Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

EMPORIA, KAN., August 29. Long before the hour appointed for the re-assembling of the Coroner's jury in the Walkup poisoning case yesterday, the court room was densely packed. Many ladies and persons of prominence were present. It was expected that Mrs. Walkup would take the stand, and the prisoner's youth and great beauty, combined with the air of mystery surrounding the case, had served as a two-fold incentive to attract them. At 2:30 the jury took their seats. As the hands on the big clock indicated 2:35, the door leading from the hallway to the court room opened and immediately a low murmur ran through the assembly of "Mrs. Walkup, Mrs. Walkup." She entered the room in charge of Deputy Sheriff Worster. She wore a black brocaded silk dress, a small, close fitting lace bonnet and tiny white veil. Her face was as colorless and fair as a lily, with the exception of a spot of vermillion on either check, which came and went at intervals. Her large lustrous brown eyes gazed upon the crowd fearlessly and calmly as she wended her way down the aisles.

the Deputy led her to the witness box, and bowing slightly to the lawyers and jury, she seated herself. She removed her veil and gloves, and County Attorney Feighan arose, and addressing her, said: "Mrs. Walkup, are you ready for the examination to proceed?"

Before she had time to reply her counsel, W. W. Scott, stepped forward, and addressing the jury, said that at his suggestion Mrs. Walkup would not give her testimony there, and possibly not before the jury at all. He wished to have it understood that this action was solely his own and that he would abide the consequence. At the close of his remarks, the prisoner and the Deputy left the court room and drove to the former's residence.

Dr. Filkins, in his examination, said he had been Mr. Walkup's physician for several years; that two years ago he was taken with an illness similar to the one with which he died; that last summer he was affected in exactly the same way.

Mr. J. R. Graham, editor of the Daily Republican, was called and corroborated these facts. Several other witnesses were called, but their testimony elicited nothing new.

Dwight Bill, Mr. Walkup's business partner, in his testimony said: "Went up to Mr. Walkup's house the day before he died; met Mrs. Walkup at the door; told her I would like to see him on business. She said, 'What do you think is the matter with Mr. Walkup?' I said, 'I think it a case of peritonitis.' She said, 'Do you think the doctor thinks so?' I said, 'I do not know, but that was my impression.' She said, 'Don't they die very suddenly of peritonitis?' She asked, 'You want to tell him what is the matter with him?' I then passed upstairs; told Mr. Walkup I did not want to hurt his feelings, but was going to talk very plain to him. He said, 'You can say anything you wish.' I then told him that the doctor and some of the rest of us had strong suspicions that he was poisoned. I said further that 'we mistrust your wife.' He spoke up and said: 'I have mistrusted her, too.' I asked him why he mistrusted her. He said, 'because she told me a week or ten days ago that she bought strychnine to take stains from her dress.' I said, 'your wife bought twenty-five cents worth of arsenic of Ben Wheldon yesterday afternoon.' He said: 'My God, is that so, let us have her arrested.' I said, 'No, we do not want her arrested until we find something further, but we want, if possible, to save your life--we do not want you to take any more medicine from her.' He said he would take no more medicine, or even water from her. When I said 'We want to save your life,' he said, 'I want to live.' As I went downstairs the hallway door was open, and Mrs. Walkup said, 'Mr. Bill, you did not tell him what the matter was.' Mrs. Walkup, when we spoke to her of poison, talked quietly, showed she felt the shock, but declared her innocence."

The jury then adjourned till eight o'clock today.

In an interview Mrs. Walkup appeared to still feel the confidence possessed by her at the beginning in her being found innocent. Apparently she does not seem to comprehend the grave nature of the charge against her, for as she says: "I am innocent; I cannot force myself to act other than natural; why should I not feel quiet?"

During a two hours' interview with Judge Houston, immediately after the coroner's jury, he said: "The testimony of Dr. Filkins and Mrs. Graham is of great importance as corroborating the theory that Mr. Walkup died from natural causes. If, however, the report of the analysis from Kansas City shows the finding of arsenic in appreciable quantities as the result of the majority of the tests, the theory of death from natural causes would be no longer tenable. Even if it is shown that he died from poison, it may yet be shown that he received the poison from hands other than those of Mrs. Walkup or through some accident. Judge Houston says the case is as much a mystery to him as to anyone else; that if Mrs. Walkup would commit so atrocious a crime, she would not hesitate to deceive him; that she has told him that she is entirely innocent and he is disposed to believe her statement until the weight of evidence precludes its further credence. Judge Houston was satisfied Willis had nothing to do with the crime, if crime there was, as there is no evidence to show that he had even a knowledge of the purchase of poison by Mrs. Walkup.

NEW ORLEANS, LA., August 29. The testimony of the physicians before the coroner's jury in the Walkup case, given yesterday, and particularly that part of the evidence of Dr. Jacobs, in which he said he had given sub-nitrate of bismuth to the deceased gentleman, created considerable talk among chemists and physicians in this city. The Times-Democrat interviewed a number of chemists and druggists today, with the result of an unanimous declaration that many preparations of sub-nitrate of bismuth contain large quantities of arsenic and a general acquiescence in the probable correctness of the theory that the drug administered to Mr. Walkup by Dr. Jacobs caused that gentleman's death.

Mr. Eugene May, one of the largest druggists and most prominent pharmacist in the city, said: "After a careful perusal of the dispatches detailing the strict examination of the physicians attendant upon Mr. Walkup, we must conclude, almost beyond a question of successful contradiction, that the source whence that gentleman obtained the poisonous principle culminating in his death, was a large dose of sub-nitrate of bismuth, which he had been taking as a corrective and anti-acid."

The sequel of the examination conducted by the physicians in attendance and the chemists would appear to prove most conclusively the correctness of this view.

Dr. John H. Pope, an old experienced druggist and ex-Vice-President of the American Pharmaceutical Association, was very pronounced in his opinion on the Walkup case. He says that in his experience the sub-nitrate of bismuth manufactured in the West is a very inferior article, and the physicians of this city will use no other than the French; the Western drug gives off heavy nitrous acid fumes and produces the very feeling of the throat complained of by Mr. Walkup. Arsenic is associated with bismuth in its natural state, and has to be eliminated in the manufacture of the sub-nitrate which is used as a medicine. In careless or cheap manufacture, this is not entirely eliminated. The fact that the doctor persisted in giving these powders, notwithstanding the complaints of the patient, speaks little for his knowledge of remedies when others could be given that would not contract the throat.

The doctor is satisfied that an analysis of the sub-nitrate of bismuth administered to Walkup would show that it is an inferior drug and contains arsenic.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

In answer to many questions, and for the benefit of those that could not avail themselves of the opportunity of taking in the excursion of Kiowa, I will try and give a few outlines of the trip. On Tuesday morning, August 25^th, we boarded the 10:40 train, hearing that the regular excursion train from Kansas City, which was 20 minutes behind the regular train, was full, we boarded and started for Kiowa, which is located in Barber County, and at the terminus of the K. C. & S. K. Railroad. At Kellogg several parties joined our company. Among them was our friend, W. P. Gibson, of Protection, Comanche County. When we told him we were going to Kiowa, his face was almost as long as a fence rail, and he felt sorry for Protection. At Oxford a number of her citizens joined us, and so on at every station we passed until we neither had sitting nor standing room on our train. We arrived at Kiowa at 3:30 p.m., and the other train 20 minutes later. The citizens of Kiowa met us in grand style at the railroad. I won't say depot for they have none yet; but they were there with all the buggies, carriages, and hacks they had in town, together with the Wellington Band, which had gone over the day before. We unloaded right in the midst of the worst prairie that a great many of the excursionists has ever looked upon. We were now about half a mile from what they called New Kiowa. We started on the march, headed by the Band. We marched up through Main street, and there, let me tell you, we saw wonders to behold such as we never will forget. As they marched us into the town, they said they proposed to show us the production of their county, which they did to perfection. Across Main street they had erected an arch about forty feet high in the center. This was handsomely decorated from base to base with all the cereals of the soil, such as none but Kansas lands can produce--corn, wheat, millet, beans, cane, melons, cotton, pumpkins, etc. This they claim was the production of 1885, and the production of their county for 1884. They had on exhibition the bear, cayote, wild cat, deer, and numerous others too numerous to mention, and to go back as far as 1881, and to show to this grand excursion party--especially to those who had forgotten the production of these past years--they had on public exhibition, with doors wide open, seven saloons and gambling houses, selling whiskey and beer over the bar by the drink, as they did of olden times. I must confess that this seemed to be the most lively part of the exhibition. On top of the arch they had a stuffed beef hide. There it stood natural as life, 40 feet in the air. After passing through this arch, we filed right and were brought to a halt in front of the Hardwick House, a fine, large two-story hotel, fitted up for all contingencies, with a bar and billiard room on the first floor, with all the necessary conveniences about a first class hotel on the second floor. After some very fine music from the band, the excursion party started for the four corners of Kiowa. I want to tell you some of them saw the elephant before morning, but I am not going to tell you who they were. Ask J. J. Johnson and Sam Phenix about it. The first place I saw these two gentlemen in the morning was crawling out of a stockade that had been bedded with sand the night before for shipping Texas cattle. Of course, we did not know whether the people of Kiowa would give us a free lunch or anything of the kind, but it was suggested by some of the party that it was such a great cattle region that they would as much as have a roasted beef anyway. When we all got off of the train and beheld that beef standing forty feet in the air, the whole party thought it was a sign of a roasted beef. It was a sight to see the greedy eyes feasting on that stuffed beef as we passed under it; but we were to be pitied as the train had stopped nowhere for dinner, and we had eaten up all the roasted and unroasted peanuts that the peanut vendor had on the train. You may know what a hungry looking crowd we were, but we did not see any roast beef nor have a barbecue. I think if that striped animal had fallen off of the arch in the crowd, it would have been devoured in less time than a gang of cayotes could devour a buffalo carcass. But we got full--that is, we all got plenty to eat by paying $2 for our supper, bed, and breakfast. We were glad of the accommodations, even at that price. When you visit Kiowa, you don't want to care for expenses.

After supper the crowd was called together--all that could get together--at the Hardwick House and after some very fine music by the Wellington band, the excursionists were addressed by Mr. Dobson, mayor of the city, in which he stated that he was completely surprised to think that 1,500 people would drop down on them at one time just to see their little city. He said their town was only six months old and had already about 1,000 inhabitants. Judge Reed, of Wellington, also addressed the crowd, making some fine remarks about the southwestern country. Some gentleman from Kansas City also made some remarks in which he said there were three great cities. First, the city of Chicago; Kansas City; and, last, but not least, the city of Kiowa. Then the chairman suggested that after some more music from the band there would be a free dance on the platform adjoining the hotel, and those who had no place to stay "could dance all night and go home in the morning." The platform was 40 x 100 feet. They had fine music and the Kansas City, Wellington, Winfield, Oxford, and Kiowa people all joined hands and had a jolly old time by the sweet, silvery light of the moon.

