to see the noble Red men of the Chilocco school loaded up and taken off on an excursion to Newton and other places. The Indians made a nice appearance. They were well dressed and well behaved.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Geo. W. Miller bought, last week, a little herd of seventeen hundred head of two and three year old steers of Allen & Gibson, Pacus, [?Pecos] Texas, at sixteen and twenty-five dollars per head, delivered at Mr. Miller's ranch in the Territory. Messrs. Allen & Gibson spent last Sunday here with Mr. Miller. They came up to buy Judge McDonald's Polled Angus cattle, not knowing they were sold.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Mr. Wells, of the firm of Bates & Wells, contractors and builders, has just completed a very neat residence on East 10^th avenue. Messrs. Reed & Oliver have shown remarkable skill in the interior painting and graining. Almost every conceivable kind of wood is represented as perfectly as the wood itself. These gentlemen are getting a meritorious reputation as artists of skill and reliability.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Bishop Ninde, who re-opened the M. E. Church Sunday, is one of the bright lights in American Methodism. His silvery hair adds to a fine form and pleasant, earnest features, and his address is very easy and fluent. He preaches in a conversational way that is very convincing and attractive. He has jurisdiction over the M. E. Churches of Kansas and resides at Topeka. He was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Read while in our city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Messrs. Willis & Sons, contractors, have just completed J. W. Johnston's fine residence and have the contract for the Winfield National Bank extension and other buildings of like magnitude. They are young men, but the excellence of their work, with the fact that as soon as they came here, only a short time ago, their business was put before the public through THE DAILY COURIER, has placed them into prominence as among our most desirable contractors. Enterprise and reliability always tell.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

John A. Smith, accountant for Col. McMullen, had his house entered Saturday night. John had suspicioned something of the kind for some time: had a kind of premonition of the impending affair. For a midnight visitor, John took the thing very nicely, never offering violence. The helpless, yet gentle and persuasive demeanor of the newcomer broke him all up and he upset every drawer in the house to find something with which to clothe the nocturnal visitor. He smiled and blushed and blushed and smiled and said coo! coo! just as though nothing was wrong. If Dr. Park hadn't been there, no telling what John would have done--just given a warranty deed to the premises. The stranger weighed ten pounds, and will soon wear pants and call John "paw." We smoke.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Another month and a big quantity of liquid refreshments have fallen into the yawning chasm of bygone. The July druggists' record, as filed with the Probate Judge, is a sad blow to our Italian climate and famous healthfulness. Yet, when compared with the June record, it is a source of joy and thankfulness--in some quarters. In June, Winfield druggists sold 417 pints of whiskey and 828 bottles of beer, with about 180 pints of other drinks. The July record shows but 378 pints of whiskey and 54 bottles of beer. Winfield has about gone out of the beer business. So our invalids are convalescing. Arkansas City, too, shows a creditable decrease. In June she filed 1,774 statements, representing 833 pints of whiskey, 1,056 bottles of beer, and 309 pints of other "medicine." Her July filing shows but 1,484 statements, meaning 821 pints of "liquid hell," 596 bottles of beer, and 319 pints of various "stuff." The only contradiction to the decrease in miasma arising from the canal is that Grimes & Son, who were burned out the middle of the month, made no filings--statements, permit, and all going up in flame. This firm was the June lion, filing 500 statements, showing 142 pints of whiskey, 528 bottles of beer, and a few other drinks. Add to A. C.'s record half this firm June filings, and the steamboat city is yet very sick. But a great increase in "sickness" appears to be shown in the county "rhubarbs." Outside of Winfield and Arkansas City, in June, there were filed by druggists 785 statements, embracing 286 pints of corn juice, 510 bottles of beer, and 200 pints of various liquid refreshments. This time these towns show up 884 statements and 303 pints of corn juice, 740 bottles of beer, and 200 points of other healing liquids.

[Note: Did not give the breakdown shown by paper. Druggists mentioned in Winfield: Williams, Glass, Harter, Brown. Druggists mentioned in Arkansas City: Steinberger, Fairclo, Mowry & Co., Eddy, Kellogg & Co. Druggists mentioned in other towns: Avery, Grand Summit; Woolsey, Burden; Roberts, Udall; Rule, Cambridge; and Phelps, Dexter.]

The number of bottles of bitters sold in the county during the month aggregates 15.

If the above record is correct and it really represents all the liquors sold in July, it certainly indicates that a majority of Cowley's druggists are endeavoring to do about the square thing. Two or three need their heads smacked off. S. F. Steinberger, whom THE COURIER has fired several shots at, seems to be again crawling up as an ardent dispenser. Last month he dropped way down and we ventured the remark that he was on the tearful stool of repentance. His showing above is convicting on its face. But, with a third less population, E. W. Woolsey, Burden, vies with Steinberger for the lionship of Cowley in the beer business. 388 bottles in one month in a town of 1,000 is not so bad! Seventy-eight dollars profit for one month from beer alone is a fair showing--one that should be looked into by our officials. Grand Summit, for a little country village, is remarkably ill--in fact, the illness must extend all around there. Avery certainly has an eye to "biz," as 216 bottles of beer indicate. But, barring these few elevated filings, Cowley's prohibitory record is worthy of praise. Four barrels of whiskey in one month! Many and many a time during saloon rule in Winfield, as much has been sold in a single day, while the number of beer bottles emptied in a day would make the present record blush with shame. Men can stand around and howl about the non-enforcement of the law, and that liquor flows as plentiful as in saloon days, but the facts brand their argument a lie. It is a rarity to see a drunk man in Winfield, or any part of the county. If they get drunk, they stay at home, in the back alley or somewhere else from public gaze and disgrace. But any observant person knows that very little liquor of any kind is drunk now--to obtain it involves too much cost and risk, making an interior drouth preferable.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Woman's Suffrage Society met last evening with Mrs. C. H. Greer. A very interesting program was rendered: "Woman's sphere," poem, ready by Mrs. F. W. Finch; a select reading by Mrs. Gates: reading, "How to win," Francis Willard, by Mrs. Garlick; reading, by Miss Fannie Stretch; essay, by Mrs. C. H. Greer; music, by Misses Louie Stretch and Gussie Hilton; remarks, by Mrs. J. W. Curns and others. This society is made up of enterprising, energetic women, who are not ashamed of enlightenment on any subject. They take an interest in the republic's welfare for its elevation, and mean to work on and on until the goal of female suffrage, their battle ax, shall have been reached. Such women, with an earnest desire for the widening of the influence and sphere of their sisters, to be surely followed by greater feminine intelligence and independence, are a credit to the city--far beyond the slavery devotees of the flounce, the frizz, and the complexion, accompanied by inability and comparative nonentity.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Judge Snow's court is threatened with a breach of promise suit. A lady of color appeared before the Judge the other day and opened the artillery with "I'se done been foolished! Dar am a nigga in dis town dat's done swaded and swaded me fo to marry him. I didn' wanter git married. He tole me bout new home an all dis an dat, an so I gum it up an tole him ter take me. I had ten dollas in de bank. I spent ebery cent of it fo duds an Saturday we was to git jined, an fo de Lod dat nigga haint married me yit. I ain't guine ter hab 'im now noway, an I jis want yer ter put him thro fo all he ain worf." And she hustled around in blushing indignation. The Judge, with his loving dulcet tones, persuaded her to save her wedding clothes for another chance, that the law was a rugged resource, and she departed not so mad.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Two or three years ago the county was flooded with sulky plow attachments which were soon thrown in the fence corner, the farmers' notes sold to the bank, and the irresponsible men who took them had skipped and no one left to be responsible for defects or the failure of these goods to do the work. The notes had been sold to an innocent party and the purchaser had his note to pay, notwithstanding the fact that he threw his attachment in the fence corner. This fall is far enough from that time that the sore is healed over and a similar game will be perpetrated on the farmers of this county. Farmers, why not buy your plows, drills, harrows, and implements of a regular dealer, who has to be responsible for his acts?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Ezra Meech was brought in from Silver Creek early Monday and is now receiving every attention at the home of Dr. Emerson. He was brought in on a cot in a spring wagon. Yesterday afternoon he began to exhibit consciousness and can now recognize everyone, though his mind wanders and has no definite hold on anything. He seems to know nothing of his accident, and imagines it is Thursday and he must rush to get the horses on the car for a start for Michigan. Dr. Emerson says he will recover, but it will likely be sometime before his mind entirely gets its equilibrium. Miss Jessie Meech, his sister, arrived today. The father was sick and unable to come.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

In respect for the distinguished services of our late countryman, Gen. U. S. Grant, and in order that we may testify in some degree our sorrow for his loss, I hereby request that all places of business in this city be closed on Saturday, August 8^th, 1885, from the hours of one to five o'clock, p.m., and that all our citizens unite in the observance of memorial services on that day. By order of

G. H. BUCKMAN, City Clerk.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Still those bound in connubial ties yearn for their severing. Two more divorce suits were filed with District Clerk Pate Saturday. James A. Craine alleges that his wife, Lizzie Craine, is an adulterer, and he wants to be permitted to go hence. Alice V. Matson petitions for a divorce from John Matson on grounds of extreme cruelty and neglect of duty. J. W. Ross has filed a suit against A. B. Glass to recover $600 on title bond.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The rulers of the city met Monday in regular semi-monthly commune. Present: Mayor Graham and Councilmen McDonald, Connor, Myers, Crippen, and Harter. Absent: Councilmen Jennings, Baden, and Hodges.

A tax ordinance making a tax levy for 1886 was adopted.

H. G. Fuller was refused a permit to move a frame building to lot 6, block 127.

The sidewalk petition of G. W. Sanderson et al for walk on north side of 11^th avenue was granted.

Building permits were granted J. P. Short and H. B. Schuler.

The petition of Samuel Steele et al for extension of water mains along Lowry street, from 11^th avenue to Blandon street, was granted, and such ordinance ordered.

Following bills were ordered paid:

Black & Rembaugh, printing, $51.50.

T. H. Soward, copies plats, $3.76.

Nick Hurley, blacksmith work, $4.00.

Frank W. Finch, boarding city prisoners, $23.00.

S. C. Smith, city engineer, $34.00.

Winfield Water Company, water rent, full to July 15, 1885, $1,572.50.

Winfield Gas Company, lamp rent to July 15, 1885, $688.08.

A deduction of $211.82 was made from the amount allowed above to Gas Company, on account of an aggregate of 2,501 lamps not lit during the time specified.

G. H. Klaus, hauling stone, $7.35.

J. C. McMullen, rent fire dept. building, $25.00.

Salaries city officers, $179.98.

Wm. Moore & Sons, stone, $108.77.

H. L. Thomas, crossings, $63.21.

B. McFadden, burying dogs, $1.50.

Harrod & Paris, dirt on streets, $35.60.

W. A. Lee was refused permit to move frame building to lots 16, 17, and 18, block 100.

The fire department committee was instructed to notify W. H. H. Maris, New Salem, what Winfield's old fire machinery could be bought for.

Councilmen McDonald and Crippen were appointed to receive bids for boarding city prisoners.

An indemnity bond was required of John A. Eaton, making the city harmless from any damage that might occur from moving the Harter building into 9^th avenue.

The proper committee was instructed to receive bids for constructing all sidewalks and gutters now ordered and not put in.

W. P. Hackney's resignation as City attorney was accepted and Joseph O'Hare's appointment to the vacancy was confirmed.

Jno. Steward was appointed city engineer in place of D. A. Millington, resigned.

The Commissioners, A. T. Spotswood, J. B. Lynn, and S. H. Myton appointed to assess damages caused by widening 5^th avenue, between Main and Andrews street, reported damages of $525, to out lots 4, 5, 6, and 7. The report was received and further action postponed. These lots belong to J. C. Fuller and Judge Torrance, who kick on the amount of damages, claiming three times what the commissioners allowed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

One of Sheriff McIntire's "Stop thief!" cards, describing Alfred Brown, who stole Willie Doane's bicycle, fell into the hands of Harper's marshal, and the Daily Graphic says:

"Officer Barton kept a lookout for the man, and at 5 p.m. the slick man who was described as riding a red bicycle came rolling along Main street going west. When he arrived opposite Barton's store, Marshal Barton stopped him in the middle of the street, arrested him, and took him to the corn crib down in the weed patch for safe keeping until Sheriff McIntire could come for the prisoner. There is little doubt about the prisoner being guilty and stealing the two wheeled horse he rode so well, for as usual in many of such cases the fellow told two stories. He first said that the bicycle was his own; afterwards admitting that it was stolen by a man by the name of Howard, who had hired him to ride it west as far as Anthony, where the two were to meet today. The Marshal agreed to take him to Anthony to meet Howard as per agreement, but the prisoner just then happened to think that Howard might not be there as agreed on, all of which will lead any reasonable mind to the conclusion that Howard was a myth, and the proper thief in jail, and is perhaps guilty of some other crime for which he is wanted. He left Winfield at 11 p.m., Sunday, passed through Wellington at 10 a.m., yesterday, arriving at Harper at 5 p.m. Distance, 75 miles; time, eighteen hours. The prisoner refuses to give his name."

This would have all been very nice if the corn crib down in the weed patch, alias jail, hadn't been rotten. Brown dug out Monday night and vamoosed on foot. Sheriff McIntire is after him again, and will no doubt rake Brown in. The bicycle, of course, was left in the marshal's hands and will be sent home. Willie is happy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Monday's Wichita Beacon gives vent to this report which, if true, is one of great import.

"A somewhat alarming report was brought to our office this morning by O. W. Jones, who lives near Douglass, Butler County. Mr. Jones says that Dr. Votaw, a veterinary surgeon of Douglass, was called to the farm of a breeder of fine stock, living about one and a half miles north of Rose Hill (a postoffice in the southwest corner of Butler County, on the mail route between Wichita and Douglass), to see a herd of polled Angus cattle. The Doctor says he found the herd afflicted with the foot-and-mouth disease. Only one cow had an ulcerated mouth, but quite a number were badly affected in the feet, so much so that several hoofs were about to drop off and others were ulcerating and discharging. The owner told the doctor that the black Angus cows had been taken to an Angus bull in the neighborhood and had there contracted the disease. The owner of the bull, it is said, has just received two car loads more of Angus stock from the same place from whence the bull came. The State Veterinary Surgeon has been telegraphed for, and it is to be hoped that he will be able to state that a mistake has been made in the diagnosis of the malady. Our informant could not give the name of any of the parties who, it was claimed, had this trouble in their herds."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Mr. M. Hahn, of the Bee Hive, was present at the marriage of his cousin, Miss Henrietta Greenewald, to Mr. M. Snattinger, at Topeka, last night. Mr. Snattinger is a cousin of Mr. A. Burgauer, of our city, and a wealthy and prominent gentleman. Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, who visited Winfield some time ago to wed Miss Minnie Burgauer and Mr. Carl Schlesinger, conducted the ceremony. The Commonwealth gave the wedding elaborate notice. The bridal party left this morning for an extensive tour in the east. At Philadelphia they will be given a big reception. Mr. Hahn accompanied them, and before returning will make the Bee Hive's fall purchases.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

John McGuire wears a long face and a melancholy grin this day. Mr. McGuire has received the intelligence that his duty as Uncle Sam's postmaster at the city of Tisdale is about to come to an end. John has amassed a snug little fortune from this office and he gives up his grip with a deep feeling of regret.

Jim Bliss, a Democrat, get there.

John steps out and Jim steps in,

McGuire is no more for Bliss does win,

Tisdale's mail for a time to come

Will be handled by a Bliss--full one.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The tower of the M. E. church is finished and will soon encase a fine bell. The M. E. folks have expended about fifteen hundred dollars in putting on the finishing touches to their church, making it one of the most complete and comfortable in the State. This amount was not contributed alone by the members of the church, but by citizens generally, and every subscription has been paid in full.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Farmers Institute meets Saturday afternoon at Curns & Manser's office.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

All members of the G. A. R. and all old soldiers are requested to meet at the G. A. R. hall one hour before the time for holding the funeral ceremony of Gen. U. S. Grant, Saturday, August 8^th, 1885. By order of S. Cure, P. C., J. E. Snow, Adjutant.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

All those indebted to the late firm of A. T. Spotswood will please settle their accounts at once. I am needing my money and must have it. Your accounts are made out. Come in and get them receipted and oblige. Yours truly, A. T. Spotswood.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The faithful and productive labors of Rev. B. Kelly, as a minister and a citizen, met with a response Monday that left not a little additional sunshine in the Reverend's pleasant home. Numerous citizens, from a spontaneous appreciation, had made up a purse of three hundred and thirty-one dollars to be presented to Rev. Kelly, as a token of their respect for him. Christian and sinner, prohibitionist and anti-prohibitionist, rich and poor, were among the donors showing the universal admiration of Mr. Kelly's fearless and zealous advocacy of every good cause. To have so many interested, the matter had been kept remarkably still, and Rev. Kelly was completely in the dark. The committee of presentation, on the part of the donors, were Capt. J. B. Nipp, Judge T. H. Soward, Messrs. J. E. Conklin, John Arrowsmith, and R. S. Wilson, who, accompanied by our reporter, made the raid at 8:30 last evening. Mr. Kelly was found at home, and, with an astonished, though very genial manner, welcomed the party. Without any embarrassing preliminaries, Judge Soward said:

"Bro. Kelly: It gives me great pleasure, in company with these friends, to meet you in your home this evening. We do not come for the single pleasure of an hour's social intercourse. We come as the representatives of a large number of your warm hearted fellow citizens of this city, composed of all denominations and a very large number who represent no religious sect, to assure you of the high esteem which we have for you as a christian gentleman, and to express to you our admiration of the indomitable and untiring energy you have shown in behalf of the moral culture, happiness, and prosperity of our people. Words alone cannot express our feelings, and I bring you from these hands, acting under the impulse of warm and generous hearts, this gift, which we ask you to accept as a slight token of our esteem of a brave and manly man. The intrinsic value of this gift, in itself, is slight; but when I assure you that it bears with it the warm hearted wishes of your friends and admirers, who wish many more years of usefulness and happiness to your household, it becomes more valuable, as we know you esteem the confidence and friendship of your fellow citizens priceless."

Rev. Kelly, usually equal to any occasion, was to use a homely expression, "all broke up," and were we to publish his response in full, would no doubt demand a committee of identification. He was glad to welcome the gentlemen to his home on a mission laden with such esteem and encouragement. The surprise, he said, was so complete and of such a character as to incapacitate him for expressing as he would like his deep felt gratitude. He accepted the gift in the spirit it was given--a spontaneous token from warm and appreciative hearts. During his fifteen years residence in Kansas, he had tried to build up, in christianity, morality, and general prosperity. This he had done in Winfield and would continue to do. His fidelity was not prompted by monetary gain, but for the upbuilding of humanity and the calling he espoused. This gift would make one of the greenest spots in his memory. His heart was filled with inexpressible appreciation. With hearty hand-shaking, the formality was changed into pleasant converse, followed by seasonable refreshments, served very agreeably by Misses Maude and Hortense. Mrs. Kelly was ill and unable to appear. The gift was accompanied by a list of the contributors.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The column will be formed as follows.

1^st. W. R. Corps. 2^nd. G. A. R. Post. 3^rd. Military Co. 4^th. Civic societies.

Column forming on Main street facing west. Head of column resting on 8^th Avenue in front of G. A. R. Hall. The line of march will be as follows: The column will move promptly at the tolling of the bells, first facing to the right and marching north on Main to 7^th Avenue, then countermarching and moving south on Main to 12^th Ave., then east on 12^th Avenue to Church street, and north on Church street to Baptist Church.

1. Music by Orchestra. M. E. Quartet.

2. Music. By the Choir.

3. Reading Scriptures. Rev. J. S. Myers.

4. Prayer. Rev. J. H. Reider.

• Resolutions.

6. Music. Choir.

7. Address. Rev. J. H. Reider.

8. Music. Orchestra.

9. Address. Rev. W. R. Kirkwood.

10. Music. Choir.

11. Benediction. Rev. J. S. Myers.

12. Music. Orchestra.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Col. Tom Soward presents himself before the people as a candidate for re-election this week. Tom, like Capt. Nipp, is a Kentuckian--one of those whole-souled, open, free-hearted fellows, loyal to their friends and generous to their enemies, and whom it is a genuine pleasure to see succeed. He has made a capable and efficient officer and will succeed himself without much effort.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Methodist people certainly have reasons to be proud of the appearance of their church since its interior remodeling and outward finishing. With comfortable pews, recarpeting throughout, and beautiful repairing and other recent improvements, out of what was once a barn-like structure is one of the nicest churches in the State. It is now a real pleasure to spend an hour at services in this church.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Loomis street, this side of the Court House square, is getting a fill up from the Winfield National Bank cellar. It needs it, heaven knows. It is about the only street in the city that's a disgrace to the city. In dry weather, the stones and rubbish make it impassable and in wet weather it is a regular swamp. We are glad to see this move toward redeeming it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Rain seems to have struck in various parts of the county, though we are dry at Winfield. J. F. Martin says they had a very fine rain in Vernon Friday night, a fall of an inch over a strip three miles wide. Around Seeley and north of this city, they also got rain. We must have general rain soon to insure a fine crop of corn. Now is just the time it is needed the worst.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Frank Small, charged with unlicensed association with Ellen Robinson, plead guilty before Judge Snow Tuesday, and, in consideration that he "clean out the unclean ranch," was let off with $5 and costs. Ellen and her little nieces, Mollie Burke's girls, shook the city's dust from their boots last evening, going East. Our officers mean to rid Winfield entirely of "soiled doves."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Mr. C. H. Seybt, a large flour exporter from St. Louis, is here talking up the export business with Messrs. Bliss & Wood. He was here last spring and has just returned from Europe with increased sureties. He exports for over one hundred of the large mills of the country. Mr. Robert Clark, of the Augusta roller mills, is also here.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Kansas City & Southwestern Railroad Company made the deposit with the County Treasurer today, to pay for their right of way from the county line as far down as the Commissioners have condemned--to the Walnut township line.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Our Dispatches, a base ball club just born, played a game on the Fair Grounds Saturday evening with the Southwesterns, from five miles above town. Seven innings were played, showing twenty-two of our boys and five for their opponents.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The new hardware firm, I. W. Randall & Co., have secured the McDonald room and will open up a nice stock of hardware about the 15^th of August. Irve is a good businessman and the new firm will prove a strong one.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

For sale. Twelve good milch cows; one yearling and one two-year-old bull; one yearling heifer; a nice property in Howland's addition to Winfield, to sell or trade for a farm.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

All parties knowing themselves indebted to Cairns & Reynolds, or H. C. Reynolds, will please call at our old stand, at Brotherton & Silver's, and settle and save further costs.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Winfield post office will be closed from 1 to 5 p.m. on the day of General Grant's funeral (August 8^th). By order of Postmaster General.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Before borrowing money on real estate, call at the Farmers' Bank and get rates. No delay in closing loans.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

James McLain is again master of the nocturnal billy and star, Night Watch Glandon having retired.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Money to loan by C. E. Fuller, 9^th avenue, with H. G. Fuller & Co.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Dr. Crabtree is in Burden at present.

Fried chickens are good--so Mr. A. thinks.

You all know how hot the weather has been of late.

Widow Miller spent several days in Burden last week.

Mr. Gillette filled Rev. Knight's pulpit on Sunday in Salem.

Mrs. John Martin is better than she has been for some time.

Messrs. John Chase and J. A. Shields have a fine new mower.

Mr. Chapell, Sr., hurt his arm quite bad lately, but it is better now.

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hoyland visited relatives near Burden last week.

Farmers' wives and daughters are drying and canning corn for winter use.

Mr. Charles Claybolt is putting up a house in Salem. It looks suspicious.

Men are haying in the country and are perspiring in town--and country also.

Mr. C. C. Chapell has returned to the parental home and is quite indisposed.

Mrs. Vermilye, of the Magnolia farm, was the guest of Mrs. Archer last week.

Mrs. Pixley has been quite indisposed, but is better. Her father, Mr. Parker, is visiting her.

The McHenry Brothers have cut and bound their nice field of timothy, and will thresh it for seed.

Mr. Rolland Miller is back from St. Joe, but I cannot tell how his eye is. We all hope it is much better.

Mr. J. E. Johnson has rented his farm and bought a house in Salem, and will soon move to his new residence.

Mrs. J. J. Johnson is quite sick. Dr. Downs was hastily summoned and at last accounts she was better.

C. H. Miller and family have gone west. I hope they may find a pretty house and that happiness may be theirs.

In the cemetery there is another little mound, and another little angel in Heaven. A little Frazier girl died two weeks ago.

Messrs. Joe Hoyland and Almont Doolittle were down to the Territory for plums and grapes last week. They had pretty good success.

If anyone has lost a little buttoned shoe for a child four or five years old, they can find it in the house of Mrs. Condert. Mr. Condert found it on the Burden road, not far from Salem.

Miss Esther Gilmore is a happy Salemite once more, and so is Mr. James McWilliams, as he has also returned to our little burg. Happy greeting to all, and they seem glad to get back.

Mr. Stiff and family are again Salemites. Mr. Stiff has bought the livery stock of Mr. Spencer and he will now be the polite and handsome pilot to convey strangers to see our beautiful country, or conduct them safely to their friends.

Mrs. Dr. Dougan, of Little Rock, Arkansas, who is visiting her mother, Mrs. Walton, of Burden, was the guest of Col. Jackson's family several days last week. She is an old time friend of Mrs. Jackson's, and they took her back to her Burden friends when her visit was completed.

Mr. George Williams and Miss Mollie Cox were united in marriage at the home of the bride's brother, Mr. John Cox, on Sunday, the 19^th of July. Rev. Knight, the M. E. minister, performed the ceremony. May their life be bright and happy is the wish of myself and their many friends.

Our city dads passed an ordinance some time ago, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday, except on a physician's prescription. It is not known who of the doctors hired the council to make this law, but some of them do more business on Sunday than during the rest of the week.

At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Watsonberger, July 22^nd, by Rev. Geo. Bicknell, Mr. Arthur Emerson and Miss Florence Hughes, both of Sheridan, Kansas, were made one in the presence of a large number of guests. The happy couple were escorted to the train by Dr. and Mrs. Emerson, of Winfield, where they bade them adieu, as they started for a bridal tour to Davenport, Iowa. "Olivia" did not get fooled out of the cake as did those Floralites, for Mrs. Watsonberger made an honored guest of me, and provided some cake to bring the vision of a whispering man to the pleasant dreams that sometimes visit wedding guests. May this happy couple always be as happy as now.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Ed Gray started for Iowa last Friday. Why? Cause why.

Several of our boys went to Ponca last week to witness the sun dance, but were a few days too previous.

The Border base ball nine got done up at Wichita last week. They were "done up," not only for the game, but also for their board bill, which was sent to them the day after the game. A base ball club that is not courteous enough to entertain a visiting club had better quit playing ball and sell themselves to some dealer in swine. At Wellington, the boys were splendidly entertained and in return for their kind treatment, showed the natives some of the finest ball playing they ever witnessed.

Last Sunday evening a meeting was held at the Baptist church for the purpose of taking some steps in regard to the enforcement of our laws, both city and state. The principal object in view was to bring out the sentiments of the people in regard to the matter; to let the officers of the law know that our people expect them to rigidly enforce every law on our statute books, and that in doing this they will be backed up and sustained by the people. The evening was occupied by short speeches, many of our citizens taking bold and decisive stands in regard to the matter. The Sunday law and prohibition law received special attention as they are the two laws which, above all others, are disregarded in our city. Resolutions were adopted requesting our officers to use all diligence in the enforcement of all laws on the statute books, and also requesting the Probate Judge and County Attorney to thoroughly investigate the liquor business in Arkansas City. A committee of six were appointed to constitute a Law and Order committee. Arrangements were made for another meeting on the first Sunday evening in September. This begins to look like business. The trouble heretofore has been that no one has cared to come out and make complaint against persons violating the law, especially if the violator happened to be a person of some influence. It takes sand and a high degree of moral courage for a man to undertake to bring an offender to justice when he knows that his business is likely to suffer for it, that he will gain an enemy and that his motives will be misconstrued by many. But Arkansas City's safety depends on the fact that we have men who are willing to make all these sacrifices for the public good, and the intention which was avowed last Sunday night, to "hew the line, let the chips fall where they may," may well cause all lovers of law and order to feel encouraged, and for men who have for years been violating the law and relying on their standing in society for their safety from prosecution will find that "the way of the transgressor is hard."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

We noticed Dr. Grimes, of Arkansas City, at the depot Monday morning.

Mrs. Brown and Anderson are guests of Mrs. Lou and Frank Baker, of Seeley.

Lee and Lama Snyder were with many others, guests of the happy hostess, Miss Lettie Albert, one day last week.

There is but little sickness, but there are many with the haggard face, telling the effects of the hot, dry weather.

Messrs. Albert, Holland, and Anderson, of this community, are soon to become bibliopolists. We wish them success.

We noticed some ten or twelve young persons out enjoying the healthful exercise of horseback riding Sunday evening.

