THE
WINFIELD COURIER.
WINFIELD,
COWLEY COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1886.
SIX
PAGES.
OVER
THE RAIL.
T.
J. Harris Takes a Trip.—How He Looks At It.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
On the morning of Feb. 18, I was prepared for
a little trip north and east, so I boarded the north bound train on the Frisco
line for the first ride over this new road. I must say I was somewhat surprised
to see the accommodations of this new road. Although entirely new, the
accommodations and the smoothness of this road will compare with any in the
state. While the majority perhaps that will read this are aware that I am in
the real estate business; and while I must say that is my business and has been
for the last six years, and while I am perfectly familiar with every crook and
nook in Cowley County and have driven over most every section of land in the
county and have sold land from $2.00 to $350.00 per acre, I must confess that I
was somewhat surprised to go gliding through nice little villages which have sprung
up in the last few months. I tell you it behooves a man to “git up and git,”
and see what is going on in his surrounding country.
The first village we found north of Winfield
was Floral, lying on the Timber Creek slope, overlooking one among the prettiest
valleys dotted over with neat little buildings. The next was the village of
Wilmot, located up in the level prairie and surrounded with as nice a view in
all directions as you would wish to behold. Like Floral, new houses loomed up
in every direction. Next was the stirring little city of Atlanta, and here I
note it was encouraging to me to see that the people out on the border of our
county have the vim and push in them to build up such a nice village in such a
short time. In Atlanta with their large new buildings under headway, their
lumber yards, livery stables, and the big broad streets, the sight you get of
it, one would think he had struck Broadway, New York. The next city of
importance was the city of Wingate, located in the edge of Butler County. This
city I had the history of before I reached it, as the windy editor of THE
COURIER accompanied me this far. “This city,” says the chief of the quill, “is
bound to become a noted place, located as you see on this beautiful elevated
ridge with the Rock creek valley meandering up to our left and the Timber creek
valley rolling up to our right.” “No doubt,” I told him, “it would make a
beautiful city.” “Yes,” he says, “I think we have got to the place.” The train
slackened and he alighted. Some friend was there to greet him and took his hand
and welcomed him to the city. He led him to the highest knoll there was on the
prairie and as the train pulled out, I could not see the city for the editors.
In my travels in both Kansas and Missouri I
find every town, city, and village thriving and with bright prospects before
them for the coming spring, and the citizens of each and every place trying to
push every effort possible to make their town boom. So I say to the citizens of
Winfield, do not let us lay back on our oars and think that we have reached our
goal and that our city is the only one on the way to prosperity. If we do, we
will be left. Let us make every effort, take hold of everything with energy and
vim, and push. Let nothing go by that will be of interest to the city and if
she won’t boom, we will make her boom. I will never go back on old Cowley. I
have been somewhat despondent myself while showing strangers over our county
over last year’s crop of corn. The stalks did not show up big enough to suit me
nor the yield was not as large as I thought it ought to have been. But after my
trip up through the fine Neosho valley and the northeastern part of the state
(where they claim the finest corn soil of Kansas) and seeing the size of their
stalks and the yield, I came back saying, “Well done good and faithful Cowley.
She will do to stick to and ‘don’t you forget it.’”
Now, as the evening shades are drawing nigh,
I find myself nearing Carthage, Missouri. Having to change roads at this place,
I had to wait for the train from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. During this time I had the
pleasure of investigating the electric light, which they are using extensively
in that city, notwithstanding they have a good system of gas works. In
conversation with one Mr. Roe, who is in business there, and who is using one
electric light, he told me that one electric lamp was worth a dozen gas jets,
and to make his word good he lit six of his gas burners and turned off his
electric lamp; and to compare it as near as I can, it was like stepping out of
sunshine into moonshine. He stated that the electric lights were giving entire
satisfaction, which I have no reason to doubt, for it had one tower upon the
square, and I saw boys playing marbles by the light. You may doubt this, but if
you will go with me to Carthage, I will satisfy you of the fact, and I want to
say here, that the city council did not ask the company to erect a tower before
they would grant them a franchise. They do not try to whip the devil around the
stump in any such way. When the franchise was asked for, it was granted because
they knew it would be of interest to the city, and the consequence is that the
city, after night, is a beautiful glow of light.
Now, as I have said before, let nothing stand
in the way, nor let nothing go by, that will lead our city on to prosperity,
and I want to say I am for Winfield and Cowley County, first, last, and all the
time. T. J. Harris.
REMARKABLE
RECUPERATION.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
D. M. Ferry & Co., the well-known seedmen
of Detroit, Michigan, announce that they are on their feet again and ready and
anxious to receive orders for seeds from everyone of their old customers, and
from as many new ones as feel kindly disposed toward them. They are in
condition to fill promptly every order with new seeds of the best quality. On
January 1st their immense warehouse was destroyed by fire. It was
filled with probably the largest stock of assorted seeds ever gathered under
one roof. Their books and papers were all saved, and every person who had
ordered seeds of them will be supplied with his usual stock. They hard large
quantities of seeds in their warehouses on their seed farms in the hands of
their growers and not yet delivered, and on the way from Europe, which,
together with their fully stocked branch Seed Store in Windsor, Ontario, close
at hand, and the free and vigorous use of the telegraph and cable, enabled them
to secure a new stock in a remarkably short time. Before the fire had subsided,
they had secured new quarters and were devoting all their energies to their
customers’ interests. In thirty days from the fire they were in perfect working
order again. When we consider the magnitude of their business, the appalling
destruction of property at the most unfortunate season of the year, we doubt if
the annals of history furnish a case of such rapid recuperation. Such energy
deserves success.
A
DRIVE OUT OF TOWN.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
We have taken quite a drive over the county
this week, and we found the prospect for wheat was never better at this season
of the year. The fine rains that we have had lately and the beautiful
spring-like weather that we are having insures a good wheat crop in 1886, and
gives the farmers an opportunity to harvest their bountiful crop of corn. We
enjoyed driving over the finest natural roads in the world. Every section line
is a public highway. Fine farm houses and barns, beautiful groves and orchards
in every direction. Kansas is indeed a beauty: a paradise for stock, and as nearly
so for man as we may expect in this world. We also noticed in every
neighborhood the pride of Kansas, a well-built schoolhouse. Having lived here
13 years, and driving over the county almost every week, yet we are surprised
to see the rapid growth of improvements. A happy, healthy, intelligent, moral
people, the peers of any in the United States, are building and beautifying
homes of which they feel proud. Where a few years ago we saw only prairie, we
now see groves of timber 20 to 40 feet high, and fine bearing orchards. Most of
our farmers came here poor, some with less than nothing. We are acquainted with
a number of them with farms worth from $4,000 to $10,000. These men would have
been renters a hundred years if they had lived in the eastern States. Good land
is cheap here yet.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Our delegation to the Wichita G. A. R.
encampment are profuse in praises of the grand reception, decoration, and
entertainment afforded them by the people of Wichita. Specially marked was the
attention of Marsh Murdock, whose Eagle office was headquarters for the
“Vets.” It was the most successful encampment the G. A. R. ever had in Kansas.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Whiting & Son have a young yearling beaver,
with its buzz saw teeth and dam-making tail. It was trapped three miles up the
Walnut, where an army of these wood-cutters have slayed most of the trees along
the bank for a mile or so. They will put it in the hands of a taxidermist and
mount it on a limb as an ornament for their meat market.
A
MURDER AT DANVILLE.
One
Man Shot and Lynching Threatened.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Wednesday evening the train men on the S. K.
informed us that three brothers named Weaver went into Danville, 8 miles east
of Harper, yesterday, on a load of hay and there met Dell Shearer, a performer
on a violin, whom they had hired over a year ago to play for a dance conducted
by the Weaver brothers. Shearer failed to materialize, however, and left the Weaver
dance without music, which made them wrathy and they threatened to lick Shearer
the first time they saw him. Yesterday they proceeded to carry out their
threats, whereupon Shearer pulled his “pop” and opened fire on them, which they
returned, putting six holes through Shearer’s body. The report comes that the
Weaver brothers were bullies and Shearer a very quiet, gentlemanly young man.
The victim was still alive last night, but it is impossible for him to recover.
The citizens of Danville are much excited and threats of lynching have been
made. The prisoners were taken to Harper last night for safekeeping.
“GIT
UP AND GIT.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The spring is opening up and all manner of
work is beginning. Employment can be found by every laboring man in our city
who will work, and the spring schools are open for all the youth of our city;
and there is no necessity of anyone loafing on our streets. Does the man who
insists in being a loafer ever reflect how much less it would cost to be a
decent and respectable laboring man. When you find a man wandering around this
time of year without money or work, you can just set it down that that man is
in this poverty stricken condition simply because he won’t work when he gets an
opportunity. Young man, don’t idle your time away. You can find something to do
to make a living. Anybody can be a man without much cost, but it costs
something to be a loafer. It costs time, for no man can afford to be a
first-class loafer without devoting his whole time to it. It costs money, for
if you haven’t got a cent, the time lost might have produced you much money if
devoted to industry. It costs comfort, honor, dignity, self-respect, and
respect of the public in general. Young man, go to work: be a gentleman or just
kick yourself clean out of the country. We haven’t got any use for you here. We
want men with some get-up-and-get, who are not afraid to soil their hands with
honest toil. There is no necessity of a man being without money in this
country; there is lots of work to be done, so take off your coat and dive in
and make money, spend it judiciously, and in time you will become a man of
wealth and influence and be an honor to any community.
BRISTLING
UP.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
There is not a city or county in the state
that is in a better condition for the opening of trade, business, and work than
is ours now. For two months the weather has been such that it was impossible
for a man to do successful work, be he merchant, farmer, or mechanic. This
enforced idleness has acted as fasting to a man’s hunger and all are ready to
go to work with greater energy than ever before. The warm days that we have
already had demonstrate that it is only the end of winter, for which they are
waiting. When that has come beyond cavil, then the fun will begin. The plow,
rake, and planter are already being taken from their winter quarters and the
grindstone of the farmer is busy whetting his tools. The carpenters and masons
are bringing their eyes to bear on the frames and walls that are already built
in their minds, the merchants have finished dusting their goods and marking
down prices, and they will sell all they can put over their counters, and only
a few days to wait. The backbone of winter may not be broken, but its neck is
unjointed.
THE
WAY TO BOOM.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
If you really want Winfield to boom and boom
big, use her newspapers. If you are in business, let the people know it. The
successful men of every town, especially in the west where the papers are the
great information medium, are the ones who advertise the most: who make this
branch of their business a study. If you don’t know how to advertise, THE
COURIER can give you a few pointers that will pay a hundred cents on the dollar
and there are other ways in which you can boom the town. If you have any
suggestions to make in regard to public affairs, THE COURIER will afford you
the chance if you will express yourself within bounds as to length and manner.
If you have built a house, or propose to build one; if you have laid out an
addition to the city or propose to do so; if you have added or expect to add in
any way to Winfield, tell the papers.
COMMERCIAL
COLLEGE “DEBATIN’.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The Webster Literary Society met at Normal
Hall, Thursday, and quite an interesting meeting was held. The question for
discussion was, “That the credit system should be abolished.” It was decided in
favor of the negative. It was argued by Messrs. M. Owen, Carl Wood, and B.
Bartlett on the affirmative and by Prof. Inskeep, J. C. Bradshaw, and J. Smith
on the negative. Some excellent speeches were made, after which “The Literary
Casket,” a bright and spicy sheet edited by Miss Emma S. Howland, was read. It
consisted of many practical points and some good jokes on the boys.
UP
TOWN TELEGRAPH OFFICE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Sol Palmer, line manipulator of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, was in the city Thursday and today, and arranged for the
establishment of an up-town telegraph office. The company’s business here has
increased until this move is a necessity. The room in the Winfield National
Bank extension, formerly occupied by K. C. & S. W. paymaster, Carey, has
been rented. Lines connecting all the depots with this office will be put in at
once and an operator given charge. This will be a big convenience to the
company’s patrons and greatly increase telegraphic business.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A young lady of our acquaintance writes the
following about a young fellow whom she classes as a “dude.” “He calls about
once and has called once a week for about a year, and is likely to call once a
week as long as I have a good fire and plenty of gas to burn. But does he ever
ask me to go to the theater? Oh, no! That might cost a few dollars, and the
thought of spending money on any person but himself never enters his brain. Not
but what he could afford it, but he is so selfish and so egotistical that he
only has one thought—himself! If it were only one that had this detestable
failing, it would not be so intolerable, but alas, it is almost everyone. Now,
don’t think this is the complaint of an old maid. It is simply the truth from a
young lady not yet in her 22nd year.” Our advice to the young lady
is to combine with other young ladies and cut the acquaintance, not only of
this dude but the dudes in general. A dude is no good, either for family or any
other use. C.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
All newspaper men are familiar with the man
who “gets more papers than he can read now,” and therefore has no use for his
local paper. This man takes a “family journal,” published somewhere, which
furnishes him with a most interesting monthly digest of information under the
all-absorbing caption of “Irene’s Fate,” “Thrice Wooed and Won,” or
“Philosophical Musings,” or something of that sort. Meanwhile his wife can sit
on the corner of the wood box and feed her starving intellect upon the
household receipts contained in the back of Dr. Jayne’s almanac.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The rink closed for this season Thursday with
a masked carnival. Could this large building be used to a better advantage, and
could not the owner make more money and do the city more good by using this
fine building for some other purpose? What is he going to do with it, we are
not prepared to say, but should judge that it could be used to a better profit
to the proprietor and more of a credit to the city.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Winfield’s child elocutionist recited before
the G. A. R. encampment at Wichita. The Beacon says: “The first thing
given was a recitation by little Maud Scott, of Winfield, a child but four
years old, and her elocutionary powers and delivery are wonderful. She
delivered two recitations during the evening and called forth cheer after
cheer. She is certainly a prodigy.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
An Atchison man has struck an original way of
furnishing stimulants to the citizens of that city. His plan is to run pipes
from a saloon situated on the Missouri side of the river to a room on the
Kansas side, and then by means of a telephone, fill orders by forcing the
liquor through the pipe. This plan, however, will not benefit Wichita to any
great extent.
PERSONAL
RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY DAY SETTLERS.
C.
M. Wood’s Story Continued.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Young people were quite scarce during the
first winter of these settlements, there only being three young ladies in the
whole neighborhood—Emma and Hattie Ross, daughters of Judge T. B. Ross, and
Julia Monforte, daughter of Capt. J. C. Monforte, who came into the settlement
some time in November, 1869. I think at least we found them here when my wife
and I came back from Cottonwood Falls in November. Dr. W. G. Graham helped them
to select and locate three good claims about three miles up Timber Creek. The
family consisted of the Captain, his wife, two sons, and two daughters. The two
sons being of age took claims adjoining that of their father and held onto them
for some years, but hard times and disappointment drove them to part with them.
The Captain held on to his claim, worked diligently in connection with his sons
and from year to year improved it until it is now one of the most valuable
farms in the county and is owned by Alvin and J. C. Monforte, Jr.
When I first made the acquaintance of the
Monforte family, I was up the creek one day on some business (I cannot
recollect what now), and found them encamped in the timber on the Captain’s
claim. It was a cold winter day and I recollect that they were not at all used
to such a life, having come from the City of Buffalo, New York. The Captain and
his wife were then getting along in years. The Captain’s head being as white as
snow, it looked to me as if he had made a wrong movement for one so far along
in life, and I think I so expressed myself to him. He said that he had been a
sea Captain, but that he now found himself with grown children, and that he had
come west to fix them so that they would be able to take care of themselves.
Julia and her little sister looked so delicate I recollect well how I pitied
them there as they shivered with the cold. But with the determination of a
person who will take such a task, the family have lived on from year to year
and by perseverance and industry, are all in comfortable circumstances. Will
and J. C. Monforte still carry on the farm and take care of the old folks, who
are now too old to work much. Julia married Sid Cure, a thrifty farmer and an
old soldier, who now lives on his claim in Walnut township. Hattie married a
Mr. Wilson, who came here a few years since from Scotland, and bought one of
the best farms in the same neighborhood where they still reside. He is a quiet,
thrifty farmer, and she is making him a good wife and helpmate.
Later on came one Mr. Hill, the husband of
another one of the Captain’s daughters. He also took a claim nearby and
remained a year or so, having much sickness in his family, and being so unfortunate
as to lose a little girl. They got discouraged, sold out, and left the country,
since which time I have lost sight of them. I recollect well that my wife and I
attended the funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Hill’s child, at their claim, where the
services were conducted by the Rev. E. P. Hickok, another early settler, which
I may speak of more fully at another time. This was the first funeral, to my
knowledge, in the county; and notwithstanding I had recently come out of the
army, where death and desolation were all around me, I never before witnessed
so solemn and impressive a scene as I did there and then. The lonely, wild, and
desolate condition of the country, added to the grief of the parents and the
fact that it was the first instance in which we had been made to feel that
death would follow us wherever we went—all of these things made the occasion
very impressive indeed.
Still later Mrs. Dr. Andrews, another of the
Captain’s daughters, came with her husband and settled in Winfield. She became
a widow and since has married Rev. P. D. Lahr, and is now living at Towanda,
Kansas. The Captain is still living with his sons on the old claim.
I hope the reader will excuse me for entering
into the details of the settlement of the Monforte family, for I cannot resist
the temptation to speak of such heroism when it is brought so favorably to my
recollection.
Some may ask from where and how did you get
the necessaries of life. Well, our goods were hauled from Leavenworth, Kansas,
some 260 miles, by wagon. Occasionally some farmer from the settlement would
come through here with cured pork and sell it to us. Frequently hunting parties
would cross the Arkansas river when the buffalo were plenty and would kill and
load their wagons and bring home plenty of meat, which they would divide with
their neighbors, selling to such as were able to pay them, and giving to such
as were not. To show the difference in the price of living then and now, I will
give a few prices: Good flour, $6 to $8 per 100 lbs.; corn meal, $3.50 to $4.00
per 100 lbs.; corn $2.25 per bushel; potatoes, $2.00 to $2.50 per bushel;
smoked hams and bacon, 25 to 30 cents per lb.; butter, 50 cents per lb., and
coffee, 3 pounds for $1.00; sugar, 4 and 5 pounds for $1.00, and everything
else in proportion. The boys used to go hunting buffalo and would load their
wagons with only the hams of young cows cut off with the skin and hair on,
which they would sell in the settlement from 6 to 8 cents per pound, and when
the skin was taken off, it would reduce the weight so that the meat would cost
about 10 to 12 cents per pound. Allow me to say here that I almost forgot to
tell you more about the Ross girls. Emma, in a few years, married, I think, a
Mr. Bryant, but she has been dead some years. Pattie is still single and lives
with her mother and brother, John, on the old homestead, as hearty, good
natured today and looking almost as fresh and young as she did sixteen years
ago. I will close now by saying that if my memory has been at fault in any
material matter spoken of, I ask pardon of those whom it may affect.
It has been the general opinion heretofore
that the Indians of this country were a noble and brave people, though savage
in their nature, honest and unsophisticated, and that they were incapable of
taking care of themselves in trading and dickering with the white men. Hence
all that was necessary for a man to do to get rich off of them was to get the
chance to trade and barter for what they might have to dispose of. Now, this is
a mistake which many persons have learned to their sorrow. In my own experience
I have found the Indian as sharp at driving a bargain and as good a judge of
values, so far as they have become acquainted with the article for trade, as
the average white man, and that their habits of indolence has much more to do
with their poverty than any other one thing.
In the first winter of our settlement here,
the Osage Indians conceived the idea of raising a stake by levying a tax or
giving a license to each claim holder, allowing them to remain on their claims
for the sum of $5 per annum, to be paid in advance, for which they would give a
receipt in which they would state that such person was to be protected in all
of the rights that the general government could give them in living on and
holding a claim of 160 acres of land. Chetopa, in company with Bill Conner, his
interpreter, of whom I have heretofore spoken, would go from one settler to
another, making this proposition to them, and in some instances was successful
in getting the coveted $5. Chetopa came to me one day in this manner and was
told that he need not expect anything. So he good naturedly made me a present
of one of his receipts, saying that he was my friend and that he would not
charge me anything.
The following is a true copy of my receipt,
which has been preserved by Mrs. Wood as a memento of those times.
Dutch
Creek, Cowley County, January 18, 1870
This is to certify that C. M. Wood has made
presents to the amount of six dollars to Chetopa, Chief of the Little Osage
Indians for which said C. M. Wood is to be protected in his claim and property
by the said Indians for one year from date.
CHETOPA, his x mark.
This seemed to please him very much and he
went away seeming to feel that he had made a good point. I soon found out that
other settlers had told him that if I would pay him, they would do the same, so
he went back to them telling that I had paid, now they must do the same or else
leave here. Next day quite a number of settlers came to me asking about the
matter when I told them the facts in the case. Some of them had thought best
and had paid their money, others had put him off until they would get at the
truth of this matter, promising to pay if all the rest had to. This thing
stopped right here and I never heard Chetopa speak about the matter again. He
acted as though he was conscious of doing a mean act, which I found out
afterwards was put up by Bill Conner. During the winter Chetopa would often
come to our house, generally in company with other Indians, and at all times acted
the part of a perfect gentleman. He would not allow other Indians to spit
tobacco juice on the floor; but would admonish them to spit in a spittoon,
which they would do when he was present. He would occasionally take a meal of
victuals with us, but the first time it took some persuasion to get him to sit
down at the table with us. He was always neat and mannerly, and Mrs. Wood used
to remark that she would be much better pleased if all white men eating at our
table were as nice as he was. He came to our house one night, all alone, it
being quite late. We asked him to remain all night, which he did. Mrs. Wood
made him a bed on the floor out of six or eight buffalo robes, of which we had
plenty at that time. When he came to lie down, he looked up at us and said,
“logany,” (meaning good). We all slept well and he left after breakfast next
morning in good spirts.
The Indians would often bring things which
they had traded for at the store, and hand them over to Mrs. Wood for
safekeeping. She would mark them and put them away upstairs, where many things
would remain uncalled for for days at a time. These little incidents only go to
show that they had more confidence in Mrs. Wood than they had in me or some of
their own people, for they would say, “Too many bad Indian; steal heap.”
Chetopa at one time bought a fine saddle of Baker, and Manning gave him a very
nice bridle, both of which he took to Mrs. Wood and left them for about a
month, and when he came riding up to our house one day on a very fine, large
American horse, he seemed to be under some excitement, and called for his
saddle and bridle, which were brought downstairs, when he put both saddle and
bridle on his horse, and as proud a man as can be, rode off across the prairie
at full gallop, looking more like that noble Indian so much spoken of by our
poets, and especially John G. Whittier, than any Indian I have ever seen,
before or since.
One day while I was trading with two old
Indians, a couple of white men came into the house by the name of Beadle and
Tryon, who had taken the Kickapoo corral claim. Mr. Tryon said, “I am going to
have some fun with these fellows,” and thereupon drew a sack having some coffee
in it and acted as though he was going to strike one of them. The Indian
whipped out his butcher knife, which he had hidden under his blanket, and made
at Tryon with the full intention of cutting him up. Mr. Tryon was much scared
and jumped across the house out of his way. The Indian persisted in his
intention; and it took some considerable talk from me before he was satisfied
that it was only intended for a joke. I don’t think Mr. Tryon has ever joked
another Indian in that way, but has learned that such movements might not be
very healthy.
If these stories should prove to be
interesting, I shall feel that I have been well paid for writing them, as it is
not at all unpleasant for me to go back and look over the old ground, for in
fact, notwithstanding it may seem like a hard life to live, I believe that I
enjoyed it as well as any portion of my life, as there was a fascination about
the excitement that is pleasant to experience.
TOO
THIN ENTIRELY.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Why not tax the festive drummer for the
support of a town, as well as any other peddler? There would of course be a great
kick made at first because the drummer, next to the lofty brakeman on a
railroad train, is the greatest man on earth. But the idea, on business
principles, is not a bad one. The wholesale houses in large cities live off of
the merchants of smaller cities, and can well afford to contribute to the
support of the towns throughout the country that give them a business and
riches—just as well, in fact, as the local merchant can who gives the first
profit on their sales. Conway Springs Star.
Get out with your drummer tax! It’s the
thinnest kind of advocacy. Consider the thousands of dollars gathered all over
Kansas by traveling men. They always get the best and pay the best. Half the
hotels in the state would have to shut up shop if the festive drummer was to
cease his peripatetic visits. From a dozen to thirty or more of these
commercial men visit Winfield every day. Besides the money they leave, the
convenience and saving to merchants is great. Suppose every time a merchant
wanted to “stock up” in any branch, he would either have to “go to market” or
order by letter. The result would be inconvenience, additional expense, and
dissatisfaction in getting orders filled. The drummer is no peddler: he is a
legitimate merchant in the avenues of trade, and as time goes on, will become
more popular and useful to the wholesale houses, the local merchants, and the
country in general. He increases business, all around, ten-fold, makes life and
novelty in trade, and is variously a great individual whom you can’t keep down.
He is incorrigible and indispensable.
THE
G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Sid Cure, Prof. Limerick, A. B. Arment, G. H.
McIntire, P. P. Powell, of Winfield; H. C. McDorman, Joe Church, James
Nicholson, Boone Daniels, of Dexter, got home Thursday from the G. A. R.
encampment at Wichita. J. E. Snow, the ladies’ man of our delegation, was
detained to deliver the inaugural address, tonight, of the Woman’s Relief
Corps. Our “boys” are enthusiastic over the success of this annual encampment,
pronouncing it the heartiest meeting ever held in the State. There were a
thousand or fifteen hundred old soldiers present, and a rousing commingling
that renewed the old time warmth. The Grand officers were elected as follows:
Department commander, C. J. McDivitt, of Abilene; Senior vice-department
commander, T. H. Soward, of Winfield; Junior vice-commander, J. D. Baker, of
Girard; Chaplain, Allen G. Buckner. Especially enthusiastic is our delegation
over the glory of “our Tom.” Judge Soward, elected to the next highest position
in the department of Kansas, captivated the whole encampment by his eloquent
speeches. He was frequently called out, making a speech last night, which,
though impromptu, our fellows declare the finest effort they had ever known
Judge to make. The election of Judge Soward to vice-commander is an honor
worthily bestowed, and one which Winfield fully appreciates.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
When Janitor Fleming, of the 2nd
ward school building, opened the building before daylight Thursday morning, he
found upon entering Miss Campbell’s room, five tramps stretched out full length
and wrapped in the arms of Morpheus, a pleasing smile wreathing their pale and
interesting countenances. Mr. Fleming broke their slumbers by a peremptory
demand to “arise, take up thy bed, and walk,” which they did, asking no
questions. The teachers found several little things missing yesterday. Mr.
Fleming thinks they had a key that they unlocked the front door with, though
they said they got in through a window. The janitor is very careful to lock
everything.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Seven hundred and fifty million dollars are
annually employed to sustain the saloons of the land: $2,000,000 per day. This
is only one form of the many influences at work to destroy young men. There are
but few influences at work to benefit young men. The Young Men’s Christian
Association is one of these influences. Over $2,000 per day it employs to help
young men, while by the saloons alone are $2,000,000 per day employed to ruin
them. This should awaken thought that should lead to more effort in the
interest of young men.
The Watchman.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
We hear that one of our old Winfield men, Mr.
James Renox, his father, and whole family were frozen to death near Richfield,
Kansas County, during the late cold spell. Jim was found dead, apparently in
the act of putting the harness on one of his horses, and his father and family
were found in the house frozen, having run out of fuel. Mr. James Renox will be
remembered as having lived here for a long time, and engaged in selling and
buying horses on our streets. His friends here will regret to hear of the sad
fate of this family.
[Note: Paper really confused me on the above
item, followed by another item in same March 4th issue that calls
him by another name: “Jim Rennick.” What can I say? The errors made by paper
were many in these six-page issues. I have no idea what the real name is of the
individual who is supposed to have frozen to death and then later, was still
alive.
One
might ask: “Renox” or “Rennick.” That is the question. MAW]
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Nature smiles upon happy people in every
clime and at all times. Life is about what we make it, as is the minister’s
sermon, a lawyer’s argument, a newspaper, and everything else for that matter.
Southern Kansas is especially blessed year by year, and with few exceptions
there are none here who are industrious, are able to procure all the
necessaries of life, and many are there indeed who are enabled to gain fame and
fortune from the natural growth of an unsurpassed productive country.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
About fifty couples from the rural districts
gathered at the rink Friday and tripped the light fantastic to the music of the
Roberts Orchestra and the prompting of Chas. Gay till a late hour. This is a
big thing for the country boys, as the rink floor is as fine as can be found
for this amusement—spacious and smooth as glass.
MOTHER
GRUNDY’S NEWS-BUDGET.
Her
Chronicle of the Comings, Goings, and Doings of Persons at Home and Abroad.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
S. D. Pryor took in the Terminus today, on
legal business.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Sam Gilbert is down from Wichita—Stereotyped
by Chicago stereotyping Co.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. S. Hubbard and family left Monday morning
for Richfield, Kansas County.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
William Duncan brought in 27 head of hogs
from 8 miles south of town Thursday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
F. N. Oliver and Geo. C. Cross are here from
Wichita, hung up with Harter & Hill.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Blair have gone to Wichita
to attend the G. A. R. encampment.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Miss Clara Brooks left last Friday to spend a
week with the Misses Dennis, at Grenola.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mrs. P. P. Powell went to Wellington last
Friday to visit a few days with relatives.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A. A. Harris, Cincinnati, bombarding our
merchants Friday, hung up at the Brettun.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
William D. Carey came in from El Dorado
Thursday, where he has been on railroad business.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Col. Peckham, attorney for the D., M. &
A., came in from Wichita on his way to his home at Sedan.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Hop Shivvers is a widower for a few days, his
wife having gone to Wichita to visit with her sister.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Judge Snow made an address to the ladies of
the Woman’s Relief Corps at Wichita Thursday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A. E. Kirkpatrick, mine host of the Central
Avenue Hotel, Arkansas City, was on our streets Thursday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
M. R. Arnett and Miss Alice Marshall were
married by Judge Gans at the Central parlors Thursday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Dr. Stiles is over from Oxford. He has sold
out there and intends moving back to Winfield in about ten days.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
W. C. Pellforn, W. K. Prankard, J. H. Orr,
and Geo. D. Cook, Chicago drummers, hashed Thursday at the Brettun.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mrs. Wes. Ferguson and daughter of Arkansas
City, are in the city visiting Mrs. Cal Ferguson for a few days.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Prof. Morgan Caraway, of Great Bend, was in
the city Thursday, viewing the Queen City and visiting acquaintances.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Wes. Ferguson, a brother, of Arkansas City,
has charge of Cal. Ferguson’s stable during the latter’s absence at Dodge City.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Jake Musgrove, one of the old timers of this
section, was over from South Haven Friday. He’s as fat and jolly as ever.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mrs. E. S. Burros, sister of Mrs. Dr. W. T.
Wright, who has been visiting here for the past two weeks, went east Thursday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mr. Blackman, who has been living on East 10th,
has rented the Olds House. Mr. Olds and family will leave Monday for the West.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Misses Nona Calhoun and Bert Morford are off
for a few week’s visit at Joplin, Missouri, Miss Morford’s old home, and at
Galena, Kansas.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Bob O’Neil came in Thursday from Meade
County, where he is engaged in the land business, to visit a few days with his
parents.
Dr. S. R. Marsh has a severe attack of
pneumonia, and won’t get out for a week or more. He is being cared for at Rev.
Snyder’s house.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Dave Dix is the happy “dad” of a fine boy of
regulation weight—as signified by his countenance Friday and the presentation
of the cigars.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The roads are drying up and again the hay and
corn are rolling in. The prices are good, however, and no danger of flooding
the market.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
W. L. Moorehouse is putting up a building on
North Main, near the S. K. track, to be rented for a railroad lunch counter and
restaurant.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. Stewart, F. Murney, C. W. Aldriade, W. J.
Flynn, and J. E. Moore, K. C. men of wares, stuck their pedals under the
Brettun tables Thursday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The little child of Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson,
who has been very sick for some time, is now much better, and hopes are
entertained of its recovery.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
W. L. Pridgeon was elected to the office of
Judge Advocate of the Kansas division of Sons of Veterans at Wichita Thursday
at the encampment.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Miss Alice Thomas, of Indianapolis, Indiana,
arrived Friday, and will spend some months in the home of Mrs. M. Wood. She
came to benefit her health.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Roy Stidger and his friend, C. C. Bardell,
are here from Moundsville, West Virginia. Roy will likely locate at Richfield.
Mrs. Stidger will be here in a few days.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
County Commissioner J. A. Irwin has returned
from his La Belle, Missouri, visit, having spent a very pleasant month with his
aged mother and old friends.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. Beard, of the Fruit House, will move
shortly into the building now occupied by Kennedy’s butcher shop, on 9th
avenue, near Judge Snow’s office.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Miss Mary Hamill has resigned her position in
the second primary in the west ward. Mrs. F. C. Williams was elected to take
her place next Monday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Henry Saunders shipped a car load of mutton
to Boston Friday. Mr. Saunders will slaughter about 3,000 head this summer and
ship them to the eastern markets.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Sam Kleeman is among the Winfield merchants
now in the east buying a big stock of various wares. Samuel will have a
selection that will get to the front.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Moor, sister and
brother-in-law of J. W. Curns, came over from Fort Scott Thursday and will
remain for a week with Mr. and Mrs. Curns.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Miss Lou Ridenour went to Kansas City
Thursday to assist in taking care of Mrs. Joe. Mooso, who went there two weeks
ago for medical treatment, and is much worse.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Judge T. H. Soward and wife returned from the
G. A. R. encampment at Wichita Friday. They were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. S.
L. Gilbert while at Wichita.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The old shells that have disgraced 9th
avenue for a decade are now being shoved off the First National Bank lot, ready
for the erection of the magnificent bank building.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
John T. Schonover, of the law firm of Ruggles
and Schonover, of Wichita, spent Thursday in the city, a guest of Willis A.
Ritchie. Mr. Schonover is formerly of Lima, Ohio.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
L. K. Richards, C. H. Kennell, F. T. Morophy,
T. L. Howse, Batt Domelby, John O’Toale, Frank Hays, and Frank Herbert, Frisco
telegraph men, were at the Lindell Thursday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Tom J. Harris, of Harris, Clark &
Huffman, got home Wednesday from a week’s rambles in Missouri and places in
Kansas on business. He gives his rail reflections in the Daily.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Architect S. A. Cook started to Kansas City
Wednesday to secure several first-class workmen. He says he is behind with his
business and must have two or three good men at soon as possible.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
F. J. Newton, the cornetist, has returned
from three months in Fulton, New York, his old home. His brother, J. D. Newton,
returned with him to remain. They go to Richfield in a few days to prospect.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Rev. C. J. Bowles, Jr., pastor of the
Columbus Baptist church, is in the city, and made a few very timely remarks to
the Baptist people of this place Thursday at the prayer meeting of that church.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
L. A. Millspaugh, the St. Joe foot gear man,
one of “our boys,” came in Thursday from a tour of Southern Missouri and
Eastern Kansas. Ob. represents a big firm and sells a pile of boots and shoes.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
L. J. Webb, formerly of this city, now of
Topeka, was elected Colonel, commanding Kansas division of Sons of Veterans, at
Wichita Thursday. F. B. Waldren of this city was given a position on Webb’s
staff.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Capt. Nipp, Sen. Long, Judge Snow, John
Ledlie and wife, and Mrs. Samuel Dalton came down from Wichita Friday, where
they have been attending the encampment and Woman’s Relief Corps of the Kansas
district.
BUCOLIC
BLISS.
A
County Couple “Do” the Town in Royal Shape.—Hungry But Happy.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
About one o’clock Friday afternoon a couple
from one of the out-lying townships made their appearance on Main street, and
for four hours strutted up and down the street, arm in arm, apparently as
contented as a June bug is when he smiles serenely upon the coquettish
grasshopper of the feminine persuasion. A ripple of happiness played upon their
countenances that was pleasing to the eyes of a criticizing public. She
showered artful glances upon him, while he reciprocated the compliment by
tickling her under the jaw ever and anon. Their attire was of a style which is
almost wholly a stranger to this section of civilization. His hat in its
younger days of the plug stripe, maybe, but as age settled upon it, holes
appeared and rips were noticeable. It looked as though someone had used it for
a mattress; aside from this his hair was visible through a crevice in the side.