My object in taking this trip west was for my own satisfaction and to see if all reports were true that we had been hearing. I had been told by many that they had been having much more rain than we had and that the crops were much better. Now, after seeing with my own eyes, I emphatically deny the reports. I do not think they have had any more rain than we have had. I saw some pieces of corn that were green and nice yet, and some that were dried up, some were well eared, and some had no ears at all on it, just the same as in this county. The early corn is good, but the late is a failure. Some say the soil is just as good out west as it is here. Now I can deny this. I paid particular attention to the crops and soil and want to say right here, I would not give a good quarter section of Cowley County soil for any section of land I saw west of a little town called Crystal, about fourteen miles west of Harper, for agricultural purposes. At this place and on west the soil is a deep red, with not an inch of black soil to be seen. The water that stands in pools is a red color and did not look even fit for stock to drink. If the soil was only a Mulatto color with a little black mixed in, I would think it better for agriculture. I did not see any grass west of Attica that was tall enough to cut. I noticed that there was not much fall plowing done, on account of the dry weather. The ground is just as dry out there as it is here. I examined some ground that had lately been plowed and it looked as though it has had no rain on it this summer. I think that country, to make a good farming country, wants a rain every day in the week and one on Sunday for a change. Between Attica and Chrisfield we passed through quite a valley, which A. J. Thompson called "Wild Horse Valley," as there was a herd of Texas ponies running away from the train, and he took them for a genuine herd of wild horses; but he was informed by someone that they were only Texas ponies. Between Chrisfield and Hazelton we ran into the prairie dog towns and Jap Cochran thought they were pigs following the cattle until he was told better by some bystander, who informed him that they did not raise hogs in that country.

Among the excursionists from Cowley, I noticed the following persons: J. J. Johnson, New Salem; F. M. Fall, Cambridge; J. Hiatt, Cambridge; S. Phenix, Floral; J. Finkleburg, Arkansas City; N. T. Snyder, Arkansas City. From Winfield: A. J. Thompson, Walter Denning and wife; Uncle Billy Moore and wife; Jap Cochran and mother; Barnthouse, the soda man; Sol Fredrick; John Eaton and wife; C. W. Stolp and son; Jake Goldsmith; Sam Stivers and brothers; and Gray, of the Telegram.

We left Kiowa at 12:30 and arrived home at 5:30, all except Jap Cochran. I think he got off on the way to get some of those pigs. I don't think there was an investment made out of the whole party on account of the high prices. A. J. Thompson don't value lots out in Kiowa like he does in Winfield. They tried to sell some lots at auction the day we left, and Thompson bid $100 for a lot on Main street, but I think one of the town company over-bid him and he did not get it. Now if anyone that was on this grand excursion can give a better description of the trip, I am ready to hear from them.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

A man's leg was found this week between Attica and Harper and is now on exhibition at Harper for identity. It was cut off at the knee joint in anything but a workman-like manner. It is a mystery and no clue has been discovered.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

[?]. F. Johnson exhibited in our office Friday cabinet photograph scenery on his farm just across the Arkansas from Tannehill. One exhibits the neat house, surrounded by leafy verdure; another, his barn and his $500 Herford bull; and another a fine lake and his herd of fine [? __aded] cattle, skirted by a background of big corn and the timber of the Arkansas. Mr. Johnson has one of the most desirable farms in the county, and will be a heavy exhibitor at our Fair.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The excavation for the Imbecile Asylum is nearly finished and the walls will soon loom skyward. [Note: Last two items partially obscured on the left side by streaks.]

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The church was crowded Sunday. The usual announcements were made for the week, including quarterly meeting next Saturday and Sunday, Bro. Audas presiding. Monday evening an official meeting will be held. Rev. Kelly preached a lengthy sermon from Psalm 37:31. "The law of his God is in his heart, none of his steps shall slide." The following is a brief synopsis. The words refer to the righteous man. The text explains the course of a righteous life. The laws of man and God are different; the blunder of the two has been the course of wrong. Man needs law to meet emergencies. God requires no such laws. The law of God is full of love. I think the divine code, the divine law, and the word of God can be summed up in two words--Be happy. Many people think happiness is in having a good time; in a worldly sense, plenty of fun. That in order to be happy it is necessary to be in possession of worldly goods. The scriptures say, "Blessed are the poor in spirit; blessed are the humble, etc." The basis of genuine happiness is God's blessed word planted way down in the heart. Love the supremely good. Supremely good is the basis of a religious life and the source of happiness. The requirement of the word of God is to love God with a love that is paramount. The great mistake in loving God is that it is not paramount. It is only the man that loves God better than his life that has the true religion. The divine law should be the ruling law among men. The speaker referred to the small percent of Christians that read the law of God. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. The thoughts in a man's heart, if shown to the world, were alluded to. The supreme law we should give to God was dwelt upon and the relation of the conscience and God's love. The law of God was shown to be the law of liberty. At the close of the sermon two persons were admitted into the church.

Rev. Sloan preached from John xii:33. "And if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto me." During the last three years of the life of Christ, the work of his ministry and the infallibility of his miracles drew many to listen to and believe in him. Among the Jews the word Greeks in that age of the world included all persons outside of the Jewish religion, and were in this sense idolaters and heathens, but were as susceptible of the exercise of faith, and were found ready to proclaim Christ on his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. But all the results of his teachings, during his life, had not the efficacy of his death in drawing humanity to him. He saw in the willingness of the Greeks to pay him homage the first truths of his gathering the heathen nations. For many years after the death of Christ the growth and purity of his religion was checked by the outgrowth and superstition of idolatry, as was manifested in the tendency to worship him by symbols, crucifixes, and incantations of saints and such outward representations. This has taken centuries for instrumentalities of God's providence and teaching to clear away, and now in the nineteenth century, man has been drawn to Christ by his lifting up or having been crucified. Men are better notwithstanding the cries of sin and man has greater reason to have confidence in man than ever before. Sectionalism is taking a back stand, magnanimity of temperament and toleration and investigation of views and doctrines and the success of Christ's kingdom is fast becoming the universal object of Christendom.

Rev. Reider's morning subject was pure and undefiled religion described, based on Jas. 1:27. "Pure religion and undefiled before God, and the Father is this." Religion must produce self-government, freedom from corruption. Faith in God is not all that constitutes religion. Devils have believed, but they were no better off for their belief. Faith must be accompanied by a zeal to be and do good: a determination to raise humanity around you. Pure religion does not mean a renouncement of the world. We are all social creatures, and sociability is the greatest mode for doing good. It is by mingling good precept and example with the world in general that is put on a higher plane. More sins are committed by omission than commission. Church members, by neglecting the good at hand to do, commit grave sings. Do you want to live long in the hearts of men? Then spread your influence over the world: care for the suffering, help the erring, and make the afflicted lives around radiant with hope. The true christian is constantly working for others. Temporal means should not be for self-happiness alone, but the means of casting sunshine on less fortunate humanity--for the better carrying out of the Christly religion you profess. Pure and undefiled religion means to do the will of God. This is all. Study well his requirements and do them.

In the United Brethren church services were held in the morning. The pulpit was filled by Rev. Dr. Lee, pastor of the Mt. Zion circuit. Rev. Snyder filled the Doctor's pulpit at Hackney. The text for the discourse was Mathew v:16. "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works," etc. We are not placed upon the earth merely to pass away time and occupy space. Our life does not consist merely in trying to gain heaven. He that has no higher motive is selfish and the fartherest from heaven. Everyone has a light peculiar to himself. God requires us to do our work and to look to him for the results. We are not to be discouraged if others do not notice our work, or order our ways so as to drive the people from the Lord. Avoid austerity. Do not draw the lines of obedience so as to make duty difficult. Some persons are so constituted, have been so educated that they can perform some acts without doing harm to their conscience, while the same acts to others would be harmful and wrong. We are not to hide our works so that they may not do good, yet we are not to make a show in order to create notice. Men are influenced to good or bad lives by what they are. The sermon was a plain, practical, and highly appreciated one. The usual announcements were made. The members of the society were requested, as far as possible, to give their presence at the morning services.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

J. C. Long received a dispatch Thursday announcing a majority of 527 for the Chautauqua County D., M. & A. bonds. The fight was a bitter one, but the D., M. & A. advocates won the argument. Once explained, it was easy for the people of that county to see the Santa Fe scheme to defeat the bonds, forfeit its $50,000, and leave Chautauqua County for an unlimited time under the same monopoly she now endures. The D., M. & A. will force the Santa Fe to move into that county to save itself, and will gain two roads, instead of a non-competing bob tail. This county about fills the breach. Nearly all the other counties or townships along the line have voted bonds. The Santa Fe's action is another big surety, in addition to the lively dirt throwing at Belle Plaine, that the D., M. & A. is a mighty big, loud certainty that will blow its whistle all along the line as soon as men can accomplish the result. The first sub-let contract, sixty-one miles west of Belle Plaine, is a very active scene, all the men and teams at work that can be secured.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

At the residence of the bride's mother in Beaver township, Wednesday afternoon, August 26^th, Jabez B. Tannehill and Mary E. Pearce. Rev. J. H. Snyder of this city performed the ceremony. The young people went the same evening to their own home, where they pleasantly entertained many of their friends.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The melon wore an inviting smile

As it lay in the market place

And joy loomed up in the doctor's heart

Till it beamed upon his face.

The undertaker passed that way

And thought of his coming luck,

With satisfaction he chaffed his hands

And chuckled a ghastly chuck.

The small boy smacked his hopeful lips

As he passed that melon by,

And watched till its owners back was turned

From the corner of his eye.

In the deep dense shade where no eyes could see

He enveloped that melon fine.

He swallowed the seed and drank the juice

And encroached upon the rind.

The hide on his abdomen was stretched

Till it stood far out before,

But the doctor's aid was never called

And the small boy wanted more.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The Wichita Eagle is puffing and blowing at a terrible rate trying to make people believe that Wichita will be the important city of Southern Kansas. Wichita will make a very pretty little city, but the big city of this part of Kansas will be Winfield, in this county. Don't forget to make a note of this and also that the railroad systems in Cowley County will make it one of the richest in Kansas.

The Winfield Tribune, of last week, makes some dirty, uncalled for slings at the County Commissioners and County Attorney in its insinuation that the Commissioners were in the hire of the railroad company when it condemned the right of way for the K. C. & S. W. road. The Tribune man has likely been talking with some crank or sorehead, and is anxious to gain some cheap notoriety by espousing a cause that all intelligent, enterprising businessmen would kick into kingdom-come on account of its insignificance. Such breaks as that and the uncalled for insult spewed at Hon. Wm. Hackney will not help any paper.

Any farmer that buys agricultural implements, cloth, or machines of any kind from traveling agents or salesmen instead of buying from their reliable home merchants deserve to be duped, as they generally are. Men do not travel about the country for nothing. No, they are after suckers, and judging from the cry that goes up after they leave, we should judge that they found plenty of them. Show us a traveling peddler or agent, and nine out of ten will prove to be rascals and cheats, although at the time they will make you believe that they are almost white-robed angels just out on a furlough from paradise. Deal with home men and you are safe. Don't forget this.