The rapid recovery of Rev. Lee's son insured to us the pleasure of one of the Reverend's pleasant sermons on every other Sunday.

Will Beach has lately made an addition to his house, which makes quite an improvement in the neighborhood as well as on his farm.

R. W. Anderson was the loser of a fine short horn calf Monday morning, the value of which he is trying to regain by selling some of his early peaches, of which he has a fine lot.

While the Scrubs, of Hackney, were skirmishing in the field a little last Saturday, Ed Fisher had the misfortune to let fly the ball bat, striking Chas. Metcalf on the arm, committing quite serious damage. Charlie has the best wishes of all the boys.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Whew! Hot and still heating.

John Hall meditates a new barn.

Sheridan and Tisdale are matched for a ball contest.

Our little rain was welcome, but not quite enough of it.

Don't believe all the railroad racket you hear in Tisdale.

Rease Moore and family visited their old haunts at Tisdale last week.

Corn is doing as well as it could. A rain or two will make a big crop.

The health of the community is better this summer than usual. There is nothing like good air and plenty of it.

Haying is being pushed for all it is worth and the yield is wonderful.

We regret that Salem has been unfortunate. There is danger in all cities.

A slide lantern show at the M. E. church on the 29^th. Nobody "sold." Oh, no!

Hattie and Mamie Young are at home again after a three weeks visit at Humboldt.

Joe Bourdette starts, in a few days, in quest of wealth among the fairs to be held in Southern Kansas this fall.

B. E. Bacon harvested a fine crop of timothy. He says tame grass is as good a crop as Kansas farmers can raise.

Mrs. S. D. Pryor and Mrs. Henry Brown, with their little ones, spent the day with Mrs. E. P. Young last Wednesday.

We were pleased to meet our old friend, B. C. Swarts, in Winfield, a few days since. B. C. is a pioneer--one of the right sort.

Our road overseers have fixed up the bad places on the highways and cuss words are less frequent from the lips of the granger.

A. T. Gay has broke ground for his new house. We know of no class of persons better deserving of good homes than the old settlers.

Winfield Dads should pass an ordinance prohibiting bicyclists from running up and down Main street. Our country horses don't understand the things.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Wm. Schwantes and wife took another trip to Vernon township. "There is no place like home."

A sister of Mrs. Foose has been visiting her for a few weeks, but contemplates returning soon to her home in Ohio. Thinks Kansas too warm for her.

A fruit tree agent sold quite a lot of fruit trees in this neighborhood last week. They are cheap enough if they are budded.

John Weakly, wife, father, and two brothers were at Winfield Saturday. Guess they thought it best to rest awhile from haying.

Mrs. Lida Sumner has gone to Denver, Colorado, to visit her parents. Her health has been poor this summer and she hopes the trip will benefit her.

Come out, Bethelites, and help us with our Sunday school. Don't let the hot weather keep you at home. Remember some of us never fail. Like to see all that way.

Uncle Joseph Hassell's folks most forget to prepare meals in regular order, since the purchase of their new Davis machine. But quite the reverse with Uncle Bob Weakly's, for they want to cook all the time; their new gasoline stove is so delightful. There are three in this neighborhood and all speak very highly of them. They are daisies sure!

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Rev. Lee's son is slowly improving.

Considerable sickness in the neighborhood.

Things are looking well in this "neck o' the woods," but rain is badly needed.

Roads fearfully dusty, and the weather is very hot.

Dr. Marsh, of Tannehill had a run-away near Mr. Forbe's house, with the result of demolishing the top of his carriage, breaking a single-tree, skinning his legs and the legs of one of his little mules.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Gale Sulky Harrow Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Michigan, of which D. M. Ferry, the noted seedsman, is president, have at present, a depot at Winfield for the distribution of their goods. And it is the intention of the firm to show every farmer in Cowley County the workings of their famous Sulky Harrow, Sod Pulverizer, and corn cultivator. They also sell in connection with their Sulky Harrow the Hoosure Force-Feed Seeder, which is known to all farmers as a first class implement. Knowing full well that the farmers of this and most every other vicinity have been swindled by parties having no business standing and who were selling articles with no merit, I therefore invite one and all to inquire into the standing and the merits of these machines; any bank in this or any other city in the United States can give you the commercial standing of the Hon. D. M. Ferry, and I think there are very few farmers in the country who do not know that he is one of the most reliable businessmen of the whole country. Mr. R. A. Hibbard, who is manager at this point, will be glad to furnish you with names and P. O. addresses of several thousand farmers who are now using these machines and can testify as to its merits and the manner in which this company do their business. And we hereby challenge any person to show a single instance where we have broken a promise or done anything but an honest upright business. And we hereby issue a challenge to any party or parties who think our machine is an inferior one to meet us in a field trial. I will be glad to have farmers call and see what we have. Am quartered at the Brettun House and will do my best to use you nicely.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Wellingtonian, champion of Isaac Reed for Judge of the 19^th Judicial District, and bitterly opposed to Judge Ray, is throwing its hat in the air over the assured nomination of its candidate. The primaries have all been held and twenty-nine out of the thirty-eight precincts show a majority of thirteen for Reed. Nine precincts, having twenty-two delegates, are yet to hear from.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

R. P. Galloway, representing the Clinton Copying Co., of Clinton, Missouri, is in town with headquarters at the Flag Drug store. Mr. Galloway makes a specialty of fine India Ink, Water Colors, Oil, and Crayon portraits.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

$5,000 to loan on short time on good personal, chattel, or real estate security.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Yesterday the Methodist church was reopened after several weeks of repairing. The church was beautifully decorated with flowers and was crowded: both the main room and the lecture room jammed. Bishop Ninde preached an able discourse from Peter i:2-7. "Unto you therefore which believe he is precious." The following is a synopsis. St. Peter in these words addresses a very small and exceedingly select number. If he should utter the same words today, the company would be much larger. If I were to pass down these aisles and stop at every pew and ask if you believed in Jesus Christ, no doubt I would receive a unanimous affirmative, yet in every congregation there are some not believers. Some words have a biblical interpretation. The words of the text are such. Many assent to all in the new testament in regard to Christ, and yet are a bitter enemy to it all. In consenting, a christian embraces Christ. Such a believer can understand the words of this text as to himself. Our English cousins have seen fit to criticize our language as containing ambiguous words. Perhaps this is right, but everything in this country is on a big scale, and everything appears to us in an enlarged view; but my beloved friends, were you to attempt to convey a Christian's estimate of Christian words in our vocabulary, could you express the proper idea? We have not many precious things, beloved, in this world. We have not many precious friends, friends that are on the heart and on the tongue, that are friends in need and stand by us in trouble. Perhaps we can count them all on the fingers of our two hands, and yet far more precious than these is our Savior. He is exceedingly precious to the christian. A great many people have almost a heathenish conception of Christ. Some people only use Jesus for a means of ribaldry. I say to the Christian, believe that his conception of Jesus grows as his belief increases. I remark again, Jesus Christ is precious in His temporal coming. Christ made his advent upon earth that He might reconcile the love of God. I believe the old testament. I believe the God of the new is the God of the old. Yet there is a difference between the God of the old and the new. Christ came forth that he might reveal God in all a father's love and mercy. Christ appeared in the world to reveal the reconciling love of God. Jesus came to manifest an ideal human excellence. I see him everywhere, eating with Publicans and sinners; but in all his course, I see nothing against his spotless character. Where will you find a parallel? Call up the greatest characters of history, and Christ is the only perfect ideal of human excellence. I cannot be like Christ for I am only mortal, but I can follow after him. He can be my example; so can you, my beloved. Jesus Christ came into the world to take away my sins and yours, by his death upon the cross. The perfect Christ is not only in his life but in his death. It is only he who can see in Christ his Savior; can properly estimate Christ and his mission. I see one standing before the cross who says, "I see a martyr to cruelty." I see another standing before the cross crying, "Oh! Inexplicable mystery, who can solve this, that Jesus Christ must die upon the cross." The empty sepulcher explains it all. I see a Christian bow before the cross who says, "What a sacrifice is this that Christ must die to save the World?" Another says, "Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away our sins and falls at his feet." This is proper faith. Jesus Christ and his crucifiers afford exhaustless themes for the pulpit. The man who fails to discourse upon the blood is not a true Christian preacher. Blessed be God! He sent His only begotten son into the world to be a propitiation, to save the world. You can't compress all of Christ's acts into the short record we have of His life. We only have a short record of about three years. How can we account for it that a young man of 33 years of age left such a record that it has swayed the world for centuries. There has never been a period in the world's history when Jesus has been written or thought about as much as now. St. Paul said years ago, "The love of Christ constraineth me." If you want the mystery of His ability to do the great work He did and to bear the trials that He underwent it is this, the love of Christ, Precious Christ, whose blood has saved us! Christ is alive today. You can't find his bones if you search the world over. Wherever the Christian goes, he takes Christ with him. Christ is our friend. It seems to me there is nothing worthy of remembrance not connected with Christ. Jesus is precious for what he is doing now. The crucial question today is with everyone, "Is Jesus Christ precious to us all?" There is an incomprehensible meaning in the word salvation. Christ is a guide, a prophet, and a priest. We have one in the person of our ascended savior ever before the great high throne. Upon high stands our high priest interceding for us. He is a merciful high priest. He knows from experience our wants, and is our king. I am for absolute monarchy. I want Jesus for my absolute king. Life is a battlefield. There is not a place large enough for a young man to place his two feet upon but what it is raked by the artillery of hell. Christ is our spiritual nutrition. We fancy that happiness consists in satisfying our appetites. It is not so; there is a longing for food for the soul; there is a longing for God's help and care. Earth cannot fill the aching soul but Jesus can comfort us, no matter whether in the dungeon or the poor house; if we only have this solace, we are happy. Christ is precious on account of the christian hope he brings. Our chief happiness is in the future. You may be growing old; you may not be what you once were, but just as buoyant in spirit. We may be happier in the time to come. A Christian cannot stop in this life. Onward, onward, and the world beyond. We can't be unmindful of the world to come, and yet we know not much about it. No returning footsteps have revealed its wonders. Some things I know, that I shall lay down the cross and take up the crown; that the faces of my departed kindred, banished from me years ago, will welcome me upon that shore. I know the king will welcome me there. Oh! my brethren, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, can all this be withheld from you? All this is yours! Yours is Christ's and Christ's is God's. Amen.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Elder Myers' text yesterday was from Proverbs. "Winning men to Christ." The astronomer is a man who can measure the distance of the stars from us and is said to be a wise man, but the man who can go among his fellow men and win them to Christ is known to be the wisest man of them all. Paul was a wise man and was sent among men to win them to Christ. How can we win men to Christ? Give them God's word and teach and preach it to them and by your actions and everyday walk cause them to conclude there is something better to live for than worldly things. We must have personal influence and we can never get it by carelessness to church duties and lack of faith. While some study nature and other art and still others history to mark the governing hand of God working out the destinies of nations, everybody studies God's people and if they have defects, they are bound to be seen, and it always works for evil, not for good, and consequently the Christian should ever walk in the light and truth and not darken or blight the prospects of any of his fellow mortals. It is one of the worst drawbacks to Christian progress, and God's followers should ever study to avoid this stoppage in the christian machinery.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Baptist pulpit was again filled Sunday morning by Rev. Geo. Campbell, from Wyoming Territory, who is visiting here. His theme was "God's loving kindness," based on Psalms xxxi:5-6-7. God is in all nature in its sublimity. Everything we look upon exhibits His love for those who follow Him. Yet it also shows his wrath--the terrible avalanche, so awe-inspiring and beautiful perched upon the mountain's peak, when it comes thundering down, deals death swift and sure. The greatest exhibition of God's kindness is in the rain and sunshine that makes the earth team with the abundant harvest. If all production was stopped and the world thrown on its accumulated supply, eighteen months would wind up humanity's earthly career.

Rev. Reider preached a sermon to young men in the evening, on "Industry, the way of success." Prov. vi:6. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise." It was a grand sermon: one worthy of wide consideration. We regret our lack of space for a synopsis.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Dr. Kirkwood preached Sunday morning from James xviii:2. "Show me thy faith without thy works. I will show thee my faith, by my works." In the days of the apostles there was much misunderstanding about this matter of faith and works, how it could be possible for God to justify the sinner without his performing some meritorious work, seemingly putting God under an obligation to perform the act of justification for him. He explained it in this wise. Suppose a man to be suffering the just penalty for his crime in a state prison with only a loathing for his sin and a longing to be free. His friends petition the governor. His mercy and compassion is brought into requisition, his pardon signed, and without any effort on his part is made free from the law. So with the sinner. He is made conscious of his sinfulness, of the justness of the penalty for his sins, of the willingness of God to pardon. He accepts the pardon and is free from the penalty of God's broken law, and from that moment he begins a new life, has new desires, higher aspirations. Then begins the work of sanctification, working in the heart, regenerated by an act of God's free grace.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Sabbath School was well attended and the lesson was very interesting. The congregation was not large at this church, but the best of attention was elicited by the splendid sermon from Cor. xiii:9. "For we know in part." The first thought was the imperfection of men.

1^st. As applied to his mental acquisitions.

2^nd. His spiritual attainments.

He said that to a greater or less extent man had been a failure as he never accomplished all he hoped to. The school of nature is one of advancement, change, and development, and man is one of nature's best pupils, desiring to know more and more, but never reaching perfection. Man is constantly reaching out after some new thing and when that is obtained, he finds, like the little child, that he has more strength to reach after something which attracts his attention and desires, and he wants more and more.

He made a fine quotation from Pope, who said that the greatest study of life was man. The pastor's references to the scriptures and some of the most noted authors, philosophers, and divines of ancient and modern times were nicely woven in and applied to illustrate the thought he was presenting. His reasoning was logical and pointed. The usual announcements for the week were made.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

WASHINGTON, August 1. Five American steamship companies--the Pacific Mail, San Francisco to Australia; the Red "D," New York to Venezuela; the Clyde, New York to Turk's Island; the New York, Havana & Mexico and the New York and Cuba, lines have declined to carry the United States mails after today. In commenting upon this action Postmaster General Vilas said: "Certain American steamship lines, probably under the lead of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, entered into a combination with the purpose of forcing the distribution among them of the $400,000 appropriated by Congress for mileage compensation for carrying the mails. Some of them wrote to the Post-office Department, desiring to know what terms would be given. I proposed to each of the companies to go to the full limit that the law could allow, and award to them both sea and inland postage. This is about three times what they had been receiving for the same service during the past twelve years. It is

for carriage across the Atlantic, and it is probably in most cases all that should be paid for carrying the mails. The companies were still acting in concert, and in consequence of their combination, refused to accept these terms, which were so liberal as compared with those they had had. The feel, I suppose, that they can drive the Government out of the position it had taken by refusing to carry the mails for the compensation offered. The companies seemed to think that if they refused to carry the mails, there would be no other course left to the Government but to make contracts with them and distribute the money, $400,000, accordingly. A complete schedule for the transportation of mails has been arranged, and they will all go with very little difference in point of time to the point of destination. A statement has been made in the newspapers to the effect that the United States Government is not as liberal as Great Britain in compensating steamship lines. In point of fact, the ratio which has been offered to our lines very much exceeds the rate paid by Great Britain. The rate we offered is about sixty-three percent more than British lines receive from their Government. It was a rate unjustifiably large, more than ought to be paid out. The Government deemed it fair to go to the utmost length which law and reason allowed, in order to avoid any difference with the American steamship companies until Congress should meet. The department has made such arrangements that the public suffer no inconvenience worthy of mention in respect to carrying the mails and in some cases--notably the Cuban--mails will be expedited." The Superintendent of the Foreign Mails said the American companies had refused an offer of $1.60 per pound for carrying the mail. This is what is known as the combined

and is equal to $3,200 per ton that they receive at the present rate, or 44 cents per pound. The Postmaster General has directed the following changes to be made in the dispatch of correspondence for foreign countries, to take effect on the 1^st of August.

Mails for Cuba, heretofore dispatched by sea from New York, to be forwarded to Key West, Florida, via Tampa, Florida, for dispatch from Key West to Havana by steamer, which leaves Key West for Havana every Wednesday and Friday.

Correspondence for New Zealand and the Australian colonies, heretofore included in the mails made up at San Francisco, for dispatch to those colonies, to be forwarded exclusively via Great Britain, in mails made up at New York as well as San Francisco.

There being only one dispatch during August next, on the 1^st proximo, from San Francisco for China and Japan direct, correspondence for China, Japan, and the East Indies to be also forwarded until August 20, via Great Britain, in mails from New York, as well as San Francisco mails, made up at New York, to contain all registered correspondence for destinations above named.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., August 1. While testimony was being taken in the office of Master in Chancery Houghton in the case of Sharon vs. Hill, Judge Samuel S. Terry, council for the defense, attacked with his cane H. J. Knowalsky, an attorney engaged on Sharon's side. Knowalsky drew his revolver and Judge Terry immediately drew his, whereupon Knowalsky fled into the hall. No shots were exchanged. Judge Terry is the same person who killed Senator Broderick in the early days of California.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

John A. Dutter, a prominent coal operator at Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, has been foreclosed by the Sheriff. His liabilities are about $150,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Martin Van Buren, grandson of President Van Buren, died at New York on the 28^th. He was a bachelor and a prominent society man.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

John A. Benson, civil engineer and contractor of San Francisco, has assigned Liabilities, $450,000. Assets said to be equal to the indebtedness.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

A duel between W. B. Walker and Samuel J. Dalton, of Aberdeen, Mississippi, was frustrated recently by the arrest of the parties at Starkville. They were on their way to Memphis to arrange for a fight.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Callan's motion of censure of John Bright for his utterances at the Spencer banquet was rejected by the British House of Commons. Callan took occasion to express his contempt of Bright and of the House.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Complaints having been received at the Department of Agriculture, Washington, that the sorghum seed distributed this year failed to grow, samples of it were tested in the gardens of the department and it was found that only about ten percent of it would sprout.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The report of Oliver Pain's death has been fully confirmed by Father Bonomi, an Italian priest who has been in the El Mahdi's camp and who has returned to Wady Haifa. A condition of complete anarchy reigns throughout the province and the city of Dongola.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The steamer Isle Royale, owned by Cooley, Lovague & Co., of Duluth, and plying between Duluth and Port Arthur, sprung a leak recently and sank near Susick Island. All the passengers and crew were saved. She was valued at $15,000 and was fully insured.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The other evening, during a heavy thunder storm, lightning struck the house of W. J. Rains, at Lovelady, Texas. Six children, playing on the veranda, were prostrated by the shock, one of whom died. The others were in a critical condition and could hardly survive. Mrs. Rains was severely prostrated.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Bedford Mackay, United States Consul at Rio Grande De Sal, Brazil, arrived in Washington recently on a leave of absence. Mackay is the Consul who, some weeks since, had a shooting affray with a Brazilian editor. The Consul reports that a colony of ex-Confederate soldiers is located in Southern Brazil.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Maud S. trotted a mile in 2:08-3/4 at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 30^th: the quickest mile ever made.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

In the whole of Spain on the 29^th there were reported 3,168 new cases of cholera and 1,252 deaths.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

A monument to the memory of Rebecca Nourse, who was hanged for witchcraft, July 19, 1681, was dedicated at her old home in Danvers, Massachusetts, on the 30^th.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

A recent Joliet, Illinois, special says: Three hundred men employed at the blast furnaces of the Joliet Iron and Steel Works have struck, claiming that they were being under paid.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Secretary Bayard received a dispatch from the United States Consul at Marseilles on the 30^th, saying that the recent report of an outbreak of cholera in France was unfounded.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Receiver Brown, of Brown, Bonnell & Co., at Youngstown, Ohio, has signed an agreement to pay the Amalgamated Association's scale of prices. The works employ 2,000 men.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Terrible and destructive storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, have prevailed over the southern provinces of France. In Rodez, the capital of the province of Aveyon, lightning set fire to the priests' seminary.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

It was recently rumored that Mr. Titcomb, Assistant Register of the Treasury, had been requested to resign. Register Rosecrans said that the report was not true, but that a reorganization of the bureau was contemplated.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

In the second days proceedings of the Democratic convention at Richmond, Virginia, the platform was adopted and J. E. Massey was nominated for Lieutenant Governor on the first ballot and R. A. Ayres for Attorney General on the second ballot. Hon. John S. Barbour was unanimously re-elected Chairman of the State and Executive Committees.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The county jail at Barton City, Oregon, burned the other morning. Five persons were cremated alive and one severely scorched. With great difficulty Fred Winkleman, the half-witted murderer of Allen Rivers, was dragged from his cell insensible and badly burned. Every appearance indicated that the jail was set on fire by Winkleman, doubtless to make his escape during the excitement.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Stanley Hunter, a popular writer for the press and author of the famous "Spoopendyke Papers," died at New York recently.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

It was reported at Cairo that Osman Digna was killed in the Kassaia battle. The Mahdi's followers were everywhere demoralized.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Charles L. Skinner, of Baltimore, was recently disbarred from practice as an attorney before the Interior Department at Washington for extorting illegal fees.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The crew of the bark Bella, which was lying at Metis, Quebec, mutinied against the master ands took possession of the vessel recently.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Secretary of State received from Lima recently a telegram announcing the death of Lieutenant Nye, the naval attache to the American Legation at that place.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The Registrar General's quarterly return estimates the present population of Ireland at 4,924,342, showing a great decrease, which is chiefly owing to emigration to America.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

By a violent storm at Fargo, Dakota, recently, an iron electric tower 1607 feet high was blown down and twisted out of any semblance to original appearance. Many tin roofs and trees in the city were carried away and great damage done in the country near Glyndon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

In the British House of Commons an amendment to the criminal bill providing for the flogging of prisoners convicted of outraging children was rejected by 125 to 91. An amendment raising the age of protection to girls to sixteen was carried by a vote of 179 to 71.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Nine men got into a bucket to be hauled to the top of a shaft connecting with the new Croton aqueducts at New York, the other day. When up sixty feet the bucket caught on a projection and tipped. Four men were thrown out, two clung to the bucket; but the other two, William Cunningham and Timothy Harrington, were dashed to death.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The findings of the naval court martial before which ex-Surgeon General Wales was recently tried were suspension from rank and duty for five years on furlough pay and to retain his present number in his grade during that period. Dr. Wales was tried for culpable inefficiency in the performance of his duty and for neglect of duty.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Dr. Henri Milne Edwards, the French scientist, is dead.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Ben Simpson, the United States Marshal of Kansas, was reported to have sent in his resignation.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Jerome F. Manning, an attorney, has been disbarred from office before the Court of Alabama Courts for alleged insolence to the court.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The United States Consul at Denla, Spain, reported to the State Department at Washington by cable that cholera had been officially discovered [?] at that port.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The clerks in the Fourth Auditor's Office at Washington were dismissed on the 29^th for various causes. Their places were filled by transfers from other offices.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

An official of the Pennsylvania Railway Company said recently at Philadelphia that there was no truth in the report that the company contemplated an advance in emigrant rates.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

At a Papal Consistory the Pope proclaimed the Rev. Father Byrne Bishop of Mobile, Alabama, and the Very Rev. R. Phelan, present Vicar General, Coadjutor Bishop of Pittsburgh.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

A destructive fire occurred at Mannsville, New York, the other morning. Every store in town, nine dwellings and the Church of the Disciples, were burned. Loss, estimated, $70,000; insurance, $45,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

T. K. Miller, Secretary of the Iowa Legion of Honor, his daughter, and her friend, Miss Hall, were drowned in Cedar River, about fourteen miles from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the other evening.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The people of Huesca, Spain, have risen in revolt against the execution of the excise laws. The rioting was serious. The enraged people attacked the office of the Excise Collector and burned it to the ground.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

The rate of postage on letters from the United States to Australia and New Zealand via England, Brindisi, and the Suez Canal, has been reduced from fifteen to twelve cents, making it uniform with the rate via San Francisco.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.

Lath, $3.60 per 1,000. Lime, $1.25 per barrel. Standard Hair, 30 cts. per bushel. Washed Hair, 40 cts. per bu. Doors, 2-6, 6-6, 1-38, with hinges and white knob locks, $1.75. Doors, 2-4, 6-4, 1-3/4, with hinges and white knob lock, $1.65. Plank, 2 x 12 in., 12, 14, 18, 20, $1.70 per 100 feet. Clear yellow pine flooring, $2.50 per 100 feet--4 or 6 inch. First-class yellow pine flooring, $2.25 per 100 feet--4 or 6 inch. Second yellow pine flooring, $2.00 per 100 feet--4 or 6 inch. We warrant our lime equal to any sold in Kansas. A full line of doors, blinds, gate hinges, screen doors, cupboard locks, latches, etc. We deliver goods, free of charge, to any part of the city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

We are informed by those who ought to know that it is probable that there will be more people in Topeka on the 13^th and 14^th of October, on the occasion of the meeting of the State Temperance Union than was ever in the city on any political occasion. It is estimated that there will not be less than 2,000 delegates in attendance. They are coming, too, to speak, after the manner of the profane, with "blood in their eye." They are determined that the temperance laws shall be enforced in Kansas. They believe that they have a law, strong enough to prevent any infraction of it, if the officers whose duty it is to enforce it but do their duty, and they are going to see why the governor and others, whose duty it is to enforce, and who have been clothed with power to do it, do not do so. The ladies and gentlemen who will be in attendance believe that prohibition is to be the issue in national as well as state politics in the future and they do not propose to go into future canvasses, handicapped by the statement that "prohibition does not prohibit in Kansas," when, as they say, they know it can be if the officers nominated and elected for that very purpose do their duty. Almost to a man those who will be heard believe that these prohibitionists, or pretended ones, who favor prohibition in Kansas and yet endorse the Republican platform in Ohio, which favors license, stultify themselves, and there is a general disposition to ignore Kansas prohibitionists who favor and advise license in Ohio. The feeling is nearly unanimous, and it strikes the average man that they are right, and that no man can be an honest prohibitionist in Kansas without advocating the same law for all parts of the Union. There are many men in Kansas who are not prohibitionists per se, that is, they have not heretofore and do not now believe that that is the best way to lessen the evil from the sale of liquor, but, they say, "it is a law, a part of our fundamental law, and we are getting sick of these half-way measures, to enforce it." That class, as a rule, would be glad to know that prohibition did prohibit, and are willing that the whole machinery of the government shall be used to do it. They say on the one hand that they are sick and tired of the half-hearted attempts to carry out the provisions of the law and on the other hand of the statements made by a class of Kansas prohibitionists and Ohio license men, that law is enforced, when they say it is not.

It is evident that all of these classes are coming together in October, as we said above with "blood in their eye" for business. They don't want, nor won't have any half-way support from men who they elected or from papers which they, with their patronage, have built up; so we take it, there will be music in Topeka at that meeting.

Commonwealth, July 30.

The above article was evidently written by an enemy of prohibition whose experience and observation have taught him that so long as the prohibitionists of this State work together, as they have been doing, they will control the legislation and most of the elections of the State; and prohibition is a fixture, bound not only to stay but to prohibit more and more completely until there is no more opposition to it than to laws against murder and robbery, and that the only way to beat prohibition is to divide the prohibitionists into two factions and to set them to warring on each other. Thus the Topeka Journal and other pro-whiskey papers, lead off in the kind of articles which tend to divide temperance men and stimulate dissensions in the prohibition ranks. They well know that a great majority of the prohibitionists of this State are Republicans, and that a great majority of these will stay by the Republican party and compel it to make such nominations as will tend to strengthen the prohibition cause. Hence the only way is to stimulate the formation of a prohibition party in opposition to the Republican party, to cast all the odium possible on the Republican party, in the hope that a sufficient number of Republican prohibitionists will adhere to the new political party to divide the prohibition forces very nearly equally and set them to fighting each other. Thus with two prohibition candidates for each legislative district, senatorial and representative, and for each State and county office, they would so divide the forces of their enemy that they could beat either wing, elect a legislature which would enact laws making the constitutional provision powerless and elect officers who help kill two birds with one stone, prohibition and the Republican party. It seems that some Republican papers are so much more for free whiskey or license laws than for their party that they would kill both of the birds rather than not kill the prohibitory warbler.

Unfortunately there are many prohibitionists who in pique and spite at real or fancied wrongs and neglects, desire the defeat of the Republicans even at the expense of annihilation to the prohibition cause. These the rum power expects to marshal with its friends and followers as the instruments of their designs. Thus the two extremes meet and work together to ruin the cause supposed to be dearest to one of these extremes.

It looks as though such articles as that above quoted are written for the purpose of forwarding such a scheme, and we do not like its tone and tendency. Prohibitionists, who are such from principle, should see and understand this matter clearly and be sure and not do the very thing which their enemies most desire them to do. It is always safe to refuse to do what your alert enemy wants you to do.