His coat resembled a flag that had seen four years’ service in the late war and
had since been used as a leather renovator; his pantaloon legs were probably
the same length when made, but one had shrunk considerably and the other looked
like it had been telescoped in a railway accident and landed several inches
above his ankle; sunset patches adorned the pantaloons, and otherwise they
presented a queer spectacle. One large toe was squeezed through a hole in the
left shoe, his feet spread out on the walk like ham sandwiches. The young lady
wore a small straw hat on the top of her cranium, on which bloomed a patch of
artificial flowers. She wore bangs. But the kind! Gracious! They were the
queerest specimen ever seen. Yellow in color, straight as a shingle, and of
different lengths! They fell over her forehead like driftwood in a slow tide. A
red collar, with a green ribbon, was wrapped around her neck. Her dress was a
Mother Hubbard, with a xxx flour patch on the bustle. It struck her brogan shoe
tops and flopped carelessly in the wind. He was eating crackers from one hand;
in the other was a long link of healthy-looking bologna sausage, which he and
his girl would ravenously gnaw. She was engaged in nibbling a hunk of
squashy-looking cheese. Every now and then she would take a bite, then he, and
thus they went along in perfect contentment, so far as the world was concerned.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Says the probate judge of Barber County,
Judge Hardy: “I shall be compelled to revoke all permits issued to druggists in
Medicine Lodge. Everyone of them have abused the privilege and forbearance has
ceased to be a virtue with me. I saw five barrels of liquor consigned to a
druggist going to a saloon in this town and that settled it with me. I have had
the impression for some time that the druggists have been supplying the
saloons, but could not get sufficient evidence; but now I am satisfied.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The Wellington Press announces in a
half a column the mysterious existence in Sumner County of some mysterious heir
to a mysterious fortune of $80,000,000, and that some very mysterious
individual, mysteriously bent on ascertaining whether or not he was really the
only heir, or did this other mysterious heir live in Sumner. This mysterious
eastern heir was dark and unfathomable in his movements—floating around like an
apparition.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Tom H. Soward, senior vice commander, of
Winfield, and J. D. Burke, junior vice commander, of Girard, and Col. St. Clair,
of Sumner, were the last delegation last night to call to congratulate Wichita
and her Eagle. Commander Soward said he had attended the national
encampment at Chicago and encampments at several other points, and he was glad
to say that Wichita’s street arches surpassed everything of the kind he ever
saw. Eagle.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Fred Kropp has succeeded in getting the wall
of the Carson building back to its former position and the work of underlaying
has commenced and will be ready for the joining of the wall of the McMullen
building in a few days. This has been a big job; being compelled to suspend a
solid stone wall, but Fred is an expert at the business and can move anything
from a chicken coop to a two-story brick house.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The old Schofield livery barn, one of the
oldest and homeliest landmarks in Winfield, will soon be moved on north Main
next to the old foundry building, where Frank Schofield will continue his
livery business. A. H. Doane will erect a handsome business house in its place.
And still we boom. The old shells will all be banished from Main street before
1886 goes out.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Go in, Harper Graphic and Anthony
Republican. We admire your freedom and grit. Keep yourself well groomed,
your liver right-side up, and your spirits damp, and you may keep in sight. The
only thing in the way of our gait is the light weight on the other end. Give us
a chance to “even up.” Cast a little bread, at least. That it will return to
you ten-fold in a few days is very evident.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The Presbyterian folks have not had a
regularly appointed pastor since Rev. Kirkwood left them until Thursday. The
members unanimously chose Rev. Miller as their pastor last night. Rev. Miller
has been preaching here for this church for some time past and has proven
himself to be the very man they want. He is a good speaker, an earnest worker,
and will no doubt keep up a glowing interest in this church.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Farmers should profit by last year’s
experience and get their work in at plowing as early as possible so as not to
be delayed when seeding time comes with wet weather. Planting should be done as
early as practicable. Last year so much rain fell as to delay planting until
quite late. The time that was spent at plowing should have been spent at
seeding. Never put anything off until tomorrow that can be done today.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
John W. Locke, deputy sheriff of Neosho
County, was here Thursday from Chanute and took back with him Saunders, the
tool thief gobbled here yesterday. Saunders’ original steal was worth $60, but
he sold most of the tools at Cherryvale and Independence.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A. H. Doane is having the old blacksmith shop
occupied by Weaver & Keller moved to the rear of the lot on which it now
stands, corner 9th and Millington streets, and will commence
immediately to erect a business building on the corner where it formerly stood.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. P. Baden will ship another car load of
butter this afternoon to Chicago. He turns out about 3,000 pounds per day. He
will also ship a car load of eggs this afternoon to Chicago. He furnishes many
of the eastern markets with butter, eggs, and produce.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Fred Ballein left Thursday for Chicago and
New York to lay in the big spring stock for Baden’s headquarters. Fred has
“caught on” to about all there is in dry goods, with his keen observation and
will select a splendid stock.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The mad dog scare is raging in our city. A
dog on east 10th avenue had what was supposed to be a hydrophobic
fit this morning, and was quickly started on the road to the “happy hunting
ground.” This is the only case we have had for two years.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Hudson Bros. are at work on a huge town
clock, of their own model and manufacture. It will weigh a thousand pounds and
adorn the top of their business house, with a bell striker that will stroke the
hours to be heard a mile.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Burden’s amateur talent is coming to the
front in fine shape, in the interests of that town’s public library. A program
is before us for a musical and dramatic entertainment tomorrow evening that
promises much interest.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Rev. J. P. Henderson came in Thursday from
Fowler, Meade County, where he has been for six weeks back. He says spring
improvements have begun out there in earnest and everybody is in good spirits.
Same here.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. S. Mann has just received one of the
“slickest” mirrors to show the fit of clothing that has yet struck the town.
You can see the back as well as the front of a suit. It came from Stein, Black
& Co., New York.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Somebody who knows says: Any young man is
made better by a kind sister’s love. It is not absolutely necessary that it be
his own sister.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
You all know Brown & Son, the Winfield
druggists. They sell and recommend Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. The best made
for coughs, colds, croup, or sore throat.
WINFIELD
COURIER.
D.
A. MILLINGTON, Editor.
SUPPLEMENTS
AS BILL POSTERS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
We notice that some postmasters and newspaper
publishers have been getting into trouble for sending newspapers through the
mails in which were folded supplements containing advertisements. The laws and
regulations of the Post Office Department provide that supplements shall be
folded in the main issue of the paper and shall contain no matter which is not
germane to the matter in the paper and no advertisements unless accompanied by
the affidavit of the publisher that the advertisement is a part of the matter
of the regular issue and paid for at the same rates as such space and matter is
paid for in the regular issue. The penalty for depositing in the postoffice for
mailing as second class matter newspapers containing dodgers and supplements
violating the above rules, is ten dollars for each paper so deposited and
subjecting the whole batch to third class postage. We know of publishers within
a thousand miles of here who have folded dodgers and bill posters as
supplements, but disguised them by reading matter in the margins, and one case
which has recently come under our observation where the bill poster was not
attempted to be disguised in any other way than by the words at the head to
show that it was a supplement to the paper. The publisher probably got $3.00
for printing the poster covering the space of a $30.00 advertisement, and
attempted to help the advertiser to swindle the government out of $10.00 on the
postage while he was himself giving his customer $30.00 worth of advertising
for $3.00. Besides this, should the postal authorities be notified of his
attempt, it would subject the publisher to a fine of $10,000.00 on a thousand
copies and that would not be a very paying business.
Besides violating the law, which is the great
consideration, and the penalty if detected, it is the most consummate fool
operation that a publisher can be guilty of.
TURN
THE RASCALS IN.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The southern ex-rebel leaders, who are just
now “on top” at Washington, are making the most of their opportunity. As a
sample, the official records show that Senator Vance, of North Carolina, has
managed to have the names of seventeen members of his own family, including his
three sons, entered on the government payrolls, their pay aggregating $25,320 a
year. The remark recently made by a distinguished southern Democrat that “we
have been out for twenty-five years, and must now make up for lost time,” was
not made in jest.
The investigation of the rolls of employees
of the house of representatives, prompted by the allegation that many names are
carried of those who perform the service for the pay drawn, is proving to be
fruitful of interesting revelations. It is shown that the doorkeeper has on his
rolls 140 employees, the clerk 45, the sergeant-at-arms 8, postmaster 21, the
speaker 10, annual clerks 40, and session clerks 35—a total of 293, and drawing
salaries that aggregate $407,632 per annum. The doorkeeper seems to have had
the hardest time of it in his endeavor to accommodate congressmen who had
constituents hungry for a taste of official life at Washington, and in his
willingness to make himself agreeable all around, he has provided for more pegs
than there were holes; and it is said his roll shows four or five newspaper
correspondents whose relations to the duties of the positions to which they are
ostensibly assigned consist in the not unpleasant task of drawing their salaries
once a month. The officials before named assert that everything can be made
plain, and the investigating committees will give them an opportunity of doing
so. The examination thus far into the affairs of the doorkeeper has revealed
anything but a creditable condition.
THOSE
FLORIDA LANDS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Some time ago the landed proprietors of
Florida induced Joe Pulitzer of the New York World to issue a special
edition of his paper for them. He did so. In it the peninsula was painted in
the most glowing terms and held up as a veritable paradise. This stirred the
jealousy of the New York Herald, and it sent down a gang of reporters,
who declared that the whole thing was a delusion. “The land is a swamp. Nothing
is plenty but mosquitoes. Malaria sweeps over the groves, rendering life a
burden; and the whole state is in the hands of real estate sharks, while the
late cold snap has ruined all the orange orchards and reduced thousands to
absolute poverty.” The Florida people are calling upon the World to
refute these tales as vile slanders. Joe is willing to do it if the people
there will append their signatures to the statement to pay him a dollar a line.
The first edition, however, exhausted their finances, and they are now in trouble
up to their necks. The good results of their first venture are more than
wasted, and they are cursing the New York sheets for a set of mercenary
wretches, who have fleeced them without giving them the slightest satisfaction.
Newspaper men are now looked upon in Florida with the eye of suspicion.
THE
BIG FOUR.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The big four counties of the State are
situated in a block on the Arkansas Valley. These four counties contain
one-tenth of the entire population of Kansas. Think of it. These counties are
Sedgwick, Sumner, Cowley, and Butler. These counties will send four senators
and eleven representatives to the legislature. No such block of four counties
can be found in the State. There cannot be found even two adjoining counties in
the state with three representatives each. Those of our visitors who have cast
their eyes out over this valley need not be told why this is so—why this
section of the state leads all others in development and prosperity. All of
Kansas is good, but the little block of sixty or eighty miles square, lying on
the lower Arkansas Valley cannot be matched inside the State, and of course
can’t be matched outside of the State. Eagle.
A
MATTER OF CREDIT.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The passage of the pharmacy bill was due
almost exclusively to the individual exertions of Chancellor Lippincott. It had
been given up as hopeless by all the friends when the chancellor took the
matter in hand personally and secured its passage. Lawrence Journal.
The above exhibits the earmarks of Chancellor
Lippincott, and we will bet a hat that he wrote it himself and asked to have it
inserted in the form above. The fact is that the Chancellor’s “individual
exertions” were neither noticed nor known in the matter, and would have had no
effect had they been noticed. The bill was passed through the efforts of
Senator Barker and Representatives Roberts and Cos, men of character and
influence and very popular in the legislature. To them all the honors belong.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Dr. F. M. Cooper, formerly of Winfield, but
now of Burlington, Kansas, sent us a treatise on the “Oxygen treatment, a
remedy in disease, mode of action and results, by a natural process of revitalization,”
written by himself and published in a neat pamphlet form. Dr. Cooper is a
natural scientist, has acquired much by study and experience, and we have great
faith in the results of his practical research. We always knew he had in him
the elements of success.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The Red Gulch Dam was an Arizona newspaper,
and the Red Gulch Fool another. They have now been consolidated and the name
united in hyphened connection. The joint name is said to be Arizona for
mugwump.
JUDGE
S. I. OSBORN.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Last Saturday the Governor appointed the
above named gentleman Judge of the newly created twenty-third judicial
district. The appointment is an eminently proper one. Among the many bright
young lawyers of wester Kansas, Judge Osborn is perhaps the most thoroughly
equipped for these high honors. He represented Trego County on the floor of the
House during the last two sessions and was early recognized as one of the most
prominent and useful members. That his judicial career will be one of honor and
marked by ability of the highest order none who know him will for a moment
doubt.
WHAT
OUR NEIGHBORS ARE DOING.
Newsy
Notes Gathered by the “Courier’s” Corps of Neighborhood Correspondents.
BETHEL
ITEMS. “BLUE BELL.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Railroad is all the talk in this vicinity at
present.
Charley Piper has gone to his claim in Finney
County.
John Anderson and family spent Sunday at Lon
Bryant’s.
Mr. Shelton and Mrs. Emery, of Winfield,
Sundayed at Uncle Joe Hassell’s.
J. F. Martin and wife were visiting at their
son-in-law’s, Wm. Schwantes, Sunday.
The blizzard has not yet made its appearance,
but gloomy weather in its place.
Attie Weakly will assist Grandma Weakly with
her general house work for a time.
J. A. Rucker has marketed most of his wheat.
The price received was 93 cents per bushel.
Winter is certainly over for Mrs. B. D. Hanna
has been calling on some of her neighbors.
Frank and Hon. Weakly went to Winfield last
Saturday and purchased a lot of barb wire.
Charley Bryant has set in for general farm
work at Uncle Bob Weakly’s. He gets $20 per month.
The neighbors hardly get the question asked,
how are the folks, Lon? Until the answer greets them, “It’s a boy.”
I often glance at “Old Sledge’s” items and
believe he hits the mark better than “Rodent.” If not, he is badly off.
George Arnold is very anxious to look after a
claim, and his anxiety will increase so much now that we would say go, George.
Mrs. Al Rucker made a flying trip to Winfield
lately and contemplates visiting some this week. She is enjoying excellent
health.
Miss Capitola Lynn is the next to catch the
western fever, and will take a trip this week. May success attend her in her
investment.
“Rodent,” a Bethel correspondent, in last
week’s COURIER, was counting up the new kids in this vicinity, but counted one
too many. Don’t count so soon.
TORRANCE
ITEMS. “DAN.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Miss Eva Reynolds was in Winfield one day
last week.
Mr. Branson and wife, of Eureka, are visiting
their sons here.
Mrs. H. R. Branson is quite sick. We hope she
is not dangerous.
Mr. Cliff Rockwell went to Ford County Monday
with Mr. Allen.
Miss Ida Straughn spent several days with her
aunt, Mrs. Gardenhire.
Mr. Higbee is to be our new postmaster. We
understand he is to take charge soon.
Several of our young people attended the play
at Burden Friday night. They say it was good.
Mr. Sharp, from Taylorsville, came in
Saturday morning. He will spend the summer in the Territory.
Mr. John Allen and family left Monday for
Ford County. We wish them success in their new home.
Mr. Tom Jones, of East Prairie, has arrived
home from his trip to Missouri. We welcome him back.
Mr. Lu Hewton [?]has sold out here, going
back to his old home, Indianapolis, Indiana. We are sorry to lose him as he was
one of the best.
Mr. Will Higbee arrived here from Schell City
Sunday morning, to spend several days with his parents and friends. We are glad
to see him.
The party at A. G. Elliott’s Wednesday night
was a grand affair. It was well attended by the young people from Dexter and
Torrance. All seemed to enjoy themselves.
Mr. H. G. Norton closed his school here
Friday evening and returned to Winfield. His school should have lasted a month
longer, but for some financial trouble. Miss Rittenhouse will teach a month
longer.
HACKNEY
HAPPENINGS. “MARK.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The K. C. & S. W. R. R. company have
reached this locality with their telegraph poles.
No spring seeding has been done yet in this
community, but much preparation is being made.
Prof. Blake’s prognostications have come to
pass on the weather, for the first few days of March.
Timme says, “the dude is bounced and will
soon be seen with gripsack in hand riding on a tie pass, going north from
Hackney.”
J. W. Feuquay represented “these diggins” at
the G. A. R. encampment at Wichita, and reports a lively time and large
attendance.
Ed. Watt has severed his relations with the
commercial school of Winfield, to put in practice the knowledge acquired on his
father’s farm.
Ed. Garrett closes his winter term of school
today in district 4. Ed. gets the spring term without any of the trials,
vexations, and tribulations of his fellow teachers in adjoining districts.
A three-cornered feud is at present brewing
among the patrons, school board, and teacher in district 115. The occasion of
the trouble is concerning who shall teach the spring term.
Jacob Nixon’s horticultural article in last
week’s COURIER was interesting and instructive, and worthy of perusal by every
farmer. Jake is a close observer and good authority on horticultural matters.
Miss Mattie Victor and E. W. Ewing are
contesting for the privilege of teaching the spring school at Victor. They are
both circulating petitions among the patrons of the school, and Miss Mattie, at
last accounts, was several points ahead.
The members of the temperance union of Irwin
Chapel refuse to be comforted and commune in sweet fellowship any longer.
Discord and disruption seem to be their inevitable doom. A small house for one
family will do, but never was one house built large enough for two.
Two members of the school boards of districts
131 and 10 have discovered a new way of employing teachers for their respective
schools, viz: the member of the former district swaps his daughter for the wife
of the member of the latter district. In the traffic, the old teachers who
taught the fall and winter schools got left on teaching the spring terms.
Verily the ways of the pedagogue are troublesome and mysterious.
It is a “dead give away” on the strength of a
school board’s backbone when they write a very polite note to a teacher
endorsing his methods of teaching and discipline, and acknowledging that they
have no fault to find as a board, but in order to pacify the animosities of a
couple of families in the district, they are obliged to change teachers for the
spring term. There are too many such favoring, sycophant school boards
everywhere, whose actions are largely instrumental in retarding the progress of
education generally.
The Enterprise lyceum did not have the
backbone to “tackle” the Centennials on joint debate. However, the latter
society have accepted a challenge from the Tannehill literary, and Greek will
meet Greek next Thursday evening, March 4th, at the Tannehill
schoolhouse. The following question will be the subject of debate: “Resolved,
That it would be to the best interest of the farmers of Beaver township to
vote $15,000 aid for the building of an air line railroad from Winfield to
Geuda Springs, with side track and depot in the center of the township on said
line of railroad.” The Centennials will be represented, as regards speakers, by
Messrs. Mose Teeter, Geo. Teeter, Ed. Byers, W. B. Holland, and M. H. Markum,
on the negative.
It is high time that the farmers who
patronize Winfield as a market should petition the city council to compel the
city weigh master to remove his scales from Main street to some convenient
avenue. He should also be compelled to secure a lot and erect a suitable pen
for holding stock to be weighed, and a stock frame for confining stock on his
scales when weighing. It is brutish and heathenish, to say the least, to expose
loose stock on Main street to be run into by passing vehicles that constantly
throng this thoroughfare. Then this barbarous treatment that stock must
necessarily receive to force them onto an open platform scales, placed along a
pavement where a continual stream of people are floating up and down, should be
condemned without any argument. The spectacle of stout, robust men tramping
around in the mud with clubs and horse-whips in their hands, beating and
pounding helpless stock, is extremely shocking to the sensitive nerves and
delicate constitution of ladies and children, who are unavoidably present on
Main street. These scales should be removed near some livery barn where
arrangements might be made for a yard for holding stock until weighed. Unless
these conditions are complied with, farmers having stock to sell should play
the boycotting scheme on Winfield.
“Mark” has received a copy of the report of
the State Board of Agriculture for the quarter ending December 31, 1885; also
the second annual report of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission. The Board’s
report embraces a fund of useful and valuable information. Over 5,000 acres are
seeded to tame grasses in Cowley County: 60,000 acres seeded to winter wheat
last fall in our county, and its condition at the close of December was 100 per
cent. But it is highly probable that the month of January reduced this
condition at least one-quarter, with the critical month of March yet to hear
from. The article, “A Little Talk to a Young Farmer,” by our Jas. F. Martin,
should be read by every young man on the farm and nine-tenths of the older men.
The articles, “The Farmer Boy,” by A. P. Collins; “Plowing Considered With
Reference to Depth and Time,” by Martin Mohler; and “Farming For Profit,” by L.
M. Pickering, are all valuable productions, and should be carefully read by
every farmer. The map appended, showing at a glance the population of the State
by counties, is a very concise and convenient tabulation. The middle of Cowley
is on the meridian of the center of population for the state. Our county ranks
five in the number of inhabitants, 29,555. Leavenworth leads in population,
followed in their order by Shawnee, Sedgwick, and Sumner.
A
WATER HAUL.
A
Nocturnal Safe Blower That Didn’t Get There.
A
Good One on Somebody.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
At three o’clock Tuesday night Tom H. Harrod,
at the jail, was roused out by Jimmy Vance, a brother of Mrs. Bobbett, and
rooming next to Hackney & Asp’s office, with the startling information that
the big safe in Hackney & Asp’s office, full of valuables, was being bored.
Tom yanked on a skimming of “duds” and rushed out into darkness surpassing “a
stack of black cats,” accompanied by drizzling rain. Noiselessly he made around
to the back window of the office, tumbling into a half dozen mud-holes
head-over-heels in transit, and placed his ear to the pane. The same sound that
the boy had heard—chump, chump, hard and then soft, caught Tom’s ear. He flew
back to the jail, woke up Sheriff McIntire, who went over to guard the office
while Tom went for Henry Asp and the office key. Scarcely taking time to jerk
on his coat, shoes, and pants, all without buttoning, Henry accompanied Tom
back. All listened and heard that same sound, as of a drill slowly penetrating
the safe, now hard and then easy. Their hearts ran up into their mouths. After
waiting, listening, and watching for a considerable time, there appeared to be
no surcease or increase, and doubt as to the real existence of a burglar began
to crawl into their minds, while Vance, the young “Wall Street detective,”
stood shiveringly waiting for b-l-o-o-d. With guns ready for gore, the door was
noiselessly unlocked and the premises carefully reconnoitered. No burglar, and
Henry’s hair gradually resumed its lay as they hunted around for the source of
the noise, which still continued. Finally the whole thing dawned. It was the
drip, drip of the water spout of the abutting boarding house. This is what
excited the boy and fooled the officials. It was a water hall and a good joke
all around.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
“Talk about the mean, low, little
contemptible things some men will stoop to for the sake of money, the story
told us the other day about a man in Winfield trying to sell his deceased
wife’s false teeth to a dentist in this city, caps the climax. Wellington
Press.”
Yes, he was a Son-of-a-Gun from the
headwaters, Wellington. But he struck the wrong town in which to try palming
off his decayed truck. He was pummeled and yanked till his yells for mercy
attracted a Wichita man, who gobbled up the teeth and loaned the poor devil ten
cents with which to take the first train for purgatory.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. J. Carson & Co. have just received a
large stock of boy’s and children’s clothing.
FOR
SALE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A span of four-year-old mules, wagon and
harness. Call on J. B. Nipp.
WANTED.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Good new geese feathers at the St. James
Hotel at once.
LAND
SLIDES.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The following are the real estate transfers
filed in the office of Register of Deeds yesterday.
Mary E Martin and hus to J Wade McDonald, ne
qr 15-33-4e and tract in ne qr 23-3-4e: $1,000
C W Wishard to J W Searle, e hf ne qr and w
hf nw qr 15-35-7e, 160 acres: $1,200
Edgar S Wilson et ux to Charles W Wishard, e
hf ne qr 15-35-7e: $1,200
A G Lowe et ux to Mariah Brown, lots 21 and
22, blk 155, A C: $200
D R Beatty et ux to A D Hawk, lot 3, blk 63,
A C: $100
Alexander Crow et ux to Anna E Holloway, lots
20, 21, 22 and 23, blk 132, A C: $1,000
J P Stewart et ux to W L Morehouse, lot 6,
blk 226, Citizens ad to Winfield: $600
Rachel Hines and hus to Christopher C Brown,
n hf lot 7, block 3, Dexter: $200
R M Campbell to John Cox, lots 5 and 6, blk
8, New Salem: $150
A D Edwards et al to Jeremiah Weakly, e hf sw
qr 23-34-5e: $225
M Brettun to John Smith, w hf ne qr 11-33-3e,
Sheriff’s dead: $376
Martha Brockett and hus to Martin Stafford,
tract in se qr 21-32-4e: $600
A V Polk et ux to A S Holmes, lots 7 and 8,
blk 19, Wilmot: $125
Wilmot Town Co to A V Polk, lots 7 and 8, blk
19, Wilmot: $125
Wm J Gamel et ux to Theodore Curtis, lot 7
and n hf lot 8, blk 49, A C: $500
Thomas J Feagins to M A Thompson, lots 3, 4,
5 and 6, blk 38, A C: $2,000
W P Carrer et ux to Wm F Carrer, se qr
10-31-6e, 160 acres, $2,000
J W Leach et ux to W T Wagner, s hf nw qr
34-32-6e, 80 acres: $1,500
S B Sherman et al to Margaret J Weaverling,
pt lot 32, blk 12, Cambridge: $20.00
P Willis Smith et al to J P Stewart, tract in
lots 5 and 6, Udall: $1,500
James K Miller et ux to John A Eaton et al,
se qr and lots 3 and 4 & s hf nw qr 3-34-7e: $2,500
Annie Stilson et ux to Mary Crawford, s hf se
qr & se qr sw qr 34-31-7e: $600
James Voyt et ux to Benj F Whipp, s hf
2-34-7e: $2,000
Martha Jane Shindle and husband to Jamison Vawter,
lots 19 and 20, blk 77, A C: $1,100
Jamison Vawter et ux to Martha Jane Shindle,
lots 21 and 22, blk 80, A C: $1,500
J P Stewart et ux to Nancy I Lowe, lots 7, 8
and 9, blk 192, Loomis ad to Winfield: $1,200
Martha I Martin et al to B W Matlack, ne qr
34-31-6e, 160 acres: $40.00
Lydia Welch to J Wade McDonald, ne qr
34-31-5e: $30.00
J R Musgrove et ux to F C Hunt, lots 1, 2, 3
& 4, blk 48, Musgrove’s ad to Winfield: $300.00
Highland Park Town Company to W G Graham,
lots 1 & 14, blk 5, and lots 10, 11 & 12, blk 29, H P ad to Winfield:
$1,500
Highland Park Town Company to Wm Newton, lots
2 & 3, blk 5, and lots 1, 2 & 3, blk 29, H P ad to Winfield: $1,500
W L Morehouse et ux to Henry N Eastin, lot 6,
blk 226, Citizens ad to Winfield: $700
Byron Farrar et ux to Fred W Farrar, lots 1,
2 & 3, blk 54, A C: $3,000
Mark Morris to H J Acheson, lots 27 & 28,
blk 110, A C: $75.00
Lyman B Kellogg et al to Mark Morris, lot 27
& 28, blk 119, A C: $20.00
A J Thompson et ux to J A Bennett, lots 7, 8
and 9, blk 286, Winfield: $550
Chas H Anthis et ux to Frank McFarlin, e hf
se qr 31-34-6e, 80 acres: $800
A J Thompson et ux to W J Lundy, tract in nw
qr 27-32-4e: $700
John B Lynn, C C Black et al to Island Park
Land Company, tract in sw qr 25-32-4e: $25,000
Wm Davis et ux to David Jasper Wiles, e hf nw
qr & w hf ne qr 8-33-5e: $150
John Wieck to Elizabeth Jane Baker, lots 10,
11 & 12, blk 171, Leonard’s ad to A C: $500
M S Houghton et ux to James C. Topliff, lots
23 & 24, blk 75, A C, q-c: $37.00
B W Matlack et ux to Ella Schooley, lot 15,
blk 94, A C, q-c: $10.00
David M Harter et ux to Charles L Harter, lot
1, blk 228, Winfield: $1,200
Mary J Swarts & hus to Susie L Swarts,
lots 1, 2, 3 & 4, blk 487, Swarts’ ad to A C: $1,200
Matilda Wilson & hus to J P Stewart, lots
1 & 2, blk 9, Moffett’s ad to Udall: $1,000
Joseph W. Calhoun to Robert Estus, lots 23,
24, 25, 26, 27 & 28, blk 8, McLaughlin’s ad to A C: $800
Read & Robinson to G L Gale, Sheriff’s
deed to lots 8, 9 & 10, blk 15, Robinson’s ad to Winfield: $1,070
Geo L Gale et ux to F C King and John Fildes,
lots 8, 9 & 10, blk 15, Robinson’s ad to Winfield: $1,070
J R Ferguson to Aramanta Ferguson, e hf ne qr
18-30-6e: $1,500
Thomas S Smith et ux to Preston King, e hf sw
qr 3-34-6e: $275
David Derflinger et ux to William Hoyt, lot
3, 5-33-63 & tract in nw qr se qr 7-33-6e, q-c: $1.00
C W Jones et al to Ed J McLean, 3/4 of tract
in 36-32-6e: $95.00
Geo W Parks et al to W O Johnson, lots 1, 5
& 3, blk 260, Fuller’s ad to Winfield: $1,000
Thos J Smith et ux to Franklin P Smith, n hf
se qr 5-33-5e, q-c: $1.00
Highland Park Town Co to J B Lynn, lots 1, 2,
3, 10, 11 & 12, blk 20, H P’s ad to Winfield: $1,050
Adolphus G Lowe et ux to Wm R Heminan, los 15
& 16, blk 118, A C: $150.00
Samuel S McDowell et ux to Adolphus G Lowe,
lot 3, blk 170, Leonard’s ad to A C: $1,800
Charles Wise to Allie I Thompson, lots 21
& 23, blk 130, A C: $200.00
James Hill et ux to Adolphus G Lowe, lot 4,
blk 170, Leonard’s ad to A C: $200.00
L C Norton et ux to Frank J Hess, se qr ne qr
25-34-3e, q-c: $1.00
Owen S Gibson et ux to James W Fox, lots 27
& 28, blk 139, A C: $1,000
Wm E Ruckman et ux to Ella S Gates, lots 19
& 20, blk 154, A C: $50.00
James W Cox et ux to Owen S Gibson, e hf ne
qr 31-34-5e & w hf ne qr & e hf nw qr except 25 acres 31-34-5e: $3,000
College Hill Town Co to G W Oglesby, lots 1
& 2, blk 3, C H ad to Winfield: $150.00
Mary B Hoyland & hus to Wm D Frederick,
lots 1 & 2, blk 12, H P ad to Winfield: $700
John C Rowland et ux to Andrew M Journey, lot
3, blk 227, Fuller’s ad to Winfield: $700
Francis S Rider et ux to Ira Holmes, lot 6,
blk 148, Winfield: $1,800
Francis M Munday et ux to Geo H Stotler, nw
qr 11-31-4e: $300
Ella Schooley & hus to Andrew J Pyburn,
lots 15, 16 & 17, blk 94, A C: $1,700
SENATE
PROCEEDINGS.
The
Senate in Executive Session.
Consent
Refused To the Nominations of Pillsbury and Chase.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WASHINGTON, March 2. The first thing
yesterday morning, the Chair laid before the Senate a letter from the Secretary
of the Treasury transmitting a reply to the recent Senate resolution calling
for a report showing the claims, accounts, and vouchers suspended in that
department. In discussing the motion to print the papers, Mr. Hale said that
the accounting officers of the Treasury had lately taken a course which seemed
to him extraordinary in holding up or suspending accounts or vouchers of
officers of the Government who, according to custom and the usual
authorization, had paid out moneys which had been entrusted to them for the
purpose of being so paid out. The contention of the accounting officers of the
Treasury, Mr. Hale said, was that the payments were not authorized. The papers,
which are voluminous, were ordered printed.
Mr. Pugh, representing the minority on the
Judiciary Committee, submitted the views of the minority on the resolution
referred to that committee concerning the office of district attorney for the
Southern District of Alabama. It was ordered printed in the Congressional
Record and also in separate form.
At 12:20 p.m., on motion of Mr. Hale, the
Senate went into executive session.
At 2:40 p.m. the Senate doors were opened and
the Chair laid before the members a lengthy message from the President bearing
on the right of the Senate to have access to the papers, etc., in the executive
departments relating to suspensions from office.
When the message had been read, Mr. Edmunds
said that it reminded him of a communication of King Charles I to Parliament.
He also said that the President unintentionally, no doubt, entirely misrepresented
the question involved between the Senate and himself.
Mr. Harris remarked that for reasons to which
he might not refer here he had no desire to discuss the matter involved, and
moved the message be printed and lie on the table.
“I think I am safe in saying,” remarked Mr.
Edmunds, “that it is the first time in the history of the Republic that any
President of the United States has undertaken to interfere with the
deliberations of either house of Congress on questions pending before them,
otherwise than by messages on the state of the Union, which the constitution
commands him to make from time to time. This message is devoted solely to a
question for the Senate itself in regard to what it has under consideration.
That is its singularity. It, I think, will strike reflecting people in this
country as somewhat extraordinary—if, in these days of reform, anything at all
can be thought extraordinary. The Senate of the United States, in its
communications to the heads of departments—not his heads of departments, but
the heads of departments created by law—directed them to transmit certain
official papers and that is all. The President of the United States undertakes
to change the question into a consideration by the Senate of his reasons or
motives for putting a civil officer, as it might be called, “under arrest,”
with which the Senate has not undertaken, in any way, to make any question at
all. By every message he has sent to this body—and they are all public—he has
asked the Senate to advise and consent to the removal of one officer and the
appointment of another. This is what he has done, and the Senate, in calling
for those papers, to say nothing of the wider considerations about any
deficiencies in the Department of Justice, is asked to remove these officers without
knowing the condition of the administration of their offices.”
After some further sparring between Messrs.
Edmunds and Harris as to the disposition of the message, the motion of Mr.
Edmunds was agreed to, referring it to the Judiciary Committee and ordering it
printed.
In executive session John H. Shaffer was
confirmed as postmaster at Kankakee, Illinois, while the nominations of
Pillsbury and Chase, to be collectors of internal revenue at Boston and
Portland, respectively, were rejected.
HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Petitioners
Want Daniel Manning Impeached For Violating the Silver Law.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WASHINGTON, March 2. In the House yesterday,
under the call of States, the following bills were introduced and referred.
By Mr. Moore, of Delaware: To repeal the
patent laws now in force and establishing another system of rewards for
inventions.
By Mr. Springer, of Illinois: A resolution
directing the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department to
investigate the expenditures and management of the Pension Bureau during the
present and previous administrations; also, to ascertain what foundation exists
for the statement of Commissioner Black in regard to partisan use and
extravagant management of that bureau during the terms of his predecessors.
By Mr. Joseph, of New Mexico: Appropriating
$200,000 for the establishing of a new military post at Deming, New Mexico.
By Mr. Neal, of Tennessee: To repeal the
internal revenue laws.
By Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio: To create a department
of industry and bureau of labor.
By Mr. Hewitt, of New York: To admit free of
duty lumber, salt, coke, coal, and iron ore produced or mined in the Dominion
of Canada.
Mr. Brumm, of Pennsylvania, asked unanimous
consent to have printed in the Record’s memorial signed by J. P. Brigham
and others, asking for the impeachment of Daniel Manning, Secretary of the
Treasury, for high crimes and misdemeanors in the execution of the silver law.
Mr. Beach, of New York, objected.
The Senate bill was passed for the erection
of a public building and alteration of the jail at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Mr. Eldridge, of Michigan, moved to suspend
the rules and pass the Mexican Pension bill, with a proviso exempting from its
provisions persons politically disabled. After a debate and pending action upon
the motion, the House adjourned.
WATCHING
FOR SKUNKS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
RICH HILL, Mo., March 2. A young man whose
name we could not learn, living near New Home, in this county, loaded his shot
gun to kill skunks (as they had been devastating the chicken house). Himself
and some companions went about one mile in the woods where there was a hollow
log and waited for the aforesaid animals to come out. While thus waiting, he
had his gun cocked and was ready to shoot, when he set the stock of the gun on
the ground and placed his left hand on the top of the barrel. By some manner
unknown to the young man, it went off, shooting the contents (No. 3 shot) in
his left hand and eye, totally destroying the eye and mutilating the land. Drs.
Gillett and Long amputated the hand.
A
CURIOUS CASE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
CHICAGO, March 2. Elizabeth Schwartz, a
richly dressed and handsome lady, was arrested today, charged with bigamy. The
prosecutor is Count Anton Hodgurski, who says that he was married to Elizabeth
some years ago in Germany, but that being angered at some fancied slight at a
reception, she ran away. He followed her to this country, and after many
months, succeeded in locating her in Chicago. In his ordinary dress he was
unable to pursue his search, and so, assuming the disguise of a ragpicker, he
diligently went through every quarter of the city until today he discovered his
truant wife on Eighteenth street. The former Countess Hodgurski is now married
to N. L. Schwartz, a wealthy merchant, who gave bonds of $3,000 for her
appearance.
A
PROMINENT OFFICIAL TALKS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
PHILADELPHIA, March 2. Said a well known and
prominent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad official today: “When will the trouble
between my road and the Pennsylvania cease? Very shortly. You may depend on
that. You can even go further and say that the trains of the Baltimore &
Ohio will be running into Jersey City over the Pennsylvania tracks within the
next sixty days. The negotiations are now on foot and there is not the
slightest doubt in my mind but they will be perfected very speedily. Will the
transcontinental rate cut last? That I can’t tell. It has stimulated travel,
wonderfully. We had ten through passengers for San Francisco yesterday.”