Cowley County promises to have one of the finest railroad systems to be found in Kansas. By consulting a map you will see the truth of this assertion by noting the north, south, east, and west markets that are being opened for the products of Cowley's fertile soil. The D., M. & A. will open a direct route to Memphis and Denver, two great markets for flour. The Santa Fe, with Chicago, Kansas City, and Denver as feeders. The K. C. & S. W., carrying produce to Kansas City and St. Louis. All transporting, both ways, what we sell and buy. And more than this, the Santa Fe and K. C. & S. W. will likely build into the Territory ere long. These roads will do wonders for our rich country. You will live to see it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Very funny incidents often occur at our hotels, accounts of which never reach the public eye. The one however that happened the other day is most too good to keep. A young man, apparently from the country, entered the dining room of one of our hotels, and after bashfully surveying the surroundings, seated himself at one of the tables, placing his hat carefully in his lap. One of the ever attentive and courteous lady waiters approached and called the bill of fare. The young man reluctantly listened, remarking at the same time: "I don't care to talk; I'd like something to eat!" The waiter brought him in a fine dinner, and when he had heartily partaken of the substantials with apparent great relish, the waiter again approached and asked: "Will you have a change?" "Oh, yes!" and down went his hands into his pantaloon's pockets, bringing forth a lot of silver, part of which he proffered the waiter. The latter individual smole a broad smile, and explained that she wanted to know what further he desired to eat, and for him to settle in the office for his dinner. The young man had satisfied his hunger, and picking up his hat went out. Pretty soon he was back again, sitting quietly in a chair as if expecting someone. The waiter again approached him, and desired to know what he wanted. "Well," said he, "I thought I'd come back and tell you that I gave that change to the man in the other room." "All right," laughingly replied the waiter, and the young man disappeared.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

And now Winfield sports a pleasure boat--not exactly a presidential yacht, but one nearly as tony. It arrived today from Cedarvale, where it has been plying the Big Cana. It is owned by T. S. Cramer, is twelve feet wide and twenty-four long, a stern wheel propeller, run by a little infant engine of three horsepower. It draws only four inches of water, light; loaded, six inches. It is neatly covered with canvass, with seating capacity for fifteen or twenty. It was hauled over on a wagon, the wagon backed off into deep water below Bliss & Wood's mill, the engine started, and the little craft run down to Riverside Park. It will carry pleasure parties up and down the river from the Park and your best girl will give you no peace until she gets a ride on that boat.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

On the 20^th, inst., at the home of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hahn, Mr. Silas Parker Hahn, youngest son of David and Elizabeth Hahn. Silas was born in Miami County, Indiana, August 15, 1857, and was, at the time of his death, aged 28 years and five days. On May third, 1885, he was married to Miss Ida Chapson, who survives him. The funeral services were held at the Mt. Zion church on the 21^st inst., conducted by Rev. J. H. Reider, of Winfield.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Of all the hideous, disgusting appendages to a woman's wardrobe, the bustle of today caps the climax. Just why a really handsome well formed woman wishes to disfigure herself with a hump that would make a dromedary laugh himself into spasms, is too deep a problem for our system of metaphysics. It is rumored--mind we give it as a rumor only--that the bustles of the period are stuffed with sawdust, corn husks, cotton batts, and newspapers. Whether that is true or otherwise, the Great Religious Daily, which prides itself on its truthfulness, is not prepared to say. But whether true or false, the sooner the ladies discard these ridiculous monstrosities, the quicker their natural attractions will be appreciated. In the interests of form and reform the great American people should arise in its righteous wrath and snatch the bustle bald-headed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Do not go around or approach any occupied house in this city between 10 o'clock p.m. and 6 o'clock a.m., for if you do, you may catch a bullet or two. The citizens are arming themselves and we expect they will shoot. If you must arouse one within the above houses, do it at a distance that he may discover who you are before he shoots. We would also advise inmates of a house to keep to their rooms during these hours, so as not to get peppered by their protectors by mistake.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Wichita will soon have a union depot, which is a curse to the laboring men of any town. Scatter your depots and hundreds of men are given employment transferring baggage. With the depots scattered, the hotels catch hundreds of transients where they wouldn't catch dozens with a union depot. These men who stop over, see more or less of your town, and are given an impression that will advertise you. Wichita will make a mistake in a union depot. They are no good excepting in Kansas City, Chicago, or such cities.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Some new corn is appearing on the street. It sells for thirty cents a bushel, eighty pounds. A load raised on A. J. Thompson's place just east of town was as fine as can be produced. It goes seventy bushels to the acre and is the large yellow variety.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

N. Rice was up from Pawnee agency Saturday. He is a full blooded Pawnee, writes well and talks fluently, and is in every way a gentleman. He has been one of the post traders, and is worth considerable. He bought a team here for $286, to take back with him. His case is convincing that something can be made of a Red Skin.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

A certain physician of this city, whose long black coat, side whiskers, silk hat, and black tie, says the Joplin Daily News, would indicate that the business of the owner was dispensing spiritual rather than medical advice, was accosted on the street the other day by an innocent appearing young man and led to a retired spot around a corner and there confidently informed that a marriage, in which the informant was to play the leading role, was to come off that evening and that he (the clerical appearing gentleman) was wanted to perform the ceremony. The astonished man of medicine informed the would-be husband that he, being a doctor of physics and not of divinity, was not authorized to officiate at weddings and that in well regulated family circles his presence was not professionally required until some time after the happy event of the knot-tying ceremony.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

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

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Quite a change has taken place in our carriage factories. The two have been consolidated and will continue to do business in the shop heretofore run by Monfort & Rogers, under the firm name of Monfort & Bishop, Mr. Rogers and Githins retiring from the business. Messrs. Monfort & Bishop are both men of undoubted business integrity and will meet with the success they deserve. By the consolidation of the two shops, they will have a wider field of demand for vehicles and will give them all the work they will be able to do. They are invoicing the stock today preparatory to the change.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

A couple of the dusky families of the south part of town are into each others wool: making things very sultry. The "younguns" were the onslaughting parties. The old heads took up the cudgel and hades was to pay yesterday afternoon. Stove-wood, pokers, bedsteads, and every available weapon about the place held high carnival on dusky heads. Marshal McFadden and Assistant McClain had to fly to the rescue, and if things are not quieter on the Potomac, the police court will have another family case.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Magnetic needles point at right angles to electric currents. Such needles point north and south, hence we know the electric currents flow east and west. Lie, when you sleep, in the direction of these currents and you are robed in a measure of your electrical supply. Lie, when you sleep, with your head to the north, and your sleep will be sweet and calm, provided your conscience is clear and your liver in good order. Extra nervous people take notice.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Kiowa comes up with the latest b-l-o-o-d, last Wednesday night. A. W. Patterson, Arkansas City's wild and wooley "Pat," is running a house of sportive shape out there. He had sold out one den and was just opening another, when a festive gambler bored a soldier from Dodge, laying him out instantly. Cards and whiskey the cause.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The Kingman Courier contains eighteen announcements of persons who want to fill some of the five offices to be voted for in Kingman County this fall. Sumner County has fifteen candidates. Cowley shows more sense than both of them. Only six candidates. When a whole county runs for office, it certainly needs a guardian.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The Farmers Institute meets in the real estate office of Curns & Manser on Saturday, September 5^th. The subject for discussion will be "The preparation of wheat ground and its seeding," with additional subject, "Fall plowing for corn."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

There will be a Republican primary election held at the Dexter schoolhouse September 12^th, 1885, to elect seven delegates and seven alternates to attend the Republican County Convention to be held at Winfield, September 19^th, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Residents on east 8^th avenue are complaining a good deal about the horses of delivery wagons being allowed to nip the young trees in that neighborhood. This is wrong and should be stopped. There is an ordinance against this, and if not stopped should be enforced.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Squire Norman was down from Udall Saturday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

H. P. Standley was up Thursday from the Canal City.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Capt. Maidt was up from the Terminus Thursday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Hon. John D. Maurer was over from the Grouse Valley Saturday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Wm. M. Jenkins, one of Arkansas City's bright young attorneys, was up Saturday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

H. G. Fuller moved his real estate office just south of the Lindell hotel.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Mrs. C. Strong is off for a month or more at her old home, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Judge Pyburn and son, Walter, and Ed G. Gray, came up from Arkansas City Saturday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

G. C. Wallace's store now has a merchandise elevator, put in by Case Bros., running to and from the cellar.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

H. G. Norton has the principalship of the Torrance schools for this winter. He had charge of the Torrance schools last winter.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Ben Herrod and Hank Paris have the contract for excavating the Eaton-Short cellar on the corner of Ninth and Main. They are making things hum.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Maude, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cooper, fell down stairs Thursday night, head over heels, thump, thump, bruising her face badly.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

S. Kleeman got home Saturday from a month's eastern purchasing tour. He bought a very fine, large stock for his dry goods emporium, which will roll in soon.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

W. C. Root returned from McPherson Friday with his wife and family. They go to housekeeping here at once. Mrs. Root's many friends are glad to welcome her back.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

J. W. Tull, of Cambridge, one of the early and prominent citizens of Cowley, was in Winfield Thursday. He has been in good feed evidently and is portly and handsome. Glad to see him again.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Garth Billingsley, after a two months' visit with the Spotswood family, returned to St. Louis Wednesday. He is a son of R. L. Billingsley, St. Louis wholesale commission merchant, Mr. Spotswood's former partner.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Jim Connor & Son are whooping the New Central school building up with a rush. Twenty men are at work now and the force increasing. The walls are Rough Ashler, like those of the old building, to make uniformity.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Billy Kersands is on the front of Reed & Oliver's paint shop--as natural as life, with his ivory shining from a yawning chasm. These gentlemen are daises in portrait painting, like in everything else.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

R. S. Craybill, one of Tisdale townships best young men and the owner of a fine farm there, returned Friday from a three weeks' visit with his parents at Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. R. S. says he is still single and in the matrimonial market.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Mrs. Josie Roberts and nephews, Bennie and Clarence Roberts, arrived Friday from St. Marys, Kansas, for a visit with her sister, Mrs. J. E. Vanleys. She will remain a month, when Mrs. Vanleys will probably accompany her home for a visit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Ezra Meech and sister, Miss Jessie, left Wednesday for Michigan, Ezra having almost entirely recovered from the terrible accident that made a week in his life a blank. His friends rejoice at his recovery, and regret the family's permanent departure.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