We hope that the meeting of the State Temperance Union, October 13^th and 14^th, will be as important and attract as much interest and as many delegates as the above article predicts, and we hope that the meeting will adopt and continue the policy to go into the conventions and primaries of the parties to which they have hitherto belonged and compel them to make such nominations as will be satisfactory to prohibitionists. If in any county or district, they have not strength enough to control the nominations of either party, it is then absolutely certain that all that third party nominations could do would be to show the prohibitionists much weaker than they really are.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The following, from the Columbus Courier, describes the present ambition of our former United States District Attorney. "Col. Hallowell offers, as a premium, to the person furnishing the most cream for his creamery, between the 1^st of August and the last of January, the sum of $20 in gold, and $10 in told to the one furnishing him the next largest amount."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The announcement of J. G. Shreves as a candidate for County Clerk is made. Mr. Shreves comes from the extreme south and east part of the county, a section that has never heretofore been represented in the Court House. He is a lifelong Republican, well qualified to fill the position, and receives the hearty support of many friends.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Constanzer & Co.'s little grays lit out down the back alley Saturday, hitched to the spring wagon. They went as straight as though reined by a driver until reaching the Tunnel mill ford, when they were caught. Result, broken pole and singletree, and excited citizens.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Winfield Building and Loan Association Friday evening, there were bids for $1,900 in seven different bids, premiums ranging from 7 to 10 percent.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

EDITOR COURIER. Having read, with a great deal of interest, the various articles lately published relative to the origin of chess, please permit me to call your attention to what appears to my mind a fatal defect in your theory of evolution or development. If, as you claim, chess is the parent of wheat, or in other words, if wheat is the result of development, through various forms of inferior grain, seed, or grass, and now, during the process of germination, passed through the various stages necessary to produce those several inferior grains, seeds, or grasses, and if arrested at the proper stage during germination, by favorable, or rather unfavorable conditions of soil or weather for producing wheat, why is it that it should always appear in the form of chess, and never in any of its other numerous forms? Or do you claim that chess is the only previous form in which wheat has existed? Again, if the development theory is true, why is it that under thousands of years of cultivation, with every advantage of soil and climate, it should fail to continue to develop and produce some grain as superior to wheat, as the latter is now to chess?

The writer freely admits that there are some things connected with the sudden appearance of chess in such profusion, as is seen this season, that are very difficult to account for, and right here I will relate what came under my personal observation thirty-five or forty years ago, which is still more difficult to account for. My father's barn stood on a gentle slope less than a hundred yards from a small creek, in front of the barn was (as was termed there) the barn-yard, an enclosure, five or six rods square, where straw was stacked, cattle fed, the litter from the stables thrown, etc., usually accumulating during the winter a bed of manure a foot in depth. The creek bottom and the slope, up to and around the barn-yards, was in timothy, and had been for a period of twenty-five or thirty years. Heavy rains, during winters and springs would leach out this bed of manure, and the rich liquid would meander down the slope through the timothy to the creek. Now for the mystery, which I would like you to explain. Two or three separate times, during my boyhood, there came a perfect bed of chess just where that manure water ran across the meadow from the barn-yard to the creek. The line was sharply defined on either side: pure timothy, where the manure water had ran, and pure cheat, from one to two rods wide, on the other side. It was always cut before the seed matured, and the following year would be pure timothy again. Is chess the parent of timothy also? To which it reverts under certain conditions? Or is chess a form in which all grains and grasses occasionally appear when unable to make anything else?

I have also cleared the timber from land, sown the same in wheat, and where the log heaps were burned, there would come beds of cheat. I have no theory to advance or explanation to offer for these phenomena in the vegetable kingdom. I simply state facts as I have observed them. There are some very plausible arguments in favor of the development theory, but it seems to me that it won't "hold water" when able to rid my mind of a belief in the truth of that great law laid down by the Almighty at creation's dawn, viz: "That every tree and every plant should produce fruit and seed after its kind." If wheat is the result of development, is not corn, oats, rye, etc., as much the result of development? If so, why do they never appear in any of their previous forms? Surely last spring was cold, wet, and unfavorable enough to have made corn turn back to some one of its original forms, but it didn't do it. But I am not disposed to make fun of the theory of the "old man" of the COURIER, and I would remind "Rural" and "Mark" that ridicule is not argument, neither are assertions unsupported by proof. Give us your theory, gentlemen, and the proof, if you can. S. S. LINN.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Friday, after nearly two days' incessant searching, the bodies of Will and Dave Fruits, whose drowning at the Higgins' ford, eight miles up the Walnut, we chronicled Friday, were recovered. A hundred men assisted in the search and the remains were found four miles down the river, lodged in the drift on an island. One body was discovered by the hair sticking up through the drift, under which it was floating. The other was floating under some willows fifty yards away. Both bodies were horribly swollen and decayed, having been in the water two days and two nights. The coffins were ready, and without any ceremony the victims of the waves were deposited on mother earth. The boat was found in the same island with the bodies, showing that the bodies had raised and floated down there. The boat in which the boys started across the river was a little skipper, only intended for one passenger, and the weight of the two heavy persons sunk it right down. It is said the water was only five feet deep, on a riffle, where the boat started, and could have been waded by Dave, who was a six footer. Neither could swim much and were probably too badly scared to try to wade. They were hard-working, well-liked young men, and their terrible fate is deeply mourned. This affair has a great moral, like the Carman-Kaates drowning a few weeks ago: learn to swim. Don't stop until you are an expert in water. Good swimmers are among the great minority who drown. Take your boy to the river and teach him to swim like a duck.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Mt. J. H. Fortner, who resides near Guelph, on the Territory line, says the A. C. Democrat, took his wife, two daughters, and a son last Saturday, and went down on the Chicaspa river, about fifteen miles below the State line, to gather plums. After they had found a good prolific plum patch, they selected a shady nook and unhitched the horses, and proceeded to gather the luscious fruit. After the elapse of an hour or more, Mr. and Mrs. Fortner were startled by the screams of one of their daughters, and hastening in the direction, soon came upon a sickening sight. Rose, the oldest daughter, was seated upon the trunk of a log and a huge black snake was coiled up in her lap. She was so badly frightened that she dared not move; but the younger daughter stood off at a proper distance, making the woods ring to the full extent of her lungs. Mr. Fortner took in the situation at a glance; and placing his wife in front to attract the snake's attention, stepped behind his daughter, and, taking her by the arms, quickly drew her from the log, and the snake rolled to the ground and was dispatched in short order. Rose said she had fallen asleep and when she woke up, the reptile was in her lap. The fright gave her such a shock that she has been confined to her bed ever since.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

"Fire! Fire!!" Shouted our elongated scribe Friday and with a single bound he landed up the steps and in two jumped and ran over seventeen men, twelve signs, and a dog, and stood breathless before the portals of the Commercial hotel, eager for an introduction to the conflagration. The scribe's heart went down into his old brogans as he heard, "All out; only a lamp exploded!" as the hose companies came pell mell down the street, cutting a gap in a street jammed full--of excited people, all gawking and running forward. The hanging lamp in the hotel parlor got on its ear and exploded, covering the carpet, center table, etc., with coal oil, followed by fearful flames. A bucket of wet water, an old comfort, and some men squelched it before any damage was done--excepting the complete demolishing of the lamp. This is another argument in favor of gas. A hotel without gas is liable to explode. The Commercial has lots of gas--on the sidewalk in front, among the airing boarders. Put it in the building.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The devil and all his imps break out in a print shop sometimes, and we'll bet they were accompanied by sheol in the Wellingtonian office Friday morning. That paper comes to us with this at the head of its usually bright and newsy local page. "Pi! The press-man 'pied' our local form while going to press this morning, hence the absence of our usual local news."

The "cuss word" vocabulary would down a Methodist preacher on such an occasion. A day's hard labor gone and nothing but a conglomerated mass ready for the "hell box," or three days incessant "picking" type by type, to again fit the "pi" for the boxes, as the old time "silent messengers of thought."

The Wellingtonian office will now need a long sitting at the mourners' bench to again place them on the straight and narrow path.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The State Board of Charitable Institutions met in Topeka Wednesday to receive bids and let the contract for the erection of the asylum for idiotic and imbecile youth at Winfield. The first bids were all of larger amounts than the appropriation, $25,000; so these bids were all thrown out and the bidders, all of whom were present, were given notice to put in bids Thursday for constructing the main building and one wing of the asylum. John Q. Ashton, a contractor of Arkansas City, who built our Central school building, and J. E. Conklin, of Winfield, had the best bids and were awarded the contract. The Board appointed architect S. A. Cook, of our city, as superintendent of the work. Bids from contractors all over the State were among those considered, but the increased facilities in reach of our contractors enabled them to walk off with the cake. The amount of the contract just about equals the appropriation. The building will be finished and ready for occupancy about January fist. This means twenty-five thousand dollars to be immediately disbursed among the laborers of Cowley, which, in addition to the numerous other extensive improvements to at once begin, will place our laborers and people generally at high tide. The reliability of Messrs. Ashton and Conklin is widely established, and the rapid and first-class construction of the asylum is assured. The letting of the contract to these gentlemen is a meritorious feather in Cowley's cap, in addition to the asylum itself. Foreign contractors would have spent much of the appropriation out of this county, and likely run in much foreign labor. From the Topeka Capital we get the bids as follows.

P. Martmean & Co.: $20,700; E. W. D. Drought, $24,500; John Q. Ashton, $19,600; E. P. Dexter, $23,075; Henry Bennett, $20,984; James Cuthbert, $21,654.

J. E. Conklin furnishes all the stone and brick while Ashton has the general contract, including all but furnishing and steam and gas piping, which will consume the remainder of the $25,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

This has been a big day all over the Nation--big in demonstrations of respect for the hero of war and peace, General Grant, over whose body the last sad rites of the dead were solemnized today, in New York, while in every city and hamlet memorial addresses and ceremonies eulogized his life. In Winfield the preparations, under the G. A. R. and W. R. C., were complete. At two o'clock the Post and Corps and Co. C, K. N. G., formed in line and marched to the Baptist Church, where seats had been reserved for them. The procession was led by the Courier Cornet Band, with low, sweet music, while the Juvenile and Union Cornet Bands were at suitable places in the march. Nearly all the business houses closed from two to four o'clock and the church was immensely thronged. The decoration, through the taste and energy of the ladies of the Relief Corps, was uniquely appropriate and beautiful, and the music, addresses, etc., grand. We press too early for a full report today, but Monday will issue a Grant edition, containing addresses and all.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Grant Memorial decorations over the city Saturday are rather profuse and attractive, but among the most unique and popular, was that in Sam Kleeman's dry goods store windows. In one window was a picture of the dying hero, surrounded by family and friends, the "sword and peace" to the left and the cathedral to the right. The other window contained a stack of arms, the red, white, and blue, and a cartoon, "Let us have peace," with the north and south clasping hands over the body of Grant, sanctioned by the Goddess of Liberty, with Mars and Clio, war and peace, sitting at either side. The backgrounds and trimmings were lovely and exhibited the superior taste and energy of P. S. Kleeman and M. B. Tanner.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

An expectant party of four of our best young men, composed of Aus. F. Hopkins, Addison Brown, Claude Rinker, and Gene Welch, lit out Thursday for a three weeks' vacation in the wilds of the western counties. Claude's team and lumber wagon were the means of transportation, accompanied by a complete camping outfit and enough guns and ammunition to kill the whole Cheyenne tribe--or a cotton tail rabbit. The boys are innocent and credulous and we don't blame them for going as a kind of perambulating armory. They will certainly have the grand time they expect, and will return weighing four hundred pounds apiece, more or less.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

About two hundred Wichita people, filling four coaches, passed through on a special S. F. train Thursday morning to Arkansas City. The excursion was gotten up for a ride on the "Kansas Millers," which will make short trips up and down the river. The A. C. folks had made big preparations to entertain their visitors in various ways. The big attraction was a second contest between the Wichita base ball club and the Terminus Borders, now claiming themselves the crack nines of the southwest. The purse was $100. Fifteen or twenty of our people accompanied the excursion from here.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Evening picnic parties are now popular, Riverside Park being the scene of one or two almost every evening. Nothing could be pleasanter than to take hammocks, ladies, baskets, and a determination for a good time and spend the evening under those branching elms. The boating course is good, but the boats bad and the approach worse. Good boats, with a little special preparation at the wharf, would insure lucrative patronage to anyone making these conveniences.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Winfield excursionist had a rough experience on the river last week, when they stepped aboard the "Kansas Millers" to enjoy the romance of a moonlight ride. There were too many in the party, some of the excursionists had large avoirdupois, and the boat resented the invasion by getting hard aground. The COURIER "fat man" was on board, and the lean editor, left in the office, irreverently poked fun at his distressed brother. Traveler.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Ponca agency is going through a mild revolution. A new agent has been appointed to succeed Dr. Scott, whose family left a month ago. Dr. Quimby, the post surgeon, has been relieved, the Poncas having no fund to pay a doctor; the families of M. French and Kendall F. Smith have come to live in town, and the other employees have their grip sacks packed in readiness to flit. Traveler.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The pretty school ma'ams, after a months' sunshine, have forsaken the city, and the hearts of our young men have all shriveled up. Nothing so captivates the palpitating motor of a young man as a rosy-cheeked, vivacious country school ma'am. She crushes every time, and she know it. They are the bulwark of the Republic, and of course their influence is always felt.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Capt. J. B. Nipp, our popular and efficient County Treasurer, took a trip over the rail on Monday to the Canal City, and during his brief stay was welcomed by hundreds of friends. He announces himself in another column as willing to handle the funds of the county during another term of office. Traveler.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Watermelons are now coming in from everywhere. The boys are seen carrying them home in every direction. We are quite sure that we will soon be able to report a few cases of bilious colic.. A little watermelon is good for the system, but too much makes a conglomerated duck pond of the stomach, and if stirred up, will get sour.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Some mischievous fellow transformed the Wells Fargo sign Thursday night. It adorned the awning fronting Dr. Wells' office. Next morning a canvas covered all the original sign but Wells, finished out to read "Wells' office, Medial and Surgical Institute." Mr. Taylor was mad and yanked it off with alacrity.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

An exchange measures it correctly when it says: "A man who never told a lie, a woman whose tongue never got the better of her judgment, and a man who could publish a newspaper to suit everybody, are the three white society elephants which would be the leading cards in a circus of the world.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Mr. T. L. Lingle, of Gosport, Indiana, visited Winfield a short time ago, and thus chronicles his impressions, in the Owen County, Indiana, Democrat. "We arrived at the enterprising city of Winfield a little past noon. We found our friend, Gabriel Robinson, formerly of Paragon, Indiana, who kindly showed us through the city and cheerfully furnished us all the information desired, besides agreeably entertaining us otherwise. Winfield, with a population of more than 6,000, is the county seat of Cowley County, and located on the Walnut river, which affords excellent water power for the manufacturing and commercial industries located there. It has two lines of railroad, the S. K. and A., T. & S. F., thus affording excellent shipping facilities. Has a large reservoir of water just east of the city, brick and tile works, tannery, two breweries, two planing mills, wagon and carriage shops, a foundry, machine shops, fine opera house, a skating rink, fine flouring mills, one having made the flour exhibited at the World's Fair that took the premium as the best, and other industries too numerous to mention. Will probably have a street railway in operation some time during September. The site is selected on a beautiful mound over-looking the city from the east, where the Methodist college is to be located. Also an Imbecile school is to be located at Winfield. Winfield has excellent church and educational privileges, three weekly papers, one daily, gas and telephone line. The city has about 150 miles of good stone sidewalk, and most of the streets are well shaded, thus giving the city a fine appearance. The business blocks for the most part are composed of brick and magnesia limestone, which is taken from the extensive quarries adjacent to the city. When first taken from the quarry, the magnesia limestone can be planed or sawed into almost any shape; but upon being exposed, it becomes hardened, so that the structures made with the limestone are substantial. The city has numerous fine residences, surrounded with beautiful shaded lawns. Trees thrive well in that locality and it is a grand fruit country. Plenty of fruit this season. Peaches in abundance, many trees having to be supported. Vegetable growth is luxuriant. We were agreeably surprised at finding such a fine and prosperous city so far out in the state, and we judge Winfield to be one of the handsomest cities that we have seen. Also the morals of the city are said to be excellent."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Winfield men have been largely instrumental in building up the "wild west." About half the western county towns have had some of our enterprising citizens connected with their founding. Their absence from here is only temporary, of course. The new world conquered, they always return. Speaking of the Protection, Comanche County, Town Company, the Echo says of Winfield men: "Prof. E. P. Hickok is president of the company and looks well to the interest and general welfare of the town. He takes special pride in and lends his influence to establish a progressive and moral community. He has had experience with newly settled counties in Kansas and well knows the true worth of a new country. The Prof. resides on his claim and rides back and forth night and morning on his thorough-bred horse. A. P. Johnson is vice-president. His residence at present is at Winfield, where he is engaged in the practice of law. It is to be hoped that he will see fit to reside here in the near future. Come out, Johnson, and Protection will boost you for Prosecuting Attorney after you prove up a claim and become one of our citizens. W. P. Gibson is treasurer and in his hands the cash of any enterprise would be safe, being a man of superior honor and financially responsible. Chas. W. Wright with the other officers compose the board of directors. Mr. Wright has filled responsible positions, is well educated, and has lots of good judgment to back it. When he decides a question, it is pretty apt to be a 'right' decision."

Charley Wright will be recognized as the son of Dr. W. T. Wright, of this city, while Mr. Gibson is a Queen City denizen and owns property here.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The faber of Charley McIntire, the religious and funny man of the A. C. Democrat, emits some sparkling things occasionally. The following fits Charley as a competitor with Bill Nye, Alex Sweet, and other "phunnyistic" fellows.

"One more week and the Democrat will be six years old, and still we live. When we launched out into journalism, it was not done with a view of amassing a colossal fortune, for having been engaged in sticking type for ten years previous we had saved a pile, most of which we had invested in real estate in the shape of one town lot near the canal, which was sold for taxes. But with a good supply of cheek and an abundance of stick-to-a-tive-ness, we have managed to pull through and at the end of the sixth volume, we are still in possession of a wife, three babies, and a print shop, all our own, unencumbered by mortgage or debt. Although we have managed to keep our head out of water, we have not handled more of the dollars of our dads than could be taken out of our port by the Kansas Millers as one cargo; still we are not discouraged and expect to keep the Democrat on its pins until 'death doth us part.' But I can say without the least equivocation, mental reservation, or self-evasion whatsoever, that there is no big money in the newspaper business, and have decided after our six years experience that the best way for the average country editor to make his paper a success financially is to get his life insured and then die. The widow, with the insurance money, could 'jine hands' with the office foreman or devil and make newspaper business lively for a time. We think of trying this plan, and commend it to the boys generally."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Harper's poor old bastille must feel terribly humiliated from such cruel thrusts as this, from the Harper Daily Graphic: "Well, we do declare! How could a well regulated bicycle thief possibly get out of our all hand sewed and cut bias double-back action cooler down in the weed patch among the bugs, old plows, and harrows? But he is gone--'he is, by gosh!' The supposition is that he leaned a little hard against the front door and fell out backwards into the back yard, and then skipped out, hard heartedly leaving the cooler to lonesomely spend the balance of the night alone. The city should hide that calaboose somewhere until it becomes old enough to sell to the dudes of the next century for a relic, or else sell it for a corn crib, and then buy a 12 x 10 wall tent to confine the prisoners in. The sun would roast all sins out of the prisoners, and they would soon be too weak to escape, or they would not wish to, soon becoming infatuated with the summer resort on the inside, and they would really be ashamed to escape from such a prison."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Very little change is noticed in Ezra Meech's condition since he was brought in from Dr. Emerson's ranch last Saturday. His injury is much worse than expected when he first returned to consciousness, and his friends greatly fear the injury to his mind will be permanent. His left side is paralyzed--he only being able to move his arm a little. While he recognizes everyone, his mind won't stay for a moment on one subject. The Doctor, however, sees some change for the better. In the pleasant home of Dr. and Mrs. Emerson, with his sister, Miss Jessie, and kind friends at his side, he receives every attention. The accident broke not a bone--scarcely left an outward scar. The jar did it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The base ball game at Arkansas City Wednesday between our Exterminators, composed of Frank Hathaway, G. D. Byerly, Tom J. Eaton, George Byington, Arthur Bangs, James Vance, John Crane, Cap Whiting, and James McLain, and the Terminus' "Rough on Rats," was a daisy game, for good feeling and genuine exercise, with some very good playing. The Rough on Rats were made up of Arkansas City businessmen, who went in for the fun of the thing: and got it. Our fellows put it to them with a score of 33 to 17. The Rats entertained the Exterminators in royal style, and all pronounce the occasion tip top. The Rats will return the game in a short time. Our Eli's are getting a daisy "rep."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Wichita's whiskey "joints" have all been choked off. Says the Beacon: "The joints have all closed. The little places where a boiled ham and a sandwich on a counter in a front room were the sign of a bar in the back room have quit."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Wichita Beacon seems incredulous: "The Winfield COURIER claims to have seen a hen's egg that was eight by nine inches in size, and further claims that it was laid on its table. This statement is not to be doubted, for there are persons here who are confident they heard the old hen that laid that egg cackle after the deed was done. The hen is said by the COURIER to be a "Cochin" hen, which is, no doubt, a correct classification of the species. But don't try to coach us any more, Mr. COURIER, if you have a Coaching hen."

We hardly expected a Wichita man to believe any such thing. They are not accustomed to such prolific prolificness. Such productions have long since ceased to be wonders in Cowley.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

An exchange says that a pinch of salt put in a cat's saucer of milk and its meat two or three times a week will prevent it from having fits. So will a load of Buck shot, but you must put them all in the cat.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Again has the water of the Walnut closed over its victims. The scene, too, is but a few miles below the fearful Dawson ford, where six souls went down only a few weeks ago. Wednesday Will and Dave Fruits, young men twenty and twenty-six years old, residing near Seeley, crossed the Walnut and came to Winfield for two loads of lumber for their uncle, Ben Friar, who lives on the west bank of the Walnut, at Higgins' ford, east of Seeley. They got their lumber, and when reaching the ford, at about 7 in the evening, found the river had raised two feet during the day and was past fording. So they put their teams up at a farm house near the ford, and asked the farmer for his boat to cross over home on, and said they would come back in the morning when the river would likely be down, and get their teams and loads. The boat was half a mile down the river and the boys started to get it. That was the last seen of them. Their failing to turn up instituted a search. The boat can't be found. Signs on the bank indicate that the boys got the boat. The water there is very swift and rather deep and there seems no doubt that it capsized and the occupants were drowned. It was a little red boat ten feet long and will likely be caught floating down the river. One of the boys could swim a very little and the other not at all. Will Bruington and Frank Senseney, who came down Friday for coffins, said fully a hundred men were searching for the bodies. The young men were both industrious and of good standing and such a fate is greatly deplored.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

T. Marriott was over from Burden last Wednesday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Clarence and Joe Witt were up from A. C. Thursday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. P. McCommon were over Friday from Burden.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

R. S. Phillips and J. R. Bowdish were over from Oxford Thursday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

N. T. Snyder and H. J. Donnelly were up from A. C. Wednesday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Rev. J. H. Reider, Rev. Geo. Campbell, and Prof. J. A. Wood went out to Floral Thursday to attend a Sunday School Institute.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Mr. and Mrs. Gene Wilber came from Rock last night for a visit with George L. Gale and wife. Dr. H. F. Harnady was also down Saturday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The case of William Blizard [?] against Frank L. Thompson, suit to recover $40 for labor, appealed from Justice Bone, Silverdale, was filed Thursday with District Clerk Pate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Misses Fannie Stretch and Leota Gary went over Saturday evening to visit the Misses Woods, near Burden. Miss Fannie will remain a week. Miss Gary returned Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Fred Collins, accompanied by John and T. J. Bassett, drove over from Burden Thursday afternoon to meet Fred's old friend, John Eades of Wichita, whom they took back with them for a visit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

E. C. Seward and D. Rodocker talk of putting up two blocks on the corner of 7^th Avenue and Main Street. Rodocker will erect a fine art gallery, eighty feet long, with all accessories for photography.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Miss Anna Hunt left Thursday for several months' visit with her aunt, at Peabody, Marion County. Miss Anna will be greatly missed in our social circle, but will no doubt have a very enjoyable vacation.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Newt Fowler is in from Fowler City, Meade County. He says the development of that section is wonderful. It's a wrestle for the county seat between Fowler City and Meade Center, the latter having the census taker.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

L. D. Dobbs, the G. A. R. cancer and dead beat, was here Thursday, going to Douglass to play the Spy of Atlanta. He sticks like a leach. It is queer that any of the G. A. R. Posts will have anything to do with him. Most of them won't.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Judge and Mrs. E. S. Torrance got in from Manitou, Colorado, Saturday, called back by the illness of one of their children. The anticipated several weeks mere vacation, but had a glorious time while they were away.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

A man called at this office Friday with an item. Said he, "Did you hear the report on the street? It's h ." When he picked himself up from the bottom of the steps, he resolved to play no more such jokes on a newspaper man.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Mr. Frank Williams, of the Occidental Hotel, left Wednesday for a few weeks' trip in Dakota. Judging from the amount of shells he loaded and the shooting apparatus he took along, he expects to enjoy some fine shooting. Wichita Beacon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Dan Miller was before Judge Turner August 5^th, charged with using unbecoming language in "cussing" Hull Bixby. Dan fought long and strenuously, ably abetted by O. M. Seward; but O'Hare and Bixby got thee, $19.25 worth. It was a little family difficulty.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Constable Tom Harrod went down to Cedar township Thursday to bring up Dalby, charged with trying to brain Jacobs with an ax. His arrest was made in the country justice's court, but will be transferred to Winfield, where facilities for such a case are wider.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Again one of the old COURIER boys comes to the front. Frank W. Frye, for several years an attache of THE COURIER, has been appointed postmaster of Parsons. Frank is one of the most genial, whole-souled, and trustworthy young men in the State and every way worthy of this prominence. We congratulate him heartily.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The building committee of the School Board awarded the contract of the excavation for the Central school building addition to Jim Connor, and work was begun Thursday. By this means, everything will be ready for the contractor who gets the building to begin the stone work on Monday, August 17^th, as soon as his contract and bond are signed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Mrs. Page, administratrix of the estate of Wm. S. Page, made her first annual settlement with the Probate Court Friday. George Williams, administrator, filed inventory of personal property, in estate of Wm. Kaats, deceased. Mrs. Elliott, as guardian of her minor children, filed a petition for an order authorizing her to mortgage real estate belonging to said minors.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Sheriff McIntire came in from Harper Wednesday--with Willie Doane's bicycle, but without Brown, who broke out of Harper's corn-crib jail--a little wooden thing that wouldn't hold a mouse--and skipped. He will likely round up in Mead County, where his father and brother live. Sheriff McIntire has got a trap on the scent and will soon bring Brown in.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Elk City Star man has got 'em again. Hear him. "A man's opinion embodying contumacious diacoustics and the diagraphical effect of thunder, lightning, and floods, was seen crossing the street, the individual staying with it. But few tackled the opinion or the man, however." As near as we can figure out, he means to convey the idea that "the man" was oratorically drunk.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Drs. W. T. Wright and C. E. Pugh returned Friday from a trip to Cincinnati to consult eminent specialists regarding a peculiar throat abscess that is making Dr. Wright's days a burden. He got but little relief, and seems to anticipate very serious results. The abscess has broken and now gives him some relief. During their absence they spent two days among Dr. Pugh's Kentucky friends.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Revs. J. H. Reider and George Campbell and Profs. J. H. Wood and A. H. Limerick attended the Richland Sunday School Convention at Floral Thursday. The attendance was large, and the interest warm. It was undenominational, and a mass convention of all the Sunday schools of that township. These institutes are held annually by Richland, a fact worthy of emulation by other townships of Cowley.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

While Asp's court was busily examining Steinberger's statements Friday, one was found that all but Asp declared to be "H. E. Asp, Winfield, one pint gin, for rheumatism." This abashed Henry, but it looked mighty plain. When Steinberger got on the stand, however, he took the joke off Henry's shoulder by swearing that the name was "H. E. Sop." The "S" very much resembled an "A," as did the "o" an "s."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

"It is not impossible that the stealing of bicycles will soon become a more common crime than horse-stealing," remarks the Wichita Beacon. "One has lately been stolen in this city, and in Winfield the COURIER reports that a fine new bicycle was taken from a barn and ridden off. In the latter case it is supposed the young thief is known. He has been tracked west, and the sheriff is after him, but as the thief is a good rider, he is likely to escape unless the electric wires can head him off. A good bicycle is worth from $60 to $140, and cost as much as the average horse, and though not so much in demand, or so salable, it has the advantage of being easily concealed. Owners of bicycles should see that their vehicles are safely secured when not in use.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Marshal McFadden took in a couple of young tramps one night recently. They were evidently in the first stages of trampdom and didn't look so very bad. An inventory, by the marshal, of their worldly goods showed two "guns," a twelve dollar watch and chain, and six dollars in lucre. This pile they laid at the shrine of Judge Turner as recompense for the concealed weapon charge. The Judge took the "guns" and watch, paid the marshal and city attorney their cash fees, and the tramps departed, to return in a few minutes with, "Say, mister, there is an engraved dollar on that watch chain that my sister gave me. Can't I have it!" The Judge looked at it and answered, "Yes," and the tramps departed happy. This is the straight of the sympathetic tale a man with more mouth than brains tells on the streets, making out a false charge of concealed weapons and that our officials took everything on top of green earth the poor tramps had, even refusing to return a gold dollar watch charm given the tramp by his dying mother. Our officials carry out the law, but in doing so exhibit no brutish greed or cruelty.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