JOHN
KELLY WORSE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
NEW YORK, March 2. A rumor was circulated
about the city yesterday that John Kelly was dead, but it was found to be
wholly untrue. He is suffering from nervous prostration and insomnia, and for
several weeks has been unable to digest any food except milk, which is given to
him in small quantities. He has become greatly reduced in flesh, and his lack
of nourishment and sleep have made him very weak. Although his condition has
not materially changed from what it was some weeks ago, he is daily becoming
weaker, and has lost his strength of mind, and his dissolution is not many days
distant.
MARKET
REPORTS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Skipped Grain and Provisions reports for St.
Louis, Chicago, New York, and Kansas City. STREAKS
OF SUNSHINE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Skipped. Everything was a repeat from
previous issues. Really cannot understand why they kept printing this item.
LEGAL
NOTICES.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Recap: Franklin P. Smith, Plaintiff, vs.
Arthur Shupe, Mary E. Shupe, Eva Smith, Alma Smith, Elma Smith, Bert Smith,
Sarah J. Smith, William O. Mounts, Frank T. M. Smith, Oscar Smith, Wilson
Walters, Elizabeth Walters, and Jonathan Duncan as administrator of the estate
of Charles F. Smith, deceased. Defendants. Franklin P. Smith, By Jennings &
Troup, His Attorneys. Petition to be heard April 17, 1886, to quiet title of
plaintiff to real estate.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Recap: Sheriff’s Sale by G. H. McIntire to be
made Monday, March 15, 1886, to settle suit by S. E. Hunt, Plaintiff, vs. A. A.
Knox and Sophronia Knox, plaintiffs, by selling goods and chattels: 1 sorrel
horse about eight years old; 1 four year old cow; 1 steer, yearling in spring;
2 heifers, yearlings in spring; 1 lumber wagon schutler make, with box,
sideboards and spring seat; 1 windmill and gearing; 7 shoats, all now at the
farm of said defendants, in Beaver township.
SHERIFF’S
ELECTION PROCLAMATION.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WHEREAS, on the 2nd day of March,
A. D., 1886, the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Cowley, in the
State of Kansas, duly made, and caused to be entered of record in the office of
the County Clerk of said county, the following order to-wit:
OFFICE
OF COUNTY CLERK, WINFIELD, KS., March 2nd, 1886.
NOW, on this 2nd day of March, A.
D. 1886, at a special meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of Cowley
County, Kansas, duly convened, present: S. C. Smith, Chairman; and J. A. Irwin
and J. D. Guthrie, Commissioners, S. J. Smock, County Clerk, and Henry E. Asp,
County Attorney, there is presented to said Board of County Commissioners an
act of the legislature of the State of Kansas, entitled, “An act in relation to
building and maintaining bridges in Cowley County, Kansas, and to provide for
levying and collecting taxes for such purposes.” Approved February 18, 1886.
And upon consideration of said act, it is ordered by the said Board of County
Commissioners that a special election be and is hereby called to be held in
said County of Cowley, on Tuesday, the 8th day of April, A. D. 1886,
for the purpose of taking the sense of the electors of said Cowley County as to
whether the said act of the legislature of the State of Kansas shall be in
force in said Cowley County; and for the purpose of determining the said
proposition.
And it is further ordered that the Sheriff of
said county give at least twenty days’ notice of said election, of the time and
places of the holding thereof, by proclamation, and by publishing the same for
at least twenty days in the WINFIELD COURIER, a weekly newspaper printed and
published in said County of Cowley, and of general circulation therein, and
being the official paper of said county, and by posting the same as written or
printed handbills at each of the several voting precincts in said county, at
least twenty days before the time of the holding of said election.
And it is further ordered that the votes and
ballots for the said proposition shall have written or printed thereon the
following words: “For the Special Bridge Act,” and the ballots and votes
against said proposition shall have written or printed thereon these words: “Against
the Special Bridge Act.”
And it is further ordered that in said
proclamation the said sheriff set forth the foregoing order in full.
Done by the Board of County Commissioners of
the county of Cowley in the State of Kansas, this 2nd day of March,
1886
S.
C. SMITH, J. A. IRWIN, J. D. GUTHRIE
County
Commissioners of Cowley County, Kansas.
STATE
OF KANSAS, COWLEY COUNTY, ss
Now, therefore, I, G. H. McIntire, Sheriff of
the county of Cowley, in the state of Kansas, under and by virtue of the
foregoing order of the Board of County Commissioners of said county of Cowley,
and the authority in me vested by law as such Sheriff, do hereby proclaim and
make known that on Tuesday, the 5th day of April, A. D. 1886, there
will be held a special election in said county of Cowley, at the usual voting
precincts therein, for the purpose and in the manner and form as set forth in
said order of the said Board of County Commissioners of said Cowley County, and
that in all other respects said election will be held, the returns made and the
result ascertained in the same manner as is provided by law for general
elections.
Done at the Sheriff’s office in the city of
Winfield, in the county of Cowley, state of Kansas, this 3rd day of
March, A. D. 1886.
G.
H. McINTIRE, Sheriff.
[Note: I skipped the Act bringing about the
above election for bridge construction. It was very lengthy. The law referred
to was Senate Bill No. 2, February 20, 1886.]
THE
COWLEY COUNTY LAND OFFICE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
No. 1, 300 acres, choice Arkansas river
bottom land, 9 miles southwest of Winfield; 200 acres in cultivation; 100 acres
fenced; good orchard; well watered; 2 small houses. A splendid farm for grain
or stock. Price, $10,000.
No. 14, 160 acres, 2½ miles from Dexter; 80
acres cultivated; all under fence; comfortable house, stable and other
buildings; abundance of all kinds of fruit; 10 acres of timber; well watered.
Price, $4,000.
No. 17, 160 acres, 7 miles from Winfield,
adjoins good R. R. station, with church and school; all in cultivation and in
pasture; fenced and cross fenced; good buildings of all kinds. This is one of
the best farms in the county and cheap at $8,000.
No. 21, 160 acres, 2½ miles from Cambridge;
60 acres cultivated; comfortable house and stable; good orchard and pasture; 12
acres timber; clover meadow; all good land. Price, $2,000.
No. 27, 240 acres, 1 mile from Winfield; 120
acres in cultivation, good dwelling house, stables, bins and crib; living
water; 3 good wells; 10 acres orchard; 2½ acres vineyard; in fact everything
necessary to make a farm profitable and convenient. Easy terms. Price, $7,500.
No. 28, 120 acres 2 miles from Winfield; all
good smooth land and all in cultivation; no other improvements except all under
fence; a choice piece of land, well adapted to fruit, grazing or grain. Price,
$4,500.
No. 32, 160 acres, 50 acres bottom land in
cultivation; 100 acres slope land; barn worth $1,000; good four room house,
buggy house, granaries and bins; good orchard, 2 wells, spring cow pond. This
is one of the best improved farms in the county, is situated about 25 miles
from Winfield 2½ miles from a thriving railroad town, ½ mile from one of the
best schoolhouses in the county. Price $3,200; will take city property worth
from $1,000 to $1,000 in part pay, or $1,000 to $1,200 cash, and balance on
time.
CITY
PROPERTY.
No. 30, a good 5 room house, with cellar,
porch and veranda; corner lot, fenced, and well, set in fruit and shade trees;
good well; coal house, henery and stable; nice location. Price $1,500; part
cash and balance on time at 8 per cent.
No. 31, a good 5 room house, all on first
floor, and nearly new; 1 lot, good well and other conveniences; a nice
property, very convenient. Price, $1,200
No. 52, a good 6 room house, with four lots;
good barn, abundance of fruit, of all varieties; centrally located and one of
the best locations in the city. Price, $4,500
The above is only a small portion of the
property for sale on my books. I have other farms, besides a great many vacant
lots in the city, and small tracts in the suburbs. In short, I have as good a
list to select from, which are offered at prices and terms as reasonable, as
can be had in the city. Parties desiring to purchase, or to talk about lands
and real estate generally, are cordially invited to visit the Cowley County
Land Office, where you will at all times get courteous treatment, whether you
buy of me or not.
H.
T. SHIVVERS.
PLUMB’S
POINT.
The
Senator Attacks the Education Bill As a Dangerous Piece of Centralization.
The
Bill For a Grant Monument Passed in the Senate.
The
Fuss With Cleveland.
House
Committee Report on the Surplus in the Treasury.
Favors
Applying It to Debt Reduction.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. In the Senate yesterday
among the bills reported favorably from committees and placed on the calendar
was one by Van Wyck from the Committee on Public Lands to confirm entries of
public lands made under the public land laws of the United States.
Senator Van Wyck said the purpose of the bill
is to quiet the apprehension of settlers who fear that some of the rulings of
Commissioner Sparks may have the effect of canceling claims which were taken in
good faith under the laws as interpreted by former commissioners. He proposes
to crystalize certain well recognized principles of practice into a statute.
Among the bills introduced and appropriately
referred was one by Mr. Edmunds to facilitate the administration of the laws in
Alaska. Mr. Edmunds explained that persons appointed to office in Alaska could
not give bond in that Territory and the bill was intended to enable such
persons to give bond in the States from which they were appointed.
Mr. Morgan offered a preamble and resolution,
which, at his request, was ordered printed and laid on the table for the
present, the purpose of which is to show that the Senate Judiciary Committee
has not authority to arraign the Attorney General as it did in its recent
report, and accompanying resolutions in regard to the refusal of the Attorney
General to transmit to the committee certain papers in regard to the removal of
officers, which were asked for by the committee. The preamble says, referring
to the recent Judiciary Committee resolution: “If said resolution is adopted as
being true upon its face and as a matter of law, it will thereby announce a
pre-judgment of the majority of this body without any trial according to law;
that the Attorney General of the United States is guilty and condemned for
wilfully committing an offense in the conduct of his office which is in
violation of his official duty and is subversive of the fundamental principles
of the Government of the United States; the Attorney General is only amenable
to the condemnation of the Senate when sitting with the Chief Justice of the United
States as a court of impeachment to hear and decide upon the articles of
impeachment presented by the House of Representatives.
Mr. Dolph, from the Committee on Public
Lands, reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior for full
information concerning the selection, surveying, and patenting of the lands
given in aid of the construction of the Northern Pacific railroad. The
resolution was agreed to.
Mr. Hoar called up the bid appropriating
$250,000 for the erection of a monument in Washington City to the memory of
General Grant. The bill was passed.
When the Education bill was placed before the
Senate, Mr. Gray took the floor in opposition to the bill, taking the ground
that education in the States was not only wholly outside of the jurisdiction of
the United States Government, but exclusively in that of the several States. In
conclusion, Mr. Gray said: “I trust it may not be considered presumption in me
if I beg the Senators, older, more experienced, and wiser than I, to hesitate
long before taking the first step in this new and unexplored pathway of Federal
encroachments. Down its dark vistas I see shapes of such direful portent that I
shrink from the encounter. Over the level bulwarks of the Constitution will
come thronging, thick and fast, the armies of centralization and the enemies of
local government. We may still find life worth living under the new
dispensation, but will never cease to mourn the constitution of our fathers
wounded to death in the house of its friends. I have no desire to see the map
of the United States painted over with one color. I at least shall not assist
in thus obliterating the lines of States, and with them the ancient landmarks
of the constitution.”
Mr. Plumb also opposed the bill. He regarded
it as an anomaly in legislation, appropriating the money not only for one year
but for eight years. He had no doubt that at the end of the eight years, if the
pabulum now provided were not continued, conventions would meet and delegations
would be sent to Washington to urge Congress to keep on appropriating more
money. We must therefore understand that in passing this bill, we were
arranging for expenditures for generations yet to come. Large appropriations
had come to have something attractive in them and an appropriation of
$7,000,000 was seventy-seven times more attractive than an appropriation of
$1,000,000. “This bill,” Mr. Plumb said, “was the outgrowth of that demoralized
and demoralizing period preceding the last Presidential election. If there was
any period when public men were less qualified than at any other to give wise
and careful consideration to the financial affairs of the Government, it was
the season preceding a Presidential election when the issues were being made.
The interests of candidates were being forwarded when we were laying plans and
plots whereby we might catch an unwary opponent or appeal to some class or
section for its vote.”
Mr. Plumb said he could count on the fingers
of his hands the Senators who really favored the bill independent of some such
reason, and if the bill could in some way be got rid of without submitting it
to a vote, nine Senators in every ten would not regret it. A dangerous piece of
legislation was about to be enacted that did not meet the calm and considerate
approval of those who would vote for it. Mr. Plumb quoted statistics to show
the assessed valuation of property in the United States, and insisted that each
such State was amply able to educate its own illiterates. He quoted figures
showing that much the larger proportion of the money would go to the States of
the South, and much the larger part of it be supplied by the States of the
North and West. The whole theory of the bill was false; that theory being that
the Southern States were not able to give a common school education to their
illiterates. If the bill was constitutional, there were no longer any States,
except as they might exist in the imagination, because they had no function
that was not subject to the will of the general Government. If that was
constitutional, it was constitutional to abrogate the State. If Congress could
aid education in this way, it could seize and control the entire system of
State education. Mr. Plumb, however, could not discuss the constitutionality of
the measure. It was enough to know that it was an unwise and unwarrantable
expenditure of public money. The general Government was under no obligation to
remove the ignorance of the South. The blacks who were freed by the war would
receive no benefit from this bill.
Mr. Plumb contrasted the achievements of
Kansas since the war with those of the States of the South. “When the war
closed,” he said, “and for five years afterward, there was not one of those
States that did not have a taxable valuation largely in excess of Kansas; yet
Kansas has contributed for the support of its common schools more than four
times as much as any Southern State. Kansas expended $3,000,000 on common
schools last year. Education was the sign by which the people of Kansas had
conquered. What the South wanted was such an arrangement of its affairs as
would induce good men to go there and to build up communities. It was not money
that was lacking, but the spirit to do the work. Money did not educate the
people. Education was born of the determination to know.”
“The South, however,” Mr. Plumb was glad to
say, “was, year by year, increasing its expenditures for education.” Mr. Plumb
believed that if left alone and not encouraged to reach its hand into the
National Treasury, it would continue to increase its expenditures for that
object.
Mr. Call spoke in favor of the bill. He
recognized the constitutional power of the General Government to aid the
States, with their own consent, and the constitutional power of the States to
aid the General Government. Such aid had been recognized as constitutional from
the foundation of the Government. “The South was not without self-reliance,”
Mr. Call said; “its people had already taxed themselves to the utmost, but
their land was not, as was the case with Kansas, a readily convertible asset.”
Before the Senate Senators Gray and Plumb
spoke in opposition and Senator Call in favor of the bill.
After a short executive session, the Senate
adjourned.
HOUSE.
In the House yesterday Mr. Morrison, of
Illinois, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported a joint resolution
directing the payment of the surplus in the Treasury on the public debt.
Referred to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. Hewitt, of New York, obtained leave
to file a minority report.
The report which accompanies the joint resolution
says: “On January 30, 1886, as shown by the official statement of the assets
and liabilities of the Treasury of the United States, there was in the Treasury
and United States depositories, including the amount held for the redemption of
United States notes and not including minor fractional silver coin classed as
assets not available, the sum of $179,689,862.24 in excess of all other
liabilities than the redemption of said United States notes. It is believed
that this sum is largely in excess of the sum required for the purpose for
which it is held, and that a considerable part of the interest-bearing debt of
the United States now payable, to the end that public moneys shall be used to
lighten public burdens and not unnecessarily held to lure the agents and
representatives of the people into improvident and wasteful expenditure.
Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, from the Committee
on Judiciary, reported a bill providing that no person shall be held to answer
for any crime whereof the punishment may be loss of liberty except on
presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land
or naval forces or in the militia when in actual service in time of war or
public danger. Placed on the House calendar.
Mr. Ellsberry, of Ohio, from the Committee on
Invalid Pensions, reported a bill granting pensions to all invalid soldiers or
widows or children who are dependent upon their daily labor for support.
Referred to the Committee of the Whole.
Mr. Buchanan, of New Jersey, from the
Committee on Claims, reported a bill for the relief of survivors of the
exploring steamer Jeannette and the wives and children of those who perished in
the expedition. Placed on the private calendar.
The morning hour was consumed in the
consideration of the bill to annex the northern part of Idaho Territory to the
Territory of Washington, but no final action was taken.
The House then proceeded to the consideration
of business on the calendar.
The bill forfeiting the unearned land grants
of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company was taken up on motion of Mr.
Holman, of Indiana. An amendment was adopted providing that forfeited lands
shall be subject to settlement under the homestead law only. A substitute
offered by Mr. McRae, of Arkansas, on behalf of the minority of the committee
was rejected and the bill passed without revision.
On motion of Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, it
was ordered that Saturday of each week be devoted to general debate in
Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union.
On motion of Mr. Morrison, the House
adjourned.
KANSAS
ENCAMPMENT.
Grand
Army Men Meet at Wichita.—Governor Martin Present.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WICHITA, Feb. 24. The fifth annual encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic was announced ready for business at 3 p.m. yesterday
by Department Commander Stewart H. W. Lewis. On behalf of the City of Wichita,
he delivered the address of greeting to the representatives of 20,000 veterans
gathered together within the borders of Kansas. In words of pathetic
earnestness he greeted these representatives of the Grand Army, once 1,000,000
strong, but now a remnant of 300,000. Governor Martin was introduced to the
encampment, but declined to make a speech, simply thanking the comrades and
telling them that business being first, there was no time for making speeches.
Like the soldiers at Chattanooga, when Rosecrans was making speeches, one of
whom wanted a little less talk and a little more sowbelly, Governor Martin
desired the work to go on. He was received with continued rounds of applause.
Reports were then read and other business transacted, after which the
convention adjourned until today.
BRITISH
CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
LONDON, Feb. 24. At a meeting of the chambers
of commerce in the city today, Mr. Forwood, Conservative member of Parliament
from Lancashire, a prominent merchant and ship owner of Liverpool, presided. He
attributed the present depression in British trade to the appreciation of gold
assisted by the competition of foreign products and manufactures turned out by
skilled labor improved by technical education. The Dublin chamber of commerce
offered, and the Glasgow chamber seconded, a resolution against weakening the
union of England and Ireland, because of the disastrous nature of the results
which would come to the commercial and trading interests of Great Britain.
JUMPED
HIS BISHOP.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
LEAVENWORTH, Feb. 24. Rev. Father Demattos,
of the St. Paul Episcopalian Church of this city, whose requiem mass for the
late Jardine caused so much comment, and who was censured by Bishop Vail for so
doing, has resigned, claiming he could not remain in a diocese where the views
of the Bishop and his own were so widely different.
A
CONDEMNED MURDERER TRIES THE INSANE DODGE.
THE
BARTON KILLING.—GOLD BRICK SWINDLE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
CHICAGO, Feb. 24. When the cashier at the
Grand Pacific made up his weekly cash yesterday morning about 8 o’clock, he put
the money, checks, and so forth, into an envelope, as he had done every morning
for the last ten years, and laid it on the desk prior to taking into the
private office. Going into the vault for a minute or so, he found upon his
return that the envelope had mysteriously disappeared. Beneath it lay the
weekly cash of the restaurant, which was untouched. The envelope contained a
total amount of $1,187, of which $205 was in cash. The checks and papers came
back on the noon mail; but the money is still missing and is liable to be. It
is supposed that some person lounging about the hotel quietly walked behind the
railing and took the package, as none of the employees are suspected.
DESERTED
HER FAMILY.
FT. KEOGH, M. T., February 24. There is much
excitement in Billings, caused by the elopement of Mrs. Richard A. Clark, wife
of a respectable ranchman living near the city, with a young man named James
Donaldson. The guilty parties took the western train last night for Portland.
Donaldson has been working for Clark for a year past, and Mrs. Clark, who is a
woman of considerable attraction, appears to have become infatuated with him.
About a week ago Clark discovered undoubted evidence of their built, and
hunting up Donaldson, fired at him with a charge of buckshot and nearly killed
him. The young man, although filled with shot, managed to get away with his
guilty partner last night. Mrs. Clark leaves behind her eight children, one of
whom is a mere baby.
MOONSHINERS
NETTED.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 24. Advices reached
the United States Marshal’s office in this city today from Howard County, this
state, to the effect that Deputy United States Marshal Pope and a posse of the
above county had arrested part of a gang of moonshiners in Howard and
successfully raided their premises. J. S. Herdleson and J. M. Mann are the
names of the men captured, while several escaped. Their rendezvous was located
in the swamps twelve miles from Centerpoint, and it is thought the “woods is
full of them” in that section of the State. Those taken were captured unawares
and it is known that the posse who undertakes to molest this species of
Arkansas people will have a dangerous job on hand.
THE
LAST CHANCE.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 24. Sheriff Harrington this
morning held a consultation with Circuit Attorney Clover on a written application
from James J. McBride, in behalf of John Hayes, the condemned murderer, who is
sentenced to hang a week from next Friday. The application prays for an
examination by jury into Hayes’ mental condition, it being claimed by Mr.
McBride that his client is insane. Messrs. Harrington and Clover decided to
grant the request, and a jury will be procured and the investigation will take
place next Friday morning at ten o’clock in the grand jury room.
WHO
WAS HE?
MONTREAL, Que., Feb. 24. An American
stranger, believed to be ex-Sheriff Davidson, of New York, a few days ago
consulted a law firm here. He said he had some judgments outstanding against
him and had several thousand dollars in United States bonds in his possession.
After the consultation, during which he was informed that if the bonds were
come by dishonestly, he could be arrested here, he left, and has not since been
seen.
WANTS
A CHANGE OF VENUE.
BLOOMINGTON, Ill., Feb. 24. The murder case
of Dr. Harvey L. Harris, for the killing of George W. Barton at Raybrook last
November, came up in the McLean circuit court this morning. The attorneys for
the defendant presented a petition for a change of venue on the grounds that
the judge, O. T. Reaves, is prejudiced against the defendant. While the
petition cannot be refused by the court, it will not take the case out of the
county, but merely require one of the other judges to preside at the trial.
NATIONAL
NOTES.
Mr.
Hewitt’s Opposition to Reducing the Treasury Surplus Below $100,000,000.
Attempt
to Suppress Desultory Debate on the Silver Question.
Tariff
Notes.—State of the Navy.
Railroads
Through the Indian Territory.
Van
Wyck’s Land Bill.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Mr. Hewitt, reporting
the minority of the Committee on Ways and Means, yesterday submitted a report
on Mr. Morrison’s bill directing the payment of the surplus in the Treasury
exceeding $100,000,000 in liquidation of the public debt. “The effect of the
reduction,” says the report, “if enacted into law will be to reduce the balance
in the Treasury available for the payment of its current indebtedness and for
the redemption of legal tender notes to $1,000,000, and it makes no proviso for
replenishing the Treasury when the available balance shall fall below $100,000,000.
The question thus presented is whether, in view of the obligations and
functions of the Treasury as now defined by law, the proposed limitation on the
balances now held for meeting the liabilities payable on demand is prudent and
safe, in view of the pledge of the United States to redeem all its indebtedness
in coin or its equivalent. The undersigned believe that such a limitation would
be unwise and dangerous and at variance alike with the experience of solvent
nations and of sound financial institutions. The ordinary disbursement of the
Treasury may be roughly stated to amount to $1,000,000 a day. To meet this
disbursement it is necessary that a reasonable working balance should be kept
on hand, because at times the current expenditures largely exceed the daily
receipts. Careful business firms usually carry a balance equal to one month’s
disbursements. Measured by this standard, and a lower one could not safely be
adopted because the Secretary of the Treasury has no power to make temporary loans,
the working balance in the Treasury should be about $30,000,000. That this
amount is not too large will be apparent from the fact that in the pension
bureau alone drafts for $10,000,000 alone will be made March 1, and the amount
of the probable payment under the arrears act cannot be fixed for one specified
date. . . .
The greatest care must be taken not to
interfere with the flexibility of the currency, and the only feasible agency
rests in the Treasury, in the power now exercised by the Secretary, to make
calls for the redemption of the public debt. It is a great question whether
such a power should ever have been trusted to the Government or to the
discretion of an official. In other conservative commercial countries, it has
been conferred on intermediate agencies in direct communication with the
business interests of the people. We have no such system, and hence the
Treasury has been forced to become a member of the New York clearing house,
which is the financial center of the exchange of the country. The Treasury is
thus practically engaged in the banking business, not only in the issue of
currency, but in adopting its operations to the general requirements of trade.
Dangerous as this system is, it was the outgrowth of necessity, and until some
other security besides the bonded debt of the United States is devised for the
issue of bank currency, the power to come to the relief of the money market in
times of stringency must rest with the Treasury.”
DESULTORY
DEBATES.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Congressman Warner, of
Ohio, and Burrows, of Michigan, are directing their joint efforts to secure
some understanding or perfect arrangements whereby the desultory debate on the
silver question may be repressed and confined hereafter to legitimate limits,
as presented by some bill to be reported from the coinage committee germane to
that subject. They contend that the recent practice of offering amendments to
revenue bills providing for payment in silver dollars in order to obtain the
floor to make silver speeches is mischievous, tending to scatter than unify the
silver forces, and that therefore measures should be taken to keep their lines
intact and to avoid a waste of time. These gentlemen hope to arrange to have
two weeks for debate exclusively on the silver question, finally dispose of it,
and allow the House to proceed to the consideration of other pressing business
now in arrears. They urge that if this course shall be pursued, an adjournment
can be effected at an early period in the summer months.
THE
TARIFF.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. At the meeting of the
Committee of Ways and Means yesterday Mr. McKinlay, of Ohio, moved that persons
interested in the pending tariff legislation be heard by the committee.
Considerable discussion ensued and the Democratic members refused to consent to
unlimited hearings. Finally Mr. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, offered as a
substitute for Mr. McKinlay’s motion a proposition limiting the time allowed
for hearing oral arguments to March 12, and it was adopted, the Republicans
voting in the negative and the Democrats, with the exception of one or two
members, voting in favor of the substitute. The Republican members of the
committee express dissatisfaction with the result, asserting that the time
allowed for hearing is not sufficient to allow Representatives of the Pacific
slope to get here.
THE
NAVY.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The members of the House
Committee on Naval Affairs held an informal meeting yesterday at which the
question of the rehabilitation of the Navy was discussed. Their recommendations
will involve the expenditure of $8,000,000 or $10,000,000. They will recommend
the completion of the monitors already begun and a liberal appropriation for
naval ordnance; will advise the construction of from fifteen to twenty torpedo
boats, and a large expenditure for torpedoes, and will provide for the
construction of six or seven steel-belted cruisers of from 5,000 to 6,000 tons.
There is a difference of opinion as to whether this work should be done in the
navy yards by the Government or by contract, and both plans will probably be
given a trial.
RIGHT
OF WAY.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The House Committee on
Indian Affairs has decided to make report to the House on all bills granting to
particular railroad companies right of way through the Indian Territory,
notwithstanding the fact that a general bill on the subject has been favorably
reported to the House. This action was taken because the members of the
committee were of the opinion that some of the special bills might be acted
upon by the House when a general bill of the subject would not secure a
hearing. The first of theses bills, granting right of way to the Denison &
Wichita railroad was today ordered to be favorably reported.
A
NEW LAND BILL.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The bill to confirm
entries of land heretofore made under the land laws of the United States,
reported yesterday by Senator Van Wyck, from the Senate Committee on Public
Lands, provides that any entry heretofore in conformity with the rules,
regulations, and decisions of the General Land Office at the time, shall be
adjudged in the same manner as if said rules, regulations, and decisions had
not been revised and modified, provided that such entry shall have been made in
good faith and no charges of fraud been made against the same.
KICKING
THE BUCKET.
Discharged
Bucket Shop Employees Cut the Telegraph Wires.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 24. On Saturday last a new
system of giving the quotations on ‘Exchange’ to the various bucket shops was
inaugurated. Formerly it was the custom of men in the employ of the proprietors
of bucket shops to get the quotations in the hall, run to the head of the
stairs, call them off to men posted on the lower floor, who would at once carry
the figures to the different shops. But on Saturday wires from all the shops to
the Exchange Hall were put up, and the quotations were received in all the
shops simultaneously. Owing to the
inauguration of this new system, six or eight men were thrown out of positions.
When they were served with notice of discharge by their employers, several of
them expressed a determination to get even. Yesterday morning all the wires
leading from the bucket shops to the hall were found to have been cut, and the
bucket shop men threatened to have their late employees arrested for the
outrage. Connections, however, were effected.
JOE
CHAMBERLAIN ON POVERTY.
He
is Opposed to Wholesale Emigration of Paupers.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
LONDON, Feb. 24. Joseph Chamberlain,
President of the Local Board, was visited today by a deputation of unemployed
workingmen, who stated their grievances and asked what the Government meant to
do to relieve the prevailing distress. Chamberlain deprecated riots and all
similar forms of disturbance to manifest the need of help. He said he was
opposed to emigration as a means of relief unless the distress was chronic.
This opposition was based on many grounds, not the least of which was the fact
that the colonies would refuse to welcome large numbers of paupers, because
among other reasons their influx would cheapen the labor market. Chamberlain
added that he hoped the Government would soon be able to establish the British
laborer upon the soil he tilled. Pending the accomplishment of this, he would
not cease urging local boards to start relief work, such as paving and
improving streets, and to furnish means and subsistence to those in absolute
need.
INTERRED.
The
Remains of John B. Gough Consigned to the Grave.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 24. The closing scene
in the history of John B. Gough was enacted today. From an early hour this
morning the pretty little cottage, which he had christened “The Hillside,” was
the center of attraction for hundreds of people, not only residents, but
visitors from many parts of this and other States, who had come hither to pay a
last tribute of respect to the illustrious dead. At one o’clock brief services
were held in the drawing room which, with the corridor and outside lawn, was
packed with spectators. The participants in the services were John Wannamaker,
of Philadelphia; Rev. W. M. Taylor, of Broadway Tabernacle, New York; Rev.
Israel Ainsworth, of Boylston; Rev. George H. Gould, D. D.; Rev. D. O. Myers,
and Anthony Comstock. The exercises comprised prayers, singing, reading of
appropriate passages of scripture, and brief addresses eulogistic of the life
labor of the deceased. At the close the remains were borne to Hope Cemetery,
where the remains were interred in the family lot.
CORRUPT
OFFICIALS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 24. Judge Goebel in
the probate court yesterday announced his decision in the impeachment
proceedings against Martin Brockman and Fred Hermann, directors of the city
infirmary, charged with making fraudulent vouchers and various acts of
malfeasance in office. He found them guilty as charged and removed them from
office. They sent resignations to the mayor last week and then fled. It has
been fairly well ascertained that Brockman went to Canada and Hermann to
Havana. Mayor Smith refused to accept their resignations.
EDISON
MARRIED.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 24. For the second time in
his life, Thomas A. Edison, the wizard of Menlo Park, has taken unto himself a
wife. The bride is Miss Mina Miller, daughter of Lewis Miller, and the
ceremony, which was a quiet and simple one, took place at the home of the bride
this morning. The ceremony was performed by Rev. E. U. Young, pastor of the
First M. E. Church. Immediately after the wedding breakfast, the happy couple
left for Mr. Edison’s new winter cottage near Fort Myers, Florida, where the
honeymoon will be spent.
CIVICS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The American Institute
of Civics will hold its annual meeting tomorrow evening at the Ebbit House
parlors. The special subject for consideration is, “Education for citizenship
and the best means for carrying forward the work.” Hon. Morrison L. Waite, L.
L. D., Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, President of the
Advisory Board, will preside at this meeting. Addresses will be made by
officers and members of the Advisory Board and other distinguished gentlemen.
THE
TELEPHONE MATTER.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. In the absence of
Representative Randall, the Speaker has delayed calling together the Committee
on Rules to consider the telephone matter. It is now stated that the committee
will meet tomorrow morning. A member of the committee stated that the meeting
was a mere formality; that it was understood what its action would be, and Mr.
Randall’s presence was not necessary. The resolution of investigation will be
reported favorably and adopted by the House.
CONFERENCE
IN SESSION.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
READING, Pa., Feb. 24. The annual meeting of
the East Pennsylvania Conference of the Evangelical Church is in progress here
today. The Conference is composed of over three hundred members, and Bishop
Bowman, of Allentown, presides. The Conference will be in session about six
days.
RAILWAY
BONDS VOTED.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
COTTONWOOD FALLS, Kan., Feb. 24. Bazaar
township, Chase County, yesterday voted $34,500 in bonds to the Chicago,
Emporia & Southwestern Railway, by a vote of 3 to 1.
A
SHOCKING CRIME UNEARTHED NEAR SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI.
Career
of a Despicable Villain.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Feb. 26. The mysterious
disappearance of Mrs. Sarah Graham, wife of George E. Graham, was partially
explained yesterday by John Potter and other citizens of Brooklyn, who, under
the direction of Detective Ed. C. Davis, explored a deep sinkhole or cave on
the farm of Mrs. Molloy, about four miles southwest of this city, and
discovered about fifty feet under the ground the nude body of a woman, which
was partially decomposed. Near the body in the cave was also found the woman’s
clothing and a small hand satchel. Coroner Van Hoosen summoned a jury and
repaired to the ghastly scene, and on examination, found that the woman’s death
was caused by a pistol shot that entered the right side of the breast and
passed through the heart. Other wounds had evidently been inflicted on the
unfortunate woman.
CAUSE
OF THE CRIME.
It is thought beyond any doubt the woman is
the missing Mrs. Graham, whose husband was married to Cora Lee, an adopted
daughter of Mrs. Molloy in this city, July 18 last, and was arrested on the
charge of bigamy a month since and lodged in jail, where he is now confined
awaiting his trial at the May term of the Circuit Court. When arrested Graham
claimed that he was divorced from his former wife and that she left Fort Wayne,
Indiana, with him as a mistress; that they first went to Elgin, Illinois,
thence to Washington, Kansas, where he and Mrs. Molloy, who is known as a kind
of temperance lecturer, engaged in the publication of a paper called the Morning
and Day of Reform. The paper not proving a success, he and Mrs. Molloy came
to this city and his wife returned to her people at Fort Wayne, taking their
two boys, aged respectively thirteen and six years.
THE
MURDER PLOT.
The latter part of last September Graham
wrote to his wife at Fort Wayne, requesting her to meet him with the children
at St. Louis. He also sent money to pay her fare. Mrs. Graham did as requested,
and her people not learning anything of her whereabouts since then, began to
suspect foul play, and made a vigorous search to find the missing woman, whose
brother-in-law, T. L. Breese, came on here and caused Graham’s arrest. The
latter stoutly protested his innocence and stated that the last he saw of his
former wife, she was standing in the Union Depot at St. Louis when he and the
two children boarded a Frisco train and came to this city. Graham and his
second wife reside on the Molloy farm, where the lady was found today, and when
he was told of the startling discovery, he turned pale and looked down at the
floor, protesting that he could not get justice here.
WORKING
UP THE CASE.
The case has been worked up by Detective
Davis, who has acted on the theory that Graham quietly brought his wife on
here, and taking her out to the farm, brutally murdered her; that he had taken
the clothing from her body for the purpose of burning it to destroy the evidence
of the crime, but, being near the roadside, he became frightened by the
approach of some one and threw the clothing down into the cave with the body.
Hundreds of people visited the scene yesterday and much excitement exists, both
in town and county. Considerable talk of lynching having been heard among the
people, Sheriff Donnell has placed Graham in the strongest steel cage in the
jail and appointed extra deputies on guard. The remains of the murdered woman
were brought to an undertaker’s here last evening and the inquest will not be
concluded until her relatives from Fort Wayne arrive to identify the body.
GRAHAM’S
ANTECEDENTS.
In an interview with Mr. T. L. Breese, of
Fort Wayne, brother-in-law of the dead woman, he stated that George E. Graham,
who is about thirty-five years old, was married to the woman, now dead, at Fort
Wayne in 1871, and that Graham was sent to the penitentiary for horse stealing
in 1873. While he was in prison, his wife procured a divorce, and after his
release, in 1878, the two were remarried and left Fort Wayne the following
year. He expresses the opinion that Graham has developed into an unscrupulous
villain and that his statements regarding the disappearance of his former wife
are a tissue of falsehoods.
Mrs. Molloy has not been here since the
arrest of Graham, and it is stated that she is lecturing in Peoria, Illinois.
It is predicted that further developments will likely implicate others besides
Graham in the brutal murder.
GRAHAM’S
CONFESSION.
The
Bigamist and Murderer, of Springfield, Mo., Confesses His Terrible Crime.
He
Gives a Detailed Account of His Treachery, Infamy, and Wife Murder.
He
Exonerates Mrs. Molloy and Cora Lee,
Both
of Whom Are Under Arrest as Accessories.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., March 1. Mrs. Emma Molloy
arrived on the early morning train yesterday and was met at the North
Springfield depot by Judge Baker, who was escorting her toward the Ozark house
when Sheriff Donnell stepped up and served the warrant by arresting Mrs.
Molloy, and then proceeded to the Metropolitan hotel, in this city with the
prisoner, who was placed under guard in room 23. She was averse to making any
statement until afer she had consulted with her attorneys, Messrs. H. E.