We had the pleasure of taking a squint through Dr. Fitch's big gun at Mrs. Moon in all her glory. It is well worth the price charged. The moon is brought up close; the surface is rough, broken eruptions, having all the appearance of a volcanic eruption. If you desire to be enlightened, take a peep.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Mrs. J. P. Smith, wife of the man murdered by Henry Mowry, at Arkansas City, will stay with relatives in Kansas City until the shock of her husband's sudden death subsides, when she will return and settle up her affairs. She endures the terrible affair with true womanly fortitude.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Mrs. A. Lawrence died at 3 o'clock Friday night, of consumption. She had been an invalid for two years. The remains were shipped this evening to the old home, Champaign, Illinois. The funeral was held at the residence at 1 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Reider.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Miss Mamie Garlick is visiting friends in Eureka before commencing her school at Augusta, the first Monday in September. Miss Ella Garlick will also visit in Emporia and Lawrence till Wednesday next, when she will accompany the Kirkwood family to Minneapolis, to enter McAlister College.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Tom Quarrels and wife came in Friday, having been pardoned from the penitentiary by the State Board of pardons. They were sent from Cowley, she as an accomplice of her husband, for two years, for stealing Hurd's horses and buggy. Their term would have expired next May. Tom says he will remain here, and proposes to go to work for reputation and fortune.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Mr. T. P. Carter, of Silver Creek township, accompanied his niece, Miss Nellie Smith, to Colorado, two weeks ago. She was low with consumption and the trip was taken hoping for relief. Mr. Carter sends us a card that she died last Saturday evening. She was but eighteen years old, and a bright girl. Her remains will be buried at her home near Burden. The trip to a high altitude was probably too sudden.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

J. H. Lorey, two and a half miles northeast of town, has left on our table two elephant ears of corn. One ear is about fourteen inches long and the other a foot, both immense in circumference. It is the Mammoth yellow variety, and the seed was planted March 15^th. We have hung them alongside of our Editor's Club and will knock the first man sky high that wants to know who "writ that piece."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

T. P. Carter, of Silver Creek township, was in the city Friday, returning from Colorado, where he took his consumptive niece, Miss Nellie Smith, a few weeks ago. Nellie was but eighteen, and died a short time after arriving there. Her uncle resides in Colorado and a brother went out a few years ago, seeking a cure for the same disease, and died. Nellie was laid by his side.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Joe Black, the gambler who murdered the soldier at Kiowa the other night, was lodged in the Wellington jail Saturday. The soldiers, two companies from Ft. Riley, camped at Kiowa, attempted to string Joe up. It was a cold blooded homicide, the soldier having done nothing to provoke it. The affair was in A. W. Patterson's den, where Al. Terrell, well known here, manipulates the bar.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The excavation for the new Farmers Bank block is progressing right along. Paris & Harrod are throwing the dirt. Architect Ritchie gave us a glimpse of this block this morning. It will be the champion block of the city. The first seventy-five feet will be three stories, with Mansard roof and crested cornice. The corner entrance is artistic. The stairway entrance is central, from Main. The block is metropolitan in everything, with beautiful interior and exterior finish. The construction contract will be let next week.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Peter McCosh [McCush or McCuish?] and C. Kelly were raked in by Watchman McClain Thursday, found in a state of bad booziness. After cooling off in the cooler, they appeared before Judge Turner this morning. Chas. said he was full, and paid $12.25 for the luxury. Peter said he was not full, but evidence downed him, and he got a ditto assessment. Both are broad Scotchmen. Peter was in the jug a week, a month ago, for a plain drunk, and his friend Kelley got him out. Now their miseries are equal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Judge E. S. Torrance and family left on Friday for Manitou. The trip is taken on recommendation of the family physician, Dr. Graham, for the health of the three little children, who have just passed through a terrible stage of diphtheria, and will yet be in danger for several weeks. The Judge will not return until the little ones thoroughly recover. The September term of the District Court will likely be postponed until his return. The bar will hardly elect a judge pro tem.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The reporter started out Friday to take in the city, and to see what was going on in the building line. We were surprised to find so much work and improvements in process. Winfield is beginning to take on the fall boom. The laboring class need not be wanting for work, but we have no need of any more. We have plenty of work coming for those here, but anyone coming here to seek work will be left, for there is only work enough for the ones here.

Laycock & Hedges are putting up a gothic cottage, one and one-half story, of five rooms, three rooms below, a parlor 12 x 14 with bay window 3 x 6. Leading from the parlor is a bedroom 10 x 10. East of the parlor is a kitchen 12 x 14, pantry, and two closets. There are two rooms above 12 x 14 and two closets. This is a very tasty house, on East 10^th, and will be for sale.

H. H. J. Johnson is just commencing a fine residence near the East ward schoolhouse, 28 x 28, with an ell 14 x 14. It is two stories full, of nine rooms, and will be built so as to be supplied with water, gas, etc. There are four rooms below and a hall 8 x 24 and one above 6 x 24. The parlor and sitting room are 14 x 14 with sliding doors between. A bay window in front of the house from top to bottom. There will be porches around the south, east, and west. The dining room and kitchen are just back of the sitting room. The rooms above are 14 x 14 and a bathroom over the kitchen. This will be a very pleasant and delightful home. Mr. Johnson is doing his own work. The cost will be $3,500.

Fred Cochran is about completing a neat residence in the Torrance addition. The building is 30 x 30 with six large rooms, a square top to the house, and a tin roof. The three ground floors are 15 x 15 each. The parlor is on the north side of the house. Back of this is the dining room and kitchen. A bay window on the east side of the house. The cost of this house will be $2,500.

Mrs. Silliman will soon finish her elegant residence on South Loomis street. The building is 38 x 45 consisting of seven rooms besides closets, pantries, and bathroom. The house has a mansard roof set off with a tower. At the entrance to the ground floor is a vestibule 5 x 7. This leads into the hall 8 x 16. From this the stairway ascends and two doors from the hall leads into the parlor and sitting room. The parlor is 13 x 15, with sliding doors between it and the sitting room, which is 13 x 17. A bay window on the south side of the sitting room, which may be shut off by sliding doors. Sliding doors lead from the sitting room into the dining room, which is 13 x 15. In this room is a marbleized mantle grate. The bathrooms open out of the dining room, also a china closet opens into the pantry. The kitchen opens out of the dining room and sitting room. There is a sink in the kitchen connected with the pump, as is the bathroom. A cellar-way leads out of the kitchen. At the head of the stairs is a hall opening into every room above. At the head of the stairs is a square closet, where is the entrance to the tower. Just east of the head of the stairs is a bedroom 13 x 15. South of this is a bedroom 13 x 17 with a large closet. West of this is a bedroom 13 x 15. There are double windows in all the bedrooms as well as parlor and dining room. The finish on this house will be a moulded casing with a heavy band mould. I. W. Randall is the architect and L. Van DeWater, the contractor. It certainly is a fine residence; cost, $3,500.

H. E. Silliman is at work on his residence just south of his old house, which will be a counterpart of his mother's, with the exception of the finish, which will be in Eastlake. Will cost some more than $3,500. Mr. Van DeWater will do this job also.

J. M. Warner, of Vernon township, is just commencing a neat residence in the Second Ward, on South Millington. It will be a two story frame 22 x 28 of seven rooms and hall: three rooms and hall below. The parlor will be 14 x 14 with folding doors leading into the sitting room, which will be 14 x 14. The kitchen is 12 x 13; also a dining room the same size. There will be four bedrooms above 14 x 14. Probable cost $2,000. Howard & Turner, contractors.

Judge Turner is also commencing a residence just west of Mr. Warner's.

Mrs. Carmine has just moved into a pleasant house of five rooms in Third Ward.

Mrs. Prichard has her residence, south of the Presbyterian parsonage, under headway. It will be 58 x 34, containing fourteen rooms, and is built in the Gothic style. This will be an elegant residence costing not less than $5,000. Bates & Wells are the contractors.

R. S. Wilson is pushing his residence to completion on East 11^th Avenue. This house is 40 x 30, containing ten rooms. The parlor is 14 x 16, connected with the sitting room by folding doors. From the sitting room you can go out on the porch or into the dining room; back of the dining room is the kitchen 14 x 18, which will be supplied with water pipes. There is a bathroom back of this 6 x 7 and a pantry 6 x 6. There are six bedrooms above. Probable cost: $3,000. R. S. Wilson, architect; R. S. Spencer, foreman.

H. B. Schuler is finishing up his dwelling in Highland Park, which is 44 x 32, two stories, with eight rooms besides closets and pantries. It fronts east and south with two porches. From the east you enter the parlor, then are folding doors between the parlor and sitting rooms. The parlor is 14 x 16; the sitting room 14 x 14. The family bedroom opens out from the sitting room, 13 x 14, with recess and closets. The dining room is back of the sitting room; north of this is the kitchen, which is supplied with a zinc [? sink] connected with the pump. There are three large bedrooms upstairs. S. A. Cook is the architect; Howard & Klauser, contractors.

H. G. Buford is putting up an elegant brick residence on East 7^th Avenue of sixteen rooms. It will probably cost $4,000.

Mr. Bassett, formerly of Bertram & Bassett, is erecting a four room cottage home, costing a thousand or twelve hundred dollars on east 7^th Avenue. It contains six rooms; is located in the pleasant residence portion of the city, and will make an admirable little home.

The Farmers Bank building, on the corner of Main Street and 9^th Avenue, will be by far the best building in this part of the State. It will be built of the gray stone, with blue stone trimmings, and will have a galvanized iron cornice, crestings, and dormer windows, with a slate roof, mansard and gothic front on the third floor part of the building. The building will be 50 x 115 feet, of which the front 50 x 75 feet will be three stories, and the 40 x 50 feet at the rear, fronting on 9^th Avenue, will be two stories high, but will have the same style of finish and general appearance of the front part except the mansard front. Mr. Eaton's part of the building (25 x 75 feet of the corner) will have two good basement store rooms, well lighted and ventilated, with a fire-proof vault for each. The first floor will contain the Banking rooms, with Mr. Eaton's law office with side entrance at the rear, and a large burglar and fire-proof vault for the bank. Two broad, easy stairs will give access to the second floor rooms of the building; one stair in the center of the Main Street front, the other near the center of the 9^th Avenue front. The second floor of this building will contain three suites of offices of three rooms and a closet to each. Mr. Short's part of the building will have a good cellar, but no basement rooms. The first floor will have three good store rooms with a rear light and entrance to each. The second floor will have ten suites of offices of two rooms each, connected by wide folding doors. They do not contemplate finishing the third floor at present; but when done, it will make at least six good office or sleeping rooms. This building will be the "Office Block" of the city, and will contain thirteen suites of the best lighted and ventilated offices in the city. The building will cost $20,000. A fine drawing of the building will be completed soon and will show what it will be when completed.

The addition and alteration in the Central school building will make us the most convenient and prettiest schoolhouse in Southern Kansas, provided the bonds are voted next Monday to complete the building according to the plans and drawings. The addition will contain four schoolrooms with a cloak room for each, a broad hall running through the center, connecting with the hall in the present building, with an easy stairway in the hall starting near the front entrance; a superintendent's room on the second floor, and folding doors so arranged as to throw the two rooms on the second floor into one large hall. The appearance of the building may be better understood by looking at the drawing of the building hanging at the postoffice door than could be from any description of it. The improvements as contemplated (with fence, seating, etc.) will cost about $14,000.