A green looking young fellow, apparently from the rural districts, went into Bob Hudson's jewelry store this morning and asked to look at some ladies' rings. Bob, always ready for a sale, yanked out the ring case and began to expatiate on the merits of different rings. The young fellow was evidently suffering from Cupid's darts and was hunting a token: in fact, he was bold enough to assert that he wanted a ring for his damsel. He looked at this and that one and finally found one to suit; but said he didn't have the lucre just then and for Bob to lay it away to await his call. Bob said, "all right," and the fellow started off, followed by numerous interrogations, which brought out the fact that his name was Mason and he lived at Akron. He was nineteen years old. Bob was not oblivious to the fine engraved gold ring the fellow had slipped on his little finger, doubled said finger under, and was endeavoring to get away. Bob edged along toward the ring boy until the latter got out, when Bob, being alone, turned the key on his store door, and at McGuire's corner, gripped the young man's shoulder and looking him square in the optics said, "Hame me that ring you stole, and do it quick." The young man's face caught fire and he squirmed like an eel, saying he had the ring for three months; but when shown Bob's trade mark caved and tearfully confessed all. Bob gave him a lecture and let him off. Returning past Hudson Brothers' store, Bob said, "There goes a fellow that just tried to steal this ring from me." Johnnie seemed to have a flea in his ear, and rushing into Hudson Brothers' ring case, exclaimed, "By jove, that same fellow was looking at our rings ten minutes ago and one is gone." Seeing the young man across the street, George Hudson called him, drawing a confession, but not the ring--it had been given to a fair damsel, the youth said. The marshal was notified and the young man now languishes in the bastille. He says he stole both rings for his loved, one, and no doubt he did--he had a far-away, clear gone look that was melting. The first ring was worth eight dollars and the last one five. The youth will plead guilty and get a term in jail. He swears it is his first thievery.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Thursday Mrs. George Bethel arrived here from near Cherryvale, and hunting up Marshal McFadden, put him on the track of her run away husband. She was accompanied by one of her five children, a daughter of fourteen. She is a good looking lady of forty-five and her daughter quite winsome. About a year ago her husband suddenly decamped, leaving her to care for the family the best she could. They had previously got along all right and she couldn't tell what was up. It hadn't occurred to her that a woman was the cause until she received word from Winfield that he was keeping house here with a woman he represented as his wife. This exasperated her and she determined to run him down, and thus her arrival. Our marshal had little trouble in ferreting out the unlicensed couple, and Thursday evening, leaving the mother and daughter a block away, bombarded the house, near the Santa Fe elevator, and without any trouble proceeded to march Bethel and wife number two to the portals of the bastille. Stopping where the mother and daughter were in ambush, the Marshal introduced Bethel to his deserted companion, and then he realized the true animus of the box he was in. The meeting was as chilly as an iceberg. Scarcely a word was said and soon the iron door of the jail shut the criminal couple in. Mrs. Bethel instituted suit this morning in the District Court and Frank W. Finch was appointed receiver, taking charge of Bethel's three horses, $140 in the bank, and other property he had. The unlawful mistress was one Lotta Bennett, thirty-five years old and said to be a professional soiled dove. Mrs. Bethel is grit from the word go and determined to put her adulterous husband and his "soiled" female through to the bitter end. Bethel is about fifty-five years old and several of his children, by his deserted wife, are married and have families. He had been here about three weeks. The affair doesn't seem to "break him up" to any alarming degree, but is proving a severe test to his outraged wife.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Col. Sam Crocker turns away from his galling thoughts of martyrdom in Cowley's bastille to tilt his faber in the Oklahoma War Chief, thusly. "While it is humiliating to be incarcerated within the walls of an American prison for exercising the rights of free speech and free press--something to be abhorred, detested, and despised by any and every person with the least spark of pride and good breeding, who may have the sense of shame left as a heritage of manly or womanly birth; yet, for all this, there is one thing connected with our confinement and treatment that we feel thankful to acknowledge; and that is, no manlier humans or courteous set of officials, from the deputy U. S. marshals down to the sheriff and jailor ever contributed more to the needed comfort of an innocently incarcerated prisoner than Deputy United States Marshals Reed and O. S. Rarick, Sheriff McIntire, and Frank W. Finch, jailor. It always afford us pleasure to speak of governmental officials as we find them, and we would most certainly do these gentlemanly officials a great injustice to speak of them in any other light."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

A gentleman came in from Belle Plaine Thursday and says the D., M. & A. contractors are pushing things with a vim. He counted fifty-eight teams in one grading corps, while several hundred men were throwing dirt between Belle Plaine and the Arkansas river. All delaying preliminaries are ended and there will now be no let up until the "kears" are whistling along the entire contracted line, three hundred and twenty-five miles, from Baxter Springs, on the east line of the State, to Larned, Pawnee County. This is business and what all have been anxious to see for these many months. The K. C. & S. W. are also getting down on their muscle in good shape. Trains are running into Atlanta, the graders are tearing the sod this side of Floral, and the survey through Winfield will be determined in a few days. With outstretched, affectionate arms we stand ready to embrace the first "toot" of the K. C. & S. W., and D., M. & A. They mean prosperity unceasing and unequaled.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

County Attorney Asp, Judge Gans, and Sheriff McIntire, with Miss Eva Dodds as stenographic reporter, held a County Attorney's Court of investigation at Arkansas City Friday, as provided by the late liquor law. All the druggists, beer, and whiskey guzzlers, "it don't prohibit" growlers, and everybody from whom anything could likely be pumped, were up before a fire of interrogations, continued up to twelve o'clock last night. The greatest irregularity was found against Grimes & Son, with Steinberger following up closely. The Terminus was considerably stirred over the examination, which was rigid and fruitful. Whether or not some of A. C.'s druggists will be made to perspire under the gills, will appear later, when the vice gets ready to close. In the meantime, we think several druggists will come down in the number of statements and amount of ardent dispensed. Asp and Gans are bound to keep the druggists status quo, or chop off their heads.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

A South Winfield citizen gives us some pointers on a mighty mean man. This individual moved into the house of an old widow lady, in the south end of town, last spring, and paid one month's rent in advance. He has been there since, but has put up no more lucre. The other day he moved out, and the pleadings of the old lady, whose means are very scanty, to give her either her due or collateral, were ignored. He swore he would burn his furniture in the street before he would sell it to pay his debts, and raised the neighborhood with oaths. His family seem humiliated and we withhold his name on this account. The neighbors should take this animal in hand and choke him into recompense. Nothing is mean enough for a man who will beat a poor widow, and if amends are not made, we'll use names next time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Al. Roberts has moved his family up from Winfield, and will now give the meat market his personal attention. Al. Is a musician, as well as his brother, Chas., and will likely become a member of our Sentinel band.

M. S. Williams was arrested and taken to Winfield last week by Capt. H. H. Siverd on a complaint lodged against him by a girl who has been raised in his family. She claimed that he had misused her. Mr. Williams was released on his own recognizance and the trial set for August 18^th. The case will likely be dismissed for lack of cause and evidence.

Chas. A. Roberts, of Winfield, a brother of Al. Roberts, our new butcher, is here this week helping Al. to get settled. Chas. is a cornetist and music teacher by profession, and his performance on the cornet is highly applauded by those who hear him. He may possibly locate here. If he does, the band boys may consider themselves fortunate in having among them such an excellent musician and teacher.

County Attorney Henry E. Asp passed up the road Tuesday evening, and stated to a Sentinel reporter, who questioned him concerning the D., M. & A. road, that he had not heard a whisper but that the road would pass through Udall; that he felt confident that we would get the road. That great corporations move very slowly, and could not be expected to build a road in a day, especially when they had two years in which to do it.

The D., M. & A. surveying corps are busy this week in Fairview township making a new survey. The new line will be a mile or two north of their previous survey. This change is made in order to comply with the stipulations concerning the location of a depot in that township. This move on the part of the company makes it still more favorable for Udall, and should convince unbelievers that thee is something in this D., M. & A. enterprise for our growing city.

The game of ball between the Udall Dudes and the Winfield club came off last Friday afternoon as advertised. The boys were in good shape to play and everything passed off pleasantly until a foul ball struck Tom Norton, the catcher, square in the eye. This accident to one of their best players rattled the Dudes badly, and when two more of their players got hurt, one by a broken finger and the other by catching the ball in the leg, they were so broken up that the Winfield nine, after four innings, won the game easily by eighteen tallies. A large crowd witnessed the game, and had it not been for these accidents, the Winfield boys would have found a nine worthy of their mettle. One of the visiting club caught a ball on his cheek, which made a very painful bruise.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The last year has been an extremely hard one on every branch of business, but especially so on the laboring man: the man dependent upon his daily earnings, "by the sweat of his brow," for his daily bread. And these tough times have not been confined to Winfield, but extended over the entire country. But the gladsome sunshine of prosperity begins to cast its rays over Winfield and Cowley County. The avenue for the laboring man is gradually opening and men with a desire to perspire can do so at good wages, and the demand has just got on its legs. With the K. C. & S. W. and D., M. & A. railroads booming this way, each employing now two or three hundred men; twenty-five thousand dollars soon to go into labor and material on the Imbecile Asylum and as much more on the College, with both residence and business buildings looming up all over our city and county, the prospect is flattering. A month more will show a building impetus in Winfield astonishing to all. The new school building, the Winfield National extension, the fine Farmers Bank and J. P. Short blocks, and other notable improvements are now progressing, while a drive around the city exhibits residence buildings and improvements on every hand. And our contractors are busily figuring on numerous prospective improvements--all extensive and valuable--in harmony with the general progressive air of the Queen City. The growing crops are now almost assured, and will be as prolific as any year of Cowley's history, far better than earlier anticipated. This fall will show an immigration, material prosperity, and general advance in Winfield and Cowley unexcelled by any period of their past history. The air is now laden with the "big time a comin'"--you can see it in the move of every inhabitant. The fruits of our railroad, asylum, college, and other triumphs are budding and will soon be in full bloom, with a flower for all with "git up and git" enough to pluck it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Professor Merriman gave an invitation to the patrons of his class in vocal music and to all interested in voice culture to be present at the closing exercises of his first term of twelve lessons at the Christian church Friday. There were a goodly number present and all seemed deeply interested, and expressed themselves well pleased with the advancement of the Professor's pupils. His classes are composed of near forty pupils: primary, intermediate, and adults. Thos in the primary and intermediate classes are from six to ten years old and in this one term have learned to read music nicely and sing beautifully. In the adult class many of them have considerable knowledge of music and express themselves well pleased with his manner and method of teaching. We would be glad to have Professor Merriman return to Winfield and believe that with perseverance he will succeed. We were somewhat surprised and sorry to see so few boys in the classes. If Shakespeare's sentiments be true, the boys need it. The man that has not music in his heart and is not charmed by concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treason, stratagem, and spoils. Let no such man be trusted. The scarcity of boys as well as the scarcity of numbers in the classes showed the necessity of having vocal music taught in our schools, and if the Professor returns, we hope the board will reconsider the matter and conclude to introduce this branch. It is not a good policy to sacrifice the present, where such a refinement and moral benefit is to be attained.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

As the reporter was passing along 9^th Avenue Thursday evening meditating upon diverse things; his thoughts were cut short by someone exclaiming, "Old man, a fellow can't trade horses and be a christian." This struck us forcibly, coming from an old horse trader, and in connection with this we wondered if a newspaper man could be a christian. We will admit we once heard of an editor being classed under this head for about three months, but it was too much for him, and when a spring poet sent in an effusion, he broke over and all the force of the preachers in town could not reach him. As a rule, a christian newspaper man runs a weakly paper. Newspaper bills, doctor bills, and twenty-year old due bills come under the same classification in the minds of the average man. This should not be. A newspaper man should be a christian, and as good a one as a doctor. This can't be done by Sunday schools or picnics, but by the public lending a helping hand. Don't send up spring poetry and criticize our paper for being dreadful dull; can you draw blood from a turnip? Can you get news when there is none? Some days are dull with newspaper men just the same as with trade. Don't kick my friend. If you do, kick yourself.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The drug store of Mowry & Sollitt, at Arkansas City, was entered about 1 o'clock, Thursday night, and the safe blown open. The night watch saw the flash, though some chemicals had exploded, and went to Mowry's house, got him, and together they entered the store just in time to scare the burglars off without the safe booty. They only got $10 out of the till. Not caught.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

One of our reliable citizens purchased a pound of butter uptown the other day and took it home and that night a tramp reached into the pantry window and tried to steal it; but it was so strong, it drew him in and whistled for the dog. The tramp vows that he will never tackle any more store butter.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

"There is, perhaps, some satisfaction in the certainty," says the Newton Republican, "that when the law don't do up a hard citizen, the lawyers usually scalp him for all he is worth."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Repeat of announcements with possibly one or two new ones...J. B. Nipp for County Treasurer; J. S. Hunt for County Clerk; T. H. Soward for Register of Deeds; J. G. Shreves, County Clerk; Geo. H. McIntire for Sheriff; S. J. Smock for County Clerk.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Since 1862 John Roach has received from the government over $10,000,000, besides numberless ships and valuable machinery sold to him at old junk rates. Among all the vessels built by Roach for the government, not one of them have been available for purposes of modern warfare, and in fact, have hardly been seaworthy. Telegram.

We would suggest to our c. c. that it is not necessary to pick up and circulate all the lies invented to help Whitney out, which it finds in the papers whose managers are licking boots to get the recognition of this administration for some office. The editor of our e. c. has got his office and now should tell only the truth in this case, viz:

Congress passed an act providing for the construction of three steel cruisers and also another vessel of greater speed. In pursuance of said act, Secretary of the Navy, Chandler, appointed an advisory board of the men of the United States reputed to be best acquainted with naval affairs and ship building, to prepare models, plans, and specifications for the ships and superintend their construction. This board prepared these and the letting of the contract to build the vessels was advertised in the regular way with the right reserved to reject any or all bids, the ships to be built according to the models, plans, and specifications on file.

John Roach was the lowest bidder on all the vessels and the contracts were awarded to him.

The first of the four ships completed was the "vessel of greater speed," named the Dolphin. Within the contract, and according to custom in such cases, the ship was allowed, and required, to make three several trial trips before acceptance or rejection. This is for the purpose of thoroughly examining and testing the ship. It is expected that on the first trial, some defects will be discovered, and that on the second, they may not be wholly remedied. The third trial ought in reason be sufficient to test any machinery. In this case, as is common, the first trial showed defects; on the second, there was nothing wrong beyond a little heating of journals, and on the third test there was nothing wrong. The advisory board, having watched the building of the ship as it progressed, knew what materials had been used in its construction, and then being present on everyone of the trial trips, they knew just what the ship was. The board was satisfied with the Dolphin, passed it on careful examination, and recommended acceptance. Secretary Whitney refused to act upon the board's advice, and he appointed a special examining board. The report of that board shows that the work was done according to the plans and specifications, but the examiners say the ship is "structurally weak," and that in their opinion, it has not power enough to make the desired speed on a rough sea. There is nothing in the contract about speed, but it was intended by the department, by Congress, and by the advisory board that the ship should have a speed of fifteen knots an hour and 2,300 horsepower. On the third trial of six hours on Long Island Sound, the Dolphin made more than fifteen knots an hour, and ran so steady that a glass even full of water set on deck did not spill a drop; and when the ship was maneuvered rapidly in turning about and being thrown against a new position of the rudder, the tremor of the ship was so slight that the test glass on deck displaced so little water as to be barely measurable.

The advisory board in their criticism upon the report of the examiners say that compared with other vessels the Dolphin is exceptionally strong structurally and that it is not reasonable to accept the fact of the heating of a crank pin to which engines, and particularly new ones, are at times liable, as evidence of weakness of any character. And they also say that a vessel's speed depends on its design and that when fifteen knots of sea speed was mentioned by the board as what the Dolphin should show, it means making fifteen knots on a calm and for an ordinary day's run, and the board asserts that this is the only proper way of measuring sea speed.

Secretary Whitney having predetermined to "sit down on John Roach," and seeing that this "structural weakness" business was too thin to go down well, called off Attorney General Garland, whose offices seems to be, to do the dirty work for the administration, to help him out. Garland understood his business and promptly came forward with an "opinion" that the contract was illegal or rather was no contract, and therefore the Secretary could not recognize it by accepting the vessel. Thereupon Whitney rejected the vessel, bankrupted John Roach, and threw out of employment 2,500 workmen, depriving their families and dependents of their means of living. It was one of the most atrocious outrages ever committed by a government, done evidently for political spite and political capital. We shall see how much capita is made by it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

E. ENANOVITCH, General American Manager, P. O. box 1968, New York, who sends out the advertisement of the London Sal-Muscatelle Co., is a swindler and a dead beat. Publishers should beware of the picture of the priest holding his finger up. We know of what we speak. Champion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Mary J. Bethel has filed petition in the District Court asking $1,000 alimony from Geo. W. Bethel and attaching all his personal property. She lays the grounds adultery, desertion, etc., but asks no divorce. M. G. Troup files suit against Mary C. Zall to quiet title. John Lowry, Jamison Vawter, and G. H. Buckman have each filed appeals from allowances of the County Commissioners.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The portals of the Brettun are now guarded by a watch dog of savage mean, with his paws on the key and a bloody gleam in his eye. Look out for him. Old Jack, Bret's split-nosed "bull purp," is jealous--mad with envy at his successful rival.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

[This column is edited under management of the Cowley County Teacher's Association. Fannie Stretch, Alfred W. Wing, and R. B. Moore, editorial committee.]

The order of instruction in the different subjects is fixed by the nature of each subject, and by the law of the mind in receiving knowledge.

There is therefore an established mode of procedure in teaching any branch.

Every subject is made up of parts, such that, in the order of learning them, some must precede others. Each step furnishes a necessary condition for taking the next.

The pupil must pass from a known fixed point in a subject to the following unknown. He must, also, take that phase of the subject adapted to his mental development. What is true of the parts of the subjects is true of the subjects themselves. Some necessarily precede others; first, because some furnish a necessary condition for the study of others; second, because some are adapted to an earlier stage of mental development than others.

These two facts, namely, the necessary relation of the parts of the subject and of the different subjects, and the law of the mind requiring it to receive different kinds of knowledge at different stages of development require school work to be graded or stepped.

If these steps in the branches be set forth in the order of dependence, and in the order they may be received by the mind, there will be formed a graded course of study. A line of progress (pro and gradi, to step forward.) If a school be properly organized with such a course, as a basis, it will be a graded school.

This course of study has been arranged to make our school work definite, organic, and progressive.

The aim has been to set forth the steps so that each teacher will know just what to do. Each part of the work will then fit in as an organic part of the whole.

To impress the fact that subjects and not text books are to be studied, the parts of the subjects have been stated instead of referring to the pages of the book.

This course answers for both teacher and pupil the following questions.

• What is a good common school training in orthography?
• What is a common school education in reading?
• What shall be taught in English grammar?
• What is geography as attempted in the common schools?
• What constitutes common school training in arithmetic?
• What is to be attempted and mastered in writing?
• What instruction shall be given in United States history?
• What is the purpose of teaching hygiene, physiology, and the effects of narcotics?

In addition to these it names as optional branches: United States constitution, philosophy, elements of bookkeeping, and drawing.

The Cowley County Reading Circle was organized to help on the good work of popular education, by arranging such course for home reading as would unite instruction and pleasure, cultivate a taste for the best literature, and secure regularity, breadth, and progress in reading.

In order to meet the expense of correspondence, printing, etc., a small fee of 50 cents is charged each member. This fee is the only charge for the year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The announcement of S. J. Smock as a candidate for the office of County Clerk appears in our columns today. Mr. Smock is a veteran soldier of the late war and carries his credentials in the scars by which he is decorated. His left arm was so completely shattered in an engagement as to be now almost entirely useless besides being still a source of much suffering. But his right arm is all right and he wields a fine pen and a good hand. He is an honorable, active, and pleasant gentleman, well qualified to fill the office he seeks with credit to himself and to the county.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Today appears in this paper the announcement of George H. McIntire as a candidate for a second term of the office of Sheriff of this county. George is one of the veteran officers in this State, second to none of the sheriffs in ability, energy, efficiency, and courage. He always does his duty, always get there and by the surest way. He needs no commendation from us for his grand record is well known to the people of this county who will give him a second term sure.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

MESSRS. EDITORS: As a citizen I have actively opposed the occupation of any of the streets through the residence portion of our city by either of the railroads now approaching us. But after looking over the ground carefully, I can see, and everyone who is interested will see, that there is a line of passage which could be given them with little detriment to public and private convenience, and with advantages more than commensurate with the injuries sustained. I refer to the occupation of Loomis street, from the Kansas R. R. southward to between 11^th and 12^th avenues, and then following the course of the ravine by the Walnut river. By so doing, we could secure, First--the proper filling and grading of that "valley of dry bones" and catch all of the debris of the city--between 9^th and 12^th avenues. Second--the opening of a complete drainage for the low grounds on the east and south sides of our city. There is no denying the fact, that if we would avoid the future devastation of our homes by disease and pestilence, we will soon have to inaugurate a complete system of drainage, and the expense attending it will amount to more than the appropriations already made by the city to the roads. If the railroad companies will provide and keep up a sufficient drainage outlet, the city could well afford to contribute to pay for some of the consequential damages for occupation of the street. In footing the interest of the roads, we can demand reciprocal benefits in this and other matters. I will not enlarge upon this subject; I wish only to call the attention of the City Council and citizens to this matter and to advise a candid and thorough examination of the subject before action is taken in deciding the course to be pursued.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Board of County Commissioners met Monday to complete the county tax levy for the coming year and adjust some minor matters. The levy was made as follows: General fund, ten mills; pauper fund, one-half mill; furnishing poor house, one-sixth mill; Oliver McRoberts, a youth put in the "jug" for "lickin' the stuffin" out of his playmate, was released. The Board meets again today.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Democrats in Ohio are expecting to get a large prohibition vote this fall. Some of them put it at 50,000, and they expect to draw about three-fourths of these from the Republican party. The philosophy of the thing is too deep for our comprehension. Why prohibition Republicans should vote for the Democratic party is something that it would be difficult to understand. But the average Democrat will believe anything if it is stated seriously in favor of Democracy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Sen. Hackney came in Tuesday morning from Osage Mission, where he had been defending Frankie Morris, whose arrest here two months ago charged with the poisoning of her mother in Reno County for $15,000 insurance is yet fresh in the minds of our people. It was a wonderfully peculiar case, and its trial occupied six days, an account of which can be seen in our telegraphic news, and was attended by thousands of people. The evidence was all circumstantial. She had had trouble with her mother and poison was found in the old lady's stomach. The highest card against Morris was the establishment of her hard character. She was divorced from A. A. Hurd, yet he was one of her attorneys, and the public strong in the belief that he was an accomplice in the poisoning. At the same time she had a lover and constant guardian, H. D. Loveland, who brought her here, where as it was instituted for the insurance, the company refusing its payment. The jury in her trial was out all night. At first it stood only seven for conviction, but finally came in with a verdict of murder in the first degree. Morris exhibited not a tremor through the whole trial, until after the verdict, when she wept for a half day. The verdict, if not reversed, means confinement one year in the State "pen," and then death Sunday night, after the verdict. Loveland and she were married, in the Hotel parlors, with Hurd, her divorced husband, present. Loveland had just got a divorce from a former wife, and claims that they would have married long ago, but for this hindrance. Senator Hackney filed a motion for a new trial, the hearing of which was set for the 31^st inst. If not given, he says the verdict will undoubtedly be reversed by the Supreme Court. He thinks a prejudicial jury was the cause, and that a change of venue will give a different decision. It is one of the deepest cases that has struck the State, and the legal counsel, with Hackney at the head of the defense, is making an immense fight.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The case of Joe Mason, whose theft of two rings from the Hudson Bros. we chronicled Saturday, is another forcible exhibition of what youthful infatuation will bring. The youth is the son of a respected widow residing near Akron, with whom he came to town. His sweetheart was also in town that day, a young girl several years less aged than Joe, who is nineteen. He had promised the ring as a plight of faith, but he didn't have the wherewith to get it. It could be postponed no longer, and in his desperation the youth conceived his successful plan of purloining one from the jewelry store of Hudson Bros. His first attempt was so successful, that, hunting up his Dulciana and depositing the ring on her dainty finger, stalked off for another conquest, at Bob Hudson's, but landed in the bastille, as badly scared as any youth ever was. This was Joe's first offense. Prominent men from his neighborhood plead his cause before County Attorney Asp, declaring Joe to be industrious and previously honest. The news fell like a pall over the mother, who lay in a fainting stupor in Pixley's store all afternoon. Joe made a clean breast of the whole affair to the County attorney, who, with the consent of Hudson Bros., released him, after talking to him like a Dutch Uncle. Joe's penitence was very tearful. He accompanied an officer, hunted up his girl, got the ring, and returned it to Hudson Bro's. Those few hours behind the grates, with the lesson in full, will follow him as an ever-present dictator of right. The penalty, of the two cases, would have given Joe a year in jail. His release was the proper thing. The offense, with the heartfelt penitence and his previous good character, will be condoned by his neighbors and friends; and we predict for him a bright and honorable life--one averse to female smiles and ring desires. The love fever is a dangerous malady.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Thomas Walker and May Hanchett were granted a certificate of unalloyed bliss Tuesday morning.

John D. Maurer has made final settlement as administrator of the estate of Jonas Maurer, deceased.

Some other "medicine" venders at A. C. are looking for lightning bolts. Judge Gans means to choke off every "medicine" man who gives convicting evidence of irregularity.

Chas. Holloway, who succeeded Butterfield in the drug "biz" at Arkansas City, was refused a permit and has determined to "git up and git" for a western county, where he thinks permits are easier to get.

Lightning has struck one of the druggist's of the "Medicine" City--Grimes & Son. They were burned out some time ago, but had bought a stock to again enter business at Arkansas City, expecting to go it on their old Probate Court permit to sell liquors. The investigation by County Attorney Asp and Judge Gans, the other day, revealed violations by Grimes, and Tuesday their "medicine"head was chopped off--their permit revoked.

Bob Phelps, of Burden, has been granted a druggist's permit. He was several months in obtaining it. The objections by people of Burden were many, but when ferreted out, proved to be mostly through personal spite. The objectors, when placed on the stand before the County Attorney's Court, knew nothing in fact. Every charge was thoroughly investigated by Asp and Gans, in a Court at Burden, and nothing sufficient to warrant a refusal could be gleaned.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Arkansas City's feminine population was well represented in Winfield today. Eighteen of her Woman's Relief Corps were up for a picnic with the Corps of this city. The trains were inconvenient, and they drove up. Arkansas City has had no rain, and they started with big picnic expectations. The rain here made our beautiful Riverside Park too damp to receive the party. The visitors were taken to the Brettun, and dined, as the guests of our Corps. Capt. Nipp, always perfectly at home as a "ladies' man," decoyed our modest reporter into the Brettun parlors, before this array of ladies. The Captain's encouraging whispers and the pleasant reception given, were big cards in our composure. We noted the following visitors: Mrs. J. Q. Ashton, president of Arkansas City's Corps; Mrs. S. Mansfield, senior vice-president; Mrs. E. Taylor, junior vice; Mrs. J. Cooper, secretary; Mrs. R. J. Hubbard, treasurer; Mrs. May Daniels, conductor; Mesdames S. A. Smith, H. Bluebaugh, S. H. Davis, H. M. Guthrie, A. R. Randall, E. H. Bishop, L. H. Rarick, M. S. Jones, H. R. Hopps, A. E. Maidt, and Miss Sadie Pickering. They are all ladies of good appearance, intelligence, and zeal "just such as enter into every good cause. Our corps, led by its officers, Mrs. E. P. Hickok, president; Mrs. Samuel Dalton, secretary, Mrs. W. B. Caton, and others, were busy entertaining. A meeting at the G. A. R. Hall, this afternoon, was addressed by Judge Soward, and a source of much profit and pleasure. Such visits are most acceptable. The visitors returned this evening.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Oats crop excellent.

Wheat crop very small on the average. Yield poor, quality good.

Haying has begun in earnest and the splendid grass will yield a heavy hay harvest.

Our Cedar Creek boys having formed a base ball nine some time ago, have, in the usual course of nature, challenged the Cedar Vale club. A game was played on July 4^th and again last Saturday, in which we are sorry to chronicle Cowley's boys were, to use a westernism, "left."