Howell, Travers Rathbun, and Judge Baker. She complained of nervous prostration
and occasionally took medicine to relieve attacks of nausea. About all that
could be elicited from her relative to the murder of Mrs. Sarah Graham was that
she believed Graham was guilty and that the best thing he could do was to
confess all and release innocent parties; that after she had stood by George
and raised him up the way she had, it was hard for her to be dragged down by
him in such a manner.
CORA
LEE ALSO ARRESTED.
Deputy Sheriff Tom Cox, accompanied by a
companion, went to the Molloy farm four miles southwest of town about one
o’clock yesterday morning and arrested Cora Lee, Graham’s second wife, and
returned with her and the two boys early in the morning. The boys were turned
over to the care of their aunt, Mrs. Abbie Breese, at the Southern Hotel, and
Cora Lee was taken to the home of Deputy Cox, where she is now kept in custody.
She seemed very much dejected and feeling keenly the situation in which she is
placed, but she was not inclined to talk much and at times gave vent to her
feelings in tears. She said that she did not know whom to trust; that she did
not know that she could trust any one in the world now. She is about twenty
years old and is apparently above the average in intelligence. As to the charge
against her, she stoutly protested her innocence and entertained no doubt but
that she would be acquitted.
CORA
LEE’S STATEMENT.
Regarding her history and association with
Mrs. Molloy and her marriage to Graham, the prisoner expressed herself in a
desultory way, substantially as follows: “I first met Mrs. Molloy at Elbert,
Indiana, where I lived with my two sisters, one of whom is now married, and the
other, Emma Lee, is living at the Molloy place. I lived with Mrs. Molloy since
I was at Elbert and she always treated me with great kindness. I was married to
George E. Graham on the Molloy farm, July 18, by Rev. J. E. Plumb. I did not
know that Graham had been remarried to his former wife after they were divorced
before I married him. He advised me of the divorce from his former wife and
pleaded repentance for having lived with her in adultery since they left Fort
Wayne in 1869, until she went back from Washington, Kansas. I deny that I have
wronged or mistreated in the least Graham’s two little boys, and Sheriff Cox
there knows how much they both think of me. The youngest is one of the
brightest children I ever saw, but the great pity is that he has the very
nature of his father, and if he is not carefully guarded, will follow in his footsteps.
When you see George Graham this evening, ask him for me to confess all he knows
about the murder of Sarah Graham. He knows I am innocent and should do this in
justice.”
GRAHAM
WRITES TO MRS. MOLLOY.
Graham was found last night busily writing,
but as a press representative entered, he got up from his seat and remarked:
“Well, I’m fixing up another ‘scoop’ for you tonight.” This proved to be the
confession he had promised Saturday night, if he concluded to make one. He had
heard of what Mrs. Molloy had said about him, and on being informed of his
second wife’s request, he appeared both surprised and worried, and began to
think that they were both ready to abandon him to his fate. Then sitting down,
he wrote in a smooth, lady-like hand the following note, which he asked to be
taken at once to the person addressed.
“February 28, 1886.
“Mrs. Molloy: I have been getting all day a
history of your movements, including the Judge Baker talk this morning. I am
prepared to do you full justice, also to Cora, but you must not make an
exhibition of your feline qualities against me. You cannot with impunity take
part in any attack on me. Yours, as I am treated, George E. Graham.”
Graham remarked when he finished the note:
“That will fetch her.”
The correspondent proceeded to the residence
of Deputy Sheriff Williams and read the missive to Mrs. Molloy, whose very
deliberate answer was: “Tell George I am powerless to help him. My property is
all in the hands of Judge Baker for debt. I stood by him and thought him innocent
until the dead body was found in the cave. Now I don’t know what to think.”
When her message was delivered to Graham, he
remarked: “Well, it’s just about as I expected,” and then resumed his writing.
He completed his confession shortly after seven o’clock, addressing it to the
circuit judge and prosecuting attorney, and requested that the copy be returned
to him for them early in the morning.
GRAHAM’S
CONFESSION.
Graham’s confession is as follows.
To Hon. W. F. Geiger, Judge Greene circuit
court, and John A. Patton, Esq., prosecuting attorney circuit court:
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., March 1, 1886. Gentlemen:
In order to save innocent people from the suffering entailed upon them on my
account, and to curtail the length and expense of the inquest pending over the
body of Sarah Graham, I come to you, gentlemen, as the highest judicial
authority of the county and make a full, complete, and exact recital of all the
facts in the case. For myself I have neither apologies nor excuse to offer. In
behalf of Mrs. Emma Molloy and Mrs. Cora E. Graham, I wish to state most
decidedly and emphatically that they are entirely and completely innocent, both
morally and legally, of any knowledge of or complicity in the death of Sarah
Graham. Neither of them had the most remote idea that any crime had been
committed. Both of them had always acted with the utmost honesty and good
faith. I am informed that both of them have turned against me and are the
loudest in their denunciations, but I shall allow nothing to prevent my doing
them full justice.
It will be necessary, in order to give you a
clear history of this case, to trace events back to the spring of 1885, at
which time the paper with which I was connected in Washington, Kansas, became
financially embarrassed, and it became impossible to conduct it. Mrs. Sarah
Graham and myself had never lived together as happily as we should, and perhaps
might have done if each had been forbearing with the other. At this juncture we
mutually agreed that she should go to Fort Wayne, Indiana, with the children
and live while I would remain in Kansas and get what I could out of the paper,
and support her as far as I was able. She came east and about April 1, I also
went to Fort Wayne, but was there only two days, during which time I stopped
with my stepmother, not being with Sarah Graham at all. From Fort Wayne I went
down into Ford County, Kansas, for the purpose of locating a “claim.” Not being
suited there, I returned to Fort Wayne and remained about ten days, again
stopping with my stepmother, though calling several times upon Sarah Graham to
see the children.
I then came to Springfield, Missouri,
reaching here June 1. Just before coming to Springfield, I passed a few days in
Concordia, Kansas, and from that point wrote to both Mrs. Molloy and Miss Lee
that I had never been remarried to Sarah Graham since the divorce in 1873. This
was untrue, but both Mrs. Molloy and Miss Lee placed implicit confidence in me
and believed it. In their minds, therefore, no impediment existed to my
marriage with Miss Lee, which ceremony occurred July 18, 1885.
Some time in August I received a letter from
Sarah Graham advising me that she knew of my marriage to Cora Lee and proposing
to make things warm for me. I wrote to her denying the marriage. She replied,
enclosing a published notice of the marriage and insisted that I send her money
or she would expose me, but reiterating her statement that she would never live
with me again. I sent her money at different times until about September 20,
when I proposed to her that I would pay her a sum in a lump and assume the full
care and expense of the children.
She brought the children to me at St. Louis
on the evening of September 28, 1885. We remained in St. Louis until the
morning of Wednesday, September 30. I endeavored to persuade her either to
return to Fort Wayne or go to her uncle’s in South St. Louis, and at one time
she was so far persuaded that she removed all the children’s clothing from her
trunk and placed it in a valise, which the oldest boy and myself went up town to
purchase. She changed her mind a half dozen times during the stay in St. Louis,
and at the very last protested she would go with me. I was powerless to stop
her, and she embarked on the same train with myself and the children.
Expostulation and entreaty were of no avail. She came clear through to North
Springfield with us. I had arranged with Mrs. Fay before I left St. Louis to
save a room for the children at her restaurant. I did not at that time have
Sarah Graham with me. I dared not leave her in the depot, and so I went back
and asked what she proposed to do. She replied that she was going wherever I
went. I told her she would have a good time if she followed me as I was going
to walk five miles across the country. She said she guessed she could stand it
if I did, evidently not believing I intended to walk. We came over to South
Springfield and I took her to a restaurant for supper. I went over to the
grocery store of W. L. Banks, on Walnut street. We talked quite a while about
the St. Louis exposition, and I then returned to the restaurant and talked
quite awhile to Sarah, urging her not to ruin me, but to return to St. Louis or
go to Kansas City, where I would send her money to live upon.
She refused to listen to anything, but
followed me out of the restaurant. I walked with her to the Gulf depot, and
again tried to induce her to go up to Kansas City. I could do nothing with her,
and I started to walk out to the Molloy farm. I thought she would never attempt
to walk the five miles that night, but she followed right after me.
I left the Gulf depot about 8:30 or nine
o’clock p.m., and walked the entire distance to the farm. It was probably 1:30
a.m., Thursday, October 1, when the farm pasture gate was reached. At this
point I stopped and said: “Now, Sarah, I am just on the edge of the farm, and
you must not go up there. It would tear up everything and could do you no
possible good.”
She still protested that she would go up to
the house and clear Cora out. I had picked up a stick and was whittling with a
knife, the blade of which was one and a half inches long. She had a small limb
in her hand, and when she was so vehemently insisting that she would go up to
the house and clear things out, I reminded her of a liaison she was engaged in
at Elgin, Illinois. This so angered her that she struck at me with the limb she
held in her hand. I threw up my hand to ward off the blow and the knife struck
her in the left side of the throat. She cried out that I had killed her. I
grasped her and threw her from me, and she fell violently to the ground. I
leaned over her and found the blood was flowing profusely from the wound in the
neck. I knew then that it was all up with me sooner or later, for I believed
“MURDER
WILL OUT.”
I pulled the knife into the wound to its full
length and then considered a long time what disposition I should make of the
body. I was almost paralyzed that the deed had been done and the next moment
afterwards I would have given the world to recall it. I then undressed the body
and carried it to the well and dropped it in. Without a thought that the
clothing would not be as secure from observation there as elsewhere, I dropped
the clothing in after the body. By this time the moon had just risen. I sat by
the well and pondered over the matter until the first signs of daylight began
to appear, when I walked out onto the main road again and walked up the hill
and past the house about one hundred feet. I then turned and came back to the
house, approaching it from the west or Dorchester side, and stepped to the west
bedroom window when Cora and Etta Molloy, who were sleeping together, awoke,
and Cora let me in.
I changed my clothes, which were wet and
muddy, for dry ones; then called Peter Hawkins, the hired man; then went and
laid down on the side of the bed till breakfast was ready. I then took the
light wagon and went to town after the children. I told my wife I had been to
Fort Wayne after the children, and she believed me. In fact, while I was in St.
Louis, I wrote her a postal dated Fort Wayne, which I presume she has now. She
never knew that Sarah Graham came even to St. Louis until after W. J. O’Neil,
of Brookline, called at the house on January 22, 1886, while we were in town,
and explained to the older children that he had a letter from the Graham family
inquiring for Sarah.
The supposed pistol wound found on the body
must be attributed to some other source. There was no such wound, and I would
ask that experts examine the clothing supposed to have been perforated and
burned with gunpowder. The only wound inflicted was the one in the neck unless
the rib was broken by the fall to the ground. The only pistol I have had for
years was a thirty-eight caliber bull dog, and I left that at the house when I
went away in order that the females might have some protection against Hawkins
and tramps.
EXONERATING
CORA LEE.
I wish to reiterate in the most emphatic
manner the entire and complete innocence or the slightest connection in any way
in the matter of Cora Lee Graham. This loving, trusting girl has remained firm
and steadfast in her love and devotion to me through all this terrible affair,
and it is on her account more than any other that this confession is made. She
is a thoroughly good, pure woman, who has come into my life, and whatever of
home I have ever had has been due to her. I have considered that after all the
testimony at the inquest, there was still a “fighting chance” on a plea of not
guilty; but when my fighting the case jeopardizes one far dearer than my own
life, I cannot but abandon the fight. To her I commend the care of my dear
children, who are as near to me as any father’s children are. She is by my
request their guardian and I would ask, gentlemen, that they are not sent away
from her against their wishes. She loves them and they her.
My statement in reference to Mrs. Emma Molloy
is done with a view to doing justice to that lady. She has long been a very
near and dear friend, and I have abused and mistreated her confidence
shamefully. For myself, I have nothing to ask. Through parental neglect in
early years, I started life wrong and have never had stamina sufficient to
steadily keep in the right track. The mistakes, errors, and crimes of my life
are nearly over. With me the past is a failure and the future a hopeless blank,
a leap in the dark. May God have more mercy on me than I have ever had on
myself.
I make the following statement with the full
recognition of all its imports. It has not been frightened out of me by any
fear of mob violence (I think Sheriff Donnell will tell you I don’t scare) nor
by any promise or hope of reward other than I can claim legally. The only
motive, as I have said, is that the proceedings may be shortened, and that
justice, at any cost to myself, may be done to two women, whose love and
friendship for me have well nigh proven their ruin.
GEORGE
E. GRAHAM.
END
OF A LONG BOYCOTT.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
CORK, March 1. The trouble between the cattle
dealers and the Cork Packet Company, which led to the boycotting of the latter
by the dealers, has been amicably settled through the means of mutual
concessions, and the boycotting measures adopted by the cattle dealers with
such injurious effect to the line have been ordered stopped.
NOT
DESIRABLE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
PARIS, March 1. The Journal des Debats says
that Lord Salisbury drew up a convention with the Porte for the cession of
Crete to England on the payment of £8,000,000 and a guarantee that Greece would
be prevented from taking aggressive measures against Turkey, but Mr. Gladstone
hesitates to confirm the convention.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
DENVER, March 1. Senator Tabor has been
charged by the Associated Press with being one of the factors in the
filibustering schemes against the Republic of Honduras. Your correspondent
called upon ex-Senator Tabor yesterday and asked him if he had anything to say
about these newspaper charges.
“You are at liberty to say for me, and I will
be glad to have you say it in your paper, that I deny the story in toto. It is
almost too absurd a report for me to deny, but since the first story told seems
to be growing, the charges getting to be more sweeping, I think it will be well
for me to say I know nothing about any such alleged filibustering schemes. At first,
it was said that an ex-United States Senator was putting up the money to carry
out the scheme. I thought nothing about that, for it didn’t concern me. Now
that they have connected my name with it, I wish to have it made public that I
enter an emphatic denial.”
“Are you personally acquainted with
ex-President Soto, who, it is charged, is endeavoring to again become President
of the confederated Central American Republics?”
“No, I cannot say that I am. I met him in New
York about two years ago. It was only a casual meeting, and nothing was said
about any filibustering schemes. I was in New York several weeks this winter,
but I did not see Soto nor any of his friends that were known to me. I have, or
had, large property interests in Honduras, and naturally I am anxious to pick
up anything concerning the country. But as to the alleged filibustering
schemes, looking to the overthrow of the Government of the country—why, such an
idea never entered my head. The people ought to be well enough acquainted with
me to know that I am a peace-loving man. I would rather see peace in that
country than war. It would be more to my personal interest. I am firmly
convinced that Soto is wrongly accused in this matter. I do not believe, from
all I can learn by reading, that he has any interest in the filibustering. He
was for several years the President of the Republic, but was dethroned, and
since that time he has been living in New York City. He is reported to be a
very wealthy man, and I believe he wishes to lead a quiet and retired life.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mr. Henry Stevens, the American
bibliographer, died in London recently after a long and painful illness.
LONGSTREET
GETTING HOT.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
ATLANTA, Ga., March 1. General Longstreet
leaves here tomorrow morning for Washington, and people in a position to know
whereof they speak assert that there will be music in the air when the doughty
warrior reaches the National capital. About three weeks ago the General received
a communication from the Comptroller’s office advising him that he was in debt
to the Government to the extent of $2,320 as United States Marshal, while on
the other hand the Government owed him some $12,673 for fees. To this the
ex-Marshal responded that the statement was eminently satisfactory and that he
would be obliged to the Comptroller if he would deduct the $2,320 and remit him
the odd nine thousand by return. But the watch dog of the Treasury responded
that he could not do anything of the kind. The Government, he said, could not
make one transaction of the two accounts, nor could it pay anything to anyone
who is in debt to the Government until that debt is first paid. Hence, the
functionary went on to say, General Longstreet would have to settle with the
Government before it can settle with him, and he will also be required to await
its very indefinite pleasure for such settlement. General Longstreet says that
such a ruling is a piece of foolishness, and he is going to Washington for the
express purpose of making Rome howl in the immediate vicinity of the
Comptroller’s office.
WANTS
TO FEEL HIS FOOTING.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
LONDON, March 1. The Times says that
Prince Bismarck, in conversing with a deputy regarding efforts to lure him to
negotiate an international bimetallic treaty, remarked that he would not
venture on unfamiliar ground until he had thoroughly surveyed the field.
CRIMINAL
CALENDAR.
Three
Prisoners Burn Their Way Out of Jail in Texas By Using Candles.
Indictments
in Bowie County, Texas.
Three
Masked and Armed Men Rob a Store.
One
of Them Shot Dead by a Clerk.
Stabbing
Affray.—Extensive Defalcation at Paris, Illinois.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 27. Particulars of
the escape from the Morrilton jail last night of three prisoners, Lee Barnes,
charged with the murder of a wheel-of-fortune man, Holman, at Plummer, a few
miles this side of Morrilton about two months ago, Jord Barnes and Charles
Wear, in for appropriating horse-flesh, reached this city today. Lee Barnes and
Wear were chained together while Jord had his companion in crime, Collins, as
his arm mate. The three who escaped slipped their shackles, but Collins was
forced to remain in the house because his hands were too large to pull through
the bracelets. It seems the fugitives effected their escape by burning their
way out. Candles furnished the furnace, one hundred and fifty of which were
consumed in the effort. It required three weeks to accomplish the task, daytime
being the only time when the candle could be lighted. The jail is a wooden
structure. The prisoners kept a candle under one of the logs all day until it
finally charred it out, and they escaped as above described. The prisoners had
been allowed to buy candles, used, as they said, to see to play cards by.
Officers are starting out, but no clue as to the route of the fugitives has
been ascertained.
A
BUSY GRAND JURY.
TEXARKANA, Ark., Feb. 27. The first term of
the Bowie County District Court ever held in this city convened at the new
courthouse last Monday and has been in active operation throughout the week.
The grand jury has been busily engaged in finding true bills against gambling
and other vices, and up to date have issued thirty-eight indictments. Joseph
Hanglin, who was indicted for the murder of Tom Alexander, colored, in
December, 1884, was tried and acquitted, the jury remaining out only ten
minutes. Bill Busick, the accused murderer of Dr. Shaw, killed at New Boston,
Texas, last Saturday, will be arraigned for preliminary examination today.
Shaw, who was a hard character, became involved in a dispute with James Busick
in the latter’s saloon last September when Shaw, without cause, drew a revolver
and shot Busick through the heart. It is supposed that Dr. Shaw was killed by
Bill in revenge for his brother’s assassination.
A
ROBBER KILLED.
BROWNWOOD, Texas, Feb. 27. A most daring
robbery was committed here last night about 10 o’clock. While the clerks at A.
M. Cameron & Co.’s office were posting the books, three men entered with
masks over their faces, and covering the clerks with revolvers, proceeded to go
through the safe, which was standing open. They then relieved the clerks of all
the money they had and left, securing almost $1,500 in all. As soon as they had
left, one of the clerks, Mr. Coker, fired several shots after the retreating
men. One of them was struck and instantly killed, the ball taking effect in his
left side and coming out of his breast, and was found in his breast pocket. The
man when found had a mask on and was recognized as one Brown, a painter. No
money was found on him, the other two escaping with the spoils.
A
BAD CHRISTIAN.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 27. At four o’clock
this morning William Christian and Peter Yast, while playing poker in Coat’s
saloon at the corner of Sixth and Center streets, had a misunderstanding over a
deal and engaged in a fight that resulted in Christian probably fatally
stabbing Yast. He cut Yast once in the back and once in the side. The injured
man was carried to his house, while Christian cleared out and has not yet been
apprehended.
COLLECTION
TAKEN UP.
MATTOON, Ill., Feb. 27. John Myer was tried
in the Cumberland County circuit court for horse stealing. He was acquitted,
the evidence showing that he himself fell into the hands of thieves, who robbed
him of a gold watch, $200 in money, and got him drunk and pursued him to sell
his livery team. A collection was taken up in the court room to defray his
expenses.
A
DEFALCATION’S PEDIGREE.
PARIS, Ill., Feb. 27. The investigation by
the city council into the affairs of the city treasurer has exposed the
startling fact that he is short $8,600 in his accounts. Although the fact has
been known for some time that there was a deficiency, the facts have been withheld
until the charges could be made. The city will not lose anything, as the
bondsmen are good for more than the amount. The shortage has been traced back
into Adams’ administration, the predecessor of Henry Wallace, the present
incumbent.
KILLED
BY A CAVING BANK.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27. Phillip and Gregory
Joral, aged twenty-four and seventeen years respectively, were employed by
Joseph Ruprecht to dig clay in his quarry on the river Des Peres, between
Barracks road and Gravois road. While eating dinner at one o’clock, yesterday,
the clay bank, one hundred feet high, caved in, covering them up. About a half
an hour later Ruprecht came along with some teamsters and dug them out. Phillip
was badly injured and was taken to his home on Laughboro avenue, near Twelfth
street, where Dr. Breight attended him. Gregory was crushed to death and his
body was taken to Hoffmeister, the Carondelet undertaker at 1810 South
Broadway.
ASSASSINATED.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
PIERCE CITY, Mo., Feb. 27. Robert Crocket,
formerly a lieutenant in a Missouri regiment, a volunteer and a long time
resident of this town, was assassinated by some person or persons unknown about
eleven o’clock last night while on his way home, not over 150 yards from the
courthouse. The deceased was literally beaten to death by some blunt instrument
in the hands of some person or persons unknown.
WAGES
ADVANCED.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
EASTON, Pa., Feb. 27. The wages of the four
hundred employees of the Warren Foundry and Machine Company, Phillipsburg, New
Jersey, will be advanced fifteen per cent, March 15. Orders have been issued to
prepare the Glendin Iron Company’s No. 4 furnace in South Easton for blast. The
stack has been idle for several years. The Bethlehem Iron Company’s No. 6
furnace will be put in blast in a few days.
NEWS
NOTES.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Nine bills are before Congress for right of
way through the Indian Territory.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The western block of the Parliament buildings
at Ottawa, Canada, was on fire on the 23rd. Considerable damage was
done in some of the departments.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A temperance fanatic recently entered a saloon
at Shelbyville, Illinois, and turned on the faucets of the whiskey barrels. The
result was the loss of $300 worth of the liquor.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The Santa Fe reduced the rates from Missouri
river points to the Pacific on the 23rd to $25 first and $17 second.
The Santa Fe declared its intention to rebate under any rate the other Pacific
roads might take.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Returns from various parts of the Fifth
Congressional District of Wisconsin show T. R. Rudd (Democrat), of Green Bay to
have been elected by a large majority as successor to the late Congressman
Joseph Rankin.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The Berlin North German Gazette says
the prosecution is imminent of numerous Germans who style themselves doctors,
on the strength of diplomas purchased in America. There are 340 such doctors in
Berlin alone.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
It was reported that the Archbishop of Quebec
would issue a mandamus against any Catholics in his vicarate becoming Knights
of Labor or members of other trade organizations. It was thought the mandamus
would be disregarded.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A meteorite fell upon a farm two miles west
of Washington, D. C., on the 23rd. People in the neighborhood were
startled by a loud noise, and later found a large hole in the ground with
pieces of rock scattered around. The meteorite was shattered to fragments.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The schooner David Lee, of Philadelphia,
recently sank at sea. The crew was thought to have been rescued.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Eight persons were injured recently by a
powder explosion in the grocery store of Mary Wills, at Winchester, Kentucky.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
There was a general resumption in the coke
regions of Pennsylvania on the 22nd. It was feared the Hungarians
would cause trouble, but they placed no obstacle in the way.
MINING
RATES.
The
Interstate Convention Agrees Upon a Schedule.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 25. The Interstate
convention of coal miners met and resumed business this morning, and on
application admitted West Virginia to their deliberations. The adoption was
urged of the Pittsburgh scale of prices to be paid for mining in the five
States represented for the year, beginning May 1 next. The scale was amended so
as to cut out Mt. Olive and Springfield, Illinois, on the ground that these
sections were not represented and were not at the Pittsburgh convention. The scale was then adopted. On reassembling
a resolution was adopted constituting a board of arbitration consisting of two
miners and two operators from each of the five States represented in the scale,
to which will be referred all questions of a national character among miners
and operators for adjustment, and recommending that each State select a similar
board to whom all questions of State importance shall be referred. The
arbitration board was selected and organized with Oscar Townsend, operator of
Cleveland, president, and Christopher Evans, of New Straitsville, secretary.
The board is to serve till May 1, 1887, the time to which the scale of prices
provided for will extend. The convention adjourned to meet at Columbus the
first Tuesday in February. The following is the revised scale of rates to go
into effect May 1: Pittsburgh, 71 cents per ton; Hocking Valley, 60 cents;
Indiana block, 80 cents; Indiana bituminous No. 1, 65 cents; Indiana bituminous
No. 2, 75 cents; Wilmington, Illinois, 95 cents; Streator, 80 cents; Grape
Creek, 75 cents; Des Moines, Iowa, 90 cents. The West Virginia Kanawha reduced
prices are to be restored to 75 cents. Reynoldsville Fairmount screen coal 71
cents.
THE
CANNIBALS.
General
Conviction That All the Roads are Cutting Rates.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
NEW YORK, Feb. 25. The uneasy feeling of
yesterday concerning Western passenger rates has grown into a conviction that
everybody is cutting. The officers of the Sunset route are figuring out their
promised new tariff, which they will issue tomorrow. Rival lines ridicule this
action, saying it would be nonsense for the Sunset to do anything of the kind,
because they will immediately cut under its rates. The opinion prevails in some
quarters that the Pacific Mail will not jeopardize the $87,000 subsidy it
receives under the existing agreement by cutting before the thirty days’ notice
expires. Knowing ones say, however, that the Pacific Mail is an “old bird,” and
understands how uncertain a factor is a contract, and that it is keeping pace
with the field. If the Eastern pool breaks up, it will be everybody’s fight,
with the Sunset in the lead on fighting facilities. Iowa roads have made the
cut to $7 from Chicago to Omaha, so that now the $30 and $20 passenger rates
from the Missouri river is obtained on all lines. The Baltimore & Ohio
people are jubilant and claim to see in all this trouble benefit for them. An
official said that the fight was sure to spread to the Eastern trunk lines. It
was rumored that the freight rates had been cut again from yesterday’s figures
so that the discount was now 60 per cent, off on all grades of freight from $4
per hundred to $2.25; 40 per cent off on all grades from $2.25 down to $1.50
per hundred and 25 per cent, off on all grades under $1.50.
PRUSSIAN
POLES.
The
Polish Language Not to be Allowed in Polish Prussia.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
BERLIN, Feb. 25. The tower house of the
Prussian Diet today discussed the bill relating to teachers in National schools
in Polish Prussia. Dr. Von Gossler, Minister of Public Instruction and
Ecclesiastical Affairs, declared that the Government was compelled to take a
firm and clear stand in view of the continuous attacks of the Poles. Leniency
and sympathy were impossible. The best way to assimilate the two peoples was to
insist upon a common language. It was therefore necessary to have teachers in
Poland thoroughly acquainted with German, and to eliminate Polish literature
from the schools. Unqualified teachers would be placed in other positions where
they would be more useful. No injustice was intended to vested rights. On the
contrary the Government would pursue a policy of progress, not of
retrogression. A long discussion ensued, the Conservatives and National
Liberals supporting and the members of the center party opposing the bill.
GERONIMO
REFUSES TO SURRENDER.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 25. Word has just been
received here of the meeting between General Crook and Geronimo at San Ye ranch
day before yesterday. The chief and five bucks, in consultation with General
Crook, asked permission to return to the reservation unconditionally. General
Crook refused, demanding an unconditional surrender. Geronimo declined to give
himself up and, after consultation, left for his camp, keeping the white flag
flying for several miles. Chief Nana and another are still held as hostages.
Geronimo is reported to have ninety bucks besides women and children with him.
No attempt will be made to follow him. It is not know what will be done.
REDUCED
LUMBER RATES.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 25. A special from
Topeka to the Times says: “In reply to a letter of inquiry from L. A.
Emerson, general freight agent of the Missouri Pacific road at St. Louis, Mo.,
the Board of Railroad Commissioners announce that yellow pine lumber should be
classified in the schedule of freight in the same grade as white pine or soft
lumber and not as hard wood.” The effect of this decision will be to cheapen
the cost of this lumber, which is being extensively used by the people of this
State.
COLLAPSE
OF A STRIKE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
MANCHESTER, N. H., Feb. 25. At noon 1,500 of
the 6,250 looms in the Amos Neag [?] mills were running. A few of the strikers
who returned yesterday were induced to leave today, but their places were more
than filled by new recruits. Outside parties are arriving and are being
employed, while some of the strikers are leaving the city. More strikers went
in this afternoon. The strike is plainly on the road to a complete collapse.
AN
IRISH PARLIAMENT.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
LONDON, Feb. 25. It is reported that the
first outline of Mr. Gladstone’s Irish proposals have been presented to his
colleagues in the Cabinet, and that the Premier goes the whole length of
restoring the Irish Parliament.
LINSEED
OIL CRUSHERS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
CHICAGO, Feb. 25. The Western linseed oil
crushers met in this city yesterday and decided to form a pool which will be
known as the Consolidated Oil Company, the capital stock of which will be
$300,000.
NEWS
NOTES.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The Queen’s Proctor has decided to intervene in
the Dilke case.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The Chinese on three ranches near Wheatland,
California, were recently driven off by a mob. After their expulsion from one
of their ranches, their quarters were fired.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
At the conference of labor leaders, held at
Pittsburgh, Pa., it was decided to send a representative committee of working
men to Washington to advocate the interests of the tariff before Congress.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The English House of Commons, by a vote of
209 to 66, agreed to a grant of £1,200 for medals for the Canadian volunteers
who suppressed the Riel rebellion. The vote was opposed by Irish Nationalists.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Joseph T. McKee, a merchant at Woodbridge, D.
T., and associate judge of the county in which he resides, is under arrest in
Chicago on the charge of obtaining goods by false pretenses. His accusers are
Decker & Co., dry goods merchants.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The British Government has approved Lord
Dufferin’s request that a strong expedition be sent against the Shans. The
British commissioners in Burmah are authorized to secure the submission of the
chiefs either by bribing or fighting them.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The Indian girls’ and boys’ asylum of
Steamburg, near Buffalo, New York, was burned the other morning. The forty-two
pupils of the institute and their preceptors barely escaped with their lives.
The asylum was established thirty years ago by certain Philadelphia Quakers.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
General Hazen, chief signal service officer,
is suing George Jones, the proprietor of the New York Times, to recover
$10,000 damages for alleged libel, it being charged that the newspaper
published libelous statements concerning the plaintiff’s character as a signal
service officer.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Excitement was intense in the French Chamber
of Deputies recently when a strange man excitedly drew a revolver and threw a
paper toward M. Clemenceau. The stranger was immediately arrested, when he said
he was an old soldier and wanted redress for his grievances.
The next article appeared on very last column
on right. Many of the last word(s) on each line were either obliterated or too
light to read at the beginning. Will try to figure it out where I can...MAW
CONGRESSIONAL.
Bill
Passed to Allow National Bank Changes.
Van
Wyck’s Relief Bill.
Educational
Bill Discussed.
The
Hennepin Canal Bill Discussed in the House.
Getting
Ready for the Silver Discussion.
The
Half Gallon Tax Bill Passed After a Wrangle.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. In the Senate yesterday
morning, after the transaction of routine morning business, Mr. Morrill brought
up the House bill permitting National banks to change their name, location, and
[?] by a vote of two-thirds of the shareholders. This bill makes the changes
subject to the approval of the Comptroller of the Currency.
On motion of Mr. Hoar an amendment was made
to the bill limiting the right of a bank to change its location so that it
cannot change to another State, not to be more than thirty miles distant from
its original location. The bill then passed.
Mr. Van Wyck called up and Senate, without
debate, passed a bill for the [?] of settlers and purchasers of lands on the
public domain in Nebraska and Kansas, which appropriates $250,000 to be
expended for the purpose of reimbursing [?] persons and their legal
representatives, who, under the land [?] settled upon or purchased lands within
[?] grant made to aid in the construction of the Northern Kansas railroad, to
which patents have been issued for the land, [?] against which personal decrees
have been rendered by the circuit court on account of the priority of the grant
to railroads.
After the passage of the bill allowing
American officers to accept payment for services in Corea, the Education bill
was taken up and Mr. Blair addressed the Senate in reply to the objections and
criticisms made against it. He denied that the people of the South were opposed
to the measure, and insisted that they favored it. It was very easy, Mr. Blair
said, to criticize, but that was not the way to remedy a great evil.
Debate continued until executive session,
after which the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
In the House yesterday Mr. Payson, of
Illinois, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the Senate bill to quiet
the titles of settlers on the Des Moines river lands in Iowa. He stated that
270,000 acres were involved in the bill. By a misconstruction of the granting
act, the State of Iowa sold certain lands to which it was not entitled, and had
granted certain other lands to the Des Moines Railroad and Navigation Company.
This had given rise to much litigation, and the purpose of the bill was simply
to allow parties who had made preemption and homestead filings on these lands
to have a standing in the courts. After debate the bill passed without
division.
Mr. Stone, of Missouri, from the Committee on
Public Lands, reported a bill forfeiting certain lands granted to the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company. Placed on the House calendar.
In the morning hour the House passed the bill
to annex the northern part of the Territory of Idaho to Washington Territory.
Mr. Murphy, of Iowa, called up the House and
proceeded to consider in Committee of the Whole the Hennepin Canal bill.
Mr. Murphy premised his speech in support of
the bill by reading in full the report of the committee, in which are
represented the arguments which impelled it to a favorable consideration of the
measure. He then proceeded to emphasize the benefits of the results in the
shape of cheap transportation which would follow the construction of the
Hennepin canal and as an illustration of this position stated that the wheat
raised in the six Western States, which were in the neighborhood of the
proposed canal, could be transported to the seaboard at a saving of six cents
per bushel. If the Government of the United States would do its duty and
construct this canal, the people of the Northwest could save fifty per cent,
over the present rate of transportation, and save enough in one year to build
the canal two or three times over. The United States has formidable competitors
in the Liverpool market, and if the rates of transportation were not reduced,
it would soon find itself without that market.
The morning hour expired and the committee
rose.
Mr. James, of New York, under instructions
from the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, asked leave to offer a
resolution, making the bill for the free coinage of silver a continual special
order from March 2, not to interfere with the revenue appropriation bills. Mr.
Burrows, of Michigan, thought that some limit should be fixed to the special order.
Mr. James modified the resolution so as to provide that the discussion should
continue for one week. Mr. Dougherty, of Florida, objected to the resolution.
The House went in Committee of the Whole on
the half gallon tax bill.
A wrangle ensued between Messrs. Brady, Wise,
and Morrison, the House getting switched off to the Fitz John Porter matter.
After the House got back to the subject matter, Mr. Butterworth offered the
substitute suggested by him in his speech, but it was rejected. The committee
then rose and reported the bill to the House and it was passed without a
division and the House adjourned.
TAKEN
FROM THE RANKS.
A
Soldier at Fort Leavenworth Arrested for Murder.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Feb. 25. Sheriff
Churchill some days ago received a telegram from Sheriff Lilly, of St. Clair
County, Mo., requesting him to be on the lookout for a man named Henry Hilder,
aged twenty-three, about six feet in height and weight about 175 pounds, and to
hold him on the charge of murder. The matter was made known to Detective
Yerkes, who this morning located his man in the United States army. He was a
member of troop B, Third cavalry, having enlisted in the army on the 3rd
inst. Sheriff Churchill and Detective Yerkes went to Fort Leavenworth this
morning and arrested Hilder and brought him to the city, where he is now
confined in the county jail. Hilder, after being arrested, said he had
committed no murder. Some time last fall he got into a fight with a man in
Illinois, and both had been pretty badly used up, and he left without learning
what had become of him. He will be taken to St. Clair County as soon as Sheriff
Lilly, who has been notified, arrives.
THE
CINCINNATI INQUIRY.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 23. The senatorial
investigating committee held a meeting yesterday afternoon without Senator
Coulter, who was too unwell to sit. The question of photographing the returns
of precinct A, Fourth ward, was argued at length until Mr. Follett, attorney
for the Democrats, announced that in his judgment the right to photograph would
be conceded. The Democratic members of the committee reluctantly accepted his
advice, and Messrs. Van Cleaf and Pringle were appointed to have photographic
copies made, and allowed three days’ time for that purpose. Mr. Follett urged
the utmost dispatch in the matter in order to relieve Mr. Dalton who, he said,
had been acting throughout under legal advice.
BELIEVES
IN ARBITRATION.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
MARSHALL, Mo., Feb. 23. Albert and Mariah
Harris, aged colored people, lived as man and wife in their earlier days in
Kentucky. Thirty-seven years ago they were sold by their master and were
separated during all that time. When they regained their freedom, each sought
to find the other, but were unsuccessful until recently. During all that time
the woman lived in this county and Albert in Kentucky. As soon as convinced
that he had found the partner of his earlier life, Harris procured a marriage license
and they will be married again.
NATIONAL
LEGISLATION.
A
Spat in the Senate at the Close of the Discussion on the Educational Bill.