John A. Eaton's new home residence, on the southeast corner of 9^th Avenue and Mansfield Street, will be of modern Eastlake style, bordering on the Queen Ann. It will contain twelve rooms on the first and second floors, with pantries, closets, cupboards, and book cases built in the house. The front hall and stairs will be of the latest designs, and will be one of the most pleasing features. Verandas and balconies, artistic dormers, gables, cresting, and slate roof, and stained glass windows, etc., will make the exterior of one of the most modern stylish residences in the west. The building will be finished in first-class style throughout, and will cost, when completed, about $10,000.

Among the prominent business buildings going up is the Winfield National Bank extension. It will be two stories, three store rooms below and three suites of offices above, and when completed will make the Winfield National Bank building one of the most imposing and creditable blocks of the city.

We have given only an outline of the city's present improvements. It was impossible to mention the smaller ones. Many residences are receiving additions and other enhancements. All over the city is a general air of advancement. The impetus given our city by the many public enterprises secured during the past year is showing itself. But the boom has only commenced. Many fine business blocks and residences are projected, and the middle of September will show a building progress that will excel any boom the city has ever experienced. No town in the west has higher prospects than Winfield. Confidence is established. All are satisfied that this must be an important metropolis, and our own capitalists are spreading their wealth while many others are coming in seeking investments. The next year will give Winfield an advance that will put her in the lead of any city in the Southwest.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Judge H. D. Gans has been absent for several days in Chicago. His mission was one connected with the Frankie Morris poisoning case, Reno County. Senator Hackney, attorney for the defense, determined to re-examine the body and have it examined by a Chicago expert. Judge Gans consented to take the stomach to Chicago. Friday last, the body was again taken up. A special to the Globe-Democrat says: "Considerable excitement was occasioned here yesterday by the exhuming of the remains of Nancy J. Poinsette, poisoned to obtain the insurance on her life. Frankie Morris, her daughter, was convicted of the crime the first of the month, and an application for a new trial has been made, and will be argued on September 4. No notice of any movement of this kind was given until early yesterday morning, when such a rumor coming to the ears of the attorneys representing the prosecution, they went out to the cemetery where Mrs. Poinsette's remains had been deposited, and found Senator Hackney, Mrs. Morris' attorney, the Probate Judge of Cowley County, and several physicians, two of whom were present at the former exhuming, when the parts were taken to be turned over to the chemist of the State University, and identified the body as that of Mrs. Poinsette. Dr. Barker, the dead woman's attending physician during her last illness, was also present and removed a large part of the remaining portions of the body, and turned them over to the Probate Judge of Cowley County. The attorneys for the prosecution made a proposition to Mrs. Morris' representatives that the Sheriff accompany the Probate Judge, which was accepted. The parts of the body removed were taken to Chicago, where a chemical examination is to be made. Prof. Bailey, of the State University, in the former analysis, said he found a little over three and one-third grains of arsenic in the liver, heart, and stomach, two and one-half being sufficient to produce death. The representatives of the insurance company, who are interested in the result of the analysis on account of the effect it will have on the civil suit for the $15,000 insurance on Mrs. Poinsette's life, made a proposition to Mr. Hackney that they employ a chemist, and that he for Mrs. Morris do the same, and that the remains be turned over to them and both sides abide the result. This proposition was declined by the defense and all attempts to agree to some concerted action failed." The suit to recover the $15,000 will come off in the District Court of Cowley County in September. The Judge will be home Wednesday, but nothing regarding the result of the trip will likely be known until it is used as evidence.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Wednesday was a big day for Burden--in the sporting line. Two base ball games, glass ball shoot, foot races, and other things too numerous and diversified for mention. The leading event was the game of base ball between the Odd Fellows of Winfield and those of Burden. Winfield got there of course. She always does. The score was fourteen for Winfield and eleven for Burden. It was a very fine game, for amateurs, and drew a large crowd of spectators. Our nine was composed of James Vance, A. J. McClellan, A. B. Taylor, Frank L. Crampton, Israel Martin, Will Kirkwood, A. F. Hopkins, George Lierman [? Liermann], H. M. Zimmerman, and Mr. Wagner; one or two of whom were out of the I. O. O. F. fold: proxies. E. A. Henthorn and John Ledlie were the principals in the Burden nine. John sat on a chair and had a small boy run in his balls--yet very few balls got past his corpulency--a perfect "stop" anywhere. Enos took in all the flies--none too high. He was dressed in ornamental tights, high water pants, and female hose, and presented a very fine appearance. Like Banquo's ghost, he wouldn't down--always up seven feet two. Frank Crampton pitched and A. J. McClellan caught for our fellows. Our nine are elated over the splendid entertainment given them. Burden will return the game in two weeks. A second game followed yesterday between Burden's Clippers and Grenola's club, the former getting there with a score of twenty to ten. Capt. Nipp was champion on glass balls. It was a "circus day" all around and the town was full of amusement lovers: ladies and gentlemen.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The County Commissioners have condemned and allowed damages on the right of way of the K. C. & S. W. to Winfield. The damages from the north line of Walnut township, the extent of our last publication, were allowed as follows: W. W. Limbocker, $62; Mrs. M. A. Mock, $78; W. W. Limbocker, $461; Joseph Parr, $2; R. Ehret, $542.40; H. G. Buss and C. A. Buss, $196; S. M. Deal, $847; G. W. Yount, $897; Mrs. Cochran, $37; John C. Burkey, $600.25; J. F. Graham, $300; Mrs. M. A. Andrews, $1,125; M. M. Wells, $325; B. B. Van Deventer, $530; D. F. Clark, $250; David C. Beach, $240.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

John Gordon, of Cedarvale, writes to know whether his daughter, Vada, and John Davis have pulled up at the Probate Judge's office for marriage. They were elopers, and were married on the 17^th by Judge Gans, and eloped on west. John is twenty-two and Vada sixteen. He swore that she was under age, but that he had the necessary parental consent. The old gentleman seems to be badly disgusted, but is a little too late with his inquiry.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

And now comes Gen. W. Robertson, of Pleasant Valley, and lays an egg on our table: another Bantam egg. He says nothing about our sitting on it to hatch it. It is a very cute and queer little egg. One end has the appearance of having concluded to form egg number two and after it got a good start, gave up the job. Bring on another egg. We are bad on hen fruit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Judge Gans filled his regular monthly appointment at the schoolhouse last Sunday, morning and evening, to large and attentive audiences. His forcible and aggressive style of preaching attracts and holds the attention of the hearer, while the logic and arguments furnish food for reflection not very likely to be wholly forgotten in a day. Burden Enterprise.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Sunday was a perfect day, calm, cool, and bright, and all humanity seemed at joy's zenith. The temperature didn't go above ninety. Dame nature seemed to nod her happiest nod. Everybody was out for an airing--after church and Sunday school. The man who couldn't be happy on such a day, with the watermelon season to boot, ought to be fired out of the world.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Prof. A. Gridley is home from Kingman, having closed the Kingman normal, which he conducted.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

If there is an ardent, uncompromising, use-nothing-but-the-genuine Prohibitionist on earth, it is Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, of Lafayette, Indiana. She has fought and suffered in the cause until she, if anybody, has a right to be fanatical about it. Mrs. Gougar has been in Kansas, has traveled all over the State, and has been an intelligent observer. She records the result of her observations in a letter to the Chicago Inter-Ocean.

Mrs. Gougar objects to the present law, that it allows men who are not druggists to sell liquor, and says she found reputable druggists opposed to the law. Another objection Mrs. Gougar states in these words:

Another weak point in the law is in allowing the Probate Judge the 5-cent fee; it is asking considerable of poor, weak human nature to revoke that which pays a salary of $200 per month for the simple act of putting four seals to four oaths of four druggists, as was the case in one county, or to ask a judge to forego the $95 for so little service as that at Beloit; either the fee should be forbidden or the revoking power removed from the officer who gets the fee.

In the face of a dozen Kansas newspapers which devote most of their space to declarations that this State is full of drunkards, and daily growing worse, it is pleasant to copy the opinion of an outsider. Mrs. Gougar says:

I spoke at thirty-six different meetings. Many of them were out-of-door gatherings, ranging in attendance from 300 to 5,000 persons, and I did not see one person that appeared to be under the influence of intoxicants. In no "regulation or license" State in the Union could I make such a statement--no, not at religious camp-meetings. I did not see the sign "saloon" in all my travels, Wichita and Topeka even being free from these pest-houses.

The social feature of the drink habit is almost entirely done away with, both seller and buyer being severely punished for an infringement of this phase of the law; no drug store has its crowds of hangers-on drinking, and one never hears upon the streets, "Come, let's have something," or "Let's take a smile." If there is drinking, it hides itself from gaze, as crime and vice always do unless "legalized" and "protected."

Go where one will at any hour of the night, in such towns as Beloit or Salina, and nowhere can be found drunken carousals or crowds of maudlin men and boys; women are as safe on the streets at midnight as at midday.

If a member of a family has acquired the habit of strong drink, any other member can forbid the sale to such an one, which amounts to practical prohibition. A wife told me she had availed herself of the law, had forbidden the sale to her husband, and as he did not go out of the place where her ban could not reach him, she had made a sober man out of an habitual drunkard. Whenever a woman has the nerve, or force or character sufficient to use the law, she can break up drunkenness in her family in almost every instance. Many do this.

At none of these gatherings did I see the fringe of bad boys, tobacco-stained, foul-mouthed, lop-sided, shuffling specimens of youth that I see in anti-prohibition States of all gatherings that are free.

Mrs. Gougar has read the history of the State for the past six years, and thus applies the moral:

I can but look with great concern upon the action of the "Third party prohibitionists" as a State party in Kansas. I believe these good friends to be honest, but mistaken. The Republican party has been pledged to the hearty support of prohibition and has made its pledges good so far as public sentiment would sustain it. It has led rather than followed public sentiment. The Democratic party is openly pledged to annul and disobey the law. In this condition of affairs it appears that if the friends who are impatient for complete success draw away from the Republican party, Democratic rule and ruin are inevitable. Kansas trembles before mistaken zeal. Champion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

There seems to have been an ex-convict appointed to a postoffice in Kansas, Brown County, by the present administration. We know the Democrats are few and far between in Kansas, but then thee ought to be enough to fill the offices without calling on the penitentiary to furnish them. This case, added to the appointment of a Dakota ex-convict to the postoffice in Sioux City, Iowa, an embezzler to the postoffice in Lincoln Center, Maine; Judd, the horse thief, two ex-convicts to places in the custom house in Cincinnati, and so on, would seem to prove that the convicts are meeting with more consideration even than confederates at the hands of the administration. We expect to hear from the St. Joseph Gazette on this if "he" be in the humor. K. C. Journal.