Mrs. Rob. Nelson has made a trip to Illinois, accompanied by Emanuel Zimmerman. We understand Mr. Zimmerman has written back from the "old camp ground" that he has not seen as good a field of corn in Illinois as Rob. Nelson has growing on his Otter township farm; and of course, it is a very ordinary field in Cowley.

Where is the D., M. & A.? THE COURIER is anxiously scanned each issue for information on this head. To know it is not coming at all is preferable to present uncertainty. Ground was to be broken at Belle Plaine July 4^th. Again, we were told July 24^th was the day fixed for beginning work. Our people are much discouraged and this dissatisfaction will have great effect on the Chautauqua County bond election August 24^th. Give us news 'ere we perish. We know THE COURIER can relieve us if it can be done.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Our blacksmith shop needs a striker on the anvil now. A good smith could do a profitable business here.

Lewis Brown yesterday purchased a new Deering mower and sulky-rake. They are a superior kind of mower.

Our Scrubs are arraying themselves in nobby uniforms preparatory to giving the Cyclones a few pointers in base ball.

The oat crop on the Holtby farm, of seventeen acres, averaged sixty bushels per acre. A few acres of Texas red variety yielded eighty bushels per acre.

Mr. L. D. Hon purchased a challenge windmill of the agent, Zack Whitson, a couple of days ago. These mills are rapidly becoming popular with our farmers.

The Grange Company have removed their stock of goods into their cosy and capacious new store building. If their goods do not appear to advantage now, and sell readily, it will be no fault of their new quarters.

Mr. Lindsey Williams disposed of his farm a few days ago to his neighbor, Zack Whitson, for three thousand dollars. L. Williams has purchased another farm north of Winfield and will still remain a citizen of the county.

The festival given at the Victor schoolhouse last Friday evening was largely attended. A hundred gallons of ice cream and as much lemonade failed to quench the thirst and lower the temperature of the perspiring crowd. The proceeds were for the benefit of the Sabbath school.

Two of our farmers are now hauling their surplus of old corn to town and selling it for thirty-five or forty cents. A short time ago they refused forty-five cents at the crib. There is nothing like being independent, you know, and practice "saving at the spigot and losing at the bung hole" policy.

It is to be hoped that "Neppie," of the Telegram, will remove that stigma on his ancestral record so vehemently vociferated by W. P. Hackney. Come, Nep, don't quail before the irate and "notorious Bill," and hide behind "Rural," but stand up and explain to a sympathizing public the "true inwardness" of the matter. "Strike until the last armed foe expires."

The early corn is firing and past redemption by rain. It will scarcely make a half crop. Late corn would be much benefitted by a good rain falling "quick-soon." Query! What have we mortals in this locality done that the rain clouds should spill their liquid contents all around us and leave our section in a parching condition? Is it because of our unbelief in the Senior's chess theories?

G. E. Heffron finished threshing last Tuesday, the wheat crop on the Holtby estate. It made an average of twelve bushels per acre--a total of fifteen hundred bushels. This average is about half a crop for an ordinary season. Mr. Heffron operates a good machine, runs a full force of hands for the accommodation of the farmers, and does excellent work for six cents per bushel. His patent stacker is far superior to the old method of stacking straw. With the introduction of patent stackers to threshing machines, farmers will preserve their straw for more profitable use than burning it in the field.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

A. T. Gay's new barn is a daisy.

Late peaches will be plenty and of a good quality.

Henry Huff swings the stone-hammer on A. T. Gay's new house.

The little rain Sunday morning was refreshing to church goers.

A. B. Tanner and West & Co. are piling up hay at a wonderful rate.

There is no longer any question about the corn crop. With a few exceptions it is extra good.

We are all ready for the D., M. & A. and are glad to know that dirt has commenced to fly.

Too much cannot be said in praise of our road boss, W. M. Conrad. He's good enough to keep.

What a bonanza farmers will have in the hay crop this year if prices should be as high as last year.

Our people should not forget the school meeting on the 13^th. Matters of importance will be considered.

McGuire don't understand how he can be classed with offensive partisans. Got to git just the same, John.

Hugh Chance made a big sale of stock hogs to Mr. Moore last week. Uncle Hugh knows how to turn an honest penny.

E. P. Young and B. E. Bacon have made a temporary exchange of houses. E. P. will try city life for a while and get the advantage of the schools for his family.

Our new P. M., Mr. Bliss, is all O. K. and sound on the goose. His appointment meets with the approbation of all. Jim used to play knucks with Sen. Garland, you know.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Judge Snow's court was entertained Monday and Tuesday by an interesting case from Cedar township, wherein Laura Alexander charged Trower Jacobs, a young man of twenty-five, with being the unlawful father of her month old babe. George Dolby also came in for a share, being charged with assault on Jacobs with intent to kill, and Dolby had a case against Jacobs for disturbing his peace--three cases all in one, a spicy mixture. Dolby is a widower of forty and Laura, a girl of twenty-two, is his sister-in-law and keeps house for him. Jacobs was her "feller," without ever popping the question. After his arrest for bastardy, he gave bond and returned to his farm, where Laura sent for him. Dolby had told him to keep off the place, and when he went over, let him have it with an ax, cutting Jacobs up considerably. The cases were all thin--seemingly a kind of a normal mix up that meant money, and this morning Laura compromised the matter for $316, and all the cases were withdrawn, each litigant paying their share of the costs. A good share of Cedar township were on hand as witnesses. Senator Jennings was counsel for the defense.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Wheat, cash: 87. Wheat, September: 88½. Wheat, October: 90-7/8.

Corn, cash: 46-5/8. Corn, September: 46-5/8.

Wheat, No. 2 red, cash: 79½. Wheat, No. 2 red, September: 81-1/4.

Corn, cash: 35½. Corn, September: 35½.

Hogs: $4.15.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Kansas City and South-Western Railroad Company will, until further notice, run a regular mixed train from Atlanta to Beaumont, leaving Atlanta at 8 o'clock a.m., making close connection with the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway train going East; also connecting with the 'Frisco train going West, will leave Beaumont at 4:30 p.m., arriving at Atlanta at 6:30 p.m.

Winfield, August 10, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

George Bethel and Lotta Bennett were before Judge Snow Monday, charged with unlicensed co-habitation. George left his wife and five children, most of whom are grown, a year ago, and went to New Mexico. The wife got letters right along until a few months ago, and was oblivious to the fact that George had picked up a professional "soiled dove" and taken up his abode in Winfield. George is fifty-two years old and his wife forty-five. His assumed mistress is an Englishwoman of thirty-five. George ran against the thorns when he brought Lotta here and introduced her into his brother Jim's family as his wife, claiming to have been divorced from his former better half. Jim knew that George and Polly had lived twenty-six years in Kansas without any serious trouble, and he couldn't see why a row should separate them on the steep incline of the down grade. So he investigated: wrote Polly and found she was daily expecting her husband home, from his long silence. At Jim's request she boarded the train and bearded her unfaithful husband in his den here--a house near the Santa Fe elevator where he had gone to housekeeping with his paramour. Arrests. Jugged, Extreme chilliness by both Polly and George. Frank W. Finch as receiver takes charge of all George's property. A few hours in Judge Snow's court. He fifty dollars and six months in the bastille; Lotta twenty-five dollars and sixty days under county hospitality. Remorse, disgrace, and bankruptcy. Polly treed her game with grit. She has entered suit for alimony and swears quits for life.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The youngest child of George Bethel, the adulterer, a nice looking girl of thirteen who accompanied her mother here from near Cherryvale, to cage the father and his paramour, was given a conversation with her father at the jail on Tuesday. Bethel's stolidity, stoutly maintained all through the arrest and trial, was broken and he cried like a child. The daughter was also grief stricken and the scene very affecting. Bethel's hair is considerably tinged with gray. Lotta Bennett seems to have peculiarly infatuated him, though she is far from winsome. Polly Bethel, the lawful wife, caves not an inch. When the old gentleman was first put in jail, the girl said, "Oh, pa! I hate to see you go in there." Polly said, "I don't; I could see his legs sawed off." She resents her outrage with becoming grit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Railway Age, the official railway publication of the United States, is giving our Kansas City and Southwestern railroad considerable attention. It has the following to say of the progress of the road in its last issue.

"Track is now laid from Beaumont, Kansas, on to the St. Louis & San Francisco, southwest 27 miles, and will reach Floral, 33 miles from Beaumont, by August 8, and Winfield, 9 miles farther on, about September 1. Grading and bridging are nearly finished to the latter point, and the rails are on hand. This line is intended to run from Kansas City by way of Paola, Burlington, and Eureka to Winfield and The Territorial line beyond Arkansas City, with a branch southwest to Wellington and Caldwell. The line is being built by Chicago capital, with local aid, and is intended to be operated independently."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

After a very eloquent and convincing sermon Sunday morning, Rev. Dr. Kirkwood made some beautiful and touching remarks and declared the Presbyterian pulpit vacant, as per order of the Presbytery. The expressions of regret at his determination to leave Winfield for another field and work, that of Professor of Mental Philosophy in McAlister College, Minnesota, are many and heart-felt. To fill his place will be a very difficult task. His profound knowledge and zealous work have engrafted him in the hearts of our people. His last address in Winfield was a temperance lecture at the Presbyterian church Sunday evening. It was a complete summing of the prohibitory question, showing its grand results in Kansas and its prospects for widening. The Doctor and family take their departure tomorrow.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Col. Sam Crocker has been released from the bastille, on his own recognizance, and returned to Caldwell to do the giant act on his War Chief. His first determination to suffer martyrdom in incarceration wasn't the romantic reality he had dreamed. It didn't bring him the notoriety for which he thirsted--people didn't pay any attention to him. His pall, Odell, went with him.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

And now the peaceful slumbers of the slothful Sunday morning delinquent have another distress: the new Methodist bell, a twelve hundred pounder, of clear and mellow tone. It will be placed in the new belfry at once. The M. E. folks now have a complete church building, inside and out--one to be proud of, a big credit to our city.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

THE COURIER is in possession of about two hundred copies of public documents and reports of various kinds, which will be distributed to any citizen of Cowley who desires such reading and will call and get a copy.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Dr. Turner, the renowned physician and optician, and founder of the American Surgical Institute of Indianapolis, is coming to the city and has engaged rooms at the Central. He will be there on the 19^th.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

W. O. Johnson, of the G. B. Shaw lumber yard, informs us that the building boom is commencing. He has been very busy for the last few days figuring on bills of lumber. Let it come.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Borders and Ashlands had a little practice game at the Fair Grounds. Walk-a-way for the Ashlands. Score twenty-three to four. A hundred spectators, with gate money.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Santa Fe has made slight changes in its time card, which will be noted by a glance at our official time table.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

John Goodrich was up from Cedarvale Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Mullin & Fuller have made the largest sale of the season--the Burden Mill to Eli Reed. Price: $14,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Otis Robertson, one of Udall's flourishing druggists, made the city a flying visit Monday, on business.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

James Ostrander, of Ostrander & Stayman, machinists, went to Burden Saturday to finish up a boiler job he has had on hand there.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

W. R. Benson, W. E. Burhage, John C. Hanes, Bill Cutnam, C. P. Clark, W. E. Ballenger, and C. A. Friedley were down from Udall Tuesday, to see the ball game.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Geo. Osterhout brings us a stalk of upland corn twelve feet high and eight feet from the ground to an ear that will weigh four pounds. This is a very productive corn year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

G. C. Wallace now occupies the new extension to the Morehouse building, as a ware room, giving one hundred and forty feet and a very commodious and convenient grocery.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Mrs. Carrie Legg has received a letter from B. M. Legg, after nearly two years silence, and he is very homesick. The roses he expected to find have turned to thorns. Married men take warning. B.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

James Jordan was seen hooked on to a fair damsel, making for the Probate Court, Monday, looking neither to the right or left. The movement has caused much anxiety on the part of Jim's many friends.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Capt. Steuven has been offered a field office in the State Militia of Colonel or Major, but has declined it, preferring to remain as captain of our Militia. There are not many that would refuse a chance of this kind.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

It is now George C. Rembaugh, P. M. George and Mr. Millington squared accounts Monday, and the Winfield postoffice is now a Democratic institution. The old force, Roy Millington, Will McClellan, and Eva Berkey, will likely be retained.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

J. A. Cooper left Monday afternoon to put the new town of Veteran on its legs. This town is only twenty-two miles from the Santa Fe railroad, on the Colorado line, in old Stanton County, and promises much. W. R. McDonald and others go out Wednesday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

DIED. G. E. Constant, formerly of this city, who went to Manitou, Colorado, some few weeks ago, and then to Colorado Springs, where he has been for the past two weeks, died there last Saturday night at midnight. Mr. Constant had been in delicate health for years, and he and his family thought the bracing air of the mountain would build him up. His many friends will regret to hear of his death. THE COURIER extends sympathy to the bereaved family. He was buried today by the G. A. R., at Colorado Springs.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The J. P. Short landmarks were all sold Monday and will be moved off to make room for an imposing block, an honor to the city. A. P. Johnson bought the Headrick building, $87; the Harris & Clark office, $100; and the Bliss & Wood grain office, $51. A. H. Doane got the harness shop, $101; and H. G. Fuller got the little tin shed, $5. The buildings will likely be moved onto residence lots. Work on the bank and Short lots will commence at once. The Harter building will be moved over in Ninth avenue.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Permit me to say through the columns of your nest issue, that in commenting on what the COURIER is pleased to call "Cowley's Medicine Record," on the 6^th inst., you not only do me great injustice by evident, though I trust not intentional, misrepresentation, but any patrons also, by scornful insinuations. I have been accustomed to look for fairness and impartiality from the COURIER, but the article in question is scarcely more than flavored with these ingredients. I am quite sure that at least a very large proportion of my patrons do not "gulp" the liquor they buy, but use it as they would use any other medicine. Some are on beds of sickness, whose lives depend from day to day upon the whiskey and brandy they use. And yet the COURIER can find no other word in its vocabulary to make use of in describing the manner in which liquors are used than "gulped."

But further: "388 bottles of bear in a month in a town of 1k,000 inhabitants is not so bad; $78.00 profit for a month from beer alone is a fair showing--one that should be looked into by our officials," says THE COURIER. But a more critical examination of the matter will prove that the novelistic style of the editor makes a more novel than truthful showing; even to continue the investigation by similar comparison, would be suicidal, for the Dexter druggist reports sales in July of 102 pints of whiskey in a town of about 200 inhabitants, while "Woolsey" sells but 96 pints in a town numbering 1,000, and yet THE COURIER hasn't advised his decapitation. The druggist's register shows that less than one-fourth of my sales were made to the people of Burden; that Dexter reports no sales of beer, but buys it of "Woolsey," one of her physicians ordering 24 bottles last month, and other customers smaller quantities. And that instead of selling the quantity reported to the 1,000 people of Burden, more than three-fourths of all was sold to druggists, physicians, and people of Dexter, Torrance, Box City, Glen Grouse, Baltimore, Floral, Polo, and the wide expanse of country adjacent.

But this is not all, for the "$78 profit" spoken of is a conundrum that only the astute financier of THE COURIER can explain. At least according to the best financiering that I am capable of, I have been unable to make even $30, which is not enough to pay for the trouble of handling, and for this reason I discontinued the sale of beer the 1^st of August and shall not resume until THE COURIER can show me how to realize the per cent it has credited me with. The druggists of Winfield discontinued the sale of beer for the same reason. The editor sums up in the conclusion that "two or three need their heads smacked off" and places my name on the death role, for which accept my thanks, and permit the public to decide whether the facts warrant the view taken. That prohibition has lessened the sale of intoxicating liquor in Kansas I am quite willing to agree. The recent investigation of Judge Gans and the County Attorney at this place showed, if it showed anything, that I am not a favorite of intemperate vice, but that in consequence of their inability to buy of me, they had resorted to other means and ways of obtaining it. I invite the investigation that T HE COURIER solicits, and would especially request that the editors and employees of THE COURIER be employed as a board of special detectives to aid in unearthing the damnable volcano of alcoholic fire that it has lead the public to believe is consuming the vitals of Burden society. I am conscious of having obeyed the law both in letter and in spirit, as strictly as it was in the power of man to do and sell the article at all. Not a drop has gone from my store that has not been recorded, and not a drop has gone from there in violation of law, to my knowledge, and the fact that spirituous liquors may and must be sold under the law shall be recognized, and when vendor and vendee act in good faith, strictly in obedience to it, they should have due credit, without having to feel that the finger of scorn is upon them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Walter Lewis, formerly of this city, having been employed by A. Herpich for some time, met with perhaps a fatal accident Wednesday. Mr. Lewis has been in the tailoring business at Oxford for some time. He came over on the 7 a.m. freight train this morning. In switching near the tank, the caboose was uncoupled from the rest of the train. The engineer thought it was still attached, and on backing up to it with great force, knocked everything endways in the car. Mr. Lewis, not expecting anything of the kind, was thrown violently down and injured internally. He was brought to Brown & Son's drug store at once and Dr. Park sent for. The doctor thinks he is very dangerously hurt, though at this writing anything definite as to the extent of the internal injury is not sure. Mr. Lewis is a man of past middle age. Word was sent at once for his wife.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Walter G. Seaver, the optician of the Dexter Eye, will take business and editorial charge of the Telegram next Monday, in place of George C. Rembaugh, whose attention will now be devoted to the postoffice. Walter is a thorough businessman, having worked on some of the metropolitan papers, a genial fellow, and will keep the Telegram up to its past standard of merit. He is a Democrat of long standing. We are glad to welcome Walter as a neighborly cotemporary, though sorry to see George retire from active newspaperdom, for which he was to the manner born. He rejoices in a fatter take.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Grant Memorial Services Saturday were grand. The G. A. R. and the militia were out in full force. The Courier, the Juvenile, and the Union Cornet Bands discoursed sweet music; the city was draped in mourning and business suspended from 2 to 4 o'clock in honor of the dead hero. The south and the north joined hands and hearts in mourning for the silent man of Vicksburg. The procession started from the G. A. R. hall at 2 p.m., followed by the Militia, marching to the Baptist church where the services were held. The church was beautifully draped. Over the pulpit was a banner with the inscription, "Our Old Commander," over a picture of Gen. Grant. The pulpit was draped in black, decorated with beautiful flowers arranged in crosses. The outside of the church was also appropriately in mourning. The G. A. R. occupied the front seats, with the militia and Woman's Relief Corps. We cannot speak too highly of the music. The Courier Band rendered sweet music at the church. Also the choir of the church, composed of Miss Lola Silliman, organist; H. E. Silliman, Miss Walrath, Mrs. C. A. Bliss, and Prof. Merriman. As the Corps marched in, Crippen's instrumental Quintette played Lincoln's Funeral March--as charming as ever greeted the ear. Captain Siverd and Sam Gilbert showed their usual gallantry in conducting all to seats. After music and prayer by Rev. Myers, the Committee on resolutions, D. A. Millington, Geo. Rembaugh, and Buel Davis, read fitting resolutions lamenting the death of the old hero and eulogizing the acts of his life. After this Rev. J. H. Snyder, of the United Brethren church, and Dr. W. R. Kirkwood, of the Presbyterian church, delivered very fine discourses. Rev. B. Kelly, who conducted the services, made a few remarks about the General's religious character. Mrs. Grant is a Methodist and the General always leaned that way. A few months before Grant's death, the old friendly pastor called and the General made a confession of faith. Following are the addresses.

MY FELLOW CITIZENS: When, on the morning of the 23^rd of July, the telegraph wires flashed to all parts of our country and to the nations across the deep waters, the sad intelligence that General Ulysses S. Grant, the distinguished soldier and statesman of the American Republic, was dead, no sadder tidings could have been heralded to a distressed people. At once the nation draped itself in the sombre habiliments of mourning. Public offices, marts of trade, and manufactories closed and curtained their doors. Flags on capitol and fortress were hung at half mast. From lakes to gulf and from ocean to ocean, a thousand bells tolled a nation's requiem. Officers of public trust, from the president of the United States on down to governors of commonwealths and mayors of cities, issued proclamations to the people, reciting the nation's loss and inviting them in some suitable manner, to give expression to their sorrow.

From every direction, at home and abroad, words of condolence were sent to the bereaved widow and stricken family; for in the death of General Grant, not only had a loving family that has tenderly and affectionately hung over his couch of suffering; nor a community whose every impulse had been dictated by generous feelings of sympathy; nor a nation for whose life and peace and prosperity he had unselfishly given all the years of his vigor and manhood and on whose scroll of worthies, side by side with the cherished names of the immortal Washington and Lincoln, had been indelibly inscribed the name of the fallen hero; but a civilized world throughout whose every part the name of Grant had become a household trophy, had come to sit as a common mourner.

For many long and weary months, this greatest of military chieftains had been a sufferer: protracted first by reason of injuries sustained in a fall, and then with a cancerous affection of the throat. Unable at times to eat or sleep, or to communicate with those at his bed side; assured by the persistency of the disease of the certainty of his dissolution; sensitive of the wrong committed in depriving him of the means to provide for his desolate household, yet never in any instance did a murmur or a word of complaint escape from his lips.

No one can adequately describe the deep suspense which filled the hearts of the American people during his prostration. All were anxious as to the probable outcome of his condition. The most eminent physicians were constantly at his side, directing every expedient that medical wisdom and skill were capable of employing. Every day, dispatches conveyed to all the land suitable information relative to his condition. Every wish of the sufferer was anticipated, and every want most faithfully gratified. The movements of his friends and physicians were closely observed by the eager throngs that gathered around the home of the patient. The whole land had its hand upon the throbbing pulse and its mutations of feeling rose or fell according to the symptoms.

When the hot, sultry days of midsummer came, to avoid their enervating influence, General Grant was removed from his own residence in New York to a quiet, cool retreat generously tendered him on Mt. McGregor. It was hoped by all that the refreshing mountain air would give tone to the wasting system. For six weeks longer the vital functions performed their office, but the end came at last, and after a brave, patient, and persistent struggle with the last earthly energy, he who had passed unharmed through the countless dangers of a hundred battle fields, and at whose feet, had been laid, again and again, the arms of a fallen foe, was at last compelled to surrender to the conqueror of all. What the arts of war had failed to accomplish, was effected at last when the tocsin of war had been hushed into silence by the symphonies of peace.

In harmony with that spirit of homage that calls the people of the land together today to offer, with bowed heads and heavy hearts, a memorial tribute to the deceased hero, we have left our homes and occupations to drop with them a tear of sorrow, and to renew with them our devotion to the cause in whose defense he won his renown. This occasion calls for the laying aside of all sectionalism, of all distinctions of color or creed. Party lines should merge into the common sorrow and all classes should view this loss as their common heritage.

It is neither possible nor would it be proper, in the brief time before me, to enter into any minute analysis of the life and public services of General Grant. The journals of the land for these twenty years have so abounded with references to him that every child has grown familiar with his life and deeds. He has been the most striking figure of the nineteenth century. Other men have risen to distinction, but no other man ever obtained a position as world-wide in its prominence. No other person has won a record of such deserving merit in the face of such grave responsibilities. He had his opposition, but in every effort of his life, he acted upon convictions of duty and right, and proved himself true to the trust reposed in him. He came up from the ranks of the lowly. He was without the prestige of birth or wealth to secure to him nobility and influence. Every stage of progress reached bore evidences of the single-handed struggle through which he had come. His was a life of deeds and not of words. Modest to a fault, his reticence won him the title of "the silent man." He was free from the spirit of fault finding. He was no croaker. Gentle as a woman, he was, nevertheless, as solid as the rock. Without ostentation; oblivious to the spirit of flattery; free from pride at his many achievements; firm in his convictions; indomitable in his undertakings, he moved forward in the open path of duty as only a true great man was able to do.

The heroism of his life has become the inspiration of thousands, infusing a profounder love of country, a grander ideal of manhood, a nobler love of duty, and a purer devotion to the right.

Three important epochs belong to the life of General Grant.

1^st. It is in the profession and office of a soldier that General Grant appears to the best advantage. From time to time the world has produced many eminent military leaders, but no injustice will be done to the life and eminent services of any of them if it be said that the annals of history has failed to produce his equal.

Rome had its Caesar and Greece its Alexander. England reveres the name of Wellington and France points with pride to the first Napoleon. Victor Immanuel will live in the annals of liberated Italy, and Von Moltke in the sturdy heart of Germany. America does homage to the illustrated name of Washington.

But viewed in the light of the nineteenth century--in the light of every event that clusters around the lives of these heroes of history; in the light of the circumstances and issues involved in the struggles through which they obtained their distinction; in the light of advancement in both military prowess and the appliances of war; in the light of the cumulative experience which has come down through forty centuries to the assistance equally as well of friend and foe--the impartial historian, who shall hereafter write the history of the world's great men, will feel amply justified in pronouncing General U. S. Grant the ablest general the world has ever produced. One already has called him "the first soldier and the first citizen" of the American Republic.

Many, whose names, like Philip of Macedon, and Alexander and Napoleon, have obtained a place in History's Valhalla of heroes, after all, were actuated to the deeds performed by the love of self; by personal ambition; by the love of power. Little cared they for the welfare of others. Little cared they for the true ends of government. The love of glory became their inspiring genius. They fought for self and empire.

In an utterance made in 1877 in London, General Grant said, "Although a soldier by education and profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace." He sought the elevation of the public good and the welfare of his race. He was a hero in the typical, the truest, the divine sense.

His advancement in military rank came up by promotion on merit, through every grade of the military service from brevet lieutenant to general of the army. He entered the military academy at West Point at the age of 20. In the war between the United States and Mexico, he bore a valorous part with his regiment at the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma; Monterey, and the siege of Vera Cruz. He was promoted for gallantry on the field of Molina del Ray, and again at the storming of Chapultepec.

In 1854 he resigned his commission in the army, having risen to the rank of captain, and for a few years he followed farming near St. Louis, afterward entering upon mercantile life with his father and brother in Galena.

On the 13^th of April, 1861, Fort Sumpter fell. On the 15h President Lincoln issued his first call for troops, and on the 19^th, just six days from the fall of Sumpter, Grant was drilling a company of volunteers in Galena. Four days later he took his company to the city of Springfield. Remaining for a few weeks to assist in organizing the troops of the state, Governor Yates commissioned him colonel and gave him command of the 21^st regiment of Illinois infantry. Moving soon after to the seat of war, he reported to Brigadier General Pope and was stationed at Mexico, Missouri. On August 23^rd he was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers, his commission taking rank from May 17^th. His first military achievement was the seizure of Paducah, Kentucky. After this he fought the battles of Belmont, Ft. Henry, and Ft. Donelson. His reply to General Buckner, in command at Ft. Donelson, who sent to him asking terms of capitulation, revealed a trait that became eminently characteristic in his entire service. "No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works."

For these services, General Grant was at once promoted to be Major-General, and appointed commander of the District of Tennessee. After this came the memorable battle of Shiloh; Corinth was taken; Vicksburg, that Gibraltar of the west, was besieged and captured. Johnston was driven out of Mississippi, Bragg was defeated at Chattanooga.

General Grant, following these victories, was made a Lieutenant General, and placed over the entire union army. In March, 1864, he began those grand movements, which led to the fall of Richmond; which gave Thomas victory in Tennessee; which gave us the fall of Atlanta and Sherman's march down to the sea; which joined the armies of the east and west in a grand cordon of ruin around the army of Lee, and which culminated at last in the laying down of the arms of the confederacy at Appomattox.

2^nd. To those who served in the Union army during these dark and bloody days, the death of General Grant comes with peculiar force. Hundreds of thousands of brave and noble men marched and fought under the very eye of that beloved and trusted leader, while under his supreme command, the mighty columns moved gradually forward to victory. To each one of these veterans of the war, the death of General Grant comes as a personal bereavement. Nor is there lack of the kindest feeling for the memory of the illustrious dead on the part of the defeated army. Those who espoused the cause of the South and followed under the leadership of Johnston and Lee, remember with gratitude the magnanimity of the victor in the hour of their humiliation and defeat.

History teaches us that the embers of civil warfare are slow to die. A contest waged between brother and brother is waged most bitterly of all. And yet, the short space of twenty years finds the whole South pouring forth tears of honest grief upon the bier of him to whom it yielded up the sword upon the field of battle.

One by one the heroes of the blue and of the gray are passing over the silent river. As we who remain unite in performing our last sad duties to the Nation's dead, let us remember that with the same starry flag, floating over us, and with the benign influence of the same institutions yielding to us their protection, we are brothers, and laying aside the bitter memories of the past, let us devote ourselves to building up

A union of hearts, a union of hands,

A union that none may sever.

A union of lakes, and a union of lands,

And the American Union forever.

While he was preeminently a soldier, yet we must not fail to view the life of General Grant as possessing many of the distinguishing traits of statesmanship. We are no little surprised that one whose education and life had been so closely devoted to the duties of a soldier should have attained such eminence in the management of the machinery of government. In 1868, and again in 1872, by the suffrages of the people, he was elected to fill the highest office in the gift of the Nation. In the second election he received a popular majority over Horace Greeley of nearly 800,000 votes. At the Republican National Convention of 1880, his name was prominently urged for a third term, and defeated only on the ground of the precedent.