The
Pension Bill in the House.
Henderson
Attacks Commissioner Black.—A Warm Debate.
Sectionalism
Brought to the Surface.
Warner,
of Ohio, Defends the Commissioner.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. In the Senate yesterday
morning Mr. Hale gave notice that after Mr. George’s remarks on the Education
bill, he (Hale) would move for an executive session upon some matters of
importance that would probably occupy the remainder of the day. It was
understood that Mr. Hale referred to the nominations of Pillsbury and Chase to
be collectors of internal revenue, respectively at Boston and Portland, which
are reported adversely.
At two o’clock the Education Bill was laid
before the Senate and Mr. George took the floor to continue his remarks in
favor of the bill. During his speech quite an exciting colloquy took place
between Mr. George and Mr. Morgan. The latter denied some of the inferences
drawn by Mr. George from his (Mr. Morgan’s) speeches on former measures before
Congress, and said Mr. George’s reading misrepresented him.
Mr. George: I shall read the Senator’s own
language, and then I shall not misrepresent you.
Mr. Morgan: It does misrepresent me.
Mr. George: If I read your own language, it
will not misrepresent you.
Mr. Morgan: It does misrepresent me, and the
Senator knows it.
Mr. George: It is untrue. The statement made
by the Senator is simply untrue, and he knows it.
Mr. George said he saw no force in the
distinction drawn by Mr. Morgan, Mr. Maxey, and other opponents of the bill,
between money in the Treasury drawn from taxation and money drawn from other
sources.
Mr. Allison suggested an amendment which he
said he would offer at the proper time, providing that in each State in which
there shall be separate schools for white and colored children, the money paid
shall be apportioned and paid out for the support of such white and colored
schools in the proportion that the illiteracy of white and colored persons bear
to each other, as shown by the census. Mr. Allison thought the bill should be
so amended as to be precisely what it was intended to be, and there should be
no room left for doubt to arise when the provisions of the bill came to be
applied in practice as to the propositions of the money to be applied to white
and colored schools respectively. The debate here closed.
The Senate resumed consideration of the bill
to provide allotments of land in severalty to the Indians. Mr. Maxey moved to
strike out the clause that proposes to make citizens of the Indians who should
accept lands in severalty. The motion was rejected.
Mr. Teller offered an amendment providing
that the President may allow homestead settlement by citizens of the United
States on each alternate quarter section with the Indians holding lands under
treaties should be compensated. The assessment was rejected and the bill
passed.
The joint resolution heretofore introduced by
Mr. Berry was passed, requiring that the leases of the bath houses, etc., at
Hot Springs, Arkansas, shall not be renewed unless the Forty-ninth Congress
shall adjourn without having legislated with reference thereto.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
In the morning hour yesterday the House
resumed in Committee of the Whole the consideration of the Hennepin canal bill.
Mr. Murphy, of Iowa, concluded his speech advocating the measure, and predicted
that the latter part of the present century would be famous on account of the canals
that would then be constructed. Congress should pay out the millions of dollars
that were now resting in the Treasury for the Hennepin canal and other much
needed public works, and this action would result in blessings upon the people.
Mr. Rowell, of Illinois, supported the bill,
contending that as the canal would be a factor in the cheapening of
transportation rates, it was a National enterprise, which should be undertaken
by the Government.
Pending the conclusion of his remarks, the
morning hour expired and the committee rose. The House then again resolved
itself into Committee of the Whole, on the Pension Appropriations bill. Mr.
Townshend, of Illinois, who had charge of the bill, explained its provisions.
It appropriates, he said, $75,754,200, or about $15,000,000 more than was
carried by the law for the current year. This increase was occasioned by the
accelerated work that is being done in the Pension Office, and for this work
the Commissioner of Pensions and his employees deserved commendation. No money
paid out of the National Treasury accomplished more general good than the money
expended by this bill. No better use could be made of the vast surplus in the
Treasury than to pay it out on meritorious claims for pensions and other just
dues to the soldiers.
Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, while concurring with
Mr. Townshend in his general remarks upon pension matters, differed from him
when he attributed the increased appropriations to the accelerated work of the
Pension Office. The gentleman had failed to call attention to the fact that the
Commissioner of Pensions had stated to the Committee on Appropriations that
there would be a deficiency of about $6,000,000 for the current year, so that
the $60,000,000 which had been appropriated for the fiscal year 1886 was
confessed by the Commissioner to be insufficient to meet the requirements of
the law. The average appropriation for pensions for the last six years was
$77,449,000, showing that the appropriation contained in the pending bill was
$1,694,800 below the averages. The country had lately been treated with a very
large amount of information in regard to Arrearages. It has had a letter from
the Commissioner of Pensions to the Chairman of the Committee on
Appropriations, giving estimates as to what the passage of the limitation
repeal would probably cost. Why the Committee on Appropriations, or its
chairman, should take this load on their shoulders he was not prepared to say.
The New York Democratic papers of January 29 had published the Commissioner’s
letter with startling head lines and commended the action of Mr. Randall in the
premises. He was glad that there was a gentleman in the House so patriotic and
far-seeing as to rescue the country from the danger that seemed to threaten it.
Why had the letter of the Commissioner been indited and given to the country
twenty-four hours in advance of the knowledge of the humble members of the
Committee on Appropriations?
Mr. Randall: It did not come from the
committee, or any member of the committee.
Mr. Henderson: I understand that only two
copies were given out, one to the chairman of the committee, and one to the
President. The gentleman disclaims it. The President is not here. It lies
between the King and the cobbler, the President of the United States or the Commissioner
of Pensions. The Commissioner’s letter had not only been telegraphed over the
country, but telegraphed with a $93,000,000 lie in its stomach. When he (Mr.
Henderson) had examined the letter, he had seen that it contained on its face a
repetition of $80,000,000, and he had written to the Commissioner, calling
attention to the facts. Two days afterward the Commissioner had appeared before
the committee and had changed front three times, until every member of the
committee agreed that the point he (Mr. Henderson) had taken was correct. Then
the commissioner had yielded and written a supplementary letter—a tail to the
first great battery ram to fix up the blunder he had previously refused to
acknowledge. The effect of the first letter had acted like magic and carried
horror to certain committee rooms about the capitol. Whether it would be
finally successful in intimidating any committee from meeting the patriotic
requirements of the hour remained to be seen. He did not believe that it would,
but the truth was finally developed that only $222,000,000 would be the
expenditure arising from the limitation repeal. Even that was mere speculation.
He did not believe that it would cost over $150,000,000.
Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina: Considering
that the Confederate States pay about one-third of the taxes to the Federal
Government for pensions and do not get back three cents of it; considering,
also, that from the formation of the Government to the present time $8 a month
was considered a sufficient pension for widows, can the gentlemen complain that
Southern members are trying to restrain the necessarily large expenditures for
pensions within the rules that prevailed heretofore.
Mr. Henderson: There is no section of this
country that before God is under deeper and more profound obligations to pay
every dollar of its share of that debt than the Southern States. I have not
read this vote for the purpose of stirring up bad blood. The time has come when
sectional lines should be dropped, and when sixty-four members of that side of
the House said that $12 was too much to pay a widow, the sectional line was
kept up and the bloody shirt was waved. Today the constitution is thrown in our
face as a shield to cover an almost solid vote against the increase of the
pension bill. Yet there is hardly a constitution of the United States to be
found in that section. I state here and now as my conviction that if those
gentlemen respected the constitution, as they say, they would not have control
of this chamber. If they represented the constitution instead of ballot box
stuffing and shotguns, they would not have control of the executive of the
Nation. [Applause on the Republican side and groans on the Democratic side.]
You may groan, gentlemen, but you yourselves do know, and you boast of it, too,
that you will control this Government in spite of the constitution. I tell you
here and now in this chamber that there are as grave crimes committed under the
forms of law and the constitution as there were when Sumter was fired upon. And
for one, I protest against the sectional control of this country with the
constitution absolutely defeated. These are my sentiments, and I say that the
gauntlet was thrown down in the vote. In closing, I desire to say that I
sincerely trust that no gentlemen, especially those who were in the ranks
against me, misinterpret me, for I would neither spend an eternity in hell with
a Confederate than eternity in heaven with a Northern copperhead. [Laughter and
applause.]
Mr. Warner, of Ohio, regretted that an opportunity
had been taken to drag politics into the debate. He wanted to call the
attention of the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Henderson) to the fact that the late
Commissioner of Pensions (Dudley) during the last Presidential and
Congressional election had left his place in the Pension Office and gone to the
State of Ohio to take charge of the election there. He had taken charge of the
Republican campaign in that State, all the time drawing his salary as
Commissioner of Pensions. Other officials of the Pension Bureau had been
detailed to that State ostensibly on the duty of the office, but really on
political business. Every Democratic pensioner had been hunted down and told
that if he voted the Democratic ticket, he need not expect to get his pension.
These men had filled his district.
Mr. Warner then proceeded to condemn the use
of money in elections, when he was interrupted by Mr. Browne, of Indiana, with
the question, “Why do you speak of money entering legislative bodies and
influencing the choice of a United States Senator?”
Mr. Warner. “Let me assure my friend that he
will find my record against that influence and will never find any authority
from me for any such course.”
In conclusion, Mr. Warner defended
Commissioner Black and said that no complaint of him had been made by any
soldier. More pensions had been allowed under his administration than had ever
been allowed in the same time under any previous administration.
Mr. Randall said this was the first time he
had ever seen partisan politics and sectionalism thrust into the debate on a
pension appropriation bill. He should, perhaps, have remained silent,
notwithstanding, except, whether intended or not, there might go abroad through
the country the statement that the Democratic party, and more particularly the
Southern element of that party, had in any way shown any hostility whatever to
the payment of pensions. On the contrary, his experience had shown that the
Southern element had developed a wonderful disposition—a full heart—to pension
Union soldiers or widows of Union soldiers. He placed his experience against
the impression carried by the speech of the gentleman from Iowa, that there was
on the Democratic side any hostility to the payment of what was justly due to
those who were disabled in the war of the Union.
Mr. Brown, of Indiana, defended the action of
ex-Commissioner Dudley and maintained that he had never prostituted his
official position to serve partisan ends.
Pending action, the committee rose. The
Speaker appointed Wilkins, of Ohio, as a member of the Committee on Education
in place of Curtin, of Pennsylvania, excused.
Mr. Hewitt, of New York, presented a memorial
of 122 savings banks of New York asking for the repeal of the Bland Silver
Bill. Referred.
Mr. Morgan, of Texas, from the Committee on
Commerce, reported the bill to incorporate the Atlantic & Pacific Ship
Railway.
Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, from the Committee
on Military Affairs, reported the Military Academy Appropriation bill. The
estimate for 1887 is $412,075.
Mr. Blount, of Georgia, from the Committee on
Post-offices and Post-roads, reported the Post -office Appropriation bill. All
were referred to Committee of the Whole. Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. General S. D. Sturgis,
who has been station at the Black Hills since last June as Colonel of the
Seventh cavalry, arrived here this morning on a brief visit, accompanied by his
wife and one of his daughters. The visit is stated to be one of pleasure only,
but it is understood that its real object is to enlist the support and influence
of his friends in behalf of his promotion. General Sturgis is now sixty-four
years of age and has served his country for thirty-five years. During the war
he held high and responsible positions without (on account of certain
opposition) the rank, pay, or honor to which he was entitled. He will retire
from the army on June 11, and as now there are two vacancies for Brigadier
General, he feels that he should be promoted previous to his retirement in
order to allow him an adequate income and show a measure of appreciation for
the services he has rendered his country, instead of being turned out to grass
on three-fourths pay of a Colonel and allowing young men to be put into the
positions of Brigadier Generals.
SOVEREIGN
GRAND LODGE DEFIED.
CHICAGO, Feb. 26. Reports reach here that
notwithstanding the interdiction of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows,
the Patriarchal circle is growing steadily in all parts of the country. Efforts
on the part of the various local lodges to carry out the orders of the Grand
Lodge by expelling members of the circle from membership have in the main
proven abortive, the motions to expel in the majority of cases being quickly
disposed of by being laid upon the table. Eminent lawyers have rendered an
opinion that the action of the Grand Lodge in changing the qualifications to
membership by resolution was unconstitutional, as the constitution expressly
provides that any such proposition shall be laid over for one year after having
been introduced by three jurisdictions. Meanwhile the adherents of the circle
declare that they will not permit themselves to be bulldozed out of the order,
and say that the end of the trouble is not yet at hand.
PATENT
APPLIED FOR.
CHICAGO, Feb. 26. The first meeting of the
stockholders of the Transcontinental Aerial Navigation Company, for the purpose
of organizing and electing officers, is being held here this morning. Brief
particulars of this enterprise were telegraphed a few days ago. The company
proposes to commence next week the construction of an immense air ship, 174
feet in length, 24 feet in width, and 22 feet in height. After a model patented
by Dr. De Baussalt, a French physician of this city. One of the stockholders
said this morning that the ship would be completed by the middle of June, and
that on or about July 4th it would start with a number of passengers
on a mid-air trip through the country.
GOING
TO THE SUPREME COURT.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 26. The Ewing-Francis quo
warranto case involving the mayoralty contest will be appealed from Judge
Barclay’s court to the Supreme Court direct. Counsel representing Mr. Ewing,
George D. Reynolds, Dyer, Lee, and Ellis, and A. R. Taylor had a conference
this morning, and decided to go to the court of last resort with as little
delay as possible. Mayor Francis having filed his answer in the case, denying
the allegations of fraud at the election in April last, the relator, Mr. Ewing,
will reply and the case will then be in shape for disposing of it in the
circuit court, which will be a mere formality. Steps for an appeal will then be
taken and an early hearing will be asked for in the Supreme Court.
CONEY
BUTTER.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. Prof. Taylor, who
returned from st. Louis yesterday, does not regard Prof. Weber’s experiments in
testing counterfeit butter as invalidating his discoveries in the same line.
Prof. Taylor says that the presence of butter crystals in oleomargarine is not
surprising, as the latter compound has a percentage of butter, the crystals of
which would, of course, show the St. Andrew cross, but that there would also be
found present in the same field the characteristics of oleomargarine crystals,
making it easy to distinguish pure butter from any other fat, since in pure
butter nothing but the cross would be seen.
PUBLIC
AFFAIRS.
Secretary
Manning Criticizes the Morrison Tariff Measure.
The
Sugar Monopoly.
The
Grinding Despotism of Claus Spreckels and Its Baleful Effect in Hawaii.
Post-Office
Appropriations.
Estimates
All Completed and the Committee Ready to Report.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. The Secretary of the
Treasury has written to Representative Morrison, Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, in regard to the probable effect the passage of the Morrison tariff
bill will have on the revenue. In his letter he says the net reduction computed
on last year’s importations produces a decrease of $12,000,000. In regard to
the proviso limiting the maximum of duties to certain ad valorem rates, it says
it leaves room for controversy on values, but values could be approximately
ascertained by the customs officers. It suggests that a provision be made by
which the valuation by such officers should be made final, and not leave this
important question to be in after years subject to the uncertainty of trial in
the courts, with consequent loss to the people. The same remarks, he says,
apply to those clauses of the bill which fix the rate of duty according to the
value of the article. He calls attention to the necessity of making more clear,
in some cases, the exact articles to which the provisos apply. He expresses the
opinion that the provisions in the tariff law relating to the component matter
of the chief value leads to litigation because of the uncertainty of that term,
whether applied to manufactured articles or otherwise. There are numbers of
such pending bills, which involve the question, and in them the Secretary fears
that the Government will be defeated. The term “earthenware,” he says, is also
open to misconstruction, and in a recent case has been held to mean only hollow
are or made on the potter’s wheel, and if this construction should prevail,
glazed tile, for illustration, becomes a non-enumerated manufactured article
subject to 20 per cent ad valorem duty. Attention is also called to the term “broken
or granulated rice,” and a suggestion made that the maximum size be stated, to
avoid controversy. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics says that of the
2,548,000,000 pounds of sugar imported into the United States during the last
fiscal year, 74 per cent came from Cuba, Porto Rico, Brazil, and the British
West Indies. These countries, according to latest advices, impose an export
duty on sugar. If such is the fact, it is probable that 80 per cent of the
sugar imported for the last year came from the countries imposing an export
duty thereon. This would change the figures, in the reduction of sugar from
$10,000,000 to $2,000,000, and the aggregate reduction of the duty from $20,000
to $12,000,000.
THE
SUGAR MONOPOLY.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. In answer to a request
from a sub-committee of the House Committee on Ways and Means for information
concerning the working of the reciprocity treaty with the Hawaiian islands, Mr.
J. E. Searles, Jr., one of the Government commissioners who visited the
islands, has returned a statement of facts ascertained in connection with his
visit. He says if we had made the islands a present of every dollar’s worth of
goods they bought from this country and collected duties on their sugars, we
should have made no loss. As to the effect of the treaty on this country, Mr.
Searles says that the price of refined sugar in San Francisco since the treaty
went into effect has averaged twenty cents more a pound than in New York, where
every pound has paid the full duty. He speaks in bitter terms of the course
pursued by Claus Spreckels. For seven years he was the dictator not only of the
King and Government, but of all the planters. The latter, however, during the
past year, rebelled against his autocracy and are seeking to break his commercial
if not political power. They have secured the possession of a small refinery in
San Francisco, which they hope to operate successfully in connection with their
sugar estates in the islands, but Sir Claus has determined upon their
destruction, and this explains the unprecedented price at which sugar is now
ruling in San Francisco, only about one cent above New York figures. In
conclusion, he sums up as follows the reason why the treaty should be
abrogated: First, because of the enormous loss to revenue in this country,
which is practically paid out of the pockets of our tax-payers to fill the
pockets of a small company of sugar planters and speculators. The production
has assumed proportions never dreamed of when the treaty was made and the crop
is still steadily increasing; second, it has not either directly or indirectly
benefitted the consumers of sugar in this country, but has brought the product
of the islands into direct competition with our own sugar producers and
manufacturers; third, the treaty has not benefitted but has on the contrary
injured the Sandwich Islands, demoralizing and destroying the native population
and substituting Chinese and other Asiatics, while American influence in the
affairs of the islands, except so far as it is exercised for the self-interests
of an individual, has been weakened.
POST-OFFICE
APPROPRIATIONS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. The House Committee on
Post-offices and Post-roads today completed the Post-office Appropriation bill,
and it will be promptly reported to the House. The bill appropriates for the
postal service during the next fiscal year the sum of $54,326,588, an increase
of $659,579 as compared with the department estimates. The estimated revenue
for the next fiscal year is $47,142,252, and the estimate of the deficiency
(indefinite) is $7,443,914. The principal items of appropriations are as
follows: For compensation to postmasters, $11,700,000 (appropriation for
present year, $12,300,000); for compensation to clerks in post-offices,
$4,150,000 (or the same as the present year appropriation); for rent, light and
fuel; $495,000 (the appropriation for the present year is $490,000); for free
delivery services, $4,928,531 (the appropriation for the present year,
$4,485,000); for star route transportation, $5,850,000 (the appropriation for
the present year is $5,900,000); steamboat, $575,000 (appropriation for the
present year is $615,000); mail messenger service, $900,000 (appropriation for
the present year, $975,000); mail bags and catchers, $260,000 (appropriation for
present year $275,000); railroad transportation, $15,595,432 (appropriation for
the present year, $14,000,000); railway postal car service, $1,808,000
(appropriation for the present year, $1,765,000); for railway post office
clerks, $4,800,000 (appropriation for the present year, $4,682,000); necessary
and special facilities on trunk lines (fast mail), $251,725 (appropriation for
the present year, $266,764); for the manufacture of stamped envelopes,
wrappers, etc., $583,000 (appropriation for the present year, $745,000); for
the transportation of foreign mails, $375,000 (appropriation for the present
year, $800,000); estimate for next year, $350,000. To this item the committee
append the following: “If it should be decided to pay the vessels of the United
States register and inland postage, then the additional sum of $75,000 should
be added to the estimate.” For balance due foreign countries, $100,000; the
appropriation for the present year was $75,000.
CONFIRMATIONS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. Among the confirmations
of the Senate yesterday were the following.
Indian Agent: Joseph Emery, at Klamath,
Oregon; J. B. Kinney, at Uintah, Utah.
Receivers of Public Moneys: John La Fabre, at
Deadwood, Dakota; Frank Dale, at Wichita, Kansas; W. B. Brownlee, at Larned, Kansas.
Consuls: W. J. Black, of Delaware, at
Nuremberg; D. J. Partello, of the District of Columbia, at Duesseldorf; Jasper
Smith, of the District of Columbia, Consul at Newcastle-on-Tyne; W. H. Parker,
of the District of Columbia, Consul-General at Corea.
Collector of Internal Revenue: F. S. Shields
for Louisiana.
Postmasters: J. S. McCartney, Garnett,
Kansas; John Wright, Sedgwick, Kansas; W. B. Meade, Oberlin, Kansas; G. B.
Falconer, Minneapolis, Kansas; Dennison Howe, Fairfield, Nebraska.
KANSAS
ENCAMPMENT.
Parade
of the G. A. R. at Wichita.—Election of Officers.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 25. Yesterday was soft
and warm, but cloudy. The grand parade of the G. A. R. encampment took place at
nine o’clock, after which the members convened in their hall and proceeded to
business by the suspension of the rules and the election of grand officers for
the ensuing year as follows.
Grand commander, C. J. McDivitt, of Abilene;
senior vice, Thomas Soward, of Winfield; junior vice, J. D. Barker, of Girard;
chaplain, Colonel Allen Buckner; medical director, Colonel J. M. Lewis, of
Kinsley.
The following are the delegates at large,
selected to attend the National encampment: C. W. Blair, George T. Anthony, J.
M. Felghan, George D. Orner, A. B. Campbell.
First District: John A. Fulton, of Brown; Cy
Leland, of Doniphan.
Second District: E. P. Diehl, of Olathe;
George Myers, of Fort Scott.
Third District: J. M. Doney, W. P. Scholl.
Fourth District: J. N. Mercer, Council Grove;
D. F. Everett, Woodson County.
Fifth District: W. A. McDonald, of Sumner; D.
M. Heiser, of Barton.
Sixth District: George H. Case, of Jewell
City; A. L. Voorhees, of Russell.
Seventh District: W. A. McDonald, of Sumner;
D. N. Heiser, of Barton.
[Believe
an error was made inasmuch as 5th & 7th show same
individuals.]
The Committee on Resolutions reported the
following, which was adopted.
WHEREAS, The Grand Army of the Republic being
anxious to see justice done to all persons who, by their devotion to duty,
aided materially in the overthrowing of the rebellion;
WHEREAS, The military telegraph was a factor
of great importance in the late war; and,
WHEREAS, The men who composed the military
telegraph corps and operators, line builders and repairers, and, while undergoing
all the exposure and hardships incident to active service in the field, and
faithfully performing all the duties equally well, while under fire in the
stations or in camp; and
WHEREAS, Enlisted men skilled in telegraph,
who were detailed to work the military telegraph lines were, by order of the
Secretary of War, deprived of their bounties and other endowments due them as
enlisted men in consequence of such detail; therefore, be it
Resolved, That we do respectfully and earnestly ask the members of Congress and
the Senators from this State to secure the passage of a bill giving, first, to
the employees of the telegraph corps actually on duty in the field, whether
soldier or civilian, a military status commensurate with their services and
that they be placed on an equal footing with soldiers in every way.
Second, That the Secretary of the Treasury be
authorized and instructed to pay the detailed soldiers of the telegraph corps,
or their heirs, the bounties and portions, if disabled, which are due them upon
the terms of enlistment.
Resolved, That a copy of this preamble and resolutions be certified by the
commander of the department and the assistant adjutant general to the members
of Congress and the Senators from the State of Kansas.
Resolved, That as the encampments are not assemblies of distinguished citizens,
but of veterans of the Union army, it should be obligatory upon delegates that
they appear at the State encampment in the uniform of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
Resolved, That the department commander be requested in the general orders to ask
the post commanders in the department to send the names of all members of their
posts who lost a leg or an arm in the service to James A. Neiderwood,
secretary, Crippled Soldiers Association, Allegan, Rice County.
Resolved, That it is the sense of the department that no firm or firms shall
hereafter be authorized to advertise themselves as headquarters for the sale of
Grand Army supplies, and that all such authority heretofore granted, if any,
should be revoked.
Resolved, That all post commanders in good standing in their respective posts,
are entitled to vote in the encampment.
Resolved, That in making arrangements for future encampments of the department,
the officers are instructed to provide tickets of admission for the delegates
and alternates and other comrades entitled to membership, and that seats be
reserved in the front of the hall in which the encampment meets, for such
members.
Resolved, That the council of administration are hereby authorized to prepare a
suitable testimonial to be presented to Post Department Commander Stewart, at
the next annual encampment, in recognition of his constant and unceasing
efforts for the promotion of the interests of our order during his
administration.
Resolved, That the rank of post department commander be restored to John A.
Martin, John C. Carpenter, W. S. Jenkins, and John Gutherie, they having lost
the rank through no fault of theirs and the National encampment be so
instructed.
THREATENED
TROUBLE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 25. At a meeting of
coal miners of the Kanawha and New River district, held at Coalburg, the
association resolved to request the West Virginia Legislature to enact a law to
pay wages to workers every two weeks in good and lawful money and make a day’s
work eight hours, and that the miners’ convention, which meets at Columbus,
Ohio, instruct all dealers that they will be boycotted if they handle coal from
operators who pay miners 2½ cents a bushel or less for mining. In conversation
with several operators relative to the action of the miners at Columbus or
elsewhere, many fear that great trouble will arise from this as soon as trade
opens in this valley. There are about 6,000 miners in the district, and should
trouble come, it will be worse than four years ago.
THE
ST. LOUIS CONTEST.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 25. In the contested election
case of ex-Mayor Ewing against the present mayor, D. R. Francis, which was
brought before the Circuit Court last week under quo warranto proceedings to
procure the opening of the ballot boxes to prove the alleged frauds, Judge
Barclay today gave a decision to the effect that such result cannot be reached
through quo warranto proceedings. The relator will probably take the case to
the Supreme Court.
CATTLE
CONDITION.
Not
Very Heavy Losses, But Cattle in Poor Condition.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
DENVER, Col., March 1. The Colorado Cattle
Growers’ Association has received reports from the skinners now at work on the
Arkansas river, and the number of dead cattle now reported is about 2,500. The
skinners estimate that the larger half of the dead cattle have been skinned,
and that the total loss on the Arkansas cannot exceed 6,000 head. Reports from
the Union Pacific, Burlington and Kansas Pacific show that less than 1,000 head
died along those lines. These are the places where the heaviest losses have
this and all previous winters taken place. Some cattle, of course, always die along
the streams and water holes on the plains, but very few die in these places
during the first heavy storms of the winter. The principal losses in these
places occur in the spring, when cattle are poor and weak. It is believed by
cattlemen to be almost certain that 10,000 would be liberal and probably too
large an estimate of the losses in Colorado on the range up to the present
time. But the January storm reduced the cattle in flesh, so that they are not
now in admirable condition to go through cold spring storms, and no one can
tell what the total season’s loss will be. It is sufficient that at the present
time it has not exceeded one per cent. In Wyoming and Montana the finest winter
ever experienced is reported, and the losses are said to have been almost
nothing. In Southern Kansas, Indian Territory, and some parts of Texas, the
loss has undoubtedly been large.
SENATOR
BECK.
He
is With the President on the Removal Question.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WASHINGTON, March 1. Senator Beck may not
agree with the President on silver, but he is with him in his controversy with
the Senate. The President’s refusal to give up the papers for which the Senate
is asking is, he thinks, a matter of policy and not of right. “These papers,”
he said, “are not on file; no paper is on file for which the law does not
provide a place. Can the President destroy these papers if he wishes? That is
the best test as to his rights. The President cannot destroy any paper which is
on file in any of the departments, without rendering himself liable to
punishment under the law. Suppose he should take all these papers relating to
removal and make a bonfire of them, could any one stop him or punish him for
it? They could not; then these papers are not on file and the Senate has no
right to them; no one has any right to them but the persons who wrote them. The
Senate has no right to these papers. The law says the President may remove in
his discretion. The papers concern only that act of removal.” Senator Beck said
further that if he had been President, all these office holders, or at least
those who had themselves the distribution of patronage, should have gone long
ago. It is the President’s duty to appoint to those offices on whose
administration the success of the Government largely depends, persons who are
in political sympathy with him.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 24. By agreement today
between counsel, the Dalton habeas corpus case was carried into the circuit
court and the decision of the common pleas court affirmed. Then the case was
immediately appealed to the Supreme Court, being submitted upon briefs. A
motion was made and granted to take the case out of its regular order for
hearing. This was done for the purpose of getting a decision that will settle
the law in such cases for the future. However, Clerk Dalton’s arrest and
commitment still stand.
TALE
OF A BRICK.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 24. A celebrated gold
brick case came up today, and Dan Davis, alias Hennessy, was formally
arraigned. The bricks were brought into court and curiously examined by the
thousands who surged in and out of the court room all day. After a jury was
secured, an adjournment was taken until tomorrow.
HELLENIC
APPEAL.
The
“Brotherhood of Peoples” Address Great Britain
Protesting
Against the Coercion of Greece.
England
the Tool of the Arch Despot Bismarck.
Chamberlain
Preparing a Bolt.
The
Canadian Parliament Convenes.—Exciting Session Expected.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
LONDON, Feb. 25. A leaflet is circulating
here today called “The Coercion of Greece,” addressed to the people of Great
Britain and Ireland, issued by “The Central Committee of the Brotherhood of
Peoples, in compliance with the Greek section.”
It says: “At this moment the powerful agency
of England is at the beck and call of that enemy of freedom, Prince Bismarck,
who is employed in the shameful task of coercing Greece to the will of Europe,
or, in plain language, to the dictates of the other five despotic organizations
which pretend to hold the destinies of the European people in their hands. A
Prince of the royal house of Great Britain, the Duke of Edinburgh, paid by the
British and Irish people, is to take command of the combined fleets which are
to carry out this iniquitous work of subjugation. They talk of European peace
as their great concern, these despots who have transformed Europe into an armed
camp, and who have never hesitated to flood it with the blood of their own
subjects on the slightest appearance of danger to their selfish ambitions.” It
concluded with a passionate appeal to the British and Irish people, asking in
the spirit of brotherhood whether they will allow their hard-won earnings to be
squandered and their blood poured out for the maintenance of a despotic
principal.
HOME
RULE COMPLICATIONS.
It is currently reported that the chief
complication of the home rule question is the attitude of Chamberlain. He is
still working hard in private against Gladstone and Morley and home rule. Only
a few days ago at the Devonshire Club, the Whig headquarters, he made a speech
declaring that we must have one law and one State. He has a land bill all
ready. He has been attempting to cultivate an alliance with a leading
Parnellite. The situation is rendered critical today by the not altogether
unsuccessful endeavors of several leading Whigs and two or three Radicals to
reform an “Anti-Home Rule” faction. It is impossible to get the details, as the
strictest secrecy is pledged, but I can affirm its existence. In the meantime
Morley is winning great praise for his conduct in the House.
THE
CANADIAN PARLIAMENT.
OTTAWA, Ont., Feb. 25. Parliament opens today
and this morning the city is exhibiting symptoms of one of those spasm of life
and bustle which are the necessary adjuncts to a session of the legislature.
Politicians of experience do not hesitated in openly asserting that the session
will be one of the most exciting in the history of Canada to the present date,
and in view of the important questions which are certain to be brought forward
the prophecy is not likely to prove ill founded. The Government’s Northwest
policy, including of course the execution of Louis Riel, will be up for
consideration at an early date, and the outcome is a matter of considerable
speculation. The French members, who have seceded from the Government wing, are
loud in their boasts that they will succeed in uprooting Sir John McDonald’s
cabinet on this question, but, on the other hand, the Government whips assert
that even should the French members combine their full strength against the
Government, the latter will still have a majority of thirty-five in a House of
212 members, and this majority, they say, will be amply sufficient for all
legislative purposes. Next to this question comes the failure of the Imperial
Government to arrange a reciprocity treaty between the United States and
Canada, and also the enactment of legislation for the better protection of
Canadian fishermen. A Government bill will be introduced to place the
government of the Northwest Territories upon a more desirable basis, with an
extension of executive powers and a settlement of the grievances which are now
a source of complaint. It is very probable that the Government will announce a
full and general amnesty to all the prisoners who are now incarcerated for
complicity in the rebellion in the Northwest, with the exception of the Fort
Pitt murderers, and it is looked upon as certain that a more liberal policy of
dealing with the half breeds will be inaugurated. The expenses incurred in
crushing the rebellion will be announced at $10,000,000, and the Minister of
Finance will announce that in consequence of a decline of several millions of
dollars in the customs and excise revenue, a revision of the tariff will be
necessary. He will also recommend in this connection that the duties on wines,
liquors, cigars, and tobaccos be increased and that a tariff be placed on teas
and coffees.
AN
ILL-SMELLING CAREER.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
PARIS, Feb. 25. The memoirs of the notorious
Cora Pearl, queen of the demimondes, are about to be issued in this city. She
claims that her father was Mr. Crouch, author of “Kathleen Mavourneen.” She
fled from home at the age of fourteen and commenced her career in Paris. She
had as successive lovers the deceased Crown Prince of Holland, the Dukes of
Morney, Gramont, and Calderousse, and other aristocrats, whose names are thinly
disguised under pseudonyms in letters to her now published in the memoirs. The
letters contain a melange of passion and politics. A living European celebrity
paid her $400,000 to suppress a letter from him. Cora, who is now forty-four
years old, lives in broken health in a small but comfortable house. She
declares that her longed enjoyed income of $100,000 has been dissipated.
ARRIVAL
OF OLD SOLDIERS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Feb. 25. Yesterday
afternoon a detachment of 112 old veterans arrived at the Soldiers’ Home in
charge of Colonel J. D. Thomas, Treasurer of the Central Branch National
Soldiers’ Home, of Dayton, Ohio. This arrival fills the home here to its
fullest capacity until more rooms can be completed. The new arrivals are said
to be a fine looking body of men. The reason of the transfer was the
overcrowded state of the home at Dayton.
FLIGHT
OF A DEFAULTER.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
PEORIA, Ill., Feb. 25. James Whiteley,
elected city clerk of Pekin, Illinois, last fall, is a defaulter and has fled.
The exact amount of his defalcation is not known. An investigation is under
way. He left a note giving the combination of the safe in his office.
KANSAS
ENCAMPMENT.
Close
of the Meeting of the State G. A. R. at Wichita.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 26. The State encampment
concluded its annual business yesterday by a public installation of the
officers elect and the passage of the usual resolutions. Fully 1,500 people
departed for their respective homes by the evening trains. Not to exceed 300 or
400 strangers remained over night in the city. The Woman’s Relief Corps also
concluded their business and their public installation at the same place and
same hour. The following named ladies were elected: President, Mrs. M. R.
Wickers, Sabetha; senior vice-president, Mrs. Yunkerman, Wichita; junior
vice-president, Mrs. M. Barngrove, Ellinwood; secretary, Mrs. Julia A. Chase,
Hiawatha; treasurer, Mrs. J. B. Slocum, Topeka; chaplain, Mrs. E. B. Aldrich,
Cawker City; chairman of the council of administration, Mrs. Louise H. Brown,
of Olathe. Sixteen delegates and alternates were elected to the national
assembly at San Francisco.
BAR
PRIVILEGES.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
TORONTO, Ont., Feb. 26. The Toronto Government
today introduced a bill making it a misdemeanor for any person not a member of
the landlord’s family to enter a barroom on Sunday, and increasing the
penalties for illegal selling of liquor as follows: First offense, $50 to $100
fine; second, four months’ imprisonment without the option of a fine; third
offense, six months’ imprisonment. For making searches the provisions of the
gambling act will be applied.
HIS
BODY FOUND.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26. The body of a well dressed
man about thirty-five years old was found in the river this morning. In his
pockets were two cards bearing the name of W. H. Smith, one as correspondent of
the New York Clipper, the other as correspondent of the Cincinnati
Sporting Journal.
ROMANCE
OF THE YARDSTICK.
A
Dry Goods Clerk Loved by a Millionaire’s Daughter.
The
Wicked Parents Spirit Her Away.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
CHICAGO, Feb. 27. The young and handsome
wives, middle-aged mothers, and matronly dames, who are the participants in the
“four o’clock teas,” which are just now the rage in that ultra-fashionable part
of the city known as Michigan boulevard, have for the last few days been
regaling themselves with a very interesting and romantic piece of gossip, which,
if report speaks truly, is founded upon fact. As the story runs, a young lady,
daughter of the millionaire resident of one of the most palatial residences on
the boulevard, and who has been very prominent in social circles, had occasion
a few months ago to do some shopping in the retail store of Marshall, Field
& Co. The spruce and smiling young man who waited upon her was more than
usually polite and agreeable, and his Apollo-like form and pleasant demeanor
made quite an impression upon the susceptible young heiress. After this first
meeting her requirement at the counter over which he presided became so
numerous and pressing as to necessitate almost daily visits and ere long she
had mustered up sufficient courage to invite the dapper young man to visit her
at her mansion. His first visit, however, was his last for the parents, having
ascertained his position in life, very pointedly notified him that ne’er again
would the footman in livery admit him within the portals. The course of true
love, however, couldn’t be crushed in this way and so a system of clandestine
correspondence was inaugurated with the kitchen maid as the diplomatic Pooh
Bah.