Geo. Rembaugh will resign for fear of being believed a horse thief.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

O'Donovan Rossa wants the dynamite war renewed in England. There is need in this connection of a crank with an aim more accurate and a heavier revolver than Mrs. Yseult Dudley had.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

We have been reading the very voluminous reports in the Emporia Dailies of the death of J. R. Walkup of that city and the large amount of evidence produced before the coroner's jury hearing upon the charge of poisoning by his young wife, and ourself and family have constituted ourselves a jury to try the case on the evidence reported as above. We now render our verdict of "not guilty," and recommend the young woman, so terribly afflicted by the dreadful accusation and the unfortunate circumstances which have raised the presumption of her guilt in a community in which she was so recently a stranger, to the tender sympathies of the good people of Emporia. The fact that she bought strychnine at a drug store nearby, signing her name to the application for the poison just before her husband was taken sick and the fact that she bought arsenic in the same way just before his relapse, together with her explanation of the purposes for which these poisons were purchased, are to our mind evidences of her innocense instead of guilt. She certainly is not specially ignorant and has sense enough to know that in case of her husband's death with symptoms of poison, the fact of her purchase would be known at once and be held as evidence of her guilt, as it now is, and that an examination of his stomach would follow and reveal the presence of the poison administered. It is evident to us that when she bought the poison, she had no thought that her husband might die with symptoms of poison. Had she anticipated such an event, she would never have bought the poison in the manner she did unless she was excessively ignorant, to the verge of idiocy.

She is represented as a young lady less than 18 years old, of rare beauty and the fairest of complexions, and that, as is usual in such cases, she took great pride in her complexion. She says she bought the arsenic for her complexion. It is altogether probable that she had been in the habit of taking arsenic in very small doses for that very purpose. It is known that all or most of the exquisitely fair complexions of the country are made so by the use of arsenic in that way. It is a suicidal habit but yet it exists and among young ladies entirely innocent of any thought of crime, whose worst fault is this craving for exquisite beauty of complexion. However great the folly of this habit, it is not morally different from numerous other dangerous habits which prevail among other people and re not taken as evidence of depravity or even of laxity in morals.

Her explanation of the purchase of the strychnine, that she got it to remove stains from her clothes, is in no wise improbable. She is represented as being very neat and tasteful with regard to her dress, and such ladies resort to all sorts of experiments to remove obstinate stains. Poisonous substances are frequently tried for that purpose, and it is highly probable that her wardrobe had stains difficult of removal, and that she would try almost anything that had been recommended to her, even by a negro woman in New Orleans, for their removal.

All the accounts of her actions, words and demeanor in this trying, and to her, terrible ordeal, are such as to us, tend to establish her innocence. She seems to have tried bravely to meet her dangers and the dreadful circumstances with which she is surrounded and of course her appearance is more or less constrained and unnatural, covering up her almost ungovernable distress and alarm by a forced attempt at calmness, but this is to her credit rather than an evidence of guilt.

The analyses so far as we have seen have not proved the presence of arsenic or strychnine in the deceased. If he had died of either arsenical or strychnine poison, recently administered, we would think the Emporia chemist would have readily detected it in the stomach and have known positively what particular poison it was. He would not have needed to have sent it to Kansas City for further analysis.

Of course, it is possible that further evidence may be discovered or brought out that may be inconsistent with her innocence. In that case we shall have to revise our verdict.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The following charter was filed Thursday last, in the office of the secretary of state.

"The Geuda Springs, Caldwell & Western Railroad Co." Places of business, Winfield and Geuda Springs, Cowley Co.; and Caldwell, Sumner Co. The purpose is to build and operate a railroad of standard gauge through the counties of Cowley, Sumner, Harper, Barbour, Comanche, Clark, Meade, and Seward, in the state of Kansas. Capital stock $5,600,000. Directors for the first year: Alonzo Stephens, Chicago, Illinois; Wm. Gostlin and C. N. Towle, Hammond, Indiana; Wm. D. Carey, E. P. Greer, N. M. Powers, D. A. Millington, and J. C. Long, Winfield; and C. R. Mitchell, Geuda Springs, Kansas.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

A superb albertype portrait of General Grant, from a life photograph, will be bound in as a supplement to the September Wide Awake, and will be accompanied by a peculiarly interesting article, containing personal reminiscence, by Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont.

The death of Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, better known as "H. H." and "Saxe Holme," gives special interest to two connected stories, among the last of her literary work, which will be published in the October and November numbers of Wide Awake.

A new and complete life of General Grant, by E. E. Brown, author of Life of Garfield, will be published immediately by D. Lothrop & Co.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The Indian boys and girls in our various institutions of learning show themselves to be apt scholars. But the experience is that as soon as they are returned to their tribes, they don the blanket and adopt the customs of their fathers and mothers. One of the government officers on a recent visit West asked several intelligent young Indians the reasons of this. They invariably replied, "We have no encouragement to do otherwise." One replied, "The white people have no use for us, and we cannot afford to be classed among our people as Indian dudes."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The New Orleans exposition seems to have been unfortunate for two prominent Kansans. There is Bacon, who has been politically dead since his participation in the ovation to Jeff Davis during the exposition, and there is Walkup, who is dead as a door nail on account of a wife whom he picked up while visiting the exposition. Still Kansas took the prize on apples and for having the best agricultural exhibit at the World's fair. K. C. Journal.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

It really does begin to look as though the D., M. & A. railroad is considered of some consequence in railroad circles. A company has been formed of good A., T. & S. F. men to build a railroad from Great Bend due west on the D., M. & A. line most of the way to the west line of the State. It is a good scheme for the Santa Fe.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

At a picnic of socialists near Chicago 300 kegs of beer were drunk, and a banner displayed with the inscription, "Our children cry for bread." The sequence is natural.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The first volume of Grant's "Memoirs" will not be given to subscribers before November 1, and the second will follow in a month or two.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

An Eagle reporter was informed last evening that 100 teams went to work on the D., M. & A., in Kingman County yesterday morning, and that the grading would be done from Belle Plaine to Kingman by October 1^st. Notwithstanding that no big corporation is known to be backing this road the townships and towns along the road have faith in the enterprise. Eagle.

The Eagle seems to think that the big corporations like the A. T. & S. F. and C. B. & Q. are the only companies that should be allowed to build roads. When the A. T. & S. F. was as young a company as the D. M. & A., it was not half as able to build a road as the D. M. & A. is now, did not have half the money at its command. There are none of these old companies backing the K. C. & S. W., but it has got thirty miles of railroad built and paid for all the same and cash enough on hand to build as much more, besides plenty more where that came from and has not yet put a mortgage bond on the market. Within five years it will be one of the "Big corporations" which the Eagle allows to build railroads. So will the D., M. & A.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The Prohibition candidate for governor of Ohio, Dr. Leonard, has replied to the charge that he drank a bottle of ale in the brush near a camp meeting. He says that he did not drink the ale, but soaked bread in it and ate the bread. This is about as satisfactory as his answer to the charge that he is helping the whiskey Democracy in the Ohio campaign. He says he is not trying to help the Democrats, but is doing his best to defeat the Republicans if possible.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Notice is hereby given that all persons having "Union Military Script," or script issued by any of the commissioners appointed to audit claims growing out of the "Price Raid" of 1864, should send the same to the secretary of the Price raid auditing commission, E. B. Allen, Topeka, Kansas, on or before the 1^st day of October, 1885. Gov. Martin is chairman of the commission and Secretary of State E. B. Allen is secretary.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Those smart Iowa Democrats who though they would catch the Greenback vote by nominating a Greenbacker for governor may have made a mistake. Elias Doty, a prominent Greenbacker, announces that he will run for the governorship on the Simon-pure Greenback Independent ticket.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The Emporia Republican says: "There are said to be about 3,000,000 acres of government lands yet open to homestead, pre-emption, and timber claims in Finney, Hamilton, and Seward counties in southwestern Kansas, and this land is being appropriated at the rate of 16,000 acres per day."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

An eastern newspaper suggests that a national appropriation ought to be made to help Mormon emigration. The people could certainly well afford to help the Mormons out of the country, but it is a question whether they ought not to be kicked out, instead of being paid to go.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

They say the scandal affecting the good name of Sir Charles Dilke will have no injurious effect upon his political prospects. If our British cousins had studied American politics, they could have found that out last November.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Secretary Lamar, having been born and raised in a county which has experienced such hot times as have made Copiah County, Mississippi, famous, says he will take no vacation. Washington is a good enough summer resort for him.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Returns from the county fairs are coming in, and they show that the year has been by no manner of means an unsuccessful and unprofitable one, as croakers tried to make us believe awhile ago.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The Democrats deny that story about a row between Cleveland and Tilden. A fight between the de jure and the de mugwump presidents of the United States would be amusing indeed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The present epidemic of smallpox in Montreal was introduced into the city by the porter of a sleeping car. This relieves the American colony of bank cashiers from a foul suspicion.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

True to tradition, the Democrats of Iowa say in their platform, "Give us whiskey straight," or at any rate they declare against the adulteration of their favorite beverage.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

At the earnest solicitation of Star Valley "Duffer," I again seek space in the COURIER.

Mr. Peter Seacat is recovering from a severe spell of fever. For a time his life was almost despaired of.

Frank Taylor has gone to Indiana. His contract in the hay business was enough to send anyone east.

Andy Bryant has taken a box of collars and frying pan across the river to commence housekeeping on his own account--batching, of course.

At our last annual school meeting the ladies turned out bravely and voted their own ideas to the front in a manner that would shock some of our natives.

Our School Board has secured the services of Miss Celina Bliss for a 4 months term. These gentlemen were surely wise in their selection of a teacher.

Three Messrs. Carson, lately arrived from Champaign County, Illinois, and are at present with their uncle, Mr. Joshua Birdzell. They come with the intention of going into the livestock business.

Ye scribe recently scared away to Mr. Litter's residence to celebrate Mr. Jackson Litter's 20^th year with a merry company of young folks. Ice cream and an abundance of most delicious culinary viands were dispensed with, and all enjoyed the occasion hugely.

We are waiting, sweetly waiting, to greet the K. C. & S. W. surveying corps within the boundaries of our own beloved bend. Now should this road fail to materialize in this precinct, we will send our swine and maize down to Dixie on the "Kansas Millers." We are willing to acknowledge our lung capacity, but if South Bend arises with all her civilized might, something will pop.

South Bend Sunday School is on the rocky road to prosperity under the efficient superintendency of Mrs. Elbige [? Eldridge], who was recently elected in that capacity. With an average attendance of about 50, we are really paying due attention to that cause. Ex-Supt. Holcomb had worked and watched as well as could have been expected of so offensive a partisan, but as business matters became pushing, he resigned.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Mr. H. G. Norton will teach our school again this winter.

Mr. W. S. Rigden spent Saturday and Sunday in Winfield.

Miss Laura Elliott has been visiting in Winfield the last week.

Mr. Will Taylor left Tuesday last for Brainard to look at the country.

Several couples from here attended the picnic at Dexter last Friday week.

Quite a number of young men from Burden were in our town Sunday.

A number of our young folks attended a party over on the prairie Thursday night.