While no man, however capable and honest, has ever occupied the Presidential chair without carpings and criticism upon his plans and methods, nevertheless General Grant in the eight years of his public service as Chief Executive, gave almost unbounded satisfaction. It must be remembered that he assumed the reins of government at a critical juncture. The Nation was just emerging from the awful crisis of civil war. The machinery of state was not, as yet, properly adjusted. The spirit of bitterness that for so long a time had held sectional sway, was not assuaged. It was a time of peculiar embarrassment, and yet, in his recommendations to Congress, and in the administration of the laws of the land, General Grant exercised such wise discretion, such magnanimity of spirit, such discernment of the true wants of the people, such honesty of purpose in the maintenance of the law, and such loyalty to the welfare of the Federal Union, that he greatly aided in the removal of the dark shadows which had so long enveloped the whole land, and in inaugurating an era of peace and prosperity whose benign influences still continue to minister to and comfort the people.

In the field of statesmanship, those same elements of modesty and firmness attended him. He made no display. In public address his words were few and well chosen. He, unlike many others, magnified the office rather than that the office should magnify him.

At the close of his term of office, accompanied by Mrs. Grant, he made a tour around the world, visiting all the leading Nations, in whose courts he met a royal welcome that did honor to his native land. In the records of time, no other man ever met with such a royal ovation at the hands of the Nations. In honoring the man, they honored the land of his birth, and the principles enunciated and defended by him, and on which his country was founded. He went abroad as an American to study the methods of government in oriental lands, and to build up the spirit of amity that binds us to the Nations.

3^rd. Viewing General Grant as a citizen, we observe that he recognized and practiced only those elements which build up and better the condition of a people. All his so-called mistakes and his misfortunes came from the abuse of confidence by others. He chose for companions those whom he believed to be worthy.

In his line of duty as a commander, he appointed only those to position in whose capability and integrity he felt to trust, and none of the many proved the wisdom of his choice as did the great Thomas--"the Rock of Chickamauga"--and Sherman, and Sheridan, "the hero of Winchester."

In domestic life he was a kind husband and an affectionate father. In the closing scenes of his life, his love of home and the dear ones about him revealed itself in all its resplendency. After his death, a letter was found upon his person directed to his wife, in which he said: "Look after our dear children and direct them in the paths of rectitude. It would distress me far more to think that one of them could depart from an honorable, upright, and virtuous life than it would to know that they were prostrated on a bed of sickness from which they were never to arise alive. They have never given us any cause for alarm on their account, and I earnestly pray they never will. With these few injunctions, and the knowledge I have of your love and affection, and of the dutiful affection of our children, I bid you a final farewell until we meet in another, and I trust a better, world. You will find this on my person after my demise."

In matters of religion, like many great men, he said but little. St. Augustine once being asked, "What is the first article in the Christian religion?" replied, "Humility." "And what the second?" "Humility." "And what the third?" "Humility."

When General Grant approached the subject of religion while there was a broad, catholic spirit, yet there was revealed a spirit of reverence and commendable humility.

When he was in Paris on his tour around the world, a great Sunday race was arranged for the entertainment of the distinguished American traveler and his party. The French President was greatly surprised at the answer of General Grant to the invitation to attend the race arranged as a special mark of honor. The General sent a courteous declination with the explanation that as an American citizen he wished to observe the American Sabbath as a day of rest. At different times during his illustrious life, he showed a profound respect for the Lord's day.

When asked by his pastor, Dr. Newman, "what was the supreme thought on his mind when eternity seemed so near?" he replied, "The comfort of the consciousness that I had tried to live a good and honorable life." These words revealed "the hidden life of his soul."

Among his last utterances was this one, given in response to the assurance that "we are praying for you." "Yes, I know, and I feel very grateful to the christian people of the land for their prayers in my behalf: Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, and all the good people of the nation, of all parties as well as religions, and all nationalities, seem to have united in wishing or praying for my improvement. I am a great sufferer all the time, but the facts that I have related are compensation for much of it. All that I can do is to pray that the prayers of all those good people may be answered so far as to have us all meet in another and better world."

So this hero lived, believed, and died. Unpretentious in life, of but few words, actuated by honorable convictions, choosing only such actions as were commendable, recognizing his supreme allegiance to God, loyal to his family and to his country, brave amid the most trying dangers, not unmindful of the esteem of his friends, wisely planning for his loved ones and for his own future, in the days of the greatest capability, he fell asleep.

The Nation mourns today a citizen, a statesman, a soldier fallen. He lived nobly; he did his duty well. He rests from his labors. May God bless the bereaved family, and his sorrowing countrymen who gather this day to do honor to his memory. And may God bless the land of his birth, on whose uplifted banners posterity will find inscribed the names of America's illustrious trio: Washington--"The sage of Mt. Vernon," "Lincoln--"The martyred President," and Grant--"Our great commander."

"They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn." Job 24:24.

The Bible gives many illustrations of due honor rendered by the people to departed leaders. David's lament over the fall of Saul and Jonathan will stand forever as one of the most touching and noble eulogies pronounced upon the dead.

A man nobler and more happy than Saul, both in his living and in his dying, has gone from the sight of the American people; and today his mortal remains are consigned to the grave. This hour the funeral cortege moves in solemn splendor to the burial place, to lay the dust of the old soldier to sleep with its kindred duet; and we, unable to join the throng around his bier, meet here to pay tribute to his memory.

For twenty-three years Ulysses Simpson Grant has stood in the eyes of the world one of the foremost and grandest figures in American affairs.

Prior to 1862 he was almost unknown. The captain of Fort Donelson, in February of that year, brought him to the notice of the whole people. This was followed by the two days battle at Shiloh, April 6^th and 7^th, 1862, a tremendous struggle in which the advantage was with the enemy at first, but from whom it was wrested by skill and strength of endurance, and the close of the second day saw the forces of Johnston and Beauregard beaten and broken, in rapid retreat, while their greatest leader was left to fill a soldier's grave.

Next in the great moves was the campaign of Vicksburg--one of the boldest and most difficult, as well as one of the most successful campaigns of the war. On the 4^th of July, 1863, the city fell. The total loss of the rebels in this siege was the fortified city with 172 cannons, 15 generals, 42,000 prisoners, 12,000 killed, and 6,000 scattered stragglers, besides all the small armies. Meanwhile, Rosecrans was cooped up at Chattanooga in great peril. Bragg was sure of capturing the whole army. Grant was sent to replace Rosecrans. At once the whole situation was changed. Plans were laid and put in operation; and on the 25^th of November, 1863, Bragg was beaten on Lookout Mountain and Missionary ridge, and driven away in utter panic.

In March, 1864, Grant was promoted. The grade of Lieutenant General, originally created for Washington in 1798, had been conferred on the veteran General Scott, by request. This grade was revived, and the full honor conferred on Gen. Grant: the second American to whom it was given. He was made commander-in-chief of all the armies of the United States. Going east he made his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac. Halleck was made chief of staff, with headquarters at Washington. Sherman was put in command of the military division of the Mississippi. McPherson succeeded to the command of the army and department of the Tennessee, and being, soon after, killed, Thomas succeeded to that command. Banks remained in command in the Southwest beyond the Mississippi. Butler held command of the Army of the James; and to Sheridan was given the Army of the Shenandoah.

The campaign opened in 1864, all along the line. The first heavy battle was that of the Wilderness in May, followed by the Spotsylvania and Coal Harbor; and thence to Petersburg.

Starting at the same time with Grant, Sherman fought his way to Atlanta, and on the 1^st of September captured that city--next to Richmond, then the most important city of the South. On the 19^th of September Sheridan fought and won the battle of Winchester. Again Early, reinforced, gave battle to Sherman's forces at Cedar Creek; and, on the 19^th of October, was scattered and broken up forever, the last rebel Army of the Shenandoah, and its camps, caissons, artillery, small arms, ambulances, and thousands of prisoners fell into Sheridan's hands.

Meanwhile Sheridan had started out his grand march through the heart of the confederacy to the sea, leaving to Thomas the care of the rebel army under Hood. Sherman made one long triumphal march to the end. Thomas, at Nashville, met Hood and practically annihilated his splendid army of 50,000 men, capturing 13,000 prisoners, 72 cannons, and scattering the broken remnant of the rebel army. By March 1^st Sherman had reached the heart of North Carolina, and was coming up in the rear of Richmond, Gen. Joseph Johnston being utterly unable to check his march.

While his lieutenants were thus crowding and crushing the life out of the Confederacy, in their respective places, Grant was holding Lee in a vice at Petersburg and Richmond. Both were strongly fortified and the fighting was tremendous. Grant was crowding closer and closer. On April 2^nd, 1865, Lee's lines were broken in three places, and he telegraphed Davis, "Richmond must be evacuated tonight." On Monday, April 3^rd, the Union General Weitzel took possession of the city while Grant hurried his army in pursuit of Lee. And then, on the 9^th of April, at Appomattox, he captured Lee and his entire army, and the war was closed. He who, at the beginning of the war, was an unknown captain, had risen step by step to the highest possible rank. He had been pitted in the wager of battle against all the ablest generals of the Confederacy: A. S. Johnston, Beauregard, Joseph Johnston, Bragg, and Lee, and he had beaten each in turn, and left them helpless.

Many have attempted to depreciate his military genius; but this is manifestly unjust. His own unassuming modesty gave them something of an opportunity. There was nothing of parade about him, and he never seemed to think of himself as great. Yet he was great as a general beyond any man America has produced. In comparison with Lee, he cannot suffer, for he beat Lee on the very ground where so often Lee had conquered others. If it be said that Lee had not as many men, yet he was on his own ground, and had the inside lines. And what that means may be read in the light of Antietam, and still better, at Gettysburg, where Lee was beaten at his best and strongest, by confessedly inferior men--men who could not beat him on his own ground. But Grant, going on that ground, with the same army that had hitherto been beaten, overmatched, and beat, and broke him down, and ground his army to powder.

Compared with Wellington, Grant exhibited the same cool, clear insight into the situation; the same power over his men; the same inflexible tenacity of purpose; the same unflinching courage; the same patient fortitude under temporary disaster; the same energy and skill in redeeming disaster and winning victory; and he did this with larger armies and on a more extended field of action than the Iron Duke was ever called to try.

Compared with Moltke, he does not suffer in the least. The German Field-marshal had studied the ground which was finally the seat of war for years. He knew every road and water course--had a complete topographical map of the whole territory. Grant had no such maps of the seat of war in America.

The German leader had absolute control of his armies and was sure of his place, having the autocratic power of the Emperor for his support. Grant was in control of the armies, but he could not rely implicitly on the backing of the government. Stanton was autocratic and hard to please. The Congress was factious and was a difficult body to manage, its counsels often divided. The governors of the states were able men, as politicians, statesmen, but critical and ever ready to find fault. The press was free to criticize, and used its freedom to the extent of license. The peace democracy, in session at Chicago, proclaimed the war a failure, and the stump speakers and the press of that party never spared Grant. All these elements had to be controlled in the rear, while the enemy had to be conquered in the front; and it was only Grant who did it. I do not derogate from the honor of the President; but if Grant had been less than he was, the power of the President would have been exercised in vain. Again: The German Field-marshal had leaders, and subordinates of every rank, who knew how to obey. They had been taught that from boyhood. Many of the American leaders did not appreciate the one-man power. They had ideas of their own, and were not slow to utter them in captious, critical, jealous terms; and often they were half-hearted in rendering obedience where they did not fully approve the plans of their commander. Yet again: The total area of France was but about 260,000 square miles--about the size of one single state in the Confederacy--while the seat of the Franco-Prussian war embraced only about 85,000 square miles, or ten times the extent of the seat of war in France. Once more: The entire strength of the German army was 1,300,000 men, of which over 600,000 were in the field, if memory is not at fault. The force at Grant's command, in the field, was about 1,000,000 of men, according to the best estimates I can find.

Now, on a territory of 85,000 square miles with over half a million men, Moltke played his game of chess: played it as a master, and won. On an area ten times as great, with only twice the number of men, when, to make the candidates equal in this respect, he should have had ten times as many men as the German over an unknown country full of mountains, rivers, swamps, natural obstructions innumerable, Grant played his game in an equally masterly way, and won. On the 3^rd of March, 1863, he was made Lieutenant General and Commander in Chief. On the 24^th he began the work of reorganizing his armies for the summer campaign. About the 3^rd of May, the work began. From the Atlantic to the Rio Grande, 1,200 miles, was the extent of his front. The armies of the James, the Potomac, West Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Southwest were all put in motion, and the fleets as well; and they were kept in motion, not blindly, but wisely and harmoniously, guided by the one-controlling mind.

Check after check was given to the foe; army after army was destroyed; point after point was gained and held, until on April 9^th, 1865, less than a year from the beginning of his play, Grant delivered check-mate at Appomattox, and the game was done.

By forcing the play, he made Lee and Johnston and Hood and the rest obey his will; as formerly Lee had held McClelland, Pope, Burnside, and Hooker obedient. Lee was a master; but when Grant took command, the mastery of Lee was done. Thenceforth Grant was the master. And when the conflict was done, the stake for which Davis and Lee had played was lost. Secession was killed. The doctrine of state rights was sunken in a sea of blood. The supremacy of the general government was established. The degree of emancipation was established and slavery was no more.

No greater game, for greater stake, was ever played; no game was ever better played, or more triumphantly won; and the winning stamped the winner as one of the greatest soldiers, if not the greatest, of his age--great enough to rank with the greatest of any age. And this was completed with the completion of the General's forty-third year. He was yet a young man. In 1866, July 25, a bill passed both houses of Congress creating the office of "General of the Army of the United States," and limiting it to Grant alone. On the same day he received his commission in accordance therewith.

Further honor was in store for him. On the 19^th of May, 1868, the National Republican Convention in Chicago, on the first ballot, nominated him as its candidate for the Presidency of the United States. In November of the same year he was elected by an overwhelming majority. In November, 1872, he was again elected to that high office. When his second term expired, he went abroad, and made a journey round the world. This journey was one long ovation, in which, crowned heads, soldiers, statesmen, and private citizens in Europe and Asia alike did him honor. On his return home, he was persuaded to let his name be used again as a candidate for the presidency. He failed. It has been said he was ambitious. Perhaps he was. Who of his detractors would not have been? But perhaps it was not a vain, unworthy ambition. He may have felt that he had made mistakes in his former presidency, and had been betrayed, and trusted that he should be able to give a better administration. Be that as it may, he was not nominated. And there is no ground for charging him with base motives, any more than any other man who has aspired to the office.

Such were the honors heaped upon him. Measured by the standard of men, he fairly won them: colonel, brigadier general, major general, lieutenant general, and general, in military life. In civil life, twice President of the United States, and then, honors extraordinary, abroad. And all this fell to his lot within the brief space of fifteen years. Exalted indeed, but exalted for a little while!

And now comes a sad chapter in his life. Going into business, he doubtless thought to pass the remainder of his days in honorable employment. But he did not understand the ways of sharks, and he was made the prey of one. He was robbed of his earnings, robbed of the treasures that to him were above price--the gifts of appreciation--from friends, government at home and authorities abroad--robbed for a time of his good name, until the facts were brought out.

It is a sad, a painful chapter in his life, but one from which we must not turn away. And it is gratifying to know that the unblemished integrity of the man shines out even in the midst of this ruin--that he kept back nothing that could help to meet his pecuniary obligations.

But this was near the end. He did not long survive. How much, or how little, the shock of this transaction had to do with the development of the disease which ended his life, we shall never know; and it is of no importance. The little time of exaltation came to him. It passed by, and he is "taken out of the way as all others" have been. He has been cut off as the ripened grain. What boots it to speak of his illness and his death? You all know the story. Let me indicate some of the points of his character for the benefit of the young men here today.

1. He was diligent in business. "Whatever his hand found to do," he did with his might. He was not always successful in business. Indeed in the common occupation of that term, he was never successful. As a farmer he constantly grew poorer. As loan agent and collector, he lost still more. As a member of the leather firm at Galena, he was barely able to maintain his family. As President, he was only partially successful. The only place where the man appeared with the strength that was really his, was at the head of the army. There he was easily chief among American soldiers, and equal to the ablest European. But let none say, therefore, that as a man he was not great. To be a great soldier in a time like that of Grant, is to be greater than any money king, or any combination of them. Under the Providence of God, General Grant was the man who saved the money kings and their value, as well as the poor. His were the shoulders that bore up the temple of American liberty and prosperity. He put his whole soul into the business of studying the art of war in his youth; and when called on to act the part of a man, he was ready for the part. He did not need to fall back and study anew the first principles of his art. And in the application of these principles, he was thorough. An enemy was to be beaten. It was not enough to drive him off of the field. He must be crushed--his power to do evil destroyed. Did you ever think how completely Grant destroyed the forces opposed to him before he let go? Look at Donelson. A whole army was destroyed. At Shiloh the army of Johnston and Beauregard was so badly broken that it was long unable to make any strong resistance. At Vicksburg an army of 60,000 men was literally wiped out of existence. And he finished his work by wiping out that of Lee, with all his fortifications at Petersburg and Richmond. Diligent work, with all the force a man has, is the way to success.

2. Patience and fortitude under adversity, is another lesson of Grant's life. No man ever heard a wail or a whine from him during all the years of adversity and toil prior to war.

Then after he won Donelson, the jealousy of superiors was awakened; and again after Shiloh. "He was incompetent." "He owed success to anybody or thing but his own hard work." "He was a besotted drunkard." "He was unfit for command." But to all the storm of vituperation, to all the injustice of superiors, he was silent. No more pathetic picture is presented than that of the man whose promptitude saved Kentucky to the Union, kept open the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers, the way into the heart of the South, took Donelson with a whole army and all its stores, beat two of the ablest Generals of the South, and drove their army more than decimated, a scattered and broken mass, southward--such a man retired from his command, practically under arrest in the very midst of the army he had led to victory, coming daily to his superior's tent for orders, and daily sent away by an aide, with the brief answer, "No orders for you today, sir." But no man heard a single wail or moan from him. And so it was in the financial crash in which he was involved by another's crime. And so it was through all the weary months while his life was ebbing away. Calm, self-controlled, patient, brave, he suffered, waited for the storm to pass, the pain to end, the day to dawn, the triumph to come.

3. His generosity to his foes.

He could crush them on the battlefield, but he could admire their constancy to their cause, their knowing and skill. And when they were crushed, he could be generous beyond most; as witnesses his treatment of Lee and his army at Appomattox--treatment which wrung tears from Lee himself. And, again, when his business partner had financially ruined him, left him without a home or the means of subsistence, yet was caught in the toils and sent to prison; no man heard a word of abuse fall from his lips. Where other men would have uttered curses loud and deep, Grant was silent. If he cherished enmity and hate to the man who brought ruin to his home, and the last storm-cloud over his life, no man heard the expression of such hate. In his generosity he left his destroyer alone.

4. His correctness as a family man is worthy of note, and imitation.

The wife he loved and wedded in his early, obscure days was beloved and honored to the last. And when, in anticipation of his death, great cities were offering their choicest sites for his last resting place, he would have none where the dust of his long-loved and honored wife might not rest beside him. As a husband, as a father, he was ever the pure, stainless, honorable gentleman.

That he was perfect, none will claim. That he was great, and true, and pure, generous, and noble, none can deny.

For his christianity, I cannot speak. I do not know. When he was a colonel and the regimental chaplain had joined the regiment, Grant said to him, "Chaplain, when I was at home, and visitors stopped at my house, I always invited them to ask a blessing at the table. I suppose it is as much needed here as there, and I shall be glad to have you do it whenever we sit down to a meal."

But I am not his judge. His heart life was known to God and to himself. His wife's declaration is that he was a Christian. I am glad to accept that declaration, and to hope and believe that he was. And I know that he is in the hands of one who is wise and just, and merciful, "Who doeth all things well." There I am glad to leave him.

We owe him a boundless debt of gratitude--one we can never repay. He has gone from among us. The tireless brain is still. The generous, brave, loyal, patient, manly heart beats no more. The strong, faithful, noble soul has left its earthly dwelling place. It has proved the mystery of death, the splendor and righteousness of the judgment throne. It has gone to its eternal reward. This day and hour, a mourning nation turns to an open grave in which loving hands with reverend touch deposit his dust. The sympathies of all our millions twine in prayer and benediction around the lonely widow in her woe, and cover her with their tenderness and love; and they mingle no less with the sorrows of the children whom he left behind, and whom he loved with an undying love. Peace to his ashes! Let the earth lie lightly over them! Let the grass wave, the flowers bloom, and the sweeping breezes sigh a requiem over them! And may peace, eternal peace, be to his soul, in that fair land,

"Where falls no hail, or rain or any snow,

Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies

Deep meadowed, happy, fair, with orchard-lawns,

And bowery hollows crowned with summer leas."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

RECAP. Probate Court. Matter of the Estate of William Kaats, deceased. Notice given of Geo. H. Williams becoming Administrator on August 4, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Divorce petition: Lilly Carter, Plaintiff, against James H. Carter, Defendant. Request for minor child, Charlie Carter. Hackney & Asp, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Date: September 35, 1885, for judgment.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

For sale. Twelve good milch cows; one yearling and one two-year-old bull; one yearling heifer; a nice property in Howland's addition to Winfield, to sell or trade for a farm.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

All parties knowing themselves indebted to Cairns & Reynolds, or H. C. Reynolds, will please call at our old stand, at Brotherton & Silver's, and settle and save further costs.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

For Sale. Three hundred Merino ewe sheep for sale or trade. Inquire at J. W. Prather's shoe store, Winfield.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Sea Foam, Graham, Oat Meal, Ice Cream, Champaign and Sugar Wafers--the nicest thing out for tea--at J. P. Baden's. Try them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Blunt's Havana Press Drill is the only press drill that has given entire satisfaction. W. A. Lee is the agent for Cowley County, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

If you don't want to be troubled at night, give your little ones Cole's Diarrhoea Remedy for cramps, colic, etc. Prepared and sold only at Cole's Drug Store, Winfield.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Three of my family had the ague. One bottle of Cole's Ague Cure has cured them. I can cheerfully recommend Cole's Ague Cure as the best ague remedy I ever used.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

If you want a good, substantial fence, go to Eastman & Cochran, the slat and wire fence manufacturers. They make all lengths, from 30 inches to four feet. South Main St., rear of Bullen's lumber yard.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

For Sale. My farm in Richland township, within a half mile of the proposed new town of "Wilmot," on the K. C. & S. W. railroad, consisting of 320 acres. Also my stock--55 head of 1 and 2 year old heifers, in calf by imported Galloway bull. Also 28 head of half-blood Galloway calves by their sides. The farm is fenced with wire, and good, perpetual running water. A. T. Holmes, Wilmot P. O.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Will be at the Central Hotel Parlors, Winfield, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1885, one day only. And in future 2 or 3 days per month.

Prof. A. P. Turner, the founder of the most successful Surgical Institutions in the west. I have spent 20 years in my own institution. The world wide reputation of my American Surgical Institute at Indianapolis, Indiana, is sufficient of itself to satisfy the inquiring public of my skill both as a surgeon and a physician. Wherever I have been sufficient time to give my patrons my time and attention, I most cheerfully ask the public to write to any of my references for information and it is my intention to remain with you and treat all cases to the success which I have heretofore shown in my profession. Special attention given to the eye,. Cross eyes straightened in one moment without pain. The hundreds of testimonials of those treated by me for the above, and which you are at liberty to examine by calling at the Central hotel, will remove all doubts as to my success in the treatment. Remember, WEDNESDAY, August 19, at the CENTRAL HOTEL, call at the parlor. I have established a branch institution at Independence, Kansas. . . .

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

NEW YORK, August 8. The closing day of the funeral services over the remains of the late General dawned with a clear sky, bright sun, and cooling breeze more beautiful. Four o'clock passed and the gray dawn had deepened into red daylight. Nearby the strains of the dirge music crept out on the morning air. Sunrise was near, and the sad music grew more distinct. Then the blue-coated veterans of Meade Post, Philadelphia, five hundred strong, came tramping to the dirge music of trumpets. The veterans entered the plaza, marched past, while the muffled drums made their footsteps heavy. The guns boomed out, the chimes of Old Trinity pealed mournful notes. The sound of the muffled drums grew fainter.

It was sunrise. The day was born, the last, for the solemn services which are to mark the commitment to the tomb of all that is mortal of him whom the Nation mourns. From the firing of the sunrise gun this morning, the boom of minute guns fired at stated intervals by both military and naval details selected to pay tribute to the Nation's dead, is heard proclaiming to the people that the last sad rites are under way, and before the day closes the hero of the Union will have been committed to his tomb. Church bells began tolling, ringing in the mournful cadence, and their pealing has added to the general feeling of sorrow and gloom that is everywhere displayed. Not in the history of the metropolis or of the Nation has there been such universal mourning as on this occasion nor has there been exhibited such wide-spread sympathy for the family of which the Nation's hero was late the head.

The streets along the route laid out for the passage were packed with people since early this morning. Many have remained up all night for the purpose of finding an advantageous position to view the pageant. Military and civic bodies are marching to the beat of muffled drums, and are marching to and fro taking up positions in the streets leading to Broadway, and preparing to fall in at the signal for the start. Everything is bustle and the crowds are well behaved and police arrangements so perfect that the military and Grand Army posts experience but little inconvenience in going to the places assigned to them. The funeral cortege will undoubtedly be the grandest and most imposing ever witnessed. Fully one hundred thousand men follow the body to the grave at Riverside Park. Thousands were disappointed when the doors closed at one a.m., not being able to see the remains. The line then extended clear around the park and some distance along Broadway and adjacent streets. It is estimated that fully 300,000 people viewed the remains yesterday. Immediately after the doors closed, the plaza was closed. The undertakers took charge of the remains, and allowed those present to take one last look.

Then the casket closed forever. Then the dead was left in the care of the guards who stood erect within the closed iron gates and beneath the black drapings. The night wore on and the grey of daylight was creeping up the east. The still stir of the tomb-like corridors became heavy with the perfume of flowers near the dead.

At six o'clock Wilson Post, of Baltimore, marched by, followed by the Chicago organization, the last guard of the Grant G. A. R. post, save the thirteen who will attend the body to the tomb. Later General Hancock and his staff trooped slowly into the plaza from Broadway and presented front to the City Hall, and then moved to the end of the plaza. When they rested one hundred members of the Liderkranz Society filed up to the steps of the City Hall, and led by four instruments, sang with impressive effect the chorus of "The Spirits From Over the Water," by Schubert, and the chorus of "The Pilgrims," from "Tannhauser." The regular guard filed into the open space at nine o'clock. Company "A," Fifth Artillery, and Company "E," Twelfth Infantry companies and the guard and regulars is under the entire command of Colonel Beck. The regulars took position beneath the trees opposite the City Hall and stood at rest. Then came the original guard of honor that was on duty at Mt. McGregor. These took places beside the remains, under command of Jno. H. Johnston, of the Grant Post, Brooklyn. The men as they stood were as follows: To the left of the casket, Comrades Corwin, Howatt, McDonald, Squires, Knight, and Gilliam. To the right of the casket, Comrades Tibbets, MacKeller, McKeever, Brodie, Collins, and Barker. At 9:35 the imposing funeral car, drawn by twenty-four jet black horses in black trappings, halted on the plaza in front of the City Hall steps. Inside the corridor Commander Johnson was waiting. "Columns in position, right and left," was his command. The Veteran Guard of Honor stood erect.

"Lift remains," was the next command. The twelve men stooped to the silver rails with gloved hands.

"March," was the word. The body moved out upon the portico and down the steps with measured tread across the open space to the steps of the black waiting car. Commander Johnson stepped aside. The silver mountings glistened as the buried case and its honored burden was carried up and placed upon the dais in the mounted catafalque. The veterans retired down the steps. The Honor Guard, next to the hearse, on either side, took the same positions they had maintained to the remains while being borne to the hearse. The steps were drawn away from the funeral car. Commander Johnson took his place in the center and immediately behind the car. At his left and right, on either rear corner of the car were Comrades Downing and Ormstice of Wheeler Post, Saratoga. Next and directly behind these were representatives of the Loyal Legion abreast as follows: General John J. Wilhan, General C. A. Carlton, Paymaster George D. Barton, Lieutenant Colonel Floyd Clarkson, Lieutenant Colonel A. M. Clark, and Captain E. Blunt. The clergy and physicians had paid respect to the remains by alighting from the carriages and accompanying them from the steps to the hearse; they then entered their carriages.