The relatives however were on the alert and
so were a couple of experienced detectives, who had been retained to prevent a
coup d’etat. One evening last week it became known that the servant was in
possession of a note which she was waiting an opportunity to deliver to her
fair young mistress. A touch of the electric bell summoned her to the library
and there she was questioned and cross-questioned and badgered until finally in
despair she produced the missive. It proved to be from the young man and
contained final instructions regarding an elopement which had been planned for
the same night. Of course, the letter never reached its destination and the
young lady, thinking that her lover had proven false at the last moment, spent
the night in weeping in the solitude of her chamber. Next morning when she
reached the breakfast table, she found a note from her stern parent commanding
her to be ready to start for Florida in two hours. There was no opportunity for
communicating with her Apollo, and the eleven o’clock train bore away to
Jacksonville a broken hearted damsel, while the would-be groom was cudgeling
his brains to find a reason for her failure to keep the tryst. Efforts were
made to keep the matter secret, but the story leaked out and the Michigan
avenue feminine gossips are betting yards of crochet work against velvet
picture frames and other fancy articles that there will yet be a wedding before
the last rose of summer has bloomed.
VIG.
COM.
A
Missouri County Infested With A Committee of Doubtful Expediency.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
SEDALIA, Mo., Feb. 27. The following special
from Archie, Cass County, was received last night by the Democrat.
Considerable excitement has been caused here by the mysterious warnings that
have been sent to several businessmen of this place. Some time ago L. J. Rosier
sold his stock and building to H. T. Carr and William Rosier, and they then
sold to A. J. Summers. The sales were supposed to have been made for the
purpose of protecting Mr. Rosier from his creditors. A few days after Mr.
Summers took possession, the following notice was found tacked on his door: “We
take this mode of notifying you that there is a vigilance committee who will
make it their business to wait on men who defraud their friends. There is an
organized band of swindlers and robbers in this town who obtain men’s names on
notes by false representations. So take notice of the order from the
committee.” This was followed by forty-five marks, representing the names of
the committee. In a few days this was followed by another, sent to G. W.
Gashell, who was clerking for Summers, as follows:
Mr. G. W. Gashell: You and Dock Summers and
Lawrence Rosier are hereby notified to leave town within ten days, or we will
make it d d hot for you, and
if we come we will attend to some other swindlers. (Signed) VIG. COM.
The sympathy of the community is with the gentlemen
who are being persecuted. It is no secret that there has for several years been
a vigilance committee located a few miles west of this town and the events of
the past few days are credited to this committee.
BILLS
OF HEALTH.
Defunct
Porkers to be Officially Certified in Good Condition.
Retaliation
to Follow Discrimination.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. Among the bills
introduced and appropriately referred in the Senate yesterday was one by Mr.
Edmunds, providing for the inspection of meats for exportation, prohibiting the
importation of adulterated articles of food and drink, and authorizing the
President to make proclamations in certain cases. Mr. Edmunds said this bill
had been reported last year from the Committee on Foreign Relations. Besides
providing for the inspection of pork, etc., for exportation, it contained, he
said, a section giving the President authority, whenever he was convinced that
unjust discrimination was made against the admission of American products into
other countries, to suspend the importation from those countries of such
articles as he thought fit for the protection of the just interests of the
United States. In view of what he (Mr. Edmunds) saw in the newspapers about
current events in other countries touching American products on the theory that
they were supposed to be disease, when the fact was that the object was to
exclude them under any circumstances, he (Mr. Edmunds) thought it clear that it
was time to introduce the bill again.
RAILROAD
PROJECTS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 27. Captain J. W. Miller,
president of the Wichita & Colorado road, a project yet in its infancy, is
in the city. Captain Miller is the gentleman under whose supervision the St.
Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita road was finished. The Wichita & Colorado
is now completed from Wichita westward twenty-five miles to Mt. Hope, Sedgwick
County, Kansas, through a splendid agricultural region. The object point of
Captain Miller’s new road has not yet been decided on, but it is pretty certain
it will be operated in connection with the St. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita,
which is controlled by the Missouri Pacific.
PERILS
AT SEA.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
NEW YORK, March 1. The North German Lloyd
steamer Eider, which left Bremerhaven January 17, arrived here yesterday
afternoon. The vessel looked as if it had been in the Polar seas. Her rigging
and spars were covered with a thick coating of ice and snow. First Officer
Wanske states that the voyage had been an unusually rough one, heavy seas
breaking constantly over the ship and rendering the presence of the passengers
on deck almost impossible. The severe storm and icy blizzard which swept over
New York last week struck the Eider when off the banks of Newfoundland. A
sailor was washed overboard and lost. The first officer had his fingers frozen
while casting the lead. This is the longest passage the Eider has ever made
between Europe and America.
HORSE
THIEVES CAPTURED.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
KINGMAN, Kan., March 1. A gang of five horse
thieves was captured ten miles south of this city today by the sheriff of this
county and his assistants. They are now in jail. They stole some ten head of
horses from Mexicans in the Indian Territory. Two of the Mexicans followed them
here. Sheriff McClelland and assistants encircled the thieves on the open
prairie and several shots were exchanged before they surrendered. Had the
thieves been at the house where they were supplied with Winchesters, there
would have been bloodshed. The names of the parties taken are Morgan, Bryan,
Ford, Weller, and Helse. Stolen property to the amount of about $2,000 was
found in their possession.
ANOTHER
ELECTRIC FATALITY.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 1. Last evening, as
Hugh Oliver, aged twenty-three, an employee of the Evansville Electric Light
Company, was at work replacing a screw on the “arc dynamo” with his right hand,
the screw slipped, and, in endeavoring to catch it, he placed his left hand
also on the dynamo, causing the electric current of 3,000 candle power to pass
through and kill him.
INDUSTRIAL
WARFARE.
The
Transcontinental Cannibals Still at the Barbecue.—Prime Cuts Offered.
Socialistic
Hungarians Make It Hot at the Coke Ovens.—The McCormick Lockout.
Threatening
Demonstration and Revolvers Drawn.
English
and French Workmen.—Labor News.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26. Great excitement was
created in railroad circles today by the announcement that the Atlantic &
Pacific, in connection with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Chicago &
Alton and Pennsylvania railroads, had reduced the price of limited tickets to
New York to $50. The time within which they can be used is ten days. This rate
was immediately met by all the other railroad agents. Limited tickets to
Chicago also came in for the cut, and were reduced to $35. Unlimited and third
class tickets remain as yesterday. The Atlantic & Pacific still refrains
from selling unlimited tickets at reduced rates. Much complaint is being made
by agents of Eastern lines concerning the sale of unlimited tickets at cut
rates. All urge the withdrawal of such tickets from the sale. The sale of
limited tickets today is reported as very lively.
NO
CHANGE AT NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26. There is practically no
change in railroad rates from yesterday afternoon. Commissioner Midgley, of the
Southwestern Railway Association, is conferring with the executive committee of
the Eastern trunk line pool in Commissioner Fink’s office. Most of the railroad
men say the pool will let the matter alone because, if they interfere with the
Sunset, Mr. Huntington will probably open up the Chesapeake & Ohio system
and bring the war into the East. All the Trunk lines between Chicago and New
York have followed the Pennsylvania Central into the fight, which the latter
company entered today.
MORE
TROUBLE.
CONNELLSVILLE, Pa., Feb. 26. The socialistic
Hungarians caused more trouble in the coke regions this morning. A crowd
assembled at Bradford and marched to the Summit and Mount Pleasant mines,
forcing every coke drawer from work along the route. They were nearly all armed
and fired numerous shots to intimidate the workers at the Summit and other
works. The coke drawers fled through fear of violence from the mob, and in some
cases left their scrapers in hot ovens to melt, fearing that if they continued
work, the tipple and other buildings at the works would be destroyed. The
strikers demand an advance of ten cents per oven instead of the ten per cent
recently granted. At Leicester the men requested Superintendent Taggard to
discharge a man who had worked during the strike. This was refused and the men
all struck.
THE
McCORMICK REAPER LOCKOUT.
CHICAGO, Feb. 26. The strikers at McCormick’s
reaper factory to the number of 1,000 appeared in the vicinity of the works
this morning and for the first time made a display of violence. The foreman of
the works, Ward, and the engineer and gas and steam fitter were stopped while
the way to the works, and during a colloquy revolvers were drawn but no shots
fired. They were afterward permitted to go to the works. Police Officer Rowen,
who had been sent out to the works with a good many other policemen in
citizens’ clothes to mix with the crowd and keep order, was accosted by a
workman who wanted to know what he was doing. Some words passed and the
workman, whose name is Ernest Stowman, was arrested and locked up. More police
were sent out to the scene, but the crowd in a measure had dispersed.
FRATERNIZING.
PARIS, Feb. 26. The Socialist members of the
Chamber of Deputies today joined in sending a telegram to the British workmen
in the House of Commons proposing a joint international movement in the
interest of laboring men. The main objects of the proposition are to secure a
reduction of the hours of labor, an improvement in the sanitary condition of
workshops proper, the limit of work obtained of women, etc. The telegram
suggests that the British workmen join those of France and invite the workmen
of America and Europe to send delegates to a convention next September to be
held at some place to be hereafter decided upon.
LEFT
TO THE PASTORS.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26. Archbishop Ryan, when
asked today whether there had been any objections raised against the Knights of
Labor by the Catholic ecclesiastical authorities of the archdiocese of
Philadelphia, said: “No general approval of the Knights of Labor has been made
in the archdiocese, and I personally know very little about the nature of the
order. The matter rests with the pastors of churches. While the Church is
opposed to secret societies, the question whether any particular organization
comes within the prescribed limits is left to the clergy to determine.
LOCKOUT
ENDED.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 26. The nail mill of
the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, at Bayview, which has been closed for
the greater part of eight months past on account of a difference between the
nailers and manufacturers as to wages, will resume operations next Monday. The
union men who went out on June 1 last will go back to their old places. The
scale of prices has been fixed on what is known as the Mingo basis.
SUCCESSFUL
STRIKE.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26. The three cigar firms,
Brown & Early, Levy Bros., and McCoy & Co., have concluded to accept
the Knights of Labor label. The rates paid by the union shops are accepted.
THE
WAR ON DRESSED MEAT.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
CHICAGO, Feb. 26. A morning paper publishes
an interview with Mr. P. D. Armour in the course of which he was asked what he
proposed doing about the rates fixed on dressed meat material by Commissioner
Fink of the Trunk Line pool. He replied: “We’re going to fight it in the courts
and at Washington. Fink’s latest decision makes us pay 86 per cent over live
stock rates. By arbitration two years ago, it was decided by Judge Cooley that
the proper proportion over live-stock men was 75 per cent, but, in the courts
we shall contend for a much lower, I cannot say, nor can I explain the process
of law by which our attorneys may elect to try the cause. Our lawyers are now
at Washington, and will favor the Inter-state Commerce bill, or any other bill
directed against railroad discrimination.”
LOCAL
OPTION IN VIRGINIA.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
RICHMOND, Virginia, Feb. 26. Both branches of the State Legislature yesterday passed
the local option law.
NEWS
NOTES.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The pension payments during February were
about $11,000,000.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Prince Bismarck was recently reported
suffering from an attack of sciatica.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The Italian Senate by a vote of 91 to 6 has
adopted a bill to equalize the land tax.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
An unknown man, about forty years of age,
slipped or threw himself off the ice and went over Niagara Falls recently.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The clearing house returns for week ended
February 27 showed an average increase of 29.0. In New York the increase was
34.9.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Governor McEnery has decided that the
execution of Pat Ford and John Murphy shall take place at New Orleans on
Friday, March 12.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The municipal authorities of Paris have
ordered that the name of the Deity be expunged from children’s books issued by
the metropolitan school committee.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A young man named Parker was recently seriously
poisoned at Columbus, Georgia, by eating an apple after he had kept it in his
coat pocket along with some strychnine he was using to poison crows on his
farm.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The total value of merchandise and gold and
silver exported from the United States during January last amounted to
$57,959,562, against $80,532,684 in January, 1885. The total value of imports
for January last was $47,398,490, against $42,221,171 in January, 1885.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A dispatch from Oil City, Pa., says: The Derrick’s
field report of the February oil operations shows 280 completed wells,
3,732 barrels of new production, 33 dry holes, 269 rigs, and 337 drilling
wells. This is an increase over January of 10 wells, 575 barrels of new
production, 15 rigs, and 17 drilling wells.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A Santa Fe (New Mexico) special of the 28th,
says: Steven Puple, Lee Hamblett, Kid Wilson, and Robert Holt, charged with the
murder of three Mexican sheep herders in the Galezo canyon, have been arrested
and are in custody at Bloomfield. These are the men for whose arrest the
Government offered a reward of $900.
ADS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Restaurant
and Bakery.
ZIMMERMAN
& MOOSO, ENGLISH KITCHEN
RESTAURANT
AND BAKERY.
Fresh bread, cakes and pies always on hand,
promptly delivered anywhere in the city. Nuts, candies, cigars, etc. Tables
always spread with the best the market afford. Board by the day or week. The
best restaurant in the city for farmers and all wanting first-class meals.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Cowley
County Stone.
MOORE
BROTHERS, COWLEY COUNTY STONE.
Successors
to WILLIAM MOORE & SONS.
Flagging,
Cut Stone, Building Material.
Estimates and Price Lists Furnished on Short
Notice.
Winfield,
Kansas.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Drugs
and Books.
H.
BROWN & SON.
The
Largest and Finest Drug House in the City.
WALL PAPER A SPECIALTY.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Fence
Manufactories.
SMEDLEY
& GEST, WINFIELD FENCE WORKS.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Farm
and Ornamental Fencing of all kinds.
WINFIELD,
KANSAS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Brotherton
& Silver,
THE
OLD RELIABLE
Seed
and Implement House,
All
kinds of FLOUR AND GARDEN SEEDS, Fresh and New.
Agricultural
Implements.
A large stock at Lowest Prices and Easy
Terms.
North
Main Street, Winfield, Kansas.
WINFIELD
COURIER.
FRANK
H. GREER, Local Editor.
Local
Markets.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Skipped items in this issue. Hard to read.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The “Literary Union” has been organized and
held its first meeting Thursday evening in the agreeable home of Mr. and Mrs.
E. S. Bedilion. A. F. Hopkins is president; J. W. Spindler, vice-president; and
Miss Maud Kelly, secretary. The purport is to congregate the young ladies and
gentlemen of a literary turn and take up the reading and study of various
authors, interspersed with varied literary exercises and music, entertaining
and improving. This is a good move. Among all our giddier amusements, there
should be some of solid past-time and improvement. The Union will meet every
two weeks at various homes, and promises popularity.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A handsome bevy of young men who occupied the
“bald headed row” at the Opera House Friday passed this note along a whole row
to the scribe, who was in the same category. “Where is the young lady not yet
in her twenty-second year?” We all chipped in and raised a purse, and she went
back on us so we spent it for peanuts and came alone.” It meant, “C.,” you
know, who vented her opinion in last evening’s COURIER. And they weren’t dudes
either—real nice young men—all members of the “Senate.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The preliminary examination of young Swift,
the young man from near Maple City, who forged a check of $15.00 on J. T.
Stinson, on the 10th of February, and presented it at J. B. Lynn’s
in payment for a $2.75 hat, was brought up Friday before Judge Buckman and
ground all afternoon, about fifteen or twenty witnesses being put on the stand.
Swift was bound over to next term of the District court with bond at $500,
which he failed to get, and now languishes in durance vile.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
County Clerk Smock and his assistants, Ed. G.
Gray and Frank Weaverling, have put in some hard licks on the township
assessment rolls and will have them ready to turn out to the trustees Monday,
when they meet to decide on a basis of valuation. Then the aggressive assessor
will be abroad in the land, taking an inventory of the county. Nothing but the
old man with his beheading scythe is as sure as taxes. Such is life, and it
keeps getting sucher and sucher.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The “P. S. C. Club,” which, peeled of Latin,
means “Pleasure Seeking Club,” met Friday eve in the roomy house of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Johnston, the guest of Master Wallie Johnston. This Club is composed
of young masters and misses of that rollicking age that gets all the fun out of
anything they tackle. The party last night, a dozen or more couples, was one of
the jolliest, exhausting various games and amusements.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Fred Wilber, a son of Gene Wilber, of Rock,
and a grandson of Geo. L. Gale, of this city, has on exhibition at Bliss &
Woods office, a sketch of a deer which he did with a pen. Fred has been taking
lessons in ornamental penmanship for a short time with Prof. Inskeep, of the
Commercial College, and to produce such a fine piece of workmanship speaks
highly for both pupil and teacher.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
W. F. Dorley, formerly our carriage Frank,
was taken in for the wrong man at Harper the other day, by the editor of the Danville
Express, who claimed Dorley threatened him if he would publish anything
detrimental to the Weaver boys, recent murderers of Shearer at Danville. Dorley
suffered durance vile a day, but had on the boots of one Allen and was let
loose.
[Note: Article called him “Doorley.” Earlier
papers indicated name was “Dorley.”]
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Matrimonial indications were issued Friday to
Chas. A. Munns and Henrietta E. Driggs, and E. D. W. Stout and Kate McCutcheon.
Judge Gans did the cement act for the first couple, in his most gluey and
symmetrical manner. In the words of the lamented Rip Van Winkle, “May you leef
long and brosber.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Tom P. Richardson, the versatile and rustling
young journalist of Wellington is in the city, looking to the spreading of his
faber. Tom has been connected with Wellington journalism for years and has
written many beautiful and sparkling things.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The old wooden awning in front of Kleeman’s
dry goods store was annihilated under the destructive “claws” of Phil. Kleeman
and Mr. Tanner, and will be replaced by a neat canvas one—one in harmony with a
high-toned dry goods emporium.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Sheriff McIntire got back from Wichita Monday
with George Davis, the colored cook who purloined $4 from John Mathews. Davis
is a tough one and will make things lively in the jail, where he roosted a good
while once before.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Saturday eve, at their elegant residence in
Highland Park, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Schuler entertained in a most charming manner
a party of ladies and gentlemen with conversation, whist, and a choice
collation.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Gene Millard got in Friday from a week’s
circuit of Sumner County, making loans and examining titles for Jarvis, Conklin
& Co. Gene is a rustler from “way back.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
W. J. Wilson went to Medicine Lodge Saturday,
where Mrs. Wilson and Miss Jennie Hane have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. H.
Nixon. They return tomorrow.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Some twenty emigrants from “way down east”
got off the S. K. here last Saturday and are looking up investments and
locations. The S. K. will bring many such delegations this year.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The County Fathers, at their special meeting
Tuesday, called the election for the confirmation of our County bridge law. It
was called for the first Tuesday in April, a provided by the act.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
There were 229 entries of government land in
Cowley County in the past year. The year before there were over 600 entries.
The good land is about all taken, except an occasional fraction.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Wanted to rent: several good farms near Maple
City. Address or call on Howe & Drury, land and loan agents, Maple City,
Kansas.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Never borrow money on real estate, either
city or country property, until you have consulted with P. H. Albright &
Co.
MOTHER
GRUNDY’S NEWS-BUDGET.
Her
Chronicle of the Comings, Goings and Doings of Persons at Home and Abroad.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
John B. Holmes was down from Rock Tuesday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. B. Lynn took in the village of Wellington
Wednesday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
John L. Howard and Wm. Gray were up from the
Terminus Tuesday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mrs. Henry Branson, of Grouse Creek near
Torrance, died Tuesday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
F. L. Branniger has returned from the west
and reports things booming.
[Earlier
newspapers called him “Braniger.”]
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
William Thompson, of Rock P. O., is in town
visiting his daughter, Miss Martha.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
C. L. McPherson, from the head of navigation,
was in the metropolis Monday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mrs. E. D. Garlick is again ill and her
kindergarten is suspended for a few days.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Miss Alice Stocking, formerly of this city,
was married at Sullivan, Indiana, last week.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Eliza Bowen has been appointed guardian of
the minor heirs of Elisha Bowen, deceased.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mr. J. W. Morris, a stock dealer of
Coffeyville, was in the city yesterday on business.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mrs. J. A. Parks is lying very low with
consumption at her residence in the Third Ward.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. G. McGregor and P. P. Powell started out
Wednesday to buy a wagon load of ducks.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
W. M. Hammack, of Illinois, is here visiting
his uncle, J. P. Sterling, and seeking a location.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. A. Sexton, who has been employed in the
mill at Elk Falls as bookkeeper, has returned to stay.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Now it is Will B. Caton who tip-toes it in a
manner exhibiting feelings elevated. It’s another boy.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
D. Knox is the latest “dad” of the season: a
12 pound boy made his appearance Saturday morning.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mrs. Wright, the milliner, was moving her
shop Tuesday into the room on West 9th next to Mrs. Kingsley.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. F. Martin, who ran a feed store just below
the Blue Front, left with his family for Fresno, California, Tuesday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Dr. J. G. Evans has moved his office to the
front rooms over Root’s shoe store and is fitting it up in fine shape.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Bob Farnsworth tells us that he has just
received a letter stating there is two feet of snow in Central Iowa.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
D. L. Kretsinger came in from the west
Tuesday, having put his Richfield Leader on its pegs in good shape.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Sam L. Gilbert returned to Wichita Saturday,
having circulated around the Queen City three or four days.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Miss Winnie Limerick entertained very
charmingly a happy party of her young friends Saturday evening.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
W. W. Berto, from Gainesville, Texas, is in
the city looking around for a location and visiting his friend, Ira Kyger.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The S. of V. desire, through THE COURIER, to
thank all who so kindly assisted in their entertainment Tuesday eve.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mrs. Hop Shivvers and Miss Mary Shivvers got
home from Wichita Friday, having spent a few days with Mrs. Tidd.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mrs. R. L. Walker and Mrs. L. J. Webb came
down from Wichita Friday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Lovell H. Webb.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Nathan Parisho was appointed trustee of Cedar
township by the County Commissioners vice J. F. McDowell, resigned.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A. W. Gray, John Fitzpatrick, and E. C.
Lewis, hailing from the village at the Kaw’s mouth, spent Sunday at the
Brettun.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Miss Lizzie Wallis returned Saturday evening
from a very pleasant week at Wichita, visiting Miss Clara Lynch and others.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. J. Carson will occupy Mrs. Andrews’ house
across the railroad in a short time. Mrs. Andrews and family will go to
California.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Miss Olive Sherrard, of Rock Island,
Illinois, an accomplished young lady, is visiting her cousin, D. S. Sherrard,
of Pleasant Valley.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
G. O. Applegate and wife have returned from
an extended visit at Kokomo, Indiana. Their friends are glad to see them back.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Ed. G. Gray—this item is stereotyped—spent
Sunday in Arkansas City. Ed. likes to seek a nice, quiet, country villa for his
Sunday rest.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
M. J. French, A. J. Lender, W. S. Cottrell,
and W. M. Gregory, all selling Chicago wares, were among the Brettun’s guests
Saturday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Myers, relatives of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Curns, returned to Ft. Scott Tuesday, after a very pleasant visit of
two weeks.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mrs. P. G. Corkins, of Schell City, Missouri,
and Mrs. C. Corkins, of Grenola, are in the city visiting their relatives, Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Jimison.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
G. W. and H. O. Winchell hung up with
landlord McKibben Monday from Sandwich, Illinois. They are prospectors, father
and son.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Jimison’s nephew, I. [J.
?] W. Corkins and family, of Schell City, Missouri, arrived here Saturday and
will make this their home.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Train Master Nixon, whose headquarters are at
Wellington, passed over the road Monday eve on official inspection, returning
this morning.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Dr. Vawter, of Arkansas City, and W. B. Hall,
of Winfield, have purchased ten acres of land on Main Street in Arkansas City,
which they will lay out in town lots.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Lon Whorton left Tuesday for Meade Center, on
a prospective newspaper venture. Lon is a good newspaper man and can make
things hum anywhere.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Tommie Matheson gave up his voyage to
Scotland, getting only to Chicago, when he came back, and is again a floury
miller with Kirk & Alexander.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
D. Knight, St. Joe; C. A. Dunham, St. Paul;
G. A. Little, Warren, Ohio; James Ferguson, Smithfield, Ohio; and B. J. Ritter,
Lima, Ohio; were Sunday guests at the Central.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Eli Youngheim is home from his eastern
purchasing tour, having “filled up” with a big and well-selected stock of
gents’ ware of every description. Eli always gets there.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. M. Lambert, Latham’s banker, spent Friday
in the Future Great. He carries an eye in a sling, but knowing his tranquil
disposition, we know he hasn’t “licked” anybody.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Frank Lockwood came over from Medicine Lodge
Friday, and took back three cooks from the Brettun. The Brettun got in a new
lot of cooks from the east yesterday.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
W. T. Whorton, brother of our Lon, left
Tuesday morning for his home, Knightstown, Indiana. He stopped here for a
week’s visit on his road home from a four week’s California tour.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The oldest daughter of Dr. Charlton and wife
is lying very low with lung trouble. The Doctor and family have recently moved
to our city from Indiana. They come highly recommended.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
D. E. Whelan, Louis Wachett, C. M. Rudolph,
T. B. Patton, J. T. Hayward, L. Ackerman, O. F. Little, A. T. Grimes, and O. E.
Sommerson were among the Brettun’s Sunday St. Louis guests.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The report that Jim Rennick and family were
frozen to death in Kansas County is a ruse: constructed of thin air. G. H.
Allen, in from Richfield only a few days ago, saw Jim as lively as ever.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Geo. Miller moved his family back to
Winfield, Friday, over the Frisco, from Cherryvale.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
George and John Dix have bought the
Constanzer shop and will run a first-class meat market here.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Judge Torrance and Frank K. Raymond are
“loose” for a short period, having closed up the Chautauqua County district
court docket in five days. Our court begins the first Tuesday in April.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Billy Allison has moved his family over from
Wellington and is occupying the Cole property, east 10th. The whole
newspaper fraternity of the city, barring one lone printer, abide on the east
side.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
R. C. Posey was over from Otter Monday. Out
of his sixteen hundred head of sheep, the severe winter only turned up the toes
of thirty. His care was very careful and brought his flock out in excellent
trim.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
H. P. Moore is home from a few weeks in Illinois.
He found things very slow there: everybody with the winter fever. He says the
immigration to Kansas, and especially Cowley County, will be immense this year.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
David H. Welch and Mary McWilliams, James Liggett
and Anna E. Coats are the last to take the blissful path of matrimony. The
latter couple were married by Judge Gans Tuesday. They live near Dexter.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
S. Cure, of Winfield, a delegate to the
encampment, called to say that he never was treated more handsomely during his
stay than he was treated here, and that he only voiced the feeling of all the
rest of the comrades. Wichita Eagle.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Howard and Clausen, carpenters, say they
expect a big building boom this spring as they already have several houses
under way.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. M. Barnthouse is home from Ft. Smith,
where he has arranged to put in a bottling works, a branch to his Winfield
establishment.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
M. M. Scott has billed Little Maud for Burden
Friday and Saturday evenings, a G. A. R. Benefit. Prof. Taylor, the blind
musician, will assist.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Judge Soward and family are now occupying the
Platter residence, recently purchased by the Judge. It is one of the city’s
handsomest homes.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A. F. Chase, representing the Howe Scale
Company, was in the city, and took an order from Van Vleet & Sage for a
scales for the city weighmasters.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. H. Bullene tells us the lumber business is
getting brisk and that he anticipates a big trade this spring, and that lumber
is advancing in price and will probably run three dollars higher on the
thousand this year.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Dr. H. A. Eberle has returned and desires to
meet all his patients at the Brettun on Saturday, March 6th. He
regrets very much not being able to have met his patients here last Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday as per announcement.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
P. P. Powell, who has been attending the
encampment at Wichita, says that our Tom Soward came nearer touching the hearts
of the G. A. R. “boys” than any speaker at the encampment. Tom’s enthusiasm and
eloquence catches the old soldiers every time.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Dixon, the restaurant and candy man on the
corner of 8th and Main, has leased for three years the building now
occupied by Wallis & Wallis, and will put in a bakery, ice cream, etc.,
April first, when Wallis & Wallis move to their new building on south Main.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A. Meese was taken before Judge Buckman, last
Friday, charged with horse stealing. He waived an examination and was bound
over to next term of the District Court. His bond was fixed at $500, in default
of which he was committed to the dark shades of the bastille.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Dr. G. H. J. Hart, of Maple City, has sold
his effects and departed. He went to Winfield and from there to Atchison and
from there the general supposition is that he went to New Orleans. He was under
a $200 bond to appear as a witness in the Marshall murder trial.
Arkansas City Republican.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Agent Branham is highly tickled over the
recent furnishing of the S. K. depot with a new ticket case of most convenient,
roomy, and novel design. There are pegs on which can hang eight hundred
different forms of tickets. It has a Yale lock and is altogether a nobby piece
of furniture.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Master Archie Olmstead played some very
classical productions at the Opera House, Tuesday, among them “Harpe AEolian,”
by Sidney Smith, and “Students of Sorrento,” by Celega. He is a remarkably fine
pianist, for one of his age, and can be found at Crawford’s Music House, as
soloist or piano instructor.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
John Rowland, with Jarvis, Conklin & Co.,
went to Wellington Wednesday to take charge of a branch department in that
city. Wellington will fine Mr. Rowland to be a straight forward businessman and
a gentleman, one that can be relied on. We are sorry to lose John, and hope he
will succeed in his new field of labor.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Chas. S. Webster & Co., publishers of
“Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant,” have notified their general agents that the
2nd volume will not be ready until about April 1st, instead
of March 1st, s heretofore announced by them. This delay is caused
by the preparation of an expansive index for both volumes. S. S. H.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Henry E. Asp, of Winfield, made the Standard
a pleasant call Tuesday. Mr. Asp is very enthusiastic over the future
greatness of his city. He also informed us that a preliminary line had already
been run on the Geuda Springs, Caldwell & Southwestern railroad, and it is
expected that work will commence in the near future. Wellington Standard.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
We struck the finest thing in perfumery and
handkerchief extracts this morning on our rounds that we have ever seen. They
are at Brown & Son’s drug store, and for something elegant for the ladies
and young society gents, down anything in existence. Call and try them, and if
you do not agree with us, we will be silent forever more.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Allen and Mrs. A. T.
Spotswood and Misses Margaret and Mary left Tuesday for Richfield, their future
home. A large number of friends saw them off, expressing deep regret at their
departure. Especially demonstrative were the many young friends of Miss
Margaret, among whom she was very popular.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Sam Wells, one of Dexter’s liveliest “boys,”
was in the city Monday and today, with a matrimonial smile bedecking his
countenance. This is the second time Sam has come over en masse and failed to
materialize at Gans’ office. He’s only waiting, blandly waiting, for the
violets and the daises to bloom, which will be very shortly.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
County Commissioner Irwin, just home from a
month or more at his old home, Lewis County, Missouri, reports a good immigration
certain for Kansas and Cowley County from that section this spring and summer.
The farmers there have tired of eking out a chary existence on forty and eighty
acres of worn out land. Nothing is being done in city or county
improvements—everything ancient and slow, a big contrast to the bustle and rush
of Cowley County.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Eli Youngheim’s eastern purchasing tour is
beginning to materialize and his Mammoth Clothing House is getting “fullern’ a
goat.” Eli, as usual, has got there in great shape this spring, with an immense
stock of the latest and nobbiest gents furnishings of all kinds. His stock of
fine wear is even finer than ever and will catch all the boys, while his
substantial wares are equally well selected. THE DAILY and WEEKLY COURIER will,
in a few days, herald his superior bargains and attractions in big “ads.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A. H. Doane’s frame business building, corner
of Ninth & Millington, is going up and will be occupied by McGuire Bros. It
would seem to be a mistake in putting up a frame building on such a valuable
corner, with the grand prospect that this year shows. Before 1886 is closed
very few of the old rookeries will be left on Ninth, two blocks down.
Substantial buildings, anywhere for business houses, are far safer for the city
and the investor. Mr. Doane will erect a fine stone block, handsome cut front,
on the lot now occupied by the Schofield stable.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Marshal McFadden is fetching the boys to time
around the depot. Several boys have been making a business of hanging around
and climbing over the cars when in motion. This is very dangerous business and
if at any time one should fall under the train and is run over, the parents
can’t blame any one but themselves. Parent, keep your boys in school and they
will have no time to loiter around railroads. The boys haven’t any business
around the depot and are only in the way of those having business. Marshal
McFadden intends to use them rough when he catches them; so, boys, if you don’t
want trouble, you had better “let up” on this business.
GO
THOU AND REGISTER.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The first Tuesday in April occurs the city
election. This is a crisis in Winfield’s history: a time, above all others,
when the municipal government must be progressive, energetic, and wise, and
with the backbone to stand by the right; with the nerve and determination to
direct the city onward and upward, to the high pinnacle it is bound to attain
if proper effort and wisdom is put forth. Fully five hundred voters haven’t
registered. The poll books are opened until ten days before the election. Waltz
up and have Clerk Buckman enroll you at once, that the right of casting that
wonderful little instrument, the ballot, can be exercised for the right
government of the brightest, prettiest, and most promising city in Kansas.
Everything rests in good government. We want men in the city council, men on
the school board, and police officers that will put their shoulders to the
wheel of progress, with its present magnificent impetus, and boost it on
solidly and creditably. Again we say, register! And do it at once.
AMUSEMENTS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Now we are to have Judge Tourgee, the
greatest of American writers and lecturers. He appears at the Opera House on
the 12th inst., in “A Story Teller’s Story,” a lecture eloquent,
entertaining, and instructive. Who hasn’t been enraptured by “The Fool’s
Errand?” one of his master productions. This is the first distinguished
lecturer we have had for some months and of course he will be largely greeted,
as he deserves.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
“Little Nuggets,” a play on the M’liss order,
by a specialty company, is dated for Winfield on April 2nd.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
J. B. Marsh, of Des Moines, Iowa; G. A.
Eberbast, Clinton, Iowa; H. C. Campbell, Toledo, Ohio; H. E. Brawner, Chicago;
D. H. Young, Topeka; J. P. Bartley, St Joe; A. H. McLouth, Leavenworth; A.
Allen, Kansas City; J. K. Sawyer, Wichita; and Geo. C. Bullene, Rock Island,
Illinois, are at the Brettun. They represent various bridge companies, and are
here to bid for the erection of the Ninth avenue and Bliss & Wood bridges
across the Walnut, which contract will be let at a special meeting of the city
council tomorrow evening.
PITHY
PIOUS POINTS.
What
Transpired at our Different Churches Sunday.
Various
Religious Nuggets.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Elder Gans filled Burden’s Christian pulpit
Sunday evening.
Among Rev. Sam Jones’ good hits is this: “A
man said to me the other night, ‘Jones, I wouldn’t have missed your sermon for
$10,’ and yet when the plate was passed around that man put in a copper cent.”
Rev. Snyder preached Sunday afternoon at the
schoolhouse, No. 48, three miles west of the city, to a full house. An
interesting Sabbath school has been kept up at this place all winter under the
superintendency of Mr. Knapp.
Mr. Reed, a graduate of Park College, a
Presbyterian institution just below Leavenworth, on the Missouri, gave a
history and resume of that college at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning,
showing a noble work and much sacrifice. There is no tuition fee—supported
entirely by voluntary contributions, from all quarters. It is doing much toward
educating young people who could get it no other way.
Rev. Young, the A. M. E. minister, is still
at Osage City visiting his family, and the services at this church Sunday were
conducted by Deacon John Wilson. In the morning he exhorted from the first five
verses of Mathew xviii, and in the evening on “Who shall be the greatest in the
kingdom of heaven,” based on the 21st chapter of Mathew, which he
repeated from end to end. Mr. Wilson is a very practical talker, an earnest
biblical student, and takes a creditable interest in religious matters.
Rev. J. M. Vawter at the Christian church
preached on “The ideal man in his relation to God, to self, and his fellow
man,” showing from the sermon on the mount what was Christ’s ideal. Everyone
must have some ideal—some standard of attainment, and his ideal will be
constantly growing better. Christ’s ideal man was fully described in the
Beatitudes. A merciful man is merciful in all things. A meek man is not one who
will do nothing. Moses, the meekest man who ever lived, was one of the boldest.
In this way Elder Vawter went over the entire sermon fully explaining its
meaning. In the evening the sermon was directed to young men in particular, and
it was shown that the world’s greatest men accomplished most while they were
young.