Miss Mattie Baxter, of Winfield, who spent two weeks visiting here, returned home last Wednesday.

Miss Beamer, of Missouri, cousin to Mr. Newman, spent several days this week with Miss Lottie Haygood.

Miss Occa Gibson, formerly of Parsons, Kansas, but now on her way to Medicine Lodge, stopped off to spend this week with Misses Lou and Mattie Wilson. Miss Gibson and the girls were all from the same town in Illinois, and it is quite a pleasure for them to meet again.

Misses Lyda and Alice Taylor, who have been spending the summer with their brothers, returned to their home in Illinois last Tuesday. They were jolly girls, and made many friends while here, who were sorry to see them go. They were accompanied as far as Cambridge by a number of our young people.

Last items above and almost the entire column that follows were marred by scratches and white spots...I put in [?] when I was not certain of a word. MAW

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Zack Whitson went down to the Nation the past week to look after his cattle interests.

A new barn is in process of construction at David Shaw's farm and will add to the attractiveness of his premises.

Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Snyder and their son, Gary, spent last Saturday and Sunday visiting J. C.'s brother at Arkansas City.

Ed Watt will attend school at Winfield again this winter, providing his father does not part with the old homestead in the meantime.

An old friend of J. C. Snyder from Abington, Illinois, is looking up a location in this section and will probably establish a lumber yard at our station.

James Albert leaves for Lecompton Monday to attend college a year. Jim is ambitious and determined to advance himself educationally. Success to him.

Miss [?] Gence Holland is prostrated on a bed of affliction. While horseback riding a few evenings ago her steed precipitated her with such force as to injure her knees.

The morning train north now takes twenty minutes for refreshments at the Hackney [?] Hotel. Mrs. Lewis Brown is mine host and seems to please the traveling public as a caterer to the inner man.

It must be humiliating to be compelled to make an unconditional retraction, privately, for the use of language reflects on the character of a noted personage. An open confession, "Neppie," is good for the soul.

The most important man in the neighborhood is Charles Ging. Notwithstanding the hardness of the ground, he persists in running his Cassidy sulky plow, though it requires the strength of five horses to do so.

Mr. J. C. Snyder has contracted to teach in District 10 for seven months. There was quite a demand for J. C.'s services as a pedagogue--no less than three school boards were after him. Merit and proficiency never goes begging.

The new style Cassidy sulky plow purchased by M. H. Markum is a decided improvement over the old make of this plow. In beauty of appearance, neatness of finish, lightness of draft, and excellency of work, it is superior to any other sulky.

Mr. Chinchbug is numerously frequent in the highways and byways as well as the corn and stubble fields. His rival, Mr. Hessian fly, is also on hand and ready to embrace the coming wheat crop. It will be policy to defer from seeding this fall from two to three weeks later than usual.

District 115 is still unsupplied with a teacher for the coming school term. However, from the numerous applications made daily, the district fathers cannot resist much longer making a choice. Sometimes it requires other influences besides that of a prospective father-in-law and an evanescent spirit of sanctimoniousness to "stand in" with the district.

Ed Garrett has secured the Centennial school in District 4. He will teach as long as he gives satisfaction: which means the whole term. The school board is too sympathetic and tender hearted to suspend a teacher, even though he accomplishes no good in the school room. We hope Ed possesses firmness of will sufficient to govern the school and crown his efforts with success. The very short time which country children can spend in the school room each year is too precious to be wasted by incompetent teachers. Better have no school at all than one which inculcates knowledge that is anything but beneficial to the pupils.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Sam DeBolt is able to be up but is gaining strength very slowly.

Hay harvest is almost over and corn cutting is the order of the day.

A Mr. Garnett, of Missouri, is visiting his cousin, Mrs. W. A. Weaverling.

A good rain visited this section Tuesday, but not before it was needed.

Mrs. Jonas Leedy spent Sunday and Monday in Burden visiting with her son.

Dr. Long and family have returned after a two weeks' visit at Cave Springs, Elk County.

Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Hill, of Udall, visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Palmer, last week.

Dr. S. Wilkins reports a boy, a late arrival at S. B. Sherman's. S. B. wears a broad smile all the time since his arrival.

Jos. and Miss Ann More have been visiting their sister, Mrs. M. J. Weaverling. They returned to Kansas City Tuesday.

The I. O. G. T.'s will have an ice cream social in Horsman & Lukens's new building Wednesday night. A good time is anticipated.

Henry Dyer has charge of the depot at this place and we hope he may retain that position for a long time, for we have not had a more pleasant and obliging agent than Henry.

School will open here the first Monday in September. Mr. Alberts has been employed as principal, at $65 per month. The primary teacher is not employed. We will have an eight months' term.

P. L. Koons, whom we reported in our last as being sick, died at his home in this place Monday, Aug. 17, after an illness of about four weeks. By his death Cambridge has lost one of her best citizens, the church a zealous worker, and his family a devoted husband and father. He leaves a wife, four children, and a host of friends to mourn his death.

The body of Joe Wager, who died in Colorado two weeks ago, reached here Friday morning, and was interred in the Weaverling cemetery in the evening. Before his friends in Colorado received the message to send the body home they had buried it, but receiving the dispatch, took the body up, embalmed it, and sent the lifeless boy to his now heart-broken mother.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Health pretty good in this vicinity.

Peaches are scarce in this vicinity and of poor quality.

Will Schwantes and wife were over to her father's Sunday.

Mrs. Alex Shelton and her father were at Winfield Saturday.

B. D. Hanna's little daughter seems to be in very poor health.

Mr. Hotchkiss and family were out for a nice little drive Sunday eve.

As the cool weather approaches, we hope all will attend Sunday school.

Hay making still continues, but a prospect for farmers getting through this week.

Is Speed trying to rent the Widow Foose farm, and why does it take so many trips to make the trade?

S. A. Rucker and his nephew made a flying visit to El Dorado last week. S. A. thinks he will try Cowley for a while.

Lon Bryant says it will take all his crop to pay rent this year. We regret to hear it, for Lon has worked hard and ought to receive something himself for his hard labor.

Mr. Wm. Schwantes and wife, with Mrs. Ad. Rucker, were at Winfield recently in search of dry goods--found quite a variety of new goods, enough to satisfy the eye of any one.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Mrs. Orand's baby is much better.

Mrs. Lucas, Sr., has been a guest in Old Salem recently.

Earnest Gilmore is still quite weak, but is around and gaining fast.

The Gilmore Bros. are now at home, but ill again seek the west 'ere long.

Mrs. McMillen is entertaining her cousin, Mr. Louis Dorfman, of Labette County.

James Calvert is putting up a neat shop for carpenter tools, work, etc., in Salem for himself.

Mc Hutchison paid a visit to his parents last week, but has again returned to Barbour County.

J. W. Hoyland has suffered intensely for two weeks with a large carbuncle on the back of his neck.

Miss Mary Dalgarn will hold the scepter in Crooked Elm district when the new schoolhouse is completed.

Whose boil did "Old Maid," of the Telegram, poultice recently? And where did she find disinfectant and soap?

[Above item hard to read. Next two impossible to read. Too much white-out.]

Mr. Haughey will teach the New Salem school while their late teacher, Mr. W. H. Lucas, will teach the Prairie Home youth.

Miss Dolly Gilmore has recovered from her recent illness and made a short visit in Old Salem last week, in the homes of Messrs. McMillen and Hoyland.

Mr. Robert Nelson also went west to see his claim lately purchased on "unsight and unseen," as some say. Also to visit his sister, Mrs. C. H. Miller.

Messrs. J. J. Johnson, W. H. Lucas, and Dr. Downs went west on the excursion train to view the beauties of the western lands and came back highly delighted; think the west is certainly grand.

The young people had an excellent time in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Shields last Thursday evening, and their little sister, Miss Kaster, entertained them nicely. They sing praises of the delicious lunch served them by fair hands. Miss Kaster will be sadly missed when she leaves for her home in Wisconsin, as she anticipates doing soon.

In my last I told about little Ettie Douglass being sick. Medical aid and kind friends could not keep the little spirit from taking its flight to God, who gave it, and on Saturday, the 22^nd, the little body was laid to rest in the Salem cemetery. Many kind friends and neighbors were there to sympathize with the sad father, mother, and little brother. Rev. Bicknell preached an excellent sermon from the text, "And a little child shall lead them." The singing was also good and touched the tender chords in many aching hearts. The sad hearted family left on last Tuesday for their home in the west.

But they left their idol sleeping,

Sweetly sleeping 'neath the sod.

But her spirit free from sorrow

Blooming in the home of God,

Heedeth not earth's tears and sorrow,

For no sorrow enters there-

In the home of the bright angels

Little Ettie finds no care.

Weeping parents look above you.

See! Your darling is at rest,

Safe the little lamb is folded

On the Savior's loving breast-

Calling you to one day meet her

Where the peaceful waters roll,

Where no sickness, pain or sorrow

E're can wound the blood bought soul.

You have now a priceless jewel,

In the home beyond the sky,

And if you are true and faithful,

You may claim it by and by-

Father, mother, of an angel

Oh, what name on earth so grand,

And the promise, "if thou art faithful,"

We'll unite the broken band.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Corn cutting is the order of the day in this vicinity.

We learn that Mr. R. C. Zoner will begin work on his store building this week.

Our restaurant building is about completed and will be in running order this week.

The postoffice walked over to the new town last week, by order of the postmaster general.

The graders completed the side track at this place last week. It is now ready for the ties and rails.

Mr. Cottingham has leased his blacksmith shop to an experienced blacksmith from Shelbyville, Illinois.

We are daily expecting the advent of the train, as the track is already laid within a mile and a half of town.

The carpenter work is done on Mr. Norton's building. He is now giving it a coat of paint before being occupied.

Mr. Phenix has just returned from a trip to Sumner County, looking after his interests connected with a thresher.

Mr. McPherson has had a good trade the past week, making the old gentleman hop around to wait on his customers.

Elder Hopkins, pastor of the Richland Baptist church, is off on a month's vacation to the old haunts of early life, in the eastern states.

Since our last, Mr. Nathaniel Poe has deserted the pleasures of bachelorhood and taken to himself a better half. May joy go with them.

We notice that the committee have called the Republican primary of Richland township, to meet at Wilmot, on the 12^th of September, 1885, at 2 o'clock p.m.

The Summit Temperance Society meets the second Sunday in each month at 3 p.m., at the Summit schoolhouse. The attendance is good and a general interest is taken in the cause.

Elijah Culbertson is again in the neighborhood with his thresher, threshing out the golden grain. Oats are making a good yield, from 40 bushels per acre up to 75. Wheat is a poor crop this year; rye is making a fair yield. The corn crop will only be medium this year, as a great deal of it was planted late and the web worm worked on it badly.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Dr. Cunningham, the old reliable, has a fine office here.

A public well is being sunk by Mr. Rankin, with a prospect of abundant water.

A good quality of rock is quarried in the immediate vicinity and furnished at low figures.