NEW YORK, August 8.--The carriages following the funeral car as it left the City Hall contained Rev. Dr. Newman, Bishop Harris, Bishop Potter, Rev. Dr. Chambers, Rev. Dr. Field, Rev. Dr. Bridgeman, Rev. Dr. West, Rev. Father Deshon, Robert Collyer, Rabbi Browne, and Drs. Douglass, Shrady, and Sands. Colonel Beck was in command of regulars. He commanded his company to positions, Company A on the right and Company E on the left of the hearse. The colored men were at the bridles of the twenty-four black horses. Sixteen men of Meade Post, of Philadelphia, of which Grant was a member, were directly in front. The David's Island band preceded them. The signal was given and the line of coaches with the clergy moved off the plaza on to Broadway. The band stood waiting at the head of the funeral cortege. Colonel Beck advanced to the head of the line of black horses before the coach.

"Move on," were his words of command with uplifted sword. The leaders stepped forward led by the colored men and in an instant the black line of horses had straightened the traces, and the wheels beneath the remains were moving. The hour was 9:47 and the band played a dirge to the tramp of the regulars. Thousands were beneath the trees and crowding the sides of the square, and looked silently on. The black funeral car rolled over the curb into Broadway. The black corridors of the City Hall were silent. Grant's last journey was begun. Comptroller Low and Aldermen Sanger and Jachne emerged from the City Hall and entered the carriage that had drawn up in front. The members of the Common Council followed and entered carriages, and when it was ten o'clock the police lines were withdrawn, and people streamed across the piazza. The last scene was ended.

NEW YORK, August 8.--The members of the Grant family, with the exception of Mrs. Grant, have decided to await the arrival of the funeral procession at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where they are staying. Dr. Douglas joined them at nine a.m. Mrs. Sartoris was deeply affected during the meeting and sobbed as she shook the hand of the physician who bore such an important part in the closing days of her father's life. At precisely ten o'clock the carriages drove up to the entrance and members of the family took seats in them as follows: Colonel Grant, accompanied by Mrs. Sartoris and Mrs. Fred Grant took seats in the first carriage. The second carriage was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Grant and Senor Romero. Jesse Grant and wife entered the third. In the fourth were Mr. and Mrs. Cramer. The next carriage contained General Creswell and wife, and was followed by Potter Palmer and Mr. Honore. In another and the last carriage were Mr. Morton and Dr. Exel. At 10:30 a.m. President Cleveland appeared at the entrance of the hotel and entered his carriage. He was accompanied by Secretary Bayard. The President was dressed in a plain black suit, black high silk hat, and carried an umbrella. Following the carriage of Cleveland and those of the Grant family were the carriages containing Vice President Hendricks and delegation of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. These carriages formed in Twenty-third street three abreast on the line extending toward Sixth avenue, waiting the arrival of the catafalque. At precisely 11:45 General Hancock reached the head of the column, which was then at Twenty-third street and Broadway. Riding along the whole line of formation, from the City Hall on his coal black charger in front of his brilliantly uniformed staff, he was the cynosure of all eyes. He rode with easy grace, and as the people caught sight of the commanding figure of Gettysburg, they were inspired with expressions of admiration which were only partly suppressed by the solemn character of the occasion. On arriving at the head of the column, the General issued the order to march, and the mournful cortege began to move, wending its way up Broadway to the solemn music of bands, en route to Riverside Park.

NEW YORK, August 8. The cortege is moving in the following order.

Two platoons of mounted police.

Major-General Hancock and staff.

General Aspinwall, chief aide, and staff.

General Shaler and staff.

FIRST DIVISION TROOPS (UNDER ARMS).

Federal troops, 1,500.

United States Engineers Corps, 450.

Pall bearers in carriages.

Funeral car with catafalque upholding the body of General Grant.

Gentlemen of General Grant's family in carriages.

Clergymen and Physicians of General Grant in carriages.

U. S. Grant Post, of Brooklyn, and Meade Post, of Philadelphia, escorts of honor.

United States Naval Brigade, 1,000.

First Division, N. G. S. N. Y., 4,500.

Second Division, N. G. S. N. Y., 3,000.

Division, N. G. S. N. J., 2,800.

First Regiment, Pennsylvania N. G., 500.

Second Regiment, Connecticut N. G., 500.

First Regiment, Massachusetts N. G., 700.

Battalion Virginia Volunteers, 200.

Governor's Foot Guard of Hartford, Connecticut, 175.

Toffey Guard of Newark, N. J., 150.

Colimbo Guard, 100.

Washington Continental Guard, 100.

Old Guard, 80.

Veteran Association One Hundred and Fifty-fifth New York Volunteers, 75.

Highland Guard, 50.

Veteran Colored Guard, 50.

Union Veteran Corps, Washington, 50.

Gate City Guard, Atlanta, 50.

Veteran Zouaves, 30.

Ancient and Honorable Artillery, Hartford.

Veterans First New York Regiment.

Mounted Rifles.

Columbia Guard.

SECOND DIVISION (UNARMED VETERAN CORPS).

Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic of New York, 10,000.

Posts of the Grand Army of New Jersey, 3,000.

Posts of the G. A. R. of other States.

Veteran Associations of seventeen New York regiments.

Veteran Associations of New Jersey other than the G. A. R.

Veterans of the Civil War.

(Eight unattached associations.)

Loyal Legion Commanderies.

Sons of Veterans, twelve companies.

Seventh Regiment Veterans, 200.

National Veteran Association of Chicago, 10.

THIRD DIVISION (CIVIC BODIES).

The President of the United States.

Members of the Cabinet.

House and Senate Committees.

Admiral Jouett and staff.

Governors of the various States.

Mayor Grace and President Sanger, of the Common Council.

Members of the Common Council.

Commodore Chandler and staff.

District Attorney, Comptroller, and Chamberlain.

Register, County Clerk, Sheriff, and Coroners.

Judges of the various courts.

Heads of all municipal departments.

Majors and representatives of other cities.

Representatives of civic bodies.

The route is up Broadway to Fourteenth street, to Fifth avenue, to Fifty-seventh street, to the Boulevard, to Riverside avenue, to the tomb.

NEW YORK, August 8.--The third division is the one which attracted the bulk of the attention.

The carriage in which President Cleveland rode was drawn by six black horses.

Immediately behind this carriage followed six other open carriages containing the Vice President and members of the President's Cabinet.

Behind these followed a carriage drawn by four horses, in which were seated ex-Presidents Hayes and Arthur. The other civic guests followed in the order named below: United States Senators, ten carriages; Members of Congress, sixteen carriages; Admiral Jouett, one carriage; Foreign Ministers, ten carriages; Cabinet of General Grant, four carriages; retired army officers, ten carriages; General Grant's staff, two carriages; family and relatives, seven carriages; clergy, four carriages; attending physicians, two carriages; pall bearers, six carriages; General Sheridan and staff, four carriages; chiefs of the bureaus of the War Department, four carriages; General Schofield and staff, one carriage; Judges of the Supreme Court, six carriages; Governor of Illinois and staff, eight carriages; Governor of Michigan and staff, three carriages; Governor of Wisconsin and staff, five carriages; Governor of Massachusetts and staff, ten carriages; Governor of New Hampshire and staff, three carriages; Governor of Connecticut and staff, four carriages; Governor of Vermont and staff, four carriages; Governor of Pennsylvania and staff, twelve carriages; Governor of New Jersey and staff, fifteen carriages; Governor of Rhode Island and staff, four carriages; Governor of Iowa and staff, two carriages; Governor of Dakota and staff, seven carriages; Governor of Virginia and staff, three carriages; Representatives of the Governor of Indiana, two carriages; Legislature of New York, thirty carriages. General Franklin, President of the Soldiers' Home, one carriage. Messrs. Drexel and Childs, one carriage. Board of Indian Commissioners, two carriages. Mayor and Representatives of the City of Brooklyn, fifteen carriages. Mayor and Common Council of New York City, thirty-five carriages. Mayor and Common Council of Boston, six carriages. Mayor and Common Council of St. Louis, ten carriages.

NEW YORK, August 8.--At Riverside all is ready at this hour, one p.m. for the reception of the remains. The burial services at the vault will be brief, but impressive, and consist of the service of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the dead. There will be no address. Dr. Newman and Bishop Harris will officiate. The services will be preceded by the ritual of the G. A. R., conducted by a detail of fifteen comrades from the George G. Meade Post No. 1, of Philadelphia. The members of the family and pall bearers will then withdraw and the coffin will be placed in the cedar "shell" by the undertaker and his assistants. The lead lining will be soldered together and the top of the box fastened on. It will then be placed in the steel case within the vault, which will be securely riveted. The undertakers and others will then withdraw and the salute will be fired, which will conclude the final ceremonies.

NEW YORK, August 8.--The body arrived at the grave at 2:45 and the burial rites of the G. A. R. are now being performed. Dr. Newman will follow with the reading of the burial services of the Methodist Episcopal Church, after which the firing of three volleys of musketry and three salvos of artillery will do military honors to the dead. The ceremonies at the grave will conclude with a salute of twenty-one guns by the light battery, Fifth Artillery, and bugle taps.

NEW YORK, August 8, 6 p.m.--The services ended as indicated in previous dispatches, the tomb has been closed, and the multitude has silently dispersed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

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Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The premium list is full and the speed program unexcelled.

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Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Russian Prince Alexander Gagarine, driven to desperation by heavy losses at the gambling tables of Monte Carlo, had committed suicide.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

A Franco-German newspaper was broke out recently consequent upon an article in the North German Gazette accusing the Tempe of Paris of getting up a Chauvinistic agitation.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

In the recent Kentucky election, Tate, Democrat, for State Treasurer, was opposed by Fox, Prohibitionist, but was elected by a good majority. A light vote was polled all over the State. The constitutional convention measure was defeated.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Under a decree of the United States Circuit Court in favor of the International Trust Company Union, Marshal Cabell, of Dallas, Texas, advertised the Texas Trunk Railway for sale on the first Tuesday in October. The road extends from Dallas to Kaufman, a distance of forty miles.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

An Austin special says: The complaint to President Cleveland by Kansas cattlemen leasing lands in the Indian Territory that Texas is already stocked to its utmost capacity, sounds strange in face of the fact that there are 30,000,000 acres of school and university lands subject to sale and lease in Texas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

By Indian Inspector Armstrong's census of the Cheyennes and Arapahos, the population of these tribes was found to be 2,167 and 1,207 respectively. They had been drawing rations for ten years for 3,769 and 2,198 members, respectively. The saving in beef and flour alone by the new census is $105,000 a year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Later information concerning the cyclone near Philadelphia is that five persons were killed, four reported missing, and sixty injured, some so seriously that recovery is impossible. The loss will be $500,000 including $200,000 on property in Camden; $100,000 on property in Philadelphia, and $200,000 on vessels damaged on the river.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The notorious Mexican outlaw, Abelardo Figera, was captured on the night of July 30 by county officials and lodged in jail at Edinburg, Texas, on the charge of assault with intent to kill. This man has killed several men in Mexico, and is supposed to have been implicated in the murder of Andrews and Noble, who were killed some time ago.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Perry Bros., jewelers, of Chicago, have made an assignment. Liabilities, $40,000; assets, $60,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Frankfort and Berlin bourses were seriously affected by the recent bickerings between French and German newspapers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

A mob the other night at Oakland, Mississippi, hanged a man named Vance, who recently killed his wife and afterwards attempted to kill himself.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Civil Service Commission, after inquiry, exonerated Aquilia Jones, postmaster of Indianapolis, of the charges preferred against him.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The village of Milford, Wisconsin, was almost destroyed by fire the other night. It was the fourth fire in a short time and was thought to have been incendiary.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

During a heavy thunderstorm at Gerona, Spain, recently, a church was struck by lightning during the celebration of the mass. Two of the worshipers were killed and fifteen others were badly wounded.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

President Cleveland recently wrote a letter to a Cincinnati man, who confessed to recommending an unworthy person for a judgeship, a bitter letter of denunciation of such treachery and deceit in misleading the Administration.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The discontented section of the Tories, led by the Whig section of the English cabinet, are making overtures for a coalition. By a coalition it is intended to obtain in the new Parliament a majority sufficient to control the Radicals and Parnellites.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

A dispatch from Vienna to the London Telegraph says Austria has formally notified the United States Government that Mr. Kelley is not acceptable as American Minister to Austria, and has expressed the hope that he will be recalled and another appointment be made.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, fearing that the strikers would forcibly prevent the sending out of trains, recently requested the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pa., to send a squad of police to the junction at Glenwood. The police arrested eight men and remained in the company's yard to prevent an outbreak.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Commissioner Coffman was informed recently of an undoubted outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia in a herd of sixty thoroughbred cattle at Port Richmond, Staten Island. Four or five valuable animals have died. The Commissioner has written to the Governor of New York asking whether he will cooperate with the department in quarantining the herd.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

There were 4,294 new cases of cholera reported throughout Spain on the 6^th and 1,638 deaths.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

General Lew Wallace, ex-Minister to Turkey, has closed his accounts with the Government.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Adolf Erdman, of Missouri, and James Dugan, of Mississippi, have been appointed special examiners of the Pension Office.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The bark Wyoming, which arrived at New York on the 5^th, reported finding a dory off Cape Clear, without an occupant, and it is supposed he had been drowned.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

A severe hail storm occurred the other morning between Elba and North Loup, Nebraska, destroying corn and other crops in a strip of territory ten miles wide. It broke all the windows in a passenger train on the Black Hills branch of the Union Pacific.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

At Prestonsburg, Kentucky, recently during a disturbance caused by drunkenness, Proctor Arnett was killed, Lee Patrick fatally wounded, and two others injured. Thirty or forty shots were fired. The men were all colored.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Yellow fever appeared at Mazatlan and Tehuantepec, Mexico. At the former place the disease is not violent and the physicians have good success in treating it. At Tehuantepec efforts are being made by the municipal authorities to stamp out the fever.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Myrtle Ross, a handsome and respectable young lady of Cleveland, made arrangements to wed Samuel Smith recently. The guests assembled but Samuel did not appear. It has since been learned that he fled the city and that he had a wife in Medina, New York.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Officer Thomas Bender attempted to arrest an unknown man who was drunk and disorderly in Pittsburg the other night. The man resisted, and the officer struck him twice with a hand billy. The man fell on the pavement and shortly after died. The officer surrendered himself and was locked up.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The directors of the Mountain Company (Mt. McGregor) are talking of leading a movement, after the popular subscription to the Grant monument shall have been made, for cutting in the granite face of the hill a colossal profile of the General finishing his book. The estimated cost is about $100,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The United States Consul at Denla, Spain, reported to the State Department at Washington, by cable, that cholera had been officially declared at that port.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The public debt statement showed the decrease during the month of July to be $8,662,789.96.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Commercial Bank, of Suffolk, Virginia, suspended Friday. The deposits were about $100,000.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

S. S. Cox, United States Minister, has been especially instructed, it is reported at Constantinople, to resume negotiations with the Porte for a modification of the Turkish tariffs on American imports.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

The Rt. Rev. Richard Phelan was consecrated coadjutor Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburg, and Tutelar Bishop of Phrygia at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the 2^nd. The ceremony was very imposing.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Urley Pugh and J. D. Smith, two young men residing three miles west of Ranger, Texas, while in an intoxicated condition, were run over and killed by an east bound passenger train on the Texas & Pacific Railroad.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

An official dispatch from Victoria, B. C., says that extradition papers have been granted in the case of Hibbs, the defaulting postmaster of Lewiston, Idaho, and that $10,000 found on his person will also be turned over.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

A full grown and ferocious lion made its escape at Texarkana, Texas, recently, as Robinson's show was leaving the town. It sought the woods and was seen several times prowling around the outskirts of the town. It was subsequently shot after injuring a man.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

In accordance with the act of the Legislature prohibiting the employment of boys under twelve years of age in the coal breakers and under fourteen years in the mines, about five hundred boys were discharged from the collieries in the Shamokin, Pennsylvania, district on the 6th.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

HAD TO SKIP THE LAST TWO ITEMS...STREAK THROUGH PAPER MADE THE ABOVE ITEM HARD TO READ AND THE LAST TWO WERE ALMOST OBLITERATED.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

To make room for the new building on Main Street, I have moved my stock of

Opposite Ferguson's Livery Stable, where I hope to see all my old customers and as many new ones as need goods in my line.

Thanking you for past favors, and hoping for a continuance of the same, I am,

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.

Turned Work, Scroll and Bracket Work, and all [?] machine work got out to order. Stair Building a specialty. Estimates furnished on all work and satisfaction guaranteed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

General Sheridan returned to Washington last Saturday evening, and called upon the President yesterday. He reported the Indian affairs to be quiet with no prospect of future outbreak. Capt. Lee, the new military Indian agent, has assumed charge, and all arrangements seemed satisfactory. It is understood that Gen. Sheridan made a strong report against the manner of conducting business by some of the Indian agents, showing irregularities and abuses tending to cause trouble among the Indians, and recommending an entire reorganization of the Indian agent system. It is said that he discovered that one Indian agent was drawing supplies for twice as many Indians as were in reality within the limits of his agency.

The suit against First Controller Durham by the authorities of Mississippi to compel him to give a warrant for five thousand and some odd dollars due that State from the National government, is brought with Judge Durham's consent. There are two contrary decisions in the lease by Judges Lawrence and Porter. Under these circumstances and owing to the contrary statements of the case, Judge Durham determined to leave the matter to Congress or to the courts to decide. It will probably go now through the courts and be finally settled by the Supreme Court.

Attorney General Garland, in reply to questions from Secretary Manning, has decided that in the event that holders or owners of distilled spirits on which tax has not been paid shall have failed within the seven months specified in the bond to withdraw them in fact from the distillery warehouse a forfeiture of the bond follows, and the spirits are not protected thereafter from an obligation for a domestic tax. The effect of the bond while in force and before forfeiture is to free the spirits from such obligation, but this effect ceases upon the forfeiture of the bond. Also, that the spirits covered by exportation bond, after the failure to withdraw them and after the forfeiture of the bond, are liable to distraint, and that the condition of the bond, having been broken by the failure to withdraw the spirits from the warehouse, the right of the government to proceed upon the bond is unquestioned.

The impression is that the man who got so severely handled by the President for making a bad recommendation which he was not willing to stand by, does not live in Ohio, but that some other State--or territory--had the distinction of proposing a new judge whose backers didn't mean it. Ex-Representative Follett says he has thought the thing over, and finds that there has been no judge appointed in Ohio, and no Ohio man appointed to a judgeship outside of the State. Mr. Follett and other Democratic members have informed the President on different occasions that nobody ever meant anything by signing a petition, and that it was not fair to hold them to a recommendation unless it was made in a personal letter; but the President has refused to see the thing in that light, and wants to know what recommendations are for if not to recommend. The President's letter receives commendation on every hand, and particular significance is attached to the reference to his fight against the "bad elements of both parties."

The National Civil Service association meet at Newport today for their annual convention, and, no doubt, the gentlemen of the association as they recline on the spacious piazzas of the cottages of that ultra-fashionable resort, swim in its surf, will criticize sharply all the shortcomings of the administration and give it a large amount of good advice.

A commercial enterprise that promises well, invites American manufacturers and merchants to deposit samples of their goods at a permanent exhibition at Rome for the purpose of extending American commerce with Italy. The project starts under responsible auspices, and if judiciously managed, ought to help our foreign trade. At present we export very little to Italy, though we leave annually a good deal of American money in that country. A well managed commercial agency, such as is now proposed, might enable us to keep the balance of trade near even.

Secretary Whitney has made public the criticisms of the naval advisory board upon the report of the Dolphin board of examiners, with the reply of the latter. The naval advisory board take up the objections made by the examining board to the Dolphin and discuss them at great length, endeavoring to show that the Dolphin is not structurally weak and has the speed contracted for. The examining board in their reply maintain their former views, and point out further defects in the Dolphin not previously mentioned. L.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

There is a time when forbearance ceases to be a virtue. And the citizens who live in the vicinity of the courthouse have reached that stage, and do most earnestly call a halt. We all love music, but don't care to have it mixed up with our sleep. There are two bands that practice in the Court House, each two nights a week. But we all love music--yes, love it, and can't help it, and have not raised an objection, but when you blow your horns till twelve o'clock, we object, and have threatened to blow you up with dynamite, courthouse and all. Now look out, for we are in earnest. Practice on, boys. We appreciate you. We want Winfield to continue to have the best and most bands of any city in Kansas, but for heaven's sake hold in your courthouse horns at half past nine, and give Old Morpheus a chance. Selah.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

J. O. Taylor is in from several weeks' rambles in the western counties, and is imbued with the flattering prospects. Sod corn, in many places, will make forty and fifty bushels per acre. He says Ashland and Clark County are developing magically, as are counties farther west, where one hundred and fifty claims a day are being taken. He mentions, as a small sandwich, the killing of one Peck at Englewood the other night. The Peck brothers were at a dance with their Dulcianas. They started to go, a cowboy persisted in their staying, followed the party out to the wagon, where a fracas took place. One of the Pecks was shot dead and the cowboy is in the toils.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

R. W. Handy came in Friday from a few days at Elk City, with a bad hand. He started for home Thursday night in the caboose of the accommodation train. Sitting near the door when the train stopped with a jerk, he threw his hand around to catch himself on the door frame edge. The door was unfastened and that shut like a bullet, cutting one of the fingers almost off at the first joint and badly using up others. He stopped at Moline, had the severed member stuck on again, and hopes it will grow back all right.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

The seven-year-old son of T. L. Davis, of West Bolton township, climbed upon the edge of a rain barrel about half full of water, and doubled himself up over the rim to see the "wiggle tails" play, when he lost his balance and plunged head first into the barrel. He was unable to extricate himself, and had it not been for the timely appearance of his mother, the little fellow would undoubtedly have perished. He was as limp as a rag when his mother pulled him out, and they rolled and pumped him for five or ten minutes before he was restored to consciousness.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

About the only first-class crossing culvert in the city has just been constructed across Loomis and Ninth avenue, this side of the Court House. It was put in by Hank Thomas, under supervision of Mr. James Connor, chairman of the city council's street and alley committee. The bottom is lined with water tight flagging, the walls are built solidly to the top, and the crossing stones are six inches thick and four feet wide--will last forever. This culvert will not fill up and sink down in a year or so and be worthless, worse than none. It will clean itself with every good rain and make a first-class drain. Put in more like it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

The Ladies' Aid Society of the Baptist church held a lap social at the home of Rev. Reider Friday night. The occasion was largely attended and very enjoyable. The evening was cool and balmy, making the absence of ice cream acceptable and giving a warm reception to yellow legged chickens and other splendid culinary productions. A Baptist is as bad on chicken as a Methodist. The recent improvements of the Baptist parsonage make it a very pleasant and convenient home. The room is doubled and the appearance, interior and exterior, thribbled. Our Baptists are mediocre in nothing. About two hundred were present last night. The social was not for gain, but a purely social occasion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

A press dispatch from Belle Plaine, dated Aug. 14, says: "Sixty-one miles of the Denver, Memphis and Atlantic railway was sub-let here yesterday to be completed ready for operation by November 1^st. This is a portion of the new road to be built from Denver to Memphis direct. Messrs. Fitzgerald and Mallory have a contract to complete 235 miles. Four hundred teams will be at work next week."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

John R. Eriembusch, of Mt. Pulaski, Illinois, and Dora G. Morstetter, of this county, were joined together by Judge Gans Saturday in the blissful matrimonial one. They hadn't met each other for a long time, and on the groom's arrival this morning, accompanied by the mother of the bride, the happy couple proceeded immediately to the "P. J." office to get "jined."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Once more we are happy to chronicle the event of being banqueted to as fine a watermelon as the children ever sat down to. Holmes & Son are the benefactors. Long may they live. They have our thanks.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

A man was struck dead by lightning last Tuesday while walking across the street at New Kiowa. [?] (Paper had Kiawa.)

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

The militia are trying to raise money enough to build a good armory. They have purchased a lot on the corner just west of the Presbyterian church. They do not wish the citizens to give anything without value returned, but prefer to sell shares at $10 apiece. They will put up a good building--the upper story to rent. It does seem to us that this will be a good investment, looking at it in this light. Our businessmen should take hold and give the boys a lift. The only way to keep our militia company is to erect a good armory. We have a militia company that we may justly be proud of and let us give the boys a lift. You are not giving it but will receive a good rate of interest on your investment. Tom Harris is soliciting shares for this enterprise. You don't have to pay all the money at once but in small installments.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Our thanks are due to the aesthete who so kindly and thoughtfully left a mammoth sunflower on our desk. If there is any one thing more than another that our reporter delights in, it is the calm contemplation of large sunflowers; and they are so lovely for the button-hole at evening; or, if there was enough of them, they could be used to garnish a large and loud figured chintz mother hubbard, so that it could se said of those thus arrayed, that Solomon in all his glory was ne'er arrayed like one of these--and we'd be willing to bet, if we were a bet-ter man, that he was not.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

A man inquired for oysters at one of our restaurants yesterday. The proprietor told him that oysters were good only in the months with an "r" in them, like September, October, etc. "Well," said the man, "this month has an "r" in it." "How do you make that out?" asked the restaurant keeper. "Why, if o-r-g-u-s-t (spelling it out) hasn't got an "r" in it, then I can't spell, that's all."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Humor has it that one of our eligible widowers will soon take unto himself a better half--about next week, watch out, boys, for the cigars. It is better to live with a good woman than to endure single woe. This should be rigidly enforced by a city ordinance.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Uncle Jimmy Land is happy, though he might be happier. His fine Norman mare was presented with a fine colt at daylight Saturday. He says it is the finest colt he ever saw. If it had been a mare, he had a standing offer of $40 for it as soon as born.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Profs. A. H. Limerick and J. A. Wood delivered temperance addresses at Burden Friday night, and organized an adjunct to the State and County Temperance Unions.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Dr. S. Wilkins and Mr. Dwyer were over from Cambridge Saturday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

R. P. Hutchison and wife were up from the Canal City Saturday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Watermillions are as plentiful as the sands by the sea shore.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Our elongated scribe spent Friday at Burden and other eastern Cowley places. Such a trip imbues one with the prominent fact that Cowley is a mighty big and wealthy institution. We like Burden. We have always liked it. The people are enterprising and social and the town comely and substantial; and the ladies--well, we won't enhance the envy of our ladies just now. Like every other town in the Union, Burden's business is not on a rush just at present. This is the dullest season of the year everywhere. But a number of good buildings are going up, prominent among them a new Baptist church. The Baptists have had no organization in Burden, but Elder Childs, from Rev. Reider's old Indiana home, has come on and is working the matter up very successfully. Behind John Ledlie's flyer and in his little red buggy, John showed us the town and where all the Honorables, Colonels, and Judges live. Pretty lawns and neat houses are no exceptions in Burden. A drive northeast of Burden reveals as pretty a country as the eye ever beheld--showing the grit and energy of Cowley's best farmers. The farms of R. F. Burden, J. K. Woods, and many others in that section are famous among Cowley farms. There are no "Rip Van Winkle" farmers in that country--in fact, such are exceedingly "scarce" all over Cowley's fair domain. A drive to Cambridge takes in a glimpse of Cowley's sheep and cattle country: big pastures, gentle kine, little "lams," and hoggish swine in profusion. Dr. F. A. Howland, sone of our A. H. Howland, and well known here, is working up a splendid practice in Cambridge and vicinity. He is a young man, but a thorough student, and will succeed. The corn in all eastern Cowley is about safe and will be immense. Such a trip relieves the dull monotony of newspaper work--grind, grind, day in and day out. The relief almost instigates a leap over the moon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

"The surveyors on the K. C. & Southwestern railroad," says the A. C. Democrat, "arrived in our city Monday, having completed the survey to this place. The depot has been located opposite Central avenue, about three hundred yards north and east of the A. T. & S. F. depot on the northwest corner of John Harmon's farm. This undoubtedly will settle the question in the minds of those who bellowed so loud about this road being a "bob-tail" concern owned head and tail by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and would run from Winfield to this point on that track. We did not believe that Mr. Hill would attempt to gull our people into any such scheme, as he has too much at stake in Arkansas City to place a stumbling block in the way that would tend to cripple or injure her future. As we have said before, we believe the Kansas City and Southwestern is an independent road, owned and controlled by the Gould system and will be a competing line and of vast benefit to our people when completed, and there is now not a question of doubt about it being completed, and that too within a very short time. A permanent survey has been made to this point, and we are informed that the contract has been let for four miles of grading on this end of the line, which will be commenced next week. The company expect to have the grading done, the track laid, the rolling stock on, and trains running into Arkansas City by the middle of October or first of November. Before the summer is ended and the harvest gathered in, we will all feel like taking off our hats and giving three cheers for Jim Hill and the Kansas City and Southwestern railroad. Not a "bob-tail thing," but a concern with a narrative of sufficient length to wag Arkansas City into a boom that will place her far in the lead of any city in the southwest. Just listen! We will be the Terminus of two competing lines of railroad, the head of navigation, and the great supply point of the Indian Territory. Surely Arkansas City has in store for her a bright future."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Mr. J. B. Garvin, whom we mentioned some time ago as having gone to Wheeling, West Virginia, returned Saturday. While in Wheeling he was married to Miss Clemma Parrish, an intelligent and accomplished young lady, and she accompanied him as far as Kansas City and from there went west to Lincoln Center, Nebraska, to visit with friends for two or three weeks, when she will come to Winfield, where Mr. and Mrs. Garvin will make their future home. Mr. Garvin is a young gentleman of first-class business abilities and socially is very much admired by his acquaintances--in short, he is possessed of all the qualities that go to make a true gentleman and which will insure his success in any business field. THE COURIER extends hearty congratulations and a sincere wish that Mr. and Mrs. Garvin may enjoy a life of peace, happiness, and prosperity, and may the claws of a divorce court never scratch them asunder. We will smoke at the bridegroom's pleasure.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

District Clerk Pate turns out an unusual day's grist--six cases for Friday. Warren Cottingham, Nancy A. Cottingham, and James Hollingsworth, all appeal from the K. C. & S. W. damage allowed them by the County Commissioners; Arkansas City's police court ends up three appeals: City vs. L. C. Rice--he appeals on a fine of $100 and costs for illegal co-habitation with a fair damsel. City vs. Frank J. Hess, the latter appealing on conviction of illegally connecting with Arkansas City's water works. City vs. Chas. Bassow. Chas. kicks on conviction of unlawful co-habitation with Mrs. E. Matson, for which he was fined $10 and costs.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

The Winfield Fence Works of Smedley & Gest are now in successful operation. They have two of the Everett fence weaver machines, the best, easiest, and most perfect machine made, and can make from one hundred to two hundred rods of fence per day. They have a large stock of material on hand, and are selling fencing by the mile. They have on exhibit a hammock made on their machine: a perfect hammock and swinging chair combined, well worth seeing. Ye reporter has taken a contract to swing all the pretty girls in Winfield. Who comes first?