At the Presbyterian church Sunday Rev. Miller
based his sermon on Genesis, 4 chap., 9 verse. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” At
all times we are responsible for the welfare of our brother. A man who has been
fortunate looks upon his unfortunate brother and says, I am not responsible for
his downfall, but how glad I am to be so comfortably situated. That man is as
far from Christ as the east is from the west. We as fellow citizens are responsible
for the murder of the man whose death was caused by the cars [?]. We are
responsible for his murder, but not his death. We are responsible because we
know there are places in this town where that can be gotten which crazes and
makes a man a brute. It is our place to have the law enforced and to rid the
town of these places where our brothers are liable to fall into evil.
Rev. Reider preached at the Baptist church
Sunday eve, from Luke xix:10: “For the son of man has come to seek and to save
that which was lost.” Christ took upon himself the form of a man and while he
might have called himself the Divine Power, Deity, or by some great name of
which He had a right, He didn’t wish to go that way; He wanted to seem as meek
and lowly as it was possible for Him to be, and for this reason He called
himself the son of man, and declared that He had come to seek and save the
lost. Now everyone that has not accepted the Savior is lost, so those are the
ones He is now seeking to save. He is seeking you and you feel it every time
you have a consciousness of doing wrong. He is ready and willing to save and it
only rests with you whether you will give yourself to Him and be saved:
eternally saved. There were four persons baptized at the close of the services.
Rev. Kelly discoursed on “Faith, Hope, and
Charity” at the Methodist Church Sunday morning, based on Cor. xiii:13. “Faith,
hope, charity—these three, but the greatest of these is charity.” He showed
faith as the basis of all human thought and action—the fountain from which the
scientists and investigators that have made the world’s great progress drew
their inspiration. Hope is the anchor of the soul, the rock to which we all
voluntarily cling. Both are born of heaven and end only in heaven, to the true
man or woman. Charity was defined as the generous spirit that rejoices in the
prosperity and happiness of those around you. The man devoid of it envies his
fellow, is wrapped up in self, and sees none of the delights of life. This was
Rev. Kelly’s last sermon in this conference year. The church has given him a
unanimous call to return and he will, of course, spend his third year in the
work he has so fearlessly and zealously mastered during the last two. The
Methodist church was never as prosperous and harmonious as now.
The services at the United Brethren church
Sunday were well attended. Sabbath School at 10 a.m. and preaching both morning
and evening. Mrs. Lydia Sexton, as previously announced, occupied the pulpit of
Rev. Snyder, preaching in the morning from Mat. 8:2-3, and in the evening from
Isaiah 5:3-4. In the morning discourse Mrs. Sexton first noticed the awful
nature and effects, and the divinely appointed manner of healing that oriental
plague, leprosy. Then, after briefly noticing what she called modern or American
leprosy—the sin of profanity, intemperance, lying, dancing, gambling, etc., she
described the awful leprosy of sin, and the people were entreated to seek
forgiveness and the cleansing in the blood of Christ as the antidote. The young
man in the text came confessing his calamitous condition, and in the exercise
of faith, obtained relief of the Great Physician. So the sinner was exhorted to
come for health and healing. Many incidents occurring in Mrs. Sexton’s long
experience were related, illustrating her views. It is remarkable how much of
the vigor of youth still remains, for Mrs. Sexton will soon be 87 years of age.
Services will continue through the week, and the people are cordially invited
to attend.
The large congregations at the Baptist church
are very encouraging indeed to the pastor. One year ago there were but few
young people connected with this church, and now out of nearly two hundred
added to the church during the past fourteen months, there are about one
hundred young ladies and gentlemen. We are glad to see these young people
taking hold of christian work so earnestly. On Tuesday of this week they will
meet to study the life of St. Matthew, the first of the writers of the New
Testament. This class of Bible study is not confined to the membership of the
church, but all are invited who wish to take up a systematic study of God’s
word. On Wednesday evening of this week, the pastor desires all those who have
given their names for membership and have not been received by the church to be
present. There are about twenty who have not yet been received by the church,
whose names have been handed in. Don’t fail to be there. PASTOR.
Winfield now has a Young Men’s Christian
Association. The young men of the Baptist Church, twenty or more, met Sunday
afternoon and organized with H. A. Owen, president; Dr. Arnold, vice-president;
E. R. Greer, rec. secretary; Dr. Wortman, cor. secretary; and G. A. Hunt,
treasurer. The young men of the other churches will also organize. With several
strong associations, all will combine and open a public reading room and
library. With a band of a hundred or more of our best young men, this can be
easily accomplished, and much good done the city in general. Here is the
constitution and by-laws adopted:
The object of this Society is to advance the
interests of our church in all its branches of work; to increase the attendance
upon the regular services, particularly the prayer meetings; and especially to
reach forth a helping hand to the young men and women of our community, and, if
possible, interest them in our church.
The officers shall consist of president,
vice-president, recording secretary, corresponding secretary, and treasurer, to
be elected annually.
There shall be an executive committee
consisting of five members, including the pastor, who shall have a general
supervision over the society, and whose duty it shall be to take such measures
as shall tend to keep up the interest in the work of the various departments
composing this band.
Each member of this band shall pay into the
treasury the sum of 25 cents as an initiation fee, and five cents per month
afterwards; said funds to be used for the purchasing of literature, such as
tracts, etc., for free distribution, as shall be directed by the committee upon
tracts and free distribution of literature.
There shall be, in addition to the executive
committee, the following departments, viz.
Department on visiting Hotels and Boarding
Houses. It shall be the duty of those in charge of this department to visit the
hotels and boarding-houses, and endeavor to secure the attendance of strangers
at church, and in every way make them feel at home.
Department on Strangers at Church Services.
It shall be the duty of this committee to hunt up strangers at the services,
introduce themselves, and make them acquainted with the members, and especially
the pastor.
Department on Meetings. This committee shall
have charge of the prayer meetings in selecting leaders and subjects and making
them interesting.
Department on Factories and Work-shops. Their
work shall be to labor among the hands of these places and invite and encourage
t heir attendance at the church.
Department of Tracts and Distribution of
Literature. This provides for the purchasing of such literature for
distribution as shall by judicious management tend to the study of God’s Word
and the consideration of the soul’s welfare and safety. The pastor shall be
chairman of this committee.
Department of General Missionary Work. This
includes the whole band and is devoted to such work as shall advance the case
of our Master.
These committees shall report their work
through their chairman, once each month.
A
CURIOUS WHIST PROBLEM.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Among the amusements in Winfield during the
past winter evenings, whist has been quite popular and has attracted a
considerable attention. It is a very interesting game when played skillfully by
good players, and several excellent players have shown up on these occasions.
Much has been said about old styles of play and the new scientific game of
which Pole is the apostle.
The other evening a curious problem presented
itself to four of our Winfield players, bearing upon the merits of the Pole
style of play. We will call these four players A, B, C, and D, so as to not
give them away.
A and C played as partners, they are experts
but don’t go much on Pole. B and D played against them and play by the
scientific rules.
D dealt first with A to his left and hearts
were trumps.
A held, hearts 1, 2; diamonds 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, q, k; spades 2, clubs 2.
B held, hearts 8, 9, 10; diamonds jack;
spades 1, j, q, k; clubs 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
C held, hearts 7, j, q, k; diamonds 1, 2;
spades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
D held, hearts 3, 4, 5, 6; diamonds 10;
spades 10; clubs 1, 3, 5, j, q, k.
A leads 2 clubs, B 6, C7 hearts, D 3 suit.
C takes and leads 1 diamonds, D 10, A 3, B
jack.
C takes and leads 2 diamonds, D 10 spades, A,
k suit, B 8 hearts.
B takes and leads k spades, C 3, D 4 clubs, A
2 suit.
B takes and leads 1 spades, C 4, D 5 clubs, A
2 hearts.
A takes and leads q dia., B 9 hearts, C j
hearts, D j spades.
C takes and leads 5 spades, D q clubs, A 1
hearts, B j suit.
A takes and leads 9 diamonds, B 10 hearts, C
q hearts, D k clubs.
C takes and leads 6 spades, D 1 clubs, A 4
diamonds, B q suit.
B takes and leads 7 clubs, C k hearts, C 3
hearts, A 5 diamonds.
C takes and leads 7 spades, D 4 hearts, A 6
diamonds, B 8 clubs.
D takes and leads 6 hearts, A 8 dia., B 10
clubs, C 9 spades.
D takes. A and C gets 7 tricks and make 1
point.
A. remarks, “One point is pretty good
considering that we had so poor hands.”
B answers, “I think not. Self and partner,
with your hands and you with ours, would probably have made thirteen points.”
Says A, “I bet you would not have got more
than one point. Let us try it.”
So the cards are selected and dealt in the
same way by A, with the same trump, B holding the hand just held by A, C
holding B’s, D holding C’s and A holding D’s
B leads K of diamonds, C jack, D 1, A 10.
D takes and leads K hearts, A 3, B 1, C 8.
B takes and leads 2 hearts, C 9, D q, A 4.
D takes and leads jack hearts, A 5, B 2
clubs, C 10 hearts.
D takes and leads 7 hearts, A 6, B 2 spades,
C 10 hearts.
D takes and leads 2 diamonds, A 3 clubs, B q
suit, C 7 clubs.
B takes and having an established suit of diamonds
and nothing else, takes the other seven tricks. So B and D made seven points by
the Pole style of playing on the same hands with which A and B made only one
point under same circumstances by the old style of playing.
We think it would be hard to find another
combination of cards that the style of playing would make six points difference
in one deal, and that one point difference would be far too much to count on.
CITY
SCHOOLS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Weekly report of tardiness for week ending
Feb. 26, 1886.
Department/Teacher/No.
Tardinesses.
Central
Building.
High, W. S. Rice, 19.
Grammar, Lou Gregg, 13.
Grammar, Lola Williams, 11.
2nd Intermediate, Sada Davis, 3.
1st Intermediate, Maude Pearson,
5.
1st Intermediate, Ivy Crane, 9.
1st Intermediate, Fannie Stretch,
2.
2nd Primary, Bertha Wallis, 7.
2nd Primary, Belle Bertram, 6.
1st Primary, Jessie Stretch, 7.
1st Primary, Mary Berkey, 6.
1st Primary, Josie Pixley, 4.
Second
Ward.
2nd Intermediate, Flo Campbell, 0.
1st Intermediate, Mrs. Leavitt, 0.
2nd Primary, Clara Davenport, 0.
1st Primary, Mary Randall, –.
Third
Ward.
2nd Intermediate, Ilie [?] Dickie,
2.
1st Intermediate, Mattie Gibson,
3.
2nd Primary, Mary Hamill, 9.
1st Primary, Mary Bryant, 6.
In the Central Ward Miss Bertram’s room still
retains the banner, having no cases of tardiness during last week. In the
Second ward the three rooms reported have a clean record. In the Third Ward
Miss Dickie’s department had the fewest cases of tardiness for the week
reported above.
FIFTY-ONE
YEAR SURPRISE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
H. B. Miller, of John Tyner’s grocery house,
was fifty-one years old Saturday. He had passed a number of birthdays before
and took it as a matter of common moment until Saturday evening, when his home
was raided by as happy a little company as ever assembled anywhere, composed of
Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Reider, Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Cutler, Mr. and Mrs. Roderick,
Mr. and Mrs. Hefner, Mr. and Mrs. Sage, Mrs. M. Iliff, Mrs. O. Armstrong, Messrs.
John Tyner, J. A. Miller, E. Jamison, J. F. Reddick, and Master Otis Cutler.
Mr. Miller was completely surprised, and when the presentation of a very fine,
large arm chair was made, he was “broken up” worse than ever. However, the
genial life of the donors soon put him on his pins sufficiently to express his
warm appreciation of the kind remembrance and the genuine friendship displayed.
PECULIAR
FEBRUARY.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
No other month can boast of as many
peculiarities as little February, which went with Sunday into the yawning abyss
of the past. It is the shortest month in the year and has a number of days
peculiar to itself. First, it has ground-hod day, which is popularly supposed
to determine and forecast the weather six weeks to follow. Then Valentine’s day
comes on and loads the mails with missives of love for some and ludicrous
pictures for others. The young folks never forget to observe Valentine’s Day.
Washington’s birthday follows in close proximity. And finally, once in four
years, an additional day is added to keep the count correct, and the year the
proper length.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
It is the gentle springtime, says the poet,
that the thoughts most quickly turn to love and matrimony. The fever has struck
Cowley County with a “thud”—that word is a new coinage, one accidentally picked
up in our meanderings, and thrown out without price. A double matrimonial deed
was enacted in the Central Hotel parlors Saturday evening. The silken cords of
love were braided around the fortunes and misfortunes of J. N. Stewart and Miss
Ella Primrose, of Atlanta, and George M. Shelly, of Burden, and Miss Effie M.
Cooper of Box City. The bridal party were acquaintances whom Cupid caught
simultaneously, and they conceived this romance of a double wedding. Elder
Vawter pronounced the ceremony.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Many people of the east may be skeptical in
regard to the perpetual sunshine of this flowery section of the country, says
the Harper Sentinel, Yet on our table lies a sample of new potatoes that
were raised by J. M. Bloom this year. They are as large as hulled walnuts and
look as luscious and juicy as strawberries, although they may become fly blown
in a short time. We will preserve them on our table as long as possible for the
inspection of any of our readers who may doubt our veracity in this potato
story.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Al. and Will, the rustling mail manipulators
at the post office, have spread. There are now three general deliveries,
alphabetically numbered, and two clerks will disperse letters, giving more
rapidity. George will soon make other changes. The boxes will run clear around
to the back door, giving a back entrance and exit, with an alley clear around.
This will give a little more room.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The legislature act in relation to building
and maintaining bridges in Cowley County is published elsewhere. It is of great
importance to all and should be carefully read. It calls for a confirming vote
of the people at a special election the first Tuesday in April.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The young lady in the southeastern part of
the city who metamorphosed as a delicate lad and made a circuit among the
neighbors was a cute one. But she didn’t completely fool everyone, if she did
“look too sweet for anything.” Real nice young lady, too.
TOWNSHIP
ASSESSORS.
They
Meet and Agree Upon a Basis of Valuation for 1886.
Actual
Cash Value.
The assessors of the several townships and
cities of Cowley County, Kansas, met at the office of the County Clerk at 10
o’clock a.m. on Monday, March 1st, 1886, for the purpose of fixing a
basis of assessment for the real and personal property of said county for the
year 1886.
The following assessors were present.
J. W. Browning, Beaver.
J. A. Scott, Bolton.
F. M. Vaughn, Creswell.
S. H. Wells, Dexter.
R. B. Corson, Fairview.
E. Haynes, Harvey.
J. A. Cochran, Liberty.
J. H. Willis, Maple.
A. Hattery, Omnia.
D. S. Sherrard, Pleasant Valley.
C. H. Bing, Richland.
J. E. Gorham, Rock.
W. N. Day, Sheridan.
J. R. Tate, Silver Creek.
H. S. Liby, Spring Creek.
P. F. Haynes, Silver Dale.
H. McKibben, Tisdale.
H. H. Martin, Vernon.
J. C. Roberts, Walnut.
C. J. Phenis, Windsor.
James Benedict, Arkansas City.
J. S. Hunt, Winfield.
Upon motion the meeting organized by electing
James Benedict Chairman and J. S. Hunt, Secretary.
The following committee was appointed to
submit a basis of assessment for the consideration of the meeting: J. S. Hunt,
J. R. Tate, H. H. Martin, H. S. Liby, and J. A. Cochran. Whereupon the meeting
adjourned until 1 o’clock p.m.
The meeting met at 1 o’clock p.m. as per
adjournment, when the committee submitted the following report.
Your committee appointed to submit a basis of
assessment for real and personal property in and for Cowley County for the year
1886, beg to submit the following.
We recommend that the real and personal
property in the county aforesaid, for the year aforesaid be assessed according to
its actual or cash value as near as practicable. J. S. Hunt, J. R. Tate, H. H.
Martin, H. S. Liby, J. A. Cochran, Committee.
The basis of assessment submitted by the
committee was unanimously adopted and the meeting adjourned. James Benedict,
Chairman; J. S. Hunt, Secretary.
BURDEN’S
BUDGET.—“VISITOR.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
To follow the stereotyped style of my fellow
rural writers, I will preface these few lines by remarking that we are having
large and commodious weather.
As the news and immigration items around this
berg are allowed to run at large in spite of the stock and hedge laws, the
writer feels disposed and for some time has been predisposed to jot a few
sketches.
Many inquiries have been made lately as to
what the charges against Frost Zeigler and others were. Our papers mentioned
the cases, but gave no particulars. As the COURIER reported in full, we add the
moral: Take THE COURIER.
Our town was torn up last week by some acts
of a sensational nature that are withheld from the outside world partly on
account of the feelings of some respectable citizens and partly because it is
hoped that there will be no repetition.
Burden lays claim to distinction for several
reasons. Dropping the unexampled grit that has pushed her along in the front
ranks with Southern Kansas towns, we can chronicle the fact that she was once
the home of the late lamented Clarence Whistler, champion wrestler of America.
She is now the home of Dr. Carver, champion shot of America, who is improving
his home north of the city.
Dr. John G. Manser of this city, may with
propriety come under the head of our celebrities. The Doctor’s mother was a
Garfield—cousin of James A. Garfield. When informed that the President was
shot, Mrs. Manser was very much shocked, and like many other aged persons,
began to recall his good qualities. Among others she remarked: “Abe was such a
careful boy. I remember when he graduated, he came down home. He had a very
fine silk hat when he came; but in order to save it, he wrapped it carefully in
a silk handkerchief and wore an old hat belonging to his father. Yes, Abe was
such a careful boy.”
MAD
MEN AT DANVILLE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A mighty criminal lawyer, of small stature
and massive brain, hailing from Chicago, and answering to the French cognomen
of J. D. Lamercoux, Esq., was sailing around the town of Danville in full
dress, clergyman style, doubled breasted coat, and head thrown back, informing
all who would take the time to talk with him that he was employed to defend the
Weaver boys, three of whom put six bullets into one Shearer recently on the
slightest grudge, was put on a sharp
rail the other night and given a mighty rough ride. When let loose and told to
get, he made better time than America’s great racer in her palmiest days. He
hardly started on his swift retreat when a shower of decayed eggs commenced to
fall all over him, on his head and back. Lamercoux ran until meeting some
friends out of town. They asked him, “What’s the matter?” “Matter! Matter! H l, just look at me—the matter is
smeared all over me! Oh! Murder, how rank I smell.” Exit Lamercoux.
PROBATE
PROBINGS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Marital certificates were granted today to
Chas. Medkiff and Luetta Hon; Samuel Roseberry and Josie Abrams; Henry F. Kerns
and Lura Hart. Orange blossoms begin to bloom in profusion. Verily, Gentle
Annie is getting in good work.
A. D. Minor was appointed administrator of
the estate of Orlan A. Kinnie, deceased.
Eliza J. Bowen has been appointed guardian of
the estate of the minor heirs of Elisha Bowen, deceased.
W. A. Weaverling filled his third annual
settlement as executor of the estate of D. Weaverling, deceased.
The latest victims of Cupid’s darts are: H.
F. Reinhart and Mary A. McConnell; Geo. M. Shelby and Effy M. Cooper; M. R.
Arnett and Alice R. Marshall. They were united by Judge Gans.
Rufus Huff was appointed guardian of the
estate of Lovica M. Huff, a minor.
An order has been made for the sale of real
estate belonging to the minor heirs of John W. Arnett, deceased.
FOR
RENT.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
On and after March 1st, 1886, the
sw 1/4 of section 3, township 33, range 3, in Beaver township, owned by A. B.
Story. A. H. Green, Agent.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Sheriff McIntire went to Wichita Monday to
get George Davis, a colored cook, who dropped into John Matthews’ home the
other evening for a friendly call and before he got out, gobbled $4 from a
drawer. He had stolen some money from John before. He was arrested by telegraph
and will again land in our cooler. Davis was convicted of horse stealing during
Sheriff Shenneman’s reign and spent a year in the pen. This offense, the folks
all being at home, can’t be put stronger than petty larceny, giving him a short
jail sentence, if convicted.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The three Weaver brothers, who put six
bullets into a man on slight pretext, at Danville, the other day, were taken
through on the S. K. last evening, for safer keeping in the Independence
bastille. They have been at Wellington, but lynching was threatened, compelling
a “git up and git.” They are tough looking fellows, in slouch cow-boy array,
and were anxious enough to get away from the unhealthy odor around the scene of
their diabolical act.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
S. W. Hines and Nancy E. Parr, of Arkansas
City, were married at the Probate Judge’s office at five o’clock Monday eve, by
Judge Gans. Just at this writing the cement has not been made, but THE
COURIER’s enterprise always excuses previousness. An enterprising journal can’t
always wait for an item to occur. We wish Mr. and Mrs. Hines a long, safe, and
happy married journey.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
All desiring to get their mail on quick time
will please follow these directions: Those whose last name begins with any of
the letters from A to L inclusive, will form in line for the delivery window on
the left side. Those whose name begins with any of the letters from M to Z will
form in line for the right window. By this means you will save much confusion
and get your mail with dispatch.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The Harper Sentinel has a postal card,
on which is the wonderful feat of writing 3,459 words, about Harper County’s
history, every letter of which is formed regularly and is legible. W. F.
Hunter, a local commercial writer, was the artist. This lays all the old hens’
records clear in the shade.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Messrs. Purdy & Dukes have opened the
Pacific Grotto under the post office. With the walls handsomely painted,
elegant oil-cloth on the floor, and everything neat and new, it is the nobbiest
lunch counter in the city, and very handily located.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Curns & Manser are now making loans on
farms, or well improved city property at lowest rates, and give the borrower
the privilege of paying off on the option plan. By this arrangement the
borrower is allowed to pay $200 (or any amount agreed upon) or any multiple
thereof at the time any interest payment is due.
SCHOLARLY
TRAMPS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Last Friday week the schoolhouse a few miles
north of town was broken into by some tramps, who were not satisfied with free
lodging, but smashed the idea shop all to pieces, “laying out” the seats,
backs, etcetera. Mr. Ol Pratt got scent of two tramps, followed them to town.
On the way they ran into three more, who appeared to belong to the fraternity.
The whole pile were “taken in” and then along the road another seedy fellow
claimed acquaintance and he, too, was marched to the cooler—a gang of six. They
had their trial today before Judge Snow. Only the two first caught, giving
their cognomens as James Smith and Charles Jacobs, were convicted. The only
thing against the other four was their company. There were in the fix of dog
Tray. Smith and Jacobs got twenty-five dollars fine and 30 days in jail. They
are tough looking customers and appear to want no better thing than the (to
them) luxuries of the bastille. We need a rock pile to work these lazy
“boogers” on. If they were put under a sledge hammer and over a rock pile until
their fine was worked out, the wire edge would soon wear off of trampdom and
the city and county get some benefit. Put them to lying in jail with nothing to
do and fair hash is as good a thing as they want. They are constitutionally
opposed to work and nothing but a rock pile will cure them.
OVER
THE RIVER.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mrs. W. A. Armstrong passed away Friday at
her home in this city, after a long and patient illness. That dread disease,
consumption, some months ago made early death inexorable, and sweetly resting
in the stimulating faith and love that takes hold on God and heaven, she calmly
waited the end. It came peacefully and acceptably. She was a lady of refinement
and before this fatal disease put a ban to excessive effort, had a great
ambition, and hoped much for the future. She was a native of Indiana, and was
in her twenty-sixth year. October 28th, 1879, she and Mr. Armstrong
were wed. Keen indeed is the grief of the husband, made all the more sensitive
by the recent death of his father. No words can lift the pall of such
bereavement. The funeral services were held Saturday, from the residence,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Reider, of the Baptist church.
ANOTHER
DEATH.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Mr. Cutting, an aged gentleman who came here
but a few weeks ago from Illinois, died Thursday in southeast Winfield. He had
been afflicted with heart disease for many years and the end came suddenly. For
fifty years he was a member of the Christian Church. He was interred Friday.
LET
EM STRAND.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Thanks to luck, most of the shows striking
Winfield this winter have been at least “fair to middling,” and some of them
very good. But there are a pile of poor ones in the country that are rapidly
starving out. We rarely pick up a newspaper now-a-days without seeing the
announcement that some operatic or dramatic company has “stranded” in some
small town or city. The more of these “strandings,” the better for the country
in general and the operatic and dramatic business in particular. There never
were so many chambermaids and shoemakers masked as actors and actresses as
there are now, and any event which compels them to quit swindling the public in
the “show business” is a blessing in disguise. The “combination system” is
responsible for this state of affairs. As soon as a man or woman is able to
make a ten line speech on the stage, he or she gets up a company and starts “on
the road.” The country is flooded with these abominations now, and the sheriff
is the only remedial agent for the pest.
CUPID
GETS ANOTHER.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Yes, still they go. Twas ever thus and ever
it will be. Wiley Cupid’s charms are irresistible. And why shouldn’t they be?
The latest happy victim is Dr. C. E. Pugh, one of the city’s prominent young
men, who arrived Friday evening on the Frisco with his bride, Miss Alice
Thompson. Noiselessly the Doctor stole away to Jacksonville, Illinois, on this
important mission. They were wed on Wednesday evening last, at the bride’s
home. A happy company of forty or more of the bride’s friends were present.
Miss Thompson’s several visits here have made her many acquaintances and warm
friends. She is refined, intelligent, and winsome. Dr. Pugh is a member of the
firm of Wright & Pugh, leading physicians, and takes high rank in his profession,
for his years. A deep thinker, of keen ambition and substantiality, he has a
future of much promise. Dr. and Mrs. Pugh have THE COURIER’s heartiest wish,
with that of many friends, for the full fruition of their brightest hopes.
THE
STIRK FAMILY.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The Jolly Voyagers had a good audience Friday
night and seemed to tickle it very highly. The show is an indoor circus—made up
of performers whom the chills of winter have driven from the enticing tent and
ring. The Stirks were here last year, in their bicycle feats, with Sells
Brothers. Some of the performances were first class, chief among those being
the balancing and juggling acts of Flora King. Miss King failed to catch as a
“charming vocalist.” The burlesque prima donna was a good impersonation.
“Turning the Tables” was relieved by the “boss negro eccentricities of Ed.
Nixon. Nixon’s clog brought out the loud, dyspeptic-killing laugh. The
“invisible wire” act of the “Little Stirk wonder” and the bicycle acts of the
five Stirks, little and big, showed life-long training. The giraffe business,
though somewhat amusing, was thin and tiresome. Altogether, it was a good
winter circus, its novelty being the highest drawing card.
[Note: At this time they still spelled “bicycle”
as “bycicle.” I corrected to current spelling.]
THE
CHAUTAUQUA UNION.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The Chautauqua Union held a very enjoyable
meeting Friday evening in the capacious home of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Manser. An
interesting literary and musical program was rendered, notable in which were
the duet by Mr. Slack and Dr. Guy, with piano accompaniment by Miss Bertha
Wallis; the Chautauqua, a splendidly edited paper by Moore Tanner and a
recitation by Mamie Greer. The Chautauquan sparkled all over and exhibited much
natural tack and application. The genial entertainment of Mr. and Mrs. Manser
made the heartiest sociability. This Union, including old and young, is one of
the city’s most beneficial and pleasurable societies. Its next meeting convenes
in two weeks, with Mrs. Frank K. Raymond.
ODERILOUS
COMMENT.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A little animal of the genus “skunkibus” was
discovered in a cellar in east Winfield yesterday. A brave little man with a
little gun put a quietus on the little animal, but the effluvium which pervaded
the air and made life a burden in the block where the noble skunk met his
death, with his tail to the foe, proved that it is possible, sometimes, to be
“stronger in death than in life.” The man with the gun looked as though his
mother-in-law had come home. Verily, the aroma was mightier than could possibly
result from a collision of a car-load of decayed eggs and one of Limburger
cheese.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
“I don’t like poetry,” said Brother Kelly, in
his Sunday morning sermon; “heaven is the place for poetry—we’ll get all we
want there,” and before he got halfway through, he had quoted two or three
stanzas of rhyme, and sandwiched in poetic pictures all along. The idea of a
man like Brother Kelly, an ardent lover of the refined and beautiful in nature,
not liking poetry, is too queer. He does like it. True poetry is the embodiment
of the highest thoughts: takes hold on heaven and softens and tranquilizes our
natures. It is the diamond of literature, whether in rhyme or prose.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Daniel Smith and wife, uncle and aunt of Rev.
J. H. Snyder, of our city; J. C. Snyder, of Hackney, and M. H. Snyder of
Arkansas City, are here looking at the country. They are here from Butler
County, Ohio, and propose locating somewhere in this grand country. Should they
obtain a satisfactory location, several others from their county propose coming
also. Let them come. Seeing is believing. There must be certainly quite a
thinning out in some of those older states, judging from the crowds of people
daily coming in from the east.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
We have another communication from Mrs. H. P.
Mansfield, which is as usual, full of interest. It is a fact that she is a
correspondent of rare merit, especially in the matter of grammatical,
orthographical, and punctuative accuracy, clear text and good taste in the
choice of words. We never have to correct her manuscript. She sends a small
assortment of orange leaves and blossoms. We turned them over to Frank,
thinking he might need them sooner than any other of THE COURIER force.
FROM
WINFIELD TO SULLIVAN, ILLINOIS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
On Feb. 8th, we brushed the dust
from our No. 10's and boarded the 2:30 train for the east, Illinois, but we
stopped off at Udall to see our old friend, J. O. Hawley, and, by the way,
Udall is a daisy and is coming to the front at a lively rate and you can read
in every man’s face push, energy, and grit, and that is just what makes a town.
Next day we left for Wichita and arrived there at 5 p.m. Elbowing our way
through the crowd and dropping into a place to get a cigar, found that we were
into a drug store with a saloon in the rear; or, at least, we supposed so as a
constant stream of humanity kept pouring in and out. We very readily made up
our mind that Capt. Siverd was not a resident of that town, or something would
drop. Getting through with our business here, we pulled out for Kansas City. We
got a seat and then cast our eyes around and spied Prof. Limerick; our county
superintendent, who came to the front and took a seat with us, and a very
pleasant companion we found in him. Arriving at Newton he showed up the town in
great shape. We strolled into a fine restaurant and threw a big dish of select
oysters in our commissary department. The train from the west got stuck in a
snow bank and failed to come in; so making up a train, we pulled out, he
stopping in Topeka, and on we flew, reaching Kansas City just in time to see
the C. B. Q. train pulling out. We had to lay over all day and of course we
took in the sights. We went up two long flights of stairs, and seating about
two hundred pounds of solid humanity in a seat, waited for the mules to be
hitched on to the car, when all at once a little man moved a lever and off we
shot right up a tremendous hill. We soon found out the cause of our locomotion,
we were on the grip.
We were on time for the next train and pulled
into Quincy the next morning at 5 o’clock. Somebody waked up and saw “big
daylight” coming, and consulting his watch and finding it only 5 o’clock, he
said, “Daylight comes mighty all fired early in these parts.” The brakeman
said, “No daylight, my friend, electric light.” He said, “Boys, let’s smoke.”
We knew that we were in Illinois for it was snowing at a fearful rate. So on
for Decatur we rushed and soon ran out of snow and then the great prairies
stretching away as far as the eye could reach. The farms are certainly in a bad
condition; fences going down and houses looking somewhat dilapidated. We were
not very long in getting acquainted with the conductor, asking him why so great
and good country was in that condition. His remark was, “Damfino, unless they have
lost their grip.” We pulled into Decatur just in time to miss the train for
Sullivan, and the only chance for that day was to swing on to a freight. We got
to Sullivan at sundown, and of course the calaboose stopped about 80 rods from
town. I want to say right here that Sullivan isn’t Winfield, and don’t you
forget it. I thought I had landed right in the middle of Lake Michigan, but it
was only a “little” mud, pure and undefiled. We had a picnic dinner and were
entertained royally during our stay there. At last we started for our sunny
Kansas town, and we confess that we did hate to leave our friends behind; but
the nearer we got to Winfield, the faster we wanted to go and the more we
realized that we hadn’t seen a real live town since we left. Winfield is truly
the Queen City, the Metropolis of the West, the Beacon Light upon which the
capitalists of the east are gazing in their westward travels. You bet, she is
the Eli. J. W. DOUGLASS.
SCATTERING
“COP” DOTS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The demimondes are again being peremptorily
fired, on short notice. Three or four were illicitly “plying,” but our
officials caught on and the demi’s have skipped.
The Marshal is making great improvement in
our crossings, by macadamizing them with the rubble rock from the premises of
new buildings. It will last. It is only a short time until Main street entire
must be macadamized.
As soon as we get the city building with its
“calaboose” and jail yard, every tramp that strikes Winfield will be put to
pounding rock. This will be a scheme to macadamize the streets. The Marshal
says he will congregate the stray rock of the city and the tramps in the jail
yard and have a daily mashing match, hauling the mashed stone on to the street,
as a part of the poll-tax regime.
The peace and good order in Winfield is the
remark of every stranger and the admiration of every citizen. And the rustle
and bustle of one of the liveliest cities in Kansas, very few occasions are
ever found for arrests. The police court is almost a constant vacuum. Amid this
state of things, aside from the high character of our citizens, is the result
of police officials to whom duty is paramount and to whom the “standing in”
business is unknown.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Marshal McFadden says people are to slow
about obeying the council’s orders to clear all premises of “excrementiousness”
(we found that word in an old pair of pants a tramp printer accidentally left
in our office). There is much filth in the alleys, cellars, and back yards that
must go. This is the inevitable decree. If the filth don’t go, the property
owners will—before the police judge, and then $12.25 will go. Get out your
renovator and prepare for the heat and malaria of summer. With a little effort
Winfield can be made the cleanest city in the union. It has every advantage.
Nothing but the most swinish propensities will tolerate filth in as beautiful a
city as this. Clean up.
PETIT
JURORS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
According to the “statoots,” Sheriff McIntire
and Justices Buckman and Snow have drawn 36 jurors to serve at the April term
of the District Court as follows.
G. W. Hosmer, Otter.
W. J. Birdzell, Pleasant Valley.
B. D. Hanna, Walnut.
J. M. Harcourt, Rock.
J. L. King, Walnut.
S. D. Akers, Windsor.
Frank Batch, Harvey.
J. D. Salmon, Dexter.
H. O. Brown, Silverdale.
D. C. Stevens, Richland.
James Nicholson, Dexter.
P. O’Brien, Cedar.
Ed I. Johnson, Sheridan.
Fountain Seacat, Pleasant Valley.
J. S. McMains, Cresswell.
J. R. Cottingham, Richland.
J. D. Guthrie, Bolton.
J. K. Hamill, Windsor.
Jack Durham, Cresswell.
Frances York, Cedar.
J. M. Graham, Walnut.
I. M. Sturtz, Bolton.
Wm. B. Hoel, Sheridan.
J. S. Mohler, Windsor.
S. A. Beach, Beaver.
J. M. Wolfe, Fairview.
R. L. Ward, Omnia.
Henry Gloves, Harvey.
J. Myrtle, Bolton
W. S. Castor, Liberty.
J. E. Roseberry, Cresswell.
C. W. Dover, Dexter.
F. S. Easton, Silverdale.
W. Drury, Dexter.
H. Chitwood, Rock.
A
“MARVEL.”
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Now the hundreds of school urchins have the
marble craze, and spring is surely here. This is a never-failing sign. With a
skill and determination remarkable, they occupy, from early dawn till late at
twilight, a prayerful attitude, either “flush” or “busted,” but always out at
the knee. He has a secret hiding place for his “marvels,” specially that daisy
of an agate “taw” and when the old folks tackle him on the conduct of the day,
he is all innocence—not a marble around. Books, dinner, supper—everything is
drowned in the enticing game, spiced with a dozen or two dares and “lickens” a
day. Verily, we have all been there—and long for the days that can never
return—the days of boyhood, deviltry, and unalloyed fun. If we would vent half
the strategy and skill in business that used to fill our pockets with marbles
and our frame with fun, we would all be millionaires. And if the urchin could
possibly be induced to put in half the licks on a homely “chore” or useful task
as he does in a game of marbles or in raking up various deviltry, the
millennium would be proclaimed at once. Boys will be boys—and let them be. They
will be men, soon enough, with huge families, with Jumbo appetites and Tom
Thumb pocket books, with all the attendant vicissitudes of life, taxes, and
death.
SONS
OF VETERANS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
A small audience greeted the Sons of Veterans
at Manning’s Opera House Tuesday eve. The Winfield Glee Club, consisting of
Messrs. Buckman, Slack, Holliday, Guy, Snow, and Forsythe, captivated the
audience with their best songs, accompanied by A. Olmstead on the piano, who
added much to the occasion by his excellent instrumental pieces. Little Maud
gave several recitations in her cute and pleasing way. Sargent Colling and
squad in their silent drill showed they were masters of the art. Mrs. Flo. Williams
recited “Flash,” which was highly appreciated by all. The “Little Four” proved
a big four, with Prof. Le Page at the piano, Harry Holbrook and Frank Conrad
with their horns, and Jack Beck with his bones made novel and pleasing music.