Work is progressing on a fine depot, which will be completed together with side tracks in a few days.

For Beauty and health our section can be matched against any in Kansas or any other State, which has been proved.

W. H. Day sold, last week, to a Mr. St. John, of Michigan, the west half of the northeast quarter of section 14 for $1,000. This tract was entered only a year ago.

A second drug store is being erected by R. R. Phelps, of Burden, and is nearly ready for the stock. A furniture store is also in process of erection.

Land can be bought in this vicinity at from five to twenty-five dollars per acre according to quality and improvements, and is fast appreciating in value.

The Methodist church have the money nearly subscribed for the erection of a church, which will be immediately put under contract and pushed to an early completion.

Dr. Maginnis, late of Mound Valley, a young man who comes with excellent recommendations, and Dr. Acker have charge of the material health of the community. Dr. Acker also administers to its spiritual wants.

The buildings, except livery stables, are all being neatly painted, and we hope in our next to record the fact that Messrs. Grant & West, our livery stable men, have also invested some of their surplus gains in paint.

The town company are holding no lots for speculation or are they selling lots to speculators, but have fixed reasonable prices and liberal terms and sell only to those who immediately improve them. Business lots are 25 x 140 and residence lots 50 x 140 with 20 feet alleys through the block. The streets are 80 and 100 feet in width.

Our "long felt want" (some six weeks), the weekly newspaper, is not yet established, although several propositions have been received from reliable parties. Our town is without a home advertising medium and we begin to fear that our businessmen and town company, although energetic enough in other things, are a trifle slack in this particular.

Atlanta naturally commands the trade of a large section of the country, being eight miles north of Burden, eighteen south of Leon, eighteen southeast of Douglass, twelve southwest of Latham, the new town on Rock creek, and fifteen northeast of Floral, about half-way between Winfield and Beaumont, and is starting right to make the finest town between these two points.

This new town is located on the southwest quarter of section 15 and the southeast quarter of section 16, 30 s 6 e, the center of Omnia township, in the midst of as fine and firm looking country as the sun shines upon. The town is about six weeks old and already contains two hotels, two livery stables, two groceries, two dry goods, grocery and clothing, and one hardware store, one meat market, one restaurant and boarding house, one drug store, one millinery store, one real estate office, one billiard hall with two tables, blacksmith shop, barber shop, and all without exception doing a lively business, one store having average sales of $200 per day for the past eight days. There have been but few residences erected yet as the hauling of lumber from Burden was considered too expensive a luxury in the light of the fact that a good lumber yard would be located here in a few days. Mr. Dicus, of Mound Valley, has a large stock of lumber on the ground and is fitting up his yard and building an office and extensive sheds, and proposes to duplicate the bills of any yard in Southern Kansas in quality and prices.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

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Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

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Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

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Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The preliminary examination of Henry Mowry for the murder of J. P. Smith at Arkansas City a few weeks ago, began yesterday before Judge Snow. The court room was filled with spectators, twenty-five or more being from Arkansas City. J. H. Fazel was appointed stenographer in the case. The first witness called was Mrs. Belle Godfrey, the woman in the case, whose testimony was substantially the same as that given in THE COURIER at the time of the tragedy. Senator W. P. Hackney, acting County Attorney, conducts the prosecuting, and Jennings & Troup and Mr. Stanley, of Stanley & Wall, Wichita, are for the defense. The case will likely consume most of tomorrow. Tomorrow's COURIER will contain a resume of the evidence.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

We take pleasure in copying the following from a Toronto, Canada, paper, as we always feel interested in the success of our Winfield friends, whether at home or abroad. This comment is on a concert by Prof. Farringer, so well known here. Miss Conrad is one of Winfield's musicians who is finishing her education in Toronto and is rapidly coming to the front.

"The concert given at the Horticultural gardens yesterday afternoon by pupils of the Ontario college of music was well attended by the music-loving people of the city. The entertainment throughout was a dulcet demonstration of well-trained talents. Several selections from noted composers were well rendered. Miss Nina Conrad's rendition of several difficult selections at the piano was highly creditable."

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The Horticultural Society will hold its regular meeting in Curns & Manser's building on Saturday, Sept. 5^th, at 2 p.m. This will be an important meeting as it will be the last previous to the Fair. A large exhibition of fruit is expected at the Fair, and the Society will give all the aid and information possible to this end. Jacob Nixon, of Kellogg, is secretary of the society, and also superintendent of the fruit department of the Fair, who will gladly favor all asking information.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

At last the terrible matrimonial drouth has been broken. The first victims for a week sailed in under Cupid's arch, the door of the Probate Judge's office, and were granted a certificate by acting P. J., Jacob T. Hackney. They were Geo. A. Stevens and Battie May Parvin, both of Cowley. As they form the first oasis in the week's desert of our matrimonial reporter, we wish them all the unalloyed joy that can be crowded into a long life in a world of weal and woe.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Dr. Turner is doing a large and extensive practice; he has proven himself a scientific and extraordinary successful physician and surgeon. Independence Daily Reporter.

Will visit Central Hotel, Winfield, Sept. 21 and 22, also Oct. 12 and 13. On his former visits he has taken under treatment a large number of very difficult cases and so far all are giving complete satisfaction.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

We observe that our friend, E. H. Nixon, is a candidate for Register of Deeds in Barber County, and the Cresset gives him a grand and well deserved send off. He is perhaps as well qualified for the duties of that office by education and experience as any one in the State, and besides he is a thoroughly reliable gentleman. We hope he will succeed.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Some dirty rapscallion is in the lowest thievery of all. Saturday the ivory rings were cut from the harness of Earnest Reynolds' team, and several others standing hitched on Main street. The low devil is spotted and the best thing he can do is to mosey around and fix the matter up as cheaply as possible, or get in the cold grip of the law.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The basket meeting at Smalley's grove in Beaver township, Sunday, was well attended, many going out from Winfield. Rev. Wright was presiding minister and other preachers were present. A big feature was the free distribution of a load of watermelons for afternoon lunch.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The lovers of scandal in Sedgwick City are rolling sweet morsels under their tongues just now. Ten married men have been so badly demoralized by the unruly member--the tongue--that they have formed a mutual protective society and have raised a fund of $200 to prosecute their detractors. There is evidently something in Denmark.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The town of Veteran is located in township 28, range 41, in Hamilton County. The town and county are being largely settled by old soldiers. The country is a fine one. The Arkansas river flows through the center of the county, and the Santa Fe runs through the county east and west. It will make a rich county. Cimaron Herald.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The Republican voters of Beaver township will meet at Tannehill schoolhouse on Saturday, Sept. 12^th, at 4 p.m., to elect 4 delegates and 4 alternates to the Republican County Convention, at Winfield, Sept. 19^th, 1885. J. R. SUMPTER, Member Co. Cen. Com.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The Southern Kansas Normal School and Business Institute will open Sept. 7^th, 1885. The first term, which closes Oct. 30^th, especially adapted to prepare teachers for the quarterly examination. J. A. Wood and Prof. I. N. Inskeep, principals.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The Republicans of Silverdale township will meet at Silverdale schoolhouse on Saturday, September 12^th, 1885, at 4 o'clock p.m. sharp, to select five delegates to attend the County Convention to be held in Winfield, Saturday, Sept. 19^th.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The Arkansas City Democrat and Republican kick on the Democratic Central Committee allotting three delegates to each ward in Winfield, and only two in each Arkansas City ward. They brand it a wrong to Democrats of southern Cowley.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The fireman's ball at McDougall's hall Monday night passed off pleasantly. The music was led by Will Schell and John Eastman and was good. Restraint was completely banished and everybody waded in for a gay time.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Preaching in the Prairie Ridge schoolhouse, six miles west of Dexter, by the Rev. P. S. Nellis, a southerner, on Sunday, Sept. 20^th, at 11 a.m. All are invited.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Livery barn, two lots, and good house in Grand Summit, Cowley County, Kansas, to trade for sheep or other property. C. D. Murdock, Winfield.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

The Republican caucus of Tisdale Township will be held at the schoolhouse at Tisdale on September 17^th, 1885, at 3 o'clock p.m. By order of Com.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Dr. Houx, with laughing gas, pulls your teeth and you don't know it. Over Friend's store.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Dr. Houx, over Friend's store, pulls teeth without pain.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

O. N. Osborn was down from Douglass last night.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Cal Swarts, Arkansas City's auburn tressed attorney, was up Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

N. A. Rankin and Newton Hall were over from Dexter Monday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

E. Harter has bought out the Winfield House, taking possession Tuesday.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

H. P. Snow was over from Burden Monday and reports everything lovely.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Miss Anna Hyde has taken a position with P. H. Albright & Co. as copyist.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Russell & Files, of the South Main street feed store, have sold out to Stolp & Son.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

V. A. Beard is out with a white pony and a new wagon with red wheels. It is a neat outfit.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

McDermott & Johnson have moved their law office to Ninth Avenue, next to Sol Fredrick's livery barn.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Monforte & Rogers are putting up an elegant barouche, all home made, even the irons. It will be a dandy job.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Miss Lulu McGuire, accompanied by her sister, Lottie, left on Monday for a week's visit in Wichita with her many friends.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Capt. C. M. Scott was up from the Canal City Tuesday, accompanied by his friend, Dr. C. D. Brown, and fell in on THE COURIER.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Hobart Vermilye's sister, Mrs. Rinchel, from Springfield, Illinois, arrived on Tuesday on the S. K., to make a visit among relatives.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Ed McLain, one of Burden's brightest young men, made the metropolis a visit today, to consult our merchant tailors. Not matrimony, exactly.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Mr. John Walck, Sr., and wife, left for Wapakoneta, Ohio, their old home, Tuesday, for a visit with the mothers on both sides of the household and other friends.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

James Jeffres, husband of Alice Jeffres, who figures in our District Court this term, joined his wife here Tuesday. They are Brettuned and await action on her case.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Garnett Burks, one of Beaver township's best farmers and staunchest Democrats, has been appointed Deputy U. S. Marshal for this district, O. S. Rarick retiring.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Mike Cogan and Albert Helman were raked in by Marshal McFadden Tuesday morning in a state of booziness. Mike got $12.25 and Albert got off on plea of not guilty.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

W. P. Hardwick, Dexter, was in the city Monday. He was accompanied by G. N. Hardwick, of Berlin, Missouri, and Miss Julia Heppin.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Miss Lou Varner and A. H. Snyder, who have been visiting Mrs. C. M. Leavitt, returned to Osage County Monday. Mr. Snyder will return in a few weeks to teach a winter school near Floral.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

J. R. Callison, of Spring Creek township, has left us a handsome Bartlett pear from his orchard--luscious, large, and perfect. His orchard is one of the best in the county, worthy the pride he takes in it.

Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 3, 1885.

Fred Ballein is home from his purchasing tour, having laid in a large stock of dry goods, etc., for J. P. Baden's Headquarters. In addition to his purchases, he had a big time and returns with a metropolitan air.