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Mr. W. A. Pickens, one of the editors of the Spencer, Owen County, Democrat, and who, with his sister, spent the last few weeks here visiting his brother, Dr. F. M. Pickens, writes as follows to his paper.

"When the Creator put the finishing touch on the earth, he made Southern Kansas. Some of your Owen County readers may think the reports of the great prosperity of Kansas are lies gotten up by real estate men and railroad managers, but they are not. When you remember that Kansas took the premiums at the late World's Fair at New Orleans on grains, on fruits, and on flour, you will not be surprised at the reports of her wealth that reach you. The best grains, the best fruits, the best flour in the world--that is the whole tale shortly told.

"The firm of Bliss & Wood, millers, at Winfield, handles over four hundred thousand bushels of wheat a year. This is not the only mill here. Ask your millers at Spencer what they handle and you may have some idea of the wheat product of this country. The leading grocery firm here handles over one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars worth of poultry a year. Ask your leading grocer at Spencer the amount of his business in this line. A few instances of individual prosperity and success will give you an idea of the general growth of wealth. I will take Owen County men. Wm. Bonnewell came to this vicinity about 1872. He came from near Vandalia and brought with him two teams and a small amount of money. His corn crop last year was 8,000 bushels; this year he estimates it at 10,000 bushels. John Cain came here from the same neighborhood a little later. Last year he had 1,560 bushels of corn and 800 bushels of wheat. This year he estimates his wheat crop at 1,800 bushels. He is only a renter and these figures represent only his share of the crops he has raised. I might give numerous instances like the above, but your readers who are used to the hills of Owen would not credit them. These things look unreasonable to the people in Owen County, but you must remember that there is scarcely an acre of ground in this country that is not tillable and that it is all richer than the best of your White River bottoms. The people here are public spirited and free with their money when it comes to any public enterprise. A few weeks ago the M. E. Church at this place decided to re-furnish and re-paint their church house and to buy a bell. It required $1,100. They raised the money by contributed subscriptions in less than a week. The other churches are equally well supported."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

The second Monday evening in every month is regular monthly muster and inspection. For the benefit of those that are liable to be negligent, I publish the following part of State Statute.

Art. XI. Sec. 12-59. Every non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, who shall willfully neglect to attend monthly muster and inspection, or appear without his proper uniform and arms, shall be deemed guilty of a breach of discipline and shall be fined in such sum as the Company Court of discipline shall assess against him, not to exceed five dollars for the first offense; nor more than ten dollars for the second offense; and for a third offense he shall be fined twenty-five dollars and shall be dishonorably discharged from the service.

Art. XI. Sec. 61. All fines imposed under any of the provisions of these rules shall be paid within ten days from the date of review of sentence, by the proper reviewing officer, and upon failure to pay such fine the Company Commander shall place the proper papers in the hands of a Justice of the Peace in the township or city in which the offender lives, and the Justice of the Peace shall at once issue his process (Sec. 24, 25, Art. VIII, ch. 141, laws of 1885.) These laws will be strictly enforced. C. E. Steuven, Captain.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

R. N. Clark, a farmer who lives near Tannehill, had a very peculiar accident happen to him Thursday. He was filling his barn loft with hay. A boy was inside stowing the hay back. Underneath were the stalls for the horses in which were two horses and a colt. All at once the floor of the loft gave way and four tons of prairie hay and a boy came down upon the horses. One broke its alter and gout out and the colt also managed to get away, but the other was fastened up tight and sure. Mr. Clark dug an opening to where the animal was lying, fastened a chain to the hind legs and with a team, drew it out. The animal was all right, no damage except to the floor.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Wellington dudes have struck a novel scheme for sounding the equilibrium of their affections. Winfield has just such a case, and we present this from the Press, as a pointer: "A couple of our prominent society young men, not exactly agreeing with each other's connection with a young lady, Saturday eve repaired to the outskirts of the city and proceeded to fight a duel, the winner to have the free will of the other to pay his addresses to the lady in question. We withhold all names as they of course do not desire their publication. Considerable beefsteak and arnica is being used by the defeated party."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

A. T. Spotswood and Q. A. Glass are home from a novel three days' fishing expedition. They took Quincy's skiff and went down the Walnut, loaded with fishing tackle and expectation--and recreative determination. The first night they hauled up at Mr. Hunt's, near Odessa schoolhouse, with a good string of fish. The next night was spent at Magnolia farm. They brought back no fish, having loaned them all out, but they were weighted down with the realization of the best and most novel recreation they ever had.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

At a meeting of the Cowley County Teacher's Association, held the last week of the Institute, an arrangement was agreed upon for carrying out the work of the State course of study in the schools of the county. A committee of teachers will arrange the work for each month, and give, through the county papers, such outlines and suggestions as will enable the teachers of the county to follow a uniform system of instruction. Examinations will be held at intervals during the school year on questions proposed to cover the work as it progresses. From these examinations each teacher will be enabled to measure his school with those of his fellow teachers, and determine its standing.

The advantages of a carefully arranged plan by which all the schools of our county can move in one unbroken phalanx, with one common end in view, can hardly be estimated. Among them we might name the following.

1^st. The assistance that can be given to each school in the arrangement of its study through the suggestions of a committee that will give the matter careful thought and study.

2^nd. The stimulus that will be given by concert of action.

3^rd. The emulation arising from the knowledge that others are doing the same work as ourselves.

4^th. The discussions of subjects and plan of study at Teachers' Associations, and

5^th. The one "Projective Point" at which all are aiming.

Now, will not our school officers and patrons join in this movement and aid in putting our schools on the high road to success?

The efforts of the best teacher, directed by the most careful management, without the sympathy and cooperation of parents and officers, must be, at best, but partially successful.

Let us each, then, with our co-equal interests in our schools, do our part in this great drama, and we shall see this year mark a new epoch in our educational growth.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

There has been another enterprise organized here during the week. It is for the purpose of laying out a town in old Stanton County, and is called the Veteran Town Company. The members are: J. A. Cooper, J. B. Nipp, M. L. Robinson, Geo. W. Robinson, Ivan Robinson, J. L. M. Hill, J. R. Taylor, S. H. Rodgers, Jas. H. Bullene, W. R. McDonald, T. H. Byers, F. L. Branniger, F. S. Jennings, E. P. Greer, John Arrowsmith, A. R. Nipp, J. C. Long, J. C. Vorheis, Wm. Camery, and T. H. Soward. The offices are: J. A. Cooper, president; J. B. Nipp, vice-president; W. R. McDonald, secretary and general agent; Geo. W. Robinson, treasurer. The company owns eleven hundred acres of land in Stanton County, one section of which is now being laid off as the town of "Veteran." It is located in the beautiful Bear creek valley, and will be the county seat of that new county when organized. The company is a strong one and will proceed at once to build a city without further ado. A large number of lots have been already contracted for and buildings will go up on them at once. A newspaper is now on the way and the VETERAN COURIER will soon unfold its banner to the breeze. W. R. McDonald is the authoritative business head of the company and will remain on the ground.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

The Santa Fe company have learned that the D., M. & A. is a surety, and have set to work to defeat its bonds in Chautauqua County. It says if Chautauqua will defeat the bonds on the 25^th, it will extend its line from Independence down through Sedan and on west along the border to Caldwell, and that it will also extend its branch from Howard to Sedan. It has furnished transportation for a large number of Chautauqua's prominent men to attend a conclave at Topeka Saturday. But the solid men of our sister county see the Santa Fe's game. It has held a monopoly of the business of Southern Kansas. It knows the D., M. & A. to be a live, reliable reality and that its monopoly is about to be busted. So it gets up this checkmate scheme. The bonds defeated, it will sit back on its monopoly and stir not a peg. The S. K. is owned and controlled by the Santa Fe and through it, has this territory in its grasp. Messrs. M. B. Crisman and L. J. Wiley, of Wannetta, Chautauqua County, were over today. They say the people of that county know the superior benefits to them of the D., M. & A., have tumbled to the Santa Fe racket and will vote the bonds without difficulty. The Santa Fe puts up no guarantee money--all talk.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

The corn crop for this county is well assured. The partial failure of the wheat caused much of it to be plowed up, and corn was put in its place. The web worm destroyed some of the latest planted corn, but persons who have traveled much over the county claim that we will have from twenty-five to thirty percent more corn than has ever been raised in any one year. The question arises, what shall we do with it? We would say, don't sell it to be shipped, nor for 15 or 20 cents per bushel. The late order of the President in regard to the range cattle will cause a great many to be driven into this state to finish fattening for the market. This, with other causes that are now in sight, lead us to think that instead of shipping corn east, we will be shipping corn from Kansas City to these southern tier counties. Burden Enterprise.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

M. G. Troup's residence was the place of an attempted robbery Thursday night. The domestic was awakened about 3 a.m. by suppressed talking. Looking out she saw two men lurking around the corner of the house. She came to the conclusion at once that someone was going to attempt an entry into the house. The young lady proved gritty under the circumstances and calmly waited for the entry, when she would catch him by the hair of the head and throw him out backwards from the window. Unfortunately, the young lady is troubled with a cough, and one of these coughing spells came on about now, just when the burglars were seen to try and raise the window. This scared the men away in a hurry.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

A number of our young folks attended a hop at Tisdale Wednesday, for a few hours in perspiration and mirth. The drive was lovely, after the cooling rain, and the dance a regular old time occasion--all in for a good time, with none of the usual "stiffness" of such occurrences. The hop was in the Bourdette Hall, with Joe and Ed Bourdette as manipulators, with a splendid supper. Such an evening, in ruraldom, away from the city bustle, was a big recreation--one taken in to the fullest extent.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

The Udall Sentinel remarks: "Madam Rumor has it that the A. T. & S. F. road will build a branch road from Udall to Geuda Springs, via Kellogg. This gives us encouragement concerning the extension of the Douglass branch to Udall. With the Santa Fe and its branches, the D., M. & A. and the ultimate building of a branch of the K. C. & S. W. through here, Udall promises to become an important railroad center. So we boom."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Constable Tom Harrod made a swoop on Maple township Thursday, bringing in Lon and Alfreda Walck and T. M. McMillen, in the toils for a family melee. The two Walck's are cousins by marriage and Miss Alfreda is a sister of McMillen. Walck says she beat and abused him, ably aided and abetted by McMillen, who is a young boy of eighteen. The row has been going on for three years.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

The Republican Judicial convention met at Harper on the 12^th and nominated on first ballot, Hon. J. G. Reed for judge. This is the end of a terribly bitter fight, between Judge Ray, the present incumbent, and Reed. The Wellington papers contained column after column of contest matter during the candidacy for the Republican nomination.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

The editors returned Friday from a trip up the K. C. & S. W. railroad the entire length. Work is progressing right along and without friction. The track is laid about nine miles in this county, reaching about four miles this side of Atlanta and within 18 miles of Winfield. The grading is about completed to Floral and is progressing down as far as Limbocker's.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

A delegation of leading men were before County Superintendent Limerick Saturday regarding the redistricting of Beaver township. The Superintendent decided it inexpedient to make the division now, the tax levy and new school boards for the coming year having been made.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

In a recent serenade given the Eagle office by the S. K. band, we noticed Prof. Page, of Winfield. The boys have greatly improved, and on this occasion with the addition of Mr. Geo. Kimball, cornetist, and Prof. Page, the band excelled any music ever played in this city.

Cambridge people had a little exciting episode Wednesday. Albert Hicks, armed with an attachment for property belonging to a Mr. Laird, living on South Prairie, visited the latter but was met with a gun dangerously handled by Laird. He went home, got a warrant for Laird's arrest, took a posse, and they were again met by the man with a gun. Hicks got the drop on him, and after a struggle, Mr. Laird was placed hors de combat.

The latest ordinance is to order business houses closed on Sunday. What a foolish farce! No business that the law will close has been kept open. True, an occasional resident who has forgotten through the week, or a farmer who could not come during the week, has prevailed upon a clerk to accommodate him by selling what was necessary to get, but it was no money to the clerk. Wonder what they'll find next. Too much law has killed many towns and Burden needs more business than law at present.

Prof. R. B. Moore came in Wednesday evening to pass a few days with friends in this city. He is sun browned, and shows the unmistakable marks of a son of out door toil. Since closing the schools at this place, the Professor has visited the "wild and wooly," taken, improved, and is now the owner of a farm in Clark County, this State. It has been the best paying vacation he could have taken, and though his trials have been many, he will return to the superintendency of our schools the happy possessor of a good farm and some city property the result of industry.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Cupid is a queer fellow. He casts his darts in various ways. Sometimes the wounds are slight and the victims soon recover. Then again they go deep! Such a case was witnessed Saturday. It was a good looking couple. Cupid had shot them bad--awfully bad. They went to get spliced. Judge Gans wasn't in. Sending an ambassador for the Judge, the happy couple took to the shade by the north window of the P. J.'s office. Around each other's necks they entwined their arms: a lovely sight for all who passed. Not until Judge Gans came down, witnessed the circus, and called in the handsome and innocent Al Taylor did the affectionate arms adjourn. Al fainted, and fears of his recovery are many. Lovers should always pull down the blinds on such occasions. It breaks up whole communities to see such a silent "matinee."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Even the dogs' poor little hearts are filled with terror at sight of our mighty fighting editor--alias fat man. He is becoming well and widely known even among the canine tribe. Sunday as he was passing Dr. Marsh's office, a dog belonging to one of the Doctor's customers who had called on him, was standing in the street when he spied the fat man's portly avoirdupois waddling in his direction. No sooner did he see him than he rushed frantically into the Doctor's office, tail between his legs, and barricaded himself behind the door and not until he was sure that the apparition was at a safe distance from him could he be persuaded to leave his retreat, and then it was with the utmost precaution that he slyly peeped around the door frame at the retreating figure of our fat man. Bring on another dog.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

One of the best grain and stock farms in the county, 240 acres fine bottom land, 230 acres under plow, 40 acres timber, 200 acres of upland pasture, timber, and pasture enclosed with barbed wire fence, fine running water and several large springs, house 16 x 26 story and a half, stone barn 21 x 33, sixteen foot walls, room for ten head of horses, granary room for 3,000 bushels, necessary outbuildings, corrals, etc., peach orchard, 1½ miles to schoolhouse. This place will be sold, if sold soon, on very reasonable terms. Inquire of or address THE COURIER, Winfield, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

R. A. O'Neal, a young man who lives four miles west of town, drove up to A. T. Roberts' residence, near the Baptist church, Thursday evening and hitched. He had a fine young team. He stopped some little time. Upon coming out he was surprised to find the post, but no team. He thought at once that they had broken loose and torn everything up by that time. Hunting around, no trace of broken bridles could be found and he came to the conclusion that they were stolen. The night watchman noticed some boys riding around with this team and took it away from them. It is strange that the boys were not seen as parties were sitting on the porch at the neighbors. Some of the boys in the city are good ones. They might not steal a red hot stove, but would wait a long while for it to cool.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Again, oodles of drugs mentioned. Skipped all of these on front page. MAW

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

E. L. Wilson was in Thursday from Akron.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Judge Sumner was up from the Terminus Thursday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

John Evans took in the village of Wellington Wednesday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

W. E. Buhrlage and O. M. Roberts were down from Udall Saturday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Ab Holmes and his mother, Mrs. John B. Holmes, were down from Rock.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Senator Hackney left Wednesday for a St. Louis legal trip, of a few days.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Chas. C. Black went to Belle Plaine Wednesday to look after the D., M. & A.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Mr. Saunders and family left Thursday for Iowa, to make that State their future home.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Miss Alice Dickey went over to Grenola Wednesday, to remain till our city schools open.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

James Jordan has left for the bracing breezes of the "Rockies." This will do him good no doubt.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

A. H. Jennings and family returned Wednesday from an extensive and very enjoyable visit in Del Plaine, Ohio.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Fred Krupp is pulling the old shanties out from Main and 9^th, where five new buildings will soon adorn their sites.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

John W. Huffman, of Thorntown, Indiana, a brother of Capt. Huffman, is visiting his brother, with a view of locating here.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

C. W. Pitts has moved his family to Burden. This point is more convenient for his business. The daily will follow him.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

W. C. Barnes, formerly teacher in the city schools, will become ye local of the Tribune. We gladly welcome him into the circle.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

J. P. Baden is loading a car a day with watermelons, at Arkansas City. J. P. will soon strip the county of melons at this rate.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Rev. Ferguson will hold a basket meeting at Sheridan schoolhouse Sunday, August 30^th. A general turnout is expected.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Walter Lewis, the tailor that was hurt Wednesday morning on the west bound freight, is improving. Dr. Park thinks he will get well.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

D. Mater has bought the Wm. Rogers' property where Judge Beck lives. Mr. Mater will remodel the house and fix the place up generally.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Fred Blackman has resigned as S. F. operator here and gone up to Atlanta, with the K. C. & S. W. He will take one of its important stations.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

McD. Stapleton and I. D. McKeebran. [THIS ITEM WAS NOT COMPLETED.]

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

J. S. Mann is off for the wicked city of Chicago to buy a fall stock of goods. He will be gone three weeks.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Bro. Seaver, of the Dexter Eye, and now of the Telegram, moved his family to town Thursday and will go to work at once. Give us your bow, brother.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

We received a pleasant call Tuesday last from Mr. Walt Limbocker, of Winfield. Mr. Limbocker is a son-in-law of Mr. Ison, of Bolton, where he and his wife have been visiting for a few days. A. C. Democrat.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

J. R. Sumpter, of Beaver, has threshed his eighty acres of which, which yielded nineteen bushels per acre, machine measure. It is clean and very handsome wheat but not quite as plump as his wheat was last year.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Messrs. James Bullene and S. H. Rodgers will start a lumber yard this week at Syracuse, twenty miles from the Colorado line, on the Santa Fe. It will be the supply point for Veteran, the new Winfield town, and other places.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Dr. W. R. Kirkwood got off Wednesday for Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he fills the Presbyterian pulpit a month, during the absence of the pastor, before entering upon his duties in McAlister College. The family go a week from Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Miss Mattie West, one of Burden's most winsome young ladies, and formerly a Winfield resident, visited the hub Thursday, the first time in half a year. She is accountant in the Burden bank, and possessed of the grit and independence that always wins.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Now if there is anything we are partial to, it is a fat, juicy watermelon. We were straying around loose Friday at noon and going into Baden's he made us get out quick with a big melon under our arm. J. P. has our thanks for one of the best melons that ever graced our imposing stone.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Constable Tom Harrod shot Will Sharp into the bastille Friday, to await the call of a Wellington official. He has been wanted since last May for mortgaging property belonging to another and skipping with the proceeds. Our officials had his description and Tom readily spotted him. He had been here three days.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

The Blubaugh [Bluebaugh] liquor case drew like a mustard plaster, the following gentlemen from Arkansas City being in attendance Saturday: S. M. Land, Frank Thompson, H. M. Maidt, Hugh Gallagher, J. T. Dinwiddie, E. F. Balyeat, W. A. Moffett, R. Courtright, C. R. Fowler, W. D. Kreamer, J. T. Armstrong, O. S. Rarick, J. W. Secrest, and P. H. Franey.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Sheriff McIntire brought in two new banqueters for the hotel De Finch, Wednesday, from Hines' court, Dexter, Augusta Bell and Mac Newton, convicted of petty larceny and sentenced to thirty days in the bastille. They stole an overcoat, two pair of pants, and numerous sundries, $5 and $12 worth a piece. They are young men. The man who would steal an overcoat in weather like this ought to go to the "pen" for life. He would freeze an iceberg.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

William Blizzard was brought up from the Terminus Thursday and lodged in "Castle Finch." William, it seems, has been trifling with his attorney, T. J. Stafford. Frank Finch tells us this is the first case of this kind brought here. It seems that Mr. Blizzard owed Mr. Stafford $72, and we should judge from the papers Blizzard was trying to get out of the State and defraud Mr. Stafford out of this debt, whereupon he was arrested. He is a bad Blizzard to attempt to knock a lawyer out of his fees.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

The judgeship, 18^th District Republican convention, was not a close fight. Reed received nineteen delegate votes out of the thirty-six in the convention upon the first ballot. Geo. D. Orner, of Barbour County, put in nomination Judge Ray, the present incumbent; Judge Botkin, of Harper County, and I. G. Reed, of Sumner County, were put in nomination. Upon balloting the following result was obtained: Barbour Co., Ray 5; Comanche Co., Ray 4; Harper, Botkin 8; Harper, Reed 1; Sumner, Reed 18. Total: Ray, 9; Botkin, 8; Reed, 18.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Brother Henthorn, of the Burden Eagle, convicted himself of "assault with intent to kill" in the following. Any man who would deliberately, with malice aforethought, seek to inveigle a fellow sinner into abject poverty and sure death by starvation, should receive a long term in the "pen." Listen: "There are several towns in Cowley County needing newspapers. The field is open. Atlanta, Wilmot, Floral, Torrance, New Salem, Box, Glen Grouse, Maple City, Tisdale, Hackney, Kellogg, Polo, and Rock are among the number."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Josie, the little girl of Mrs. E. St. Clair, living over Wickham & Co.'s grocery, took a dangerous tumble down the long flight of stairs last Friday. The mother was away and the little one was wheeling her doll buggy at the head of the stairs, when she went over backward, head over heels, thump, thump, down the flight. She was badly bruised, the worst being over the right eye on top of her head, which were at first thought to be concussions. It is astonishing the injury is not worse. As it is, it will be some time in healing.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Rev. John Ferguson and S. Eastburn and wife, of Fremont, Iowa, arrived on Friday for an extended visit with Mr. D. Robertson and family and other relatives, of Walnut township. The former gentleman is the father-in-law of Mr. Robertson and brother of the Rev. S. Ferguson, while the two latter are brother and sister-in-law of Mr. Robertson, respectively. This is their first visit to this section and they seem infatuated with the country. They are not here to locate but we sincerely hope they may conclude to locate among us, as they are gentlemen of means and are the kind of citizens Cowley needs and wants. They are both extensive farmers and stock raisers.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Lightning has struck one of the druggists of the "Medicine" City--Grimes & Son. They were burned out some time ago, but had bought a stock to again enter business at Arkansas City, expecting to go it on their old Probate Court permit to sell liquors. The investigation by County Attorney Asp and Judge Gans, the other day, revealed violations by Grimes and today their "medicine" head was chopped off--their permit revoked. Courier.

Last Saturday Father Grimes came into our office bright and early and ordered his paper stopped, his advertisement discontinued, and paid his bill. We did not inquire into the cause of Mr. Grimes' wrath for we had grave suspicions that it was visited upon us because we dared to publish the report of the whiskey sales made by the druggists of the county during the month of July. It is true we were somewhat surprised at the turn affairs had taken, but we published the report as a news item so one and all could know how the new law was working, never dreaming anyone of our druggists would object to a holding up to a public gaze a copy of their record. A man who has conscientiously followed the teaching of the new law will not be averse to the public knowing just how he is dealing in the traffic. If he has sold all intoxicants strictly within the bounds of the law, he will be pleased to have everybody know his record. On the other hand, if not, he will want his record concealed. 'Tis only the guilty that oppose publicity. We are not sorry that we published the report. We are glad. It was our duty, as publishers of a newspaper, we owe our 1,200 subscribers, and they will appreciate our efforts and stand by us as we try to advance the grand cause of prohibition. Arkansas City Republican.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

After a long and tough wrestle, the city "dads" have fixed railroad matters up. Council met in special session Thursday night. The room was crowded with interested property owners. Everything passed off smoothly. The following is a copy of sec. 1 of the ordinance passed last evening. "There is hereby granted to the Kansas City & Southwestern railroad company the right of way to construct and operate and maintain the main line of their road and all necessary side tracks, across the following streets, avenues, and alleys in said city, to-wit: Loomis street, north of Fourth avenue, and Millington street, north of Fifth avenue; Fourth avenue, west of Loomis street; Main street, north of Fifth avenue; Fifth avenue, west of Main street; Manning and Menor streets, north of Sixth avenue; Sixth avenue, west of Menor street; Eighth and Ninth avenues, west of Walton street and through the alleys in blocks 105, 85, 65, and 8 in said city." As far as we have heard, this gives a general satisfaction to the public. The following is about the projected line as near as we are able to ascertain: Crossing Timber creek north of Andrews' addition, through this addition just north of Mrs. Andrews' house, thence running along the line of the A. K. railroad through R. B. Waite and J. B. Lynn's six acre tract, northwest of Sam Myton's residence, through the Water Company's grounds near the pump house, across the west end of Mrs. Manning's lots just north of J. C. McMullen, and thence west of south in the direction of the Kickapoo corral. We are glad this matter is settled and we hope, satisfactory to all.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Atlanta is about twenty-two miles from Winfield in the center of Omnia township, and is starting on a substantial basis. The buildings already erected are better buildings than are usual for the first buildings of a new town. They are painted up well and make a fine appearance. R. S. Strother has his hotel, the Atlanta House, completed and is running it splendidly and doing a large business. It is quite a good sized and good looking building. Another hotel nearly completed by Mr. Burroughs is a still larger and better building, and is finished in front in a very stylish and artistic manner. Gillard & Darlington have a general store and quite a large stock of goods, and are already having a very considerable trade. There are two other stores with small stocks, a postoffice, land office, and two livery stables. Some buildings are in process of completion and others are just beginning to get material on the ground. It is going to make a good town, and perhaps the prettiest town in the county.

About nine miles this side of Atlanta is the town site of Wilmot, just being laid out and already building has begun. Only one frame is up yet, but several are preparing to build and the town will take a boom as soon as the track reaches it and commences bringing in building material. Floral is also preparing for a second birth, with a prospect of becoming a town of considerable consequence in the near future.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

State of Kansas vs. T. S. Green; dismissed by County Attorney.

State of Kansas vs. D. Bluebaugh, charged with selling intoxicating liquors without the proper license. Trial set for tomorrow morning.

State of Kansas vs. Eph Sears, charged with gambling. The defendant was arrested on this charge once before and the case was dismissed for want of prosecution.

Fred J. Patterson vs. S. K. R. R. Co., action for labor; amount sued for, $23.40. This case is a little peculiar as it will test the question of whether a railroad company is liable to pay for extra time worked, when the foreman directed it.

State of Kansas vs. M. S. Williams, charged with assault and battery upon his child. Continued to the 24^th.

State of Kansas vs. Alfreda Walck and Thomas McMillen, charged with assault and battery. The defendants plead guilty. Fine and costs $45.00.

J. B. Torbet vs. Geo. Osterhout, and action in replevin.

W. H. Turner vs. Ed Franklin, action for debt.

In Police Court everything is quiet today.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

Bob Farnsworth, the Ninth avenue restaurant man, invested in a lot of female melons Friday morning, or rather a lot of melons from a female. Two white women and an American of Ethiopian extraction drew up before his door early this morning with a nice load of melons, and Bob, the darkey, and the two women commenced at once to draw a bargain. After due time a trade was made. The melons unloaded, the women found fault with the counting. At last it was settled that there were forty-one melons, and one of the women went and collected pay for eighty-one melons. The clerk took her word for it. There was either a big mistake on their side or it was intentional. As soon as the women got in the wagon, they drove off very fast, and seemed to be in a hurry to get out of town. The clerk followed them for some distance, but couldn't catch them. Coming back, Capt. Siverd was put on the track. Cap. has great power with ladies and no doubt he will compromise the affair amicably.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 20, 1885.

While the base ball fever seems to be at fever heat all over the country and club