The tableau, “Crown Won and Crown in Prospect, participated in by Miss Maud
Pickens, Matt Connor, and Jack Beck, was excellent. The Sons of Veterans should
have had a larger house. This camp has been built up through the exertions of
Capt. Pridgeon and several other zealous workers and needs encouragement by our
people.
SAD,
SAD WARNING.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
He dropped in our sanctum this morning for a
chat
About the weather and crops and such things
as that.
And finally asked, in a trembling way,
If, for spring poetry, prices we’d pay.
The force was called in—the pressman and
Daniel;
The devil and Bert, and our slick jobman,
Tingle.
The elm club was put to good use by the Ed.,
The girl pulled the wool from the top of his
head.
The devil besmeared his nose with black ink,
He was trampled around like a man at a rink.
Her was finally slid out on the small of his
back—
And up the stairs he bounded ker-whack.
No more will his soul in poetry soar;
He has passed from earth to a brighter star,
Where angels, not devils, in the sanctum sit
And spring posts are not made to “get up and
git.”
THE
HYMENAEAN VOWS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Again has Hymen conquered and nuptial
solemnities have joined in heart, hand, and fortune Mr. W. R. Whitney and Miss
Mary E. Hamill. The event was quietly celebrated Monday evening at the home of
Mrs. M. L. Whitney, mother of the groom. It was in novel taste for its lack of
formality. Only the immediate friends and relatives of the bridal pair were
present, among whom were Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
Horning, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Robinson, and Master Roy, Mrs. N. J. Platter and
little daughter, Belle, and Misses Nellie and Alice Aldrich. The ceremony was
tersely and impressively pronounced by Rev. Miller, and after hearty
congratulations all around, an inspection revealed a number of handsome tokens,
all the more valued by coming only from intimate friends. Among the
remembrances were a beautifully framed portrait of the bride’s deceased uncle, Rev.
J. E. Platter, by Mrs. Platter; a silver cake basket, Mr. and Mrs. M. L.
Robinson; set of china hand-painted fruit plates, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Horning;
hand painted plaque, Mrs. I. W. Randall, and other elegant articles. The
wedding, though without extensive display, was thoroughly enjoyable. The newly
made pair start on the dual life with a future full of promise. The groom is
the junior of the extensive hardware firm of Horning & Whitney, and has
long stood foremost among the city’s most prominent young businessmen,
energetic, of close application and genial manner. The bride, for some years,
has been an instructor in our city schools, is a lady of refinement and
culture, and a keen ambition and independence that always accompany the truest
womanhood. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney have furnished rooms in the Holmes block on
South Main, where they will reside until they build a home, in the near future.
Here’s our hand, Billy, with the sincere and hearty wish, with those of your
many warm friends, that all the brightest hopes of yourself and accomplished
bride may be fully realized, in a life of unalloyed happiness, sunshine, and
prosperity. And your numerous congratulators will ever pray.
MUNICIPAL
MUNCHINGS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The rulers of the city met in regular
bi-weekly session Monday eve, with Mayor Graham presiding, and Councilmen
Connor, Jennings, Myers, Crippen, Baden, and Harter present; McDonald and
Hodges absent.
The sidewalk petition of Marie A. Andrews et
al was granted.
The Public Health Committee sat down on dry
wells for drains, and an ordinance was ordered prohibiting drain wells or privy
vaults anywhere in the city, of greater depth than eight feet.
Bills were ordered, paid as follows: B.
McFadden, burying four canines, $4; city officers’ salaries for Feb., $129.98;
Black & Rembaugh, printing, $145.
Bills of J. P. Baden, $21.65, were referred
to commissioners for payment.
The Western Union Telegraph Company was given
right of way for its line to the uptown office, with the privilege of
establishing said office.
Councilmen Crippen, Connor, and Harter were
appointed to ascertain the boundaries of territory necessary to take into the
city limits.
It was determined to put on the market
simultaneously the city building and bridge bonds, $23,000, soon.
There were two bids opened for privilege of
city weigh master. Capt. Lyons offered the city $25 per month, and Van Vleet
& Sage, the new wholesale implement men, offered one-half the gross
receipts from the scales, with a guarantee of $640 a year; no other scales to
be licensed to weigh for hire in the city limits. The scales are to be the size
and kind directed by the council, and be erected at once in front of 614 North
Main.
A
CARD.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
As is well known by this community, I have
not made use of the papers to parade the doings and work of my church. I have
rejoiced to know that other churches in this community have done and are doing
a most excellent and successful work. As I have just closed my second year, I
deem it prudent to say to the public what has been done by my church, and
express my appreciation and gratitude to those outside of the church, who have
always met me with good cheer and given my church a hearty support. One hundred
and seventy-eight persons have been received into the church during the year.
We have raised for church purposes $4,300.00. The church is united and
harmonious; our Sabbath School has averaged 341 for the past quarter, and about
three hundred for the year. The Juvenile Missionary Society, composed of boys
and girls under the leadership of Mrs. A. Gridley, has raised for the support
of orphan and other missionary work, $91.98. The Ladies W. F. Missionary
Society has raised $98.00. The church does not owe one dollar to anyone. Next
Sabbath Rev. S. R. Reese, of St. Louis Conference, will preach in the morning,
and Prof. W. N. Rice in the evening. All are invited. B. KELLY.
THE
LAST BONDS WON.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Monday the K. C. & S. W. folks in a
special car took the Board of County Commissioners over the line of their road,
which is now finished seven feet over into the Territory. It was the official
inspection before issuing the last $20,000 in bonds voted by Cowley County to
this road. The examination was from Arkansas City to the Territory line, every
foot of which the Commissioners found first-class. The bridge across the
Arkansas river is as well and as solidly built as any in the west—will stand
any of the big freshets. Cale is the name of the station established at the end
of the line. The Commissioners, at a special meeting today, accepted the entire
line in Cowley County, and issued the last bonds. This road has 43½ miles in
this county. The S. K. has 44 miles. When the Frisco gets its branch to Geuda,
it will have over fifty miles of road in Cowley, very valuable property for the
county. Every agreement with the county has been fulfilled to the letter,
giving one of the best railroads that traverse the west, direct and through
eastern connection, with passenger and freight facilities unexcelled.
A
GOOD ONE THAT BUSTLES.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Horrified were two of our handsomest and
nattiest young society boys to have bills presented to them, Tuesday, by one of
our leading dry goods firms, “To two ladies crinoline bustles, one dollar!” The
boys blushed, as they rubbed their craniums and stutteringly sought an
explanation. The apparent weight of family came like a thunderbolt. Hold—it’s
all right! The bills were receipted, the collector got his wealth and was gone,
leaving the boys to ponder on the corpulency and “cuteness” of the “Castle
Garden Twins,” whose symmetry of form was borrowed and not returned. Ask Tom J.
E. and Ed J. M. about it. They have some bustles at slaughter prices—for
masquerade “stuffing”—if they can find them.
PATE’S
GRIST.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The District Court docket begins to fill up
for the April term, beginning on the 6th of April.
Susie Green files her petition for divorce
from Sam Green. This is the elopement subject of the winter’s romance.
Thomas McDonald vs. the A. C. Water Power
Co., asking $200 damage for killing horse on the canal bridge.
Nichols, Shephard & Co. vs. R. C. Devore
et al, suit to recover $700 on a promissory note.
W. H. Merritt vs. Mary I. Martin and Samuel
G. Martin, suit to quiet title of the Billy Crabb farm in Pleasant Valley,
another $1,000 heir having turned up.
Mary E. Harris vs. K. C. & S. W. R. R.,
appeal by the road from Harvey township Justice.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The lecture room of the Baptist church was
completely packed Tuesday, over two hundred now having their names enrolled on
the books of this Bible class. The life of Mathew was taken up last night and
his history given by different members of the class from the time of his taking
the office of tax collector of the Roman empire till his death in Ethiopia.
These meetings are becoming more interesting as well as instructive week by
week and it will soon be found necessary to hold them in the auditorium in
order to accommodate the large number who attend. The life of the apostle Mark
will be studied next Tuesday evening.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The G. A. R. will hold a festival at the hall
in New Salem on the third Friday night in March. The proceeds will be used for
the benefit of needy old soldiers.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
There will be a grand festival for the
benefit of the G. A. R. Post at New Salem on the evening of March 16th;
all are cordially invited to attend.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The ladies of Lone Tree gave a festival last
Wednesday night, for the benefit of their pastor.
THE
MONGOL.
Senator
Mitchell Argues for His Drastic Remedy for the Mongolian Invasion.
The
Plague Spreading Eastward and Threatening Civilization.
The
Telephone Scandal.
The
House Adopts the Morrison Substitute Resolution.
Interesting
and Sharp Debate.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. In the Senate yesterday
Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, obtained the floor to deliver a speech on a bill
recently introduced by him to provide for the abrogation of all treaties
permitting the immigration of the Chinese to the United States. As Mr. Mitchell
was about to proceed, Mr. Hale said it was so late yesterday when Mr. George
completed his speech on the Education bill that he (Mr. Hale) had not thought
it worthwhile to interfere with the consideration of the bill named, but now
gave notice that on the completion of Mr. Mitchell’s remarks, he would move
that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business.
Mr. Mitchell then addressed the Senate. He
said the people of the whole Pacific coast were today suffering from the
presence of large numbers of unclean, non-assimilating, and pagan races.
Impending over them and gradually extending eastward, like a cloud of wrath,
the evil imperiled labor, prosperity and peace, even life itself. To
exterminate the scourge heroic treatment would be necessary, and a more decided
and aggressive government step than that had yet been taken would be necessary.
The means of relief could not properly be availed of while preserving the
present treaty stipulations with the Chinese Government. Neither could we
expect within any reasonable time to secure relief by negotiation with that
Government. Hence it was that the bill submitted by him (Mr. Mitchell) proposed
that the States and the people of this Republic, through Congress and the
Executive (or by two-thirds of Congress without the approval of the Executive),
should remove the obstruction by first wiping out of existence all treaties
which recognize the coming of Chinese to the United States and then absolutely
prohibiting their coming, except in the case of consular and diplomatic
officials.
Mr. Mitchell argued at length to show that
the United States has the power to abrogate by act of Congress a treaty with a
foreign nation, and that the magnitude of the evil to be remedied justified the
action as proposed. Mr. Mitchell read a number of newspaper articles to show
that the recent anti-Chinese disturbances in the West were not the work of an
irresponsible or hoodlum element. They were the voice of honest labor, the wail
of indignant toil struggling for life in the unequal contest with servile
labor. The Burlingame treaty, he said, was valueless to the United States. This
point the speaker enlarged upon with detail and circumstance, quoting
statistics of our commerce with China in support of his contention.
Mr. Mitchell in conclusion said: “This bill,
unlike our restriction acts and proposed acts, is not elastic. It is absolutely
iron clad; it leaves nothing to construction; it is conclusive. It is not open
to the objection of being liable to have its vitality sapped, or its efficiency
destroyed by departmental or judicial decisions. No delicate questions as to
conflict between act and treaty are left open for construction or determination
by either court or department. The conflict that is waged on this subject—of
the Asiatic occupation of this country—is as irrepressible as the conflict that
resulted in the overthrow of human slavery. It is a conflict for supremacy on
American soil between enlightened and honest American labor and the cheap and
degraded labor of the lowest order of the Mongol—a conflict between morality
and vice, order, and anarchy. Americanism and Asianism—a conflict between
civilization and heathenism and Christianity and paganism—a conflict between
two opposing forces, in all essential particulars, non-assimilating and
repellant when considered in the relation of one to the other, as to which must
and will ultimately and necessarily be driven to the wall. It does not require
any peculiar prescience to determine the result of the contest if the United
States Government either stands supinely by and does nothing; or but what is
but little more effective for good—simply attacks the army of invaders with
wooden swords and paper bullets under the pretense of conforming to the treaty
stipulations and sustaining diplomatic relations.”
The Education bill was taken up at the
conclusion of Mr. Mitchell’s address and discussion continued until executive
session, after which the Senate adjourned until Monday.
HOUSE.
In the House yesterday Mr. Morrison, of
Illinois, from the Committee on Rules, reported a substitute for the Hanback
and Pulitzer resolutions directing inquiry into the Pan-Electric telephone
matter. The substitute is as follows.
Resolved, That a select committee, consisting of nine members of the House, be
appointed, and when so appointed, the committee is hereby directed at as early
a day as possible to make inquiry into any expenditure on the part of the
Government incurred relative to the rights of the Bell and Pan-Electric
Telephone Companies to priority of patents, said inquiry to include all
organizations and companies that have sprung out of the Pan-Electric Company,
or for any other purpose, and also to make full inquiry into the issuance of
the stock known as the Pan-Electric telephone stock, or the stock of any other
company, companies, or organizations springing out of the Pan-Electric Company,
to any person or persons connected with the legislature, judicial, or executive
departments of the Government of the United States; and to whom, when, and for
what consideration said stock was delivered; also as to what opinions,
discussions, or orders had been made by any officers connected with the
Government and by whom; and all the circumstances connected therewith or
arising therefrom; and said committee is further authorized and directed to
ascertain any report whether either telephone company herein mentioned, or the
officers, agents, or employees have in any way influenced or attempted to
influence the officials or official action by or through the public press; and
if such, when, by whom, and in what manner such influence was exerted, or
attempted to be exerted, and what newspaper or newspapers so used or attempted
to be used by them. Said committee shall have the rights to send for persons,
or papers, to administer oath, to sit during the session of the House, to
employ a stenographer, and incur any and all such necessary and reasonable
expense as may be required for the purpose of conducting the investigation, not
to exceed the sum of $1,000, which shall be paid out of the contingent fund of
the House on proper voucher certified by the chairman and one other member of
the committee, and may report at any time.
After brief, but excited debate, referring to
which Gibson, of West Virginia, criticized Pulitzer, whom he accused of
shrinking behind the columns of his newspaper to attack men instead of
attacking them on the floor of the House, the resolution reported from the
Committee on Rules was adopted.
Mr. Holman, of Indiana: “I call the gentlemen’s
attention to the fact that the gentleman from New York is not present.”
Mr. Gibson: “The gentleman is not present? I
cannot help that. He ought to be here. I remember that gentlemen who have lived
a long life of good reputation, who, by their integrity and capacity, have won
the confidence of the country, have been arraigned by an irresponsible
newspaper, and the Democratic majority is rushing before the hue and cry to do
that which must only do the gentleman injustice. Let the courts decide the matter.
What has Congress to do with it? They say that the Attorney General some time
or other got stock. I stood on the floor of this House and heard a member boast
that he held hundreds of thousands of dollars of railroad stocks and would
combine with railroads to clog up the courts with business, but no outcry was
made against it. I see all around men who hold railroad stock and National bank
note stock voting with the stock in their pockets and no outcry is made against
it. The distinguished gentleman from New York (Mr. Hewitt), himself a large
manufacturer, has been at work for years to revise the tariff so that his
manufacturers may be more profitable.” [Laughter.]
“There is a gentleman from South Carolina on
the Committee on Coinage who is a member of a national bank.”
Mr. Browne, of Indiana: “I want to know
whether they paid for the stock?”
Mr. Gibson: “It matters not whether they paid
for it or got it gratuitously. The question is, have they acted dishonestly? It
is a mere begging of the question in a childish manner to talk of whether they
paid for the stock. How many members own National bank stock? How many own
railroad stock? If I am not misinformed, a late President of the Senate was
himself counsel for one of the telephone companies who cried out against it. If
I am correctly informed, the present President of the Senate is a National bank
stockholder.”
Mr. Cutcheon, of Michigan: “Was it presented
to him?”
Mr. Gibson: “Was it presented? Does that make
the fraud? It is not the manner in which the stock was come by, but whether the
action was influenced by the stock. I am not standing as the champion of this
administration or of these men when I acknowledge the honesty and cleanliness
of the administration as equal to that of any we have ever had. I have very
little regard for its politics.” [Laughter and applause.]
Mr. Gibson spoke at great length in defense
of the Attorney General.
Mr. Morrison: “As a friend of the officer
supposed to be most affected, if anybody is to be affected by this investigation,
having unlimited confidence in his honor and in his personal and official
integrity, I want this resolution to pass and I want this investigation to go
on.”
Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, welcomed the
resolution and hoped the investigation would be made thorough and searching.
Mr. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, said he was
proud to call the Attorney General his personal friend. He defended his course,
declared that his skirts were perfectly clear of any wrong doing, and hoped the
whole case would be investigated.
Mr. Reed, of Maine: “I appreciate the natural
feeling of solemnity which has fallen on the Democratic party at the present
time. To be stopped in the midst of a career which had for its motto the
turning out of rascals; to be obliged to stop and consider the question
whether, by some accident, instead of turning them out they had not got in, is
of course painful, and I do not intend to detract from the solemnity of the
occasion by discussing it prematurely.
I only wish to tender, in passing, to the Democratic party, the assurance of
the respectful consideration which we all have for their situation.” [Loud
laughter, in which the Democratic side joined.]
“It is the gentleman from West Virginia to
say a few words in defense of the resolution. I think I even ought to befriend
the gentleman from New York (Mr. Hewitt), who is absent, by suggesting that the
gentleman from West Virginia is mistaken in supposing that the gentleman from
New York is here for the purpose of building up his own industry. I think he is
here for the purpose of attempting to break down other people’s industries.”
Mr. Morrison, of Illinois: “The gentleman is
mistaken in supposing that the Democratic party is in any trouble. We propose
to investigate the charges against our own people as we did those against
theirs, and I trust if we find them guilty of anything unbecoming honest
officials, we will not be found, as the gentlemen on the other side have been
found, attempting to shield them.” [Applause on the Democratic side.]
Mr. Roberts, of Arkansas, commenting upon the
statement that the Attorney General did not appear in the prosecution of the
suit, contended that as the Attorney General had been the published attorney of
the Pan-Electric Company, professional ethics would have prevented his
appearing. The resolution was then adopted without division.
Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, from the Committee
on Accounts, reported back the following resolution, which was adopted.
Resolved, That the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads is hereby empowered
to ascertain whether additional legislation is necessary to prevent the
monopoly of telegraphic facilities, and to secure to the Southern, Western, and
Pacific States the benefits of competition between telegraph companies and to
protect the people of the United States against unreasonable charges for
telegraphic service.
Mr. Burnes, of Missouri, from the Committee
on Appropriations, reported the immediate Deficiency bill, and it was referred
to Committee of the Whole.
ENVELOPED
IN FLAMES.
A
Kansas City Hose Reel Gets Stuck and the Firemen and Horses
Get
Terribly Roasted.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 27. At 11:30 o’clock
last night flames were seen issuing from the planing mill at the southwest
corner of Twentieth and Locust streets. In a few minutes the whole building,
which was built of Georgia pine, was in flames. Before the fire could be put
out, the mill and nine adjoining dwellings were burned, rendering eight
families houseless and involving a loss of about $14,000. When reel No. 3, Nick
Burns, foreman, and Alf Buell, driver, arrived, the line was made from
Nineteenth street, and the reel started to dash down toward Twentieth street. A
sewer was recently laid in Locust street and in front of the mill it had caved
in somewhat, and the ground was soft and miry. The wheels of the reel stuck
here, and at the same moment the flames burst from the side of the planing mill
and swept across the street, encircling the horses, reel, and crew in a wall of
fire. Almost as quickly as the flames had shot out, the traces of the horses
were cut and they and the firemen dashed out of the flames, but not uninjured.
The hands and face of Nick Burns, the foreman, were badly burned, and it is
feared he may lose the use of his hands. Alf Buell, the driver, was also
burned, but not badly. The horses were roasted so terribly that one of them
will have to be shot, and probably both. The reel was also badly damaged. The
planing mill belonged to Mitchell & Wells. The dwelling houses were occupied
by laboring people, owned by Messrs. Lorie, Bucthold, and Satterlee. The fire
was thought to be the work of an incendiary.
MOVEMENTS
OF MRS. GRAHAM PREVIOUS TO HER DISAPPEARANCE.
Threats
of Lynching.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Feb. 27. The coroner’s
inquest held yesterday over the nude body of the woman found Thursday in an
abandoned well on the Malloy farm, and which are supposed to be the remains of
Mrs. Sarah Graham, has thus far elicited startling development. Over two
thousand people crowded the courthouse and the testimony was listened to with
great attention. The examination of witnesses was conducted by the prosecuting
attorney, John A. Patterson.
DAMAGING
TESTIMONY.
The first witness was Charlie Graham, the
thirteen-year-old son of George and Sarah Graham. It will be remembered that
upon the examination of George Graham a few weeks ago upon the charge of
bigamy, this lad swore that the last he saw of his mother (Sarah Graham) was on
the depot platform in St. Louis on September 30; that she bad himself, his
younger brother, and his father goodbye there as the train moved off. At the
inquest yesterday the little fellow swore that his mother came out on the train
with them; that when they arrived at the city, the father took the boys from
the train and left them at a boarding house, where he had made provision in
advance for them, and telling them he was going to Brookline with the mother
and from there to the Molloy farm, a few miles distant, and that he would
return for them the next morning. The father did come for them next day and
drove them to the Molloy farm, and since then he has seen nothing of his
mother. When asked why he swore at the examination of the father for bigamy
that his mother was not on the train, but she had remained in St. Louis, he
answered that he had been instructed by his father to swear that. He described
the clothes worn by his mother on the day of the trip from St. Louis, and when
shown the articles of wearing apparel found in the abandoned well on the Molloy
farm in company with the denuded female form, he identified each and every one.
This was the sensational feature of the examination.
THE
MURDER THEORY.
This testimony, with that already adduced by
the detective, proves conclusively that Mrs. Sarah Graham left St. Louis on the
morning of September 30 in company with her husband and two little boys, and
that Mr. Graham put the boys off at Springfield and continued on the train with
his wife; that they got off the train at Dorchester with the intention of
walking to the Molloy farm house, two or three miles distant; that from that
time nothing was known or heard of Mrs. Graham, and all trace was lost of her
until the horrible discovery of the nude body and the clothing at the bottom of
the well on the Molloy place, and within a few hundred yards of the house. A
bullet-hole through the chemise and corset proves conclusively she was shot in
the right breast. The body was then stripped stark naked and thrown into the
well, and it is supposed it was the intention of the murderer to burn the
clothes, but he became alarmed and threw them in the well hurriedly, and then
determined to trust to luck for concealment. The remains were decomposed past
identification, but that it will be proven to be the body of Sarah Graham, by
the clothing, there is no doubt.
OPINION
CRYSTALIZING.
The testimony of Charles Graham and his
recognition of the apparel as that of his mother are conclusive evidence to the
community as to the guilt of Graham. The sister of the murdered woman, Mrs.
Abbie Breese, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, will reach the city this morning, and the
inquest was adjourned to await her arrival. Her testimony in identification of
the clothing will be of importance, and if she recognizes it as that worn by
the deceased when she left home, it will be conclusive of the body, and George
Graham will occupy no enviable position. Already the air is filled with threats
of lynching, and the most conservative citizens anticipate a tragic ending of
this most horrible affair.
LEGAL
NOTICES.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Recap. Wm. B. Norman, Assignee of J. E.
Coulter, assignor. Hackney & Asp, Attorneys for Assignee. Notice of the
adjusting of accounts: creditors and all other persons interested in the estate
of J. E. Coulter, assignor. To be handled April 12, 1886, at office of Clerk of
the District Court, Cowley County.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Recap. Sheriff G. H. McIntire to sell real
estate to settle suit, F. M. Friend, Plaintiff, versus Wm. A. Freeman,
Defendant, on Monday, March 23, 1886.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Recap. George T. Frazier, Administrator,
estate of Dewitt C. Green, deceased, to handle final settlement of estate April
5, 1886. McDonald & Webb, Attorneys.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
Recap. Forsyth & Madden, Attorney for
plaintiff, attest, Ed. Pate, Clerk. Divorce Suit in District Court of Cowley
County. Amanda J. Toms, Plaintiff, against Thomas N. Toms, defendant. Date:
April 10, 1886.
THE
WINFIELD COURIER.
WINFIELD,
COWLEY COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1886.
SIX
PAGES.
FINE
ART STUDIO.
The
Gallery of M. F. Kelly Fitted Up in Artistic and Metropolitan Style.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
We all get shot occasionally—by the cameo.
Nothing interests us more than to know where we can get a facsimile of
ourselves that will do us justice, if not flatter. That Winfield has a
Photographic Gallery absolutely unsurpassed by any outside of the large eastern
metropolis, both in artistic work and fashionably furnished and roomy
apartments, is now full established. The gallery of M. F. Kelly, over Wallis
& Wallis’, has been enlarged and elegantly re-appointed. The two front
rooms have been added and handsomely furnished, making large parlors as neat
and attractive as those of any private home. Beautiful carpets, mats, stands,
upholstered furniture, and elaborate wall adornment make a reception room in
harmony with the superior work and reputation of this gallery. Though here but
little over a year, Mr. Kelly has established himself as a photographer
unexcelled, as his large custom and displays fully attest. This elegantly
furnished reception room, etc., has been badly needed and is the cap sheaf to a
first-class gallery in every respect. Mr. Kelly’s scenic effects and
diversified apparatus, for any kind of photography, are ample to suit the most
fastidious tastes. He turns out all kinds of work from the smallest “gem” to
the imposing portrait in crayon, water colors, or oil, in a manner unexcelled
and giving perfect satisfaction. Drop in and view his new apartments and
elaborate display of art. And remember, when you want to “sit” for a picture
highly creditable to the original and the artist, you will choose the gallery of
M. F. Kelly every time. The most courteous and painstaking treatment will
always greet you.
PROBATE
PROBINGS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
H. I. Walck and Martha Myers, of Maple
township, were granted a certificate of uncertain wedded bliss, Saturday.
Inventory filed of personal property of
George Anderson, deceased.
Claim allowed of $310.70 against estate of
Margaret J. Weaverling, deceased, in favor of V. A. Weaverling, executor of the
estate of D. Weaverling, deceased.
Elder Gans was in Belle Plaine last night, to
marry Emma Cain and a substantial young man of Sumner. The bride is a daughter
of Elder Cain, Christian minister of the Plaines.
Petition has been filed for sale of real
estate belonging to minor heirs of Elisha Bowen, deceased; set for hearing
March 18th, at 2 p.m.
Joseph Anderson filed his bond as
administrator of the estate of George Anderson, deceased; approved and letters
issued. Despite the liquid elements, matrimonially the P. C. was very drouthy
today.
F. J. Seeley and Martha A. Probasco are the
latest victims of matrimony.
W. P. Hackney made final settlement as
guardian of estate of Mary E. Lawson, a minor. Also final settlement as
guardian in estate of Chas. Geer, a minor. Also final settlement as guardian of
the Finly [?] heirs.
Geo. W. Robinson was appointed guardian of
the above estates, vice Hackney resigned.
DISTRICT
CLERK PATE’S GRIST.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
Wm. Harris vs. K. C. & S. W. railroad
company; George A. Harris and John Larson, ditto. The road appeals from Harvey
township Justice’s award of costs in damages by fire set by engine.
Amanda J. Shaff vs. Josiah J. Shaff, petition
for divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty.
J. C. McMullen vs. Fred Grandy, suit for
foreclosure on note of $300.
Franklin P. Smith vs. Arthur Shupe et al,
suit to quiet title.
Nancy J. Arnett vs. Aaron J. Arnett, divorce
petitioned. Arnett sent her to visit Missouri relatives, and then wrote her not
to return—he didn’t want anything more to do with her.
Justice Buckman has filed the preliminary in
the Marshal murder case, over a hundred pages of legal cap. It came near
requiring a dray to get it to the courthouse.
NEW
SOCIETY GAME.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
The latest thing in the card game line, for
social parties, is “drive whist,” and as Winfield society is never behind it
will soon be reveling in its novel mazes. It takes the place of progressive
euchre, and is becoming very popular all over the East. To play the game it
requires a certain number of persons, divisible by four, as in euchre. Partners
are chosen as the hostess may elect, and the partners thus chosen are your
partners for the evening. One hand is all that is played at any table; then the
couple winning the points goes to the next table and plays a hand with the
losing couple there. The number of points won or lost are scored, and the
couple who wins the most points and loses the fewest are declared the champions
of the evening, and carry off the first prize. The couple losing the most
points, less the number won, take the second, or booby prize. Score cards must
be provided in this game, so that careful record may be kept of all points won
or lost.
EVERY
“PAT”: GAS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
Recent improvements are getting the use of
gas down “pat;” to a point greatly facilitating everything in light, heat, and
power. Among the novel introduction to Winfield is a large gas range for the
St. James Hotel, ordered through the Winfield Gas Company. It is the slickest thing
in the stove line yet out. Its heat is furnished by perforated pipes, much or
small as you want, each jet being governed by three cocks. Its room is ample to
cook for three to give hundred people. The heat is instantaneous and even and
at 46 per cent less cost than any other fuel. Then the facilities afford
perfection in the culinary art that can’t be equaled by any other mode. The St.
James is having modern furnishings throughout and when opened for business, in
a few weeks, will be a hostelry hard to beat in the state. It will have about
fifty sleeping rooms, all with the neatest and most convenient furnishings.
OFF
FOR CANINE HEAVEN.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
A liver-colored canine of the bird persuasion
pranced up and down Main street Thursday, in a mysterious way. He waded into
every dog he struck and appeared to thirst for fore. He was set down as mad and
probably was. Jim McLain got on his path and began to let him have cold lead.
The animal didn’t seem to care much for a little lead and everybody with a pop
got a whack at him. Amos Snowhill, in two feet of the canine, couldn’t hit him.
With a bullet from McLain, one from Kraft, and a shot gun charge from somewhere
else, the “dorg” ran under a building on west 8th, and ere this is
walking the pearly streets of canine heaven. He had all the actions of
hydrophobia. If he did have it, from the number of dogs he bit, there will be
plenty of rabies and everybody had better look out.
FIX
UP, GENTLE ANNIE IS HERE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
Do you realize that now is the time to begin
“fixing up” your yards? Trees, where they are not already, should be planted
now, and pruning, raking, and spading are in order. Get the mulch off your
strawberry bed. Plant a few ornamental shrubs in the front yard, and rake in
grass seed in those bare spots in your grass plat that you were lamenting last
August. Drive small stakes a convenient distance apart and tack a lath across
on top to keep folks from running across the corner. Put those three pickets on
the alley fence where the dogs come in, and clean out the alley before the
street commissioner does it at your expense. There is lots of this work to be
done, and the sooner it is done, the better.
GOOD
ONE ON WICHITA.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
It has been figured by a skillful
mathematician that the earth weighs exactly 5,855,000,000,000,000 tons. It is
now in order for Mr. Gould to offer the price per pound he is willing to give. Exchange.
No, Jay don’t want it, says the Harper
Sentinel. Just now he is scheming to buy Wichita. By the way, when we come
to subtract the weight of Wichita from the weight of the world, there ain’t
much of the world’s heft left. The figures stand thus: 5,855 tons for the world
and 00,000,000,000 tons for Wichita. The sewer system is included in this
calculation.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
The city election occurs the first Tuesday in
April, and the city clerk must close his books ten days before the election. No
person will be allowed to cast a ballot who is not registered this year, and
can produce his certificate. Remember this.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
Our e. c. reports Ed. P. Greer as secretary
of Winfield’s Y. M. C. A. That Ed. is cultivating special piousness, in his old
age, is a surprise. It appears to be Ed’s time to “set ’em up.”
THE
NATION’S CAPITAL.
Political,
Official and Social Notes as Gathered by Our Regular
Washington
Correspondent.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
The President now sees a good many people on
Saturdays as well as on other days, and last Saturday the White House was very
far from being deserted. A good many members were on hand, and some of them
brought their constituents with them to be introduced.
The President was rather displeased, the
other day, to see some of the lady correspondents standing behind the line at
one of his receptions with their note books out and engaged in writing down
descriptions of the clothes and appearance of the people they saw pass by. He
remarked that they seemed to be taking notes just as if they were in a police
court, and expressed a desire that they should not be admitted there during his
receptions hereafter. Miss Cleveland, however, has not been so rigorous with
them, and the note-taking was going on as usual.
I think it would be well to have some
arrangement made whereby members of Congress can get better acquainted with
each other. I’ve heard of several funny incidents that have happened from time
to time when Congressmen who happened not to know their associates have made
blunders, but I was told of one the other day which caused considerable
mortification. One of the older members was seated in a committee room, when a
new congressman, who is a member of the same committee, entered and sat down.
The committee hadn’t had a meeting before, but the chairman, who thought he
knew all of his colleagues, took the gentleman to be a stranger—a constituent
perhaps—who was making himself very much at home, and after waiting for him to
introduce himself, turned around sharply and said: “My good man, if you have
any business with me, I must ask you to explain it at once, as this is a
private room, and a committee will meet here very soon.” The new congressman
looked up with surprise and inquired “whether the republican members of the
committee were expected to attend the meeting? If so, he proposed to stay.”
This called out an explanation and an apology, but neither of the parties felt
very comfortable over the incident.
I am informed that Senator Don Cameron is and
has been in very poor health all this winter, and that he is contemplating a
southern trip, to last until the warm weather returns to Washington. The
Senator has apparently been in excellent condition during the present season,
and, besides attending to his Senatorial duties with usual regularity, has
devoted considerable attention to social matters. A brother Senator, who is on
intimate terms with him, says he is a great sufferer from organic disorder,
which gives him much annoyance at regular intervals.
“Stacks” is a game played with pennies. The
players agree upon a number of coins to be stacked, then the fun begins. If the
top penny on three of the piles should “head,” the owner of the pile with
“tail” on top would scoop in three pennies and so on down to the last penny.
This game I am told is very popular with certain Senators during executive
sessions when the proceedings are not very interesting.
The President yesterday evening gave a
reception from 9 until 11 o’clock in honor of the officers of the army and
navy, to meet the diplomatic corps. Congress and the judiciary were invited. As
with the diplomatic corps reception, the members of that body are invited
through the Secretary of State, the Army and Navy by the Secretaries of War and
Navy respectively, and the judiciary at the hands of the Attorney General. No
cards are issued for these occasions, and it is stated that it was the wish of
the President that members of Congress would attend without more formal invitation
than the published announcement to this effect.
Our statutes are bothering the Senators a
great deal. The Peace Monument is ordered to go somewhere else, but where?
George Washington, sitting unclothed in the open air, when the artist intended that
he should be sheltered under the dome, is an object to excite pity; John
Marshall is in an unhappy situation and cannot long remain where he is; General
Rawlins must come away from his unsightly surroundings, but no one knows where
to put him; Christopher Columbus has not yet been provided with a site; Grant
demands the place of honor at an early day, while Hancock must have a place
where all can do honor to his courage and patriotism. The necessity for a great
building in which we can shrine our heroes, statesmen, patriots, and poets
grows apace. L.
THE
P. H. C. HOP.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
The Pleasant Hour hop, at the Opera House
Thursday, was made all the more enjoyable by the waxy consistency of real
estate. Arthur Bangs’ hacks and busses were out, evading any inconvenience from
the elements. However, the attendance was smaller than usual; but pleasurable
in the extreme was the occasion, twenty or more couples reveling in the mazy,
with life and freedom only capable of as mutually agreeable, vivacious, and
attractive a society circle as the young folks of Winfield compose. Most
acceptable and enhancing was the presence of an unusual number of young married
folks, who seemed to even excel the hilarity of the “single bliss” participants.
The P. H. C. will probably close their dances for the season about the second
week in April, with a calico or full dress party, the calico having the
preference at present. These bi-weekly hops have been a delightful feature of
the winter’s social pastimes—with life, harmony, and genuine enjoyment
surpassing any previous winter.
KEEP
DOWN THINE IRE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
Winfield wants a $50,000 appropriation to
build a post office building. She also wants the world, and is about as liable
to get the one as the other. She has sold acres of town lots by means of her
windy misrepresentations; and the present cry as to the needs and demands of
the post office would seem to indicate that the raw material for manufacturing
booms was about exhausted. Wellington Monitor.
Don’t fret yourself. Despite your malevolent
belchings, Winfield continues to march onward and upward. Every visitor and
careful investigator is ready to corroborate everything THE COURIER or anybody
else has said about Winfield. All realize that geographically, progressively,
railroadically, manufacturingly, and in every way Winfield is unsurpassed in
present worth and future prospects, by any city in southern Kansas. She is
bound to make a great city and is rapidly getting there. Just keep on your
shirt, Mr. Monitor, and watch us boom—a boom surpassing the wildest
dreams of every inhabitant. Au Re Voir!
BIG
INLAND CITY.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
Take a map of the United States and study it
carefully; look up the surroundings of the different railroad centers of the
land; compare points and places; throw away prejudice and look ahead ten years,
judging (as we must) the future by the past, and candidly and honestly do you
not have to admit that Winfield is the natural location, all things considered,
for a large inland city? No man with an unprejudiced eye can fail to see it.
And the facts bear one out in this theory, for even now, in the infancy of our
state, Winfield ranks second to but one or two cities in Kansas. What will she
be when Kansas shall have become full grown?
MAIL
ON THE FRISCO.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.